There is a saying that "where there are people, there are rivers and lakes".

In fact, it's still euphemistic, and to put it bluntly, where there are people, there are mountains.

Some well-known large enterprises, before you go in, you often think that it is a high mountain, but after entering, you find that it is a mountain of mountains.

The Great Song Army was one such organization.

From the outside, you will feel like it is a terrifying war machine that will make the surrounding small countries tremble once it is activated.

But when you go in, you find that everyone is running on several roads.

For example, the forbidden army, there are four teams: Long Jie, Hu Jie, Dianqian and Iron Cavalry, as well as the border army, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the assassin history of the border state, and there are also some teams of Jiedu envoys, and everyone is wary of each other.

It is not enough for armies to fight each other, but within the same army, there are also mountains and factional struggles.

For example, the team of the direct guard in front of the palace, the first compartment is Zhao Kuangyin's cronies, and the second and third compartments are more inclined to Chai Huangye, so after the change of dynasty, the second and third compartments will be transferred.

Commanders were "promoted" to border states, and soldiers were added to units such as Hujie or Longjie.

Later, the third compartment became empty, and only one commander of five hundred people remained.

Zhao Kuangyin thought about it, so he gave this third compartment to Xu Yongzhi, and the number is still this number, but the troops have become different troops.

Xu Yongzhi's troops were hastily pulled up in a few months, and it is not an exaggeration to say that this is a patchwork army:

The most effective and best-equipped is the 500 mounted cavalry given by Murong Yanzhao, mainly from Hebei.

The 1,000 brothers of the Hebei Bow and Arrow Society, these people are all children of peasant families, but they are well trained, have the best discipline, and are the most loyal to Xu Yongzhi.

Li Shoujie brought the surrender of troops and the 1,000 soldiers recruited by Zezhou, most of them were from Shanxi, these people used to be box soldiers, and after Li Shoujie surrendered to the Song Dynasty, the salary and treatment rose a lot.

There is also the remaining commander of 500 people in the third compartment, most of whom are Bian, Song, and Luo.

Now there are 500 sailors of the Qingjiang Gang, who are basically from Sichuan and Chongqing.

There are two ways to organize and train the army, one is to break up people from different origins and reunite them into an army, which is the case with most of today's modern armies; One is to organize the team according to their origins, like Zeng Guofan's Hunan army and the Japanese devils before World War II, they are all grouped together by fellow villagers and take care of each other.

The advantage of the first is that it is not easy to rebel, and the advantage of the latter is that it is not easy to abandon each other.

The Great Song Forbidden Army belongs to the latter type, the veterans of the third chamber, most of whom are the children of some old generals.

Here we have to explain the "second generation of the army" from the fifth generation to the beginning of the Song Dynasty.

The five dynasties lasted for a total of several decades, all of which were short-lived dynasties, and among the successions of these dynasties, many professional soldiers served several dynasties one after another, and some were forbidden from the Later Tang Dynasty to the Later Zhou Dynasty.

The sons, nephews, and younger brothers of these forbidden army generals will almost without exception become a new generation of forbidden army officers, and their fathers and brothers will make meritorious contributions, and the emperor will take care of them and give them a low-level officer position.

It is said that children who grow up in this kind of compound should be familiar with their ears and eyes and have good martial arts.

It is a pity that the forbidden army of the five generations has never given the children of these heroes proper training and examinations.

It is also because of the chaos of the war, so the recruitment of the children of meritorious heroes is generally handed over to the front of the palace, first, to follow the emperor, these young people are safer; Second, when the emperor looked at these young people, he was more at ease with their father and brother.

As for the combat effectiveness of the front division of the palace, cough, don't mention it.

Because in its early years, the main assessment criterion was to look at the legs.

The emperor chooses the direct guard in front of the palace, and gives priority to picking long legs.

Long legs, big and tall, they were selected to enter the front of the palace, which is the façade of the Great Song Dynasty.

Don't laugh, it really works.

In the early years, a high-ranking official was prosecuted for taking bribes, and the suspect was more than 1.8 meters tall, and the court specially assigned two bailiffs, both of whom were about 1.9 meters, and could not let evil overwhelm justice.

It was the same in the five dynasties, when the festival envoys of each town came to see the emperor, and when they saw that the emperor's soldiers were more than seven feet, they were a head shorter in their momentum.

Before Li Shoujie's father Li Yun rebelled in Shanxi, he met the Northern Han Emperor Liu Jun for the first time and was contemptuous of him.

It was because when Li Yun visited Chai Rong, he was used to seeing the long-legged warriors in front of the palace.

He found out that Liu Jun was a short man, and he used a short man with guards, so he began to look down on the Northern Han.

