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Chapter 38 The First Site

The flag is the symbol of an army and is very important. In particular, many soldiers in ancient times were illiterate, especially in a chaotic battlefield, so they could only distinguish enemies and friends by the pattern and color of the flag and the style and color of the military uniform.

In Qi Jiguang's military books, there are very detailed descriptions and settings for the flags, and there are many various flags.

Liu Jun had asked the Lu family to make a batch of flags, and the nine-headed bird flag was the flag of their horse team. It was six feet long, with edges on the oblique angle, and the pheasant tail on the flagpole was 10 feet high.

In addition to this nine-headed bird team flag, Liu Jun also customized a batch of flags.

First, the Bai Zong recognized one side of the flag, two feet square, with the edges of the oblique angle, and the spear head of the pole, nine feet long, with the two big words Zhenyong written on it. This is Li Chunjiang's flag, which is his handsome flag.

Then, below the hundred generals, three flags on the left, middle and right, the three flags are no longer qualified to use the flag to recognize the flag. According to Qi Jiguang's setting, the flag is the flag with the back, and a small flag is inserted on the back. The flag is two feet and five inches long and three feet and six inches long.

Further down, the team could not carry the flag on their backs, but instead set the flag on their helmet. The team's helmet flag was six inches long, much smaller than the flag on their backs, and the team's numbers were stated on it.

Ordinary soldiers have tassels on their helmets, but no flags.

The settings of various flags are quite clear.

The whole team has a nine-headed birds flag, the hundred-headed general Li Chunjiang has a Zhenwu flag, while the three generals of Liu Jun have a small back flag on their backs, and the six generals of the combat troops below have a small helmet flag on the top of their helmets, and ordinary soldiers have gray tassels and no helmet flags. The ranks are clear, and they are clear on the top and bottom.

Li Chunjiang handed over the team flag and the two servants who recognized the flag to their two servants and asked them to raise the flag in front. Then he, Liu Jun and the flag manager of the Zhongqi, inserted the small back flag on his back. Before the team leaders had got the helmet, they put the helmet flag on their hats.

"Target Queen City, set off!" Li Chunjiang was full of energy, pulled out the sword he was carrying around his waist and pointed forward. The team formed according to the team and slowly walked out of the city.

Four people were in a row, one in a row, three in a row. In the rhythm of the drum beats of the Central Flag drummer, the more than a hundred people walked like alike.

It took fifty miles to walk along the way for most of the day. Every half hour, the team had to stop and rest and reorganize. In the afternoon, the team finally arrived at Queen's City.

It was already afternoon, and everyone was marching under the scorching sun, and it was almost peeling off in the early sun. Even Li Chunjiang was a little listless at this time. Everyone thought about arriving at the station early and filling the cool well water well.

The earthen walls of the Queen's City were in sight, but a large group of people were waiting to greet them.

"Yuancheng, go and see what's going on?" Liu Jun called Zhu Yuancheng, the Thirteenth Grandmaster. He was arranged to stop the team at Zhongqi Yebu and temporarily acted as a sergeant.

"Yes!" Zhu Yuancheng rushed over there after a while, and rushed back, with a few horse riding people around him.

"Report to the Banner General, there are the elders of Queen City Market Town, as well as the rich gentry and businessmen waiting for our team to arrive. These are the gentry of Queen City, Mr. Zhang, Mr. Liu, and others."

As soon as Zhu Yuancheng finished speaking, the gentry riding over horses had already fallen off the horse. He bowed and smiled at Li Chunjiang, "Oh, Mr. Chunjiang led a team to come. We are late to welcome him, but we are late to welcome him." He said that, and then introduced himself, "Three years ago, Mr. Chunjiang's high school entrance examination, and I also went to the Li family to congratulate him on behalf of the gentry in Queen City. That time, Mr. Chunjiang gave me a pair of calligraphy. It was really a good word. It is still hanging in my study. It will be passed on as a heirloom in the future."

Li Chunjiang looked at the Seng Seng Zhang carefully for a few glances, but he still didn't remember who he was. He smiled casually and said, "So it's Seng Zhang."

The few people made a few remarks, and then the team followed Zhang Xiangshen into the city.

At the gate of Tucheng, Li Chunjiang and Liu Jun, as the leaders of the horse team, had to say some kind words with these local gentry and businessmen.

Liu Jun could see that these gentry and businessmen in the Queen City did not sincerely welcome their arrival, or half of them were afraid of them. He said that they were welcome, of course, because the thieves are becoming more and more powerful now, especially after Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai rebelled again in the area of ​​Junzhou, Gucheng, this wealthy rural town of Queen City was inevitably a little scared. It was very wealthy, with many shops, but there was only one earthen wall and there was not even a guard.

Now that Li Chunjiang has brought a whole hundred village warriors here to garrison, it is naturally a good thing for the gentry.

But there are also concerns, and the concern is that these rural heroes are oversupply at that time. If the soldiers are like robbers, they will just invite wolves into the house. However, the rural heroes' entry is not allowed to be agreed. This is what Mei Zhihuan means, and the county also agrees. Now they can only hope that Mr. Chunjiang, Mr. Jie Yuan, can be different from ordinary officers.

