Chapter 704: Return to the old place
The Zhongwu Army now has about five thousand people.
On the 21st, they all pulled out and conducted a martial arts exercise with the 3,600 Luonan Mansion soldiers who had assembled.
There are many martial arts subjects.
The first formation was fighting in the field at the foot of Ganchengwu Mountain and was rushed to pieces.
The second formation was to guard the mountain road and rely on the favorable terrain to fight defensive battles, but was defeated again.
On the 23rd, we moved to Yunzhongwu.
The third formation confronted the Fu soldiers across the river along Ganshui, but the Fu soldiers found a ford to force a crossing and were defeated again.
The entire martial arts performance lasted until dusk. Everyone was very tired, and the Zhongwu Army was even more disgraced.
The Luonan Mansion soldiers smiled and said nothing, privately saying that the Zhongwu Army was still "Tian Shefu".
In fact, the best performance of the Zhongwu Army was the first large-scale array field battle, which made the Luonan Mansion soldiers spend a lot of time.
The last two formations were unable to form a large formation due to terrain reasons. They focused on assaults of hundreds or thousands of people, and they were beaten miserably.
To put it bluntly, the personal martial arts skills were not good, and the group cooperation was not as good as the Luonan soldiers. They were crushed in all directions - in small-scale battles, the effect of a decisive attack by fully armed elite soldiers was too obvious.
“Have you taken it now?” Shao Xun asked while skillfully turning over the meat and brushing it with oil while the meat was roasting sizzlingly over the blazing campfire.
“I don’t accept it.” Shao Shen said helplessly: “The officers and soldiers of the Zhongwu Army have to farm the land on weekdays, and they don’t have any training. How many times a year can they practice?”
Shao Xun smiled. He was handed a piece of barbecue.
Farmers in this era rely not only on their fields for income, but also on side businesses.
Mulberry weaving is the most typical sideline business, and women generally reel, spin, and weave cloth.
Men also have side jobs, and raising livestock is one of them - "Chickens, dolphins, dogs and pigs are animals that are not lost in time, and those in their seventies can eat meat."
Farmers also often carry The chickens and ducks raised in the house and the fruits and vegetables grown in the house are sold in the market.
If you have bamboo or elm trees planted at home, they will also be treated roughly.
In addition, fishing, lotus picking, hunting, weaving, etc. are all side businesses that can earn income, including selling labor force and doing odd jobs for wealthy households.
These side jobs require a lot of time during off-farm periods.
The more you train intensively, their income will decrease. This is contradictory.
The advantage of off-duty professional soldiers is that they have someone to support them and can train without any distractions.
When the soldiers are busy in farming, they need to go to the fields to help, but they rarely do side jobs. They are very free and have a lot of time to train. How can they compare?
However, among the troops under Shao Xun's account, there are only two types of full-professional recruits who do not need to work at all, namely the silver gun and the black gun.
Yicong, Luoyan, Zhuosheng and other armies had to graze their horses themselves, and even plant a little grain in case there was insufficient forage and it was difficult for the horses to survive the winter.
I also run some orchards, vegetable fields, and pastures to provide myself with supplies. It is considered a semi-professional army. The food and salary are only about two-thirds of the Silver Spear Army and the Black Silk Army-the remaining one-third is for myself. solve.
Of course, the pro-army forces, which currently number more than 1,400, are all professional.
To put it bluntly, there were not many professional recruitment habits in this era. Everyone was half-farmer and half-soldier, and even the palace guards had to take turns farming.
