Change the guard tomorrow, and don't have to practice today.

Cleaning the barracks in the morning, shaving his head, shaving his face, bathing and collaring clothes in the afternoon, just drank beef soup last night, it is said that tonight there is not only meat to eat but also wine to drink, full of food and drink and even play to watch. The brave men who have been working for a whole month are elated, and it feels like the New Year.

Han Xiufeng was also very happy, because the thirty mountain-splitting cannons transferred by Qian Houde and Qijiang Fuma Bureau from the General Grain Station Qian Houde Rangba County and Qijiang Fuma Bureau.

It was all newly cast, and the cannon body was not heavy, about 490 catties. Just firing a half-catty solid iron bullet can only hit five or six hundred steps, and if it is loaded with half a catty of lead, it will only hit three or four hundred steps, and it is not accurate, to put it bluntly, it is a large gun. Don't say that you expect to use it to bombard the city gate, I'm afraid you won't even be able to open the walled gate.

Zhang Zhidong, who had just opened his eyes, felt that these cannons were like chicken ribs, and couldn't help muttering: "Not only are they not as light as the tap fire guns, and they are more troublesome to load than the tap fire guns, and each cannon has to be four or five brave to serve." ”

Although Han Xiufeng was also a little disappointed, he felt that it was better to have these cannons than nothing, and looked sideways at the uninvited guests who came with these cannons, and then turned around and said: "Chen Hu, call all regiments to supervise and go to the school grounds." ”

"Yes!"

As soon as Chen Hu took the order, Li Yanggu, a friend of Huang Zonghan, the new governor of Sichuan, who came with these cannons, asked with a smile: "Master Han, are you not very satisfied with these cannons?" ”

"Mr. Li is really good at laughing, how can Xiufeng be dissatisfied with these cannons."

"But listen to this little brother......

"Hyoda has seen better firearms, so it's inevitable that I'm a little disappointed." Han Xiufeng smiled slightly, and then changed his words: "Mr. Li deigned to come here, it won't be as simple as helping the Lord of Taiwan to send a letter to Xiufeng. ”

Li Yanggu didn't want to go around in circles, and while following Han Xiufeng in the direction of the school, he said bluntly: "Don't hide it, Yanggu was ordered by the control platform to see how you blocked it, Master Han." Guizhou is troubled by bandits, Hubei is troubled, and Liangjiang is even more difficult to describe, Sichuan not only can not be chaotic, but also to help Guizhou, Hubei and even Liangjiang grain and salary, not bad people to come and see, Taiwan is not at ease! ”

Han Xiufeng was not unhappy because the new governor was not at ease or even trusted him, the registered prefect who handled the blockade, but arched his hand in the direction of Chengdu and said: "Mr. Li, Lord Huang may not have heard of Xiufeng, but Xiufeng has admired Lord Huang for a long time. When Changmao captured Jiangning, Lord Huang gathered troops to enter Jiangsu and Anhui, stationed at the key passes, and intercepted Changmao from entering Zhejiang.

Later, Liu Lichuan and other remnants of the Heaven and Earth Society committed rebellion, occupied Shanghai, cut off shipping, and Lord Huang asked for a change in Liuhe, Jiangsu, so that the grain could be transported north smoothly. Later, when the food and salary in the Jiangnan camp were insufficient, Lord Huang sent a letter to Xiang Shuai, proposing that Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi provinces receive relief on a monthly basis, which solved Xiang Shuai's urgent need. ”

Li Yanggu didn't expect Han Xiufeng to know so many things about Lord Taiwan, and was about to make a polite gesture, Han Xiufeng continued: "Actually, what Xiufeng is doing is similar to what Lord Huang did when he was the governor of Zhejiang. If you blindly prevent blockage, you will only be unable to prevent it, so as early as a month ago, I had invited Wu Kuixiang, who was a 27th year of Daoguang Jinshi and Qianshan Quzhi County, Shanxi, to lead a thousand brave men into Guizhou and garrison Songkan, the gateway of northern Qianbei. And please ask Ding to worry about the salt transportation department experience, Pan Changsheng led 500 brave and strong to garrison Hongguan and the hotel. Thirty-five miles deep from north to south, and there are natural hazards such as Hongguan, and at the same time, there are special personnel to check the passing pedestrians at each pass along the way. ”

Li Yanggu thought back to the map he had seen before, and found that the young named prefect in front of him was still commendable in arranging troops, and couldn't help but ask with a smile: "Since more than 1,500 brave men have been sent to garrison Songkan and Hongguan and other places, why does Master Han want to order these brave men in the camp to change guards tomorrow?" ”

"Mr. Li doesn't know anything...... Han Xiufeng gave a brief introduction to what he had done this month, and said with a smile: "Sending Yongzhuang to garrison Songkan was originally just considering that it was easier to transfer food and salary by water than by land, but I never thought that Lord Huang planned to withdraw the grain stations stationed in Guizhou, and in the future, the grain and salary of Guizhou will be directly transferred to Songkan by water, and the handover will be handled with Guizhou officials in Songkan. ”

"What's wrong with that?"

