Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 71
For a while, the people in the villages around Shuibo Liangshan were still very uncomfortable. They usually had to go out carefully for fear of being robbed. Now the minions of Shuibo Liangshan are trained every day, and their military appearance is neat. They don’t come out to rob merchants at all. The commercial roads are gradually becoming active, and the roads that used to be full of potholes have also been repaired and leveled, and a huge sign is hung there, slow down, toll booth ahead.

Wang Lun wrote the inscriptions with his own hand. Although Wang Lun is not good at being the head of the village, his handwriting is first-rate. In this regard, he is somewhat similar to Emperor Huizong.

Toll booths, as the name suggests, collect money, but the bandits are still very benevolent, and the commission is very low. They even help push carts and pull carts, and even smooth out the big potholes on the road.

It's not bad for bandits to do this, what more can you ask of them?Therefore, there are more and more business trips, and there is no need to detour.

On the official road from Dongping Mansion to Cangzhou, a caravan of a hundred mules was walking unhurriedly.There is also a river from Dongpingfu to Cangzhou, but the river has been in disrepair for a long time, and there are many silts, so it has long been abandoned, so the transportation of materials can only be done by land.

The head mule had a big red flower tied on his forehead and a pennant on his back, and wrote to Hujiazhuang.These are the goods prepared by Hucheng Chaijiazhuang, including rapeseed oil, soda ash, sulfur, saltpeter, and various herbs such as Angelica dahurica, Atractylodes macrocephala, honeysuckle, and isatidis.

A tall and burly man at the end of the team was riding a red horse, wearing mink fur, a fox fur hat, and a waist knife hanging from his waist.Looking at the face, it turned out to be a leopard head around the eyes, and there was a slight scar on the face, which was the washed away golden seal. This person turned out to be Lin Chong, the leopard head who took refuge in Shuibo Liangshan.

Next to him was a confidant apprentice brought from Liangshan, named Feng Jie, who was not very old, and led the horse for Lin Chong.

Feng Jie said: "Master, your clothes are really useful. Look at those servants, none of them dare to look at you, let alone interrogate you."

Lin Chong sighed, and said: "The high officials have a unique vision, and they see things more clearly than I do. If someone in rags rushed to Cangzhou, he might be taken away by the government before he could walk halfway. Put on this outfit, Riding a tall horse, you can walk swaggeringly instead."

"Master, what are we doing in Cangzhou?"

"I didn't expect that there would be a day for me to go down the mountain. I thought I would spend my whole life on the mountain. It has been a year since I went up the mountain from Cangzhou, and now I am back in Cangzhou. The officials are right. You can't read the past without fear of the future. Daddy I, Lin Chong, will not be able to repay the kindness that the officials have shown me over and over again. From now on, Lin Chong's life will belong to the officials. Master is about to start a new journey, I wonder if you can keep up with the pace of being a teacher?"

Feng Jie nodded and said: "All my family members died in the famine, so I had no choice but to go up the mountain and become a thief. Fortunately, I met my master. I have no way to turn back. I can only follow the master's footsteps and learn one-tenth of the master's knowledge." I am also satisfied."

Lin Chong said with a smile: "You are quite modest, don't worry, as long as you are willing to work hard, there is still hope for six or seven points in your studies. As for the remaining three points, it depends on your talent."

The mule team travels very fast. They get up early and sleep late every day, and they have a fixed route. They travel more than a hundred miles every day.Lin Chong has a horse to ride, but he doesn't feel hard work.Xiaoxing stayed overnight and returned to Cangzhou in four or five days.

Leaving aside the matter of Shuibo Liangshan and Lin Chong, let’s just talk about our Chai Daguan, after returning from Jeju and resting in Dongping Mansion for a day, he ran back to Cangzhou with Chai Meng overnight. This journey is true. Very hard work, seven or eight hundred miles away.Eyes were blown to tears by the wind.

Looking at the familiar Chaijiazhuang, the mountains and rivers are still the same. Although it’s only been seven days since I left, Chai Lin still misses home very much. Can't play well.

"Finally back, how about Chai Meng, are you all right?" Chai Lin bent over and put his hands on his knees.

Chai Meng was not much better, panting and said: "Master, I asked for leave for a day off, the wind blew out my eyes. These sports shoes are good, but they are eye-catching."

Chai Lin said: "No problem, one day I will train a good player to use Shenxing shoes, so that you also have a substitute to facilitate information transmission."

By the way, there are guards from Chaijiazhuang riding Mongolian horses patrolling in front of them. In the morning, wild wolves hurt people frequently, so they need to patrol carefully.

Chai Lin shouted, "Come here."

The escort rushed over on horseback, led by none other than Pang Qiuxia, with a recently dead wild boar hanging from the horse's buttocks.

"Master Chai, you're back so soon, where have you been?" Pang Qiuxia asked.

Chai Lin said: "From Gaotang to Dongping Mansion, and then back again."

This journey is [-] to [-] miles back and forth, and it takes more than ten days to go back and forth.

"You guys are going too fast, you're just a scooter." Pang Qiuxia said in surprise.

Chai Lin said, "I'm still running a scud, and I'm too tired to walk now. Arrange two guards to let the two horses out, and we're going back to the village."

"Good owner." Pang Qiuxia said.

Immediately, the two guards gave up two Mongolian horses, and Chai Lin and Chai Meng rode back to the East Village of Chaijiazhuang.

Along the way, the villagers greeted the owner one after another when they saw the owner, and Chai Lin responded enthusiastically.

Back at the Dongcun Xiaochang camp, there are very few people here, and Chai Meng will set up a reconnaissance and communication camp here, which will be responsible for reconnaissance and information transmission.

Chai Lin said: "Mengzi, you go home for a day off and arrive at the camp tomorrow. Remember to leave the Shenxing shoes behind for a while, and I will take them back for maintenance."

"Yes, thank you, brother." Chai Meng changed his shoes and went home happily. He was too tired these days.Chai Meng is not only an assistant, but also responsible for the safety of Chai Lin, and he is also under great psychological pressure. He is highly vigilant along the way and is already tired.

Chai Lin was also tired. He casually ate a few steamed buns, lay down and fell asleep. He slept for two hours, and he didn't rest until noon.

Chai Lin turned over and shouted, "Come here."

"Yes." A guard came in and stood at attention.

"Prepare the horse and go to the regiment training camp."

"Yes."

Soon, the guards prepared the black cloud horse.

Seeing that Chailin was coming, the big black horse put his big head over affectionately.Chailin scratched Heiyun's big head, fed it a carrot, and said, "Old man, let's go, let's go to the group training camp."

Chai Lin brought two guards, a group of three riders, and left Chaijiazhuang. Not far to the east was the Chaijiazhuang camp. He saw that the regiment training camp had been built neatly on the barren land, and the banner of the regiment training commander Flying in the wind, dozens of colorful flags are also fluttering in the wind, which looks very impressive from a distance.

The square plan covers an area of ​​[-] acres.There are two watchtowers more than ten meters high at the gate. Two archers stand on them. The logs with thick arms build a solid fence. There are sharp sharp horses in the fence. Sixty round tents are divided into sections. Arranged, each tent is spaced six meters apart, and drainage ditches are built between the tents to prevent rain and drainage.

(End of this chapter)