Chapter 82: Rearmament (I)
The sky at the end of May in the second year of Xianchun was cloudless, and the blue was like a dream.
As a person who was brutalized by the smog seven hundred years later, Ye Yingwu tightened his grip on the reins and took a deep breath of refreshing air. Although it is already summer, the morning wind is still slightly cool. More than 100 cavalry in the hundred battles opened a long queue on the long official road, the hundred battles are still the Chinese army, the front compartment of the Tianwu army is open in the front, and the left compartment is covered in the back, obviously there are only a few hundred, but the momentum is quite huge.
Of course, this momentum is also a last resort, because the people of Tongshan County have repeatedly retained, and in desperation, Ye Yingwu can only let the Tianwu army line up in a long line to go out of the city in the second half of the night, otherwise I don't know how long it will be delayed. After leaving the city, he didn't have time to form a team, and hurriedly went north.
One after another, the red flags danced against the wind, and Rulin's gun array did not waver because of the long procession, and still pointed proudly at the sky.
The matter in Tongshan County was finally resolved peacefully, Ye Yingwu's general Jia Yufeng Lingchi, it can be said that he completely shocked the officials of Xing**, and the officials of the entire Jiangnan West Road couldn't help but shiver, and the name of "Ye Butcher" was also quietly circulated in several surrounding state capitals.
However, it seems that Jiang Wanli and others are happy to see this, and instead of sending someone to stop it, Ye Mengding sent a letter to Ye Yinghe and Ye Yingwu brothers, in addition to the encouragement of the two brothers, the words also revealed Jiang Wanli and others' praise for Ye Yingwu's thunderous methods and their worries about whether the northern Mongolian Tatars would come to find the field.
The whole thing was smooth sailing, the Tianwu Army returned to the north, Ye Yingji became the magistrate of Tongshan County, and began to recruit strong men in Tongshan County to supplement the Tianwu Army. And more recruits are also being sent to Xing** from all over Jiangxi.
After the Battle of Jute, the Tianwu Army, which had been weakened too much, grew rapidly again.
And in this, there are more unsightly things, which only a few parties know about. For example, the craftsmen and ores that are rapidly moving towards Tongshan County, and the officials from the magistrate to the lower levels of Daye County have been replaced by Jiang Wanli's party, and the ores dug up from Daye County are all secretly concentrated, or the ores of the entire Jiangnan West Road are concentrated, which also makes Ye Yingwu secretly stunned about the power in the hands of these old foxes who seem to be extraordinarily kind.
There is the eldest brother Ye Yinghe, who was born as a prisoner, and Jiang Cheng, one of the twelve fasteners of the Jiang family, who is in Daye County, plus Yongxing County, which is firmly controlled by Xie Fang, Ye Yingwu finally controls the entire Xing** in his hands, and Huangzhou in the north is served by Zhang Shijie as the governor and Wen Tianxiang as the general judge, and it can almost be said that he is his own person.
Unconsciously, Xing** and Huangzhou, the two closest state capitals to Xiangyang, have all been controlled by Ye Yingwu, forming a small group that is closely related to Jiang Wanli's party, but has its own independent meaning, value and goal.
And what keeps this small group together is a grand dream and a friendship of steel.
Except, of course, for one person.
Ye Yingwu thought secretly in his heart, and couldn't help but look at Lu Xiufu with an indifferent face slightly, and couldn't help frowning, he knew Lu Xiufu's talent, but now he always didn't dare to use this talent with confidence, because no one knew where his loyalty was, whether it was him Ye Yingwu or Li Tingzhi thousands of miles away.
And when I think of Lu Xiufu, I naturally think of Lu Wanyan, I think of my marriage, and when I think of marriage, I think of the heirs of the Ye family, who have never been settledΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β· Ye Yingwu couldn't help but let out a long sigh, from Ye Mengding's family letter, he had already heard the anxiety and worry of the cheap father and even the cheap lady behind him.
After all, the burden was on his shoulders.
But recently, he has been circling around Tongshan County, and he can't even sleep, and before he returns to Yongxing County, the matter of military training has been handed over to him again, and this matter can really only be delayed.
A cavalryman drove from a distance, driving the billowing smoke and dust: "Envoy Qiqi, several adults in front have come to greet you." β
Ye Yingwu came back to his senses and nodded slightly. The official road ahead has reached an open place, and Yongxing County, where Xing** is located, has been presented in front of you.
The whole Yongxing County is like a huge construction site, with countless shirtless men going up and down, and countless earth and stones being transported in and out of the city. It turned out that the city walls of Yongxing County were low, and they were really not suitable as the base camp of the Tianwu Army, so Ye Yingwu had to mobilize the strong men from the surrounding state capitals and even the recruits who had just come here to overhaul the city and the camp.
