Li Chengliang led two or three thousand defeated soldiers of Datong back to the capital. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the gate of Yongding City, Li Chengliang and his brothers were blocked by the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army.

It's no wonder that these defeated soldiers are all in rags, with waist knives and spears in their hands, and they look like a group of bandits. It's not bad that the commander of the Flying Tiger Army on duty didn't give the order to release guns at them!

Zhao Laogen, the commander of the Flying Tiger Army on duty at the gate of Yongding City, was the old Flying Tiger when Yiwu was established. After the Battle of Haicheng Port, the Battle of Beipo Town, the Battle of Taizhou, the Battle of Jiashan, the Battle of Jiaxing, the Battle of Ningbo, and the Battle of Beijing, it can be regarded as a hundred battles! He is an old flying tiger when the army was built, and there are only one or two hundred left in the Flying Tiger army. Of course, such a baby Chen Di has to be entrusted with a heavy responsibility.

Today's Zhao Laogen is already the commander of the Flying Tiger Army's firearm battalion, and he is in a five-rank official position. A monthly salary of seventy or eighty taels per month, and he also married a daughter-in-law who is like a flower.

An old flying tiger like Zhao Laogen is extremely loyal to Chen Di. Following Chen Di, they changed from the croppers of Yiwu to the court officials of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that Chen Di said that the sun is dark, and they will help the tone to be darker than ink.

Li Chengliang shouted under the city: "Brother guarding the door, I am Li Chengliang, the commander of the Flying Tiger Army Cavalry Brigade!" These are brethren from the cavalry brigade! Open the gates, lower the drawbridge, and we're going to enter the city! ”

Zhao Laogen laughed and said, "Just you? Also the Brigadier? I know all the brigade commanders of the Flying Tiger Army, which crack in the stone did you jump out of? Besides, the Flying Tiger Army has three musketeer brigades and an artillery regiment, and I have never heard of any cavalry brigades! ”

Li Chengliang said: "My position as brigade commander was personally promised by Governor Chen Dadu!" You go and ask Governor Chen! ”

Zhao Laogen shouted: "Where did the villain come from? Governor Chen is so busy that he doesn't have time to care about you three-legged cat thieves! Musketeers raise their guns and aim! Let's go! If you get closer to the city gate, our Flying Tiger Army will let you taste the power of the Tiger! ”

A veteran of the Datong Guard said to Li Chengliang: "Then is Chen Di playing tricks on us or what?" Let us come to the capital, now we won't even let the city gate in! Grandma's! There is no place to stay here, there is a place to stay! Brothers, go back to Shanxi and be our grass king! ”

Two or three thousand defeated soldiers of the Datong Guard echoed one after another.

Where can Li Chengliang stop more than 3,000 defeated soldiers?

Fortunately, at this time, Chen Di inspected the city defense and happened to come to Yongding Gate.

"What's the noise?" Chen Di asked Zhao Laogen.

Zhao Laogen arched his hand and said: "Metropolitan Governor, there is a group of people dressed as bandits in the city, who want to enter the city!" Do you think I let my battalion of brethren go out and kill them? ”

Chen Di looked down at the city, and he immediately saw Li Chengliang with sharp eyes!

Chen Di hurriedly ordered: "Open the city gate quickly!" That's the new cavalry brigade of our Flying Tiger Army! All brethren, go down to the city at once, and line up to welcome the new cavalry brigade! ”

More than 300 brothers of the Flying Tiger Army at the gate of Yongding obeyed the order, opened the city gate under the leadership of Zhao Laogen, and went down to the city to line up. Chen Di also went down to the city gate.

When Li Chengliang saw Chen Di, he arched his hand and said, "My lord, the cavalry brothers of the original Datongwei are all here!" ”

Chen Di nodded: "Brigade Commander Li is hard!" ”

Li Chengliang apologized: "The brothers are in tatters, and they have embarrassed the Flying Tiger Army!" ”

Chen Di comforted Li Chengliang: "What's so embarrassing about this!" Hurry up and bring the brethren into the camp! As soon as they entered the camp, they were given new uniforms! ”

More than 300 soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army lined up, which was in stark contrast to the more than 3,000 defeated soldiers of the Great Guard.

