In the familiar sound of the trumpet,

Teaseing the little hyena that has become much more tame lying on the saddle, but still likes grinning teeth, Zhou Huai'an sighed as he looked at the city wall that reappeared in front of him, and finally could rest for a while.

If it weren't for Wang Pan sending someone to urge him again, he would have wanted to clean up the place for a longer time and put some of his ideas and methods into practice. The expropriation and seizure of 21 earthen villages, towns and villages before and after this also made his partial division grow to more than 3,000 people.

This is still the case that he went to Wucunjing to dismiss some people whose physical fitness or habits and style are really inappropriate. Today, each person is dressed in a uniform gray and blue tone, a backpack and equipment, two weapons of length and a pair of crossbows, and the armor rate of the soldiers has reached at least 40%. However, the potential of the place and the oil and water have almost been squeezed to the limit.

Seeing that there were suddenly many more standing cages at the head of Chaoyang City, some of them were already like people, some were dying, and some were still wailing and crying, which seemed to be the handiwork of the team they left behind; I just hope that they don't overdo it, overkill and unprovoked expansion of the blow area, but have to go back and clean up and deal with the aftermath themselves.

It seems that the three gates have been reopened for some time and have a relatively steady flow of people in and out; And on the pier and ferry outside the east gate near the river, some boats have also stopped. It seems that the arrangements and agreements left behind after I left are continuing to be useful.

It is nothing more than the abolition of many bureaucratic taxes and servitudes, and the recuperation with the people and the encouragement of industrial and commercial circulation; The key is that the rebels have mastered the reserves of the city's grain depot and the main types of commodities such as salt, cloth, charcoal, and pottery, and are qualified to carry out relatively rough regulation and control of the commodity economic system that maintains the daily operation of the city through the opening of the market and the channels of material supply.

Zhou Huai'an suddenly raised his head with a feeling, and saw a few figures pointing in his direction on the side of the angry banner on the head of the city, and he didn't feel so respectful and polite.

"Is this the Void Monk?"

"Except for the short hair, it just looks like that."

"Don't underestimate others, according to the words of the brothers in the army"

"That's a person who can go to the city with a license to attack the enemy, and can also pacify the rear and manage the ranks."

"Don't you see that in many things now, the head is not very obedient."

"Even when he was not in the army, there were often people around him who would say, 'This monk' is how and so."

"If we want to open up a situation in the army, or make a difference..."

"I'm afraid I'm going to have a good deal."

"So let's put away this thoughts and attitudes for the time being."

"Who..."

With a roar and exclamation ahead. A stumbling figure suddenly rushed out of the crowd that was dodging on the side of the road, and fell in front of the slowly moving horse, and suddenly startled the "Pipi Shrimp" under Zhou Huai'an's crotch for a while, and finally did not step on it again.

"Okay, okay."

But the man who was huddled in front of the horse's hoofs cried out in a wailing voice.

"I have been greatly wronged, and I want to ask the leader of the righteous army."

"Please take the lead for me...

"Hah... What the hell is this? ”

Zhou Huai'an looked at the weak figure who suddenly ran out and pounced in front of his horse, and did not have a sense of immediacy of time and space dislocation, this is the legendary horse stopper, how could he let himself be bumped into, and obviously admitted his mistake.

"What do you want to ask for?"

Zhou Huai'an was still in a good mood at the moment and was a little curious, looking at the person who had been pressed to the ground by two strong soldiers; Although it was full of dust and mud, it looked like he was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and in this era, he was a middle-aged man who could barely serve in the military, and he couldn't help but let down his guard a little in his heart.

(According to the "Tang Law and Shu Discussion", men who meet the requirements for service are divided into strong men, middle men and young men, and the service age ranges from 15 to 55 years old.) ）

"I'm going to sue the Void Monk."

The man who was pressed to the ground could not help but speak hoarsely

"Make people buy and sell in the market..."

At this moment, Zhou Huai'an suddenly remembered a joke that was not funny in the classic movie "Jiupin Sesame Official": "Who is kneeling in the hall, why do you sue this official", I only felt a little ridiculous; Obviously, he was acting far away, why did he inexplicably carry such a big black cauldron.

"In the name of helping the army, he forcibly took the woman from the people's house, and has not returned it so far."

"He also secretly abducted children in the market."

The people on the ground were still making loud demands, but Zhou Huai'an's left and right were stunned and petrified, and after listening to him babble a lot, someone came back to their senses, but it was Su Wuming who scolded loudly.

"That's a lot of guts, you know...

Then the next words were interrupted by Zhou Huai'an.

"That's enough, disperse the crowd and move on, and bring people with you by the way,"

"I just want to know what's going on."

After all, even if he has always been kind to others in the army, he is not willing to interfere too much in the affairs of others; But if someone else pretends to be his own name and acts recklessly, and inexplicably bears such a pot on his back, it is also unbearable. Especially under the rule of the rebel army today, it is the forced expropriation of women, and the abduction and trafficking of children, how can it sound so familiar.

