Prime Minister

Chapter 715
In Lintao City, Jing Sili's preparation and training of the new army is gradually on track.

The original Song Army Forbidden Army was based on a system of one hundred people as the capital, five capitals as battalions, five battalions as troops, ten armies as chambers, one color capital, camps, troops, and chambers.

However, in the army, the second level of the compartment is generally empty.

After the implementation of the law of war, it was changed to teams, departments, generals, and armies, so that the daily training of troops is not based on "battalions", and the deployment is not based on "commands" as a unit.

Battle is referred to as 'team', and dispatch is referred to as 'general'.

Originally, the Forbidden Army was stationed on Xihe Road, and all the names of the Forbidden Army were disrupted, and the elite soldiers, township soldiers, archers, and recruits were replenished.

Select the best from the 1 people to form the 'enlisted soldiers', which is also a field army.

Soldiers who have not joined the army are usually responsible for camping, cooking, transporting supplies, and stationing in the city.

When the enlisted soldiers are lost, they are replenished from the unenlisted soldiers.

Enlisted soldiers are given generous treatment, one meal of meat a day, and a surplus of money and food, and of course they are also given strict drills.

Soldiers who joined the team practiced once a day, and soldiers who did not join the team practiced every three days.

Enlisted soldiers who fail to pass the training will be retired as non-enlisted soldiers, and those who fail to pass the unenlisted soldiers will be dismissed as Xiang soldiers.

In addition to Jing Sili, Miao Shou, and Wang Junwan, each general also has a lieutenant general,
At the same time, Zhang Yue also implemented the staff system, that is, selected Taixue students from Taixue's martial arts to join the staff.Most of these people were students of Zhang Zai, who gave up the opportunity to be a Jinshi and took up military positions.

Zhang Yue went up to the imperial court to give these people the opportunity to transfer officials.Although the Song Dynasty said that civil and military resources were different, there were only a very small number of officials who could transfer between civil and military resources.

Zhang Yue's openness to the exchange of cultural resources and military resources is also to absorb outstanding Tai students to join the army.

Jing Sili is now under the jurisdiction of Xihe Road, Miao Shou is under the sub-jurisdiction of Xihe Road, and Wang Junwan is the supervisor of the road.

The right to select their sponsors is in the hands of Zhang Yue and Wang Shao, and Gao Zunyu is once again excluded from the power center without any surprise.

Jing Sili was Zhang Yue's confidant, and his subordinates were all trained by Guangrui Army and Jingyuan Road soldiers, so the disarmament and reorganization was completed in just one month.

After Zhang Yuezhi finished compiling and rehearsing, he immediately invited Cai Yanqing, the capital transfer envoy, to review it.Cai Yanqing also rushed from Qinzhou to Lintao for the military parade without saying a word.

Cai Yanqing is not alone, there are two people beside him, Cai Ting's son Cai Tianshen, who is now serving as an inspection envoy, patrolling various prefectures and counties in Shaanxi, and the other is Zhang Muzhi who is in charge of Qinfeng Road Prison.

Immediately, Cai Yanqing and Zhang Yue inspected the school grounds, and Zhang Yue also carefully arranged for the leaders of the big and small tribes near Xizhou to parade together.

But I saw three thousand soldiers of the Song army, lined up in five teams and five teams in formation.

Looking from a distance, there was a chilling air, Jing Si stood on the platform and danced the flag, beating the drums from left to right.

Three thousand soldiers of the Song Dynasty came forward and shot three arrows in a row, but the arrows shot forward like countless locusts covering the sky.

Zhang Yue said to Cai Yanqing: "All the soldiers in our army use strong bows and crossbows. They can shoot at least nine bows, and they can shoot twelve arrows without weakening their strength."

Cai Yanqing said: "Opening a nine-double bow, the so-called bravery effect, is no more than that of the Fourth Army."

Zhang Yuedao: "The Guangrui army is an elite army. The men and horses of Jingyuan Road are also battle-hardened. The Baojie army on Xihe Road is also a forbidden army. The supplementary Fan army, local soldiers, archers, and recruits are also brave enough to fight. Jingqian jurisdiction also selected these 2 people from among the 3000 people."

