"Marquis Zhenming, these are newly recruited soldiers, one battalion for every two thousand people, divided into eight battalions."

Zhao Xiao stood on the trooping platform, and the other captains were around General Wei, and he looked at the array of soldiers who had received a wave of soldiers under the stage, spears like forests, and flags were waving.

General Wei continued: "Thanks to your vigorous rectification of obscene ghosts and gods in Qingyan County, it is rare that the people of several southern counties have not resisted recruitment, coupled with the seizure of greedy ink, and now they have sufficient wealth, and more than 10,000 soldiers have been recruited in a short period of time. ”

Zhao Huang also picked up the books from time to time and looked through them, nodded and said: "Having said that, these recruits are not like the Wu Kui Army, lack of training, and they may not be able to use them when they really want to fight." ”

"I don't expect these recruits to go out to fight, mainly to replace the tired veterans left by Gao Pinggong and guard the city, and the Wukui army can also let go of their hands and feet." General Wei said.

"That's fine." Zhao Xiao turned to ask, "I arranged for the monks to go to the various camps of the Wukui Army before, is it proper to cooperate with the military formation?" ”

"After a period of drills and run-in, initial results have been achieved." General Wei said: "However, Fu soldiers and rune arrows should still be sacrificed as much as possible, and there are already scouts in the villages and mountains outside the Guanli Kingdom in the Jiuli Kingdom. I'm going to have a few small battles to sharpen my soldiers. ”

"The branch of the Jinding Division has been fully arranged, and the talisman and arrow sacrifices will not stop all day long." Zhao Huang said: "Another thing, in recent days, I have been surveying the area around Pujiaguan and found that there is an occasional situation of water gushing in the well pond. ”

General Wei said: "This is not new, it is the norm in the area of Pujiaguan, and I have arranged for people to dredge wells and ponds and dredge overflows every day. What did Zhenming Marquis find out about it? ”

"This may be related to the condition of the leylines around Pujiaguan." Zhao Huang said: "Although the fortifications on the ground have been repaired, the underground must not be observed, and if the water in the area of Pujia Pass is deep, it is also easy to breed epidemics. I plan to open the altar and comb the earth's veins and run through the springs. And guide the leyline qi machine, supplemented by a formation prohibition, to protect the important places of the city. ”

"If it is so good, it will be put at the disposal of the Marquis of Zhenming." General Wei asked again: "Does Marquis Zhenming need additional manpower?" ”

"Combing the leylines, you may have to survey the nearby mountains and rivers, you don't need any strong troops, General Wei can give me a battalion of recruits to dispatch." Zhao Xiao replied.

"Which battalion did Marquis Zhenming fancie? Take your pick! ”

Zhao Xiao tapped the book: "Just this T-shaped camp." ”

General Wei didn't ask much, and ordered someone to take it to survey the seal letter, and the T-shaped battalion was directly under the command of Zhao Xiao.

After discussing military affairs, Zhao Huang went to the T-shaped camp and found a group of people from Qiaozhang Village. He saw that the T-shaped battalion had recruited a group of overseas Chinese from Zhang Village, and guessed that Lieutenant Zhang and others were among them, so he found a reason to bring them over, so that he could arrange the manpower of Chiyundu under his command.

Zhao Huang didn't want to see Chiyundu as a disaster for the country and a chaotic party, but now that the war was about to start, he couldn't figure out Chiyundu's intentions, if there was a possibility of joining forces to retreat from the enemy, Zhao Huang didn't mind cooperating with Chiyundu.

"Meet Zhao Changshi."

When Zhao Xiao came to the T-shaped camp to gather the military officials, a group of people led by Lieutenant Zhang came to salute.