And among the crowd who avoided the street, there were also a few figures who had just gathered around, and they hurriedly left the group, but they couldn't wait to turn around and report something.

Filtered out this somewhat unpleasant episode, and settled most of the people in the station inside the east gate; Then, Zhou Huai'an instructed Xiao Qi and Liao Yuan beside him to privately call the leaders of the juvenile exploration team and the city team to inquire about something; Only then did he wash up again, stop changing, change his clothes and clothes, and eat a little snack before heading to the inner city where the Chinese army was located.

Wang Pan, who had already received the news, not only greeted him at the gate of the Chaozhou government, but also specially sent someone to prepare a banquet to catch the wind tonight, saying that he wanted to celebrate and reward him for his return and hard work.

When closing and repaying many affairs, Zhou Huai'an also noticed that there was a dark-skinned and thin man with long hands and feet in the left hand position next to Wang Pan; Born with a thin face and thick eyebrows, closed thin lips and a straight nose, it faintly shows that this is a rather resolute and assertive character.

Just standing there without saying a word naturally has an invisible deterrent effect, and makes those brigade commanders and captains who were originally a little informal or like to laugh involuntarily converge and subdue themselves;

According to Wang Pan's introduction on the spot, he is his long-famous old man of the Angry Wind Battalion - Ding Hui, and he is also the deputy general assigned to him by the military government this time; And from Canton he brought a discontent battalion head, a transport team composed of 1,000 servants, and 200 pack animals. It was only because he had been delayed by many things before, so he didn't arrive in the army until a few days before Zhou Huai'an left.

And after coming back this time, Zhou Huai'an found that he actually had two more deputies, one was the newly appointed deputy director of the battalion, named Lin Zhong, who was a clerk who had only recently been transferred by the military government; the other is the training officer named Liu Zhi in the team, but he is a teacher of the Wuju Township Test; It is said that they all came with a number of subordinates, together with Ding Hui, the deputy general who returned to the Fury Wind Battalion.

Two deputies were parachuted down at once, needless to say, to mix sand and balance the everyday; Otherwise, if you don't come sooner or later, you've been leaving the manpower required by the Raging Wind Camp vacant; However, after the relevant people of the Raging Wind Battalion and others had successfully regained some territory, they suddenly arranged three leader-level figures to come over with their own teams of men;

But it also proved to be a mixed blessing. Happily, this represents the intention of the General's Office to further attach importance to this armed force, and to strengthen its influence and indirect control; The concern is that this also means the possibility of competing for power and profit in a sense, which complicates the internal relations and structures that have been relatively smooth and smooth. It can be said that the Fury Wind Camp has a lot of things to do.

However, just like some kind of balance or compensation, under Wang Pan's sudden somewhat surprising announcement, Zhou Huaian also justifiably got the appointment of the so-called town defense director; has become the third person in the Angry Wind Battalion or the Longjiang Town Defense Army, second only to the town defense officer Wang Pan, and the deputy town defense officer Ding Hui;

However, because Zhou Huai'an directly led the rear battalion and served as the garrison's training, he was also responsible for all the battalion chores that he wanted to do with the baggage team; As a result, the heads directly or indirectly controlled by his subordinates also account for nearly half of the establishment of the Fury Wind Battalion.

Therefore, it is also a natural and normal trend to have some means of restraint and diversion of authority. After all, a leader who does not know how to engage in the balance and restraint of power under his subordinates is also destined to not go far.

On the other hand, the main reason is that in the previous performance, the tone of the Cantonese side has far exceeded that of the Guangfu side, and the military government has also relaxed the number of troops in Longjiang Town. Therefore, the sub-battalions that were privately formed also obtained the qualifications of the battalion leaders for further expansion;

According to the latest division of duties, the head Wang Pan directly led the middle battalion of 1,200 men and the most elite front battalion of 800 men; The newly arrived Ding Hui became the top boss of 1,000 people in each of the left and right battalions. As for the half of the battalion of people he brought, because of some uneven levels of good and good, only more than 100 people who were still healthy were selected as deputy generals, and the others were scattered and filled into the team according to Wang Pan's requirements to supplement the local garrison force.

In the end, it was Zhou Huai'an's rear battalion that expanded to 800 people and a number of heavy baggage teams to which he belonged; Therefore, as a result, a faint three-legged trend with Wang Pan as the leading and core has been formed in the army, which is not very symmetrical;

Therefore, when this temporary military discussion was carried out here, Zhou Huai'an suddenly felt that he had to retract his previous evaluation and judgment of Wang Pan, the head of the general; Although he usually seems to be a little slack and impatient with tedious affairs, he is not necessarily ambiguous on key issues, or has his own ideas and countermeasures.

No, taking advantage of the opportunity and reason for his return, he eliminated in the blink of an eye at this temporary meeting, and guided the situation in another favorable direction; Sure enough, in the face of natural rights, no superior person will be as simple as a fool or make mistakes easily.

(End of chapter)