Chapter 697

Under Yang Chendong's order, a large number of trees and stones were carried into the city, and temporary houses were either reinforced or directly erected. That is, if we want to choose this as the base camp, we must naturally establish the place where the army lives.

A series of brave cavalry stepped down from their horses and became construction workers, building their own homes. Not only them, but also thousands of people in the city are busy together. Among them, except children, others have joined the army of building the city together.

The old man and young man can earn one or two silver a day by working with mercenary soldiers, which is naturally a great temptation for them. Even the women also went to the logistics camp to help cook together, so they can not only eat three meals in the army, but also earn half a liang of silver a day, which is a good thing for the first time.

For thousands of people in the city, silver is a very distant thing, and there will be no seal soon. The necessities of daily life are that men go hunting and women go to mend their clothes. They barely survive without starvation. But now, the emergence of mercenaries has brought them new hope. They are already fantasizing that with enough money, they can buy good things they have always wanted to buy, but dare not buy. Maybe on that day, they can live like a person.

There is no shortage of silver in the east of Yangchen. The creativity of chixian city is stronger than any other force. Tianwaitian trading firm has also become the richest trading firm in the world. The rare goods from their hands have now circulated to five continents and eight places. Even some unfriendly forces have not publicly excluded Yang goods. After all, there are some things that even their nobles and royal families like. Once they are publicly excluded, they will not be able to get the goods they like and the goods that can make their quality of life reach a higher level.

As the saying goes, it's easy to do things with silver. Yang Chendong firmly believes that when a large amount of money is spent, more people will be attracted to Shicheng, either to work or settle here. Before long, it will become a big city and a strong city.

That is, it is called Shicheng. Yang Chendong has a certain idea and hope in his heart, that is to build this city into one of the largest cities nearby. In order to achieve this goal, he wants to expand the original area of the city on the original basis, and start to reach more than ten times the original size, and the number of workers required is an astronomical number.

Thinking about the shortage of manpower, tiger mang came. He brought a full 5000 migrant workers prisoners. Yang Chendong laughed when he heard that, "very good. Arrange it immediately and let them start working. By the way, in order to enable them to invest their whole body strength to the greatest extent, you can tell them that if they perform well, they can not only regain their freedom, but also get several times more wages than outside."

Yang Chendong seemed in a good mood. When Hu mang agreed, he took the opportunity to talk about the performance of the independent regiment cavalry on the battlefield. Finally, he took the initiative to review, saying that his leadership was weak and asked for punishment.

The ten cavalry battalions established after the independence regiment were not trained by Hu mang alone. They were just ordinary soldiers of the northern Ming guards. Speaking of military quality, it can only be said to be general. If it were not for the consideration that they didn't want to disclose their identity and whereabouts at that time, I'm afraid these people would be released at that time.

But even if he stayed, he stayed for so long, and the other party wanted to join in after learning about the mercenaries. Naturally, Yang Chendong could not refuse. This gave them the opportunity to join the army and even become a glorious cavalry.

But it is an indisputable fact that a weak foundation is a weak foundation. After World War I, they have exposed too many weaknesses and shortcomings.

Normally, such an army should be given up if it is replaced by other generals. After all, training a qualified cavalry requires a lot of energy and financial resources. Even training an excellent cavalry is much more time-consuming and labor-consuming than training five infantry.

But even if they were destined to join the mercenaries, Yang Chendong could not give up on the principle of not abandoning. After a little thinking, he took the initiative to say, "well, I'll give you a month. In this month, unless the situation is urgent, we won't arrange any combat tasks for the ten battalions. After a month, the qualified ones can stay, and the unqualified ones can be paid to leave the army."

Anyway, these cavalry are also the children of the Han family. With this, Yang Chendong is worth giving them a chance.

Hu mang was worried that the sixth young master would be angry, so he directly dismissed the soldiers who had just become cavalry. After all, the survival of the fittest in the army is too common. If that's the case, as the head of the independent regiment, he can't say anything.

