Qiming 1158

Chapter 1257 Xu Tong does not talk about martial arts

Although Xu Tong and Chen Qiaoshan are both fellows from Shandong, they have never dealt with each other before because of their different starting points.

However, Xu Tong had dealt with the Henan Corps during the Xiangfan campaign before, and was appreciated by Zhang Yuejing, so he had met Chen Qiaoshan several times, and he was considered an acquaintance.

Seeing Chen Qiaoshan so depressed, Xu Tong smiled.

"The Henan Corps has a heavy task. I heard that some reconstruction tasks in the two provinces of Hunan and Hubei have fallen on you. The manpower is very tight. I can leave the reserves of the two divisions for my affairs. Excuse me, how can I ask you to provide more help?"

"Indeed, the reconstruction task is indeed very arduous. In many places, the army must be used to maintain order. My assistance task was personally approved by the General Staff Headquarters. Even the Headquarters has no preparation for this, and now I want to gather tens of thousands of troops to fight in Sichuan. It is also not easy to pay for food.”

Chen Qiaoshan said with a wry smile: "Hunan province is fine, but parts of Hubei and Jiangxi provinces are basically smashed. Many residents have been displaced, and we need to settle down and rebuild a lot of things. There are also many Song soldiers who have fled. The defeated soldiers burrowed into the mountains and fell into the grass to become bandits, and the disturbed places could not live in peace, and they needed the army to destroy them.”

"So, I am too embarrassed to ask for your help here."

Xu Tong said with a smile: "At present, the situation in Sichuan and Sichuan is not very good, and our strength is still very weak, but there should be no surprises in the final outcome. Give me enough time, and it will not be difficult to overthrow the Chengdu court in the end."

"But you currently only have two thousand troops, right?"

"So, we still need the help of the Henan Corps."

Xu Tong blinked and said with a smile: "I have always heard that the Henan Corps is the best and most meticulous in the training of recruits. Borrow me some experienced training officers. I have not enough manpower here. ."

"It's a trivial matter. I have a lot of people who can train soldiers here, but are these enough?"

"Of course it's not enough. I want steel knives, long spears, shield armor, and muskets and artillery. Since the army's quality is difficult to improve in a short period of time, I can only use the advantages of equipment to replace it. By the way, I heard about the magic machine before. The battalion still has a troop left with you to prepare for battle, right?"

Xu Tong looked at Chen Qiaoshan expectantly.

Chen Qiaoshan's eyes suddenly sharpened.

"Shenjiying ... what do you want?"

"The Henan Corps is strong enough, and there is no war mission at the moment, so I specially made a report to the Central Military Affairs Department and the Privy Council, hoping to temporarily lend me the team of the Shenji Battalion, and I will definitely look back. Jiang Shang, go to Chongqing prefecture first, then go to Chengdu prefecture, Shenji Camp is of great use to me."

As soon as Xu Tong's voice fell, Chen Qiaoshan suddenly widened his eyes.

"Why don't you talk about martial arts so much? This magic battalion is under the command of our corps. I've never heard of this? Playing sneak attacks, you kid!"

"They're all comrades. What's the difference between you and me? Wherever you need to go, isn't it normal?"

Xu Tong's face was full of pride: "Now the Chuanshu Branch and the Revolutionary Army need the Shenji Battalion the most, no matter from which angle we want to borrow the Shenji Battalion, is there any problem?"

Chen Qiaoshan opened his mouth for a while without saying a word.

After finally swallowing this breath, Chen Qiaoshan looked up and down at Xu Tong, his face full of displeasure.

"I think I know why your kid can be independent from Yucheng, yes, it's okay to pick up unexpected places for sneak attacks, it's too ignorant of martial arts.

Commander Zhang always kept talking to me that he wanted to transfer you to the Henan Corps. I think you should not come. Once you come, the good things of the entire Corps will be yours sooner or later. "

"The most important thing on the battlefield is not military virtue, but victory. If you win earlier, the people of Sichuan and Shu will suffer less."

Xu Tong raised his head slightly and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will make good use of the Shenji Battalion. As for the Henan Corps... I probably didn't have the opportunity to join it. When the Chuanshu Corps is established in the future, I think the Chuanshu Corps will be established. It would also be good to have a magic battalion.”

After speaking, Xu Tong blinked at Chen Qiaoshan.

Chen Qiaoshan was speechless for a while.

Good guy, Chuanshu Corps.

Looking at Xu Tong, who was several years younger than himself, Chen Qiaoshan suddenly felt that the back waves of the Yangtze River pushed the front waves and overturned the front waves on the beach.

If Xu Tong had also participated in the Shandong Uprising before, and was the same batch of rebels as Su Yonglin who built the Golden Kingdom, there should be a place for this kid in today's five tiger generals of the Daming Kingdom.

But even without this experience, this kid is dazzling enough now. He fought several daring fairy battles in Jiangxi, and some generals in the army highly praised his boldness and precise vision.

He had heard that Xu Tong had been personally received by Su Yonglin, and this task of doing things in Sichuan and Sichuan was arranged by Su Yonglin himself, so it could be said that Jane was in the heart of the emperor.

If this wave can achieve results in Chuanshu, Xu Tong's future achievements are absolutely limitless. If he achieves higher achievements in the future, it is not impossible to transfer back to the central government. Even if he is not one of the five tiger generals now, it is difficult to say in the future.

Forget it, let's make a good relationship.

Chen Qiaoshan recognized it.

Soon after, Xu Tong was busy in the East Sichuan Military Region for a while, and Zhou Qiang came and went to replace Xu Tong, and instead of Xu Tong, he presided over the transformation tasks and the land revolution of the four prefectures in the east of Sichuan.

The Henan Corps arranged for a part of the manpower to stand here, to help deal with some military issues, and to assist the revolutionary army to expand its manpower.

For example, the more than 1 Song soldiers who surrendered and the more than 5000 Song soldiers who were captured before came to screen, and some scum and waste were identified and processed, and then political and industrial cadres in the army were sent to help the political and industrial cadres of the revolutionary army to be prisoners. Thought work.

Xu Tong returned to Zhongzhou to continue dealing with the front line, doing some shipbuilding work, and preparing to attack Fuzhou downstream in the next stage.

He didn't know that in the rear, the political cadres of the Revolutionary Army and the political cadres of the Henan Corps joined hands to do some interesting things.

The reason for this was that everyone made concerted efforts to expand the strength of the revolutionary army as soon as possible, and the best and fastest source of soldiers were these Song army prisoners, but the traditional method took a long time to complete the transformation of the prisoners and integrate them into the army. Clearly this is not the case now.

Political cadres brainstormed together, and finally a brigade instructor from the Henan Corps came up with their own ideas.

"In the old days, the emperor used the imperial examinations to win over the landlords and gentry, and selected elites from the landlord and gentry class called jinshi to serve the dynasty, and I heard that after the scholars passed the imperial examinations, there was an etiquette that they had to go through to praise officials.

The specific content is probably to let the champions of the new division lead the scholars to walk on the imperial street where only the emperor can walk, enjoy the congratulations and envy of the soldiers and people on both sides of the road, and finally let them enter the imperial city and officially become a member of the ruling class .

I think this is a very ceremonial etiquette. The reason why this etiquette is used by the rulers is because it can bring a great sense of honor to the new scholars, and make them feel a sense of belonging, and recognize them from now on. It is the own people of the ruling class, completely different from the past.

So I thought, they can use this sense of ritual to make the social elite identify themselves as breaking away from their original class attributes and become a complete ruler, then we can also use this sense of ritual to make the captives have a sense of identity and identity with us. A sense of belonging. "

(End of this chapter)