In the early morning of the second day after the establishment of the Baoguo Army, under the personal leadership of Chen Yingliang, the newspaper **** launched the first military training, and at the request of Chen Yingliang, the four hundred and twenty-two newspaper soldiers who had just had a good breakfast were full of energy, and once again under the flagpole of the banner of serving the country with great loyalty, they sang a slightly modified song "Serving the Country with Loyalty", adjusting their bodies and spirits to the best state, and then began formal training.

As a traverser, Chen Yingliang's method of training the national army is of course the most familiar modern military and police training means, and the practical science is also very boring, first of all, he led the national army to run with weights, running around the small school field for 20 laps in one breath, and then 50 weight-bearing push-ups, 50 pull-ups on the horizontal bar, 50 sit-ups, 50 times running back and forth with weights, and then practicing standing posture, practicing queues and shouting slogans to practice positive steps.

What makes Chen Yingliang secretly happy is that most of these soldiers who report **** are from farmers, although the diet and nutrition are not balanced during the development period, but the physique is quite strong after perennial hard work, and they are all twenty-one or two years old, so although the training intensity assigned by Chen Yingliang is large, it is not a big problem for these soldiers to serve the country, even if they complete the whole set of training, it is not easy, but at least there is no fatigue and paralysis.

A small number of **** soldiers from well-off landlord families are the same, although they do not need to go down to the farmland to cultivate like the children of the peasants, but the poor are rich and martial, and the Sui and Tang dynasties are the era of martial arts.

Of course, there are exceptions, and this exception is none other than Chen Yingliang himself! The dead ghost Chen Yingliang's family fortune plummeted after the age of ten, and his nutritional supplements during the development period were worse than the poorest **** soldiers, and he was only seventeen years old, but he could not accept such high-intensity physical training, forcing Chen Yingliang to give up his plan to train with the soldiers, pretending to command the training to stop and take the opportunity to be lazy, but fortunately, the generals of the right military guard did not personally participate in the training, so Chen Yingliang, who had properly participated in part of the training, did not provoke the disgust of the soldiers under his command.

It was noon after the end of the morning's training, and to the delight of the exhausted **** soldiers, the forbidden army men sent by Fan Zigai actually served them a hot and fragrant lunch - you know, before the Song Dynasty, the common people only ate two meals a day, morning and evening, and only a few wealthy families were eligible to enjoy three meals a day. Under the great joy, the **** soldiers were inevitably smiling and full of praise, and Chen Yingliang took the opportunity to warn the soldiers: "It's nice to have lunch, right?" This is the grace I finally asked for from Fan Liushou, if you can practice, you will definitely have lunch in the future, if you can't practice, such a good life, you can only live for half a month. ”

"Chen Ji room, please rest assured, we will definitely train hard and will not let you down." The **** soldiers expressed their positions one after another, and then Chen Zhihong asked eagerly: "Chen Ji Room, we should practice martial arts in the afternoon, right?" Are you going to teach us marksmanship, or sword? ”

"I'm not going to teach you martial arts." Chen Yingliang said loudly: "Although I will have a set of battlefield knife techniques left by my ancestors, and I will also have some fist and foot fighting techniques for actual combat, I will not teach you, at least not now, so in the afternoon we still mainly practice queues, forward steps and weight-bearing running, and martial arts training is only an auxiliary, practicing the sword and marksmanship in the army that you learned before." ”

"Why?" Many soldiers of the National Service Army were all in the same line, and they asked one after another: "Chen Ji, if you don't teach us martial arts, how can we go into battle to kill the enemy, kill thieves and quell the rebellion?" ”

"Two reasons." Chen Yingliang raised two fingers and said loudly: "First, there is not enough time, Fan Liushou and General Huangfu only gave me half a month, and in half a month, it is impossible for you to master the new sword techniques and fighting techniques, rather than letting you learn new martial arts from scratch, it is better for you to continue to practice the old martial arts." ”

"The second reason is enough." Chen Yingliang smiled and added: "Don't forget, our opponents are just a group of civilian boatmen forcibly coerced by Yang Rebellion, and there are some old soldiers of the right military guard who are as timid as rats and surrender to the rebels, and it is enough to use your old martial arts to deal with them." ”

