The two thousand Sichuan soldiers lent to Shi Dayong by Deng Yu and Wang Hong are actually good, and Deng Wang and the others are indeed righteous enough, they are not the old and weak soldiers among the generals who are thrown to Shi Dayong as a burden, but they each transferred a whole battalion of soldiers.

Of course, there must be some old and weak soldiers in these two battalions, but it is much more generous to pick up the old, weak, sick and disabled and send them over. Moreover, the quality of these two battalions of Sichuan soldiers is relatively good, basically they can use firearms proficiently, and they also know some basic military columns, and can listen to drums and horns, and recognize flags and troops. However, because of malnutrition, these Sichuan soldiers are all short, generally about 1.6 meters, and they are weak and yellow-faced, and there are few sergeants above 1.7 meters.

Frail face yellow is a common disease of the Ming soldiers in recent years, suffering from disasters year after year, food shortage, meat is even rarer, in addition to the Beijing camp and the important town of the general's pro-soldier troops, most of the Ming army life is very bleak, and the people are no different, can have a porridge to drink is good, eating meat is an extremely luxurious dream, so, naturally not talk about height and strength.

This Sichuan army is quite good, and the guards in some places in the northwest are like the victims when they pull them out, their eyes are so thin that they are sunken, they take off their clothes, their front and back are full of skin and bones, and their ribs and bones look like they are all slender.

I heard Wang Hong say that when he and Deng Wei led their troops to station in Henan, they had seen with their own eyes the thieves from the northwest and the border troops who were pursuing. Except for the different flags of the two sides, the others are almost the same, they are all dressed in tatters, and the weapons in their hands are also varied.

Wang Hong's implication is naturally that the thousand soldiers who borrowed you are elite soldiers, and they are by no means the flowers from the northwest who want to eat.

Of course, Shi Dayong has a good idea, otherwise he would not have given Wang Hong the money to buy wine and meat in Shandong.

It doesn't matter if your body is poor, you can always adjust it after eating and drinking, and you can always adjust it for a while. The Buddha wants to be dressed in gold, and a person needs to be clothed with food, and if there is food in his belly, this person will be able to raise himself strongly

After more than ten days, these Sichuan soldiers were fairly well raised, and Shi Dayong prepared some cotton armor for them from the previous seizures, and exchanged 500 firecrackers to supply three meals a day, which made the Sichuan soldiers happy.

No matter which family this Daming has, there is never three meals a day, usually one meal in the morning and one meal in the evening, and at noon, it is to drink some soup and add some salt, where will the meal be eaten. I didn't expect to be able to eat three meals a day after arriving in the Jinzhou Army, although breakfast was changed to porridge, but at noon it was to eat bread, and at night to eat white rice, this day was never dreamed of in the past.

Of course, there is no meat, Shi Dayong himself doesn't have meat to eat, where is there meat for them to eat. Wang Hong did not buy much meat in Shandong, and he cooked it all on Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, and usually cooked some thin vegetable soup and ate it. Put more salt in the soup, and it will be considered flavorful. As for the oil, yes, the vegetable soup is floating on it.

In these years, oil is more expensive than grain, soybean oil is definitely not, and soybeans are not known where, and they are generally eaten with vegetable oil, which is the oil pressed from rapeseed seeds. Sometimes I also eat cotton oil, that is, the oil pressed from the seeds of cotton, this cotton oil tastes good, it has a taste, but because it is cheap, many people also use it as the main oil.

Shi Dayong is alone, there is no logistics supply, naturally there will not be much oil, but if this person does not eat oil, his stomach will not be smooth, and he will not be able to defecate for many days in a row, and he will be sad. Therefore, no matter how much it is, it is good to be able to eat some oil.

Eating and drinking, Shi Dayong was already racking his brains to think about the soldiers, helpless, the conditions were limited, he also wanted his subordinates to have big fish and meat, and there was meat and fish, but this disaster was really bad, and he was also powerless. What's more, he doesn't know how long he can last in this situation, and no matter how much silver Chen sometimes keeps, he can't withstand Lin Jiantai's sky-high price. If the silver runs out, this battle will still not be fought, and it will not be returned to Liaodong, and he Shi Dayong will really find a rope to hang.

The old camp of the Jinzhou army ate the same as the Sichuan soldiers, and Shi Dayong fulfilled his promise to Deng Wei and did not treat the Sichuan soldiers and his old subordinates differently. Wang Tiande and Qi Sanbao's people were also supplied according to this standard, and only the captives after the eleventh slaughter were all reduced by half, as a punishment for their escape from the battle.

