Zhao Ziliang quickly looked through the register of soldiers and colonels, and immediately said: "Okay, then disarm the Datong Army, eliminate the old, weak, sick and disabled, under the age of fifteen, and over forty-eight years old are all being abolished, and the eliminated normal soldiers will be given a severance pay of two yuan each, and the disabled and sick will be compensated with more money per person, so it will be decided, and the captains and battalion owners of each battalion will be disarmed from tomorrow after they go back, and after three days, they will be reorganized according to the number of soldiers left in each of them. At that time, General Ben will personally go over to inspect the situation of disarmament and reorganization, and will send someone to examine the new roster, and if it is found that there are generals, battalion owners, regiment leaders, and military leaders who are eating empty salaries and falsely reporting the amount of soldiers, they will immediately be beaten with 60 military sticks, confiscated all the embezzled funds, and expelled from the army and military posts! That's number one".

"Second, the training methods of each army should be reformulated, and they should be formulated by the military government in a unified manner, and after the reorganization of each battalion is completed, it will then be distributed to each battalion for implementation, and each battalion must conduct drills in strict accordance with the new training methods formulated by the military government, and the general will go to the battalions from time to time to conduct inspections, spot checks, or send people to secretly supervise, if someone disobeys the good or does not contribute to the work, or if it is completely inappropriate, the general will only find trouble with the commanders of the battalions!"

"Third, the issue of military discipline, this is the most important, the military regulations and military discipline of the Datong Army before are ready-made, General Ben has seen it, very good! In view of this, the general decided to set up a military police, which was filled by the general's personal guards, with ten people in each team, led by a gang commander, and a total of ten teams were set up, which were stationed in each battalion to supervise military discipline, and the remaining three teams were used as mobile patrols, and went to each battalion at any time to check the military discipline of the generals, and the gendarmerie could arrest all the generals and colonels including the captains and owners of each battalion, and any resistance was equivalent to rebellion! ”

"Fourth, the problem of patrolling the defense areas of each battalion cannot be ignored, for their own defense areas, the battalion owners will be able to arrange regular patrols according to the actual situation, or patrol from time to time, in order to prevent small crumbs from disturbing social order, some of the defense areas live in many large households, these large families have money, but they are far away from the towns, the protection force is insufficient, and they are often patronized by Jiangyang bandits or bandits and robbers, and the battalion commanders and battalion owners can consult with the principals of these large households. Patrols can be arranged to make one or two trips around their Zhuangzi during the daily patrol, and they will pay some money to the brothers to calculate the hardship expenses, so as to improve the relationship between the military and the people, and earn some money to fight the soldiers."

Speaking of this, Zhao Ziliang looked at the generals below and asked: "That's all there is to say in today's military discussion, and the captains of each battalion will start to implement them immediately after they go back, is there a problem?" ”

Who else dares to fight with him now? Even if some of them were dissatisfied or disagreed, they didn't dare to show it, and everyone stood up and said, "Obey!" ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at Zhang Shouyu and said: "General Zhang, you were already a Dadou military envoy when you were in Hexi, and now you are here for fear that you can't give you such a high position, now the post of deputy envoy of the Datong Army is vacant, and this general will send a letter to the Jiedu envoy Tian to recommend you as the deputy envoy of the Datong Army, from now on, you will assist the general in handling the military affairs of the Datong Army, can you?" ”

Zhang Shouyu immediately bowed down and said: "The general's attention to the last general, the last general is grateful, and he will not disappoint the general!" ”

"Good!" Zhao Ziliang nodded, and said to Gao Xiuyan again: "General Gao, the general now appoints you as the commander of the fourth battalion and the commander of the military government."

Gao Xiuyan had already become the deputy envoy of the Great Dou Army before, but now he is demoted as a lieutenant of the first battalion, but he also serves as a general in Zhao Ziliang's military mansion, this position can be big or small, if there is a good opportunity, he can be directly promoted to the deputy envoy of the first army, even if he is directly promoted to the first army envoy, it is possible.

