In the following days, Zhou Huai'an, who returned to Guangfu, was like replacing a huge and clumsy machine that was almost falling apart, replacing the rusted and badly worn parts and re-injecting lubricating oil, and it once again became smooth and flowing.

A few days later, a ragged team also arrived outside the city of Guangfu one after another; Immediately, someone set up a temporary camp for reception. Because, they are the Long March athletes who attached to the Cupola General's Mansion this time, that is, the border soldiers from Guizhou, Guanzhou, Huzhou, Leizhou and even Annan and other places.

From the outside, the bands were so tattered that they looked like an army of beggars, covered in patches and shabby; It's not even as good as most of the redressed and reconditioned rebels.

Compared with the warring feudal army in the heart of the Central Plains, or the northern border army with a strong sense of Youyan's presence in Heshuo Pass, these southern soldiers have been forgotten and ignored by the imperial court for too long; So much so that many of them have already served more than 10 years in the original three- and five-year periods; After such a long time, many people have forgotten what the situation at home should be, and some simply marry and have children in the local area and take root.

However, the supply of the corresponding imperial court is far away and cannot be received all year round, and now it is completely cut off and cannot be sustained. This is why now, under the persuasion of the envoys of the rebel army, he killed the chief officer and general stationed in the garrison as a letter of surrender, and Kaizi spontaneously formed a systematic move to lose his sincerity and surrender to the Guangfu side.

For those local soldiers and regimental training, these homesick foreign guest troops are also unstable factors and hidden dangers in a sense, just like the cause of the Pang Xun Rebellion back then, which has left them with painful memories; And therefore, by taking advantage of the opportunity to negotiate peace with the Cantonese side and attach, he gave it a gift at a paid price, which can be regarded as the best of both worlds.

Therefore, as these Long March athletes/frontier soldiers, the exchange conditions and price of finally changing their hostile stance and turning it into their own use are not only to provide basic treatment and shelter for the rebels, but also to be able to satisfy the desire of the majority of people to return to their hometowns. Zhang Dong, covered in lice and dirt, was obviously one of them.

He is subordinate to the border defense subordinate to the Jing Navy Jiedu Envoy; This is also a rather young military town, which was set up under the Annan Metropolitan Protectorate when the famous Gao Linggong recruited the Southern Zhao Man, and it has only been more than ten years; Compared with the oil-flowing envoys who sit on the rich land of Jiangdong and only have a word difference in fat, it can be said that they are typical representatives of the land and the people's poverty.

Although there are more than 20 prefectures under his rule, except for the plain area where Jiaozhou is rich in rice and timber, it is almost all typical of poor mountains and bad waters, and the land is full of wild and miscellaneous places; In addition to some characteristic local tribute products and recruitment, most of the limited annual output must be used as a fee for maintaining local native soldiers and regimental training, so as to ensure the deterrence and vigilance of the barbarians in the mountains; And it is difficult to provide any decent help to the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate itself.

In fact, he felt that no matter how much rice and river fresh he ate in Jiaozhou, it was always tasteless, and he did not have the aroma of wheat rice and coarse flour bran cakes in his hometown; After being away from home for more than ten years, the news and situation of his hometown and relatives; It has become one of the few spiritual pillars and hopes in his long, difficult, depressing and monotonous career on the border.

He came from a family of butchers and used to be an idle rag. Then, because he knew a few words and said big words, he was drunk by his former companions and deceived into the army, and became a soldier of the Long March; After surviving the previous battles, he can be regarded as a veteran soldier.

He has also seen all kinds of Shanyi barbarians, but most of them are a rabble who are vulnerable to battle and are only good at sneak attacks, and the most difficult to deal with is undoubtedly the elite "Luo Thozi" of the Nanzhao Wu barbarians, and the local phenology of the wet miasma is simply their best cover; If you are not careful or slack, the head of the whole guard will be touched.

