Lishui County, where the south mirror of Daliang and Nanchu intersect, and the Lihe River is three zhang wide between the two countries. Since the founding of the Great Liang People's Republic of China, this trickle of the Li River has nourished the people on both sides of the river, until an unprecedented battle between the two countries here decades ago. Ending with the defeat of Southern Chu, Lishui County was completely included in the territory of Daliang for the first time, and it was no longer a place of dispute.

Liu Zhixing, who had returned from Bashangzhuang, seized the time to train the troops, and in addition to telling the purpose of the Chu army in which battle, he added the question of the establishment of the action that should have been done a long time ago. The 13th Battalion suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Yimaguan a year ago, and the establishment of 5,000 people was only 3,000 permanent troops, which was completely insufficient for the number of the 13th Battalion. Zhang Xing's death Liu Zhixing is even more interested in fighting as a soldier, and every soldier on the battlefield is nothing more than two words: life and death.

Although those who are not ruthless are not generals, people are not grass and trees, and they can be ruthless. Once the success is done, thousands of bones are withered, thousands of miles of corpses and bones are everywhere, blood flows like rivers, and people do it, and they can't prevent it from happening. There are children who fight, and the older ones are tall and strong, and they often dominate with their strength. What should a country do, when it is strong and prosperous, and the people are rich and cohesive, it is a big country. This is not the case in the first army, the establishment of the thirteen battalions was established by the thirteen people who survived the first battle.

A strong army is not strong in numbers, but in cohesion. The condensation is not a handful of soft artemisia grass, no matter how much artemisia grass is still complete, the condensed but towering trees, tens of thousands of big trees condensed into a single tree, what kind of scene should it be.

Liu Zhixing received the approval from Fenyang and issued a recruitment order in Lishui County on the spot. The reputation of the 13th Battalion has already resounded in several counties, and it only took 20 days for the local people to enter the 13th Battalion. Liu Zhixing, who is the chief general, personally selected, and more than 2,000 people are the people of Lishui County who have seen the Chu army. Liu Zhixing, who was able to recruit soldiers, did not think it was a good thing, not to mention the belief in protecting the family and defending the country, so that young people could voluntarily join the army, and it was more forced by life.

They are all living people, and the singing and dancing in the mainland is peaceful, and most of them are used to peace. The people of Lishui County are different, and the weapons that have only joined the army seem to be inherently practical. The momentum of the recruits is far better than that of the veterans of the 13th Battalion, which makes Liu Zhixing full of guilt and dissatisfaction with the current tense. Born in Taiping City, where there was no war, he had never seen blood in the first seventeen years, and he didn't know that a steel knife could be curled when cut on a bone. This group of recruits seems to have been accustomed to this kind of scene that cannot be seen in the mainland, and the blood-drenched scenery since childhood.

There are still many young people from all over Lishui County, and the oldest is even 50 years old. These are all things that Liu Zhixing never imagined, there are only more than 23,000 people registered in Lishui County, including the elderly, women and children. In just twenty days, it was not easy to recruit 2,000 warriors. Liu Zhixing wanted to play the marshal Chen Geng and recruit soldiers from Qingzhou. At the suggestion of the county order of Lishui County, the list was posted in the county seat first.

Liu Zhixing in the county government was dressed in black, and his years in the army washed away the immaturity of the young man. A serious face under the dark face, and the tight body is wrapped in pitch black, which is the posture that every soldier of the beam should have. Liu Zhixing said solemnly: "Lord Fang has recruited enough soldiers, and he can't let all the young and strong people in Lishui County who can go to the battlefield."

It's like the thirteen battalions. ”

There are several patches in the official robe, and I don't know how many years have I changed the county official from Qingzhou into a brand new official robe. Nearly fifty years old, Master Fang has a messy beard, and the one-inch-long beard records the twenty years of a young man in Qingzhou in this land. Lishui County seems to be a piece of land abandoned by Daliang, and the people on this land have never forgotten that Lishui County is the land of Daliang and they are the people of Daliang.