Hearing Chen Yingliang's words, the **** soldiers were all suspicious, and the tall Guo Feng couldn't help asking: "Chen Ji Room, then what are we practicing?" Practicing like this, it seems to be similar to what we usually practice in the right guard? ”

"Practice your organizational discipline, practice your orders and prohibitions, point to that and fight that, and enter and fight together!" Chen Yingliang replied loudly: "Brothers, you must always remember that a chopstick will break when it is wrenched, but no one can keep wrenching a chopstick!" ”

"Our right military guard has suffered several previous defeats to the rebels, in addition to the low morale and insufficient fighting spirit, another more important reason is that there is no organizational discipline, can not work together, everyone is looking forward to fleeing for their lives, everyone is looking forward to their companions to kill thieves, and no one is willing to risk killing thieves, such an unorganized and undisciplined army, no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers is, it is in vain! So I want to train the 423 people of the national army, including me, into a whole, and train the 423 people into one person, and fight together, advance with advance, retreat with retreat, and advance and retreat with organization and discipline, as long as we can do this, then don't say that the Yang reverse rabble outside the city has encountered elite veterans, Turkic iron cavalry, and we are also victorious in a hundred battles! ”

Glancing around at the thoughtful **** soldiers, Chen Yingliang said loudly: "I almost forgot to tell you, this afternoon we ran twenty laps with weight, and the next ten laps, we have to carry our companions to take turns to run five laps, so in addition to physical training, and then there is to prepare for our future, in the future on the battlefield, our team will inevitably have deaths and injuries, but we must not abandon a companion, whether it is injured or sacrificed for the country, we must all carry it back!" ”

"The companion you carry today is the companion who will carry you back to rescue you after you are wounded on the battlefield in the future! Today, you carry your running companion on your back, and in the future, you will be the companion who will carry your body back and let you be buried in peace, and it is also a companion who will send your last words to your home and hand them over to your parents and relatives! Got it?! ”

"Understood!" The **** soldier replied unusually neatly.

"It's good to understand, get the meal now!" Chen Yingliang ordered loudly again: "Take turns to receive the meal, I will be the last to receive the meal, I can't eat first after receiving the meal, you must wait for me to eat together, I lift the chopsticks to eat, you are allowed to eat, I put down the chopsticks after eating, whether you finish eating or not, you must immediately put down the chopsticks and stop eating!" This is also to exercise your organizational discipline, understand?! ”

"Understood!" The **** soldiers, who were accustomed to Chen Yingliang's request, answered neatly again.

"Good." Chen Yingliang waved his hand and shouted: "Start receiving food!" ”

The afternoon training began again after singing a song "Loyal to the Country", and ended in the evening in the neatly sung military songs, it was night, Chen Yingliang led Guo Feng and Chen Zhihong, two lieutenants, to personally patrol the camp, personally folded the quilt for the sleeping **** soldiers, personally massaged and kneaded the ordinary soldiers with muscle injuries in training, soaked their feet with water, chatted with the soldiers who had not yet slept, quickly remembered the faces and names of many soldiers, and cordially commensurate with their names. The **** soldier who has not seen the performance of other actors in the past year was moved to tears, and he was grateful to Chen Yingliang to the bones, and he was willing to work hard for Chen Yingliang from the bottom of his heart, but he didn't know that he had become a stepping stone for Chen Yingliang to climb up desperately, and I had never heard of a bad species named Wu Qi, who once took drug sores for a pair of father and son soldiers, and the father and son soldiers fought to the death to the end, and both died on the battlefield, which became a stepping stone for this bad seed who slaughtered his wife in order to be a general.

At the same time, in order to turn themselves into a temporary captain and become a real captain, Guo Feng and Chen Zhihong also sold enough strength to follow Chen Yingliang to comfort the soldiers, and followed Chen Yingliang to learn the truth that soldiers love soldiers like sons and soldiers can die for themselves, and together they became Chen Yingliang's right-hand men who bought the hearts of the army, and then influenced the four brigade commanders of the Baoguo Army who were decided by the Tongguò wrenching their wrists, so that they could follow Chen Yingliang to inspect every barracks and comfort every soldier without an order, so that the formation of the Baoguo Army was only one day and one night. The whole team has made a qualitative change in morale, fighting spirit and cohesion, and it has also imperceptibly made the vast majority of the **** soldiers make up their minds, that is, they will never let the newspaper **** only save half a month.

