At this time, Lin Feng, after successfully completing the recruitment of the editor of the "Shouzhou Business Daily" and the teacher of the junior military academy, the agents entrusted by wealthy businessmen from all over the country carried a sum of investment funds to Shouzhou one after another, and Lin Feng immediately began to make a series of big moves inside and outside Shouzhou City:

The whole city recruited a large number of stonemasons, bricklayers, carpenters and forced laborers with high salaries, began to build the Shouzhou Academy of Sciences in the Bagong Mountain outside the city, built five factory sites on the barren grass pile at the foot of the southern Bagong Mountain, built large garbage ponds at the head and end of each street in Shouzhou, and made every effort to promote the construction of supermarkets in the center of the city;

Expand and renovate the wharf in the north of Shouzhou City and the Zhengyangdu Wharf in the west of 30 miles;

A trading market was built on the left side between the north gate of Shouzhou City and the wharf; And on the right, at the foot of Bagongshan Mountain, a temporary military camp was established on the mountain;

On 19 June, Lin Feng, who was giving a lecture at the Cadet Military Academy, received a secret report from an intelligence officer arranged by Kang Renjie in the Eastern Capital, saying that Li Hongji intended to build a bank and a supermarket in the Eastern Capital.

After Lin Feng heard the news, he immediately rushed back to the Assassin's Mansion and urgently wrote three secret letters, which were arranged for people to be sent to Situ Zhouzong's Mansion, Yan Chenxing's Mansion and the overseas trading party's house. That night, Lin Feng wrote a few secret letters again and secretly sent them out of the city overnight.

Early in the morning of 20 June, Lin Feng, accompanied by Feng Jingyun and Cheng Yuehai, rushed to the temporary military camp in the north of the city. Today is the time for the first time when the 5,000 Shouzhou township soldiers gathered for training.

"See Lin Tuanlian!" Seeing Lin Feng and his party riding in, the township soldiers who had already lined up in a neat line shouted in unison.

Lin Feng smiled and waved.

Township soldiers, also known as militia, is a local militia system in ancient China, originated from the Zhou Dynasty armor protection system, generally according to the proportion of household registration Ding Zhuang, or recruit local people to form a group, so that the people "protect each other" and "share with each other". Township soldiers are still engaged in production in peacetime, and they are generally responsible for tasks such as repairing cities, transporting grain, catching thieves, or coordinating to defend the border.

Since the Tang Dynasty replaced the government soldiers with recruitment, five generations later in the Jin Dynasty, began to recruit township soldiers, stipulating that each tax household has a total of seven soldiers, and the ordnance is self-prepared, and it is also divided into various types of township soldiers such as civil strong, archers, and regimental training.

Cheng Yuehai explained with some embarrassment: "The number of township soldiers signing up exceeds expectations, and the military uniforms transferred from the Shouzhou army are not enough, and only the township soldiers in their early 1,000s are equipped with military uniforms. ”

Lin Feng looked at the mottled clothes in front of him, shook his head and smiled: "The level of combat effectiveness never depends on what clothes you wear!" My suggestion is to keep it as it is, and not change the uniform! ”

Cheng Yuehai nodded and said that he had written it down.

Lin Feng asked, "Among the five thousand people, how many are from the countryside?" ”

"A total of 5,120 township soldiers gathered today, 1,000 and 50 from Shouzhou City, and 4,070 villagers from all over Shouzhou!" Cheng Yuehai replied quickly, obviously knowing more about the situation in the army.

Lin Feng nodded with satisfaction, took the lead on the temporary high platform, and waved to all the township soldiers, and the cheers like a tsunami suddenly sounded among the villagers.

When the cheers subsided slightly, Lin Feng lifted his breath and said loudly: "Two days ago, I overheard a joke, someone said, what kind of township soldiers, it is not fragrant at all, and it is impossible to be fragrant, because it is all stinky mud legs!" I couldn't be angry, and made a bet with the joke on the spot: In time, our Shouzhou township soldiers will inevitably become the first township soldiers in the world! Do you have faith? ”

"Yes!" The villagers below looked at each other and replied unevenly. Cheng Yuehai's face turned red, he took two steps forward, and was about to reprimand loudly, but Lin Feng stretched out his hand to block it.

