readx; Nangong Jie, Nangong Jun's only son, although I have seen it a few times in the guard before, but I really don't have any impression, it was only when I quarreled during the military meeting a few days ago that I had some basic impressions of him, and it wasn't until a few days ago that Nangong Jun told me that I hoped I could let his son serve as the captain of my personal guard, and I had some basic understanding of this kid. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"I hope that my son Nangong Jie will be the captain of your personal guard, and this matter will be entrusted to you, and it will be my thank you for helping you this time! I won't say much about the rest! ”

Tough, no room for negotiation, although I don't know what the old man is thinking, but the last military reform, I am indeed thankful a lot, at least in my opinion, this stern old man has no special malice towards me, and even helps me intentionally or unintentionally.

So there is no special consideration, I immediately accepted Nangong Jie as the captain of my personal guard, as soon as I returned to the barracks, this kid will follow me like a shadow, the others are nothing, Yuruo is not happy all day long, looking at her appearance, she has long thought about my position as the captain of the personal guard, but it has been inconvenient to mention, and as a result, Nangong Jun gave her a quick start. Fortunately, although this girl is thin-skinned, she is not ambiguous in her actions, and within a few days, she became familiar with Nangong Jie, and naturally ran into my military camp every day.

The training of the guards was also going very smoothly, after Liu Qian, the old man, was told by Nangong Jun, it was like a different person, he selected a group of strong people from his subordinates, and then left a property for his son and grandson, and he sold all the remaining property, changed the clothes of these subordinates, and then took the part of the soldiers I gave him to train desperately every day. His subordinates were tossed very badly by him, but the name of the fierce general in the Qi family's army was really not in vain, and after more than ten days, these guards who were still loose and sloppy obviously had a great change, which made me really sigh that the title of the first army of the Ming Dynasty was not given in vain.

In order to support my reform, this Liu Qian also returned all the land he had taken privately to me, and I also began to check the land according to Yurou's prompts, and cleared out the land that most of the guards had privately swallowed, and recovered forty percent of the land in the name of the Dengzhou Guard, of course, in order not to push these people into a desperate situation, Liu Qian and Yurou came forward and gave these people a one-time compensation of silver taels, which also forced some hundred households who were about to go bankrupt to sell their land to me privately, I also considered that these lands should be used as farms, at least as one of the sources of military salaries, although these lands are not much, but they gave me great comfort, and at the same time made me move the idea of fully clearing the land.

Of course, it is not so easy to completely clear the land, after all, it involves the entire guardhouse, and the old guardhouse of the Qi family army like Liu Qian is easy to handle, and the officers of the guardhouse who have a bunch of land at home are not so easy to deal with, so Yurou's advice to me is to slowly figure it out.

The Shenji battalion is also being carried out step by step, the configuration of the first division has been basically completed, and the skeleton of the second division has also been erected, but the only problem is still the problem of soldiers, although they have also entrusted Yurou and Li Dan to recruit soldiers in various places, but in the past half a month, there are only hundreds of people, but because I have the idea of training the second division into a completely elite army, I will let these people start training first.

Reska also wrote a few letters back to China, hoping that there would be people in his hometown who wanted to take an adventure in the East to come to Dengzhou, but even if his letter could recruit people, it would come and go for a year, and the daylily would be cold by then.

About half a month later, Li Guangzhong also came from Liaodong to send a letter, when they arrived in Fushun, this place has been looted, men, women and children were slaughtered by Jiannu a lot, the tragic situation, can not bear to talk about it, although they sent scouts to look for the main force of Jiannu, but there is no whereabouts. At that time, many Ming army strongholds were attacked by the Jiannu army. This elusive style of play made Li Guangzhong and Song Yinglong feel a lot of headaches, and rumors that seemed to be sending troops were also spread from the military department. Let me be sure to pay attention to some movements in the capital.

Li Guangzhong's letter disturbed me, and I didn't know how to reply, but I just replied to the letter, briefly saying that Nurhachi and his eight banners were formed, and asked them to defend the city to the death, and not to rashly divide the troops and advance, because what Nurhachi is best at is to lure the enemy deep and break them one by one.

After the letter was sent, it sank like a stone into the sea, and there was no response.

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In July, the sun is like fire, and the stars are flying.

Reska is obviously completely unaccustomed to the hot weather of Daming, especially during training, and I don't know if it is because the sweat glands of foreigners are particularly developed, and the sweat is flowing into a river, so he simply went into battle shirtless during training, and this situation was directly imitated by the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion. At this time, it is inconvenient for Yuruo to come to the Shenji Camp again.

"It's hot, it's so hot!" Like Reska, Lao Wan was also sweating profusely, this middle-aged man who looked very rough was now the commander of the elite spear regiment of the 1st Division of Dengzhou, and the tactics of the mixed formation of three-line shooting and spearmen were quite mature.

At Resca's further suggestion, I also greatly increased the number of spear regiments, which were almost twice the size of ordinary musket regiments, in order to emulate the spear phalanx set up by the Spaniards, so that they could maintain the battle line on the battlefield, and in order to ensure the survivability of these soldiers, the armor was specially strengthened, which also gave me an additional tactical option on the battlefield.

