When a passerby becomes a princess

In fact, before returning to Beijing, Lin Qiu had left letters to Lin Lian and Li Taifu respectively, and arranged many things. He wanted to surprise Liang Xi when he came back, but he didn't expect that he would be busy preventing and treating smallpox as soon as he came back. Things were delayed.

It wasn't until March, after most people in northern Xinjiang had been vaccinated one after another, that Lin Qiucai and Liang Xi left the northern Xinjiang camp and came to the newly built raid camp together.

The raid camp was built on Pingba, a mountain in the southwest of Beijiang Daying. There used to be a wealthy town here with a population of less than 20, but it was invaded by Beard more than [-] years ago, except for young women. And children, almost all of them were massacred, and finally even the town was burned to the ground.

When Liang Xi and the others came here, they could still see some relics of the original town on the edge. Those ruins seemed to tell the story of the days full of fire and blood donation.

The raid battalion has 3000 people, 500 of which are former horse bandits, and the remaining [-] are all newly recruited soldiers from last year.

There are three instructors, one of them is Zeng Sheng, who is the well-deserved number one archer in the Eighteen Passes of Northern Xinjiang. He was originally a hunter, and his first-hand archery was practiced by shooting wild bees.The second one is Chang Pu, who is said to have been raised by a mare and has lived with horses since he was a child.The third one is Lin Cheng, who can be regarded as half of Lin Lian's apprentice, because his father rebelled with Liang Honglie in the early years and was seriously injured and died while saving Lin Lian. Later, Lin Lian took Lin Cheng, who was only seven years old at the time He was educated by his side and taught him his sword skills.

Judging from the level of these three instructors, it can be said that Lin Lian sent the best instructors in Northern Xinjiang (in fact, he has no choice but to say that this is the request of his precious young son?).

As soon as Liang Xi entered the gate of the raid camp, Liang Xi saw more than 50 thick, peeled logs facing the gate, each with a dozen or twenty soldiers riding on them. I don't know what was smeared on it, it looked slick, and the soldiers would slide off it if they didn't pay attention.

"What are they doing?" Liang Xi curiously asked Lin Cheng who came to greet him.

Lin Cheng is in his 30s, with a strong and tall body. In the cold weather in early spring, he only wore a thin single shirt. The long knife on the side of his waist was made according to Lin Lian's knife, which was more than one meter long. .He bowed slightly, clasped his fists and said, "Report to His Royal Highness, they are practicing equestrianism."

"What else do you need to answer? I'll just ask you to answer." Liang Xi was not interested in these trivial gifts at all, and said, "What does riding on a log have to do with equestrian skills?"

Lin Cheng was very happy to see his relaxed and kind tone, and smiled and said: "Most of these recruits have never ridden a horse, and Chang Pu put a lot of grease on the wood. The balance is the only way to keep them from falling, so that it will be much easier for them to practice riding in the future."

Liang Xi nodded. This kind of training method is very novel. With just a few words, many people fell from the log, and then, under the scolding of a big black-faced man, they struggled again. Faces climbed onto the logs, and some of them fell down after climbing several times in a row, screaming ouch.Liang Xi pointed at the black-faced man, and said, "Is that Chang Pu?"

"He is Chang Pu." After Lin Cheng finished speaking, he thought for a while and said, "Chang Pu is straightforward, and sometimes he will inevitably offend people when he speaks and does things. I hope His Royal Highness will not care about it."

Chang Pu is a local, and he was born in this small town. On the night when Huzi slaughtered the town more than 20 years ago, his family hid him in the livestock pen when he was only one year old, so that he escaped Huzi's butcher knife.After Huzi left, he was found by an escaped mare. The mare probably separated from the pony and raised Chang Pu with milk. She was not discovered until she was almost ten years old.

Because it is raised by a mare, Chang Pu doesn't like to get along with people, but treats horses as his relatives, and insists on living in the stables even at night.His character is not welcome even in the military camp. Although no one dared to steal his military exploits because of Lin Lian's pressure, no one would think of promoting him.

The relationship between Lin Cheng and him can't be said to be good or bad, but since they came to this raid camp together, I still don't want him to offend the prince because of his straightforward temper.

Liang Xi immediately laughed when he heard Lin Cheng's words. He was not a bad-tempered person in the first place. Ever since four old nuns who rolled their eyes at him came into the house, he was almost a saint. With just a few offensive words, He really doesn't care.

There are four training grounds in the raid camp. The riding training ground is already weird enough, but the knife training ground over there is even weirder. 1000 people hold their knives straight in both hands and stand motionless. If it weren't for the eyeballs Still turning, Liang Xi almost thought it was a thousand wooden figures.

"This is... standing in a military posture?" Liang Xi remembered reading the training article written by Lin Qiu and said that standing in a military posture has a great effect on military discipline and physical strength, but these people clearly held their knives horizontally, and the knives There is also a large stone hanging from the handle.

