The Song Dynasty on the Sand Table

Chapter 90 This Army is So Powerful
After the discussion, Wu Jialiang said, "Then I will go back to the county town first. I will come back when Prince Gong sends his troops."

When he said this, he naturally believed that it would take a long time for Madam Gong Er to prepare for the expedition.

Unexpectedly, Madam Gong Er said, "Then County Magistrate Wu doesn't need to go back. We will send troops now."

"what?"

Wu Jialiang froze for a moment. "Now? Just say it? Is that even possible?"
Madam Gong Er came out of the hall, walked to Qi Jiguang, and said in a low voice: "General Qi, we need to send troops to suppress the bandits immediately."

Qi Jiguang: "A man of steel will always want to serve his country."

Madam Gong Er has now become accustomed to hearing the heavenly generals speak strange words and answer questions irrelevantly, but she does not take it seriously. She just thinks that the gods are too disdainful to talk normally to mortals. Anyway, they always get back to work after speaking strange words.

Sure enough, after Qi Jiguang finished his lines, he waved his hand and shouted, "Stop the drill immediately, recall all soldiers who are on duty and rest, and attack with all your strength."

At the command, the messenger shouted loudly, and the captains of each team immediately repeated the order. The recruits immediately panicked and didn't know what to do.

But the veterans who had been training for a while immediately ran back to the barracks and began to prepare for the expedition. The new recruits followed the veterans and their emotions calmed down.

The door of the barracks next to them opened, and the two teams of plastic mandarin ducks who had completed their preparations for the expedition first walked out and stood in front of Qi Jiguang.

The Zhangjia Village team that was playing Cuju outside the village, Wu Zhan's island refugee team, and others, also immediately ended their rest and all ran here.

As soon as Wu Jialiang came out of the hall, he felt dazzled. All he saw were rebel soldiers running around. No, not all of them were running around. Only the new recruits who had just started training were running around. But the veterans seemed very well-behaved. Everyone knew what they should do, and they moved in an orderly manner.

After a while, the eight original old mandarin duck teams were assembled.

Next, a dozen mid-level mandarin duck teams that had been training for a month were assembled.

The last twenty members of the Mandarin Duck Team were a little slower. Some of them didn't even hold their weapons properly or button their clothes properly, but they ran over in a hurry and were still buttoning their clothes while forming a formation.

Wu Jialiang was astonished to find that these soldiers were still whispering to each other halfway through the assembly. But when they stood in the line, they immediately became quiet, and no one whispered anymore. Hundreds of people gathered in the open space at the gate of the manor, and not even a single human voice could be heard.

Wu Jialiang was really shocked this time!
Is this still a bandit army?
There were also officers, soldiers and generals in Song Jiang's gang back then, such as Yang Zhi, the Green-Faced Beast, who was once a general of the Western Army. He followed Tong Guan to attack Liao and was under the command of Zhong Shidao, commanding the elite army.

After he joined Song Jiang's gang, he also trained soldiers and boasted that the soldiers he trained were more powerful than the officers' soldiers.

In fact, the soldiers he trained were indeed more powerful than ordinary imperial guards. At one point, they defeated the officers and soldiers and made them flee in disarray. If he had not met the fierce Zhang Shuye, he would not have lost.

But when Yang Zhi's "soldiers who were more powerful than the officers and soldiers" were compared with the soldiers in front of him, there was a huge difference. In terms of military appearance alone, they were far ahead of the others.

Wu Jialiang vividly remembers how the soldiers trained by Yang Zhi would chatter freely in formation, some even interrupting their leader. For example, during a pre-battle speech by Song Jiang, urging them to fight bravely, one soldier retorted, "Brother, no need to talk too much. We'll attack wherever you point. Frowning even half a brow is unworthy of a man."

This statement attracted a large group of people nearby to agree!
It seemed magnanimous and righteous, but in fact the entire army collapsed in an instant and became as chaotic as a vegetable market.

Song Jiang, however, was not angry at all, and praised loudly: "Well, you are a good man!"

If the upper beam is crooked, the lower beams will also be crooked.

Wu Jialiang, a well-educated and knowledgeable person, wanted to persuade him but didn't know how, so he had to give up in the end.

Looking at the group of soldiers in front of me who were silent, and then thinking about my former soldiers, I couldn't help but sigh.

