Chapter 18: Characteristics

It turned out that the name of this deputy commander was Xie Jun, Lin Fan stood behind this deputy leader, and heard a deep voice coming from the big tent: "Come in"

The two soldiers searched Lin Fan and asked Xie Jun to lead Lin Fan into the tent, but as soon as he entered the tent, he hadn't observed the environment, and Lin Fan heard the sound of someone in the tent asking to see him.

"Cavalry commander Zhuang Yiru meets the general"

"Come in"

Lin Fan looked at Zhuang Yiru, who entered the big tent by self-proclaim, about thirty years old, more than six feet tall and burly and strong, he looked really mighty and extraordinary, there were two screens on the left side of the big tent, behind the screen was a bed, there was a rectangular wooden table on the right side, there was a sand table on the table, and there was a row of Taishi chairs on each side of the middle of the big tent, and the owner of the low voice was sitting in the middle of the big tent.

This is the commander of this army of more than 8,000 people, General Yan Dali, who looks like he should be about forty years old, sitting on the Taishi chair in the center, his right hand on a thin book on the wooden case, on the left side of the wooden case are placed two boxes of wooden boxes, one box contains tokens, the other box is a small flag, and on the right is a pen and inkstone, and there is a wooden frame behind the general, on which are hung helmets, armor and a three-foot-long sword.

"See General"

Zhuang Yiru and Xie Jun knelt on one knee in unison.

General Yan Dali stopped the pen in his hand, looked up at the three people under the account and asked, "Why are you here?" Lin Fan glanced at this general, this general has an ordinary face, but he has a pair of eyes that are as sharp as eagles, with cold killing intent but restrained, it seems that he is a general who has been on the battlefield for a long time.

Xie Jun pulled Lin Fan, who was standing, and motioned for him to kneel, Yan Dali waved his hand and said, "Forget it, people who are not in my army don't have to be like this, Xie Jun, what are you bringing this person to my account?"

Xie Jun got up and said, "General Qiyu, last year's fish and bandits who slipped through the net have been captured in one fell swoop, totaling ......."

"I already know about this matter, someone reported to me not long ago, the imperial court transferred our army here, do you know why?", Xie Jun was interrupted by Yan Dali before he finished speaking.

"Suppress bandits", Zhuang Yiru also got up and replied.

"That's right, it's to suppress bandits, we've been here for more than a year, and we've cleared out more than 20 bandits of all sizes before and after, I'm afraid there are no less than 3,000 people, and now the last bandits have all been ambushed, oh, I'm telling you, I have ordered all the bandits brought back by your cavalry to be beheaded, it seems that we should also move the land, okay, don't stand, sit down", Yan Dali said slowly.

Xie Jun sat on the Taishi chair on the right, while Zhuang Yiru sat on the Taishi chair on the left, Lin Fan didn't care, and sat on a Taishi chair casually.

"Great, although there are also military merits in suppressing bandits here, they don't have as many military merits as going to the battlefield," Zhuang Yiru said in surprise.

"General Qiyu, I have something to tell you", Xie Jun got up again, clasped his hands into fists and said.

"Speak"

"After receiving the report from the sentry cavalry, I immediately led a hundred cavalry cavalry to the location of the caravan intercepted by the bandits, where I found that this young man had brought thirty-one bandits to justice with only one person, and brought him to introduce him to the general", Xie Jun pointed to Lin Fan and reported to Yan Dali.

"General Qiyu, I also have something to tell you, Xie Jun is a hundred commanders, and he is only the deputy commander of the cavalry, according to military regulations, those who transfer a hundred soldiers must be instructed by a thousand commanders, otherwise they must not transfer troops privately, Xie Jun has no military law, please deal with it general", Zhuang Yiru glanced at Xie Jun coldly.

The military rank of the country is divided into five levels: soldiers, ten chiefs, hundred chiefs, thousand chiefs and ten thousand chiefs, and implements a ten-system system, that is, one ten-chief manages ten ordinary soldiers, one hundred-chief manages ten ten-chiefs, one thousand-long manages ten hundred-chiefs, and one thousand-long manages ten thousand-chiefs, and at the same time, each chief also sets up a principal and deputy position, and a thousand commanders are called as the chief and deputy commanders, and the ten thousand commanders are called as the chief and deputy generals, and if there is a war, the main and deputy marshals of 100,000 and 200,000 are temporarily added.

