Qingzhou, Erlong Mountain.

After breaking Qingzhou, Chao Gai got the support of Wang Lun and carefully selected his henchmen to form the elite.

The open platform on the mountainside of Erlong Mountain still allows Chao Gai to make use of it. He asked Li Yun to lead the 500 soldiers in the village to go up the mountain and set up another village on the platform as a military camp, and the open space was turned into a school field.

As for the military system, Chao Gai consulted He Tao and Li Yun.

Among the heroes of Erlongshan, only two of them have stayed in the Great Song Army.

The military system of the Great Song Dynasty is roughly divided into the forbidden army, the box army, the township army, and the fan army. The forbidden army is the main military force of the imperial court, most of which are stationed in the capital, and the rest are stationed in various important military state checkpoints.

The Xiang army is mainly composed of local envoys, hungry people recruited in disaster years, and troops in prison cities, etc., undertaking some government labor, transporting grain and other things, basically there is no combat effectiveness, but they are the official establishment of the Song army, and they can get food and salary.

Township soldiers are in the nature of local regimental training, organized by local famous and powerful people to guard against thieves, and in areas where the people are strong, the township soldiers have a certain combat effectiveness, at least stronger than the Xiang army. However, the township soldiers are not the regular establishment of the imperial court, not to mention that there is no food and salary, and the weapons and equipment are also raised by themselves, and the government only rewards them when they have merit in killing the enemy.

In the past, the Zhuang soldiers of Zhujiazhuang, Hujiazhuang, and Lijiazhuang were all of this nature.

Fanbing is a minority autonomous armed force in border areas or areas where ethnic minorities gather, and there is no imperial court salary, but their leaders generally have official positions in the imperial court. Lin Lin was very troublesome, and Chao Gai was dizzy when he heard He Tao say.

The establishment of the army is based on the forbidden army, which is divided into four levels, one army, one battalion (command), one compartment and ten armies, one army and five battalions, and one battalion and five capitals, each with 100 people. The corresponding chief officers are the commanders of the chambers; The military capital is in command, and the army is waiting; Chief and Deputy Commanders; The main and deputy heads (the horse army is the military envoy, and the deputy soldier and horse envoy).

There are only more than 3,000 people in Erlongshan in total, so there is no need for so many establishments. Chao Gai divided the 3,000 men into three commands, under Liu Tang, Li Yun, and Xue Yong. There were also about six hundred cavalry, and under Liu Tang, Shi Yong was the deputy general. He Qing and Zhang Rui were responsible for finding out the news, and Zou Run and Zou Yuan each led 200 people as Chao Gai's guards. Gongsun Sheng was in charge of military law, Wu Yong was in charge of money and grain, and Chao Gai was in charge of training.

Finally, it's the practice of practice. In ancient times, most of the general military drills were to practice fists and feet, blades, archery and other skills, and then conduct formation training. As long as the generals strictly supervise the training of the individual qualities of soldiers, ordinary generals can also do a good job.

Of course, the formation here does not refer to those mysterious and mysterious Qimen formations, but refers to how to coordinate with each other when training army soldiers to fight, and how to hold the army when marching is always a whole formation.

Many military books say that the word "such as an arm makes a finger" is the highest level of army formation, which can form a whole and enter the combat state anytime and anywhere, pointing to where to fight.

Formation training, Chao Gai first trained the queue of the brothers in the village neatly, and then He Tao came to practice the method of battle formation. According to the discussion of Wu Yong and the three of them, they did not practice those complicated and fancy plastic surgery drills, but only carried out the drills of basic formations such as attack, defense, assault, and march, but paid more attention to the coordinated operations between the squad and the squad and within the squad.

"Knock, knock." The war drums on the mountainside of Erlong Mountain were noisy, Chao Gai stood side by side with Wu Yong and Gongsun Sheng on the point platform in the center of the school field, watching the banner in the hands of Luan Tingyu in front of him keep changing, every time he changed his head, the team leader shouted for a while, and the military formation would change with the shouting or phalanx, or round formation, or cone, and the change was not panicked at all, and the three hundred people walked neatly like a person.

