Chapter 9 Pyongyang

The horse's hooves stomped through the stream, and the first one was to ride a horse and already stepped on the north shore. Then dozens of knights rushed over. The figure immediately, with red-top clothes and secluded peacock feathers with green eyes. It was Xu Yifan so young that it made people feel dazzling.

On both sides of the road, mountains stood tall and huge trees were lush. A team was marching sparsely on the road from Seoul to Pyongyang. After the past few days, although the old camp of Pyongyang had sent a forward army station mainly composed of Dashengkui, preparing food, firewood, and side dishes along the way to meet the Qing army heading north, the more than a thousand people still walked and complained. They intentionally or unintentionally opposed each order of Xu Yifan.

In addition to setting an example, Xu Yifan was the first to get up every day to wait for them to clean up and set off every day, and waited until they had the last sleep after they went to bed. He was silently observing them.

The sixth battalion of the Qing army should have 2,400 infantry, 400 cavalry, and 200 artillery soldiers. But in fact, there were only more than 1,400 people. When Chu Wanli was testing the test, Wu Qingen replied to him with his neck: "This is an empty umbrella. It has always been the public rules set by the Huai Army. We just do what Shangguan wants. When Lord Yuan handed over, why didn't you tell Lord Yuan? Now we are asking for trouble for us!"

Chu Wanli had received Xu Yifan's explanation a long time ago, but he just smiled. But these days, he also accompanied Xu Yifan, observing the team behind the team, which officers were excluded in the team, who were willing to obey orders, and which were agile and accurate, and they were all remembered silently in their hearts.

Xu Yifan and his entourage immediately rushed by the stream, watching the Qing army brigade rushing over in chaos. The military equipment was thrown on the pack horses. Seeing the stream in front of him blocking the road, they all started to take off their pants cursing. Wu Qingen's Sichuan horse came steadily from behind. The battalion officer had already emptied his body in Seoul and shouted loudly to the opposite side of the stream: "Mr. Xu, it's already thirty miles away, so let's take a break! It's not a time of chaos, the brothers didn't take the excrement fee to leave a day! Mr. Xu, are you watching?"

Xu Yifan sneered and waved his whip to the front. He and these veterans had already fought with them enough. Chu Wanli smiled and shouted at Wu Qingen: "Mr. Wu! It's only one stop from Pyongyang. When you arrive in Pyongyang, Lord Xu will have a super reward. A big bowl of roasted pot, spore meat, and maybe a North Korean girl is dancing! Drinking wind and eating cold dry food here means hairy?"

The soldiers heard Chu Wanli's joke and laughed loudly. At this time, when an officer was an officer, he was either not afraid of death or could put down his airs. Chu Wanli's behavior, regardless of anything else, made Qingjun and other soldiers feel very fond of it.

Wu Qingen smiled at Chu Wanli, pulled his horse back to command the crossing of the river, and waited for the camp behind him to come up. Several battalion officials gradually gathered together, all looking at Wu Qingen's dark face.

"What rewards! I've seen so much. Want to swallow our Huai Army? Let's hang up! You can't let these guys arrive in Pyongyang, settle down, and deal with us one by one. We agreed to make an appointment. When we arrived in Pyongyang, we'll make a fortune together! Development fees, officers' loans of money, and the salary for two months, plus the marching's grain and salt and vegetables that we should receive, and we'll have to pay the money we'll pay on the public account together! If he surrenders and takes it out, he won't be able to bring these soldiers in the future. The Qing army will keep his word..."

A battalion official was a little timid and asked intently: "What if he doesn't give in?"

Wu Qingen gritted his teeth: "We have more than a thousand people, but he only has a hundred number of guards. Our sects are dispersed. Can he still dare to chase us? As long as we can pull the team back to Seoul, Lord Rong and Lord Yuan will support us. Gang also has to participate in his military management ineffectiveness! In addition, behind us is the old Beiyang of the Huai Group, can we let go of this opportunity to fall into the water dog? It's not that we are not ordered to go north, but he can't take it well! Only then can Lord Rong and Lord Yuan be easy to talk to... What do you mean?"

