285 newly deployed, junior battalion

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On the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Li Zixiao took this opportunity to gather his generals together again and hold the first meeting of all his subordinates after the New Year.

Zhou Dazhu, Wei Hong, Liu Chong, Luo Chao, Qi Wei, Li Tianba, Xu Wei, Qi Lin, Dong Zhuang, and the busy man Qian Guangyuan, all arrived.

At this meeting, Li Zixiao mainly arranged the work tasks for his generals in the next six months.

Zhou Dazhu's 'pioneer battalion' continued to garrison the Xuzhou Canal Wharf.

The checkpoint there, he has never been removed, there are dozens of hundreds of taels of silver every day, Li Zixiao tasted the sweetness, and he was reluctant to give up.

simply, let Li Zixiao stay at the canal wharf and set up camp directly, and the prefect of Xuzhou did not dare to offend this powerful neighbor, so he simply turned a blind eye.

Besides, Li Zixiao didn't do anything desperately, he ate meat, and left some soup for Xuzhou to drink, which can be regarded as appeasement.

And Xu Wei and Qi Lin's 'Iron Blood Battalion' was responsible for setting up checkpoints on the official road to the north in Suzhou, and was responsible for inspecting caravans, pedestrians, etc. entering their jurisdiction.

In the jurisdiction of the White Dragon Army, any merchant who comes to do business must pay commercial tax, although it is not a lot, but this rule Li Zixiao must establish at this time.

This is also Li Zixiao's clear telling to those businessmen that in the future, as long as it is the territory controlled by their White Dragon Army, the history of merchants not paying taxes is gone forever.

At the beginning, there were many merchants who protested and united to refuse to do business with the White Dragon Army, but those big merchants did not do it, but countless small merchants rushed to do business with the White Dragon Army.

Because, the White Dragon Army does business, the price is fair, and the children are not bullied, even if they pay that small amount of taxes, the profits they earn are still considerable.

Soon, those big businessmen couldn't sit still, Li Zixiao spent a lot of money, wantonly purchasing grain, cloth, medicinal materials and other materials, in the face of such a gold owner, the businessman could sit still!

At this time, Li Zixiao had accumulated more than one million taels of gold and silver in his hands, and in his eyes, although it was a treasure, he also understood that money was only valuable if it was spent.

Otherwise, the gold and silver are hidden in the cellars, no different from the loess.

He wants to use these gold and silver to build an invincible army for himself, which is the capital for him to dominate the world in the future.

At the same time, Li Zixiao let Qi Lin and Xu Wei in Suzhou County, which had another meaning, that is, to facilitate their contact with Fengyang.

Fengyang commanded Wu Laifeng, but he never forgot the team in Li Zixiao's hands, Qi Lin and Xu Wei were a nail he thought was buried in the White Dragon Army.

On the one hand, he is responsible for monitoring the White Dragon Army, and on the other hand, he may be able to pull away the team in Li Zixiao's hands at some point!

What Wu Laifeng didn't know was that after Li Zixiao returned from Yangzhou this time, Qi Lin and Xu Wei thoroughly saw the potential of the White Dragon Army after getting along with the White Dragon Army during this time, and completely returned to their hearts.

They took the initiative to find Li Zixiao and completely expressed their allegiance and submission.

Their only condition is that if one day, Li Zixiao wants to overthrow the Ming Dynasty and claim the throne as the emperor, hoping that they will not be allowed to raise a butcher's knife against the Ming army.

At this point, Li Zixiao agreed very happily, he originally planned to pull the broken flag of Daming and go for a while, at this time, it is more beneficial for him to have the identity of a Daming general.

As for the families of the two of them in Fengyang Mansion, Li Zixiao made arrangements earlier.

Zhang Fugui's intelligence bureau received the support of Li Zixiao's large sum of money, and had already infiltrated Henan and half of Nanzhili.

The families of the two can be taken out at any time, which completely eliminates the worries of the two.

At this time, Li Zixiao ordered Zhang Fugui's intelligence bureau to infiltrate the Hebei area with all its strength in the first half of Chongzhen's eleventh year, and must establish their own intelligence system in the capital area.

Li Zixiao is preparing for the entry of Tatars into the customs in September this year, and he led his troops north to fight Tatars.

And Liu Chong's 'trapped camp' was transferred by Li Zixiao to Yongcheng County to protect the safety of the county, which is the first county town that their White Dragon Army actually controls so far.

Li Tianba's 'Tiger Battalion' was responsible for garrisoning Baihu Village, and after two months of rest, the wounded soldiers returned from their wounds, and more than 200 recruits were selected from the new barracks to join.

At this time, the 'Tiger Ben' battalion has been restored to the level before Yangzhou returned.

