The struggle of the reborn prince

Chapter 130 Two Breaking Points

All the houses in the inner courtyard of Beifu have been renovated, and the original servants are all served by the guards, but the people who live here have all kinds of clothes and all kinds of accents.The guards who were doing odd jobs overheard their conversations, and only then did they know that there were small officials in the government office, the servants of the Dali Temple, the monks who planted vegetables in the Xiangguo Temple, the little Taoist priests who rang the bell in the Lingxiao Palace, and the vendors who sold vegetables on the street. , the waiter in the restaurant, and even a few of them spoke Chinese, but they immediately knew that they were Hu people from the northwest. There were more than a hundred people.These people came here before the Chinese New Year, entertained them with delicious food and drinks every day, but they were not allowed to go out, and honestly, no one of them proposed to go for a walk, and they didn't even pass the second gate of the inner courtyard.

These people are not amazing in appearance and do not overwhelm the public. They are just ordinary people in the eyes of others, and they will not give them a second glance in the street, but in the eyes of Zhao Tang, they are priceless treasures. The eyes hidden in the darkness in the house - the spy.Zhao Tong took advantage of the free time during the Spring Festival to call them back to the mansion from various places. First, let them see the good situation of the palace; The third is to exchange experience and conduct organizational discipline and business training.

Naturally, the training was presided over by Huang Jingchen. The instructors were selected experienced experts who had been in the industry for many years. Here they not only had to learn how to collect and deliver information, but also learned how to develop offline, deal with the enemy's counter-intelligence organization, and infiltrate , hand-to-hand combat, lockpicking, the use of firearms, and more importantly, brainwashing to make them loyal to the prince and the organization

Zhao Tong regards the Liao Kingdom and the future Jin Kingdom as his enemies. This big battle is inevitable. He asked the spies to investigate them, collecting information on the national conditions, political conditions, people's conditions, and the military's combat readiness. The emperor's likes and dislikes, the yield per mu of grain, the annual rainfall in different regions, the wet and dry seasons of major rivers, the traffic conditions of roads, and even local customs and folk customs are all included in the investigation.At the same time, he ordered to develop dissidents among the nobles of the Liao Kingdom, bribe and win over the weak-willed elements in the army, and open the door for future military operations.

The spies lived here for a month, and left with the rich rewards and new missions from the prince, but another group moved in quickly. They came from two systems:

A group were selected from the pro-guards. These people have undergone basic training to become a soldier, have mastered the use of new weapons, have strict organizational discipline and good obedience.In the field training a while ago, Zhao Tong followed the standards for selecting special forces. The long-distance march is a test of the soldiers' physical strength, and extreme training can test their endurance.Those anti-interrogation trainings were also tricks thought up by Zhao Tong. The whippings and screams heard by the "captives" were all simulated by the beating of mats and the interrogators. In the past, some of them broke free from the ropes and ran away, some ran around frantically, and some rushed towards the horse team, wanting to fight. Zhao Tong selected the best 30 of them through these tricks.

The other group is the orphans that Lu Xiaoyao is in charge of training. There are more than 40 of them. They have all gone through systematic training in fighting, assassination, lurking, kidnapping, makeup, and intelligence gathering. The quality of these people is absolutely top-notch, and they are instilled with the idea of ​​being loyal to the prince every day, and their loyalty is unquestionable, but they are very unfamiliar with the use of firearms and the way the army fights.

Zhao Tong gathered these people together in order to create an invincible special forces unit.According to needs, Zhao Tong will let them learn to use boats, canoes, foot or horseback to conduct amphibious infiltration operations, battlefield reconnaissance and intelligence collection, use the sun and compass to identify directions in the wild, and also learn to destroy and assassinate behind enemy lines, master hand-to-hand combat, Explosion and the use of various weapons, anti-intelligence, anti-assassination guard training on important targets.

Through this period of training, the team members are required to further improve their ability to use intelligence and physical strength. Each soldier is required to be good at one kind of stunt, understand Khitan or Xixia language, and have a strong individual combat ability.Zhao Tun put a lot of effort into this, and of course he also relived the feeling of being a special soldier.

Three months later, Zhao Tong reorganized the pro-guards, adopting a strengthened battalion organization, and divided them into three teams and one team.The battalion has a commander and a deputy commander, two judiciary joiners, two record joiners, and two bosses, and a group of ten people directly under the personal guards who are responsible for carrying the flag and passing orders. There are 18 people in total, 130 horses, and 42 rifles and guns. Eight, eighteen revolvers, eighteen sabers; 150 five people in each capital, one for the head of the capital, one for the deputy head of the capital, one for the recorder and one for the master, five messengers, a total of nine people, and three subordinates. There are 130 people in each team, and the team is divided into four teams, with 35 horses, 130 five rifles, [-] revolvers, and [-] five sabers.

