Although Songzhou was easier to take than expected, Lao Tzu once again encountered the problem of insufficient troops, although it had only been long since the fifth battalion was expanded, with seven cities and five large military villages.

Relying on me, with no more than 10,000 people, to guard and control, and to get rid of the third battalion and its auxiliary troops left in Fugou Town, it can be said that it is scattered everywhere, and it will be diluted and lost in scale at once.

Therefore, the main force of the second battalion was deployed in Xiangyi in the west to guard against Bianzhou, and the fourth battalion and the special vehicle regiment were stationed in Chuqiu and Shanfu in the north respectively, and they should support each other to guard against the movements of the neighboring Cao and Hunzhou......

The first battalion remained in Ningling as the second-line reinforcement in the above three places, while the remaining four directly subordinate teams and the fifth battalion in the process of formation were stationed in Songcheng as my mobile force, and the rest of the cities in the hinterland were handed over to the auxiliary brigade, one in each of Gushu, Zhecheng, and Yucheng, led by a battalion deputy of the main battalion.

As for Xiayi and Yangshan in the southwest, they were handed over to Liu Yanqing's people on the spot, and they were scheduled to be sent to me as a cooperating guest department, and Zhi Keshi and Seed Master Dao respectively commanded a small battalion with half of the firearms, and stationed there.

The pacesetter regiment and the teaching team, which have initial mobility, are sent out in turn to lead the troops to lead the troops, aiming at the stragglers and bandits in the wandering areas, and doing their best to run in the combat effectiveness of the fifth battalion.

Then, because the accompanying station also had the task of organizing the autumn harvest, raising grain, apportioning taxes, and levying and distributing servants. Therefore, these military generals assigned to stay also had a rare opportunity to make a cameo appearance, a temporary part-time pro-civilian officer, and something ridiculous or unexpected happened to each of them.

One of these lucky or unfortunate fellows was Du Sang, the deputy of the Fourth Battalion and the commander of the Zhichong Domain, who was a descendant of the Du clan, the great prince of the Chihai Domain, and the famous Tang traveler Du Huan as his ancestor.

Du Huan, the word Shu Xun, from Luling Du, is a branch of the famous Xiangyang Du, Du is a famous county, known as Bancheng Du, from Zhenguan famous Prime Minister Du Ruhui to the three dynasties Zhongxing Jishi Prime Minister Du You, all out of this one.

During the Kaiyuan period, Du Huan was protected by the military Anxi Dadu with the door shade system, Gao Xianzhi went out to beg for a big food, and was defeated in the city of Rose for the big food, and then had to be released and traveled west between foreign countries, with footprints all over the West Niuhe Prefecture (Europa) and Southern Shanzhou (Africa), and accumulated the "Jing Xing Ji" and "Xing Travel Book", which became the first-hand reference and earliest evidence for the Tang people to explore overseas.

Since then, the "Taiping Yulan", "Taiping Huanyu Ji", "Tongzhi" and "Literature General Examination" written by Chinese people have all been cited.

It's just that in his later years, he was detained by the great power of Shanzhou in the south - Ansu Kingdom (Axum Kingdom, now Ethiopian Plateau), and was hired by the local King Ansu as a division commander and gave him a fief, so he branched out on the spot and eventually grew old, and became one of the so-called "Seven Great Sea Continents" in the overseas Tang Dynasty.

And Toussaint, who was sent to Dongtu as an envoy from his ancestors, was already the sixth generation, and in his life, he was left alone with all kinds of failures and difficulties in his family, and even his family house was invaded by the front door of the slave bully, and he had to live in the market, with a little text from the family heirloom, wrote letters for people, and corrected some underground books, and encouraged him to make a living.

Then in the Qingyuan Change, he lost his livelihood again, and fell into the list of porridge shed relief, with the foundation of rough writing, he was recruited by Luo as a member of the Qumen, and began to join the army in the left of the Longzhou Regiment, embarked on a completely different life trajectory, and was pulled out in the expedition to Tiannan and Anyuan Pingding, and became the chief, the head of the fire, the deputy of the team, and even now, the deputy of the fourth battalion who was promoted by surprise, Guoyi Duwei.

He was now sitting on the gatehouse, looking at the troops who were practicing.

They are practicing the tactics of cooperating with the three-eyed gun, as the exclusive three-eyed gunner, remove the short knife of self-defense, and at the same time, increase the holdings of a small card, with a metal sharp angle next to it, which can be directly used to knock on the fire door of the three-eyed gun, so that even if the enemy quickly finishes the three-pipe medicine, he can resist and hammer the enemy in close quarters.

Others, who were clearly auxiliaries, were practicing the use of gunpowder and projectile dispensing tools, and the three-piece set was packed in a small bag, and it was necessary to fill all three barrels of guns and plug them in the shortest possible time.

Although these are all auxiliary army sequences dominated by cold soldiers, there is no doubt that they have the most intuitive connection and feeling for the power of firearms, especially the power of firearms.

