At this time, the red sun is sinking in the west, and there is a sunset afterglow in the courtyard, and you can vaguely see the person who comes, wearing a military uniform and an official hat, obviously a military attache of no low grade. Han Liu hurriedly ran over and kowtowed, "The villain greets the chief master, I don't know if you are ...... the chief master."

"Cao Zhongkun, the leader of the new army, Cao San, Zhao Guanhou, who was called me a few years ago, is my brother!"

As soon as he heard the words "New Army", Han Liu subconsciously buried his head deeper, and he didn't dare to look up at Cao Zhongkun again.

Dajin started between the white mountains and black waters outside the Guan, and was later led by Wanyan Aguta, conquered the Khitan, went south to the Central Plains, and drank the Yellow River, relying on the brave warriors of the Jurchen tribe and the tenacious and daring style of the Jin people.

However, time has passed, and the Huahua world in the Central Plains has made the former warriors lose their fighting spirit, and the tiger and wolf soldiers who used to protect the foot Dagang with 20,000 and 700,000 Khitan troops can no longer pull away the hard bow left by their ancestors. When the Jin soldiers went south to destroy the Song Dynasty and unified the sea, the Jurchens were not very useful. The battle was mostly led by the Rouran horse team, the Meng'an Han army, and the internal struggle for power in the Song Dynasty, and more than 100,000 troops competed to defeat sincerity, so as to successfully destroy the Song Dynasty.

At that time, the Jin Emperor had found that the children of his clan were negligent in bow horses, and when the Son of Heaven personally watched the martial arts, five out of ten arrows were thought to be rare, and even one arrow missed but fell off his horse, and the Jin Emperor was helpless. Later, when the White Lotus Sect and the Bagua Sect started an incident, they mostly used the militia to practice Yonghui to suppress it, but it was really unbearable for the old Jin soldiers.

A few years ago, Changmao made chaos in the southeast, seized Jiangning, established himself as the king, claimed to have 2 million soldiers, and sent 20,000 elite Northern Expedition with more than 6,000 real longhair in Guangxi, the most courageous. The army drove straight in, and once the soldiers pointed directly at Jinmen, as if they had the potential to encroach on the world. At that time, the Jurchen clan and the Meng'an Han army had fallen to the point of being dilapidated and unable to face the enemy.

When the Mouke Jurchens armed with arquebuses and the long-haired ones with spears and shield knives fought, the bandits used guns indiscriminately before they approached, and when the guns were hot and could no longer be released, the bandits pounced on me with rattan hobs, and the front row stood uncertain, but retreated. The famous generals among the golden people can only arrange multi-layer queues, bombard in loops, and barely maintain the situation. There were even thousands of Mouke Jin soldiers and the Meng'an Han army who were chased and killed by seven long-haired men with knives, or committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river, or kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, but no one dared to fight with long-haired.

As for the so-called invincible Rouran horse team, it is also declining in the long river of years, Albion and Cape's combined army and Dajin will hunt at the Bali Bridge, and the Rouran horse team outside the pass, led by the Rouran monk king, is known as the essence of Dajin. However, the generals did not know how to fight, and the soldiers did not know how to fight hand-to-hand. In the face of gun bombardment, long-range bombardment can still be supported, once you enter hand-to-hand combat, you see that the shining bayonet suddenly collapses, and you flee in embarrassment, and it is not uncommon for people to beg for food.

At this point, the foundation of the Jin Kingdom was unusable, and the elite cavalry that once relied on as a barrier had lost its strength. It all relied on the strength of the Hunan army, Huaiyong and other regimental training to put down the Longhair Rebellion.

However, the Yongying camp was only a flash in the pan, and the Hunan army became increasingly prosperous after the Jiangning War, and few were eliminated. The Huai army was defeated in the Battle of Goryeo, except for some of the elites who were reorganized and drilled in the Taixi method, most of the Hunan and Huai soldiers could only be reorganized into patrol battalions to undertake local general affairs and public security, which is the so-called old army.

And Yuan Weiting recruited the children of good families from the people at the small station, trained in Western law, and called the new army, which became the so-called new army. The new army was training at the beginning, and it was victorious, and there was the support of Han Rong, the secretary of the military department and the governor of Zhili, in the imperial court, and few people in the local area dared to fight with it. There are more than 100 souls in the cage outside the county yamen, as far as the gangsters are concerned, the new army is almost equivalent to the king of Hades, Han Liu heard that the person opposite is an officer of the new army, how can he not be afraid.

When he came over this time, in addition to sending two pieces of Jin Yang's condolences on the order of his own boss (one of which had been sent to the good bed by Han Liu), there was another extremely important and troublesome matter, which he had to discuss with Zhao Guanhou.

But as soon as he saw this newly built army officer, Han Liu remembered the dead ghosts in the stationing cage, and all the things and orders flew to the nine clouds, and he didn't say anything except kowtow. The officer waved his hand, "Don't get out yet, what are you waiting for." He fled from the courtyard as if he had been forgiven.

The officer closed the courtyard door, took off the official hat on his head and held it in his hand, and said as he walked into the house: "At the mouth of the alley, I smell the fragrance, and the craftsmanship of Hanzhi is getting better and better." When will I be a treasurer for my brother, but I have prepared all the gift money. ”

Zhao Guanhou was lying on the bed and couldn't move, but he was still helped by Ding Jianming to sit up, and bowed his hand to the visitor, "Third brother, why are you still here?" ”

The person who came sighed, sat next to Zhao Guanhou, and first looked at the splints on his two legs, "Doctor Su got it?" With him to make a move, I can rest assured, I heard that you let Li Xiushan break his leg, the third brother is really not at ease. That bastard, knowing that you are my brother who has killed Cao Zhongkun, but you still have to make such a heavy hand, it is really not a thing. It's a pity, your third brother has nothing to do with him, and when I find an opportunity, I have to clean him up. ”

The person who came was the most decent one among Zhao Guanhou's friends. His family was a boatman in Tanggu, and his father made wooden boats for a living, but he himself did not like this business. Neither willing to farm with peace of mind, nor able to read his eyebrows, he learned to do business and do business, and made a living by selling cloth.

