The meeting was attended by officers at both the Xianghe and corps levels, and there were hundreds of people. A piece of black pressing. One by one, they raised their eyes to look at Leng Yi. That gaze was no longer as careless as when Leng Yi came to Sanya for the first time, but full of awe.

Leng Yi said: "The soldiers of the three armies have been entering the construction site for more than a month, and although I have not been to the construction site for more than a month, I have also heard that the soldiers of the forbidden army are full of enthusiasm for the construction and are doing a lively job. The progress of the project is also very satisfactory. The official was very pleased to hear this, thanks to the efforts of General Shi and everyone present. ”

Shi Shouxin hurriedly bowed and said a few polite words.

Leng Yi continued: "For more than a month, I have been preparing for the establishment of the trial court. As everyone knows, our trial court is mainly to collect intelligence and supervise hundreds of officials for the official family, including the situation of our forbidden army. Therefore, in the forbidden army, I also arranged a lot of informants, so to speak, every unit of the forbidden army has my eyes and ears, and with the help of them, I have also heard some not very good news. For example, some people are lazy and lazy, and they still say strange things underneath and incite soldiers to strike. Is there such a thing? ”

Shi Shouxin and others were all in their hearts, they couldn't imagine that Leng Yi had not been to the construction site for more than a month, but he knew the situation on the site well, what Leng Yi said did exist, and this phenomenon was relatively common.

Shi Shouxin bowed his head and said silently, and Dang Jin said with a smile: "My lord, this matter, if you want to say it, you don't blame the soldiers, the main thing is that everyone has some views on going to the construction site to participate in the construction, our forbidden army is an elite army, and it is our duty to defeat the enemy and fight on the battlefield. Aren't we going to be a van army? ”

Several soldiers also chimed in.

Leng Yi's eyes were cold, he glanced at everyone, and said coldly: "What? Is the Xiang Army inferior? Does digging the ground and transporting soil reduce the noble status of you forbidden soldiers? This is a project approved by the officials, and we forbid the army to build this project. It's for the officials! You are still chirping crookedly for the official family, so what else can you do when you do other things? ”

When he got angry, everyone hung their heads. Including Shi Shouxin.

Leng Yi said coldly: "This project is approved by the government and must be completed within two years, if we allow these sabotage to spread." Then it will be impossible for our project to be completed on time, and when the official family blames it, I will naturally take responsibility, and I will hold you accountable before I take responsibility! We're going to drop our heads together! Not a single one can run! ”

There was a sudden silence in the field.

Leng Yi snorted heavily again and said, "Soldier." Obedience is a vocation! As long as you give an order, no matter whether it is a mountain of swords or a sea of fire, you must rush forward! This is just an order to let them go to the construction site to dig and transport soil, there are so many strange words and even sabotage strikes openly and secretly, if they are really allowed to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, to fight hard, can they still obey the order? Are they not allowed to be deserters or even surrender? Therefore, this crooked wind will not be killed. It is impossible for the combat effectiveness of our forbidden army to be improved! What do you guys think? ”

Dang Jin hurriedly smiled and said: "Yes, the commander has seen through the weakest link of the forbidden army at a glance, and only by grasping the weakness and rectifying it can we completely get rid of these stinky problems!" ”

The other generals also chimed in.

Leng Yi looked at Shi Shouxin: "What does General Shi think?" ”

Shi Shouxin smiled and said: "What Lord Leng said is extremely true, if things like construction can't obey orders, let alone expect them to fight to the death on the battlefield and obey the command, they have to live well to rectify it." ”

Leng Yi glanced at the soldiers in the field again: "What are your opinions?" ”

Since Shi Shouxin nodded, who would dare not nod. They all said it should be.