Red flags fluttered in the wind on the city, and the word "Song" was still the same, as if they were quietly waiting for their relatives from the south.
More than 100 cavalry swept the smoke and dust from outside the city, and the flags in the front compartment of the Tianwu Army fluttered, and the spears of Rulin spread out to both sides, but they still soared straight into the sky. The soldier holding the divine arm crossbow also pointed the crossbow arrow at the ground, but the momentum that a strong team should have is not bad at all.
The cavalry that came also fluttered red flags and galloped through the separate queues in the front compartment.
"Greetings!" Accompanied by smoke and the sound of horses' hooves, there was a loud roar, neatly aligned.
There was a smile of relief on the corner of the man's mouth, and his face was still the murderous spirit of the day, but it had softened a little, it was Su Liuyi, the former commander of the four compartments of the Anji Army and the deputy envoy of the four compartments of the current Tianwu Army.
Ye Yingwu nodded at Su Liuyi, and then looked behind him, Xie Fangde, who was covered in dust, Zhang Cheng and Guo Chang with tired faces, it was just a few days of hard work, and these people who provoked most of the burden of the Tianwu Army in Xing became more mature and stable.
"Thank you, everyone." Ye Yingwu clasped his fists at a few people on the horse.
Su Liuyi still wanted to salute, but was stopped by Zhang Cheng, this young man who had followed him since Ye Yingwu was in Lin'an, said with a wicked smile: "Envoy, don't say thank you to us, that kid from Tingluan is almost tired and faint, and the horse can't get on, so Envoy Jun should say thank you to him." This time, I heard that someone returned with a beautiful heart? β
Jiang Hao and Wang Jin, who had already rushed over on horseback, were stunned, and immediately laughed: "Is it possible that you kid is jealous?" β
"Okay, okay, it's not easy to greet here, let's settle down first." Ye Yingwu also said with a smile, as if he had returned to the days in Lin'an, and everyone was so simple and beautiful.
The slightest wisp of friendship passed through my heart, warm and comfortable.
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I haven't seen it for a few days, and the entire Yongxing County is under construction outside the city, and from the north city wall that has been erected, you can see what kind of magnificent fortress Yongxing County that Xie Fangde and others have worked hard to outline.
Even on the surrounding high ground, there are people busy, the original Tianwu Army's slightly simple camp in the north of the city has all disappeared, replaced by a camp built with stone walls, and the moat has become a moat, but the water drawn from the net lake has not yet reached the city, but the camp of the two Huai water divisions has begun to be built on the side of the moat, even if the Mongolian Tatar soldiers come to the city, the two Huai water divisions can also use fast boats to go straight to Yongxing County along the net lake, not only to provide food and grass for the defenders, but also to provide support with bows and crossbows and arrows.
Ye Yingwu and Su Liuyi rode forward side by side, circling around Yongxing County, looking around, the shirtless people were shouting with the local dialect in the city, and the new soldiers of the Tianwu Army were roaring loudly outside the city under the command of the generals. Nodding slightly, Ye Yingwu said with a smile:
"If this continues, Xing** will become an important town in the north of Jiangxi, and it can help Xiangfan and suppress Mongolia, and retreat can defend the city and help each other."
Su Liuyi was also full of emotion, it turned out that the Anji Army in Lianghuai was like a child who was not welcomed, and there was a task to charge them up, and when it was time to distribute the food and salary, they would be left behind, otherwise Su Liuyi would not have actively taken the Anji Army away from Huangzhou at that time. And now, as a member of the Tianwu Army, watching the entire Jiangnan West Road do everything to help him, how can this feeling of being different not make people feel emotional?
"This time, thanks to a few ministers, if there is only the land of Xing** three counties, it is really impossible to gather so many people, but this is all sent from the southern state capital, and it is estimated that some will arrive one after another these days." Su Liuyi looked at the people who were under the black pressure above and below the city wall, and his voice was flat with a trace of inexplicable emotion.
And these people didn't have to give up a single bit of money and grain, but they sent money and grain from the south in an endless stream every day.
