Mae River Town, December 12, sunny day......

Outside the town gate, the newly formed military band of the Jingwei Battalion was playing the brass trombone and flute, beating war drums and bronze bells and other instruments to practice the tune that Liu Ce envisioned. The soldiers who had finished training around them sat on the ground and listened quietly to this uplifting music......

Liu Ce listened to the tone coming from the trombone and the faint sound of the copper bell, and couldn't help but stretch his brows, full of excitement.

"It's finally a little bit like this......" Liu Ce was extremely excited in his heart, because this song was an episode in a movie called "Jin Yiwei" in his previous life, called Hope (the work of Teacher Li Yunwen).

As the trombone slowly ended, the bell music began, and a row of flutes rose in response, and the soldiers who were watching around trembled, feeling that there was a stream of blood churning inexplicably, as if they were about to escape out of the body.

Qin Mo Yebin, who was behind Liu Ce, looked at Liu Ce's back in a daze, and couldn't help but sigh. Is this young man in front of him really just a Shu soldier? Why are there so many strange ideas, Qin Mo thought that Liu Ce's large-scale recruitment of the town's opera troupe to form a military band was completely unprofessional, until he heard such an imposing tune, he had to admit that he still underestimated him, and he also thought that this music was as Liu Ce said to himself, extremely inspiring......

Liu Ce didn't know that Qin Mo and Ye Bin behind him had so many thoughts about him, and he was now completely immersed in this music.

"Hope, as long as there is hope, I will be able to live, and I will live better, not only do I want to live well, but also let the soldiers of my Jingwei Battalion live a world of their own, no matter how difficult the road ahead is, I must not give up hope! Since I, Liu Ce, have taken on this heavy responsibility, I must take them down! Liu Ce secretly swore in his heart......

At the end of the short military music performance, many soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion still echoed the melody of this music in their heads, and they couldn't extricate themselves for a long time.

"That's it! Don't be in a daze! Get the fuck up! It's time to eat! I'm going to practice in the afternoon! Sun Biao got up and yelled at his soldiers, and when the hundred or so people heard this, they got up and entered the town in turn, entered a huge house, lined up, and prepared to receive their own food.

Sun Biao stood out in the process of killing the thieves with Xu Hui and was promoted to the rank of Baichang. Because he had a holiday with his former comrades from other banners, there was no need for conflict, so Liu Ce arranged him to take up his post in Yang Kaishan's banner department, and as a result, he mingled with Yang Kaishan within two days, and he was almost called a brother, which also made everyone stunned for a while.

"Biaozi! Come here! Yang Kaishan saw Sun Biao shouting, so he called him to him.

"Mr. Qi, what do you command?" Sun Biao ran to Yang Kaishan with a smile on his face.

Yang Kaishan said with a smile: "It's only been a few days since you played official power?" How many words do you know? In the afternoon, I didn't want to be on the board, so I had a good time asking Zhou Feng and a few of them for advice after eating. ”

When Sun Biao heard this, his face was bitter, and he said to Yang Kaishan: "I said that Mr. Qi, everything is good in this Jingwei battalion, the military orders issued by the general are strict and abnormal, and although the soldiers are very hard to drill in formation, the food and food are much better than those of the officers and soldiers, and the oil and water are enough, I understand all this, but you say that those of us who are soldiers just rush to the battle to kill the enemy and make military achievements, don't we want to be showy, is it useful to know so many words?" Since I Sun Biao entered this Jingwei camp, I have not been afraid of training and fighting, but I am afraid that when I see these words, it is like reading a book from heaven, and every night when I close my eyes, I see a bunch of words coming to me, and I can't get rid of them. ”

Yang Kaishan slapped him on the back of the head fiercely, and said earnestly: "Look at your little bit of appearance, you know that you are tired of screaming, have you ever thought about the expansion of the Jingwei Camp in the future, and there will be more and more people?" At that time, the officers who will lead the entire barracks will definitely be selected, and when the time comes, you will not even know a few big characters, how can you understand the military intelligence report and analyze the key points? Do you understand how to lead troops to fight and give you a marching map? How do you write when you have an enemy situation to report? Biaozi, you have to look farther, the general has a big heart! We are also very much looking forward to it, don't let him down, practice hard, and recognize a few more words in your spare time, what's so rare? Think about the future prospects, and then think about the hardships you are suffering now, and you will find that everything is worth it! The general said a sentence that I remember vividly, and the opportunity is reserved for those who are prepared! Let's do it, I'll eat first! ”

Sun Biaoleng froze in place, looking at Yang Kaishan's distant figure, carefully reflecting on his words, and suddenly felt very reasonable, yes, what's wrong with being able to read and write? Everyone in the Jingwei Camp is learning from top to bottom, how can I, Sun Biao, be behind others? If one day in the future, the Jingwei Battalion will grow stronger as Yang Kaishan said, and he will never miss this great opportunity to win the future because of his slackness.

