Chapter 49: Reorganization of the Army
After temporarily subduing Su Wanghai, Chen Xiang knew that his journey to reverse the dragon's qi had begun with difficulty.
Then he said: "Since the two of you have agreed with my opinion, then after a while, the remaining civil officials of the imperial court and the middle-level and above of Qiongzhou will be gathered together and immediately come up with a fair and feasible plan." Tomorrow morning, after breakfast, I will gather all the military attachΓ©s and speak to them in front of the barn. β
After giving these orders, Chen Xiang drove them all to work, stepped off the chair, walked to Su Huaiyuan, who looked unconvinced, and said: "From now on, you will be my little brother, and you will obey my arrangement in everything in the future, if you are obedient, I will teach you martial arts, you know?" β
As soon as Su Huaiyuan heard that he could learn martial arts, he immediately jumped up happily and questioned, "What martial arts can you know?" You're just a little older than me! Chen Xiang smiled slightly, pulled out an iron sword from the guard's waist, and Su Huaiyuan thought he was going to kill himself, Chen Xiang didn't pay attention to his fear, just threw out a piece of paper, and with a dashing wave of the iron sword in his hand, the paper fell on Su Huaiyuan's hand, and four big characters were embroidered on the long sword: "The Great Song Dynasty will win!" β
Then Chen Xiang broke the iron sword with his empty hands one by one and threw it on the ground, making a clanging sound. Chen Xiang also said at the same time: "If you are disobedient, I will also break your bones piece by piece, how about it?" Do I know martial arts? Do you want to learn? β
Su Huaiyuan was stunned by Chen Xiang's hand, and said excitedly: "The emperor's martial arts are really amazing!" I want to learn! β
Chen Xiang smiled, walked back with Su Huaiyuan, and first taught Su Huaiyuan the Blood Knife Sutra and asked him to practice it by himself.
At this time, the civil officials in the Song army and the middle-level and above officials in Qiongzhou were also summoned and gathered in the living room of Su Wanghai's mansion to see the little emperor.
After the formal three bows and nine bows and other royal etiquette were all over, Chen Xiang made them all flat.
Although the Song army is downcast at this moment, the majesty of the imperial court must still be there, especially for these remote officials in Qiongzhou, and a corresponding sense of fear must be established in their hearts. Therefore, Chen Xiang did not dispense with these cumbersome etiquette.
Then Chen Xiang announced the convening of Enke, and the policy of entering the government with the number of people and family wealth immediately set off an uproar, but because he had already set the tone with Lu Xiufu and Su Wanghai. Under the suppression and guidance of the two of them, the opinion of the public is no longer to oppose this policy, but how to improve this policy and form enforceable measures.
Coupled with Chen Xiang's guidance and feedback on the side, the discussion was not finished until dinner time, Chen Xiang immediately instructed the imperial dining room to cook for all the people attending the meeting, and sent guards to their homes to inform them that they could not go home after attending the meeting, and held the meeting until dawn the next morning, before a set of truly feasible plans were formed.
As soon as dawn, Chen Xiang ordered Lu Xiufu and Su Wanghai to organize the implementation, and he was accompanied by the guards. I came to the largest grain field and stood on a makeshift platform.
On the valley field, it was all the officers of the Song army now, and after many defeats, the morale of the Song army was low to the valley. Basically, it's worse than a refugee. Before entering Qiongzhou Island this time, some of them had seen Chen Xiang manipulating a typhoon in front of them, so they still had some mysterious awe of Chen Xiang.
The number of officers above the middle level is about 2,000 people, and there are 2,000 officers in an army of 100,000, which means that an average of one officer is in charge of 50 people. Only a few officers remained.
Standing on the high platform, Chen Xiang quietly looked at the officers kneeling in the audience, luckily dantian, and said slowly and clearly: "You Aiqing is flat." I've come here because I have something to tell you. β
All the officers raised their heads and looked at the little emperor who was only eight years old on the stage. Quietly waiting for his next step.
Chen Xiang looked at these officers, carefully observed the luck on their heads, and found that most of them were black luck, which was the color of dying color, but it was slowly dissipating.
It seems that it was in the battle of Yashan. Most of these people will die in battle, and only a small number will escape. It's just that after forcibly assassinating Zhang Hongfan and taking the typhoon, they have already avoided the fate of death.
Even if the black luck is constantly dissipating, there are very few people who have more than white luck, the highest two of them are only blue, and the other lower level of green are only more than thirty people.