White Tiger Village, at this time, is basically the largest arsenal of the White Dragon Army, and most of the armor and weapons of the White Dragon Army are all produced here.

The importance here is no worse than that of the White Snake Village, of course, Li Zixiao will send the 'Tiger Battalion' to garrison.

The 'Feiyu' cavalry battalion led by Qi Wei and Luo Chao has now re-selected a place called 'Lemapo', where the terrain is flat, so as to facilitate their daily cavalry training.

The rest of the guard battalions, the 'Fire Raven' fire battalion, the 'Trojan Horse' Shaft Battalion, and the 'Fledgling' recruit battalion, all kept the White Snake General Village for daily drills.

Especially the recruit battalion controlled by Wei Hong, at this time, it has expanded from two battalions at the beginning, and after half a year, it has expanded to six battalions of nearly 5,000 people, basically accounting for more than half of the strength of the White Dragon Army.

At least, these recruits have endured more than a month of training, and the strongest recruit battalion has even undergone nearly half a year of training.

The strongest battalion and the second battalion even independently completed several anti-bandit tasks, and the soldiers have seen blood, and they are simply veterans.

However, because Li Zixiao did not want to attract the attention of the imperial court for the time being, he could not expand the team for the time being, so these soldiers still belonged to the new barracks in name.

But the commanders of each battalion have already booked these 'recruits', and once the time is ripe, Li Zixiao can double the number of troops under him at any time.

Moreover, the recruitment of the recruit camp has never been closed, and every once in a while, a group of recruits will be recruited, of course, they must go through the recruitment assessment of their White Dragon Army.

All of them were young men selected from the surrounding villages and a large number of displaced people.

There were even generals of the White Dragon Army, joking at Wei Hong.

He is a battalion general of a recruit battalion, and the recruits under him are more than all the soldiers and horses under the command of all their regular army generals combined.

As for Qian Guangyuan's task, it is to continue to stabilize the situation in Yongcheng County, make good preparations for spring ploughing, continue to bring in displaced people, increase the number of villages, reclaim wasteland, and so on.

In this regard, Li Zixiao has communicated with Qian Guangyuan and put forward his own ideas, and the rest of the specific implementation will be controlled by Qian Guangyuan himself.

After the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the generals of the White Dragon Army led their respective teams out of the White Snake Village and began to rush to various mission areas.

After being busy with these things, Li Zixiao was in the White Snake Village and went to check the affairs of the Martyrs' Shrine again.

From the beginning of the Lunar New Year, Mr. Wei arranged for people to start working on this matter and relocated the location of the Martyrs' Shrine.

On a vacant land in the east of the White Snake Village, rebuild, covering an area of more than three acres, the middle position is the main hall of the Martyrs' Shrine.

After entering through the gate, there are long corridors on both sides where stone monuments can be placed, and when Li Zixiao came to watch, the foundation of the place had been completed.

The walls of the courtyard and the walls of the houses have already begun to be built, and the bricks and tiles used are all fine green bricks from the courtyard of an earlier rich man at the bottom of the mountain.

However, the progress is not slow, and Old Master Wei is also very dedicated, he comes to watch every day when he has nothing to do, and urges the craftsmen who work to hurry up.

Seeing Li Zixiao coming to inspect, Old Master Wei hurriedly came over to greet him.

After Li Zixiao turned around, there was nothing dissatisfied, so he asked Old Master Wei, "How are the two things I asked you to keep now?" ”

Old Master Wei paused for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he understood what Li Zixiao was referring to.

He touched his long beard and said with a smile: "Don't worry, general, I see that the general is very attentive to these two things and does not dare to slack off."

Just listen to the general, specially used a wooden cabinet, put up the yellow rice grains, and the province was stolen by rats!

That kind of potatoes were also dug in a cellar according to the general's orders, and I went down to see them every two days, and they were all very good and not frozen! ”

"That kind of thing is not called yellow rice, but corn, and that kind of potato is called sweet potato, and it can also be called sweet potato.

These two things are good things, and we will have a lot of rations in the future, I'm afraid we will have to rely on these two things to provide us, but we have to be careful.

During this time, the old master, you are in the surrounding ten miles and eight towns, find a few old farmers with rich farming experience, and let them come to White Snake Village this year to cultivate these two new crops for us. ”

Li Zixiao instructed Old Master Wei.

Old Master Wei nodded again and again, agreed, and said that it would definitely be done.

Now although Old Master Wei is not young, his body is still strong, and in his White Dragon Army, everyone respects him very much, respects and loves him, and makes him enjoy it very much.

But the old master is now in the White Snake Village, responsible for managing the warehouses of the White Snake Village, especially the granary, and he is strictly stuck, and he is not extravagant and wasteful.

