Behind him, the manor gradually disappeared from everyone's eyes, and the Jingwei battalion began its first expedition since the formation of the army.

This expedition Jingwei battalion is basically the whole battalion out of the station, leaving only a dozen soldiers in the Zhuangzi to maintain law and order, now there are no bandits near Wanjiazhuang, plus most of the Zhuang is the family of the Jingwei battalion, there will be no accidents, the soldiers left behind sighed and expressed regret that they could not go to war, but they still strictly abided by Liu Ce's instructions, closed the village gate early, if there are displaced people to vote, first placed outside the village, two meals of gruel every day, and then make a decision when the army returns.

"Our army is now marching seventy miles a day, not greedy, resting half an hour early, and continuing to march half an hour earlier on the second day, so that the physical strength of the soldiers can be maintained in the best condition." Liu Ce and Qin Mo rode side by side on horseback, discussing the march.

Qin Mo nodded in approval, feeling more and more mysterious about the ten-year-old boy in front of him, the horse he was riding was a double stirrup, so that his hands could swing freely, and he didn't always have to pull the reins to prevent him from falling, the horse's hooves were nailed to a strong horseshoe to reduce the wear of the horse's hooves and increase the horse's weight-bearing, and after looking at the equipment made by Feng Ying yesterday, his eyes were even straighter, there is really such a thing in this world! Why did the eighteen-year-old boy in front of him have so many thoughts in his head. There is also military training, the traditional army has always respected martial arts, and the strategy of arranging the formation is also listed according to individual martial arts, but the elite battalion has done the opposite, paying special attention to group combat, and not paying much attention to individual martial arts, and this is precisely the reason why the elite guard battalion has been fighting repeatedly since the beginning. Of course, there are two most important points that Qin Mo doesn't know, one is the selection of soldiers, most of the soldiers Liu Ce chooses are people with family members or honest personalities, and they disdain those who are bold or timid, and the other point is that the officers and soldiers in the army must learn to read and write...... If the former can be figured out slowly, then the latter is really not something that Qin Mo can understand, as long as you can fight, why should you learn to read and write?

Qin Mo didn't ask, and Liu Ce naturally wouldn't say that if an army wants to be strong, equipment, morale, training, and treatment are all indispensable, but the most important point is that the quality of soldiers directly affects the development trend of the entire army, and the most convenient way to improve their quality is to let them receive cultural education, know what they are doing, and why they are doing it! To put it bluntly, a soldier without literacy will eventually be defeated even if he is strong for a while.

Such an example of the previous life Bibi Jie. The Mongol Empire was directed at Europe and Asia, and there were rivers of blood everywhere they passed, but what was the end? It was just a flash in the pan, and it was soon beaten back to its original shape by the whole world, and in the end, it was still cowered in a circle surrounded by big powers, and survived by selling resources. The Manchu army is the same, how explosive is the combat power before entering the customs, there is a saying that "the Manchu people are less than 10,000, and the Manchu is invincible", but what is the result? An opium war was immediately beaten and humiliated the country, kneeling to seek peace, even if the Westernization Restoration tossed for a while, due to the lack of educational support, by the first Sino-Japanese period was even more defeated by Japan, whose national strength was far inferior to its own, and lost the name of the first in East Asia, just because Japan's Meiji Restoration learned Western-style roots, and the Manchu Westernization Movement only learned a magnificent skin, and in his bones it was still that set of feudal kingship ideas and the world was seriously out of touch......

Therefore, Liu Ce attaches great importance to the cultural awareness of the soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion, and does not hesitate to resist all pressures to let all the soldiers learn at least the most basic reading ability......

In late October, the weather had gradually turned cold, and the army had marched forty miles, and from time to time in the distance you could see groups of people fleeing from the thieves......

Liu Ce shook his head and said to Qin Mo: "Now that there are people all over Ganzhou, won't the imperial court send troops and horses to quell the thieves?" Mr. Shi was born, can you explain to me?"

Qin Mo sighed and said: "The general doesn't know, the affairs of this court are very deep, I have been giving preferential treatment to the scholars since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the imperial power of the scholars is shared with honor and disgrace, you know, because of this, the main consideration of the imperial power of the Great Zhou is the safety of the scholars, as long as the scholars are still stable, the imperial power of the Great Zhou Dynasty will always be stable, all that is done is to maintain the balance of the scholars on all sides of the royal family, and now on the surface, the entire Heyuan is in a mess, in fact, the royal family is secretly suppressing Zhao Yuan and reducing the influence of the Zhao family in Heyuan. As for the people, that's just a matter that will be talked about after the tea and dinner, Gaoyang City is an example, the city sergeant clan gate valve has long passed through the water to reach Caizhou can still enjoy the glory and wealth, and it is only the hundreds of thousands of people in Gaoyang City who suffer......"

