Chapter 64: The Flying Tiger Army
At night, in the camp of the new army, Chen Di, Tang Shunzhi, Qi Jiguang, and Yu Dayou sat together. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Chen Di said to the three of them: "I am an amateur in leading troops to fight, but well, an army needs to have morale to win!" I would like to set a military flag and a military song for our Taizhou New Army. ”
"Military songs?" Yu Dayou became interested.
Chen Di said: "Not bad! ”
Chen Di took a pen and paper, splashed ink, and wrote the lyrics of the military song of the new army in his mind:
"Daming, restore my rivers and mountains!
Blood will not be shed, death will not be truce!
There is a Ming Dynasty in the east, such as the sun rising!
Ten years of national hatred, the sea is difficult to peace!
The world is in turmoil, how can Corning!
There are sharp men, who will compete with them! ”
Tang Shunzhi looked at the lyrics and said approvingly: "There is a way that morale can be boosted but not discharged, looking at this word, it will definitely be able to boost the morale of the soldiers!" ”
Chen Di's military song is copied from the Qin army song in the modern TV series "Great Qin Empire", and he sang the lyrics for Tang Shunzhi and others.
After Tang Shunzhi, Yu Dayou, and Qi Jiguang heard this, their blood was already boiling.
Chen Di said again: "The military flag is the honor of an army, and the soldiers who swear to defend the military flag are to defend their honor to the death!" One of the military flags, I'm going to use this. ”
Chen Di drew a tiger on the paper again.
Yu Dayou asked, "Third brother, why does you have wings like a tiger?" ”
Chen Di said: "Yes! It's a tiger with wings. This new army in our hands, the roster of the military department is the Taizhou regiment training army. I think to the outside world, we can call ourselves the Flying Tigers. The Flying Tiger Flag is our military flag! I hope that this Flying Tiger flag will make the Japanese invaders fearful in the future! ”|
Tang Shunzhi thought for a while: "Well, Flying Tiger Army, this name is good!" Tiger Tiger is alive. ”
Yu Dayou said to Chen Di: "Third brother, after talking about the military song and military flag, I want to tell you something real!" ”
Chen Di said: "Brother Yu, but it will be fine. ”
Yu Dayou sighed: "This army is a tiger who eats silver!" The money you gave us。。。。。 It's all spent! Seeing that it's time to pay the monthly salary again, what can I do? That's the real big thing! ”
Chen Di said with a smile: "Anything that can be solved with money is not a big deal." ”
Yu Dayou glared at Chen Di: "Nothing that can be solved with money is not a big deal?" I'm afraid I don't have the money to solve things! ”
Chen Di smiled: "I said it a long time ago, I am Song Jiang in time." ”
After speaking, Chen Di took out a stack of silver tickets from his arms and handed them to Tang Shunzhi.
Tang Shunzhi counted the silver tickets, and his face was shocked: "Eight, eight hundred thousand taels? Oh, my God! ”
Chen Di smiled: "How is it?" Is 800,000 taels of silver enough to support our Flying Tiger Army? ”
Tang Shunzhi calculated carefully: "According to the standard you set, the salary of the soldiers of the new army is ten times that of the Weisuo army, and the monthly salary of each person is twenty taels. The annual salary is 480,000 taels. For military rations, I estimated that 50,000 taels would be needed every year. There are also military uniforms, and two new military uniforms are always issued every year, which is another 40,000 taels. 800,000 taels of silver, enough to raise the Flying Tiger Army for a year! ”
Chen Di shook his head: "Mr. Tang, you forgot to calculate the most important expense. ”
Tang Shunzhi asked: "What cost?" ”
Chen Di talked eloquently: "As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under the heavy reward. When fighting, only by promising a lot of money to the soldiers, the soldiers will fight with their lives! The reward for fighting is the bulk of our Flying Tiger Army's salary! ”
Yu Dayou interjected: "I fought the Tatars in Datongwei for a few years. There are also silver bounties for wars. The head of a Tatar is worth three taels of silver. ”
Chen Di said: "How is three taels enough?" The standard I set was that for every one of the would-be robbers killed, the sergeants of the Flying Tiger Army would be rewarded with thirty taels of silver! ”
Tang Shunzhi asked Yu Dayou with a smile: "Commander Yu, how much silver did you earn by beheading the Tatars in Datongwei?" ”
Yu Dayou replied humbly: "How do I remember Qing." I have always slain a hundred Tatars with my own hands, and the reward is always more than three hundred taels of silver. ”
Tang Shunzhi said: "It's a pity that you killed a hundred Tatars." If you kill him with your own hands in Zhejiang, you will get 3,000 taels
Silver! Top you are a three-grade commander who has been making a fortune for ten years! ”
Tang Shunzhi suddenly changed the topic and asked Chen Di, "Where did you get so much silver?" ”
Of course, Chen Di would not admit that the 800,000 taels of silver were given to him for preservation by the traitor's "father".
Chen Di said with a smile: "Shanren has their own clever plan to raise money, Mr. Tang, don't dig into the roots!" By the way, there is one more thing, I want to discuss it with you, Mr. Tang. ”
Tang Shunzhi asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Chen Di said: "Taizhou Wei Commander Su Maocai has disappeared recently. I plan to recommend Mr. Tang to the Ministry of War as the new commander of the Taizhou Guard. We have a strict military household system in Daming, and the Taizhou Health Center cannot be abolished. There are 35,000 people on the roster of the Taizhou Guard! The Ministry of War has to pay 35,000 people to Taizhou every month! Although there are only 10,000 old and weak soldiers in Taizhou, I think that if they are trained properly, these 10,000 old and weak soldiers will always be able to do so when it comes to a critical time
A few points of use. Multiple monkeys have more than three points of strength, right? ”
Tang Shunzhi said: "If you can really let me be the commander of Taizhou Wei, I dare not say more, from 10,000 people, pick out one or two thousand elites, train them strictly, and help our Flying Tiger Army at a critical moment." ”
Chen Di nodded: "In the future, Mr. Tang, you will be tired, not only as the commander of the Flying Tiger Army, but also as the commander of Taizhou Wei." ”
Tang Shunzhi said: "As long as it's for fighting the Japanese invaders, it's worth it even if you're tired to death!" ”
Qi Jiguang suddenly remembered something. "Third brother, I like to hunt. There is an old cliff mountain to the south of our camp. In addition to training, I always go to the old cliff mountain to hunt. Two days ago, I went hunting and caught a white doe! ”
Yu Dayou said: "I told you a long time ago, kill that deer and give us a tooth sacrifice!" But you just don't listen, you have to keep it. ”
Chen Di was very excited after hearing this. You must know that Emperor Jiajing was obsessed with Taoism. In Taoism, the white deer is the mount of the gods! In Taizhou, he was organizing and training the new army, and he recommended this one to be a commander and that one to be a commander. Although Yan Song is in charge of the military department, he must be under the huge pressure of Shoufu Zhai Luan! It is better to send this white deer to Beijing to Emperor Jiajing and coax the emperor to be happy. Yan Song is also good to say a few more good words to himself in front of Emperor Jiajing!
Chen Di said to Qi Jiguang: "Immediately send this white deer to Beijing and present it to the emperor!" This is a rare auspicious time! ”
Tang Shunzhi said with a smile: "Lord Chen, Lord Chen, you are really good at both doing things and being a person!" Sometimes I wonder if you're really fourteen? ”
Chen Di smiled: "Whether you are fourteen years old or forty years old, as long as you think about the people and the court." I'm a person who sometimes does things by any means, but the means are secondary, and the end is the most important, isn't it? ”