After writing down these people one by one, Chen Xiang continued: "Today's chaos is in turmoil, the Mongols invaded, wantonly slaughtered the people of our emperor and Song Dynasty, and regarded us Han people as the lowest level of race, so that we were cornered, and after the War of Resistance, we finally ended up on this Qiongzhou Island to rest temporarily. In this process, you threw your heads and spilled your blood, and paid too much for my emperor Song. On behalf of the entire court, the whole country, and all the descendants of Yan and Huang, I sincerely thank you! β
As he spoke, he took the most solemn gesture and bowed to the ground to everyone.
This was a deep commotion that caused all the officers to stir. You must know that the status of the warriors in the Song Dynasty was low, not only did the emperor look down on them, but even the civil officials killed them if they wanted to, why did the emperor personally bow to the warriors? !
At this moment, these warriors were greatly shaken, no matter who it was, no matter what he thought, his heart was full of excitement, and even his breathing was heavy.
After a while, Chen Xiang stood up straight again and said, "Now that we have escaped to Qiongzhou Island, it is the time for us to regroup, recover our strength, and seek a counterattack at any time!" For this reason, I hope that all the Qing family can work together with me to overcome all difficulties and continue to forge ahead! β
As soon as these words came out, the warriors in the audience were enthusiastic, and they couldn't wait to pick up the sword now and go out with this little emperor to kill the Mongols!
Chen Xiang was also a little surprised to see these officers so easy to transfer, but this was not what he had to consider, he first pointed out two of them with blue luck and thirty-eight people with green luck, and transferred them all to his forbidden army as officers.
The two blue-lucky officers, one in his thirties, a stout beard with a round waist, looked like a strong man, but a Uighur named Tu Lidan, who was now a lieutenant of a certain unit. Another officer with blue luck was in his forties, with gray temples and a calm expression, his name was Li Changde, a Han man, who claimed to be a Han general Li Guang, and now he was a partial general. The other thirty-eight Green Luck officers also registered their names and affiliations one by one, and became Chen Xiang's forbidden army officers, and these thirty-eight people also seemed to be professional soldiers with skilled martial arts, and they were indeed much stronger than others.
He then announced loudly: "Now the army is tired and needs to rest, but the battleable army that is strong in attacking the fortifications still needs to be formed." Among the various armies, those who are over 18 years old and under 45 years old, who are equipped with martial arts, dare to fight and kill, and have no family members who are willing to join the forbidden army, can go to General Li Changde to sign up. The rest of the ministries were reorganized by the Privy Council. First of all, soldiers over the age of 45 and under the age of 18 are required to withdraw from the army, those who are unwilling to continue fighting are required to withdraw from the army, those with special production skills are required to withdraw from the army, and those who are with father and son or brothers are required to withdraw from the army, and the royal family will give them a reward and arrange for them to live in peace. Retired soldiers in the army are exempt from taxes for three years!
In addition, the sergeants who are familiar with the various rebel armies in the Central Plains homeland are also welcome to report to the Privy Council, I need your news very much! If you have to use the news, you can add officials to seal the field! β
Hearing that the little emperor actually wanted to streamline the troops, and also to learn about the news of the northern rebels, many officers felt very unbelievable, but this was the emperor's order, and they didn't have the heart to resist, and even among these officers, many of them were tired of running around and escaping for their lives, and wanted to settle down.
Three days later, after the reorganization of the army by the Privy Council, which was in charge of military affairs, the remnants of the army, which had originally numbered about 100,000 men, were now only about 10,000, of whom more than 1,300 were willing to join the forbidden army. Chen Xiang didn't care, so he formed his own brand new Praetorian Guard with the more than 1,300 people and the forty officers, and began to personally lead them to training.
Chen Xiang ordered the Privy Council and the scribes of the Qiongzhou Mansion to find some wasteland for them to cultivate, and arranged for them to produce and live with basic materials, so that they could start their lives again.
From the fourth day, Chen Xiang took the soldiers to participate in production in the morning, built houses and cultivated farmland, and in the afternoon, he took them to train military skills, and taught the Shenzhao Sutra and the Blood Knife Sutra to his Praetorian Guards, and even the Blood Knife Knife Method and Li Jing's Ten Styles of Bloody Battle were also taught to them, and through strict training, he initially established his absolute control in this army.
The other 10,000 people all participated in the production in the form of the army, especially when there were still many ships crossing the sea, but they missed the agricultural time, and worked hard to build houses, reclaim wasteland, fish and dry salt, make salted fish, and strive to restore productivity.
As for the real combat troops, only Chen Xiang's thousand-strong Praetorian Guards remained, and Su Huaiyuan's child was also in this Praetorian Guard, training as Chen Xiang's personal guard, and gradually formed the ability to order and prohibit. In just one month, this army of more than 1,000 people was completely in the hands of the little emperor Chen Xiang and became a sword in his hand.