Chapter 1350: Han Banner World (Forty) Disappointment of the 1st Military Region

The purpose of establishing the First Military District was to deal with the Qin State. The First Military District also assembled the most elite troops of the Han Dynasty. It can be said that except for the Young Guards, the most capable troops were almost all concentrated in the First Military District. All the generals were in high spirits. From the day the First Military District was established, they stared at the Qin people on the opposite side with wide eyes, waiting for an order to start the attack on the Qin State and start the final battle against Qin.

However, two years have passed, and the generals of the First Military District have been waiting for orders from Jicheng. Not only did the Han army not attack, but they also did not counterattack against the Qin people's erosion of the defense line of Jinyang. The generals on the front line watched the Qin people build more and more fortresses, which became more and more solid. Especially when they saw that the Qin army actually began to use cement to reinforce the previous earth-stone structure fortresses, everyone could not understand Jicheng's strategy.

This time, the King of Han came to Jinyang, which was regarded by the First Military Region from top to bottom as a major signal of an upcoming attack on Qin. Now Qin was becoming more and more chaotic, and the confrontation between Xianyang and Hangu Pass was becoming more and more serious. Fan Sui's reforms suffered a disastrous defeat in all the counties of Qin except Xianyang. The smoke of war was everywhere, and the uprisings launched by peasants who could not survive were increasing. Many local guards in the county even joined in. This forced the court to send the new army trained by Bai Qi to fight against bandits, but the bandits were quickly destroyed and the new army was exhausted.

In the eyes of the First Military Region, what a good opportunity this is! A country is in turmoil, and there are many contradictions between the largest warlord in the country and the court. Is there a better time than this?

In the past two years, in addition to training troops, they helped Jinyang resume production, and all the generals have been a little impatient.

Things seem to be moving in the direction they hope for. After King Gao Yuan of Han arrived at the headquarters of the First Military Region. Xu Yuan and Ye Zhen were summoned that night. They did not return for the whole night, and the generals gathered at the headquarters waited anxiously all night.

It was time to attack! Everyone was thinking excitedly that the king was discussing the battle plan with the commander, and the next step was to launch a large-scale attack to flatten the Qin State, which was once the most powerful in the world. For everyone present, it was a great military achievement that could go down in history.

When the sun suddenly jumped out from the distant horizon, Xu Yuan walked out of Gao Yuan's room. There was no excitement on his face. On the contrary, a feeling of annoyance filled his heart. He squinted his eyes and looked at the bright ball in the sky. He exhaled heavily and walked out in big strides.

"Commander!" The army commanders who had been waiting at the headquarters for a night rushed forward. The war was about to begin. No one wanted to fall behind at this time. The purpose of waiting here was to grab the first merit and strive to get the biggest piece of fat in the next offensive mission. Xu Yuan, who was surrounded by people, showed a smile that was uglier than crying. He stared at his subordinates who were full of fighting spirit and spread his hands, "What's the point of crowding here? Don't make noise. The king didn't sleep all night and now he needs to have a good rest. Let's go to the meeting room to talk."

Being surrounded by stars and entering the operations room of the First Military Region,

Xu Yuan looked at Ye Zhen, and Ye Zhen's face was also very bad. "Commander, please arrange it!" After saying this, he turned his head away. He opened the curtains a little and stared at the bright sunshine outside.

"Li Mingjun!" To everyone's surprise, the first person Xu Yuan called out was Li Mingjun, the commander of the 20th Army with the least experience in the First Military Region. Li Mingjun was originally Zhao Qi's confidant. When the Han army attacked Western Zhao, he defected and said that Zhao Xilie, the highest military commander of Western Zhao, defected to the Han Kingdom with him. The defection of these two people instantly collapsed the military resistance of Western Zhao, which was already in a weak position. The final result was that Zhao Qi and Zhao Wuji, the king of Zhao, went fishing by the Dayan Lake, and Zhao Xilie left the front-line military forces to assist He Lanxiong. Li Mingjun became the commander of the front-line field forces and led the reorganized 20,000 Western Zhao troops to form the 20th Army of the First War Zone.

"I am here!" Li Mingjun was stunned at first, then overjoyed, jumped up on the spot, and rushed out from behind a group of generals.

"Your 20th Army will start attacking Lubin from now on, clear the defenses built by the Qin Army with Lubin as the center, and open up the passage to Hangu Pass for our troops." Xu Yuan said.

