Feng Ruhu rode on the big black horse that he didn't get from Zhengdaguang, and looked at the surrounding scene sullenly.

Lifeless hills, patches of weedy farmland. A ruined cottage, clusters of withered and decaying thorns. The cold wind blew, and a white skeleton occasionally appeared in the grass. As far as the eye could see, the bleak and empty air was filled with the smell of death. Only the horse's hooves passed by, startling a few chickadees, and there were still signs of life.

"! What about people? All dead? Feng Ruhu's third brother, Feng Rubiao, scolded angrily, "Big brother, I haven't seen a living person ten miles away from the county seat!" And fucking come out to conscription Raff, whoa! ”

Feng Xi, the family behind Feng Rubiao, did not speak, but stared at the eldest young master with his eyes.

"Maybe it's a mistake to take the avenue. In troubled times, people will run into the mountains. Feng Ruhu held down his temperament and comforted his third brother.

Nothing was found, and Feng Ruhu also wanted to scold his mother. But he is the commander of the first army, and he can't be impetuous. He steadied himself and pointed to the road ahead, turning over the hill in front of him to see if there were any people in the village. If it is still the scene in front of you, then go back to the county seat first and see if Cai Jianjun and Company Commander Xu have gained anything.

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Feng Ruhu just arrived in Dazhu County, Shunqing Prefecture yesterday.

In early October, Feng Ruhu finally stood on his post for a month, and he didn't make any mistakes. In the face of his sincere remorse, Shizi announced his punishment: his treatment was demoted from the deputy regiment to the deputy battalion, and he was released as the acting captain of the Dazhu County Huzhuang Brigade.

cut off a head, and then downgraded two levels in a row, Feng Ruhu was of course extremely unhappy. But he still gladly accepted the appointment, and ran to the General Staff to accept his subordinates. Why? Because the prince told him that Dazhu County was just on the main passage for the northern Sichuan tyrants to plunder in the south. If he likes to cut off his head, then Dazhu County will have endless heads!

But when he arrived at the General Staff and got the roster of the Dazhu County Huzhuang Brigade, Feng Ruhu was dumbfounded on the spot.

On the surface, the Dazhu County Huzhuang Brigade is a battalion structure, but in fact there are only two battalion commanders, one company commander, and two platoons, with a total of 60 officers and men.

The two battalion commanders, one is Feng Ruhu himself, and the other is the newly arrived company-level supervisor, Cai Shaoyun, a poor scholar from Zhaohua County. The company commander is Xu Gou'er, the platoon commander of the former Wangfu Suwei Township Soldier Platoon.

There are two platoons under the jurisdiction of the brigade, and the full platoon was originally led by Xu Gou'er, which is mainly composed of fugitive officers and soldiers from the Chengdu Rear Guard and the Right Guard. The other platoon had only two squads, three platoons. The platoon commander is Han Dashu, the former left guard general banner. His three sons all served in the platoon. The eldest and the second are the squad leaders, and the third is the deputy squad leader and the captain.

The General Staff is in the side hall of the Jinde Palace, Feng Ruhu doesn't dare to spread wild under the nose of the prince, but his hippie smiling face has no effect.

Mr. Shu clearly told him that the caravan was expanding and that there were not enough soldiers. The county-level village protection team is a local army, and all the troops sent are basic seed troops, and they can only find ways to expand the army in the local area, such as taking measures such as building a large number of Wangzhuang and recruiting displaced people. Mr. Shu also reminded him that in terms of cadres, soldiers, and equipment, the Dazhu County Huzhuang Brigade is the strongest among the newly built Huzhuang Brigades. In Linshui County, a hundred miles south of Dazhu County, there is only one company commander and one platoon in the Huzhuang Brigade. According to the will issued by the prince, once the war was entered, the village protection teams in Dazhu and Linshui counties were all under the command of Feng Ruhu. If Feng Ruhu is still not satisfied with this position, he can ask the prince to replace it.

Feng Ruhu is reckless, but he is not a fool. How can a boiled duck fly away from its mouth?

Feng Ruhu immediately patted his chest in front of Mr. Shu and said that he was quite satisfied, and then took the material allocation order issued by Wu Tai, a logistics staff officer, and ran back to his old nest - Fengjiazhuang of the left guard. In Fengjiazhuang, there is his third brother Feng Rubiao, who has nothing to do every day, and three members of his Feng family.

Feng Ruhu entered the house, first waved the order jointly signed by the director of the General Staff to his third brother, and directly stood at the door of the house to appoint Feng Rubiao as the acting platoon commander and the three family members as squad leaders. Then the five tigers of the Feng family went out separately and knocked on the windows and hammer doors door to do the mobilization work, making the entire Fengjiazhuang restless. By noon the next day, Feng Ruhu had 15 more sergeants and tenants under his command, and a new platoon had begun to take shape.

A few days later, the two brothers Feng Ruhu repeated their old tricks, relying on their own advantages of being familiar with the ground and face, taking advantage of the brief confusion before the 10th Battalion of the Caravan was about to set out, under the cooperation of Feng Rubao, the deputy company commander of the 3rd Company of the 10th Battalion of the second brother, they secretly exchanged the miscellaneous horses they were assigned with the big black horse of the new battalion officer Yin Boss of the 10th Battalion.

