On the seventh day of April in the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, Wang Yue, the commander of the 12th regiment battalion, Guo Xun, the British duke, inspected the Shenji battalion, Bao Duchen, the deputy general of the left sentinel army of the Shenji battalion, and Liu Shiyong, the third division officer, and other generals, a total of 13 people were greedy for military salaries and filled their pockets, and there were illegal things to be investigated.

On the eighth day of the fourth month, the Supervision Yuan supervised the imperial envoy Wang Liangchen and Chen Ting in the military department to impeach Yang Ling, the general of the left sentinel army of the Shenji Battalion, and entered the camp with his wife, and stayed in the army at night.

Again, the emperor summoned Yang Ling into the palace, reprimanded him strictly, and ordered Admiral Wang Yue to rectify military discipline, give Yang Ling a double tiger talisman, and lead the army to perform martial arts in the mountains.

At the foot of the hillside, a group of soldiers were grouped in the valley in front of them to carry out marching shooting and in-situ shooting training, the sound of artillery rumbled, and the smoke of gunpowder rose everywhere, so far Yang Ling led the army to the mountains for more than 20 days of hard training.

The total strength of the three divisions of the left sentry battalion is 4,500 people, plus the personal soldiers and supervision teams of the direct staff generals, a total of 5,000 people. Among them, there are 3,600 infantry, each with an infantry firearm; 400 artillery men, equipped with 160 field heavy artillery generals, and each of these 400 people is also equipped with a handgun for self-defense; Another 500 were equipped with multi-barreled firearms.

Yang Ling got the golden approval of the arrow, entrusted with the privilege of full authority to deal with the exercise of military exercises, and the whole army received firearms and ammunition, and then pulled this unit to Colonel Yang, he almost thought that he had traveled through time and space and returned to modern times: except for Yang Ling's pro-soldier supervision team is a fast horse and long knife, the whole army can be said to be a completely firearms army, is this the army of the Ming Dynasty? Especially after passing through the fault zone of the Manchu Dynasty broadsword spear, Yang Ling's feeling of excitement was particularly strong.

Although the current firearms have a slow rate of fire and a short range, and fighting alone against a large group of cavalry still has fatal flaws, if we can maintain this momentum, then in the near future, when firearms are approaching by leaps and bounds, we will not fall behind the whole world, and the most advanced and civilized country will not become an ignorant and backward race in the eyes of Westerners, and will not be bullied and suppressed by others.

Even with these shortcomings, this firearm still had far more power than the broadsword and spear in urban warfare and jungle warfare at that time, and it was not at all something that flesh and blood and individual martial arts could be hostile to.

Yang Ling had seen the power of the general's cannon when he was in the chicken station, although it was far from being comparable to modern weapons, but because the defense system at that time was equally weak, its lethality was not weaker than that of the current cannon, and there was also that kind of multi-barreled firecracker, which was enough to cause a large number of casualties in the moment of the confrontation between the two armies.

Although this kind of all-firearms equipped unit is not the best expeditionary combat weapon at present, it is the most powerful arm of the Beijing Division to defend and quell the chaos, Yang Ling knows that it is not appropriate to think about such a long-term matter with his power and the configuration of this army now, what he has to do now is to make his army the most elite unit of the five major battalions of the Shenji Battalion in the shortest possible time, and even the most powerful force in the 100,000 army of the entire 12th Regiment Battalion of the Beijing Division.

It was much easier to do this, and after ten days of empty-chambered queue practice, the soldiers were now able to skillfully perform three-column combat and three-stage marching firing, and the firing speed and density were more than three times higher than before, and the combat power of the left sentinel army was immediately greatly improved.

The generals in the army who were originally skeptical about his ability were suddenly convinced, and even Peng Da Fat and Lian Mazi looked at him with admiration, Yang Ling did not know until this time that the army's reward and punishment promotion system, training team, sentinel, and gang's reading and combat ability, soldiers with outstanding performance and outstanding ability can be promoted exceptionally, and lazy and incompetent low-level officers are dismissed on the spot, and the morale of the army is immediately high, and the originally lazy soldiers are as energetic as leopards who have been reborn.

Yang Ling stood on the hillside and watched the drills of the soldiers, after more than ten days of training, his white face was tanned, but his mental temperament was a little more resolute and decisive. Yang Ling nodded with satisfaction, after being ordered by him to take off the armor weighing forty catties, the soldiers' marching speed and adaptability had significantly improved.

