stubborn thief

Chapter 129 Joint Venture
The war is temporarily over.

During these days, Shangtianhou was stationed at Xingzihe Wangzhuang, and he was not idle at all. Relying on the map in Liu Shizi's hand, he visited several big households in Ansai and Fushi counties one after another.

However, the last few times they went out, the Heavenly Monkey cooperated with the Lion Camp.

After selecting the target, the lion battalion dispatched a head post to lead the post, plus four or five hundred-man teams from the Tianhou Division, and headed out in a mighty way.

Shang Tian Hou was worried about his subordinates, and followed him out every time, but he felt a little strange after going out to see too much.

Every time Liu Chengzong sent a chief whistler under his command, these several times the chief whistler took turns to act. Not only did Shangtian Monkey get to know the chief whistler of the Lion Camp thoroughly, but he also had a clear understanding of the organizational structure.

Except for Liu Chengyun, who belonged to the heavy sentry camp, even Wei Qian'er of the Tangqi team, and Han Shipan of the Jiading team, all went out once.

Especially Cao Yao, who belongs to the artillery post of the battalion, with twenty small cannons placed in a row outside the soil fence, which left a deep impression on the Monkey King.

The operation went very smoothly, but the Heavenly Monkey was not sure of Liu Chengzong's intentions.

The good thing about this castle is that it hasn't been repaired, so Liu Chengzong can continue to repair it according to his own ideas.

There is an [-]-step shooting range outside the fort, and now the stonemason has made some hard-working stone locks, but there is indeed a lack of flat land on the mountain. In the future, military training can't be counted on this fort, and we still have to find a way from the flat land in the river valley.

Shang Tian Hou couldn't hold back his doubts. When he came to find Liu Chengzong, he was playing with stone locks outside the fort.

Chengyun was holding a thirty-jin light bow to shoot arrows beside him. The target was stuck thirty steps away.

Seeing that Director Mei was bored, he lay his head on Xiao Zuanfeng's belly to bask in the sun.

I haven't showered for more than half a month, and I still run outside all day, and the monkey is dirty again.

He didn't know how to exchange pleasantries, so he ran up with a dice in his arms and a flagon: "Hey, is the general practicing?"

Liu Chengzong was shirtless, his tendon and flesh glistening in the sun with sweat, and he lifted two hundred catties of bluestone to his chest with all his strength.

First turned to the left, then turned to the right, halfway through the turn, the hand slipped, and at the same time as the stone fell to the foot, the body took a step back to avoid it.

When the boulder fell to the ground, Liu Chengzong sat down on the bluestone with his hands shaking, and asked, "Why did you go up the mountain?"

The Heavenly Monkey swallowed his saliva while looking at the big rock, shook the jug in his hand and said, "General, have a drink?"

What are you going to do if you call the big brother out?

Liu Chengzong waved his hand, he was so tired that he yawned, took off the plain cloth around his waist, wiped his sweat and said, "Drink, what do you want from me?"

Hey, to be so straightforward, Shang Tian Hou couldn't react a little bit, he thought a lot of words, and he had already made up his brains after a small drink.

He scratched his messy head, and simply sat down on a smaller stone lock beside him and said, "General, I want to ask you, what is your plan for so many of my brothers? You can't all stay here for the winter, can you?"

After all, Shang Tianhou pursed his lips and said, "You let several whistle chiefs take my people out in turn, do you want...to let me reduce my manpower and become a whistle chief?"

In fact, Shangtian Monkey has some premonitions about this aspect, but he is not sure.

He understood the composition of the lion camp's troops, postmen, shopkeepers, guards, deserters, surrendered soldiers, and few hungry people.

It's just another group of officers and soldiers, all with big shoulders and round waists, all armored mules are complete, and only one horse is sent.

Even if he has streamlined more than 2000 people under his command, he may not be able to pick out [-] soldiers who meet Liu Chengzong's requirements.

In fact, until now, Shangtian Monkey is still worried about the more than 200 sets of various armors from Liuguo Town.

I didn't have this thing before, just look at Liu Chengzong's subordinates wearing armor and looking majestic.

He really got it in his own hands, except for dozens of pieces of crotch armor covering the front and back, and the battle jacket lacking armor pieces, the other armors are too heavy for his men.

If you can wear it, don't expect to fight a war if you wear it, and you will be tired and paralyzed after walking two miles.

"Chief whistle? There is no need to reduce manpower."

Liu Chengzong wiped off the sweat on his body, got up and put on his clothes, then sat back and said: "For more than ten days, you have also seen my people, and several sentry chiefs have also seen your people. I plan to cooperate with you. You How do you feel?"

It really is a joint venture.

Shang Tian Hou nodded without showing obvious rejection, but he was still very puzzled: "If we don't streamline, then our combined army will have more than 4000 people."

"I'll get you...forget it."

Liu Chengzong nodded, originally wanted to go into Baozi to get his preparations for the Lion Camp, but then he thought that the monkey could not read, so he simply explained to him: "You will be my deputy general, the frontier soldiers will be soldiers, and your people will be assistants." Soldiers, supplies, engineers."

