Tiger Head Fort Official Hall.

Liu Jun convened a group of officers of the nine-headed bird to discuss, and as far as the eye could see, the hall was full of fierce beasts, and in the blink of an eye, the young people who first followed Liu Jun were now all officials.

"Let me tell you a good news first, Premier Xiong has agreed to my request, the Macheng garrison will be retained, and also agreed that Zhang Shan will take over the post of Macheng garrison, and be promoted to the title of commander of the Zhangshan Administration. Everyone applauded together and celebrated Zhang Shan. ”

Fierce applause suddenly sounded in the official hall, and Zhang Shan stood up with a red face, and threw his fists to everyone.

After a while, the applause stopped, and Liu Jun said with a smile, "It is extremely important for us that the Macheng garrison can be taken down, but, Zhang Shoubei, although I have promoted you to the position of Macheng garrison, I also have to tell you that you, the Macheng garrison, are now a bare-pole general, and there is no soldier under him." ”

Zhang Shan was stunned for a moment, "Big brother, if you don't give me soldiers, what kind of garrison will I have, why don't you have to give me 1,800 soldiers, and I can also pull up the shelves of the garrison camp." ”

Liu Jun shook his head, "I don't have any soldiers, but I can give you priority in drawing out a batch of ordnance, and if you want someone, you have to recruit it yourself." I can remind you here, we still have more than 2,000 captives in the fort, and now these people are shoveling coal and iron in the workshop all day, you can go and pick some people inside, and you can pick them if you like. ”

Zhang Shan's face was full of sadness, "Brother, if you get some bandit captives back, then my garrison camp will become a den of thieves." No, it's okay if you don't give the soldiers, you have to give me some, or else whoever is willing to be this garrison will be the one. ”

Liu Jun was also helpless, so he had to say, "I'll pull out a hundred old brothers for you, no more." ”

"Where's the silver?" Zhang Shan refused to give up.

"The silver will not be less than yours, how much you need to write a report."

Liu Jun is bent on fighting for this garrison, and he is also making long-term plans. Xiong Wencan had already ordered him to be transferred to Xiangyang, and even pulled out 50,000 yuan of silver. That's already very polite. Liu Jun couldn't toast or eat and drink, but he couldn't lose his base, so he had already made a report recommending Zhang Shan to succeed him as the garrison, and asked him to form a garrison battalion as a force to stay behind when the nine-headed bird was not there.

Zhang Shan is his own brother, and he has absolute trust. Although it is a garrison camp, it will still be a part of the Hydra.

"Come, I'll announce the second thing now." Liu Jun stood up and said with a smile, "Zhu Yuancheng is officially appointed as a group practitioner in Macheng. ”

Everyone applauded again, and Zhu Yuancheng stood up and gave his hand. Macheng group training is only an eight-rank official. Zhu Yuanwei himself is already a general, and he can even be regarded as a high and low position.

"The Macheng group training is also very important to us, Brother Yuan Cheng was a little wronged and temporarily took up the position of this group training."

"I listen to my eldest brother." Zhu Yuancheng was originally Liu Jun's commander in charge of the Chinese army, and he had been promoted to the general manager before, but now he was arranged by Liu Jun to rebuild the Macheng regiment training.

"The situation on your side is the same as Zhang Shan, I can only give you twenty old brothers, you recruit your own team members, and build this regiment as soon as possible."

Next. Liu Jun has successively announced the inspection of Hutou Pass, Muling Pass and the inspection of the five inspection divisions of Yinshan Pass, Loess Pass and Baisha Pass. Just talk to the county.

Through this round of arrangement, Liu Jun has completely mastered the entire Taiping Township into his own hands, even for Macheng County and Qi Huang. As long as the garrison battalion and regimental training battalion are built, he will also have great influence.

"Now Cai Yuan is officially appointed as the camp officer of the baggage battalion."

"Subordinates obey!" Cai Yuan, one of the 13 Taibao, did not object to the appointment.

Liu Jun himself served as the camp officer of the war barracks. At the same time, he is also the direct supervisor of the auxiliary battalion. Originally, there were 3,400 people in the war camp and 3,200 people in the auxiliary barracks, but because there were 500 people sent by the Fushe and 500 people sent by Qihuang 48 Village, Liu Jun specially established a training camp, and in addition to the 1,000 people in the training camp, 200 middle and low-level officers were selected from the war barracks and auxiliary barracks to come in for rotation training, and another 1,000 recruits were recruited as the guards of the training camp.

Liu Jun of the teaching camp was handed over to Wang Qian to be in charge, and he served as the camp officer.

"Premier Xiong has urged him several times, and now the food has come down, so we will set off soon. Ten days later, the war barracks, auxiliary barracks, and training battalions will be pulled north, and this will be left to the garrison battalion and regimental training battalion for defense. Liu Jun announced.

After some further deliberations, the meeting was dissolved and each returned to the camp.

Liu Jun only gave ten days to prepare, which was very tight, but there were a lot of things to prepare.

Cai Yuan left the official hall and immediately rushed to the auxiliary barracks outside the south gate.

Behind him were some of the old brothers he had selected from the barracks, and these people were the backbone of the officers of the auxiliary battalion.

