After crossing the trestle bridge, there are still fifty miles to Huaiyang City, Lin Jian and others are already hungry, and after meeting with Liu Miaozhen and others, they will rest on the beacon fire platform at the end of the trestle.

The fort is a brick fort of more than ten zhang square, and the Huaiyang Town sends a team of soldiers to guard and control the trestle on weekdays.

Lin Lian's accompanying escort cavalry and the team that accompanied Liu Miaozhen out of the city to greet him totaled nearly a thousand people. Not to mention horses, people don't have a place to sit when they enter the fort, and the forest is also casual, just rest outside the fort, and the wind and snow are not unbearable.

The scouts scattered their horses, and the cavalry scattered in groups, using their horses to shield themselves from the wind and snow, and to feed the horses and gnaw on the dry and hard wheat cakes on the sheltered side of the people; It is also used as a unit to set up a pot and stove, take snow to boil water, and put meat to cook soup.

This trip accompanied Lin Tie to Huaiyang to inspect, as well as Sun Jingtang, Li Wei, Gao Zongting, Tang Fuguan, Zhou Pu and others, together with Lin Tie, Liu Miaozhen, Ma Lantou, Sun Zhuang, Li Liang and others, in the wind and snow, sitting around the big iron pot that burned "Bang Bang". The pervasive smell of meat came to the nose, hooking people to eat insects.

Huaisi is short of supplies, to settle so many displaced households, the wild snakes and rats are eaten clean, but the soldiers are supplied with meat according to the amount, take snow and boil water, wash and mix the pickled dried meat and fish into the pot, and then pick some edible wild vegetables and add them to the stew, it has become the most anticipated delicious meat soup on the arduous march.

Li Liang looked at Lin Jian holding a bowl of broth and drinking it with relish, and felt strange in his heart, and asked: "The food in the army, the preparation makes it taste good?" ”

"Why is there no taste, do you think I can't hide the delicacies of the mountains and seas every day?" Lin Lian asked with a smile, and said seriously, "I, I don't like to drink wine, Li Shuai wants to drink, I can accompany you for a few bowls, but I like to eat meat, braised meat, and I prefer pork to mutton." ”

Li Liang smiled shyly, Ma Lantou leaned over and said: "In these years, only the rich and noble can eat meat, and the nobles like to eat sheep and hate pigs, so Jianghuai raises more sheep and less pigs, only the slightly wealthy families raise a pig at the end of the year to kill and satisfy their hunger, but only large-scale pig breeding in Huaidong ......"

Lin Lian knew that Ma Lantou was embarrassed to ask directly, and replied to him with a smile: "My nickname of 'swineherd' is not for nothing, I am famous for raising pigs in Jiangning - those rich and noble people only know that mutton is better than pork, and they can't calculate the accounts," Lin Lian broke his fingers to settle accounts with Ma Lantou, and said, "A sheep can only kill thirty or forty catties of meat from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, and a pig can kill three or four times as much meat, and the pig can also eat it when it goes into the water; Oil can burn vegetables to make wax; Pigskin armor is barely good, but boots, liners, and belts are all very useful; Bristles can be used to make brushes, bristle brushes are a good thing, and tung oil should be smeared to make boats, and bristle brushes are good and fast; Pig pens can be raised to make hay, a pig is enough to fatten one acre of land, not to mention a stone of rice grain...... If you are a handsome horse, will you abandon the pig and raise the sheep because the mutton tastes better? ”

"In other words, I also raise pigs...... Ma Lantou replied with a hearty smile.

"Some people are full of righteousness and morality, and they speak better than they sing. The officials and generals of Huaidong, I told them: Don't talk to me about those mysterious and mysterious things, so that you can't starve to death in your governance, which is the most basic benevolence, the most basic righteousness, and the most basic virtue; It is said that natural disasters and man-made disasters are the biggest betrayal of morality," Lin Jian said: "Regarding the distribution of materials, now Huaidong's materials are also in short supply, so they are supplied in the army by grade." Officers work harder, so there will be some additional allowances for officers, but it will be limited. The fundamental starting point of these arrangements is to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops and to better reassure the people and the people, not to cultivate the style of officials and masters -- whoever makes great contributions, who has high merits, and who is diligent and attentive will be better guaranteed. If we don't, won't we all have to shrink behind others in the war? ”

Everyone laughed.

