Chapter 142 Preparations

There are more than a dozen tables of meals in the open space in the courtyard of the baggage battalion health team, including chicken, duck, fish, and fresh game from the river, all of which can only be eaten during the New Year's Festival, but the more than 100 wounded people sitting around the table are not very interested, the scene is a bit dull, and no one moves their chopsticks

"What, isn't today's meal good? I deliberately asked Sangou to do it, is he lazy. Zhao Ta stretched out his chopsticks and took a piece of mutton and tasted it, "It tastes good, everyone eats it!" ”

"Lord Wang, we can't eat this meal, and our injuries are almost healed, you are going to send us back to Xiangyi to say goodbye to us!" Said a wounded man with an arm hanging from his neck.

"Song Bao, you showed great courage in the battle, you killed three Xia soldiers, and three fingers were cut off on your right hand, how will you hold a knife and hold the reins of a horse in the future? When you return to Xiangyi Mansion, you will be arranged with the corresponding guys, and you will also be taken care of! Zhao Tazhi said that he was one of the five hundred veterans who were expanded for the first time, and most of them served as captains and captains in the Xiangyi Army, and they were the backbone of the troops, and they were the ones who suffered the heaviest casualties this time.

"Lord Wang, I know that the Mansion will not abandon us, but I like to stay in the army, guard my brothers, be with the prince, I still have my left hand, I can feed horses, drive cars, I can still do these jobs!" Song Bao said with tears in his eyes.

"Lord Wang, I don't want to go back, I've been training for so long, I hurt my leg after two battles, although I'm a little lame when I walk, but we are cavalry, I can still fight on horseback!" This is Zhou Jie, a team leader of the former Jiadu.

"Lord Wang, I have just been transferred from the society to the army for less than a year, and I was sent home without an inch, and I have no face to go back!" He was recruited by Liu Hong before leaving.

"Lord Wang, leave us, I know that the old brothers in our Xiangyi army have suffered a lot of casualties, and we can still serve the prince, and we won't drag down the brothers!" ．．．．．．

"Okay, if you insist on not wanting to go back, you can stay in the army, there is always a place for us in such a large team, those who can go into battle can go to the combat unit, and those who are not well recovered can be arranged to the logistics unit, and if not, we still have a base in the northwest, you can still go there, there are also brothers in our house!" Zhao Tan looked at the faces full of anticipation and choked up, these people will go to a higher position if they are not injured, but although they are injured, they have fought and received good training, they are the backbone of the army, and they can still play an irreplaceable role if they stay in the right position. To read the latest chapters of this book, please go to Baidu search: Novel Network

"Thank you, Lord Wang!" The wounded thanked each other in unison.

"I should say thank you, no brothers, I'm just a bare pole, you gave up a comfortable life, followed me all the way to this far bitter cold land, so that I feel uneasy, now some are injured, some are disabled, and some ... Some of them stayed here forever, I didn't take care of everyone, I can't live with your family, I don't have the shame to see the parents of Xiangyi, I feel ashamed! Zhao Ta picked up the bowl of wine and stood up and said, "I thank you all again, please drink this bowl together!" ”

",,!" The wounded soldiers got up and drank a bowl of wine with the prince.

"The prince doesn't have to feel guilty about this!" Zhou Jie stepped forward to fill the wine for the prince and said, "In Xiangyi, the prince has paid a lot for us, and now the expedition to the northwest is also a major event for the country and the people, we can serve the prince and die for the prince, we have no regrets, the family has no complaints, the brothers say yes!" ”

"No regrets, no complaints! No regrets, no complaints!! No regrets, no complaints!! Everyone in the room stood up and shouted in unison.

"How can I, Zhao Ta, be like this, brothers... Zhao Ta thanks! Zhao Ta's tears couldn't hold back any longer, and they fell into the wine bowl, and he raised his glass and drank again. …,

"I am willing to live and die with the prince, and go to the soup and fire!" Everyone drank with the prince and shouted loudly.

At dinner, Zhao Ta drank too much again, and when he staggered away from the wounded team with the support of Zhao Xin, on the way back, he sang the song that everyone was already familiar with, "The wolf smoke rises, the rivers and mountains look north, and the dragon rolls up the horse and hisses the sword like frost." The heart is like the water of the Yellow River, who can resist in 20 years! Hatred is crazy, the long knife is going, and how many siblings are loyal to their bones. What a pity to die to repay the family and country, endure sighs, and are even more speechless, full of blood and tears. The horseshoe goes south to the north, the people look north, the grass is green and the yellow dust is flying, I am willing to defend the land and reopen the territory, and China wants to let the Quartet come to congratulate??? ”

The singing is tragic, the prince sings like a cry, the officers and soldiers of the battalion can listen attentively, everyone understands the ambition of the prince, and also feels the sadness of the prince, the desolation in his heart, every soldier who sees him will salute solemnly, until the back of the prince is hidden in the darkness.

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The next day, Zhao Tan was seriously ill and decided to go to the Jin Temple in Jinyang, forty miles southwest of Taiyuan City, to recuperate, and the Xiangyi army would accompany him to escort him.