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Time passed slowly day by day, when the cohesion of the national army was improving little by little, the situation of the rebels outside the city was gradually changing, and after easily taking the Luoyang Acropolis Jin Yong City, the rebel team not only captured and incorporated a large number of Sui soldiers, seized weapons and armor, and seized a large number of heavy weapons to build heavy siege weapons in the military town of Kim Yong City, and worked day and night to build large siege weapons, but also obtained an unexpected huge harvest.

This huge harvest is the great split of the ruling class of the Sui Dynasty, when the news of Yang Xuangan's rebellion was sent to the western capital of Daxing City, the Western Capital stayed behind on behalf of the king Yang Yu naturally actively dispatched troops to prepare to send troops to rescue Luoyang, and many of the sons and daughters of high-ranking officials and magnates in Daxing City were also like Chen Yingliang, smelling the hidden opportunity to get ahead, in order to be more beautiful, but also for more glory and wealth and beautiful wives and concubines, many sons of powerful families did not wait for Daxing to send troops, and immediately took a large number of soldiers Ding Dong out of Tongguan, Rushed to the eastern capital to join the army to serve, wanting to fish in troubled waters and take the opportunity to gain military exploits and official titles, for a time, on the official road leading to Luoyang in Daxing, there were rich children in fresh clothes and angry horses, and everywhere were the children of powerful people who were surrounded by the generals of the family soldiers.

By the way, Chai Shao, who almost became Chen Yingliang's brother-in-law, originally wanted to join the army in Luoyang, the eastern capital, and try his luck to see if he could go further, but unfortunately he is currently in an official position, and he does not dare to go out of the city without the permission of his boss, and at the same time, his background is also a little worse, and the children of the powerful who are traveling with him look down on him at all, Chai Shao tried to walk with Han Shige, the son of Han Capture Tiger of Shangzhu State, and was humiliated by Han Shige with words, and in a fit of anger, Chai Shao completely dispelled this idea, also pulled Li Shimin, his brother-in-law who also wanted to come to Luoyang to join the army.

The words are far away, back to the point, when these powerful children led countless soldiers to the Eastern Capital, they saw that the right Wuwei army sitting in the Eastern Capital was beaten by Yang Xuangan's rebels and shrunk into Luoyang City, and no soldier dared to go out of the city to fight with the rebels, and also saw that Yang Xuangan's rebels were invincible on the battlefield in the Eastern Capital, killing the right Wuwei team to lose their armor and collapse into an army, and at the same time saw that the civilians and Sui soldiers who defected to the Yang Xuangan rebels were like carp crossing the river, and the rebel army grew rapidly. These pampered and talented sons of powerful people can't help but make a small calculation, feeling that now to join the army in the Eastern Capital must be more than nine times out of ten is more auspicious, and if one is not done well, it will be more cost-effective to follow the old friend Yang Xuangan who is now breaking through to rebel and rebel, and it is far better to mix a founding father in the future than to be promoted to a first-level official and a first-class knighthood.

After giving birth to this idea, these powerful children sat down and discussed it for a while, and soon reached a consensus, and then Luoyang City did not enter, and went directly to Kim Yong City, where the main force of the rebels was currently stationed, to join Yang Xuangan, a friend of wine and meat, Yang Xuangan was overjoyed, and immediately accepted all these powerful children and entrusted them with important tasks. And what is unbelievable is that among the sons and daughters of these powerful people, there are not only the baby son Han Shige of the late Shangzhu State Han Baohu, but also Zheng Yan, the son of Zheng Shanguo, Dali Qing, Yu Rou, the son of Yu Shiji, the son of Yu Shiji, the high-ranking official of the Ministry of Officials, Pei Shuang, the son of Pei Yun, Taichang Shaoqing, and Zhou Zhong, the son of Zhou Luojiao, the former general of Youyiwei, and even Yang Gongdao, the son of Yang Xiong, the king of Guan who is a relative of the emperor, also jumped out to follow Yang Xuangan's rebellion against Emperor Yang of Sui.