"There is no need to be polite in the army." Zhao Xiao said with a smile: "I am very relieved that you have led the township party members to respond to the imperial court recruitment. The T-shaped camp will be with me in the near future to survey the mountains and rivers, inspect the inside and outside of the castle, and ask you to work together. ”

Lieutenant Zhang arched his hand and said: "Zhao Changshi's personality has all been witnessed by our own eyes, plus your incident of opening an altar in Qingyan County to patrol the territory, it has long been spread in all battalions in the army, and everyone is looking forward to serving under you!" ”

Zhao Huang was stunned: "I'm patrolling the altar in Qingyan County?" ”

"That's right." Zhang Liwei was quite interested: "Everyone has heard that since Zhao Changshi came to Qingyan County, those ghosts, gods and demons that plagued the people have all disappeared. Others are not lucky, but I have personally seen Zhao Changshi kill the rat demon in Xinglong County. ”

Zhao Xiao thought about it, in order to attract the demons and demons of Ren Wangchao, he practiced the law in various parts of Qingyan County, and it was actually said that he was opening an altar to patrol the realm. Liang Tao's power of punishing evil is not sung by the public, as if all the credit is taken by Zhao Xiao alone.

Moreover, the statement of opening the altar to patrol the realm is similar to Liang Tao's sword patrol back then, I am afraid that someone deliberately spread it. As for who did it, it's hard to say.

"It's not my own work." Zhao Xiao shook his head and smiled: "Obscene ghosts and gods extort the people and plunder excessively, and they have long been intolerable. What I do is just to conform to the expectations of the people. I inspected all parts of the county and announced the rectification of obscenity, and the local people were moved when they heard the news, and they themselves went to destroy the obscenity and find out the temple without me sending soldiers. ”

According to what I knew before, Chiyun has planted a lot of people in the countryside of Qingyan County, and Zhao Huang can easily destroy obscenity wherever he passes, I am afraid that Chiyun is secretly cooperating and agitating the people, otherwise Zhao Huang may not be able to achieve such results just by taking the stage to proclamation.

Maybe this is Chiyun is showing goodwill to Zhao Xiao, but he is not completely sure, so he pulled the T-shaped camp that gathered the villagers of Qiaozhang Village under his command, so as to wait for an opportunity to understand the situation.

After some instructions, Zhao Huang left Zhang Liwei and a few people.

"I haven't seen you for a while, I didn't expect you to come to Pujia Pass." Zhao Xiao chatted: "I don't know if the officials who went to Qiaozhang Village to recruit soldiers, can they embarrass you?" ”

"Not really." Lieutenant Zhang replied: "Thanks to Zhao Changshi's blessing, as soon as we arrived at the barracks, we distributed money and food, and everyone's minds settled down. ”

Zhao Xiao nodded slightly, the imperial court has deliberately reformed the military system over the years, because the monks and sorcerers have shown their abilities in the Great War of the Five Kingdoms, which has led to the lack of training of military soldiers, once they encounter the battlefield where water, fire, wind and thunder are attacked, it is easy to collapse at the touch of a button, and the old military system of simple conscription and youth is not enough to deal with such fierce battles.

In addition to cooperating with the monks of the pavilion, the characteristics of the Wukui army are that the soldiers in the army are all good materials selected by the various armies in the country, and they have to pay the soldiers money, food, cloth and silk and other military salaries on weekdays, and there are also other expenses in wartime.

Correspondingly, the daily training of the Wu Kui Army is numerous and strict, not only the practice of martial arts and arrays, but also the ability to serve as a master must have a rough knowledge of words and arithmetic, and even there are civil and military examinations every month, just like the monks of the pavilion study the arts.

As a result, although the number of Wu Kui's army is not more than 10,000, they are all elite soldiers. Kill the fleeing rat demon outside Xinglong County, and even make no one die. If there is a monk's cooperation, it can exert a strong combat power.

It is precisely because of the Wukui army Zhuyu in front of General Wei that the future Huaxu military system should be conscripted in parallel, and the army of foreign crusade should be formed by recruiting and selecting materials, and the young and strong will be recruited to guard the important places, so that they can do their best.

