I have to say that Zhou Shixiang, the soldier brother of later generations, is still very modest, he knows his own shortcomings, so in order to successfully bring these tens of thousands of old and weak women and children to Xiangshan and to the special zone in later generations to settle down, Zhou Shixiang put down the figure of the commander of the first battalion, and the humble Song Xianggong and a small banner learned from Li Zicheng's mobile combat experience in the peasant army.

This Xiaoqi is the old brother of Daqiao Mountain, and he has the same name as He Jin, the general who wanted to kill the ten permanent servants in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the two also have a common profession, that is, they are both butchers. Of course, the profession of butcher in the Eastern Han Dynasty was a lofty profession, and it could not be done unless it was strong and powerful, but today's butcher is a cheap industry, except for the oil and water, it is generally not treated by the gentry, and there is no social status.

He Jin and Song Xianggong are both from Henan, but one is from Nanyang and the other is from Luoyang. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, when Song Xianggong joined the army with the fame of showing talent, He Jin had been working in the army for more than a year, and he was forced to join the army when Li Zicheng led the army to besiege Luoyang in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen. The reason why he was forced to join the army is related to his identity as a butcher, after all, as a butcher, no matter how poor his family background is, he always has some oil and water in his stomach, and he is naturally unwilling to follow the "rogue to kill officials and rebel" if he does not die.

He Jin did not go to Beijing with Li Zicheng, but went to Huxiang with Bai Wang, the general of the Chuang Army, in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, after the Qing army entered the customs, Li Zicheng died in Hubei after the defeat of Beijing, and Bai Wang, who ran Huxiang, was killed by the rebel general Wang Tizhong. After Bai Wang's death, his Dashun army either surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with the middle people of Wang Ti, or collapsed and collapsed on its own, or another Li Guo division of the Xitou Dashun army.

He Jin did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty, nor did he go to find Li Guobu, but changed his name to He De and fled to Fujian. In the second year of Longwu, he was captured by Zheng Zhilong's army, and then became a prisoner of Li Chengdong's army, and then entered Guangdong, and then Li Chengdong returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, and he became the Ming army, and then Li Chengdong was defeated.

In terms of ability, He Jin is not bad; In terms of courage, He Jin didn't let anyone, it stands to reason that he has the qualifications of the general post of the Dashun army back then, how can he be the general flag of the team, but the ten chief flag officers appointed by Zhou Shixiang do not have him, the reason is that He Jin is already old.

He Jin, who was born in the thirty-second year of Wanli, is 53 years old this year, which is not too old in later generations, but in this era, he is really an old man, ten years older than Song Xianggong. In his opinion, he is old, whether he is an official or not, whether he is a big official or a small official is not important, the important thing is whether he can live to burn paper to the grave of his father and mother in his lifetime.

"Brother Zhou, do you think our Daming can still be saved? Can we go back to our hometown in this life? ”

He Jin has to say this every time he sees Zhou Shixiang, although he is more than two rounds older than Zhou Shixiang, he still calls this young man who looks like his son a brother, and others have recently changed the name of Zhou Shixiang to a thousand households, but he still does not change the title of Brother Zhou.

Song Xianggong also mentioned He Jin to Zhou Shixiang several times, every time he talked about He Jin's wishes, Song's face would have a faint sadness, and his eyes were even more lonely.

Who wouldn't want to go home?

Zhou Shixiang thought of his home, the empty tomb outside Xinhui City, and he couldn't stop crying.

Song Xiang has been working as a clerk in Zhongshu after the referendum to break into the army, responsible for the income and expenditure of money and grain and official documents, and does not know much about the specific combat process of the army, but He Jin is the general sentry who directly leads the troops at the bottom, although there are only a dozen people under him, but he knows how the army fought and how to transfer in. According to him, when the army was fighting, it was mostly divided into several battalions, with the old battalion in the middle and the cavalry guarding the side. Wherever they went, the old battalion was first placed, and then the barracks were distributed according to the location of the old camp for tens or even hundreds of miles, and once there was a police, the cavalry immediately attacked to cover, and the old battalion moved to a safe place. If there is no war, the soldiers of each battalion can take turns to return to the old camp to live with their wives and children for a few days.

Song Xianggong generally talked about the settlement method of the old camp of the Chuang army according to his memory, which is roughly the same as the old camp and camp management of the Taiping Battalion, and the old camp of the Chuang army is also managed and controlled from top to bottom, and the camp and the march have a strict organizational system, as small as a carriage and a livestock are managed by special personnel.

However, Song Xianggong and He Jin both said one thing, that is, once the war is unfavorable, the intrusive army will generally abandon the old camp and only lead the veteran elite to break through. This incident reminded Zhou Shixiang of an incident that later generations saw in the history books, that is, after Li Zicheng fled to Shangluo Mountain, the general Liu Zongmin and others helped Li Zicheng to make a comeback even if he killed his wife and children. The combination of the two reduced Zhou Shi's guilt and anxiety compared to his decision to confess to Song Xianggong to give up the rear camp as a last resort.

Combined with the method of breaking into the army, coupled with the organizational management methods of later generations, Zhou Shixiang and Song Xianggong initially formulated the prescribed measures for the transfer of the rear battalion, as well as the countermeasures in case of emergencies.

In order to avoid unnecessary casualties and strengthen the ambulance force of the Taiping Battalion, Song Xianggong transferred all the Lang Zhong of Luo Ding to the Nursing Department named by Zhou Shixiang, and asked all the veterans of each battalion to transfer all the veterans who knew medical skills in the camp, even the midwives who only knew how to deliver for women were also stuffed into the Nursing Division.

After the establishment of the Nursing Department, Zhou Shixiang personally gave a two-day course to the first batch of 50 students, teaching not medical skills, but first aid methods, such as cardiac resuscitation first aid, how to quickly stop bleeding, etc., and also focused on teaching the knowledge of health and epidemic prevention.

Song Xianggong didn't know where Zhou Shixiang learned these knowledge, although it sounded different from the medical skills of the current Langzhong, but there was a certain truth, such as the method of boiling a white cloth in hot water and then drying and wrapping the wounds is very useful.

Zhou Shixiang's own knowledge is limited, and after teaching these people the medical knowledge he learned in the army, he can only hope that these Lang Zhong and midwife, who are not as good as barefoot doctors in later generations, can experience the essence of these medical skills on their own.

The money, grain and materials of the public treasury have begun to be loaded, and at the same time, the elders of each battalion were ordered to reveal to the people of the camp the news that the Qing army was about to attack Luoding on a large scale, and when the people in the camp panicked, there were officers to appease them, saying that the Qing army came to attack the soldiers and horses this time, but we are not afraid, the Lord of the Thousand Households has a perfect plan to deal with them, we just need to obey the order.

At the same time, the training of the recruits of the various teams of the front battalion was like tea, from the first five or ten miles of long-distance training has become twenty miles, or even thirty miles, in the face of the soldiers' complaints and complaints, the general flag of the team will always tell them that this is a rapid marching exercise, and if they want to win the battle, the premise is to run faster than the Tartars.

Running fast to win battles?

This explanation did not make the soldiers understand, but became even more confused, and the patient general flag would say a few more words, and the impatient ones shouted and waved their whips.