On the New Year's Day, the first day of the first lunar month, a festive day. For the people of the world, we must celebrate the arrival of the New Year anyway, and for the Mai Tiebang, we must celebrate it even more.

Walking in Shixing City, looking at the familiar street scenes and listening to the familiar hometown dialect, Mai Tiezhang felt very happy. Of course, what was even happier was that after Zhou Jun entered the city, he was indeed disciplined and did not burn, kill, loot, and so on for three days without a knife.

He was from Shixing, but he was not born in the city. The Mai clans lived in the countryside so they would not be affected by the war. However, when he was a teenager, he followed his friends to the city to make a living. After joining the gang as a robber, he often came to the city for a walk, so Shixing City was half of his hometown.

It is certainly not good to be a robber, so now the Mai Tie Staff, which is inspiring to make achievements and glorify his family, can save Shixing's half of his hometown from military disasters. He is quite happy and it is not in vain that he entered the city as an envoy of the Zhou army and persuaded him to surrender and took the risk of his journey.

"Oh, I said Lao Mai, you landlord don't invite everyone to drink some wine, it's not so good!" The military leader Li Shimo shouted, and the soldiers beside him kept cheering: "Please drink, drink!"

Mai Tiezhang felt a little embarrassed when he heard this: "I'm short of money. I will return to Xiyang another day, so I will definitely invite everyone to drink!"

"Xiyang? God knows when to return to Xiyang. I said that Lingnan is so beautiful, so why not go to Guangzhou. You can make an easter and invite everyone to have a good meal. At least you know what Lingnan food tastes, right?"

A group of people were talking lively. Liu Boer, the commander of the street patrol, turned to the intersection. Seeing the scene in full swing, he shouted seriously: "Everyone with red faces, are they drinking? No drinking is allowed during duty!!"

"We have not drunk any wine, and we don't believe it and smell it."

"Whoever smells bad will be unlucky!" Liu Boer pinched his nose and looked at the pedestrians hiding on the street, and said seriously: "Don't have orders, don't disturb the people. If you chat, don't make noise, so that the people will think you are discussing which little lady to harm!"

"Tongjun, why are we like bad people? We patrol the streets during the Chinese New Year, so we can't say we'll have to make up our minds, right?"

"Old Li, take good care of your army's soldiers, especially you, don't smile at the people, otherwise you will look like a cave owner who is specifically used to harm the people..."

Everyone laughed secretly when they heard this. Li Shimo spread his hands and led the guards to another place to investigate. In order to avoid his subordinates not defending military discipline, the Hulin Army stationed in the city, the military leaders had to inspect the areas under their jurisdiction from time to time, guarding against soldiers to harm the people.

"Lao Mai, how are the people in the city?"

After hearing Liu Boer's question, Mai Tiezhang answered truthfully: "You can't say that you are happy and eat and drink, but the army entered the city yesterday without any offense. The people at least feel at ease."

"No one in our army understands the dialect here. You can find a few reliable locals to help you with the public, otherwise it would be bad if you make a misunderstanding. Although the king is in Yuzhang, he still attaches great importance to the military discipline of the government and the military. Our Hulin Army cannot violate the military law."

"I understand, but the people in the city don't know how long the government army can stay. If they come out to help with things, the government army will withdraw in the future and Chen's army will come again, and they will be afraid of being liquidated."

"It's okay, Qujiang is almost finished. When the good news comes, the people will definitely believe that this is the beginning of the show, and from then on, the Great Zhou rule will be under the rule of the Great Zhou!"

At the end of Shixing City, Yi and Xie Liangdou were patrolling the city. As a subordinate of the marching commander Yang Ji, he was originally affiliated with the military office, but he was just a temporary marching commander of the Lingnan Road. He and some generals were under the command of the marching commander Yang Ji, but this was nothing, because everyone was a comrade.

"Xie Yitong!"

The sentries saluted Xie Liangdou. They were all soldiers of the Hulin Army. Although they were nominally not affiliated with the Lingnan Road marching soldiers such as Xie Liangdou, they were actually related.

"How about it, how many jars of wine did I drink yesterday?"

"Where is the military discipline? If you have to keep a watch today, everyone can only drink..."

