Everyone also said hello to Xiao Tianjian, but Xiao Tianjian didn't think he was happy, frowned and said: "Although it is a good thing that Luo Rucai came to vote this time, but as far as I know, this person is cunning, capricious, and extravagant, so people give him the nickname Cao Cao, but I am afraid that this person will lead the troops to vote, not only will it not help us, but it will also cause a lot of trouble in our jurisdiction!" This is a blessing for Seon to lose his horse!

That's it! Let's not talk about that! Since we are here, we are guests, and we can't be cold! Thinking that Luo Rucai ran to our jurisdiction in such a hurry, but only brought such a few men and horses, he must have suffered a lot of losses under the hands of the officials and soldiers recently, and now he must have reached the point where the donkey skills are exhausted, and he sent someone to quickly notify Gao Shuxian, so that he could allocate a batch of grain for his men and horses to eat, and then allocate twenty pieces of cloth from the treasury and give them together, and they will harm the people in our control area because of lack of food and clothing!

In addition, let Gao Shu inform Luo Rucai first, saying that now I, Xiao, am busy with military affairs, and I can't go to meet him for the time being, and say sorry, and ask him to take a break in Lushi County to lead his troops to Ruzhou for a while! At that time, Ben Shuai should set up a banquet to catch the wind and wash the dust for him!

Let's talk about this matter for the time being, and it's not too late to wait for Luo Rucai to come over! Let's act first now, take Baofeng and Lushan! ”

After a short period of deliberation and arrangement, Xiao Tianjian immediately ordered Luo Li and Liu Yaoben to lead a group of men and horses, and with the cooperation of Situ Liang's cavalry battalion, they immediately divided their troops to attack Baofeng and Lushan counties.

After the two were ordered, they immediately set off with troops, and pounced on Baofeng and Lushan counties with great momentum, and these two counties were attacked and plundered by Zhang Xianzhong half a year ago, and then Zhang Xianzhong retreated, the government took back the two places from the new, the county seat of Lushan County is still dilapidated, and even the burned south gate has not been completely repaired so far, all of them are made of wooden planks with two simple wooden doors to block the city gate hole, and the officers and soldiers stationed are only more than 300 people, facing the attack of the iron battalion rebuilt under Liu Yaoben, There is no way to stop the generals of the Xingtian Army.

As a result, Liu Yao's troops sent to Lushan County, just led a charge, and without even firing a few cannons, he took the lead in leading his troops to attack the city of Lushan County, and completely cleared the remnants of resistance in the city in half a day, and did not make any stops, leaving a company to guard the county seat, and personally led his troops out of the city to start sweeping outside the city, and in a few days the entire territory of Lushan County was controlled in the hands of the Xingtian Army.

And many local people, hearing that the Xingtian army was coming, immediately copied the guys to help the Xingtian army, all kinds of small groups of pole thieves, even more desperate, Liu Yaoben immediately selected more than 1,000 people among these people, and from the headquarters of the Xingtian army as the skeleton, set up a reserve battalion in Lushan County on the spot, armed them with captured armor, and took over the city defense of Lushan County.

And Luo Li hit Baofeng County, how much trouble encountered, because the number of officers and troops in Baofeng County far exceeded Lushan a lot, and because the Xingtian Army attacked Ruzhou, with Baofeng County has long been rumored, and made sufficient preparations to defend the city in advance, Luo Li led his troops to Baofeng, and the guards here actually sent troops to Luo Li overnight to make a surprise attack, almost breaking up Luo Li's barracks, although Luo Li controlled the situation in time and repelled the night attack of the official army, but also lost dozens of soldiers.

Baofeng's officers and soldiers didn't know what to eat, they were very excited, they were stunned to resist the city for three days, and injured a lot of Luo Li's soldiers, until the fourth day, there were dozens of soldiers in the city who were agitated to act as internal responses, and suddenly made trouble in the city, seized the city gate, and Luo Li led his troops to attack the county seat.

The angry Luo Lidang even unloaded the captured guards into eight pieces in public and threw them outside the city to feed the dogs, and killed more than 200 prisoners in a row, which dissipated his anger, for which Xiao Tianjian learned about it, he reprimanded Luo Li, Xiao Tianjian was angry not because Luo Li killed the prisoner, but because of Luo Li's carelessness, in the past few years, the generals of the Xingtian Army have become a little arrogant and fierce, and they don't take the officers and soldiers seriously, and the result will make the officers and soldiers almost succeed in the night attack, and Luo Li was caught off guard, Therefore, this incident also highlighted the problem of underestimating the enemy that is prevalent in the Xingtian Army at the moment, and taking this opportunity, Xiao Tianjian severely criticized Luo Liyitong.

In addition to the bitter criticism, Xiao Tianjian also removed Luo Li from his position as battalion commander and ordered him to temporarily lead his original subordinates to make meritorious contributions, which also played a warning role for the upper and lower members of the Xingtian Army.

Luo Li was shaved hard by Xiao Tianjian, and he was cleaned up, but he didn't dare to disagree, because this time he was indeed too careless, when he set up camp, he didn't arrange the bright and dark posts outside the camp, so he suffered such a loss, Xiao Tianjian dealt with him like this, it was not the first time, Luo Li was a big nerve, but he could bear it.

