Chapter 4: Who in the Imperial Court?
Like Cheriga, the Solidarity Soldiers were dismissive of the new weapons that were given to them. Some people even danced like juggling, and the long pole stood on the ground and was about to catch up with the height of the city wall of Xin'an, but he was dancing like a tiger. Such beautiful skills attracted thunderous applause, and people rushed up to watch, and the entire school field became a juggling market in a blink of an eye.
Qin Jin had a gloomy face, stood in the school yard without saying a word, just quietly looked at the united soldiers who were doing their own thing. Captain Qi Bihe of the United Army soon found disappointment and dissatisfaction in Qin Shaofu's eyes, which made him very embarrassed to arrive.
"Stop it all for Lao Tzu, what do you think of the school field?
It took a lot of effort to make these united soldiers quiet down, and Qi Bihe felt that his face was gloomy and came to Qin Jin.
"The unity soldiers have been assembled, please give a lecture to the young man!"
Qin Shaofu's face was even more ugly, and he had a strange feeling, since he killed Cui Anshi yesterday, this usually gentle county lieutenant seemed to be a different person, and he couldn't help but feel nervous when he stood beside him.
"Captain Qibi, how many unity soldiers are there in the county, and there are few people who actually arrived today?"
Qin Jin asked calmly, but Qi Bihe's face was flushed, to be honest, he couldn't answer any of Qin Shaofu's two questions, he could only say an approximate number. Moreover, the training of the solidarity soldiers on weekdays is already intermittent, and who has the leisure to count how many people actually show up every day? But no matter how many or ten thousand excuses there are, he is derelict in his duty as a lieutenant.
"Okay, Qin will help you answer!" Qin Jin waved his hand at the assistant behind him as if he had already prepared, and immediately someone held up a book book, which turned out to be the roster of the united soldiers.
"Half an hour, give Qin an accurate answer!"
Without explaining a word, he took the roster from the hand of the assistant and drew them one by one, and soon the actual number of people today was counted. In addition to the more than 100 people who were in charge of guarding the city wall, only 379 people came to the school field today, but the actual number on the roster reached an unprecedented number of more than 1,000. It's a shame that everyone claims to have 800 unity soldiers on weekdays, which doesn't seem to be as exaggerated as this roster.
Qin Jin looked coldly at Qi Bihe with an innocent face, knowing that he couldn't blame him for this matter at all, he was a captain in charge of training, and the people who were responsible for recruiting the Temperance Unity Soldiers on weekdays were all county officials who had the name of Bing Cao joining the army.
This kind of drama of inflating the number of united soldiers was also common in all dynasties after the Tang Dynasty. The united soldiers chose one of the ten sons of a good family, and each household was exempted from part of the conscription. In the Tang Dynasty, only officials above the fifth rank had the privilege of exempting all conscripts from servitude, and it is not surprising that only by virtue of the exemption of some of them, there were many more posts.
The reorganization of the solidarity soldiers began with the clearing of vacancies. The complicated paperwork and specific implementation were handed over to the assistants of Tocao and Bingcao. Next, it is the highlight of today's school training.
Based on the reality of the Xin'an United Army, it is not too much to call it a general who does not know the soldiers, and the soldiers do not know the generals. Although Qi He is a very brave person, he can only control the group of cronies around him. The pros and cons of this method of entrapping cronies only with personal favors are obvious, and he has no intention of getting rid of this deeply ingrained concept, but on top of this concept, he wants to establish a norm so that this straggler can truly become an elite army.
Due to civil strife and vicious warfare, the original establishment of the United Army has long been in disarray, and after eliminating the unqualified old and weak, the actual number today is only 312. The Tang army military system, five people for the team, ten for the team, a team of exactly fifty people, three hundred people can be divided into six teams, so Qin Jin asked Qi Bihe to assign the unity soldiers who arrived today on the spot into six teams, and then he designated the appointment of the team. Of course, this is to give him the opportunity to replace all the team leaders with cronies, so as not to have the embarrassing situation of the captain being captured alive and the soldiers actually staring.
Also, there are too few people in the united army, in addition to training a small number of elites, they also have to recruit a large number of strong men to be responsible for defending the city.
Qin Jin sighed again, he had too little time, if he could have a month, he would at least be able to train the rabble in front of him to have a rough appearance. Now that the rebels are coming to the city at any time, it may not be possible to make explicit rules in the rush of complex changes, so the key is to keep the complex simple.
First, it is necessary to know the exact number of men and men. The second is the spear formation, when it comes to the spear formation, it is impossible to avoid queue training, he does not expect these people to quickly master the essentials of the queue, such as the most basic walking in unison, and it is already thankful that they can not turn smoothly. As for those slightly more complex tactical moves of turning left, right, left, and right, once hundreds of people do it together, it is likely to be a disaster.
Therefore, his request is very simple, so that the unity soldiers can master walking and standing in unison, and it will be done.
Qin Jin concisely introduced what a queue was to these united soldiers, and then asked these people to stand in six rows as a team according to the requirements.
