Everyone immediately went to the baggage camp warehouse, where the baggage, grain and grass were stored, and they were placed in eight warehouses. Six of the warehouses stored grain, and when Zhang Xiaowu and the others stepped forward, an old soldier hurriedly came to salute and said excitedly: "It's a shame that the army came early, otherwise a few of us burned so much grain in one fire, and we will die in the future and enter the underworld, which is also a great sin to be beaten into the eighteenth layer of hell." ”

"Burned? Why? Zhang Xiaowu asked.

"It's not the above requirements, you can't support the enemy, alas......" The old man hated that iron could not be made of steel, "so much food, if it is burned, a few of us will be suffocated." It turned out that on the night of the departure of the Sixth Regiment, because it was difficult to transport the grain from the warehouse of the baggage battalion for a while, Cheng Chu asked Wu Gang, the soldier of the baggage battalion, to burn the 500,000 stone of grain. None of them can be left for Inuyi.

Wu Gang saw so much grain, and his heart was also uncomfortable, even if he was greedy for military food and ate kickbacks on weekdays, but he burned the 500,000 stone grain, and he was really distressed. After thinking about it again and again, Wu Gang found eight old soldiers of the baggage battalion and told them that once the wooden city was captured by the dogs, they would immediately set fire to the military rations from eight directions, but if the wooden city was still there, they must not burn the military rations, lest the descendants bury them with foaming stars. How could a soldier who was born as a peasant be willing to burn grain, especially the 500,000 stone grain?

The eight old soldiers waited for the news carefully, and finally waited for the news that Zhang Xiaowu and other dead soldiers had entered the city to take over the city defense, and they finally didn't have to be historical villains.

"Pigs are not as good as pigs!" Zhang Xiaowu said hatefully, "It's Wu Gang, I thought he would only be able to slap horses, but I didn't expect that this person also has some ability to collect dead soldiers who worked hard for him." "If so much grain is burned, it will be a great loss.

After inspecting the baggage camp, Zhang Xiaowu said: "Hu Sanwan, Wen Ruyu, military food and equipment warehouse, I will hand it over to you." The two promised to be optimistic about the treasury of the baggage battalion, and then Zhang Xiaowu summoned all the generals and immediately reorganized the army in the city. Although they now have 11,000 men in their hands, they also include some wounded soldiers, which should be eliminated.

Zhang Xiaowu asked Wang Yijin to be the secretary of the army, responsible for recording data and files, Wang Yijin was busy saying that he was not very literate, Zhang Xiaowu patted him on the back and said: "The confidentiality of the archives in the army is too important, involving the existence of our entire army." If I hand over this task to outsiders, I don't worry, in my heart only you can undertake this task, and only you will not betray me. Wang Yijin was grateful, nodded his head, and said that he would complete the task well.

At noon, Zhang Xiaowu, who had been busy all morning, received news from Xiao Kai again, excluding 2,000 disabled and defeated soldiers, and the defenders of Mucheng still reached more than 9,000 people, and asked for instructions on how to settle these 2,000 disabled soldiers. Zhang Xiaowu thought only about it for a while, and then asked Wang Yijin to inform the 2,000 disabled soldiers that they could go to the baggage camp to receive 80 catties of food for severance expenses, and the sergeants could stay in the empty room in the city to recuperate and wait for the day of the opening of the city before leaving.

The two thousand wounded soldiers were grateful, and they went to the baggage camp to order food.

The remaining 9,000 soldiers need to be reorganized into five parts, namely city defense, standing reserves, baggage, scouts, and personal guards. Among them, there are only 500 scouts, and only 300 personal guards, while the city defense and standing forces have the largest number, and all generals must be promoted in the line of fire, which involves personnel arrangements and the rotation of generals.

Zhang Xiaowu used a careful trick here, he promoted the direct subordinates of each battalion to other battalions, so as to dilute the personal factional growth of his generals, such as Shen Lindong's subordinate Bai Hao, who was promoted by him to the pro-guard team and served as his deputy pro-guard captain.

While he was arranging personnel, he suddenly heard a noise outside, and everyone immediately rushed out, and saw a big man with his subordinates, each holding four heads, to plead guilty.

