Ma Xunwu is a native of Bingzhou, his family is wealthy, his father was also born in martial arts in his early years, followed Yuwenshu, once served as Yuwenshu's account under Cangcao to join the military, and later retired from the army after becoming rich in business, he wanted to find an official and a half-position for his son in the army.

The establishment of the Xiaoguo New Army made Ma Xunwu's father see an opportunity, and he used 10,000 yuan to follow the path of his old boss Yuwenshu, and his son Ma Xunwu got the post of military governor.

Ma Xunwu is the son of a businessman, and it is his instinct to calculate the cost of benefits, since he has spent 10,000 yuan, he has to find a way to recover it.

Withholding money from military rations, or making money from the appointment of officers, or using soldiers to raid homes and houses, the way is that he has received detailed instructions before joining the army, and the key is that he must establish his own power in the army.

But Ma Xunwu didn't expect that he met someone more greedy than him in the military government, that is, the main general Sima Deheng, the two joined the company almost at the same time, and the first day of entry began to compete for the right to appoint officers.

The two competed, and Ma Xunwu had the upper hand in the right to distribute materials, but lost to Sima Deheng in the recommendation and appointment of official positions.

However, Ma Xunwu did not fall behind in the third battalion, and three of the four lieutenants were nominated by him for appointment.

In the big tent, Ma Xunwu listened to Wang Zhiguo's crying, he hated so much that his teeth clucked, damn Zhang Xuan, it was just a matter of purging military discipline, but he didn't give himself face and took the opportunity to purge his officers.

Ma Xunwu has a very good relationship with Yu Wenshu's three Taibao Liu Mengdiao, he got a letter sent by Liu Mengdiao last night, only then did he know that Zhang Xuan and his backstage Yuwenshu have a deep contradiction, so today Zhang Xuan took office, he deliberately delayed coming.

Now Zhang Xuan burned his first fire on himself, how could he swallow this breath, he paced back and forth in the big tent with his hands in his hands, and he also knew that this Zhang Xuan was also a person with a background background, he was the person of Yang Qi, the king of Yan. If he rashly turns his face with him, I'm afraid it will only cheapen Sima Deheng.

If Zhang Xuan and Sima Deheng teamed up to squeeze themselves out, wouldn't their 10,000 yuan be wasted, thinking of this. Ma Xunwu restrained his hatred, this matter cannot be rushed for a while, and must be considered in the long run.

He said to Wang Zhiguo: "I will give you an explanation sooner or later, but not now, you stay by my side first." I'll take a look at the vacancies in the second battalion and find a way to put you in them. ”

Wang Zhiguo was grateful, kowtowed and cried: "Everything is decided by Changshi!" ”

Ma Xunwu snorted coldly in his heart, "Zhang Xuan, how long do I think you can be rampant?" ’

Before dawn the next day, the rumbling drums in the three battalions sounded, and I saw countless soldiers rushing out of more than 100 large tents, all of them in neat armor, and most of them had panic on their faces, and it could be seen that most of them were sleeping with their armor. Not daring to take off their armor, the new Ren Lang frightened them with yesterday's thunderous methods.

Zhang Xuan was dressed in iron helmet and iron armor, standing on a high wooden platform with his hands in his hands, his eyes stared coldly at the soldiers running from all directions, and in the lower right corner of the wooden platform stood fifty military discipline soldiers, three of whom had been appointed by him as team leaders, replacing the three who were killed.

Zhang Xuan is well aware of the importance of military discipline, and strict military discipline is the premise of an elite army. The second is clear rewards and punishments, and the second is well-trained.

Before the three hundred drums stopped, the ranks were assembled, and all the officers were nervously counting their men. To everyone's surprise, except for the 38 soldiers who were beaten yesterday and the two soldiers who died of heat stroke, all the rest of the soldiers arrived, and there was not a single deserter.

This surprised all the officers, who had privately discussed it last night, expecting that there would be a large number of deserters. But I didn't expect that not a single soldier escaped, what happened?

They could never have imagined that the soldiers who persevered to the end last night each received a reward of 100 wen and a meritorious service class, which greatly encouraged all the soldiers and made the soldiers see the hope of fairness.

"General Qiyu, all the brothers have arrived!"

Zhang Xuan walked to the wooden platform and said to all the soldiers in his deep voice: "Everyone behaved well today, the team is much neater, and the military appearance is also new, but it is not enough, tomorrow morning gathering, there are only two hundred drums, one hundred drums the day after tomorrow, ten days later reduced to fifty drums, the drums must be returned to the team, one late cane fifty, three late beheading!" ”

There was silence under the high platform, and all the soldiers were shocked by Zhang Xuan's strict order and looked at him blankly.

Zhang Xuan said slowly: "My goal is to build your army into the most elite army of the Great Sui, so that each of you has your own glory, in addition to governing the army harshly, I will also reward and punish clearly, reward those who make meritorious contributions, even if he is a slave, he will be punished severely, even if it is the son of a general, I will kill it correctly, from today on, from now on, all of you are equal in my eyes!" ”

The soldiers began to get excited, they were severely shocked by Zhang Xuan, and they were all inspired by Zhang Xuan, fairness, rewards and punishments are clear, this is the desire of every soldier, they are very excited in their hearts, and they can't wait to raise their arms and shout.

But there are also a few officers with contempt in their eyes, and everyone who takes office will say so, but in the face of interests, who can stick to the original intention?

Zhang Xuan's stern gaze swept over everyone's faces, he saw the disdain in the eyes of several officers, pointed to the outside of the camp, and shouted: "If you don't do it, you can leave now, I, Zhang Xuan, will never stop me!" ”

Several officers bowed their heads in fright, and none of them left.