Therefore, the five hundred forbidden troops in the third compartment are taller than the other, but their problems will follow.

has been guarding the palace for a long time, and his physical fitness and combat effectiveness are relatively poor;

The family is basically in the city of Tokyo, the living conditions are relatively good, and the fear of field battles;

There are still some ways to go at home, and they are more impulsive to speak, and they are not too afraid of the chief.

The day after Xu Yongzhi and Zhao Guangyi reconciled, there was a disturbance in the camp.

Shanxi soldiers and Henan soldiers broke out in group fighting.

Xu Yongzhi participated in the military meeting in the palace, and Xu Taishi led the Qingjiang soldiers to collect transport ships today.

Only Li Shoujie was on duty in the battalion.

When Xu Yongzhi and Xu Taishi were in the camp, the young master soldiers were obedient.

Xu Yongzhi is their boss, the first gun in the forbidden army, and who he wants military justice to deal with, unequivocally, Xu Yongzhi is here, and no one dares to make trouble.

Mrs. Xu is real, and the young master soldiers are also holding their tails.

As soon as Xu Taishi came to the Jin Dynasty, he was an officer, although he had been in business for many years, but he had the majesty of a chief; Second, Xu Taishi has been in Hebei for a long time, and the archers were all brought by him, and the young master soldiers were afraid that there would be many soldiers in Hebei; Third, everyone knows that Xu Taishi is the stepfather of Mrs. Xu Yongzhi, so they are much more polite.

But Li Shoujie is on duty, and the young master soldiers have to do something.

Although Li Shoujie is Xu Yongzhi's deputy general, his father is a self-immolating traitor, and this group of arrogant soldiers looks down on him; Second, the Shanxi soldiers brought by Li Shoujie, the merchants and shops that the young masters and soldiers often go to and the bosses who borrow money are all Shanxi people, and they are prejudiced against Shanxi people; The third is Li Shoujie's own characteristics, he is very strict in governing the army, but he speaks softly and shyly, in the army, this kind of person is born to be bullied and underestimated.

When Li Shoujie was patrolling the camp, he heard someone in the crowd shouting in a small voice, "Li Lao Xi'er!" ”

This can be big or small, sometimes it is cordial, such as the later famous prime minister Kou Zhun, who is "Kou Laoxi", but he is called the deputy general "Lao Xier", but there is no such rule in the barracks.

Li Shoujie raised his eyebrows, and the guards around him went to find someone, but the crowd was crowded, and he couldn't tell who was shouting.

"Who shouted?" The guard shouted with his sword drawn.

"I don't know, I don't know." Although the young master soldiers were polite in their mouths, their eyes were full of all kinds of schadenfreude.

"Look at how you Li Shoujie got off this stage."

"Let's go," Li Shoujie still has a lot of things to do, and he doesn't want to delay.

At this time, the voice that was not big or small appeared again.

"Master Rabbit."

When this sound came out, the young master soldiers couldn't hold back anymore and burst into laughter.

Rabbits are animals that are difficult to distinguish between male and female.

The last sentence of "Mulan Poem" has "Double rabbits walk on the ground, An can tell that I am male and female", the rabbit and the rabbit are all scolding words, which means that this person is neither male nor female.

Li Shoujie's face turned red, and his hand pressed tightly on the sword.

"It's a good man, just stand up." Li Shoujie's voice trembled.

No one should be.

Li Shoujie had several pro-soldiers, who he brought from the party, all of whom were born strong and burly, and the leader was Shi Chang, named Li Jiacun.

Li Jiacun saw that his son-in-law was humiliated, so he grabbed a young master soldier who seemed to be smiling the most happily.

"What's your name?"

"My name is Le Kaihuan."

"What are you happy about?"

"I'm not happy."

"You laughed."

"I was born to smile." Le said with a smile.

The commander of this soldier hurriedly came over to persuade:

"What's the chief, this guy is indeed born with a smile."

"I didn't ask you, what should I say!" Li Jiacun pushed Wu Chang away.

This is not right, both of them are sergeants, and his captain defends him, if you don't believe it, you can leave it to the commander to decide.

With this push, it's a big trouble.

Several soldiers are gone.

"Rebels, do you still want to beat people?"

"What about beating you? I am also the head of the Great Song Dynasty, who are you calling a rebel! Li Jiacun looked angry.

"What are you waiting for, let's beat up these thieves together!"

It turned into a group fight.

Shanxi people can fight, and there are many people in Henan, so this group of fights will start.

If the soldiers were fighting, Li Shoujie roared, and they would stop.

But this time, he was one of the parties in the conflict, and several young master soldiers surrounded him in the middle.

It was also a coincidence that Duan Meimei took Ah Crisp and Duan Zishou to the barracks to find Xu Yongzhi, and as soon as she came in, she saw a group of people fighting.

"Is this a drill?" Duan Meimei said.