The first team is the transportation team, which is managed by the head of the battalion. It consists of six doctors, six veterinarians, 15 firemen, 20 craftsmen, and 20 transport soldiers. It is equipped with 35 rifles and 36 revolvers. , 120 horses, and [-] carts.Their tasks are to be responsible for the food of the whole battalion, the epidemic prevention and treatment of soldiers and horses, the repair of damaged weapons and the maintenance and repair of training equipment, and at the same time participate in military training; , Rescue the wounded, set up camp, etc., and can also be used as a reserve force to fight when necessary.The craftsmen are all craftsmen with experience in making guns and ammunition drawn from the workshop, and they can even be converted into a small arsenal if the materials are available.They are assigned to each capital for management in peacetime, and they are uniformly deployed by the battalion according to tasks in wartime.

The whole battalion has a total of 500 people and [-] horses. Once they reach the level of two horses per person, they can fight continuously for more than a month relying on their own logistics supplies.They will be responsible for the security of the entire palace and the security of important departments. They will serve as a quick-response force to deal with emergencies in peacetime, and will accompany the prince as an assault force in wartime. Only one team is on duty in the palace every day, and they are usually stationed in the North Palace for training. standby.

There are also 80 guards directly under the prince, 20 of whom are the prince's personal guards, responsible for his daily life, food and inner courtyard guards, led by Jianxi and Zhao Xin.The remaining 60 people are permanently stationed in the palace, responsible for guarding inside and outside the palace, anti-specialists, and collecting intelligence. They are led by Zhao Yi. They are equipped with the best equipment, and weapons can be selected at any time according to different tasks. They usually only carry pistols, short knives or short-handled shotguns. These personal equipment, dressed in casual clothes, appeared as the guards of the palace.

Another unit equipped with weapons with more powerful firepower has already begun to be formed. Most of the team members are selected from volunteer schools. Now basic training has begun, and the secretly developed weapons have also entered the experimental stage. Zhao Tuo has already started to compile training plans and operational rules. After the weapon is finalized, it can be put into practical training.

After systematic training, the community members are already familiar with battle formations. Some of them are proficient in riding and archery, and most of them can ride horses. They have reached the combat level of the standing forbidden army. They can be used as a supplementary force for the pro-army to go out at any time, but they still use cold weapons. After all, people talk too much If they don't manage it centrally, it is inevitable that there will be leaks, so they can only wait for the right time to equip them. The use of firearms is much simpler than that of bows and crossbows, and they can quickly form combat effectiveness.

After five or six years of planning and more than two years of training, Zhao Tun finally pulled together a team of more than a thousand people.In addition to completing routine tasks such as pursuit, reconnaissance, covering lines of communication, and assaulting battle formations, which are commonly used by light and heavy cavalry, they can also dismount and fight, becoming a new army with high mobility and strong firepower with comprehensive combat capabilities.

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After arranging all this, the time has already entered May. According to the development of history, at this time this year, the eldest son of the emperor, Zhao Huan, should be appointed as the crown prince, and he should be in charge of the East Palace. However, the position of crown prince is still pending, and all forces are still fighting for it.According to the information from Beijing, Prince Ding's mansion praised Geng Nanzhong and Zhengyue to contact a group of courtiers to submit a petition to make Zhao Huan the crown prince.

There was a set of reasonable procedures for the implementation of major political decisions in the Song Dynasty: the prime minister negotiated, obtained the decree in person, and then went to the Zhongshu Province to draft a government order, which was reviewed by the Menxia Province. Zhongdu has the right to refute (that is, explain the reasons for refusing to approve it), and then hand it over to the Ministry of Finance for execution. At the same time, attendants can also raise different opinions, and Taiwan admonishers can discuss impeachment.Although at this time Cai Jing often used the emperor's imperial pen to bypass the restrictive procedures such as refutation and remonstrance, which led to the vicious expansion of the monarchy, but the establishment of a prince is a major event that affects the country for generations to come, and Zhao Ji still has to conduct court debates at the court meeting.

Now in the imperial court, Cai You, Wang Fu, He Zhizhong, and Gao Qiu are the leaders to win over the party and resolutely oppose it. The above table demands that King Jia of Zhao Kai be the crown prince, and the inner court starts with Yang Jian and Liang Shi as the leaders to follow suit, and instill Zhao Heng's ideas in the emperor's ears. Bad words, but Prime Minister Cai Jing supported Li Zhang, and Taiwei Tong Guan had an ambiguous attitude and did not make a clear statement.The two sides could not settle down, and the heated debate failed to make a decision for more than a month.In March, Zheng Juzhong, a member of the Privy Council, asked Zhao Yu, the king of Yan, to be the crown prince. At this time, Taiwei Tong Guan stood up to express his support, and a Romance of the Three Kingdoms was staged in the court.

Zhao Tong discussed this matter with Huang Jingchen and He Qufei several times, analyzed the current situation, and believed that this matter may be delayed for a long time, leading to the abortion of the matter of establishing a prince, and the differences between the DPRK and China will become more serious. Chaos.However, Zhao Tong understands that history has changed here because of his arrival, maybe a turning point in history is about to appear, maybe the new history will be written by himself.