Poor Family Chapter 584

  Chapter 584 Independence into an army

Li Yanqing mainly took a fancy to Yan Qing's scouting ability. Yan Qing was also the commander of the naval scouts in Liangshan. Following Ruan Xiaowu, besides Yan Qing, Li Yanqing also got two of the most outstanding third-generation children of the Cao family, Cao Hehe Cao Meng.

Cao Xing has ridden and shot people, and his bright silver spear is very sharp. Cao Meng is only seventeen years old this year. But he is not rude, and he has studied in Cao's family for several years, so he is a malleable talent.

In addition, Li Yanqing also wanted to recruit Gao Chong to his command. Gao Chong joined the army the year before last. He has a background from Gao's family. He is currently serving as Marquis of Yu in the Golden Spear Squad of the Forbidden Army. His opponent won the respect of Taiwei Gao Qiu.

Of course Li Yanqing would not come here, but Cao Ping agreed to help him bring Gao Chong over. Based on the friendship between the Cao and Gao families, Gao Shen would definitely agree, and Cao Ping's prestige in the military is so high that even Gao Qiu would not be allowed to come. Don't give this face.

  The next morning, with Gao Chong coming to report to the barracks, basically all the people Li Yanqing was looking for were in place. As for the civil servants, Mo Jun joined the army as the recorder and was in charge of Liu Cao, and Liu Fang joined the army as the recorder and was in charge of the military orders.

At noon, Li Yanqing and Liu Kai brought back the Five Thousand East Army. This army has followed the way of Zhongshi for many years. It is the famous Zhongjia army in the Western Army. Quite familiar, Li Yanqing knew three of the five generals.

Li Yanqing let five people continue to serve as partial generals, but he reorganized the army. He divided the 5,000 people into ten battalions, and each battalion was composed of 500 forbidden troops and 500 Xiang troops. The famous partial general temporarily commanded 500 people, and the two commanders, Liu Qi and Yang Zaixing, each administered five battalions.

  In addition, an intelligence department was established. Li Yanqing appointed Yan Qing and Yang Guang as principal and deputy Marquis Yu to lead the scout camp under the intelligence department.

  As 5,000 troops moved in, the barracks immediately became lively. At this moment, 'Boom! Boom! ' The battle drum sounded, and the 5,000 troops who were sitting on the grass and resting began to line up quickly. In just a moment, the 5,000 soldiers formed a large square formation.

Li Yanqing stood on a big rock and looked at this majestic army. He raised his voice and said slowly: "Brothers, we meet again after three years. From today onwards, I, Li Yanqing, will lead all brothers and sisters." , the military law is ruthless, the military order is supreme, and wherever the military order goes, even if there is a cliff ahead, I must jump off, but I will give everyone fairness, I will treat everyone equally, and the rewards and punishments will be clearly defined, only military merits will be rewarded!"

Li Yanqing looked at the young and passionate faces, and continued loudly: "Last time we fought side by side with the Xixia army, but this time, we will conquer the Khitan people in the Northern Expedition. In Youzhou, we must defeat the enemy army, defend the dignity of the Song army, and for the sake of clearing our minds, everyone shouts with me, expel the Tartars, and restore the Han family!"

  Li Yanqing raised his arms and shouted: "Expel the Tartars and restore the Han family!"

  Under the leadership of Li Yanqing, five thousand soldiers raised their arms and shouted: "Expel the Tartars and restore the Han family!"

  The blood in each soldier's heart began to boil, and they wished to go north immediately to fight fiercely with the Liao army. They held their spears tightly, raised their arms impassionedly and shouted again: "Expel the Tartars and restore the Han family!"

Li Yanqing waved his hands to calm everyone down. At this moment, he saw Zhong Shidao and Zhang Shuye standing aside, and said loudly: "If you don't establish rules, you can't form a circle. If you don't divide into battalions, you can't form an army formation. Next, I will ask Commander Liu to divide the camp for everyone, please Commander Liu!"

  Liu Kai stepped forward and shouted: "Now we will divide the battalions. Five thousand people will be divided into ten battalions. The flag bearers of each battalion will hold up the flag, and the soldiers will stand according to the battalion flag."

   Ten military flags were raised, and the soldiers began to quickly return to their positions.

  Li Yanqing walked quickly in front of Zhong Shidao and Zhang Shuye, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "For a humble job, see the commander-in-chief, see Zhang Dutong!"

   "Lee Tongzhi, please stand up!"

Zhang Shuye smiled and said: "I just told Shuai Zhong that your army is good. There are several strong generals in it. The light cavalry shooter is the number one in the five armies, and Yang Zaixing, the number one general in the Hedong army, and the first shot in the forbidden army. High pet."

  Zhong Shidao smiled and said: "There is also a little overlord Cao Qilang, Cao Ping's most proud grandson. I have seen it with my own eyes. No one can beat a pair of sledgehammers."

  Li Yanqing said: "It's not enough to have a neat lineup, you have to win the battle, otherwise it's just a show!"