With the medicine, the live-fire training of the firecracker was carried out quickly, and the Sichuan soldiers were skilled in firing the firearm because they had used the firecracker, and Shi Dayong grasped the training tightly, and during the training, whether it was the Sichuan soldiers or the new attached soldiers (the old Jinzhou army called Wang Tiande, Qi Sanbao and other rebels anyway) or the captive soldiers were treated equally.

The Changping soldiers were basically sent to serve as instructors, but Shi Dayong was not satisfied with the training.

He always felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong. It wasn't until one day that I unintentionally saw a Sichuan soldier who was scolded by a Jinzhou officer for making a mistake during training, and he didn't care, but collided with it, and then another Sichuan army officer came to reprimand him, and the soldier was honest and obedient.

The battalion officer of the Sichuan soldier of Deng Yu's battalion is called Guo Cheng, the word Zhaoqing, saying that he is a battalion officer, but in fact he is a general. What is strange is that he is not from Sichuan, but from Shandong City, Shi Dayong has been in contact with him a few times, and he feels that this person is loyal and upright, and he is very serious. This surprised Shi Dayong, you must know that there is basically no one who knows how to read and write when he is a soldier in this year, and those who can read are all treasures, and they have a good future in any profession, and no matter how bad they are, they are happier than being a soldier and drinking knife blood.

What kind of soldier can you read?

Shi Dayong asked Guo Cheng curiously, and this question surprised him again, it turned out that this Guo Cheng is not only able to read and write, but also has a meritorious reputation, and there are talents in the prefecture and county!

What kind of soldier did you not go to the entrance examination to be a soldier? If you can't pass the exam, you can also open a private school by yourself, or you can go to a big family to be a western seat, or you will go to someone else's house as a tent, I'm afraid it's much better than being a soldier.

As the old saying goes, a good man is not a soldier. Daming is also a noble and martial atmosphere, and martial artists are not treated anywhere. But Guo Cheng didn't do anything with a good future, and chose this errand that would lose his head at any time, which made Shi Dayong very puzzled.

After asking Guo Cheng, he learned that his ancestor had been a jinshi in the Jiajing period, and was later elected as a Jishi of the Hanlin Academy, and he was a great figure in Chengwu County since the founding of the country, and it is still recorded in the county annals, and the people in his hometown are also proud of his ancestors. However, later his ancestor was demoted to the head of the Ministry of Industry because he offended the father and son of the Yan family, and he was depressed all his life, and then became ill and died in his forties. After that, the Guo family fell into the middle of the road, but no matter how poor the law was, the Guo family always gritted their teeth, cut down on food and clothing to support their children to read and write, in order to be able to be named on the gold list and glorify their ancestors. It's a pity that since the ancestor of the Jinshi, the Guo family has never had any characters on the road to the imperial examination, and the best thing is to show talent in the examination, and even a person can not pass the examination.

In this way, when it comes to Guo Cheng's generation, he is not bad, he was admitted to Xiucai three years earlier than his father, but he is also twenty-four years old. One day, seeing the four walls of the family, the mother also had to sell the wedding jewelry of her mother's family for herself to continue to study, Guo Cheng was ashamed and anxious, and angrily abandoned the pen, since the text could not enter, then he filled the pen to join the army, and learned that class super "The husband has no other ambitions, and he should still follow Fu Jiezi and Zhang Qian's meritorious service in a foreign land, in order to take the title of the marquis, and An can write for a long time. ”

He was a talented man but wanted to join the army, which was naturally ridiculous, so Guo Cheng did not dare to vote for the army near his hometown, but ran to Henan alone, originally wanting to join the Henan soldiers and horses, and happened to meet the Sichuan army of King Qin halfway. As soon as Deng Cheng heard that there was a show talent coming to join the army, he was immediately happy, and immediately recruited Guo Cheng, first as a long-term follower by his side, and then as a clerk, and finally under Guo Cheng's own strong request, Deng Cheng put him down and became a leader.

Deng Wei thought that Guo Chengwen was weak at first, where could he adapt to those soldiers, and estimated that he would come back after staying for ten days and a half months, but he never thought that Guo Cheng was very temperamental, and his heart and eyes were dead, and if he wanted to be rich and famous, he had to change his head. Staying by the side of the boss all day long can't go to the battlefield, can't kill the enemy, where will there be military merits to earn, and even go down below.

Deng Cheng looked for him several times, asking him to go back to his side and continue to be a counselor, and when he had the opportunity to record a military merit promotion in the future, Guo Cheng still didn't appreciate it, saying that the eldest husband should rely on his own hands to take the fame of merit, and ask for the credit of others to remember what.

