11 years of Jianxing, the beginning.

The joy of the New Year has not yet dissipated, and in the city of Guangwu County, everyone's face is filled with the joy of the arrival of the New Year. The same is true of Junhu Lane in the north of the city. Due to the military expansion carried out by the county government last year, the military household alleys are now almost overcrowded. Some of the remaining families in the vicinity of Junhu Lane were also moved to other parts of the city under the mobilization of the county government.

Today, the north of the county town is full of military families. Thanks to the help of the county soldiers to the households in the county, on the occasion of the New Year, there is also an endless stream of old officials among the households who come to the military households to congratulate the New Year.

The rest of the households in the county now look at the military households differently than they used to be. Several military families have hired matchmakers to marry the daughters of civilian families. Li Yanzhao himself also caught up with the excitement. As a special "parent" of the military households, he came to the door with those elderly matchmakers.

In fact, before Nacai, the sons and daughters of both sides had already formed a friendship in the common work. Therefore, there was almost no obstacle to the Nacai matter. The parents of those daughters' families also gladly accepted the fact that their future son-in-law was a soldier in the county government.

The people generally did not resist these soldiers who had helped them, and began to accept them and be willing to associate with them. During the New Year, you can see many young people in the households, sitting and drinking with the soldiers in leather armor in the tavern. The two sides talked happily and were as affectionate as their own brothers.

The military families who wanted to marry the daughters of the people's families, heard that the matchmaker was willing to marry each other, and they also prepared the dowry early, so in the middle of the year, Li Yanzhao and the matchmakers worked together to send these dowry gifts to the in-laws' homes.

Hearing that the family in the intention has given a dowry, those daughters of the household are also overjoyed. Each prepared a token and asked the matchmaker to bring it back to the intended person. Li Yanzhaoguan and these women are also ingenious people, and the tokens they give are all embroidered by these women, or purses, or sachets. There are many embroidered winged birds on it, which makes people impressed by their craftsmanship when they see it.

In the family of the people, the marriage did not have the complicated procedures that were followed between the high doors at this time. After each issued a dowry and a token in return, the matter was decided.

Li Yanzhao took Ni Congyun to participate in the whole process. Last year, when this little girl fled, Li Yanzhao knew that his family was gone, so he felt pity in his heart.

Although Ni Congyun has not yet come out of the shadow of losing all his relatives at home, under the careful care of Liu Zhongkang's family and Li Yanzhao, he is also much more cheerful than at the beginning. At this time, Li Yanzhao brought her to participate in this kind of affairs, and it was precisely through these festive scenes that he wanted to eliminate the shadow in the little girl's heart.

After last autumn, the murderers of Uncle Zhong were also executed under the auspices of the county government. At the time of the execution, all the old officials of the sect were present. Through the disposal of these people, to warn the homeless people with ill intentions, after the execution, the heads of the people were hung high above the city gate as usual, for more than a month.

"Uncle, is that the case for marriage?" Seeing the bustling scene in front of her, the little girl also had a flush on her cheeks, and raised her head to ask Li Yanzhao.

"Qiao'er, the matter of marriage, as you see in front of you, is like this." Li Yanzhao replied with a smile. Since bringing Ni Congyun back, she has been calling him an uncle. Although Li Yanzhao felt that this title made him a little older, it was also up to this little girl to go.

Ni Congyun didn't know where Li Yanzhao learned his nickname. However, under repeated questioning, Li Yanzhao smiled and did not answer. It seems that she doesn't remember who she was waiting for on the way to escape.

Now that Nagina has been recruited, these wedding matters are settled. After going to the temple to ask for an appointment, Li Yanzhao carefully arranged a fake table for the soldiers who were about to get married.

After finishing this chore, Li Yanzhao also ended his vacation, said goodbye to Liu Zhongkang and Ni Congyun and other family members, and returned to the army.

