"The Langya army is leaving Xu Village—"

The news spread throughout 29 villages in the surrounding four townships in one day, and tens of thousands of villagers threw down their farm work and flocked to the camp in Xu Village from all directions.

In the past half a month, nearly 10,000 soldiers of the Langya Army have carried farm tools every day, brought the seeds transported back from Kaiyang Wangcheng, and went to the surrounding ten miles and eight townships to help the villagers spring ploughing and rush to plant, repair the damaged houses, pave the way for the villagers to build bridges, and win the gratitude and trust of countless villagers.

Now, nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers of the Langya Army have changed into new armor, picked up new weapons, and gathered in the open space in the center of the Xucun camp, and are about to leave for their respective stations.

After the disaster, the villagers of Xucun who returned to their homes surrounded Liu Cun and others who were about to say goodbye, telling their gratitude and reluctance, and learned that the Langya soldiers decided to leave the camp and stored grain and then go to a different place, the villagers could no longer control their emotions, and they all knelt on the ground and cried sadly.

Liu Cun helped up the two village elders in front of him and told the villagers to form their own village protection team as soon as possible, keep the existing camp and maintain it, so that the villagers can rest assured when they live in it.

As soon as the words fell, the two village elders knelt down again, hugged Liu Cun's legs and cried, and the thousands of fathers and villagers who rushed to see him off fell to their knees.

In late February of the third year of Zhongping, Liu Cun entered the newly cleaned Fei County, and in the face of the welcome of 20,000 soldiers and 30,000 local people, he solemnly announced the edict of Liu Xi, the monarch of Langya, to "protect the territory and the people, and recuperate", which immediately triggered the long-lasting cheers of 50,000 soldiers and civilians inside and outside the city.

Since then, Fei County, which has been reincorporated into the Langya Kingdom, has officially become the legal garrison area of the Langya Army, the unloseable western barrier of the Langya Kingdom, and one of the three most important forward bases of the Langya Army.

Liu Cun planned to use two years to widen the 120-mile trail that runs through the hinterland of Mengshan Mountain to Mengyin City, and build Fei County and Mengyin City into a stable western barrier between Chengyang County and Langya State.

The re-returned Fei County, as the food town of Liu Xi, the monarch of Langya, is not under the jurisdiction of Liu Cun, the Taishou of Chengyang County, but after this war crisis, the monarch Liu Xi finally saw the general trend of the world and thoroughly understood his current situation and ability, so he did not hesitate to entrust his own safety, and decisively entrusted the defense, government affairs and taxes of Fei County to Liu Cun, who was loyal to Zhi'en Tubao, and entrusted it to the Langya army, which was brave and good at fighting and winning the hearts of the people.

In order to better protect the security and own interests of Langya State, after the secret meeting with Liu Cun and Wang Qi, the monarch Liu Xi appointed Wang Qi as the lieutenant of Langya State, and asked Wang Qi to reorganize the Langya ** team and shoulder the heavy responsibility of defending one city and six counties of the kingdom.

At the beginning, Wang Qi was very reluctant to leave Liu Cun and the Langya Army that had poured his countless efforts, but after listening to Liu Cun's words and listening to the promise of the monarch Liu Xi, he finally let go of all his worries and happily accepted the appointment of Liu Xi, the monarch of Langya, and officially assumed the position of lieutenant of the Langya Kingdom, and since then he has stepped into the ranks of the high-ranking officials of the Han Dynasty with a rank of 2,000 stones!

In fact, Wang Qi's position as the deputy marshal of the Langya army has not been shaken, this is a guarantee made by Liu Cun solemnly, Wang Qi has now also understood that holding the Langya country is equivalent to guarding the southern and southwestern borders of Liu Cun's sphere of influence, which is equivalent to quietly expanding the power of the Langya army to the six counties in the south of Langya, which is completely closely linked with Xuzhou, a strategic point of the Han Dynasty, and then laying the strategic advantage that the Langya army can attack and retreat.

Now, Wang Qi and his adjutant general Yan Shen have officially entered the Lieutenant's Mansion in Kaiyang City, and with the strong support of the monarch Liu Xi and his ministers, they have reorganized their armaments and carried out drastic military reforms, and the 15,000 troops under his command can be reasonably named the title of "Langya Army", which is the major event that Wang Qi and Yan Shen are most concerned about.

