Datang New Order

After Feng Dao returned to White Wolf Mountain, Li Chengzhong's heart had been hanging for several days before he finally settled down.Regardless of how much material and military support the Pingzhou Governor's Office and the Bingma Shiya gave him, the power he longed for was finally recognized.Looking at the poor mountains and rivers in front of him, he actually felt at home from his heart.Yes, here is this white wolf mountain that has nothing. It will be his first home after traveling to this era. No matter how poor or dilapidated this home is, it is also his home. He has been wandering for half a year A place where he could really settle down afterwards.

"I want a home, a place that doesn't need to be too big..." Humming that familiar tune, Li Chengzhong was in a good mood.

"Li Yuheng regards this place as his home?" Feng Dao suddenly appeared from behind Li Chengzhong, smiling.

Looking at Feng Dao with a smile on his face, Li Chengzhong was very happy, and couldn't help but giggled and said: "Ah? Uh... Brother Ke Dao is really, haha, that elusive ghost. Thanks to Brother Ke Dao this time, our old Li wished Taste, if there is anything in the future, just say, our old Li will definitely help you as much as possible." Li Chengzhong was a little carried away, and couldn't help showing his fox tail in front of Feng Dao.

Feng Dao didn't seem to have heard the meaning contained in Li Cheng's words, he just grabbed the last sentence and said: "Li Yu's insults must be followed, and you can't go back on your word when the time comes!"

Li Chengzhong patted his chest and said, "Of course", but under Feng Dao's weird smile, he gradually felt guilty: "Uh... but brother Dao, what wish do you have... how can Lao Li help you... as long as our Lao Li helps you If you can help, you must do your best!" Although it is the same as what he said just now, Li Chengzhong deliberately emphasized the words "can help".

"Wish?" Feng Dao was a little unfamiliar with this word.

"It's ambition, or ambition!" Li Chengzhong quickly translated.

"Well, a certain ambition...to save Li Shu from dire straits, to support Mingjun to maintain his position in the world, to make envoys belong to his ministers, and the law to his own law, orderly rules and regulations, obedience from top to bottom..." Feng Dao began to talk eloquently, Hearing this, Li Chengzhong felt dizzy.

"Uh... I'm afraid this is a little difficult..." Li Chengzhong said in embarrassment.

Feng Dao laughed happily: "Don't take it to heart if you are playing with you." Seeing Li Chengzhong's expression relaxed, he suddenly leaned over and smiled mysteriously: "I want to be the governor of Yingzhou, I wonder if Li Yuheng is willing to help?"

For such a naked request, Li Chengzhong couldn't answer directly, so he could only smile sarcastically: "This...but Brother Dao is joking again, how can I have this ability..."

Feng Dao said indifferently: "I still have great confidence in Li Yuhan. I heard Captain Jiang... Oh, Jiang Dutou said something. Li Yuheng must not underestimate himself." With a mysterious smile, he turned around and left, leaving only the inexplicable Li Chengzhong standing there blankly.

Li Chengzhong didn't understand what kind of mystery Feng Dao was playing, so he had no choice but to put this matter aside and take a serious inventory of his belongings.

At present, Li Chengzhong has 180 soldiers from Jiadu and Yidu of the Zuoying Battalion. Although these soldiers cannot be said to have truly formed combat effectiveness, except for more than a dozen new recruits due to battle damage, most of them have experienced battles on the Yuguan City Wall. The fight is considered to have seen blood.In addition, Zhou Zhiyu also sent him [-] soldiers. These soldiers were complete recruits who had just been recruited into the army. There is no distinction between left and right.Li Chengzhong had already predicted the quality of these soldiers, so he was not depressed.Zhou Zhiyu's ability to send him these soldiers was far beyond his imagination, not to mention that these soldiers were complete with weapons and weapons, so he was not only not depressed, but also very satisfied. …,

In addition to these soldiers, what Li Chengzhong can really rely on are his old brothers who were formerly soldiers from the Youdu camp. Fighting is not only experienced and good at fighting, but also has the courage to dare to fight.At the same time, these brothers have followed Li Chengzhong for a long time, and are very familiar with his style of conduct and leading methods.Most importantly, these brothers supported him and supported him!Li Chengzhong planned to use these old brothers as his team to practice his soldiers in the White Wolf Mountain.

