Chapter 105: The Lair
It was announced that the establishment of "Haiyong" and its chief officer had been completed, and the second battalion commander order was issued.
"The establishment of the Township Brave Regiment, the regiment is divided into three teams, and the union is divided into three teams. There are 10 teams in the regiment plus the teams directly under the regiment, with 1,000 personnel. ”
"Appoint Xiao Bei as the head of the regiment, Guangxia as the supervisor of the regiment, Wu Yan as the chief planner, and Mu Feng as the deputy ...... of the regiment"
The four regimental officers, Xiao Bei was a Khitan, Guangxia was a Jurchen, and Wu Yan and Mu Feng were both Han.
Two hundred fellow villagers were all appointed as officers and commanders at all levels, and the worst ones were also appointed as deputies.
Li Luo brought back three hundred people from Haidong this time, and in addition to one hundred personal guards, there were also two hundred veterans recruited from the Jurchen immigrants.
Together with the 200 villagers who stayed behind, and the 900 new villagers who just arrived, there are now 1,400 soldiers gathered in Lijiawu Fort.
Even if you remove the 100 personal guards, there are still 1,300 people. That is, he overnumbered a hundred people.
He is now in charge of the training of the villagers of the four townships, and according to the Goryeo official law, the number of villagers in the four townships is 1,200.
According to the Goryeo system, even the "Baosheng Jingyong Army" (Xiangyong) cannot be supernumerated, otherwise...... It's rebellion!
The revised "Dazasa" (Yuan Law) of the Yuan court also stipulated that the number of troops commanded by military generals at all levels should be fixed, and the number of troops under the command of military generals at all levels should be expanded without authorization to be punished for conspiracy.
If you really want to be more serious, Li Luo can already be regarded as a "rebellion".
However, the recruits are all trained in a closed manner in the dock fort, and there are only 100 people overnumbered, as long as there is no Shangguan suddenly to check the number of soldiers, of course it is fine.
Although the outer courtyard of Wubao is not small, it can only accommodate 1,000 people for training at most.
So Li Luo decided to put the three hundred sea warriors directly on the ship for training, and guarded the sea ship by the way.
There were a thousand people left, just enough to be placed in the outer courtyard.
The dissatisfaction of the nine hundred new villagers did not last long, and most of them were melted by a hearty meal at night.
Baskets of white bread, pots of white rice, and even big meat!
You can let go of your belly and eat, and you can be full.
After these years of wandering, it is not easy to eat a full meal, let alone eat meat, and you can't eat it twice a year.
Ask the veteran again, alas, oh mom, it's like this every day!
Although there is a certain amount of meat, you can make rice and white noodles. With this one, this Xiangyong can also do it.
When it is determined that there are still two pieces of money to get every quarter, the new villagers will fly even more!
What a surprise!
Who would have thought that this countryman was not a hard laborer. If you can eat well and get so much copper money, is there such hard labor in the world?
Lord Li, what a good person!
There are even smart people who secretly think: Is Lord Li really a Korean? He is so proficient in Chinese, and Xiang Yong is treated so well but only recruits people from the Central Plains, why is this?
But soon, the Xinxiang warriors knew why the food was so good.
Because this training is so hard!
Not only do you have to train archery and white-knuckle combat, but you also have to train what queues, what style you develop, and even memorize military discipline.
At the end of the day, it's basically like: practice, practice, practice!
In the words of some veterans, "good food, good sweat." Sweat well, do a good job! ”
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Five days later, Yan Duo told Li Luo that he had already reached out to his clansmen. The second group of Goryeo Jurchen refugees will be able to leave in a month and gather at various seaside ports as they did last time.
They would leave the unharvested summer grain (medium rice) for the Goryeo people, so that there would be no one to stop them from leaving.
Li Luo was speechless. The first emigration was to give up wheat, and the second was to give up rice. That's the price.
Fortunately, there were a lot of displaced people in the Central Plains, and it was difficult for the Yuan court to control them, and the cost of immigrating from the Central Plains would be much smaller.
Although the second group of Jurchen exiles could only converge in a month, the eight hundred warriors among them could arrive in advance.
