I served as an admonisher in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 262 Silver-like pewter spear head! Is this the best soldier of my Song Dynasty?

In a blink of an eye, it’s April.

The third day of April.

The Law to Protect Armor and the Law to Protect Horses were officially promulgated and will be implemented on a trial basis on Yongxing Military Road and Qinfeng Road for a period of one year.

Although Fan Zhongyan and Su Liang thought this method was too disturbing to the people, it was not worth the various benefits mentioned by other ministers.

I can only stop refuting.

The merits of this method will be judged after the results of the trial are obtained.

……

April 5th.

Su Liang got the news that the Liao Kingdom was also going to start a reform.

After Xiao Ding, the special envoy of the Liao Kingdom, returned to the court, he was reused and was appointed as the Privy Envoy of Zhibeiyuan.

The official system of the Liao Kingdom was divided into the Northern and Southern Houses.

The officials in the north mainly have jurisdiction over the Khitan people and the Jurchen people in the north; while the officials in the south mainly have jurisdiction over the affairs of the Han and Bohai people.

The authority of the northern officials was much greater than that of the southern officials.

Judging from Xiao Ding's position, the Liao Kingdom is also preparing to initiate reforms throughout the territory.

Su Liang couldn't help but be overjoyed.

A country's reform is like riding a horse on the edge of a cliff.

If you are not careful, your country may be weakened, unable to recover, or even destroyed.

He believed that the road of the Liao Kingdom would be more bumpy than that of the Song Dynasty.

If Xiao Ding could completely convince Emperor Yelu Zong of Liao to really follow the reforms he learned in the Song Dynasty, he would be on the road to destruction.

……

On the seventh day of April, inside the Yushitai.

Su Liang held a document and looked at Cao Hu opposite, with a depressed look on his face.

"What do you mean by the officials, I have to do all of this?"

"Yeah, the official said, he can rest assured when you do things!" Cao Hu said with a smile.

Hearing this, Su Liang frowned with helplessness on his face.

What the officials wanted him to do was nothing else.

It was precisely to prepare the five hundred heavy cavalry.

Zhao Zhen believes that these five hundred heavy cavalry are different from the current Forbidden Army arms. They must choose the best from the best and must not be inferior to the Iron Kites of Xixia.

He believed in Su Liang's vision, so he asked Su Liang to organize it.

The contents covered in the document include four categories: personnel, armor, weapons, and horses.

As for how to train, that's not up to Su Liang.

Su Liang thought for a while and said, "The armor and weapons can be left to the newly established Ordnance Supervisor for casting. As long as the materials and tools are available, they will not be worse than Liao Xia."

"The horses will be handed over to the northwest, and I will personally write to General Di Qing."

"As for personnel... personnel... where should I choose?" Su Liang looked confused.

Going to the northwest is obviously unrealistic.

Cao Hu smiled and said: "My family master has arranged for all the infantry and horsemen of the Fourth Army to be chosen by you and can go to the military camp at any time."

Hearing this, Su Liang couldn't help but suddenly realized.

Only then did I remember that Cao Cong, the head of the Cao family, was currently serving as the commander-in-chief and deputy-du commander of the bodyguard and horse army.

"Then can you let Mr. Cao select five hundred elites first? If all is feasible, I will save myself trouble. My understanding of the soldiers of the Forbidden Army is really limited, and I believe in Mr. Cao's vision!"

Cao Hu thought for a while and said: "No problem, we can go to the military camp to check it out in three days. After you check it, we will report it to the officials!"

Su Liang nodded.

This assignment was given to him by the officials, so he naturally had to see it in person before reporting to the officials.

At this time, Su Liang suddenly remembered Xia Song's words, "The Imperial Guards in the capital have become far inferior to the Western Army in guarding homes and courtyards."

He felt that this statement was definitely biased.

After all, on the surface, the Upper Fourth Army was still the best arm of the Song Dynasty, bar none.

……

Three days later.

Su Liang and Cao Hu rode to a military camp in the north of the city.

Before Su Liang entered the military camp, he felt that this military camp was different.

The walls, military tents, and armor worn by the soldiers standing guard outside the gate that he saw from a distance were all much more exquisite than those in ordinary military camps.

Obviously, ordinary Forbidden Army soldiers don't even have the opportunity to train here.

The entrance to the military camp.

The person who greeted Su Liang was not Cao Cong, but Yuhou, Wei Ze, the bodyguard of the horse army.

A burly man in his thirties, nearly nine feet tall.