Yan Dali originally had 10,000 soldiers under his command, but nearly 2,000 people died on the battlefield, together with Yan Dali's deputy general, he has not made any replenishment of troops until now, and Xie Jun is a hundred commanders under Zhuang Yiru's thousand commanders, but Xie Jun is also the deputy commander, and the two have always been at odds, and the army has long known it.

"General, the situation of my subordinates was urgent, and I didn't have time to report it."

"Joke, I was in the army at the time, and I was not far from the cavalry you belonged to, how could I not have time to report, I'm afraid you want to monopolize the military merits."

Looking at the dispute between Xie Jun and Zhuang Yiru, Yan Dali frowned, these two can fight, and they are also loyal to him, but the two just don't look down on each other, the reason is that Xie Jun was originally going to be promoted to the commander of the thousand-long cavalry, but he was transferred by the imperial military department to Zhuang Yiru, the cavalry commander, and the friction between the two began.

"Enough, shut up"

Yan Dali clenched his fist with his right hand and hammered the wooden case, Xie Jun and Zhuang Yiru suddenly didn't dare to squeak.

"Xie Jun, although you are the deputy commander, but you are not a thousand commanders, you have not been instructed to transfer troops privately, you should have been punished with a military stick for thirty to set an example, thinking that you have made meritorious contributions to suppressing bandits, and your merits and demerits are offset by them", Yan Dali shouted.

Xie Jun hurriedly knelt down and thanked Yan Dali for his kindness of not pursuing it, and at the same time, the hatred for Zhuang Yiru in his heart deepened, if he hadn't intervened in front of the general, he could have made military achievements.

Zhuang Yiru sighed secretly, and secretly didn't bring down this Xie Jun, he heard in the tent that Xie Jun's cavalry escorted the bandits back to the barracks, and came back with a one-armed young man.

"What's your name, and what ability can you bring the thirty-one bandits to justice?" Yan Dali glanced at Lin Fan.

"General Hui, his name is Lin Fan, he is a mute, although he has a broken arm, he is strong in martial arts, and he is really a rare talent", Xie Jun, who was still kneeling on the ground, hurriedly replied.

"Martial arts are strong, it's a little interesting, okay, you can get up first", Yan Dali glanced at Lin Fan with interest, and asked Xie Jun to get up.

"Xie Jun introduced you to me, you have to let me see your ability, if I like it, I will feature you into my army", Yan Dali said majestically.

"Features?"

Lin Fan didn't understand what these two words meant, but Xie Jun and Zhuang Yiru had been in the army for many years, how could they not know that the army of the Great Gang State was recruited by the imperial court in various places, and all armies had no right to recruit troops to supplement the source of troops.

And the characteristics that Yan Dali said are the rights that only Wan Chang can exercise, and the characteristic characteristics are that a special talent is recruited into the army, and a Wan Chang is required to be recommended as a guarantee, and approved by the Ministry of War.

"Okay, I know what you have to say, I have my own measure, you come with me", seeing that Zhuang Yiru was about to speak, Yan Dali waved his hand, signaling that Zhuang Yiru didn't need to say much.

The three of them followed Yan Dali to the training ground, and the four soldiers with swords outside the tent also followed Yan Dali, and it seemed that they should be Yan Dali's personal guards.

At this time, there were thousands of people on the training ground who were practicing at the training ground, Lin Fan followed Yan Dali to one of the beaches, and more than 100 shirtless people on this beach stopped fighting and fighting, all kneeling on one knee with their hands in fists, and shouted at Yan Dali: "See the general"

Yan Dali nodded with satisfaction and shouted: "Okay, get up, you guys step aside, Ke Ming, come here"

Ke Ming, it is this shirtless hundred guards and hundred chiefs, this Yan Dali has a very good memory, it seems that he has written down the names of the soldiers of the hundred lengths and above one by one.

"This is the captain of my guard, Baichang Ke Ming, if you can put him to the ground, I will ask you to enlist"

Yan Dali pointed to Ke Ming who ran in front of him and said.

Lin Fan thought about it, he was a Hongchen trial anyway, and it was not impossible to stay in the army for a while, so he nodded and walked to the beach.

"General, such a one-armed man, you sent me to fight him, isn't this...", Ke Ming snorted.

"Don't talk nonsense, let you go up, you can go up, he is a mute, and he is one-armed, just like this, he is capable of defeating thirty-one outlaws, I'm afraid you can't do it, you see if you want to bring some people up", Yan Dali squinted.

