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In addition to Peng Bo, there are several other recruits who also increase the amount of training for themselves in between trainings. Behind them, there are always the figures of the team leader, the team deputy, the team leader, and the team leader. There's no way, the competition within the escort team is also fierce, who doesn't want their own squad to produce a few awesome recruits?

In fact, among the recruits, there are many people who are not convinced. Among the hundreds of recruits, there will definitely be people who can't hold it and eventually become unpopular, and there will definitely be people who will sharpen themselves and become the elite of the elite. With the help of officers from various squads, these people can quickly grow.

Of course, the reason why Peng Bo is so active is a little selfish. Because, Zhang Zhun made it very clear in his lecture last night. In half a month, the convoy will hold a skills competition. When the time comes, there will be some positions of officers, which may be adjusted. To put it bluntly, if you can fight better than your superiors, you may be promoted and become an officer!

The current guards of Fushan are all original Yangjiatun veterans who occupy the position of officers. If a recruit wants to become an officer, he must constantly train himself and improve his combat effectiveness. As long as you can stand out in this competition, you don't need to be qualified, you can become a captain or even a captain. If you can single-handedly take on all the people in the entire escort team, you might even become a team deputy or even a team leader!

Judging from the current situation, if you want to be a captain, you need at least a fourth-class soldier, and if you want to be a captain, you must also have at least a third-class soldier, in other words, a recruit must jump three levels in a row and defeat at least three enemies. This is not an easy task. Others train equally hard, how can they be easily defeated by you?

Because with four hundred, it is now possible to select soldiers of the fifth and sixth ranks. Therefore, although the recruits are gearing up and eager to try and strive to become first-class soldiers, why don't the veterans recuperate and prepare to improve their ranks and turn themselves into fifth- and sixth-class soldiers? Yang Qianqiang and other fourth-class soldiers are very beautiful, if they become sixth-class soldiers, then they will have to do it?

It's a one-on-one game, and there's no fake. In the ring, the king of heaven and Lao Tzu had no affection to say, Zhang Zhun was staring at it. Moreover, every time among the recruits, one or two freaks will pop up, who knows if there will be any particularly outstanding freaks among the more than 300 recruits? It seems that Peng Bo is very unconvinced!

Yes, Peng Bo was not convinced.

He set himself the goal of being a fourth-class soldier.

As long as you become a fourth-class soldier, a captain will definitely not be able to escape, and it is even possible to become a gang leader! This achievement, among the recruits, is definitely a first-class winner.

Of course, there are many people who think like Peng Bo. Recruits who have ambition to stand out in the competition are holding their breath and waiting for the moment when they get ahead. Even if you don't get a high-level skill mark for the sake of being an official, that's a matter of honoring your ancestors!

Of course, Zhang Zhun felt the majestic undercurrent surging in the escort team. That's what he wants. Even when there was no fighting, the motivation of the fighters could not stop. Knives need to be sharpened to become sharp, and what about soldiers? Is it realistic to expect officers and soldiers who do not train hard at all in peacetime to be able to defeat the ferocious Tartars?

Time passed quickly, and April passed quickly.

Originally, the recruits who were still a little childish have changed a lot after more than ten days of training. The combat effectiveness of the escort force has the most basic prototype. The practice of triangular thorns has also begun, and some talented recruits have also begun to emerge.

They have all become the focus of Zhang Zhun's attention.

Zhang Zhun was actually very busy during this time.

During this time, he did not leave the convoy for half a step. The escort team has just been expanded, and there are still many places to care about, and the team of 400 people, in the future generations, will be a battalion. He turned out to be just a non-commissioned officer, with a maximum of a dozen people under him. When I had eighty people, I didn't feel very strained, but now that it has increased to four hundred, it's still a bit stressful.

He is busy with all the world, he is tired and exhausted every day, I am afraid that even if he sees Xue Zhidie, there will be nothing left. Of course, he didn't have a chance to meet her at all. She wouldn't come to the escort, and he didn't have time to go back to Yangjiatun. Even Yang Yinghan is rare, let alone her. The things outside are all heard from the mouse. In the middle, Yang Ruifeng also came to look for him.

Wang Shixin also tried to resist stubbornly, desperately developing combat effectiveness in Fushan City, and he increased the number of people defending the city to more than 500. However, there is only a limit to what he can do, and all the people in Fushan City, even if all of them are Wang Shixin's diehards, are only two or three thousand people. Compared with the sea of thousands of people outside the city, Zhang Zhun has no pressure at all. As long as the escort team is trained to have basic combat effectiveness, this siege will be a bargain.