After receiving all the ordnance and materials, riding on a tall horse, and joining Cai Jianjun, Xu Gou'er and the troops, Feng Ruhu finally led this small detachment of seventy or eighty people to board a cargo ship to Chongqing in high spirits. The cargo ship entered the Yangtze River through the Min River, and turned into the Jialing River in Chongqing Prefecture, where it unloaded its cargo on the left bank of the Jialing River.

The road from the left bank of the Jialing River to Dazhu County does not need to climb the towering Huaying Mountain, and the road condition is also better, but the distance is not short, more than 200 miles.

The small team hired mules and horses in the local area, and after passing through Linshui County, which had just been stationed in the village protection team a few days earlier, finally arrived at their news place in early November, that is, the place where they were preparing to make a meritorious contribution and cut off their heads—Dazhu County.

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To the north of Chongqing Prefecture, there are three mountain ranges that extend from the Daba Mountains. These three mountain ranges run parallel to each other and all run south-northeast. To the west is Huaying Mountain, in the middle is Tongluo Mountain, and to the east is Mingyue Mountain (Rong Mountain). The three mountain ranges are like three long splints that run north and south, squeezing the two narrow strips in the middle, forming two parallel trough-shaped zones that are tens of miles wide and more than 500 miles long. It extends from Dazhou in the northernmost part to Fuzhiba County in Chongqing, forming the geomorphological characteristics of "three mountains and two troughs". The three mountains are high mountains and steep rocks, while the two troughs are widely distributed with low mountains, shallow hills, plains, rivers and cultivated land, making it an area with better agricultural production conditions. Dazhu County and its southern Linshui County sit in a wider trough to the west.

Dazhu County is not big, and the city was built with stone in the early years of Chenghua. The city wall is one zhang five high, the circumference is two miles four, the east and west are slightly wider, the north and south are slightly narrow, there are four gates in the southeast and northwest, but there is no city gate tower. More than 170 years of erosion have made the city wall look very dilapidated. The masonry fell off in many places, revealing the rammed earth inside. A river that is not very wide winds its way from the north and continues south after passing through the eastern wall of the county seat, forming a natural moat outside the east gate.

Around the county seat, there are seven or eight miles of plains and shallow hills, with about 20,000 or 30,000 acres of cultivated land and dozens of large and small villages. These farming areas are surrounded by a ring of low mountains. Not far from the east gate, there are two connected small earthen hills, and a few miles away from the north gate is a lush natural bamboo mountain. On the east and west sides of the county, there are towering Causeway Mountains and Huaying Mountains.

Dazhu County is stuck in the middle of these two tall mountain ranges. Its significant military value can be seen at a glance.

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The sky gradually darkened, and Cai Shaoxuan dragged his tired body back to the county seat with his guards. He led the horse and walked along the dirty and empty streets towards the county school. The county government burned down, and the county school became a temporary station for the village protection team. Far away, Cai Shaoyun could also hear Lao Han's eldest son, Han Changsheng, training the troops loudly.

I don't know because Lao Han's platoon is a left-hand guard, and I don't know that the General Staff attaches great importance to the troops stationed in Dazhu, this platoon is all equipped with high-powered bayonet guns newly produced by the Firearms Bureau. The official model of this firearm is: "Chongzhen fourteenth year style six-point firecracker". After the summary meeting of the Tomb of the King of Shu, all the troops knew the benefits of the firecracker, so it became a sought-after commodity for all troops as soon as it was produced. The Yingji Zhuang Brigade is equipped with a new type of full-armed firearm platoon, and the Dazhu County Zhuang Brigade is the first. It's just a pity that Lao Han's platoon is not full of members, and there are only a pitiful fifteen firearms.

As soon as he arrived near the Lingxing Gate, Cai Shaoyan saw an old man with a white beard standing in the middle of the street staring at him. He hurriedly handed the reins of the horse to the guards, bowed forward a few steps forward and saluted: "Fei Jiaoyu (Note 1), how can Xiaosheng dare to let the old gentleman come out to greet him?" ”

Mr. Fei is a native of Xinfan County, Chengdu, born in Chengdu, his son is in Kunmingling, and his grandson is studying in Chengdu. In June last year, Dazhu County was breached by bandits (Note 2), and the county officials and people all fled, leaving him alone to support the county affairs. Now he is still alone, managing the remaining 2,000 people in and out of the city for the Ming court.

The imperial court was able to send a serious Qianhu lord to lead dozens of officers and soldiers in bright armor to enter the county seat, and Mr. Fei was naturally very happy. But Mr. Fei quickly figured out that Lord Qianhu was an official, but the soldiers led by Lord Qianhu were only Zhuang Ding of the Shu Palace, not a regular official army. As for that Cai Jianjun, he is just a poor scholar in Zhaohua County who has no reputation. What Shu exam did he pass and became a copywriter of the Shu Palace, so he was sent out by the government to supervise the army.