When Cai Yanqing heard the words, he said sincerely: "Good!"

Cai Yanqing heard that the officials were going to implement the military law on all the roads in Hebei, but they encountered strong opposition from the generals at the grassroots level and the civil officials of the prefectures and counties.

In the army, there are often such small hilltops, with the command as the unit, and they are not willing to be disrupted and reorganized.

The generals were all accustomed to empty pay, and their income dropped sharply after the reorganization.

The soldiers are also lazy and unwilling to practice on weekdays, and they muddle along day after day.

At the same time, the local officials were unwilling, because the officials could drive the soldiers at will, and the civilian officials could also get certain benefits from the military supplies for the soldiers and horses stationed there.

But once the military power is received by the generals, it will be troublesome.Therefore, there are many obstacles in bringing the art of war to all roads in Hebei.

The officials, Wang Anshi, and Cai Ting all got angry because of this, and ordered to reprimand the military and political officials in Hebei and let them speed up the progress.

Why did the art of war come to Xihe, but there was no obstacle at all.

Cai Yanqing thought to himself, if the officials and Wang Xianggong knew about this matter, how much they would appreciate me!
Just as Cai Yanqing was thinking about it, there was another loud drumbeat, and three thousand Song soldiers came out one after another with guns and knives. They all looked very shocked.

Zhang Yue said to Cai Yanqing: "The art of war will be based on Li Jing's method of forming a team. Each team will have one person who is the most brave and good at spears as the banner leader, and the banner leader will choose two other winners as the left and right sides. Then one will lead the battle and the other will support."

"If one member of the team touches the enemy, four should help each other. If one team touches the enemy, the small team should help.

Cai Yanqing asked: "Is it a combination of the Tibetan army and the Han army?"

Zhang Yuedao: "Since the prince was stationed in Guwei, he has adopted the method of joint training of the Fan soldiers and the Han army, and now he is very familiar with the mixed formation of the Fan and Han."

Cai Yanqing was overjoyed and said: "I heard that Jingyuan and other roads are occupied by the Fan soldiers and the Han soldiers respectively. In every battle, the Fan troops drive forward and the Han troops defend the city. Now that the Fan and Han are combined, they can fight and defend as one. For the great good!"

Immediately after the drum stopped, the three thousand Han troops all retreated, and then the left and right cavalry, each with a thousand cavalry, also formed five or five teams like infantry, and then immediately used cavalry and shooting.

But seeing horses like swift dragons and soldiers like fierce tigers, the school grounds were filled with smoke and dust.

Cai Yanqing laughed and said: "This is the heavenly soldiers coming down to earth!"

The leaders of the left and right tribes all looked ashen after watching this scene, and their expressions became more respectful after a while.

After reviewing, Zhang Yue hosted a banquet in Lintao City for Cai Yanqing, Cai Tianshen, and Zhang Muzhi.

Lintao City was originally the residence of Qingtang Qiang, and there are board-walled houses everywhere, except that Zhangyue's residence and restaurant are tile-walled houses.

After Zhang Yue entered the city, he started wine service in Lintao City, and asked the laid-off soldiers to open this restaurant.

Not only the Han people are happy to come here, but even the Tibetans love to come here.

After watching the soldiers, Cai Yanqing's expression was so happy that it was beyond words, and he went up to the restaurant to see the Han people sitting around without any barriers, and he was even more happy.

After everyone was seated, Cai Yanqing said: "It's only been a few months since I've lived in Lintao, yet it's so popular! I admire, admire! This glass of wine, Cai, respects you!"

Zhang Yue picked up the wine cup and said with a smile: "Cai Caoshuai is embarrassing me? There is nowhere to hide."

After the two had a drink together.

The Xiang soldiers served the roasted mutton, and Cai Yanqing said: "This is not flattery, I have seen the effect of Xihe Road's military training, and I am going to report it to Beijing immediately, so that the officials will know what happened here. Happening."

Cai Yanqing was glad that he came to Xizhou and took the fast track of Xihe's military exploits. Over the past year, how many people have been promoted and made a fortune in Zhang Yueling, not only Cai Yanqing, but everyone in the world is watching.