At this moment... Qi Jiguang's eyes suddenly lit up.

Yue Wenxuan is possessed.

He came to "fine-tune the military regulations". The reward of thirty taels of silver per head offered by Qi Jiguang was really a bit too high. It was okay to use it to suppress Japanese pirates, but it was a bit unreasonable to use it to suppress bandits.

Recently he checked the information again and found that the Qi family army would not reward thirty taels for killing any enemy. Only if they killed real Japanese soldiers would they be rewarded thirty taels. If they killed only fake Japanese or small pirates along the coast, the reward would be much lower.

Later, Qi Jiguang was transferred to the north. According to military regulations, if you killed a legitimate Mongolian soldier or a Jin soldier, you would be rewarded 30 taels of silver. If you killed a "fake soldier", the reward would be much lower.

Of course, to identify the real Japanese from the fake Japanese, the real barbarians from the fake barbarians, you can't just cut off the ears, you have to bring back the whole head, and the military regulations have to be fine-tuned again.

Yue Wenxuan possessed Qi Jiguang, cleared his throat, and said to the assembled soldiers, "The bounty for this expedition has changed."

As soon as these words were spoken, the soldiers became nervous.

Yue Wenxuan: "Our Jimo Volunteer Army was established to fight against the Jin. However, those bandits are not Jin thieves, so it is better to surrender than to kill them. Therefore, this time, the reward for killing the bandits has been reduced to 10 strings of cash, and the reward for capturing them alive is also 10 strings of cash, all of which will be converted into food."

When this order was announced, the recruits didn't mind it, because they had never experienced the life of getting rich overnight with a head worth 30 kan.

The veteran felt a little regretful, as the opportunity to get rich overnight seemed to have passed.

On second thought, it made sense. How could there be such a high bounty for every battle? If the reward was 30 guan per head regardless of the enemy, then killing all 500 bandits this time would mean a bounty of guan? Where would Madam Gong Er get so much money to hand out?

Just when they were feeling a little disappointed, Yue Wenxuan continued, "There will still be high bounties in the future. When fighting against the Jin thieves, if you kill a real Jin thief, you'll get 30 strings of cash, and if you kill a fake one, you'll get 10 strings of cash. Everyone, remember this."

The veterans were delighted: there was still a chance to make a fortune.

Many people were so happy that they almost cheered out loud, but fortunately they remembered that they were in formation and managed to hold back.

Only one person couldn't help himself! Zhang Dashu laughed out loud: "Oh, you can still make a fortune."

Yue Wenxuan's face turned quickly and he said, "Talking in the middle of the formation will result in forty beatings."

Zhang Dashu: “!!!”

Wu Jialiang saw this scene from the side, and then he suddenly realized: No wonder the discipline of this army is so good. It turns out that talking while in formation will result in forty beatings. It is a very strict military rule. Moreover, the reward is still very high even though it has been reduced. It belongs to the category of "strict military rules and high rewards". Such an army naturally has first-class military discipline.

He suddenly thought of something and whispered to Madam Gong Er beside him, "Prince Gong, I want to remind you of something."

Madam Gong Er: "What's the matter?"

Wu Jialiang said: "This time we are crossing the border to Laiyang County to suppress the bandits. Your soldiers must be well disciplined and not disturb the people of Laiyang County. Otherwise, the Laiyang Ma family will immediately turn from friends into enemies and may join forces with the bandits to besiege us. That would not be a good thing."

　PS: At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a general named Yang Zhi in the Western Army. He followed Tong Guan to attack Liao and was under the command of Zhong Shidao, commanding the elite army.

　　"Jing Kang Xiaoya" calls Yang Zhi a "recruited big bandit". Later, he followed Zhong Shizhong to support Taiyuan and fought against the Jin army. He fled without fighting in Yuci, resulting in Zhong Shizhong's death in battle.

　　In "The Remaining Stories of the Xuanhe Period of the Great Song Dynasty," Yang Zhi is one of the thirty-six leaders under Song Jiang. In Gong Kai's "Praise of the Thirty-Six Men of Song Jiang," written during the same period, Yang Zhi is also mentioned, with the following words praising him: "When a sage governs the world, the four spirits dwell in the suburbs. What is your name, beast? You are so tired of running around in the grave."

　　
　
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