Gao Xiuyanxin was overjoyed, and immediately bowed down and said: "Thank you general, obey the general's orders!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said to everyone again: "The post of lieutenant of the fifth battalion is vacant, the deputy lieutenant and the five lieutenants have all been beheaded, and the lieutenant of the seventh battalion, Jiang Wucheng, is imprisoned, so he temporarily appoints Wei Huayong, another deputy battalion commander of the fifth battalion, as the acting lieutenant to take charge of the military affairs of the fifth battalion, and the lieutenants of each regiment temporarily act as captains to manage the regiments, and temporarily appoint Peng Yue, the deputy lieutenant of the seventh battalion, as the acting lieutenant, to take charge of the military affairs of the seventh battalion, record Qiu Zhen, who joined the army, and go to convey the general's military orders after the military discussion is over!" ”

Qiu Zhen immediately agreed: "No! ”

At this time, Judge Zheng Shi also bowed and said: "General, just now Lord Changshi Gaoshang said that we can find a way to solve two months' grain and grass, and we still have two months of grain and grass in our warehouse, but if we want to hold out until the summer harvest, there are still three months of grain and grass that have not been found!" ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled angrily: "Hehe, the Datong Army is now mixed to the point that the grain and grass can't support the summer harvest, you are so competent as a judge!" I ask you, what do I want you to do as a judge? What are the duties of a judge? ”

Zheng Shi was also so frightened that he retreated again and again, his face turned pale and stammered: "This ······ It's ······".

Zhao Ziliang snorted coldly and said: "Lao Tzu told you that the judge is to assist the official in handling official business, and now the most important thing for the general to solve is the grain and grass, the general will give you two months to raise three months of grain and grass, no matter what you think, in short, after two months, the general will see three months of grain and grass, otherwise you will give Lao Tzu a fuck, such a useless judge, what is the general going to do?" Is it a waste of the court's money? ”

At this point, Zheng Shiyi could only grit his teeth and agree, if he didn't agree, the black sand on his head was afraid that it would be lost in an instant, "No! ”

After the military discussion was over, the commanders and battalion owners of each battalion returned to their respective stations to be busy with the dismissal of the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, and the reorganization; Gao Xiuyan now concurrently served as the commander of the fourth battalion, so he immediately went to the fourth battalion to preside over the disarmament and reorganization affairs.

Zhao Ziliang wrote a letter to Tian Renwan to report what happened today, in which he recommended Zhang Shouyu as the deputy envoy of the Datong Army, Zhang Shouyu is the younger brother of the late Zhang Shouyu, Tian Renwan has always respected Zhang Shoujun, this matter is nothing at all. In his letter, he also requested that Guo Ziyi be transferred to serve as the deputy lieutenant of the fifth battalion of the Datong Army, the purpose of which was to let him learn how to lead troops from the lieutenant generals and colonels.

At the same time, Zhao Ziliang also asked Tian Renwan for one in the letter, he wanted to transfer Zheng San from Xihai to help him deal with logistics affairs, the position of the judge in charge of logistics is very important, although he has the right not to use the judge appointed by the imperial court, but he does not have the right to appoint his own judge, this matter needs Tian Renwan's nod.

After the letter was sent to Taiyuan, Zhao Ziliang went around the garrison of each battalion of the Datong Army for four days, and it was not until the disarmament and reorganization of the battalions were completed that he handed over the training of each battalion in accordance with the new drill plan to Zhang Shouyu, and he himself took Hu Cong and some generals and officials of the Soldiers and Horses Embassy to the garrison of the Lan Army.

Zhao Ziliang is a person who does things vigorously and resolutely, and he does not like to procrastinate, so he took the generals and servants of the Left Wing Soldiers and Horses to rush to the garrison of the Lan Army in only two days.