Accompanying Feng Dao were fifty civilian men sent by Zhang Zaiji to escort the cart, and they delivered ten carts of supplies.Transporting supplies to Bailang Mountain, fifty miles away from Yuguan, is a very dangerous job. In order to recruit these peasants, the governor's office spent a lot of money. In addition to the usual rewards for each person, anyone who is willing to participate in this transport The peasant husbands were also given a bucket of grain for each household.

Li Chengzhong was grateful for such a bold move by the Governor's Mansion, but he didn't quite understand it.Feng Dao smiled and asked Li Chengzhong: "What do Li Yuheng think of these people?"

Li Chengzhong was puzzled: "These civilians? Well, yes, some of them are much stronger than the soldiers under a certain man. It's just... But, why are there so many people here? It's just ten driving cars, and there is no need for so many people to guard the cars... In fact, let those recruits escort them, and when these civilian husbands return to Yuguan, I have to send troops to escort them, which is really troublesome..."

Feng Dao laughed a little: "Will Li Yuheng really want them to go?"

Li Chengzhong was taken aback: "What do you mean, bro?"

Feng Dao said again: "Li Yuheng took a closer look, these people were selected by someone from Yuguan, and most of them were the first batch of people who followed us to garrison Yuguan."

Li Chengzhong made a careful identification and found many familiar faces, including a 50-year-old old man who was the old craftsman who presided over the construction of Yuguan.The old craftsman, surnamed Zhang, was instructing the servants to unload grain from the cart. Although he was old, he was full of energy.Li Chengzhong also saw a few young men who bravely stood at the head of Yuguan City with guns while guarding Yuguan. In order to train their standing posture, Li Chengzhong spent a lot of time on purpose.

Li Chengzhong was a little pleasantly surprised, and then said with doubts: "Brother Dao is saying...to keep them? Of course it's best, but...will they be willing? This place is much more dangerous than Yuguan..."

Feng Dao smiled mysteriously: "I have my own means, Li Yuheng is at ease." For this young Confucian scholar who likes to smile mysteriously, Li Chengzhong is still very confident. After hearing Feng Dao's assurance, he was overjoyed and hurried over a few steps , helped the old craftsman Zhang who bent over to salute, and happily surrounded the unloading folks and looked at them like treasures in their hands.For Li Chengzhong, who is currently poor and white, these civilian husbands are the real treasures. In a certain sense, they are even more valuable than the recruits under him.

The arrival of the ten carriages greatly eased Li Chengzhong's material tension.Feng Dao's preparations were very adequate. In addition to five carts of grain, there was also a cart of dried meat and salt, two carts of cloth, and a cart of iron ingots!On the last drive, it was loaded with various tools commonly used by Mr. Zhang and several apprentices, including files, hammers, iron cones, chisels, axes, planes, wax molds, etc., which made Li Chengzhong so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. .

The military stronghold in Bailang Mountain has been established for an unknown number of years. It is said that it was a grain storehouse established here by the Anton Protectorate during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. Among the large and small caves dug on the mountain wall, the larger They are all grain depots used to store grain.The wooden planks laying the floor of the grain depot have long since decayed, and most of the ventilation channels have been blocked.But the ten carts of supplies they brought were not much, and the food could last for a month at most, so there was no need to worry too much about long-term storage, so Feng Dao found a larger cave dwelling and dredged the ventilation a bit The tunnel, then simply put all the materials into it. …,

Since this place is about to become Li Chengzhong's new home, Li Chengzhong naturally wants to have a deeper understanding of White Wolf Mountain. He has not been idle for the past few days while waiting for Feng Dao, so he found three elders in the village to learn more about White Wolf Mountain. The topography and landforms have been confirmed by field inspections in some places.

Bailang Mountain is divided into two parts, West Mountain and East Mountain, and the middle part is separated by Xuanshui.The military village is located at the southern foot of Dongshan Mountain, only one mile away from the mountain pass.Although the mountain road is difficult to walk, Li Chengzhong also saw a partially damaged mountain road under the cover and cover of weeds and shrubs. I didn't find these mountain roads when I was there, otherwise I would be able to reach the military village from the mountain pass in an hour, so it would take half a day.After simple leveling and maintenance, this mountain road can be reopened. Li Chengzhong is very satisfied with this.

