In the winter of the ninth year of the reign of Emperor Chunyou of the Great Song Dynasty, Wang Kui, the envoy of the Sichuan system, wrote a letter, on the grounds that the internal strife in the north was a good time to recover the country, and petitioned to prepare for war, recruit tens of thousands of displaced people, and set up ten new armies, and asked the national treasury to allocate money and grain for military funds.

After some arguments between the Korean and Chinese bigwigs, the main battle faction and the main peace faction finally compromised with each other and reached an agreement: yes, but Wang Kui must not fight outside the Qinling Mountains, so as not to touch the Mongolian roots.

With a stroke of his pen, Li Zong stamped the big seal and approved it back to Sichuan.

When Wang Kui received the final decision, he was happy and sad, looked up to the sky and sighed, and smiled bitterly.

However, the Tenth Army still stood up.

The Tenth Army takes Zhenwu, Yangwu, Yaowu, Weiwu, Ningwu, Chengwu, Fenwu, Xiaocai, Huben and Shencrossbow as the military names, with 3,000 people in each army, and the ten people from Jinghu are respectively under the command of the envoys, and they are stationed near Chengdu.

Among them, the three armies of Xiaocai, Huben, and Shenba, named under Wang Kui, are actually led by Changsun Hong.

The people who led the troops were Xiaoqi Liu Quan, Tiger Ben Gundam, and Shen crossbow Ai Zhongxiao, these three people were clearly allocated to Changsun Hong's account by Wang Kui at the request of Changsun Hong and his own wishes, and the other seven people also had this request, but Wang Kui quit.

Changsun Hong was also embarrassed to bring all the people over, after all, Wang Kui was also short of talents, so this matter was decided.

The rest of the seven armies were all recruited from the middle of the Sichuan, while the three armies of Changsun Hong were mainly from Dali.

Dali people have a characteristic, they live in the mountains, especially able to endure hardships.

In Changsun Hong's view, the reason why the soldiers in Jiangnan are vulnerable is not only because the training methods are wrong and the training methods are simple and backward, but also because of the source of the soldiers themselves.

There is a fundamental difference between a person who comes from a comfortable and prosperous place and a person who comes from a difficult and excellent place.

The former will always be delicate and fragile and soft, while the latter will always be strong and resilient.

It's like a person who has a well-off family and eats and drinks without worrying about reciting Buddhism, and he may not be able to bear to kill a chicken, but people who open up the wasteland and hunt every day do not have this problem.

Therefore, there are many strong men in Hebei and heroes in Youzhou, this is the truth, in the final analysis, it is a matter of people's customs.

Although the refugees in the middle of the river are tenacious, they are still worse than Dali.

When the spirit is strong, the body can be strong, and only those who face the blade without changing their face and face death without fear of life and death can they cast an iron army.

A strong person can withstand training that can be called a pervert, and only then can he have the foundation for forming a strong army.

Dali has been poor for many years, give them a little land to be satisfied, let them have enough to eat, and they can work hard for you.

This is something that the army in the south that has relied on military salaries to gather is unimaginable.

The garrison location of the three armies of Dali is also different from that of the other seven armies, they are stationed in Rongzhou.

Rongzhou has become Dali's nest in the Great Song Dynasty, and the eldest grandson Hong has established a full set of official offices here, and the field is also here, occupying a large piece of land outside Rongzhou City.

The camp of the three armies of Xiaocai, Huben, and Shenbashi is on the edge of the field.

Many times, Rongzhou Zhizhou has the illusion that he is a guest, and Changsun Hong is the ruler here, he went out to inspect, although there were smiling faces all around, but no one took him seriously in his bones, everyone knew that the master here was the Changsun Hong, the envoy of the regiment.

As a civil official, Zhizhou is very ashamed, and he was bullied by military generals to this role, and there is no one left.

However, as a magistrate, Zhizhou is very pleased, because every year there is more money in his pocket than in Zhizhou.

Therefore, the governor of Rongzhou was not dissatisfied, hid his face in the crotch of his pants, hid in the official office, and was a peaceful official.

The field was crowded with people, shouting and shouting one after another, and business was in full swing.

