Three days later, Chu Yan returned to Heishan Village with his men. Although he returned from a big victory, he was still tied up by Huo Hai's order at the first time.

Sixty-seventh military sticks cannot be missed, and every stroke must be beaten.

Regarding this kind of disposal method that is not good or bad, most of the soldiers who watched the execution expressed their discomfort, but Chu Yan, who handed over the ashes of the fallen brothers to their families, felt that he should indeed be beaten.

During this expedition, the 16 generals were not responsible for the rushing battle, but there were 67 people who died in normal battles. It was because Chu Yan did not lead his subordinates to evacuate according to the tactics formulated and fell into the enemy camp. This was his responsibility.

According to the principle that the Black Mountain Army should ensure the safety of life, he should actually give up carefully searching for the generals' tents and evacuate quickly.

Unfortunately, he only saw the serious consequences that might have been caused after the equipment was outflowed, but he did not expect that doing so would put more people in danger and would have caused more equipment to flow out.

If Zhang Ning hadn't thought of a solution and risked saving him, the two brigades he led might have been wiped out.

He felt guilty about this.

In order to establish a model for all generals who abide by military discipline, starting with a master general like Chu Yan is the most effective.

In the future, all generals cannot take the life of any soldier as a joke and take risks with them.

What the Heishan Army wants is not a general who has achieved success, but a person who wants everyone to enjoy peace alive. This purpose was erected in the army after Chu Yan's back was fuzzy and bloody.

With the return of the Heishan Army, the dark clouds gathered above the Heishan Mountain gradually dissipated. Huo Hai, who had eaten the whole silver carp, moved from the lake island to Heishan Village to start his normal office.

In the conference hall built along the mountain with brick and tile structures, military generals in armor and strategists in scholars robes sat in two long rows.

Among them, the military generals, led by Chu Yan, Wang Dang and Du Chang, led the cavalry, infantry, and baggage transport troops of the Heishan Army respectively.

Below were Zhang Baiqi, Guo Daxian, Yu Digen, Liu Shi, Zhu Sheng, Lin San, Zhao Chong and others, with intermediate generals responsible for military affairs in a certain aspect, as well as brigade commanders of more than 100 people in each battalion.

As for the counselors and clerks, they were led by Guo Tu, including Zhen Shou, Zhen Feng, Zhen Li, Guo Ling, Guo Chun, Zhang Feng, Zhang Kun, Su Ming and Su Li from the Su family, and more than 30 people in charge of government affairs management work for more than a thousand households.

Although Zhang Ning and Chu Yu did not participate in military and political affairs on the surface, they both assisted in military and political affairs. Now, they are wearing casual clothes and serving on both sides of Huo Hai in the main seat.

In addition, behind Huo Hai's desk, there was an old Taoist sitting with his eyes closed, that was Yu Ji.

"This time, the Flying Cavalry was dispatched, and Dong Zhuo's troops were defeated in one battle, and countless people were seized and demonstrated to the world the strength of our Black Mountain Army. All the soldiers were rewarded. The young master gave the Flying Cavalry a monthly meal with thirty pigs and sheep, 100 poultry, and 100 stones of live fruits, fish and eggs.

In addition, each person will be rewarded with 3,000 yuan and 5 horses. The generals will start from the sergeant, and add 20% to each level." Zhang Ning first read Huo Hai's reward for the battle of the Qifengqi.

But even though hundreds of people only add such a little food and drink in a month, it is actually very good, because the original food of Jifengqi is relatively high. Not only does it take full advantage, but it also has meat to eat every now and then. After adding this, they can almost see meat and fish in their meals.

In an era when livestock and poultry were raised without puffed feed, no one dared to give such good food to a built-in army.

Besides eating, each of them had three thousand coins and five bushs each. This was a treatment that the soldiers of the court won the victory, especially for officers, who could get 3,600 coins and six bushs at the level of the sergeant. At the level of the camp, the rewards were doubled.

When all the food, clothing and expenses are distributed uniformly by the copycat, they are the first group of people who own private property in Heishan Village. Although these money and fabrics are not much, they will definitely make their lives much better than ordinary people.

After Zhang Ning finished reading, Huo Hai said, "This time, the Wind Cavalry lost nearly 20%, and more than half of the wounded were injured. New recruits urgently need to be added. The new round of enlistment selection starts tomorrow, with a maximum number of 500. Regardless of training costs, I will see a mature cavalry team with a total number of more than 800 people within three months.

In addition, the number of infantry personnel will also expand to 6,000 again, ensuring that the six village gates in Heishan Village are guarded by at least one thousand professional warriors.

Moreover, the six thousand I said is the number of infantrymen except archers.

From tomorrow, crossbowmen will also be selected, with the same number of people as 6,000, including 3,000 archers and 3,000 crossbowmen.

Also regardless of training costs, we are required to become a full-time elite within three months.

The expansion of each army should be selected, the salary of new officers should be added, and the expenses for subsequent resettlement and guarantee shall be budgeted by the Logistics Department."

After hearing Huo Hai's words, everyone on the side of the military general was happy. Heishanzhai, which has a population of nearly 2 million, was finally about to expand its army on a large scale.

