Chapter 408: Response Speed of the East Army
Niulan Mountain camp.
The treatment of Zhengdong Army is not generally good, far exceeding that of Dayan's standing army. Most of the money and food that Gao Yuan worked so hard to get were invested in the army. In this era, when almost everyone still eats two meals a day, the Zhengdong Army has three meals a day, with sufficient nutrition to ensure the high-intensity training of the Zhengdong Army. "Fiction" novel chapters are updated the fastest
The broth this morning is the skeleton of the sheep that was killed at dinner yesterday. These bones were smashed by a clock, and then they were thrown into the pot and boiled for several hours. After adding some condiments to remove the smell, indeed, Meng Yuan was drinking the soup , chewing steamed buns, looking at the soldiers in the school yard, all of them were as strong as calves. Almost half of the people here were brought here by him and Xu Yuan. When they first came here, these soldiers were so thin that they could count their ribs, but now, after only half a year, they have grown so strong. As the old saying goes, food is the most important thing for the people. If it weren't for the Niulanshan camp that feeds them three meals a day, and every meal has meat, how could these soldiers be so strong.
A strong body is the capital of a soldier. As a man who has stayed at the base of the army for a long time and needs to charge forward in battle, he understands this truth very well. In the chaotic army, all martial arts and kung fu are all farts. There is no room for you to use it. At this time, you rely on instinct and strength. You have to dare to use those good-looking tricks when the two armies are facing each other to ensure that you die faster than anyone else.
Slashing, poking, sweeping, chipping, the simplest actions constitute the most powerful force in an army's combat. The road is complicated. Finally reduced to simplification. Zhengdong Army practiced these simple movements to the extreme. Every time he saw hundreds of people swinging their swords and chopping them down in a uniform manner, Meng Chong couldn't restrain the urge to cry up to the sky. is strength.
The soldiers from Gushan County and Luoyang County have now fully integrated into the Eastern Zheng Army. Many of them can even speak the local dialect of Fufeng proficiently. The soldiers have completely regarded themselves as a member of this group. Not every place can make an ordinary soldier live so well. Meng Chong knew in his heart that even Dayan's standing army would not be treated like this.
There is nowhere to spend the soldiers' salaries, and the Niulanshan camp is far away from the town. Here, everything needed for daily life is provided by the army, and the soldiers' salaries are accumulated. Many soldiers who still have family members borrowing from the original will bring these accumulated military salaries to their families in caravans that are entrusted to commerce and trade all over the world.
Think about Four Seas Commerce, it really makes money. They did not give money to these soldiers for free. They charge a handling fee of ten cents for every penny. It doesn’t look like much, but it can’t hold up the number of soldiers. It adds up to a lot of money. Moreover, this Universal Merchant not only helps send money, but also sends messages. Two pennies are charged for each letter. However, they have a good reputation and never steal money from soldiers. After a short period of time, they have accumulated credibility in the hearts of soldiers.
Four Seas Commerce is a tool in the hands of General Gao. To put it bluntly, Four Seas Commerce is a tool used by Zhengdong Mansion to raise money. As a general of Meng Chong's level,
Of course, he is well aware of this. He is now considering whether he also wants to take a share in this universal business.
The generals can buy shares in the four seas business, and Meng Chong only knew it after he became the governor of the Left Army. The senior generals of the Zhengdong Army all had shares in this company, but Meng Chong used to be poor, There is no money in his pocket at all, and only after arriving in Fufeng can he get a generous salary every month, but the accumulated money in the past six months is only a few tens of pennies, and it is a bit embarrassing to take it out. It was too eye-catching, but he lost face as the commander of the left army, but waited until after the battle was over to talk about it.
Thinking of this, Meng Chong's mood became better again. Soldiers, what are you looking forward to, isn't it just fighting, and only fighting can make meritorious deeds and be promoted. General Gao said that troubled times are coming, and heroes will emerge in troubled times, and General Gao is undoubtedly this hero. If you follow General Gao closely, are you afraid that you will not be able to get promoted and get rich? Looking at the husky soldiers in front of him in the school field, Meng Chong was in an extremely good mood. It was the first time he had seen such a mighty army after so many years of travelling. The most wonderful thing was that he was one of them. .
When he arrived at the Niulan Mountain camp, he saw a lot of new things, saw countless methods of training soldiers, and not only opened his eyes, but also let him learn more things, such as the sandbag formation, which he personally experienced. Like the vast majority of people, he slowly got used to it from the beginning when his nose was clear and his face was swollen. Now he can comfortably stay inside for half an hour.