He is honest and easy to speak, and if someone gives him his cloth on credit, he is willing to sell it, but he only says that his cloth is also on credit. As time went by, the ground in Jinmen gave him the nickname of Cao San's fool.

When he went to Baoding to sell cloth, because he was angry with the soldiers, he was angry, and he went to join the army as a soldier, just in time for the imperial army to conquer Goryeo. Because he knew how to read, he was sent to the military academy to study, and now he is working as a helper in the new army.

According to his identity, he originally had nothing to do with Zhao Guanhou, but two years ago, his fourth brother Cao Zhongying fell into the trap of immortal jumping. Since that incident, Zhao Guanhou and Cao Zhongying have become friends, Cao Zhongkun is kind-hearted and extremely worldly, and he also drank blood wine with Zhao Guanhou and became brothers.

But this kind of relationship is not used in daily life, and Cao Zhongkun does not hold any power in the new army, at most he can wear an official uniform to be scary, and he has very little power in other aspects. In addition, in the past few years, the Hunan army gained power, and almost all of them could not be lost, and the royal family was extremely jealous of the soldiers, and it was strictly forbidden for the military to interfere in local affairs. Yuan Weiting is punishing gangsters in the name of rectifying public security, and he can barely do it, if Cao Zhongkun's gang wants to really support Zhao Guanhou, he is actually powerless.

He was quite familiar with Su Hanzhi and Jiang Fengzhi, and he didn't see each other, so he first took out two small ingots of silver and put them on the side of the kang, and then said to Su Hanzhi: "Miss Hanzhi, don't put this money on my brother, it's not a good thing for a man to have too much money." You put it away for him, buy medicine, buy food and drink, and spend it in the right place. If it's not enough, I'll send it back next month. If it weren't for the crown marquis, my brother would have been beaten and disabled, and a large amount of money would have been defrauded. Since everyone has worshipped, it is their own people, and I can help with money, and I will definitely contribute. ”

Zhao Guanhou was not polite to him, and sent the money to Su Hanzhi, "Sister, you can keep the money, just tomorrow you can go to that Doctor Su and redeem your bracelet." ”

Jiang Fengzhi asked curiously, "Third brother, aren't you helping?" Li Xiushan is a sentry officer, you can't control him? ”

Cao Zhongkun was generous, and he was not annoyed by this sentence, but sighed, grabbed the wine glass, and poured himself a glass of wine, "This wine...... Put too much water, put less water next time, it will be tasteless. Sister Fengzhi, you are not a soldier, and you don't know our situation here. Although my gang leader sounds two levels older than the sentry officer, in fact, he is not a top business, except for more military salary, nothing else can compare to Li Xiushan, the sentry officer. ”

The establishment of the new army is similar to that of the previous Huai army, and its infantry has two wings, each wing has two commands, each commander has two battalions, each battalion has four teams, each team has three posts, and each post has six sheds. As for the establishment of artillery, engineering troops, communications troops, and other special forces, there is a separate method.

Among them, each battalion has a pipe band and another assistant band, which is similar to the regimental deputy in terms of rank, and the monthly salary is also 70 taels, which is more than the 50 taels of silver for the sentry officer. But in fact, the authority of the gang overlaps with the pipe band, and there is no separate division, there is neither personnel power nor manager power, and the status in the army depends on the gang leader's own character and ability and relationship with his subordinates.

Cao Zhongkun has no talent, he originally voted for the Huai Army, not Yuan Weiting's old team, and is not trusted, this gang is just an ornament, a cadre who mixes pay and eats, and he can't actually control the troops, and it is very difficult to even meet Yuan Daotai in person. Li Xiushan really has a whistle, and he is very effective in doing things, and he can talk to Yuan Weiting, but his status is much higher than that of Cao Zhongkun.

He sighed, "It is said that I get a salary of seventy taels a month, and one hundred and forty yuan in alloy ocean, which is not too little, I should help the crown marquis more." However, the family has a large population, and they all count on my military salary to eat, and my brothers are not worried, and the expenses are very great. Besides, I still have to use money to make some way to Ke Shuai, and I can't draw much money, but it makes Guanhou smile. ”

The Ke Shuai in his mouth is Cao Kezhong, a veteran general who was also born in the Huai Army, this person is also a person from Tianjin, who is very famous in the Huai Army, and his military exploits are also heavy. He had exchanged stickers with Yuan Weiting's uncle Yuan Jiasan, Yuan Weiting was training at the small station, and he was going to visit the door, and the two walked very closely. Cao Zhongkun has the same surname as him, so he wants to climb this relationship and let Ke Shuai recognize himself as his own family, so that he can be regarded as Yuan Weiting's own person.

But Houmen is as deep as the sea, and the clansmen of the Admiral are not so easy to recognize. If you don't have a lot of silver dots, how can you be qualified to be Keshuai's own family?

The salary of the newly built army was directly distributed to the soldiers by Yuan Weiting, but there were only other manpower in the middle, there was no room to drink the blood of the soldiers, and there was no oil and water to fish. is because of the high military salary, but Cao Zhongkun's life is very tight.

Zhao Guanhou smiled, "Third brother, you are far away, we are sworn brothers, you take a few dollars to come over, they are all a heart, and the brothers must accept your affection." Say more and say less, then it's not a friend's words. You don't have to worry about this Li Xiushan, when my leg is better, I will naturally go to his mansion. ”