After Li Zixiao turned around, he turned to the back camp, and heard a shout of killing in the distance, so he smiled and walked into a separate courtyard with his legs raised.

I saw dozens of teenagers practicing martial arts under the supervision of a sect leader.

Don't look at these teenagers are not very old, but they are all very serious.

One by one, like little tigers, tossing and turning in the courtyard, practicing various martial arts, and at the same time, there are two groups of people fighting in teams, guns and knives, and they are quite decent.

As soon as he saw Li Zixiao coming, the sect leader immediately shouted: "All stand upright, line up!" ”

The teenagers immediately put away the guys, rushed together, and quickly lined up.

They all looked at Li Zixiao with eager eyes, and they did not become a swarm because of Li Zixiao's arrival, reflecting their quite good discipline.

"General Qiyu, the youth battalion is training martial arts, please give the general advice!"

The head of the sect immediately rushed to Li Zixiao's side and reported loudly to Li Zixiao.

"Rest, how are these little ones doing?"

Li Zixiao glanced at the group of teenagers and asked the sect leader.

"General Qiqi, they are all very good, these boys are very hard-working, but they are not very honest at night, and they will get into trouble from time to time, and they will be punished!"

"They are still children after all, and it is inevitable that they will be playful and messy about it, and they can't be too strict.

As long as they don't make a big mistake, when it's time to let them play, you still have to let them play.

You don't have to be so nervous, relax, I'm just coming over casually today, these children are the future pillars of our White Dragon Army.

When I hand them over to you, it shows that I have faith in you and believe that you can teach them well. ”

Li Zixiao walked into the courtyard unhurriedly with his hands behind his back, and the head of the sect named Mao Xiu behind him also walked in respectfully.

This Mao Xiu is in his forties, and he used to be the head of the imperial court Jingwei, but unfortunately he offended the powerful and was forced to leave the capital, and finally fell into despair and met the White Dragon Army.

To tell the truth, although he is proficient in eighteen kinds of martial arts, and he is good at swords, guns and sticks, but his martial arts are far inferior to quartz, and fierce generals like Li Tianba.

However, this person has one ability, that is, he is good at teaching disciples, and Quartz, Li Tianba, these people are very strong in martial arts, but when it comes to teaching disciples, they are far behind.

So, Li Zixiao arranged for him to come over and serve as the head of the martial arts of the youth camp.

There are now more than 160 teenagers in the youth camp, and there are more than a dozen young girls among them, most of whom are good seedlings selected by the White Dragon Army from the homeless people.

The youth camp is now divided into two halls, the one for literature and the other for martial arts, and the hall mainly teaches knowledge.

Of course, they also have to practice martial arts from time to time, not expecting them to be able to go into battle to kill the enemy, but they also need to be physically strong and cultivate courage.

These children in the future Wentang were all cultivated by Li Zixiao as a Wenchen.

He asked the ministers in the future not only to be highly educated, but also to have courage and responsibility, and he did not need a group of ministers who only knew how to talk about high and broad, but were greedy for life and afraid of death, and betrayed the country for glory.

The martial arts hall mainly teaches the teenagers the art of fighting and the tactics of leading the troops into battle, and they also have to attend classes in the hall every day.

Li Zixiao doesn't want these generals to lead the troops, who can recite poems and be proficient in poetry and songs, but they must at least be able to read and hyphenation, understand military books, and maps!

The juvenile camp is also what Li Zixiao values the most, and he put a lot of effort into it, and he did not hesitate to spend a lot of effort to find a few good private school masters from around to teach these children.

And he himself also comes to teach the children from time to time, Wei Hong, Qian Guangyuan, Luo Chao, Qi Wei and others will also be arranged to come over regularly to give lectures.

Soon, Li Zixiao just walked in, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Zhao Zilong standing at the head of the team.

Zhao Zilong was a little naughty and winked at Li Zixiao, and Li Zixiao immediately laughed.

Zhao Zilong was exchanged by Li Zixiao for Lu Yuanqing from the Lu family in Jinling.

Originally, with Zhao Zilong's level, it was enough to join the regular army of the White Dragon Army, but Li Zixiao, given that he was not yet eighteen years old before, did not approve him to graduate early and join the war barracks.

And this summer, Zhao Zilong and five other teenagers, who are also the largest in the juvenile camp, have all reached the age of eighteen, and almost all of them have reached the graduation standard.

When the time comes, they will leave the youth camp and join the White Dragon Army Combat Barracks and become a grassroots officer in the regular army of the White Dragon Army.

And Zhao Zilong's record in Jinling this time made his position as the head of the children in the youth camp more stable, and no one could shake it.