In a few words, Ye Yingwu and Su Liuyi had already galloped into the city from the east gate that had not yet been repaired, looking at the familiar streets in the city, Ye Yingwu remembered the most important thing in his heart, and looked at Su Liuyi with a slight frown:
"How's the training of the Forces nouvelles? We have so few troops at our disposal. β
Su Liuyi also seemed to have a headache when he mentioned this matter: "The recruits have arrived one after another, but because the front and left compartments of the Tianwu Army are going south, there are not so many veterans to train them, so except for some people, the rest can only be temporarily pulled to the city wall to help repair the city wall." β
Ye Yingwu just nodded and didn't say anything, after all, this is also the truth, because although there are still many veterans in the right wing of the Tianwu Army and the remnants of the Anji Army, most of them have to be drawn out and camp in the north, and the two Huaishui divisions are horns for each other, in case Ashu Xingbing takes revenge, so in the end, the veterans left to Su Liuyi to train the troops are really pitiful.
"The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the northern soldiers are already at a disadvantage, Ah Shu should not rush south again, otherwise once there is any loss, the number of Mongolian troops under Xiangfan City will be less than our army, not to mention attacking the city, and self-protection is a problem." Ye Yingwu said lightly, he really didn't care much about Ah Shu, but Jia Xianggong, who cared more about Lin'an, knew how he would retaliate after his masterpiece in Tongshan County.
He doesn't think that Jia Yidao is a broad-minded person, even if Xing** guards the throat of Xiangfan's south, it is the only way to go north to support Xiangfan.
"It's not just the problem of new pawns, but also armor and firearms, and Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·." Ye Yingwu squinted slightly at the rising sun, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "There are also war horses." β
After all, firearms are not very developed now, and they can play an auxiliary role, but it is a bit reluctant to be used as a main battle weapon, and Ye Yingwu, who is a standard liberal arts student, does not have the ability to climb the science and technology tree, so his kung fu can only go down to the bow and crossbow and cavalry.
Su Liuyi smiled helplessly, he didn't understand what Ye Yingwu meant, but since Dali was occupied by the Mongols, even the Dian horses have been difficult to get, and the war horses of the Southern Song Dynasty can only be obtained through sporadic channels in the north, and the five hundred cavalry of the hundred battles are already precious, and if you really want to form a cavalry that can compete with the Mongolian iron cavalry across the Eurasian continent, five hundred horses is far from enoughΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β· However, fortunately, many war horses were captured in the Battle of Macheng and the Battle of Hanshui, but the task of training cavalry was not so simple.
Everything takes time, and in this world, time is so precious.
However, fortunately, Tongshan County and Daye County are now firmly controlled by their own people, which means that the Tianwu Army can produce armor blades and even firearms nearby, but it takes a lot of effort to set up these workshops similar to those similar to those who will be used as supervisors in various hidden ravines in Tongshan County, not to mention that they have to wait for those craftsmen collected from all over Jiangnan West Road to arrive, which is almost from scratch.
Looking around at the surrounding houses, Ye Yingwu frowned slightly, it will take a while for this Xing** to really become his base camp, and during this time, he can only desperately maneuver, dragged out of the court, and deceived under the nose of Ah Shu.
But after thinking about it, it has only been two months since I came to this era seven hundred years ago, and I have already won a victory in two months, and I have already sat on the land of three counties, and I already have a strong team with good strength, which is already very good, and it seems that it is really God's favor, and I really want to let myself come to the last days of 700 years ago and save the last Chinese clothes.
Although the smoke and dust are billowing outside the city, it cannot hide the appearance of the green mountains. Ninety thousand miles of green mountains, since God lives up to a certain Ye Yingwu, then a certain era will be rewritten!
Looking at the smile on the corner of Ye Yingwu's mouth, Su Liuyi's heart also felt a lot more settled, the young man next to him looked very young, but after getting along for so long, no one regarded him as a hakama and an idle person.
However, Su Liuyi still felt a little aggrieved in his heart, after all, he had changed from the commander of the four compartments to the deputy commander, and the top boss was still a young man who had just been crowned, and anyone would feel uncomfortable in their hearts, but Su Liuyi still understood that it was powerful, not to mention anything else, it was the remnants of the Anji Army, and it was much better to stay in this Tianwu Army than to follow him Su Liuyi.
He, Su Liuyi, is definitely not such a small-bellied person, although he is aggrieved, he can endure it and help Ye Yingwu save this last day Heaven is the right way! However, if you can command an army and attack one side, then life will be satisfied.
seems to have guessed Su Liuyi's thoughts, Ye Yingwu just smiled lightly and didn't speak, even if Su Liuyi was willing to be his subordinate, Ye Yingwu didn't want to destroy the heavens, after all, history has proved Su Liuyi's talent, loyalty and integrity, this is a figure who can definitely take charge of one side alone, but now that the Tianwu Army is such a big pattern, Ye Yingwu can't abdicate and make way for Xian, right? So I can only grieve Su Liuyi.
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