The appearance of an engineer battalion out of thin air in the thirteenth battalion shocked the entire Changfeng Army, with only more than fifty soldiers in charge, and almost all the blacksmiths in the nearby villages were crafting weapons. When the overseer received the order of the marshal, he came to a village of no more than 30 households. More than 50 soldiers grabbed unopened horizontal knives and blocked the entrance of the village, and they never received orders to let these officers and soldiers enter. There were only more than ten people led by the superintendent, and when they saw this group of soldiers of the thirteenth battalion who had just enlisted this year, they were full of murderous aura as if they were veterans who had fought for many years.

The eldest is only twenty-five years old, and although he is wearing armor, he can see that he is from the army. The overseer took out the official document of the commander and put it in front of everyone. The man at the head took it and looked at it for a long time, but he just commented that the handwriting was good, but unfortunately he didn't know any of them. I have been in the army for less than a year, and I don't know any handsome seals at all, only the general's token. The overseer almost ordered the soldiers to fight, only to see a young man in battle armor coming on horseback.

The young man rode his horse and saw the group of men who were personally instructed by the marshal, who dared to face each other with a sword, if it weren't for the identity of the thirteenth battalion soldiers. Once you draw a sword in the army and don't know who is behind you, I am afraid that you will not face these officers who are responsible for the construction of the army's armament, but thousands of soldiers with horizontal knives.

Chu Hanlin turned over and dismounted and pointed at the man led by him and scolded, and it took more than fifty people to put down the war knife in his hand. The superintendent looked at the young man's scolding and scolding, and Chu Hanlin was more than a little different from his official position. Although the Liupin Governor does not have the authority to lead the army, he is a VIP wherever he goes in the army.

The young general is only a seventh-rank general, and the thirteenth battalion is already considered a good one, and Liu Zhixing is only a fifth-rank general. Only Liang Bo, who has followed Liu Zhixing for the longest time, is only a sixth rank of the same level, but this group of blacksmith-born soldiers has no intention of resisting at all, but is like a child who has done something wrong.

Chu Hanlin scolded for a long time before he walked into the superintendent and said, "Lord Qin can give me the official document, and I will take you to see the weapons built in the past two months." Xia Guan has used it a few times before, and the quality is good, but there is no better training technique, and it is easy to curl the blade and never find a way that can be the same as the saber. ”

The overseer walked in front of the man who had been scolded before, and he was still not convinced by this overseer who had never used a knife much at first glance. When you are in your forties, you know how to point fingers, you see that you don't even bother to retreat from the door, and you have to do it with General Chu.

Walking into the armory, there are various weapons on each shelf. The room is not very large but full, and there is no discussion about the merits of weapons. The weapons in this room are enough to equip more than 100 people, but fortunately, this is an engineer battalion, but it is actually a blacksmith shop. I really can't see how the big man can look at this, and the superintendent picked up a knife casually. The blade is extremely heavy, twice as heavy as an ordinary sword, and after careful observation, I feel that this kind of knife is expensive, and if it is a heavyweight knife of the same weight, it is easy to lose its edge, and it is not a good knife.

Chu Hanlin said: "Everything that Lord Qin has built is here, and the thirteenth battalion has not taken a single sword. You may not be able to look at these knives, but they are much worse than the knives of the Changfeng Army. The most valuable thing about this blacksmith shop is not to make weapons, but to own an iron mine in cooperation with the government. Although the two families don't get a lot of shares, the annual output of refined iron is also hundreds of thousands of catties. The general knew that the thirteenth battalion would not get any benefit from sending this family business out, but it was a big difficulty to hold it in his hands, so he waited for the commander to meet. ”

Hearing these hands holding a pen to write down their names, he took out Liu Zhixing's big seal and stamped it. said: "Lord Qin, this blacksmith shop is now the commander of the Changfeng Army, but there is a reluctant invitation below. ”

The superintendent said: "General Chu just said it directly, although he signed and sealed. This blacksmith shop still has a share of your thirteen battalions, and you can hand over such a large share of the industry as long as the conditions are not too excessive. ”

Chu Hanlin said, "Although this blacksmith shop is the family business of the 13th battalion, it has built a lot of farm tools in the past six months. You also know the gold of the subway at the border gate, and I hope that Lord Qin will not keep this kindness forever. It doesn't take much good iron, just the iron that's left over from those weapons is enough. The second point is not to dismiss the people nearby, because farming requires rent and it is not easy to live. With this blacksmith shop, the lives of the people in the neighborhood have also improved. You can not use the important ones, those people can also do some other work, and also reduce the labor of the soldiers, as for the salary, if you don't want to pay, Lord Qin can talk to my general. ”