I saw more than 300 soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army, all wearing brand-new cloth military uniforms, holding tiger power guns, and hanging ephedra crossbows and grenades on their waists. On his shoulder, he carried a cloth cartridge belt with paper shells. The military appearance is neat, so majestic!

The more than 3,000 defeated soldiers of the Datong Guards were ragged, and the guys in their hands were also varied, waist knives, spears, bows and arrows.

Chen Di sent twenty soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army to lead these defeated soldiers to the barracks.

Zhao Laogen attached to Chen Di's ear and said, "Metropolitan Governor, are these soldiers dressed as bandits reliable?" ”

Chen Di is the governor of Zhengyipin, and Zhao Laogen is the military attache of Zhengwupin. It stands to reason that the fifth-grade official has no right to speak in front of the first-rank official. Zhao Laogen, an old flying tiger from the period of Yiwu army building, is different. Chen Di regarded these people as his siblings, and they dared to pat Chen Di on the shoulder and drink a lot!

Chen Di retorted: "Zhao Laogen, when you joined the army in Yiwu, you couldn't catch up with them!" You can be a battalion commander with mud legs, why can't these veterans of the Datong Guard become an elite cavalry? ”

The Franco mercenaries had already set off for the West, and the original barracks had just been vacated for the defeated soldiers of the Great Guard.

Chen Di found Li Chengliang: "Chengliang, from today on, these 3,000 soldiers are the cavalry of the cavalry brigade of the first division of the Flying Tiger Army!" Each person was given twenty taels of silver, and the new military uniforms were also ready-made, and I immediately had them distributed. War horses, sabers, you let me for a few days. ”

Li Chengliang arched his hand and said: "It's all up to the Metropolitan Governor's arrangement!" ”

A few years later, when the Daming Dragoon Force, which was formed on the basis of the defeated army of the Datong Guard, swept across the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa with the Flying Tiger Army, Li Chengliang would still laugh and talk to his subordinates about the past when he was almost beaten into a sieve by the Tiger Power of the Flying Tiger Army under the Yongding Gate.

Chen Di first asked people to go to the border horse market to purchase 6,000 fine war horses. In his conception, the cavalry brigade of the Flying Tiger Army in the future should be one person with two horses. In this way, it is possible to increase its ability to maneuver.

Chen Di came to the manufacturing office again and found the style grandson.

Chen Di first inquired about the manufacturing speed of new firearms such as Huwei Gong, and then he took out a drawing. Two knives are drawn on the paper, one resembling a modern cavalry saber and the other resembling a Western command knife of an officer of the Beiyang Army.

Chen Di instructed Shi Sun: "The cavalry's sabers should be built with 3,000 swords first, and the command knives should be made with 500 pieces." The military attachés above the platoon level of the Flying Tiger Army, I plan to issue each of them a command knife. ”

Style Sun nodded: "These two knives are much easier to make than firearms!" Don't worry, I will be able to build these knives in half a month! ”

Chen Di has another important matter on this trip. He took out another drawing, on which was drawn a bayonet similar to that of later generations. The bayonet was more than three feet long, and there was a round hoop at the back, which could be inserted into the barrel of the tiger's gun.

Chen Di said: "This is called a bayonet, and it can be placed on the tiger power." In this way, the Flying Tigers' firecrackers have the ability to fight hand-to-hand in close combat. ”

Style Sun praised: "Why didn't I think of it! In this way, the Tiger Gun is a sophisticated firearm in ranged combat, and can also be used as a spear in melee combat! ”

Chen Di said: "That's right! Let's build 2,000 first! In the future, as many tigers as you build, you will build as many bayonets! ”

Style Sun arched his hand and said: "Obey!" ”

Chen Di said again: "Is the recent silver in the office enough?" ”

Style Sun said: "Zhang Shilang of the household department just came yesterday, and he said that as long as it is the silver tael required by the office, you can go directly to the Taicang silver treasury of the household department to get it!" ”

"Oh? The household department is now rich! Chen Di said.

Chen Di said this, but in his heart he understood that this was the credit of Daming Qianzhuang. With Daming Qianzhuang, the household department has living water money.

Chen Di walked out of the office and looked up at the sky, he was in a good mood.