"Three bowls of wine!" Xie Liangdou told the military discipline. As a veteran from the Hulin Army, he was of course very familiar with the military discipline of the Hulin Army. Looking at the juniors in front of him, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.

In eight years, Xie Liangdou went from a landless farmer who could not eat enough to become the current general Xie Liangdou, Xie Liangdou, which changed the fate of him and many people, and now it is also changing the fate of young soldiers.

Looking at a soldier with wounded face, he asked, "I remember you, your name is Zhang Dinghe, this year... Uh, it's New Year now, you're the recruit from last year, right?"

"Yes, General."

"You are very brave, but I can see clearly that it is not wrong to be brave, but don't be too reckless."

"Thank you for your reminder, General."

After saluting, Zhang Dinghe replied that when he broke through the Chenjun camp in Dayuling a few days ago, he was the first to cross the camp and cut down three Chen soldiers in a row, and was almost stabbed in the face by the enemy's spear.

Fortunately, my comrade pulled him apart, avoiding the fatal blow but hurt his cheek. Fortunately, the wound was not deep and there would be no scar left.

"Although the government army has taken Shixing, everyone should not be careless. Beware of the local chiefs' fishing in troubled waters, especially at night, don't be touched by others, and don't even know how they die!"

"Yes, General!"

The Hulin Army was recruited by King Yuwen Wen of Xiyang. In fact, it was a private soldier similar to the army. It was said that the generals of the official army were not qualified to be managed. However, the young soldiers of the Hulin Army knew that many of the official army generals were their predecessors, so the atmosphere was harmonious with each other.

Everyone has their own roots, and it is precisely for this reason that Yang Ji, the marching general, broke through Dayu Ridge as the vanguard. The King of Xiyang specially sent the Hulin Army to accompany him and ordered the marching general, Murong Sanzang, to go south together.

The two marching generals were on the same level as each other, while the King of Xiyang took Yang Ji as the chief, Murong Sanzang as the deputy, and Hulin Army as the auxiliary, and obeyed Yang Ji's orders. This arrangement was to allow Yang Ji to lead the elite troops to gain a foothold south of Dayuling and give everyone the opportunity to make military achievements.

Last year, the newly recruited recruit Mai Tiezhang was a native of Shixing and was a robber who blocked the road and robbed the terrain. He was very familiar with the terrain in this area. So after learning about the terrain in detail, Yang Ji made a series of strategies and finally defeated Chen's army and broke through Dayu Ridge and entered Shixing City.

While talking, the sound of trumpets came from outside the city. Everyone looked in the sound, but saw a large number of wooden boats carrying soldiers downstream on the waters of Hengpu in the suburbs of the city.

"Are these ships that are temporarily rushing to work?

"What's wrong? I tell you that we were on the banks of the Hengpu Water that day, we built a dam with tens of thousands of cloth bags of sand and gravel. We successfully stored water in the evening that day, and then we flooded the downstream in the early morning. These ships just need to reach the downstream Qujiang."

The official army is about to attack Qujiang, the commander of Donghengzhou Prefecture, downstream of Hengpu. As long as it is conquered, the Chen army in Lingnan will be powerless. Wait until the main force of the Lingnan Road march crosses Dayu Ridge, and takes a boat down the Qujiang River, and takes Guangzhou like taking a bag.

Zhang Dinghe held the wall and looked at the fleet on the river. He couldn't help but remember something he knew when he was studying.

In the fifth year of Yuanding in the Western Han Dynasty, the Han army attacked the Nanyue Kingdom. On the way, they used Yang Pu, the commander of the commander, as the general of the Louchuan. They went out of Yuzhang and went up the river to the Dayu Ridge. After crossing the mountains on foot, the army arrived at the current Jiudu area.

Yang Pu set up a camp to build a ship in the Jiudu area. In winter, the entire army took hundreds of boats and went down the Hengpu River to attack Nanyue.

Today, hundreds of years later, the Zhou army followed the same route and was about to take a boat down the Hengpu River to attack the Chen army who retreated to Qujiang. Although the temporary ships were not as majestic as tall tower ships, the soldiers above were also brave and good at fighting.
Chapter completed!