In Quyang City, Jinzhou, Meng Juehai, the deputy envoy of Hezhong garrison defense who was suppressing bandits and training troops in the Zhongtiao Mountain area, had just returned with a group of captures and spoils. He could not help but curse and disperse these soldiers who had become increasingly dispersed after approaching the city and their morale became increasingly scattered into the camp like sheep.

Of course, what he was responsible for training was not the original Hezhong Army's surrendered soldiers. These surrendered soldiers in the river had been dispersed and moved to other places one after another (Guanbei, Hexi, Longyou and Shannan West Road, etc.). Therefore, the ones he trained were all new soldiers who were reselected from the salt households who lived near Jie County and Anyi Zhuchi, who had been seeking life for generations.

On the one hand, this is because these salt diced salt households have had the habit of collective life and the tradition of fighting fiercely since ancient times, and have always been the main source of the strong men in the river. On the other hand, it is also taking the time to get rid of the last potential unstable factors in the local area, and re-immigrating and filling households to mix sand to pave the way for building a chemical factory system based on the salt industry.

The target he needed to wipe out and eliminate was also the defeated soldiers who fled into Zhongtiao Mountain after the defeat of the Hezhong Army, who was unwilling to accept the inclusion and control, and fled into Zhongtiao Mountain, swept the local mountain people and the exiles and refugees and gathered together. Therefore, the new soldiers faced the defeated soldiers, which caused many unexpected situations like opponents.

Xu Yi, the partner who took turns to take charge of the local defense commander, took out a new letter of transfer from the fire seal in person. However, the military order had just been sent from the Eastern Capital, ordering the pair of partners who were in charge of one prefecture and six prefectures in Hezhong to lead dozens of new and old troops stationed in Hezhong to enter Shangdang from the east of Tumen Guandong, Qinzhou, to take over the local situation quickly.

Because, after King Zhao Wang Rong was robbed by the foreign guest Li Siyuan and occupied Daming Prefecture City, with the endless disputes and chaos in the territory of the Chengde Army, nearly 30,000 Zhao troops gathered in Shangdang, it was inevitable that the army would be panicked and everyone would fall back.

As a result, after a series of large-scale fires caused by some unknown reason a few days ago, some Zhao troops in Liaozhou were defeated and scattered on the spot, while some Zhao troops in Luzhou, led by their respective generals, began to retreat to Hebei along Jingxing and Feihu Xing.

Zhang Wenli, the surviving Zhao army general in Zezhou, led the remaining troops (subsidized from the local soldiers of Zhaoyi Army) and took the initiative to surrender to the Taiping Army occupying Hedong. Therefore, this transfer order was to take over the corresponding lands of Liao, Ze and Lu in Shangdang; at the same time, he was waiting for an opportunity to seize Jingxing and Feihu Xing among the eight passes of Taihang.

Originally, this matter should have fallen on the Hedong siege General Ge Congzhou and Deputy General Meng Kai, who is now stationed in Taiyuan, the northern capital, and is responsible for the removal of the former land of Hedong Town. However, because Meng Kai was seriously injured and the poor and the army again in the previous battle, Yang Shihou, deputy general of the Guanbei Dispatch Army, temporarily took responsibility;

Ge Congzhou himself was busy recapturing the Yan army and the collapse of the Yan army, leaving behind a decay of Yunlan, Shuo Daiwei and other Daibei provinces, as well as the important matters of rebuilding and rectifying the defense line of Yanbian Zhuts. Mei Pinghe subdued the remaining vassal tribes of various tribes, so he was futile for a while;

Therefore, after many trade-offs and conflicts from the Grand Governor's Office on the way, the sudden task fell into the newly established Hezhong Guard Defense Zone where the situation had basically stabilized. However, after reading this military order, Meng Juehai couldn't help but ask again:

"Since you and I have to lead troops there, who should take over the situation in the river? Didn't the Governor's Office mention it?"

After all, as an old general of the Great Qi who turned from the Taiping Army under the command of Huang Wang in the later period, although the Grand Commander gave him a special status and lifestyle, according to convention, he could only serve as deputy assistant to cooperate with the senior Taiping Army generals of Miao Zhenggenhong for a long period of testing and identification.

He had never had too many expectations or attempts; but now in Hezhong, the sixteenth and seventeenth military orders compiled by Hedong gave him hope to end the corresponding observation and test period in advance, and he also devoted a lot of effort and energy, which made him a little difficult to give up and give up.

"I'm afraid it's either Su (Wu Ming) Zuo Lang or Wu (Xingchen) Youlang... Even Wang (Chongyin) Shishi Envoy is not impossible."

