Chapter 1145 - 1087. Wagonways Rails Project In The East Of Xiapi
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With a synchronized, thunderous crack of leather reins, the seven legendary generals spurred their warhorses forward. They rode out from the shadow of the great gatehouse, joining the endless river of marching steel, leaving the ashes of their past behind as they charged toward the brutal, bloody horizon of their new destiny.
Stretching out behind the seven of them in a flawless, undulating river of dark iron and polished steel was a massive contingent of twenty thousand elite soldiers.
These were not raw recruits hastily levied from the farmlands, nor were they auxiliary forces. This was a heavy, specialized strike force pulled directly from the elite ranks of the Central Army.
The deployment had been meticulously organized and officially assigned to them by Vice Grand General Zhang Liao, acting under the explicit, brilliant strategic orders of Emperor Lie Fan.
The logistical and political reasoning behind giving these specific generals their own separate, massive unit was a masterstroke of military administration.
The western frontier was currently anchored by the in renovation former capital city of Chang’An. The vast armies stationed there were already under the seasoned, iron clad command of Marshal Huang Zhong and Army Strategist Chen Deng.
The command structure in Chang’An was rigid, deeply established, and fiercely loyal to its current officers. If Lie Fan had simply sent the seven former Wei generals to Chang’An as unattached officers, they would have been swallowed by the existing hierarchy.
They would have been relegated to secondary or tertiary roles, forced to obey men they had once fought against, which would inevitably breed friction, resentment, and a catastrophic waste of their peerless talents.