Chapter 212: Executing Missions (Part 2)
The city guards in the provincial capital also saw this team early, but they did not alert because of the appearance of the thousands of people. The first reason was that the flag of the Jincheng City Guard that was leading the way, and the second was the many carriages used by merchants, which were seen by merchants with men, women, young and old. The commercial groups with tens of thousands of people had seen them, let alone the commercial groups with only a few thousand people.
The city gate official who was squinting his eyes and napping on the city tower was awakened by his subordinates.
"Sir, the city guards of Tsuen Castle are here."
The city gate official jumped up immediately: "What? The Jincheng City Guard, which has to be tested every year, has finally arrived? Hehe, I have heard of this city guard that we bullied. I have been in office for almost a year, and finally let me wait.
"These guys are really tactful. The New Year will be tomorrow. I'll be here to have a happy New Year." As he said that, the city gate officer ran down the city tower with an excited look on his face.
The two guards guarding the city happened to meet when Cons came into the city last time. The older guard said to the Xinding happily: "Hehe, we will be happy later."
"Brother, what are you happy about? Will the Jincheng City Guards give us good?" Xinding Guards who waved their hands and made way unexpectedly asked curiously.
The older guard thief smiled and said, "Hehe, you don't know this. The garrison in Jincheng offended the big man, and the big man hints that we are making things difficult for us, so their Jincheng merchants can enter the city, but the city guards will definitely not enter the city.
"But they don't give up and come to test it every year. As long as we don't hurt others, we can just protect and scold them. Think about it, you can point at the city guard captain and scold the slander. That feeling is so good!"
"They won't get angry and beat us up, right?" Xinding Guard asked worriedly.
The older guards said proudly, "Hey, they dare not, even if they are scolded by us, because as long as they dare to touch one of our fingers, they can immediately arrest them in the cell and be locked up for him for ten or half a month. However, we soldiers can only scold the officers and cannot do anything. If you want to punch the dark fist, you should wait until there are too many people before talking. Hey, our immediate boss has come down to join in the fun."
Xinding turned his head and looked, and sure enough, the city gate official was coming with a group of subordinates.
As the team approached, the people from the provincial city guards immediately laughed, because these Jincheng City guards were dressed in hunters, and their only weapon was bamboo poles and iron-headed guns! Typical equipment used by tenants in the aristocratic territory!
On the side of Cons, the guards all raised their heads and stalked forward, completely ignoring the laughter from the far side of the city wall. Such a majesty was pulled out by the personal guard officer on the road for more than ten days.
As he walked, Cons suddenly found that the merchants were slowing down intentionally or unintentionally, and in just a while, they separated from the guards.
Seeing that Cons noticed this, Jue Jie stepped forward and said, "It is said that the city guards in Jincheng have never entered the provincial capital since the old man served as the commander of the garrison."
In just one sentence, Cons understood what was going on. He looked at the group of soldiers gathered at the city gate, smiled, rode his horse gently, and ran to the front of the team. Xiang Wen, Weijie and the personal guards who did not lead the troops immediately rushed to Cons behind Cons.
With these cavalrymen in the lead, the momentum of the entire team immediately changed and immediately seemed fierce.
The city gate official changed his expression and cursed, "I'm cursing, showing his might? He's so unpretentious? Let's see how I asked you to celebrate the New Year!" As he said that, he rolled up his sleeves and was ready to fight. Of course, his subordinates followed suit and cursed one after another.
However, two of the subordinates immediately stopped the city gate official and said in panic: "Sir, you can't mess with me! The person who came to the head is Lord Cons!"
These two unique guards were the two guards who had met Cons. When they saw the horse-riding guards were so familiar, they looked at the appearance of the officers who were surrounded by others, and were immediately startled and hurriedly dissuaded them, otherwise they would not be much better if their boss was unlucky.
The city gate official was stunned for a moment, then opened his mouth and exclaimed: "Cons! The provincial governor and division commander came to the door to congratulate Major Cons?"
Although the welcome banquet was held at the brigade headquarters and no outsiders were invited, it was not a secret after all. The officers attending the banquet did not have to keep their mouths tight, and they turned around and said it casually to show off their knowledge. So not long after Cons left, Cons' name was circulated among the military and political personnel in the provincial capital. Some civilians with great connections also knew the existence of the character Cons.