Yang Ruifeng came to Zhang Zhun mainly to discuss the source of coarse salt.

Because a large number of young and middle-aged people have joined the guards, the output of boiled salt in Fushan has dropped a lot, and now the daily output of coarse salt is less than 800 catties, and Yang Ruifeng's daily digestion capacity is 2,000 catties, which is far from satisfying Yang Ruifeng's appetite. At this time, the Lingshan Weijun households on the other side of Mawan learned that someone in Yangjiatun had offered 20 yuan per catty to buy illicit salt, so they sent someone to contact them, wanting to sell their illicit salt to Yangjiatun.

"That's a good thing, I'm for it."

Zhang Zhun nodded and said.

The profit of the refined salt business is one hundred taels of silver every day, and of course he must attach great importance to it. Since someone is willing to send coarse salt here, it would be better. As a result, from the end of April, Lingshanwei, which is across the sea from Fushan, began to have a large amount of private salt into Yangjiatun.

From Lingshanwei to Fushansuo, as long as you pass through the water surface of Mawan, there is no salt or anything in the middle, for the military households of Lingshanwei, it is a very good business, almost no risk. Lingshanwei has 4,000 households on the left, center, right, and Xiahezhai, and there are 30,000 or 40,000 actual military households under its jurisdiction. A large amount of their private salt poured into Fushan, and there were thousands of catties every day, so Yang Ruifeng had to find a way to expand the scale of production.

Yu Nanyi and his mysterious lord have not returned to Shanxi, but Zhao Laoba of Zhaojiatun said that no matter how much refined salt is provided by Yangjiatun, he can digest it. In fact, 2,000 catties of refined salt a day is only 60,000 catties a month, which is really not enough to fill the gaps. It is conservatively estimated that the refined salt consumed in Shandong Province every month is at least hundreds of thousands of catties, not to mention those outside Shandong Province.

Yang Guohua, the monkey who was captured by Zhang Zhun, also performed very well during this time, and he had the intention of taking refuge in Zhang Zhun. In fact, Yang Guohua himself is not a bad person, most of them are actually homeless people from the Jiangnan region, and most of them eat together. If they can get along on land, who wants to work with pirates? He has been working with Liu Xiang for two years, and he has no family, so he has no difficulty at all.

Hearing that by joining the escort team, everyone could get five acres of military land, which could be passed on to their children and grandchildren, Yang Guohua and his pirate subordinates were a little moved. What are they awaiting at sea for? Isn't it just to earn a few taels of silver, buy a few acres of land in the future, and live quietly? Now, as long as they participate in the escort team, there will be military fields, and they are indeed very excited.

It just so happened that the escort itself had no sailors, no people who knew how to steer warships, and there was no way to sail away with such a pirate ship. Yang Guohua then asked someone to bring a message to Zhang Zhun, saying that he and other pirates were willing to do things for Zhang Zhun. They would rather not pay silver, but only give the military field. In order to show their sincerity, Yang Guohua and others also said that if Zhang Zhun had any poison, he could give them a dose first, and the antidote was in Zhang Zhun's hands. If they apostatize and can't get the antidote, they will end up being a dead word.

"Joke! I'm not Sect Master Hong! ”

As soon as the other party finished speaking, Zhang Zhun couldn't help but laugh.

However, if there is really a leopard fetus pill, Zhang Zhun will really give it to Yang Guohua and others.

In fact, Zhang Zhun still welcomes Yang Guohua's initiative to take refuge. Yang Guohua's guess was right, the escort team did not have sailors and no talents to fight warships, if you want to protect the safety of your coastline, relying on Yang Guohua and the pirate ship is naturally the best. Moreover, the training of sailors and the expansion of the naval fleet must also be considered holistically from now on. The construction period of the Navy is notoriously long.

As for whether they will defect, Zhang Zhun is not too worried, if the historical river does not change much, Liu Xiang should be finished soon. Those of them who follow Liu Xiang, how good can they be? Zheng Zhilong is famous for his grudges, will he make Liu Xiang's subordinates feel better? Unless it's hiding in the distant South Seas, maybe there is still some life.

