Qingzhou is located in the central part of Shandong, known as Linzi in ancient times. In this world, Qingzhou is located on the eastern side of Liangshan Mountain. There are also Dongping and Jinan in the middle. Gao Cheng took Zhu Wu and Chen Da to run around for nearly ten days, and then they arrived in Qingzhou.

Qingzhou City is also a prosperous place on Jingdong East Road, radiating the entire Shandong, the geographical location is very important, the Zhizhou here is Murong Yanda, this person is the brother of Murong Guifei in the palace, and also the confidant of Emperor Daojun.

"Murong Yanda, just a mediocre official! If it weren't for his sister Murong Guifei, he wouldn't be able to sit firmly in the position of Qingzhou Zhizhou!"

After Gao Cheng came to Qingzhou, he first went to meet Murong Yanda of Zhizhou. Similar to what he expected, in his memory, Murong Yanda was a mediocre official who didn't have much ability, and after seeing this person, Gao Cheng confirmed this even more.

Qingzhou is the capital of Jingdong East Road, with jurisdiction over seven states and 38 counties, since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, Kou Zhun, Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, Pang Ji, etc., who can serve as the governor of Qingzhou, these people are all future prime ministers. The future famous minister Zhang Shuye also held the position of Qingzhou governor.

Compared with these people, Murong Yanda is not worthy of lifting shoes for them.

Thanks to the identity of "Zhao Yu", Gao Cheng came to the palace to meet Murong Yanda without any trouble, but he is also a child of the clan, and being appointed as the deputy commander of the Soldiers and Horses Division is enough to prove that he has a way.

Murong Yanda, as the commander of Zhizhou and the Soldiers and Horses Division, has the military, government and civil power in his hands, as long as Gao Cheng does not go too far, he will snatch the full strength in his hands as soon as he comes, and he will not be a villain in vain.

After meeting with Zhizhou, Gao Cheng rushed to the military camp in the west of the city with the official seal and sent documents. Before entering Qingzhou, he had a preliminary understanding of the situation of the Qingzhou Terracotta Division.

Among the soldiers and horses, in addition to the two commanders and deputy commanders, the leader is Qin Ming, who is in charge, Qin Ming has about four or five hundred box soldiers under him, and these box soldiers have been trained by his apprentice Huang Xin, and they are barely elite.

In addition to the 500 soldiers led by Qin Ming and Huang Xin, the other four battalion leaders of the Terracotta Division were all old, weak, sick and disabled who did not have much combat effectiveness. These people can't even beat the thieves who block the road and rob when they go out, let alone exterminate the thieves who occupy the mountains as kings.

There are only 500 soldiers in the huge Qingzhou who still have some combat effectiveness, and even if Qin Ming is strong, it is impossible to use these 500 people to exterminate the three mountains in Qingzhou.

In the military camp in the west of the city, Gao Cheng heard a commotion from inside before he got close, and the soldiers at the gate of the barracks besieged the city with others to watch the excitement. The task of guarding the gates of the barracks has long been forgotten. It seems that these people have long been used to doing this.

"This is the military camp of the Great Song Dynasty, why doesn't it seem to be as powerful as the minions we trained when we were in Shaohua Mountain?" Chen Da and Zhu Wu followed behind Gao Cheng and also saw this scene.

Chen Da couldn't help but say a word, a little disappointed in his heart for the so-called officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, even he, a reckless man who only knows how to practice fists, feet, guns and sticks, knows the truth that there must be a sentry at the gate of the barracks. If the thieves enter the city, it is estimated that they will not even be able to stop them with these scattered soldiers.

"The balance has been more than a hundred years, and it is not surprising that the Terracotta Division has become like this. "Zhu Wu is not very strange, these soldiers of the Soldiers and Horses Division have no military salary, they just mix a mouthful of food in the army every day, where can they train seriously.

Like the forbidden army in Tokyo, the strength seems to be very large, but in fact they are all empty shelves, scaring and scaring ordinary people, or exterminating some bandits with average strength.

Gao Cheng was silent, and did not get angry because of this, but walked directly into the barracks, and saw a burly man with a full beard in the open space surrounded by many soldiers, who was competing with more than a dozen sturdy soldiers.

More than a dozen sturdy soldiers are well-trained, nimble, and have the strength of the pinnacle of the first order. They cooperate with each other, and even the second-order Jianghu masters are not their opponents.

But the burly man who fought with them, wearing a strong suit, his movements were fast and explosive, and he took a step forward to repel one of the soldiers, and then punched and kicked in a row, but after a few moves, these soldiers were knocked to the ground.

"It's not happy, it's really not happy! I haven't even moved my body, so you can't hold on and ruin your fun!" This burly man is the commander of the Qingzhou Terracotta Division, the thunderbolt fire Qin Ming.

His current strength has not reached the fourth order, but is at the peak of the third order, but this strength is enough to make him a first-class fierce general who charges into battle.

