Xiaoshui detours through the state city and joins the Xiangjiang River, which is navigable in all seasons.

Lu Ning's biggest feeling when he came to this world is that rivers are really too important and important today, and many states and counties are built on the banks of rivers.

Daozhou is extremely important in today's geographical location, the so-called "two broad, shielding three Hunan provinces", is the Chu land to the east of Lingnan, the west of Lingnan, Hainan and the southwest of the traffic fortress.

Daozhou City, although the countless heads hanging in front of the city gate have been removed before the Wen Zongyuan came to Daozhou, but in the state city, it seems that there is still a bloody atmosphere, the people are panicked, the streets are empty during the day, and the market is closed.

Yongming County, Daozhou, west is Guizhou of Lingnan West Road, south is bordered by Hezhou of Lingnan West Road, the west of the county border, the south of the continuous large and small peaks, belongs to one of the five ridges of Du Pangling, now Guangdong and Guangxi are called Lingnan East Road and Lingnan West Road, that is to say, Liangguang is in the south of the five mountains.

The Red Tiger Army was stationed on a mountain ridge in the southwest of the county, which has since been known as the Red Tiger Ridge by the locals.

The mountainous plains of the south of the Red Tiger Mountains, scattered with large and small barbarian tribes, more than ten miles to the north, is the Jingxia Pass called the Dragon and Tiger Pass by later generations, it is one of the important passages from Chu to the west of Guangdong, and it has always been a place where soldiers must fight, in the Han Dynasty, there used to be a pass here, and now it is gone, leaving a very narrow passage between the two peaks, but in any case, if it is the scale of the army from this place to conquer the Southern Han Dynasty, it is bound to pass the Jingxia Pass.

The Red Tiger Army was stationed here, in addition to resisting the barbarians in the south, and it could better train the soldiers to fight in the mountains and jungles, which was also a kind of clamp on the Jingxia Pass route.

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The clear water of the river meanders all the way to the south, and almost all the large and small villages in Yongming County are scattered near the few streams that flow through the county.

The clear river where Lu Ning and Su Xiaoxiao are walking on the riverside, called source water, flows through the foot of the Red Tiger Mountain, and is also the place where the Red Tiger Army takes water.

Although Wang Hanshi was demoted to the deputy envoy of Daozhou Observation, Lu Ning still handed over the government affairs of Daozhou to him temporarily, and his main energy was placed on the formation of the Red Tiger Army.

Today's Red Tiger Army has 500 people in the assault battalion, 500 people in the vanguard battalion, 500 people in the Quanzhang battalion, and more than 900 newly recruited Tuman, which are organized into the first battalion and the second battalion, plus the mixed formation of Jiangnan archers, each battalion has 500 people, and the rest is organized into the third battalion, with 140 people, that is, 14 classes, and the full number will naturally be 500 people.

Of the 500 Jiangnan shooters, the 1st and 2nd battalions were each assigned 100 people, the 3rd battalion was assigned 28 people, and more than 270 people were not recruited.

After bringing these archers into Chu, Lu Ning had already written to the Duke of Baoning with his identity as Emperor Qi, asking for these archers, and asking the Duke of Baoning to move the families of the archers to Jiangling Mansion, in fact, the families of the soldiers of the assault battalion have also moved to Jiangling Mansion, for these soldiers, it is naturally a kind of kindness, after all, many of the families of these soldiers are from the poor countryside, and now they have been moved to the land of fish and rice.

The Red Tiger Army is likely to drift at sea for a long time and even go to some node ports in Southeast Asia to fight, and it is the military family to move in unity, that is, to come back to visit relatives or to arrange, of course, it is also temporary, if there is a more livable seaport in the south in the future, the family of the Red Tiger Army will have to move south.

In the letter to the Duke of Baoning, Lu Ning was moved by some feelings, and even said, as long as the Duke of Wu and the Duke of Baoning are still there, and you think that the Tang Kingdom is maintained like this, I can not levy the Tang Kingdom. He also said that if the king of Tang surrendered, he would be treated as a prince of the country.

The three places in the south of the Yangtze River, Tang, Zhenjiang and Wu Yue, Lu Ning did not want to use swords, with the widening of the gap in national strength, it is best to solve it peacefully, just like in history, Wu Yue descended to the Song Dynasty, which is a good example.