As an overseer, he knows the importance of the engineer battalion, and the army's knives and equipment are all secrets. Every place is an important weapon of the country, but it doesn't matter if you make these ordinary swords. Once it comes to drawing forging, there are a few people who can bear the guilt, even if it is the commander of the army, he will not escape the guilt. Listening to the sonorous striking of the iron body, every blacksmith worked hard to forge a sword.

said: "The official will talk to the marshal about this matter and come up with a complete solution." General Chu just watched, and if there was anything inappropriate, he could bring it up. ”

Chu Hanlin walked out of the library door and said, "The young general can trust Lord Qin, and I hope Lord Qin will remember what he promised today." ”

Watching the young man leave the superintendent, he was calm in his heart, and now there is no shortage of soldiers in Daliang. Since His Majesty ascended the throne, he has been recuperating for more than ten years, except for last year, Marshal Lin Xie took the initiative to attack large-scale operations. For more than ten years, there has been almost no initiative to launch a large-scale war, and now the Liang is in full swing, and what is lacking is the young general. A huge iron mine The Changfeng Army can solve the constraints of the imperial court and the major families, and there is a certain number of weapons replaced every year, in order to know the Changfeng Army.

The major minerals of Nanjing have always been subject to the Huping Meng family, which is His Majesty's compensation for the loss of the commander of the Meng family. A strong family and a strong army are not a constraint. Now that an engineer battalion and an iron mine have appeared, it is said that the thirteenth battalion wants to make it not His Majesty's acquiescence. The thirteenth battalion gave up an iron mine to get only one Shao Jiu, and a group of young people are worth looking at the future.

Riding a horse away from the blacksmith shop, Chu Hanlin stopped, looking at the hard work of most of the year from afar. A small blacksmith shop seemed to be only exchanged for one Shao Jiu, and Chu Hanlin knew that this blacksmith shop would become the most important source of weapons for the thirteen battalions, and even the entire Changfeng Army. In the future, the thirteenth battalion will have a tough battle to fight, but how many of those newcomers will survive. If the brothers who enlisted together in the army had such an engineer battalion, they would not have died in the southernmost part without a knife in their hands.

Back to the thirteenth battalion in order, what is missing in the army today is still those things. The most important thing is that most of these recruits have never seen human blood, and they have been chasing and killing scouts at the border for half a year. In the words of the general, as long as you see human blood on the battlefield, you will not be able to draw a knife or cut off the head of an enemy.

Walking in the barracks with horses, watching the soldiers practicing spears, the head of the instructor kept adjusting his posture. In addition, the soldiers who have never really walked out of the barracks for half a year are tired of this kind of training, and as veterans, they still need to be scolded. I just feel that the thirteenth battalion is too young, and if it weren't for the more than 100 veterans of the general's old department, I really wouldn't know how to train this group of recruits. In fact, in addition to the hundreds of cavalry who often chase and kill scouts in Nanjing, the rest of the 13th Battalion is sent to death on the battlefield.

suddenly remembered that it was not like this when he left and came to the army, when the scholar was almost assigned to the head soldier. In the army, it doesn't matter if you read poetry and books, no matter how many books you read, if you can't hold a knife on the battlefield, you will only be beheaded by the enemy. At the beginning, I was powerless, and I felt that a spear was very heavy. Wielding a knife is always the worst one, and it is not impossible to compare with Lu Lin, who is a martial artist. Lu Lin was a captain as soon as he entered the barracks, and if he hadn't gritted his teeth and followed the general to charge into battle, he might still be a big soldier now.

In just one year, he was already a seven-rank general, and his father didn't seem to have entered Beijing to take the exam when he was his age. When I was a child, I always felt useless when I read books, and I always envied the battlefield in the book. It wasn't until I entered the barracks that I felt that everything in the book was good, how could it be so hard. At that time, I had the heart to leave the barracks and go home to study, at least it didn't hurt so much. Now I read a lot, and I am very grateful to my father for forcing him to study.

For most of the past six months, most of the documents of the 13th Battalion have been written by Chu Hanlin, and almost no one can help him except for military training. The general was in charge of a battalion with a lot of things, and although Liang Bo was too literate and read, he couldn't do many things. The chief butler of the entire thirteenth battalion is only Chu Hanlin, and he has never had an army of his own until now. On the contrary, it is like a military advisor's family, and the belongings of the thirteen battalions have to be worried about by this big housekeeper.