The name of the Jin Ancestral Hall was known to the world through that text in later generations, and in the Song Dynasty, the Jin Ancestral Hall and the Jin Yang Pingxia City, Tang Taizong and Song Taizong, the merit monuments of the two Taizong emperors were the places where the successive Hedong supervisors had to worship, and Zhao Ta was certainly not exempt from vulgarity. However, after hundreds of years of development and renovation and expansion, the Jin Temple has become a 'miscellaneous courtyard', and the monks, Taoism, Confucianism, and vulgarity have all sent the gods who have a little ability to be sent here to offer, and more than 100 courtyards have been built large and small.

Zhao Ta chose a place to live, which is said to have been the villa of the Tang Dynasty general Chi Jingde. Zhao Ta didn't have time to go door-to-door to visit the immortals, he still had important things to do, that is, Taizong's merit monument was also a walk, if he didn't go, those who were looking for ballast would definitely not let him go.

Zhao Ta led the generals to spend two days to transform the surrounding landscape, and he couldn't help but sigh that the sages who chose to build Jinyang City here were really talented. Jinyang City is located in the Fenhe Valley in the north of central Jin, 'the east with the famous pass, the north is forced to force Hu, the valley is unique, the people are rich, the place of the four battles, the field of attack and defense', since ancient times is the root of the east of the river, in fact, here is the Taiyuan city of the serious eight pendulums, where the real dragon city is. It was only burned by Zhao Ta's 'ancestor' one hundred and fifty years ago, and then flooded by water, and now it is a ruin.

Zhao Guangyi thought that he occupied the Central Plains, in order to prevent future generations from endangering his own rule according to the pattern of Jinyang, his head burned Jinyang City, but he did not expect what he did that day, and also laid the groundwork for the death of his descendants.

With Zhao Tan's consideration, his new army was about to arrive, but Taiyuan City could not accommodate so many new garrisons, so he could only choose another place, and the construction of a new military camp must meet several conditions. One is that it is located in a key area and has developed links in all directions, which is convenient for mobilizing troops; Second, the place should be big enough, think about the place where more than 20,000 people eat and live, and there must be a place for training and horse grazing. Third, it is necessary not to be too far away from the city, otherwise eating and drinking will become a problem, and 20,000 people, tens of thousands of horses will have to pile up grain and fodder in a day, and it will be difficult to transport them from hundreds of miles away.

After thinking about it, and let people inspect a few places, Zhao Ta decided to choose the camp site in Jinyang, after the destruction of the city here, Emperor Taizong ordered to prohibit the people from cultivating and living on the city site, which has long become a wasteland, and the problem of land acquisition with the people will not occur in this construction. And the terrain here, the landform style is complete, it is convenient to carry out training, and another is also very close to Taiyuan City, you can purchase materials nearby, transfer grain and grass, a large area of wasteland also solves the problem of horse grazing, the two places are only forty miles apart, and it is convenient for them to come and go. …,

Zhao Ta said that he would do it, and immediately decided to set up a village here and build a military camp, but he was not stupid, the camp site did not dare to be selected in the old city of Jinyang, if it was built there, I am afraid that the secret fold would go to his father's desk the next day, and he was charged with 'seizing important land and attempting to rebel'. After investigation, he chose the camp site on a flat open space, which is said to be the school field of Tang Taizu Li Yuan when he raised his army, and the camp was centered on it, and it was divided into camps by 500 steps in each direction.

The whole camp is divided into nine palaces by two horizontal and two vertical roads, each will live in a corner of the palace, and there is an open space in the middle to separate them, as their respective training grounds, and the middle palace is the military headquarters station, the granary and the armor storehouse. Each house is divided into nine houses and divided into different functional areas. A bend of clear water flowing out of the Jin Ancestral Hall, from the foothills of the Hanging Urn Mountain to the northeast to the foot of Jinyang City, will be repaired branch canals into the camp area to solve the problem of water for people and horses. But who would have thought that this canal was attracted to the city during the 'Battle of the Three Families Division' in the Spring and Autumn Period thousands of years ago!

It is now the end of August, the autumn harvest has basically ended, and the agricultural slack will usher in the cold winter, and the time is tight to build such a large area of the castle wall and its ancillary facilities within a month. But at this time, Zhao Ta is not only the master who speaks on the ground in Xiangyi, but now he is the boss who commands more than a dozen military states along the way, and under an order, he recruited 10,000 soldiers and civilians from all over the country, mobilized materials to build a military camp, and most of the Xiangyi army also drove into Jinyang to assist in the construction of the camp.

After arranging the construction of the village, Zhao Ta did not have time to 'recuperate', and he gathered several staff members in charge of military affairs of the Economic and Strategic Control Department and several chief officers of the Xiangyi Army into his small courtyard to formulate training outlines, draw up command regulations, and formulate military discipline. Now that there are more people and more leaders, the rules and regulations formulated by Zhao Ta in the past are no longer out of date, and some regulations formulated in accordance with the needs of modern military need to be improved after being tested in actual combat, and these are the things necessary to build a new army with a difference, and there can be no sloppiness, so Zhao Ta attaches great importance to it and personally grasps this matter.

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