Su Jun patted Jiang Daming on the shoulder and said:

"Okay, it's worthy of being a student trained by my own hands, it's really good, I can see the truth at once, you go this time, nominally to suppress bandits, but in fact, you are going to slowly control Merlot County in your hands, especially Haikui County, the first thing you do when you enter Merlot County is to firmly control it in your hands, and then cooperate with Chu Yan to slowly encroach on Merlot County, all your actions will be directly commanded by me."

"Obey" Jiang Daming clasped his fists and saluted, "General, when will I leave?" ”

"Let's go meet your soldiers first, and after getting acquainted with it, let's set off as soon as possible."

Su Jun patted Jiang Daming on the shoulder and said.

"These soldiers are rookies who have just been recruited, only a small number of officers are veterans, after you take them to Merlot County, you must let them grow up as soon as possible, let them see blood, Merlot County still has a lot of real bandits, and now they are taking advantage of the fire to rob, you just use them to train soldiers, and when we completely control Merlot County, your army will set foot on the real battlefield, how much you can survive at that time depends on how well you train in Merlot County"

"Lord County, please rest assured, after a long time, your subordinates will bring you a strong army that is not inferior to any old army."

You Junmin, who had been living in Taidang County for many years, finally saw the Taidang County garrison who went to Meiluo County to fight, and saw the neat columns of troops walking in front of him, he smiled with satisfaction, and when he saw the appearance of this army, he knew that this was indeed a strong army.

A team of 5,000 people walked in front of You Junmin in an eight-way column, looking horizontally and vertically in a straight line, which made him a little dazed, but he didn't know that in the garrison of Taidang County, the first thing recruits did after enlisting was queue training, these guys who were just some recruits in the eyes of Su Jun and others In the eyes of You Fatzi, this was already a first-class strong army.

At this moment, You Fatzi suddenly felt that the dozen catties of fat he had lost in the past few days were definitely worth it, and the 1.5 million taels of silver he paid had finally paid off, oh, no, it was 1.6 million taels, and he was knocked away by the woman of the red demon The bamboo pole of 100,000 taels.

But it's all worth it, as long as this powerful army enters Merlot County, presumably the damn Flying Swallow will inevitably disappear, as long as the thief is killed and not held accountable by the royal court, He Junmin is willing to pay no matter what price He Junmin pays.

Looking at this team and seeing their equipment, You Junmin felt that Su Jun was still worth befriending, although he was a little greedy and wanted to be ruthless in asking for silver, but the things he took out were indeed not fooling people.

You Junmin suddenly felt a bright light in front of him, and his eyes were full of yearning.

"Commander You, are you still satisfied with this army?" Su Jun asked You Junmin with a smile.

"Satisfied, satisfied" You Junmin laughed, took Su Jun's hand and said:

"The male soldiers of Taidang County are unparalleled in the world, and they are really famous, this time thanks to Brother Su."

You Junmin no longer called himself an uncle in front of Su Jun, and even called himself a brother.

"Of course, this is the elite I just transferred back from Mengkou, the absolute main force ready to attack the barbarians, all of this is for you Brother You, I am considered to have a lot of blood, you know, for this matter, Tian Shunchang, this old guy, refused to meet me until I left Mengkou, and locked himself in the hut to sulk."

Su Jun laughed and said with a sloppy look.

Zou Youlin and Yan Qinghua on the side listened to Su Jun's nonsense there, and they couldn't help but smile on their faces, they couldn't see that the county head was usually serious, but when they lied, their faces were not red and their hearts were not beating, and they were very calm!

The Wankou Salt Works in Haikui County are now a makeshift in appearance, with simple wooden houses but neatly planned, and the roads in the residential areas have been renovated, with small stone-paved roads crisscrossing the neighborhood and dividing the residential areas into neat small squares.

Different from the previous one, there is an additional barracks in the Wankou Salt Field, with tall wooden fences, horses, antlers, and ditches to form a complete defense system, although there is no tall city wall, but it still shows a strong atmosphere.

There are no idlers in the residential area, since Chu Yan occupied the Wankou salt field, immediately according to Su Jun's deployment in the Wankou implementation of the new policy, each household salt workers handed over a ration of salt every month, the excess salt was purchased at a price slightly lower than the official price, and then handed over to Xue Kaiyi, smuggled out and sold to various places at the price of private salt.

Nowadays, salt workers are full of energy, because the more salt they produce, the more profits they will make, and the amount of salt stipulated by Chu Yan is not high, so it can be easily completed. In addition to the children, even the women of every family now go to work in the salt works, if for nothing else, just to produce a little more salt for themselves.

The original salt workers who entered the Chu Yan army have now become regular soldiers, and their military experience is enough for them to feed their families, of course, if their families are willing to go to dry salt, they should be treated like salt workers, and now there is a hot scene everywhere in the bay.

"Those who win the hearts of the people win the world" Chu Yan admires Su Jun's words, and now he has an incomparable prestige in the hearts of tens of thousands of salt workers in Wankou, if nothing else, just because he is now popular, and he allows this group of salt workers to have food and clothing, and they are no longer oppressed by those salt field officials.

With the thousands of elites selected from the salt workers, coupled with the elite troops he brought over, the army in his hands now has 8,000 men, and these 8,000 people have slowly become mature from the previous rookies after a few months of conquest.

Now the soldiers under Chu Yan's command are not far from the army of tigers and wolves, and the key is to take them to the county soldiers of Merlot County, who they used to fear like tigers, and they are not afraid.

Under the successive victories, the morale of this group of laborers at the bottom of Merlot County has gradually risen, in the words of Su Zhongqing, the general of Zhenbei, this is the heart of a winner. And for an army, this mentality of the brave and the strong is very crucial, and you can't expect an army that has lost consecutive battles to have any domineering spirit.

The junior officers secretly dispatched from Taidang County have completely and effectively controlled this army, and with the skeleton of these low-level officers, this army is now not much inferior to the regular army of Taidang County, and it can even be said that he is a regular army in Taidang County that has not yet entered the establishment. It is no wonder that the soldiers of Merlot, who had not experienced the wind and rain, were defeated in front of them.

After connecting several towns and county seats, and annihilating the elite of the county soldiers of Meiluo County, the strategic goal of the first phase has been completed, and there is no need to rob everywhere, after all, Meiluo County will still belong to the general of Zhenbei Su Zhongqing in the near future, if the damage is too much and too heavy, it will cause trouble for yourself in the future.

Now Chu Yan is vigorously attacking his troops, and his troops are already aimed at Dongping Mansion, the capital of Merlot County, and he can act wantonly when he waits for General Zhenbei's order.

"The big boss, the big boss." A man hurried over.

"Big boss, a group of people came outside, saying that there was something important and wanted to see you"

"Who? Didn't you ask clearly? Chu Yan asked in a deep voice.

"The big boss, the leader is a woman, with her face covered, followed by dozens of guards, she looks very tough, and that woman asked me to hand over this thing to the big boss." The guards under Chu Yan's command panted and handed over a small card.

Chu Yan looked at the style of the card, his face was already showing joy, and after taking it and taking a look, he pulled his legs and left.