"Fourteen, and there is one child who is not enlightened, that is, the youngest Liu Chongsi. Pen fun www.biquge.info" Li Deyi replied in a low voice. Xiao Liu, the head of the regiment, nodded, didn't say anything, and took the children all the way back to Dingbei County to settle down. Regarding the junior brother's ability to enlighten the child, Xiao Liu doesn't want to say anything now, the facts are here, it's so powerful, it's so unreasonable, and there is no trick.

After returning to the city with the children, the old doctor Sun gave each person a bowl of soothing soup as usual, and waited for the children to sleep. Then, with a smile on the corner of the old doctor's mouth, Mei Zizi also rested.

After finishing the stall of enlightening the children, Li Deyi continued to work on his two schools. Especially the Agricultural College, which has just been established, and the students are all newly recruited, which requires Li Deyi to spend a lot of extra time and energy to take care of them. Li Deyi followed the old method as usual, personally taught these peasant students to read and write, and told them to study hard and work hard to increase grain production, so that they could live a life of having enough to eat, and also so that the soldiers of the garrison regiment could have enough to eat, so that they could protect the present good life.

Because Weibei Camp has been treating the people of Dingbei County well over the years, not collecting money and grain, and often spending money to hire people to work, and giving dividends to the people after winning battles, the hearts of the people in the entire Dingbei County have already been completely towards Weibei Camp. Therefore, when Li Deyi said this, he was extremely confident, and the students present also nodded vigorously when they heard it, saying that they would definitely study hard and protect this good day.

Commander Xiao Liu was not idle, and seized the time to recruit a new batch of soldiers and began to train new soldiers. The garrison regiment was at the bottom of this big victory, and the recruitment of soldiers went very smoothly. In addition, the soldiers of the garrison regiment have always been well treated, and many people have asked the second or third child in the family to sign up, but the main force of the soldiers is still from the displaced people under the control of the Weibei battalion.

By the time Li Deyi finished the work of the two academies and took care of the fourteen newly enlightened children, the basic cohort training for recruits was almost over.

On this day, Commander Xiao Liu found his junior brother and discussed with him about the cavalry. The soldiers of the Dingbei Garrison Regiment now have two arms, the commander of Xiao Liu is responsible for commanding the infantry during the war, and the cavalry is led by Li Deyi. Previously, he fought several times with the Tuliao cavalry under the city of Luodu, and although he won a big victory, he fought again and again, and the cavalry of the garrison regiment also lost more than 1,000.

This time, Commander Xiao Liu discussed with his junior brother how to replenish this part of the cavalry. Cavalry is not comparable to foot soldiers, as long as there are people, they can expand the army. Horses were also necessary for cavalry expansion. And the reproduction of war horses has many problems. Although the mare has a long estrus period, from three to six months, which is convenient for breeding, the pregnancy period is 11 months. Therefore, a mare of the right age can give birth to a foal a year.

And the mare farrowing date must also be calculated in advance, try not to let the mare give birth in the fall. In autumn, the grass gradually withered and yellowed, and even with the strength of the Weibei camp, it was difficult to get enough forage to feed the war horses. Even if the Weibei camp is willing to spend money to feed the war horses, it is impossible to use all the grain like the Tuliao people, and the people still have to eat. Therefore, the war horses of the Weibei camp tend to be thinner in winter. As a result, due to the lack of forage, the foals born in the fall are generally small in weight and have a low survival rate, making it difficult to survive the first winter, and even if they survive this winter, the weaning weight and subsequent growth and development are significantly poor.

In this way, in fact, the time to breed a mare every year is not long. If the breeding fails, I'm sorry, please be early next year.

In this battle, the horses of the garrison regiment were also damaged, and the insufficient number of horses became a big problem that hindered the replenishment of cavalry. War horses can't breed, but it's easy to get damaged. A majestic war horse, the whole body is intact, just a hoof is injured, I'm sorry, just retire from illness, I can no longer go to the battlefield in this life, I can only be used as a stallion.

And the garrison regiment now looks quite big at the racecourse, but the points are compared to whom. The Li Temple in the Shangjin Dynasty is a family, with several large horse farms and tens of thousands of good horses. Not to mention the Tuliao people, the entire grassland is their horse farm, with millions of horses, not to mention wild horses to catch. Compared with these two, the horse farm of thousands of horses in the garrison regiment is simply pocket-sized. The other two are big men, and the garrison regiment horse farm is a crying milk doll.

There is really no good solution to the problem of insufficient war horses. The garrison horse farm has only been established for a few years, and there are not many foals produced each year. Besides, it takes at least three years for the foal to grow up to ride. The cavalry of the garrison regiment must not be allowed to replenish and expand the army after three years, even if Li Deyi agrees, close fighting will not be allowed.