What's even funnier is that among these powerful children, there is also a son of Laihu'er, Laiyuan, the Sui army crusaded against Goguryeo by land and water, Emperor Yang of Sui personally led the land army, and the surface army was all handed over to Laihu'er to command, and the trust and attention to Laihu'er can be seen, as a result, Laihu'er worked hard for Emperor Yang of Sui on the front line, but his baby son Laiyuan was in the rear to change the life of Emperor Yang of Sui, and I don't know what kind of feelings the poor general Laihu'er will have after learning the news.

Don't look at these powerful sons and daughters who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and they are incompetent, but their father's prominent identity is placed there, so after they joined the Yang Xuangan rebels, they still had a huge impact on the morale and fighting spirit of the warring parties on the battlefield in the Eastern Capital.

On the contrary, when these powerful children came to the eastern capital to show their identities and shouted slogans for Yang Xuangan to surrender the Luoyang defenders, the Luoyang defenders were in an uproar, and countless soldiers felt that the current court was definitely going to end, and even the sons of these famous families stood up to rebel, what hope does this court have now? With this, countless Luoyang defenders became more determined to have a thought, that is, once the rebel team broke through the city wall, they would immediately lay down their arms and surrender to the rebels! The pessimistic atmosphere in the team was pervasive, and the morale that had finally been boosted by the small victory of the spring gate was also suddenly depressed to the extreme.

The same is true for the high-ranking officials and magnates in Luoyang City, because the clan nephew Pei Shuang also joined the rebel team, Pei Hongce, who was sitting on the main battlefield of Shangchunmen, was so angry that he shed tears on the spot, and pointed at the unfilial nephew on the city wall and cried and cursed, but Pei Shuang, the scum of the Pei family, was shameless, and continued to loudly persuade the clan uncle to open the Shangchun Gate and surrender to Yang Xuangan. Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi and other hardcore lackeys of Emperor Yang of Sui were all pale, eager to strangle the powerful scum in the city one by one! Many Luoyang civil and military personnel have begun to quietly inquire about Yang Xuangan's birth date, and study whether Yang Xuangan feels the fate of the true dragon son of heaven.

Of course, it is not without good news for the defenders of the Eastern Capital, at least on the same night, a messenger from Daxing was lucky enough to avoid the interception and killing of the rebel scouts, and sent an important news into the Eastern Capital, the content of this news is that Yang Yu, the acting king of Daxing, has sent the Western Capital to stay behind to guard Xuan to lead a 40,000-foot cavalry army to the east for reinforcements, and he can arrive in Luoyang within ten days and join forces with the Luoyang defenders to quell the rebellion!

Hearing this news, Fan Zigai's old face, which had been gloomy for many days, finally showed some relieved smiles, but he was still a little uneasy, and asked the messenger: "How is Wei Wensheng's team ready?" The Eastern Capital sent troops to quell the rebellion before, but it suffered a loss of insufficient preparation, and this was the first consecutive defeat, Wei Wensheng must not repeat the mistakes of the Eastern Capital. ”

"Please stay behind Fan and rest assured, Wei Shangshu's army is very well prepared." The messenger bowed and replied: "His Royal Highness the Acting King immediately began to prepare for war after receiving the warning from the Eastern Capital, the Guanzhong army was fully alerted, and a lot of weapons and armor were issued in place, and the 40,000 counterinsurgency army were all strong soldiers, and His Royal Highness the Acting King had also ordered His Royal Highness Hongnong Taishou and King Cai Yang Zhiji to use the grain stocks of Changping and Hongnong Palace to provide supplies for Wei Shangshu's army and ensure that the reinforcements could quickly arrive in the Eastern Capital for reinforcements. ”

"And." The messenger added: "Wei Shangshu has also ordered Yang Su's grave to be dug up, and is ready to crush Yang Su's body and scatter ashes when the army arrives in Huayin, so as to boost morale and morale of the army." According to the estimation of time, this Wei Shangshu's army has already destroyed the body of Yang Shun's father, Yang Su. ”