Li Chengzhong is most concerned about security issues.If you want to reach the military stronghold from outside the mountain, there are many optional roads, but this is only for hunters, because most of the passages need to be climbed with the help of ropes, which is worthless for the passage of the army.There are really two mountain roads that need to be guarded against. One is to enter the mountain from the south entrance, which is the mountain road directly facing the military village. This mountain road is the most spacious.The other one is relatively hidden and needs to be entered from the north of the mountain, passing through two mountain streams and over three mountain ridges.Tang Jun, who set up the military camp back then, obviously also noticed this narrow mountain road. In addition to setting up an outpost on the cliff on one side of the mountain road, he also built a small checkpoint at one of the narrowest mountain streams.When Li Chengzhong inspected this defense facility, he was very satisfied with it. He planned to call in manpower immediately to repair this checkpoint. As long as a team of soldiers were placed here, it would be as difficult for the Khitans to attack from here. Ascension!

Li Chengzhong and Feng Dao sat down and had a detailed discussion and discussion. First of all, they defined each other's authority and responsibilities.Li Chengzhong intends to hand over the specific civil affairs of White Wolf Mountain to Feng Dao. These affairs are quite trivial and complicated for Li Chengzhong, and he is not very good at it at the same time. He needs to focus more on military affairs.This is the distinction between civilian officials and military officials, and Feng Dao has no objections at all.But Li Chengzhong made one point, that is, when it comes to combat needs, even if it is civil, it must first obey the military.Based on the special situation of White Wolf Mountain and the general trend of this era when warriors are in power, Feng Dao fully agrees with this point.

The questions discussed next left the two of them scratching their heads.One is the food issue.Regardless of how many carts of food Feng Dao brought back, after simple calculations and evaluations, even if the food was frugal, it would at most be able to maintain the survival of nearly a thousand soldiers and civilians in Bailang Mountain for less than a month.At this moment, there are still at least three months before the harvest of the fields cultivated in the back mountain, that is to say, the food shortage of White Wolf Mountain is about two months.When Feng Dao led the convoy into the mountain, he also found the Khitan Rangers. Therefore, the risk of continuing to transport grain from Yuguan to Bailang Mountain would be even greater, especially after the two armies went to war, the possibility was slim.

Another headache is how to survive the winter.There are ready-made cave dwellings in the military village for people to live in, but winter is coming soon, and these cave dwellings still need to be refurbished, and the doors at the entrance of the caves must be completed so as to block the cold wind.This project is not small and needs to be started immediately.The other is the problem of clothing and quilts for winter.Feng Dao brought back two carts of cloth, which could be used to sew winter clothes and quilts, but because Feng Dao stayed in Yuguan for a short time, the cloth he brought back was only enough for soldiers and civilians to make winter clothes and quilts, and there was no more cloth to take care of the people who fled into the mountains.How to solve the winter clothes and quilts of these common people?

When discussing the third issue, Feng Dao and Li Chengzhong had a dispute, that is, how to deploy the labor force.Among the more than 700 refugees who fled to Bailang Mountain, less than 200 were young and strong enough to do vigorous work. There are many things that need to be started immediately, including renovating the military camp, repairing cave dwellings, improving the military camp wall, strengthening Back mountain checkpoints, making winter clothes and quilts, hunting in the back mountains or even in the west mountains, etc., these 200 people alone are definitely not enough, so Feng Dao not only wants to get all [-] civilians involved, but also wants Li Chengzhong The soldiers in the department also share part of the affairs.But for Li Chengzhong, the war with the Khitans would break out at some point, and he needed to step up the training of these soldiers. At the same time, he also wanted the two hundred young men to also serve as reserve soldiers for military training.Both of them have their own propositions and reasons, and at the same time agree with each other's propositions and reasons, but it is very difficult for them to compromise.

When the two were in a dilemma, Wang Dalang, whom Li Chengzhong had placed on guard at the mountain pass, hurried back and said loudly, "Dutou, the Khitan people are about to enter the mountain!"