Chapter Seventy-Five: Construction of Piers and Second Recruitment
Lin Pingran just left like that, which also made Xiao Yi unpredictable what this Peach Blossom Fort businessman was thinking. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Reluctantly got up and prepared to leave, but Yang Xiao said to Xiao Yi: "Mr. Xiao will not stay for a while, you and I will drink again?" ”
Xiao Yi waved his hand, he didn't care about Tunbao at all, he didn't want to stay longer, "No, I still have something to do, so I'll leave first." ”
Yang Xiao heard this, but still said, "Oh? I don't know what happened to Mr. Xiao? Now Yang Mou has only been in charge of the team for a few days, and the affairs in this town can be left to me! ”
Xiao Yi looked at Yang Xiao and said helplessly, "Xiao Yi came to the town to recruit some masonry craftsmen and buy some stone sand and gravel. ”
After hearing this, Yang Xiao immediately said, "This is easy to do!" I then commanded to go down, and the general flag and I waited here while drinking freely. "This Yang Xiao is kind-hearted and saves a lot of trouble. Xiao Yi turned his head and thanked him, "Xiao Yi thanked Yang Baihu for his help." ”
The two chatted for a long time while drinking, until things were perfect, and Yang Xiao sent more people to help Xiao Yi transport things back to Yong'an Fort, and then said goodbye.
Yong'an Fort has more than 90 military households and more than 400 people, which is not small as a newly built Tunbao.
Due to the gradual warming, the people built their own houses outside the Tunpu, but because they were afraid that it would not be safe to stay away from the Tunpu, most of them were built near the Tunpu wall.
On this day, Xiao also returned to Yong'an Fort, on the one hand, let Wang Dayong cooperate with Qi Lao and the three of them, and was always responsible for the construction of the surrounding piers.
Xiao Yi's priority now is still recruitment, the original twelve squads, as many as ten people were killed in the last battle of Xiaowutai Mountain, which is equivalent to the death of the entire two squads! Now there are only 50 soldiers and another 6 people in the fort, and they do not collect horses at night.
One end is still building a pier guard, and the other end is starting to recruit new soldiers.
There is no need for Xiao Yiduo to say anything about this recruitment, the recruitment of recruits in Yong'an Fort has just been released, and the residents in the fort are participating one after another, and they are about to squeeze the Huang Yang family who is responsible for recruitment.
In a private house, the lady hurriedly urged her children, "Hurry up, the adults are going to recruit soldiers again."
Only then came out of the back room a sturdy young man in full uniform, "Mother, then I'll go." Peace be you. ”
The woman was unimpressed, "What danger do I have to live in Yong'an Fort, but you, son, must fight bravely to avenge your father." ”
The young man's eyes were suddenly full of tenacity and anger, recalling the scene a few months ago when the pigtailed Tartar killed his father, and clenched his fists, "Mother, don't worry, I will follow the adults to kill the Tartar and never disgrace my father!" Then he didn't hesitate anymore, pushed open the door and ran to the house in Huangyang in the north.
At the same time, in a nest outside the fort, a family of an old man, a man and a woman were also sending their children to join the army, "Son, follow the adults to work hard, and earn a lot of silver for the family. ”
The man also couldn't stop nodding, "At this time, I can only kill the Tartars with the Lord of the General Banner, if I had been born twenty years earlier, I would have followed the adults to kill the Tartars." ”
The woman laughed, "You? I don't think you can be in charge, you still have to look at our son. ”
Their son was a little embarrassed and said, "Daddy, the child hasn't passed the old soldier's test yet." ”
There are many such examples, whether it is the people in the fort, or the people living outside the fort are sending their children out to join the army, many old people are in tears, how can I never see such a hot scene of people spontaneously joining the army.
This time, because the weapons are more complete, it is still the same method of trying, but instead of cutting stones with a knife, it has been replaced by a simpler method of comparison, and the questions have been increased from three to five.
This time, Xiao also tentatively recruited 42 squads, and he wanted all the veterans to be squad leaders, which those veterans deserved a long time ago. In this way, the number of people to be recruited this time is more, and the remaining thirty-two squads must be recruited to the fullest.
This time we are going to recruit another 160 people, which is not a small number. Fortunately, most of the newcomers were young and strong. Shi Gang had looked for Xiao Yi, and if he still asked for this, he might not be satisfied.
In this regard, Xiao Yi's answer is that no matter whether it can be full or not, the rules cannot be changed, and there are not many soldiers, but fine! Shi Gang also agreed.
Yong'an Fort is busy inside and outside the scene, outside, busy building piers, inside the fort is busy recruiting soldiers.
Wang Dayong went out of the tunpu, and after discussing with Liu Lao, he was divided into three teams, each of Liu Lao's three craftsmen led a team, each team had dozens of craftsmen, and ten soldiers. Such a team of people can not only achieve Xiao Yi's pier construction purpose, but also build it quickly.
Wang Dayong was on the same high ground that they and Xiao Yi and the others had first observed in the west. Qi Lao and Wang Dayong were together, Qi Lao climbed the high ground, and said with emotion: "This place can overlook the water's edge, an open plain is endless, and it is most suitable to build a pier platform here." ”
So everyone immediately began to build, first laying the foundation simply, and then transporting sand and gravel from the fort in wooden carts, and began to build. Such construction was carried out in three places at the same time near Fort Yong'an. This kind of pier is different from other piers, it takes more than half a day to build one, and if you rush to work, you can build two in one day.
