stubborn thief

Chapter 132 Starving and freezing
On the day when the commander Yang Yanchang led the army to set foot on Qinwang Road, Zhang Nian, the prefect of Yan'an, led the people to see each other off along the road. The musicians blew the suona, and the sound of firecrackers exploded.

It is said that before commanding King Qin, Yang sent a letter to the counties, warning the bandits everywhere not to take advantage of King Qin's rash actions to harm the officials and people, calling the bandits a starving child of the imperial court, and they must know the righteousness.

Later, the group of thieves really died down, and Yan'an Mansion looked like a scene of peace, which is amazing.

On the mountains on both sides of the Yanhe River, all the bandit leaders entrenched in the Yan'an Mansion paid their respects to Commander Yang who led the army and King Qin from afar.

People say that General Yang has always been prestigious, but he can suppress the bandits 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 the state of mind is very different. In his eyes, this is not a picture of an adjutant serving the king.

It was his caravan, and the caravan set off with its goods.

Du Laowu walked beside Yang Yanchang, and formed the deserter leader of King Qin with ten other frontier soldiers.

Looking at their backs, Liu Chengzong on the mountain clenched his fists tightly: he must come back alive!
In fact, the fortune is bad, and it really doesn't matter if you lose money. Three hundred war horses are precious, but people are always more precious than horses.

Recruit uniforms are good everywhere, warm, comfortable, and not ugly, but the biggest disadvantage is that they are not resistant to dirt.

Liu Chengzong tricked Shangtian Monkey to wash it clean, but within a few days after putting on the new clothes, the military uniform had already changed color on him.

That soldier uniform would be as dirty as if it had been rolled in mud.

The weather turned cold soon, and Liu Chengyun went to Wangzhuangbao to shoot arrows again.

After listening to the announcement, 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 said loudly: "Chengyun, don't shoot, come in."

This kid is stubborn, if you can't hit the target, just move the target forward, you have to shoot from such a long distance, and then go back to pick up the arrow after shooting.

It creates an illusion that his purpose is not to shoot arrows, but to run.

After entering the fort, Chengyun clapped his hands and sighed, "Brother, why are you so accurate at archery?"

But he still remembered that on the day the county government robbed the prison, Liu Chengzong held a bow and shot arrows, pointing and hitting; seeing that his movements were similar, why could he only hit and point?
"Study hard and practice hard. I have learned this since I was a child, and you have only learned it for a few days."

Liu Chengzong smiled and led Chengyun into the house, lit a kang outside with a Changming stove to boil water, squatted by the fire and leaned on his hands and asked, "How, how much have you gained from the heavy post these days?"

"Gone."

Liu Chengyun answered simply: "The newly harvested fabrics, including the old cotton harvested later, will have about 700 sets of military uniforms by the end of the year, and more than 240 pairs of cotton shoes, which will be gone later. Today, [-] sets of military uniforms will be brought in. .”

Two thousand sets?
"Just put the soldier clothes in the river valley? I'll send them to Yang Yao later."

Liu Chengzong sat on the edge of the kang, raised his hand and nodded his forehead in thought, and said: "Can we get some more, other cotton clothes are also fine, and we have to speed up making military clothes. Seeing that it is getting colder every day, I am afraid that people will die if it is too late."

Liu Chengyun nodded. It is too common for people to freeze to death in winter. He shook his head and said, "Who makes time bad? Li Bei should come to fight early, and he can make all the uniforms two months earlier."

"Tch, the officers and soldiers won't let me go two months ago."

Liu Chengzong sneered: "Now the respite is because the weather is cold, and the officers and soldiers will not fight because they lack winter clothes. I have more than 1000 deserters who have surrendered, and how many of them are wearing the clothes of the dead, so I can barely make up seven or eight hundred Cotton armor."

"If you don't ask for military uniforms, I'll think of a way. I think I can buy some padded jackets, but not too many. Brother, you have a lot of industrial guns."

Chengyun also went to the fire to warm his hands, squatted and turned his head, and said, "There is also Shifan the servant, there are more than 4000 people in the eight sentry teams, and everyone has cotton jackets and trousers. It's just over a month, it's too difficult."

"It's okay, you try 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, said a word of comfort, shook his head and said with emotion: "I also think of a way, they follow me, I can't let them freeze to death and starve to death."

Liu Chengzong promised to let people die unexpectedly, not to freeze to death or starve to death.

He sat back at the table and wrote some words, and when the carrier warmed up by the fire, he picked up a stack of papers and asked, "I'm going down the mountain, will you go?"

Chengyun knew that Liu Chengzong was going down the mountain either to the gun post or the work post, so he got up and patted his cotton trousers and said, "I'm going too!"

