When the spring season of the first year of the Yasukuni was built, the new commercial and trade city between Song and Liao, Heshang Market, was prosperous and lively.

However, unlike the atmosphere of previous years where everyone fell into the eyes of money and only cared about getting rich, this year's spring in Jiehe Commercial Market was a little more solemn.

At the beginning of the year, the Senate of Shang City passed several decrees to strengthen armor training and equipment. All registered male citizens, over the age of 16 and under 60, who are in good health and free of major illnesses, begin to receive military training in batches.

The group of doctors affiliated with the Yuntai Academy also received a large special grant from the Senate of Jiehe Shang City to hire a group of doctors who graduated from the Academy, and also entrusted the Knight Academy to train and equip them for a short time.

The doctoral course of Yuntai Academy originally contained a lot of military content, and it was the essence that Murong Wuwu extracted from the courses of the former Military Science Division, which could completely allow the doctors to have the knowledge of low-level officers.

Now, after another two months of intensive training, by March, about 150 doctors of the doctoral regiment had been supplemented into the Jiehe Baojia, and together with a comparable number of Baozheng and dozens of mounted policemen, they formed a huge Shangshi Baojia officer corps.

Subsequently, the training of citizen Baoding also suddenly became stricter. In less than five days, more than 15,000 eligible male citizens registered on the register met with the recruiters of the Dadu Bao Bao Office in Shangshi, who were actually members of the Baojia officer corps, at their doorsteps.

These annoying recruiters check the physical condition and readiness of male citizens, and then assign troops and armor teams according to the situation.

After the assignment, of course, there was a frustrating call-up and rigorous training. According to the latest decree, 15,000 male citizens are required to dedicate ten days a month to military training!

Moreover, during these ten days, the citizens who served in the service must also live in the barracks outside Jiehe Shang City and cannot return home. The fierce armor officers had to be forced to train in various physical fitness, queues, and military skills, or to take on patrol duties in and around the city.

The service time of each citizen is also continuous, and after the careful planning of the Doctor's Regiment (the military power of Jiehe Shangshi is controlled by the Dadu Baosu and the Doctor's Regiment respectively, the Dadu Baosu is in charge of military affairs, and the Doctor's Regiment is in charge of military orders), it can ensure that 5,000 citizen soldiers in the Shangshi can be used at any time.

In addition, the citizen soldiers of Shang City could not be equipped with armor due to policy restrictions, so they had to be equipped with rattan hats and Jiehe leather shields.

The rattan hat is a helmet for rubbing the edge ball, which is said to be used on construction sites to prevent being hit in the head by falling objects, and in fact it also has some protection against bows and arrows.

The so-called Boundary River Leather Shield, which is actually a Roman shield, is a drawing provided by Olga. The main material is wood, covered with cowhide and metal, which is arc-shaped when viewed from the top, rectangular when viewed from the front, and has excellent protection ability. Not only are the Jiehe citizen soldiers equipped with a large number of leather shields, but even the patrol soldiers who are hoplites are also equipped with leather shields to enhance their melee protection capabilities.

The rattan hat is the standard for the Citizen Soldiers of the Boundary River, and everyone is given one for both archers and signmen.

The Boundary River Shield, on the other hand, is only equipped with a signman, and the so-called sign is a combination of a javelin and a shield. At first glance, it looks like a Roman infantry, and the javelins used can also be thrown. However, most of the signers don't have the arm strength to throw javelins at all, so the javelin is only used as a fighting weapon for short spears and shields.

In addition to the signmen equipped with javelins and leather shields, the citizen soldiers of Jiehe Shang City also serve as archers. In addition to bows and arrows, they possessed a rattan hat and a long sword. There is no other equipment - as Baoding, they can't be equipped with armor and crossbows! Having a rattan hat, a leather shield, a javelin, a buffalo horn bow, and a longsword is already a bit of a sideshow.

In addition to the citizen soldiers, the Jiehe Shang City or the Jiehe City Boshi also had several other armed forces.

The first is the patrol command subordinate to the Boundary River City Division, which is expanded on the basis of the Divination War Slave Team. Although it is only the establishment of the box army, it is paid to the soldiers of the forbidden army, and there are many benefits to enjoy, and those who are killed or injured in battle can also receive generous pensions. Therefore, there were many strong men who were displaced in the Jiehe Shang City to apply, and the number of people also expanded from the original 200 to 1,000.

This army of war slaves and conscripts is somewhat similar to the Dragon Warriors, and they fight in conjunction with the citizen soldiers of Shang City. However, the tasks performed are slightly different. They do not take on the task of archers, but as heavy infantry, they are stubborn and participate in hand-to-hand combat.

The second is the water patrol commander who is also subordinate to the Jiehe City Ship Division, which is actually a fleet belonging to the City Ship Division! Now it is divided into two parts: the merchant fleet and the patrol defense fleet. The former is responsible for the open sea, and the latter is responsible for the inland waterways.

The merchant fleet in charge of the open sea did not expand rapidly, but the patrol fleet in charge of the inland river expanded several times after Wu Haogu left the Jiehe River, and the number of people increased to more than 1,000 people, and more than a dozen eight-car warships were ordered in the shipyard of the Jiehe Commercial City.

