Soon, the group of people arrived at the courtyard where Team Leader Han Wu was staying. The originally spacious courtyard instantly became smaller after forty people were squeezed in.
In the current Donglai Army, each team is regarded as a village. The team leader is not only the military commander, managing the fifty soldiers under his command, but also the administrative chief of each village.
The corps commanders and chiefs in the crowd quickly gathered their soldiers together and stood in an orderly queue. In the Donglai Army, if there is no order and no order, you will be slapped with a military stick.
After everyone lined up, two people came out of the room where Duizheng Hanwu was staying. One of them was Duozheng Hanwu, and the other was a military commander with an unfamiliar face.
Han Wuxu coughed twice and said in his hoarse voice.
"This is Zhu Quan, the new building owner of our building. Why are you standing there in a daze? Why don't you come and greet me?"
Dozens of people below paid homage to the new Shangguan in unison.
In the Donglai army, from small to large, they are divided into Wu, Shi, Dui, Zhuang, Qu and Jun. One of the leaders of a group leads three to five groups of soldiers, and the chief officer is called the leader of the group.
Zhang Shou was a little surprised when he saw that the new building owner was not Han Wu.
Their last building owner was named Duan Mujin. He died suddenly at home more than ten days ago. It was said that he was bitten by the Baekje slave girl at home and died of excessive blood loss. Zhang Shou still hasn't figured it out yet. How could Duanmuzhen, a burly man, be bitten to his vitals by a weak woman?
It turns out that among the five team leaders in their building, Han Wu was the oldest. He had joined the team when Yinxian County started the army. Many people speculated that Han Wu would be promoted to the new team leader.
Unexpectedly, a stranger came today and directly became the new owner of the building.
"Brothers, my name is Zhu Quan. I came to our village today for two reasons. The first one is to meet you all. I am a cavalry guard under General Liu, and I am an old acquaintance of Han Wu. From now on, I will serve as the leader of the village. The Lord and everyone are brothers under the same banner."
As soon as Zhu Quan said this, the dozens of people below were a little surprised. You must know that the dozens of cavalry guards under Liu Yu are elite, and all of them are strong soldiers with superb martial arts. The cavalry guards are treated better than ordinary building owners. But it was much stronger, and everyone didn't understand why the new building owner could leave the cavalry guard alone and become the building owner.
"The second thing is to tell you that in two days, the general will lead the army south to Changguang Mountain to suppress the bandits. Our team has also been deployed. Let's go home today and settle down our affairs at home. We will go to Yin with me tomorrow. The county camp will set off with the army when the time comes."
This bandit suppression was actually more of a method Liu Yu used to train his troops.
Since the beginning of winter, the Donglai Army has made adjustments to its military structure. According to the imperial system of the Western Jin Dynasty, the number of county soldiers in Donglai County is 500. Although Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty issued an order to abolish the state and county soldiers after he destroyed Wu, But it was basically a form of stopping troops to recuperate. In fact, not many state and county soldiers were abolished.
Of course, Donglai County's 500-strong army was not enough. Liu Yu actually had 4,000 soldiers under his command. He expanded the army to 1,000 and personally commanded it as a personal army. The others were divided into six qus, each with 500 soldiers. They were led by their confidant Dong Ping and his brother Liu Yi respectively, and many people were transferred from other old subordinates to serve as leaders of each building.
After some adjustments, a pattern was basically formed in which Liu Yu personally controlled the strongest central army, and each of his trusted subordinates served as middle and upper-level officers. Moreover, the official positions of each person in the army were appointed by Liu Yu, rather than according to the Jin system. The approval by Taige minimized the influence of the Western Jin Dynasty in the military.
A few days ago, people from the Changguang Mountains in the south came to seek refuge with Liu Yu, and brought Liu Yu news.
There are several groups of bandits in the Changguang Mountains with a radius of hundreds of miles. Due to natural disasters and tyranny in recent years, a large number of people have fled to the mountains. These groups of bandits have grown in strength instantly. The largest two groups have nearly ten thousand people each.
A few days ago, there was a fight between two groups of bandits, which caused many people to escape. Only then did these few people come to Liu Yu.
Liu Yu actually wanted to annex these refugee bandits in Changguang Mountain for a long time. In history, Wang Mi fled into Changguang Mountain after the defeat of Linzi and won over these bandits before he resumed his troubles in Qingxu Prefecture.
However, I have always suffered from not knowing the specific location of the bandit's stronghold, and I dare not go there rashly in the vast mountains.
Now that he had these bandits who were familiar with the road as guides, he immediately started thinking about suppressing the bandits. He could not only train his troops, but also expand his strength. It was simply a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.
After listening to the order in the yard of Captain Han Wu, Zhang Shou left with the others and went home to deal with their family affairs. The order they received was to gather and go to the Yinxian camp early tomorrow morning.
When Zhang Shou was walking home, the sky became dark again and snowflakes kept falling.
When Zhang Shou returned to his door and opened the broken door made of tree branches, his thirteen-year-old brother Zhang Lu greeted him affectionately.
The young brother said flatteringly while helping him brush off the snowflakes on his body.
"Brother, if you are free later, please teach me the marksmanship again."
"I don't have time. I'm going on an expedition tomorrow. I have to get my family settled today."
"Oh, okay." The young man with a disappointed look on his face said. Suddenly he remembered something important and continued, "By the way, my father asked me to tell you that there is a Baekje slave who seems to be seriously ill and is going to die." Don’t ask the healers to look at him.”
Zhang Shou was given four Baekje male slaves, all of whom he sent to his parents' home.
"A barbarian slave, why should I hire a doctor?" Zhang Shou said with some disdain, "Besides, I will go on an expedition tomorrow, and all the slaves in the village will be brought to Yin County for supervision to prevent them from causing trouble."
"Making trouble? Why do I think these Baekjin slaves are more docile than rabbits?" Zhang Lu said with a smile.
"Children know nothing. Rabbits bite people when they are anxious. Stop talking nonsense. Go and fetch the two slaves from my father's place. The team has an order and all the slaves must be gathered in the cattle and horse stables in the afternoon. .”
Zhang Lu responded and trotted away.
Zhang Shou entered the house and found that the originally messy floor and couch had been cleaned up by Baekje women, giving him a feeling of home as he was about to set off with the army again.
When the woman saw Zhang Shou coming in, she quickly lowered her head to sweep away the scattered snowflakes for him.
Zhang Shou stopped her movement and said to him.
"Go put on more clothes and follow me later."
Looking at the woman's half-understanding eyes, Zhang Shou directly wrapped a robe of a woman next to her around her body. Then he looked at it and felt that it seemed a little thin, so he put on a large dog-skin robe hanging on the wall. Wrapped around her.
After a while, his brother Zhang Lu came shouting outside the door.
Zhang Shou led the frightened woman out of the house and saw his younger brother Zhang Lu holding four slaves with wooden hand shackles on a rope. All four slaves looked submissive. One of them was pale and rickety. Standing barely naked.
Zhang Shou casually picked up a rope, put it around the woman's neck, and glanced at his brother Zhang Lu.
"Let's go to the shed."