Liu Chengyun was very interested in Franji's handgun, and also in what Liu Chengzong wrote. He kept asking questions along the way, but when he heard that it was the training plan of the eight whistle teams, he immediately opened up the conversation.

"Practice once every three days, why not practice once a day after eating so full?"

"What is the ten-day one-post exercise, and what is the twenty-day one-post exercise?"

When asked about this, Chengyun's eyes lit up, and he kept asking this and that.

Liu Chengzong took the trouble and explained the reasons for the drill one by one: "I didn't have enough winter food, so I had to go find it and I didn't have time to practice. Now that I have enough food, I naturally have to practice every day, but I don't form a team. Practice weapons, strength, and running, only a little practice in formation."

"The team consists of a soldier and two auxiliary soldiers. Both soldiers have served as soldiers. They will teach the auxiliary soldiers and check their drill results. The so-called three-day training, team drills are mainly about formations and skills, and Very cooperative."

"As for the one-post exercise every ten days, it is a drill for the whole post, and the formation of the formation is changed. The post belongs to the use of the supply team and the guard team. The reason why it is once every ten days is that on the day of the big exercise of each post, they want to pull the team over. "

Speaking of this, Liu Chengzong smiled, and said hello to the soldiers carrying the goods up the mountain, then turned to Chengyun and said, "I can't ignore my soldiers. I have to talk to everyone and encourage them."

This kind of drill plan was almost copied by Liu Chengzong from the drills of the Yuhebao frontier army, and it was in line with the drill methods of the Heilongshan Minzhuang, and then according to the current environment, he worked out a drill method suitable for them.

Soldiers can practice everywhere along the banks of the Xingzi River, but only the open space outside Wangzhuang Fort is large enough to spread out the entire battalion for parade exercises.

The more it came to this time, the more Liu Chengzong felt that there was a lack of officers.

There are more than 4000 people in the whole camp, and no one has contacted more than 400 people and knows how to do it.

Li Bei was imprisoned in Wangzhuangbao. Liu Chengzong wanted to be ashamed to ask, but he was not taught.

Speaking of Li Bei, Cheng Yun asked with great interest: "By the way, I heard that Chief Cao said that General Li wanted to recruit you and recommended you to be a general officer, and rumors in the camp are crazy. Is there such a thing?"

"Yes, I want to ask him how my battalion should train together. Not only did he not tell me, but he also asked me to serve as the emperor's general manager and follow him to Liaodong to fight against the captives. Isn't that ridiculous?"

"I told them that you didn't know it when you came back. This shows that there is definitely a way out for rebelling with your brother."

Liu Chengzong snorted disdainfully: "Oh, it's not that I'm a small servant, but if I defeat the general, I can become the general manager; next time I beat Wu Zimian, I will be promoted to the general of Yan'an, and I will fight back against the coalition forces of the five towns. I am the commander-in-chief of Yansui Town after the battle, and you guys will all serve as me... I almost forgot the important thing!"

He paused when he said this, patted Chengyun and said, "Maybe there is no need to beat Wu Zimian, the court will soon let me be a general."

Chengyun was stunned halfway up the mountain, and blurted out: "Then who do you have to fight to become a general?"

Liu Chengzong shook his head: "Don't tell others about this, think of a way, if the governors of the three sides send someone to summon security, on the side of Zhuantianmao, and the side of King Gao Chuang?"

Recently, he has been busy with the affairs of King Yang Yanchang Qin, and he was sure that the respite had arrived, which made Liu Chengzong lose his vigilance, and did not consider how Governor Yang He would deal with him.

But talking to Chengyun about Li Bei's instigation of rebellion reminded him that there is such a person as Yang He in Guyuan.

Yang He has no one in his hands. Earlier, he only felt that the military pressure on the three sides and the five towns was much lower, but after careful consideration, he still has the ability to recruit security.

Next year, 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, if Yang He has no elite soldiers to use, he will most likely use Zhao'an to deal with him.

Zhao An.

The intense military pressure the team had been under since the June 22 uprising gave him little time to think about other things.

Now that I think about it, Zhao'an forever and alienation and instigating rebellion are a combination of punches.

He is not afraid of recruiting security, nor does he plan to recruit security.

But what if the money is always given to someone else?

Liu Chengzong can't care about others now, he has to take care of his own team first. When he went down the mountain, he happened to meet Wei Qian'er who was walking back on his horse. The team sent an order to summon [-] commanders to come to the fort tonight."

Wei Qian'er had doubts in his eyes, but he didn't ask any more questions, and turned his head and ran to deliver the order.

Soon Tangqi hit the road and rushed to the five or eight camps inside, outside, and outside.

Then Wei Qian'er came over and asked, "General, what else is there?"

Liu Chengzong shook his head, and then saw the training arrangement in his hand: "It's all right...call the Ding team over, and then put this back in my room."

