Chapter 385: It's been planned for a long time
With Li Yuntian's intervention, the military pavilion soon issued an order to transfer Li Maoxian and the three of them from the subordinate guard office of the Jiaozhi Capital Division to the lecture hall.
After getting the order, the three of them went through the entry procedures in the lecture hall, took off the military uniform of the guard station on their bodies and changed into the black military uniform of the lecture hall.
Because the three of them were promoted to 100 households by Emperor Xuande, they were all awarded the rank of major.
Among them, Li Mao was the instructor of the lecture martial arts hall, and the other two were the deputy instructors of the lecture martial arts hall, who specially explained the battle situation and battle situation of Jiaozhi to the students of the lecture martial arts hall.
The instructors and students of the lecture hall were all in the camp on the outskirts of Beijing to reorganize the Xiaowu army, so after completing the formalities, Li Maoxian and the three of them left the dormitory of the lecture hall and were taken to the camp on the outskirts of Beijing by the people of the Xiaowu army.
The camp on the outskirts of Beijing is a military stronghold, outsiders are forbidden to enter, and the gate post at the gate of the camp has strict inspection procedures, and if you want to enter the camp, you must pass the inspection of the gate post and be heavily guarded.
As soon as Li Maoxian and the three of them arrived at the camp gate on the outskirts of Beijing, they felt that this place was different, although some of them were carried, but they were still checked by the sergeant at the gate, and if they were left in the local guardhouse, they would have entered it a long time ago.
The documents of the three were simple, a small rectangular wooden plaque engraved with their names, places of origin, birthdays and positions.
This small wooden card is the military card of the sergeant of the Xiaowu Army, which is their identification, usually placed in the barracks, once you go out, you must bring it, otherwise you will be unlucky if you encounter the military law team and the people will not be able to check the military card.
There is a small hole at the top of the card, and when the army marches into battle, it is tied with a rope and hung around the neck, so that when the body is collected after the battle, it will not become a nameless ghost.
The scene in the camp made Li Maoxian and the three of them taken aback, the colonels on both sides of the road were in full swing on the military training, the soldiers of the Xiaowu Army practiced the queue of trains, the training of equipment, the morale was high, and the scene was full of vitality.
Li Maoxian entered the guard at the age of fifteen, and now he has been in the army for nearly 20 years, and it is the first time he has seen this strange scene of training, which can be described as an eye-opener.
The camp on the outskirts of Beijing has arranged the dormitory of Li Maoxian's three people, because they are school officials, so everyone is assigned a single room, although the single room is not large, but it undoubtedly gives people a sense of belonging to home, and this is also a symbol of their identity and status in the Xiaowu Army.
This time when they came to the capital to report the news, Li Maoxian and the three of them simply brought some salutes, so before arriving at the camp on the outskirts of Beijing, they had a headache about how to solve pillows, bedding and other supplies, because these things were brought by themselves when they were in the guardhouse.
However, to the surprise of the trio, the single room was already equipped with pillows, bedding, tables and chairs.
A major military attache in charge of the reception told them that all these things belonged to them, and they were daily necessities distributed to them by the Xiaowu army.
This really made the three of them overjoyed, and after checking the number of items, they happily pressed their handprints on the receipt form, and they never imagined that Xiao Wujun would send them something before.
For Li Maoxian and the others, receiving the personal necessities distributed was only the beginning of the surprise.
After they tidied up the dormitory, it was lunch time, originally the three of them thought that lunch was just some bread and vegetables or something, when they were in the Jiaozhi Guardhouse, they had a clear soup and little water at every meal, and they could just fill their stomachs, who knew that when they arrived at the cafeteria, they were dumbfounded.
The three of them were instructors and did not belong to any unit of the Xiaowu Army, so they ate in the canteen of the division headquarters.
According to the food standards set by the Xiaowu Army, officers at the school level should eat two vegetables and two meat per meal until they are full, but they must not waste food, otherwise they will be locked up.