At that time, he personally commanded that battle, and blocked the advance of the Chu army with the dilapidated city. Far from being rewarded, the young county officials remained unknown. It is obscure that insists on living in the forgotten Lishui County for more than 20 years.

"General Liu, you don't know that Lishui County has been a place of controversy for a hundred years, and although Daliang has classified Lishui as a place, there has never been an establishment. The household registration is still compiled by the old man in ten years. In the past ten years, I have seen the people of Lishui County guarding the fertile land, and no one has planted it, and they dare not plant it. General Liu, you know the pain in the old man's heart, looking at the fertile fields that were ruined by the Chu army, and even the fertile fields destroyed by the Chu army, those are the hard work of the people for a year, and they are the lives of the family. Who do you say is the most homesick and unifying country in this world, not the emperor sitting in Taiping City, but the people of this frontier. Who doesn't want to farm and eat, the heavens give grain and can't harvest it. This is the situation of the people in Lishui County for decades, and the Liang conscription has never appeared in Lishui, which is the first time that the old man has seen it. They did not join the army for a mouthful of food, but wanted to end the chaos, plunder, and fighting that had lasted for more than fifty years as soon as possible. The old eyes were red, and the last sentence was crying.

Liu Zhixing looked at the county official who was full of tears, the establishment of the thirteenth battalion was only 5,000 people, and the more the system needed to be played by the commander. This matter is not so easy, and besides, all the young and strong people in a county are included in the thirteenth battalion, not only in the Changfeng Army, but also in the entire Daliang, there has never been a similar thing.

Facing the old man's mournful begging, Liu Zhixing didn't know how to reply for a while, and the border between Lishui County and Chu was a hundred miles. How many people have died under the Chu saber in the past few decades, and the county official said again: "General Liu, have you forgotten the tragic incident in Bashangzhuang a month ago? ”

Looking at the brave young Liu Zhixing, he said, "Lord Fang, it's really not me who collects it. The establishment of the army needs to be reported, and if there are only a few dozen people here, I can naturally arrange it. Lord Fang, Lord Fang, look at the thousands of people outside the county office. Is it necessary to divide half of the young and strong people in Lishui County into the thirteen camps, and the land in the coming year should be left uncultivated by the people. The girder does not need such an army, how is it different from the girder thirty years ago. ”

Master Fang stared at Liu Zhixing and said: "What a difference from thirty years ago, what a difference, Lishui has been like a country within a country for many years. This official is also familiar with history books, thirty years of recruitment is forced recruitment, and now the people of Lishui voluntarily enlist. They just want to give their descendants a Taiping era like the mainland, isn't this exactly what the capital of Daliang is named Taiping City? General Liu also asked to accept these young men who were willing to join the army, and they were all ambitious men. It has been said that you don't want military pay, just stutter. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Zhixing was speechless, and saw Liu Zhixing's face

After softening, Lord Fang said: "As long as you can fight the battlefield, it will be under the unified command of General Liu." It doesn't matter if they don't join the establishment, they just ask the general to give them a chance to kill the enemy head-on. ”

Liu Zhixing said: "Honest autumn harvest, they came to the land at home, what should their wives and children do." ”

"Lishui's grain was harvested earlier, and the family settled down early in the morning. Now that the two countries are at war frequently, no one knows if they will survive until next year. I only ask General Liu's group of warriors who have no way to serve the country, one is for the country and for themselves. "The expression is firm.

Liu Zhixing, the official of the county, stood outside the county office, looking at this group of young men who were still wearing thin clothes in the autumn wind. Liu Zhixing deeply felt that the south is rich, and wealth is never these ordinary people. It is sad that there is no land to plant, and it is painful to have land that cannot be planted.