Even in the past year, with the support of Huaidong to tide over the predicament, accept Zhao'an as the Huaiyang Town Army and accept the moderation of the Huaidong Military Division on the right track, Ma Lantou, Li Liang and other generals are grateful to Huaidong, but they are more than in awe of Lin Jian himself and difficult to have a close heart.

After all, he had only seen Lin Tie's drastic methods on the battlefield before, and Lin Tie's reputation in Huaidong had reached a place where no one could replace him, even if Ma Lantou, Li Liang and others were still vigilant, they still looked at Lin Tie with an upward attitude.

Lin Tie came to Huaiyang to inspect, Ma Lantou, Li Liang and others were also quite surprised, even if they felt Lin Tie's trust in Huaiyang Town, they were uneasy, and they didn't know how to approach in order to be proportionate, but they didn't expect Lin Tie to speak from the tone, way and content of what he said, which made them feel approachable, and suddenly shortened the distance between the two sides.

Although there are no delicacies from the mountains and seas, in the wild, braving the wind and snow around a pot of broth, everyone eats with relish and talks freely, which makes Gao Zongting quite emotional.

Lin Jian wants to come to Huaiyang to inspect, Gao Zongting is opposed, after all, a year ago, everyone was still seriously opposed to each other, even at present, Huaiyang Military Town still maintains considerable independence, only nominally accept the control of the Huaidong Military Division, who can guarantee that the people in Huaiyang Town have no ambition at all?

Counting the time to cross the trestle bridge and eat in the wilderness, it was also planned by Gao Zongting, that is, to use this short time to observe whether there was any abnormality among the generals in Huaiyang Town - seeing this scene in front of him, Gao Zongting knew that some people were born to win people's hearts. When it comes to winning people's hearts, it is nothing more than to know what others need, and what you can give.

However, this picnic was not peaceful, Lin Jian drank the broth, stood up with the generals and moved their waists and legs, and the cavalry led the horses to disperse in formation, and when they were going to continue to move forward, there were horses galloping in the direction of Huaiyang, and Yanhu outposts that had infiltrated were found in the north of Huaiyang City......

"A team of fifteen people, wearing leather armor, holding knives and bows, all two horses!" Lin Lian took the letter and newspaper handed over by Liu Miaozhen, looked at it, and said, "It's a standard Yanhu whistle...... He didn't say much, if Liu Miaozhen couldn't even deal with a few small units of Yanhu whistle that had infiltrated, it would not be in vain to invest so many resources in Huaisi in the past year.

"Let them in and hurt them a few times before they become more honest." Liu Miaozhen ordered.

If you send troops to intercept them before they cross the defensive line, it will be difficult to bite their tails and beat them. Put them in, two or several cavalry flanks, you can bite them hard, a few times, you can make Yanhu You Sentry more honest, know that the Huaiyang defense line is not except for the city can let him into the realm of no one.

There is no way to do this, the number of cavalry in Huaiyang Town is very limited, and the patrol posts on the opposite side of Yanhu can only be intercepted or outflanked by cavalry; When the foot pawn goes out, he can't even bite someone's tail at all, and he may be lured into the other party's ambush circle.

In the most difficult time of the Huaiyang Town Army last year, even the most precious war horses were killed to maintain human lives, and the nearly 1,000 elite cavalry in Liu Miaozhen's hands were all changed to armor.

There is no shortage of ordinary mules and horses in Huaidong, and thousands of mules and horses are also supported by the Huaiyang Town Army, but in the past year, Huaidong has also introduced less than 3,000 excellent war horses from the Haidong region.

Zhou Pu led the cavalry battalion north to support Jinhai in March, and when he withdrew, the casualties were not large, but the loss rate of the horses exceeded 40 percent, which made Zhou Pu cry out in pain. The cavalry battalion withdrew to Chongzhou for rest, and a group of skilled horsemen were selected from the Jinhai battalion and other departments to make up for it, and the number of soldiers was expanded to six battalions, but the number of war horses was only replenished to 3,000, and it was not even possible to meet the standard of one person and one horse.

In addition to the scouts of each infantry battalion who supplemented some with horses, Lin Jian also did his best to allocate 500 extremely precious fine war horses to Huaiyang Town.

