When the Baokang Army Jie Du envoy, the deputy envoy of the Sichuan system, the commander-in-chief of Sichuan Caifu, and the governor of Chongqing Lu Wende came to Guangyang Island.

It's a little bit of a hot island.

The soldiers of the brigade were shirtless, wearing a white cloth sweat coat that ordinary people often wore in summer, with a pair of linen pants underneath, and a felt hat of the Song army on their heads. Tens of thousands of people stood on the playground dressed like this, and the sun above their heads was no less hot than in early autumn. Standing in front of the columns of soldiers were officers in red coats and carrying swords and scimitars. A kind of strict rectification and killing peculiar to the army is thus fully revealed.

It's a queue training that's going on, and it's not about looking good.

From the era of cold weapons to the advent of the breech gun era, there was no lying on the battlefield to fight, even the loose straggler queue was not the mainstream, and most of the infantry and even cavalry were marched or fought in strict formation.

The tactics now adopted by this Chen Jiajun -- the tactics of combining thunder, strong crossbows, spears, and grenades -- require a strict battle formation and close coordination among various arms of the armed forces. It can be said that the land battle of the Chen Jiajun did not rely on individual bravery, but on the collective strength of ten thousand people. In order to achieve this, Chen Jiajun's training intensity is extremely high, and he is definitely one of the best in the world army in this era.

If the ordinary Song army was trained like this, I am afraid that nine times out of ten, the battalion would have mutinied. But in Chen Jiajun, with high-intensity training and various brainwashing methods, the brains of Chen Jiajun's soldiers have always been occupied by bitter hatred for Mongolian Tatars. At the same time, of course, there is a better food supply than the ordinary Song army. There is also a more fair system of rewards and punishments.

The morning of training was nearing its end, and it was on the side of the Chen Jiajun camp. A large open space has been vacated, and reed mats have been laid on it. More than 100 military cooks wearing white aprons. Standing in front of a huge iron pot. in each iron pot. All bubbling with an enticing aroma. The lid of the pot has been opened, and each pot is either a mountain of salted fish and roasted meat, or some kind of vegetable pickles.

At this time, although the economy of the Southern Song Dynasty was developed, under the successive wars, the life of ordinary people was extremely hard, that is, the New Year's festival, that is, gluten, tofu, green vegetables, scrambled eggs, etc., just a little more oil. Meat is an ordinary rich family, and it is rare to eat it.

Not to mention those bitter men in the Chen family's army, even the pro-soldiers who followed Lu Wende all the way with their eyes straightened. Such braised pork, even they rarely eat it once!

The order to dismiss and eat was finally issued, and the soldiers on the school field did not rush up, but lined up in an orderly manner. Instead of immediately queuing up for dinner, they first went to their respective barracks to wash up, and then took the cutlery - all wooden dishes and chopsticks, made by the carpenters in the army themselves, not very pretty, but sturdy and durable.

After picking up the utensils. The soldiers lined up in an orderly manner to receive food, first receiving meat and vegetables, and then sitting in a circle on the reed mats under the leadership of the team general. There are two large wooden barrels in the middle of the mat. A bucket is full of rice, so you can eat it as you like, but you can't waste it. One bucket is egg drop soup. The same is casually drunk. Eating, as usual, is used first by the soldiers. Officers eat after that.

While the soldiers were eating, the generals and instructors of the squad and other junior officers watched with their hands behind their backs -- and the officers of the ordinary Song Army were only trained to fight. The rest of the rules are different. Chen Jiajun's officers and instructors not only have one more brainwashing job, but also have to manage the lives of the soldiers below. For example, after eating, they were supervised to wash the dishes, every day after dinner they were to inspect the hygiene of the barracks, every day they had to arrange special personnel to do chores such as fetching water, boiling water, sprinkling and cleaning, checking whether the soldiers' uniforms and bedding were neat and clean, urging the soldiers to maintain their armor and weapons, and even checking the removal of garbage and latrines -- which were breeding grounds for epidemics.

In short, as an officer of the Chen family, there are a lot of trivial things that need to be dealt with. And Shangguan stared closely, every three or five is a routine spot check, whoever does not do a good job will be beaten and locked up in a small black house, and at worst will be demoted. It was really ruthless in military law, and even several of Chen Dexing's brothers stepped on thunder and were mercilessly punished in public -- of course, after the punishment, Chen Dexing had a good fake condolences and appeasement in private.

"Qingzhi, the old man heard from Mu Ban about all kinds of your Chen family's army, and he originally didn't believe that there was such an army in the world, but now it is really an eye-opener. No wonder the Great Khan of the Tartars folded in your hands......"

When Lu Wende said this, he glanced at Chen Dexing meaningfully. Although Chen Dexing gave up the great credit of killing Meng Ge, who is Lu Wende? He doesn't know what the armies in the middle of the river look like? If you defend the castle in the mountains, it is still possible to kill a Mongolian general who has gone out on an adventure. But if he took the initiative to attack and killed the Mongol Great Khan, he would not believe it if he killed Lu Wende.