"Some of the veterans have already started to move. At most, they will be able to come to Jianghua in ten or eight days. ”
"My son, although they are good at fighting, they have no weapons. Most of your weapons were left to the Haidong Security Corps, but now in Jianghua, there is a shortage of weapons. ”
Yan Duo said.
Li Luo said: "Father, don't worry, I will go to Renzhou tomorrow to visit the Li family, and then I will purchase a batch of ordnance by the way." Then go to Hanyang and Kaegyeong, and sell the seized leather gems. ”
Yan Duo stroked his beard and asked, "When does Wu'er plan to send troops to exterminate Han Gong?" ”
Li Luo thought for a while, "I must send troops after my father's old ministry comes, let them eat for a few days to nourish their bodies, and it is estimated that within half a month!" ”
Han Gong opened a mine on that island, and his power was increasing every day, so it was better to exterminate him sooner rather than later. The later the troops are sent, the greater the cost.
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Han Gong, whom Li Luo was thinking about, was on an island more than 300 miles southeast of Ganghwa Island.
At the junction of the seas of China, Goryeo and Japan, where the sailors of the three countries could not take care of it, there is an inconspicuous island, which is the lair of Han Gong, the "sea butcher" of the great pirate.
The island where Han Gong is located is only the size of a village, but because there are iron mines and they are very hidden, they are regarded by Han Gong as the foundation of their business.
The island within a radius of five or six miles actually has more than 3,000 people. In particular, more than 2,000 people gathered in the mines in the southern part of the island.
There are four or five caves in the mine, and there are several "iron mountains" piled up not far away. Seven or eight iron-making furnaces were built next to it, as well as a large blacksmith's shop.
More than 1,000 people were laborers who worked hard inside and outside the mines, coming in and out, pulling truckloads of iron ore out of the mines.
The overseers were hundreds of heavily armed pirates.
There are also more than 100 people making iron and striking iron in the iron-making furnace and blacksmithing shop not far from the mine.
The sound of shouting, mining, striking iron, the sound of the waves, and the sound of seagulls are intertwined.
Facing the sea, it is in full swing.
For some reason, this scene on the island is so real that it also gives people a sense of bizarre and illusory.
"Two more bitter dead haha! Drag it out and throw it into the sea! A pirate overseer shouted.
Soon, two bloody corpses were carried out of the mine and thrown into the sea below the cliff.
They were apparently stoned to death by the ore.
Since the mine opened last year, people have died almost every day on the mine. Either die in a mining accident, die of exhaustion, or resist pirates and be killed.
"Island owner" Han Gong will not feel distressed. Anyway, the coolies are all caught, and even if they die, it's a big deal to go ashore and catch them again.
Hundreds of coolies died before and after in exchange for a mountain of iron and a good life for the pirates.
The coolies all knew that the "island owner" Han Gong had to transport iron to the Wa Kingdom every other month in exchange for gold, silver, jewelry, and grain.
At this time, in a magnificent compound on the hill in the middle of the island, there was a sound of drinking orders.
This compound is the "Island Lord's Mansion" built by the coolies.
Today is the 40th birthday of the island owner Han Gong, and the island owner's mansion is holding a banquet.
All the small leaders above the head gathered in the island lord's mansion to congratulate Han Gong on his birthday. The entire island owner's mansion looked beaming.
However, the hundreds of women who were serving the banquet inside were all ugly, and even if they were reprimanded by the pirates and forced to laugh, they could see that they were not happy.
They are women of good families who have been robbed by pirates for their amusement.
In addition to the fact that they could not be happy, there was also one who was unhappy.
Han Shao.
Han Shao is just twenty this year, and his eyebrows are clear, not like a vicious pirate, but like a gentle scholar.
Because his surname is Han, he is literate and intelligent, so he was recognized as a righteous son by Han Gong, who had no son, and became a "young island master" and trained as a successor, so he had a lot of influence among pirates.
However, since Han Gong had his own son last year, it has been very different.
Maybe Han Gong listened to the woman's pillow wind, or maybe Han Gong had his own son and no longer allowed his son to have his own power, anyway, Han Gong not only announced in public the abolition of Han Shao's identity as the "young island master", but also wanted to get rid of Han Shao secretly.
Han Shao originally thought of his affection, and he didn't want to turn his face with Han Gong. But when he learned that his father-in-law wanted to get rid of him for the sake of his parents, he could no longer be calm.