"My lord, I only have ten days, I'm afraid it's not enough." It was Zhang Donggou who spoke, he was brought into the auxiliary battalion by his old boss Cai Yuan, and served as the head of the left section of the auxiliary battalion, and half a month ago, he was only the head of the gun team of the Nine-headed Bird Artillery Division, and now he was promoted to the head of the thousand general, and the real green clouds soared into the sky.

However, the thousand general managers of the baggage battalion cannot be compared with the war barracks, the guard of the thousand general administration of the war battalion is a thousand households, and the guard of the thousand general administration of the auxiliary battalion is just a hundred households.

But in any case, it is a fact that President Zuo Qianqian led a company of more than 1,000 people. used to be in charge of eleven people, but now it is more than a thousand people, and Zhang Donggou is indeed a little bottomless.

"There's only so much time, and we can't afford to drag the barracks back in any case."

Having said that, there are still a lot of difficulties in front of Cai Yuan and Zhang Donggou. First of all, although the more than 3,000 soldiers of the baggage battalion were recruited enough, there was a shortage of officers, and Cai Yuan only brought a hundred people, not a hundred officers, but only a hundred old brothers, of which there were only ten people who were originally above the rank of captain. Cai Yuan turned out to be just a hundred presidents, and Zhang Donggou was just a team president.

"Let's pick some experienced ones from among the captives." Zhang Donggou proposed.

"That's the only way to go, but we can't want those cruel and ferocious thieves."

Firearms workshop.

"Those who have been leaders among the bandits, stand up for me!"

A strong man with a dark face and stern eyes, shirtless and carrying a leather whip, walked in, glaring at the men shoveling coal in the coal yard with a menaceous gaze.

Dozens of men covered in soot put down their shovels and stood up.

The overseer of the coal yard swept over them with wide eyes.

A group of bandit leaders and captives stood there uneasy. Since they were captured, they were not killed by some surprise, but were assigned to work here, and their daily job was to shovel coal, and shovel and shovel the mountain-like pile of coal into the cart. Day after day, nothing changes.

It's a bit of a suffocating job, although it's an unexpected day to get a few points, buy food in the cafeteria, and even drink some alcohol. But everyone still has a kind of uneasy fear. No one knows when they will be dragged out for trial and killed.

"Those who can ride horses, those who drive chariots, those who shoot arrows, those who fire guns, and even those who fire cannons, all stand up."

Of the dozens of people who stood up, only a few did not move, and the rest took two steps forward.

Qi Duyan also took two steps forward, before he was captured, he was a master, he could ride a horse and shoot arrows, he could also drive a car, and even fire a gun and shoot artillery, and he had been in the rebel army for more than ten years. It can be said that he has long been an all-round player.

Called out by the overseer, he didn't resist, just a little numb. When he was first captured, he thought about dying. But after being found and treated, the desire to die gradually extinguished, and it was better to die than to live, and he didn't know why he had this thought. But that's how I survived.

Listening to the shouting of the overseer on the other side, Qi Duyan estimated in his heart that the other party might be trying to recruit someone from them. This is a fairly common thing, after the officers and soldiers captured the prisoners of the rebels. Sometimes, elite people are selected from among them to join the official army. And the rebels are the same, after capturing the officers and prisoners, they will do the same.

At this time, the overseer came over and shouted at Qi One-eyed, "You dead one-eyed dragon, what are you doing, go back to shoveling coal." ”

Qi single-eyed narrowed his eyes and looked at the overseer, but in the end he didn't say anything, turned around and prepared to go back.

"Wait a minute."

A voice sounded behind him, and Qi turned his head with one eye, only to find that it was someone he knew. On the day he was captured, it was the strong man who let go of a horse and did not kill himself.

Zhang Ergou walked up to Qi Duyan and smiled, "It turns out that you are still alive." ”

Qi Duyan didn't speak.

Zhang Ergou is now the commander of the front bureau of the left part of the baggage camp, and he turned to Zhang Donggou and Cai Wu and said, "I know this person, I want it." ”

Cai Yuan nodded, "Just take care of it." ”

Zhang Ergou turned his head to look at Qi Duyan, "I still remember the scene when you hugged that child and cried that day, I think you are a man with affection and righteousness." I am now the commander of the baggage battalion, in charge of 20 baggage vans, each of which has 20 soldiers from Zhengqi's two teams, and a total of 400 soldiers under his command. But I have no officers under my command now, and I need an experienced officer like you to help me take care of them. How about it, follow me, I can let you be a bureau chief, and take charge of five vans and ten teams of soldiers in a bureau for me. ”

Qi Duyan was surprised, but did not agree immediately.

"It's better than you're shoveling coal here every day, right?"

"I think it's good to be like this now, just deal with coal every day, and don't have to fight and kill anymore." Qi Duyan said.

Ergou smiled, "Actually, you are still very young, at most in your early thirties, and you still have most of your life." ”

Qi Duyan was silent for a long time, and then asked, "Are you really willing to believe me?" ”

"The oath of our nine-headed bird is that once we enter the nine-headed bird, we will be brothers for life. It doesn't matter who you used to be, as long as you join the Hydra and make a vow, you will be our brother from now on. ”

"Brother?" Qi Duyan smiled, tears almost flowing. Then he looked back at the mountain-like pile of coal behind him, and finally shook his head, "Okay, I'll do it with you." ”

"Very good, from now on, you will be the head of the front bureau of the left side of the Nine-headed Bird Heavy Battalion." (To be continued......)