The official rank starts from the fifth rank, which is half a rank lower than Su Liang.

Cao Cong is very smart.

He knew that if he came forward, others would think that he directly decided on the candidates for the five hundred heavy cavalry, which would easily take the credit from Su Liang.

If he doesn't come forward, the decision-making power of selection belongs entirely to Su Liang. Even if Su Liang approves his choice, the credit goes to Su Liang.

He specially sent a general who was half a level lower than Su Liang, which gave Su Liang enough face.

Who says warriors have no brains? Everyone in the Cao family is a genius.

In the absence of war for a long time, if a warrior wants to secure his position, he must learn to calculate and have more holes than a hornet's nest.

Otherwise, the scholar-bureaucrats and officials might not even notice that they were being tricked.

After a while.

Su Liang and Cao Hu dismounted in front of the military camp.

The guards and horsemen all waited for Wei Ze, clasping his fists and saying: "Su Yushi, please come inside. There are five hundred horsemen soldiers standing on the battlefield in front of you. They are all carefully selected. The final general can make them show off their martial arts. If you If you are not satisfied with certain people, you can continue to pick problems.”

"Thank you for your hard work, Wei Yu!" Su Liang nodded, then strode forward.

When he was still more than a hundred meters away from the battlefield, Su Liang was startled.

On the battlefield, five hundred soldiers stood upright.

All of them were wearing armor, holding horses in one hand, double-hook iron spears in the other, bows on their chests, and bamboo quivers filled with arrows on their backs.

The reason Su Liang was frightened was that these people were too tall.

The minimum is over five feet seven (Song ruler, approximately 1.8 meters), and some are almost as tall as a war horse nearly two meters tall.

In the Song Dynasty, the most important thing in recruiting soldiers was height.

Even the military pay of the Bianjing Imperial Guard is graded according to height.

Su Liang walked up to him and frowned slightly.

Although he is a civil servant.

But he was also someone who drank with the Western Army in the Great Northwest and stood face to face with the Xixia Army.

The soldiers in front of him looked tall and mighty, but after looking at them, he could only praise them: they were full of masculinity.

There was no murderous intent or fighting spirit in these people, and there was no light in their eyes that belonged only to soldiers.

Too good.

It’s so orderly.

Su Liang said: "Marquis Wei Yu, let everyone show it off!"

Wei Ze slightly cupped his hands, and then shouted loudly: "Line up the array and shoot!"

Wow! Wow! Wow!

The armors collided and made a loud noise.

The soldiers led their horses and dispersed, and then under the command of the soldiers in front, they mounted their horses and waved their guns.

Oops! Oops! Oops!

The shadows of the guns swayed, uniform, beautiful and imposing.

At this moment, Su Liang's brows furrowed even more tightly.

Go into battle and kill the enemy, it looks good but it’s useless!

This is not a charge with a gun, this is not war training, this is a gorgeous performance.

These people gave Su Liang an overall feeling.

They are not running for the heavy cavalry who can charge into battle and take the enemy's heads, but they are running for the long man in golden armor who will serve as a ceremonial soldier at the Yuan Dynasty.

Seeing Su Liang's frown, Wei Ze shouted again: "Everyone rushes to attack, show your methods!" "

drive! drive! drive!

Suddenly, hundreds of horses galloped forward, and the soldiers on the horses were doing all kinds of incredible actions.

Su Liang admitted that any one of these people could beat him five times.

Moreover, his martial arts skills are also very good, and he can easily deal with ordinary thieves.

but--

As the guardian of the capital, the emperor's guards were still too weak as the strongest arm of the Song Dynasty.

On the Fourth Army, but Taizu Taizong was able to suppress the iron-blooded soldiers from all directions.

Now Su Liang's evaluation of them is: big, strong, and innocent.

Just a bunch of them: silver-like pewter spearheads.

Su Liang thought about it carefully and understood.

These people had never participated in a war and often participated in royal ceremonial activities.

It has long become a model army that relies on their faces to make a living.

Perhaps due to constant training, his martial arts skills are still there, but the sense of aloofness and responsibility of an emperor's guard is gone.

The willingness to sacrifice oneself for the country and the people is gone.

They are like a group of tigers kept in a zoo. Their lives are too privileged and they have long lost their hunting instinct.

This kind of people will definitely risk their lives when it comes to charging into battle.

There is no qualification to be a heavy cavalry at all.

At this moment, Su Liang recalled Xia Song's comment.

He felt that calling these soldiers "soldiers who look after homes and homes" was too accurate.

They have become just a housekeeper.

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