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Even when Xue Ming heard that he was appointed as the chief, Xue Ming even had a feeling of "the soldier dies for the confidant", although Xue Ming did not know the phrase "the soldier dies for the confidant", but he knew that he was especially grateful to General Zhang Shihua who gave him all this.

"I must do this seriously." Xue Ming thought so firmly in his heart.

"I've held on, that Wang Wu, you fucking have taken my steps neatly. What, so tired. Fuck you're not as good as a bitch, you can't do it after only walking twenty miles! Xue Ming learned from his old chief, and shouted at the new prisoners in his own office.

When the surrounding soldiers heard this, they couldn't help but burst into laughter, and some of them even joked to the man named Wang Wu: "Fifth son, what's wrong, I dreamed of someone's little daughter-in-law yesterday, and I masturbated all night, and my legs were weak." ”

"Hahaha." When the surrounding soldiers heard this, they couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Shut up for me, and hurry seriously!" Although Xue Ming also wanted to laugh, he still yelled at the soldier with a serious face.

However, although he was serious on the surface, Xue Ming couldn't help but show a smile on his face when he looked at the soldiers who were getting more and more familiar.

"What the old chief said is really right, this march is really the most tempering."

……

It was the end of May, and the sun was hot enough to bake eggs in Runing Province, and in such hot weather, even the Red Turbans had to avoid the midday heat and march in the morning and in the afternoon and evening.

But even so, there are still many red turban sergeants who suffer from heat stroke due to the hot weather. But fortunately, when Zhang Shihua was doing inspections, he paid great attention to self-help from common diseases in the army, so although many soldiers and soldiers suffered from heat stroke, most of these people were also saved by Zhang Shihua's veterans who knew first aid.

But even so, Zhang Shihua and his entourage of 4,000 people, there were still almost 100 soldiers along the way because the weather was too hot, resulting in non-combat attrition.

At noon on the fifth day, Zhang Shihua, who was sweating profusely, took over the wet towel handed to him by Li Wu, first wiped his face with the wet towel, but drank the bamboo tube of water handed to him by Li Wu in one go.

After drinking the water, Zhang Shihua, who felt a lot more comfortable, sprinkled a handful of sweat on his face, sighed and said, "Grandma, this dog's day, dare to burn people to death." Come, go with me and see how the brothers are doing. ”

When Li Wu heard this, he just nodded in agreement, and didn't say anything else, because he knew that patrolling the camp at noon on the hottest day in the past few days had become a habit for Zhang Shihua.

On the way to patrol the camp, Zhang Shihua looked at the soldiers who were listless and hiding in the shade one by one because of the heat, and couldn't help sighing. After sighing, he saw Zhang Shihua turn around and say to Zhang Shihui, Zhao Jiu and Xu Ming, the three thousand households behind him: "You must take good care of the brothers under your command, if you find a brother suffering from heat stroke, you must treat it as soon as possible, and you must not let any brother lose his life because of a small fever." ”

"Don't worry, General, we understand." When Zhao Jiu heard this, he also immediately said.

When Zhang Shihua heard Zhao Jiu's words, he nodded, and then asked Xu Gan, the medical officer behind him, "Mr. Xu, are the medicinal materials in the army still enough?" ”、

When Xu Gan heard this, he immediately replied: "There are really not many medicinal materials left to cure fever, but after the past two days, almost all the commanders in the army have also learned the first aid methods taught by the general, so the problem is not big." ”

When Zhang Shihua heard this, he nodded, but then said: "In a few days, when this battle is over, I will send fifty clever people from my hands to you to study medicine, and when the time comes, you will teach them some simple and easy-to-learn medical skills, and let them form a first-aid team for me, responsible for rescuing the wounded on the battlefield, understand?" ”

When Xu Gan heard this, he immediately nodded and said, "The villain understands, the villain knows what to do." ”

"Okay, if you understand." Zhang Shihua nodded and left.

……

Approaching evening, the 4,000 army was finally about to arrive in Xincaixian City, but when it was still ten miles away from the county seat, a scout suddenly came to Zhang Shihua's place, knelt down and said to Zhang Shihua: "General Qiyu, we found more than 100 soldiers ten miles away in the east, and those soldiers all wore red scarves on their heads.......

