Volume 6 Chapter 18 The East Fan Jiuwei Expands Again
Zhang Bin stepped on the wheel with a faint sense of parting, Lu Xiangsheng left him to fight alone, and since then he has one less cadre who can take charge alone, and Daming has one more peerless general who can sweep thousands of miles.
There is always a time to part, like Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, he can't always stay under his hands to drive, they have their own stage, their own sky, Tianxiong Army and Qin Army will definitely leave a strong mark in history.
What he can do now is to help them train the Tianxiong Army and the Qin Army as soon as possible, Lu Xiangsheng here, the Tianxiong Army has begun to take shape, I believe that as long as it goes through a few major battles, it will become a strong force, in order to enhance the combat power of the Tianxiong Army, he deliberately left two hundred tiger squat cannons and two thousand flintlock guns, as well as the ammunition for tiger squat cannons and flintlock guns, and he also left all of them to Lu Xiangsheng.
These things are easy to replenish in Dongfan, but it is quite difficult for Lu Xiangsheng to replenish them after advancing into the Central Plains, and he also left more than 1,000 war horses and more than 600 carriages to Lu Xiangsheng, these things can be bought as long as there is money, but the imperial court cannot give Lu Xiangsheng much money, just help what you can, save Lu Xiangsheng from these headaches.
As for Sun Chuanting, he is still waiting for him in Dongfan at this time, if he rushes from Guangdong to Shaanxi by land, I don't know how many days, Zhang Bin is going to send him directly to Shandong by speedboat, so it will be much closer in the past, so it is nothing to let him wait for a few days, and he still has a lot of things to explain to him.
Zhang Bin was thinking about the problem intently, and he didn't notice that a few little guys on a Zhenyuan cruiser next to the flagship were looking at him curiously.
These little guys are all thirteen or fourteen years old, and as soon as they open their mouths, they are full of Qin dialect, and the one who looks the oldest stares at Zhang Bin and said unashamedly: "This Ha Yi is the head of the officers and soldiers, let's kill this Ha Ji." ”
One of them, a little younger, but unusually handsome, shook his head and said, "Why kill him, he said that everyone should have food, don't you want to eat?" ”
The other two little ones nodded vigorously and said, "Yes, yes, don't get killed, we have to eat." ”
The eldest little guy muttered, "Melon ruffian, you know how to eat." ”
With that, he spat into the water below, got up and walked to the deck.
He seemed to have quite a status, and the teenage lads standing behind him actually nodded to him and were very respectful.
When the handsome little guy saw him like this, he couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "Brother Wang's temperament." ”
The other two little guys shook his arms and asked, "Brother Dingguo, what do you think we should do?" ”
The handsome little guy laughed and said: "What to do, there is food to eat, there is work to do, we have not all eaten enough these days, which proves that the head of this officer and soldier is not deceiving, and he definitely has food to eat, you say?" ”
The young men in the back nodded again and again: "Yes, yes." ”
Looking at them like that, they seem to be very respectful to these little guys, what is the identity of these little guys, what kind of old management team and small management team have been pulled to the capital and cut down, it stands to reason that there should be no leader of the peasant army among these foot soldiers!
They are not in charge of the team, but Zhang Xianzhong's personal entourage, that is, the orderly, who specially cleaned up the camp tent for Zhang Xianzhong and served tea and water.
However, Zhang Xianzhong's personal entourage is not indiscriminate, these little guys are all selected by him from tens of thousands of peasant troops, he not only lets these little guys follow him, but when he is fine, he will also let people teach them to learn literature and martial arts, which is very good to them, so the biggest one just said that he would kill Zhang Bin!
If Zhang Bin knew their names, he would probably be shocked, these four little guys are Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi!
They were specially trained by Zhang Xianzhong to succeed him, and after the establishment of the Onishi regime, these people were all named generals, and they were all accepted by Zhang Xianzhong as righteous sons.
They are the four great generals of the Great Western Dynasty, Pingdong General Sun Kewang, Anxi General Li Dingguo, Funan General Liu Wenxiu, and Dingbei General Ai Nengqi!
Of course, at this time, they were only thirteen or fourteen years old, and they were in the cultivation stage, and they had not yet begun to lead troops to fight, and they were not even qualified to ride horses, otherwise, they would have run away with Zhang Xianzhong on horseback.
And the few young men behind them are the governors of the five armies of the Great Western Army, Wang Shangli, the governor of the Chinese army, Bai Wenxuan, the former military governor, Feng Shuangli, the governor of the rear army, Ma Yuanli, the governor of the left army, and Zhang Hualong, the governor of the right army.