Seeing two subordinates nodding like chickens pecking at rice, the city gate officer tidied up his clothes very quickly like a chameleon, and then waited at the city gate with a serious look on his face.
The group of subordinates he brought was a guy, and instantly became the city guards who were loyal to their posts, making the Xinding guard stare at him in a daze with an incredible look, and he didn't jump back to his post until he was kicked by the older guards.
Then things became very regular. Cons dismounted and handed over the pass certificate and military certificate. The city gate official returned the gift and took the document to check. Then he said that the place where the city guards stationed after entering the city and what needs to be paid attention to, then stamped it, saluted, handed it back, waved his hand and let it go. Cons took it, returned the gift and led the team to pass.
This formula and quick pass through ceremony, waiting outside, worriedly thinking about how difficult the city guards on his side would be the merchants, causing their chin to fall off.
After entering the city, he agreed with the merchants to separate the things and things when he left the city. After Cons pulled the troops to the camp in the city, he brought Weijie, Xiangwen and several personal guards to visit the provincial government commander and division commander.
These two bosses in the coastal province were very enthusiastic about Cons. They were so enthusiastic that they wanted to marry their daughter to Cons. However, knowing how much they earned from smuggling after signing an oral agreement with Cons in just over a month, they felt that it was not too much for them to be enthusiastic.
With huge interests as a backer, the two giants' request for Cons is simply a matter of meeting all their requests.
"I want a strong man of five thousand people? No problem, all the servants that the government has not sold are given to you, and there is no enough to buy them from those rich families."
"The Jincheng City Guard, who is the chief officer, can wander around the province? It's no problem. The division commander is here, so we will sign the autograph to report to you immediately."
"You said that in addition to the two thousand city guards, three thousand auxiliary soldiers were recruited? What's that? Isn't your city guard still not satisfied with a corps? As for auxiliary soldiers? Didn't you say you were recruiting short-term workers to the city guards? If that's the case, what's the problem? The Imperial military rules do not restrict the recruitment of short-term workers."
"The equipment is simple? Oh, why didn't you say it earlier? I'll write a note now. You can go to the division's armament warehouse directly. As long as it's not a siege crossbow, you can take whatever else you want. It doesn't matter, what's our relationship?"
Maybe it is strange that the division commander who desperately suppressed the Fifth Regiment was so easy to speak. The reason is very simple, because he knew very well that Cons could never be the old guy's person. Since that is the case, he still wished Cons to defeat the combat effectiveness of the City Guards, which was better than the Fifth Regiment.
In this way, once Cons made a contribution, he could laugh at the old man, and even perform in front of the world with tears in his eyes but forced to helplessness, and then kill his relatives for justice for being incompetent, lazy and rushing to dominate his duties, and leading troops is not as good as the city guards, and then leave out the old guy's position! In this way, no one will gossip!
Even Cons never thought that his busy work would be done so easily. It seems that huge benefits can be used as a master key. Well, maybe this trick can be used to expand the intelligence network to the Shanyue Kingdom.
Since tomorrow is the New Year, the enthusiastic provincial governor and division commander stopped Cons, who wanted to go back to celebrate the New Year with his subordinates. In response, Cons, who could not refuse, had to order his personal guards to take people to purchase and let the soldiers have a good New Year. He and Xiangwen and Weijie stayed here for the New Year.
Time flies so fast that the end of the year is coming out. Due to the greetings of the two giants, the merchants also benefited from it and the purchase of goods was very smooth. Except for a few merchants who settled in the provincial capital, everyone else packed their luggage.
After staying in the provincial capital for nearly ten days, these merchants clearly realized that Cons, the major who served as the chief of the city guard as a corps staff member, was a man of great origin.
Otherwise, why would a small major let giants like the provincial government commander and division commander be entertained warmly? Almost all stayed in the houses of the two giants in the past ten days. In comparison, the brigade commanders were not surprised to see the brigade commanders condescendingly and invited a major to attend the banquet.
Of course, the people in the guard team also heard the news. They were in power, and they also felt that they were superior to others.
Of course, they had an assessment as early as the Chinese New Year. The first assessment was relatively simple, which was the performance of endurance, queues and spear stabs. As a result, as long as they were not surprised, most of the auxiliary soldiers were promoted to combat soldiers, and most of the war mutinies became auxiliary soldiers. There is no way, the ability of young people is very different from that of middle-aged people.
