Bian Xiang woodcutter was born in five big and three thick, his arms are shaking, he has the strength of a buffalo, such a person is a fierce general, well-deserved reality, otherwise Bian Xiang is not only a fierce general, but also has rare wisdom, Bian Xiang opened the wall and hung a map and said: "Jingcheng County has a large area, many mountains, and a small population, if you want to hold Jingcheng County from other forces, you need to make efforts in many aspects, the first is the mountain camp, the number of mountain battalions has reached 500 after the expansion, but due to the addition of new people, the combat effectiveness has declined, and now we are trying to recover, and then we can complete the training in about two months, and the mountain battalion is highly mobile and combative, so it can not be used for simple defense, but take the initiative to attack, the second is to arm the workers, we have a poor foundation in Jingcheng County, and can not widely mobilize the people, so we must arm the workers, the coal mine is not far from the iron mine, so when encountering a larger war, directly abandon the coal mine, the coal miners retreat to the iron plant, and the iron factory workers defend together, which is neededIt is necessary to make the walls of the ironworks higher, and it is better to build arrow towers every fifty meters, and at the same time it is necessary to strengthen the training of the ironworks workers."

Speaking of this, Zhang Tiehan said: "At present, the workers of the iron factory have three days off every month, and military training has to be carried out for a few days, and if there are too many days, production will be delayed."

Bian Xiang said: "This training is still very necessary, when newcomers come, they will train for at least half a month, and then ensure at least one day of training every month, so that they can really encounter battles without being soft."

Chao Gai said: "I think it is not only the iron factory, the carpentry factory, the industrial park, and the horse farm have to do this."

Ma Ling said: "Don't worry about the horse farm, the wranglers have the level of cavalry, but other workers need to be trained."

Wu Song said: "My brother seems to be very worried that there will be a war, and it will be a big battle."

Chao Gai sighed: "I think he has nothing to do in the world, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, but it is impossible for the overall situation to decide."

Bian Xiang continued: "The third Jingcheng county town doesn't need us to defend that Su County, and it doesn't look like an idiot, but the extensive countryside in Jingcheng is very promising, and I want to take advantage of the winter farming to train the strong men in each village, and it is easy to pull up the team at a critical time."

"How do you feel?" asked Chaogai

Ma Ling said: "The first one, there is no problem, but the second one, we have to add the iron factory, the horse farm and the carpentry factory industrial park, especially the horse farm, the horse is an important material, the formation of cavalry is necessary, so it is also necessary to strengthen the defense, the third is also a good way, can widely mobilize the people, in addition, we need to work hard from intelligence, predict the danger in advance, and then take precautions as soon as possible."

Chao Gai nodded frequently, and Wu Song said next to him: "It turns out that fighting is so troublesome, and I thought that as long as I have good kung fu, it seems that I have to study hard, otherwise I will be incompetent as a battalion commander."

Chao Gai thought for a while and said: "Let's just come here, in addition to strengthening its own training, the mountain battalion should also shoulder the safety of the iron factory, coal mine, carpentry factory, and horse farm, and carry out paramilitary training for the workers, and use it for defense when necessary, as for the training of the common people, don't do it for the time being, Zhending Mansion, here we are not too close to the government, we are afraid that it will cause too much unhappiness to people with intentions, and we can usually help the people do more things."

Bian Xiang said: "Okay, please rest assured brother"

Jiao Ting, who had not spoken, said: "Don't forget our Pingshan, my second uncle, they are very prestigious in the nearby village, as long as there is something to say hello, there is no problem to pull five or six hundred people over."

"Well, it's a good way to echo each other and take care of each other," Chao Gai said

Chao Gai has always liked to do things vigorously, and immediately said: "In this way, the walls of the iron factory, the horse farm, and the carpentry factory industrial park must be repaired according to military standards, and the walls must be thickened, and artillery towers must be added."

Bian Xiang said: "Now there is no turret in the design and construction of the iron plant, and there are drawings for how to design the turret."

Chao Gai said: "I don't have any ready-made drawings for the turret, so let's say that the turret is at least twice as tall as the wall, and it is generally built into a cylindrical tower, with arrow holes on it, which can fire giant crossbows, and it must also be able to fire small guns such as tiger squat cannons, because of the large recoil of the artillery, which requires the turret to be strong enough and not to collapse when the cannon fires."

Zhang Tiehan sent someone to find the person in charge of building the factory wall, communicated, and finally decided on the building plan, and added forts on the walls on both sides of the gate, and set up a turret every 50 meters on the wall, so that although the investment increased a lot, it was quite in Jingcheng County, and there were three small cities, and the defense capability was greatly enhanced

Bian Xiang said: "We still need a professional personnel for military construction, after all, there will be more and more military fortifications that need to be trimmed in the future."

"That's true, Li Kui's brother Li Da is good at building houses and estates, and now he has also been transferred to New Jeju Island, and there is no suitable talent for those who are good at building fortifications, and the Ma Ling brothers have paid attention to sending out a message to recruit such a talent," Chao Gai said

Ma Lingdao: "I remembered that a person is from Xinyang, Henan, called Tao Zongwang, who has thousands of catties of strength in both arms, but his martial arts are average, but he is the best at building city fortifications, and he can also build canals and so on."