"It's... General, for a one-armed person like him, it is useless to send me, where do you need to bring people, against thirty-one outlaws, I don't believe it, and let me see the ability of this guy", Ke Ming looked disbelieving, and walked into the beach after speaking.

Ke Ming's strong dark muscles, coupled with his seven-foot height, were like a black bear walking upright, striding towards Lin Fan.

"Listen to what the general said, you yourself have an enemy of thirty-one people, then I won't show mercy to my subordinates, please"

Ke Ming hugged Lin Fan, seeing that Lin Fan was just staring at himself and replied politely, and when he was about to have a seizure, he remembered that the general said that this person was a mute, and couldn't help laughing, and said to Lin Fan Be careful, Ke Ming grabbed Lin Fan's waist with both hands.

It stands to reason that the thin Lin Fan should be raised by Ke Ming's hands, and then thrown on the beach seven or eight meters away, and the hundred soldiers under Ke Ming were also about to cheer loudly, but the next scene surprised everyone.

I saw Ke Ming holding back his red face, his hands on Lin Fan's waist were bruised, and his legs were constantly trembling, but Lin Fan didn't move at all, it can be seen that Ke Ming couldn't shake this thin one-armed young man at all, Lin Fan's right leg gently kicked Ke Ming's left leg, and at this moment, Ke Ming felt like a long iron slammed his left leg, grinning in pain, and the hands that grabbed Lin Fan's waist were also loosened.

At the same time, Lin Fan's right hand suddenly pinched Ke Ming's neck, Ke Ming hurriedly grabbed Lin Fan's right arm with both hands, but he couldn't stop it at all, Ren Linfan's right hand pinched his neck, and then Lin Fan's right hand moved upward, and actually pinched Ke Ming's neck and directly lifted Ke Ming off the ground, and threw Ke Ming out more than 20 meters to the left.

Fortunately, Ke Ming's skin is rough and thick, and the place is all sand, Lin Fan didn't make a heavy hand, except for almost not being able to breathe, Ke Ming didn't have anything to do, from Ke Ming's offensive to being thrown away, it was less than three breaths before and after, everyone was dumbfounded, and the air suddenly fell into silence.

"Yes, yes, you kid has some skills"

After being silent for a while, Yan Dali clapped his hands and smiled at Lin Fan.

"Incompetence of subordinates"

Ke Ming got up from the beach, coughed a few times and hurriedly asked Yan Dali for his guilt.

"I told you a long time ago, this young man is a one-man enemy of thirty-one people, you still don't believe it, is this subdued?"

Yan Dali put away his smile and said with his hands behind his back.

"The subordinates have taken it, and they are still convinced", Ke Ming can be regarded as a straight person.

"You continue to practice, young man, you come with me, you also come", after Yan Dali finished speaking to Lin Fan, he also asked Zhuang Yiru and Xie Jun to follow him to the big tent.

"Where's your badge?"

As soon as he arrived at the big tent, Yan Dali asked Lin Fan.

The identity card is a small wooden card for the identity registration of mortals in the country, and you need to bring this card when you travel, otherwise you will be found by the official patrol officer, and you will be fined at the lightest, and you will be closed for three or five days to set an example.

Lin Fan was not afraid, Zhou Zhongchen had already prepared everything, his right hand reached into the robe, took out an identity card from the bronze ring, and handed it to the wooden case in front of Yan Dali.

Lin Fan, a native of Lin Village, Bingliang Town, Qingzhou City, was born on the XX year X month X, and the back of the wooden plaque is also engraved with the seal of the Bingliang Town Government, which is the information on the wooden plaque that Lin Fan took out.

"You are only twenty years old this year, it is not bad to be so young, your hometown is probably more than 500 miles away from here, let me ask you, what is the scar on your hands and face?"

Yan Dali picked up the identity card and looked at it for a while, then opened his mouth to ask Lin Fan how he lost his hand and what was the scar on his face, but seeing Lin Fan frowning, it seemed that there was something unspeakable, and he said again: "It's okay if you don't say it."

Yan Dali then said majestically: "Lin Fan, I now officially inform you that in the name of the commander of this army, I will ask you to join our army, are you willing?"

