"There is no harm in going left and right for a long time, and besides, besides your cousin, there is also your ninth uncle over there......"

Huo Wu said, with a look of nostalgia on his face.

Huo Bao was a little curious: "I heard that there are many borderless lands overseas, and Uncle Nine didn't expect to occupy a big place......

Huo Wu didn't talk carefully about his early life, but according to the news that Huo Bao already knew, the "old man" took in and taught a total of nine people, Huo Wu Huo Dong Xingwu, Ma Kui Xing, the owner of the horse village Ma Kuixing 6, Du Laoba Du Fei Xing8, Xue Biao Xing7, and the heroic and generous "Nine Masters" Xingjiu.

Xue Biao, the seventh old, is also miserable, not the earliest seventh, but the grandson of the old man's old account, the seventh who was filled after the vacancy in the first generation of the seventh position, so even if he talked about the ranking with everyone, his feelings were much worse.

The "boss", "second", "third", and "fourth" in front seem to have a tragic ending because of the betrayal of the first generation of the seventh, so the youngest "ninth master" was left on the island in the end.

Long before Huo Wu and the others left the island, in order to avenge the previous brothers, Jiu Ye personally disposed of the traitor Lao Qi.

That accident should also be the antecedent for Huo Wu and his brothers to leave the sea and return to their hometown to live in seclusion.

Calculate the time, the time when Huo Wu and the others were separated should be after the foal's memory, before Huo Wu returned to his hometown to get married, it was about fifteen or six years ago.

Among Huo Wu's brothers, Huo Wu, Ma Zhai Master, and Xue Biao are all of the same age, all in their early forties, Du Laoba is seven or eight years younger, and he is in his thirties.

According to Huo Wu and the owner of the horse village, when they first met, they were the same age as Huo Bao, that is, thirteen or fourteen years old, and the next year, the infant "Ninth Master" went to the island, and after three or four years, Du Laoba, who was eight or nine years old, was the last to land on the island.

Calculated in this way, the age of the "Ninth Master" is thirteen or four years younger than Huo Wu and the owner of Ma Village, and five or six years younger than Du Laoba, that is, he is in his thirties, which is about the same age as Deng Jian.

Fifteen or six years ago, when the "Ninth Master" killed the enemy, he was still a teenager and had not yet become a child.

After avenging the blood feud and taking charge of the family business, Huo Bao was very curious about this "ninth master".

Previously, Huo Bao guessed that the old nest of the "Nine Masters" was near the Zhoushan Islands, but he remembered the meeting gifts brought back by Du Laoba and Zhu Qiang last year, as well as the boxes for the foals, and felt that the place where the "Nine Masters" were located would not be a remote boundary with only natural dangers, but like a rich township, a place where maritime merchants gathered, so that those rare objects could be purchased.

Huo Wu pursed his lips and said disapprerovingly: "What's the use of the place in the big place, it's just a barbarian land, the natives speak barbarian words, and they are babbling, so that people can't understand it, and it's not easy to be called to be a slave, it's just a place to transit through the sea......"

Huo Bao listened and didn't continue to ask, but he also excluded Wanwan and Ryukyu.

According to what he knows, these two places have long been visited by Chinese people, and they have been educated by Confucianism.

The rest is the islands to the north or southeast.

The climate in the north is harsh, and the Beihai Road is different; But to the south, it is a transit to the Western countries.

The specific location should be south of Quanzhou, far away from the mainland.

As for the island near Songjiang Mansion that Zhu Qiang followed last year, it should also be a transit island, otherwise it would not be easy to bring outsiders to the island.

……

At the beginning of February, the child soldiers began to prepare for war, and Huo Bao had to go to the child soldier camp.

"Bao Ye!"

"Bao Ye!"

"Bao Ye ......"

When the children got the news, they all rushed to greet them.

Huo Bao looked around at everyone, Hou Xiaoming, Qiu Wei, Li Yuan, Shi San, Zhu Qiang and others in front, next to them were middle-level leaders led by Wu Yuan and Song Qianzhi, and in the back row were An Changsheng and Li Yu, two companions, and Jia Daihua and Jia Daishan brothers, two child soldiers.

Among them, Hou Xiaoming, Zhu Qiang and others are the first batch of old people of child soldiers, and although Li Yuan and Shi San joined later than them, they are not much late; Wu Yuan and Song Qianzhi were Huo Bao's companions when he was in Chuzhou, and Qiu Wei's process of joining the child soldiers was a little complicated, but he was also subdued by Huo Bao; An Changsheng and Li Yu were his companions after arriving in Jinling, and the brothers Jia Daihua and Jia Daishan were the representatives of Jinling's children.

The entire child soldier system has determined Hobo's unique status.

When Huo Bao was there before, he was Huo Bao's nephew, and Hou Xiaoming was Huo Bao's right-hand man.

In Huo Bao's absence, both of them can take charge of the entire child soldier on behalf of Huo Bao.

With the departure of Huo Bao, the rise of Qiu Wei and Shi San, and the three points of child soldiers, the pattern has changed again.

Hou Xiaoming is still reused by Huo Bao, but he is not unique.

Such a situation......

