In the southwest of Sizhou, on the shore of Chengzi Lake, in a newly established camp, the voice of the fourth team is rippling among those sweaty figures.

"To deal with those Huma who can run like rabbits, the only way is to 'build a hard base and fight in a battle'......"

"It is also enough civil engineering work to resist and weaken Humaer's momentum and fighting entanglement on the spot......"

"Then use a tight formation of firearms to protect and kill the enemy...... It is difficult to contain and harass them in order to be effective."

"As long as the enemy cavalry is full of strength and cannot impulse the position of the army...... That means we've got the chance to win and get the first shot."

"One is also an enemy horse entanglement and flawless, and all the strength to cover up and kill...... There is almost nothing to stop."

"So don't think that what you're doing now is a rough and unruly job...... It's a matter of life and death."

"As a qualified soldier, the daily trench must be dug well and quickly, and digging horseshoe pits is only the most basic means......"

"You also have to be able to build a breastwork wall and a soil platform."

"In any case, we can use the shortest possible time to join forces and be the first to be invincible"

And on the fort not far away,

Zhou Laoqi, the head of the original water division, was fighting with an immovable artillery truck in the mud. This is a different experience and career that he has never had before, who is used to seeing the sea and the sky and the wind and waves.

Earlier, he was just an idle prodigal in Jiaozhou (present-day Hanoi, Vietnam), because he was young and greedy in the tavern of Juliu Harbor, he was entertained by "well-wishers" to have a cane head roast, and when he woke up from drunkenness, he was already on an old warship of the sailor.

He was forcibly pressed with his deed and handprint, and became a member of the lowest level of the glorious sailors, and never really disembarked from the ship since. In the long and uncertain career of the waves, he has changed at least five officials, changed three boats, from a servant to a sailor, from a sailor to a handman, from an operator to a gunner, and finally to a gunner with full pay.

As the small leader in charge of the naval artillery, he was coerced into the right army of the imperial camp, but it was not long ago.

At that time, the thousands of sailors stationed in the harbor who were responsible for destroying supplies, as well as all the manpower of the more than a dozen sea ships that could not escape, were forcibly detained by the right army of the imperial camp who suddenly appeared, and they were forced to hold down with bows and crossbows.

Among them, there were probably more than 1,000 gunners and operators, plus the long and short guns and short mortar guns on the same ship, which were also dismantled separately and arranged into the land division, and added to the three newly expanded artillery regiments.

Zhou Laoqi also began a period of relatively stable life on land, although he was frozen to death in the whole harsh winter in the north, but he finally persevered.

However, compared with those sailors who were scattered and assigned to the so-called Qingzhou Guard's Xiashui Battalion, these ready-made sailors and gunners were obviously more preferential and popular, not only listed as the direct division of the formation, no matter which battalion they were assigned to, they were all treasures that were protected by the key points.

In addition to a special escort and transport team, each person is also equipped with at least a number of trainee operators and gunners to obey the call and run errands.

When others walked, they could take turns riding on the gun carriage or straddle horses, and while others could only nibble on cold dry cakes and have warm sacs of water in their arms, they could drink a few sips of warm cane soju and open canned meat according to the treatment of non-commissioned officers.

The only requirement is to have the courage and courage to stand in the front line and directly face the enemy with artillery, and without obtaining a military order, even if all the enemy's guards are killed in close quarters, it is not allowed to turn around or retreat.

Compared with the step-by-step suppression of artillery and side-chord bombardment at sea, in the battle on land, the art of manipulating artillery and the battle formation of firearms can still play so many tricks and changes.

It was as if the door to a new world had opened in front of his eyes, getting rid of the past of helping people with hard qualifications step by step, and chasing the road of fame and future.

You must know that in addition to suppressing the barbarians of the foreign domains and covering the landing of the navy, the naval division of the national dynasty has not fought a decent major war for many years, and the absence of large-scale naval warfare also means that there is not enough opportunity for them, the low-level sergeants with diverse backgrounds, to stand out and show their way.

Only by grinding seniority a little bit on a relatively closed sea boat, and then staying up until the person on his head dies of illness and old age, or has an accident, can there be a glimmer of hope for advancement.

And in this Northern Expedition, the sailor was also a supporting role, more often he was just dragging and transporting on the sea, and the results of the few times he rushed into the inland rivers were not ideal, and even the wolf was expelled by others.