Liu Quan, Ai Zhongxiao and Gao Gao have never seen such a prosperous market in the mountains in the middle of nowhere, and the goods bought and sold in them are piled up into mountains.

They have seen a lot of items sold in Dali, such as tea, iron ore and other items, but there is one thing that is rare elsewhere in the Great Song Dynasty.

"This is cotton, which can be spun and made into cotton cloth." When they asked, Sun Hong, the envoy of the town guard, replied: "Cotton came from southern Fujian, this thing is not very easy to plant, and the place is selected when planting, and it cannot be eaten or drunk, so the Great Song Dynasty has not spread out, and it is a foreign product brought from overseas through sea ships." ”

Liu Cheng and the others didn't seem to understand, but when they touched the soft and gentle cotton cloth, the surprise on their faces was even worse.

Cotton cloth is softer than linen, warmer than silk, the price is not expensive, the cotton cloth is made into clothes, after filling it with cotton wool, it is like wrapping a layer of stove on the body, it is extremely warm, it is also very light, the price is also close to the people, and ordinary people can afford to wear it.

Merchants from other parts of the Great Song Dynasty frantically bought cotton, cotton cloth and everything derived from it, and they also wanted to buy spinning machines and looms, but they were rejected by the Dali merchants in the field.

"This is a top-secret thing, we can't see it, and the people don't allow it to exist at all, where can you buy it?" Dali businessmen said proudly: "Our Dali government in Xuzhou, enclosed a piece of land, built a wall watchtower, known as the textile institute, selected thousands of skilled women to enter, specializing in the production of cotton cloth and cotton clothes, we are all from there to buy goods, this is the official camp, if someone dares to drill the camp privately, was pulled in, to kill the head!" ”

They made a neck wiping motion.

"Oh~~!" The merchants of the Great Song Dynasty gasped, full of regret, took the cotton cloth and looked left and right, they couldn't put it down, smart people know that this is a profiteering business, they bought goods here, and sold them elsewhere, which is several times the profit, such a good way, but it was cut off by the Dali government, which is a pity.

Liu Cheng and the others looked at the field and immediately understood that the good weapons and equipment of Dali's ghost soldiers were supported by something.

The eldest grandson has led the soldiers well, and the business is doing better.

Outside the field, next to the barracks of the newly established three armies, is the new office of the Rongzhou regiment training envoy.

Changsun Hong also moved his office here, next to the three of them, and he didn't see it at all.

This move seemed inadvertent, but it made Liu Cheng and the three of them quite moved, and Changsun Hong took a few guards to live in his military camp, which is not to treat the three of them as outsiders.

When you are not an outsider, you can see it, but Changsun Hong's real intention is to live closer to facilitate the guidance of military training.

Liu Cheng and the others envied the military discipline and quality of the ghost soldiers, no one taught them, and they couldn't learn it.

The eldest grandson Hong personally went down the field and showed them modern military training techniques, the set of walking in unison, standing in a military posture, holding a stone lock and running in circles, the three of them were stunned, and those tips for illiterate soldiers how to correctly distinguish between left and right and understand the banner made them even more eye-opening and praised.

"Ai Zhongxiao's divine crossbow army, Lord Wang has deployed enough crossbows and bows to come over, and they will arrive soon, and when the recruit training is over, they will soon be able to get started." During the training break, Changsun Hong told the three about the future development of the three armies: "The Tiger Ben Army of Gundam is a heavy infantry, with heavy armor equipment like ghost pawns, and Dali's arsenal is working day and night, striving to build it as soon as possible." ”

"It's just Liu Quan's Xiao cavalry, we don't have enough horses, it's still a problem, I deployed some Sichuan horses and Yunnan horses, although it is not very suitable, but it is better than nothing, first respond to emergencies, and then replace with other good horses."

He looked at Liu Quan, and said seriously: "We can't do without cavalry, Liu Quan, you are a person who relies on twelve horses to defeat Xinyang, and on the way to the cavalry, there is an experience that ordinary people do not have, I hope you can train a useful cavalry for me, grow our wings, and let the Mongols see, my army of the Great Song Dynasty also has a strong cavalry warrior!" ”

(End of chapter)