Deng Wei couldn't resist him, so he also let him go, but for two whole years, he didn't have a chance to fight the thieves in the Sichuan army once, and he was transferred back and forth all day long, so Guo Cheng didn't have a chance to prove himself. Over time, Deng Yu gradually forgot about this show, until Shi Dayong borrowed troops from him and considered who would lead the troops over, so he thought of Guo Cheng, so he asked him to take people to join the Jinzhou army.

Deng Yuan's move was not the intention of sending Guo Cheng away, but he knew that he was bent on making meritorious contributions and wanted to earn fame on the battlefield, Shi Dayong's Jinzhou army was from Liaozhen, and he often fought with Dongyu outside the pass, and Guo Cheng might really have a chance to earn some military merits. It's not a matter for the veteran to stay under his command, and he can't say that in another two years, his Sichuan army will still be running around.

Talent is rare, and talent is also rare, but if you can give people a way to go, let him go. Moreover, he is kind to Guo Cheng, and he can also serve as his liaison with Shi Dayong in the Jinzhou Army, and he may be able to play some role in the future.

In this way, Guo Cheng became the battalion officer of the Chongqing battalion of the Jinzhou Army, and his position was still that of the commander. And Wang Fei, who led the 1,000 Chengdu soldiers, is a native of Chengdu, not tall, but very sturdy, at first glance, it feels like the bantam tiger Wang Ying in "Water Margin". Such a person, Shi Dayong naturally doesn't look at it, what kind of ability can you have as a martial artist, it must be Wang Hong who threw himself here with a finger of his hand.

He didn't know that this Wang Fei's blood and experience were not inferior to his Shi Dayong, this person had participated in the battle of the Hunhe River, when in order to buy time for the Qi family's army, the Sichuan army risked his life to cross the river to attack Jiannu, Wang Fei was one of the soldiers who rushed to the front, and he was still shouting to kill the slave when he was hit by more than a dozen arrows. Later, he lost too much blood and fell to the ground, but he was lucky not to die, and he was mixed with the corpses of many Sichuan soldiers and was not found by Jiannu.

After Jiannu withdrew, the Ming army in Quang Ninh sent people to inspect and found Wang Fei who was still breathing in the pile of corpses and rescued him. After recovering from his injury, Wang Fei left Guangning and returned south alone, and then went to Beijing to make a living by working part-time jobs.

In the second year of Chongzhen's "change of self", when Wang Hong and Deng Wei led their troops north to Qinwang, Wang Fei came from Beijing to join the soldiers and horses in his hometown, and was taken in by Wang Hong, and later became the sentry commander in Wang Hong's army.

After Deng Yu told Wang Hong about Shi Dayong's intention to borrow troops, Wang Hong immediately agreed, what is there to be unhappy about someone raising soldiers for him. Considering the candidate to lead the troops, Wang Hongke was reluctant to let the thousands of generals under his command, so he ordered Wang Fei and asked him to take people to the Jinzhou army.

Wang Hong also didn't expect these 1,000 people to be able to return it, and he was afraid that he would not be happy to return it. If you can save the food and salary of a thousand people in vain, you can report the death of a person in the future, and swallow a pension, why not. Although this Wang Fei is a man, his popularity is not good, his temperament is straight, and he has repeatedly collided with him because of Wang Hongke's deduction of military salaries, Wang Hongnian is the one who picked up his life from the pile of dead people, so he didn't care much about him, but he definitely didn't like him. This is just right, just send it out, and let him make trouble with Shi Dayong, what kind of mix it becomes has nothing to do with him Wang Hong, anyway, you also have a relationship with the Liao army.

Where to go, Wang Fei doesn't care, but he is very resistant to the Jinzhou army, because in his eyes, this is a muddy army that can't be saved when he sees death and sees the annihilation of friendly troops. In the Battle of Hunhe that year, if the Liao army in Guangning could arrive in time, how could tens of thousands of soldiers die in a foreign land, and how could Jiannu occupy Shenyang!

Helplessly, this is Wang Hong's order, and Wang Fei has to go if he doesn't go. After arriving in Pingdugou, although the Jinzhou army had sufficient supplies for them, compared to Wang Hong, they had to be well fed, warmly dressed, and armed, but Wang Fei couldn't go at all. Therefore, he was reluctant to deal with the Jinzhou generals, and most of them stayed with his own soldiers unless he had to, and did not leave the camp for the rest of his life. Sometimes, Shi Dayong brought people to review the training of Chengdu soldiers, but he was also reluctant to cope with it, lukewarm, which made Shi Dayong very displeased.

When Shi Dayong found out that these Sichuan soldiers had not really regarded themselves as members of the Jinzhou army, and he didn't know who fed and clothed him, and he didn't know who he should really listen to, Shi Dayong naturally had to think about how to solve this problem.

He can't raise soldiers for nothing, he has to let these Sichuan soldiers know who they should die for!