Calm down and shouted: "I am Liu Zhixing, the commander of the thirteenth battalion, and I will accept all of you." However, there is no military pay, and there is no guarantee that they will survive the battlefield. Not only you, but I don't dare to say that I can leave the battlefield alive in every encounter, the thirteenth battalion is an iron-blooded army. If you are afraid of death, you can leave now, and no one will say that you are cowards. There is also a rule in the thirteen battalions that if there is only one male in the family, they will not be accepted, and once they are found out, they will be sent home with a heavy fine. There are still men in the family who are now reporting to the 13th battalion, and they say that they are under my Liu Zhixing. ”

After Liu Zhixing finished speaking, thousands of people shouted loudly, and Liu Zhixing also showed a smile. It is a happy thing that the thirteenth battalion has such an army, and the real warriors are never only sharpened on the battlefield, but more forced by this kind of life, and only with their lives can they exchange for a family of peace. The Three Kingdoms have been fighting hard for a long time, and it is the people who are suffering, not the people. The suffering of the border people is only one sentence that I don't see with my own eyes: hypocrisy.

Turning back to the county government and looking at Lord Fang who was dripping with tears, Liu Zhixing smiled slightly. Lord Fang bowed with both hands, this worship was not Liu Zhixing, but Liang was willing to recognize the people of Lishui.

Liu Zhixing, who returned to the barracks after nightfall, reviewed the recent thirteen battalion scripts, and Chu Hanlin hurriedly walked over. Looking at the generals who have changed greatly in a month, it seems that he has seen the shadow of Liu Ce, the marshal who led the 300,000 Pingnan army to capture Eastern Wu, from Liu Zhixing.

Zhang Xing's death left a great shadow on Liu Zhixing, and although Zhang Xing's injuries improved after returning to the camp, he still injured his heart and lungs. Coupled with the bumps on the road, Zhang Xing, who could have survived for a month, was buried in the ground at the same time as the soldiers who died in the battle of Bashangzhuang five days later. This is the only time Liu Zhixing has made a mistake in calculation so far, and all the fault is on himself.

Chu Hanlin said: "The general is not early, and he is still dealing with official business. ”

Twist the lamp cord to make the oil lamp brighter. Putting down the brush in his hand, Liu Zhixing took out a jar of spirits from the case and said, "Hanlin, come and drink with me." ”

took off the steel helmet and sat opposite Liu Zhixing, and took the liquor handed by Liu Zhixing. He took a sip and said, "Suddenly there are 2,000 more people, and this is 7,000 people." The food in the barracks was already insufficient, and it would take another month for grain and grass to be allocated. ”

I saw Liu Zhixing drink a bowl of wine and said: "How did the thirteenth battalion grow up, and you know what Hanlin should do."

I don't care about anything else, the two thousand people and the thirteen battalions must be accepted, and the thirteen battalions will not only need the imperial court to expand, but also be strong themselves. Moreover, they are all a group of hard-working people, and the people of Lishui are also the people of Daliang. ”

Chu Hanlin, who was at a loss, could only nod stiffly, Liu Zhixing continued to take a sip of wine and said: "Eastern Wu has been destroyed, and there is no news from the imperial court so far. My father was still in Eastern Wu and did not return to the dynasty, and there must be a war with Southern Chu. This battle was more dangerous than the destruction of Eastern Wu, and it was not so easy to survive this southward campaign. Hanlin, are you ready? ”

picked up the wine bowl and touched it lightly and said: "Who hasn't thought that after the news of the destruction of the country in Dongwu spread, everyone seemed to be beaten with chicken blood." Just waiting for this day, I hope it won't be too long. ”

But when he saw Liu Zhixing's gloomy face, he asked, "The general is worried about Uncle Liu." ”

Liu Zhixing nodded lightly, Liu Ce's merits were actually high. If it is the first emperor, he may not need to think about it, but the new emperor has not been on the throne for a long time, and he has no substantive merits, so it is inevitable to find the suppression of hundreds of officials. No matter how worried Liu Zhixing was, he was happy for his father again.

Outside the house, the cold wind was blowing, and the snowflakes were falling, Liu Zhixing took a sip of wine and said, "It's winter again." ”

(End of chapter)