“…… Yang Lao Linggong led the cavalry and killed from behind the Liao army. I saw that there were many flags in the middle of the Liao army, and there was a senior official in gorgeous armor riding a horse and surrounded by a group of subordinates. Yang Lao Linggong expected that this person must be the commander of the Liao army, so he led the team to rush in. Although there are many people in the Liao army, most of them are staring at the Yanmen Pass in front of them, where do they know that a team of brave cavalry is killed behind them. Caught off guard, Yang Lao Linggong directly entered the Chinese army. ”

The Liao army guards who were blocking the road were scattered in an instant, and Yang Lao Linggong killed Xiao Duli, the commander of the Liao army, with a single sword. The Liao army saw that the lord was dead, and the old lady She in the Yanmen Pass saw that the sneak attack was successful, so he ordered the whole army to go out of the pass and assault, one in front and one in the back. The Liao army could not take care of anything else, and the whole army scattered and fled for their lives. Yang Lao Linggong took advantage of the situation to beat the water dogs, led his subordinates to kill tens of thousands of fleeing Liao troops, and captured another Liao army general, Li Chonghai. Yanmen Pass created the Liao army with few victories, and the surviving Liao army was killed, and it was said that Yang Lao Linggong was Yang invincible. For a long time after that, as soon as he saw Yang Lao Linggong's military flag outside the gate, he ran far away. ”

Zhang Mengcheng is now sitting on a big rock, facing the crowd of cottagers in front of him, playing the role of a storyteller. Because of Zhang Mengcheng's passive sabotage of cottage education in the past two months, the eldest brother Zhang Mengjin strictly ordered him to rectify. Therefore, telling stories to children after school every day is one of Zhang Mengcheng's many rectification measures.

Because there were men and women among the students, Zhang Mengcheng chose to slightly modify the story of Yang Jiajiang and tell it to a group of students every day. I don't know when some students and their elders came to listen to the story. At first, Zhang Mengcheng didn't care, but a few days ago, he was asked by his eldest brother that he must be transferred to a storyteller in the cottage after class every day. This made Zhang Mengcheng so angry that he regretted not being at the beginning, and the ancients did not deceive me.

“…… The Liao Emperor Yeluxian heard that outside the Yanmen Pass, the Liao army was defeated and returned, the concubine Xiao Du Li was killed, and the general Li Chonghai was captured. The 100,000 Liao army suffered heavy losses. I was so angry that I couldn't afford to get sick, and I died of illness after two years. His mother-in-law Xiao Yanyan succeeded to the throne with her ten-year-old son, and Xiao Yanyan became the Empress Dowager Xiao of Liao. Empress Dowager Xiao was regent, determined to capture Yang Lao Linggong alive, carefully trained soldiers and horses in the Liao State, and at the same time sent spies to infiltrate the Song Dynasty and bribe traitors to frame the Yang family. What will happen to Yang Lao Linggong and She Lao Taijun, I want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition. ”

"Ah, it's over again. It's still early at this time, so let's talk about it. ”

"That's it, that's what Mr. continued. What happened to Yang Jiajun later. ”

"Yes, Little Fifteen. Tell your third uncle about it. How did the emperor of the Song Dynasty treat Yang Lao Linggong. ”

“……”

The only storyteller in the cottage doesn't tell stories anymore. The people of the cottage whose spiritual life is very empty are naturally unhappy, and they ask Zhang Mengcheng to continue talking. completely ignored Zhang Mengcheng's dry mouth, and he didn't even have time to drink saliva.

The story of the Yang family is actually very popular among the people, and the young may not have heard it. But some of the elders in the cottage must have heard a lot. In order to show that he is different, Zhang Mengcheng can only add some bloody plots in later stories for artistic transformation, and try the old bottles and new wine.

This kind of thing is naturally not worth mentioning in the eyes of later generations who have studied history a little. But among the illiterate people in the cottage, I didn't expect it to be quite popular with everyone.

This time, Zhang Mengcheng withstood the pressure and took the lead in suppressing the children first. Put on the frame of Mr. Teach in the cottage, ask the children to think about why the Liao army will lose, why the Song army will win, Mr. Tomorrow will ask in class, and if you don't answer well, you will draw a board.

After driving the children away. Then he said to the adults, "The children are gone, so if I continue." Tomorrow, when you tell the children, don't you just listen to it again, what does that mean? Let's all disperse, let's come and listen with the children tomorrow. As soon as Zhang Mengcheng finished speaking, he ignored the lamentations of others and hurriedly slipped away.

After nearly two months of repair, except for Che Jibao and a few other seriously injured people in the cottage, they are still recuperating, and those with minor injuries like Zhang Mengcheng have already recovered. The eldest brother, Zhang Mengjin, organized all the prisoners into the infantry team, and selected personnel from the original infantry team, the victims of the new defection to the cottage, and the fugitives, and reorganized a cavalry unit of more than 90 people.