This practice method, which looks like a game, can greatly improve one's survivability on the battlefield. Aren't those flying sandbags just simulating the chaos on the battlefield? Every time you get bumped, it means you get slashed and stabbed.
Not only this, but also the horizontal bars, parallel bars, and barbells all over the camp, all of which can be used to practice the strength of different parts of the human body. I raised my arms and felt the bulging muscles inside the armor, strength, This is power.
He drank the soup in the bowl in one gulp, rolled his tongue, and licked all the bones inside. What did General Gao say? Yes, drinking this bone soup every day can supplement calcium. Meng Chong doesn't know what calcium is, but he only needs to drink a bowl of this soup every day to make his bones stronger, and that's enough.
Just as Meng Chong stood up, the highest sentry tower in the Niulanshan camp suddenly sounded a warning horn. With the sound of the horn, almost at the same time, horns sounded from all the watch towers at the same time. In an instant, the sound of horns spread throughout the camp. Hearing the sound of the horn, Meng Yuan casually threw away the pottery bowl in his hand, and ran out in stride.
The entire camp suddenly became quiet from the previous boiling excitement. Except for the sound of the horn, there were also the running footsteps of the soldiers. Almost no one spoke, and there were bursts of clinking sounds of armor colliding. came. In less than a quarter of an hour, groups of bragging and bragging soldiers were already fully armed and began to assemble. On the outer city wall of the camp, soldiers were already in place. The felt blanket on the crossbow has been lifted, revealing the cold body of the crossbow, and with the sound of twisting the strings, one by one the crossbow arrows were loaded onto it.
Inside the camp, there was the sound of horseshoes. It was a cavalry camp, and the leader was He Lanxiong. They filed out and lined up outside the camp gate, and the gate of the big camp was closed immediately after they left the camp.
The Niulan Mountain Camp, which was still full of laughter just now, has turned into a cold war machine in a short period of time. A large camp with thousands of people gathered was silent.
Meng Chong had already climbed onto the tower of the city wall for the first time. Now in the Niulanshan camp, there are only the left army and the right army. Within a month, the Chinese army was suddenly ordered to go out for training, but Meng Chong, they must be What special task to perform, if the superior doesn't tell him, he naturally won't ask.
There are three armies on the left, middle and right in the Eastern Expedition Army. The governor of the left army is Meng Chong, the governor of the middle army is Sun Xiao, and the governor of the right army is Zheng Xiaoyang. The three armies have a total of 6,000 infantry. But the Chinese army has always only had about a thousand people, and the other thousand people left with Sun Xiao and never stayed in the Niulanshan camp.
In the absence of Gao Yuan and Sun Xiao, the Zhengdong Mansion ordered Meng Chong to take charge of the Niulanshan camp. This once surprised him. He thought that a latecomer like himself would definitely not be able to compete with the right army governor Zheng Xiaoyang. of.
As the interim coach of the Niulanshan camp, Meng Chong is qualified. Different from general generals, Meng Chong is a genuine Confucian general. People like him who have read a lot of books but join the army are really rare. Of course, except for the children of those aristocratic families.
"What's going on? Why didn't the sentry cavalry on the outside send back any information." Meng Yuan glanced at an officer in the scout battalion. The scout battalion was under the control of Bai Yucheng, but like Sun Xiao, Bai Yucheng and his main force, He was not in the Niulanshan camp at all, and the person in charge of scouting in the Niulanshan camp was only an officer under Bai Yucheng's command.
The officer opened his mouth, and his face was also very ugly. The scouts didn't send back any information, which could only mean that those scouts had been killed.
While speaking, Zheng Xiaoyang, Naha, Yan Haibo and the others rushed over together. This was the first time Niulanshan Daying had encountered such a situation, so they couldn't help but be careless.
Gao Yuan and Zhou Yu stood side by side on a hill not far from Niulan Mountain. From their position, they could clearly see the situation of the Niulan Mountain camp. And on their left and right, a group of scouts from the Niulanshan camp stood there looking at each other. When they were patrolling the outer perimeter, they suddenly found General Gao leading his troops, and what was strange was that General Gao refused to allow them to report back to the camp, and even asked them to gather all their companions who were patrolling the outer perimeter.
When they arrived not far from the camp, a group of people following the general suddenly fell down the banner and began to move towards the camp. What is the general going to do? Attack your own camp? The scouts all looked wonderful.
Gao Yuan ignored the thoughts of these scouts. He just pointed at the already heavily guarded camp and said to Zhou Yu with a smile, "General Zhou, you are a veteran general in the army. Is it still interesting for me to conscript the soldiers of the Eastern Army?" (to be continued...)