Shen Donglin was surprised: "Bai Hao, what are you doing?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu naturally recognized Bai Hao, and just arranged him to the personal guard, this person came, and he really couldn't help but read, so he asked, "What's the matter with you?" ”

That Bai Hao is nine feet tall, with a pair of narrow and slender eyes, protruding cheekbones and a square head and big face are exactly the fierce appearance of the Yan people, he is carrying four human heads in his hands, and a pair of eight-petal golden gourd hammers under his armpits, and his voice is like a flood of bells: "My lord, someone in the army is clamoring to kill the soldiers of the non-commissioned battalion and rushed out of the wooden city and fled back to the Central Plains, and was killed by me and my brothers." We have killed more than 80 people in total, and we have come to plead guilty. ”

Zhang Xiaowu first looked at Bai Hao, who was a man of the tassels, then looked at the heads, nodded and praised: "That's it, throw the heads and corpses out to feed the grass wolves and hyenas." As for you - no merit. He is hereby promoted to the rank of deputy captain of the garrison guard, with the rank of captain. ”

Bai Hao's eyes widened and he said, "Huh? City Lord? You say I have no merit? ”

"Yes."

"Prize silver?"

"Award."

Bai Hao grinned and said, "You are a good Han army official. ”

Shen Donglin smiled helplessly and said, "This kid is straight, he is a fool. ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "This matter is no wonder to him, forcibly absorbing the rout, he will inevitably encounter people who do not obey discipline, it is a good thing for him to kill a few people, lest some people be self-righteous." Now, this city, this realm, belongs to you and mine, and there is no room for people in the defeated army to point fingers, even if they were once your and my superiors. ”

After a day of rectification, in the evening, the 9,000 soldiers were reorganized into five battalions and eighteen formations, namely:

Eight formations of the city defense battalion (4,000 people), the main generals Xiao Kai, Hu Li, Jin Sheng, the city defense battalion is mainly responsible for the defense and repair of the four walls of the wooden city;

The garrison battalion has four formations (2,000 people), the main generals Zu Gongmao, Shen Lindong, and Cao Li, and the garrison battalion is responsible for training and collecting the defeated army, training, recuperation, and digging four tunnels from inside the city to outside the city.

The four formations of the baggage battalion (2,000 people), the main generals Hu Sanwan and Wen Ruyu, are responsible for guarding the baggage, military salaries, and military rations;

The scout battalion (500 people) for a while, the main generals Guan Cheng and Chen Guanxi, were responsible for intelligence spying around Mucheng and capturing the defeated soldiers.

The personal guard battalion was for a while (500 people), and the main generals Li Chuncheng and Bai Hao were responsible for the security of the garrison.

After the completion of the five battalions of the Mucheng garrison, the baggage battalion quickly allocated armaments, and a large number of armor and ordnance were stored in the warehouse, so that although the nine thousand defenders still had some soldiers who did not know the generals, but each of them was brightly armored and brightly clothed, and all the soldiers were equipped with three swords and wore phoenix and cherry helmets.

This is what Zhang Xiaowu learned from the German Imperial Empire and Germany, the power of uniforms can not only enhance the spirit of the army, but also convince outsiders. Sure enough, after everyone put on new armor, their morale was reinvigorated, and even regrouping was not excluded.

On the third day, the army was settled, but another trouble came, it turned out that the two thousand wounded soldiers who had been released had caused trouble. Some of these wounded soldiers were too seriously injured and died, but the food around them caused others to fight and fight, and some people forced them to buy and sell locally, while the county government had already gone to empty houses and had no one to manage the security in the city, resulting in an increasing number of murderers and arsons in the city.

Zhang Xiaowu had no choice but to order 50 people to be transferred from the formation of the sixth army in Mucheng, the security battalion, which was in charge of Li Chuncheng, who was specifically responsible for public security in the city and punished criminals. Zhang Xiaowu put Li Chuncheng in charge, also because this thing was a criminal in the past, and he was obviously more experienced in fighting evil with evil.

On the day the public security camp was established, he took people to the streets to arrest people, caught one and beat one by one, and beat one by one, and some of them were not well injured, so they directly let him be killed. However, the security in Mucheng City has been improved because of his vigorous punishment.