Several battalion officials looked at each other and saw Wu Qingen's confidant approaching intentionally or unintentionally. Several battalion officials hurriedly expressed: "You are the eldest brother, and we are not the only one who is your leader! When you arrive in Pyongyang, we will start a fuss with you as soon as you call!"

While discussing secretly, Xu Yifan led a dozen guards to rush out of the valley by the stream. In front of him was the plains on both sides of the Datong River. A green patch extends to the end of the mountain. Wild flowers bloom everywhere, and the vitality of spring was fully displayed even in this vassal state and Korea. When they came out of the mountains and saw this scene, the people and horses were all excited.

A dozen horses ran over from afar, and the knights were the first to hold a Xu Jie flag. They were flying in the spring breeze. The knights were tall and big, with bright horses and shiny horses, wearing the foreign military uniform that Xu Yifan ordered. Who else could be there besides Zhang Xuzhou?

Zhang Xuzhou brought several academic soldiers with a look of surprise on his face and rushed over like flying. Xu Yifan also smiled and waited. When Zhang Xuzhou arrived in front of him, he shook his hand and inserted Xu Jieqi steadily on the ground, turned over and rolled his saddle to dismount.

"Mr. Xu, we finally hope that you will come! Our old camp is ahead. It is our new home! Lord Zhan is in charge of construction, so I rushed to welcome him dozens of miles. Lord Tang has also arrived and brought Mr. Tan and his family... Lord Xu, you have chosen a good place for us! A few hundred miles in a radius can be decided! Looking at the country, there is no such world!"

Zhang Xuzhou was full of sincere man and sprayed him like a machine gun. Finally, he was waiting for Xu Yifan to meet them in this new world. His joy and excitement were as if he was about to pour out of his heart.

Why is Xu Yifan unhappy?

The lifelessness of the capital, the blood and fire of Nanyang, and the barely socializing in Seoul, here is the real new world that belongs to him. Everything about him will start from here!

Even the strong horse under his crotch felt the excitement of the master's forced self-control. He was panting, pricking his ears, and neighing in circles. Xu Yifan turned around and smiled at Chu Wanli who was following him, "This beast! I also want to see its new home. Wanli, please greet him from behind and coax these great masters to Pyongyang before cooking. I'll go to the front to take a look first!"

Chu Wanli immediately bowed: "Those men are handed over to me! Lord Xu, don't worry!"

Xu Yifan whistled, spread the reins and ran straight out. The strong horse behind him was like a dragon, and followed him northward.

Pyongyang, I'm here!

The entire Pyongyang has become a large construction site.

The camp for 20,000 people is already being built. The workers recruited from the Northeast are chewing sorghum cakes and beef, surrounded by balls. The foreman is still shouting: "Wait a minute to go into the water to build a house. The wages will be added to 500 yuan for the water to go into the water today, and there will be four taels of boiling pots at night! Who will sign up?"

In addition to the barracks, there are other places where white lines have been drawn, and the workers are leveling the foundation. Wearing robes, jackets and glasses, the engineers recruited from Shanghai and Tianjin, and even some foreigners, directing Sa Bai Daoer. The materials for the construction factory were transported from waterways and piled up in open places.

The teams that were pulling condoms in the mountains also shouted horns and shouted horses to come and go one after another. The carriages were dragged with wood for construction and closed the mountain and logged wood. Zhang Xuzhou, in accordance with Xu Yifan's order, threw a document of defense from the imperial envoy to the Pyongyang Prefecture. With the Pyongyang Prefecture and even hundreds of soldiers on the entire Pyongan Road, dared to challenge the hundreds of foreign guns here?

Xu Yifan's rude and domineering behavior in Seoul was also passed here through the post road of North Korea, which was even earlier than Xu Yifan's itinerary. According to the observations of the Korean monarch and ministers, there was also the tone that Rong Luqin had revealed by the adults. This person was only 25 years old. It was not worth fighting with him head-on, and he didn't even step on the stinky dog ​​shit! Waiting for him to make a fuss, as long as the trouble was limited, North Korea and Rong Lu would submit a memorial to impeach him at the same time, and he would let him go back in an instant! And it would take three or two months!

