Hebei, Xingzhou, Qingshan County

In the new district of Zengtou, which has been reduced to ruins, a sudden rebellion and subsequent planned ambush have just been thwarted and extinguished by the arrival of reinforcements.

Chen Longxiang, the deputy of the gunpowder and the second-class gunner, tried hard to move the spur, and pulled it out of the chest of a war horse that was poked down and struggling, but it was already a little bent and deformed, he couldn't help but spit, turned around and stuck the pointed head obliquely under his feet and stepped on it hard, as if he was stunned and could barely use it again.

It's a pity that this is the cheapest wrought iron-clad steel spur, so it is not resistant to fierce collisions and forces; Rather than the more durable all-hard steel or the fine-forged black iron spurs, no matter how many times you poke them, they are almost disguised materials.

These out-of-the-box equipment need to be purchased from the supply and marketing office in the army out of personal pockets, or customized in the local construction office. Of course, there are also people who are greedy for cheapness and convenience and privately customize to private workshops, but the specific quality and effectiveness are completely difficult to say.

After all, this is a weapon that involves the safety of one's own life, and it is the cart before the horse to leave potential trouble for the small bargain of saving money.

What's more, the situation they faced this time was somewhat different. The opponents are no longer the army of enemies who gather on the frontal battlefield and fight to the death, but those who hide their heads and hide their faces in the place and specialize in sneak attacks and destruction.

As the news of the western's eastward advance spread, a large number of robbers and bandits of all kinds appeared in Hebei, as if they had received some kind of encouragement and response, and a considerable number of them were equipped with all kinds of mules and horses, and they had a certain kind of well-informed information and the convenience of wanton shuttle.

Therefore, at least at present, there are more than a dozen officials sent to the localities, including a legitimate ambassador for the arrest of thieves and three lieutenants, as well as several times as many officials and officials, who have suffered all kinds of accidents and accidents in the course of their tenure, or have simply disappeared without seeing anyone alive or dead.

The situation and situation in the newly occupied areas, which originally seemed to have been basically calmed down, have also become extremely intense and acute because of these surging undercurrents. Some of the cities that had been under control had become treacherous and tense, while others that had been resettled had also fled to varying degrees.

On the pretext of coming from outsiders to fill in households and rob them of their land and subsistence resources, some people secretly incite the local people to reject and oppose the newly established resettlement villages, so as to create all kinds of contradictions between the local and the people, who do not distinguish between truth and falsehood and right and wrong.

Since then, they have accepted the local methods of corruption and division with peace of mind, and even compromised and lenient some local forces under the banner of maintaining the local situation, and even led to the policies and measures openly implemented in Huaizhen to give various discounts to varying degrees or change their tunes, or even become a model of failure in the style of yin and yang.

Although it was soon discovered and dealt with quickly under the comparison of the grass-roots supervision mechanism and the inspection system of the observation envoy sent by Huaizhen, the corresponding losses and collateral effects caused were not so easy to make up.

Therefore, Chen Longxiang and the other soldiers who were resting and training in the rear because of the considerable damage of their troops had to put on their battle robes and embark on a new journey of pacifying and restoring the locality;

Of course, they are more likely to take scattered teams as the core unit, supervise and coordinate the newly formed local garrison regiments and patrol teams, and carry out low-intensity and high-frequency public security warfare and joint defense and clearance work; In addition, they also have to cooperate with the personnel of the Anti-Rebellion Association in private, waiting for opportunities to rectify and arrest the possible speculators, hidden spies, and eyeliner inside and out.

Of course, these chaotic parties and thieves who come and go in the local area like the wind and rag are not groundless affairs, but under the new system imposed by Huaizhen, some kind of serious bottoming out and counter-current reaction triggered by external factors after being squeezed to the limit.

Compared with the Lianghuai Road, which was torn apart by war, or Pinglu Road, which had fallen into a dead end of development under the Songun system, Hebei Province, which was more well-preserved under the chaos; After all, it is the traditional five surnames and seven hopes, the root and birthplace of the old clan gate valve, and the influence and tradition left behind are still in another way and appearance, and continue to be deeply rooted in the place;

Therefore, although Li Tang has been suppressed and suppressed for hundreds of years, there have been more than a hundred years of chaos in the world and the long-term turmoil of the times; The old middle and upper class doors or a small number of once famous top family gate valves have long since lost their old views and past styles, and only the existence of the surface is left;

Among them, there are only a handful of very few family branches, which can be regarded as quick to transform when they see the opportunity, and become more or less in control of one side of the separatist power, or go overseas to divide the side of the domain, and can inherit the family and bloodline.

After all, the high-ranking clans in the troubled times can be said to be the first target of various forces, because they control most of the social resources and basically occupy the upper echelons of the social class, and they can easily become the target of various large and small forces that take advantage of the chaos.

On the other hand, these gatekeepers, who have mastered a large number of social resources and traditional knowledge inheritance systems, are better at fighting within the system in the peaceful era, rather than fighting desperately with many desperate mud legs. Therefore, when the world is irrepressibly plunged into chaos and turmoil, it is the small and medium-sized heroes who are based on familiar places that are more likely to survive in the cracks of the troubled times.

Now, these remnant clans and powerful forces that have escaped the war and policy sweeps have obviously become the last obstacle and obstruction to sweeping and governing Hebei under the new policy implemented by Huaizhen.

Anyway, judging from the current social environment and conditions, after suppressing and cleaning up the dissident elements who are willing to come out of the way, there are only the good and obedient people who do not dare to commemorate the grudges regardless of their past suspicions;

And this is just a matter of long-term and short-term trade-offs. Then, in the process, there was obviously still some noise and dissonance.

"What are you doing?"

Chen Longxiang, who was patrolling the streets, suddenly rushed forward and kicked a tall auxiliary soldier on the cheek, causing the other party to roll to the side like a ball.

"Do you want to die?"

"Is it true that the military law before the battle was vegetarian?"

It turned out that what he was pressed under his body before was actually a skinny dirty woman.

Then, the whip used as a belt chased after him and whipped it down.

"The Turtle Son dares to disgrace us and ruin our collective honor"

"If you want a woman, go to prostitution afterwards. Or look for it in the wild city."

"If you can't control your own guys, you will be ashamed of everyone."

"Don't blame us for being rude."

As a sequelae of this large-scale expansion of the army, it is inevitable that those soldiers who obviously lack sufficient military discipline and discipline will inevitably be mixed in, and they will become new problems and problems that will emerge step by step.

You must know that Huaizhen has always had strict military law, and the orders and prohibitions before the battle are even more severe; Although some accidental collateral injuries and corresponding punishments are allowed, the prohibition of violence against women is an absolute precaution;

After all, for the Huai Army, whether it is a woman or a woman, it is also a very important strategic resource and part of the productive forces of life; Not to mention that there are still a lot of soldiers who beat the singles, waiting to accumulate enough merit and seniority to get permission to be matched and start a family; If this woman became a member of a soldier's family in the future, wouldn't it be difficult to meet at all.

Therefore, the punishment and implication of this matter are not to be easily spared.

Therefore, the more tense the situation of struggle and confrontation at the local level, the more acute and obscure the contradictions become. The more veterans who act as the backbone and backbone of the backbone must pay attention to the corresponding matters and military discipline; In order to prevent it from falling into the mouth and becoming the rat that spoils a pot of porridge, and even use the future of his net worth that he has worked so hard to build up to this kind of guy who does not distinguish between right and wrong.

Although they do not have direct jurisdiction over and interference with the military, as long as the other party is willing to stab them, whether it is the general of the military or the supervision department, they will definitely not let these related people easily pass the test.

(End of chapter)