Zhang Xuan nodded, "Very good, since you are all willing to accept my rules, then start training from now on, and in twenty days, I will let you be reborn, let you come back alive from the battlefield, disband, and start training for each team!" ”

1,000 soldiers disbanded abruptly, and ran to the school field under the leadership of the lieutenant and other officers, and began the first formal training since the formation of the army.

The three battalions had a total of 200 tents, of which 120 were sleeping tents for soldiers and officers, and the rest also contained mule and horse tents, grain and grass tents, ordnance tents, gang head tents, and so on.

Zhang Xuan came to the gang head tent, which is also the kitchen, there were a total of ten gang head soldiers, who also participated in the assembly lecture, and just rushed back.

After an hour of training. The soldiers had to rest and eat breakfast, and ensuring the supply of food was also an important factor in maintaining morale, and they should not shout slogans and go hungry at the same time. So the first thing Zhang Xuan did after the lecture was to inspect the gang leader's account.

Everyone in the tent of the three heads of the gang was busy, and no one noticed Zhang Xuan's arrival, Zhang Xuan saw that there were several large clay pots in the tent, each of which was the size of a water tank and had a wooden lid on it. The heat emanated from the crack in the lid, and he opened the lid and sniffed it, frowning suddenly.

"What is this?"

Only then did several gang leaders find that General Lang was also in the tent, and the chief of fire hurriedly ran to salute, "See the general!" ”

Zhang Xuan pointed to the clay pot and asked, "What is in this, why does it smell strange?" ”

"General Hui, this is pickled vegetables, and they are also our main course."

Seeing that Zhang Xuan's face was gloomy, Huo Chang hurriedly explained: "The advantage of using pickles is that the salt is sufficient, which can ensure the physical strength of the brothers. ”

Zhang Xuan held back his anger and asked, "Aren't there any other dishes?" Eat this pickle every day? ”

The fire chief was helpless and spread his hands. "It's basically like this, occasionally there will be some fresh melon vegetables, in fact, the main thing is to ensure salt, the key is the staple food, the biggest benefit of the Xiaoguo Army is to be able to eat a full stomach, which is also the main reason why everyone is willing to join the army."

"What about oil, water, and meat, never?"

The fire chief shook his head, "Unless you meet the Sacrifice Army, it will be difficult to eat once or twice a year, but the meat of officers above the rank of captain can be guaranteed." It was stipulated that each battalion had five catties of meat per day, mainly for the supply of officers. ”

"Chop five catties of meat and boil a big pot of soup, starting today. All officers and soldiers ate together, including me! ”

After Zhang Xuan finished giving the order, he turned around and strode away, Huo Chang stared blankly at his back and walked away, scratched his scalp, and actually canceled the officer's meat. What can I do?

At this time, he saw a subordinate carrying a basket of mutton coming in from outside, and hurriedly said: "The general has an order, chop the meat and boil it into a big pot of soup, go quickly!" ”

Zhang Xuan came out of the gang tent, he was really a little depressed in his heart, he ate well yesterday, there were meat patties and fresh soup, where did he think that it was because he was a general, and ordinary soldiers couldn't even see the shadow of meat.

This can't be done, since he Zhang Xuan asked the soldiers to strengthen training, then the welfare also has to go up, the biggest welfare of the soldiers is food, only by finding a way to raise the food, the soldiers will be balanced in their hearts.

Zhang Xuan returned to his military tent and immediately ordered someone to find Cangcao to join the army, Cangcao's name was Cui Li, the same clan as the Boling Cui clan but different branches, a native of Bohai County, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, medium in stature, very gentle, although he was a civilian officer, but there was no military temperament, but there was a strong bookish atmosphere, when Zhang Xuan first saw him, he thought he was a teacher.

Zhang Xuan has figured out the details of the third battalion, although all the officers above the brigade commander are nominated and appointed by Sima Deheng and Ma Xunwu, but the two soldiers directly belong to the military department and have nothing to do with the second horse, and he can more or less trust these two people.

Although Cui Li was relatively weak, he was a shrewd person, especially good at arithmetic, and he was very qualified to join the army as Cangcao, and kept the account books and supplies in order.

He walked into the big tent quickly, bowed down and saluted, "See General Zhang!" ”

"I have something I want to discuss with Cui Senjun." Jang Hyun got straight to the point.

"General, please!" Cui Li was a little uneasy in his heart, he was very worried that the second fire of Jang Xuan's new official would burn to him.

"I want to improve the soldiers' food, if I ask the above to increase the daily supply of meat, how likely do you think?"

Cui Li secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it turned out that it was for this matter, he shook his head and said: "The ration of meat is not decided by our military government, but decided by the above, and even Changshi has no choice, the above thinks that it is good for ordinary soldiers to have enough to eat, and meat is too luxurious for them." ”

Zhang Xuan doesn't think so, his soldiers are going to fight with their lives, and there is no oil and water in their stomachs, so how can they fight bravely to kill the enemy.

At this time, Cui Li hesitated and said: "Although the ration of meat in each military government cannot be changed, I heard that some military governments also raise sheep and chickens in private, if the general wants to consider improving the food of soldiers, he can also start from here." ”

"Can the barracks buy their own meat from outside?" Zhang Xuan asked with a deep sigh.

"Of course you can!"

Cui Li vaguely guessed what Zhang Xuan meant, could it be that he wanted to pay for the soldiers to improve the food himself, this was simply unheard of.

But Zhang Xuan had his own ideas, he himself had 1,000 taels of gold, and yesterday Emperor Yang Guang rewarded him with 500 taels of gold, so he could use these 500 taels of the emperor on the soldiers as welfare and rewards.

Zhang Xuan nodded, "I know, Choi will join the army!" ”

Cui Li saluted and walked away quickly, Zhang Xuan closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, he had an idea in his heart.

．．．．．．． (To be continued.) )