Three days before departure, Li Dan invited Yang Lian to teach everyone what to do in case of an ambush, how to deal with a small group of robberies, and also taught Mao Zai and Li Biao how to do horse exploration.

Li Dan began to let everyone practice the formation of Wu as a unit, which he discussed with Yang Dayi.

Two sword and shield men are on the right and left, protecting the flail man in the middle, and behind them are two spearmen who specialize in stabbing enemies who are disturbed by the shackles.

This array can be flexibly turned in any direction, the combination of long and short is simple and easy, Li Dan called this the Five Golden Flower Array.

Each tithe means that there is a "golden flower" on the left and right sides of the tithe. In order to teach this formation, Li Dan invited Yang Dayi to teach spears and chain flails, and Ma Jiu to teach sword and shield hands.

Xiao Qian's family had already moved into a new house, Ma Jiu thought about it and wanted to ask Li Dan: "I'd better go with you, this sword and shield skill is not enough to teach for only three days." With me, I can help everyone practice more on the road. ”

"But ...... your legs? Besides, my aunt has to keep someone there. Li Dan said embarrassedly.

"Don't worry, tell me to help with the past in the house first, it's just ...... The girl also has to eat with the family, and she has an extra mouth. Ma Jiu said embarrassedly.

"If you don't tighten, if you don't tighten, how much can the little sister eat. If you have to go, I'll arrange a donkey for you, so you can walk less. ”

Li Dan pointed to his lameness. Ma Jiu still wanted to excuse himself, but Li Dan didn't allow it, and immediately called Mao Zai to tell Han An and add a donkey to Ma Jiu.

"I don't buy donkeys for nothing," Li Dan smiled and comforted him: "When I come back, I will pull the family to set up a car and use it, and it will be convenient for my aunt to enter and exit." ”

After speaking, Li Dan called Xiao Niu and asked him to hand over his Nashri to Ma Jiu, and then whispered a few words. After hearing this, Ma Jiu immediately took the Wu people, pulled a donkey cart out of the south gate, and left.

On this day, Zhou Dutou came again and urged him: "Zhao Cheng from Nancheng set off with his sixty people yesterday, why don't you leave, aren't you afraid of missing the deadline?" ”

"Wait for the new carriage." Li Dan smiled and pointed to the northwest corner: "There is still one left to be delivered tomorrow, I will leave the day after tomorrow, and I will arrive the day after tomorrow." ”

"Nonsense!"

"Really." Li Dan settled accounts for him, most of the people took carriages, and the remaining few also rode mules, horses or donkeys, and it was no problem to travel eighty miles a day.

"Going by car?" Zhou Dutou was taken aback: "Don't tease me, the carriage can sit in the sky for seven or eight people!" ”

Li Dan took him to the latest car, patted the carriage with a smug face: "I can seat fifteen people in this car, do you believe it or not?" ”

As he said, Li Dan immediately beckoned more than a dozen people to get on the train, and as a result, there were really fourteen people in the carriage (including Zhou Dutou himself), and if there was one more person sitting next to the driver in front, it would be more than the number of Li Dan's packed tickets.

Two Northland mules pulled and ran two laps around the school yard without any effort.

Zhou Dutou scratched the back of his head in surprise: "What's going on with this car?" One top three or four, incredible! Did you make it new? ”

"It's based on the Western style." Li Dan smiled: "Don't worry, this time you should believe that I can reach ten thousand years in one day, right?" ”

Five four-wheeled carts, three two-wheeled carts (the wheels were reinforced with iron hoops), four horses, eight mules and six donkeys, the whole team was animal-powered, and the lineup was luxurious enough.

The day before departure, four two-wheeled vehicles were sent out to pull back the finished tents and clothes from Lao Ji, and the quilts and backpacks from the inn.

Everyone took a bath in the water, changed into new clothes inside and out, everyone was refreshed, looked at each other very energetically, and all smiled from ear to ear.

Li Dan looked very satisfied, stood on the wooden bridge where he practiced overcoming obstacles, crossed his waist and looked around, and asked with a smile: "The clothes, shoes and socks are all new, right?" Happy not? ”

"Happy!" Everyone shouted at the top of their voices.

"Since we are happy to go out, we must all come back happy." Li Dan waved his hand and said.

Most of the people below were older than him, but they felt that Li Sanlang was so powerful at this time, and he actually looked like a general.

