On the fifth day of August, Chen Ming led his army down to Xiangyang. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Chen Wenzan led the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division to greet him, and Chen Ming met Ma Wenjie and Zhao Yongji for the second time, and also saw the 15th Brigade for the first time.

The soldiers were all upright and dressed in bright iron armor, and at first glance there was no difference at all. But the ethereal thing of morale can't stop Chen Ming's pair of 'discerning eyes', in the same well-organized team, which team is the surrender of the Qing army, and which team is the original soldiers of the Fu Han army, he knows at a glance.

This difference also appeared in the 16th and 17th Brigade queues, but the number of Qing troops in the 16th and 17th Brigade queues was smaller. The overall morale was significantly stronger than that of the 15th Brigade. These surrendered troops in the three brigades still exist as a team, and in the future, Chen Ming will break them up little by little and completely integrate them into the Fu Han army.

The army stopped in Xiangyang for a day, and Chen Ming feasted all the officers above the battalion level, and the officers and soldiers below the battalion level rewarded them with wine and meat.

On the seventh day of the eighth month, Chen Qi led his troops to the west of the Hanjiang River, Chen Ming led his troops south to Zhongxiang, and there was an additional 15th brigade in the queue, and Ma Wenjie followed Chen Ming.

At the time of farewell, Chen Ming could clearly see the ugly faces of some officers in the 16th and 17th Brigades, all of whom were from the former 15th Brigade. Chen Ming made a fume in Xiangyang and took away Ma Wenjie and Zhao Yongji, two big backers, and they themselves felt that they were going to be sad in the future.

It's not like the officers of the Fu Han Army will not decline. Regardless of officers and soldiers, officers below the battalion officer level have daily training records, and they will also be exchanged for a little bit of points, and in addition to being able to redeem military merits in the future, this point is also useful for evaluation.

The battalion officers, team officers, platoon commanders, etc., of the Fuhan Army, have a corresponding qualification score for different levels, and if the points exceed this qualification standard, it is naturally fine; But if it's lower than this qualification standard, hehe, it's a demerit. Two consecutive demerits, one major demerit, and one more demerit, direct demotion; and three consecutive demerits, directly demoted to one class; Four demerits that are not connected in a year are also demotions......

The army arrived at Anlu along the Han River, and then split into two, Chen Yongsheng led the first division straight to Wuchang, and Chen Ming led the rest of the troops from the old road of the first attack on Jingzhou by land to the south of Jingzhou. At this time, Chen Ming's team did not carry a single cannon, whether it was Jingzhou or Zhijiang, there were a large number of artillery ammunition in the warehouse, so there was no need for Chen Ming to rush with the cannon. The accompanying artillery battalion, from top to bottom, was empty-handed.

"The soldiers of the 15th Brigade have trained well, it can be seen that Zhao Yongji is still working hard......"

Along the way, Chen Ming found that the 15th Brigade under Zhao Yongji was performing well and could keep up with the troops. You must know that Chen Ming's troops had to take a boat after entering Jingzhou, so he trained his troops on this section of the road, marched in a hurry along the way, and arrived in more than three days after a hundred miles of travel.

Of course, the logistics department of the Fu Han Army prepared a large number of carriages and horses at the place where Chen Ming led the troops to disembark, which were used to load the baggage of the accompanying army, but the soldiers were at least wearing iron armor and holding weapons. 60% of the 15th Brigade under Zhao Yongji is still the original Qing army and civilian bravery, wearing more than ten or twenty pounds of iron armor, but also holding knives, guns and dry food with him, running thirty or forty miles a day, and can still support it, which proves that in the month or two after being absorbed, Zhao Yongji is really training his soldiers.

The 15th Brigade, which is handed down to Chen Ming every month, is not making a show.

In the camp outside Jingzhou City, Zhang Chongbei and Wang Zhiyuan sat in the chairs of the military tent, only feeling that their bones were moaning, and they were all sore and numb. "God, I can finally rest."

The camp prepared by the Jingzhou Fuhan Army, they stayed directly after they arrived, and the two friends of life and death who escaped on the Rolling River battlefield forced their faces to order their teams to disband, and when they entered the battalion officer's military room, they could no longer hold on.