The so-called "eight cars" is to have eight (four pairs) of water wheels as power. The manpower paddle steamer was a very common inland river vessel in the Song Dynasty, which did not use oars or oars, but used manpower pedals to drive the water wheel to drive the boat.

Because the commander of the water patrol of the city is the Great Song Xiang Army, there are no restrictions on weapons and equipment. Not only were they equipped with military crossbows, but even bed crossbows were loaded on warships. Two artillery platforms have even been built on the banks of the Jiehe River outside the boundaries of the Jiehe Trading City, and dozens of stone generators are to be equipped to block the water.

The third is a completely illegal fake knight. However, they are not stationed in Jiehenan City, but are still in Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beicheng (which also belongs to the Shang City), outside the monitoring range of the Great Song Dynasty - according to the information obtained by the Shang City Police Patrol, the Jiehe Fengying Bureau, which is directly under the court, has taken over the spy network laid by Zhang Shuye, but the spies are only active in Jiehe South City, and basically will not go to Beicheng, let alone the suburbs of Beicheng.

Because crossing the river is the Liao State, the spy activities in the Liao State are under the control of the Privy Council North Room and the Correspondence Guoxin. The bureau can't step on the line......

Moreover, there are a large number of Khitan warriors in Jiehebei City (in fact, they are Ma Zhi's retainers and soldiers), and the agents of the Fengying Bureau who were born in the Kaifeng Forbidden Army dare not look for them.

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A group of carriages and horses entered the north gate of the north city of the commercial market, and this team of carriages and horses attracted the attention of many people. A team of people and horses are all fierce and fierce-looking men, all dressed as Khitan warriors, and they can be seen fierce from their eyes. The carriage of their guards is exquisite and comfortable, and the curtains used are all sewn from the finest fur, and you can see the workmanship to know that it must be the best quality created by the carriage company of Jiehe Commercial City, and the price is not cheap!

These exquisite carriages lined up in a long column, and under the escort of those fierce Khitan warriors, they entered the northern city of Jiehe Shang City.

When entering the city, several Khitan warriors walking in front of the caravan also waved black flags, which were embroidered in Khitan script with the words "Lin Ya in the north, Xiao in the Privy Council in the north" and "Privy Envoy Niu in the South".

That's right, this is the mission sent by the Great Liao State to the Great Song Dynasty, and now it has arrived in Jiehe Shang City.

When the carriage drove into the north gate of Jiehe Hebei City, Xiao Deli lifted the curtain and squinted at everything around him.

Nowadays, Jiehe Beimen Street is full of wine shops and hostels, and now is the time for lunch to eat, many wine shops and restaurants shout at the door with their voices open, and the cars transporting wine and food run over the street in a daze.

In addition to the common people, there were also soldiers wearing battle jackets, holding large shields, and holding javelin short spears, patrolling back and forth in a neat line!

There are also some strong men who don't look like good people, wearing various colored shirts and holding long swords in their arms, swaggering sideways through the streets.

"Stop!"

Xiao Deli let out a low roar in a calm voice, and the Khitan warriors guarding him immediately shouted: "The Privy Counsellor has an order: stop!" ”

The whole team of cars and horses stopped on the street.

A big fat man in his fifties dressed in Han clothes immediately trotted from the front of the queue to the front of Xiao Delidi's carriage, saluted, and opened his mouth in Khitan dialect: "Xianggong, it is inconvenient to park here, you came in a hurry, and the small one did not have time to report to the municipal office to arrange the clearance, so the police patrol of the commercial market will come to fine the ......."

Jiehe Commercial City also has the problem of traffic jams now! Therefore, the police patrol station has the responsibility of sorting out the traffic!

"Yes!" Xiao Deli frowned, everything in the Jiehe Commercial Market is good, but there are many unnecessary rules! Parking a car has to be managed...... Even if you are a dignified Daliao Privy Minister, if you want to enjoy Qingdao, you have to apply in advance, and you have to specify the time and route. Trouble to death!

"What's the matter with those who carry shields and short spears?" "I didn't see it last time I came." ”

"They are the Baoding ...... of the commercial market" This fat man is Xiao Delide's housekeeper in the Jiehe commercial market, he is a Han man, he sighed and said: "Since the beginning of the year, it has been a fuss, and it is both recruiting and training, and dozens of people have been arrested for disobedience, and many people have been fined, which has made people complain." If it weren't for the fact that Xiaodi was too fat and old, he would have carried them to carry a gun. ”

"Humph!" Xiao Deli snorted, "This is to resist my Great Liao Heavenly Soldiers, right?" What a dream! ”

Is it a dream? The fat steward can't eat it in his heart...... Jiehe Commercial Market now has more than 5,000 baoding pillows waiting every day, and it can be doubled if necessary! In addition, there is a patrol team outside the south city, and a patrol team on the river and water. All of them add up, and there are 20,000 people younger.

"What's the matter with the people with swords?" Xiao Dryi asked again, pointing to a few "swordsmen" who had come out of a tavern.

The fat steward sighed: "They are all wicked people from elsewhere, claiming to be swordsmen......