Xu Yi said meaningfully:

"But, Brother Meng, please listen to me! It's okay to let go of the affairs of the training department for a while; but today, most of them are stable, and you will see that the opportunity to defeat the enemy on the battlefield will only be less and less in the future. I hope you and I will continue to work together and seize this fighter opportunity."

"Thank you for your advice, I'll save myself..."

Meng Juehai, who described the rude and generous, immediately thanked him:

In the Pinglu Army thousands of miles away, Penglai Outer Port near Dengzhou Prefecture City, which had just opened the city and left for a short time, a team of people arrived with bare hands slowly drove into the temporary camp; thus joining the batch sequence of local people who were waiting to board the ship and go to the Liaodong Peninsula to the sea.

Seeing the scene of Yuzhi entering the camp, Wang Qiu, the deputy commander in charge of escorting the team, secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He is now a family, so under the care of the women at home, his waist, which had already lost weight, has developed towards the direction of Xiaopang again: so he sought this opportunity to make money to support his family and to live a better life.

Then after completely sealing the camp and closing the door, he shouted to the military officer who came to collect the heads:

"After the order of the governor's office, he led the 83rd Battalion of the temporary organization. When he set out from the Yanzhou organization and management area, he fell and was injured and left six people. Among them, he fled and fell behind, and there were 885 people who actually arrived at Penglai Port. Please check it clearly."

After the point checked the heads, several large carts were dragging the prepared cakes into the camp. These bare-handed soldiers who seemed to be silent and silent couldn't help but feel a little turbulent and noisy when they saw this. However, under the deterrence and patrol of the gun-carrying soldiers on the wardrobe and the arrow tower, order was quickly restored.

Then, starting with these large carts, according to the names of each team temporarily compiled, the team came up from the head of the team under the call of Wang Qiu, and took turns to carry the baskets filled with big cakes and the buckets filled with thick hot soup back; then distributed them around them and swallowed them in big mouthfuls.

They were the first batch of "volunteers" (tests) who were willing to go to other places in response to the latest "Responsibility Order" of the Grand Commander's Office and recruited and selected from many former surrendered soldiers of Taining Army. Therefore, on the Liaodong Peninsula, Duli Port (near Lushun), which was part of the former Anton Protectorate Xiajili Prefecture (now near Lushun), was only their first stop to go to sea.

After they were responsible for fighting the front station, they would continue to use this as a springboard to create and expand the port city, and would transport more new troops from Zhongtu City to the territory of Silla, south of the Datong River, through two lines of sea and land, to serve as a support for the current garrison.

Although the organization and labor force have only been more than a month, it cannot erase the old military imprints and many habits contained in these surrendered soldiers; it is enough to cultivate basic obedience and discipline among them, as well as a sense of awe for the Taiping Army regime.

Therefore, in the midst of the sound of eating, some people could not help but want to take more, or rely on their identity to deduct other people's share, or try to hide them privately; then they would be pointed out by sharp-eyed soldiers patrolling the walls on the spot, and they would break into the open space, revealing their backs to perform the whip.

Then, with the familiar whistle sounded again, the soldiers who had just eaten half full but were still a little unsatisfied, got up from the ground of the group to pile up the food utensils, and cleaned up the ground that had become messy because of eating, and then lined up dozens of queues.

Not long after, a crisp bell rang in the port, and the temporarily established camps also opened with the doors. Under the supervision and escort of Taiping Sergeants holding guns and swords, teams of bare hands came out, and under the guidance of the flag, they walked through the trestle bridges and the docks of the port city, and boarded one gently floating sea boat after another.

When these bare-handed soldiers boarded the ship went down the warehouse one by one, the more than a dozen Taiping soldiers in charge of the custody on the ship would close the door panels and use thick partitions to block the cramped cabins that were crowded with people one by one, and then a seal full of quantity and required materials was posted, leaving only two grid windows on the deck as outlets for breathability and hanging to deliver food.

Then after the waves rushing for a day and a night of sailing, these ships recruited on site will dock at Duli Port, which has been occupied by the Taiping Navy; and releasing these passengers in the cabin during the short voyage, because human vomit and excrement are mixed together.

Then, here they will be stripped of their clothes, then thrown into the fire and make a sound of various lice and fleas burning. They will drive them into the camp where hot water is boiled, and do a round of personal hygiene and removal of excess hair and beard, and then they will undoubtedly undergo a physical health examination.

Any old accumulated injuries, infection with wind-cold, paralysis and skin diseases will be detained, and not dealt with. The remaining people will be re-shrunk into corresponding team fires, and eventually become three regiments, about eleven brigades and thirty-three teams, totaling 756 posts.

At this time, many flat-panel trucks were pushed in again in the outside room. This time, the car was piled with bundles of gray robes with burrs and stacked felt hats with ears; and pairs of steps installed in boxes, which tightly covered the whole body of these soldiers.
Chapter completed!