When he was fighting with more than a dozen soldiers just now, Qin Ming didn't show any strength, nor did he use his incomparable strength, but just used ordinary fists and kicks. I didn't even use a tenth of my own strength.

At this time, Qin Ming suddenly felt that there were two breaths of anger nearby, as if there was a master nearby, he twitched, and immediately turned around and glanced around.

Gao Cheng, Zhu Wu and Chen Da did not hide their figures, they were dressed completely differently from the soldiers, as if they stood out from the crowd, Qin Ming saw the three people behind the crowd at a glance.

"Who are you? trespassing on the camp?" Qin Ming burst into a shout, the rolling sound waves were breathtaking, and the soldiers and soldiers who were watching the excitement covered their ears one after another, and retreated with a painful face to make way for space.

Gao Cheng plucked his ears with his fingers and said with a smile: "What a loud voice, worthy of a thunderbolt, it is really like a thunderbolt, shocking and courageous!"

Zhu Wu took a step forward and shouted: "Qin Commander, this is the newly appointed deputy commander of the Soldiers and Horses Division, Lord Zhao Yu, you still haven't come to visit?"

Qin Ming's body was full of qi, and he was about to step forward to capture the three trespassers in the barracks, when he heard this, he immediately stiffened. "Deputy Commander of the Terracotta Division?"

Not far away, they gathered in a group to watch the excitement, and the soldiers were shocked.

Gao Cheng's expression was calm, and he waved his hand to let Zhu Wu show the official seal document, Qin Ming hurriedly took the soldiers in the camp to turn over and bow down, "The villain meets the commander!"

"Get up, from today onwards, I will be the chief officer of the Terracotta Division, Qin Ming, gather all the officers above the head of the Terracotta Division!" Gao Cheng immediately gave the first order.

Soon, Qin Ming summoned the Marquis Yu, the capital eunuch, and the officials of the Terracotta Division, who had arrived in a hurry from outside, to come to the official office of the Terracotta Division, and dozens of people almost filled the hall.

"It's all here?" Gao Cheng sat on the top, his eyes swept over these people, and asked lightly.

Zhu Wu stood on the side, holding the list of officials of the Terracotta Division in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "My lord, Huang Xin, the supervisor of the Terracotta Division, is out on official business, and he is not in Qingzhou for the time being, except for him, all the officials of the Terracotta Division have arrived!"

Gao Cheng nodded slightly, first glanced at Qin Ming, and then threw the list of soldiers and military account books in his hand on the table, he stood up and said in a deep voice: "Qingzhou is the capital of Jingdong East Road, and there are actually Peach Blossom Mountain, Qingfeng Mountain, Erlong Mountain and Three Mountain Thieves in the territory!"

"There are thousands of bandits in the Three Mountains, many of whom are the leaders of the bandits, and this official has heard about the reputation of the Three Mountains Bandits in Tokyo, but he didn't expect to come to the Soldiers and Horses Division today to see that there are no soldiers, and there will be no generals! If the Three Mountains Bandits invade Qingzhou, how can you protect these hundreds of thousands of people in the city?"

"The sentry posts in the barracks dare to leave their posts without permission, Qin Ming, you are the commander of the Soldiers and Horses Division, this is the soldier you bring?"

Gao Cheng reprimanded unceremoniously, Qin Ming had a look of shame on his face, lowered his head and was silent, and waited for Gao Cheng to finish speaking before he stepped forward and bowed: "The villain is guilty, and please ask the adult to surrender!"

With his apprentice Huang Xin helping to manage the military camp, Qin Ming never cared about these problems, and when he encountered thieves or enemies, his first thought was to rush forward and be reckless.

Unexpectedly, when the apprentice Huang Xin was not in Qingzhou, the commander suddenly came to the barracks and had a full view of the chaotic situation in the barracks.

The other officials, including the head of the capital, the Marquis of Yu, and the Soldiers and Horses Division, reprimanded Qin Ming as soon as Gao Cheng came, and treated Qin Ming, a first-class general, as a soft persimmon and constantly kneading, and they all fell silent, not daring to breathe loudly.

Gao Cheng saw Qin Ming bow his head and confess his guilt, his face softened slightly, and said: "Qin Ming, your strength is not weak, but you are a fierce general in Qingzhou, Lord Zhizhou also values you very much, this official knows your ability, this time the matter is over for the time being, from today onwards, the Soldiers and Horses Division will be reorganized!"

Qin Ming's face was overjoyed, and he hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "Thank you for raising your lordship, the matter of the Soldiers and Horses Division, the villain is only the head of the adult!"

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Gao Cheng had led millions of armies to conquer the world in the previous world, and now there is no problem in being a small commander, as soon as he took office, he easily suppressed Qin Ming and borrowed Qin Ming's reputation to show his prestige.

Qin Ming's strength is extremely strong, and he has an outstanding reputation in the Qingzhou Terracotta Division, Qin Ming said that after bowing his head, other officials of all sizes did not dare to stab. Convey Gao Cheng's order in a down-to-earth manner.

