On the night of the 15th day of August in the first year of Zhou Guangshun, the bell of curfew and martial law suddenly rang in the middle of every household celebrating the full moon in the county seat, and a large number of soldiers wearing dark blue folded cloth military uniforms and armed with knives and guns rushed into the streets and began to set up checkpoints at various street intersections. The officers of the three barracks in the county town were called up, and the soldiers were dismissed and returned to the barracks.

Just when these officers of the Zhangwu Army, who had not yet accepted the reorganization, were secretly suspicious and uneasy, Lou Shaowu, deputy commander of the Yan'an Regiment of the Eighth Route Army and deputy lieutenant of Zhiguo, the deputy commander of the Yan'an Regiment of the Eighth Route Army and the commander of the Xiangbing A Regiment, walked in under a group of heavily armed soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.

The Eighth Route Army is a newly established military town, this military town takes Fenglin Mountain outside Yanzhou City as the town, and it is said that it takes the meaning of the eight road traffic pivots of Dan, Yan, Sui, Xia, Yan, Ling, and Qing. The boss of this military town is Li Wenge, the loyal military general of Yanzhou's defense envoy who has made a name for himself in Yanzhou over the past year, and this person was unknown a year ago, and he rose to prominence during the Yanzhou mutiny in August last year.

So this person began to miraculously rise in the Yanzhou Domain, from a Bai Ding was promoted to the second lieutenant of the accompanying Rong, leading a team, and then at the end of last year, with this amount of troops in the then state city of Yan'an County to launch a mutiny, hijacking the festival, opening a warehouse to release grain, and doing many appalling things, at that time it is said that this legendary figure waved his hand to the whole army of Zhangwu Army for half a year's food. This incident was praised in the army for a while. Now everyone knows that the original unattainable high-ranking servants in Yanzhou City have long been unable to manage things, and now the biggest one in the nine counties is the Lord Li Wenge, who was just named the loyal general Yanzhou defense envoy by the emperor last month.

In one year, he became a general of the fourth rank from an unknown person, and it was difficult for General Li not to be famous.

Not many people have seen this man, and according to rumors, this man is nine feet long. Born with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, his palm stretched out to be the size of a fan, his eyes were stared at like two copper bells, the sound was like thunder, and he was born with divine power, and he could tear people in half with his arms.

Many people believe in this statement, because many people in Fushi County stick to the door god during the New Year, and it is said that this year's door god is not Jingde and Shubao, two traditional bigwigs. It is precisely this newly debuted General Lee.

It is said that in April this year, he led a battalion of soldiers to cut down more than 300 party members outside Luzi Pass at one time, and the people he brought back piled up five carts.

If such a fierce character is thin and unlucky, the kind and simple people of Yanzhou will never believe it.

Li Wenge's Eighth Route Army began to be formally established after the end of the Luziguan War in April. The reason why it was named the Eighth Route Army was mainly due to the influence of his grandfather in another time and space. Since he crossed over to Yanzhou by mistake, and the army was built on Pagoda Mountain, not called the Eighth Route Army, with his poor imagination, he really couldn't think of a more appropriate name than this.

The name of Zhangwujun is indeed very literally good, but Li Wenge does not like it, this military town has become synonymous with demolition and waste firewood in the hands of the Gao family. When it comes to the Zhangwu Army. Almost everyone in the level thought it was a joke. Li Wenge is not ready to inherit the name of this military town, and a large part of the reason is that the image of the Zhangwu Army is too poor. For the enemy they are purely ornamental, for the friendly army they are purely a burden, for Li Shu they are purely a scourge.

With such a military town number, Li Wenge is really a little unsightly.

The name of the Eighth Route Army is not only new to the officers under Li Wenge, but also strange enough for literati such as Li Bin and Qin Gu who have read poetry and books and are well versed in scripture and history. In the past, the name of the military town either emphasized the name of righteousness, or emphasized its military mission or military bravery. However, it is not uncommon for military towns named after places to be named. For example, the Shuofang Army, and then the Hedong Army. However, most of these military towns are traditional feudal towns with a long history, and most of them have been established since the Tianbao period.

Although an army was built, Li Wenge did not have enough troops to form an army. Therefore, in fact, although the number of military towns was called, in fact, there were only two regiment-level units below the army level.