At present, the world is in chaos, want to buy horses through trade, it is a thousand difficulties, Dingbei County is located in the northwest of the horns, extremely remote, where are ordinary merchants willing to sell horses here. Since trade is not good, and you can't raise much in a short period of time, there is only one way left, to "borrow" from the enemy, and this "borrowing" is, of course, borrowed but not returned. The garrison decided to do this, and the main root was still in Li Deyi, just because he always had these two words in his head, "There are no guns, no artillery, the enemy made it for us." Therefore, Li Deyi is very keen on "borrowing" war horses from the Tuliao people.

The cavalry of the garrison regiment can have the scale it has today, thanks to the "generous gift" of the Li Family Flying Tiger Battalion. But after all, the Li family is the brother-in-law of the senior brother, you can't always let the family "give generously". It's a relative, so it's always like this, and when we meet in the future, I can't hold it on my face.

In the end, the brothers discussed and discussed, this war horse had to find a way from the Tuliao people. After discussing this, Li Deyi hummed out the sentence in his head: "There are no guns, no artillery, the enemy made it for us." ”

Captain Xiao Liu was next to him and could hear clearly. He smiled: "We can build the gun ourselves now, so we don't have to trouble the enemy." As for this cannon, we don't have a familiar craftsman at the moment, so we can't make it for the time being, and we can't grab it from the Tuliao people, so we will destroy it. ”

Li Deyi didn't know why he suddenly snorted like this, shook his head, threw aside the messy memories in his mind, and opened his mouth to say: "Hey, this time our water attack is too ruthless, not only were the Tuliao cavalry drowned, but the horses didn't survive much." After the war, we searched desperately, and we found more than 500 horses, which was not enough for us. ”

Commander Xiao Liu was also worried, pondered for a while, and said: "Otherwise, you first select some foot soldiers, let them practice first, and count them as the reserve of the cavalry." So when we get enough horses, they will immediately become cavalry. ”

Hearing what Senior Brother said, Li Deyi also felt that he could only do this for now, nodded, pondered for a while, and said, "Senior Brother, I want to teach this new batch of cavalry literacy." Anyway, we don't have enough horses right now, and we can't let them train on horseback every day. I just estimated that if we have all the idle horses we have, if we train 3,000 cavalry, the three of them can get a horse for training. In this way, they will inevitably not be able to train on horseback every day, and I will teach them to read and write when they are idle, and they will be idle anyway. ”

"You can arrange these things yourself. The veterans of the Weibei battalion who are responsible for training them, you can also say it yourself. I don't care. Let's have dinner later, and then go to Master's together to discuss the dispatch of troops. Since we want to get war horses from the enemy, we must discuss with Master, and sending troops to fight is a matter of great importance, and we can't make a hasty decision on the two of us. After Xiao Liu finished speaking, he went to his stall.

As soon as Li De went out to get a little busy with his stall, after dinner, he rushed to the master's courtyard. When I walked to the door, I happened to meet my brother, and the two of them entered the courtyard together and came to the master's house.

As soon as the brothers said something to the master, the old doctor Sun pondered for a while, and said, "Right now, the Li family is going south, and I just got a lot of cheap from his family, so it's really not appropriate to go again." To the north is the grassland Yi tribe, and those small tribes near us have long been swept away by us over the years, and the larger ones have also moved to the east and attached to the Tuliao country. If we want to send troops to the grassland, if we don't go thousands of miles, I'm afraid we won't meet anyone. Our soldiers have just experienced a major battle, and it is not appropriate for us to go on an expedition at this time. ”

When the old doctor Sun said this, he poured a sip of tea, took a sip of it, and took a sip to moisten his throat. Xiao Liu's face was full of surprise, and he sat there a little stunned. Old Medical Officer Sun saw that there was something wrong with his eldest apprentice and asked, "What?" But what's wrong with what the teacher says? ”

"No, my junior brother once told me under the city of Luodu, saying that after the war, why not take the opportunity to attack Shimaizhou. At that time, I thought that he was just whimsical, and the 60,000 cavalry of Tuliao had never fought in front of him, and he still wanted to fight Shimaizhou after the war, so he didn't take it seriously. I don't want the master to deliberately take Shimaizhou. When Xiao Liu saw that the master was inquiring, he told all his thoughts. If you can't go to the south or north, and if you go to the west, you can't only go east to find trouble in Shimaizhou.

