Jiaozhou, Jiaoxi County, Banqiao Town Military Port.

In the midst of the howling sea breeze, Liu Yanqing's model rear military headquarters still arrived as scheduled. The six battalions that have not yet been fully staffed have 5,700 men in the army. Of the 3,200 personnel on the staff, except for a battalion he brought from the Xiangfan Theater, the others were selected and supplemented from Jiangning on the spot.

According to the prior ventilation, Liu Yanqing brought more than 100 people this time to serve as the family generals and backbones of the army; There are also more than 500 students and teachers of the military academy in various places who are accompanied by private names, all of whom are white people with only seniority and no ministry, and are only waiting for me to select and appoint them.

This is the background and advantages of being a veteran general, plus a privy envoy father who is a senior handsome.

Although I don't know how many of them are other people's eyeliner and hidden stakes, or how many people are ordered to come and mix sand; But at least on the surface, it showed an attitude of actively integrating into the Huaidong group.

Therefore, I also have to maintain a warm and welcoming attitude in the official face.

Moreover, with the current foundation and volume of Huaidong, as long as there are no big changes, it will not be difficult to absorb and digest this batch of people over time, and even complete the final screening and harmless treatment.

I saw a figure with a helmet and armor, and he stepped forward and said loudly:

"Liu Yanqing, the commander of the rear army, has seen the Huaidong system and the envoy of the same six states to pacify, and Luo Shouchen ......"

"I hereby follow the order of the Jiangning base camp to move to the front of the army to assist in the prevention and control, and obey the ...... in front of the army."

"Please also inspect the documents and ...... the seals"

After a brief salute and paperwork, I greeted me with an eager hug, and then invited my arm to the front of the army.

The military horses that greeted me in the local area and the soldiers he brought with him were arrayed in front of each other, and the differences and feelings between the two sides were very obvious.

Liu Yanqing's subordinates, as well as the battalion of men and horses he personally led, although they were tired, they were very impressive with their sharp and restrained physique and bearing that had been on the battlefield for a long time; As for the newly recruited centaurs, they could not hide the fatigue and fatigue of the sea trip in terms of mental momentum, and they seemed to be a little loose and could only barely maintain their formation.

Although I left room for this time, I did not show the men and horses of the left and right Yu Houjun and the Yaqian soldiers, but only selected a number of teams from the main battle battalion and the garrison battalion with older qualifications as honor guards according to a certain proportion, but the vast majority of them had experience in front-line debates and defenses.

Just standing there in a good fit is enough to crush the opponent for several streets in terms of military appearance, physical appearance, and mental temperament.

However, in my opinion, not to mention the veterans of a hundred battles in that battalion, even these recruits brought by Liu Yanqing are enough to climb a few steps higher in terms of physical fitness and nutritional status than the Huainan camp full of those who are thin or starving; What's more, their habits and movements between gestures are also the foundation of obvious basic training, rather than raw melons and eggs and white dices at a loss;

It doesn't look like a local recruitment, but a ready-made merit-based selection of in-service soldiers from the reorganized second- and third-line troops in the rear; Therefore, as long as the systematic training and the tempering of blood and fire can still meet the requirements and come in handy.

After all, with the exception of the initial expedient measures taken to go north, I have basically strictly forbidden it over the years, and have recruited the sick and military auxiliaries directly among the homeless. From a half-dead starving person to directly training to become a qualified soldier, the cycle and investment required are too wasteful and cumbersome.

According to the current system of reserve and supplementary troops in Huaidong, it has a set of institutional processes for selecting and filtering from the local to the army, and there is also a sufficient population base with a stable life, a healthy body, and a strong sense of collective and belonging, so as to ensure the quality of the corresponding soldiers and the loyalty and reliability of the local joint sitting.

As long as I let go of the deliberate restrictions of the rioters, I will have enough foundation and confidence to suppress and restrain these thousands of troops who have come to mix sand; Therefore, the real problem and key is still the Liu Yanqing in front of me.

I haven't seen him for many years, but the lines on his face have become a little profound and sharp because of the wind, frost, rain and snow that have been fighting over the years.

In fact, after so many things, Liu Yanqing, who was still a little out of temperament at the beginning, has become full of a certain sharp introverted and rich city.

However, he still seems to be so talkative in private, sitting next to me while walking, he can't help but lead the topic to what he has seen and experienced over the years.

"It's been ...... for many years"

"Luo Shuai is still the same......"

"There's no need to be so raw, as usual, call me Rongruo, or Brother Luo......"

I shook my head

"Good ......"

He didn't have pretensions or shirk.

Compared with the hard work and tediousness of occupying and basing myself in Huaidong after fighting thousands of miles, overcoming obstacles and thorns to create a foundation and base construction; He has been very unlucky over the years, and even some of them have memorized words.

At the end of the First Northern Expedition, although his troops were in the rear between Chenzhou and Xuzhou, they were also attacked by the Hu tide of Saiwai Domain, which crossed the river, and after many hard battles, they still failed to gain a firm foothold in the local area, and had to send messengers to ask for help.

It's just that I didn't expect that one of the messengers would be able to collide with my troops, but in front of the swarming Hu cavalry, I still missed my troops by mistake.

In the end, if it were not for the convergence of the remnants of several middle route armies, I was afraid that the last bit of strength in my hand that barely protected itself would have to be put into it; Then, after they gained a firm foothold on Jinghu Road, they were assigned to the jurisdiction of the Middle Route Army.