"After eating, I will go to find Zhou Feng and Xu Hui, I, Sun Biao, will recognize seven or eight words a day from today, and strive to become a famous general who leads an army as soon as possible!" Sun Biao's fists clenched tightly and swore secretly.

A large bowl of white rice, three potatoes, a stack of hot cabbage, plus two taels of greasy bacon and a bowl of piping hot ginger soup, the rice is not enough to add more, but not to waste. This is the lunch of the soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion for a day, compared to other officers and soldiers who can only have a bowl of gruel or sweet potatoes, which is already very luxurious, not to mention the meat to eat.

In order to solve the livelihood problem of the people in the town, Wu Liwen negotiated again and again, and finally after Liu Ce agreed, a huge abandoned warehouse in the town was repaired, and then transformed into a canteen of the Jingwei Battalion, and local households were hired to cook for the soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion, temporarily becoming the "gang leader" of the Jingwei Battalion.

I saw a cook hand the spiky rice to a soldier who was waiting in line, and then scooped a bowl of ginger soup to him with a soup spoon, and several cooks on the side kept putting the meat in the pot into large bowls waiting for the soldiers to come and collect it. Dozens of stacks of smoking cabbage lay on the counter at the very side, and a soldier picked up a plate of cabbage and poured it over his own rice, and then someone immediately filled the empty plate with a spoonful of cabbage.

"Comfortable!" Guo Tao sat at the long table and finished the bowl of rice in his hand, chewing bacon and looking around, the canteen was crowded with people, and it was very lively. He saw Chen Qing at another long table discussing something with several soldiers with his head down, so he put down the empty bowl and walked over with ginger soup.

"Brother Chen Qing, what are you discussing? Let me hear it too?" Guo Tao put the ginger soup on the table, stepped over the bench and sat down, some soldiers around him hugged their fists and said hello, Guo Tao stopped and signaled that there was no need to do so.

Liu Ce stipulated that there was no need to bow in the Jingwei camp, and that when he saw the commander, he only needed to give an ordinary military salute or hug his fist to say hello, even if there was an urgent military report in the army, he did not need to kneel, and only when he swore the flag before the war, he was required to kneel on one knee, or when he rewarded and punished a soldier who violated discipline, there was a corresponding kneeling regulation, this measure greatly enhanced the self-esteem of the soldiers, after all, parents raising their children did not kneel for people all day long.

Chen Qing sighed and said: "Brother Guo, you should know, a few days ago, the thieves, all the banners, old and new, all have military exploits, but my cavalry is of no use, or the general He remembered the friendship and asked me to go to battle with him, but he was just waiting in the rear and chasing and killing some fleeing thieves, alas~"

"Isn't that great? What's wrong? The cavalry is not so easy to practice, and the general thinks that he is afraid that your flag training time will not last long and there will be losses. Guo Tao was puzzled, cavalry is well known to be difficult to train, even if there are stirrups, it is still not something that can be practiced casually.

"Brother Guo, you don't know." Chen Qing looked embarrassed, "A few days ago, Lao Feng sent forty sets of fine iron armor to my flag department, and now there are one hundred and twenty-six sets of iron armor in the three hundred and fifty-two horsemen in my banner, these iron armors are completely tailored to the body shape of our flag soldiers, and they are very suitable for immediate combat, I heard that these riding armors are put together by hundreds of women and children who stay up late and add pieces of pieces......

Guo Tao's face was full of envy: "That's a good feeling, less than half of my brothers in the flag are wearing iron armor, what's the matter?"

Chen Qing looked bitter: "It is precisely because of this that I and the soldiers under me are distressed, you have made meritorious contributions in each banner and performed well, but I have not made an inch of merit in the banner but have been favored by the general so much, I am really uneasy, you look at this again." ”

As he spoke, Chen Qing put a ring-headed knife on his waist on the table, Guo Tao looked at it, and his eyes were even redder and he secretly shouted Good knife, he knew at a glance that the straight knife in front of him was not simple.

"This knife is called the ring head knife, the blade is completely made of fine iron, the handle of the knife is wrapped around the rope in the hand to prevent the hand, I have tried the power of this knife, immediately galloped down to be able to hang three layers of leather stakes together, and this knife edge is not curled blade, this is an open blade, even if the unopened blade of those ring head knives can break two layers of leather armor, and this momentum can also hit the human internal organs even if it does not break the armor! And the ...... of the spear."

Guo Tao interrupted him and said: "Brother Chen, the general handed over the best armor and weapons and equipment to your department at such a cost, he must hope that you can make great achievements for the Jingwei battalion in the future, you don't have to think too much now, practice hard, and one day you can repay the general's kindness......

