After more than 20 days of construction, the two coastal fortresses in the north have begun to take shape, the whole fortress is like a bottle mouth with a small belly, and between the fortresses there is also a gate at the entrance for the warships to enter and exit the fortress, the fortress is 300 zhang long and 30 zhang wide after completion, it can accommodate thousands of people and hundreds of warships, Taizhou prefect Sun Yuanwu attaches great importance to the construction of coastal fortresses, as long as it does not violate the law and does not harm the people, Taizhou government will give the greatest support

Although there are a lot of masons in Alan County, but these people lack experience in building military facilities, this is a little more plastered and less plastered, what kind of place to put what kind of stone, here are all said, adults are worried that I spent a lot of money to make a tofu slag project, he specially helped me find some perennial repair of the city wall military facilities masons, with the participation of these craftsmen, the quality of coastal fortress construction will be greatly improved

And Haili Longchuan was not idle during this time, he invited all the old brothers of the Taizhou Navy Master over, and asked this group of veterans for advice on how to build these two fortresses to maximize their role. The veterans gave a lot of valuable advice - such as erecting a crossbow bed on the city wall to shoot the enemy - erecting a catapult inside the fortress - digging a trench in front of the fortress and inserting bamboo sticks in it - spears to slow down the enemy's attack - the city wall should not be built upright, but should be protruding so that the archers could better shoot the enemy who climbed the wall - there were also advocates of erecting iron thorns and rolling logs on the city wall, leaving live bricks on the city wall, and when the enemy climbed the city wall, the bricks should be pushed off and the enemy should be stabbed with spears, in short, it was to kill more invading enemies

The construction of the barracks and the school yard is also carried out in a tight and orderly manner, there are 60 barracks built in the large camp of the militia regiment, each barracks is a square quadrangle house, which can accommodate a team of 100 people, the barracks built of blue bricks and white walls give people a sense of tidiness, the path between the barracks and the barracks is paved with square floor tiles of all colors, each barracks is equipped with an armory, a bathroom, a tactical command post, and the barracks are divided into ten huts, each hut can accommodate 11 people, and is built around on three sides

As soon as you enter the barracks, you will see a relatively spacious two-story blue brick building, which is the tactical command post, the hundred chiefs and the chief and some veterans will meet here to formulate a training plan, each barracks has a square courtyard for the soldiers to train and entertain, five barracks and a concave pattern of left 2 in 1 right 2 into a large barracks just to accommodate a battalion, the school field is relatively simple, it is a piece of fine sand paved flat land, divided into infantry school field - archer school field - cavalry school field

The architectural pattern of the forging workshop is also a quadrangle house, but it has to be larger, the main facilities are smelting workshop - production workshop - knife casting workshop - armor workshop - bow and crossbow workshop, the smelting workshop has 20 steel-making furnaces, 1,000 catties of steel-making per day, and the steel-making furnace is a small furnace steelmaking, a furnace is at most 100 catties, less than 50 catties, the biggest advantage of small furnace steelmaking is that the safety factor is high, two craftsmen can easily operate

The production workshop mainly refines some iron tools and agricultural tools needed in daily life, the knife casting workshop specializes in casting all kinds of weapons, the armor workshop specializes in making armor - helmets and some defensive equipment, the bow and crossbow workshop specializes in the production of short bows - longbows - light crossbows - crossbows - arrows - crossbow arrows and other long-range weapons, after the completion of the new forging workshop, the craftsman quota is about 500 people and can accommodate up to 800 people in wartime, which is the largest forging workshop in Taizhou Prefecture

The paper mill of each village has also been built according to the unified specifications and put into use, in the north of Taizhou papermaking required bamboo - reed - rice stalk - wheat straw - bark and other raw materials can be seen everywhere, which lays the foundation for the development of the paper industry, the biggest advantage of papermaking is that it is flexible, easy to get started, and the cost is low and the profit is high, when there is more work in the field, everyone will go to work, and so on the leisure will start to start papermaking, and there is no delay, and when the winter farmers have nothing to do, they can pass the time together to pass the time, and also increase some income, The Alan firm will buy the paper made in each village at the price of a penny, which makes the paper made in each village be guaranteed in sales, and the paper mill in Alan County is the largest, with 500 workers

Li Yang was still lying in the quilt and sleeping lazily, and a sharp knock suddenly sounded outside the door, and then a voice came in: Young master, wake up, someone from the official mansion invites you to go to the yamen of the state capital

Li Yang sat up from the bed after hearing this, and he walked to the door in a daze and opened the door: Did you say anything?