The generals, who were originally extremely dissatisfied with taking off their armor, saw that the soldiers' reaction speed was twice as fast as before, and they had to admit that it seemed that the soldiers' ability to protect themselves had weakened, but the lethality of the enemy and the chance of dodging damage had actually increased a lot.

"His grandmother's, I've also brought soldiers for half my life, but I can't think of a soldier who can shoot in three rows: standing, squatting, and lying down? And a charge, an ignition, a three-person squad shooting method for shooting? The three of them fought with a firearm, and they were beaten through the wind and rain, and they were stunned to be a hundred times stronger than the original swarm of shots! ”

Peng Jizu glanced at Yang Ling with admiration and said to him: "My lord, my head is strong, let's go to the shed and rest for a while."

Yang Ling nodded, and the two of them turned back to the shed built with tree trunks and branches on the hillside, and Lian Delu rubbed his palms and said: "My lord, these two days are watching my subordinates practice, I can't hold it back, for the generals to take the lead, why don't you allow us to go down and lead the soldiers to practice marching and fighting?" ”

Yang Ling took a sip of tea from his cup, glanced at the generals sitting in the tent, and said with a smile: "Oh, then tell me, how to take the lead for the generals?" ”

Lian Delu said: "Then do you need to say? To boost morale, as a general in the battlefield fighting, you must charge ahead, the general of an army is the soul of the whole army, and the general is brave and brave. Hehe, not boasting in front of adults, the last general is very brave in the battle, when Miao Jiang is in turmoil, the last general is in charge of a hundred households, personally led three hundred soldiers to touch the mountain at night, and kicked three big villages in Miaozi, and took advantage of the chaos to kill them who are known as the enemies of Miao Jiang.

Yang Ling smiled and said: "Yes, it is really brave, enough to be worthy of the position of a hundred households."

Lian Mazi laughed when he heard the praise, glanced at the generals proudly, and only heard Yang Ling say again: "If you still think like this now, you should be a hundred households for the rest of your life, and there will be no chance of promotion."

Lian Mazi's laughter stopped abruptly, Peng Jizu laughed, glanced at him shyly, and said secretly in his heart: "I know that the adult must have something else to say, and it is really right not to interject."

Lian Mazi muttered: "Why do you think it's wrong for the last general to be brave?" ”

Yang Ling Zhengse said: "Yes, but it was only when you were in charge of the position of a hundred households." The general's charge to the front can boost the morale of the whole army and make everyone fight bravely to kill the enemy. But now that you are the commander of the capital, and you have 1,500 soldiers under your command, I ask you, if you charge ahead and are killed by the enemy in the chaos, who will command your 1,500 brothers? Will the dragons be wiped out without a leader? ”

Although Lian Mazi felt that Yang Ling's question was reasonable, did the generals cower because of this? He couldn't help but have an unconvinced look on his face, and most of the other generals also had different expressions, only three or two of them seemed to have realized something.

Yang Ling pointed to the athletes under the mountain who were sometimes in line with each other under the command of the commander, the sentry commander, and the commander, and sometimes divided the troops: "This is the reason why I don't allow you to go down the mountain, and let these lower-level officials lead the troops."

All along, these generals have been just a soundworm and a microphone in your eyes, and they are only responsible for conveying your orders, and they have neither the ability to command combat nor the courage to command operations. Therefore, the general has become a crucial figure in the army, and there is nothing that cannot be changed in battle, and the three armies cannot be taken in command.

I thought that a general who only relied on his personal prestige and courage to boost the morale of the whole army was the most failed general. You see, here, the actions of each team are clear at a glance, and you, as a general, can always know where your troops are, where they have the upper hand, and where they are losing, and you can issue orders at any time to dispatch and adjust the distribution of forces in the whole army.

If you rush to the front first, don't say that you can't see the changes in the battle situation between the enemy and us in the game, that is, your subordinates can't find anyone if they want to ask you to come forward to command, if you die on the battlefield, the whole army will suddenly fall apart, even if it is ten times the enemy, you can only be slaughtered, is this the incompetence of the soldiers, or the fault of the generals? ”

Lian Mazi was speechless for a while, and Yang Ling said again: "As a general, I don't need you to be a thousand people and ten thousand enemies, as long as you can command in the center and dispatch well, you have the ability to train your officials and colonels into thousands of people, and everyone is a general, that is an invincible army."

