On the day when the commander, Yang Yanchang, led his troops on the Qinwang Road, the Yan'an magistrate Zhang Nian led the people to see him off, the musicians played the suona, and the firecrackers crackled.
It is said that before Commander Yang envoyed King Qin, he personally sent a letter to all counties, warning the thieves in various places not to take advantage of King Qin's rash actions to harm the officials and the people. He called the thieves hungry and unbearable imperial princes and they must know the righteousness.
Later, the thieves really died down, and Yan'an Mansion seemed to be in peace, which was amazing.
On the mountains on both sides of the Yanhe River, the bandit leaders entrenched in Yan'an Prefecture all paid tribute to Commander Yang who led the army to serve the king from afar.
People say that General Yang has always been prestigious and can suppress thieves in Yan'an Prefecture.
Liu Chengzong was also on the mountain that day, watching the hidden earth pit dug by Li Bei's troops half a year ago.
But his state of mind was very different. In his eyes, this was not a picture of an official and an army serving the king.
It was his caravan, which set off with its goods.
Du Laowu walked beside Yang Yanchang, and together with ten other border troops, formed King Qin's deserter guide.
Looking at their backs, Liu Chengzong on the mountain clenched his fists tightly: We must come back alive!
It really doesn't matter if you have bad luck and lose money. Three hundred war horses are very valuable, but people are always more valuable than horses.
The recruit uniforms are good everywhere, they are warm, comfortable, and not ugly, but the biggest drawback is that they are not resistant to stains.
Liu Chengzong tricked the monkey into washing him, but within a few days of putting on his new clothes, the military uniform had changed color on him.
The soldier's uniform will be as dirty as if it had been rolled in the mud.
The weather quickly turned cold, and Liu Chengyun went to Wangzhuang Fort to shoot arrows again.
After hearing the report, Liu Chengzong stood on the fort wall and watched for a while. Seeing that he missed an arrow after shooting for a long time, he loudly said: "Chengyun, stop shooting, come in."
This kid is so stubborn that if you can't hit the target, just move the target forward. You have to shoot from such a distance, and then go back to pick up the arrow after shooting.
It creates the illusion that his purpose is not to shoot arrows, but to run.
After entering the fort, Chengyun clapped his hands and sighed: "Brother, why can you shoot arrows so accurately?"
But he still remembered that on the day when the county government was robbed and imprisoned, Liu Chengzong held a bow and shot arrows, shooting wherever he pointed. Seeing that his movements were similar, why could he only shoot where he pointed?
"Study hard and practice hard. I have been learning this since I was a child. You have only been learning for a few days."
Liu Chengzong smiled and led Chengyun into the house. He lit a kang with a Chang Ming stove outside to boil water. He squatted by the fire and leaned on his hands and asked, "How is it? How much has the baggage post produced in recent days?"
"Gone."
Liu Chengyun answered simply: "The newly harvested fabrics, including the old cotton harvested later, will have about 2,000 sets of military uniforms and more than 700 pairs of cotton shoes by the end of the year. They will disappear later. Today we brought in 240 sets of military uniforms." Ten sets of military uniforms.”
Two thousand sets?
"Just leave the soldier's uniform in the river valley? I'll send it to Yang Yao later."
Liu Chengzong sat by the kang, raised his hand and nodded his forehead in thought, and said, "Can we get some more, other cotton-padded clothes, too, and we need to speed up the process of making military uniforms. It's getting colder day by day, and I'm afraid someone will die if it's too late."
Liu Chengyun nodded. It was too common for people to freeze to death in winter. He shook his head and said, "Who cares about time? If Li Bei comes to fight early, he can make all the uniforms two months earlier."
"Hey, the officers and soldiers wouldn't have let me go two months earlier."
Liu Chengzong sneered: "Now we have a chance to take a breather because the weather is cold, so the officers and soldiers will not go to war because they lack winter clothes. I have more than a thousand deserters and surrendered, and many of them are wearing the clothes of the dead, so I can barely scrape together seven or eight hundred Wearing cotton armor."
"If you don't want military uniforms, I'll think of a way and I'll probably be able to buy some cotton-padded jackets, but not too many. Brother, you'll be in charge of the front, rear, left, right, work and artillery supplies."
Chengyun also came to the fire to warm his hands, squatted and turned around and said: "There are also servants in the Normal School. There are more than 4,000 people in two teams of eight sentries. Everyone wears cotton-padded jackets and trousers. It only lasts for more than a month. It is too difficult."
"It's okay. You try your best to find a way. We will do our best. Leading troops...it's really difficult to lead troops, isn't it?"
Liu Chengzong walked over and patted Chengyun on the shoulder, comforting him, shaking his head and sighing: "I also want to find a way. If they follow me, I can't let them freeze to death and starve to death."
Liu Chengzong promised others that he would make people die violently and not starve to death.
He sat back at the table and wrote for a while. After the Chengyun fire had warmed up, he picked up a stack of papers and asked, "I'm going down the mountain, are you going to come?"