Since the commanding officers of the entire army were to be called, there was no need to send out this training arrangement every second, and let them take it back when they returned to the team, and show it to the chiefs, captains, and post chiefs.

In the valley below the mountain, Liu Chengzong and Chengyun led his family members to carefully inspect the military uniforms delivered.

The military uniforms are all made by Wang Zhuangzhuang's wife, so it is inevitable that there will be minor flaws. Basically, the places that are required are very carefully made according to the requirements, and the places that are not required are made with more imagination.

When the two sets of military uniforms are put together, it is difficult to make people feel that they are cotton-padded clothes and trousers of the same shape, at most the same color.

But when ten sets of military uniforms are put together, it can be seen that they are the same set.

Innocent.

Liu Chengzong only cared about whether the clothes were warm or not. Every set of military uniforms had his name sewn on the hems of the trousers, so that it was easy to find if something went wrong.

The servants took the scales to weigh each piece of military uniform. There was no obvious cut corners, but there were indeed some shortfalls. At this time, the servants had to go for a trip.

If the difference in weight is within two ounces, if Zhuang's wife does it, she will ask for the manual fee for sewing the clothes.

Let Zhuang women make clothes to pay for handwork, but the craftsmen at the sentry post do not have handwork fees. They eat food, but the food they eat cannot be spit out, so they have to beat the board.

But it is true that there are no craftsmen who are greedy for ink and cotton. The craftsmen of the post have not only food, but also income from repairing weapons, clothes, saddles and other equipment for the soldiers. They are much richer than the common people.

The camp belonging to Gongshao is located in the northwest of Wangzhuangbao, near the charcoal kiln.

It is the busiest place in the Xingzi River Basin. On one side there are two camps with artillery post and heavy post, and on the other side leads to several tenant villages in the mountain.

Bypassing the hills of Wangzhuangbao, before approaching the camp, you can see the smoke rising from the blacksmith's forge.

There was a lot of people in the camp, not only soldiers who came to ask craftsmen to repair their armor, but also farmers who carried farm tools needed for the next spring on their shoulders, and held an egg in their arms, asking craftsmen to repair them.

There are even craftsmen who put the finished utensils outside the camp and set up a stall, just like a small market.

Liu Chengzong liked to see such a scene, it made him feel alive, and the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously before entering the camp.

Happy to be happy, but who made him neither a farmer nor a soldier.

He still laughed, and said to Cheng Yun: "Look, it's okay not to formulate a training system, it's all messed up like this."

From a distance, I saw a team of family members pushing carts coming, and soon someone from the craftsman camp called for me to come to the sentinel, and then everyone was overjoyed. The crooked team.

The soldier captain who was assigned to the artisan post was a tall and thin man named Hu Sanhuai, who used to be in charge of the team in Guyuan.

Seeing Liu Chengzong, he turned his head and glanced at the craftsmen standing crookedly in the phalanx, bowed down on one knee and saluted, bowed his head extremely guilty, and even said hello in a low voice: "General..."

"Get up, don't kneel down."

Liu Chengzong helped him up, and asked with a smile: "In the future, the post will inevitably fight. The commander of the post is in charge of the people, and training depends on you. What's the difficulty?"

Hu Sanhuai clasped his fists and said: "It's just one thing that the time is short. There are few soldiers and heavy affairs. Since the formation of the joint venture, the low-level professional training of each team is only half an hour, and the maximum is no more than two times."

"Um……"

Liu Chengzong glanced at the team of craftsmen, nodded and said: "It's okay, we finally have time, the Hu Guan team will go to the team first, let the brothers who have not received the uniforms line up into fifteen teams, and I will distribute the clothes."

Hu Sanhuai led the team, and the servants behind Liu Chengzong smiled at each other and divided them into three columns, large, medium and small, according to the thickness of the clothes weighed earlier.

This is not the first time they have distributed military uniforms. In fact, no matter what they distribute, their generals have to distribute them by hand, and they are already used to it.

The craftsmen, 15 in a row, unconsciously smiled at Liu Chengzong.

People want to please the young man who led them to victory.

People also want to be remembered by him.

Liu Chengzong picked out a set of nested military uniforms for each person according to their height, shortness, fatness and thinness, and put them in their hands with his own hands.

Whenever Liu Chengzong approached a person, that person would say his name and team aloud.

When a row of people are wearing military uniforms, Liu Chengzong will speak to them, and then continue to issue another row of soldiers.

"I used to be in the border fort. The court made me wear a jacket with no cotton. I shrank my hands and feet in the winter. I knew that it was not easy for the brothers. The first thing after the war was to protect the brothers from the cold. If everyone followed me, I would not Let you starve and freeze!"

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)