These originally very simple truths were really novel theories in the ears of these generals who had never realized the role of the pawns, and there were a few generals who rose from the pawns who understood it the fastest, and they couldn't stop nodding their heads. Yang Ling looked at their faces with convincing excitement, and couldn't help but secretly regret: It's a pity that I haven't been in the army, otherwise I would have written a book "On the Important Significance of the Army's Grassroots Construction" and said that I might be able to pass down a copy of "Yang Zi's Art of War" in the future."

He took a sip of tea and squinted his eyes to look at a jungle on the opposite mountain, where the slope was low and the trees were not dense, but after looking here for a long time, he couldn't see a single figure in the forest, Yang Ling couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.

Yang Ling transferred 300 people from his own pro-army and supervision team, and asked Yang Yiqing, Han Lin, and Han Wu to lead these people to train in the forest, and after more than ten days of hard training, it seems that it has been quite effective.

Yang Yiqing's search, assassination, and ambush skills are first-class, and the Han family's father and son are even more skilled in martial arts than Yang Yiqing, and they hunt in the mountains all year round, they are simply natural masters of mountain and jungle warfare.

Yang Ling has already asked Nanzhen Fusi to provide a special batch of special ordnance for Jinyi Guard's detection and assassination. He looked at the mountains and forests in his eyes attentively, and continued: "Let the soldiers practice for two more days, and when they are more proficient, it will be time for you to make a move." At that time, each of you will lead an army, and each other will regard the other as an imaginary enemy, and practice how to march and arrange the formation, and how to dispatch troops, so that they can have more experience in actual combat."

"Generals, if you want to transfer troops, you must not only be familiar with your soldiers, but also understand the strength and offensive defense of the enemy army, and it is not as clear as you can see it here, so the role of scouts cannot be underestimated." He remembered the big melee in the gourd valley of Jimingyi, which almost wiped out the whole army, and couldn't help but say with deep emotion: "A good scout can sometimes be worth thousands of troops, and one of their news can determine the victory or defeat of a war.

Guan Shoubei said with a smile: "What my lord said is that even Mr. Kong Ming has miscalculations in his life, and we stinkers are even worse."

The generals all laughed when they heard this, and at this time a soldier flashed in, Yang Ling turned his head and saw that it was his eldest brother Han Wei, he immediately nodded to several generals and followed Han Wei out.

After Han Wei took his wife back to Beijing, he also joined the army. Although a good man in this world is not a soldier, after all, he has a higher status than Orion or a post soldier, and the salary of this Beijing camp is not only the highest in the entire Ming army, but the main general in the army is also his brother-in-law.

Yang Ling followed him to a bush of trees and asked, "Big brother, how are you inquiring?" ”

Han Wei said: "This is strange, the evidence you found is that Bao Duchen stole and sold guns and pellets, and even wrote it clearly who he sold it to and how many catties he sold it to, and he has obviously submitted it to the palace, but now the charges made public by General Bao and Liu Dusi in prison are still greedy for ink, and the two of them are so good."

Yang Ling's body shook and said angrily: "What? Are they still alive? Who did they go by, and they could even cover up this crime? ”

Han Wei shook his head and said: "You presented the excerpt to the emperor, but I don't know where to know the content of the thirteen imperial envoys and six departments of the Supervision Yuan.

Yang Ling pondered for a long time, and said categorically: "No, I have to go back, Miss Tang is uncertain about my life and death, I can't watch the murderer get away with it!" ”

Han Wei was surprised: "This round trip has to be a day and a night, you are the boss, and if you leave the camp without permission, you will be known to be involved again."

Yang Ling said: "It's okay, the two ammunition have been exhausted, the emperor gave me the Double Tiger Talisman, I have to requisition ammunition, just go to the military department by the way."

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On the night of April 28, it rained heavily in Beijing.

It was the first heavy rain after a long drought, and it rained from noon to nightfall. The rain was pouring down. There are no traces on the street, the bluestone pavement is washed by the rain, and the lanterns under the platform on the third and second floors are shining faintly, and the two iron horses are like a whirlwind, and they enter Beijing in the rain at this time.