"That's right. The 250,000 army looks mighty, but it was defeated by the 40,000 newly recruited army in one battle. It is a typical tiger made of paper. A real elite army must be good at fighting and winning. "

Speaking of this, Zhong Shidao said to Li Yanqing again: "I went to meet the saint this morning, and the saint agreed to give me Liu Kai and the Hebei new army he recruited, but Tong Guan was only willing to give it to Liu Kai, not to the army. He said that he was not enough in the army, but he angered the emperor, and he reprimanded him severely, saying that he did not learn from his failures and was arrogant. , Only the Son of Heaven can cure this kind of person."

   "How many people exactly?"

   "There are about 18,000 people. Liu Wei is training them in Zhending Mansion. The imperial decree has already rushed to Hebei. He will lead the army south to join us in Daming Mansion. The Xiang army on Jingdong Road will go to Daming Mansion to join us."

   "Are we going north?" Li Yanqing heard what Zhong Shidao said.

Zhong Shidao nodded, "The envoys from the Kingdom of Jin came yesterday. They proposed to attack Yanjing together with us. The emperor was a little anxious, afraid that they would take Yanjing first, so he asked us to go north in three days. Tong Guan also rushed to Xiangzhou today. gone."

  Li Yanqing hurriedly said: "But we don't have enough civil servants."

   "I know that everyone is short of civil servants. I have already told the emperor about this. Cai Xiangguo suggested to select a group of students from Taixue to supplement the army, and the emperor also agreed."

   At this time, Liu Kai ran over to report: "Reporting to the control system, all the armies have been assigned."

   "I see, I'll be there right away."

Zhong Shidao glanced at the neatly lined up army, and said to Li Yanqing: "Give me the list of generals you have appointed and the list of enlisted troops. I will report to the Ministry of War today. The time is very tight. You must complete the list within three days. Let the army take shape!"

   "Humble post obeys orders!"

Zhong Shidao and Zhang Shuye left, and Li Yanqing returned to the team. Liu Qi had already assigned ten partial generals to each battalion according to Li Yanqing's formation diagram, and each partial general stood first in the team. Gui is the general of the first battalion, Niu Gao is the second battalion, Cao Xing is the third battalion, Zhang Wenxiao is the fourth battalion, Shishi is the fifth battalion, Gao Chong is the sixth battalion, Cao Meng is the seventh battalion, Zhang Wensheng is the In the eighth battalion, Yang Tao is the ninth battalion, and the last tenth battalion is also the original Hedong Army partial general Wang Shan.

In addition, the Intelligence Division, Scout Battalion, Personal Battalion, Firearms Battalion, and Logistics Battalion have not yet been established. Li Yanqing plans to select fifty elites from each battalion to form the Scout Battalion and the Private Battalion. The Firearms Battalion and the Logistics Battalion can only go behind the Daming Mansion Selected from the Xiang army.

   "Everyone can go to training separately, disband!"

  The troops of the ten battalions were taken away by their respective generals one after another. The following is mainly for the generals to get acquainted with their subordinates. It will take at least half a day. Li Yanqing doesn't interfere and let them show their abilities to surrender to their subordinates.

  At this time, Yang Zaixing came up to Li Yanqing and asked, "How does the control plan to distribute the horses?"

Li Yanqing pondered for a while and said: "A thousand horses are too few. I plan to hand over 500 horses to the first battalion to form a cavalry battalion. The other 500 horses will be handed over to the scout battalion and my personal battalion. When we capture them After the enemy's war horses are taken down, they will be continuously replenished."

  Li Yanqing called Liu Qi over again, and said to the two of them: "Just now the commander told me that the emperor has decided to advance the northern expedition, and we will set off to the north in three days."

   Liu Kai and Yang Zaixing looked at each other, Liu Kai said in surprise: "It's only been three days, it's too hasty, and there are still many things to do!"

   "Let's go to Daming Mansion first, and then rectify there for a while. I can only use the marching road to carry out the tacit understanding between the soldiers."

  Liu Kai thought that he was leaving in only three days, and the pressure on his shoulders suddenly became heavy.

"Bang!" Inside the big tent, a teacup was smashed to pieces, and Tong Guan yelled furiously, "What kind of teacher is he? Feet, the old man has worked hard for ten years, and he wants to take it away when he is about to accomplish it! Do you think my body is a puppet clay sculpture?"

Today in the imperial study room, Tong Guan was scolded by the emperor Zhao Ji because of Liu Kai, which made him very angry. The key condition has been changed, giving Zhong Shidao a chance to become king, and Tong Guan is going crazy. He has been planning for ten years, and at the last moment he made a wedding dress for Zhong Shidao. How could he accept it? ?

  The anger in his heart that had been depressed for many days finally exploded because of Liu Kai's incident.

  Tong Guan was pacing back and forth in the big tent with a pale face, his hands behind his back. He would never tolerate this matter. He would rather let Master Zhong fail miserably again than let Master Zhong take away the prince he had planned for ten years.