Mr. Li misunderstood, Xiufeng thought that there was nothing wrong with this, in fact, it would save a lot of trouble by handing over the grain to the officials in Guizhou and letting them transfer and distribute it by themselves. At least in the future, if the imperial court is investigated for failing to suppress thieves, it will not be good for them to blame me for Sichuan. ”

The situation in Guizhou is special, the bandits in Guizhou have to suppress the bandits, and the Lord of Taiwan is worried about this, so he asked to withdraw those grain officials who entered Guizhou with the governor of Sichuan, Wanfu, but Li Yanggu did not dare and could not say these words to Han Xiufeng, so he could only smile and say: "If it weren't for Master Han's foresight, this matter of grain and salary transfer would definitely be very troublesome." ”

"It's not a matter of trouble, even if Songkan is occupied by bandits, send more brave men to recover it. However, in the future, the Songkan Waterway will not only have to transfer the grain and salary of the regimental training that the scattered departments of the 14 prefectures and counties of Chongqing Prefecture have come to prevent blockage, but also have to transfer the grain and salary of our Sichuan Xieji Guizhou, and the Baishagang, Buffalo Pond, Maliutan, Gaokan, Zhaosigang, and Lianghekou in the lower reaches of Songkan will have to send brave and strong garrisons. ”

Although Li Yanggu had seen the map before, the map on Fang Zhi was not as good as Han Xiufeng said. Just when he didn't know how to pick up for a while, the two of them had already walked to the edge of the school field.

Chen Hu had already summoned more than 180 supervisors and regimental officers, and the civil and military supervisors were habitually lined up according to the establishment of the "regimental head battalion," and in a short time they were lined up neatly.

Han Xiufeng waited for Li Yanggu to finish watching the excitement, invited Li Yanggu to a row of drum racks on the left, pointed to the large hand-drawn map on the side of the drum rack, and said with a smile: "Mr. Li, Songkan is in the south of us, a little east, about thirty-five miles away from here, and the Songkan River flows northeast, about six miles from Songkan Town to Baishagang, about five miles from Baishagang to Buffalo Pond, about four miles from Buffalo Pond to Maliutan, and about five miles from Maliutan to Gaokan...... Go to the mouth of the two rivers and turn northwest into the Tuanshan Fort of the Qijiang River. The rivers are all in the mountains, and if the brave and strong garrisons are not sent along the rivers, no one dares to guarantee that the food and wages will not be robbed. ”

"These places are only five or six miles away from each other!"

"Five or six miles in the mountains are different from five or six miles in other places."

"That's right."

"So this makes Xiufeng a little difficult, after all, there are only such a few people in the Communist Party, and it will be impossible to defend everywhere."

How could Li Yanggu not know that the young named prefect in front of him was talking about the conditions, and couldn't help but smile and said: "Master Han, in my opinion, it should be enough to have forty or fifty brave garrisons in one place, and there are only three or four hundred people in six or seven places, and sending brave and strong garrisons along the river is the same to prevent blockage, not to mention that you originally had to transfer food and wages along the waterway." ”

"If it is just to transfer the food and salary of the brave and strong stationed in Songkan, it is enough to transfer it once every two months, as long as the news of the transfer does not leak out, and then send some young people to escort them all the way, naturally there is no need to worry about whether they will be robbed along the way. It is not the same to transport the food and salary of a province, and it has to be transferred every month, and even has to be transferred several times, how can it not be guarded along the way. ”

"Why don't you talk to the Guizhou Grain Road, and the money and grain spent on the transfer of grain and salary from Tuanshanbao to Songkan will be paid by them, or will it be directly deducted from the grain and salary in Xieji Guizhou?"

"Mr. Li, this kind of thing is only something you can talk about, how can Xiufeng open this mouth if he is not an official or a gentleman."

"Okay, I'll take care of that, but you'll have to estimate how much food you'll need to spend on the journey."

"How much does it cost to hire a boatman, sailor and slender man, you really stumped Xiufeng, Xiufeng only knows that the brave fortification along the river will cost 1,500 taels of silver in a year."

"Fifteen hundred taels is fifteen hundred taels, but the grain is transferred to Songkan, if the Guizhou grain road does not send someone to accept it in time, you have to arrange Yongzhuang to help guard it."

"It's easy to say everything when you get to Songkan, the main thing is the safety along the way."

……

After negotiating the conditions, Han Xiufeng invited Li Yanggu to sit down for a while, and then walked to a group of civil and military supervisors, and said very seriously: "Everyone, most of you will lead a group to Songkan, Hongguan and the hotel to change guards early tomorrow morning, but the plan is not as good as changing.

As for which regiments to send to garrison Baishagang, Buffalo Pond, Maliutan, Gaokan, Zhaosigang, and Lianghekou, the camp office will make arrangements later. As for the food and salary after arriving at these places, the grain station will also coordinate the supply.

I want to tell you that don't think that after a month of training, don't think that if you have a firearms regiment, you will feel that Lao Tzu is invincible in the world. There are more mountains in Guizhou than in our eastern Sichuan, and the terrain is more complex than our eastern Sichuan. ”

Seeing Han Xiufeng so serious, Zhang Biao, Li Tianbao, Chen Zhankui and others were stunned.