Where did Li Maoxian and the three of them encounter such a good thing, so they let go of their belly, and after eating at the cafeteria window, they gobbled up the rice bowl, and finally hiccuped, almost unable to walk.
Later, Li Maoxian knew why the Xiaowu army had such a good food treatment, after quelling the rebellion of the Han King, Emperor Xuande rewarded Li Yuntian with a sum of money and materials as a reward, Li Yuntian took this money as the military expenses of the Xiaowu army, enough to maintain the expenses of the Xiaowu army for five or six years.
As for what will happen in five or six years, Li Maoxian is not clear, but presumably Li Yuntian has already thought of a solution, otherwise he would not have pulled such a big mess.
Li Mao was right, the profits of the government-run enterprises to which the Wutang belonged gradually became the source of military spending for the Xiaowu army, and Li Yuntian's move not only reduced the burden on the state treasury, but also promoted the development of commerce and trade in the Ming Dynasty in the name of the government.
For Li Maoxian and the three of them, the Qiē in the camp on the outskirts of Wutang was novel and unheard of, which not only deeply shocked the three of them, but also firmly attracted them, making them quickly like it.
To Li Maoxian's surprise, the three of them were not the only ones from Jiaozhi in the camp on the outskirts of Beijing, and after they settled down, more than a dozen instructors from Jiaozhi came to visit them and asked them about the battle in Jiaozhi with concern.
As early as the rebellion in Jiaozhi last year, Li Yuntian had already transferred some people from Jiaozhi to explain to the students of the martial arts hall the customs and customs, climate and landform, and the combat characteristics of the rebels.
These instructors from Cochin were basically experienced military officers, and there were few military attachés, so they were awarded the rank of captain and lieutenant.
Although Li Maoxian and the three entered the lecture hall late, because of the promotion of Emperor Xuande, they surpassed those who came first in military rank.
When they learned that the rebels were now killing in all directions and were unstoppable, the instructors who came before couldn't help but be secretly anxious in their hearts, and they couldn't help but be anxious to go back to Jiaozhi as soon as possible to quell the rebellion.
But this kind of thing is not urgent at all, these instructors know very well that with the current situation in Jiaozhi, even if they return to Jiaozhi to fight desperately with the rebels, it will not have any impact on the battle situation, because Liu Sheng, the new chief military officer of Jiaozhi, like Wang Tong, not only underestimated the enemy, but also did not understand the current situation in Jiaozhi.
Now that the Jiaozhi rebels are full-fledged, the local people in Jiaozhi have also secretly responded to the rebels, and the Ming army in Jiaozhi can be said to have lost the hearts of the people, which is completely different from the situation when Zhang Fu put down the rebellion, which means that the counterinsurgency process will be more difficult.
In the eyes of these instructors, the current mess in Jiaozhi can only be hoped for if Li Yuntian leads the Xiaowu army to quell the rebellion.
There is no other reason, among the nobles who can serve as the chief military officer of Jiaozhi in the entire Ming Dynasty, only Li Yuntian attaches great importance to the Jiaozhi rebels, and invited those Jiaozhi instructors to teach in the martial arts hall early.
It is worth mentioning that, in addition to the instructors of Jiaozhi, there are more than 500 soldiers of Guangxi and Jiaozhi nationality in the White Tiger Regiment of the four major infantry regiments of the Xiaowu Army, and Li Yuntian specially sent people to recruit them from the military households under the jurisdiction of the Guangxi Metropolitan Division and the Jiaozhi Metropolitan Division.
At the same time that those Jiaozhi instructors came to the capital, Li Yuntian had already begun to secretly operate the recruitment of soldiers from Guangxi and Jiaozhi in the name of Jiangwutang, and these more than 500 soldiers from Guangxi and Jiaozhi had already arrived in the capital a few years ago, all of whom were strong and brave, and were assigned to the White Tiger Regiment by Li Yuntian.