Chengyun knew that when Liu Chengzong went down the mountain, he was either going to the artillery post or the work post. He stood up, patted his cotton trousers and said, "I'm going too!"
Liu Chengyun was very interested in Fran's mobile gun and what Liu Chengzong wrote. He kept asking questions on the way, but when he heard it was the training plan of the Eighth Guards and the two teams, he started chatting directly.
"You train every three days. You are so full that you can't train every day?"
"What is the first whistle exercise on the tenth day, and what is the first exercise on the 20th?"
When asked about this, Cheng Yun's eyes shone, and he kept asking about this and that.
Liu Chengzong also took the trouble to explain the reasons for the training in detail: "If I didn't save enough food for the winter, I would have to look for food and have no time to practice. Now that I have enough food, I naturally have to practice every day, but I don't form a team. It's mainly for the senior leaders." Practice weapons, strength, running, and just a little formation practice."
"The team is made up of one soldier and two auxiliary soldiers. The soldiers have all served as soldiers. They teach the auxiliary soldiers and the commander checks their training results. The so-called training once every three days, team training, mainly involves formations, formations and skills, as well as Very cooperative."
"As for the sentry drill once every ten days, it is a combined sentry drill, the change of formations, the use of sentries belonging to the baggage team and the servant team. The reason why it is held once every ten days is that on the day of the big sentry drill, they have to pull the team over. "
Having said this, Liu Chengzong smiled and said hello to the soldiers who were carrying the goods up the mountain. Then he turned to Chengyun and said, "I have to look at my soldiers. I have to talk to everyone and encourage them."
This kind of training plan is almost copied by Liu Chengzong from the training of the Yuhebao frontier army, and it is consistent with the training methods of Heilongshan Minzhuang, and then based on the current environment and local conditions, he compiled a training method suitable for them.
Troops can be trained anywhere on the banks of the Xingzi River, but only the open space outside Wangzhuang Fort is large enough to spread out the entire battalion for drills.
The more this time came, the more Liu Chengzong felt that he was lacking officers.
There were more than 4,000 people in the whole camp, and no one knew how to operate with more than 400 people.
There was Li Bei imprisoned in Wangzhuang Fort. Liu Chengzong wanted to ask questions without shame, but he was not taught.
Speaking of Li Bei, Cheng Yun asked with great interest: "By the way, brother, I heard that Commander Cao said that General Li wants to recruit you and recommend you to be promoted to the post of Chief Thousand Officer. Rumors are going crazy in the camp. Is this happening?"
"Yes, I wanted to ask him how my battalion should be trained together. Not only did he not tell me, but he also asked me to serve as the emperor's general and follow him to Liaodong to fight against the Eastern invaders. Isn't this ridiculous?"
"I told them, you just came back and didn't know, which means there is definitely a way out to follow your brother in rebellion."
Liu Chengzong said disdainfully: "Oh, it's not like he's just a servant, but if he defeats the general, he can become a thousand generals. Next time I'll beat Wu Zimian up, be promoted to Yan'an general, and go back to fight against the Five Towns Allied Forces. After the battle, I will be the commander-in-chief of Yansui Town, and all of you will serve as my advisors... I almost forgot about the important matter!"
He paused as soon as he said these words, patted Cheng Yun and said: "Maybe there is no need to beat Wu Zimian. Soon the court will make me a counselor."
Cheng Yun was stunned on the mountainside and blurted out: "Then who should I fight to become a general?"
Liu Chengzong shook his head: "Don't tell anyone else about this. Think of a way. If the governors of the three sides send people to recruit people, who will be on the other side?"
Recently, he has been busy with King Yang Yanchang and Qin, and he is sure that the chance to breathe has arrived, so Liu Chengzong has lost his heart and has not considered how Governor Yang He will deal with him.
But talking to Cheng Yun about Li Bei's instigation of rebellion made him remember that there was a person like Yang He in Guyuan.
Yang He had no one in his hands. Earlier, he only felt that the military pressure on the three sides and five towns was much lighter because of the elite and hard-working kings. But now that he thought about it carefully, he found that they still had the ability to recruit soldiers.
If King Qin's army comes back early next year, Yang He will definitely mobilize troops to deal with him; if he comes back late and Yang He has no elite troops to use, he will probably use recruitment to deal with him.
Recruitment.
Since the rebellion on June 22, the team has been under tremendous military pressure, leaving him no time to think about other things.
Now that I think about it, Zhao An Yong and Li Liang instigating rebellion are a combination of punches.
He is not afraid of recruiting people, nor does he intend to recruit people.
But what if the thousand is always given to someone else?
Liu Chengzong couldn't care about others at this time, he had to take care of his own team first. When he went down the mountain, he happened to meet Wei Qian'er who was returning from a horse walk. He waved over, looked at the time and said: "Wei Qian'er, let Tang Qian go to Ba Shao Liang The team sent an order to summon three hundred commanders and come to the fort tonight."
Wei Qian'er had doubts in his eyes, but he didn't ask any more questions. He turned around and ran to deliver the order.
Soon Tangqi was on the road and rushed to the fifty-eight camps inside, three and outside.
