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In the process of military restructuring and army expansion, Li Yan drew another 10,000 elites from various armies, and merged the Ma Sixth Army, Ma Qi Army, Ma 12th Army, and 13th Infantry Army into the First Army.

Since then, the First Army has expanded to 37,000 men.

However, what is incomprehensible is that in addition to the First Battalion, Tiefutu, the Confidential Special Army, and the "Tabai Army" established by Li Yan merging the 12th and 13th Infantry Armies (Li Zong is the temporary commander, Yuan Zhongliang is the military political commissar, Ji Tongmei is the deputy commander, Wang Shu is the chief of staff of the army, Yu Cheng, Xie Zhen, and Xie Bao are the commanders) and the Niangzi Army (Chen Liqing, Hu Sanniang, Fang Baihua, Qiongying, and Liang Shanyu led the 2,500 elite horse army, Li Yan named it the 'Relief Army', but behind his back, they all called this horse army the 'Lady Army'. Although the name of the 'Women's Army' is Niang, but the strength is not Niang, this horse army is the most elite horse army in Liangshan except for the first battalion. None of the other units of the First Army were formed.

What does it mean to be unorganized?

That is true.

Taking advantage of this military restructuring and military expansion, Li Yan successively promoted the officers above the command level of the First Army, including some commanders, to other armies by one or even two or three levels.

Li Yan did this, firstly, to increase his control over other armies, and secondly, to make room for his favored officers.

To this end, Li Yan sent his own personal guards, such as Yao Xing, Yang Yizhong, Niu Gao, Shi Wengong, Su Ding, Wang Gui, Zhang Xian, Tang Huai, Yao Zheng, Xu Qing, Kou Cheng, Yue Fu, Li Dao, Yue Heng, Zhao Hong, Wang Wan, Guo Jin, Cheng Min, Xie Yuan, Wang Sheng, Yue Chao, Chen Ju, Hu Yantong, Wu Lan, Yang Zheng, Guo Hao, Yang Congyi, Wang Jun and others all delegated temporary commanders (with 500 people) or team generals (with 100 people) as appropriate. Zhang Xian's soldiers are well trained (indeed well-trained) as a reason to let them temporarily take the position of commander (each temporarily brings five commanders, in addition, considering the problem of loyalty, the people and horses brought by Han Shizhong and others are all old people of the First Army, and the people and horses who have newly joined the First Army, Li Yan did not let them bring, but gave the generals who grew up in the Liangshan system. ）。

Li Yan did not set up officers above the commander, and many commanders did not even have temporary commanders, and they were directly commanded by Li Yan.

Doing so will undoubtedly make the First Army lack agility and slow to react, but Li Yan knew this and still insisted on doing so for the time being.

One general is incompetent, and the three armies are exhausted.

A soldier bears a nest of bears.

It is better for a lion to lead a flock of sheep than a sheep to lead a flock of lions!

Therefore, no matter how elite the soldiers are, if there are no good generals to lead them, they are also a group of rabble.

The communication system, whether it is personnel, military pigeons or horses, the first army is the best.

In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the First Army, Xu Guanzhong continued to be the chief of staff of the First Army, and Li Yan gave Xu Guanzhong all the best staff officers, such as Liu Ziyu, to establish the First Army Staff Department.

In order to maintain the loyalty of the First Army to Li Yan, Li Yan appointed Shi Xiu as the political commissar of the Xiang, and gave Shi Xiu all the best political cadres trained by Zhu Fu to set up the Political Department, and let out the wind: In the future, the opinions of the Political Department are an important reference basis for the promotion of officers.

In the period of endless wars and chaos of the Five Dynasties, the rebellion of the martial arts occurred frequently, and Zhao Kuangyin created the national policy of separating the civil and military from the military and controlling the military with the military in order to guard against the imperial robes like him, which led to the low status of the military generals and the infinite rise of the status of the subordinates.

Civilian officials leading the army, although they rarely have the heart to rely on the soldiers and self-respect, but at the same time in peace, it is also tantamount to abandoning martial arts and seeking their own death.

Li Yan naturally can't do this stupid thing that kills himself, but he can't help but prevent the generals from rebelling, even if they don't rebel, they just disobey the yin and yang, Li Yan can't stand it.