However, the South Seas are the territory of Portugal, Spain, and the Dutch, and Western warships shuttle back and forth, and the Chinese are there, without strong military support, they may not be able to survive! When the British rose up and brought a more powerful fleet, it would be even more difficult.

It's just that Zhang Zhun doesn't know Yang Guohua's surname very well, and he hasn't clearly agreed. Yang Guohua also knew that he was from a bad background, so he didn't dare to force it, and worked honestly every day. Zhang Zhun gave Yang Guohua the task of repairing the pirate ship. In order to prevent them from escaping, the sails of the pirate ship have been disassembled.

On the first day of the fifth month, Zhang Zhun decided to hold the first plenary meeting after the establishment of the Shengxia Sect.

There are several main contents of this plenary meeting.

The first content is to introduce new members such as Hou Shanping, Liu Hang, Wang Mingyu, and Peng Bo to get to know each other. Because of the redistribution of land, they are now the most influential figures, and Zhang Zhun basically put forward a general proposal, and the detailed plan was completed by them. Peng Bo performed well in the recruit training and was also praised by Zhang Zhun.

The second content is to announce the expansion of the number of members of the Shengxia Sect in the escort team. After a period of investigation, more than 20 recruits with outstanding performance were introduced to Shengxiazong by their respective team leaders and team vices, and are now in the inspection stage. Liu Hang, Wang Mingyu, and Hou Shanping also introduced several good seedlings to join Shengxiazong, which are also in the investigation stage at present.

In the third content, Zhang Zhun announced that he had adjusted the personnel structure of the escort team to ensure that in each squad (50 people), there were at least five members of the Shengxia Sect. In the future, the number of members of each squad's Shengxia Sect will increase to about ten. Zhang Zhun believes that this is conducive to increasing the cohesion and centripetal force of the escort force.

The fourth content is Zhang Zhun's preliminary decision to launch an attack on Fushan City on the eighth day of the fifth month, and now he has to make a series of preparations around this matter.

Due to the stimulation of Juntian's slogan of exemption, the current military households in Fushan City are already excited, and they are all gearing up and preparing to do a big job. Even, even the military households in Fushan City have already gotten the information. Because their words were more difficult and their desire for land was more urgent, it was reported that if Zhang Zhun did not attack the city immediately, the people in them would be the first to act.

Based on all kinds of intelligence, Zhang Zhun had to believe that even if the escort team didn't do it themselves, the military households would have to do it spontaneously. Now that the peaches are ripe, do not continue to hang on the tree lest they rot. So, Zhang Zhun decided to take down Fushan City in early May.

"Siege on the eighth day of the fifth month!"

This news seemed to be a gust of wind, and it spread throughout the entire Fushan Institute in an instant.

Secrecy or anything is a floating cloud, and in such an environment, it is impossible for Zhang Zhun to keep it secret. In fact, there is no need for secrecy. This news itself is very incendiary, and it can greatly enhance the fighting enthusiasm of the military households. At the same time, the intelligence of the mouse showed that there was no movement in Laizhou Mansion and Jimo County. In other words, they will attack Fushan Castle without any foreign interference.

In fact, on the side of Laizhou Mansion, it is very likely that the fighting and killing on the side of Fushan will be treated as a simple incident. How many years has this not happened? Which guard hasn't happened? The soldiers on the front line in Liaodong are all paid, let alone the mainland? Everyone has long been used to it. Besides, the Ming army's response has always been super slow, and when the Xiangxiang Sect made trouble, it was often the officers and soldiers who reacted after conquering several prefectures and counties.

As a result, preparations for the attack on Fushan City were carried out in an orderly manner. First of all, the two Franc machine guns must be dismantled, even if it will cause some damage to the warship. Yang Guohua said that he was willing to lead those pirates to personally bombard Fushan City, and if he didn't fight well, Zhang Zhun could ask for his head. Second, it is necessary to closely strengthen communication with the military households in the city and mobilize the poor military households inside. It would be even more perfect if the city gates could be opened from the inside to the outside. Again, it is to collect miscanthus salt, charcoal, and sulfur, and make more explosive packets, mines, etc., and if the Franco cannon does not work, then carry out blasting and forcibly blow open the city gates.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

However, the plan to attack Fushan Castle was interrupted by an unexpected event.

On the third day of the fifth month, the mouse came in a hurry and reported an astonishing news to Zhang Zhun.

Maojiatun was attacked by pirates!

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