Old Medical Officer Sun must have said this, and suddenly became interested, looked at his little apprentice, and asked with a smile: "Tell me your thoughts and listen to your teacher." ”

Li Deyi scratched his head and said, "I didn't think too much about it at the time, I just felt that he couldn't do it in Shimaizhou for the past two years, and he was not as powerful as he was back then." In the past two years, we have received many military reports saying that the generals under Shimaizhou have rebelled one after another, become self-reliant, or listen to the tune and do not listen to the announcement. At that time, I thought that even if the battle under the city of Luodu against the Tuliao people was won, our garrison would definitely lose a lot, and we would have to make up for it. I searched and searched, and I found Shimaizhou again. ”

When the old doctor Sun heard the words of the little apprentice, he was stunned for a moment, and suddenly burst out laughing, until Li De's face turned red with a smile, and then he stopped. Li Deyi said dissatisfiedly: "Master, what I just said is so ridiculous? ”

Old Medical Officer Sun hurriedly shook his head and said, "This is happy for the teacher, happy." It's no wonder that when I was a teacher, I made a star map for you, but I deduced that all your own fate. Now it seems that it is so, it is indeed so. You, a child, have been talking and doing things unexpectedly over the years, but in the end you can always achieve amazing results. Not to mention anything else, let's just say that the steel school, I have never seen it for such a long time for the teacher, but you just made a good reputation, and it didn't even take long for you to create the armor, which really opened the eyes of the teacher. Now we make knives, guns, and armor all produced by this steel school. What you came up with in a flash of inspiration at the beginning, I didn't expect it to be so powerful. ”

Speaking of this, Old Medical Officer Sun stretched out his hand and stroked his beard, and then said: "Over the years, I have deliberately not taught you the systematic art of war and strategy, and everything is left to you to understand and ponder. Usually, if you don't ask, you won't talk about it as a teacher, but only tell you about some old wars, hoping that you will realize your own things from them. Who would have thought that, as shown in the star chart, you were born to follow this path. Now watching you plan things, you don't think about it, or even don't follow the routine at all, but you can often get to the point in one sentence. It's like a whimsical, eclectic, but always unexpected, to the point. Wow, wow, hahaha......"

Being praised by the master like this, Li Deyi himself was a little embarrassed, and said with a red face: "I am really that powerful?" Why don't I know? Senior brother, am I really that powerful?! ”

Captain Xiao Liu was asked by his junior brother who was faceless, and he choked there directly, half a sound, coughed and said, "Don't talk nonsense, isn't it powerful to make you the deputy head of the regiment?" Are you a master with your eyes closed? Before Captain Liu finished speaking, Li Deyi jumped high in beauty, and said with a smile: "It turns out that I am so powerful, haha, I am also a capable person, hahaha......"

Head Xiao Liu and Old Doctor Sun looked at each other, looking at Li Deyi happily, and said to Captain Xiao Liu: "Master, junior brother, this won't be happy and stupid, right?" Old Doctor Sun feigned anger and said, "Don't talk nonsense, your junior brother has always been stupid. I've always been a little stupid, but I don't have to worry about him being happy and stupid. But it's possible to get even more stupid. "Are you really his master? How can anyone say that their apprentices are stupid?

"Master, you just praised me for being amazing, why did you say in a blink of an eye that I have always been stupid?!" Hearing Master's words, Li Deyi was no longer beautiful, and muttered dissatisfiedly. Listen to what you say, aren't you stupid enough to ask this?

Commander Xiao Liu secretly said in his heart: "Oh bad, my junior brother is such a stupid thing, and I will be tired to death if I take on the burden of this garrison regiment in the future." ”

Seeing that the matter was about to happen, Old Medical Officer Sun hurriedly changed his words and said: "Let's continue to discuss the major matters of sending troops to attack Shimai Prefecture, and these small matters will be talked about later." Li Deyi also argued: "I'm a little stupid, it's a trivial matter?" Master, you ......" Old Medical Officer Sun glared: "Bastard!" Li Deyi was immediately frightened and silenced.

The head of Xiao Liu next to him saw it and said in his heart: "It's okay, fortunately, I can still bluff him." ”

Old Medical Officer Sun coughed and said, "Now that our soldiers have just experienced a big battle, even if they want to attack Shimaizhou, they have to let the soldiers rest for two months and regain their physical strength." Besides, after fighting for several months, there are a lot of things backlogged at home, so you have to pick them up quickly. Okay, let's all disperse, everyone is busy, don't be all working for the teacher. ”

Xiao Liu turned his head and left, Li Deyi still held the table tightly, glared and asked, "Master, where do you say I am stupid?" In the end, the old doctor Sun could only say helplessly: "Why take it seriously if you are joking about the teacher?" Can't you be a teacher and be happy with your little apprentice? "Embarrassment, the expression on Li Deyi's face at that time was this.

Li Deyi held his little face and left the master's courtyard speechlessly, bowing his head all the way and not speaking. Halfway through, Li Deyi suddenly remembered something, ran a few steps, picked up the senior brother in his head, and said in a low voice: "Senior brother, is Shimaizhou recently setting up a card to intercept the displaced people in his territory and prevent them from coming to us?" ”