"So whether it's garrisoning or escorting caravans, you must not take it lightly. Isn't there scouts in every regiment, and those scouts have to come in handy, no matter where they go, they have to find out the situation in the vicinity before acting. ”

Han Xiufeng paused, and then said: "Tomorrow is the first time to change the guard, but it will not be the last, in the future, the guard will be changed every one or two months, first, it is easy to slack off after staying in one place for a long time, and secondly, I must also take this opportunity to familiarize myself with the mountains and rivers of northern Qianbei." Because from the soles of our feet to the area of Songkan, it can be called a place of a hundred battles!

Now Liangjiang, Huguang and other places are making trouble, Guizhou is making trouble with bandits, and the Eight Banners Green Battalion stationed in Sichuan has been evacuated. I, Han Xiufeng, am at home, so I will naturally come to deal with the blockage without hesitation. If I Han Xiufeng has something to do in the future, I will also ask you to lead the young and strong to help the officers and soldiers to prevent the blockade and keep my father and elders in eastern Sichuan safe! ”

After finishing speaking, Han Xiufeng took a deep look.

Only then did everyone realize his good intentions, and hurriedly bowed in return.

To put it bluntly, the gunners did not need to be deliberately trained, and directly transferred shotgunners without guns from the five firearms regiments, and then some brave and brave people from other regiments, and distributed them with guns to several regiments stationed in Songkan, Hongguan, Yuya, Baishagang, Buffalo Pond, Maliutan, Gaokan, Zhaosigang, and Lianghekou, which could be used to defend against the enemy and also be used as messengers.

Early the next morning, more than 130 civil and military supervisors took the official document of changing the guard, and with the courage of those who had just changed into their new uniforms, they drove out of the camp in a majestic manner. Li Yanggu also followed with more than a dozen soldiers from the Yamen of Taiwan, obviously not worrying about not going to see it with his own eyes.

There are still more than 1,500 brave men who have not practiced, and the remaining dozens of civil and military supervisors are gearing up and beginning to prepare for how to train the brave men who are about to return.

Everything was on the right track, Han Xiufeng once again became the shopkeeper, and took Chen Hu, Chen Bupanic and others to Giethoorn Village, not far from Daying, and personally cleaned the few small courtyards that had just been rented, otherwise the female dependents would have no place to live.

Chen Hu couldn't help it, and couldn't help but raise his head and ask, "Fourth Master, why don't you let us go, what's the point of staying here?" ”

"Where do you want to go?"

"Leader!"

"Is it important for your mother-in-law to give birth to a baby, or is it important to lead the troops?" Han Xiufeng stared at him and asked.

Chen Hu was stunned and said with an embarrassed face: "It's all important." ”

"That's it, my mother-in-law is about to give birth, and I still want to run out, how can I have you like this." Han Xiufeng wiped his sweat, thought about it and said, "I know that you want to make meritorious contributions, but is it so easy to make meritorious achievements?" Besides, Guizhou is not as good as Jiangsu, nor is it like Zhili, even if you have great ability to go to Guizhou, you can't show it. ”

"Fourth master, are you saying that the bandits in Guizhou are not easy to suppress?"

"There are deep mountains and old forests everywhere, it's like hide and seek, what's the matter?" Han Xiufeng asked rhetorically, and said helplessly: "I don't believe we can make a bet, the bandits in Guizhou will not be able to settle in three or five years." If I let you go now, it won't be difficult to help you find an official and a half-job, but this official won't be long, and if you don't do it for a few days, you will be dismissed because of your lack of ability to suppress thieves. ”

"How can you make a difference by staying here?" Chen Bu muttered in a hurry.

"Seeing that your turtle son is usually very shrewd, why can't he turn this corner, you must know that we are here to deal with the blockage, that is to say, as long as you ensure that the thieves in Guizhou do not enter eastern Sichuan, it is a credit. It's not good to stay here steadily, not only to fight with those remnants of the White Lotus Sect, I really don't know what you think. ”

"But why is he going, Master Gao?"

"Guizhou is his hometown, and his family is separated, of course he has to go back to suppress the bandits, of course he has to go back to find his family." Thinking that Chen Hu was just idle, Han Xiufeng smiled again: "If you think it's boring to stay here, you can go to Anwen Town to play, the town is more lively than here." Anyway, you don't need to worry about the affairs in the camp anymore, and from now on, you can do whatever you want. ”

"The food and salary are handled by Master Wu and Mr. Jiang, the camp affairs are handled by the civil and military supervisors of the camp office, and the brave and strong ones who will come back from Songkan tomorrow have those supervisors and regimental officials, think about it, there is really nothing to do with us." Chen Hu couldn't help but laugh.

"So it's difficult to say that everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as you can get off to a good start, you can only do everything smoothly, and the rest of the things are easy to do." Han Xiufeng smiled and said: "Although there is nothing to do with us, we can't just leave, because the soldiers are brave, as long as we are here, go around the camp every day, and show our faces, they will be steadfast in their hearts, otherwise they will feel like they have no backbone." ”

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