"From Taihe." As soon as Zhang Shihua heard this, he immediately understood what was going on.

"It should be Guo Yu and them." Zhang Shihua thought so in his heart, and thinking of it, Zhang Shihua also said to Zhao Jiu behind him: "Ah Jiu, you can take a few people to the east now, if it is really Ah Yu and them, bring them all." ”

When Zhao Jiu heard this, he also guessed what was going on, so he agreed, and hurriedly took a dozen cavalry under his command and rushed to the east with the scout.

And it wasn't until Zhao Jiu and the others left that Wang Xianzhong, who was beside Zhang Shihua, smiled and asked Zhang Shihua: "What, Brother Zhang, those people who came here are your fellow countrymen?" ”

When Zhang Shihua heard this, he also said with a smile: "It is estimated that my eldest brother who came to help me." ”

When Wang Xianzhong heard Zhang Shihua's words, he let out an "oh" and didn't say anything more.

……

In less than half an hour, Guo Yu and more than 100 of them joined the army led by Zhang Shihua.

Although Guo Yu failed to support Zhang Shihua in the first battle in Yuemiao, Zhang Shihua did not have any prejudice against Guo Yu, after all, people live in the world, and you can't ask others to revolve around you. So when Guo Yu came, Zhang Shihua still rode his horse and lined up to prepare to meet Guo Yu.

And Guo Yu, who led more than 100 people under his command to ride horses, looked at Zhang Shihua, who was standing there waiting for him with a smile in front of the army, and couldn't help but feel moved. To be honest, Guo Yu has always felt that he is quite sorry for Zhang Shihua, for so many years, Zhang Shihua has always regarded him as a brother, and later Zhang Shihua became his brother-in-law, but when Zhang Shihua, the brother-in-law, led the soldiers to fight with others for the sake of his family, he, as a brother, was unable to help at all.

Therefore, when looking at Zhang Shihua who was walking towards him with a smile, Guo Yu, who turned over and dismounted, couldn't raise his head with some shame.

"Bochang, I'm ......" Guo Yu looked at the brother in front of him, opened his mouth but didn't know what to say.

However, it was still as if nothing had happened, laughing and giving him a hug, and then punching him in the chest and saying, "Ah Yu, okay." The two of us brothers can also kill the enemy side by side this time. What's that, I still have a deputy thousand households vacant, Ah Yu just doesn't know if you are willing to help your brother-in-law and me with this? ”

When Guo Yu heard this, he couldn't help but nod his eyes slightly red, and said, "Bochang, thank you very much." ”

"We're all family, thank you." Zhang Shihua looked into his eyes with a smile on his face and said.

……

After Guo Yu and Zhang Shihua's army converged, the army continued to move forward, and it was almost half an hour, and the army led by Zhang Shihua and Wang Xianzhong finally arrived outside the city of Xincai Xian after a five-day long journey.

"I have to say that this new Cai's tartar will still have a little brain." Outside Xincai City, Wang Xianzhong looked at Xincai Xiancheng in the clear field of the strong wall, and couldn't help but say.

When Zhang Shihua heard this, he also smiled and said: "I have been beaten many times, these Tartars are a group of pigs, and naturally I know that I will have a memory." But with a small city like Xincai, do they really think that cutting down the wood outside the city and digging a few small ditches can stop us? Hum! It's ridiculous. ”

When Wang Xianzhong heard this, he also echoed with a smile: "Brother Zhang is right, such a small city, with just one drum, the army under our command can take it down." ”

When Zhang Shihua heard this, he also smiled slightly, and then said to a herald under his command: "Give me an order, camp here today and rest, and tomorrow the army will start attacking the city!" ”

When the herald heard this, he bowed his head and said "obey," and immediately rode his horse to give the order.

And Zhang Shihua glanced at Xincaixian City not far away at this time, but he couldn't help but think in his heart: "I hope this city can bring me more benefits, after all, it takes a lot of silver to raise soldiers now!" ”

To be honest, Zhang Shihua is indeed very short of money now, although since Taihe raised his army, he destroyed the Li family in one fell swoop and slaughtered the corrupt prison county of Suri Lakun, and made more than 10,000 taels of silver. But this money is still nothing to Zhang Shihua, a general with more than 2,000 people under his command.