Chao Gai and Gongsun Sheng glanced at each other and said, "It's been a whole month, and I finally have a little look." ”

Wu Yongdao said, "According to the Song army's method of marching in formation, it will take at least one year to reach this level. And now in the Great Song Army, even the Western Army cannot slack off for three months of rigorous training. ”

Wu Yong looked at the strong army under the mountain, and his heart was happy. He recently got a letter from Song Jiang and knew that Song Jiang had made contact with the imperial court, and these two Longshan people were Song Jiang's entry steps.

Chao Gai shook his head and said, "The Western Army has fought against the Xia people as adults, and they can maintain their combat effectiveness without such training. Although our brothers have a good military appearance, they rarely see blood, and they are against the elite of the Western Army, I am afraid that there will be more than 100 victories. ”

Since Chao Gai went up to Erlong Mountain, he has done very little to go down the mountain to rob, and most of them have learned from Liangshan to punish the strong and help the weak. Liangshan conquered the big city, while Erlongshan only fought a few villages.

Gongsun Sheng said, "Brother, don't be arrogant, with my brother's training method, over time, we will be able to train an army that is not inferior to any strong army." Then will be the time for you and my brother to make a name for themselves. ”

Chao Gai laughed and said, "There will be a day." ”

Although he knew that Liang Shan was very strong, and he also knew that he had inherited Wang Lun's favor, Chao Gai still had his own ideas.

At this time, the formation drill below has been completed, and Liu Tang came over to report, "The formation drill has been completed, please ask Brother Tianwang to indicate the next drill." ”

Chao Gai patted him on the shoulder, came to the edge of the point-and-place platform, and said loudly to the below, "Brothers, have worked hard. Fang Cai's formation drill has passed, and the camp is exempt from the prohibition of alcohol for one night. ”

The soldiers below cheered loudly. It turned out that the military law set by Chao Gai included that alcohol was not allowed in the camp, violators were given ten strokes with military sticks, and those who did not change their ways were confined for three days. The economy of the Song Dynasty was developed, the grain was relatively sufficient, and folk wine-making and drinking became popular.

Most of these men are addicted to alcohol, and they couldn't stop it at first. When they heard that the one-night ban had been waived, the whole camp cheered excitedly.

A few people were talking to themselves, when they suddenly heard a commotion under the mountain.

Chao Gai looked at Gongsun Sheng and instructed a few people, "Liu Tang trains again, and I will go over with the two military advisors to take a look." ”

Chao Gai and the three of them walked not far, and they saw more than a dozen people coming up from the mountain, led by Zou Run's uncle and nephew who went to Cangzhou to buy horses.

Gongsun Sheng looked at the two people who were injured, and saw that there were a few fewer minions behind him, so he said, "Brother Tianwang didn't ask you two to buy horses, why do you look like this." ”

Zou Run looked at Chao Gai, bowed to the ground and said, "Brother is ashamed of my brother!" ”

Zou Run got up and said, "Previously, King Chao asked me to buy horses in Cangzhou, but now the Liao Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom are in full swing, and there is a shortage of war horses. The two of us wasted a lot of twists and turns before we bought more than 100 good horses. I didn't expect to go to the boundary of Lingzhou, but was stopped by a group of people, the two of us go back and forth on weekdays, and I have encountered many green forest heroes blocking the road, but as long as I report the name of Erlong Mountain, I will be released.

I never thought that when this group of people heard that we were the heroes of Erlongshan, they not only robbed the horses, but instead insulted us, saying that we and the heroes of Liangshan were just a group of grass cowards, so they could only rob houses near the mountain, and if they were at the border, they would have taken us to receive the reward. They wanted to take us and lure me to go with two mountains and horses, and the two of us resisted desperately to get out of the encirclement, but the horses were all taken away by them. ”

When the leaders heard that there were still people who dared to be disrespectful to Erlong Mountain, they couldn't help but ask for battle.

Wu Yong shook his feather fan and said, "Brother, do you know the situation of this Zengtou City?" ”

Zou Run shook his head and said, "I only know that the head of that group is called Su Ding, in the past, I heard that this Zengtou City is an unreasonable place, so I won't go there." Unexpectedly, after going around dozens of miles this time, he was still stopped by this Su Ding and his people. ”

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