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Chapter 179 A capable person surrenders!The regiment was promoted to a brigade!
Liu Sheng read the good news sent by Peng Youyi, and then found the correspondence and files related to the East Route Army to check - he did not have a photographic memory, and he might not be able to remember some detailed information after reading it.

According to his original assignment, the East Route Army, composed of the First Regiment and the Sixth Regiment, was mainly responsible for capturing military important places such as Xincai and Yangbu.

Because the East Route Army also shouldered the responsibility of cooperating with Ruyang to jointly defend the Ming Army in the north, after capturing Xincai, it mainly focused on training civilian bravery and suppressing bandits.

This "bandit" includes not only thieves and bandits, but also villages and forts that are unwilling to submit to the Wei tribe.

After Yangbu, the Eastern Route Army captured the two large market towns of Longkou and Wadian.

These two market towns are located at key points of water and land transportation, and can barely be regarded as important military locations on the Huairu Plain.

After being captured by the East Route Army, Suiping, Ruyang, Mengjiazhuang, Yangbu, Longkou, and Wadian could just be connected to form a defensive line in the northern part of Runing.

Although this line has no geographical advantages other than the city (the Rushui River is too small to be considered geographically advantageous), at least it will not allow the Ming army to drive straight in when it goes south.

In addition, judging from the changes in the overall situation, it is still a question when the Ming army will come to Runing and whether it will have the troops to suppress the Yi tribe.

Peng Youyi didn't like training troops, so he handed over the training of civilian bravery to Hu Dongliu. He was responsible for suppressing bandits and inspecting the northern defense line.

At this time, the news of the rebels' rescue of refugees had spread far and wide. Even in Jiangbei (the part north of the Yangtze River in South Zhili, mainly Anhui in later generations), many refugees came to seek survival.

However, because it is the beginning of spring and the beginning of a new year, it finally brings some hope.

So overall, the number of refugees near cities and towns in each county is much smaller than last autumn and winter.

In order to increase the number of civilian warriors as quickly as possible, Hu Dongliu learned that Yang Heqing recruited soldiers from surrendered bandits and rural warriors, so he followed suit.

From mid-to-late February to mid-to-late March, Hu Dongliu organized and trained 10 civilian warrior battalions in Xincai, with a total of 6000 civilian warriors!

After a month of training and training, these civilian warriors barely had some combat effectiveness. Only then did Peng and Hu plan their next military action.

If the next overall strategy of the Yi tribe is to expand outwards, then the two men will most likely attack north or east.

But both of them knew that Liu Sheng planned to stabilize the situation first and engage in internal affairs.

Therefore, the East Route Army went south along the Ru River and first captured the important military site Guchengcang. This place was called Gucheng (not Gushi) in later generations. It was actually a small town developed from an important storage and material distribution center. city.

After that is Zhugao Town, which was captured yesterday.

Zhugao is located at the intersection of the Ru River and the Huai River, and is close to the junction of Runing Prefecture and Yingzhou in the north of the Yangtze River. You can imagine the importance of its geographical location.

According to Peng Youyi's battle report, the Ming army stationed more than 1000 battalions here, and there were more than [-] rural soldiers, which was more than the number of troops stationed in many counties.

And Zhugao Town is actually a city.

Unfortunately, facing the thousands of standing troops and thousands of civilian warriors of the Eastern Route Army, there was no need to use internal response. Zhugao Town was breached within half an hour.

Peng Youyi still used his troops relatively vigorously, so the rebels of the Wei tribe suffered 300 and [-] casualties in this battle.Most of them are civilian warriors, not standing troops.

After understanding the situation of the Eastern Route Army, Liu Sheng transferred information and checked the rebel troop deployment in Runing and Suiping.

It was found that many new civilian warriors were recruited in these two places.

Considering the situation that the Yibu will face next and the need to expand territory after initially doing a good job in internal affairs, Liu Sheng feels that it is time to upgrade the rebel army again...

On the eighth day of March, Xixian County.

Yang Heqing is handling military affairs in the military camp.

Now, in addition to the third regiment, he also oversees twenty civilian brave battalions!

Among them, only four civilian warriors were brought out from Ruyang, and the remaining sixteen were trained after conquering Zhenyang, Xinyang Prefecture, and Luoshan.

Currently, they are training civilian bravery in Xixian County.

He originally planned to organize and train only two battalions, but he found that many young men took the initiative to join the army!
The rebel army can select people's brave men from surrendered bandits and village braves, so they can't do without young men who take the initiative to join the army, right?
However, with more and more civilian camps under his command, Yang Heqing already felt that his command was not smooth.

This is nothing, the worst he can do is lead a few less heroic battalions during the war, and allocate the extra troops to guard important places.

What Yang Heqing is most afraid of is that the management of these civilian brave camps is not in place, and there are violations of military discipline and tarnishing the reputation of the rebels.

This kind of thing is going to be a big deal, and he might be in trouble with Liu Sheng.

As for the record of conquering four cities in a row, he is not very proud of it - they all relied on superior troops to defeat the enemy, and some of them imitated Liu Sheng's attack on the city and sent internal troops. He did not experience any difficult battles, so there is really nothing to be proud of.

There was a lot of military affairs for the twenty-odd battalions. Even though most of them only required Yang Heqing to browse, sign, and stamp, it still took him more than an hour to complete these military affairs.

He was about to go out to patrol the camp to see how the civilian warriors were being trained and to do some activities when he saw military and political officials returning to the camp.

Seeing the smile on Cheng Song's face, Yang Heqing asked, "Looking at your expression, could it be that the old scholar did a good job?"