Liu Ce pondered for a long time, it seems that the political factors involved in this account for a large proportion, and he can't figure it out at present, so he simply doesn't think about it anymore......

Looking at the sun, it was already noon, so he ordered the whole army to rest and start eating, and all the soldiers sat on the ground one after another, took out the kettle and dry food, and ate it. At present, all the dry food in the Jingwei camp has been replaced with flatbread made of white flour, but it is slightly different from the flatbread in the regular barracks, because these flatbreads are not mixed with coarse grains and are very thick, fried in vegetable oil and mixed with a little salt and green onions, not only full to eat but also extraordinarily fragrant, one can basically top a meal.

More than a dozen homeless people on the side couldn't help swallowing saliva when they saw that the soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion were full of food, and some hungry and faint children screamed and wanted to come forward, but they were stopped by the adults around them, for fear of offending this group of sturdy men.

Yang Youhuai glanced at the child, and couldn't bear it, so he took out a cake from his bag, glanced at Liu Ce, and saw that Liu Ce nodded, so he walked over and leaned over to the child: "Good, call brother, brother will give you bread to eat......" The child's mother quickly held him in her arms and looked at Yang Youhuai vigilantly.

"Brother, I want to eat bread...... the child still couldn't help but cry softly with hunger, and Yang Youhuai's nose couldn't help but sour, tears almost dripped, and he stuffed the cake into his mother's arms.

His mother quickly tore the bread in half and stuffed it in half for the child, and handed the other half to the man beside her, who devoured it with the man.

"Smack!" The man had just eaten two bites, and suddenly the cake in his hand was slapped to the ground by Yang Youhuai. The man leaned over to pick it up, but his palm was stepped on by Yang Youhuai, and he screamed in pain.

"Hero!" The woman hurriedly knelt down, grabbed Yang Youhuai's leg and said, "Good man, please don't embarrass him, it's all my fault, I'm not good......"

Only then did Yang Youhuai let go of his foot, leaned over and lifted the man's face and said, "You are also a gentleman?" Misfortune. With that, he shook himself up and walked away.

The woman picked up the piece of bread and patted it, and handed it to the man, but the man stopped taking it, and cried loudly: "Yun Niang, I'm useless!" I'm useless, my seven-foot man can't even give you a full meal, what's the use of me living! This good man is right, I am a bastard! It's better to die! After saying that, he got up and was about to hit the boulder on the side, the woman named Yun Niang pulled him to death, the two hugged their heads and cried, and the children around them also walked to their side and cried when they saw their parents crying......

Liu Ce sighed heavily, and asked Xu Hui to ask him to distribute some noodles to those homeless people, but there were only a dozen homeless people, and his army could afford a meal for them......

"Little people are competing! Please take it in, Chief! After a meal, Fang Jing knelt in front of Liu Ce on the spot, the rebel army in front of him seemed to be different from what he had encountered before, and he made up his mind to join him.

"Oh? Why should I take you? Liu Ce asked rhetorically.

"Ah......" Fang Jing felt that something was not quite right, the other thieves were forcing the homeless people to be thieves, and they would kill if they didn't comply, but the leader in front of him, who was one meter eight tall, didn't mean to accept himself, what was going on?

"My Jingwei camp doesn't accept seeds, get out of here." Yang, who was packing up his things beside him, said angrily.

"Fine...... Guardian ...... What's that?" Obviously, Fang Jing didn't figure out what was different between this army and other thieves, but he found that their military appearance was neat, and when he saw it, his bright spears were shining with dazzling coldness, half of them were wearing armor, inlaid with thick nails made of fine iron, and all kinds of flags fluttered in the wind, indescribable majesty.

"You don't know what to do with you?" Liu Ce smiled, turned over and got on his horse and prepared to leave.

"This chieftain, but you're heading to Mae River? I used to live in a village more than ten miles away from the outskirts of Mae River Town, and I can show you the way! Fang Jing saw that Liu Ce was leaving, and hurriedly stopped him.

Liu Ce grabbed the reins of the horse and looked at him quietly, there was no emotion in his eyes, and Fang Jing's scalp was numb when he looked at him.

Qin Mo thought for a while and said to Liu Ce: "Let's take him with you, although the terrain of Meihe Town has been explored by Chen Qing, it is inevitable that there will be omissions in such a short period of time, so it is better to let him be a guide, and it is good to deal with all kinds of situations when fighting." ”

"That's it, you just follow Yang Youhuai as a guide, if you dare to play tricks......" Liu Ce said this, no longer speaking, the meaning is very obvious.