Although Mr. Fei knew everything, he was still enthusiastic about the officers and soldiers stationed there. Especially Cai Shaoyun, a scholar, and Mr. Fei quickly became old friends. Mr. Fei has already seen that the officers and soldiers stationed in Dazhu County this time have taken root with an iron heart, and they will never throw the people of the city all over the city when they heard the movement of some bandits. Therefore, he enthusiastically gave up the empty county school to be used as a barracks, and took the officers everywhere to check the city defense to help the village guard team stabilize the people's hearts.

Mr. Fei grabbed Cai Shaoyun's hand and dragged him into his room.

"Cai Jianjun went out of the city to recruit troops, and the old man was very worried! I brought a guard, and I am not afraid that the village thieves will arrest you and eat you! Are there still people in the village outside the city? The old body can't go to the countryside to see it with his own eyes. How's it going, have you recruited soldiers? ”

Mr. Fei's house smelled of food. Cai Shaoyun glanced at the guards on the side, and the soldier nodded and walked away very calmly. When he entered the house, Mr. Fei really brought out a big bowl of rice, a plate of boiled vegetables, and a small plate of sauce meat in front of Cai Shaoyun. Cai Shaoyun was not polite to the old man, and sat on a stool and ate heavily. After eating half full, he stopped the dishes and chopsticks and asked, "What's the matter with those villagers?" I ran more than a dozen miles out of the city to the southwest, and I entered several villages on the way. Although the population of the village is not large, there are still a lot of strong men. But as soon as he said that he was recruiting as a villager, he didn't say a word, and slipped away in a blink of an eye. The palace didn't use them for nothing, they all had subsidized silver! ”

Mr. Fei was watching Cai Shaoyan eat with satisfaction, and when he heard him ask, he nodded and said, "The old man is not bad!" I don't blame these villagers, they are all scared of being killed by the local thugs. Don't underestimate those bandits, they are bright! Whoever became an official and soldier, and who donated food and silver, they all have a way to know! Perhaps you went to the county yesterday, and today they will know. Besides, when the strong man enters the city, the local thugs will definitely take revenge on their families, so what about the old people, women and children in the village? What about their houses, land, and harvests? Those things are hanging outside the city, how can the strong man defend the city with peace of mind? ”

Cai Shaoyun said thoughtfully: "Mr. Fei is reasonable, Xiaosheng thinks simply!" It seems that these things are not straightened out, and we want to recruit soldiers! It's useless to recruit it! With that, he continued to deal with the bowl of dry rice until he licked the rim of the bowl to shine, and then he was content to put the bowl down.

Mr. Fei was going to add another meal, and Cai Shao hurriedly said that he was full. He waved his hand to the soldier at the door, and the guard placed a piece of broken silver on the table.

What does that mean? Isn't it possible to sell food and ask for silver? Mr. Fei was obviously angry.

"Please be clear to the old gentleman: the palace guards have iron military discipline, and there is no offense in the autumn where they pass, and those who steal the people's property without permission will be beheaded immediately. The son said, his body is upright, and he does not give orders; His body is not right, although he does not obey orders. Xiaosheng bears the great grace of the world's son, and he is the supervisor of the first battalion, and he should be an example for the whole army! This is my first month's military salary, to thank the old man for his food! ”

Mr. Fei wanted to excuse himself again, but Cai Shaoyun had already turned around and went out.

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the street. The sound got closer and closer, and in the blink of an eye, the three cavalrymen rushed into the small square outside the Dacheng Palace. First, a bearded man in iron armor took the lead in gently reining in the horse, so that the horse deftly circled the square. Taking advantage of the force of throwing outward, the man raised his hand.

Bang! A soft object was thrown to the ground, and it let out a scream. Behind him, two horsemen galloped in, each saddle with several bloody heads.

Feng Ruhu, who took the lead, jumped off the war horse, didn't care about the life or death of the things on the ground, and immediately pulled the reins to check the chest and neck of the war horse. The sky was dark, and Feng Ruhu scolded the side room: "Changgui, where did you die?" Take the lamp and shine it on you! Damn, it seems to hurt my mouth! ”

Feng Changgui is one of the Feng family. Because he didn't have a horse, he had to stay in the city.

"Feng Ruhu!" Cai Shaoyun, who had just left Mr. Fei's house, gritted his teeth and roared, "Before we leave, we can say it: you are just going to be a prospector, and you must not fight the enemy!" Don't even cut off your head! Don't forget, you're a captain, not a creep! ”

"I caught ......," Feng Ruhu cried out aggrievedly. He knew that this prison army was specially arranged by the prince of the world. If this prison army complains to the prince, he will have to go back to the temple to guard the gate.

"When Company Commander Xu returns, immediately convene a military and political committee to discuss your disciplinary violations!" Cai Shaoyan has no room for accommodation.

Note 1: That is, the grandfather of Fermi, the author of "The Book of Waste".

Note 2: "Ming Shilu Huaizong Shilu" has a record of Dazhu trapping thieves.

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