Today, Jinling ushered in the first heavy snow of the year.

Snowflakes were floating in the sky, and with the strong wind, they fell slowly on the ground and spread layer after layer, as if the whole world was covered with white.

Yang Feng was wearing a set of green cotton winter clothes and thick cotton shoes on his feet, and he made a creaking sound when he stepped on the ground where the snow had reached his ankles, and he was followed by Gou Xingma, Yan Di, Guanghai, He Sheng and other officers.

The camp with 20,000 troops is certainly not small, and the rows of tents that have been stained silver and white by the heavy snow can not be seen at a glance, and from time to time you can see groups of heavily armed sergeants patrolling the barracks.

These sergeants did not stop when they passed by Yang Feng and the others, but saluted everyone and left on their own, and did not affect the patrol mission because of the encounter with their own generals, which can also be seen that the quality of these sergeants is still good.

After these patrol sergeants left, Yang Feng nodded: "Hmm...... These soldiers still look quite presentable. ”

Gou Xingma said with a smile: "Although Grandpa Guo can rest assured, although our Jiangning Army has produced scum like Li Zheng, most of them are still good, and I dare not say anything else, but the five thousand sergeants under the command of the lowly rank guarantee that they will practice diligently every day in accordance with the drill code in the army, whether it is a rapid march, queue and shooting, they all meet the requirements of the drill code." ”

"Grandpa Guo, Lao Gou's East Road soldiers and horses are good, and the West Road under the command of the humble post is not bad, why don't we find a day to pull out a team of people and horses to practice?" Seeing that Gou Xingma was anxious to show his merits, Yan Di on the side was not to be outdone.

"Who is afraid of whom, practice and practice, it just so happens that Grandpa Guo is also here, it is better to start now."

"Okay, then ask the grandfather to give the order!"

Seeing that these two people looked like they were not convinced by anyone, the generals around them were all smiling and silent, which is probably the norm.

It was Yang Feng who interrupted their dispute: "Okay, I said that you are all the eldest and not small, and you are not the small hundred households back then, can you be more mature?" It's not easy to want to compete, after a few days, when you meet the rogue in Luoyang, you can compare how you want, my father is behind you, see which of you has killed more rogues, and then my father will personally ask you for credit. ”

When Yang Feng said this, the two of them stopped.

Everyone surrounded Yang Feng It took half a day to walk through the entire barracks, and everything had to be prepared for the army's expedition, so there were not only forage yards, medical camps, ordnance repair offices and other places in the barracks, but also baggage camps and other places responsible for ensuring the lives of the troops

Yang Feng has been in the military for a long time, and after a rough walk, it can be seen that although most of these Jinling troops have not experienced war, they have not been pulled down on weekdays, and they can be trained in accordance with the drill code on weekdays, whether it is camping, training, plating, etc., although there is still a gap between such an army and the army of Geng Bingyi, Chu Maoguang and others who have passed the test of blood and fire in Luzon and Fujian, but looking at the Ming Dynasty, it is already a well-trained elite division.

After inspecting a circle, Yang Feng's heart that was still a little suspenseful finally let go, and officially announced that he would set up camp and go straight to Luoyang tomorrow.

As soon as the order was given, the whole army was boiling, and the sergeants rushed to tell each other one by one, and everyone was so excited that they couldn't do it.

However, before leaving, Yang Feng did not forget Jiang Ningwei's many military households and the farm's Zhuang Ding, Jiang Ningwei was tossed by Li Zheng a lot in the past two years. So in the past two days, Yang Feng has arrested Li Zheng and the group of officers who followed him as a prestige, and everyone's homes have also been raided.

As the so-called don't check and don't know, I was shocked when I checked it, and there were more than 200,000 taels of silver seized from the homes of Li Zheng and four thousand households and more than ten hundred households, as for other jewelry and antique calligraphy and paintings, they had to be counted separately, which made Yang Feng angry and scolded his mother.

In a fit of rage, Yang Feng not only reported to the Ministry of War, cut off the heads of all these offending officers, but also drove their families out of Jiangningwei and left them to fend for themselves, but also published the matter in Pravda.

This incident also greatly shocked the Jiang Ningjun and Jiang Ningwei's interior, and the military discipline and people's morale, which had originally slipped a little, took on a new look.

In order to prevent a recurrence of Li Zheng's incident, Yang Feng also redivided Jiang Ningwei's power structure.

From now on, Jiang Ningwei's financial power will be jointly controlled by Jiang Ningwei's commander and the experience department, and the transfer and sale of more than 100 taels of silver need to be signed by the commander and the experience to take effect, otherwise it will be a transgression.

Not only that, Jiang Ningwei's Sima also has the right to conduct spot checks on the accounts at any time, and the command envoy and the experience department must not obstruct it for any reason.

After all this was done, it was already three days later, and on the morning of the fourth day, Yang Feng led two infantry battalions, a cavalry battalion and a baggage battalion, a total of 23,000 troops, leaving Jinling and heading towards Luoyang.

Because Luoyang is located inland, so the army can only take the land route, and it is already winter, the march is becoming more and more difficult, but fortunately, after several years of construction, there is no shortage of horses in the Jiangning army, even the foot soldiers can put the armor and ammunition and other things on the cart, and then equip them when they are ready to meet the enemy.

The army of more than 1,000 kilometers walked for more than half a month before they came to the vicinity of Xuanwuwei, which was near Kaifeng.

"You don't see, the end of the Han army, the weak crown is the captive, please be long. You don't see it, Ban Dingyuan is far away, and the peerless light cavalry urges the battle clouds.

The boy should be in serious danger, how can he let the Confucian crown miss this life. The situation is that if the national prestige is tired, the feather competition will not stop. ”

Under the rhythm of passionate singing and marching drums, a mighty army is coming north in high spirits.

In the middle of the official road were the foot soldiers, a cavalry guarding their flanks, and behind this team was a long convoy. The biggest difference between this team and the Ming army is that they did not wear the Ming Dynasty's standard mandarin duck jacket and iron armor, but wore a green military uniform.

A Qian general turned around and said loudly to the marching sergeant: "Brothers, work harder, we can rush to Kaifeng before dark, and then we will set up camp and rest." ”

"Hey...... The ......" team responded neatly, and then the team behind also shouted, and the voices were very neat.

"You've done a good job with these soldiers."

In the team, Yang Feng said to Gou Xing, who was with him.

Gou Xingma said respectfully: "In the past two years, I have never dared to forget the teachings of my grandfather, you said at the beginning, sweat more in peacetime and shed less blood in wartime, but humble duty is always in mind." ”

"Hey...... You kid run me here, right? Yang Feng scolded with a smile, "Okay, don't always put on this appearance, this battle is fought, I will take you to Nanyang to see and see if I have the opportunity!" ”

"Really?" Wake up Ma Daxi.

"Of course, when have you ever seen my grandfather tell a lie?"

"Hey, that's great!" Wake up and jump three feet high.