Cao Feng's youngest son, Cao Gui, has just passed the age of fourteen, and he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, although he has not really stepped into the threshold of martial arts cultivation over the years, he has also laid a solid foundation. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

What's more, Cao Gui has been running around with his father and brother in the past few years, and he has suffered a lot at a young age, and he is more aware of the dangers and hardships of the world than those children of the sect who grew up in the greenhouse, and his mind and heart are firmer, and he is a good seedling.

When Cao Gui walked into Taohuawu with his father, he already knew that he would be left as a hostage, even if he knew that the situation was forced, he was always unwilling in his heart, but he didn't expect this trip to become an opportunity for him to really step into martial arts practice, and immediately knelt down in front of Ge Tong happily, and knocked his head three times.

"I am the general of the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis's Mansion, serving under the young marquis, do you know what it means for you to kneel and kowtow at this time?" Ge Tong was not busy receiving Cao Gui's big gift, but asked him with a solemn expression.

"......" Cao Gui is young and a little confused, and he doesn't know how to reply to Ge Tong's words.

"This kid knows it in his heart. Cao Feng took over and said.

Ge Tong ignored Cao Feng, stared at Cao Gui with blazing eyes, and said: "I am the general of the Zhaoyang Pavilion Mansion, and the cultivation is the Xuangong mastery taught by the Zhaoyang Pavilion Mansion, and I am not qualified to teach the Xuangong mastery to others privately, nor is I qualified to accept people as apprentices, at this time, I am only acting on behalf of the Zhaoyang Pavilion Mansion, on behalf of the young marquis to lead you into the threshold of martial arts practice, and from now on, you are a member of the ministry in front of the young marquis's account, you must be loyal to the young marquis, practice diligently, and share the worries for the young marquis." If he succeeds in cultivation in the future, it is not impossible to enter the Taiwei Sect to practice again, but that is also the great kindness of the young marquis to you. ”

Cho Gyu remembered in his heart. Cao Gui was also shrewd, and walked to Chen Hai on his knees, knocking his head a few times.

On the Taohuawu side, Ge Tongxiu is not the highest, but it is only second to Chen Hai, Wu Meng, the barbarian slave Tie Kun, and Zhou Jun - Wu Meng, Zhou Jun and Tie Kun are all in the army with Chen Hai, and the Taohuawu side is usually headed by Ge Tong to deal with all kinds of things, and the hundred elite soldiers who stayed in Taohuawu are also under the command of Ge Tong.

If you can temporarily follow Ge Tong to cultivate, there will never be any grievances against Ge Gui, not to mention that you will have a good foundation in martial arts first, and you will have the opportunity to enter the Taiwei Sect to practice in two or three years, which is an opportunity that the children of the Han clan will never encounter.

Seeing that Cao Feng, Cao Gui's father and son were still kneeling on the ground, Chen Hai laughed and said to Cao Feng: "Since Cao Gui is all cultivating by Senior Brother Ge's side, then Cao Gui's family and us are equal generations, so let's sit down and talk quickly, and we can't mess up the system." Caojiazhai, there are still some good seedlings, if anyone wants to practice martial arts, I am not stingy with advice or two......"

Cao Feng also knew that since Cao Gui had all gone to Ge Tong's side to practice martial arts, he could no longer have half-hearted thoughts, and said: "Under the shadow of Lord Dameng, seventy or eighty thousand people will not be displaced, and everyone is grateful to Dade, and they don't know how to repay the kindness of their lords." Speaking of good seedlings, there are twenty or thirty seedlings who have not missed the age of martial arts cultivation, if adults can arrange someone to guide them in their cultivation, this great kindness is really ......"

Speaking of this, Cao Feng was about to kneel on the ground again and thank you.

The 70,000 or 80,000 streams of democracy in the northern part of Taohuawu came from two or three neighboring counties, and they had close ties with each other's clans, so they would be closely united on the road to escape from the famine.