In fact, now because of the establishment of the four upper embassies and the cession of Quanzhang, the Li Jingsui regime's control over the whole territory has been shattered, especially the four upper embassies divided into the western prefectures and counties.

Li Jingsui naturally did not expect that the Embassy seemed to be only an institution for the management of commercial disputes in the Northern Dynasties, but in fact, its gradually spreading influence would cause such great damage to his ruling power.

Of course, even if he could foresee it, he couldn't help but agree at that time, Yangzhou's defeat was greatly damaged, and he needed time to breathe a sigh of relief.

Bao Ninggong replied to the letter, looking very moved, and the faint meaning was that you are already the co-ruler of the world, but you said these promising words in a letterhead that can leave evidence, which vaguely makes me feel that I have returned to the time when I first met you.

Bao Ning Gong said that he had persuaded the Tang lord that the families of his subordinates and soldiers would be sent to Jiangling in a few days, and hoped that the Holy Son of Heaven would have mercy on them and make proper arrangements.

This matter was successfully resolved, and the letter from Concubine Xian was progressing very well, Lu Ning was in a good mood, so he took Su Xiaoxiao and came out for a walk.

In the past few days, Concubine Xian and Mi Zhu went to the prefectures and counties of Chu to select elite soldiers, mainly to select the barbarians in the state and county armies, in addition, if there are tall and strong Chu soldiers, naturally there can be no less, the first to go, is Hengzhou Yang Shifan's department, Concubine Xian wrote that Yang Shifan is very cooperative, just from Hengzhou, more than 500 people have been recruited.

Although the matter of selecting soldiers is mainly Mi Zhu's appearance, and Concubine Xian is only behind the scenes, Lu Ning is naturally relieved to do things for her.

Seeing the letter from Concubine Xian, Lu Ning was in a good mood, so he took Su Xiaoxiao and left the military village to play on another mountain.

On the first day of coming to Chihu Village, I heard that Su Xiaoxiao met a new friend, and a little girl in front of the Zhuangtou School in the village at the foot of the mountain almost bumped into it, Su Xiaoxiao hurriedly got off the car to see, the little girl naturally had never seen Su Xiaoxiao such a dusty peer, and she liked Su Xiaoxiao's appearance very much, Su Xiaoxiao got in the car and walked, and ran after the carriage, crying as she ran, shouting that Su Xiaoxiao would come to play with her tomorrow.

Su Xiaoxiao in the carriage was silent, and she would not respond to her.

However, Lu Ning heard Sandao talk about this matter, and he also remembered it in his heart, and asked Sandao to inquire about who the little girl was.

The village next to the source water of the Red Tiger Village is called Qianhe Village, and the surname He was immigrated to this Yongming County before the Sui Dynasty, and it is also the first surname in Yongming County today, and there are several villages called He Village in the territory.

At this time, the entrance of Qianhe Village was very lively.

There are many more wooden houses and grass sheds, and there are medical halls, school halls, relief halls, etc.

The Red Tiger Army has set up a military village here, and it cannot be said that thousands of military horses are coming, and it is also appropriate to give some favors to the local villagers.

In particular, the Daozhou military rebellion, those barbarians in the end, inevitably want to harass the villagers, this former He Village, did not flee to the mountain to take refuge, several villagers were killed, houses were burned, although the villagers do not understand anything, just hate the barbarians, but in the final analysis, it is because of the turmoil caused by the conscription.

At the entrance of this village, there is a medical hall opened by a military doctor, a school opened by a letter writer in the army, and a relief hall, where the elderly can come here to drink porridge for free, and orphans can help here, and there is also porridge to drink.

After all, thousands of soldiers are stationed here, and soon the villagers found business opportunities, these grass sheds, there are those who sell tea and hot water, there are those who sell wine and snacks, and those who sell handicrafts, and there are many women sitting next to the stones by the river, waiting for the pulp to wash and sew these female workers' work, but I am afraid that after a long time, there will be secret prostitutes from the county and nearby here, in short, there are all kinds of things, and the nearby villagers also come to catch the market, it is very lively.

After all, the soldiers of Red Tiger Village, Lu Ning did not close the door and ordered them to train hard twenty-four hours a day, and after a long time, they would inevitably go crazy.

Every five days, these soldiers had a day off, and the rest days of each battalion were staggered, so that every day there would be soldiers out of the village, which also made the trade at the entrance of the village become lively, and soon attracted the villagers from nearby villages to sell or buy things, and gradually formed a small market here.