Liu Cun generously left Yan Shen 1,000 cavalry and 1,500 war horses, and through a large number of important ministers of the kingdom such as Cheng Bing, Cangci, and Xu Ci, he assisted the monarch Liu Xi to gradually implement economic reforms, and used the advantages of the Langya Chamber of Commerce and the Mi family to promote the development of agriculture, industry and commerce in the six counties of the city under Liu Xi's rule.

Liu Cun deeply regretted that Nanwuyang (now Pingyi, Shandong), which had an important strategic position, was under the rule of Yanzhou, and before the Yellow Turban army left, Yanzhou went up to the Thorn Shiqiao and down to the local officials, and no one was willing to fight with the Yellow Turban army.

In order to maintain a harmonious relationship with Yanzhou Thorn Shi Qiaomao, for the sake of future cooperation and to hide his strength and ambition, Liu Cun could only reluctantly give up Nanwuyang, which has an important strategic position, and in order to show his goodwill, Liu Cun also sent letters to Thorn Shi Qiaomao and Taishan Taishou respectively, thanking them for expelling the Yellow Turban and making the southwest border of Chengyang County and Langya Kingdom peaceful.

But without Nanwuyang, Liu Cun, whose strategic depth was shortened by nearly half, had to increase his efforts to run Fei County, and did not hesitate to leave the Langya Army's 3,000 old foot soldiers, 2,000 crossbowmen and 1,000 cavalry to guard it for a long time, and took out a huge amount of money to reclaim 150,000 mu of land for these 6,000 old brothers in Fei County, and selected advantageous terrain next to a small river ten miles in the northeast and southwest of the county seat, and built two strong camps to accommodate the families of the 6,000 old brothers.

It was not until late March that Wang Qi and Yan Shen completed the military rectification of the Langya Kingdom and established a new and vigorous army.

Liu Cun took Wang Qi and Yan Shen, who had lost a lot of weight, to the southwest corner of the city wall, overlooking the wide plain in front of them and the rolling mountains on both sides, and then stomped their feet and pointed to the mottled loess city wall and said:

"The city wall should have been repaired a long time ago, even if it is not thickened and heightened, it must be pasted with bricks and paved with Sanhe soil, but the lack of manpower in the busy farming season has not been completed, and I dare not dare to hope to build a new city wall around the periphery, so I can only hand it over to the two of you, and I will let Mr. Ziyi's disciples come over to help, they are all masters of city building."

Yan Shen, who was becoming more and more mature and calm, nodded heavily: "Don't worry, my subordinates will definitely train troops day and night in Fei County, and strive to exterminate all bandit forces within a radius of 100 miles within three months, and assist Lord Xu Ci to build the new city wall as soon as possible, and never let any force exceed half a step." ”

"I'm relieved to have you in Fei County, Zhong Qian, you're only two years younger than me, it's time to get married." Liu Cun said with a smile.

Yan Shen was grateful in his heart, but his face was still the same, pretending not to care.

Wang Qi laughed and told Liu Cun: "The granddaughter of the old minister Yin De has taken a fancy to our Zhong Qian, and it is estimated that the Yin family will soon ask Jun Shang to be the old man, haha!" ”

Liu Cun was very happy: "It's a good thing! Zhong Qian, inform me immediately after the marriage is agreed, if you lack anything, just open your mouth, and your brother must not be polite. ”

Yan Shen smiled and skillfully changed the topic: "Lord, has the Mengcheng guards in the north been decided?" ”

Liu Cun nodded: "It's settled, Zhai Yue said that he was reluctant to let you go, and wanted to be a neighbor with you, I agreed, three days ago he led five thousand soldiers back to Mengcheng, and before leaving, he kept urging me to widen the mountain road between the two cities as soon as possible, and also said that there are four places where as long as the bridge of 25 zhang long is built with reinforced concrete, the distance from Feixian County to Mengyin can be shortened by 20%, reduced to about 100 miles......

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ps: There are indeed a lot of things at home these days, and when they settle down, they will resume the two shifts! I'm so sorry! Continue to ask for tickets and collect!