The substitute prince: Reported the emperor's brother at the beginning

Ning Yi carried out a major reorganization at Hushan Pass and brought in some old officers from the Beijing Camp and the original garrison at Hushan Pass.

Most of them were forcibly resettled and all packed up and sent to the emperor.

The old emperor was very happy, because what he lacked now were officers.

Regardless of these commanders, deputy commanders, and generals, most of them from the south were arranged by him to go back to the south for training and recruiting new soldiers.

The old emperor was of course happy, and now he trusted the sixth brother even more.

Everyone knows that the real core of an army is these old officers.

Because of the heavy casualties at Hushan Pass, Lao Liu had to reorganize the army. After the downsizing, he did not resettle or win over the remaining officers.

They were all sent back.

This is a great thing. The old emperor believes that with these old officers, it won’t take long before the new army in the south can be formed.

It just so happened that Ning Yi took the opportunity to clear out all the officers who were unstable factors in the army.

After replacing all the officers with those he absolutely trusted, he immediately began to intensify the training.

Although some officers were still very young, they were veterans and servants who had survived several major wars.

But this is much more reliable than those old officers who only know how to listen to the old emperor.

As the weather gradually warms up, many people in Beijing have calmed down.

Now everyone thinks that it is a good thing that the barbarians are negotiating and not attacking.

In addition to some angry young people who occasionally shout that a large amount of land in the north has not been recovered.

Everyone else is busy living their own lives.

Do what you should do.

Officials are still thinking of ways to make money, and even think that the world is peaceful.

Only a very few people knew that the peace talks with the barbarians were just normal times.

No one believed that the barbarians would give up the capital city which was so close to them when they reached this point.

As for supplies from the capital, they were rarely transported to Hushan Pass.

As for money and food, only those tens of thousands of people have it. As for the rest, it will be up to General Ning Yi to deal with it first.

Ning Yi wrote to the old emperor several times to ask for things and complained about the many difficulties at Hushan Pass.

However, the old emperor used the excuse that the new army was about to be trained and needed a lot of money and food, so he did not give more.

It also reassured Ning Yi that in just a few days, he, the prince, would be completely liberated.

Ning Yi had some understanding of the new army in the south.

Although those generals did move faster after they returned.

However, the old emperor's money and food were deducted at every level, and there was not much left in the hands of the new soldiers recruited below.

Such a new army is nothing more than a mere showpiece.

What surprised Ning Yi was that after the New Year, six more guards were reorganized in the northwest direction.

Ning Yi was speechless. How could it be so easy to pull a team in the northwest direction?

It’s easy to train them into a few guards and send them back.

Moreover, they were sent to Hushan Pass by Emperor Wu.

According to Emperor Wu, this is only the first batch, and new troops will arrive in succession.

Let Ning Yi prepare for resettlement.

It is almost April now, the weather is warm, and people are gradually taking off their winter clothes. Except for the night when it is still a little cold, they don’t need to wear them at other times.

The soldiers and officers of these six northwestern guards are all descendants of military families.

A military family is a wealthy family in the northwest, with many direct descendants and collateral descendants.

Each of them is a gunsmith at home, and was born to fight.

Now that the emperor has issued an imperial decree, they can go and collect people. The higher the number of people they collect, the higher the official position they will be given.

Naturally, it was a group of sons of military families who were running around recruiting new soldiers and training them very quickly.

Even if the emperor gave some money and food symbolically, it was not important to the generals in the northwest.

As long as they are given official positions, they can provide the money and food themselves.

Otherwise, it would be considered as privately stationing troops, and you would be targeted.

Now we have the old emperor’s edict, what a great thing.

Among these six northwestern guards, about half of them were wearing armor.

This is already quite good. After all, the northwest is barren, and only half of them are wearing armor, and most of them only have a breastplate, which is already considered elite.

Near May, another 30,000 southern troops were sent to Hushan Pass.

Nearly 60,000 troops came to support Hushan Pass. It seemed that the emperor was supporting Ning Yi and the defense of Hushan Pass.

But anyone with a discerning eye knew that the old emperor was worried that the barbarians would attack again this year.

Another reason is that he wants to deprive the Sixth Prince of his military power.

It was the summer harvest in June, and the old emperor issued another decree that the new troops in the south, which had been training before the New Year, should be ready to march to Hushan Pass after the summer harvest.

There were a total of 100,000 new troops, even though the South only relied on the Ministry of Industry and workshops set up in various places to produce weapons and equipment.

The armor coverage rate also reached half.

One hundred thousand soldiers and horses, if we add the five guards that Ning Yi nominally left behind at Hushan Pass, there are also 30,000 elite cavalrymen from the northwest, and the 30,000 cavalrymen of the old six that the old emperor always remembered.

There are almost 200,000 elite soldiers, as for the so-called temporary army that Ning Yi raised.

No one really took it seriously. Even the old emperor felt that these temporary troops only needed to be given a little food and not even any salary. They would be cannon fodder when the time came.

With 200,000 elite soldiers at Hushan Pass, I believe any veteran can firmly guard Hushan Pass.

Even the old emperor had already discussed it with the Duke of Baoguo, and the Duke of Baoguo also promised that as long as there was sufficient money and food and 100,000 elite new troops were in place, he would be willing to go to Hushan Pass to take charge in person and replace the Sixth Prince who had been complaining all the time.

The old emperor felt that he had everything under control.

Even Qin Haifeng felt anxious when he saw the court sending reinforcements continuously.

Now it can be said that the Sixth Prince has the final say in Hushan Pass, and it is the real Sixth Prince’s camp.

However, these imperial troops are now nominally under the command of the Sixth Prince, but they can attack the Sixth Prince at any time at the command of the old emperor.

This is very detrimental to the Sixth Prince's grand plan.

Qin Haifeng worriedly advised: "Your Highness, we must be on guard against these new troops."

Ning Yi smiled nonchalantly and said, "It's okay, them?"

"They are just cannon fodder. They have no other use except to increase the strength of this prince."

Qin Haifeng was confused and didn't understand why the Sixth Prince was so confident.

While the summer harvests from various places were being sent to the capital.

The last wave of new troops has not arrived yet, but the barbarians have come to demand the money owed under the treaty.

After all, the last treaty clearly stated that there would be hundreds of thousands of shi of military rations.

And millions of taels of silver.

It's summer harvest time now, you guys in Wu State can't deny your responsibility, right?

Moreover, the barbarians really followed the rules and gradually withdrew their main forces to the border. They did not leave a large number of troops in the cities ahead, but only left some rebels to serve as city defense forces and maintain public order.

Ning Yi did not stop these barbarian envoys at all, but simply opened the switch to let them pass.

Let them go to the capital to ask the old emperor for debt.