There is a shortage of talents, and the inspection department has not been able to get rid of this situation, and the inspection department of two or three hundred people, who can read and hyphenate people, does not even have a palm. In addition to Chen Yue himself, Li Yi, Chen Ping, and Shan Minglei, who can understand the text roughly.

Now Li Yi and Chen Ping are serving as the general banners respectively, except for Shan Minglei, they can no longer find a suitable candidate for pacification. However, Shan Minglei is not only in charge of the documents of the Inspection Department, but also in charge of rewards and punishments in the army, and his power seems to be a little too much, and he has to recruit some scholars if he has time.

After the summary meeting, everyone dispersed, and Chen Yue sat at the desk, holding a brush to write and draw on the white paper.

Feng quietly walked into the living room, blew out the candles around him, kept only the two on the table, and then made a cup of tea for Chen Yue, and quietly went back.

Picking up the tea bowl and taking a sip, Chen Yue looked at the candlelight in a daze. Most of the military discussions just now focused on how to defend the city, but what if you encounter a Manchu army in the flat land? How to defend against the onslaught of the Manchu cavalry, relying on the spear in his hand, Chen Yue did not think that these recruits under his command could resist the Manchu cavalry with only the spear.

Thinking about it quickly, he suddenly remembered that when Qi Jiguang was transferred to Jizhou, he trained against the Manchu Tartar chariot soldiers. In an open field, only the chariot can fight the cavalry, so can you build a chariot army?

The horses they are pulling already have themselves, and they have just captured thirty or forty horses, as for the chariots, they can be collected from the town for modification, Xishan Town is a big town of more than 2,000 people, and it is no problem to find dozens of carts, as long as a thick wooden board is installed on one side of the car, and more than a dozen carts are connected, you can form a solid defense line that can prevent cavalry assault, and then equip the chariot with firearms and crossbowmen, you can effectively deal with the cavalry assault.

Thinking of this, Chen Yue unconsciously became excited, lowered his head, and began to sketch on the white paper.

In the wing room on the west side, Feng stood at the door and looked at the lights in the hall stupidly, and couldn't help but sigh, I'm afraid that the inspector will not sleep all night again!

"You haven't slept yet, have you?" A voice suddenly sounded beside him, startling Feng Shi, and when he turned around, he saw Li Xiong standing not far away.

"Ah, it's Brother Li, I just made tea for the adults, and I'm going to sleep, Brother Li, why haven't you slept so late?" Son Xiaobao often goes to the backyard stables to play, Li Xiong and other veterans are very good to their son, and Feng and several veterans are very familiar with each other. In fact, it is said that he is a veteran, Li Xiong is not yet forty, which is not very old.

"Didn't Xiaobao ask for a wooden knife, I was too busy to do it during the day, so I made one at night and sent it over." Li Xiong took out a delicate wooden knife and handed it over, staring at Feng Shi with a pair of hot eyes.

"Thank you, Brother Li!" Feng's face was slightly red, and he took the wooden knife and quickly closed the door.

Li Xiong sighed, went back to his room, and after being appointed as the head of the Gunpowder Bureau, he did not move out, and still stayed in the room next to the stable, living with a few old fellows.

"How about it, Lao Li, take the wooden knife I made to offer treasure, has it been a good thing?" A veteran named Lu Sanyou asked with a grin. Li Xiong's thoughts on the Feng family were known to several old brothers, and they were all willing to contribute to his good deeds.

"Alas, I'm afraid there is no hope, I think Feng's heart should be on the inspection lord." Li Xiong hung his head and said.

"Scared, Lao Li, don't play with fire, you annoy the inspector, I'm afraid you don't even know how to die!" Lu Sanyou was startled and hurriedly persuaded him.

"It's not that serious!" Another veteran named Wang Cheng said disapprerovingly, "What is the identity of the inspector, how can he fall in love with a widow with a child?" ”

"That's right!" Everyone else nodded in agreement. So Li Xiong's eyes rekindled hope.

Early the next morning, Chen Yue issued several orders, ordering the collection of all carts in Xishan Town, and the conscription of all carpenters in Xishan Town to modify the carts according to the drawings he had drawn.

Li Xiong, the director of the Gunpowder Bureau, recommended the veteran Lu Sanyou to Chen Yue, who was a military craftsman in Datong and had been in charge of ordnance production in the army and could serve the adults.

Chen Yue was overjoyed, and asked Lu Sanyou to lead the carpenters in Xishan Town to start modifying the chariot, and Chen Yue promised that if the modification was good, Lu Sanyou would be appointed as the director of the Ordnance Division.

Chen Yue himself asked Rang to take the captured strong bow, thinking about how to convert the strong bow into a crossbow mounted on a chariot. After all, there are really no people in the army who can draw bows and shoot arrows, and these bows are also wasted, if they are converted into crossbows, and then equipped with aiming devices, ordinary soldiers can use them.

Chen Yue himself knows how to make bows and crossbows, and it is not much difficult for him to convert the bow into a crossbow, just a little design.

After the order was given, the whole city was immediately busy, the ditch between the city and the town was leveled, and a road was made for carriages and horses to walk, people went in and out, and from time to time large carts were pulled into the city.

The people in the town were very excited about the requisitioning of their family's car, because the inspection department offered them a very good price. As for the carpenters in the town, Chen Yue did not use them in vain, not to mention the daily food, and also offered a salary of 100 yuan a day.

Since there is the inspection department, the people of Xishan Town have benefited a lot, the inspection department not only does not oppress the people, but the trade is fair, bringing a lot of income to the town, bringing a lot of work to the people in the town, and the town is much more prosperous than before.

There are more than 20 carts in the inner courtyard of Sicheng, and Lu Sanyou and a dozen carpenters in the town are thinking of modifying them. In the outer courtyard, more than 200 soldiers, except for those on duty, were all training under the leadership of the officers, and the whole city was busy as usual.

"Your Excellency!" Shan Minglei found Chen Yue, who was modifying the bow and crossbow, "The meritorious service of the brothers has been counted, please take a look." ”

Chen Yue wiped his hands, took the paper handed by Shan Minglei, and looked at it carefully.

At the end of a battle, it is natural to reward the meritorious soldiers, so as to improve morale and inspire, the performance of each person on the battlefield is summarized by the officers of each small banner, and then each soldier testifies, and then reported to the general flag, the chief flag officer checks and then reports it, and finally reports to the Zhenfu Division, and Shan Minglei, the new Zhenfu statistics, reports to Chen Yue.

Chen Yue looked at the list of meritorious service awards, and the overall credit was still very fair, and the first credit fell on Liu Neng and Liu Da Neng, and others such as Xu Qingtian and Wang Meng, who killed the full Tartar, were also on the list.

In addition to the list of meritorious personnel, Shan Minglei also drew up a reward of 20 taels of silver for killing a full Tartar, and 5 taels of silver for killing and wounding a full Tartar, and the wounded soldiers on the battlefield also received a subsidy of 2 taels of silver, and each of the seven or eight people killed in the battle would receive a pension of 20 taels of silver.