"In terms of establishment, there are 500 people in the middle sentinel, and the head of the sentry is appointed by you, and the others are broken up and divided into each sentry, so that the five sentries can go out to find places to garrison troops. In Wangzhuang, we have two teams of Dingtang cavalry and battalion workers. Sentinels are easy to feed."

Liu Chengzong thought it over, even if he joined forces, he would be divided.

Xingzihe Wangzhuang itself has many households, and more than 4000 of them live here. Even with the recently robbed grain, it is difficult to survive this winter, not to mention the difficulty of transporting grain farther away.

On the contrary, Wushao spread out and stationed on several hilltops around each other, and set up camps on the hills at intervals of ten or twenty miles, which made it easier to graze horses and collect hay.

The Heavenly Monkey thought about it for a while, and was very puzzled.

He is not disgusted with the joint venture, and still feels that Liu Chengzong is very righteous, and even feels more righteous.

To put it simply, whether it is a joint venture or not, since they fought the battle together in the mountains, Shang Tianhou knows very well, and it doesn't matter if he talks about it in the future.

Just go out to fight Tuwei in batches in the past half a month. If the whistle chief of the lion camp starts to pull people, half of them will be gone with a wave of his arms.

Shangtian Monkey has a very clear understanding of himself, and people follow him because he is good for his subordinates.

Among the leaders who joined forces with King Chuang in the past, King Chuang regarded his subordinates as soldiers, Buzhanmu and Hou Tianhou regarded his subordinates as thieves, and he was the only one who regarded his subordinates as people.

After those people died, he was able to dig a relatively decent grave.

But if you compare Liu Chengzong with him... Shang Tianhou is not willing to compare with Liu Chengzong, the choice is very simple, let alone his subordinates, he wants to be Liu Chengzong's subordinates.

Following Liu Chengzong, there is no need to think about digging graves.

It doesn't matter whether you die decently or not. If the Lion Camp is well fed and warmly dressed, it is a decent life.

Puzzled, he said directly: "Why did the general do this?"

"Why did you do that?"

Liu Chengzong was taken aback by Shangtianhou's words, and after thinking for a while, he said, "You mean, what benefits does a joint venture do for me?"

Shangtianhou nodded, but failed to find a reason for Liu Chengzong to include him.

When people do things, they must have plans.

Cooperation is a trivial matter, even if they don't cooperate, he will have to hug Liu Chengzong's thigh if he wants to live in the future.

But he had to know why he cooperated, otherwise he would feel uneasy.

"Of course it's good for me. Your people are good soldiers."

Liu Chengzong smiled but it wasn't a smile. Shang Tian Hou suspected that he heard it wrong. He looked left and right, pointed to his nose and asked, "A good soldier?"

In his impression, the word "good soldier" seems a bit far away from his people.

Whoever is said to be a good soldier cannot say that his person is a good soldier, then he is not a soldier.

"Now I have more than [-] Zhanfu soldiers, less than [-] Pusi soldiers and post soldiers, and [-] young and strong soldiers selected by this Wangzhuang. Other than that, they are all deserters and surrendered. The team has become bigger. "

Liu Chengzong's physical strength has almost recovered, and he stood up and said: "Half of them are surrendered soldiers. They can fight, but their minds are mixed. Even if the Baichang management team is separated from the soldiers, there will always be trouble when they meet each other when they are in the same place; And understaffed."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Xiang Tianhou: "Your people are different. They all listen to you. If they can rush into the army barracks in a team of hundreds, they will not be afraid to retreat if they are injured. If they retreat without leaving, they are already very capable."

This does not necessarily mean that the men of Shangtianhou are much better than the troops of Li Wanqing and Liu Guoneng. If the cannons are approaching, they may not be as good as Liu Guoneng's soldiers.

But the difference is that it saves trouble.

If Liu Chengzong wanted to expand his army by absorbing soldiers from Liu Guoneng and others, he would have to absorb five or six leaders. It would be tiring enough just to figure out what these leaders wanted.

Heavenly Monkey saves trouble, as long as this person's thoughts are taken care of, this matter can be done.

"Before the battle with Li Bei, what was lacking most was time. Elite soldiers are important; now that Li Bei has been captured, Wu Weifan has led his troops back. He received the news that Li Bei's entire army was wiped out, so he may not dare to come to me. I think we will fight again. It may be spring next year, and there may be a four-month respite."

Spring and autumn are the best times to use troops. Summer is too hot and winter is too cold. One who wears armor is prone to heatstroke, and the other is prone to frostbite while marching.

So apart from surprise raids and wars dragging into winter, usually the north rarely fights in winter.

For four months, it can improve the malnutrition of the hungry people, and it can also turn them into ordinary auxiliary soldiers who have some discipline, understand orders, and master certain weapon skills.

"It doesn't matter if your team can't fight, if you can practice, let alone there are women in your team, we need to make military clothes to keep out the cold."

"I will handle it."

Shang Tian Hou became bold, and took the matter away with a pat on his chest: "There are cotton cloths in the fort, so this matter is not a problem, but the post chief is appointed by the general. My people don't know how to lead troops, and the joint venture is all arranged by the general."