"No." Lin Cheng quickly glanced at Lin Qiu, who had been following them, and said, "This is changed by the subordinates according to their military posture. It is specially used to train soldiers' arm strength and the ability to control the sword."

Just like people who practice martial arts start from the zama step at the beginning, no matter how superb the sword technique is, they start from simple chopping and chopping, so what is the purpose of such practice?strength!As the saying goes, one force will drop ten times, if you want to continuously swing a knife on horseback to kill the enemy, arm strength is most needed.

Since Lin Lian was raised by Lin Lian, Lin Cheng has always regarded Lin Lian as an idol. Apart from practicing the sword skills taught by Lin Lian, he usually studies the art of war hard.Ever since I read the training article left by Lin Qiu, I have admired the youngest son of General Lin. However, Lin Qiu has never learned martial arts, so when training new soldiers with swordsmanship, Lin Cheng changed his original military posture. All of a sudden, it became what it is now.It's just that Lin Cheng was still a little uneasy after all, fearing that Lin Qiu would be dissatisfied because of this.

In fact, Lin Qiu was just imitating the cat, writing down a certain player's method of training soldiers in the original game. He would never express his opinion casually on things he didn't understand, but just quietly looked at the soldiers from the side.

It happened to be in the afternoon when they arrived, and there were only 2000 people in the raid battalion, and the other 1000 people were led by Zeng Sheng, a master archer, to practice.Speaking of this training, Zeng Sheng also modified it. Now it is not just running with a load. All the soldiers carry nearly 100 kilograms of things on their backs. They have to hunt and find food across the mountains. This is really not an easy task.

It was not until noon the next day that they saw the group of 1000 soldiers stumbling back under the leadership of Zeng Sheng. Except for Zeng Sheng, everyone lay on the ground as soon as they entered the camp gate, refusing to get up. In the end, he was whipped by three instructors to stand up, and walked slowly around the camp before he could rest.

Liang Xi watched from the side, secretly stunned, a mountain road of more than 100 miles, this is not a flat land of more than 100 miles, and it is still under the condition of carrying nearly [-] catties.

A load of fifty catties, including a wool blanket, a long knife, a bow, two quiveres of fifty arrows, a medical kit, and some basic necessities for life.And all of these were purchased for these soldiers with money from internal funds, because this raid battalion was not managed by the Ministry of War, it belonged to Prince Liang Xi's private army.

Long before Lin Qiu returned to Beijing, he played Liang Honglie in the name of Liang Xi and applied for a prince's guard.The Daliang Kingdom does not allow personal private troops, but the prince can have a personal guard army of less than 2000 people when he becomes an adult, and the prince has a guard army of 3000 people, but the prince must go to the land to have a guard army, and the guard army cannot leave Prince's fief.But the prince is not included in this list, the prince's guards can go anywhere except the capital.

Originally, the crown prince's guards should be funded by the treasury, but the treasury is really poor. Especially because of the bumper harvest last year, Liang Honglie began to publicize the benefits of terraced fields and waterwheels, and vigorously repaired water conservancy projects in various places. How can there be money for Liang Xi? What kind of guards, the word "self-raised" sent Liang Xi away.

Fortunately, Lin Qiu holds domestic funds in his hands, and has made a lot of money in businesses such as weaving carpets, leather goods, and brewing wine. He also took over the national internal funds business before Queen Chu gave birth, so he doesn't have to worry about having no money for Liang Xi. Set up guards.

Don't underestimate the equipment of each raiding battalion soldier. Each person has two sets of clothes, shoes and socks from the inside out per season, and two sets of special training uniforms, and a thickened and dense wool blanket. If weaving patterns, it will cost more than 400 taels of silver in the capital, a longbow made by an old craftsman, two hand crossbows, two cowhide quiver, and the medicine bag contains the best gold sore medicine and cold medicine, Chilblain ointment, gauze, and even a piece of soap is distributed in daily necessities.

Yes, soap.

Daliangguo generally uses saponins to wash hair and do laundry, which is purely natural and pollution-free.

Although Lin Qiu knew how to make soap, because of the underdeveloped animal husbandry in Daliang State, it was not easy to find a lot of oil for making soap, so he didn't make soap to make money.But ever since he went around the camp in northern Xinjiang, he couldn't help but put soap making on the agenda. The smell in the camp was so bad that he couldn't imagine that Liang Xi would become dirty too. filthy, or living in this stinking smell.

It's not that Lin Qiu dislikes it, just as Liang Xi always thinks that Lin Qiu is as clean and transparent as crystal, in Lin Qiu's eyes, Liang Xi is also like sunshine, with warmth and fragrance, he will use all methods to keep Liang Xi of this warmth.

It's just that Lin Qiu never mentioned these things, just like Liang Xi attended the crowning ceremony, he arranged everything to protect Liang Xi, and then never asked what happened that night again, he just silently did everything well up.