Li Wenge reformed the command and establishment system in this Xindi military town, set up a regimental structure above the battalion, and stipulated that a regiment would have two to five battalions under its jurisdiction, and the military commander of the regiment would be called the commander. The chief of staff of the regiment was called Marquis Yu. The naming principle of the forbidden army team is to name it according to the county-level administrative district. For example, the name of the first regiment he formed was called "Yan'an Regiment", and the number of the Xiangbing team was named according to the order of the heavenly stems of A, B, C, D, and Gengxin Non.

In the new military system designed by Li Wenge, the Eighth Route Army, as a military town, was a military unit with an irregular establishment, and the army should have several divisions under its jurisdiction. Each division has two to five forbidden regiments and a number of non-combat field corps responsible for logistical supplies, road repair, bridges, fortifications, and other non-combat work, while each regiment has two to five battalions, each battalion has five teams, and a five-level command and training system has been established from top to bottom. From bottom to top, the commanders at all levels are the team commander, battalion commander, regimental commander, and division commander; The officers at all levels are team supervisors, battalion supervisors, regimental supervisors, and division supervisors.

As the commander-in-chief of the whole army, Li Wenge also set up a position called the pacification envoy of the Eighth Route Army, but no one will sit in this position in a short time.

As a basic combat unit, each battalion must have staff officers, and the staff officers from the bottom to the top are the battalion commanders who join the army, the regimental marquis, and the division commanders. The chief of the general staff of the whole army was called the Marquis of Du Yu of the Eighth Route Army.

As a permanent military institution, there are Du Yu Hou Division, Du Supervisor Division, and Xiang Bing Du at and above the division level

Manage. The Duyu Marquis Division is in charge of core military powers such as operational command, military intelligence collection and analysis, and military order delivery, while the Metropolitan Supervisory Department is in charge of politically strong supervisory powers such as organization and personnel, military justice and prison, and internal intelligence collection and analysis.

The head of the Duyu Marquis is the Duyu Marquis. The head of the Metropolitan Supervisory Department is the military envoy of the Metropolitan Supervisor, and the head of the Command Department of the Chambers is naturally the commander of the Commanders of the Chambers.

According to Li Wenge's setting, the head of the Third Division of the Eighth Route Army was one level higher than the commanders of the divisions, among which the Marquis of Du Yu made the benchmark military rank of General Zhuangwu or General Zhongwu, and the commander of the military envoy and the Xiang soldiers commanded the base military rank of General Mingwei or General Xuanwei.

From bottom to top, the corresponding military ranks of officers at all levels of the Eighth Route Army are: the deputy benchmark military rank of the team is the captain of the accompanying army. The standard rank of the team supervisor is Renyong lieutenant, and the standard rank of the team is Renyong lieutenant; The standard military rank of the battalion deputy supervisor is the deputy lieutenant of the imperial insult, the standard military rank of the battalion commander is the lieutenant of the imperial insult, the standard military rank of the battalion supervisor is the deputy lieutenant of Xuanjie, and the standard military rank of the battalion commander is the captain of Xuanjie; The standard rank of the deputy supervisor of the regiment is the deputy lieutenant of Xulu, the benchmark rank of the marquis of the regiment is the captain of the regiment, the benchmark rank of the regimental supervisor is the deputy lieutenant of Zhiguo, and the standard rank of the regimental commander is the captain of the fruit; The base military rank of the deputy envoy of the division supervision army is Zhaowu lieutenant. The standard military rank of the division capital Yuhou is Zhaowu Lieutenant, the standard military rank of the division deputy commander is guerrilla general or guerrilla general, and the standard military rank of the division commander is General Ning Yuan or General Dingyuan.

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According to this rank, Li Wenge is the only one in the army who meets the requirements for the rank of a cadre at and above the division level. Therefore, at present, the posts of the Eighth Route Army's envoy to Yuhou and the military envoy to the capital are concurrently held by Li Wenge himself.

In ordinary years, this kind of behavior of setting up a military establishment on one's own is tantamount to blatant rebellion, but in the troubled times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the festival of the remote feudal towns made their own family the emperor of the soil, and whoever was the official of the land on his own territory was counted, as long as the marshal did not claim the title of king and emperor without authorization, the central power would generally turn a blind eye and get by. Then again. Once the marshal himself is called the king and the emperor, I am afraid that his own strength will exceed the control ability of the imperial court, and the imperial court will still have no good way to think of it except pretending to be deaf and dumb. Therefore, once a feudal town has a slight sign of strength, and the imperial court is temporarily unable to deal with it, it will take the first step to crown the feudal town as king. It's better than people calling themselves kings.