Xu Yifan's style in Seoul won a little time to come with all his might. Everyone was waiting to see what happened after he went crazy.

His response is to double the construction of the hottest near Pyongyang!

In addition to these, hundreds of Nanyang youths lined up their teams on the already leveled playground. They took on shiny foreign guns and started training in the recruits under the command of the foreign instructor with a sabre.

Xu Yifan was not in vain in Tianjin. At the name of the imperial envoy's military training minister, he dug up more than ten foreign instructors from the Beiyang Military Preparation School!

If you don’t need to have ready-made talents, you are definitely a fool.

Millions of taels of silver were spent, and a lot of effort was spent. From south to north, the result of people who had their own thoughts running in Xu Yifan's system was the hot land that Xu Yifan came to see.

The funds and manpower of Nanyang, the talents of Beiyang, and the civil power of Dashengkui were combined together. In less than a month, Pyongyang was close to it, and there were already a scene of hot construction everywhere!

As soon as the imperial envoy arrived, the horses were greeted by the crowd. Especially those young people who followed from Nanyang, they had never seen Xu Yifan since they left Nanyang. Now they have changed into a proud foreign military uniform and equipped with hundreds of foreign guns purchased in advance, and they are even more excited. Seeing Xu Yifan suddenly arrive, although he is full of dust, his heroic spirit is not diminishing. They all cheer in unstoppable cheers!

Xu Yifan saw this lively scene and these unrestrained and vigorous young people. He seemed to know why Zhang Xuzhou was so excited when he came to greet him. Because no matter in the capital or in Beiyang, he would not give them such a world to the young people!

This is my Xu Yifan’s world!

The horse team walked through the crowd and in front of a flat foundation, they saw Zhan Tianyou wearing braids and hunting suits. He had become dark and thin, and looked at him with a smile. His expression was full of pride for his work.

This Zhan Daren, I really did not misunderstand the person!

He turned his head and explained a few words to Zhang Xuzhou. Zhang Xuzhou looked tight and left. Xu Yifan jumped off the horse with a smile and grabbed Zhan Tianyou's shoulder: "Da Ren, I really didn't expect that you would give me such a surprise!"

Zhan Tianyou smiled and wanted to salute, but was tightly held by Xu Yifan. He smiled and said, "Nothing will be done without everyone's help! Old shopkeeper Han is also here, helping to manage the hundreds of Dashengkui's gangs, and tens of thousands of small workers here to eat, drink, defecate and vent... Material allocation and storage of warehouses and houses. Without Dashengkui's people, he would not be able to settle the current property!"

"Old Storekeeper Han is here too?" Xu Yifan was surprised. The more Da Shengkui helped him with all his strength, the more he was a little confused about Old Storekeeper Han's thoughts. What is this old man supporting him so much?

However, this is not something to worry about now...

Zhan Tianyou smiled and waved his hand, pointing to the front, back, left and right, inside and outside the sight, and the busy construction site: "The barracks will be moved in next month, and all the tents that were put in early will be transported. Coal will be mined next month, and the open-pit coal mines will save effort! It can be transported over small tracks to make steel. With coal, there will be power, and our machinery repair shop will be opened soon. I also promised that within a year, I will take out a fake continuous shooting Maximian gun!"

Speaking of his professional matters, Zhan Tianyou kept talking. Xu Yifan smiled and patted his shoulder, and walked forward with big strides.

In front of me was the flat playground. Foreign instructors were practicing Nanyang scholars. Seeing Xu Yifan coming, foreign instructors issued a command. The students formed nine teams of platoons. The movements were swift, and they were already a little soldier-like.

The instructor issued the order, and the students immediately saluted flat on their shoulders and the instructor took a knife at the same time. Xu Yifan stood attentively and replied with a little regret while being satisfied. Why didn't he change his new military uniform? This momentum was not very strong...

However, these young people in Southeast Asia are indeed good materials for lower-level officers. Everyone has received a certain degree of modern education and has a broad vision. They are all working in factory warehouse plantations, and are influenced by the spirit of division of labor and teamwork in the industrial era. What’s even more rare is that many people are still very knowledgeable about foreign languages ​​and have no obstacles to communicating with foreign instructors. It is really twice the result with half the effort when training!