"Fortunately, we didn't play tricks when we were training, otherwise it would have been a big shame this time." Wang Zhiyuan collapsed into the chair, and the whole person didn't want to move anymore. Their arms hung down on either side of the chair, as if they were broken bones.

"No one would have thought that our battalion officers didn't even have a horse...... "got off the boat, except for the heralds, the officers above the regiment level who could ride horses, and the battalion officers also had to walk on two legs. I don't know if the battalion officers of the Guards Brigade are ashamed or not, but they know how many of the battalion officers of the 15th Brigade are ashamed.

Chen Ming's words of praise for the 15th Brigade were passed on to Zhao Yongji through Ma Wenjie, and then to the officers and soldiers below the 15th Brigade through Zhao Yongji.

The praise of the top boss made everyone in the 15th Brigade feel refreshed, and the march of more than three days was not left behind by the Guards Brigade, but the person who led the troops knew best that there was still a gap between the veterans in the team and the veterans of the Fuhan Army.

Every day at dusk, those soldiers of the Fu Han Army who have just been transferred can still set up tents in an orderly manner after a day's rapid march, dig trenches, build earthen walls, bury pots to make food, and set up a cordon outside, while their old troops, many soldiers are embellished on the ground, and you can't drag them up.

Zhang Chongbei and Wang Zhiyuan have reason to believe that the 30-mile road in a day is the road that the Guards Brigade takes care of the 15 th Brigade, and if only one of their troops marches, it is possible to travel 50 miles in a day. After all, it was the Guards Brigade, the elite of the entire Fu Han Army. The soldiers inside heard that they were all wounded on the battlefield and made meritorious contributions, so they were eligible to be selected for it. Besides, the tank battalion in the Guards Brigade sequence, Zhang Wang and the others have also seen it with their own eyes, and each of them is a big guy. Wearing iron armor and holding heavy guys, if they encounter hand-to-hand combat power, how many people can kill them?

In the past few days, the gunners of the artillery battalion have been marching easily, they do not wear armor, and they have no artillery to take care of, and they travel thirty or forty miles a day, and they walk easily.

The army arrived in Jingzhou, and the whole army rested for a day, and Chen Ming also used this day to gather Gao Qiao and the person in charge of the dark camp in western Hubei to inquire in detail about the changes in western Hubei since the departure of the Han army.

"Your Highness, the Huya Beach relocation channel and waterway have been repaired and dredged. If our army attacks Yichang, it will be unimpeded. "Gao Qiao first reported the work, the relocation of Huya Mountain and the channel of Huya Beach were his main tasks in the previous months, and he has now completed them." Fan Shishou, Zhu Qi and others are still in Yichang, but a large amount of money and grain in Yichang City has been transferred to Sichuanzhong by the two, or transported to Zigui and Badong. There are less than 2,000 officers and soldiers in Yichang City, and the morale is low, and it is not a key deployment place for the Qing army. However, it is the Nanjin Pass after it, which is related to the east mouth of Xiling Gorge and is the end point of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. The width is only more than 200 meters, the river is surging, extremely steep, and the Qing army focuses on deploying here. More than 30 light and heavy artillery pieces have been set up, and fortifications have been set up in post roads, plank roads, and military exercise campuses......"

Gao Qiao's eyes were mainly focused on Yichang, and the current situation of the Qing army was obviously to abandon Yichang and only prepare to defend the Three Gorges. That Nanjin Pass is the first gateway.

Chen Ming naturally also knows that Nanjin Pass, this place and the Kuimen of Fengjie, Sichuan, are the east and west gates of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. The river is narrow, the river is like a sword, and the rapids roar, as if piercing a line of passages in the peaks and peaks, which can be called spectacular. When the door is broken, the danger is turned into a disaster, the water level is flattened, the river suddenly opens up, and enters the rich Jianghan Plain. It is the dividing point of the primary and secondary platforms in Chinese mainland. "The water is here and the mountain is here, and the mountain is here and the mausoleum", Nanjin Pass is the natural checkpoint of "Xiongdang Shu Road, Weizhen Jingmen" since ancient times, and has always been a military important place.