Although there is also training in the levy of young and strong, the use of armor, weapons, and food and salary is naturally not as good as that of the Wukui army, but the levy of young and strong can be exempted from the conscription and field tax of the year, and it will not exhaust the people's strength.

And because of the lessons of Gao Pinggong, most of these conscripts are selected by the township brave athletes, good families and young people, those idle men who want to beg for a mouthful of food and military salaries, Pujiaguan does not want to do anything.

Although Zhao Xiao has experienced the suppression of bandits in Xingluo County, he is far from knowing much about really leading troops to govern the army. Even if he holds the position of a long history, counselor of military affairs and assistant military affairs, what he can really do is to set an example as much as possible, restrain the soldiers, and prevent them from offending the people.

If they have spare time, they will summon Cao Zuo, a lieutenant colonel in the army, and explain to them the use of various techniques and how to deal with them, and ask them to teach the soldiers after they return.

From time to time, they have to draw pictures of the appearance of various goblins and ghosts, and post them all over the barracks, so that the soldiers can identify and understand, and also make some foreshadowing in their hearts, so as not to panic when they really encounter goblins.

Zhao Huang is a busy man in Pujia Pass, there is a branch of the Jinding Division here, even if he does not need to do the specific things of making talismans and refining pills and water, but Zheng Siyuan is not enough to provoke the beam, and there are any problems that Zhao Huang has to come forward to solve.

"In the future, I will spell the water according to this method." Zhao Xiao picked up a willow branch, tapped the magic water, and then sprinkled it on several soldiers lying on the stretcher next to him, the purple and black swelling of their limbs quickly subsided, and the moaning gradually stopped.

These soldiers felt that their bodies were no longer in pain, and they knelt in front of Zhao Xiao and kowtowed in thanks.

Zhao Xiao waved his hand and said, "Okay, go down and get a bowl of dispelling evil and benefiting qi soup, and then leave after drinking." ”

The monk of the Yunzhu Pavilion asked, "Marquis Zhenming, the stinging pain in their limbs is not like an ordinary epidemic. Could it be the miasma of the mountains and forests? ”

Zhao Xiao shook his head: "It's not just miasma, it should be the evil qi of the flying corpse." I have heard that this group of soldiers had just returned from the gates, and they had encountered walking corpses, and although they killed them, they were infected by the corpse qi. ”

"Flying corpses? There are also walking corpses, could it be the corpse cult? ”

"Quite possibly." Zhao Xiao said while packing up his things: "Back then, the Corpse Accumulation Sect collected disciples and corpses in Kunlun Middle Earth, and once became a sect of calamity. Later, he was defeated by the four immortals of the bear country, and from the sect leader down, most of the elders were wiped out.

The corpses they drove were all over the wilderness, condensed into flying corpses, and the evil qi lasted for a long time and was difficult to get rid of, so the Four Immortals had to set up a ban to seal it in one place to avoid leakage. ”

"So it seems that the remnants of the Corpse Accumulation Sect have fled to the Jiuli Kingdom?"

Zhao Xiao frowned and said: "It is expected that this is the case, there is a Xiong country that boasts of inheriting the Tianxia legal system, and it can't tolerate this kind of left-handed evil cultivation, and our Huaxu Kingdom even respects the Xuanmen Immortal Dao, and the Corpse Accumulation Sect has no choice but to go to the Jiuli Kingdom." There is a mixture of filth and filth, mortals and demons are mixed, and the tribal witches even retain the bad habit of sacrificing human and animal blood, and the corpse accumulation sect may have recovered a little bit of vitality. ”

After thinking for a moment, Zhao Xiao wrote hard, and then said to several monks in front of him: "Later, you will inevitably have to deal with a group of walking corpses, and you must prepare more incense, which is an incense recipe for dispeling the poisonous and evil qi of corpses. A few people from the Yunzhu Pavilion, the medicine powder that dispels poison and miasma will continue to be refined, and I have already ordered all battalions to come and get it. ”

The monks bowed their hands and retreated one after another.