Therefore, Zhou Laoqi did not mind seizing this opportunity, you must know that among the sailors who attach great importance to tradition and class, it is easy to go from a soldier to a soldier, as long as he is qualified enough to operate and be familiar enough, but from a soldier to a non-commissioned officer, and even an officer, it is an insurmountable barrier. Because if you want to become a non-commissioned officer, you need to take a letter of recommendation from a senior officer and go to a maritime or sailor academy for further study.

And every ship is also a bow or officer, and as long as the little kingdom is afloat on the sea, they can even deal decisively with these men on the grounds of plague or rebellion, according to ancient traditions. They also have their own traditions and conventions, and they will only recommend their own children or cronies, and they will definitely not let these miscellaneous people of dubious origin climb to their own position.

As for the general class of the water division, it is the exclusive forbidden body of the gate valve family and its related persons in the water division, and it is not something that these people with humble backgrounds and complicated backgrounds can hope to touch.

And it took him nearly ten years just to go from the cannon to the cannon head, and this is because he knows more or less arithmetic and knows a few words, but he is already in his early forties, and there are not many decades and years to continue to wander.

As a sailor cannon with a little technical content, if you are lucky, you can be disease-free, and you can serve in the sailor until you can't do it anymore, and the bow of the ship who is valued will be gracious, take a batch of severance money and get off the ship, and spend the rest of your life on a familiar merchant ship, or become a drunk ghost in a port area full of pain, which is their most common ending.

They are attacking with a large group of men and horses towards Suzhou and Prezhou to the west of Sizhou.

Since the battle of Qiaotou Town in Sizhou, the Saiwai feudal army and Hu Ma'er in the eastern states of Huaibei have almost been swept away, and the remaining remnants of the army have fled away like frightened birds. Therefore, there was also a rare peaceful and short window period in Xuzhou and Yanzhou on the North Road.

After seizing Qiaotou Town, it also brought a benefit, unless those Hu Ma'er could swim across the Huaishui in the spring flood, otherwise the original vigilance and defense of the Huainan direction could be said to have been temporarily stopped.

But in the same way, the tactics of sectional interception, which originally set up ambushes and reinforcements, were useless because of the enemy's retreat.

Therefore, with the confidence of receiving the latest sea backup, the main formation of Yidu has decided to cancel the plan of return and correction, and add more military and logistical transportation to further pursue the victory west of Surabaya.

By the way, sweep the ferries on the Huaibei coast that were occupied by the Huma clan army in order to obtain more results, and to expand the local advantage brought by this victory, as well as to loot the remnants of the population and resources from Huaibei Province.

Jiangning Mansion, Stone Town, in the sound of a straight blow, an appointment ceremony is being held.

For Li Gefei, the former commander of the southern side of the former commander who was in prison, the high spirits of the army coming to the city seemed to be yesterday.

It's just that he fled and returned all the way, but he had already prepared for this kind of prisoner, and after falling into the prison, he calmed down and figured out a lot of things. Then little by little, he wrote down his feelings and reflections in front of the army, and the right to be a pastime in the bitter and monotonous is also a way to pass on to future generations.

Then, in the midst of a long wait and reflection, I suddenly received an order to get rid of my guilt and get out of prison.

Then, to his disbelief, it was not the carriage and horse that greeted him home, but the envoy who came to announce it, and his family had not even received the news, and then he was taken to the line where the stone was established, and he was confused to find that he had actually been reinstated.

And this time he was especially rehabilitated, and the place where he was going to be atoned for by sin was in the Northland. As the newly established political envoy of Huaibei, and as an envoy, he opened a government office there to supervise the transit, civil affairs, and criminal affairs of Linqing, Yan, Hai, Mi, Deng, and Lai prefectures.

After the psychological impact of this big ups and downs, he quickly went through his own channels and knew the general reason.

According to the system inherited from the previous dynasty, each province in the world has a governor and four envoys, both the governor of the whole province, the governor of the capital, and sometimes also the envoy of the festival, and the rank of the six Shangshu in the court, in addition to the direct leadership of the camp and the tooth soldiers, but also control a number of military towns or defense areas of the guards, from the pacification, strategy, town guard, military envoy, to the defense envoy, regimental training envoy, are all guided;

The second is to undertake the announcement of political envoys, in charge of civil affairs and household affairs, under the establishment of a number of sub-patrol roads, with the title of senator and senator in charge of the affairs of several states, and in the city of Wangyi, there is an additional observation envoy to specialize in its duties;

In addition, it is the degree branch transfer envoy, who is in charge of the entry and exit of the financial and taxation and customs and Tianjin merchants, and has jurisdiction over a number of transit judges, degree branch officials, salt and iron officials, and money supervisors of each sub-patrol road;

The second is the probationary envoy, also known as the interview and disposal envoy, who is in charge of the affairs of the criminal name, and has jurisdiction over the provincial capital and county at all levels to raise sentences, sentence judges, and push officials. For larger roads, there are several road observers to divide their duties.