Leng Yi was very happy and said, "Since everyone thinks that the forbidden army has the need to rectify. Then the official set out to rectify it! The official pondered a way to rectify it, but I don't know if it is feasible or not, so I will say it and let you help ponder it. -- Especially General Shi, you are a soldier leader, and you have the most say in how you lead the troops. You need to give me more valuable advice! ”

Shi Shouxin was not polite, nodded and said, "I will definitely assist Lord Leng to do a good job in the rectification of the army this time!" ”

Leng Yi nodded and said: "My idea is actually very simple, the commander appointed by the official family is only the commander who leads the construction of the forbidden army in Jinmingchi, not the commander who leads the army to fight, so my method of rectifying the forbidden army is also related to construction." Construction, is to dig ponds and transport soil, this kind of work, strong endurance is good. We must set such a model as an example, so that we can have appeal. It is up to them to organize the production of each team, and he takes the lead, and whoever slacks off will be punished directly. I'm going to empower them! Only in this way can the good atmosphere of the entire forbidden army be brought up! What do you think? ”

Dang Jin secretly thought in his heart: His tossing like this will definitely make the officials and soldiers very angry, and at that time, it will be much easier to instigate the officials and soldiers to mutiny and kill Leng Yi. Thinking of this, he hurriedly smiled and said: "Lord Leng's idea is very good, we must set a typical example, the power of example is infinite, give power to these strong people who are willing to endure hardships and stand hard work, let them take the people below to do it, and they will definitely be able to do things well!" Do you think so? ”

Because Leng Yi's proposal was not too specific, these people didn't think there was anything excessive after listening to it, so they naturally nodded in agreement. Including Shi Shouxin, they all stroked their beards and said: "Rewards and punishments are clear, and the foundation of governing the army is clear." Lord Leng also said that he would not lead troops, and this didn't catch the most critical link all of a sudden! Huh,"

Leng Yi also smiled: "If I can get General Shi's approval, my heart will be more steady." ”

Shi Shouxin said: "What should the Commander do?" ”

Leng Yi glanced at everyone present and said slowly: "I want to engage in a competition for the post." ”

"Competing for a job?" Everyone looked at each other. The term is so modern that they naturally don't understand it.

Leng Yi smiled and continued: "That is, to be an official by ability." To put it simply, it is divided into two parts of the competition, and those who have participated in the battle and have military merits will be tested for military merits. -- This military merit must be a military merit of participating in actual battles and killing the enemy on the battlefield, and nothing else! -- Those who have not participated in battles and have no military merits. It tests physical strength, endurance and martial arts. At the battalion level, including the battalion commander and the deputy commander, the main test is to test the military merit of whoever has the highest military merit, and the whole battalion is selected. Those with high military merit are on it. If the battalion has not participated in a battle and has no military merits, the winner of the labor martial arts competition will be selected. ”

As soon as these words came out, these military academies all started to talk about it.

The military system of the Song Dynasty, the battalion level is equivalent to the regimental level of the modern military system, Leng Yi's method, to put it simply. The regiment commander and above are compared for military merits, and the battalion commander and below are compared for physical strength and martial arts. This takes into account the difference between the competition between the old guy who has military achievements and the young man who has no military achievements but has strong physical strength and martial arts.

Leng Yi waited for them to talk about it, and then continued: "The labor skills and martial arts competition, the competition of digging ponds and transporting soil in units of five people, is limited to one meal, and within a limited time. The person who digs the pond and transports the most soil chooses two, and then conducts a martial arts competition, and the winner serves as the officer. Ten officers are in a group, and then there is a physical competition, or a labor competition limited to one meal. The top two are selected for a martial arts competition, with the winner serving as the general Yu Hou (platoon leader) and the loser serving as the Chengju (deputy platoon leader). Then all ten generals will wait as a group, and then they will have a physical competition, select the top four, and then conduct a martial arts competition round-robin, and arrange the rankings to serve as the head (battalion commander), deputy head (deputy battalion commander), army head (company commander), and ten generals (deputy company commander) - that's it, is it clear? ”

Everyone was talking again, and Dang Jin cautiously asked, "What about us?" Do you also want to test your military exploits? ”

For a moment, the room fell silent. looked at Leng Yi one by one.

Leng Yi said with a smile: "To rectify the army, start from the grassroots level first, and the military-level generals will talk about it later." ”

This sentence will be said later, and it immediately made all the military schools raise their hearts to their throats. That is to say, their current position may not be firm, and perhaps one day in the future, they will be eliminated by some competition. I was worried for a while.