"Your Highness, the land of Shinan is intersected with Han and Miao, and there are few people in the land. During the Yongzheng period, the Tusi was tyrannical, and the people of the Tuhan Dynasty under the rule wantonly killed and looted, and the people were angry. The Tusi family could only be captured, and was awarded the title of land property by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and has turned into an ordinary rich and wealthy gentry today, including Tian, Qin, Xiang, Peng, Tan, Ran and other big families.

These natives were not loyal to the Manchu court, and without the money and food given by Yichang, they could not organize at all, and they were unwilling to organize native soldiers. Now in the entire Shinan, in addition to the hundreds of local battalions of Xun garrisons, there are only more than 1,000 native soldiers gathered. The total strength was only 2,000 men. Morale is low and armaments are sparse. ”

"Does the dark camp have any connection with those native clans?"

"For our army, among the large families of the Tu family, the Yitian and Qin clans are the most enthusiastic. Tian is a descendant of Rongmei Tusi, his ancestors beat Meng Yuan from the Feng Tusi, Ming Hongwu returned to the Ming Dynasty, to Yongzheng 11 years to change the soil and return to the stream, the last generation of Tusi Tian Mingru hanged himself, a total of 15 generations and 23 terms, in the west of Hubei many Tusi can be called the richest and strongest.

In its heyday, seven or eight thousand native soldiers could be mobilized, and by the end of the dynasty, there were also four thousand native households under its rule. ”

"Qin is a descendant of Shi Nan Tusi, from the end of the Mengyuan Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty Yongzheng 13 years to change the land and return to the stream, 17 generations, more than 400 years. Its last Tusi Qin Yuding was Tian Mingru's son-in-law, who was guilty of hiding in Rongmei. Later, Rongmei changed the land and returned to the stream, Tian Ming hanged himself, and Qin Yuding was also guilty. He was denied a secular position and moved to Wuchang County. ”

"Although Qin Yuding's party moved to Wuchang, it is still in contact with the Qin clan who stayed in Shinan. The subordinates found the descendants of Qin Yuding and used them to communicate with the Qin family, and the latter was very excited. ”

The excitement of the person in charge of the dark camp did not affect Chen Ming's mood, his eyes narrowed, "Tian Qin and the second clan, don't you still think about reopening the toast and restoring the old business, right?" ”

"Don't dare to hide it from Your Highness, these two clans do have some thoughts on reviving the toast."

"I don't know the number of days."

Chen Ming's eyes looked at the map of western Hubei hanging on the wall, the southwest corner of the piece, the ravines and ravines are all mountains, according to the statistics of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the huge Shinan Mansion, Tuhan, Miao Dong, and people of all ethnic groups added together, at most 300,000 people.

However, Chen Ming from later generations knew that Enshi was the title of "World Selenium Capital" in later generations, as well as "Huxi Linhai", "Huazhong Medicine Depot", "Tobacco Kingdom" and so on, where the western Hubei iron ore is also one of the four major iron mines in China, but the phosphorus content is relatively high.

But that is the 21st century of Enshi, today's Shi Nan, sugar beet, ramie, cotton, tung oil, camellia, tea, etc. are their main cash crops, among which tung oil, camellia as the main business items, these two things and walnut, black tree and called China's four major woody oil plants, in the economic life of the Tujia people occupy an important position. As for medicinal herbs and tobacco, they are far from reaching the scale of later generations.

The army and civilians of the Fu Han Dynasty need to have a large amount of oil, and the ash of the tea tree can kill lice including insect eggs, and tea seeds can cure constipation, qi stagnation, ringworm, and leprosy. In general, it is of some use to the Fu Han army.

"You told the two families that my father was waiting for them in Yichang." It can be said that Chen Ming went to Yichang, fighting was not the focus, and seeing Shi Nan's native talents was the center.

When Zhu Yuanzhang was in that year, Shi Nan Tusi followed Ming Yuzhen to mix, and returned to the Ming Dynasty after the death of the country in Ming Xia. The descendants of the Qin family wrote to ask for guilt, and they were still appointed by Zhu Yuanzhang as Shi Nan Tusi.

The current situation is very different from the beginning, but Chen Ming is also willing to learn from Lao Zhu and endure it for the time being. When the overall situation has been decided, they will be 'promoted' to their officials! (To be continued.) )