Chen Qing choked up and said: "It's just that the general treats me so well, and my soldiers are also quite moved, but they all say that they are defenseless and do not deserve to be valued so much by the general, how can you tell me to tell them?" What do the other flag brothers think of me?"

"Hahaha, Brother Chen, I'm optimistic about you! I guess soon, my Jingwei battalion is going to go on the expedition again, you should behave well, the general said, the best way to prove yourself is to show results! You don't have to think about anything now, just practice hard! Guo Tao patted Chen Qing comfortingly, then took a sip of ginger soup, said goodbye and left, and kept thinking in his heart: After a while, I will also ask the general to make such a good knife for my soldiers, this knife is really good......

After dinner, Chen Qing rested for a while and then came to the training venue of his flag department. I saw a bluestone manver standing in front of a stable fence in front of the stable, and several local stables were adding hay cut with guillotines to the manger.

Horse breeding is a skilled job, which is divided into intensive breeding and free-range breeding. The horses outside the plug are mainly free-range, and due to the climate, the horse's endurance is particularly good, and a tame war horse only needs to be released in the wild pasture to leave it alone.

The cost of intensive breeding is much larger, a war horse training a day of forage is about a stone, after a few days need to be supplemented by fine wheat, bean cake and other fine materials as seasoning, from time to time also need to add salt to the forage black beans, the required drinking water must be clean well water or boiling river water, etc., and then poured into the other side of the special drinking water in the manger and put the forage manger must be used separately. After the horses have eaten the forage, they need to raise their necks high to help them digest, and when the horses have digested, they will be led around the stables by the stables by the stables or knights to enhance mutual affection before training begins. After training, the horses should be wiped with clean water and the dirt on the horses' legs, and they should be massaged frequently. The stables must be kept clean and cleaned regularly to prevent horses from getting sick. A stable fence can only accommodate one horse, and there should be enough space for the horse to turn around. In winter, it is necessary to cover hay to keep warm and prevent freezing, and in summer, the stables must be kept ventilated at all times, so as not to lose fat and reduce the ability of the horses to march and fight.

And the horse mating object must choose the same kind of blood similar to the war horse, so as to maintain the quality of the horse at all times, of course, the excellent pedigree of the stallion can also breed other female war horses, the mare pubic area needs to be cleaned before breeding, so as not to affect the breeding mood of the stallion disgust, the horse bloodline can not be too far apart, refuse to breed so as not to produce a serious decline in the quality of the horse, after the completion of the breeding must be quickly separated back to the fence of the respective stable. Moreover, there is a strict division of war horses between the bloodlines, and they cannot even stay in one stable...... Such a war horse is naturally extremely delicate to raise, but the combat power and mobility of the outbreak are far better than that of the same free-range blood horse with the same blood, but it is a pity that it takes a lot of financial resources and energy.

Chen Qing walked to the fence of his war horse, opened the wooden fence, led it out, touched its mane, and looked caring.

"Sigh Rule~"

The war horse seemed to sense Chen Qing's emotions, and stretched the horse's face to his face and rubbed it a few times, the horse is also human, once tamed, it will be obedient to the master, even if it meets a wicked person, it is also hard-working, and it is rare to rebel.

"Huh!" Chen Qing's face was itchy from being rubbed, and he grabbed a handful of black beans from his waist and handed them to the horse's mouth, and the horse squirmed his lips to suck the black beans in Chen Qing's hand into his mouth (horses eat small foods such as beans and basically use their lips to inhale first and then start chewing, so they don't have to worry about being bitten).

Seeing that he had finished eating, Chen Qing put the remaining black bean residue in his hand into his mouth in front of it to prove that he was the same as it, regardless of each other.

"Enough rest, right? Take you two more laps, it's time to train, the general values us so much, when the time comes, we must fight for breath and let the Jingwei battalion know that we have lived up to the general's high expectations! Chen Qing patted the horse's back and said to it, his eyes were full of blazing light, and the war horse seemed to understand, nodding his head again and again.

"Sigh Rule~"

Not long after Chen Qing took his beloved horse forward, hundreds of soldiers of the flag department also stepped into the horse farm and came to the stable to lead their beloved horses out, doing the same thing as Chen Qing before, and then took the horses to walk around the horse farm in circles......

Liu Ce in the distance couldn't help but nod his head when he saw all this, although his cavalry still has many deficiencies, but judging from the current development trend, I believe that these cavalry will be able to gallop on the battlefield in the near future and become a real iron cavalry that terrifies the enemy!

Just when Liu Ce was still looking forward to the future for Chen Qing's cavalry, Gao Laohan brought a "bad news" that destroyed his originally good mood - the iron material was about to run out!