Chen Hai didn't care whether Cao Feng's gratitude at this time was true or false, Cao Feng could really send those twenty or thirty of the most outstanding good seedlings over, and he would not treat these young disciples badly, and it was precisely because of his relatives that the fate of these seventy or eighty thousand people would be completely tied to Taohuawu.

No matter how much Cao Feng has any dissenting intentions, he has no ability to incite these people to create a rebellion in Taohuawu.

“…… Cao Dangjia is polite," Chen Hai smiled slightly, and said, "I think that Cao Dangjia also pays attention to training young people's martial arts in the north, as long as there is some foundation in martial arts, even if he is over twenty years old, it will not be too late to practice martial arts, but there is no need to be too limited to the bad habits of the sect." ”

The qi and blood essence in the human body is the most pure and vigorous when it is young, and it is also the best time to practice, but when a teenager is 16 years old and a girl is 14 years old, a considerable part of the qi and blood essence in the human body will be continuously transformed into essence water and decay water that can give birth to new life.

However, Chen Hai noticed that Cao Feng's father and son led this group of refugees, and the young children attached great importance to the training of martial arts, so they laid a good foundation, even if they stepped into martial arts cultivation after the age of twenty, they could not be regarded as too old.

Taiwei Sect and other top sects and sect lords in Yanzhou, selecting disciples from among the common people, can naturally be extremely picky, even if it is a good seedling in a thousand, it can also be thrown to the Taoist Academy for survival of the fittest, but Chen Hai is extremely short of manpower at this time, and he is not qualified to be so picky, he still wants to select more good seedlings, and Ge Tongxian is responsible for cultivating them.

Chen Hai now has more than 200 elite private soldiers available under his command, but he also needs to pay attention to the construction of the reserve echelon, and the foundry and armor shop also need to train a group of apprentices with heart.

For Cao Feng, twenty or thirty people are sent, and seventy or eighty people are also sent, and in the future, there will really be a few people who have achieved something in martial arts practice, and the Cao family's words in Taohuawu and Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion are also heavy.

And in addition to the seventy or eighty seedlings with cultivation qualifications, the seventy or eighty thousand displaced people in the northern area are not without potential to be tapped.

After several years of great disasters, most of the homeless people are old, weak, sick and disabled, and most of them either starve to death or fall ill; after nearly a year of recuperation for the 780,000 people who were able to survive the famine year, most of them can be called strong and healthy, and thus can withstand the heavy physical work of building embankments, mining, quarrying, logging, and reclamation that began at the beginning of the year.

In the past, Cao Feng was afraid of causing unnecessary suspicion and interference from the local government and county, as well as Meiwu Fort and Taohuawu, so he did not dare to openly train soldiers, but he really had any different intentions, and selected one or two thousand Jianrui for drills, and his combat strength would not be slightly worse than that of the local armed forces.

Cao Feng was afraid of committing taboos, but Chen Hai thought in his heart that if Tu Ziji was invited to come forward to carry out activities, he might be able to mobilize the local government to organize 70,000 or 80,000 people into households, and then he could officially select Jianrui to train the township soldiers and people to fight with the Jingying army.

At the same time, there are still 1,200 veterans in the seventh capital of the Xiyuan Army, who can be "disarmed and returned to the field" in advance, and arranged to be in Taohuawu to be responsible for the formation and training of township soldiers......

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Chen Hai couldn't delay too long in Taohuawu, and the matter of annexing the Cao family and selecting the reserve soldiers and craftsmen could only be handed over to Ge Tong and Zhou Jingyuan, who were responsible, and he watched the sun rise high, so he and Wu Meng, Zhou Jun, and Ding Shuang, led more than 100 guards to cross the Qiuye River and enter the Fujiaoling camp.

As soon as the two light warships sailed into the water gate of the Fujiaoling camp, Tu Ziji, Zhao Rong and Ran Hu and other generals came up and said: "The decision of the Taiwei Mansion to send troops has come down, and it has been decided to recruit a total of 60,000 soldiers and horses from the Xiyuan Army from one to six capitals, and appoint the Che Cavalry General Wei Yu Period as the main general, the Su Guard General Fan Chun as the deputy general, and the Zuo Sicheng Yao Qitai as the military Sima to clear the rebels of the displaced people and recover Qintong Pass. ”

"Ah, it has nothing to do with us?" Zhou Jun asked in surprise.