"Then if you don't get there, I will tell you to go to the state capital yamen as soon as possible."

Li Yang didn't delay too much time, after a brief tidying up, he and Tie Gui'er rode to Taizhou City, and when they arrived outside the yamen of the state capital, I saw that there were about forty or fifty cavalry guarding outside in two waves, and the guards outside the government were more than twice as many as before, just when I wondered why the yamen of the state capital was so heavily guarded today

A servant made a gesture of invitation to me respectfully: Master Li, you are finally here, come in quickly, the adults have been waiting for a long time

As soon as I arrived at the main hall, I saw Lord Sun sitting on the main chair in the middle of the main hall, and on his right hand was Taizhou Guard General Yuan Bin - Staff General Yuan Ji - Brother Zhao - Brother Quan - Brother Su and several other generals took their seats in turn

Looking at the three people on the left hand side of Lord Sun, I have never seen them once, the general sitting on the first chair is burly, about 50 years old, he has a silk forehead guard on his head, his eyebrows are slightly raised, his big round face, big ears, bright eyes, a handful of beard on his jaw, he is quite rich when he looks at it, wearing a pair of tiger swallowing fish scale armor, and stepping on a pair of tiger swallowing iron face boots

The man next to him should be about the same size as me, and the figure is relatively moderate, and there is also a silk forehead guard on his head, and two sword eyebrows are very powerful, his eyes are bright, and he has a young and white melon seed, with a sharp hooked nose on his face, wearing a pair of white cloth gowns, and a pair of black cloth boots

On the side, this man should be in his early forties, with a sturdy and burly figure, a bulging head with a red tasseled cloud tiger face helmet, two thick eyebrows bulging outward, eyes staring at people always look angry, his face is splashed with horizontal flesh, he is not a good person at a glance, he is wearing a heavy fish scale mountain pattern armor with a pair of light steel wrists

Seeing that all the people present were extremely serious, I hurriedly bowed to Lord Sun: The students have seen Lord Sun-the generals

Sun Yuanwu motioned for me to sit behind Yuan Bin and the others: Everyone has arrived in this mansion to introduce you to the first one on the left is Ningbo General Meng Ang - next to this is Ningbo pioneer Meng Ying is also the son of General Meng's family, and the one on the other side is Ningbo General Meng Ge is also the brother of General Meng, General Meng is returning to Taizhou to unite us to encircle and suppress the rebellion of Chang Weiguo, General Meng will ask you to tell everyone here about the specific situation

Mengang: Seven days ago, the king of Chang Weiguo led the mountain people to suddenly attack Xiangshan County, killing 500 defenders and a cadre of officials, and also looting a lot of money in the hands of merchants, this Chang Weiguo is a small vassal country under the rule of our Zhejiang State, with a total of 24 large and small tribes, with a population of about 100,000 or so, mainly distributed in the dense forests near Xiangshan and Chen Mountain, Chang Weiguo said that it is a country, but in fact it is only a county under the rule of Ningbo Prefecture, although Changwei Kingdom is under the jurisdiction of Ningbo Prefecture, but it is connected to Taizhou Prefecture across a sea from Ningbo Prefecture. This is why I came to Taizhou to ask Lord Sun to jointly encircle and suppress the rebellion of Chang Weiguo

Sun Yuanwu: This operation was composed of Ningbo Prefecture, Shaoxing Prefecture and Taizhou Prefecture, with a total strength of more than 20,000 troops, of which Ningbo Prefecture sent 10,000 troops led by General Meng Ang, who was also the commander of the Three Governments Coalition Army, Shaoxing Mansion sent 5,000 troops led by the guard general Niu Yongnian as the deputy marshal of the Three Governments Coalition Army, and Taizhou Mansion sent 5,000 troops led by the garrison General Yuan Bin as the deputy marshal of the Three Governments Coalition Army - garrison Zhao Zizhen - Quan Dazhi - Su He

I saw Brother Zhao-Brother Quan, and Brother Su standing up with a snort, and they clasped their fists together and shouted, "The last general"

Sun Yuanwu: Two days later, as soon as the coalition forces arrive, you will go to battle with the army to boost the army's prestige

"It's an adult"

Sun Yuanwu: Taizhou Guard General Yuan Bin's Mansion ordered you to order 5,000 troops to be distributed on your behalf

"It's an adult"