Although in terms of training and tacit understanding, they were inferior to the brothers lost by the previous cavalry. But with the horses and armor captured from Shaliroll and exchanged from the north, their combat effectiveness under the leadership of the cottage veterans cannot be ignored. The footsteps of the cottage have also expanded to more than 300 people, and the strength of Jinding Mountain has further expanded.

With the expansion of the armed forces, the population of the cottage also expanded rapidly. Nowadays, there are several settlements around Jinding Village, which has caused a lot of food pressure.

At the beginning of the crossing, Zhang Mengcheng remembered to be on the lookout for opportunities to collect seeds for crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn. But the reality is that Zhang Mengcheng spent a lot of time and energy to gradually collect these. Although some of the above crops have been introduced in some areas of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty, the planting area is too small, and because of the difference in titles, Zhang Mengcheng is easy to miss.

In addition, the exchanges between regions at this time were relatively closed, and the varieties of the Ming Dynasty were not as good as those of the modern ones in later generations, coupled with the defects of other production technical conditions. Since Zhang Mengcheng received the first seed, it took more than ten years of hard work to achieve some results.

Escaping from the siege of everyone, Zhang Mengcheng came to the farmland around the cottage to lookout. Zhang Mengcheng strongly requested that this piece of farmland be reclaimed, and the two elder brothers of the Zhang family also remembered some of the agricultural experiments that their younger brother had done before, and they did not take up too much time and farmland anyway, so they supported Zhang Mengcheng's plan.

The farmland in front of Zhang Mengcheng was all planted with sweet potato seedlings. In another two months or so, the first fruits of precocious maturity will definitely surprise the rest of the cottage.

These sweet potatoes took Zhang Mengcheng a lot of thought, and he spent a lot of effort preparing the seedlings since last year, and then preserved them by cellaring method. When the land was cultivated this year, due to the shortage of manpower allocated by the eldest brother, he also took labor from his students. And he also called left and right every day to trick some people to come over to help, and finally got today's results. Looking at the vibrant crops, Zhang Mengcheng felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

Sweet potatoes are easy to propagate, simple to manage, have low land requirements, have a short growth cycle, and have extremely high yields. It also has the characteristics of "not spike but fruit, rain can not be damaged, deep cultivation and fruit, drought can not invade, the wind is wild and the vine is only close to the ground, and the locusts pass and the leaves can re-sprout", and the ability to resist disasters is extremely strong.

Therefore, the sweet potato of "the labor force is less than half of the agricultural work, and the harvest is twice that of the hundred grains" is worthy of being the "first product in the real mixed plant, and the first righteousness of saving the famine". Thinking that many years later, in the local chronicles of Shaanxi, there may be a record of Zhang Mengcheng's introduction of planting sweet potatoes.

At that time, if there is a sentence "Although the Shaanxi disaster is fierce and there are no dead migrants, Zhang Gong's legacy is also favorable" to evaluate, Zhang Mengcheng's heart will be secretly refreshed. As for the environmental problems that are destined to be caused by planting too many sweet potatoes in the future, these are not things that Zhang Mengcheng intends to take the blame.

In actual history, sweet potatoes have appeared in the vision of some people of insight in the Ming Dynasty. Some practical planting difficulties, such as the problem of hiding seeds in the north, have also found corresponding solutions under the actual conditions of this era, and the cellaring method is a good choice.

In the Ming Dynasty, the representative figure who recorded this method was Xu Guangqi, who wrote the complete book of agricultural administration. It is only limited to the information conditions of this era, and Xu Guangqi's book is only beginning to take shape at present, and has not been published in print. Therefore, the dissemination of many production technology concepts is more difficult in this era. What some people think is common sense, but changing places may think of it as a fantasy.

In addition to sweet potatoes, other crops such as corn and potatoes have been studied by Zhang Mengcheng in this era. It's just that after a comprehensive comparison, I still focus on sweet potatoes first. Wait until the future recruits and the days settle down, and then think about other things.

After reveling in his sweet potato field for a while, Zhang Mengcheng returned to the cottage school and began to practice his daily routine. After all, no matter how many ideas you have, you have to survive before you have the life to implement them.

After Zhang Mengcheng found his second brother, he joined the cavalry team for various training like an ordinary soldier. The soldiers around him were already not surprised by this. The only talent in the cottage has been training with them for a long time, and the tacit understanding has long been accumulated in the long-term joint training.

Moreover, Zhang Mengcheng's riding skills and bow and knife skills are already stronger than many of them. The most important thing is that Zhang Mengcheng has a lot of lives in his hands, most of which are fought with a knife and a gun. went to the battlefield with this showman in the cottage, and they were also very down-to-earth.