Immediately, two knights, dressed in robes, leaned slightly to avoid the rain, and the sturdy horses swept along the rain-soaked road, and the waves of the bowl-sized horses' hooves were instantly smoothed by the heavy rain, and flowed in a tumultuous manner, leaving no trace.

In Fusi, Dong'anmen North Town, Yu Yongzheng, a thousand households, sat on a chair and sipped tea, smiling and looking at the rain flowing down like a curtain under the corridor: at the beginning of the year, he just bought three hectares of fertile land in the suburbs of Beijing, and there has been no heavy rain this year, and he thought that this time he was going to lose the harvest.

He was laughing and pondering, when suddenly two men in robes burst into the hall through the rain, and the rain quickly flowed down from the two of them and merged into a stream. Yu Yong raised his eyelids and glanced at it, and asked casually, "What's the matter so anxious, and it's not resting when it's pouring rain?" ”

As soon as Yang Ling looked up, he saw that the brocade-clothed Qianhu with Erlang's legs crossed was the descendant of the blonde-haired and blue-eyed German nobleman he saw last time, and he smiled while untying his coat: "It turned out to be Lord Yu, hehe, why are you on duty again today?" ”

Yu Yong saw that the person who came over with his coat off was wearing the clothes of an ordinary soldier in the army, and a few locks of hair on his handsome and thin face were still dripping with rain, and his face was watered by the rain, but he couldn't remember who he was for a while, so he couldn't help but say in confusion: "Are you from the military department?" What did you trespass into my Yamen? ”

Yang Ling said with a smile: "Lord Yu is so forgetful, my brother is Yang Ling, do you remember?" ”

Yu Yong let out an "ah", and suddenly remembered how he didn't remember the characters who had been in the limelight recently. Yu Yong suddenly said with a smile on his face: "It turned out to be Lord Yang, it was rude, why are you dressed like this?" ”

Yang Ling smiled and said: "This dress is convenient to go back to Beijing, by the way, is Master Mu here?" ”

He asked Mu Bin, the envoy of Beizhen Fusi, Yu Yong, who is used to drilling camps, and knows that the Jinyi Wei dressed as a soldier in front of him knows that he is a red man in front of Admiral Zhang, and Lord Mu and Lord Qian, who is in charge of thousands of households, are all saluted and said: "Unfortunately, Lord Mu went out early in the morning with Lord Qian, and he hasn't come back yet. ”

Yang Ling was a little disappointed when he heard this, he was inconvenient to talk about these things to Yu Yong, so he had to say casually: "Oh, it's nothing, the official went back to Beijing on an errand, and came to see the two adults by the way."

Yu Yong said with a smile: "My lord has a heart, now that the rain has not stopped, my lord might as well sit down and drink a cup of hot tea, maybe the two adults will be in a while, but coincidentally, the adults are back."

As soon as Yang Ling turned around, he saw two sedan chairs carried into the courtyard, until under the edge of the corridor, two people in flying fish suits hurriedly got out of the sedan chair and stepped into the hall quickly. Yang Ling hurriedly saluted forward: "Humble Yang Ling, I have seen an adult."

Mu Bin's expression was solemn, and he stepped into the door with a tense face, and when he saw Yang Ling, he couldn't help but be stunned, and said strangely: "Why did you go back to Beijing?" Then he didn't wait for him to speak, and immediately said: "It's just right to come back, hurry up and talk in my room."

Yang Ling saw Qian Ning following behind Mu Bin, he also looked panicked, and even forgot to say hello to him, he didn't know what was wrong, and his mood became nervous, so he hurriedly waved his hand and asked Han Wei to stay for the time being, and followed Mu Bin straight to the study.

Mu Bin entered the study and immediately grabbed the pen in front of the bookcase, hurriedly wrote a few lines, took out the seal cover, handed it to Qian Ning and said: "Quick, you immediately take someone and go to Tianjin Wei quickly, please return to Beijing immediately!" ”

Qian Ning responded, took the piece of paper and hurriedly ran out, Yang Ling couldn't help but hurriedly say: "My lord, what happened, why is your expression so solemn?" ”

Mu Bin said uneasily: "Yang Tongzhi, the details will be discussed later, you must rush back to the barracks overnight tonight, I am afraid that the will of you to lead the army back to Beijing will arrive, the emperor fainted in the court in the morning, and woke up in the evening, I have been waiting in the palace, look at the situation, this time the emperor is afraid that it is not good."

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