On March 12, the thirty-fourth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Li Yongfang and Mao Wenlong rushed from their respective offices after receiving the news. Then, Xiong Tingbi, who had been waiting impatiently in Liaoyang, did not even ask Li Chengliang to arrange a farewell banquet, and hurriedly

It's time to lead the team and set off.

Really, we can only call them leading a team, not an army.

In addition to arranging two low-level officers like Bai Hu to serve Xiong Tingbi, Li Chengliang also dispatched 500 elite military households to accompany him. However, when Xiong Tingbi saw these 500 "elites", he immediately became angry.

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Just look at the appearance of these military households. Their faces are sluggish and their eyes are dull. The key is that they are dressed too exaggeratedly: it is mid-March now, and they are still wearing winter cotton-padded clothes.

The cotton-padded clothes are just cotton-padded clothes, but the entire cotton-padded clothes have become hardened. I don’t know how many years they have been worn, and there is a sour smell all over my body.

What's more terrible is that you are military households. If there is a war, you have to fight, right? You have to have some kind of armor and weapons, right? The result? There is no armor, but everyone has a sword in his hand, but when he pulls out the scabbard, there is that cold light

Not a single gleaming and extremely sharp blade was seen. Instead, many of the blades were already rusty.

"Li Zizhen! Where is Uncle Ning Yuan? I want to see him!"

"Lord Xiong, please calm down. My father was infected with the cold yesterday and cannot get out of bed to attend to his duties at the moment."

"Huh! Uncle Ning Yuan can't get up, so why are you fooling me like this?"

"Uh... I don't know what I did wrong to make Master Xiong angry. Can I ask Master Xiong to make it clear?"

"These guys! Their eyes are dull and their clothes are not covering their bodies. What's even more strange and strange is that I don't know what they are wearing. Can they drive away tigers and wolves? Can they kill pigs and pigs? Li Zizhen, where did you find such things?

Species make up the numbers to deal with me?"

"Haha..." After giving a wry smile, Li Rubai responded without any sign of weakness: "Master Xiong thinks that these military households don't look good enough? Not elite enough? But the imperial court has owed Liaodong wages for many years, and Liaodong has been suffering from droughts in recent years.

Not good. Therefore, the military households in Liaodong are generally poor, and their clothes and weapons are a bit shabby. Compared with the Han generals in the capital, their appearance is indeed not good. But!" At this point, he emphasized his tone: "As long as the unification

If guarded properly, my sons in Liaodong can fight hard, but in terms of actual combat ability, five Han generals may not be able to defeat one of my soldiers in Liaodong!"

"Hmph! You said it nicely, but I can give orders and prohibitions with just one sentence?"

"Why not?" After saying this, Li Rubai turned to the five hundred soldiers and said: "We have them all, line up! Turn back! Go forward!"

Following a few brief commands, although the five hundred military households were not very orderly, they faithfully carried out Li Rubai's orders. After they reached the Liaoyang city wall, Li Rubai did not issue an order to stop, and then the five hundred military households were not ordered to stop.

Hundreds of military households directly attached themselves to the city wall and continued to move forward.

Seeing such an expression, Xiong Tingbi's expression softened slightly and he nodded. Li Rubai didn't say much and directly called the five hundred people to stand back.

"You all have recognized it clearly. My name is Xiong Tingbi, and I am the emperor's new Kuandian Bingbei Road. This time, five hundred of you, as well as these two hundred households, will follow me to the Sixth Fort of Kuandian to take office! I

The official is the most cheerful person. As long as you follow the four words of "orders and prohibitions", your salary will not be short of a copper penny, your clothes will never be an inch shorter, and your food will be whatever the official eats! But you will eat it!

If you don’t listen to this officer’s instructions, I will kill someone for no reason!”

After saying this, Xiong Tingbi stretched out his hand, and the entourage he brought from the capital quickly handed over a bow and an arrow. Then Xiong Tingbi skillfully bent the bow and set an arrow, and pointed at the Liaoyang city wall dozens of meters away.

With a bang, under the electric light and flint, the arrow of the bow and arrow was stably inserted into the cracks in the bricks of the Liaoyang city wall.

If we say that when Xiong Tingbi lectured just now, the eyes of these military households were as empty as ever. After the civil servant showed off his archery skills, which in the eyes of soldiers were considered acceptable, the eyes of the military households became slightly more hopeful.

A little more color.

"When I do my work, I always pay attention to rewards for merit and punishment for mistakes. Today you all come in good order. I will first reward each of you with fifty copper coins. In addition, if you have everything, listen to my order and give you all your waist knives.

Throw it away! Take off all your clothes!"

When the five hundred military households heard such an order, they hesitated a little. But after all, someone took the lead. First there were uneven clanking sounds, and then there was the sound of stripping off clothes.

Compared with his support for Sun Chengzong, this time Xiong Tingbi came to Liaodong, Zhu Youdong really spent a lot of money.