These are all the seeds of the future new army that I have worked hard to get through life and death in Nanyang!

The head instructor of the foreigners was Captain Schwartzburn, a German instructor from Tianjin Martial Arts School. He walked towards Xu Yifan a few times: "Sir, you are finally here!"

Can you not come? Let’s see how you foreigners who have earned me a lot of salary of 400 taels a month have trained my baby!

However, it seems pretty good...

Xu Yifan smiled and returned the favor: "How?"

Schwartzburn also smiled: "Besides life is not very convenient, everything else is good. Teaching these students is a bit fulfilling. Adults, where did you discover these flexible and intelligent students who obey orders?"

Xu Yifan smiled and patted his shoulder: "China is so big! My Mr. Foreigner! Where are you going now? Or enlistment training? When will you teach them the courses of subordinate officers?"

Schwartzben smiled brightly, and foreign instructors were not very popular in the Huai Army system. In the Beiyang Military Preparation School, many foreign officers with some skills were hired to call for training or take some measurement classes. Unlike Japan, when they formed a new army, they almost copied all the military development system of foreign devils.

In addition to giving these foreign instructors a lot of money, Xu Yifan also promised them to give them full authority and let them let them do their best and train these students!

"Sir, enlistment training is just to polish them into soldiers. These students are much more disciplined than.... They obey consciously and fully know their obligations to join the army! It's really rare. I think they can start training for lower-level officers soon!"

Xu Yifan smiled and bowed: "I rely on everything. I will borrow these scholars from you for a while now. How about it?"

Before the foreigners on the other side nodded, Zhang Xuzhou, who had just galloped out of the horse, had already rushed over with Xu Yifan's flag and brought more than 20 Beiyang student soldiers in full arms. He shouted with a stern face: "Now listen to my order, take the gun on your shoulders, and walk in step!"

The nine Nanyang scholars' phalanxes looked at Xu Zijieqi, and in the stance that had just been practicing, they passed by Xu Yifan. Xu Yifan stood solemnly as he looked at the newborn tigers under his command, and did not speak for a long time.

Zhan Tianyou stood behind Xu Yifan and said in confusion: "Sir, what are you going to do?"

Xu Yifan looked at the dust smoke rolled up from the team away, and suddenly smiled: "That's all the beginning and end of Chu Wanli. Where are Shaochuan and Mr. Tan? And Old Manager Han, where are they? Let's go and meet now!"

The Qing army finally walked the last section of the road in a sparse manner. They drove the carriages and scolded Liantian and saw the city walls of Pyongyang from afar.

More than a thousand people from the six camps were dragged into a very large part like dead snakes.

Chu Wanli followed their team and ran to the front with a few students for a while, and then back to the back to take care of him. Qingjun did not have much thought to pay attention to the guy next to Xu Yifan. He just thought about how to rest in Pyongyang City.

If you feel refreshed, you should make trouble. In short, you can't let the 255-zhen swallow Qingjun!

Seeing that Xu Jie's flag was already rising from the horizon on the opposite side, Chu Wanli went up to meet him. The opposite side was Zhang Xuzhou, who had met for the second time today. Both of them looked at each other and smiled.

Chu Wanli turned around and shouted, "Lord Xu has sent someone to welcome us! There is a place to camp and rest in front, and the banquet has been set up. There are no other ones, white flour steamed buns and braised pork, so everyone should be more energetic and hurry up and catch the last journey!"

Only then did I think about showing goodwill? It’s too late!

Wu Qingen rode on his horse and sneered. After a day, he felt a little sore in his back. Anyway, more than a thousand people were in his hands, and he was afraid that Xu Yifan would do anything. So he ate and drank his, and then wiped his mouth with a greasy mouth. What should he do or what should he do!

The words Qingjun encouraged Chu Wanli to aroused the last bit of strength. The chaos was to move forward. The team turned a corner on the way to Pyongyang and entered a valley. When they went in, they saw tents had been set up around the valley. It seemed that the Qingjun camped. In the valley, there were dozens of large stoves built by stones, which were smoking and fire. The kitchen master wearing a white apron and the one who started the battle were busy.
Chapter completed!