Chen Dexing sighed, but said quietly: "Shi Weng, the methods for the younger generations to train the soldiers have all been written into the "Drill Code" and "Regulations", and Lu Muban also has a copy there. If Lu Jiajun wants to implement it, there is no difficulty. ”

Lu Wende waved his hand and said with a wry smile: "Your "Drill Code", "Regulations" and the textbooks of the military academy with the camp, the old man has read them. It's just that it's easier said than done, and the old man knows the truth, but it's impossible to implement it in the Lu family's army...... This is the general trend, and non-human beings can stop it. Now that Möngke Khan is dead, the northern captives will always be in chaos for a while, and their Great Khan is not the death of the father and the succession of the son, but the election of the Kuritai Assembly. Genghis Khan's descendants can be done by everyone, maybe it will be an infighting. We have always had a peaceful day of ten or twenty years in the Great Song Dynasty. If luck is better, the two sides can make peace, and in a few decades, Mongolia will most likely be the same as the Jurchens.

This is really God bless the Great Song! As soon as this external trouble is gone, it seems that from the point of view of a certain family, my Great Song Dynasty still acts according to the family law of my ancestors after all. Qingzhi, what your future is, the old man already knows...... Actually, it's also good, so why bother? If the imperial history of the court is impeached, this good thing may be beaten with chickens and eggs! ”

Lu Wende said these words kindly, just like an old elder admonishing a younger generation who likes to cause trouble. However, Chen Dexing knew that things were far from being as good as Lu Wende imagined! went to a Meng Ge, but replaced with Kublai Khan, who was even more difficult to deal with!

He just smiled reluctantly and diverted the topic: "Shi Weng, the junior has already prepared a banquet for you to wash the dust in the capital office." ”

"No need, let's eat here." Lu Wende smiled and pointed to the soldiers in front of him who were eating with their heads down, "When I saw them, the old man remembered what happened back then...... I think back then, when the old man and a group of Anfeng brothers joined the army, it was also like this, everyone ate in the same pot, shared blessings and difficulties. How can we be rich and comfortable today? ”

In the past, when he shared the blessings and woes with the brothers below, the Lu family army was also a strong force under Zhao Kui. Now it's a decaying team......

"Then it's a slow man." Chen Dexing didn't pretend to be polite anymore, as soon as he raised his hand to make a solemn gesture, he invited Lu Wende to the side, far away from the place where the soldiers were eating, of course, he couldn't let the old man sit on the ground. Chen Dexing's own personal guards brought tables, chairs and benches, and also used a wooden basin like a basin to hold rice, dishes, soup, and water.

"It tastes good!" Lu Wende took a piece of braised pork and chewed it in his mouth, and praised it with a smile.

Chen Dexing, as well as the accompanying Monk Liu, Taoist Ren, as well as Lu Shihu on Lu Wende's side, and several other Lu family nephews all sat down separately, took bowls and chopsticks, filled rice, and ate with Lu Wende. Just took a few bites of food, but Lu Wende had already put down the dishes and chopsticks. looked at Chen Dexing with a smile.

"Qing Zhixian's nephew, you should know the ancestral family law of the Great Song Dynasty, right? We, the military ministers, are not as useful as the civilian officials after all. Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, all those who have become famous have either gone to the path of relatives and nobles, or taught their children and grandchildren to read, so that they can become civil officials in the future with the articles of the imperial examination. Didn't the descendants of Yue Wumu and Han Zhongwu in the past become civil officials? ”

Yue Fei's son Yue Lin entered the office after Yue Fei's rehabilitation, and was awarded the civil official Chengshi Lang of the Eight Grades. His sons Yue Cong and Yue Chen were both Yin Bu Shi, and at first they were the same as Chen Dexing as a letter of martial arts, but later Yue Cong transferred to literature, and Yue Chen died early. The other third son, Yue Ke, was born as a jinshi, and the official is the third grade. The Yue family has nothing to do with Jiangmen since then.

Han Shizhong's three sons are all civil officials, of which the eldest son Han Yanzhi was also admitted to the Jinshi in the eighteenth year of Shaoxing. The Han family has also evolved into a civil official family of poetry heirlooms.

As for the examples of marrying the Heavenly Family after the Gate and turning into a nobleman, there are countless in the Great Song Dynasty. Although the national policy of the Great Song Dynasty is to be noble and light on martial arts, there are countless examples of princesses still being martial artists and women entering the palace. Of the five emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty alone, four of them have appointed the daughters of military ministers as queens.

In fact, the Great Song Dynasty officials did not blindly suppress Wufu, but fought and pulled at the same time. For high-level martial artists, there are two golden parachutes for transferring civil resources and transferring relatives to nobles, and for low-level soldiers, they are bought with generous rewards, so that they don't follow the military leaders above to make trouble.

It's just that now, the imperial court can't afford to buy the low-level soldiers, and the mid-to-high-level martial arts power is expanding too fast. It has reached the point where it poses a threat to the civilian clique. (To be continued......)