Not to mention anything else, just the entourage. Sun Chengzong's entourage consisted of several servants hired by Sun Kaiyang himself, plus 50 Taicang guards and 100 civilians sent by the Hubu Department to escort the silver coins. As for Xiong Tingbi,

It was the fifty cavalry sent by Zhu Youdong from the Four Guards of Tengxiang through the Royal Horse Guards. As for the other escorts of the silver, in addition to the civilian husbands, there were also twenty Jinyi guards!

Of course, this difference is that on the one hand, Liaodong is far more important than the southwest, which is why Zhu Youdong does not pay attention to it. On the other hand, Sun Chengzong can go south from the Grand Canal and then directly turn to the Yangtze River waterway to enter Sichuan. There are waterways all the way.

In the Ming Dynasty, waterways were relatively fast and safe. Therefore, although the guard strength varied greatly, Sun Chengzong did not express dissatisfaction.

"These are the weapons and clothes specially made for you by His Highness Taisun's manor with the permission of the Emperor after His Highness Taisun informed the Emperor. Now let's start changing your clothes!"

After the accompanying Jin Yiwei opened dozens of boxes and took out the contents, not to mention the hundreds of ordinary military households, Li Yongfang, Mao Wenlong and even Li Rubai next to them all opened their eyes wide and unconsciously looked at each other.

They all took a breath.

The underwear is made of fine and soft fine cotton yarn, and is covered with a blue and white cheesecloth jacket. Then there is the polished and polished full-body plate armor. This outfit, let alone a military household,

In Liaodong, even officers at the rank of general would not be able to find such clothes and armor!

In addition to clothing and armor, several other boxes contained weapons. The moment the waist knife was pulled out, the cold air was overwhelming, and the figure reflected on the blade was clearly visible. There was no need to test the knife. Anyone in the army knew that this was definitely a good knife.

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The spearhead of the spear was shiny, and the entire body of the spear was made of fine pewter rods.

The most amazing thing is this musket. Although there are only fifty muskets, they are so exquisite in style. The most important thing is that there is no place to tie a match rope on the entire musket!

In a few breaths, the 500 big-headed soldiers who were just like beggars, after completing the exchange of shotguns and cannons, apart from the smell of their bodies, they have completely transformed. Just by looking at it, they are definitely far better than those in Ouchi who are dedicated to showing off.

It's a handsome general.

"Hiss~ Mr. Xiong, are these all produced in Taisun's Honghe Village?"

"Of course, Zizhen, your Li family is solely responsible for the protection of Honghe Village. Don't you know that?"

"I know, I know, but I didn't expect these things to be so sophisticated! Tsk, tsk, it's incredible. Now when these guys go out and say that they are general soldiers, some people believe them! Uh, this, Master Xiong..."

"I know what you are going to say, but the grandson is only the grandson after all, and it is not possible to build armors and weapons privately. These things were all sent by the grandson to the emperor, and the royal horse supervisor, Dongchang and Jinyiwei related personnel were sent by Ouchi.

, produced under full supervision. Every pair of armor, every waist knife, every gun head, every musket is engraved with the name of the worker and the product number. The whereabouts of these things are determined by my team.

The imperial guards who are accompanying you must also be registered. Therefore, if you want to ask for these things, you cannot go from my office. It is better to go directly to Xinhonghe Village."

"Oh, oh, I finally understand."

Li Rubai withdrew angrily. Xiong Tingbi turned around and nodded to the two hundred households with blazing eyes: "You two, I will rely on you more in the future. There are two boxes here, specially for you.

Open it now."

"Yes, I humbly accept my order!"

Due to time and production capacity constraints, the so-called "general armor" Zhu Youdong handed over to Xiong Tingbi this time actually only had five pairs. Originally, he wanted to ask Xiong Tingbi to give it to Li Chengliang, Li Rubai and others to build a good relationship. But Xiong Tingbi was

What's your temper? He would rather give this general's armor to two small households to wear than give it as a gift - you, Li Chengliang, don't work under me, Mr. Xiong? I don't care if you die?

The so-called general armor is of course also plate armor in essence. However, compared with the flat plate that ordinary soldiers go straight forward, the armor surface of the general armor has many more decorations and patterns with national characteristics. Its sense of quality is indeed higher than that of ordinary plate armor.

A lot.

"Thank you for the generous gift, Mr. Xiong! I will work hard for Mr. Xiong!" A good pair of armor these days is enough to make an ordinary warrior shed tears of gratitude, let alone plate armor that looks like it is not a mortal thing. So no matter it is

Li Yongfang and Mao Wenlong both kneeled down and saluted Xiong Tingbi sincerely at this moment.

"I am the most cheerful in doing things. As long as I work hard, I will never let you down. Okay, now give me the order! All the troops are ready and set off!"
Chapter completed!