After Luo Li captured Baofeng County, he also immediately swept through the territory of Baofeng County, according to the habits of the Xingtian Army, immediately set up a reserve battalion on the spot to be responsible for taking over the defense of Baofeng, and at the same time, the civil affairs officer under Luo Yingjie was immediately stationed in the two counties and began to open a warehouse to release relief to the people, in short, the Xingtian Army has now formed a good habit, the military general is responsible for the strategy, and the clerk is responsible for the subsequent stationing to take over the civil affairs, and they have formed a good cooperation with each other, and they do not interfere with each other, so that there is no situation of heavy force and light literature, The generals are still simple soldiers, and they easily do not interfere in civil affairs, which also saves Xiao Tianjian a lot of trouble.

With the growing strength of the Xingtian Army, the increasing territory, and the increasing number of soldiers and horses, some of the original Xingtian Army's acting systems can no longer operate well, in the past, the Xingtian Army had a small territory and few troops, Xiao Tianjian can also effectively control all the territory and generals, but with the increasing growth of various affairs, Xiao Tianjian has gradually become impossible to manage all kinds of things in detail.

Therefore, through the adjustment in the past six months, Niu Jinxing proposed a series of restructuring plans for Xiao Tianjian, especially in order to prevent the military generals from privately dividing the seized property and sitting on the materials around their garrisons, and then breeding the extravagance and corruption of the soldiers and generals, Niu Jinxing proposed to set up a department to be responsible for the supply of troops stationed in various places, and the guards of the army were responsible for collecting the goods obtained after the war and handing them over to this department for distribution.

Of course, Xiao Tianjian understands this, even if he ordered the establishment of a logistics department of the Xingtian Army in Song County, which was fully responsible for the allocation and distribution of materials for each battalion, from the weapons and ammunition in the army, to the shoes and socks, and the grease used to protect against the cold in winter, the needs of the army were all from the hands of the logistics department.

Generally, after the war, the goods obtained after the war, with the army guards responsible for the inventory, immediately assigned to the logistics department personnel to take over, the needs of the army are all allocated by the logistics department, unless special circumstances, the battalion soldiers will not be allowed to use the seized materials on the spot, once verified, the punishment will be very serious, although the original clerical system will have some people transferred to the logistics department to do things, but this part of the people are also classified into the military position, but it does not mean that the civilian control of the army, and the imperial court's policy of suppressing military force with literature is still fundamentally different, This also controlled the problem of the generals of various departments secretly supporting their own troops by swallowing up the captured things in the future.

In the early days, the generals still had some complaints, but after Xiao Tianjian established the logistics department, the generals gathered together and explained to them in particular, and at the same time sternly warned them that this is an iron law, and no one is allowed to touch this system with merit and pride.

Although the logistics department was created not long ago, many items and systems are not perfect, but this is also the foundation of the Xingtian Army in the future, Xiao Tianjian did not treat it as a trivial matter, besides, since the beginning of the establishment of the Xingtian Army, Xiao Tianjian has long been ready to build the Xingtian Army into a regular army, rather than a loose army of displaced people, and the improvement of various systems must be gradually established to avoid problems in the future.

After the generals were reprimanded by Xiao Tianjian, they naturally did not dare to object, and then the logistics system was also implemented in the Xingtian Army, and the first manager of the logistics department, Xiao Tianjian appointed a little-known person named Luo Bin.

This Luo Bin is not very old, now only twenty-seven or eighteen years old, in the early years of the family ran a tavern in Zezhou, the business is not bad, and Luo Bin has been studying since he was a child, he is very smart, he can write and calculate at a very young age, and when he is a little older, he began to help his father take care of the business, responsible for some of the accounts of the transaction, and later because of the chaos in the world, the business is not as good as a day, and because his father offended the children of a powerful family in Zezhou, and then the tavern with a good business was also confiscated by the government, His father was taken by the government to detain the name of a bandit, and was beaten to death in the lobby, and Luo Bin also fled from Zezhou since then, and joined the Xingtian Army by chance.

Luo Bin is not very bold, when the soldiers are always bullied, there is no good performance in the battle, but in an accident showed his ability to manage money, he began to be transferred to Jin Fuzi to do things, and gradually showed his ability in logistics, and slowly got Xiao Tianjian's attention, Xiao Tianjian led his troops south, Luo Bin also followed Xiao Tianjian south with the barracks, responsible for taking care of some material allocation and other things, everything that passed through his hands, the accounts were clear, and the disposal was orderly, So more and more Xiao Tianjian reused, and this newly established logistics department in Henan once created, Xiao Tianjian personally mentioned Luo Bin to this position, Luo Bin did not expect that he was a backward person, neither fame nor military merits, was actually put in such an important position by Xiao Tianjian, so it is needless to say that he was grateful, after taking office, he devoted himself to the work, and did a good job, and took care of Xiao Tianjian's supply of soldiers and horses in Henan.

But speaking of this, it's also gossip, just after Luo Li and Liu Yaoben captured Baofeng and Lushan counties, Xiao Tianjian, who was sitting in Ruzhou, finally received an important news, there was a fine work that was placed in the area of Runing Mansion and sent a message back to Ruzhou, Jiangbei General Huang Dequan led 7,000 Beijing battalions and Jiangbei Army from the direction of Huainan, and had already arrived in Runing Mansion and was rushing in the direction of Ruzhou.