  At this time, Tong Guan's staff member Yang Lin whispered at the side: "There is a way to work in a lowly position, so that the teacher's morality can be restrained."

  Tong Guan suddenly stopped in his tracks, turned around and said, "What's the plan, tell me quickly?"

   "The humble official heard that there was not enough troops in Zhongshi Dao, so the officials transferred the Xiang army from Jingdong Road to supplement him. Is there such a thing?"

  Tong Guan nodded, "There is indeed such a thing!"

"Then the matter is simple. The Xiang Army of the Jingdong Road was formed after the Taiwei destroyed the Liangshan Army. As long as the Taiwei ordered it to make it difficult for Zhongshi Dao to integrate the Jingdong Xiang Army, his Northern Expedition would be blocked. Are you staying?"

  Tong Guan pondered for a moment and said: "I'm just afraid that this Xiang army comes from all states along the Jingdong Road. If the hearts of the people are not in harmony, it is easy to be defeated by various teachers."

   "Has the Taiwei forgotten Qiu Zhaohe?"

Tong Guan suddenly realized that Qiu Zhaohe was his old subordinate. He is currently the military envoy of Yunzhou, in charge of the 10,000-army army in Yunzhou. The 30,000-box army was successfully taken under his command.

   "Your method is very good and can be implemented, but it is not enough."

   "So the Taiwei has already made arrangements?"

  Tong Guan smiled darkly, "Chong Shidao thought that the Hedong Army was his Chong family army, but he was wrong. At least half of the generals in the Hedong Army have changed their surnames to Tong."

In the afternoon, the Peking University Camp became lively again. More than a hundred young imperial scholars entered the barracks. Temporarily served as various civilian officials to make up for the lack of civilian officials in the Eastern Route Army.

Since the Eastern Route Army was not controlled by Tong Guan, it was actually a completely independent Northern Expeditionary Army. As an independent army, civilian officials also played an important role in material storage management and allocation division, soldiers' military status management and reward records. , Combat map drawing, sorting out all kinds of documents and battle reports, sorting out all kinds of intelligence, and even writing letters from soldiers' homes, all these need to be done by civilian officials.

Li Yanqing brought back ten young scholars, all of whom were in their twenties, from Hedong, Hebei and Kaifeng. In the big tent, Li Yanqing was giving a welcome speech to the ten scholars, "First of all, I would like to welcome you all As a senior in the Imperial Academy, I would like to give you three pieces of advice. First, don't think of yourself as superior or different. Civilian jobs are also a kind of military service, but the division of labor is different. Second, practice a little martial arts appropriately. , once surrounded by the enemy, you may have a chance to survive with a little martial arts; third, strictly abide by military discipline and military laws. Military laws are not only aimed at soldiers, but also at everyone in the barracks. Drinking wine or visiting a brothel, once caught, they will be beheaded for public display, I am by no means alarmist, please keep the above advice in mind!"

   Ten scholars bowed together and saluted, "We remember!"

  Li Yanqing said with a smile: "Then go change your military uniform! Wait a moment, your boss will come to you."

Among the ten people, Mo Jun wants to take away the most people. He has six officers, and each officer needs a chief officer, followed by the intelligence department, which needs three staff officers. up.

  At this time, Zhang Hu walked in, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "See the control for humble positions!"

  Zhang Hu has been with Li Yanqing for a long time, and he is very shrewd and capable. Li Yanqing originally planned to break the rules and promote him to partial general, but because of the shortage of places, he had to give up this idea temporarily.

   "Get up!"

  Li Yanqing asked him to get up, and said to him slowly: "I have considered for a long time, and decided to appoint you as the intelligence department to join the army!"

  Zhang Hu didn't change his face, bowed and said: "There are orders for the control, and the humble post should obey it, but I'm afraid that the humble post's shallow knowledge will delay the military situation."

Li Yanqing smiled slightly and said: "You have studied for several years, and it is no problem to understand intelligence, but what is more important for intelligence to join the army is not knowledge, but caution, shrewdness, and meticulousness. These are exactly your strengths. I believe you are completely competent."

   "Humble post obeys orders!"

  Li Yanqing nodded and asked again: "Joining the army as an intelligence department, what do you think is the first thing the intelligence department should do once it becomes operational?"

  Zhang Hu pondered for a moment and said: "The humble officer believes that the first thing to do is to find a very detailed map of Hebei and Youzhou!"

Li Yanqing laughed, took out a large roll of maps from behind, and handed them to him: "Take it! Study it carefully, there are three young scholars outside, they will be your subordinates, take them away! In addition, scouts The battalion principal and deputy Yuhou are Yan Qing and Yang Guang, you also need to have a good communication with them, consider how to run the intelligence department, if you have any questions, feel free to ask me."

   "Humble post obeys orders!"

  Zhang Hu clasped his fists in salute, turned around and left quickly.

  (end of this chapter)

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