Chapter Fifty-Six: Old General Zhao

One by one, the Qingluo soldiers walked by, and their leather armor was stripped off, and Xu Qing stared at them one by one. In the past dozens, Xu Qing felt that they were all the same, and it was really difficult to see who was more prominent. He wanted the village to be older, and the witch mother would have bigger breasts, and he would always see it. But now, he could only shake his head and stare dryly.

An old voice sounded behind Xu Qing: "Xu Tingshi's strategy is just right!" ”

"Oh?" Xu Qing turned around and saw Yang Cheng standing with a veteran, Yang Cheng called the lord with his hand, the veteran did not move, he nodded, looked at the veteran and said, "Your Excellency is the general of Tanzhou, General Zhao Yuliang Zhao?" ”

"It's the old man......" Zhao Yuliang nodded, but still didn't salute.

It is said that this total soldier is only from the seventh grade, and Xu Qing is under the fourth grade. If you are a senior official, you have to salute, and if you are a third level of official, you have to kneel to greet you. Xu Qing came from modern times, and he didn't care about those red tapes, but he had been in the officialdom for so long, and he was inevitably infected with those cheesiness, and others knelt down when they saw him, and you couldn't even salute you, so it was inevitable that there was some mustard in your heart.

He looked at Zhao Yuliang, but saw that he was wearing fish scale yellow armor, and sighed in his heart.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the team leader, the gang leader, and the government soldiers belonged to the lowest three levels of the army, which was a combination of soldiers and peasants. That is, the state will give you the land to support you in peacetime, and recruit you to fight in wartime, and of course allocate a little money and grain subsidies. This kind of general, battalion, and general soldier belong to the imperial court officials, and they have official qualifications. The general army, the battalion is just one thing, the garrison is called the general, and the marching army is called the battalion.

The team is at the third level, which needs to prepare their own equipment, generally a horizontal knife, a bow, a set of armor, and even rations, pack horses, and the general army only provides arrows and iron spears. Later, the Tang Dynasty gradually prospered, and only then did armor and horizontal swords be included in the ranks of the public grants.

When they arrived at the general office, the imperial court had swords, armor, horses, etc. But the level of these people is too low, basically no different from the ordinary government soldiers who built them themselves, at most they add "tassels" on their helmets and words on their hilts. When Xu Qing was fighting Liu Heimin in Hebei, this kind of armor and horizontal knife was an eye-catching "laji".

And the general soldier's is a little better than the general, but it is a rough scale armor, black, and stitched with an iron plate. It will never be like Zhao Yuliang in front of him, with bright colors and smooth and exquisite.

The Zhao Yuliang in front of him is either rich in his family, or his identity is not simple. Looking at his age and caution, Xu Qing chose to believe the latter.

So, without waiting for Zhao Yuliang to salute, he preemptively saluted and said: "Old General Zhao, the kid is here to thank the old general for his rescue, dare to ask the old general, but Gao Xun?" ”

The Tang Dynasty dispersed officials, and the actual officials were parallel. The real official is a radish and a pit, and not so many people can be it. There is no limit to the number of officials who can be dispersed, and they can be honored and rewarded to those who have made meritorious contributions. Loose official honors, only money, grain and land, it is a one-time reward, Xu Qing's original Renyong lieutenant is such a urine official. There is another lord, who has both land and money, and belongs to the state to take money for nothing.

A person can have a position, a merit, a knight, the inside is different, but the face is loud, generally speaking, when signing up, choose the largest one. There are also modest and obscure choices of the smaller one.

When officialdom speaks, they will be famous for "speaking out", and the two people who meet for the first time are not superiors and subordinates, and when they look at their official positions, they must go straight and straight, so as not to refute the face and feel uncomfortable.

Zhao Yuliang listened to Xu Qing's words and smiled: "The old man Xun Jia Mingwei, the current general of Tanzhou, is in charge of half of the soldiers and horses in this province. ”

Xu Qing was shocked when he heard this, when Liu Zan was suppressing bandits in Shandong, wasn't he General Mingwei? Today's Xu Qing, although he is still a head taller than General Mingwei, still doesn't dare to take it big in front of Zhao Yuliang.

Why? This Zhao Yuliang can take half of the Huguang Soldiers!

Huguang is more stable than other places, and there are fewer Zhichong Prefectures, and Tanzhou is where the road is located, so there is a general army in charge of the affairs of General Zhichong. Zhao Yuliang is a legend of high honor and low position, and low level executive!

Xu Qing sorted out his clothes, and then respectfully bowed: "Old General Zhao." ”

Zhao Yuliang smiled and waved his hand: "No need to be like this, you are a stabbing history, how can you worship me?" ”

Xu Qing scolded secretly, don't let me worship, you help me up, you get out of the way, what are you doing talking about these useless things. However, Xu Qing still patted a horse with his hand: "Alas, General Zhao, since ancient times, there have been virtuous and virtuous saints, and there are big officials and small officials." No matter how big the boy is, when he sees General Zhao, he still has to salute respectfully. ”

Old General Zhao pinched his beard and changed the topic of mutual praise, he said: "Xu Tingshi, I just watched you and this brother, it's your family......

Zhao Yuliang pointed at Yang Cheng, and said: "Your few family members use that flag to transmit messages is good, if this method is promoted in the army, we can also communicate military information on the two mountains when we fight." There is no need to send soldiers one by one to break through the enemy line and deliver messages. ”

In fact, this order flag has been issued for a long time, but it has always come and is only used as a representative of the number of people. For example, a flag represents two teams of people, and the flag has two sides, yin and yang, like a tiger talisman. If there is an order, there will be a partial general who will take a yin flag and lead the troops to complete it. This flag is only a certificate that can bring troops, so to find out the number of enemy troops, you only need to count the flags, and there are also cases in history of false flags to scare the enemy.

The flag only represents the quantity, and the golden drum is the one that transmits the military order, and the drum advances and the gold retreats. But this is only used when making formations, but not between the two armies.

Xu Qing used these two flags to convey a lot of information with a small combination. General Zhao has been in the army all his life, so he naturally knows the big effect of this small change.

"Haha, this matter is easy to hear," Xu Qing simply explained to Zhao Yuliang how to express the flag of advance and retreat, as well as the flag language that expressed the general direction of the enemy's army. It's not easy to do, but with Zhao Yuliang's ability, he remembered it at once.

Zhao Yuliang used his hands as a flag gesture, Xu Qingjun nodded, and praised the old general's good memory. Zhao Yuliang laughed so much that his beard trembled, and his face became ruddy, and he said: "This method is simple and easy, even children can learn it, and this method is the best in the army." ”

The two talked very happily, and forgot for a moment that there were hundreds of Qingluo people who had just surrendered, especially Xu Qing, who bragged about it, and he couldn't tell the difference between southeast and northwest.

Suddenly, the Qingluo people who were lining up to take off their leather armor made a noisy sound, and before Xu Qing could turn his head to look, Zhao Yuliang screamed bad and threw Xu Qing to the ground.