Liu Chengzong could feel that Shangtian Monkey was actually quite inferior. He said: "It's okay. After the joint venture, I plan to draw [-] literate people and send them to Zhuantianmao to learn. You can go to learn if you have nothing to do. My family has compiled a military training camp before." The brochure was useless at the time."

"When you learn some characters, I'll teach you that. They have been trained there, and they have a similar level when they come back. They will be sent to the posts in the whole camp to study for an hour every day."

As he said that, Liu Chengzong patted Shang Tianhou on the shoulder: "When spring comes next year, people like Lion Camp will be different."

In fact, what he is most worried about is winter clothes, gloves, hats and bedding.

Liu Chengyun, who shot a total of three arrows in one afternoon of archery, is a boy who spreads money from the Lion Camp.

Liu Chengzong has a huge sum of money, and Lion Camp is not short of gold and silver at all, but gold and silver in his hands are like peppers growing in flower pots in the back house of the county government. It has no other meaning except to look happy.

Shipping makes gold and silver meaningful.

Chengyun came here to play archery. He usually runs back and forth in the village outside, which is faster than the monkey in the sky.

He has already placed orders for 23 villages on both sides of the Yanhe River and around its tributaries.

If you can do it, you can buy bedding directly, if you can’t, you can buy cloth, if you can’t weave any cloth, you just buy cotton and cotton thread.

Anyway, what do you want?

Even so, it is not enough.

Although Gao Yingxiang returned to Yanchang County after the war, after this battle, the ties between the ministries became closer. Liu Chengzu, Li Wanqing, Liu Guoneng and other ministries are actively preparing for the winter.

On the contrary, Wang Ziyong, who got an official position in Yan'an Wei, is the most worry-free. His group is not good at fighting, but they are good at things other than fighting.

After the battle, they all scattered back to the villages. The deputy king started making clothes and bedding with a word from thousands of households.

This is probably Monk Wang's alms.

When fate comes, the clothes and bedding will run to Yan'an Wei by themselves.

Liu Chengzong is not that capable, and the responsibility he shoulders is much greater than that of Wang Ziyong. He is thinking about self-made military uniforms and armor pieces.

The victory over Li Bei and the coming winter brought him a rare time of peace, and the Lion Camp was fully staffed by the joint forces, so many things can be put on the agenda.

In order to cooperate, Song Shouzhen from Zhuantianmao, craftsmen Shi Chengwo and He Xin from Liujiazhuang were all called by him.

The cannonsmith made me the head of the battalion's work post.

They built the kiln in Wangzhuang, Xingzihe, gathered hundreds of craftsmen in the team, and established the Wangzhuang Arms Bureau with the apprentices of the auxiliary soldiers.

In the end, Liu Chengzong wanted Han Shiyou to be the head of the middle whistle, and the Han brothers had experience in training with servants.

However, when Liu Chengzong and Cao Yao talked about this matter, the old thief felt that it was inappropriate.

"Look at the captains of the guards, the left guard and the right guard, Feng Ru Gaoxian, is the old brother of Yuhebao; the front guard and the rear guard are Yang Yao, Wang Wenxiu, and the family captain Han brothers, who came to join you in Guyuan Soldiers."

Cao Yao analyzed: "If you want to reverse the two whistles on the left and right, there are two whistles on the front and back, and vice versa; but if you give the middle whistle to Han Shiyou, he and Yang Yao and Wang Wenxiu are old acquaintances, and Captain Ding is his brother... They are both No problem, but you must be on guard against others."

Liu Chengzong used to be defensive only towards individuals, but he didn't rely on crowd acquaintances to form factions like Cao Yao. It was only because Liu Guozhen and Li Bei surrendered too many troops that he paid attention to faction issues.

But what Cao Yao said really reminded him.

When the wind is going smoothly, it is easy to say, but in the face of adversity, other people have two minds. If Han Shiyou, Yang Yao and other Guyuan soldiers rebel, he can't control it.

Considering this, Liu Chengzong decided to appoint Zhong Hu as the chief of the middle post.

Zhong Hu was still lying on the bed. During the battle with Liu Guozhen, four lead pellets penetrated the shield, three hit the cotton armor, and one hit the iron arm tie.

At least another three months.

But the brothers of the Zhong family didn't have such concerns. They used to be Lu Cheng's soldiers, and they had nothing to do with other sentry chiefs, let alone protecting Liu Chengzong's injuries.

Self-made military uniforms are a new idea when inspecting joint forces with Heavenly Monkey.

Uniform clothing can improve the sense of belonging and distinguish between the enemy and the enemy. This is actually only a secondary reason. The main reason is that the lion camp after the joint venture is too ugly.

Those who have armor put on the armor, and it still looks like that, but when you take off the armor and look at it, you can really wear anything, not to mention the tatters, and there are even women in women's clothing.

It was the leader's responsibility for the soldiers to dress like this.

More importantly, deep down in his heart, Liu Chengzong did not want soldiers to fight in Ming Dynasty mandarin duck jackets.

He will have his own army, his own armor.

　Good morning! Chapter 2 will be released at [-]pm!
　　
　
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