"Oh, that's good, I just don't know if I'll be able to find him," Chao Gai said

Ma Ling was not completely sure, but said that he would send his men to look around tomorrow and send a message to recruit some talents who understand military architecture

Chao Gai inspected the iron factory, coal mine, horse farm, and carpentry factory, and Wu Yong visited several trading houses in the city, and the most important thing was to go to Zhending Mansion, although he did not meet with the prefect of Zhending, but he had a good relationship with Tongju

Originally, I planned to stay in Hebei for a few days to see if there were suitable talents, so I could recruit them, but I soon received a flying pigeon from Yuncheng, saying that Governor Xu was urging him to hurry back

A group of people quickly whipped up the horses, each two horses took turns to ride, five days to finally return to Yuncheng, this way tossed enough, the others are good to say that they are all iron men, Wu Yong is a little miserable, but he did not fall behind, so that Chao Gai was impressed, but it is estimated that such a toss will go back and recuperate for a period of time

Zhu Wu saw Chao Gai and Wu Yong coming, so he said: "You can come back, Governor Xu sends people to urge him every day, and if you don't come back, it is estimated that you should come in person."

Wu Yong said: "Could it be that Fan Rui of Mangdangshan robbed the materials sent to the capital by the Xu Governor's Mansion again"

Zhu Wu said, "Let's go to the house and talk about it."

It turned out that this really made Wu Yong guess correctly, some time ago, the prefect of Jeju Xu Lin sent thirty servants, so that one of He Tao's heads led the team to send 10,000 pieces of fine soft to the capital, which was used to walk around the capital to pay New Year's greetings, and the silver had bypassed Mangdang Mountain for more than a hundred miles, but I didn't expect it to be robbed

Chao Gai touched his beard and said: "Although the power of Mangdang Mountain is not small, it is not enough to stretch out more than a hundred miles to go to this kind of long-distance march, just to rob 10,000 pieces of silver, it is not worth it, is it someone else pretending to be a person from Mangdang Mountain?"

Zhu Wu said: "That's what I said to Governor Xu, but the head of the person in charge of escorting the silver said that he had a nose and eyes, and it was Li Gon who did it with a knife and a player, and he didn't hurt anyone, but he snatched the money."

Wu Yong said: "It doesn't matter if Mangdangshan did it, the question is that the prefect Xu decided that they did it, no matter how much we say, there is no prefect Xu to expand our troops, just to exterminate Mangdangshan, if we don't make some achievements, I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain the past."

"Yes, Mr. Zhu, you have worked hard to go to Jeju to tell Governor Xu that you will send troops in five days, and let him report to the imperial court first, so as not to cause misunderstandings."

"Okay, I'll go," Zhu Wu left

Wu Yong said with a clattering mouth: "This prefect Xu is also a person who doesn't understand military affairs, although the Jeju regiment training has recruited many people, but the training takes time, the infantry is still easy to say, but the cavalry has been trained for three or two months, that is, how can you just ride a horse?"

"If you don't fight, you have to fight, otherwise Governor Xu will be angry," Chao Gai said

After discussion, it was immediately decided that Chao Gai would lead the team to the pro-military battalion, needless to say, he would definitely follow the 100 cavalry division Gongsun Sheng with the army counselor, and then the second cavalry battalion Niu Gao, deputy general Zhou Tong and Feng Sheng led the 500 cavalry cavalry, the fifth battalion of the cavalry, Sun An led the 100 cavalry infantry, the commander of the second battalion Li Kui, the deputy general Bao Xu led the 500 infantry infantry, and the commander of the fourth battalion, Wu Song, led the 500 infantry

So there were 500 cavalry and 1,000 infantry

In addition, a naval army sent Ruan Xiaoer to escort ten boatloads of supplies for military supplies

Other personnel remained in case of accidents

After choosing a good day and auspicious day, Jeju civil and military officials all came to see him off, Xu Lin even came to take Chao Gai's hand and said: "This Mangdang Mountain is really annoying, I don't want to go to Jeju every now and then, I always want to bargain for some cheapness, this time I must successfully exterminate the Mangdang Mountain bandits, and when I come back, I will pour you a celebration wine."

Chao Gai said: "Lord Prefect, don't worry, I won't come back if I don't level Mangdang Mountain."

Xu Zhifu said: "I am very satisfied with this ambition."

The whining horn blows, the letter cannon sounds, the banner is waving, the swords and guns are like a forest, the cavalry is riding a mighty war horse, taking neat steps, the infantry behind one by one is wearing leather armor and holding knives and guns, the Jeju regiment practice set off in a mighty way, along the road, the place can be frightened, this team of people and horses is too fierce, the cavalry is fortunately, they are all common bows and arrows, spear weapons, but the infantry is too strange, there are soldiers with big axes, there are soldiers with heavy swords, and soldiers with sabers, just look at one, but fortunately, thousands of infantry, so it is quite scary

The military discipline of the team is good, and the people are not harassed along the road, and the food and grass required by the fleet are provided from the canal, and occasionally some are purchased from the local area, and they will reach the territory of Xuzhou after three or four days of hard work all the way south, and due to the first two failures, the Xuzhou locals have not paid attention to the military horses from Jeju, but only symbolically sent dozens of soldiers as guides

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