Before leaving Guangchengze, Shao Xun pointed to the east with a horsewhip and said, "From here to the east, it is Xiangcheng County, Yuzhou." There are no Dashi clans in this county. ”

After speaking, he pointed to the guide and said, "Guangchengze to the south, it is Nanyang." There are many scholars, such as Liu, Fan, Le, Zong, etc., which cannot be underestimated. In the future, if you reclaim here, you must be careful in the direction of Nanyang, once there are conditions, several key passes must be built and defended. ”

Nanyang is a basin, out of Nanyang to the north, there are a total of three post roads, since the Han Dynasty.

Well, in the mountains next to one of the roads, there seems to be a bathroom with Yin Lihua.

Most of the wars, large and small, took place on these three roads, and Liu Xiu and Liu Bei left deeds here.

Stick to these three roads that are not easy to take, and you will basically be fine.

As for the path, it doesn't matter. Leave a certain number of mobile troops in the rear, which can be extinguished at any time.

"The focus of the defense is still to the east." Shao Xun said: "Yingchuan, this 'thief's nest', dare to rob my armor, and sooner or later I will settle accounts with them." ”

"Obey the general's orders." Everyone responded in unison.

Shao Xun nodded.

Now, these core subordinates of his can be regarded as unifying their thinking, which is very important.

In Xuchang before, Sima You and He Lun wanted to enter the city, but Huang Biao really couldn't stop him, and he couldn't do it without papers.

In terms of the text, Sima You is the special envoy of Sikong, and He Lun is the commander of the army, do you listen to the order? Do you want to rebel if you don't listen to orders?

As long as you don't want to rebel on the spot, you have to obey orders.

In terms of martial arts, Huang Biao's 1,000 people are not even satisfied with the city wall of Xuchang.

What's more, the soldiers had different minds when facing the governor. Unless you gather everyone together and clearly tell everyone that from today onwards, I will pull the flag and rebel, weed out those who are not willing to rebel with you, and unify our thinking, then it will be possible to be firm and unanimous from top to bottom.

At that time, Shao Xun himself did not publicly express his attitude, so don't blame the soldiers for not being able to stop He Lun.

Although he didn't say it explicit now, his attitude was very obvious, I had robbed so much armor, and I wanted to expand the army, and I had to wait for the time to move.

Those who don't want to join the gang can go by themselves - Li Chong didn't leave after all, after a long talk, he seemed to be able to accept Shao Xun as a powerful minister, as for whether to go further, he was silent.

This person is now available.

In the future, whether it is quelling the chaos or fighting the Xiongnu, Li Chong will do his best, there is no doubt about this.

Even, in the fight between the competitors of the power ministers, he will also stand on Shao Xun's side.

Talent is rare, and I hope he will change his mind in the future, so that everyone may have a good death for each other.

After seeing the style of Guangchengze, the group went north like a gallop. The Tu general Erlang returned to Luoyang, and Shao Xun turned to Yiyang halfway.

As we approached Yunzhongwu, I heard a bell in the distance.

The homeless people who were working in the fields stopped one after another, rushed to the carriage parked on the side of the road with pickaxes and shovels, and took out weapons such as spears and ring-headed knives on the spot, and several small leaders such as Zhuang Tou even put on leather armor and began to wind their bows.

The drums of the gathered troops also sounded in the dock.

After a while, more than 100 sergeants dressed neatly lined up, with guns, bows, knives, and armor, and more than 20 people in the front row even held long-handled blunt weapons such as long axes and wooden rafts, ready to smash the knights off their horses.

Very good and well trained.

Shao Xun dismounted far away.

Tang Jian and other fifty knights also dismounted and surrounded Shao Xun's side.

"It's Master Shao, collect the equipment." The leading officer yelled.

The burghers' faces relaxed, and the guns and knives in their hands slowly drooped.

"Don't move!" Shao Xun shouted, and slowly approached the more than 100 silver-speared sergeants who came out in line, looking carefully.