Fortunately, the sixth young master still remembered his old love and promised to give his brothers a chance to become stronger. Then he respectfully saluted, "thank you, young master. I thank you on behalf of the following four thousand brothers."

"Ha ha." seeing that Hu mang was really grateful, Yang Chendong said solemnly: "what I want is not gratitude, but hope that they can stay in a month."

"Yes." Hu mang saluted again to show his decision.

The order was conveyed to the army. When the ten new cavalry battalions of the independent regiment heard the final decision of the sixth young master, many people were bloodshot in their eyes. They know that the best opportunity in life may also be the last opportunity, and an opportunity that can change their life has come.

Perhaps in the past, their ability was really average, even very weak. But that's just due to military regulations. In such an environment where everyone lives in the spirit of idling, even if you want to show, you don't have any opportunities, let alone conditions. Think about it, can an army that can only barely eat enough have any powerful combat effectiveness?

But now, their food, drink and Lazar are not a problem. Even they don't need to build cities like two cavalry strengthening regiments and Nvzhen cavalry regiments, but only need to train wholeheartedly. In such an environment, if they can't improve their strength in a month, they are real waste and really don't deserve anyone to sympathize with them and understand them.

Although they still can't have strong horse combat power like the Nvzhen cavalry regiment in a month, at least they should be better than ordinary cavalry and reach the standard of second-class cavalry.

With this belief, the independent regiment went out of the city for training at dawn every day. They didn't come back until it was completely dark. Then they dragged their tired bodies to eat a full meal and quickly entered the temporary military camp to rest.

At least six hours of training every day, but no one is complaining and tired. They are trying to change and improve themselves.

The independent regiment is changing at an amazing speed. Like them, Shicheng is changing day by day. When the simple military camp was built, Yang Chendong gave another order, and some old houses in the city were demolished one after another. The demolished stones and wood were used to build the outer city wall.

In Yang Chendong's eyes, most of the original buildings in the city are unqualified. Not only are their houses simple and not strong enough, but even the pattern is too chaotic. The streets are too narrow and there is no planning. Even if such a city has a large territory and a large population, it feels very backward.

That is, if the city is named by itself, it needs to look like a big city. For a time, the city began to become empty, and more and more uninhabited houses in the city were demolished to build the city wall. Just ten days later, there was a strong outer city with a length of six or seven miles on the periphery of Shicheng. From a distance, there was a magnificent trace and the prototype of a big city.

The movement here in Shicheng naturally attracted the attention of other surrounding forces. In particular, the nearby Tatar headquarters, which originally belonged to them from the beginning, have now been occupied. Needless to say, the 5000 men sent to fetch water have been robbed by others, and the 1000 cavalry sent have died about 200.

This is already hatred, the kind of hatred we have to report.

Not only the Tatar army, but also halarochu of the warla department, who had suffered losses in Yang Chendong's hands, once sent scouts to inquire about them after the defeat. The movement here in Shicheng was big enough, which of course attracted their attention. For a time, they were also eager to try.

In addition, there are Mobei Mongolian headquarters.

Sud Khan suffered a great loss in Yang Chendong's hands and was criticized by some when he returned to the tribe, which made him feel ashamed. It was at this time that the scouts returned the news that they had found the five-star army that had made them suffer, and they were building Shicheng. But at the same time, another news came, that is, the five-star army is actually a mercenary. Their leader is Yang Chendong, the God of war of the Ming Dynasty, who defeated the warla leader with less than more.

The five-star army is a mercenary, and the army building the city is a mercenary.

When the news was deliberately released by Yang Chendong, it soon shocked the region, so that some forces who were still ready to move had to hold down their ideas and decided to have a look.

Who was it first? Surely no one on the grassland doesn't know.

In the civil engineering transformation three years ago, this man defeated hundreds of thousands of main troops in the Ming Dynasty, and once almost broke through the capital of the Ming Dynasty. What a scenery is that?

But such a powerful man, with a strong cavalry team, was finally defeated by a Han scholar who was heard to be in his early twenties. After the war, he also got a louder nickname - God of war.