Although Li Wenge is not yet a Jiedu envoy, everyone knows that it is only a matter of time, although the imperial court appointed him as a defense envoy and also appointed Li Bin as an observer envoy from Yanzhou from Sanpin, but in this era when civil officials are not very valued, the possibility of Li Bin becoming a Jiedu envoy is very small.

Today, this new military town has only two regiments, namely the Yan'an Forbidden Corps and the Jiazixiang Corps. The Yan'an regiment had two battalions on the left and right and a reinforced scout team, with Shen Chen as the commander of the regiment and Wei Xun as the regimental supervisor. Lou Shaowu served as the deputy supervisor of the regiment, and there was currently no suitable candidate for the post of Marquis Yu, so it was temporarily suspended. Li Wenge once considered Liang Xuan as the Marquis of Yu, but finally gave up. Liang Xuan himself is more suitable to work alone, as a chief of staff, he is too lame.

Liang Xuan's final position was the commander of the left battalion, and the left battalion was organized under five teams with a strength of 250 people, of which the C team was the old foundation of Li Wenge's beginnings, the former Zhangwu Army's left battalion C team, and its A team (that is, the original former battalion A team) was also a meritorious unit that made great contributions in the two battles of Luziguan. The commander of the left battalion was Liang Xuan, the battalion supervisor was relocated from Hao Keji, the former supervisor of the first team, the commander of the army was Qin Haoran, who had a high level of education, and the deputy supervisor of the battalion was served by Gongsun Qi, who was originally a secretary under Hao Keji.

The right battalion is a battalion formed with the two teams of the original front battalion B and D as the backbone forces, which is basically the same as the strength of the left battalion, with Yang Li as the commander, Huang Wei'an, the former supervisor of the D team, as the supervisor, Zheng Lingpu of the former B team as the commander and Lu Lu, the deputy supervisor.

These two battalions are the current main force of the Yan'an Regiment, with a total strength of more than 500 people, well-equipped and well-trained, and the ratio of veterans and recruits is roughly maintained at 2 to 3, which is a fairly high ratio.

The scout team had now expanded to ten tithes and two hundred horses, and since the company was determined not to accept any non-combatants as a member of the scouts, Wei Xun himself took on the position of the scout's supervisor.

Lu Xun served as the commander of the Banner Vancorps, and he also served as the training envoy of the Fenglin Mountain Regiment, which was also a new post specially created by Li Wenge, which was roughly equivalent to the commander of the military division. At present, Li Wenge's own positions are Yanzhou Defense Envoy (commander of the Yanzhou garrison) and Yanzhou regimental training envoy (commander of the Yanzhou Military Region), and Li Wenge gave Zhou Zhengyu the only guerrilla general's edict and appointed him as the deputy envoy of the Yanzhou regimental training and the commander of the Eighth Route Army, which is the highest military post in the Yanzhou Army except for Li Wenge himself.

Compared to the Yan'an regiment. The regiment has two new battalions, a garrison battalion, an armament battalion, a medical battalion, a cooking battalion, a road administration battalion, a post administration battalion, a cantonment battalion, and a civilian battalion. At present, the number of people in the box corps alone is nearly 1,800 people, not counting the road construction army that has approached 3,000 people and the military reclamation battalion that has more than 5,000 people.

It can be said that the commander of the Jiazi Xiang Corps is actually a very fat errand, and Lu Xun, who has been serving as a guard in Fenglin Mountain during Li Wenge's absence, has not caused any controversy in this position. In Li Wenge, an independent military group, everyone thinks that this is normal, although Lu Xun is not very talkative, but he is very good at dealing with all kinds of complex relationships and all kinds of different people. make

The regimental commander does not need to be very capable of fighting, but he must be able to do things.

However, the big upset was the leader of Li Wenge's personal soldiers. Li Hu, who had not yet gotten rid of Li Bin's status as a slave, ascended to the sky in one step and served as the Marquis of the Jiazi Xiang Corps, and at the same time served as the commander of the garrison battalion, responsible for the vigilance and garrison work of the entire Fenglinshan Military Region. This identity is actually equivalent to the commander of the entire Yanzhou Prefecture Garrison.

Since April, the three battalions of Zhangwu Army, which were basically stationed in the city, have become a rag, and they are supplied with food and salary every month, but they cannot take half a step out of Yan'an County without permission, otherwise they will face the threat of running out of food and pay for the whole army. The new battalion on Fenglin Mountain has to recruit soldiers once a month, and each time it recruits more than 100 people, and it will come down for a few months. Today, the total strength of the three barracks in the city is less than 300 men. These indiscriminate soldiers guarded the increasingly empty barracks, and they were messing around day by day.

