"Oh? Did Emperor Xuanwu leave the palace? Xiaoyaozi said with great joy.

Cheng Wuji and the others next to him also showed a smile of surprise on their faces, and everyone looked at this demon gate master who broke in.

"Yes, Emperor Xuanwu is now heading in the direction of the east of the city." This demon gate is a master of the way.

"How many soldiers and horses does Emperor Xuanwu have beside him?" Xiaoyaozi hurriedly asked.

"There are only four or five hundred! This Huining Mansion is full of Song troops, and he doesn't need to lead too many soldiers and horses at all! "The master of the Demon Gate said.

"That's great!" Xiaoyaozi laughed.

"Uncle Shi, do we need to go to the east of the city now?" Cheng Wuji said.

"No, you don't! There are too many Song troops in Huining Mansion, if we walk around at will, we will definitely be discovered by the Song army! Let's wait for Emperor Xuanwu to come to the north of the city! By the way, have you found a good ambush location? Xiaoyaozi said.

"There is a street in the north of the city, there are only more than ten Song soldiers there, Emperor Xuanwu will definitely pass by there, we can ambush Emperor Xuanwu there!" The master of the Demon Gate said.

"You draw the terrain!" Xiaoyaozi said.

At that moment, the master of the Demon Gate drew the terrain, Xiaoyaozi observed it carefully for a while, nodded, and said, "This place is really good." ”

"Uncle Shi, how sure are we of assassinating Emperor Xuanwu?" Cheng Wuji said again.

"At least 80% sure! We have more than 100 masters in Huining Mansion, and these masters are definitely not those ordinary soldiers of the Song Army who can resist! They only have four or five hundred soldiers, and we can kill them all! When the time comes, I will look at Emperor Xuanwu and not let him escape! We must fight quickly and kill Emperor Xuanwu as soon as possible! Xiaoyaozi said.

Cheng Wuji nodded.

Xiaoyaozi was excited at the moment, he finally got off the bed, stood up straight, and laughed: "Emperor Xuanwu can be regarded as a rare Ming monarch in ancient and modern times!" The Great Song Dynasty was already in decline, but after he inherited the throne, his means were incredibly clever, and he ruled the world in just eight years! Western Xia, Khitan, and Jurchen are not his opponents, and the people of Jiangnan, Central Plains, Sichuan, Shu, and Yanyun live and work in peace and contentment, and they are really wise and martial, and the Qin Emperor, Han Wu, Tang Sect, and Song Ancestors are nothing more than that! I still admire him very much! However, if we assassinate him at his proudest and most glorious time, we will surely go down in history and be admired by future generations! ”

Hearing this, Cheng Wuji couldn't help laughing.

"That's it! We have to prepare in advance, you give me a careful observation of Emperor Xuanwu, this time you must not let him escape! Xiaoyaozi said.

At that moment, the masters of the Demon Gate in this room rushed outside one after another, preparing to ambush Zhao Chen.

Xiaoyaozi is still in this house, and the news of Huining Mansion is still coming to him.

"Uncle Shi, we just got the news that Emperor Xuanwu has gone to the south of the city!" Half an hour later, Cheng Wuji arrived and said.

"It seems that he went from the east of the city to the south of the city, then to the west of the city, to the north of the city, and finally to the north of the city!" Xiaoyaozi nodded and said.

"Uncle Shi, I can't wait!" Cheng Wuji said.

"Wait, must wait! This time, we will create an unprecedented feat for the characters in the rivers and lakes, and we must not be impatient! Xiaoyaozi said.

Cheng Wuji took a deep breath, nodded, and said, "Everything is up to Uncle Shi." ”

"Anyway, Emperor Xuanwu hasn't come yet, let's play a game of chess first! Naturally, someone will report the news outside! Xiaoyaozi smiled.

Cheng Wuji was indeed extremely nervous at the moment, but Xiaoyaozi's leisurely demeanor infected him, and at the moment he calmed down and played chess with Xiaoyaozi in the room, not to mention it.

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On this night, the bright moon hung high, and the cold moonlight sprinkled the earth!

Zhao Chen has come to the location in the south of the city at this moment, and there is a temporary military camp of the Song army here.

Tens of thousands of Song soldiers here are celebrating the Lantern Festival, and after Zhao Chen arrived, the soldiers let out excited cheers.

The soldiers performed on the stage, and Zhao Chen sat with the generals in the army.

Yang Zhengnai was the commander of this army, and he was excited to accompany Zhao Chen.

"Are the soldiers homesick?" Zhao Chen took a sip of hot tea and said.

"Your Majesty, the soldiers are far away from home, and they are a little homesick, but we all know that we are soldiers, and it is our duty to fight for the country, so everyone will stay in Huining Mansion safely!" Yang Zhengdao.

"For the Great Song Dynasty, for my Han people, the soldiers have paid a lot! The country will never forget you, and I will always remember your merits! Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, these are what we should do!" Yang Zheng said with a smile.

"You may have to stay in Huining Mansion for a long time!" After thinking for a while, Zhao Chen said.

"Oh!" Yang Zheng had a surprised expression on his face.

