In the early spring of March, the first rain of the year fell in the sky, and the rain seeped into the thirsty land.

It has been three days since Gao Pet returned to Tianshui.

The rain made Gao's chapped lips feel much better, and his breathing was not as dry as before, and southerners were still not used to living in this arid region. Since October last year, I have lived all winter, not so much cold, but more precisely, dry cold. Most of the Flying Tigers who came over were the same as Gao Chong, who had chapped lips for a few months, and Gao Chong was better, and the princess let Gao Chong eat one or two fruits from time to time. Vitamin C supplementation relies only on a little cellar cabbage, which can only be eaten once every few days. It's more about eating some dry roasted rice and broth.

The Battle of Xianrenguan was a great victory, but how to solve the problem of the new tens of thousands of mouths tested the new regime. Li Qianshun of Western Xia also sent a secret letter, Western Xia is currently very difficult, and can no longer afford the food supply of the princess and Xihe, so let the princess and the concubine find their own way, if possible, hope that the concubine can import some grain from the Song Dynasty, and issued the task of underwriting 10,000 catties of green salt. The large-scale production campaign in the high-pet plan will not be able to solve the current problems for a while, and it will not be effective until July and August.

It was already night, Gao Chong sat at the table and considered the whole matter of Khotan's Xihe and the princess, and the senior cadre meeting had been held for three days, but Cong had many things to implement.

"Husband!" The princess came in from the outside, walked to the north of the high pet, lay on the back of the high pet, and inserted two hands along the neck of the high pet, and gently stroked it, the warmth and softness behind the chest formed a strong feeling together, the high pet turned his head from his thoughts, and the red light of the candle shone on the princess's delicate face, the tip of the nose, and her lips. Gao Zhong took the princess to his chest and let her sit on his lap.

"Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I will go to Luoyang and see Wu Jue, first solve the food problem in the next few months, and establish normal trading channels."

"This time of year is the most difficult time for my father, most of the people's food stocks are almost gone, and the prince also wrote to me to tell you about helping to buy some food from the Great Song Dynasty as much as possible, I haven't told you when you are fighting a few days ago."

"Did your father tell you that he agreed to sell horses to the Song Kingdom?"

"My father said that I hadn't heard of such a performance, and I saw what my father meant, it was for us to do it ourselves, he pretended not to know, and when Jin Guo asked him, he could shirk it."

"I knew it was going to be like this, and if I didn't tell him, he would say that we talked to ourselves." Leaders are like this, if things are done well, it is the credit of the leaders, and if they don't do it well or if there is any problem, there will be a backing.

"That's fine, this time I'll sell three thousand horses to Wu Jue first. It is estimated that 200,000 stone of grain can be exchanged for back. But it is estimated that Wu Jue does not have so much food for a while.

"They have so much food?" The princess felt very suspicious, and learned arithmetic with Deng Yu some time ago, and this concept was clear.

"Of course, they won't have so many in their hands, but Sichuan is a country of abundance, and food is relatively rich."

"It's good that we in Western Xia can have such a good place." The princess heard Gao Pet talk about this Sichuan, and she wanted to go and see it. And that bizarre Dujiangyan.

"Did Lao Qian tell you how our car factory is doing?" Gao Pet is worried about the food supply problem and also worried about the transportation problem, and now the transportation efficiency is too poor. The last time I wrote back to the Gao family, the Deng family, and the Qian family, there should be news, this communication is too inconvenient, and what can be done is only to wait.

"The depot has already released cars, and now it can produce about 100 cars a month."

"There won't be much of a problem in transporting food in a few days."

"But now our territory is so big, no one!" The princess has also started to take care of things these days, which is a good phenomenon, it's not that no one is making trouble, plus these days the high pet goes out to fight, and there is nothing to do. A few days ago, I learned arithmetic with Deng Yu, and these days I help Deng Si in Tianshui.