Not to mention the first implementation of the art of war on Xihe Road, but this time he was able to capture Hezhou and regenerate the capture of wood, which is also a demonstration of the effective implementation of the art of war.

Then Cai Yanqing, based on his merits, would be promoted to Zhizhao. If he worked for a few more years, he might be admitted to the Privy Council like Cai Ting.

After Cai Yanqing finished speaking, Cai Tianshen suddenly said: "Zhang Jinglue, I heard that since the attack on Lintao, the Tibetans have repeatedly robbed our army's food roads. I don't know why Xizhou has not done anything so far? If the food roads are not sustainable, how can we talk about capturing Hezhou? Woolen cloth?"

Cai Tianshen and Zhang Muzhi are not small backgrounds. Cai Tianshen is not only the son of Cai Ting, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, but he is also well-known for his position as a visiting envoy.

Wang Anshi first set up the three divisions of the Department of Regulations. Later, when the reform was implemented in the Si Nong Temple, he sent a large number of officials such as Changping Envoys, Xiangdu Officers, and Visiting Envoys to the local area to supervise the implementation of the new law.

Cai Tianshen happens to be working as a Si Nong at the Si Nong Temple now.

It doesn't matter where the visiting envoy goes, because he is an envoy by order, and officials below the supervisory department can be appointed, which is like an imperial envoy.

Cai Tianshen's reputation is not good, he relies on the visiting envoy and his father's name to be a domineering, when he went to Xijing before, even Li Zhongshi, the prefect of Henan, and Li Nangong, the transfer envoy, would lie low in front of him.

Once when he paid a visit to the Shenyu Palace of Yingtianyuan, Cai Tianshen actually stood in front of Li Zhongshi and Li Nangong regardless of his official position. He seemed to be the leader of Henan officials. The kid carried it to where he should stand.

So Cai Tianshen was led behind a tax supervisor.After suffering this big loss, Cai Tianshen restrained himself a little.

When Zhang Yue heard Cai Tianshen's questioning, he said in a calm manner: "Since the attack on Lintao, our army's food roads have indeed been looted a lot. It's just that the soldiers were not trained at that time, and they didn't dare to enter the army easily when they were not familiar with the place. In the past few days, I happened to arrange for General Jing to train troops to suppress bandits.

Seeing that Cai Tianshen continued to speak, Zhang Yue directly interrupted the other party's words: "I will never show mercy to bandits. Governing Xizhou is a purpose. Although those who follow me are weak, they must be supported; those who disobey me are strong, but they must hoe."

Cai Yanqing hated Cai Tianshen all the way, seeing that Zhang was insulting him more, he also took the initiative to take over the words: "Zhang Jinglue is really a good idea!"

Zhang Yue, Cai Yanqing, if you talk to me, Cai Tianshen has no room to speak.

At this time, mentioning Qinfeng Road Criminal Prison, Zhang Muzhi, a member of the staff, said: "Zhang Jinglue, this time I heard in Qinzhou that there is a person named Yuan Zhongtong under the account of Jinglue. This person's original name is Yuan Guan, but I don’t know why his name was changed, but now he is an official of the imperial court, I heard that he is greedy for ink, may this matter have something to do with the Department of Economics and Strategy?”

Let me mention the criminal prison. Along the way, it exists at the same level as Caotai of the capital transfer envoy, and is responsible for the supervision of the criminal prison, and even manages no fewer places than the transfer envoy.

Therefore, it is completely reasonable for him to intervene in Yuan Zhongtong's matter.

Zhang Yue said without hesitation: "Zhang Tixing, these are all rumors. They are secret spies of the party, Mu Zheng, and Dong Zhan deliberately spreading in Xizhou to shake the morale of the army. This department has absolutely nothing to do with it."

Zhang Muzhi smiled and said, "So I don't want the Economic Strategy Division to capture Hezhou, I understand."

The following is off topic.

During the dinner, Cai Yanqing and Zhang Yue stood up and changed their clothes.

Cai Yanqing asked Zhang Yue in a low voice: "Duzhi, do you know why these two people wanted to make things difficult for you just now? They want to share the future achievements of Hezhou from your hands."

Zhang Yue said heartily, I already knew.

(End of this chapter)