Cheng Song nodded, "Ji Xiangqian, the county magistrate, has indeed done a good job. At least he is very good at executing prison sentences."

It turned out that Chengsong went to the county government office in the morning to inspect the work of temporary officials.

After the two rebel armies, Yang Heqing and Peng Youyi, captured prefectures and counties, they followed Li Changwen's method and first appointed temporary officials from local people who were willing to join the rebel army.

Moreover, the appointment of officials is all the responsibility of the military and political officials, and the regimental camp chief and deputy general are not allowed to interfere.

In addition, in order to facilitate the follow-up arrangement of officials in Ruyang to take over, the largest temporary official appointed by a state is the state magistrate, and the largest temporary official appointed by a county is the county magistrate.In this way, if Li Changwen feels that the temporary official has done a good job after the follow-up examination, he can be promoted to a regular official or even promoted to a prefecture or county official.

If it is found that the performance of temporary officials is average or even bad, they can be considered to be demoted or removed from the position without much impact.

After the rebels captured Xi County, most of the county magistrates and bookkeepers committed suicide. Only a county scholar led a few scholars and a group of people to resist and were shot to death by random arrows from the rebels.

After the rebels took over the county, Chengsong held a public trial as usual - the subjects included the big evildoers in the county and officials who were corrupt and harmed others.

It turned out that most of the officials in Xixian County were evil officials with a bad reputation and were careless about human life. A few of them had a less bad reputation and had mediocre abilities.

This created a situation for the rebels with no one available.

Fortunately, after the rebels captured the city, they would post the "Recruitment Order" written by Liu Sheng last year to recruit talents.

It's just that after the recruitment order of the South Route Army was posted, most of the people who came to join the rebel army were ruffians from the city - of course the rebel army would not accept such people.

Secondly, there are the reckless people who are proud of their courage, the desperate craftsmen, and the ordinary people who have the mentality of giving it a try.

There were only a handful of scholars who were willing to serve the rebels and had meritorious status, and most of them had little ability, and could not do as well as the military and political officials trained by the rebels themselves.

Therefore, most of the time, Cheng Chan does not have much expectations for the scholars who come to seek help.

Unexpectedly, when Xixian was defeated this time, a scholar named Ji Xiangqian came to seek refuge.

Yang Heqing called him an old scholar, which was inappropriate. According to Cheng Song's understanding, Ji Xiangqian is only 39 years old this year, but he has gray hair and looks a little older.

He was a scholar at the age of 16, and had a reputation as a madman when he was young. Unfortunately, he repeatedly failed in the provincial examinations and exhausted his small family assets. Later, he had to become a litigant and relied on litigating lawsuits to support his family.

It's just that Ji Xiangqian doesn't take on all lawsuits - he only takes on the victims' lawsuits.

Chengsong didn't have a good impression of the litigants. Just because there was no one available and he needed to set an example, he let Ji Xiangqian, who took the initiative to serve, as the temporary county magistrate.

Unexpectedly, Ji Xiangqian handled all the cases accumulated by the county government in just one day, and also arranged other matters in an orderly manner, which shocked Chengsong.

Then there is joy.

He was really happy that such a talented scholar took the initiative to join the rebel army.

While the two were talking about this matter, they heard the faint sound of horse hooves coming from outside the camp.

Generally speaking, only messengers can enter the camp on horseback.

Before the two of them could walk out, a guard led a messenger in.

The messenger who came this time turned out to be the guards of Xiaoqi Camp.

He took out a wax-sealed bamboo tube, glanced at the people in the camp, and solemnly said: "The Yellow Head Military Order issued by the Generalissimo's Office to the Southern Route Army requires at least two regiment commanders, regimental deputy, and military and political officers. You can only give orders when you are present!”

"I am the regiment commander Yang Heqing."

"I am Cheng Chan, a member of the military and political affairs."

This Cavalry Guard actually recognized the two of them, and hearing their names was just a formality.

After verifying their seals, he handed over the bamboo tube.

Yang Heqing opened it on the spot and looked at it, and he suddenly became happy.

"What's the matter?" Cheng Song asked a little anxiously.

The military orders of the Yibu Rebel Army are currently divided into five types, which are distinguished by the different colors dyed on the top of the letter paper. The order is black, red, yellow, blue, and white, which represents the five military orders of severe, urgent, heavy, slow, and light.

Although military orders must be strictly implemented, different colors have different delivery speeds and handover procedures.

The yellow-headed letter in front of me represents an important military order, so two of the three regiment-level generals must be present before it can be handed over.

After Yang Heqing finished reading, he handed the general's order to Cheng Song and said with a smile: "The commander-in-chief knows what's bothering us now. No, he's giving us the order to form the third brigade!"

Cheng Song glanced at the military order first, and his face was also full of joy.

The Southern Route Army now has twenty civilian warrior battalions, and it is true that the command is not smooth.

According to this military order, Yang Heqing was promoted to brigade commander of the third brigade of the Standing Army, Zhang Ao was promoted to brigade deputy, and he was promoted to brigade political officer.

He was ordered to form a third brigade using the backbone of the third regiment of the original standing army.

There are only three regiments in the first brigade, all of which are combat regiments (because each regiment already has baggage camps, there is no need to form another baggage regiment).

At the same time, changes have been made to regiment-level and battalion-level establishments...
While Cheng Song was still reading the military orders carefully, Yang Heqing had already started to issue orders one by one for this matter.

He first asked the guards to arrange for the messenger to rest.

Then several guards were assigned to send an order to the regiment deputy Zhang Ao and the battalion commanders, battalion deputy, and military and political officers of the third regiment to arrange the military affairs at hand and come to the meeting.

　First more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)