But fortunately, since Gao Linggong successively defeated the Nanban in Jiannan and Annan and recovered Jiaozhou; Nanzhaoman's country is also in chaos now, and the ministers, chieftains and kings are fighting each other and have no time to take care of anything else, leaving only some spontaneous border incidents of the Shanyi tribes; That's why they have a chance to breathe for the soldiers of the Long March, who lack food and clothing.

With some residual vigilance, Zhang Dong numbly walked into a temporary sub-camp, but fortunately, the worrying things and scenes did not happen. The soldiers who came first sat leisurely on the haystacks, chatting in whispers; With the exception of a few tents that clearly did not allow too many people to hide, there were no predetermined positions for axemen or crossbows in the wide field of view of the fence.

Then, after the camp had gathered more than a hundred people, the door was suddenly closed in a certain speculative mood and voice; After another somewhat difficult moment, as the cart suddenly appeared in the door on the other side, Zhang Dong suddenly smelled a familiar aroma and taste, as well as the sound of surprise one after another.

"There are steamed cakes, and there are boiled wheat rice and chestnut rice porridge."

"It's gourd soup and miso soup."

But it was the grass thieves who organized many cooks and fireheads from the north between these camps, and cooked a batch of food full of local characteristics on the spot; Although they are all things that can only be picked up in a car basket and a large bucket, they also attract the attention of most people to some extent, and there are many expressions and feelings such as nostalgia and aftertaste.

As a result, many people can't help but burst into tears while eating, or cry inexplicably. In this way, it will somewhat dilute the original tension, solemnity and life, and even the atmosphere of vigilance and worry.

Then there is the most basic personal hygiene, and then there is a doctor who guards the house, checks their physical condition and treats the injured, mainly to prevent the local epidemic from being brought to Guangfu.

This series of combined measures has achieved quite good results among them; It was like a wave of rocks stirring up a backwater pool, which made these soldiers who had suffered from lack of food and clothing in the border areas react greatly.

"Damn it, if the grass thieves eat better than us like this, then they will still be an official of the dog ball."

"There are still people who treat the injured and sick, wash and tidy, is this still a grass thief who rebelled with mud legs, who is the official army?"

"It seems that this grass thief who occupies the outside of the ridge is about to become a climate."

"Haven't I been blind for more than ten years of hard work and hard work, and I was blindfolded to the army at the beginning, so I went directly to rebel with these grass thieves."

After eating a good meal of cakes and washing his body, Zhang Dong, who put on a coarse cloth shirt, was waiting for the doctor, and also saw a familiar face.

"Zhao Cavalry?"

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And at this moment, Zhou Huai'an, who was standing on the city wall and looking at the actual person in charge of these crowded camps, had just issued a certain "Belong to the athletes here, all in my place!" the touch; For this reason, he took the initiative to ask to be in charge of related affairs, and deliberately came forward to brush up the purpose of his existence, which was for this opportunity to be close to the water and to be a fake public and private opportunity.

This is a Long March athlete from the border army in this era, who has been tearing up and killing the southern wilderness for many years to prepare for the border soldiers; Although it is not as good as those well-regarded veteran powerhouses and famous divisions in the Northland, it is also the elite of the long-term battle that is naturally eliminated in the cold weapon war of this era; Their experience in the organization of battle formations and military training, as long as they are slightly guided and instilled, can become one of the seedlings for increasing military construction.

Of course, Zhou Huai'an's mind was not big enough to count on his own strength, so he swallowed up these relatively elite former officers and soldiers; In fact, as skilled soldiers for thousands of years, most of them have long been targeted by generals of the rebel army.

However, as long as you can go through the preliminary process of accommodating, accommodating, and reorganizing, you can select hundreds to thousands of people from them, who have no vices or psychological problems, and who can be enterprising and easily accept new things, it is the best harvest. During the beating, he specially arranged for those soldiers who were also from the former official army to leave these camps to "move when the opportunity arises" to pull sheep in disguise.

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