It doesn't seem to have anything to do with me to lead troops to counterinsurgency, and it is said that I should not be allowed to participate in this kind of military meeting, so what did Lord Sun ask me to do not let the militia join them in quelling the rebellion

"Hongting"

As soon as I heard that this was calling, I quickly stood up: the student is here

Sun Yuanwu: Hongting, this time you can take the militia with them

Hey, I'm really afraid of what, although I'm reluctant, but I can't save face in front of so many people, things are already like this, so let's agree to come down first: the student receives the order

Master Sun also saw that I was a little reluctant: Hongting, you can take the militia to assist General Yuan

"It's an adult"

Even Meng Ang, who was on the side, saw that I didn't want to go, so he asked Lord Sun: Who is this descendant

Sun Yuanwu: Oh, General Meng, this is a wealthy clan in the north of Taizhou, he has a militia in his hands, and the route of the march to quell the rebellion is passing by him, and I hope he can help in some way

As soon as Meng Ang heard that the militia group didn't take Li Yang seriously, he thought that it would be great if there were a few people in the militia to say that there were two or three hundred people in the sky: then let him follow behind and give the coalition army a strong momentum

Sun Yuanwu: Then you all go back and prepare, and the whole army will start in two days

"It's an adult"

As soon as I returned to the manor on the front foot, I didn't wait for a hot meal, and Longchuan brought the order of the Taizhou Mansion to transfer troops, and the mountain camp and the fire trap camp were transferred to the three government coalition forces to quell the rebellion two days later

Longchuan, as the garrison of northern Taizhou, belonged to Shangguan, and he sat on the main chair, Gao Yuan and Yuankui belonged to the commanders of the official family, and he sat on the top chairs on the left and right sides in order, and I and the twelve commanders of the militia group sat in turn

Longchuan: There was a rebellion in Xiangshan County under the rule of Ningbo Prefecture, and the prefect ordered the mountain camp to be trapped-the fire camp two days later with the three-government coalition army to quell the rebellion, and ordered Li Yang to lead the Alan County militia to send troops with the three-government coalition army to quell the rebellion to strengthen the momentum

After the order was issued, I stood up first, and Gao Yuan and the others and the leaders of the militia also stood up: I will wait for the order

This time, it is my turn to issue a combat order: this time, all 6,000 members of the militia group will send troops to quell the rebellion with the three-government coalition army, and the main task of the militia is to assist the three-government coalition army to quell the rebellion of Chang Weiguo, just take this opportunity for us to deal with the large-scale drill of actual combat, I will first announce the first of the three military regulations, although we are sending troops to quell the rebellion, but we must not attack the people along the way, including the people of Chang Weiguo, if there is a violator of military law, those who do not report it will be punished as the same crime

Article 2 During the expedition, the soldiers of each battalion shall not leave the organization on their own, and during the third period, no one shall have the right to transfer you to fight without my order, and all the brothers of the militia regiment shall receive double salaries during the expedition, and use these two days to let the brothers have a good rest, and it is difficult to say when they will be able to rest after entering the mountain

Li Zuo: Brother, how many days of military rations should the militia bring when they go out on the expedition?

Li Yang: Let's prepare a month's worth of military rations first, it is estimated that this battle will last for a month, and I will also bring more bruise plasters to treat knife wounds, so be prepared, and you all tell me what preparations we need to make for this expedition

Li You: My cousin is giving my brothers an extra pair of cloth boots, the road in the mountains is not easy to walk, if the cloth boots are broken, there will be a change

Gan Hui, the leader of the militia group: I also need to bring more weapons

Hengqi: You can be more careful when entering the mountain this time, as far as I know, the dense forest in the area of Xiangshan is much larger than Maple Ridge, and the terrain of Elephant Mountain is more complex and more precipitous than Maple Ridge, even the local people will often get lost in the depths of Elephant Mountain, and there are more fierce beasts, I remember that when I was in Maple Ridge before, I went hunting with my brothers and inadvertently entered the depths of Elephant Mountain, I climbed several mountains in a row and did not find the way to come, but went deeper and deeper

The night was full of wolves and beasts, and from time to time there would be a noise in the dark jungle that made it difficult to sleep, and the next day when we were looking for a way out, several people suddenly jumped down from the trees, and before we could react, the group subdued a few of us, and they took us to a tribe on the top of a big mountain, and it was hard to believe that they would be from Zhejiang, Kang Ze and Ze Nuo, who were from Chang Weiguo before