The Qingzhou Terracotta Division has a total of one military horse, the Great Song Dynasty military system, one hundred people, five battalions, five battalions and one army. The first army had a total of 2,500 regular troops, and the number of auxiliaries and miscellaneous troops was more than 5,000.

In addition to the capital city of Qingzhou, there are five county seats, and there are also regimental training envoys in the county seat, commanding the militia of each county, and the total strength of the five county towns is about 5,000.

It's just that these militias are under the jurisdiction of the regimental training envoys of each county in peacetime, and it is impossible to transfer them to the capital of Qingzhou.

One of the purposes of Gao Cheng's coming to Qingzhou was to subdue the future Liangshan generals in Qingzhou, and the other purpose was to make contributions to the extermination of the Three Mountain Bandits and gradually form his own forces.

Qingzhou Terracotta Division is the first team he has to master.

Murong Yanda usually only knows how to drink and have fun in Qingzhou, looking for flowers and asking willows, and has no interest in the affairs of the Terracotta Division, and when he doesn't care about anything, Gao Cheng has the power of the entire Terracotta Division.

His first order was to clean up the old, weak, sick and disabled in the Soldiers and Horses, these old, weak, sick and disabled people seemed to have little strength, but their relationship in Qingzhou was intertwined. So Gao Cheng didn't blindly do it.

He first selected all the old and weak who were not strong in combat effectiveness, and then turned these people into auxiliary soldiers, spent a lot of silver out of his own pocket, bought a thousand acres of land outside Qingzhou City, and then let these old, weak, sick and disabled all arrange for farming, and the melons, fruits and grains grown were purchased by the Soldiers and Horses Division.

Gao Cheng took sixty percent of the money sold, leaving forty percent for these people. It's kind of giving them a way to support themselves. The 2,500-strong regular soldier was suddenly reduced by nearly 2,000.

Gao Cheng issued a second order at this time, recruiting 2,000 strong men in Qingzhou and re-selecting and training troops. Even in the prosperous Qingzhou, there are a large number of people who are about to survive.

The original intention of the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty box soldiers was to give these people who could not survive a way to live, and every time there was a year of drought, the imperial court would vigorously recruit box soldiers to collect the elite among the displaced people, in case these people could not survive and a civil uprising occurred.

It was very easy to become a box soldier, and Gao Cheng could recruit himself without asking Tokyo. In just a few days, thousands of strong people applied.

At this time, Huang Xin also returned to Qingzhou.

Huang Signal said that Zhen Sanshan, some skills in commanding troops and training, but the skills are just ordinary, and it is very qualified to be a general, but it cannot become a general or a famous general.

However, this person also has some ability, Gao Cheng immediately asked him to assist Zhu Wu and began to train this army soldier.

Gao Cheng secretly trained himself in Qingzhou City, and soon a month passed.

In a month's time, the newly recruited more than 2,000 soldiers and horses initially learned the formation, and also practiced some simple knife and marksmanship in a similar way. With a little combat power.

this day. Gao Cheng stood on the high platform in the barracks, watching the more than 2,000 people below constantly changing formations according to the order, Qin Ming's big voice kept shouting. The faces of the soldiers who trained them were covered with sweat.

"My lord, there are documents sent from Zhizhou!"

At this time, Zhu Wu gently walked to Gao Cheng's side and handed over a letter. There was a red envelope on it, and I don't know what was written inside.

Gao Cheng opened it casually, and then swept his gaze, with a sneer on his face. "Interesting! The thieves of Qingfeng Mountain heard that we are training troops to exterminate the bandits of the Three Mountains, and they are contacting Erlong Mountain and Peach Blossom Mountain to prepare to attack Qingzhou together!"

"Now the Three Mountain Thieves are attacking Qingfeng Village, Zhizhai Liu Gao sent a message to Qingzhou for help, and Murong Yanda directly transferred the letter asking for help to me, this is to let me send troops!"

Zhu Wu's face changed slightly when he heard this, among the three mountain thieves in Qingzhou, Erlong Mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the remote and dangerous place of Peach Blossom Mountain is not too great, and Qingfeng Mountain is the most powerful cottage among the three mountains.

Therefore, Qingzhou has a Qingfeng Village at the foot of Qingfeng Mountain, which is dedicated to controlling the bandits in Qingfeng Mountain. However, the strength of Qingfeng Village is not too much, and it is very difficult to resist a Qingfeng Mountain, and now in the face of the siege of the Three Mountain Bandits, I am afraid that it is dangerous.

"My lord, our Soldiers and Horses Division has just been training for a month, and the soldiers have not yet been in battle, and they have not seen blood, so if they send troops, I am afraid they will not be the opponents of the Three Mountain Bandits!" Zhu Wu said in a low voice.

Gao Cheng smiled, waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, Qin Ming and Huang Xin have also trained five hundred old soldiers before, with these soldiers as the core, the soldiers and horses are enough to fight the three mountain bandits! After all, they are just some thieves who occupy the mountains as kings, and they are not the elite soldiers of Western Xia and Liao, what are you afraid of?"