Now Zhao Huang seems to be the leader of the monks of Pujia Guan, and after experiencing the affairs of the Yingzhou Society and Qingyan County, few people will question Zhao Huang, even if they don't obey him, they don't dare to refute it in public.

"Zhao Changshi! Out of the water, out of the water! I saw Zhang Yanshou hurriedly running and shouting from a distance.

Zhao Xiao didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief, and hurriedly asked, "Is it the spring of the well pond?" Where is it? ”

"There is a fish pond in the west outside the city, and the muddy water rushes up, which is two or three feet high!" Zhang Yanshou gestured excitedly.

"This is no small movement." Zhao Xiao said: "You lead the way on horseback, I'll pack up my things and follow later." ”

After saying this, Zhao Xiao took out a paper crane and hovered above Zhang Yanshou's head. The other party was still a little curious, and Zhao Xiao reminded: "You just go, with this paper crane, I naturally know where to go." ”

Although Zhang Yanshou was the head of the T-shaped battalion, Zhao Huang saw that he had good roots, so he moved his heart to love talent and promoted him to a personal soldier, responsible for delivering news back and forth, and occasionally pointed him out a sentence or two of cultivation tips, how much he can comprehend depends on his understanding.

Zhao Xiao didn't know much about how to teach his disciples and teach the Fa. How should a disciple and student be trained in detail, in the face of different qualifications and understanding, where to start, and when to break through, Zhao Xiao is also blind, and he thinks that he is far inferior to his teacher Zhang Duanjing in this regard.

Returning to the Jinding Division to arrange a few things, and then began to pack up the Dharma things, Zhao Xiao now really felt that without Jiang Ru by his side, he was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground.

"Marquis Zhenming is in a hurry, but there is something urgent?"

At this time, Lu Wangji came with the qin, and since she came to Pujiaguan, Zhao Xiao has hardly seen her.

"There is a fish pond gushing spring outside the city, and I will go over to investigate the changes in the leylines." Zhao Xiao picked up the bamboo basket on his back and casually replied: "These days are not well entertained, please forgive me." ”

Lu Wangji shook his head slightly: "It's better to say that I'm too idle." Zhenming Hou is so busy, do you need me to help? ”

Zhao Xiao invited Lu Wangji to come, originally to let her guard some key places in Pujia Pass to prevent the assassins of the Jiuli Kingdom from infiltrating.

"This ......" Zhao Xiao's brain couldn't turn all of a sudden, he rubbed his eyebrows, and then said: "Okay, more than one person will have more ability, and it will bother Daoyou." ”

After saying this, Zhao Xiao's figure was raised, and Lu Wangji also crossed the Yaoqin, and with the sound of Zheng Zhengqin, his clothes flew like an immortal.

The two of them rushed one after the other, speeding towards the outside of the gate. There are still ordinary dwellings in Pujia Pass, and there are also farmland ponds around Guancheng Military Town.

After galloping for a while, they saw a pond suddenly spewing out of the water, and the pond was overflowing, and the surrounding soldiers had to quickly dig a ditch to direct the water to a wider channel.

"I've seen fountains, but I've never seen anything like this." Zhao Xiao pressed his body and leaned over to probe, the water temperature was not abnormally hot and cold. He took a shallow taste of the water, and raised his eyebrows: "It's actually still a sweet water spring, which is a benefit." ”

Zhao Xiao was preparing to arrange the mandala, intending to summon his soldiers to explore the pulse of the ground, but Lu Wangji suddenly said: "There are monsters lurking in the water veins. ”

"Monsters?" Zhao Xiao shook the Qingxuan pen in his hand, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to be on guard.

Before everyone was ready, the heron forgot to caress the strings, and a mysterious sound of the piano penetrated into the water, as if it had broken through a blockage that was difficult to see with the naked eye, and the fountain of the fish pond became more violent, and a slender shadow rushed out.