Leng Yi said: "Don't be nervous, in fact, as long as the purpose of this rectification of the army is to mobilize everyone's labor and active surname, so as to complete the sacred mission entrusted to us by the official family smoothly and in a timely manner, and repair Jinmingchi on time." Therefore, my rectification was carried out only at the battalion level and below the metropolitan level. However, since everything below has been moved, it is not possible to rectify it from above, but I must obtain the authorization of the official family to rectify and replace the high-ranking generals at and above the military level. However, I believe that the officials will agree to my rectification, because this is to better improve the combat effectiveness of our forbidden army! I hope that everyone must first think clearly, unify their thinking, and at this point, there is no room for any noise! In this regard, the official has authorized the official to directly kill those who do not obey the order! That's a scandal ahead! ”

Hearing that Leng Yi was serious, everyone's expressions became serious, and they stretched out their necks one by one to listen.

Leng Yi's tone slowed down, and then said: "I know that everyone has been fighting for many years, and they are getting older, and many people still have injuries on their bodies, so it is impossible to compete with those young people in physical and martial arts, and there are also some people who have not many military skills, or even none, but they have excellent command skills, but they just don't have a chance." Therefore, I can give you a bottom line here -- there are two main ways to evaluate you in the next step: First, I want to invite generals and colonels with rich combat experience, such as General Shi, who is highly respected and has made great achievements in battle, to come up with actual combat topics, which will be judged by a special evaluation committee to assess your command ability and rank them; second, the ability to actually lead the troops, I will ask you to go to a brand-new unit to lead the troops, and to evaluate some actual combat subjects to judge your actual ability to lead the troops. See if these soldiers are under your command and how well they command. You can start to prepare from these two aspects, and after I have completed the selection of grassroots soldiers, I will begin to evaluate you. -- Of course, this plan must be authorized by the government. It will be carried out after obtaining the approval of the government. ”

After this plan was said, the generals and colonels in the field were happy and worried, and those who were happy were those who had real skills but relatively low positions, and those who were worried were naturally the opposite.

The Ma army of the party entered Yu waited for Zhang Chuan and whispered to the party jin: "General, Leng Yi is doing this, and the people who come up through such a selection have become the people he personally selected, and those people must be grateful to him and willing to obey him, Leng Yi is going to reorganize the forbidden army into his own army!" Do you think the officials can listen to him? ”

Dang Jin said compassionately: "It's hard to say, judging from the situation of these words, the official family can be said to be obedient to him, and he will listen to him." ”

"What then? If he disrupts the entire army, and our people are not under our command, then our plans ......"

"Shut up!"

"Yes, yes!"

After Dang Jin glared at him fiercely a few times, he said slowly: "This official has his own ideas!" In short, you can't let him be satisfied! ”

"My subordinates understand!"

Leng Yi waited for them to talk about it for a while, and then he said: "This work is carried out in the whole army of hundreds of thousands of people, and of course it is impossible to carry out it in its entirety, so I have decided to carry out the pilot work first and select one of the armies to carry out rectification and reform -- if you are willing to carry out this rectification first, please raise your hand." ”

All the generals in the field were silent, and no one wanted to be the leader, waiting for the changes one by one.

Leng Yi waited for a while, but no one raised his hand, smiled, and said, "Since there is no initiative, I can only order." The pilot rectification will start with the first army of the left wing of the guard Ma Junsi. ”

This unit in Leng Yidian is one of the troops under the command of the party. When the party heard this, he couldn't help but feel shocked.

Leng Yi looked at him with a smile: "General Party, I newly promoted you to be the head of the box (army commander), just because you did what Li Jilong was unwilling to do within the time I set the order, and it was not a big merit, so many people were not convinced." I hope that you will live up to the hopes of your own officers in this rectification, successfully complete your tasks, and give the officers and men of the whole army a proof that you can take up the post of the head of this box. ”

Dang Jin could only get up quickly and bow down: "The last general will take the order!" Everything is under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief. ”

Leng Yi turned sideways to Shi Shouxin and said, "General Shi, what do you think?" ”

Leng Yi has already arranged things, so he asked for Shi Shouxin's opinion, what else can Shi Shouxin say, and then he said, he is just a deputy to assist Leng Yi in commanding the forbidden army, for Leng Yi's rectification plan, he can't say anything bad, even if he has opinions, he can't put it forward in front of hundreds of generals, that is too bad for Leng Yi, he naturally knows the importance of this very clearly, so he nodded and smiled: "Your Excellency's arrangement is very proper, and I fully agree with my humble position." ”