"Good job, in the end, it is the former general of the Right Imperial Guard, Wei Xuan, that old thing, really has a set of rules in governing the army." Fan Zigai, who had a good relationship with Wei Xuan, praised it, and then suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked Lu Chu next to him: "Lu Silang, Chen Yingliang's boy, how is the situation?" Today, so many people rebelled to surrender under the city, what was the reaction of his two regiments? ”

"Yu ......, Yu Fan stays behind." Lu Chu said with difficulty: "Chen Yingliang announced in public that Daxing rebelled to surrender to the city, and ......, and also announced the names and identities of some rebels, telling his subordinates that the opportunity to make a name for himself has come, as long as he cuts or catches one of these rebels by the way, he can immediately become famous in the world and get a heavy reward." Then I asked which subordinates were bullied by the children of the powerful, and said...... The opportunity to say that he is angry, he usually can't clean up the rich son, the official son, he can't violate the law of the country, and now he is hacked to death...... These fools, that is also cut in vain, only merit and reward, no ......, no guilt. His subordinates cheered ......, and they all cheered loudly. ”

"This stinky boy is really good at pushing the boat." Fan Zigai scolded with a smile, and instructed Lu Chu: "Tomorrow, you go to see Chen Yingliang and tell him the news that Wei Wensheng's army will come to help within ten days, and then tell him, the time given to him by the old man happens to be only ten days left, and after ten days, he must lead this army to attack, act as the vanguard of the Eastern Capital army, and receive Wei Wensheng's army to help!" If he can't do it, then he only has two choices, one is for the old man to behead him for public display, and the other is to give the old man a death on the battlefield and apologize for his crime with blood! ”

At the same time as Fan Zigai said this, Chen Yingliang, who had never left the camp since the formation of the national army, rarely left the camp temporarily for the first time, and came to the Shangchun Gate Tower at the request of Pei Hongce's messenger, kowtowing to his newly recognized uncle Pei Hongce, and making a big gift for the younger generation.

What made Chen Yingliang a little confused was that Pei Hongce hurriedly called him to Shangchun Gate, but he didn't say anything important to him, except for symbolically asking about the training of the national army, and then casually introduced the situation of the rebels outside the city, saying that some powerful children had their heads in the water to join Yang Xuangan's rebels to rebel. At the end, Pei Hongce asked casually and seemingly unintentionally: "Virtuous nephew, you are also a child of the family, your relatives and friends in Daxing, is it possible that someone is also guilty of such confusion?" Don't put a good wealth and glory, but follow Yang to rebel and rebel? ”

"Uncle, with all due respect to my nephew, it's in vain for you to ask." Chen Yingliang smiled bitterly and replied truthfully: "If it is said that the common people who were bewitched by Yang Yi and accompanied the rebellion are called Huazi, and there are my relatives and friends among them, then it may be possible." But the children of these powerful families ......, alas, if they are not afraid of their uncle's laughter, if the little nephew has such relatives and friends, he will not drink porridge every day after his mother passes away and eat the vegetable leaves picked from the vegetable field. ”

Pei Hongce seemed to be secretly observing Chen Yingliang's expression, his eyes were still a little sharp and nervous, and he noticed Pei Hongce's gaze, Chen Yingliang, who was not afraid of crooked shadows, was a little weak-hearted, and almost thought that Pei Hongce had found evidence that he had used public funds to buy an Apple mobile phone. But fortunately, after Pei Hongce pondered for a while, he quickly nodded and said, "It's okay, you go back, if there is anything you can come to me directly, I won't send you." ”

Chen Yingliang, who really didn't have a ghost in his heart, said goodbye and left in a daze, Pei Hongce really didn't send Chen Yingliang's nephew, looking at the back of Chen Yingliang's departure, he said secretly: "Don't worry about him too much, Laiyuan, the son of Laihu'er, also defected to the Yang rebels, not to mention my distant nephew who came to Dongdu to join the army to participate in the counterinsurgency." In the future, the emperor will really pursue it, and there will be more court officials closer to him, such as the Mayi Juncheng named Li Jing. ”