On the basis of the 500 excellent war horses allocated to Huaidong, and some sturdy and well-traveled horses were selected from ordinary pack horses, Huaiyang restored the establishment of two battalions of cavalry.

Because the war horse is too precious, if it weren't for Lin Tie over, Liu Miaozhen would rather let Yanhu You Sentry come in and use a bow and crossbow foot pawn to ambush and intercept it, even if it is to scare the enemy away or lose some foot soldiers, it is more acceptable than losing the precious war horse.

In Huaiyang and on the west bank of Bianshui, in the past six months, Huaiyang Town and Huaisi Workers' Camp have tried their best to repair the remaining Tuweizi as a resettlement site for displaced households.

Of course, thirty or fifty people from Yanhu Youshao tentatively infiltrated the Huaiyang defense line, and the cavalry was dispatched to intercept it, although it was easy to stop back, but it could not avoid the loss of the war horse. There was time for cavalry to shoot at each other on horseback, and the heaviest losses were not people, but often horses with larger targets.

It was easy for Yanhu to get war horses, but Huaiyang Town offered five hundred war horses as treasures.

Moreover, when the scale of Yanhu Rangers reaches three or five hundred, even if all the cavalry is sent out to intercept here, even if it is hard, it may not be able to ensure victory, and it will be even more headache at that time.

On the contrary, the scale of the Yanhu cavalry coming in was larger, and the infantry could be dispatched to intercept it. After all, even when a large force of cavalry is marching, the queue will be stretched and the range will be extremely wide, and it is difficult to ensure that the flanks are not bitten by the foot soldiers.

In addition to ordering the cavalry in Huaiyang City to outflank the enemy cavalry, Liu Miaozhen also handed over the more than 300 cavalry that accompanied Lin Tie to the west bank of the Bianshui River to Li Liang to lead, asking him to spread out in front of the formation to ensure that no Yanhu sentry would crash in.

"Tao Chun and the Liang family eat shit, and they really want us to wipe their butts......" Li Liang was very dissatisfied with the Hehuai defense line for letting Yanhu You whistle leak in, and said indignantly.

"I don't bring many cavalry this time, but I can help you......" Lin Jian said with a smile, summoned Sun Zhuang to him, handed over the accompanying battalion of cavalry to him to lead, and cooperated with Huaiyang Town to intercept the infiltrated Yanhu Sentinel, and said to Liu Miaozhen and Ma Lantou, "If you are willing, I will transfer another battalion of cavalry from Chongzhou to Sun Zhuang to lead it, and assist you in intercepting Yanhu Sentinel, and you can't let the reality of Huaisi be easily touched by Yanhu......

Due to the limited resources, and Huaisi to resettle too many displaced people, in addition to the Huaiyang area of the displaced people can avoid the soil fence, on the east bank of the Bianshui River, between Suining and Suyu, more people in order to reclaim the land and farm conveniently, are in the wild to build shantytowns for living, once let a small group of outposts infiltrate, casualties will be difficult to avoid.

The people were panicked, and the exile forces, which had finally settled down, were about to swell southward, causing new turmoil.

Lin Tie didn't care about the loss of the war horses at this time, more to buy time, when hundreds of earth fences, forts, and fortresses were lying between Huaisi, Yanhu was tens of thousands of cavalry, and as long as they fought hard all the way through, they didn't want to fight the tactics of outflanking within the range of Huaisi.

As for the leakage of Yanhu Youshao at this time, Lin Jian is estimated to be a leak from Tao Chun's jurisdiction.

The Liang family has some cavalry in their hands, and they have been operating Pingyuan Mansion and Jinan Mansion for three years, and they still have the ability to intercept the infiltration of a small number of outposts. The only cavalry in Tao Chun's hand could not even meet the most basic requirements for horse exploration, and the whole army had just retreated to Daliang, and it would be the least surprising if Yanhu Youshao leaked in from the Changhuai military area.

Compared with the Yanhu outpost that appeared in the north of Huaiyang City at this time, Lin Tie is more related to the outpost that Yanhu infiltrated into Linzi, Qingzhou and other places, and it is obvious that the Qingzhou Army's ability to prevent the infiltration of Yanhu cavalry is several times worse than that of the Changhuai Army.

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