Huo Wu transferred Huo Bao to the firearms battalion, not only because the firearms needed to be trustworthy, but also because Huo Bao was transferred out of the child soldiers to further determine Huo Bao's irreplaceable position among the child soldiers.

Huo Bao didn't expect this place before, but later he also pondered it.

Speaking of which, he transferred Liang Zhuang to Huo Bao as his deputy, and the purpose was similar.

It is because Liang Zhuang's qualifications are too old that he is one of the first five chiefs of the child soldiers, and he is the captain of the spearmen, and he is on an equal footing with Huo Bao, Hou Xiaoming, Zhu Qiang, and Zhu Gang.

It's just that the qualifications are limited, with the expansion of the child soldiers, everyone is in charge of their own stalls, Shi San and Li Yuan are the ones who come later, and Liang Zhuang is a little insufficient.

But Liang Zhuang's qualifications are here, and they are under the hands of others, and they are not easy to manage.

Huo Bao transferred him out so that Shi San, Qiu Wei and other generals would not be hindered.

……

Everyone got the news and knew that preparations for war would begin on the same day and wait for military orders.

"Bao Ye, are we going to follow Deng Shuai's 'Eastern Crusade'?"

Shi San asked with a little excitement.

Everyone has the heart of Mu Qiang, although as a student of the second class of war generals, he has the name of teacher and student with Shui Jin, but in Shi San's heart, the most admired is Deng Jian.

Qiu Wei also asked: "If it's not the 'Eastern Crusade', then it's Marshal Shui's side?" The men and horses on Marshal Water's side also began to move. As he spoke, he had anticipation on his face.

But he was a student of the first class of war generals, and he was a student of Monk Feng.

After the teachers and students came down, they didn't want to follow the teacher to fight, but they were worried about the class guide next door, which was a little interesting.

Huo Bao was funny in his heart, but he was also in a slightly complicated mood.

Whether it is Deng Jian, who has the name of the deputy mountain chief and only shows three faces on the tenth day, or Monk Feng, Shui Jin, Master Lin, and Ma Zhai who have personally transferred the teachers in the name of the class instructor, are all people who understand.

Two months, without deliberately getting close to which one.

Therefore, the familiarity between teachers and students is more familiar than before, but there is no obvious distance between relatives and relatives.

Speaking of the major marshals of the Chuzhou Army, except for the foreign Monk Feng, the others have a great relationship with Huo Wu's father and son, but when it comes to the relationship with the child soldiers, the Shuijin Department is the closest.

The closeness to the Shuijin Department is the battle to aid Bozhou in the north last year, as well as the entry into Luzhou.

There is also Shui Jin himself who has a relationship with Huo Bao's former brothers, and he is also familiar with the child soldiers and the elderly.

Huo Bao nodded to Shi San and said: "Well, it is to follow Deng Shuai to the 'Eastern Crusade', the target is Changzhou, Suzhou, and Songjiang, and it is estimated that it will set off in the second half of the year." As he spoke, he looked at Qiu Wei again: "Shui Shuai's people and horses, on the fifth day of the first month, they set off to Luzhou Mansion to prepare for the war, and the people and horses under Ma Shuai's command are in the same army, and the goal is Shuzhou and Shouzhou." ”

After receiving the letter, everyone was excited.

Five state capitals?

You must know that the current territory of the Chuzhou army is only the land of seven states.

In the past, it was a land of one state and one government, but now it is indeed a land of five states.

It's just that no one thinks it's arrogant.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, when the Chuzhou army entered Hezhou, the total number of people in several groups was only 10,000, but now there are more than 200,000 new and old soldiers.

If the Chuzhou army marches, the target is still one state and one county, it will become a joke.

Among the teenagers, Zhu Qiang had been to Songjiang with Du Laoba, and Hou Xiaoming and Li Yuan had been to Changzhou.

It was determined that the child soldiers were going to "go east", and Zhu Qiang and Li Yuan talked to everyone about the general situation of the two places.

"Songjiang is extremely wealthy, next to the sea is a salt farm, far from the sea is a patch of paddy fields, planted with rice, dry fields are rare."

Zhu Qiang talked about Songjiang, his eyes lit up and said: "At present, among the several state capitals of our Chuzhou Army, Luzhou has the most fertile land, but if you really want to win Songjiang, Luzhou can't compare." ”

"Changzhou has the largest pig iron mine in the south of the Yangtze River, and half of our previous weapons were pig iron from Changzhou."

Li Yuan mentioned Changzhou and looked at Hou Xiaoming: "In May last year, Brother Hou went to Changzhou on the order of Bao Ye, and then I also went to help Brother Hou, but fortunately I was not dishonored." ”

Huo Bao listened with a smile, remembering last year's events, but it was only half a year later, but it seemed like a long time had passed.

At that time, the Chuzhou army was still headed by the third apprentice, and Huo Bao, the nephew, was a guest from another world, and he was not close to the uncle of the apprentice in his bones, but wary.

Take the initiative to mix and meddle in the three items of "grain, salt, and iron", and the purpose is also several times.

Thinking about it now, the original calculations and ideas are also a little rough, and I can't help but ponder.

It's just that Huo Bao is here every year, and he is only thirteen years old, so everyone can't think of going to the next place......