As for the positions of sergeant commander, squad leader and tenth troop commander, all of them have been replaced. Whoever asked the auxiliary soldiers and combat soldiers to switch in full, the grassroots officers can only reselect them all.
So when Cons left the provincial capital with his men, he became a soldier who was almost a united force.
Although the members of the guards were still dressed in black clothes like hunters, they replaced the bird guns, all of which were of the same color, and then more than 4,000 people were equipped with a shiny steel knife, a steel shield, and a full iron spear.
Of course, the remaining 800 people were equipped with a hunting knife, a strong bow and an arrow pouch. These people were archers who were not used to be hunters before.
But what is strange is that Cons not only left those bamboo guns, but also allowed craftsmen across the city to create a large number of sharp and hard gun tips, and specially brought a carriage full and taken away.
The originally generous division commander, when he saw that Cons chose the dense vine armor that he threw as waste products into a corner of the warehouse, immediately selected Cons a batch of excellent leather armor for Cons, but Cons, who had already found out about the vicinity of Jincheng, or the weather in Shanyue, shook his head and refused.
The weather in the country of Shanyue and Jincheng was rainy and wet. Wearing leather armor was easy to become soft and hairy, and finally turned into a piece of rag. It was the most affordable waterproof dense vine armor.
Although this dense vine armor is afraid of fire, it performs very well in the face of the damage of bows, arrows, swords, and gun stabs. It can also increase buoyancy when it falls into the water. How can you not want such a good thing?
As for replacing crossbows for archers? Cons did not limit what bows they used, but the archers all chose strong bows similar to hunting bows. For them, when you shoot the second crossbow, he has shot you into a piercing shrimp.
With the respectful eyes of the merchant and the proud expression of the guards, the Jincheng City Guard flag was swung and he set off for Jinjun.
Not to mention Cons’s affairs, let’s take a look at the sea east of Qingyue City, Feidu Peninsula.
At this moment, a merchant ship of the same type as An Zaikang's huge merchant ship was sailing on the sea in the snow. Looking at its direction, it was exactly the side of Qingyue City.
On the boat, facing the snow, three women dressed in simple clothes but had a graceful and beautiful figure, standing at the bow of the boat with a beautiful umbrella.
Judging from their positions, it is obvious that the middle and the left side are closer, and their bodies are very close. Among the two, the woman in the middle is the main one, because the woman on the left stands behind, and although the woman in the middle has an umbrella, the woman on the left will subconsciously cover her snowflakes from time to time. Although the one on the right looks a bit alone, seeing her standing in front makes people feel that she is a bit arrogant.
When you see the faces of the three girls, you will be shocked immediately because all three of them are stunning beauties.
Although all three of them are very beautiful, they each have their own characteristics. Of course, no matter how perfect they are, they can be distinguished immediately after comparison.
The most beautiful of the three is the one in the middle. Not to mention appearance, but just temperament, she has a kind of elegant or elegant temperament. Those who see her can immediately determine that she is knowledgeable, highly cultivated, and a little bit out of the world. Such a woman can only be a confidante, but you will feel inferior as a wife, and it is impossible to be a lover.
The second-ranked appearance among the three was the arrogant woman. This woman had a high-ranking and she knew that she was a stubborn and competitive woman. Although her face had no expression on her face, she looked like a cold and arrogant expression, which anyone could understand. You can tell at a glance that she had a personality that would not give up until she achieved her goal.
But what is a bit strange is that she has the aura of a commander, and it is rare for a woman to have such a momentum that only a senior officer can have.
So this woman must not be a confidante. Gang Wei would not pay attention to your confidant at all and would only order you. Be a wife? First, you must have a certain amount of power, otherwise you will not think about it. Even if you succeed, you will be commanded in the future. As for being a lover, you may be killed by her with a knife.
As for the third beauty, she is a gentle and considerate woman who has no opinion and obedient everything. This kind of woman is not suitable to be a confidante because of insufficient intellectual accumulation. However, being a wife and lover is the best choice.
But such a woman sometimes makes the man who loves her feel unhappy, that is, she usually only recognizes her first man, no matter whether the man is good or bad or not, or whether she likes her, and is touched by the personality of accepting fate.
The three of them watched the snowflakes dancing and the scenery connected by the sea and the sky, quietly without saying a word.
Chapter completed!