…… If these two new battalions can't be included in the formation now, the more than 500 people recruited by the box soldier A regiment cannot be included in the box soldier establishment at the moment, these people have been eating for half a month, and if it drags on, the overspending quota will reach 80 guan this month, we have a thin foundation, although Qin Buzheng has never allocated money to us, but last time I went to ask for money, I also complained, and now the two counties of Yan'an and Fushi alone have received nearly 15,000 displaced people, and the following counties, the total population of Yanzhou has more than doubled last year, It is necessary to reclaim the famine and build water conservancy, and the use of the state capital is getting tighter and tighter, and now it is barely supported by Chen Zhe's business dealings, but the traders always want to make money, and it is not the same thing to go on like this, this time I ask Brother Zhou to send an order to invite your brother back from Luzi Pass, it is to discuss this matter, the adult is not there, you have to get an idea about the affairs of the Yan'an group! ”

Lu Xun's words made the current situation very clear, and the dusty Shen Chen couldn't help frowning, although he was in charge of operational command in terms of division of labor, but as a core member of this army, he also understood that Li Wenge's family was not easy now. Today's Li Wenge is no longer a small team leader, he is in charge of the military and political affairs of the ten counties, and he has to worry about more than just the army. Although from Shen Chen's original intentions, the local difficulties have nothing to do with him, but at present, the equipment, weapons, and food of several thousand people must be supported by the Yanzhou local government, and if the local finances collapse, this army, which has just formed a certain scale, will immediately face the dilemma of disarmament.

Although he is absolutely unwilling to worry about this, Li Wenge is not here now. He wanted to stay out of the matter, and Zhou Zhengyu and Lu Xun, the two members of the Xiang Corps, would never agree.

"What does Brother Zhou mean?" Shen Chen turned his gaze to Zhou Zhengyu, who was sitting cross-legged on the side, frowning and worried.

The nominal No. 2 person in the Eighth Route Army didn't answer for a long time, and it wasn't until Shen Chen asked again that he stroked his chin and said: "What can it mean, we are not immortals, we can't do tricks, we don't have money and food, and we can't feed the brothers just by relying on Wei Xun and their mouths." At present, there are only two methods, one is that the new barracks will be incorporated into the Yan'an regiment immediately. The other is that after these 500 people are transferred to the new barracks, the progress of the recruitment section will be temporarily stopped. No more recruiting from the homeless. Everything will wait until the adults come back! ”

What Zhou Zhengyu said is not actually a solution, but an inevitable choice that has to be made in front of him, the expansion speed of the Eighth Route Army is too fast, in more than a year, the Yan'an Regiment has more than 1,400 combat soldiers, plus more than 2,000 people in the Xiang Corps, the total strength has exceeded the Zhejia Army, and Yanzhou has raised these many soldiers on the palm-sized ground. It's already amazing. Had it not been for the military operations last autumn that had captured a lot of money, I am afraid that the state would have run a deficit in its finances by the end of the year.

Lu Xun looked at Shen Chen, waiting to hear his opinion.

Shen Chen smiled bitterly: "I don't have any good way, the only way I can think of is to go out and grab another vote, but I can't do such a big thing as mobilizing the army, the adults haven't come back, even if Wei Xun nods, I don't dare to do it - this is an uncertain thing." Now the Tuoba family is worried that we will not go out of the customs and fight with them. The lord entered Beijing and took away the main force of the cavalry brigade, and it would be good if the troops in the hands of the fine seal could maintain the shelter near the two passes, and it was a pure adventure to go out to fight in this case. I'm not even half sure......"

"You're pretty sure, and I won't agree—"

It was Wei Xun who pushed the door and walked in, he walked to the door just now, and Shen Chendi listened to it all over his ears, so he came in and said this straightforwardly.

Several people turned to look at him, and Lu Xun picked up a bowl of water and handed it to him: "Is the Liutao Pavilion finished?" ”

Wei Xun nodded, picked up the bowl and raised his neck to drink it in one go, put down the bowl and asked, "The battle in front is over, how is it?" Are the casualties heavy? How many people need to be added? ”

He was asking Shen Chen.

"The three pivotal inscriptions, all of which are the banners of the Tuoba family, at first they wanted to fill the trench, and they retracted after suffering from the crossbow team, and now the ground is frozen firm, and the earth thieves are hard, and they are short of manpower, and then they no longer fill the pits, and get some wooden planks, and the casualties finally passed the ditch for a while, and when climbing the city wall, the ladder could not be set up, and I fell dizzy, and occasionally a few climbed up to the ground and were stabbed down, and the crossbow team never stopped, and the people under the city wall died one by one, and I looked a little panick......ed."

"Can't get the ladder?" Wei Xun was stunned for a moment.

Shen Chen smiled: "This is the idea of breaking Yuqing's little ghost head, watering down from the city, the weather is cold, and it almost takes little effort to form ice, so water it over and over again, you go and see it now, the entire city wall on the north side of the wall has become a big ice mound, not to mention people, even ants can't climb up." This kid from the Fold family does have a set, he was born in a family of military generals, his eyes are quick to react, and the party members have suffered a lot from him......"

