Spring is blooming, and everything is recovering.

With the help of the Qingzhou Prefecture and surrounding counties, 170,000 displaced people finally settled down completely after two months of production and self-help, and the neat residential area that stood between the west bank of Yishui and the north bank of the Wen River also had its own name for the first time - Yinan.

Guan Hai and Zhang Rao led their 40,000 brothers to participate in the construction of housing and reclamation from beginning to end, and were deeply impressed by the organizational ability of dozens of officials in the state government.

Among them, Guan Hai and others were most impressed by the fact that dozens of officials distributed 170,000 displaced people to 15 wastelands around Yinan in just three days, and a large amount of disaster relief materials were almost in place with the footsteps of the displaced people.

As for digging brick kilns, burning lime, ramming mud walls, building houses, repairing culverts, expanding roads, etc., there are special craftsmen in charge. More than 1,000 young students from the fourth year of Langya Agricultural Industry and Commerce College followed the officials and craftsmen to make arrangements for everything properly and in an orderly manner.

Guan Hai and his brothers can feel the great changes happening around them every day, and every day they feel that everything in front of them is full of life.

In just two months, they witnessed a town of 50,000 people rising over a wasteland, saw fifteen neat and quiet new villages start from scratch, witnessed Qingzhou's strict household registration system and armor protection system, and finally sprinkled a handful of bean seeds on the land they had cultivated with their own hands.

On the eighth day of the first month of March, Guan Hai and Zhang Rao, who were completely relieved, led 31,000 soldiers under their command to bid farewell to thousands of people and more than 12,000 veteran brothers. Along the east bank of Yishui wide and smooth official road north, passing through Dong'an, Dongguan, Mazhan, Linqu, Guangxian, Linzi and other places. It took only five days to complete the 400-mile journey, and at noon on 14 March, they entered the base camp of the Qingzhou Army at the foot of the Shadowless Mountain.

Guan Hai, Zhang Rao and more than 30,000 Yellow Turban brothers were warmly welcomed by tens of thousands of soldiers of the Langya Army and the Qingzhou Army. Beihai Lieutenant Xu He and Qingzhou Navy Commander Sima Ju who were specially called by Liu Cun were excited, and rushed up without waiting for Guan Hai and others to salute, hugged Guan Hai and burst into tears, and then pulled Zhang Rao, who was choked up, and the four of them hugged each other tightly and cried silently, seeing Liu Cun and his subordinate martial arts sad, and bursts of crying also sounded among the Yellow Turban brothers.

After venting well, Guan Hai and Zhang Rao quickly wiped away their tears, and both came to Liu Cun to kneel in front of him to give a big salute: "Lord! ”

"Hurry up, please!"

Liu Cun stepped forward to help Guan Hai and Zhang Rao up. Brought the two to meet in front of Ji Wei, Xu Sheng, Tai Shici and other generals, and then instructed the officers to bring the new brothers into the prepared western area of the camp, and then pulled Guan Hai across the ten-zhang wide stone bridge, through the main gate tower of the base camp towering in the east, Xu Sheng, Tai Shici, Xu He and Sima Ju and others enthusiastically surrounded Zhang Rao and other five generals to follow closely.

Guan Hai was very excited, and seemed to have a thousand words to say to Liu Cun, Liu Cun asked a few words about the situation of the villagers in Yinan, and then introduced Guan Hai to this base camp within a radius of twenty miles:

"The building behind the stone platform on the front is the Chengyang Martial Arts Academy that you mentioned in the letter. At the end of last year, it moved from Tobu to the central area of the entire base camp, where most of the military affairs were negotiated and handled. ”

"Across the small bridge to the north is a cavalry training base, covering an area of about eight miles in length and width. It is the largest camp in the entire base camp. ”

"To the south is the infantry training base, where there are mountains and rivers, and there is a section of the city wall four zhang high and three miles long for siege training."

"We can't see the camp in the west now. Your 30,000,000 brethren are heading there, and it will take two quarters of an hour to reach your camp. That is, under the two peaks in front. ”

Guan Hai gasped after hearing this, and glanced at the large-scale and systematic buildings in front and back, left and right, as well as large and small school fields and grasslands. I suddenly felt dizzy:

"Lord, is this really not a big city?"

Liu Cun explained: "It's not a city, in addition to the city walls on both sides of the north gate of the camp facing Zouping County, the east gate and the south gate are only built with a gatehouse, the west gate is on the col between the two mountains behind your camp, the east and north sides of the whole camp are rivers, and the west and south sides are mountains, where is the need to build any city?" ”

"Two months ago, the officers and soldiers planted a circle of cypress and willow trees around the camp, and when they grew taller, they should be the city wall."

"My lord, does the Qingzhou Army really want to be independent of the Langya Army and form its own army?" Guan Hai put away his chaotic thoughts.

Liu Cun asked rhetorically: "That's right! How? Are your brothers worried about their position? ”

Guan Hai hurriedly explained: "No, it is the subordinates who want to hand over the brothers under their command to General Zhang Rao and other generals to lead, and the subordinates follow the lord's side and lead the horse for the lord!" ”

"Joke!"

Liu Cun did not hesitate to control the thoughts, and scolded with a smile: "Let a veteran general lead the horse for me?" I, Liu Cun, are not so mediocre, and the Qingzhou Army is not rich to this extent! ”

Seeing that Guan Hai's eyes were red again, Liu Cun had no choice but to tell him his arrangement: "There is a three-month general school seminar on June 1, you and Zhang Rao should both participate." ”

"This meeting will comprehensively summarize the various typical combat examples of our Han Dynasty over the past 400 years, analyze the current situation of our Han troops in various places, and put forward suggestions for improvement in the construction of our army.

"When this meeting is over, you will understand how much our army needs a battle-experienced general like you and General Zhang Rao."

Guan Hai unconsciously walked to the high platform in the central district with Liu Cun, and was just about to ask what kind of place this is? The laughter of Tai Shici and others was already heard behind him, and Guan Hai immediately guessed: This heavy eaves palace-style building standing on the three-zhang stone platform is probably the big tent of the Chinese army of the Qingzhou Army.

Entering the hall and sitting down in order, the seven generals of the Yellow Turban Army, including Guan Hai, realized that business was coming, and they were all nervous and restrained, and they didn't even dare to breathe loudly, and they didn't dare to look closely at the novel oval conference table in front of them and the high chair under their buttocks, which was in stark contrast to the relaxed and calm of generals such as Tai Shici, Xu Sheng, and Zhang He.

Bing Cao Ji Wei saw Liu Cun nodding his head, and immediately took out the document and talked aloud:

"Ladies and gentlemen, the arrival of more than 31,000 new brothers today means that our Qingzhou Army is finally full, and the strength of the troops has reached the scheduled 85,000 officers and soldiers."

"So far, with the addition of 60,000 Langya officers and soldiers and 25,000 Qingzhou naval officers and soldiers, the total strength of our three armies is 170,000, slightly less than the 200,000 naval army in Jingzhou, and higher than the 100,000 infantry cavalry in Jizhou, the 110,000 infantry cavalry in Xuzhou and the 90,000 infantry cavalry in Youzhou."

Guan Hai, Zhang Rao and the others looked at each other, they didn't expect Liu Cun's troops to reach such a point, and their eyes were shocked, you must know that the number of Liu Cun's army is not counting the professional soldiers of the people's miscellaneous service.

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