The reason why Li Yuntian organized those soldiers from Guangxi and Jiaozhi into the White Tiger Regiment was because he had a long-term strategic plan for the Xiaowu Army.
In Li Yuntian's plan, the four major infantry regiments under the jurisdiction of the Xiaowu Army, namely the White Tiger Regiment, the Blue Dragon Regiment, the Vermilion Bird Regiment, and the Xuanwu Regiment, will have different operational directions and operational natures in the future.
Among them, the White Tiger Regiment will sit in the southwest in the future, focusing on jungle warfare and mountain warfare; The Qinglong Regiment sits in the northwest, mainly attacking plateau warfare and mountain warfare; The Suzaku Regiment sat in Gyeonggi, taking into account the northeast, and mainly attacked mountain warfare and plain warfare; The Xuanwu regiment sat in the southeast and mainly attacked the hilly and plain battles.
In this way, the responsibilities of the Xiaowu Army were clarified, and the characteristics of the four major infantry regiments were strengthened, so that each infantry regiment had a specialized combat direction.
This also means that if Li Yuntian can really go to Jiaozhi to quell the rebellion, then he will only go to Jiaozhi with the White Tiger Regiment of the Xiaowu Army.
However, the rest of the Xiaowu Army will not be idle, the Qinglong Regiment will go to Datong for training, the Vermilion Bird Regiment will go to Liaodong for training, and the Xuanwu Regiment will go to Zhedong for training.
Li Yuntian planned to set up branch halls in Datong, Liaodong, and eastern Zhejiang, and began to plan and lay out for the future, so as to facilitate the Xiaowu army to recruit soldiers nearby.
As for the cavalry regiment, Li Yuntian divided it into two and followed the Qinglong Regiment and the Vermilion Bird Regiment for training, of which the Qinglong Regiment and the Vermilion Bird Regiment each accounted for 2 battalions.
Since most of the cavalry regiment's military horses were Mongolian horses and were not suitable for fighting in the south, Li Yuntian did not plan to take the cavalry to Jiaozhi.
Different from the military system of the local guards, the Xiaowu Army has a special military structure system, taking the existing division of the Xiaowu Army as an example, the department responsible for managing the subordinate 4 infantry regiments and 1 cavalry regiment is the division headquarters.
According to Li Yuntian's setup, the division headquarters is composed of three major departments, namely, the General Staff Department, the Logistics Department, and the Supervision Department.
The General Staff is in charge of military intelligence spying and operational deployment; The logistics department is in charge of grain and grass; The Supervision Department is in charge of the anti-rebellion and military discipline, and the chief officer of these three departments is a division-level military attache who assists Li Yuntian in commanding the troops.
Not only division-level troops, but also regiment-level units have set up three departments, namely, the General Staff Department, the Logistics Department, and the Supervision Department, which correspond to the three departments of division-level troops, so that it is not only convenient for the division of labor and cooperation, but also strengthens the management of the higher levels.
In order to facilitate Li Maoxian's actions in the Xiaowu Army, the three of them served as the operational staff officers of the division's staff department as instructors in the Wutang Lecture Hall, and thus they also had positions in the Xiaowu Army like other instructors.
For Li Maoxian and the others, their task in the Xiaowu Army is very simple, that is, to tell the combat characteristics and power distribution of the rebels, and the intricate relationship between the rebels and the Jiaozhi region.
In Li Yuntian's opinion, the fact that Li Maoxian and the three of them were able to break through the siege of the rebels in Changjiang City and come to the capital to report the news already showed that their excellent military qualities were worthy of the rank of major.
At this moment, no one would realize that Liu Sheng's southward Jiaozhi counterinsurgency would fail, in their opinion, Liu Sheng would pacify Jiaozhi in one fell swoop like Zhang Fu, and then return triumphantly, and no one expected that Li Yuntian had already begun to make careful preparations for the battle in Jiaozhi.!^!
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