"Don't be discouraged." Shao Xun gave Pei Lingyan and Sima Maobao another piece of meat each, and continued to say to his eldest nephew: "The Zhongwu Army is the better among the peasant soldiers. Huixi The bones were exposed in the canyon in Ban, and thousands of people died in the past ten years. It is really not easy. "
"Wang Mi has been unable to do what he wanted to do in the past two years." Shao Shen became more energetic when he mentioned this. I heard him say: "In the past few years, although I was not convinced, I had to admit that Wang Mi could indeed fight and hit the mouth of the valley many times. Standing on the Jinmen dock, my nephew could hear the cry of killing. In the past two years, He lost the cities of Xin'an and Baichao, and the more than 10,000 people killed were old thieves from Qingzhou, Yuzhou, and Sizhou who had followed him to fight for many years. Now it is the Zhongwu Army who will be the main attack force. Give me another two years, and I will definitely be able to directly intervene. "Xishi Fort is a matter for the Forbidden Army. You can just pretend to attack it from the flank." No matter how much land was lost, I have to take it back one by one even with blood and tears."
The Forbidden Army attacked Xin'an City and Baichaowu, causing heavy casualties.
Now they have to prepare to attack Kip Shek Fort. This is their fate, and they can't escape it because they must pay off their debt for their irrational rout.
After filling in a large number of refugees, the Forbidden Army returned to just over 20,000 people.
Don't mention it, even though the casualties in the past two years have been extremely heavy, and many battalions have been beaten to a few seeds, even though Shao Xun keeps drawing blood and transferring the Forbidden Army soldiers who have made great achievements in battle to serve as government soldiers, This force, which nominally belongs to the Jin Dynasty, has still made considerable progress.
In short, even if a large number of new people are recruited, the various departments of the Forbidden Army are no longer so loose. Progress is all-round. Morale, military discipline, combat effectiveness, tactics, cooperation between departments, battle experience, etc. have all improved to a greater or lesser extent.
To put it harshly, the strength of the Zhongwu Army is even slightly beyond that of the eldest nephew.
"How many times have you been to Xin'an County this year?" Shao Xun asked again.
"There are always seven or eight trips. I just came back at the end of August." Shao Shen said: "There are more than 300 families left in Xin'anben. This year, 2,000 displaced families have been resettled in one go, and many of them are from Jingu. There are also 1,600 or 7,000 Huns in the garden. There are too many things to do. "
"It is more difficult than fighting, but you can't just fight." Shao Xun said sincerely: "My Shao family's background is too poor. There are not many useful talents in the family. You have to work hard."
In the Shao family, the eldest nephew Shao Shen is General Huwei. , based in Yiyang, led Yiyang, Xin'an and other counties. The five forts of Yunzhong, Kinmen, Tanshan, Gancheng, and Baichao managed by martial arts students also obeyed his orders, and their accounts even had an army name: Zhongwu Army.
My younger brother Shao Fan is appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of Assassination and Rape in the General's Mansion. He has hundreds of people under his command. His main responsibilities are to find out information, arrest spies and even monitor and surrender people.
There is also another brother, Shao Guang, who was originally a captain of the Tuntian Military Academy in Duyang and is now the supervisor of the General's Mansion. A few days ago, Shao Xun asked him to also lead Liang Ling and take charge of the affairs of Liang County and Guangchengze.
There is also the clan nephew Shao Jie, whose relationship is even further. He is in his twenties and is an older transfer student from the Liang County martial arts school. He was sent to Yecheng a while ago to serve as a county captain. There is nothing else, at least not the older generation and people of the same generation as Shao Xun, so we can only place our hope on the next generation.
After the rise of Shaoxun, the living conditions of the clan have been greatly improved. Many people moved to Liangxian, Chenxian, Xuchang and Bianliang. Their children began to Get an education and see if you have the luck and talent.
"Second uncle, I can save it." Because Pei and Sima were present, Shao Shen only said vaguely.
Shao Xun was very pleased that his eldest nephew understood what he meant.
With such a weak clan, most of them are incompetent. Will Sima replace Cao again in the future? It's hard to say, but the eldest nephew is wary.
"If there is plenty of money and food next year -" Shao Xun thought for a while and said: "I will give the Zhongwu Army one thousand officers, three husks of dendrobium per month, four bolts of cloth per year, raise them, and train them well. ”
Shao Shen was overjoyed.