The wedding date of those soldiers was set on the sixth day of the second month. Li Yanzhao stamped the marriage leave form with his own letter of 100 people, and then sent it to the 1000 people superintendent for approval. Du Jie didn't make much difficulty, and when he saw Li Yanzhao report these affairs, he approved them with a stroke of his pen.

Now that the New Year's Festival has ended, these soldiers under Li Yanzhao's command have returned to their usual work status, and every day, the newly designated cavalry school outside the camp is full of people, and the cavalry are back and forth, galloping endlessly. The sword is like a locust. Each of them practiced in their own designated areas, which also eliminated many potential safety hazards.

It's just that the sergeants of the battalion are now keen to abuse the wooden dummies erected on the school grounds, but they have suffered more than a dozen soldiers in the army who are proficient in carpenter's craft. At the end of each day's drills, they would bring the miserable dummies back to the camp, either to repair them or to collect materials and redo them.

For this reason, Li Yanzhao specially applied for a monthly subsidy of 100 yuan per person for these soldiers who were proficient in carpenters. It is used to commend them for their voluntary maintenance of training equipment. And the governor and the treasurer of the thousand people also waved their pens and approved them.

In any case, now that the official trade maintained by the county government has begun, the military expenditure regularly allocated by the county government is more than enough. Not only that, Li Yanzhao heard from the small officials in the county government that the county government had begun to organize a group of blacksmiths to make iron armor for the county soldiers.

After getting these news, Li Yanzhao was even more excited. Iron armor, although rare in this era, is indeed a treasure in the army.

In this era, if you have an iron armor, your chances of surviving on the battlefield will undoubtedly be greatly improved. Everyone in the military understands this truth. Therefore, when the first batch of cuff armor made by the county government arrived in the camp, it was evident from the faces of the cheering soldiers.

The first batch of iron armor in the county government began to be made at the end of last year, and it was only at the beginning of February that the production was completed and distributed to the county soldiers. Although there were only a pitiful hundred leaders, the soldiers were already excited.

After comprehensive consideration, the Thousand Governors divided the more than 100 collar iron armor into two, half of which was given to Zhao Chengzhi's infantry battalion, and the other half was assigned to Li Yanzhao's cavalry battalion.

Sun Jianxiong's Shooting Battalion did not receive even a single piece of iron armor. However, he has no objection to such distribution. After all, if one day he goes up to the battlefield, his crossbowmen need to be placed under the protection of the foot soldiers. If, as soon as they took over, the foot soldiers in front of them had been defeated, then the fate of their crossbowmen would be obvious.

The way the infantry battalion assigns iron armor is very simple and crude. When these iron armors are directly issued to the array, the battle position is in the front row, or the first few rows of soldiers. However, Li Yanzhao was slightly embarrassed. In addition to the commanders assigned to each team, there are still dozens of iron armor, but how to distribute it so as not to cause the sergeants and soldiers to make a gap because of this?

But after thinking for a while, Li Yanzhao had a number in his heart. Assign these remaining iron armor to each of them, and the one with the best performance in drilling, presumably in this way, there should be no objection in the army.

Therefore, the day after these iron armors arrived in the army, Li Yanzhao presided over the cavalry of the whole battalion and launched a unique martial arts competition in the new church.

The cavalry of each party led them away, each looking for a field, and on their respective fields, they went back and forth, starting a duel.

Li Yanzhao formulated a rule for this, between one charge, hitting four dummies or more is excellent, three are good, and two are qualified. Two or less are not qualified.

After nearly a morning of competition, Li Yanzhao couldn't help frowning when the results of the final assessment came out.

There are only seven people who are excellent in the competition, twenty-one who are good, and seventy-six who are qualified. The rest are not qualified. There were even sixty or so people, and not a single dummy was hit.

Looking at the soldiers who were in front of the queue at this moment, most of them were dejected, Li Yanzhao thought about it for a while, and deeply felt that there was still a long way to go in the matter of military training.