I'm also naked, although I've been here for less than a year, but it's not at all the kind of weak physique when I first came, myself in modern times because of the modern food industry and eating habits, my nutrition intake is much more balanced than people in this era, so my physical development is much better than that of people in this era, but because I rarely do outdoor sports in modern times, so my physique is not very strong, but in Daming this place, there is a lack of indoor entertainment, so I often go out to exerciseOver time, this body has become very strong.

Because I like football, I also built a football field in the Shenji Battalion station, and then made a football myself, taught a group of people to play football, originally just wanted to play with these people in my spare time, but as a result, this sport soon spread among the soldiers of the first division, more and more people came to the football field to watch the football, and more and more people learned to play football, most of the soldiers would run to the football field to play football when they were resting, and during the game, officers and soldiers fought for victory on the football field regardless of rank, This greatly improved the relationship between the previously unrelated officers and soldiers, and Reska fell in love with the sport even more, clamoring to bring it back to England one day.

I don't know what to say, but this guy is really fierce on the field, and the soldiers of the muskets are naturally not willing to lose to this red guy, I have to say that this still somewhat savage football game that I inadvertently led has indeed greatly improved the soldiers' physique and morale, especially in aggression.

Reska wiped her sweat vigorously, then walked up to me, then looked up at the clear sky with a helpless expression.

I waved my hand, and the guards on the side immediately handed over the prepared kettle, I threw it to Reska, then took another one and threw it to Lao Wan, and finally took one myself, and poured the mouth of the kettle directly into my mouth.

"The summer of Daming is so hot, it's completely different from England!" Reska is like an old cow drinking water, grunting the water in the kettle to the bottom, by the way, Reska's Chinese is now quite good, although it always sounds a little weird.

Nonsense, one is subtropical, the other is temperate, it's completely different! Although I thought so, I couldn't say that even if it was Resca, he couldn't understand the subtropical monsoon climate and the Mediterranean climate with him now.

"England? Isn't that place hot in the summer? As soon as he heard the new term, he immediately wiped his mouth and handed the kettle in his hand to my personal guard.

Reska nodded and said: "England is fiercely warm most of the time, but in autumn and winter, it is still as cold as Daming, especially London, in autumn and winter, it is foggy and cold in the morning at night." I've been in London for so long, and every winter is the hardest. ”

Indeed, the place in London is located on the River Thames, and it loves fog in winter, so it is not much warmer than that of Daming.

"But I miss the English summer now, at least not in the deadly heat." Reska poured the kettle hard and sat down on the ground, fanning the wind with her hands.

"I've never seen anything this hot in previous years." Lao Wan also learned his appearance, sat on the ground with one butt, and the soldiers in the distance saw that the commander was like this, although they wanted to do it, but because there was no order, no one dared to sit down, and when I waved my hand, the battalion commanders over there shouted to rest, and these soldiers sat on the hot ground one by one, and the logistics soldiers immediately pushed the bucket full of herbal tea up and began to distribute herbal tea to relieve the heat.

"What the hell!" Lao Wan took out a sweat towel from his waist and rubbed it vigorously towards his face. "I heard that there is a great drought in the area of Nanzhili, and the red land is thousands of miles, and I am blindfolded by this God."

Yu Ruo and Yu Rou told me about this before, because of the drought, most of the fields of the Ling family in Nanzhili failed, in order to avoid chaos, Yu Rou also specially sent people to appease the farmers, borrowed some silver so that these people could survive the natural disaster, and the imperial court also specially appointed disaster relief, but it seems that the effect is not great.

According to reason, at this time, the land of China is in the Xiaoice period, and the disaster of the great drought is also a common thing, but unfortunately the Ming has not even learned half of the disaster relief skills of the previous generation, before the Han and Tang dynasties, especially the Eastern Han generation, is in a period of intense geological activity, the national disaster continues, as a result, the imperial court actually established an extremely powerful disaster relief system, which was maintained for a long time, and as a result, the Eastern Han Dynasty will not be able to do so, so that in history, from the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the displaced people who lost their land became a big problem.

These days, in Shandong, Nanzhili, Zhili, and even as far away as Shaanxi, a church organization called Wenxiangjiao has grown rapidly, and it is said that the number of incense congregations has reached hundreds of thousands.

Fortunately, there were no big problems in the vicinity of Dengzhou because of the management of me and Yurou, but after hearing that Dengzhou was relatively stable, the displaced people who fled from all over the country have begun to gradually gather outside Dengzhou City, although through the signing of a contractual relationship, these landless displaced people have entered the Grange established before a large part of the work has been digested, but the population that the Grange can absorb has reached saturation, and if it continues like this, I am afraid that some other measures can only be taken.

"I just hope nothing happens!"

I muttered to myself.

The three of them were chatting casually, but they saw Nangong Jie hurriedly running over from the soldiers who were making a mess below, and his face was also in a hurry, as if something had happened.

"General, something is wrong!"

Nangong Jie interrupted the leisure time in the afternoon with a very classic and old-fashioned sentence.