Li Chunjiang took out the handwritten letters of the magistrate Lu Jinxi and the tuan Mei Zhihuan of Baoxiangbao Township, and said to Zhang Xiangshen and others, "When Li Chunjiang is ordered by Lu County and Gong Mei to lead the horse team to the Queen's City. From now on, I would like to ask all the local gentry to take care of him."

They were just township heroes, and they had no appointment letters or transfers. Therefore, the letters from Lu Magistrate Lu and Mei Zhihuan represent their entry and transfer order.

Zhang Xiangsen was the official recommendation of local gentry merchants. He took the letter and just glanced casually, which was completed, and then said very flatteringly, "We have already learned about this matter that it is our honor to send Mr. Chunjiang and Mr. Jiye to the leader of Mr. Chunjiang. Now there is no peace everywhere, either thieves or bandits. With the two young masters in Queen City, the horse team leader is stationed by the horse team, so we don't have to worry about these clowns in the future."

Another senator Liu also stood up, "Yes, we were all very happy when we heard that you were coming. In the past few days, a place had been opened. It turned out to be a weaving workshop, with a large area, with more than a dozen houses and several large empty spaces. It was just north of the city, next to the city gate, and it was just right for more than a hundred towns to guard more than a hundred towns."

As he said that, Liu Xiangsen got up and took out a contract, "We have worked together to buy this property contract. Now I will give it to the two young men, which is some of our meeting gifts."

The Seng Seng Zhao also stood up, waved his hand, and the two servants raised a box. When they opened it, it was shining with silver.

"This is the common wish of my queen urban and rural gentry and businessmen. The amount is not large, only one thousand taels of silver, I hope to accept it with a smile."

Li Chunjiang was still refusing, but Liu Jun had already stood up and said bluntly, "Since it is the kindness of the villagers and the people, then Liu would like to thank Mr. Chunjiang and the brothers of the township team."

Seeing this, Li Chunjiang had to laugh and stop saying anything more.

One move was to have a property and a thousand taels of silver, which made Liu Jun feel that this Queen City was still very rich, and secondly, they were also afraid of them.

"After accepting such a generous gift from the villagers, I, Liu, promised everyone here that we are the village heroes and the soldiers guarding the hometown. In the future, we will live in harmony with everyone and will never allow the village heroes to bully the people. If there is something illegal about the village heroes, you can come to me, Liu, at any time, and I will definitely give you an explanation."

"The words are heavy, the words are heavy." The gentry said quickly, but Liu Jun could see that they had obviously relaxed after hearing what he said.

"In the future, our hometown heroes will have to rely more on the villagers and elders."

"Don't stand here and talk." Zhang Xiangshen also gave it to him, and the first meeting was pretty good. "We have prepared a banquet at Yuedonglai Restaurant in the east of the city to welcome the brothers of the village. Please, two young masters."

"please!"

On that day, local gentry, wealthy businessmen and scholars in the Queen City held a banquet in the city to welcome Liu Jun and his party. The banquet was very good, with each table worth five taels of silver, and each table was equivalent to buying two pigs or a little maid.

After eating for most of the day, the meal finally ended up being full and full. Zhang Xiangsen personally took Liu Jun and his party to the camp they prepared for the village heroes.

As soon as he entered, Liu Jun was very satisfied with the barracks.

This was originally a workshop or a textile factory. Not to mention, the space was huge. A circle of two meters high walls surrounded a large area, with more than a dozen tile houses in it, including horse sheds, unwells, wood, kitchens, etc. There were even two large empty yards, which could be used as playgrounds.

He roughly estimated that it would have to be at least thirty acres of land, at least as big as three football fields. This is a town like Queen City. If it were in Macheng County, such a large area, even if it was an open land, it would probably not be cheap.

Now that we have such a suitable barracks, it will save a lot of trouble. Once the weapons arrive, they can really practice.

"This is our territory." Liu Jun said to Li Chunjiang with a smile.

"Well, our territory." Li Chunjiang also looked excited.

"When will the horses be delivered?"

"I will be delivered tomorrow. I have prepared 120 horses, all of which are good horses." Li Chunjiang said proudly. In Macheng, who can get 120 high-quality horses in a short time like him? Last time, each family sent a total of 46 horses, and Li Chunjiang brought 74 more horses in the past two days. So many horses are enough for them to use the Three Banners now.

"Then I will arrange for people to clean up the horse shed first and then buy some horse grass and horse materials. In addition, they have to clean up the barracks. The waste here is dead and there is no time to clean up. In addition, since this is already our resident barracks, from now on, we have to start arranging posts and sending people to patrol. No one in our team's township is allowed to enter at will."

"In addition, without our warrant, the village warriors in the camp are not allowed to leave the camp without authorization."

"Will it be too strict?" Li Chunjiang asked.

"Although we are rural brave men, we are no longer ordinary people. Since we are troops, we must have strict discipline and everything must be followed by military regulations."

"What are our military regulations?"

"It has not been drafted yet, but within three days I will formulate regulations, systems and regulations to promulgate and implement them. Without rules, there will be no order." Liu Jun insisted.
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