Therefore, to be able to enter the fifth battalion of the main formation and become a key protected gun, even from the most basic gunner, is also expected by everyone, and to master the use of these firearms, you need to start with the three-eyed gun, and then it is possible to be added to the order of the main formation.

And after defeating the Shenbiao army of the Northern Dynasty, the equipment of these auxiliary brigades was upgraded a lot, and many people began to use large-barreled hand cannons that looked quite powerful, or thin-mouthed horn guns.

In the absence of the kind of fast and far, the standard long gun can be used, you can also use these similar household goods, first over the addiction, feel the experience of fire combat, although the caliber is not very uniform, but at least in the sub-medicine, to achieve a more accurate unified measurement.

Therefore, these small number of firearms teams were regarded as direct teams and backbone members in a sense by the leaders of the auxiliary army, anyway, what they had to deal with were mainly those local regiments and township soldiers of the Northern Dynasties, and they were some former state and county soldiers who were entrenched in the countryside.

As soon as they heard the sound of fire or the sound of a cannon, they could not help but panic the bow bird, and when a charge approached, they would blow up a number of dead and wounded in a round, and they would blow up all kinds of nests, and they would almost be vulnerable to a battle.

Therefore, it was easy to complete the bombing in these places, and captured a large number of tatters that even their auxiliaries could not look down on, and could only be lost to the stragglers.

Especially for these officers, who are good at killing the enemy, but not good at governance, it is a great test.

In the past few days, Toussaint has been sitting in the county office where he has been resting roughly, but no one has come to complain, but all kinds of trivial matters during his stay, big and small, have been dealt with a lot, and as the head of a county temporarily, he will still be so troublesome.

It's better to be purely neat and refreshing in the army, after all, it is enough to take care of these Qiu Ba and make them brave enough to fight.

Just by digging out the old money and grain household registers, going to the tribes according to the heads, tossing for a long time, and the corners of the grinding mouth grew bubbles, only to raise more than 100 large livestock, hundreds of stones of variegated chestnut rice, beans and wheat, and 2,000 catties of firewood and charcoal.

The hidden non-cooperation behind the cowering, indifferent and numb local residents is the biggest obstacle to his mission.

It might have been more efficient if he could cut them all down and then go in and raid them, but he didn't have that much manpower and time to spend on it.

The army strictly prohibits indiscriminate killings and unorganized privateering, and if you want to be a little wanton, the military law Marquis Yu who is with the army will definitely not sit idly by.

After all, this is not an old-style army that can be specialized by the leaders of the large and small armies, and when the soldiers are accustomed to the rules and regulations, the low-level military attaches want to do something out of the ordinary, and not many people are willing to follow.

So he couldn't help but miss the time when he opened the stockade, according to the custom, after opening those stubborn Wu forts, at least half of the seizures could be left to be distributed freely, and all kinds of drinking and eating meat were bought to buy a big banquet to treat himself.

Then you can also continue to get a small percentage of the income from the punitive abduction.

However, the large local households with a little scale were either bankrupt and oppressed by various donations from the former government, or they were killed and fled by the Hedong guest army who later crossed the border, and only the worthless real estate and homesteads left in the city were left.

Even if you want to torture and interrogate, you can't find many subjects. As for those poor sticks, not to mention the bitterness, in the words of Shangguan's explanation, it can't do much oil and water to force them, but it ruins their reputation and people's hearts in vain, which is really thankless.

Instead, they had to take out some food and supplies from the local harvest and recruit them to do simple and heavy chores. With just a little favor, it is relatively easy to establish a reputation and reputation for fair dealing.

He's worried about the task at hand,

Suddenly, a warning horn sounded from the overlook at the top of the city, and Toussaint jumped to his feet, shouting the name of the guard, and putting on his armor and hanging his sword.

The soldiers who were practicing under the city wall, also in the shouts and shouts of the veterans of their respective fires, quickly completed the preparation of armor and weapons, and rushed up the city wall in formation.

According to the preset position, they entered the arrow sentry and gatehouse one after another, or crouched down at the battlement, and used the three-eyed gun and bow and crossbow to face the direction of the incoming enemy warning.

The non-commissioned officers who were patrolling the city also blew the assembled whistle one after another, and urgently recalled those non-commissioned officers who were performing duties and recuperating elsewhere.

Therefore, when the large group of men and horses that appeared on the horizon set out to the front, they were greeted by the walls and guards that were waiting for them.

"Don't be impatient, it looks like the banner of a friendly army,"

Toussaint breathed a sigh of relief, put down the long tube, and said in a loud voice

"Beware of the city...... Beware of fraud"

Later, they got a warrant from the other party to come and defend from the city.

Half a day later, I received a similar notice and military order from my own camp in Songcheng, and I couldn't help but be a little surprised.

After seizing the new area according to the usual practice, they began to send documents to the forward military department one after another, all kinds of important people to equipment, materials, and reinforcements. But there were always various reasons before, and it was not so easy to get what I wanted, and it seems that the response and response I got this time was incredibly fast.

What happened today, I couldn't help but fall into deep thought