Seeing Lin Fan nodded, Yan Dali continued: "Okay, I now appoint you as a fake hundred chiefs, because you have no military merits, I am afraid that it will be difficult to convince the public with your military position, you were not a member of the army before, so you can only receive a reward for suppressing bandits, not military merits, you can only receive a reward for bandits, you can only be a guard under my account, wait for me to write a military letter and send it to the military department, and when the military department responds to the letter, you are the real hundred chiefs, you must remember that you must not violate any military regulations in the army, otherwise I will be guilty of the same crime as you, come to someone."

"You take him to Ke Ming and tell him that this young man's name is Lin Fan, and he will work in the guards" As soon as the two sword-wielding guards entered the tent, Yan Dali said to one of the guards.

When Lin Fan went to Ke Ming with a guard, Yan Dali also asked Zhuang Yiru and Xie Jun to leave the big tent, and began to write Lin Fan's characteristic enlistment letter on the wooden case.

Characteristics enlistment is very important to Wan Chang, in addition to Lin Fan does have the ability, the main reason is that the war may start again, Lin Fan for him, use it well, make great contributions, then he can enter the military department and enter the temple, if something goes wrong, then he naturally has other ways to deal with it, and I don't know who wants this characteristic to enlist in the double-edged sword.

"Captain Ke, the general ordered me to bring this fake Baichang to you, and let me tell you that from today onwards, he will be working in our guards", the guard who led Lin Fan seemed to belong to Ke Ming.

Ke Ming, who was training on the beach, nodded after listening to the guards' report and said, "Okay, I know, you can go back."

"There are not many people who have been recruited by the characteristics of Wan Chang, what should I arrange for you in the guard? Let me think about it."

When the guards left, Ke Ming looked at Lin Fan in front of him and pondered.

Fake Baichang is the lowest rank in the army with characteristics to enlist, the reason why a fake word is added is because there is no appointment and approval from the Ministry of War, but although it is a fake Baichang, it is also a Baichang, and it is not appropriate to let Lin Fan be a guard guard, how to train a dumb man, Ke Ming thought about it carefully and seriously, there is really no suitable position for Lin Fan in the guard.

"Come with me first, I'll arrange a place for you, and then I'll tell you about the military regulations in the army", Ke Ming simply didn't worry about this problem, and solved Lin Fan's food, clothing, housing and transportation first.

When the two walked more than 100 meters away from General Yan Dali's tent, a row of more than ten tents stopped, Ke Ming ordered a guard to go to the quartermaster to get a uniform, took Lin Fan into the tent in the middle, and let Lin Fan sit on a chair in the tent, and then talked endlessly.

It turned out that in the tent where the army of the Great Gang Kingdom was stationed, there was a ten-chief and ten soldiers living in the tent, and the hundred-long had his own independent small tent and small desk.

Ke Ming rummaged through the boxes and cabinets in the tent, and after searching for a while, he took out a blue book and a palm-sized light yellow book from a small box and handed them to Lin Fan.

"The blue book is a record of military law, as for the other small book, you are not, eh, cherish the word like gold, this is for you to write", Ke Ming wanted to say dumb, but changed to cherish the word like gold, and after speaking, he found a piece of black charcoal, handed it to Lin Fan and said: "If you want to convey your meaning, just use black charcoal to write it in a small book."

And the place to arrange for Lin Fan to live is in Ke Ming's tent, Ke Ming ordered someone to bring a small wooden couch and put it opposite his bed, as for eating, someone will carry the food to the outside of the guards' tent, and Lin Fan is also given special care, even if he meets General Yan Dali, there is no need to pay homage, at present, he does not need to participate in training at all, because he must be familiar with military law and the hundreds of thousands of commanders in this army.

In the next three days, in the morning, Lin Fan was in Ke Ming's small tent to read the military law and military discipline books, and in the afternoon, he went to various tents of thousands of lengths and hundreds of lengths, and also got acquainted with several thousands of chiefs.

"This Xie Jun, I am really angry, I don't know where to free up a dumb one-armed man to recommend to the general, the general said that the old eyes are dizzy, how can this kid be in our army", early in the morning, the cavalry commander Zhuang Yiru was on fire in his tent.

A man in military uniform sitting on the left side of Zhuang Yiru hurriedly booed: "Commander be cautious, be cautious, beware of the wall with ears."

Another man in military uniform on the right side of Zhuang Yiru said: "Don't worry, old money, this is the big tent of Zhuang Commander, and Xie Jun's people can't hear it."