Lin Feng looked at these hesitant villagers and shouted loudly:

The shouting of the crowd shows that everyone's confidence is clearly lacking. However, there is an old saying, 'Princes will have a kind of peace'? Weren't those world-famous forbidden soldiers also selected from a famous man before? I have been to the Northern Liao Kingdom, and their palace tent army and tribal army are also selected from a famous township soldier! Even some of our Datang famous special fighters were selected from the forbidden army, and some were just ordinary hunters and fishermen before! ”

The corners of the eyebrows of many township soldiers who were originally frowning gradually relaxed, and Zhao Changsheng, who was encouraged by Lin Feng to participate in the township soldiers at the city race, stood in the front row, and when he heard this, his hands couldn't help but clench his fists.

"I dare to make such a bet precisely because I have faith and heart!" Lin Feng roared, pointing to the sky, pointing to the earth, and then pointing to his heart, and then said, "What are you doing? Because, the sky here is the heaven of our Shouzhou people, the land here is the land of our Shouzhou people, and the home here is our Shouzhou people's own home! Our determination to defend our homeland and country will not be worse than anyone else's! Do you say yes? ”

"Yes!" This time, the shouts of the township soldiers were obviously much more neat, and they were much louder.

"Because of this, once there is a war, anyone else can retreat, but our soldiers must not retreat! Because, behind us is our home, our relatives, and we are their most dependent! We are the most defensive line in Shouzhou! You say, "Shall we retreat?" Lin Feng raised his arms and shouted.

"Can't!" The voices of the township soldiers began to become uniform, and they all learned from Lin Feng and roared angrily.

"That's right! Never! However, war is not a child's play, it is not a family play, but a struggle that must be waded through the sea of blood and corpses, and it is a fight that can never be stopped if the enemy does not fall. Lin Feng paused slightly, looked at the villagers who had calmed down, and then shouted, "There is only one way!" From today onwards, each of us should work hard to train and study hard, to train our bodies to be stronger than the enemy, and to learn more powerful war skills than the enemy; this is the foundation of our survival and the capital of our defense of the country. Now everyone, come with me, run, goal: the bank of the Huai River! ”

Speaking of this, Lin Feng walked off the stage quickly and took the lead in jogging towards the camp gate. Cheng Yuehai, Wang Jianfeng, Liu Chongjin, Yang Kuai and other township generals immediately ran to the township soldiers, commanding everyone to line up and follow behind.

At this time, the sun had risen above the horizon, casting the light of moxibustion heat on the earth, and also pulling the shadows of the villagers on the ground for a long, long time.

The makeshift barracks were less than a mile away from the open area on the east side of the pier, and the team soon reached the river. The villagers lined up again and looked at Lin Feng standing on the embankment with his back to the river.

Lin Feng roared loudly: "All physical exercises and military skills will be in charge of Cheng Yuehai and other five generals, and I don't dare to overstep the bounds." Today, I just want to learn to sing a new song with you! ”

Pulling everyone here just to learn songs? At this moment, Cheng Yuehai and all the township soldiers were a little stunned for a while.

Lin Feng pointed to the Huai River behind him and said loudly: "The Huai River is the mother river of our Shouzhou. Lin had a feeling a few days ago and composed this song "My Motherland", everyone, please listen to me sing it first! ”

Under the gaze of more than 5,000 villagers, Lin Feng cleared his throat and sang loudly: "A big river is wide and wide, and the wind blows the fragrance of rice and flowers on both banks, and my family lives on the shore, and I am used to hearing the horn of the captain and seeing the white sails on the boat. The girl is like a flower, and the young man has a big heart, and in order to open up new worlds, he awakens the sleeping mountain and changes the appearance of the river.

This is the beautiful motherland, where I grew up, and in this vast land, there are bright scenery everywhere;

Good mountains, good waters, good places, all roads are wide, friends come and have good wine, if the jackal comes, there are knives and guns to greet it! This is the motherland of heroes, where I grew up, and in this ancient land, everywhere there is the power of youth;

Good mountains, good waters, good places, all roads are wide, friends come and have good wine, if the jackal comes, there are knives and guns to greet it! This is the strong motherland, where I grew up, in this warm land, everywhere there is peaceful sunshine......"

The song is the soundtrack of the classic movie "Shangganling" - "My Motherland", Lin Feng will naturally pay attention to replacing the "shotgun" in the original song with "knife and gun", and the concept of the big river in the song is replaced by the Huai River.

Good song! Although the tone seems a little gentle at first, it contains endless love and surging passion, which is majestic and shocking! Cheng Yuehai looked at each other, conveying the same feeling with fiery eyes.

All the villagers listened to the sound of the river flowing in their ears and looked at the tumbling rice Lang not far away, and suddenly fell into the picturesque artistic conception of the song, and many people began to hum along.

The humming sound grew louder and louder, slowly converging into a surging chorus, gradually overpowering the huge sound of running water.