In the Song Kingdom, after the two great powers of Qi and Chu began to fully operate the war machine, the Song State also began to operate the war machine. Although the Song State remained neutral, there are too many examples www.biquge.info of small countries being inadvertently destroyed by large countries without doing defense in history, and the most classic example is the false Yu of the Jin State.

Back then, the Jin State wanted to crusade against the Kingdom of Yu, but there was a State of Yu between the Kingdom of Jin and the Kingdom of Yu. Jin Xiangong bribed Yu Jun with a large amount of money, so Yu opened the border to Jin, and Jin succeeded in destroying Yu. When the Jin State returned to the division, in the face of the defenseless Yu State, the Jin State was also unceremonious, and attacked its capital by the way, thus destroying the Yu State.

The situation in the Song State today is very similar to the situation in the Yu State. The Song State opened its borders and allowed the Chu State to attack the Qi State, but who knows if the Chu State will destroy the Song State by the way like the Jin State in the past? You must know that the credibility of the Chu State has always been very bad, so the war mobilization that the Song State should carry out still needs to be done, and the defense that should be done must also be done.

Song Junzixi was very concerned about this Qichu War, the entire Song State entered a state of full-scale war, and the Song State also mobilized almost all the troops that could be mobilized to defend various cities. The Song army was led by the Great Sima Xiangshe, and the handover to the Chu State was under Dai Yan's sole responsibility. The Song State did not open all of its borders to the Chu State, because the Chu State was along the Huai River and then through Surabaya to supply grain and grass, so the direction of the Chu army's advance was actually only in the eastern part of the Song State, so the border opened by the Song State to the Chu State was actually only Pengcheng, Xiaoyi, Liuyi, Peiyi and other cities in the east. Suiyang, the capital of the Song State in the west, and the Taoqiu region in the north, the Song State never dared to let the Chu army pass.

Because there was a strong Chu army in the eastern region, the Song State was also very tight in its defense of the eastern region. After the Wei Wushu trained by Wu Qi became famous all over the world, all countries recognized the superb combat effectiveness of the standing army of the Wushu, so all countries began to follow suit and establish a standing army like Wei Wushu. The Song State also made similar reforms after the Dai clan took the Song Dynasty, so the Song Junzixi also had nearly 40,000 "Song Wushu" similar to Wei Wushu. However, after all, Wu Qi had not been in the Song State, and the complete copycat of the Song Wushu was still inferior to the Wei Wushu and Chu Wushu trained by Wu Qi himself in terms of combat effectiveness, and it could only be equivalent to a standing army in the general sense. Even so, Zixi's 40,000 standing army in his hands also made the Song State a middle power in the world. This time, in order to deal with the defense of the Chu State, Zixi handed over 20,000 of the 40,000 standing troops to Dai Yan; At the same time, Zixi summoned the feudal monarchs and Yi Shou from all over the Song State to send troops to reinforce the eastern border of the Song State, and thus obtained nearly 20,000 local troops. Because Dai Yan was too young and had never fought, Zixi sent Ying Zhi, the general of the Song Dynasty, to assist Dai Yan in taking charge of the army.

In this way, Dai Yan had 40,000 troops in his hands, and his confidence increased greatly. Because Fengyi is his fief, he also has the right to gather and mobilize troops in his fiefdom. Under normal circumstances, the feudal lords and nobles of the Song State would gather troops in their own territories to find the patriarchs of those big families, and these patriarchs would then recruit qualified clansmen from their own families to join the army.

However, the situation in Fengyi was somewhat different from that in the Song Kingdom. In Fengyi, due to the existence of the Mo family and the peasant family, Dai Yan's rule has been able to penetrate to the lowest level of the Song state. In other words, he didn't need to go through the patriarchs of those families to rule Fengyi, and the same was true for mobilizing the army. For the mobilization of Fengyi's army, he just gave an order to the Mo family, ordering each Mo family marshal at the grassroots level to gather qualified soldiers, and each of the thirty marshals needed to gather a hundred people, so he summoned three thousand soldiers.

When Dai Yan looked at the three thousand soldiers who belonged to him for the first time, he was in a very bad mood. Because the appearance of his 3,000 soldiers is really ugly, most of them are dressed simply, and their weapons are extremely rudimentary. Only a few of them had swords and swords, and most had wooden spears and bows in their hands. This "poor and sour" made some of the feudal monarchs who went to Fengyi to assist Dai Yan in defending the city laughed.

A feudal monarch named Le was invincible and said to Dai Yan: "Daxingren, I heard that Fengyi is not a poor place, why do you treat your people so harshly? Look at their poor and sour look, is this like a team that can fight? ”

These words left Dai Yan speechless, but they angered the giant Tian Jiu behind Dai Yan. Tian Jiu immediately stood up and said to Le Busheng: "This son, do you dare to judge people by their appearance? Although my Fengyi soldiers are poorly dressed and have simple weapons, if it is about combat strength, Childe's private army really can't defeat my Fengyi's soldiers. ”

I couldn't help but laugh when I heard Tian Jiu's words, as if this was the biggest joke in the world. He didn't say much, and immediately called a centurion from among his men, drew out a centurion, and then said to this Dai Yan: "Daxingren, do your soldiers in Fengyi dare to accept my challenge?" ”

Dai Yan looked at the giant Tian Jiu, and Tian Jiu nodded at him. Then Dai Yan said: "Since Lejun wants to challenge my Fengyi sergeant, if I don't face it, wouldn't it seem that my Fengyi people are too spineless, and accept Lejun's challenge below." ”

Then Tian Jiu casually instructed a marshal from the thirty Mo family marshals to lead a hundred people out of the ranks, and that marshal was the coppersmith Uncle Tong whom Dai Yan had seen.