"Is the leader going to besiege the city?" Fang Jing couldn't help but be startled when he heard that the more than 1,000 people in front of him were not with the bandits, but went to fight in Meihe Town, which was guarded by tens of thousands of thieves.

"Scared? If you're scared, get out! Yang Youhuai came to Fang Jing's side and said disdainfully.

Fang Jing was silent for a while, and suddenly his eyes were firm, and he said to Liu Ce: "Since the leader is going to attack Meihe Town, our Fang Jing is also willing to contribute!" I have learned some stick skills in the martial arts hall since I was a child, and I dare not be conceited that my martial arts are amazing, but I can also do my part in the battle, and I am familiar with the terrain there, please let me go with the leader. ”

Stunned, he said, "It's just my wife and children......"

Liu Ce interrupted him: "I have a handwritten letter, hand it over to your wife and children, and let her go to Wanjiazhuang forty miles away to hand it over to the men who guard the village, and they will let your wife and children go in to settle down in the residence, you can rest assured, the thieves and bandits in the vicinity have all been exterminated by my Jingwei battalion, and you should be able to ensure the safety of your wife and children all the way." ”

Fang Jing's heart was shocked when he heard this, the thieves and bandits who had been rogue for dozens of miles were actually exterminated by the one called the "Jingwei Battalion" in front of him? Seeing that he doesn't seem to be fake, how on earth is this done?

After taking the hand, Fang Jing bowed and kowtowed, his heart relaxed a lot, and immediately handed over a few words to his wife and children, and then ran to Meihe Town under Yang Youhuai......

After about 30 miles of travel, Liu Ce ordered to rest on the spot, Xu Hui's team immediately took down dozens of cauldrons and began to light a fire to cook, and distributed quilts and sleeping bags to the soldiers, Yang Kaishan took dozens of people to begin to arrange to be sentry around, now it is still early and there is still more than an hour before it gets dark, so find some strips of hay cloth to light the torches as soon as possible, due to the nutrition to keep up, most of the people in the army have improved their night blindness, and they are not afraid of night attacks by thieves, of course, thieves must also have the ability to attack at night......

When night fell, the well-fed soldiers gathered around the bonfire and wrapped their clothes in sleeping bags, Liu Ce ordered that it was forbidden to unload the armor during the march, except for the iron armor, of course, after all, the heavy iron leaf friction seriously affected the quality of sleep, but it was not conducive to the soldiers marching and fighting, fortunately, there are few people wearing iron armor at present, but there is no need to worry too much......

Fang Jing was also assigned a sleeping bag, wrapped in a warm cotton sleeping bag, countless thoughts flashed through Fang Jing's mind. It turned out that he had joined the real rebel army, and he would go to the battlefield to kill the enemy in two days, and in one afternoon he had already understood that this army called the "Jingwei Battalion" had nothing to do with the thieves at all, but was formed by fleeing people like himself, and the young leader who was not talking was the general they called personally trained this group of honest men into an army, and dared to come to fight the heavily guarded Mehe Town just for winter supplies......

Fang Jing felt a fire burning in his chest, turned over, and saw that under the reflection of the firelight, the soldiers around him were already asleep, as if they didn't care about the upcoming war at all, Fang Jing touched the spear beside him, trying to keep himself calm......

As soon as the second day dawned, Fang Jing was in a daze, he heard a noise around him, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that the soldiers had already gotten up and were packing up their sleeping bags, some were fetching water by the river to wash, several large pots had already been sandwiched and were cooking thick rice porridge, and the smell of meat wafted from one of the cauldrons, it turned out that it was bacon, and smelled the fragrance that came to his nose, Fang Jing felt his stomach growling......

Xu Hui's department was given a bowl of broth per person, after all, it belonged to the ranks of baggage, and the treatment was not as good as that of the soldiers, and the soldiers were each given two taels of meat and a bowl of broth.

Breakfast was quickly eaten in the sound of everyone snorting, the auxiliary soldiers were cleaning up the pots and bowls, the soldiers sat around and wiped their weapons talking and laughing, Fang Jing was very satisfied with his burps, and secretly swore that it was worth dying for this meal, and he hadn't eaten a meal for a long time, although it was just a bowl of broth......

"Let's go!" Feng Chou Nian roared, and the 150 soldiers of the Fengzi Banner collectively stood up and lined up in formation to take the lead in the forefront, and then Yang Youhuai's team followed, followed by Liu Ce's Zhengqi battalion, followed by Xu Hui's baggage team and craftsmen, and finally Sun Cheng and Yang Kaishan's team, more than 1,300 soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion slowly marched towards Meihe Town, which was about to attract a stormy battle......