Jia Ke and He Tong greeted each other in front of the battle, the two of them had some signs of differentiation at first, but later they became more and more speculative, when they chatted in front of the formation, the military formations of the two sides showed different states.

On Jia Ke's side, the 2,000 men and horses did not eat lunch. But now he was still standing straight, and the army did not waver in the slightest.

And these soldiers brought by He Tong were not good, and after only standing for a while, they began to stagger, and the formation began to be chaotic, and they had begun to talk to each other, and they had become a mess.

He Tong found that the appearance of his leading soldiers and horses was really different, but there was nothing to say, although these soldiers were said to be soldiers and horses on the nine sides, they were actually eliminated by various departments. It is impossible to ask them to be like Jaco's troops.

He Tong said to Jia Ke: "You have also seen the situation of General Jia, now it is better to go back to Kaiping Town first, arrange food and lodging for them, settle these soldiers, and let's talk again." ”

Jia Ke looked at the soldiers behind him, who were far worse than the soldiers in Taiping Town when he first came to Kaiping Town, this is what the rear troops look like. I didn't expect that only a few decades after the founding of the country, the army would be corrupted like this.

Jia Ke couldn't straighten them out immediately, so he had to order the soldiers of Kaiping Town to be in front, and the new 8,000 people were to advance to the military camp in Kaiping Town.

More than 10,000 people and horses entered Kaiping Town, which has aroused the onlookers of the common people in Taiping Town, and the people looked at the original soldiers of Kaiping Town who were mighty and majestic, and the discipline was strict, and they all let out bursts of cheers.

Looking at the more than 8,000 people in the back, the team was extremely chaotic, and the personnel were talking to each other, and some people were scurrying back and forth, and they couldn't help but despise each other and talk about each other.

"I said, big brother, this is the people who support us?"

"Probably right?" The other said uncertainly, frowning.

"As far as they are bears, they are worse than our strong men when we fought the Tatars, whether they are here to raise their lives or to fight."

An eldest lady next to her also spoke: "I originally thought that the soldiers were the same as those in Kaiping Town. Now I know that this soldier is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and our Kaiping Town is the first class, and the bear soldiers who came this time are probably the worst. ”

"Auntie can't say the same, although these soldiers who came are a little worse, they are still individuals, and they can always help when they encounter a battle formation in the future." A person who looked like a book next to him comforted himself.

When the lady heard someone refute her, she was not happy at that time, her brows were raised high, her hands were crossed on her waist, and she sprayed at the scholar: "You are blind, you can't tell the difference between good and good people." Open your eyes and see, are those people who come like soldiers? I think it's just a group of ruffians, who came to Kaiping Town, ate and drank for nothing, and spoiled people. ”

The scholar who spoke just now was robbed by this lady for a while, and he was speechless. In the end, I could only blush and remain silent.

The eldest lady didn't dare to be angry, and immediately became proud, standing in the crowd and proudly said: "My son is our Kaiping Town soldier, this time the Tatars killed several barbarians with their own hands, and rewarded more than a dozen taels of silver according to the military merits of the court." Is there anything else I don't know? ”

When everyone heard this, they were envious of her, this time with the Tatars, the soldiers in Kaiping Town were very small, but the results were very brilliant, and the court's reward was also very happy. Therefore, all the soldiers who participated in the war got more or less some silver taels, but it was still very rare for his family to get more than a dozen taels of silver, and he felt that his son was very brave.

Jia Ke led everyone into the barracks, and the original soldiers of Kaiping Town naturally returned to their respective barracks in order.

As for the newcomers, they were piled up in a mess on the teaching grounds, looking more like refugees than soldiers.

Jia Ke gathered the 100 100 households who were about to be promoted, ordered them to be selected 100 soldiers each, and then asked them to stand in batches, and just tossed around for an hour before they barely looked like a team.

Then Jia Ke began to roll call, and every time he called the name of a hundred households, he ordered the hundred households to lead the soldiers into the barracks, and one by one they came without the confusion just now. It wasn't until dusk that all the soldiers were arranged.

After arranging the soldiers, Jia Ke instructed Huang Baifeng next to him to arrange a meal immediately. Let the soldiers have a good meal, then rest for the night today and start training tomorrow.

And Jia Ke and He Tong came to the current garrison mansion (that is, the original Qianhu Mansion, just changed the plaque on the gate), and in the flower hall of the garrison mansion, a sumptuous banquet was set up to invite He Tong.

He Tong didn't go to the banquet immediately, but said to Jia Ke: "General Jia, our handover is not yet complete. If you eat and drink now, I'm afraid you will miss the military. ”

As soon as Jia Ke heard what he said, he immediately respected him, although he didn't know the ability to lead the troops, but with this serious execution of military affairs, he would not be far behind.

It turned out that He Tong wanted to hand over first, and Jia Ke did not disagree.

So the two returned to the lobby of the garrison mansion, and He Tong took out the military order of the Jiedu envoy in his arms and handed it to Jia Ke for him to watch first.

Jia Ke took the military order and looked at it, which read: Upgrade Kaipingwei to the town guard, mobilize 9,300 soldiers, and live in Kaiping Town, under the unified command of Jia Ke, the garrison of Kaiping Town.

He Tong saw that Jia Ke had finished reading it, and took out the order of the Ministry of War for Jia Ke to check again, and Jia Ke saw that this document was similar to the order of the envoy of the festival, but there were some discrepancies in the number of people.

After reading these two documents, Jia Ke couldn't help but have some questions. At such a time, it cannot be concealed, and it must be asked in detail, "Commander He, the military department documents say that 8,000 men and horses will be transferred, but how can the command order be 9,300 people." What is the discrepancy? ”

When He Tong heard Jia Ke say this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Jia Shoubei doesn't know something, and now the generals who command the troops in the mainland are no longer like when the country was founded. That one did not eat empty salaries, and the military salaries issued by the military headquarters were only eighty percent of the original ones, and I, the leading generals, did not dare to deduct the soldiers' salaries too much, so as to prevent a mutiny. So this time, I heard that the Lord mobilized people to support Kaiping Town. These generals stuffed as many of their soldiers as they could in order to reduce the number of soldiers they had reduced. There is no way for the Jiedu envoy to send all these people. ”

Jia Ke hesitated for a moment and said, "So if the military department checks, what should I do?" ”

He Tong laughed at this and said, "This is all a trivial matter, and the Jiedu envoy has already reported to the Ministry of War." Coupled with the manpower you lost in this war, there are only a few hundred extra people, and the military department will not take such a trivial matter to heart. ”

When Jia Ke heard this, he was relieved, wrote a receipt, stamped his own garrison seal, and handed it over to He Tong to complete the handover.

Jia Ke once again invited He Tong to the flower hall for a banquet, He Tong did not go in this time, and the two talked and laughed all the way to the flower hall.

At that time, the wine banquet in the flower hall had already been placed, in fact, these wine dishes had been replaced by Lanxiang, who was born in a big family after all. I heard the family members say, Jia Ke and He Tong, you didn't come to the flower hall directly, but went to the lobby first. Then they knew that they had to finish their business before they could come to the feast.

So he removed all the food and drinks he had just served, prepared the ingredients as they were, and waited for the family to report that Jia Ke and the others had finished their work and came to the flower hall. I immediately trained the chef and started cooking. At this moment, the hot wine and food were placed on the table.

If Chuncao and Qiaolian come to Zhang Luo, where do they know this? I'm afraid that now Jia Ke and He Tong are eating leftovers that have been reheated in the kitchen.