It is no longer possible to think of a mutiny, and no one dares to use this method that was used to urge food and wages. Joke, even if it is a mutiny, now we have to wait for the soldiers on Fenglin Mountain to make trouble, otherwise wouldn't we be impatient?

Therefore, the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. A few officers were getting together to drink and fart, and the garrison suddenly drove into the city to take over the defense, which really made the remaining Zhangwu soldiers uneasy.

Therefore, when he saw Lou Shaowu coming in, his face was already a little blue with anger, and Zhang Tu, the deputy commander of the Zhangwu Army, suddenly asked in a strange manner: "Lou Zhiguo, it's a big festival, which one is this singing?" ”

Lou Shaowu smiled, hugged his fists and said, "Lord Zhang, I am really offended." Brother is ordered to visit all of you today to see what is still lacking in your army. Brother, why don't you go back and prepare and send it to the adults? ”

Zhang Tu snorted. said: "For no reason, Lu Tong controlled himself and sent you over, I don't know what tricks I want to play!" ”

Lou Shaowu said with a smile: "Look at what Lord Zhang said, in our Eighth Route Army, the commander and the supervising army are on an equal footing, and the land commander can't control our old Lou ......."

As he spoke, his eyes narrowed more and more, but the smile on his face disappeared: "Your Excellency, please listen clearly, from now on, the whole city is under martial law, and all the departments of the Zhangwu Army are not allowed to mobilize a single soldier before the martial law is lifted from now on, without permission, not even a bird is allowed to fly out of the camp, all officers must be on standby, and no orders shall be given to the troops during the martial law period, otherwise Lao Tzu will recognize him, and the knives in the hands of the brothers must not recognize him!" ”

The officers looked at each other and were surprised, but they saw Li Hu, who had a rigid face and cold eyes, walked in and muttered a few words in Lou Shaowu's ear.

Lou Shaowu sneered, turned his head to Zhang Tu and said, "Lord Zhang, please send an acquaintance to follow our brothers to summon the team leaders here." ”

Zhang Tu was a little scared, he stood up and said, "Lou Zhiguo, what are you going to do?" You must know that Li Zhongwu is not only the boss of your Xiang Corps, but also the boss of our Zhangwu Army, if you want to take advantage of his old man's absence in Yanzhou to do things, I advise you to die of this heart. What kind of people in the high squire have been lost half their lives by General Zhongwu, you little fish and shrimp, can you be General Li's opponent? ”

Seeing that he was misunderstood and wanted to launch a coup d'état to rebel, Lou Shaowu couldn't cry or laugh, waved his hand and said, "Where did my brother go?" Brother, I have a few heads, dare to make General Li's rebellion? The purpose of summoning all the leaders of the troops here is to prevent them from transferring the army without knowing the order, and the heads are all fleshy, but the military order is cast in copper and iron, and if the military order is violated, will not even his life be lost? ”

Zhang Tu saw that he was earnest, so he called a few heralds and asked them to go to each battalion and invite the leaders of the team to the right battalion.

Several garrisons followed these heralds, and Lou Shaowu waved his hand and ordered: "Bring in—"

As soon as the words fell, the strength soldiers of several people's battalions carried a few jars of wine and half a roasted oily and fragrant roast sheep in, Lou Shaowu hugged his fists and said: "Adults use it slowly, brothers still have something to do, please take care of yourself!" ”

With that, he walked out slowly with Li Hu.

“…… This matter is so troublesome, if it weren't for the observation that the boss personally came forward to give an order, I wouldn't dare to tie my head to the belt of my trousers and agree to the army to transfer troops into the city...... Good brother, you know, our general is good at talking, Wei Jianjun's temperament, if you know that I dare to derelict my duties like this, wouldn't it be appropriate to cut me with a knife? ”

Lou Shaowu chattered for a long time and asked, "What's going on?" Even the old observer is so nervous? The adults are not at home, the boss of Yanzhou City is the biggest, if Brother Wei is to blame at that time, you have to ask the old observer to intercede with me at the general! ”

Li Hu was silent, among all the left-behind personnel in the Xiang Corps, only Lu Xun and he knew the reason for martial law tonight.

There is indeed a big thing that is not small but not small.

At about three o'clock this evening, the inspector Tai Lieutenant, Shi Zhong, and Zhangwu Jun Jiedu Zhi Yanzhou and Yan'an County Gonggao Yunquan died......