It's been a few days since the beginning of autumn, and the weather is getting cooler very quickly, as if it has gone from summer to autumn overnight. Many of the trees outside the valley are already covered with green and yellow leaves.

However, because Erlong Valley is sandwiched by two mountains, the temperature change is not so obvious, so it still looks lush and green, and there is not much autumn feeling.

In the General's Mansion, on the small school field, a figure was moving and jumping, and a long sword in his hand flickered with a little cold light with the movement of the figure.

On the side, a man in white stood quietly watching, sometimes smiling, sometimes frowning, sometimes nodding.

After a while, the figure practicing the sword collected the sword momentum, exhaled, and walked towards the man in white on the sidelines.

"How? I can still practice in your eyes, right? ”

This person is Jiang Chuan.

"So-so," the man in white pouted and smiled.

"Looks like it's okay. I said earlier, I have the talent to practice martial arts, although your Baiyun Sect's swordsmanship is complicated, but I haven't learned it quickly, what does this mean? It shows that this son's bones are amazing, and he is a martial arts wizard who is rare to see in the martial arts for a hundred years. Jiang Chuan laughed and boasted to himself.

"Hmph, just blow it. I won't tell you that this set of sword techniques is just an introductory sword technique for our Baiyun Sect disciples, and every disciple must master it. If you can master it, it just means that your IQ is normal, so what is there to be proud of. The man in white was Bai Jinxiu, she saw Jiang Chuan boasting and deliberately hitting him.

"Your eyes have betrayed you a long time ago, girl, brother likes honest girls." Jiang Chuan suddenly approached Bai Jinxiu and said with a wicked smile.

Bai Jinxiu was startled, her face turned red instantly, she hurriedly took two steps back, and glared at Jiang Chuan, who was shy and looked at Jiang Chuan, laughed and had a big heart.

"Phew, who is rare you like." After Bai Jinxiu stood still, he remembered what Jiang Chuan had just said, his face turned red again, and he muttered in a low voice.

Since the last defeat of the Qing army, it has been more than half a month.

This half a month doesn't look long, but Jiang Chuan has really done several big things.

The first major event is the expansion of the army.

After the news of the defeat of the Jiang army spread out, many people in the four miles and eight towns sent representatives to Erlong Valley to ask for shelter under the protection of the Jiang army.

The name of the person, the shadow of the tree, Jiang Chuan has undoubtedly become the protector of the hearts of the people of southern Liaoning. I even heard that under the rule of Jiang Daren, there is no need to pay grain and taxes, and land and houses are also divided, which makes many people even more greedy.

What could be more attractive to ordinary people than land? Many people work hard all their lives, don't they just want to leave land and real estate for their children and grandchildren to pass on?

If the pie is dropped today, of course such a good opportunity must be seized.

Therefore, Jiang Chuan did not make much effort this time, and gathered more than 13,000 people. Almost half of the people in southern Liaoning have fled to Erlong Valley.

In fact, it is impossible for there to be only tens of thousands of people on such a vast land in the entire southern Liaoning region. There are several reasons for this.

First, although the terrain of southern Liaoning is vast, it has always been vast and sparsely populated, with a total of less than 100,000 households.

Second, southern Liaoning belongs to the border area, and it has always been a place where the Ming and Qing dynasties fought each other, so many people were killed in countless battles, resulting in a sharp decline in the population of southern Liaoning.

Third, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was sparsely populated, so it had always been in the habit of capturing people from the Ming Dynasty, so many people were captured and sent to the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, there is another reason, that is, although the plains in southern Liaoning are vast, there are also many mountains and hills, in which there are many poisonous snakes and beasts, and many people who go into the mountains to hunt have been harmed by these wild beasts. It's just that this factor doesn't have a big impact compared to the above three reasons.

Therefore, under the influence of these factors, the population of southern Liaoning has dropped from more than 90,000 households at its peak to more than 20,000 households now. And almost half of the more than 20,000 households have now been taken over by Jiangchuan.

The arrival of these civilians suddenly raised Jiang Chuan's total population to more than 23,000 people, so he added more than 10,000 recruits to the fortress base.

However, after comprehensive consideration, Jiang Chuan did not use all the more than 10,000 people to train soldiers, but instead used half of the population for grain cultivation and weapon production, as well as the collection and processing of various industrial raw materials.

The remaining 6,000 or so were used by him to train soldiers, adding 3,000 crossbowmen and 3,000 halberders.

Euphorbia soldiers are also heavy infantry in the fortress arms, their combat effectiveness is stronger than that of spearmen, but inferior to ironclad swordsmen, and they are also the backbone of the two armies when they face each other.

The standard configuration of the Euphorbia is full body iron armor, but it is not armed to the point of teeth like the Iron Swordsman, but has iron armor protection in key areas, which makes them more agile than the Iron Swordsman.

Their standard armament is a halberd and a waist knife. This halberd resembles a spear, but with a horizontal blade growing horizontally above the spearhead, which not only has the function of spear and spear thrusting when fighting, but also has the function of blocking and hooking enemy weapons.

Moreover, the halberd is longer than the spear, reaching a length of about four meters, which requires the physical fitness of the halberd soldier to be stronger and taller than the spearman.

The saber at his waist is used to fight enemies in close combat.

Such equipment and physical fitness doomed the halberders to play a more powerful role on the battlefield than the spearmen.

These halberd soldiers Jiang Chuan turned into a halberd battalion alone, and the captain was called Meng Ben.

As a result, Jiang Chuan already has nine major arms under his command, with a total of about 25,000 men and horses.

And that's just the total number of troops trained in the fortified base.

Through the last ceremony of sacrificing and beheading prisoners, under the stirring of the people's hearts, more than 5,000 people in the valley signed up to join the army. In the end, after screening according to the conditions, there were 3,000 people who were eligible.

These people were all incorporated into the militia battalion by Jiang Chuan and used as reserves. Three months of recruit training is currently underway. According to Jiang Chuan's plan, after the three-month training period, the elite who passed the examination were selected to enter the militia standing battalion, and were responsible for maintaining law and order in the valley, assisting in civil defense, and patrolling the city.

In the future, a big competition will be held every six months, and those who can pass the big competition can enter the regular army, so as to ensure that the combat effectiveness of the regular army will not be lowered.

While others who were brushed off during the recruit assessment were organized into the militia. In their spare time, they farmed and trained once every three days, and if the number of troops in wartime was insufficient, these people could also be quickly added to the army.

And the more than 13,000 people who have recently been resettled, Jiang Chuan knows that these people have not yet fully returned to their hearts, so he is not in a hurry to select soldiers from among them.

This is the first big thing.

The second major event was the establishment of the Black Ice Observatory, the intelligence agency of the Jiang Jiajun.