"We said earlier that the team went out to practice military law, and I guess we have memorized it for more than ten days." Li Dan continued:

"I would like to remind you of three more things: First, we are all villagers, including those in Nancheng. Don't be against your own people, and let go of any grievances when you go out!

Second, take good care of our own brothers around you, they are your most reliable partners.

Third, do not leave the team, do not go far, do not harass the passing villages, treat people kindly, buy things and pay.

In a word: be safe outside and don't make enemies.

Just these three, do you remember? ”

"Remember!" Everyone yelled again.

Li Dan instructed the chiefs and Wu chiefs to disperse and go back, go to the liao (dormitory) to ask again, and teach everyone to remember.

Then he announced the time to get up tomorrow morning, and called everyone to go back and prepare.

At this time, there were seventy-eight people in the whole team, a full sixty (five who were taken away by Ma Jiu have already made up) and set off tomorrow morning, and the rest were left behind under the leadership of Yang Dayi.

Among them, the eldest of the six, led by the forty-year-old pasteur Liu En, who was bullied and resisted, but accidentally injured the other party, fortunately, Li Dan came forward to pay the fine for him and bailed out, and now he is following Zhu Qing to do things with this team to guard the school field;

The other two military commanders were selected from among the beggars, Su Bitou (named after half of his hair cut off during the war, which shows that this person is vicious), he was originally a soldier of the Bei Japanese army, and after the death of his wife and children, he went into exile in Yugan;

Another Han Si was originally a miner who fled from Zhejiang, and was driven out to become a homeless because he offended the mine owner's family.

The two units were prepared to rotate and escort subsequent supplies.

The first bell on the bell and drum tower is at dawn, the so-called evening drum and morning bell, the bell tower rings the bell six times is two quarters, which is the time when the doors are opened.

Li Dan set off as soon as he opened the door, so he had to get up early in the morning.

At the beginning of the year, Li Dan was woken up by the calf, and when he went out, he saw that the pool was already full of washing team members.

It is also the rule to get up early to wash your face and hands, and brush your teeth with bamboo salt, toner, mint powder and rice flour.

The toothbrush is simple, the end of the willow branch is bitten repeatedly with teeth, and then it is dipped in water and dotted with tooth powder to make a paste.

After a few days, everyone got used to it, and after brushing it, they looked around with their teeth, which was quite superior.

Li Dan uses solid teeth at home, but that thing needs medicinal materials such as lotus grass, fine spice, saponaria, poria cocos, angelica, mangweed, tortoise shell, and parsnip, and it is also very troublesome to grind and concoct, so he simply created his own and used it with everyone in the camp these days, and felt that the effect was no worse than that damn expensive thing!

For breakfast, each person had a big bowl of porridge, two eggs and two cookcakes with pickles, and their faces were glowing.

For most of them, today is the first time to go far away, and even to go to other places, which is a big event, and it is worth telling their children and grandchildren for decades!

Energetic, he went back to the house and took out his luggage, and each person's quilt had been firmly tied into a tic-tac-toe with a strap according to what Li Dan had taught.

There were two handles left in front of it, and the arms reached in to carry it on the back, and a pair of straw sandals and a pair of thick-soled cloth shoes were pinned to them.

The rest of the equipment includes: a robe, a hat, a pair of leggings, two blue cloth belts, a cross-body cloth satchel and a water hyacinth.

Several drivers were busy setting up the car, checking the wheels and axles, and the look seemed to be the chief steward, and they scolded the other team members who wanted to touch their cars.

Xiao Yi beckoned his people to follow Zhu Qing to the warehouse to carry things, and first carried out ropes, rope nets, flat poles, rattan baskets that he didn't know what to do, and then shovels, shovels, shovels, axes, and other tools, all of which were stacked on two board carts with donkeys already set, and covered with tarpaulin.

At this time, the soldiers began to put their tents, pots, firewood, machetes, etc., on their wagons.

It turned out that each car had already been numbered, Li Dan wrote Arabic numerals on the carriage board with ink and taught everyone to remember the number belonging to the team, and took their own vehicles as the center of action when getting on and off the car.

There is only No. 2 in these numbers, Yang Xiaoyi was in a hurry, and when he saw Chen Sanwen driving a new carriage into the yard with a guy, he was overjoyed and immediately beckoned his subordinates to start loading.