What he did in the private school in his hometown, who would have thought that it was already rumored in the thirteenth camp that if he was in the mountains, Chu Hanlin would be the second leader. Lu Lin, the former thirteen people, never cared about these, and You Dahu and Gao Xiaolong admired the readers. Only Zhou Yancong couldn't hear this sentence the most, saying that Lu Lin was the second in command, but it couldn't be him Chu Hanlin. There is nothing else but reading the book for a few days to really be his own dog-headed military advisor Chu Hanlin has never refuted and never thought that he is the second person in the thirteenth battalion.

Led the horse back to the stable and walked straight towards the shooting range, the armor still in a weak posture when he retreated. If you have a book in your hand, who would dare to say that teenagers don't read much. It's just a pity that the young man is tanned, and he is still a scholar but lacks white face.

After walking to the shooting range, Shao Jiu seemed to be a different person, if he was wrong, he would scold him if he was wrong, otherwise you and I would shoot an arrow. At that time, Liu Zhixing couldn't cry or laugh, how could a serious person come to the thirteenth battalion and have a ruffian. Sometimes I wonder if my style as a general is wrong, otherwise a good army is like this. Everyone dares to scold within the rules, even if the general is standing here, the soldiers dare to scold. It's just that he never scolds when he leaves the barracks, and as long as it's wrong, he asks for the knife in his hand.

Liu Zhixing said: "Hanlin is done. ”

Chu Hanlin nodded like a heavy burden, he had been waiting for that letter for half a year, and he had to negotiate with local officials. I feel that dealing with some official documents is not as simple as writing a few words, but now I know how difficult it is for my father to be the head of a county. said: "Lord Qin promised that the matter can be discussed, as long as the marshal does not object, it should be feasible." ”

said: "I have written about this matter, and Dashuai is not so old-fashioned in small things." It's just that I've suffered you, and I haven't had a moment off for most of the year. ”

Chu Hanlin said calmly: "It's a matter of duty." ”

Shao Jiu, who came over, was a big tiger with a big grin, and he slapped Chu Hanlin on the shoulder. Chu Hanlin suddenly bent his leg and almost knelt on the ground. Shao Jiu said embarrassedly: "Brother Hanlin doesn't want to be in the army, so you can't be arrogant if you are angry." "I don't know how many people can withstand the strength of the arm that pulls the five-stone bow.

Chu Hanlin said: "Brother Nine said so, otherwise you will have a fight with Lu Lin, and see if you are also angry with scholars." ”

Shao Jiu could only smirk, and the only one in the thirteenth battalion who could fight with Lu Lin was the general. If it was a simple comparison of strength, Shao Jiu was not afraid of Lu Lin, and it was better to forget it if he just fought. I still remember that at the banquet, Lu Lin put one hand on Shao Jiu, thinking that he was invincible in the army at that time, but Lu Lin was only a defeated general.

Knowing what Chu Hanlin was going to do, he suddenly asked: "Manufacturing weapons is a taboo in the army, how dare the general do such a thing in the first place, isn't he afraid that the other commander will cut off his head." ”

Liu Zhixing smiled and said with a very proud look: "You don't look at who my father is, if he is an old man, how can I have that guts." Do you think the handsome man doesn't know or His Majesty doesn't know now, but this burden has to be borne by my worthless father. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Zhixing said to Chu Hanlin: "I have to go back to Taiping City in a few days, otherwise my father should really carry this black pot for His Majesty." Things in the army will bother you and Liang Boduo to keep an eye on, and this matter can't be dealt with. ”

Chu Hanlin said: "Let Lu Lin protect the safety of the general along the way." ”

Liu Zhixing said with a smile: "Hanlin still understands me, and Hanlin also knows me." ”

Zhao Chaokun came from a distance and said directly: "If the general doesn't take me there, my kung fu is not weak." ”

Squinted his eyes and said fiercely: "Get out, it's none of your business." Shao Jiu was extremely curious, it was a fact that Lu Lin's kung fu was high. The rivers and lakes of Daliang are not chaotic, and the general's kung fu is not weak, why should Lu Lin protect him.

With a wicked smile, Zhao Chaokun said: "Heavy color and light friends, it's not for Miss Ji to bring Lu Lin." Liu Zhixing was about to make a move, and suddenly felt that there was a more important person around him.

Shao Jiu was very curious and said: "Who is Miss Ji, why don't I know, Hanlin, do you know?" ”