Four days have passed, and nearly 30 piers have been built, and they are nearing completion. And the recruitment of recruits was also completed yesterday, there were more than 200 young people in the original fort, after screening, the result was also a big surprise to Xiao Yi, not only full recruitment, but also a few people left.
One hundred and sixty-two people were selected to meet the number of enlistments, of which there were eighteen people with three vertical strengths drawn in the book, and these people would be able to meet the conditions in the future, and Xiao would also change them into iron armor to form a team of their own. Now the money is not enough to support himself to make iron armor, so he can only take his time.
The two people with average strength are one hundred and forty-two, which is the strength level of most people, and the smaller ones have two people, and these two people are incorporated into Wang Dayong's team of horses at night.
Xiao Yi disrupted the original team, and all the veterans were integrated into the new recruits, and his first batch of 42 veterans were all team leaders.
The veterans were all excited when they found out, but they didn't expect to lead the soldiers themselves, although there were only a few people. But this is something that I have never dreamed of before, and it is all because of the kindness of Lord Zongqi.
On this day, Xiao Yi gathered all the veterans and recruits to build a school field outside the fort.
Forty-two teams are arranged in a square in the school grounds, with the squad leader and veterans in front and the recruits behind.
Every soldier who returned from the last battle became a qualified veteran, and they had the obligation and responsibility to tell these recruits what the soldiers of Fort Wing An were like. Under the leadership of each squad leader, each veteran held his head high, did his best to straighten his waist, and clenched the spear or waist knife in his hand.
The new recruits were looking around curiously, just as the veterans had done when they first arrived. They all want to know where they are in the future and what their weapons are.
I saw Xiao Ye slowly walking up to the Dianjiang platform accompanied by Huang Yang and the four of them.
"Recruits, being our garrison of Yong'an Fort is not like an ordinary garrison. When I am a soldier of Yong'an Fort, you will all be in danger of dying in battle, are you afraid? ”
A recruit boldly shouted, "Don't be afraid, we have already seen the adult's comfort for the brothers who died in battle, which can not only leave a famous ancestral hall, but also benefit the family." What's so scary? ”
Xiao Yi laughed when he heard this, "That's right! After you kill the enemy, you will have a silver reward. Those who have made meritorious contributions will be promoted. From now on, your family will be my Xiao Yi's family, and the family of all our Yong'an Fort soldiers. If you are unfortunate enough to die on the battlefield, I guarantee that your family will be treated equally with all the soldiers who died in battle, this is my promise! ”
"Thank you, sir!" The recruits bowed gratefully.
"Forever Everlasting Castle!"
"Forever Everlasting Castle!" The veterans raised their swords or spears and shouted excitedly.
The recruits were even more relieved when they heard Xiao Yi's promise, most of them came for Xiao Yi's promise to the soldiers, serving as soldiers in Yong'an Fort, killing the enemy can get a reward, meritorious service can be promoted, even if they die in battle, they will leave their names in the ancestral hall. Where can this kind of treatment be found in Datong Mansion or other places in Daming?
When the worries are completely solved, they are all real soldiers who dare to fight bloodily.
"My lord, defend my lord, hurry up and give orders!" Suddenly, the captain of the gatekeeper team rushed over and knelt down to the stage to pray.
Then everyone saw a five-person horse team riding into the fort from outside the east gate, everyone was wearing leather armor, and the person at the head was wearing a pair of old iron armor, Xiao Yi looked over, these five people were defending Liu Yiming's family, and the person wearing iron armor was Chen Hao, the leader of the family team.
On that day, Chen Hao could be regarded as fighting all the time, leading more than ten family members and the soldiers of Yong'an Fort to cooperate with each other to make up for the shortcomings, and he was a rare warrior.
Chen Hao galloped into the school field, and saw that the veterans wearing mandarin duck jackets were also amazed in their hearts, these people fought with them that day, and before the battle, it could be seen that except for a small number of people, the rest were obviously a little immature, and the nervousness could be seen.
But Chen Hao didn't care, wasn't he also nervous and afraid?
Now there was a clear difference between these people and the recruits, all of them were neat and solemn, their faces were expressionless, and no one even looked back when they came in. This battle alone has made these recruits change so much?
No, now they should be counted as qualified warriors.
And those new recruits are different, when they hear that they are riding their horses and these people come in, they have already looked back, and the formation is loose and crooked. When Chen Hao thought that Xiao Yi had successfully trained these people, he admired Xiao Yi again.
After Chen Hao came in, he saw the situation in the school field, and praised Xiao Yi, "Haha, when I was in Xiaowutai Mountain, I saw the heroic posture of Brother Xiao's soldiers, today Brother I am not invited, and I hope that Brother will not blame!" ”
Xiao Yi and Huang Yang hurriedly stepped down from the stage to greet them, "What did Team Officer Chen say, you were also one of the few warriors who dared to fight to the death with the Tartars that day, come to the stage quickly and see how my Yongan soldiers are." ”
Greeted Chen Hao on the stage, Chen Hao looked at these people in the audience, and admired Xiao Yi more and more.