However, he obviously overestimated the ability of these united soldiers to stand in line, six teams were lined up in a column as the leader of the platoon, and the first ten people from left to right could still maintain the scale of six platoons, but by the fiftieth person at the end of the platoon, they had already stood in eight rows. Several times in a row, none of them managed to successfully line up in six horizontal rows. Che Biga was so angry that even using sticks still didn't help.
In desperation, Qin Jin went into battle in person, and straightened out the six horizontal rows one by one.
"Everyone, listen well, don't think about how to stand in the row, see who is on your left and right, remember it, and when you train in the queue in the future, it will be fixed as it is now, you just need to find the person who is fixed on your left and right, and the queue will naturally become. "Fixing everyone's position in the queue is also one of the training subjects, and kneading two things into one thing will greatly reduce the fear of these people.
A unity soldier suddenly asked: "Shaofujun, I, what should I do if I can't tell the difference between left and right?"
Qin Jin is helpless or helpless, in this era, there are as many people who can't distinguish left and right as there are people who can't read. It took him a whole day to teach the men to distinguish between left and right, and then he barely stood in six crooked rows.
Looking at the unity soldiers in front of him, he felt an indescribable sense of accomplishment in his heart.
"Oh, that Qin Shaofu rectified Xin'an's unity soldiers?"
Feng Changqing raised his head with interest and looked at Zheng Xianli, an old subordinate beside him, he wanted to know how this county lieutenant, who was good at talking, reorganized his soldiers and horses.
Zheng Xianli replied respectfully: "There is a lot of trouble in Qin Shaofu, and four hundred vacancies in the united army have been cleared. ”
"Well, starting from the number of soldiers and horses, the generals are to the point. Feng Changqing nodded, seemed to appreciate Qin Jin, and then changed his words, "Now is an eventful time, dealing with this kind of selfish fraud that does not harm the overall situation, I am afraid that it will not be conducive to the stability of people's hearts, and it is still a little broad!"
This evaluation is considered to be five or five points good or bad, and it is not light to say it in the mouth of Feng Changqing, who has been commanding the army for many years.
"Are there any other initiatives? ”
"Yes, yes, it's just a little strange, this Qin Shaofu neither practiced bows and crossbows, nor practiced Mo knives, and got hundreds of long rods sharpened into long spears, to practice the spear formation. ”
Feng Changqing obviously had a strong interest in the gun array in Zheng Xianli's mouth, and in his opinion, letting a person who had never led a soldier train was not a reliable thing to look at. Zheng Xianli described in detail the tactical queue that Qin Jin focused on training, and said that the united soldiers did not even have training in marksmanship, and finally he added his own evaluation for the first time.
"Let the nerds train, what they practice is all shows, and they are useless!"
This sentence made Feng Changqing suddenly think of the current battle situation, and anxiety and uneasiness came to his heart again, although his face was as calm as a bou ancient well, but he did regret it. How could I really make a bet with a nerd? Can I afford to wait for ten days and a half?
No, I can't afford to wait, let alone ten days and a half months, even a day can become a hatred for eternity if I stumble.
"I'll go and feed the war horses in a while, inform everyone that they are full of spirits, and the sky is dark, let's leave for the west immediately!"
After a night of thinking, he felt that the morale and combat effectiveness of the rebels were far from being matched by the Sixteen Guards of the imperial court, and the certainty of victory in the field battle was very low. Now the safest way is to guard Tongguan, as long as the safety of the Jingshi is guarded, everything can still be done. As for the small city of Xin'an, there is no reason to defend it.
As the sun set, there was a gloom outside Dongguan City, and there were still blood stains left by yesterday's fierce battle on the snow. There was a sudden commotion among the united soldiers in the city, and in the distance there were horses galloping at a gallop. The terrifying combat power of the soldiers had already made them talk, and the sudden situation at this moment made everyone's nerves tense.
"Two people and four horses, they are Han people, not Fan soldiers!"
The sharp-eyed solidarity soldiers quickly saw the situation outside the city.
"Please open the city as soon as possible, I am the messenger of Beizhou, and I am ordered to enter Beijing!"
Beizhou is located in the southern part of Hebei Province, and as everyone knows, Hebei Province has fallen into the hands of the rebels.
When Qin Jin heard that the messenger of Beizhou Taishou had come, he was overjoyed, and immediately ordered the messenger to enter the city. Beizhou is next to Pingyuan County, if he remembers correctly, this county should be united with Pingyuan County, and also erected a banner against An Lushan. Pingyuan County has been holding on to the attack of the rebels, and is an outlier in Hebei Province, and the county Taishou Yan Zhenqing is famous as a calligrapher in later generations, but the world ignores the side of the anti-thief battle.
And his cousin is Changshan Taishou Yan Gaoqing!
The messenger also brought a piece of news.
"What? The fifteen counties of Hebei Province joined forces to rejoin the imperial court?
Feng Changqing was already preparing to leave Xin'an, and after listening to Zheng Xianli's words, his hand in arranging the saddle shook suddenly.
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