Lu Niu Yan had been locked up in a prison in the cabin of the ship for almost two months, and his heart was stirred when he heard the other bandits on the same ship and the soldiers in custody talk about the 500 bandits who had just been released.

As the once famous bandit leader on both sides of the Yellow River, no one has more hope of being free than him.

"Hey, Master Jun, when will you release so-and-so?"

The two soldiers walked to the door of Lu Niuyun's prison and said with a smile: "I have told you, our Royal Highness has specially chosen a good place for you, which can not only give full play to your talents, but also serve the court, so wait with peace of mind." ”

"You have to tell how long it will take for X to get to his destination, right?"

Seeing that the soldiers were leaving, Lu Niu hurriedly asked.

One of the soldiers looked back and said, "It's the first time we've been to sea so far, and we don't know how long the fleet will have to sail to reach its destination." However, I once heard the captain of this ship mention that the bandits on this ship were the most vicious of the bandits escorted by the whole ship, and the resettlement place was also the most difficult place, as if it would be ten days to sail north to arrive. ”

"Master Jun, what the hell has this transported us to, we have been sailing at sea for almost two months, and we are going to sail north? This is all to the legendary Far North. ”

"Although I have become a bandit, I still have a wife and children in my hometown and my father and mother want me to raise, which has transported me to the edge of the sky, what can I do with the two mothers in my family......"

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After getting where they were about to go, the bandits in the cabin suddenly became agitated, and one by one they howled and cried.

"One by one, why did you know why you had to do it today?"

The two soldiers cursed.

"Master Jun, the crops planted in the fields have not been harvested for two or three consecutive years, and there is really no way to go up the mountain and become a bandit."

"If you have the courage to be a bandit, don't you have the courage to go into battle to kill the enemy and gain fame? In recent years, the imperial court has been using soldiers, and strong men have been widely recruited as soldiers among the people. Where have you gone? ”

The soldiers immediately scolded, thinking that he didn't flee the famine because of the disaster in his hometown? It's just that he didn't choose to go up the mountain to be a bandit, but joined the Anton Army.

Although the early Tang Dynasty was dominated by government soldiers who integrated soldiers and farmers, it was also supplemented by recruitment, and recruits should also prepare their own armor like government soldiers. For example, when the famous general Xue Rengui was in Tang Taizong's expedition to Goguryeo, he brought his own ordnance and food to join the army as a recruit to participate in the war against Goguryeo, and his excellent performance on the battlefield was won by Tang Taizong who watched the battle.

The bandits who were wailing incessantly were suddenly embarrassed by the military training, and they couldn't argue that they were afraid of dying in the war against the four yi. Compared with those fierce barbarians who are not afraid of death, it is obviously easier for ordinary people to deal with, and they also have wealth. When the soldiers win the war, the majority of the rewards issued by the imperial court belong to the generals, and ordinary soldiers can only get dozens of copper plates, and they can also get a medal to return to their hometown to boast and boast after making meritorious contributions.

However, in recent years, the prestige of the meritorious officers awarded by the imperial court to meritorious soldiers has become lower and lower among the people, and the meritorious officers who have made meritorious contributions on the battlefield have become more and more unvalued by the people.

More than 30 years later, in the Kaiyuan period, the honorable officers were even more disgraced by the people among the people. Just like the prevailing atmosphere in the Song and Ming dynasties hundreds of years later, good men are not soldiers, and good iron does not nail. Soldiers fighting wars have completely become mercenaries who support their families, and they are no longer like the early Tang Dynasty to win the honor of a soldier.

In the early Tang Dynasty, recruits also had to prepare their own clothing, food, and armor for the battle, in order to make a name for themselves on the battlefield. Of course, there is also the idea of grabbing a handful of fortunes in enemy territory after victory.

In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, everything needed by the soldiers depended on the burden of the state, and the sense of honor and mission of the soldiers was very different from that of the early Tang Dynasty.

The relationship between the military and the state is more like a relationship of buying and selling, whoever recruits them, who directly sends them a military ring, they will be loyal to whom. In the long run, the soldiers only know the Jiedu envoys who often deal with them, but they don't know the real employer country behind the Jiedu envoys.

This is the foundation for An Lushan and Shi Siming to dare to rebel.

If An Lushan is placed in the early Tang Dynasty, even if he is given soldiers and horses in the three towns, he will not be able to rebel.

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After the architects who came with the fleet chose a local location for the construction of Wakkanai Fort, the 500 bandits who had been stationed there, and the current Wakkanai Army built a fortress that could be defended by 1,000 people and 500 people.

After leaving behind the rations for the year's needs of the Nakkanai army, as well as the farm tools, grain seeds, and livestock to raise, the fleet set sail again, but the course was no longer to the north, but to the southeast.

Three days later, it docked on the southwest coast plain of the Shiretoko Peninsula in northeastern Hokkaido, which was later known as Shari Town.

This place is a coastal plain within forty or fifty kilometers from east to west, north and south, and it is one of the most advantageous natural environments among the colonies to be established on this trip. In Li Yu's plan, it will be used as a grain and livestock industry base in the northern part of Hokkaido in the future, which will be used to supply the colonies in the north of Shaohai.

Therefore, the fleet placed 1,500 bandits here, and set up Shoudan County instead of a fort, and a lieutenant colonel of the Andong Army will concurrently serve as the county commander, and lead 100 troops to control the bandits to carry out construction here.

Wakkanai Fort, the Kogama Fort, which will be built on Kunashir Island in the South Kuril Islands, and the Sana Fort, which will be built on Tozer Island, are all part of Sudan Prefecture.

Gupu Fort and Sana Fort each placed 300 bandits, with a former bandit leader as the guard, leading the bandits to build a fort to defend the island, and also to conquer the Mao people on the island who refused to submit to the king.

The fleet continued north along the Kuril Islands to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the northeast of Shaohai, and laid down 500 bandits to build a blue water fort here to defend the bay (Avacha Bay) where Hu Anjun, Lu Yuanqing and others had landed when they explored northward last time.

The fleet traveled north along the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula and on the south bank of the Kamchatka estuary, in what became the small Russian city of Ust-Kamchatsk. The famous bandit leader Lu Niu Yin and his 500 subordinates were placed here, and he was ordered to build a bowl pond fort, and Lu Niu Yin was the guard and capture.

Before leaving, a soldier did not know whether he was kind or deliberately teasing, and told Lu Niu Yin that the Bochi Fort they were going to build to guard was the northernmost of all the castles built this time, and reminded him to pay attention to the cold winter.

To the south is the endless sea, and to the north is the rushing Kamchatka River and the surrounding estuarine delta plain, which is covered by dense forests and grasslands. In the distance, there are reckless mountains on the east, west and north, and a snow-capped mountain covered with snow on the top of the northwest stands impressively.

Lu Niu, who has been crisscrossing the rivers and lakes for more than ten years, inevitably showed a helpless wry smile at this place, and there was no trace of civilization and human survival.

The five hundred bandits were at a loss to set foot on this strange defense, and they were even more worried that after the fleet left, a large number of Yi people would rush out of the distant mountains and forests to kill them and eat meat.