Then Wei Qian'er came over and asked, "General, what else can I do?"
Liu Chengzong shook his head, and then saw the training arrangements in his hand: "It's okay... call the servant team over, and put this back in my room."
Since all the commanders in the army have to be called, there is no need to send this training arrangement to each sentry one by one. They can directly take it back when they return to the team and show it to each commander, captain, and sentry commander.
In the valley at the foot of the mountain, Liu Chengzong and his servants carefully inspected the soldiers' uniforms that had been delivered.
The military uniforms are all made by Wangzhuang's wife, so there are bound to be minor flaws. Basically, the required parts are made very carefully as required, and the non-required parts are made more imaginatively.
Putting the two sets of military uniforms together, it is difficult to think that they are cotton-padded jackets and trousers of the same style. At most, they are the same color.
But when the ten sets of military uniforms are put together, it can be seen that they are the same set.
It's harmless.
Liu Chengzong only cared about whether the clothes were warm or not. Each set of military uniforms had his name sewn on the legs and trousers, making it easy to find any problems.
The servants took the scales to weigh each piece of military uniform. There was no obvious cut corners, but there were definitely some shortcomings. At this time, the servants had to make a trip.
If the difference in weight is within two taels, if the village woman makes the clothes, she will get back the labor cost of sewing the clothes.
Let the wife of the village make clothes and pay for the craftsmanship. The craftsmen do not have the craftsmanship fee. They eat food, but they cannot spit out the food they eat, so they have to make boards.
But it is true that no Gong Sen craftsmen are greedy for cotton. Gong Sen craftsmen have both food and income from repairing weapons, mending clothes, saddles and other equipment for soldiers. They are much richer than the common people.
The camp of the camp is located northwest of Wangzhuang Fort, near the charcoal kiln.
It is the most lively place in the Xingzi River Basin. One side is connected to two camps with artillery posts and baggage posts, and the other side leads to several tenant villages in the mountains.
Passing around the hills of Wangzhuang Fort, you can see the smoke rising from the blacksmith's forge before even getting close to the camp.
The camp was bustling with people. Not only were there soldiers who came to ask craftsmen to repair their weapons and armor, but there were also farmers carrying farm tools needed for the coming spring on their shoulders, holding an egg in their arms and asking craftsmen to repair it.
There are even craftsmen setting up stalls outside the camp with their finished utensils, just like a small market.
Liu Chengzong liked seeing such a scene, it made him feel alive, and the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously before he entered the camp.
He is happy, but he is neither a farmer nor a soldier.
He still laughed and said to Chengyun: "Look, if we don't formulate a training system, it's okay. It's all in such a mess."
I saw a team of servants pushing a cart from a distance. Someone from the craftsman camp quickly called me, the sentry commander. Then everyone was overjoyed. They didn't need Liu Chengzong to inform them, and all the sentries gathered directly and listed them in the open space outside the camp. A crooked team.
The soldier captain who was assigned to the craftsman post was a tall and thin man named Hu Sanhuai, who used to be a team leader in Guyuan.
Seeing Liu Chengzong, he looked back at the craftsmen standing in a crooked square formation, knelt down on one knee and saluted, lowered his head with great guilt, and even said hello in a low voice: "General..."
"Get up quickly, you can't kneel down."
Liu Chengzong helped him up and asked with a smile: "The workers' sentry will inevitably fight in the future. The division sentry commander is in charge of people, and we have to rely on you for troop training. What's the difficulty?"
Hu Sanhuai clasped his fists and said: "The time is short but one of them is that there are few soldiers and heavy affairs. Since the formation of the joint camp, the teams have been trained exclusively for humble positions. The minimum is only half an hour, and the maximum is no more than twice."
"Um……"
Liu Chengzong glanced at the team of craftsmen, nodded and said: "It doesn't matter, we finally have time. Team Hu will go to organize the team first, and let the brothers who have not received the uniforms line up in fifteen teams, and I will distribute the clothes."
Hu Sanhuai took the order to organize the team. The servants behind Liu Chengzong smiled at each other and divided them into three columns: large, medium and small according to the weight and thickness of the clothes checked earlier.
This is not the first time they have distributed military uniforms. In fact, no matter what they distribute, their generals have to hand it out hand in hand, and they are already used to it.
The craftsmen, fifteen in a row, smiled unconsciously as they faced Liu Chengzong.
People wanted to please the young man in front of them who would lead them to victory.
People also want to be remembered by him.
Liu Chengzong selected a set of folded military uniforms for them according to each person's height, short, fat, and thin, and put it into their hands with his own hands.
Whenever Liu Chengzong approached someone, that person would loudly say his name and team.
When a row of people are carrying soldiers' uniforms, Liu Chengzong will say something to them, and then continue to send out soldiers to another row.
"In the past, at the border fort, the court asked me to wear a coat without cotton. I was so cold in winter that I shrank. I knew it was not easy for the brothers. After the battle, the first thing I did was to protect the brothers from the cold. If everyone followed me, I would not Let you starve and freeze!"