"Liaodong is now my Great Song territory, and the army needs to be stationed here, and the General Staff Headquarters intends to divide the soldiers and horses of the former Datong Military Region into two, Han Shizhong and Wang Yan led the infantry to garrison Datong, and General Yue Fei led 100,000 cavalry to garrison Liaodong! In addition, the navy will also have some people stationed in Liaodong! Most of the soldiers and horses of your Datong Military Region are from Guanshan, and later went to Datong, but now you have to stay in the bitter cold outside the Guan, and I can't bear it very much in my heart! When I came from Zhongjing, I had already discussed the retirement system with the officials of the General Staff Headquarters, and if nothing else, this retirement system would be introduced within this year, and a group of soldiers would retire from here and return to their hometowns! Zhao Chen said.

"Ahh Yang Zheng stayed there for a moment and said, "Retirement? Can a soldier actually retire? ”

In ancient times, being a soldier was a lifelong occupation, "fifteen years from the army, eighty years to return." Dao meets the villagers, who is there in the family", this is the military system of the ancients! At the age of fifteen, he began to serve as a soldier when he was ignorant, and he could not return to his hometown until he was eighty years old, and his relatives at home were almost dead, and he did not know the younger generation at all! Such a military system is incomparably cruel, and there are no human rights at all! It is not unreasonable for the ancients to say that good men should not be soldiers, if it is not really impossible to live, who wants to stay in the army for the rest of their lives, guard the frontier for a lifetime, and fight on the battlefield for a lifetime, even if they are old, it is difficult to rest! Zhao Chen had already planned to change all this, and now this matter has been officially put on the agenda!

"Of course a soldier can be retired! Moreover, when a soldier leaves the army, he will receive a settling-in allowance from the army! In addition, now that my Great Song Dynasty has just recovered the world, there are many states and counties, and the number of officials is very small, and those who have performed well in the army can enter the government after retiring and continue to serve the country! Zhao Chen said.

"Great! That's great! Your Majesty you do this, the soldiers do not know how to thank you! Yang Zheng said excitedly.

"That's just what we should do! Isn't it a good thing that veterans have withdrawn from the army, and then new recruits are constantly coming in, so that the young people of the country can continue to be tempered in the army? Do you have to be a soldier for generations? Zhao Chen said.

"Yes, Your Majesty is right! Young people in the Central Plains should also continue to enter the army, and after entering the army, they can retire, and young people will no longer oppose entering the army! Your Majesty is such a great idea! Yang Zhengdao.

Zhao Chen smiled and continued to watch the various programs of the soldiers in the barracks.

"Your Majesty, it's just that in this way, the elite soldiers in the army have returned to their hometowns, and we still have to fight the world, what should we do?" Yang Zhengdao.

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p; "Of course, it is impossible to retire all the soldiers at once, in that case, wouldn't the army be abolished? Only a part of the soldiers can quit the army in a year, and most of the elite soldiers remain in the army! First of all, the retired soldiers should be older, or injured in the war, or have only one child in the difficult life at home, some of the army's combat tasks are not very heavy, can immediately implement the retirement system, some such as the navy has to attack Goryeo, Dongying and other places, the temporary implementation of the retirement system, plus the placement of veterans is also very complicated, the cost of the need is extremely much, and the country now uses too many places to use money, so it will take a certain amount of time for this system to be launched! However, you can tell the soldiers about it later! Zhao Chen said.

"The last general understands!" Yang Zheng said excitedly.

Zhao Chen stayed here for half an hour and then headed towards the west of the city, not long after he left here, there was a sound of long live in the military camp south of the city, and countless soldiers were kneeling in the direction where Zhao Chen left.

"Your Majesty is really a benevolent monarch through the ages!" Zhao Chen and Kang An led the soldiers and horses in the direction of the west of the city, and Kang An praised on the side.

"Letting soldiers stay in the army for the rest of their lives is not only cruel to the soldiers, but also not conducive to the improvement of combat effectiveness in the army! The army is constantly replaced with new young blood, which is also good for the growth of the army! I brought it up, but it will take some time to get it perfected! In the future, the length of military service of soldiers must be determined, and once they reach the age limit, they must leave the army, and only those who perform well can continue to stay in the army! Zhao Chen said.

These are the military systems of later generations, which are much more advanced than the military systems of this era, Zhao Chen has continued to carry out military reforms over the years, but because it is during the war, the number of troops cannot be reduced, so it was not until this time that the retirement system was officially proposed.

"How are they doing now?" Zhao Chen said again.

"Your Majesty, they are waiting for you to go to that avenue!" Kang An Road.

"How are our soldiers and horses prepared?" Zhao Chen said.

"General Dong Xian led two thousand army masters to lurk in that area! Once Xiaoyaozi and the others appear, they will never let him leave! Kang An said.

Zhao Chen nodded, and a sneer appeared on his face!

He didn't have the slightest good impression of Xiaoyaozi, Cheng Wuji and others, and he was extremely disgusted! However, although these people are clowns jumping off the beam, they are like flies flying around, and it is difficult to shoot them to death! Of course, this time, there are many intelligence officers who have entered the Demon Gate, and some have even become Xiaoyaozi's cronies, such as the Demon Gate master who reported to Xiaoyaozi before is an officer of the Intelligence Department! In such a situation, it is not difficult to catch Xiaoyaozi in one go!