This is the reason why Li Yan set up a political department and sent political cadres to the troops.

In fact, political commissars and other political cadres are equivalent to supervising the army, but they are groups, and they are organized, have faith (I believe that only Li Yan can lead them to a better future), and have a guiding ideology - the Liangshan Political Department was established as early as when Hu Yanzhuo attacked Shuibo Liangshan, and has been established for three or four years, cultivating a large number of outstanding political cadres, and also launching relatively mature political ideas (mainly the combination of loyalty to Li Yan and worship of Li Yan), as well as many practical political promotion methods (such as remembering bittersweet thoughts). , study the sayings of the Metropolitan Governor, etc.).

In the role of the Political Department and a large number of political cadres, most of the soldiers must know Li Yan and have their hearts set on Li Yan.

In this case, those generals did not dare to show their rebellion or disobedience to the law.

In addition, Li Yan accepted the suggestion of Sun Jing and others that "the military rank is too simplified and may not be promoted enough", and introduced a medal reward system.

As early as the beginning of the army, Li Yan had awarded the Martyr's Medal, and this time Li Yan just referred to the medal reward system of later generations and launched the meritorious service medal (first-class merit, second-class merit, third-class merit) and the Medal of Honor.

All in all, in the past six months in Seoul, Li Yan performed major surgery on Liangshanjun, laying a solid foundation for the future hegemony.

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June of the second year of Seonhwa, Incheon Port.

Cai You pointed to the dozens of big ships behind him and said, "The students, craftsmen, boatmen, keels and materials you want are all here." ”

Cai You was happy, and Li Yan was also happy, and said: "The antique calligraphy and paintings and money are all ready for you, Lord Cai." ”

The transaction was completed with a smooth closing.

Li Yan wanted to stay with Cai You in Seoul for a few days, but Cai You, who was eager to go back to receive the reward, directly refused.

Li Yan felt that Cai You might still be useful in the future, after all, he hadn't turned his face with Song Guo yet.

Moreover, thanks to Cai You, Li Yan exchanged a bunch of broken glass, broken soap, unsellable antique calligraphy and paintings, and greatly devalued copper and iron coins for a large number of talents and a lot of good things.

In addition, I was really sorry for Cai You before.

Therefore, Li Yan waved his hand and loaded three boxes of souvenirs for Cai You, maintaining the "friendship" between him and Cai You.

Meanwhile.

Tong Guan's 100,000 elites drawn from the Western Army have already driven to the city of Tokyo.

Not to be outdone, Gao Yu also took out all his family resources and ordered: Wang Huan of Henan and Hebei Jiedu, Xu Jing of Shangdang Taiyuan Jiedu, Wang Wende of Jingbei Hongnongjiedu, Mei Zhan of Yingzhou Runan Jiedu, Zhang Kai of Zhongshan Anping Jiedu, Yang Wen of Jiangxia Lingling Jiedu, Han Cunbao of Yanmen Jiedu in Yunzhong, Li Congji of Hanyang Jiedu of Longxi, Xiang Yuanzhen of Langya Pengcheng Jiedu, and Jingzhong of Qinghe Tianshui Jiedu each gathered under Tokyo with 10,000 elite soldiers of their headquarters.

Su Taiwei received the holy decree and went out of the court, until Song Jiang went to the village to start reading.

Song Jiang and others were busy arranging incense to greet them and knelt down to listen to the edict.

Hearing with his own ears that the imperial court sent them a greeting, Song Jiang burst into tears and said: "A certain number of people are trying to contribute to the country and make contributions. Today, he has the grace of the captain, and he is given the same performance as his parents. However, I also asked the captain to give me a few days of grace, and when we sent the old and young family members back to their hometowns, they would put in order the equipment, guns, knives, armor and horses to serve the country loyally. ”

Su Taiwei is very talkative, and besides, at this critical moment, it is not good to be too harsh, so Song Jiang and the others were given ten days to prepare.

Song Jiang, who was eager to serve the country, took only three days to deal with everything, and then rushed to Beijing with one hundred orders, eight generals, and 20,000 horses.

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