After a year or two of training, the soldiers are already completely different from the inside out.

The team leaders stood there motionless, the flags on their backs whirring in the mountain breeze.

The flag is depicted by a tiger with teeth and claws, which seems to indicate their style, tearing apart their enemies like a tiger descending from a mountain.

The soldiers took the leader of the team as the middle line, and even though the ground was rough, they still lined up in a neat line.

When the spear was held in his hand, it was not loose or tight, it was just right - Shao Xun still remembered what they looked like when they were newly enlisted, clutching the barrel of the gun, and their knuckles were white.

"Keep half of the people, and the rest will be disbanded!" After carefully looking at the circle, Shao Xun ordered.

"No." The leader of the team said loudly: "Draw the formation and move forward."

Disbanding and retreating also has rules and regulations, and it is also a kind of training.

For example, on the battlefield, the enemy cavalry went around the rear of the large formation to attack, what to do?

Maybe many infantry formations can't withstand it directly, but in the Tang Dynasty, there were strict regulations, saying: draw teams.

There are two officers in a team of 50 people, the chief officer is called "team leader", commonly known as "team leader", and the deputy is called "team deputy".

The head of the team runs to the rear, the deputy of the team goes to the front, and the next team draws a team, one team faces forward, one team faces the rear, and then moves forward or backward a hundred steps and stands.

Straighten out your swords and guns, hold bows and crossbows, and prepare for battle.

Shao Xun asked half of them to stay and half to leave, deliberately to inspect their training.

Now it seems that he is quite satisfied and has practiced well. I just don't know if I can be so smooth when I go to the battlefield and face the overwhelming Hu cavalry, when I am extremely nervous, I don't think it will work.

One day, get a cavalry to come over for sparring to scare and scare these people, so that they can familiarize themselves with the combat methods of cavalry in advance.

"Disband, you stay." Shao Xun waved his hand and said.

"No." Uncle Du ordered one person and asked him to take his troops up the mountain to return to the village, and he stayed.

"Your name is Hou Feihu, right?" Shao Xun asked.

There are two governors in the first building of the Silver Spear Army, one is called Lu Heigou, and the other is Hou Feihu.

Comparatively, the black dog is still a little more powerful than the flying tiger.

Moreover, the black dog is close to Shao Xun's hometown in Donghai, only a dozen miles away, and the flying tiger is from a neighboring county.

"Yes." Hou Feihu replied respectfully.

"Did you fall behind in training when I wasn't there?"

"Temper your skills every day, a small exercise every three days, and a session every ten days, and never slack off."

"After the soldiers got married, did they train with all their hearts?"

"Go back to Shaoshi, if you steal and play tricks, your own military stick will fall."

Shao Xun laughed.

These student officers are really ruthless.

When the coolies first joined the army, they didn't know anything, and they respected the student officers who already had a lot of skills.

This kind of coercion seed planted from the beginning, watered by the long-term strict military discipline, has made the soldiers have a fear that goes deep into the bone marrow, and the obedience is quite good.

Eating some military sticks is already a common thing for them with rough skin and thick meat.

"Practice well." Shao Xun advised: "Remember, you are recruiters, and you are soldiers who eat food, so you must be ready to go out to fight at any time." ”

"No." Hou Feihu replied loudly.

Shao Xun looked at the figures of the soldiers leaving in line and was silent.

The treatment of recruits is relatively good, and they are more suitable for all-weather operations.

During the busy farming season, they can fight.

In the winter, you can still go out.

He remembered that during the melee in the late Tang Dynasty, one year was particularly cold, and the snow was several feet deep on the flat ground in winter, and the soldiers still fought bravely to pursue and defeat the enemy.

When the weather is cold, the soldiers can't pull the bow, or even break the bowstring, and still have to fight.

The ability to endure severe cold, withstand scorching heat, not be limited by agricultural hours, and go out to fight anytime and anywhere is the greatest advantage of recruiting troops.