Both sides swapped into wooden spears and shields, and the fight began. Because both sides are teams of about 100 people, this kind of fight actually has some rudiments of war. When the two sides were fighting, either the centurion led the people as Dai Yan imagined, or they rushed up and knocked each other down. Both sides lined up their armies in several formations and began to pay attention to the formation of collisions and fights with each other.

The happy centurion lined up the team into four horizontal teams, each horizontal team of 25 people, and the four horizontal teams of the hundred people lined up one by one, pressing towards the team led by the Mo family, which is also the standard paradigm of queue combat in this era. But Uncle Tong's response was not like this, Uncle Tong just picked up the wooden spear in his hand and pointed at the other party, and immediately the entire hundred-person team of the Mo family was immediately divided into four parts, each part was also twenty-five people, but these four parts were not lined up in four horizontal lines like the other party, but a horizontal team of twenty-five people lined up in front of the team to face the four columns directly, while the other three parts were scattered into many groups of five people to stand near the horizontal team.

When the centurion's team pressed over, Uncle Tong stood with the entire horizontal team, and resisted the opponent's four horizontal columns head-on with a horizontal formation. The other three parts are all attacking each other in groups of five. Dai Yan saw that the frontal horizontal team where Uncle Tong was located was quickly "eliminated" by the other party, but no one in this horizontal team escaped, and they were fighting for opportunities for the other three-faced people, and those teams composed of five people in a group were really powerful, and when handing over to the other party, all the five-person teams were like one person, and any soldier who wanted to confront the Mo family found that he was facing not one person, but five people attacking at the same time, Soon the centurion's four-column squad was quickly wiped out one by one by these five-man squads, until finally, the centurion's centurion completely collapsed.

It was a joy to see that the clan soldiers selected from the family on his side would lose so badly in the face of the ragged mud legs of the other party, full of disbelief expressions. When the centurion was completely defeated, he still said stiffly: "This is just a drill, after all, it is not really a fight on the battlefield." If you really fight for your life on the battlefield, who is willing to exchange your life for your life? Who can not escape even when most of the casualties in the entire squad are killed? There can be no such army in the world. ”

Tian Jiu stood up and said to this Le Busheng with a serious expression: "Le Gongzi said that he has never seen an army that has been killed or wounded but insists on not fleeing, and that is because Gongzi did not take my Mo family's team into account. Meng Sheng, the last giant of my Mo family, defended the city for the king of Yangcheng in Chu State, one hundred and eighty-three people died in battle, and none of them were willing to escape, and three of them returned to Chu in person after reporting the news in front of me. Death, everyone is afraid, but all the disciples of my Mo family are willing to be the corpse of the giant, and all the disciples can go to the soup and die without turning their heels under the order of the giant! What is the fear of death? Now I am loyal to Gongzi Yan, if there is a need for old decay to die, why should old decay pity this old bone? ”

Tian Jiu's impassioned speech was extremely shocking. After listening to Tian Jiu's words, those commanders of the Mo family also shouted: "I am willing to be the corpse of the giant, and I am willing to die for the son!" ”

Dai Yan's mood at this time was also extremely shocked, and the scene of thousands of people allegiance to him made him feel that he had a powerful force in his hands. However, he couldn't help but be a little worried, the grassroots commanders in this force were all composed of Mo family disciples, was the Mo family component of this team too heavy? In his opinion, those commanders served by the disciples of the Mo family may really be able to die without turning their heels, but after all, those ordinary people are temporarily summoned and trained in the army, if they really fight, they may not be able to really make everyone not afraid of death. However, it was not long before he really got a glimpse of the combat power of this army.

In private, when Dai Yan tentatively asked Tian Jiu if he could send officers to this army, Tian Jiu stood up and said to Dai Yan: "Does Gongzi suspect that my Mo family is developing strength privately?" This army is completely Childe's private army, and Childe can do anything he wants as long as he wants, and he doesn't need to ask the old man's opinion. ”

Hearing Tian Jiu say this, Dai Yan breathed a sigh of relief, but he also heard Tian Jiu's dissatisfaction with his distrust of the Mo family. So he said to Tian Jiu: "Since the giant said so, then I will set up five lieutenants as one commander, and I will set up six commanders for these three thousand troops." I personally serve as the chief general of this army, and the giant son is the deputy general, what do you think? ”

"That's very good." Tian Jiu did not have the slightest opinion on this.

So Dai Yan followed him when he first crossed, and six of the seven retainers led by Tang Ying were appointed as the commanders, and Dai Yan also told these commanders truthfully that when leading these armies to fight, they must discuss things with the commanders below. Don't make your own decisions.

And the only person left is Tian Buli. After a long period of observation, Dai Yan also discovered that among these people, Tian Buli was a person who was not good at force, but he was extremely talented in managing government affairs. Dai Yan hoarded food during this time, and he didn't know how many things were big or small, but Tian Buli could clearly distinguish it. Therefore, Dai Yan did not intend to waste Tian Buli's talent for being good at government affairs, and began to hand over more and more things to him to do.