During the Jinghu Road period, as one of the remaining generals in many defeated divisions, although his rank was preserved, the troops were inevitably reduced and reorganized; Lost the qualification to lead the road alone and became the Xiangfan front

In those days when the Saiwai feudal Hu was wreaking havoc in the Central Plains and the most difficult period of the Xiangfan front, he had to rely heavily on his father, who was a privy deputy and a general in the army, to preserve the little power in his hands and not be annexed or abolished.

It was easy to wait for the national dynasty to gather strength to relaunch the Second Northern Expedition, but his men and horses were excluded by the Central Route Army in disguise, and even because Liu Shaoneng served as the head of the Huainan Battalion, he almost lost the opportunity and qualification to lead the troops before the battle.

For this, he also told him openly and frankly,

After so many years of wandering in the local area, he still has to have a piece under the painful experience? It can be used as a fundamental place for the army under his command to cultivate, prepare and eat, otherwise no matter how much it is valued and reused, it is just a rootless wanderer who rises and falls day and night.

It was only when I got along privately and fought side by side in the north that it was the most relaxed and happy time.

Therefore, he also needs to use the platform of Huaidong to get more opportunities to make contributions; Naturally, I also did not hesitate to use all means and all kinds of resources to improve the existing conditions and environment in Huaidong, or to provide all kinds of convenience and help for my small group.

As the first step of sincerity and expression, he will take the initiative to hand over all the reorganization rights, including those directly subordinate subordinates, except for the pro-soldier team, and let the Huaidong Zhenfu under my leadership help complete the corresponding follow-up army construction and training equipment.

The group of generals and subordinates he brought with him will also accept the unified standards of Huaidong, and after a series of assessments and selections, they can decide on their corresponding positions and other personnel arrangements in this new unit.

In addition, there are 500,000 military expenses he brought, as well as dozens of ships of heavy supplies such as cloth, silk, rice, and grain, but they are the backhands and goodwill left by his privy envoy father long before he was transferred to the Huainan camp.

Of course, this may be his true intention and purpose, but it is not necessarily his only purpose; Perhaps there are still reservations in what he said, but at least the purpose of their initial communication has been achieved.

In return for my kindness, I arranged for his department to conduct training on the spot in Jiaozhou, and gave him the right to recommend a certain number of places to study in a government-run joint school.

So, at the reception banquet when we arrived in Yidu, it seemed that the guests and hosts were happy, and he and I drank a few glasses, and we were drunk and helped back......

Of course

After Yidu spent only six days to briefly understand and visit the basic structure and daily operation of the local Yamen, such as the Zhenfu Mansion, the Transit Envoy, the Economic Strategy Envoy, and the Political Secretary; Liu Yanqing couldn't wait to leave Yidu, saying that he was going to Jiaozhou to rectify the army.

Of course, during the short period of Liu Yanqing's stay in Yidu, under the cover of the daily activities of the first batch of people who were responsible for delivering daily supplies to the rear army and assisting in the construction of local resettlement camps, my men began to try to penetrate the interior of this foreign army, and had already developed individual eyeliners;

At this time, the person I installed in the anti-rebellion committee handed me a report, which was somewhat meaningful.

Recently, there have been rangers in Huaidong.

In fact, in the context of the era of underdeveloped productive forces and backward society, the government as the representative of the administrative execution power cannot be extended to the grassroots and blank, and self-relief is a special product of self-relief; Therefore, after the executive power of the regime and the ability to control the social order were gradually strengthened, the group of rangers naturally disappeared from history.

Only clans linked by blood and marriage can survive for a long time and tenaciously at the grassroots level that the feudal social regime has never been able to reach. It was not until the founding of the People's Republic of China and the land reform established a more controlling and enforceable system of public ownership by the whole people that it was completely replaced and eliminated by the people's communes.

But at a certain point in time hundreds of years ago, the last glory of the rangers of the Sui and Tang dynasties was successfully renewed by a person who was born out of thin air, although the activity space and soil of the rangers on the land of China inevitably continued to decay.

But with the continuous opening up of new worlds and extraterritorial territories, the source of these rangers has also been given a bigger stage to show their skills and play that, and the righteous organizations and armed pioneer groups that have sprung up everywhere since that era are the best inheritors of the rangers as the main extralegal group.

To this day, a large number of righteous associations and organizations active at home and abroad continue to play an active role in their respective arenas.

Of course, most of them are inextricably linked to the government or local wealthy families, large maritime merchants, and even princes and clans. often undertake the defense and policing of newly developed, marginal and chaotic areas; There are even some overseas territories that have simply developed from the colonies and colonies that had been developed by the group.

Since the beginning of the officer system in Huaidong, there has been no soil for these rangers or righteous servants to organize their activities, and even the escort forces of those caravans are only allowed to stay in the coastal ports and the designated areas around them.

But on the other hand, if they are willing to come to the territory of the three prefectures of Denglaijiao under the rule of Huaidong in their personal name or as a family unit, buy property and slaves, and be obedient to the people with peace of mind, they will not be particularly rejected thousands of miles away.

Recently, the Anti-Counterterrorism Committee has reported some noteworthy developments: Several groups of hundreds of people have entered the Yanbian prefectures controlled by Huaidong through various channels and methods, purchased nearby properties and settled them, and some of them have even taken the initiative to declare their identities and occupations.