A person's nature is evil, and his good is false.

We don’t know how much Liu Bang resonated with Xunzi’s famous saying, but there is no denying that his grasp of human nature has indeed reached the pinnacle.

With greater temptation, we tied the coalition forces to our own chariots. When everyone's attention was focused on occupying Xingyang and Changyi, and imagined that we could get more spoils, the power to uniformly dispatch the entire army's baggage continued silently by Xiao He, the chief general of Liu Bang.

"Haha! What Pei Gong pointed to was exactly what Peng expected." Faced with the bait thrown by Liu Bang, the giant thief Peng Yue, who knew the situation of Changyi, stood up first and responded.

"Jun Juye, you can be the pioneer in the Battle of Xingyang!" Liu Bang was very satisfied with Peng Yue's response and immediately gave Peng Yue substantial rewards.

"No! Xie Peigong." Peng Yue took the order loudly. Pioneer. Since he was the arrow of the entire army, he was also the first candidate to break the city. Peng Yue, who was empty and clear about the troops in Xingyang, was of course very satisfied. Peigong was very generous. It seemed that as long as he spent more time and followed his footsteps, he would receive a generous reward.

"Pei Gong, Xingyang is not far from our army's garrison. Pu can assist Juyejun to attack the city!" General Pu's face turned black when he saw that Peng Yue had snatched the first place, and he immediately rushed forward and said.

"Haha, we all listen to Pei Gong. After we capture Xingyang City, we will hold a celebration banquet!"

"Haha, the Peony Tower in Xingyang City is famous far and wide. Brother, I have wanted to try it out for a long time!"

After some exchange of interests, the forces of the coalition finally reached an agreement on the distribution of spoils and the next plan, that is, the spoils will not be distributed for the time being, and will be unified in dispatching and managed. After taking over Xingyang and Changyi, the decision will be made.

Liu Bang once again successfully won over the princes who participated in the coalition under his command. This is a manifestation of his political ability and it is also the origin of Liu Bang being defeated by Xiang Yu again and again during the four years of the Chu-Han struggle, but again, he has more troops than once again. Faced with such an increasingly powerful opponent, Li Yuan could not have any pride or slackness.

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Luoyang.

The county seat of Sanchuan County is located. Two thousand years later, it has a resounding name: Luoyang. Compared with the important military town on the banks of the river Xingyang, Luoyang's geographical location is more important. It is located in Mangshan in the north, Yique in the south, Luo River runs through it, Hulao Pass in the east, and Hangu Pass in the west. It can be said that the center of the entire China is Luoyang.

Yang Xiong, Li Yuan, and Sima Yin led 7,000 Qin troops to retreat westward. After six days of difficult marching, they finally arrived at Luoyang City to settle down.

In addition to those who were injured, those who died along the way, and those who were left behind in the middle of the journey, the number of people remaining in the Sanchuan County Qin army field troops was 6,073. Among them: more than 2,100 crossbow soldiers, accounting for nearly one-third of the total; more than 2,900 infantrymen, accounting for less than half; the remaining more than 1,000 were cavalrymen, but the war horses were seriously insufficient, and the intact horses were counted only more than 600 cavalry.

The lack of horseshoe protection is the biggest problem of horse losses, and the absence of kicks is also one of the reasons. The horse's belly is easily injured by the force of both legs. The damage to the horse's internal organs is difficult to see from the outside. Once discovered, it is too late to treat it. The service life of cavalry and horses is a key to plaguing their long-term combat operations. In the historical record of the Hanwu Northern Expedition, even if there were policies to encourage every household to raise horses, they could not resist the consumption of the Northern Expedition for years.

Li Yuan could only proceed step by step with the issue of war horses. Luoyang is a county town that is much larger than white horses. There should be more choices for iron and skilled craftsmen. After a little thought, Li Yuan handed over this technical innovation issue that affects the improvement of cavalry combat effectiveness to Sima Yin.

Sima Yin had long admired Li Yuan's heroic appearance in the Battle of White Horse. Now seeing that Li Yuan handed over such an important military secret to himself, he was moved and kept reassuring that except for Sima Yin and the technical craftsmanship involved in the research and development, no one else could know how to make horseshoes and stirrups.

Facing the extremely eager Sima Yin, Li Yuan's face couldn't help but blush. He couldn't do what Liu Bang did. To be honest, it was not a difficult invention to make horseshoes with iron and stirrups. As long as the craftsman's technology is passed, it is not difficult to imitate the iron after repeated forging when smelting iron metal.

Technical innovation will inevitably bring about chain social effects. For example, the threat brought by opponents' imitation and the lessons of being better than being better than being a master must be considered in advance. Li Yuan was not as conservative as Sima Yin. In the era of developed information, the leakage of commercial secrets was almost an ordinary thing for Sikong. As a technical inventor, the first thing he had to do was not to conservatively cover up the secrets, but to think about how to lead one step.

If there is no one, I have it, but if there is no one, I have it first. This slogan made Li Yuan deeply agree with it.

Sima Yin focused on craftsmanship. After losing streak, Yang Xiong was a little discouraged and rarely cared about reorganizing the army. Li Yuan naturally became the actual leader of the surviving Qin army. After showing his courage on the battlefield, Li Yuan began to learn to manage the team with power. Although his technique was still different from Liu Bang, it was the same in terms of effect.

November of the third year of the Second Emperor of the Qin Dynasty (October is the beginning of the year).

After ten days of concentrated reorganization in Luoyang, Li Yuan finally successfully digested Yang Xiong's remaining troops. Six thousand generals were divided into four parts by Li Yuan. It was the first part of Wang Shangling, the only remaining one among the Li Yuan's direct line. The other three parts were handed over to the newly promoted three military marquis.

Among them, the officers in two plots continued to use Yang Xiong's old subordinates, which was also considered that they would replace their subordinates with their own direct subordinates at once, and they were afraid that Yang Xiong's old subordinates would have any thoughts. At the same time, according to Li Yuanzhao's plagiarism of the People's Army's training plan, low-level officers of Qu, Gate, and other levels were selected through selection. In this way, even if these two military marquis had different intentions, they could not make any big fuss.

In the last part, Li Yuan's unexpected position as the Chief of General Marquis was handed over to Jiang Yu, who participated in the Qin army in Baima. This was the nephew of Jiang Teng (Neshi Teng), a famous minister of Qin State. He once served as the Marquis of the Qin army during the southern expedition of Baiyue. Later, he returned to his hometown because he was not accustomed to the local conditions.

In this breakthrough battle, Jiang Yu's performance was remarkable, especially in reconnaissance and scouts. Jiang Yu seemed to have an innate sense of keen smell and could detect possible abnormal situations in advance, which made Li Yuan, who has always attached great importance to scouts, very interested.

In terms of the cavalry, Luo Jia, who was gradually becoming the commander of the cavalry, became the commander of the cavalry, and the six hundred elite cavalry under his command had become Li Yuan's most reliable assault force. Gu Yun, who survived the Battle of White Horse, was transferred to the personal army by Li Yuan, and no one questioned this. Gu Yun's performance on the battlefield was no worse than others, and transferring her to Li Yuan was also to make Gan and Zhou's only surviving seeds able to live well.
Chapter completed!