Li Yang: I used to feel that Kang Ze and Ze Nuo had different names from us, it turned out that they were from Chang Weiguo, and they were considered ethnic minorities

Hengqi: Kang Ze, tell them about your Chang Weiguo

Kang Ze: I remember when I was a child, I heard the old man say that the area around Xiangshan was the territory of Chang Weiguo, seventy or eighty years ago, Zhejiang wanted to send troops to conquer Chang Weiguo, the big leader at that time did not want to be ruined and begged to Zhe, the king of Zhejiang allowed Chang Weiguo to continue to live in the Xiangshan area as a vassal state, Xiangshan County is actually just a walled city established by Zhejiang in order to govern Chang Weiguo, and the defenders are only a few hundred people, and there can be four or five hundred households in the walled city, most of which are some business travelers

The people of our Chang Weiguo claim to be the barbarian ginger people, there are relatively few fields that can be cultivated in the area of Xiangshan, people can only rely on hunting-gathering herbs for a living, the barbarian ginger people are still martial and the people are fierce, and the children will follow into the mountains to learn hunting skills from the age of ten, and the barbarian ginger people, regardless of men, women and children, are all experts in making bows, they also have a fanaticism for blood, and they will fight with you desperately, once they see blood, they will desperately fight with you

Li Yang: I really hadn't heard of this Chang Weiguo before, but when I heard Kang Ze say this just now, I really want to find a chance to get to know the Manjiang people, so let's get here today, hurry back and prepare for any need, let Li Zuo and Li You go to find me

The first sun was shining brightly, the sky was so blue that there was not a single cloud in the sky, a flock of birds happily spread their wings and circled in the sky, and the craftsmen were busy in a tight and orderly manner, and you could hear the sound of hammers striking wood two miles away

With the arrival of the army one after another, the originally calm Alan County became nervous, and the residents felt a little panic when they saw the hordes of troops passing through the streets, and the lively streets became unable to see even a single figure

The soldiers of the Ningbo Army and the Shaoxing Army, who had been rushing for several days in a row, were also slightly tired, and Meng Ang, as the commander of the Coalition Army, ordered the soldiers of the Coalition Army to rest here for a whole day, while the Taizhou soldiers led by Yuan Bin camped on several peaks on the periphery to be responsible for vigilance, and also sent several teams to reconnoiter the enemy's situation

Just when Meng Ang and Yuan Bin - Yu Yongnian inspected the defense of the camp, there was a neat footstep sound from a distance, "poof-poof" and other footsteps were close, and they saw that there was gray smoke not far away, and the first to appear in front of Meng Ang were two cavalry teams of 100 people, and if you looked closely, these two cavalry teams were all riding tall horses, wearing heavy armor and holding all colored spears, and the cavalry was definitely the main force in the army because it was a combat unit

Mon Ang asked the two of them: This cavalry is good, which of your troops is it?

Niu Yongnian: General, my army is here with you

Monang: That's General Yuan's

Yuanbin: General, my troops are all deployed on the outer peaks

Monang: Whose army is this?

Yuanbin: It should be his troops who have arrived

Monang looked puzzled: who was he?

After saying that, he suddenly remembered, "Is this the militia group?"

Yuanbin: Exactly

Meng Ang looked at Yuan Bin in surprise: how could they have cavalry

And the next glance made Monang feel even more shocked, the black pressed soldiers and erected spears had already obscured the sight of the sight, the 12 phalanxes took neat steps and splashed dust everywhere they went, the whole army was 30 meters away from the camp only to hear a "stop" The whole army stopped with a pop, and the moment the army stopped, it was as if a big mountain was sitting in front of them

At this time, Li Yang rode a tall horse and slowly walked out of the army, he was wearing a white robe, holding a phoenix mouth knife, and a saber was hanging from his waist, he jumped down from the horse and handed the long knife in his hand to the soldiers, and then he walked to the position twenty meters away from the camp, hugged his fists, bowed, and shouted softly: "Grass people, Li Yang led 6,000 soldiers of the Alan County People's Regiment to meet the army."

Meng Ang looked at the army in front of him with a surprised face, he never dreamed that Taizhou Mansion would have such a large-scale militia group, what kind of family with 6,000 people could afford such a huge army, and what was even more surprising was that when Shaoxing Guard Niu Yongnian surrounded and suppressed the Maple Ridge bandits before, Li Yang was just a battalion commander, and it was only more than 2 years that he would have such a large private army