Wei Xun breathed a sigh of relief: "Defeated? ”

Shen Chen nodded: "Only a few brothers have minor injuries, just bandage them, the wounded on the Luziguan side is not worse than on the mountain, it's not a serious injury to be raised over there." However, the crossbow arrows are a little badly damaged, mainly because the weather is too cold, and the armor-piercing wear of the arrows is relatively large, so they need to be replenished. The Tuoba family had just retired the day before yesterday, and I guess they won't come back before the beginning of spring! received an order from Brother Zhou again, and rushed back. ”

Wei Xun asked: "There are few soldiers who came this time, if these Dijon soldiers are killed, can they withstand it?" ”

Shen Chen said: "The terrain in front of the pass is narrow, and the soldiers can't be opened, so he can only come with 10,000 people, and he can only fill in dozens of people, as long as he doesn't freeze, and the crossbow arrows are sufficient, the strength of a battalion of Yuqing can firmly hold the Luzi Pass." ”

Wei Xun no longer asked Shen Chen about the results of the battle and the seizures, the officers and secretaries of the supervising army on the front line should have finished counting and calculating at this moment, and they would receive the report in less than two days.

Zhou Zhengyu coughed, the only person who was not very respectful to himself in the army was this Wei Xun, but the military supervision system was independently responsible for Li Wenge, and he had no right to interfere. Lao Zhou didn't want to commit this taboo, after all, he was already 100,000 satisfied with Li Wenge, a guerrilla general. At this moment, seeing that Wei Xun had finished asking, he slowly spoke: "Let's talk back, the matter must be dealt with after all!" ”

Wei Xun nodded, patted Shen Chen and said, "Don't mind, old Shen, you have the final say on the frontline, but according to the rules set by the adults before leaving." Only when Li Xianggong, who is acting for state affairs, issues the state of emergency in the name of the state government, can you have the power to mobilize troops above the battalion level. I'm a prisoner. Military affairs are naturally focused on you, but with such a big move as going out of the customs to fight the grass valley, I can't easily let go unless I have to. The adults set up large and small prison armies, in order to prevent the generals from abusing power, the system is the system, the brother is not against you, be considerate! ”

Shen Chen smiled bitterly: "I'm just talking." This kind of uncertain thing is purely a risk of luck, I really don't have an idea, so I just talk nonsense! ”

Wei Xun nodded, looked at Zhou Zhengyu and Lu Xun and said, "Brother Zhou, Brother Lu, I have a plan, you can help sum it up." See if it works! ”

Zhou Zhengyu raised his head. Wei Xun said this, which meant that he had thought of a way to solve the current predicament, Lao Zhou immediately threw the little unhappiness brought to him by Wei Xundi's faceless attitude to the clouds, and said with a high spirit: "Brother Wei, say it quickly!" ”

Wei Xun nodded. Said: "Eye."

The establishment of the five battalions of the regiment has been full, and if the number is increased, it will be organized to the left and down, and the problem of weapons is not big, but there is no armor; What I mean is to send the two battalions of recruits who have been trained to the local area, the equipment is distributed from the mountain, the local government is responsible for the provisions, the rations are sufficient, but only half of the salary is paid, on weekdays you can help the magistrate maintain law and order to catch thieves, the relationship between the leading officers is left in the army, their salaries are distributed from the mountain, and the right to transfer troops in the formation is also left in the mountain, and you can operate in the territory of the garrison on weekdays, if you want to cross the border, you must ask Lao Shen and Brother Zhou, but you two can't be good at transferring troops. It takes the three of us to use the seal to give orders to these local soldiers, do you think this is good? ”

This method really made the eyes of the three people in the room shine, Lu Xun stood up first and said: "This method is good, the families of these rogue militiamen are all staying in the state, and they go down to the counties, if something happens, holding their families, they will never dare to come nonsense!" ”

Shen Chen stroked his chin and pondered for a long time, then raised his head and asked, "Such a big move, the adults didn't do it in private, is there a suspicion of trespassing?" ”

Wei Xun waved his hand: "It's a bit arrogant, but you now have the name of the state inspection school regiment, and you have this right, and I don't let you have the final say, I want to put the prison army in these local teams, although it is not a regular army, it must also be under the supervision of the supervisor Cao." This method is what I only thought of today, of the thirty-seven lieutenants in the Liutao Pavilion in this phase, twenty-four of them want to return to their original team to lead the troops, and the remaining thirteen are better than letting them enter the Yan'an regiment now, it is better to put them in the local area to experience it, catch the little thief or something, it is better than entering the army and idle! ”

"I think this method will work-" Zhou Zhengyu stood up, rubbed his legs and said, "In this way, only equip these soldiers with wooden guns, the pressure on the ordnance battalion will not be too great, and only equipped with wooden guns, it will not be easy for these soldiers to make trouble." If something really happens, the five battalions of our Yan'an Regiment can easily level him! ”

Wei Xun nodded: "The strength of a county in the local area should not be too big a problem to raise a team of fifty people, Yanzhou is now ten counties, and it is just assigned to one team in each county." ”

Shen Chen looked at Lu Xun and asked, "Brother Lu still has five hundred soldiers there, how to deal with this group of people after training?" ”

"How can it take three months for this group of people to be trained, and by then, Lord Hou should have already returned from Bianjing, and there will naturally be adults to deal with it at that time!" Wei Xun said without hesitation, "If the adults think that we have handled it inappropriately, then the soldiers will be transferred back, and it won't cost much anyway......"

