Chapter 18 Volunteer Army

A special piece of land in the city has been set aside to set up a factory, and after a period of product production, it has been able to skillfully improve efficiency and produce quickly through the assembly line system. Including the arsenal, recruit highly skilled blacksmiths to craft weapons. A school was set up so that all children in the city could go to school for free as long as they were of the right age.

At the same time, although Tiantai County has money, most of the grain still needs to be purchased in other counties, and if it attracts displaced people, it will definitely not be self-sufficient enough to use Tiantai County's current grain and grass reserves for a long time. Therefore, it is very necessary to reclaim a large amount of farmland and take the food problem into our own hands.

According to this scale, Tiantai County after completion is not much worse than even the capital.

Because the Muddy Water Camp of the Northern Yan has been taken, there is no garrison of the Northern Yan in the south of the flood. So Jiang Lan sent 1,000 cavalry to be stationed in the Muddy Water Camp of Beiyan, patrolling the banks of Muddy Water, and always monitoring the situation of Beiyan on the other side of Muddy Water, in case Northern Yan raised troops to invade the south.

After roughly determining the next expansion of Tiantai County, Wang Yuan and Li Muran were responsible for recruiting displaced people and supervising the construction of the city wall by the 7,000 captives. After Wuzhai County and Fugu County were destroyed, the county commanders of the two counties were either killed or abandoned and fled, plus the houses in the city had been destroyed, and the fertile fields outside the city were also trampled by the Northern Yan cavalry. After seeing the notice of Tiantai County recruiting displaced people, in just two days, more than 70,000 displaced people came to defect.

Two days after the end of the war, Tiantai County began a city-building campaign in full swing. It is worth mentioning that the most energetic in this city-building movement are the 7,000 Northern Yan soldiers on their backs. Because Jiang Lan had ordered that those Northern Yan prisoners who had no intention of resisting should be given normal treatment, but for those diehards, they should be dealt with directly. Therefore, the current Beiyan captives have not been mistreated except for building the city wall under the supervision of the Tiantai defenders every day. The food tube is full every day, and you can eat meat from time to time, which is much better than the days when you were hungry for three meals in two days in the Northern Yan Army. In this case, some Beiyan prisoners even had the idea of joining the Tiantai Army, because the treatment of the Tiantai Army was so good, and it was really envious to see the food of the Tiantai Army every day.

When the city was in full swing in Tiantai County, Liu Li and Zhou Pengyu in Qingzhou also received the news of the victory of the Tiantai defenders.

Now it's going to be changed, and the guilt has become the merit. defeated 20,000 people, captured 7,000, took the opponent's camp, and captured the opponent's commander, such a record is rare for more than 100 years since the founding of the Southern Qin.

Both of them felt that they were going to be stunned by this sudden happiness, and the news spread from Qingzhou Mansion that night, and they rushed straight to the capital for eight hundred miles, presumably this news would make the capital explode.

Jiang Lan is also idle and bored these days, wandering around the city every day. The army has Zhang Meng in charge of the garrison training, and Li Muran is in charge of the production and construction in the city. On the contrary, he, the county magistrate, became an idler, and took Wang Yuan around every day.

Now that the affairs of the county are slowly on track, it is time to consider some other things.

information

Since you plan to pull the team to do it yourself, then the intelligence aspect is definitely needed. Today, Jiang Lan and Wang Yuan rode around the muddy water river without incident.

"Lao Wang, there is something I want to leave to you, I want to ask you what you mean," Jiang Lan said to Wang Yuan.

"What's the matter, boss, as long as it's your order, I will fight for this life and I will definitely do it" Wang Yuandao, seeing that the other brothers who followed Jiang Lan from birth to death like himself had their own things to do, Zhang Meng began to lead the troops, Wei Cong went out to run the caravan, and Li Muran was also in charge of the daily affairs in the county.

"Assemble our own intelligence team"

Jiang Lan said, although Wang Yuan is not as good at a certain aspect as several others, there is one thing, that is, he is particularly loyal to Jiang Lan, and only in this way can Jiang Lan rest assured that he will set up an intelligence network.

"Boss, how to do this" Wang Yuan muttered, he wanted to do it, but he hadn't done it, and he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to do it well.

"You go, choose a group of trustworthy people, pretend to be a merchant and hawker and scatter, South Qin and North Yan, don't let go of every county, but all valuable news will be sent back, and you will be responsible for summarizing these news" Jiang Lan said, there are no special people or things targeted at present, at most, Beiyan needs special attention to prevent Beiyan from suddenly retaliating. Therefore, we will cast a large area of the net, and slowly build up the most basic intelligence network first, and I believe that it will definitely play a big role in the future.

Jiang Lan knew that although intelligence on these personnel did not produce much value on weekdays, at a critical moment, a single piece of news might be worth an army of more than 10,000 people. So Jiang Lan explained Wang Yuan in detail, and Wang Yuan happily started to prepare.

After Wang Yuan left, Jiang Lan walked alone by the river, thinking as he walked, now the news of Tiantai County must have spread out, such a big achievement, there will definitely be a reward from the imperial court next, but he defeated the Northern Yan army with the strength of one county, which will definitely attract the suspicion of the imperial court, so he needs to seize the time to strengthen his strength. It's also time to expand the army, and at the same time it's time to form your own personal army.

Although there are currently 5,000 troops in Tiantai, only the 1,000 heavily armored cavalry are actually registered in the imperial court, and the rest are all military and civilian husbands, so the next expansion of the army can only be recruited in the name of the militia. After all, Tiantai County is still nominally owned by the Southern Qin Imperial Court, and of course, according to the standards of Tiantai County, it will definitely not really follow the standards of the militia. Jiang Lan thought of a word "Volunteer Army", yes, just like this, then I will have a "Volunteer Army", Jiang Lan patted his head, and then got on the horse and rushed to the barracks to discuss with Zhang Meng.

"Volunteers? What kind of army is this? Zhang Meng asked puzzled

"According to our explanation, these troops are all volunteers of the people to participate in military training, so that they can assist the defenders in defense the next time the Northern Yan invades, of course, between the super high consciousness of these people, the county gives these volunteers the same treatment as the normal army," Jiang Lan explained

"Understood, so that others can't say anything, after all, it is the people's voluntariness" Zhang Meng suddenly realized, "Then how many more people will we recruit next?" ”