Li Dan walked over and wrote 2 words with a pen, raised his head and said:

"I was afraid that you wouldn't be able to finish it in time, but I didn't expect it to be delivered. The Chen family father and son have made a promise, and I am not stingy with rewards! But San Lang, what are you dressed ......? ”

Chen Sanwen looked at his short brown and said with a smile: "I told my father, come and send you a car, and by the way, we will go together." In case there is something wrong with the new car along the way, I can also help you repair it. ”

"That dare is to work you. It's a battlefield over there, can the old gentleman rest assured? ”

"What about your group, what's not to worry about? It's just that I said hello before I was fine, but I was afraid that I would cause trouble. ”

"No trouble!" Of course, Li Dan was willing, patted the board with his hand that had only had time to brush the tung oil, and called Xiao Niu repeatedly, asking him to take San Lang to find Zhu Qing to lead two sets of spare equipment to change into.

Chen Sanwen pointed to the carriage before leaving, and told him that the fourteen-sided wooden shield he had ordered was on the car.

Li Biao was puzzled when he heard this, and asked on the side: "The spear was returned to Zhou Dutou yesterday and brought back to the county, but the shield and knife were still left for us, why did San Lang still let the Chen family make these wooden shields?" ”

"The round shield set aside by the county can protect yourself, but if you want to use a bow and arrow, you can only protect yourself, not others."

Li Biao got into the car and looked at the wooden shields in the carriage and suddenly understood that this shield was not small, with a groove for observation, two and a half feet wide, just to protect the two people on the side, more than five feet high, like his height can hide behind with his head slightly lowered.

Li Dan asked him to inform every Wu to come and take away his side, and he also wrote the number on the back and kept it by the sword and shield hand.

At this time, Liu Hongsheng squeezed over and told him that the dry food, bean feed, and bran had been prepared by his brother, and they were all put outside the store to be loaded.

Li Dan asked the third team Gu Da and Liu Hongsheng's fifth team to receive it first, and then converge at the inner street entrance of the South Gate.

Everything was ready, and the cars went out to the south gate in numbered order.

At the intersection of the Bell and Drum Tower, Li Dan saw a donkey cart, and Ma Jiu's mother-in-law was standing there with the donkey's bridle, and knew that it was his aunt who came to see him off.

Let the others go first, Li Dan jumped out of the car and ran over with a knife on his waist, only to see that the alley was full of people, and he didn't know how many families had come to see him off, and he was shocked.

He opened the door and left because he was afraid of alarming people to see him off, and he didn't want to come so much. Hurriedly walked to the donkey cart, knelt down and kowtowed, and said:

"Auntie, I still alarmed you, I came early in the morning to send it, it was the child's unfilial piety."

The curtain is lifted, but it is a needle. Looking up at him first, Li Dan hurriedly got up and went to the car. I heard Xiao Qian's voice say: "Brother should be careful when walking, everything is important for preservation!" ”

Li Dan was busy responding, and replied in a low voice: "Aunt is relieved, the child is responsible, and he doesn't dare to take it lightly!" This time I went to assist the officers and troops to suppress it, and I think I would be able to go home in October. ”

"You don't have to comfort me, who knows about this war?" Xiao Qian sighed: "Fortunately, you are just transporting baggage." Don't panic in case of trouble, don't be able to ....... ”

She said a word, and Li Dan responded "yes".

At this time, the crowd behind gradually gathered around, and Xiao Qian's family couldn't say any more, and called Li Dan: "Their children, father and brother follow you, you should say a few words to them." ”

Li Dan looked back and saw that only Mao Zaidi was standing behind with Zaoqi waiting, and the team only saw two animals at the end of the team. Then he clasped his fists and said to everyone:

"Fellow villagers, I will be sent by the county to transport grain for 10,000 years, and I will return in October.

Everyone understands what Li Saburo is going to say, please rest assured, I will do my best to protect and let every brother go home safely. Everyone, please come back! ”

Saying that, he said goodbye to his aunt's carriage, turned around and walked closer, turned over and got on the horse, won the applause of everyone, and gave his hands on the horse, and then turned his horse's head and chased the team.

The people behind him were reluctant and still waving goodbye.

Outside the south gate, the two who went to receive the dry food had already returned, and the bell rang.

Just when the city gate creaked open and a ray of light just fell outside, Li Dan waved his hand forward: "Let's go!" ”

The guards in the cave of the city gate watched as the small team of blue scarves, blue scarves, and blue belts "rumbled" out of the city and went all the way down the official road to the south.