Shen Chen nodded and said, "This is indeed a good way, but without the nods of Li Xianggong and Qin Buzheng, this matter is just what we said." After all, it is the parents and officials of the counties who have to face, and those civil officials don't buy the accounts of our Qiu Ba! ”

Wei Xun smiled, opened the door and called a personal soldier, and ordered: "You go to Yan'an City quickly, and order Commander Li to come to see me, just say that it is the order of General Zhou, Shen Tongzhi and the three of me!" ”

As he spoke, he took out a prison order arrow from his bosom and handed it to the soldier.

The pro-soldier responded to the promise, and flew as if he was going, Wei Xun turned around and said: "When Li Hu arrives, please ask him to help arrange, Brother Zhou will take the lead, and we will go to worship Li Xianggong together in the evening, and explain the difficulties and this method to his old man, thinking that this is a matter of sharing the pressure of the state capital's expenditure, and it is Qin Buzheng, and he will not oppose it......"

……

Li Wenge, who was far away in Luoyang, did not know that these shrimp soldiers and crabs under his command would start a military system reform across time and space under his back under the cramped financial difficulties. Riding on a tall horse, walking in the mighty honor guard, his figure, which could not be seen by any means of momentum and demeanor, showed endless power at this moment, which made Li Shu of Luoyang City dumbfounded and amazed.

The honor guard of more than 100 people, all the horses in the northwest, all the soldiers were brightly dressed and energetic, and they all controlled the horses with excellent skills to form a four-way column and slowly marched, wrapping Li Wenge and a carriage behind him.

Walking in the forefront, is the leader of the six-line honor guard, twenty-four people, sixteen of whom hold two flags embroidered with angry dragons and flying tigers, two gold and copper leaf sections, four spears, four leopard tail guns, two red door flags, two black door flags, and six apricot yellow poles in the center, on which the official name of Li Wenge is written in large block letters:

Inspector Taibao Li

Right Xiaowei General Lee

Champion General Lee

The Eighth Route Army made Li

The deputy capital of the camp in the north of Guanzhong deployed Li

Zhiyan Prefecture Military and Political Affairs Li

The six flags were unfurled in the wind, showing to the people of Luoyang City who were watching on the side of the road, Li Shu, who had the noble identity and monstrous power of the people of the festival. During the period of the five dynasties, the feudal towns are numerous, the festival degree makes many such as cattle hair, Luoyang as an important town in the world, the people of its place have seen a lot, the festival degree of the road for decades is countless, the momentum of the situation is not inferior, and even some domineering festival degree makes the crossing of the street to be clean, but also makes the chickens and dogs jump and make the hustle and bustle. However, most of the honor guards of these festival envoys only have dozens of people, and the honor guards of hundreds of people themselves are very rare, not to mention that hundreds of people are uniformly dressed in standard armor and riding horses, which is even rarer.

The Central Plains has been in turmoil for many years, and the horse farm stables in various places have long been destroyed in the war, and now outside the Great Wall is the territory of the Khitan and the party, and the war horse has become an extremely precious strategic resource in the Central Plains.

It's the emperor who goes out on patrol, and the momentum is nothing more than that.

What's more, among the carriages escorted by such a magnificent guard of honor was a prostitute with the lowest status in the ninth stream......

The behavior of this Yanzhou marshal is really tight......

"See, the one sitting in the car is a lady from the Manqing Academy......"

"Was he ransomed by a big official?"

"It's not just redemption, looking at this posture, it's obvious that it's going to be the main room with three media and six certificates......"

"? I didn't see the font number on the flag, people are dignified generals, and accepting a young lady as a concubine is already the top of the sky, people's main room is to be sealed by the imperial court, at least a county lady, the imperial court can seal a young lady as a lady, don't dream......"

"I heard that he killed someone, and he went to the county office to be tried......"

"You're, you've ever seen such a grand prisoner on trial? Didn't you see the woman sitting in the car, but the Lord of the Ming Mansion was walking on the ground? Have you ever seen a prisoner escorted like this? ”

"You know the...... The general of the festival marshal passed by the guard of honor, and the state and county officials all avoided the road, and Zhang Mingfu couldn't sit on his shoulders, so he could only walk! What does it have to do with that woman? ”

"The general rode a horse, the Ming Mansion walked, and the prisoner sat in a car...... You know how to ......."

Listening to the whispers, disputes, and troubles of the surrounding onlookers, Yin Tongping, Zhang Shiwu Xingde, who was dressed in a green coat and a small hat, silently looked at Li Wenge, who was walking in the honor guard, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and muttered to himself in a low voice: "...... Yanzhou Li Huairen ...... Sure enough, it's an unexpectedly wonderful character......"