Let's put it this way, although Zhang Shihua now has taken refuge in the Red Turban Army, he doesn't need to worry about the army's food and grass. But Liu Futong can provide him with grain and grass now, but he will not pay his soldiers silver, after all, Liu Futong is not stupid, like Zhang Shihua, a general with great autonomy, how could Liu Futong use his own money to raise troops for Zhang Shihua.

Therefore, the generals under Zhang Shihua's command, their salary and silver problems still need to be solved by Zhang Shihua himself. In fact, if Zhang Shihua didn't raise the salary so high, then the so-called salary problem would be nothing to some generals in the Red Turban Army who had independent autonomy.

For example, Han Yan'er, he is a relatively autonomous general in the Red Turban Army, so he also needs to be responsible for the salary of his generals, but the ordinary soldiers under Han Yan'er's command only have a meagre salary of 100 wen per month, and a soldier only needs to pay such a small amount of money, so Han Yan'er can naturally afford 3,000 soldiers and horses.

But Zhang Shihua is different, for example, in Zhang Shihua's army, soldiers and veterans like Taihe, in order to avoid their worries, Zhang Shihua gave them extremely generous salaries.

Originally, each of these people had 200 yuan per month, but since Zhang Shihua started the army, because of the rising food prices and the need to fight, Zhang Shihua directly tripled the salary of these old soldiers, and now the monthly salary of any ordinary old soldier under Zhang Shihua has reached 600 yuan.

Although such a high salary is only limited to the more than 1,000 old soldiers, and the salary of those new soldiers and captives is only 300 yuan per month, but even so, the monthly salary of 2,000 soldiers plus those generals still reaches more than 1,000 taels.

This is not just the salary, if you add the weapons needed by the soldiers under his command, the medicinal materials needed to heal the wounded, and the various miscellaneous expenses such as the pensions needed by the fallen soldiers, then this figure will be even greater.

Therefore, don't look at the more than 10,000 taels of silver in Zhang Shihua's hands now, but these silver to support these two thousand soldiers are estimated to be only enough for half a year's expenses. Therefore, Zhang Shihua really needs money now, after all, half a year is really too short.

Of course, Zhang Shihua can also reduce military spending by cutting the salary of soldiers and soldiers, so as to achieve the goal of reducing expenditure. However, Zhang Shihua would never do this. After all, in this troubled world, the loyalty of the soldiers and horses and the soldiers under his command is far more important than a few hundred taels of silver per month.

So since it is impossible to throttle, Zhang Shihua naturally has only one way to open source, but with Zhang Shihua's current situation, it is impossible to do business and open source or something, so Zhang Shihua's only open source method is to rob the rich and help the poor.

Of course, this does not mean that Zhang Shihua will indiscriminately and directly kill the landlords and old wealth in Xincai City, but will choose a defensible statement and "borrow" some military funds from their hands. After all, although it is simple to kill someone or something, it is too much of a sinner.

Besides, Zhang Shihua only needs silver now, but he doesn't want to completely stand against the landlord class in Runing Mansion because of this silver, and ruin his reputation because of it. You must know that now is the period of feudal society, and the landlord class is completely invincible in this era, no matter how crazy Zhang Shihua is, he will never go to the opposite side of the landlord class for money.

Not to mention, the Zhang family is originally a landlord class.

"Hey, I just hope that Xin Cai's Haoqiang can have a few more patriotic people, after all, if they are like Zheng Xuli's guy, play a trick of "opening the door to welcome the king", then they will have no excuse to attack them. Looking at Shangcai Cheng, Zhang Shihua thought so in his heart.

……

Outside Xincai City, the camp of the Red Turban Army had just been built, and a rainstorm suddenly came. Wang Xianzhong, who was worshipping his lifeless mother in his big tent, listened to the sound of rain outside the tent, and couldn't help but fold his hands and prayed: "The lifeless mother is above, after the heavenly water is washed away, the Holy Sect will use the red lotus karmic fire to burn away the darkness in the world, so that the bright light will come to the earth again." The silt originated from the chaos of Qi, and the white lotus appeared in a prosperous world. When he said this, Wang Xianzhong buried his face on the ground, and his expression was extremely reverent. (To be continued.) )