Although he can control the money and food in Yiyang and other counties and Wudawubao, raising soldiers is still very sensitive. If the second uncle doesn't nod, he doesn't dare to do it.
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Shao Xun stayed in Yunzhongwu that night.
When I entered Wubao, I found that most of the people here had changed.
At first, the majority were refugees from Bingzhou, and later people from other places gradually joined.
At this time, some families were ordered to move out, divide their land and buy houses, and became private households;
In some families, the men died in the war, and the women remarried with their children;
Some were recruited as soldiers and their families went to other places;
Some served in the war and became government soldiers. , also moved away;
There were even those who could not bear the oppression and fled.
Most of today’s Yunzhongwubao households speak with Jizhou accents, and they have only been here for a short period of time, only three or four years at the longest.
What remains unchanged is that Yunzhong Sanwu and Gancheng and Baichao Erwu are still managed by martial arts students.
This is a very good opportunity for them to practice skills after graduation - Wubao is highly organized and is much easier to manage than the unorganized countryside, which means it is less difficult.
Due to the unremitting efforts of the predecessors, relatively complete rules and regulations have been formed for the management of Wubao. If newcomers follow this first, they will generally not make mistakes. After working for a year and a half, I have accumulated some experience and gained my own understanding of the management of Wubao. I can also make suggestions for improvements and include them in the Wubao management regulations.
When the martial arts students can manage a Wubao well, he can step onto a bigger stage.
"Is this the first dock you built back then?" In the clean and tidy room, Pei Lingyan stood at the window, overlooking Luoshui.
A fresh wind blew from the river.
There are waves of pines and waves on Nuji Mountain.
The bright moon hangs high in the sky, lighting up the entire land.
What a peaceful and peaceful rural fortress!
"Well. Without these forts, we can't support the first batch of Silver Spear Army. Without the first batch of Silver Spear Army, it will be difficult for me to succeed." Shao Xun walked behind Pei Lingyan and gently hugged him Her waist, resting his head on her right shoulder, said: "Do you still remember what happened back then?"
"What happened?"
"I asked you to borrow money to build a building. Wubao, you said that the government's money could not be used and you gave it to me as a dowry. I haven't paid back the money yet," Shao Xun hugged the woman tightly and asked softly.
Pei Lingyan was in a daze for a moment, it happened a long time ago.
"It's just five hundred guan of money and fifteen hundred pieces of Hanoi silk." She said calmly.
"I haven't paid it back because I can never afford it." Shao Xun turned Pei Lingyan around, looked into her calm and gentle eyes, and said, "I will never be able to pay it back in this life."
Pei Lingyan leaned her face into his arms and said, "Don't think too much, I am willing to do it."
Hearing this, Shao Xun was silent for a long time and was speechless.
After a moment, he suddenly thought of something, took Pei Lingyan's hand into the bedroom next door, then stared at the ground, counting slowly.
"What are you doing?" Pei Lingyan asked curiously.
Shao Xun did not answer and continued to count. After a while, he found the target, took out his dagger and pried it out a few times, prying out the entire floor tile.
Pei Lingyan watched quietly without disturbing him.
Shao Xun wiped the mud on the back of the floor tiles and saw the word "Pei" engraved on it. He was overjoyed. He brought it to Pei Lingyan like a treasure and said, "Look, Hua Nu."
< br>Pei Lingyan saw the words engraved on the brick at a glance, and was stunned there. Then he looked at Shao Xun with wandering eyes, a faint blush on his face.
"I have missed you all those years ago, thinking about you day and night, so I wrote this letter to commemorate it." Shao Xun looked at Pei Lingyan with burning eyes, took a few steps closer, and said.
Pei Lingyan turned his head slightly and said: "Go take a bath, your body is covered with sweat."
"Okay." Shao Xun responded quickly.
The evening breeze blows through the windows, and the night in Yunzhongwu is so charming.
(End of this chapter)