There are also a number of inspectors in charge of the left and right inspectors of the Imperial Procuratorate, who are responsible for the supervision duties of the officials and the people, and also patrol according to a number of areas, which is called the incorruptible envoy.

In addition, there are also the school of scholars under the leadership of the envoy of persuasion, the water conservancy and river workers of the Yanbian garrison headed by the ambassador Yingtian, the water conservancy and river workers of the ambassador of the river supervisor, and so on.

It's just that the northern land has been divided by the feudal towns for a long time, and these permanent systems and dispatch systems have long been wantonly destroyed by the military leaders of those autocratic parties, and these provincial dispatch ministries have been purely turned into some kind of honorary titles.

Under the rule of the Southern Dynasties, in addition to the basic obedience of the old rules in the Lingnan provinces, the five-way Yanbian system evolved again.

Both the general pipeline (road) - the system to make the branch (several states) - the control (large and small military states) - the capital supervisor (large and small city fortresses) - the command/general (small town fortress) - the capital head / subordinate general (large and small forts), the fire head / team general (Zhu Sentinel Sui). Military attachés and generals of various ranks, from fire commanders, team captains, captains to generals and generals, are filled.

As the biggest feature of the Yanbian Theater system, these Yanbian military posts can also manage or act on behalf of some of the responsibilities of governing the people. Therefore, his position as a newly appointed political envoy is inevitably a little delicate and awkward.

Because the political envoy is far higher than the local so-called Huaidong envoy and the Liuzhou Zhenfu in terms of rank and position, in addition to the name of the national dynasty, it can be said that it is completely parachuted into the past, without any heel and confidence.

In other words, if he wants to get the corresponding authority and treatment, he has to look at the other party's face and mood, after all, it is a newly occupied enemy country, which can be said to be in ruins, and it must take into account the thoughts and attitudes of these lonely generals behind the enemy.

After all, with the consistent style of that Luo Fanzi, it is not a fuel-efficient lamp, coupled with the changes and rights and wrongs that were born in the rear, it is too late for the dynasty to try its best to appease and rely on it, and it will make the other party have misunderstandings and disagreements in specific personnel.

Therefore, this is obviously to reflect the appointment of the state and the government to exercise authority and rule in the north, but among the civil and military ministers of the huge Jiangning Mansion, no one is willing to come forward and go to this place of right and wrong behind enemy lines.

"Who is it for me,"

Li Gefei, who had just changed into a new robe, couldn't help but laugh at himself.

After all, in the responsibility for the defeat of the Northern Expedition, this southern envoy is the one with the least responsibility and involvement, and he happens to have an old relationship with that Luo Fan in front of the army. Therefore, he was pardoned in advance and released the best person to serve the pot.

And the one who came forward to nominate him as a candidate in the court was also a member of Zheng Hou's party who temporarily lived in seclusion at home, and all of these couldn't help but make people a little funny.

"I saw Lee Seung-xuan ...... in my late life"

He thought about it like this, but he didn't expect a young official in a crimson robe to come up to him and salute

"Mentor Yan asked me to say hello to Chengxuan......"

"I don't know what Yan Gong has to say this time......"

Hearing this name, Li Gefei didn't dare to hold his identity.

"It's just that there are several children and nephews in the teacher's family, and they have only learned in recent years."

This young official, straight to the point.

"I hope to be able to follow the apprenticeship under Cheng Xuan's ......"

"Domon values it, and it should be ...... accordingly"

Li Gefei was a little puzzled and agreed, you must know that the north is not a good place, and the big guy of the Yan clan would think of sending his sons and nephews to such a dangerous place.

However, he suddenly remembered some rumors, and suddenly realized something, but from this he remembered another matter.

Since he was imprisoned, the staff and doormen who followed him back have also dispersed. As the so-called world is clear and warm, it knows itself. Therefore, he is now isolated around him, and as a political envoy, he also needs to have people who share the daily miscellaneous tasks. And the Jian yì from the Yan clan reminded him invisibly.

After the completion of the two schools in Beijing every year, in addition to the talents of the two academies of politics and economics and some of the colleges of letters, there are not a few others who fail in the regular examinations.