Lao Qian sent Deng Si to be the strategic envoy of Tianshui, but Gao Zhong didn't call it that, Tianshui is a regional special administration, mainly military, let Zhao Heng take charge of the overall situation, be the political commissar, Deng Yuan is in charge of administrative logistics, and be the director.

"Originally, some officials of the Song and Jin Dynasty and some local big families had books, and they could be selected to use them first, and they were trained. If you do more, you will be. ”

At this time, Xi'er poured a cup of tea and came over, and the princess sat on Gao Chong's lap and wanted to come down, but Gao Chong didn't let her, and the two didn't see each other for more than ten days.

"Xi'er, if anyone comes to me and the colt, they will say that there is something to talk about tomorrow, and the pony is asleep."

"Oh!"

Xi'er went out, and the princess came down, and she was dressed for the high pet:

"Husband, let's wash and sleep!"

The next day, Gao Zhong led the main personnel in Tianshui to have a one-day meeting, and asked people to arrange it, the most important of which was the establishment of the third division of the Wolf Tooth Army, which was also composed of two cavalry regiments and one infantry regiment. Gao Yan served as the division commander, and Liu Kui served as the deputy division commander. The second division was stationed in Lanzhou and Hezhou, and the first division was responsible for the southeastern areas of Maijishan, Tianshui, Chengzhou, and Qin'an.

And the artillery company of the original Flying Tiger Army Independent Regiment was assigned to the 1st Division. In order to ensure the defense of Tianshui and the support of other places. But the 1st Division left only 10 ballistas, four of which were divided between Guo Yong's 2nd Division and Gao Yan's 3rd Division. to support their fire.

The first and second battalions of the original supplementary battalion of the Flying Tiger Army were left to be reorganized into two regiments of 3,000 people, stationed in Jiancheng, and set up the Jiancheng sub-district, and Su Tong, the political commissar of the former independent regiment of the Flying Tiger Army, served as the commander of the Jiancheng sub-district. And the production of copper and silver began. The main people who opened the mines were the captives of the former Jin Kingdom. All non-related personnel moved to the location of the current Silver City.

The other three battalions are all temporarily incorporated into the Flying Tiger Army Independent Regiment, so that the Flying Tiger Army Independent Regiment has:

The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th cavalry battalions (on the basis of the original two cavalry battalions, the other two supplementary battalions were set up as cavalry battalions), each battalion had 758 men. Due to the large number of horses in the cavalry battalion, one man and three horses, and many supplies, each battalion was equipped with a squadron (150 people) of baggage, and in addition to one person and one horse, the baggage team was also equipped with 200 camels, which can be said to be very luxurious.

Commander of the 1st Cavalry Battalion, Stilwell.

Ding Li, commander of the second battalion of the cavalry.

Commander of the 3rd Cavalry Battalion*.

Gao Changxing, commander of the fourth cavalry battalion (former commander of the cavalry company of the Flying Tiger Army)

Two infantry battalions. 700 people per battalion.

The commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion, Zhong Hui

Commander of the 2nd Infantry Battalion Shi Xiaoshan.

A reconnaissance company (directly under the regiment)

A baggage brigade (1,200 men), 2,000 horses and mules, and 1,500 camels.

Zhang Dazhu, commander of a guards battalion.

In this way, the entire independent regiment had seven battalions, a baggage brigade and regimental headquarters. The total number of men reached 6,500 men, 15,000 horses, and 2,300 camels. But there were only 400 seeds from Tongling, and the rest were assigned to the Wolf Tooth Army or Military Region. Stayed in Xihe.

The reorganization of the Flying Tiger Army was in charge of Stilwell, and Gao Zhong did not have time to wait for the formation of the army, but took the Guards Battalion, the reconnaissance company and the regimental headquarters, the guards of the princess of the county, and several administrative personnel in charge of Qian San and other administrative personnel who handled the transaction, and set off for Luoyang the next day, where they waited for the troops of the Flying Tiger Army.