Of course, recruits will start a family, and even if they don't marry and have children, because they are well treated.

In the Tang Dynasty, which opened the era of conscription on a large scale for the first time, the annual reward for a conscription soldier - there is no military salary, only clothing, food, and money, which are distributed on important festivals such as New Year's Day, Spring Society, Chongyang Festival, Autumn Society, and Winter Solstice - are converted into more than 20 yuan.

The Silver Spear Army recruits soldiers one after another to marry wives and have children, which is no problem.

The difficulty is that if you want to transfer in the future, it will increase the cost for no reason, which is not small.

But it is impossible for you to stop them from taking wives, which is against human nature.

In this matter, we can only watch as we go.

After entering the cloud dock, Shao Xun did not rush to check the file, but first looked at the dock fort that was under construction.

The whole is rectangular, with corner towers on the four corners, two floors higher than the top of the wall, each can stand dozens of people, and generally arrange crossbowmen to shoot condescendingly.

Only the southern wall of the city has a gate opened, and a gatehouse is set up on it.

Between the gatehouse and the corner tower, there is a flying stack connection, which can support each other.

The outside of the city wall is also painted with swords, guns, swords and halberds, I don't know where the painter invited to get it, to be honest, it's a bit wasteful, but it looks quite mighty.

Anyway, it was all the money from the Pei family in the later stage, so it didn't matter. For their family, building a half-finished dock fort is not an investment at all.

However, the Pei family didn't take this money seriously, and Shao Xun was still very grateful to them.

At the very least, many of the people they sent were well versed in the design and construction of Fort Dock. It is clear where the storehouse is located, where the wells are arranged, how to repair the road to pass the soldiers, how to arrange the internal rooms, and so on.

They even asked for a slightly lower wall to be added to the courtyard wall, somewhat similar to the sheep and horse wall.

Trenches were dug outside the sheep and horse walls, spikes were buried, and drawbridges were used to pass. Livestock are stored inside the sheep and horse walls, which can make the whole interior of the dock fort cleaner, more hygienic and more livable.

All in all, very experienced, most of the comments made were adopted.

Before the winter of this year, the cloud dock will almost be completed.

The entire dock fort is partially on three floors, densely packed with nearly 2,000 rooms, and there is a certain margin for new construction.

The room is not big, and it is not a problem to squeeze a family of five.

The soldiers' rooms were slightly larger and the living conditions were better.

The best is of course Shao Xun's building, which has two entrances before and after, and even built a garden.

This......

Lao Tzu didn't mention this request, and the "designer" of the Pei family arranged it?

It's a little wasteful, but it does look cool, and it reflects his status.

After looking at the internal structure, Shao Xun climbed to the door again, overlooking the distance.

Yunzhongwu itself is on a plateau, facing ditches on three sides, and only the south side has a mountain road to pass down.

The way up the mountain is narrow and cramped, making it difficult to walk.

In Shao Xun's view, the biggest advantage of this dock fort is not how strong it is, but the terrain restricts the enemy army and cannot put any troops.

Even if 100,000 people came, he could only send one or two thousand soldiers to add fuel tactically, and the others could only stare dryly.

The enemy can besiege it for a long time, but the cost is extremely staggering. Rather than that, it's better to negotiate.

In history, the north was full of dock forts, some of which were broken by the enemy, and some of which stood safely for hundreds of years, miraculously surviving the entire Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Those who can survive for a long time will either have strong combat effectiveness and have the advantage of martial arts, or the terrain will be dangerous, so that the enemy will not be able to give full play to the superiority of troops, or both.

Yunzhongwu at least occupies a dangerous terrain. As long as the defenders dare to fight, the Huns may not be able to take it.

Next year, the construction of Jinmen Dock will start, and Danshan Dock will also start.

The financial pressure is so great that Shao Xun wants to sell some weapons and armor.

But after all, I can't help it, so let's borrow money first. It really can't be used, and then the money that is ready to expand the army will be used.