"Yes!" Li Mingjun's voice was particularly loud. He really didn't expect that the first battle to destroy Qin would be started by his troops. At the beginning, he didn't expect this. Whether it was military exploits or seniority, he was at the bottom of the list in the First Military Region. He never thought of competing with those generals with great military exploits. He always kept his tail between his legs and did things carefully. In the past two years, he spent almost all his time on training. The original Western Zhao army was really not as good as other troops in terms of combat effectiveness. At the same level, in the past two years, Li Mingjun had been shamelessly doing it. First, he went to various combat units to ask for instructors, and invited grassroots officers with rich combat experience from other units to help guide the training. Then, after each graduating class of the Jishicheng Military University was assigned to the First Military Region, he would cry, make a fuss, and even threaten to commit suicide in front of Xu Yuan, always trying to take away a small number of people, which made other brother units very dissatisfied. But Li Mingjun didn't care. In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, he was willing to do anything.

Of course, the consequence of this series of actions is that the combat effectiveness of the 20th Army has been significantly improved. In the two military exercises held in Jinyang, from the first time he was at the bottom of the list and was left behind. They couldn't even see it. By the second time, they could already compare with Kong Fang's Eleventh Army. Although they still lost, the defeat was not ugly. After this military exercise, Kong Fang also had a great sense of crisis, and a large-scale military training was launched in the Eleventh Army.

But even though the combat effectiveness of the 20th Army has been greatly improved, Li Mingjun never thought that the task of the first attack would fall on him. Every general here is staring at it with green eyes!

Xu Yuan stared at Li Mingjun: "This is the first battle of our First Military Region. We can only win, and we must win beautifully."

"Commander, don't worry. The Twentieth Army will never disappoint the commander's expectations. My subordinates have been looking forward to this day for a long time." Li Mingjun said loudly: "Commander, after we defeat Lu Bin, shall we directly report to Hangu?" The enemy forces in Guan launched an attack?"

"Brother Li, what do you mean? You want to eat the soup and meat together!" Before Xu Yuan could speak, Yan Haibo jumped out and said loudly, "You have already taken the first gong. Why don’t you give us a chance?”

"That's right, Brother Li, you are too greedy." A large group of generals said in unison, accusing Li Mingjun in unison, and chaos suddenly broke out in the war room.

"Quiet!" Xu Yuan slapped the table angrily, "Why fight? There are more than 100,000 Qin soldiers at Hangu Pass. Can Li Mingjun be able to eat it? Sit back and sit back. Consider this your home. ?”

When Xu Yuan roared, everyone immediately fell silent. They just used their eyes to gouge out Li Mingjun like a knife. If eyes could kill, Li Mingjun would have been cut into pieces by a thousand knives by now.

"Ding Wei of the Fifth Army and Yan Haibo of the Sixth Army have entered the first level of combat readiness and are ready to leave at any time! The other units have entered the second level of combat readiness. That's it, let's disperse." Xu Yuan waved his hand and said listlessly. .

"This, is it over?" All the generals were stunned. Even though the Qin army on the opposite side was not as elite as the Han army, it was still the most powerful combat force in Qin State. Lu Chao, Xu Yahua and others were also stunned for a long time. Veteran generals who have experienced wars, and their soldiers and horses have also crawled out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. In the past two years, the Qin army has also been vigorously training its troops and preparing for war. Once the two sides go to war, it will inevitably be a bloody battle, but as long as they win this After one battle, the Qin State was basically destroyed, but Xu Yuan's arrangements now seemed extremely casual, without any of the tension before the war. All the generals looked at Xu Yuan and then at Ye Zhen on the side. After the deputy commander arrived in the war room, he half-reclined on his chair and raised the curtains to look at the sun outside. When Xu Yuan made arrangements, he did not look back. Come.

The expressions and behavior of the two officers were a little strange, which made the generals murmur in their hearts. It didn't look like they were going to fight a war. I wanted to ask again, but looking at the appearance of the two officers, although they were muttering, everyone still stood up and saluted and left.

Seeing the generals leaving, Xu Yuan smiled bitterly, "We have been working hard for more than two years to prepare for a big fight, but now, we have to be reduced to the background. I am really unwilling to think about it!"

Ye Zhen, who had been looking at the scenery outside, finally turned his head back, "Although I am unwilling to do so, I have no choice. What the king said is indeed reasonable. The Qin people are no longer our biggest enemies. There is internal chaos and economic collapse. The emperor and his ministers are at odds, and they are just deadlocked. It is no longer difficult to capture them. The king made it very clear yesterday that the First Military Region must obey the overall strategic situation. "

"Of course we will obey, I'm just worried that I won't understand!" Xu Yuan scratched his head and said with some distress.

"Don't understand?" Ye Zhen sneered: "They don't need to understand, they just need to implement. The king has already said that the army does not need to have its own ideas, all they have to do is obey."

"Ye Zhen, I never thought that the game played by the king would be so huge. If everything goes well, it may not take a few years to dominate the world." Xu Yuan stood up and walked around the room a few times. , "It's just that we can't be at the forefront of this operation. When Qin is destroyed in the future, our First Military Region will definitely no longer be able to take all the credit. Thinking about it, I still feel unwilling." (To be continued.)

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