This time, not only did the number of cavalry directly increased by 500 times, but the number of infantry and archers increased several times. Now the opportunity for those in the mountain village to practice their skills but did not join the Black Mountain Army has come.

The selection rate of nearly one-two percent is destined to be elite soldiers.

The reason why Huo Hai started to expand his army on a large scale after nearly ten months was that it was because in this way, veterans of sufficient quantity and quality could lead new recruits as grassroots officers, and the other was because of the possible changes in the situation.

In fact, he didn't have three months to train these soldiers, because he was not sure that the two brothers Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang could block Huangfu Song, who had already met with Cao Cao in Wei County.

You should know that after joining Cao Cao, Huangfu Song could command more than 50,000 troops. Moreover, most of these 50,000 soldiers were veterans with experience in winning battles. They had the support of the gentry from all over the country, had excellent weapons and equipment, consistent dispatch orders, sufficient logistics supplies, and very high morale.

The most important thing is that there are many powerful generals among them. Not only did Liu Guan and Zhang Bao’s two generals, Cheng Zhiyuan and Deng Mao, who were killed in Quyang, have passed, but Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He and Gao Lan, who have been known as the Four Courts of Hebei in the future, are all there. When they meet them, it is almost impossible for the Qifeng Cavalry to re-enact the tactics under Handan City.

Because, a powerful general whose internal strength reaches its peak only needs a fast horse to rush into the camp of the Wind Cavalry. Not to mention cutting melons and vegetables, it can at least cause huge damage to the soldiers. It is not impossible to entangle the brigade and directly reverse the situation of the battle.

Only when Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao hold on for about three months can he collect all the harvest of fields near Heishan into the village. Without this grain, the nearly two million people in Heishan Village will not be able to survive this winter.

This is also the reason why he chose to send the Qifeng Cavalry to dispatch. If Huangfu Song had too many troops, Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao would be defeated faster. He would have no time to collect food when he needed to retreat.

"As such a large-scale conscription, our supply of money, food, weapons and armor is tight, and the surplus grain in the village is less than two months' expense. If we want to survive the autumn harvest, our daily foster consumption may be reduced by half." Guo Tu said to Huo Haidao in a dilemma.

This year, the grain in the fields around Montenegro is a rush to plant. Most fields are planted more than half a month later than the normal year. Correspondingly, the harvest time may be delayed a little, at least until mid-August. This is the pitiful place for the original crops, and the growth cycle is too slow.

"We cannot solve the problem of food shortage in one or two years. In addition to reducing waste as much as possible, what we should do is open source. As the saying goes, rely on mountains to eat mountains and water to eat water, but for nearly two million people, the quantity of mountains and water needs to be very large to be possible.

There are Taihang Mountains that are so close to us. But even in Taihang Mountains, only well-equipped young and strong teams can barely fill their stomachs by picking and hunting. This is obviously not cost-effective.

So, my idea is to go to sea. I heard that the Zhen Guo family had many ships that could go to sea from the Yellow River waterway. They were usually used to transport grain. Now, because there are wars everywhere and trade has stagnated and idle, I plan to install some marine fishing equipment on these ships and convert them into fishing boats. In the way old boatmen lead new boatmen, a group of teams that can fish for us at sea for a long time." Huo Hai explained to everyone.

“Go to sea?”

After hearing what Huo Hai said, the civil servants and military generals from the Zhen Guo family were both stunned and frowned.

People in this era are more afraid of the ocean, because there will be strong winds that easily overturn ships, and there are many big fish that can use their tails to smash wooden ships.

"The sea is not that easy to come out. Not to mention the strong winds and high waves on the sea, it is difficult for large ships to sail through the monsoon without carrying heavy cargo. Even those fish monsters are not comparable to human power.

Remember the big fish you killed in the algae pond a few days ago! In the sea, there are many big fish monsters that are ten times stronger than that fish, and their attack methods are endless. Even if you are a master with the peak of internal strength, you will die and die when you encounter these fish monsters. If you organize people to go out to sea to catch fish on a large scale, and break into the territory of these fish monsters, or even the fish monsters, you may be wiped out." Yu Ji smiled and shook his head.

"Is it so scary?" Huo Hai looked at Yu Ji with some confusion.

Yu Ji explained to Huo Hai, "There is a fish bone temple in Zhangwu County. The roof of that temple is made of the bones of a big fish. The size of that temple should be no smaller than your conference hall."

Huo Hai looked up at the dozens of meters long roof in the hall and thought to himself: Could it be that there are still hundreds of tons of big fish in this world?

However, when you think that silver carp can grow up to a thousand pounds, it seems that there are hundreds of tons of sea fish.

"If it's not good for the far sea, let's salvage some seaweed, kelp, shrimp, and crabs in the near sea! There should be a lot of those things, most of which are very conducive to storage after being dried, and the nutritional value is also very high." Huo Hai did not want to give up.

In later generations, there was a saying that one acre of sea and ten acres of land was because the ocean was three-dimensional, flowing, and the economic value of output was usually ten times higher than that of the field.

In this era, marine life should be far more than later generations. In other words, there will be more high-calorie foods available for people to eat. As long as you find a way, it will not be impossible to satisfy the consumption of just a few million people.

After all, there were tens of millions of people living along the coast in later generations relying on marine resources!
Chapter completed!