They are also the objects of Zhang Xianzhong's key training from tens of thousands of peasant troops, but they are not as important as Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo and others, they are just doing miscellaneous work in the handsome tent, and they usually cook for Zhang Xianzhong, raise horses and lead horses, and they are also too young to follow Zhang Xianzhong's cavalry to fight, but to drive the carriage to help Zhang Xianzhong transport materials such as handsome tents and books, as a result, because they were blocked north of the Wei River, they were all served by Zhang Bin!
Zhang Xianzhong actually wanted to take these little guys away at that time, but unfortunately there was a shortage of soldiers at that time, and Zhang Bin chased after him with his ass, and he didn't have time to find these little guys, so he lost them all.
Zhang Xianzhong has a very poor reputation, because of his thirst for killing and wanton slaughter, he is simply a notorious devil-like figure, and his reputation is far less good than Li Zicheng's, but his ability to select and cultivate talents is far above Li Zicheng, and these little guys and young men he selected have become the pillars of the Great Western Army, and the Great Western Army has also become the backbone of the anti-Qing forces behind, unlike Li Zicheng's Great Shun Army, which was defeated by the Qing Army.
At this time, it is estimated that his bowels are green with regret, he knew that he would be so miserable by Zhang Bin, he would definitely match Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo with a horse and let them run with him, this time, none of them ran away, he has been cultivated in vain in the past few years!
Among these people, if you want to say that the prestige is the highest, it is naturally Sun Kewang, because he is the oldest in Zhang Xianzhong's personal entourage, and generally when Zhang Xianzhong does not usually fight, he has to convey anything to the people below, and Sun Kewang is arranged to go, even if the old management team of thousands of troops sees Sun Kewang, he also nods and bows, and he is very polite, so Sun Kewang is a little arrogant and has no one in his eyes.
If you want to say that the best popularity is the handsome and unusual Li Dingguo, because he is generous and kind, he is quite good to people, and everyone likes to deal with him.
Therefore, everyone is around Li Dingguo at this time, as for Sun Kewang, he also scolds others for being a ruffian, he himself is a ruffian, everyone has been captured by officers and soldiers, and it is useless for him to be Zhang Xianzhong's most favored cronie, who pees on him.
Li Dingguo doesn't have too many ideas at this time, after all, he is still young and has no ideals and ambitions, he just wants to eat enough now, if he can still read and practice martial arts, it is naturally the best.
He was thinking about eating, when a shout suddenly sounded in front of the cabin in the middle of the deck: "It's dinner, it's dinner, everyone has bowls, line up, don't crowd." ”
At this shout, Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi immediately stood up, found the bowl of rice, each took two, and quickly lined up in front of the officers and soldiers who were doing the rice, Li Dingguo was already unhurriedly lined up behind them at this time, and Sun Kewang also walked over slowly from the side, until the four of them lined up, and the others went to get the dishes and chopsticks.
The more than 500 people in this boat are almost all Zhang Xianzhong's foot soldiers, they all know that these four little guys are Zhang Xianzhong's personal entourage, and Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi are usually quite well-behaved and cute, and Li Dingguo is also very likable, so everyone let them.
At this time, Dongfan's living standard has been much higher than a few years ago when he received refugees from Liaodong, Zhang Bin also hopes that these ordinary people will have a sense of belonging to Dongfan, so the food on the ship is quite good, Zhang Bin set the standard for them is two meat dishes and one vegetarian dish per meal!
"Meat, there is meat, so much meat!" Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi shouted excitedly after finishing the meal, you know, before joining the peasant army, they didn't have to eat, and they basically hadn't seen meat, and after joining the peasant army, even if they were Zhang Xianzhong's relatives, they hadn't eaten a few meals of meat, because Zhang Xianzhong rarely ate meat at this time.
The common people in the northwest have nothing to eat at this time, who still raises poultry and livestock, generally only the very wealthy local tyrants and squires can see the meat, and they can basically see it, and when those big and small leaders finish eating, there is basically no more, where can they be like this, directly hit them in the bowl.
Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi If they are lucky, they can eat some leftover meat, but they haven't eaten any meat since the drought broke out, and they haven't eaten meat for several years, and they don't know what meat tastes like!
Li Dingguo has never eaten any meat, because his family was already poor, after the outbreak of the drought, his family died of hunger and cold, he has not even eaten a few meals, where can he eat any meat, only after joining the peasant army, he has eaten so many times meat.
