There were more than 30,000 volunteers in Yunbei and Yunnan, and Chen Ming selected 3,000 people from them. All the rest will go north to Nanyang Mansion, which will become the largest capital of the General's Mansion to resist the encirclement and suppression of the Manchu army in the next few months or even longer.

When Chen Ming and his wife were rolling in the quilt, countless people inside and outside Fancheng County were also saying their final goodbyes.

Elder brother, younger brother, husband, father, son, ......, the three thousand volunteers selected by Chen Ming have their own families and another identity different from that of soldiers. They are either elder brothers, younger brothers, or heads of families, fathers of several children, and sons of parents.

No one wants to leave their parents and relatives in a strange environment, but Chen Ming's condition is that these volunteers can't resist the temptation. All the 3,000 people signed up voluntarily, just for the settling-in allowance of five silver dollars, and only for the military family allowance of 50 catties of rations a month promised by Chen Jiajun.

The 50 catties of rations are all fine grains, and there are at least 80 catties of coarse grains when they are replaced with coarse grains, and then some of the coarse grains are exchanged for miscellaneous grains, which is enough for a family of four to live for a month. Even a family of five can make ends meet.

These men from homeless shantytowns can't resist the temptation of Chen Ming, 'There must be brave men under the heavy reward', don't think that no one will be happy if this is the money for selling their lives. In the high mountains and dense forests of Yunyang, a human life sometimes cannot be exchanged for three or five catties of miscellaneous grains. Chen Ming was selected from the 3,000 people who stood up one by one, and he was not pulling Zhuangding.

With family members under the General's Palace, these 3,000 people are more credible than the recruits of the twelve armored battalions.

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On the side of the Han River, the position of the Chen Jiajun.

The crescent moon hung high in the sky, casting a faint silver glow on the water. Winter has arrived, and you can't hear any insects chirping in the night, not even a single bird, only the sound of the Han River washing over the shore.

Occasionally, a large firework will hit the sky, and the sound of explosions will spread across the two shores, piercing the suffocating silent night sky, adding infinite tranquility to the heavens and the earth.

The secluded river shimmers in the cool east wind, like silver moonlight.

If the literati and artists were faced with this situation, they were afraid that they would write a poem to express their emotions. It's a pity that Jiang Tianfang is a martial artist, you can let him dance with a knife and a gun, and he can't say half a word when he recites poems and sentences.

He was now an officer in the newly formed Battalion A. He can be admitted to the Manchu Qing Dynasty's Wu Xiucai, at least his kung fu is much better than the average person. He was jumped out of the mine at the beginning of the surrender, first the logistics team, then the recruit, with a big gun in his hand, Jiang Tianfang made many meritorious contributions on the battlefield, and his rank was constantly promoted like a plane.

The team officer, there are really a hundred people under his command, which is put in the Manchu Green Battalion, which is more than the people who brought the general with him.

But Jiang Tian was relieved that there was no joy at all. Just like the clear space, Jiang Tianfang is not optimistic about the future of Chen Jiajun, even if he made up his mind to 'get ahead' in Chen Jiajun from the beginning, but it was more for his family. Let his family enjoy a better treatment in the present time.

Jiang Tianfang, who has a family, even if he has no hope for the future, he is very resolute to make the opposite choice to the clear space.

But Jiang Tianfang, who was very brutal in the past, unconsciously dyed a kind of literary youth in his personality. He suddenly liked to be alone for a while, not that he was alone all the time, but sometimes he liked to be quiet, at the beginning or end of the war. If there are mountains and rivers, and there is moonlight and starlight in the night, it is even better.

Sit alone. In the empty and silent night, he will feel that the world is very wide, very wide, which will make his suppressed heart become relaxed. The night covered himself as if it were the earth, his sorrow for the future of his fate, and the pain in his heart.

In fact, Jiang Tianfang knew very well why he liked to sit alone in the moonlight, and in the final analysis, he still had a grudge against Chen Jiajun in his heart.

It's a pity that his situation is really difficult to be 'forgiven' by the Manchu court, otherwise it is difficult to say how much real fighting spirit the soldiers represented by Jiang Tianfang can have.

Tonight, Jiang Tianfang's camp is guarding the riverside artillery position, today is Jiang Tianfang's youngest son's birthday, and when night comes, he is really young again. Sitting on the stones by the river, listening to the sound of the waves of the Han River washing over the embankment in his ears, Jiang Tianfang was stunned. Because he can't see the light of the future, as long as he looks forward to the future, he is a sword and a bloody shadow, and he is incognito. Even living incognito in the future is a luxury, and it is the best end......

Jiang Tianfang looked at the starry and lit other shore, and the officials in the court were all stupid in his eyes.

The Hubei officials and soldiers all rushed to Xiangyang, so they didn't know if Fancheng could go west to De'an Mansion? A team of 3,000 people from the Chen family army had already gone west from Fancheng, and this team had killed Hanchuan, which was hundreds of miles away, and there was no problem at all in Jiang Tianfang's eyes. If the Jiang Han crossed by the Chen Jiajun in Hankou, or directly killed Hankou and Hanyang, threatening Wuchang, would the troops in Xiangyang City not move? How much more do you have to move?

Jiang Tianfang didn't think that the team would fight under Xiangyang City. The latter had a strong city defense, an adequate number of defenders, no shortage of food and, more importantly, reinforcements. The Hunan Green Camp is rushing towards the north with great momentum.

If Chen Ming continues to stop his troops here and fight, then the battle of Xiangyang will be the fate of the Chen family's army. And what they have been propagating in their team these days is an expedition, to the south and east, to the land of wealth in the south of the Yangtze River. I didn't hear that the team was going to compete with the officers and soldiers in Xiangyang.

The next day, the sun had just risen. The winter sun dispelled the mist on the Han River, and the sound of cannon explosions resounded in the sky above Xiangfan.

Shi Liang and Xue Shiyan didn't know that when the cannon roared, hundreds of thousands of displaced shantytowns on the north bank of the Han River had already embarked on the road to the north, and in the next month, they would be in Nanyang and Ruzhou.

A large number of swords, guns and armor are waiting for the volunteers, as long as they have a short period of training, such as surviving the current winter, and waiting for the spring of the next year, these people will become qualified soldiers, at least stronger than the green battalion of the Qing army.

The Chen family's army swept half of Henan, sweeping north of the Han River, and I don't know how much grain they pulled into their own nests, these are the easiest weapons for the general's mansion to digest these homeless shantytowns. It was impossible for Chen Jiajun to allocate land to the hundreds of thousands of displaced shantytowns in Ruzhou, where there was a lack of land, and Nanyang Province, where the population was relatively dense, and the young and strong of these people became Chen Jiajun soldiers, and the rest, including women, could become workers in road construction teams, construction teams, and even factories in mines, iron works, and cement factories. They leveled the land and built fortifications, of course, these fortifications were not cement buildings, and Chen Jiajun's cement could not be put into use in winter temperatures. However, with the influx of hundreds of thousands of people, this force will inevitably expand Chen Jiajun's steel and cement production, and improve people's livelihood, transportation, and other aspects under the general's rule.