The garrison of the Lan army is in the north of Lan County, Loufan County, which is in the southwest of Yunzhou and the northwest of Taiyuan, and it is not too far from Taiyuan. However, the garrison of the Lan army is a little far away from Yunzhou, and Zhao Ziliang has to ride a horse for two days to arrive here.

In the evening of the same day, after Zhao Ziliang arrived, Gu Tongming, the envoy of the Lan army, came out to greet him with the generals in the army, and prepared some drinks to entertain him.

On the second day, Zhao Ziliang began to inspect the battalions of the Lan Army, the situation was slightly better than Zhao Ziliang expected before he came, and he was not very optimistic, Gu Tongming was an honest middle-aged man in his forties, this person was a little old-fashioned in personality, his thinking was relatively rigid, and he didn't know how to be flexible.

According to the regulations of the imperial court, the Lan army should have 9,800 soldiers, but Zhao Ziliang found that there should be only about 8,000 people after inspection, that is to say, there is a vacancy of 17,800 people, there is basically no shortage of weapons and crossbows, the armor is missing, and the morale is much better than that of the Datong army, which is also because the Lan army was not attacked by the Xi army, but the combat effectiveness and drill situation are not much better than the Datong army, and the overall situation is slightly better than the Dadou army.

The military envoy Gu Tongming did not play tricks to deceive Zhao Ziliang, but directly put out all the problems at the military meeting the next day, and after laying out these existing problems, Gu Tongming and the generals of the Lan army were nervous, and they heard some rumors in the past few days, saying that Zhao Ziliang had killed several problematic lieutenants in the Datong army, and Pei Lie, the deputy envoy of the Datong army, was beheaded, which frightened the entire Hedong army.

Zhao Ziliang sat on the main seat and asked Gu Tongming expressionlessly: "As far as General Ben knows, General Gu has been the military envoy of Qilan for four years, right?" Last year, the Xi people rebelled, and they didn't fight here. Since there are so many problems in the army, why didn't General Gu find a way to solve them? It can't be that these problems have only recently appeared, right? ”

Gu Tongming smiled helplessly: "General, the last general is powerless, the difference of nearly two thousand people is not a trivial matter, it is not that the last general is unwilling to recruit soldiers to make up for it, nor how many vacancies his generals eat, in fact, none of the generals below eat vacancies, the reason why there is a shortage of so many soldiers is because the above will give less to two thousand people every time they allocate food, saying that the difference is for us to find a way to solve it ourselves, but the last general and others are all rough people, where is there any way to solve the problem of nearly two thousand people's salary?" You can't take someone to rob it, can you? In terms of weapons and crossbows, our Lan army is not short for the time being, this is the result of the last general and others looking for blacksmiths to re-forge those rusty and eliminated weapons, as for the missing part of the armor, there is really no way, and the insufficient part can only make the soldiers wear old and broken! ”

Zhao Ziliang asked, "What about the grain and grass?" Can it last until the summer harvest? This is the eastern part of the Hetao region, and the land is fertile, so don't tell General Ben that your grain and grass can't support the summer harvest! ”

Gu Tongming said with a smile: "The general doesn't have to worry about the grain and grass problem, the grain and grass stored in our army are enough to support the summer harvest, and there should be two months left."

Zhao Ziliang remembered that the Datong Army was still short of grain and grass for a few months, what if Zheng Shiyi's guy couldn't get grain and grass by then? Still have he, the chief officer, find a way to solve it? So he said to Gu Tongming: "That's good, your extra grain and grass will be lent to the Soldiers and Horses Embassy first, and then returned to you in the future, and the future food and ordnance of the Lan Army will be distributed in full by the Left-wing Soldiers and Horses Mission, and there will be no shortage of you!" ”

Two months of grain and grass is nothing to Gu Tongming, but if it can be exchanged for the full distribution of ordnance and food in the future, it is simply earned, and he immediately promised: "No problem, the last general will be ready immediately, and the general can take it away when he leaves!" (To be continued.) )