The Xiyuan Army was organized and trained into an army, and as the Beijing Camp Army like the Huben Army, it has entered the requisition sequence of the Taiwei Mansion, and the Taiwei Mansion has requisitioned the Xiyuan Army nearby to recover Qintong Pass, but it is not surprising.

In the event of such a big chaos, many battalion generals also looked forward to the opportunity to lead their troops to fight in order to accumulate military exploits, fame and fortune, but Chen Hai did not expect that the Taiwei Mansion only recruited soldiers and horses from the Xiyuan Army to the sixth capital this time, but the new army of the seventh, eighth, and ninth capitals was left behind.

"It is customary to leave the remaining three soldiers and horses as a reserve. Tu Ziji said without emotion.

Zhou Jun, Wu Meng and others also knew that this was a common practice, but they still couldn't hide their regrets.

Chen Hai frowned slightly, thinking to himself, is this just a convention?

Chen Hai looked at Tu Ziji and Zhao Rong, and without saying anything, he and the generals boarded Fujiaoling, and saw that after the military requisition order of the Taiwei Mansion was issued, the movements on the side of Xiyuan were very fast.

At this time, the soldiers and horses of the six capitals had already drawn from their respective camps, as if six dragons with hideous fangs were gathering in the direction of the Xiyuan Army Governor's Mansion.

The Xiyuan Mountains are vast, nearly 40 miles deep, and the Xiyuan Army Governor's Office, which is the command and dispatch center, is located about ten miles southwest of Fujiaoyuan.

In the large school field on the north side of the governor's mansion, there are already several teams of elite cavalry soldiers with neat military appearances and faintly revealing the spirit of killing battle arrays standing in front of the point platform, seeing that the scale of these teams of elite cavalry ranges from 1,000 to 3,500 people, Chen Hai guessed that they should be elite soldiers transferred from their respective clans by generals such as Wei Yuqi, Fan Chun, and Yao Qitai.

According to the usual practice, Wei, Fan, Yao and others had to lead their troops out of the camp after conducting a general inspection in the Xiyuan Army Governor's Mansion before completing the entire recruitment and transfer procedure.

None of the seventh were included in this expedition, and there was no need for Chen Hai, Zhao Rong, and Tu Ziji to go over to see Wei Yuqi, Fan Chun, Yao Qitai, and other generals; this expedition had nothing to do with them.

"It's a damn thing, but it's cheap Hua Zhedong and Xue Rong, these dogs, raised by mothers!" Ran Hu and the other camp generals complained and scolded.

Many battalion generals thought that defeating the rebels of the displaced people and recovering Qintong Pass was a great achievement at their fingertips, but they had no chance to fight, and they were naturally extremely dissatisfied in their hearts, but this was the resolution of the Taiwei Mansion, and they had nothing to say except to complain.

Chen Hai asked Tu Ziji: "What preliminary punishment does the Taiwei Mansion have for Tu Shuai and their loss of Qintong Pass?"

"Seventh Uncle, they have been ordered to take away their posts, and the other remnants of Qintong Pass have been incorporated into the Huwei battalion of General Wei Yuzhi, and they are allowed to participate in the battle to recover Qintong Pass. Tu Ziji said.

Chen Hai nodded, Tu Chongjin and they carelessly lost Qintong Pass, it would be good if they could save their lives, and they should not expect the reinstatement of the competent officials for the time being.

Next, Chen Hai asked Ran Hu and other battalion generals to take care of their own affairs, leaving Tu Ziji and Zhao Rong to talk, and the seventy or eighty thousand homeless people in the north of Taohuawu wanted to organize the people to enter the household, so they could only ask Tu Ziji and Zhao Rong to help.