However, he was not as excited as Liu Wenxiu and Ainengqi, after finishing the meal, he sat next to Liu Wenxiu and Ainengqi and ate seriously, this white flower is pork, he has eaten it a few times, but what kind of meat is this red red, I haven't heard of it!
He couldn't help but grab a soldier of the Qi family who was guarding on the side and asked, "This big brother, what kind of meat is this, beef?" ”
The soldiers of the Qi family laughed and said: "How can it be beef, cattle are to plough the land, it is illegal to eat beef, this is venison, which nourishes blood and qi, especially for you people who are weak and thin, and lack of qi and blood, it has a miraculous effect, eat more, this is specially prepared for you by the Governor." ”
Li Dingguo muttered: "Your Excellency Governor, is it the biggest officer among you officers and soldiers?" ”
The Qi family soldier nodded and said: "Yes, the Governor is not only in charge of us soldiers, he is also in charge of the two provinces of Fuguang and Fuguang, under the governance of the Governor, the two provinces of Fuguang do not know how rich, you will know when you go." ”
What is the concept of wealth, Li Dingguo really doesn't know, he has only experienced poverty, maybe eating meat every day is wealth, he asked curiously: "Do you eat meat every day?" ”
The soldiers of the Qi family shook their heads and smiled: "How can you eat meat every day, you will actually get tired if you eat too much meat, Fuguang likes to eat fish, shrimp, crabs, mussels and other seafood, and there are really not many people who like to eat meat." ”
Fish, shrimp, crabs, and mussels are basically rumors in the northwest disaster area where the river is about to run out, Li Dingguo really can't imagine what it feels like to be tired of eating meat, and he can't help but be full of hope for his future life.
It was about three days and less than four days from Dagu Port to Dongfan, because Zhang Bin was in a hurry to go back to Dayuan to meet Sun Chuanting, so the fleet did not stop at Dongfan Defender and other places, so it went all the way south and drove directly to Dayuan, and the time spent in the middle was exactly four days.
In the past four days, the cognition of all the peasant army captives has almost been subverted, first of all, they eat, they used to have food that is good, but after getting on the boat, not only the rice is full, but also every meal is changed with a variety of meat dishes, as well as the rumored fish, shrimp, crab, mussels and other seafood They also eat, this kind of life, they never dreamed, from eating grass roots and tree bark, to carrying their heads to rebel and starving, and then to eating all kinds of meat and aquatic products every day, it is simply from hell to heaven!
There are also these warships, when they first came up, they were still in a state of confusion, thinking only about whether they could survive, whether the officers and soldiers said that the food was enough was true, few people would pay attention to these warships, and when they were full, they felt that the officers and soldiers had not lied to themselves, and their future life was really settled, and they finally began to pay attention to these warships.
What a terrible giant ship this is, just like a palace on the sea, and the huge cannon on this battleship, the barrel is thicker than the thigh, but they have felt it, and the tiger squat cannon with thick arms bombarded them with heavy casualties, such a huge barrel, and the shells that blasted out don't know what it will smash people into!
There is also the environment in which they live, as well as the distribution of daily necessities, etc., they can't imagine how rich Fuguang is, they are already full of yearning for the future life, if they can live this kind of life every day, it is not a race to the gods!
On the morning of the fifth day, they finally arrived at the legendary Fuguang, and when they saw the majestic castle of Geranza and the terrifying Dayuan City, they were so shocked that they couldn't do it, such a tall city, such a vast city, they had never seen it in the northwest land!
Of course, it is impossible for them to stay in Dayuan City, like the civilians who migrated from Liaodong, they were all sent to the garrison of the avant-garde in Dongfanzhong, most of them will become guards who specialize in farming, and a small number of people will become soldiers after screening, and even, after many assessments, they will also enter the Qi family's army.
Because Dongfan Jiuwei has not expanded for a long time, but the territory under Zhang Bin's rule is getting wider and wider, south to Batavia, east to the Strait of Malacca, north to Ryukyu Tanegashima, I don't know how many places to send troops to garrison, and next, he will definitely lead the army to exterminate the rebels, the number of soldiers has been seriously insufficient, and the Qi family army also needs to be expanded, so Zhang Bin decided to expand the recruitment again, and he was selected from the captured peasant army.
As for loyalty, there is no need to worry at all, because these ordinary people basically rebelled because they had nothing to eat, and now they can eat well every day, and it would be strange for them to want to rebel.
Moreover, these people will not form an army alone, they will all be added to the existing army, and under the supervision and edification of veterans, they will not be able to rebel.