Xie Jun has been in the cavalry for many years, and has already accumulated a lot of contacts, seven of the ten cavalry chiefs are friendly with him, and the remaining two cavalry chiefs were transferred to this army not long ago, and they were pulled over by Zhuang Yiru, otherwise Zhuang Yiru would have been completely hollowed out by Xie Jun.

"Commander Zhuang, you don't need to worry, the three of us have just been transferred to General Yan's account for a short time, and there are no military merits, so those cavalrymen are not convinced of us, now the bandits have been cleared, and the war with Yanguo is about to start, we will soon go to the battlefield, and when the time comes, Commander Zhuang, with your father's connections in the military department, it is very likely that you will become the commander of Wanchang at that time, so you bear with it first", Baichang, who was called Lao Qian, said after pondering for a while.

Zhuang Yiru nodded and said: "The top priority for the two of you is to win over the other cavalry leaders first, and beat Xie Jun's arrogance to me, if you lose the support of the other cavalry leaders, he won't be able to jump for long."

Just when the three of them were still planning how to win over the seven cavalry Baichang in the tent, a messenger from the military department also rode to Yan Dali's tent and handed an emergency military report to Yan Dali's wooden case.

"Commander Zhuang, General Yan ordered you to go to his tent as soon as possible to discuss the emergency military situation", a soldier entered the tent to convey the order to Zhuang Yiru.

"I know, I'll be right over"

After the soldier left, Zhuang Yiru said to the other two cavalry commanders: "You wait here first, I'll go and see if there is any emergency military situation."

After finishing speaking, Zhuang Yiru immediately rushed to Yan Dali's big tent, just entered the tent, and found that even himself, all the eight thousand elders had arrived, and after sitting on the fourth Taishi chair on the right side of the Taishi chair in the tent, Yan Dali looked around at the eight thousand elders on the left and right sides, and said: "Everyone has arrived, then I will announce a news with you."

Under the gaze of the eight people, Yan Dali picked up the military newspaper from the wooden case and read: "Knowing that General Yan, your unit has completely suppressed the bandits in the Henglan Mountains and the surrounding areas, and should have rewarded them for their meritorious soldiers, but the war with the Yan Kingdom is about to break out, and when you receive the military report, you immediately set off and rush to Baiyun Town, and all the soldiers and horses of your department will be controlled by the command of Lu Jianming, who is 200,000 long."

Yan Dali already knew the content of the military report, so he summoned all Qianchang to the tent, but at this time, his face was extremely gloomy, and his eyes were almost angry and wanted to breathe fire.

It's not that he was angry because he wanted to be controlled by Lu Jianming, Yan Dali was angry about the time when this military report came, last night he wrote down the list of soldiers who had made meritorious contributions to the bandits and the experience of suppressing the bandits in the past year, and ordered someone to send it to the military department quickly, even if the person who sent the letter kept sending it to the military department day and night, it would take five days for the military department to reply to the letter, but now the letter was replied on the third day, which shows that after the last group of bandits was beheaded, someone crossed him and reported it to the military department privately.

The most suspicious thing is Zhuang Yiru, his father is the general in charge of logistics and grain and grass in the military department, and he transferred Zhuang Yiru to Yan Dali, but it is just gilded, although Zhuang Yiru is also a bit of a real skill, but he must be beaten well if he oversteps his authority to report this matter.

Zhuang Yiru, who was stared at by Yan Dali's cold eyes and felt uncomfortable, was like sitting on pins and needles, and the person who reported to the military department privately was him, he was afraid that Xie Jun would swallow all the credit, so he hurriedly wrote to his father, never thought that his father would immediately transfer Yan Dali and his troops to the border, so that although he could delay the time to reward the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions to the bandits, why wouldn't his father wait for two days to send military documents, this is not clear that he overstepped the ranks, Zhuang Yiru couldn't help but think with a sweat, he was afraid of being punished by Yan Dali.

"You immediately go back and gather your subordinates to get ready to go, and after eating at noon, you will pull out the camp and rush to Baiyun Town", to Zhuang Yiru's surprise, Yan Dali did not settle accounts with him, but just asked Qianchang to quickly return to the battalions to prepare for the camp.

"It seems that this kind of thing will not be done well in the future, otherwise Yan Dali, who has killed countless people, will not be able to draw me to the sacrificial flag one day when he has convulsions", Zhuang Yiru, who walked out of the big tent, remembered Yan Dali's eyes and was afraid for a while.