"The lieutenant general will personally end the exercise?" Ah Crisp watched Li Shoujie being held down by a group of people, and was very curious.

"This is a real fight," Duan Zishou looked at his itchy hands, "wait for me to let them stop." ”

"Don't, your stick is too heavy, and it will hurt people."

Duan Meimei came to Xu Yongzhi this time, which means two things:

You bring Duan Zishou with you, and he can help you;

It's better to bring me with me, I'm pretty good at playing now.

So she specially wore dragon armor in her long clothes.

This comes in handy.

She rushed into the crowd, pushed and shoved, everyone fell to the ground one after another, grabbed the person's clothes, and threw them to the ground, in the blink of an eye, more than 30 people fell to the ground, and there were only two people, Le Kaihuai and Li Jiacun, who looked at him blankly.

Li Shoujie hurriedly saluted: "Thank you, Madame, for your help." ”

"Thank you, lock up all the people present first, and wait for all the commanders to come back and send them down!"

About half an hour later, Xu Yongzhi rode back to the barracks and saw a bruise on Li Shoujie's eyes.

Li Shoujie talked about the conflict.

"Boil a hot egg, peel the shell and put it on your eyes." Xu Yongzhi said.

saw Duan Meimei here: "Lady, why are you here." ”

"I want you to take Ah Shou and I to the front line in Yangzhou, we can help," Duan Meimei said, "I didn't expect to help all of a sudden." ”

"But you locked up more than 300 people at once, and I can only punish those who do it!" Xu Yongzhi said.

"It's right to lock them up, and people who are not right will definitely not be able to escape." Duan Meimei said.

Xu Yongzhi immediately understood that Duan Meimei's approach was right.

"Bring all the people in confinement!"

"Who's going to do it first?" Xu Yongzhi said.

"Li Jiacun!" Happy shouted.

"I just gave it a push. Someone of them first insulted Vice Envoy Li. Li Jiacun looked ashamed, he didn't expect to make such a big fuss.

"The one who scolds stands up, come out now, I don't embarrass you." Xu Yongzhi said.

There was a dead silence.

It's similar to the trouble Li Shoujie faced just now.

"Blow out the lights and horns." Xu Yongzhi commanded.

"My lord, it's not dark yet, do you really want to blow it?" Li Shoujie confirmed.

"Blow."

The trumpeters blew the lights-out horn in advance.

"You guys, all go back to the house and let me sleep!"

The three hundred men returned to their barracks as if they had been pardoned.

There was only one person, his eyes purring, and he was about to walk with a few people, and he looked at the whereabouts of others.

"Forgot where you live, did you?" Xu Yongzhi asked.

The man looked up and saw Xu Yongzhi staring at him, and he was taken aback.

To run, Duan Zishou was already holding a stick behind him.

This person was also dead, and he actually pulled out a dagger and went straight to Xu Yongzhi.

Li Shoujie waited for Xu Yongzhi to make a move, stepped forward, pushed his palms on the man's shoulders, pushed the man on his heels, and the dagger fell to the ground.

Li Shoujie stepped forward and stepped on it, and Duan Zishou came up and tied this person tightly.

"This looks like a spy, and he wants to kill me head-on." Xu Yongzhi said.

"Blow the assembly trumpet!"

The five hundred young master soldiers all came out of the camp.

"Which of you knows this man?" Xu Yongzhi asked.

"I don't know." "I don't know."

"Wearing our uniforms, infiltrating our barracks, and dividing our brothers, this is a spy of the Huainan rebels!" Xu Yongzhi said.

"Really!" The young master soldiers exchanged heads.

"Who is causing the discord? It is caused by hostile forces, this person instigated you to be hostile to your own commander, you are actually confused, you see a raw face, and no one finds anything abnormal, if you are on duty at the palace gate, this person may want to do something bad, you will succeed! ”

At this time, the five hundred young master soldiers all lowered their heads.

"Everyone is punished for running five laps, and those with injuries will run when the injury is healed, and then go!" Xu Yong ordered.

"Li Jiacun!"

"In!"

"It's so confused that you can't even distinguish the enemy's voice, so I'll be demoted to a captain, you and the other soldiers will go five laps with them!"

"Yes!"

At the same time that a group of people began to carry out sports, Xu Yongzhi called Li Shoujie:

"Bring that fine work here, that person can ventriloquist, this is the way to play, if he joins the enemy halfway, then he is likely to ask for something."

"Yes!"

"Lady," Xu Yongzhi looked at Duan Meimei, "Well done." ”

"Could it be someone from the Southern Tang Dynasty?" The first thing Duan Meimei thought of was Li Forsythia, if you want to talk about sneaking, undercover, and sabotage, no one is better than the eldest princess.

"I don't know, but because the current enemy is Huainan, let's say that he is from Huainan first."

It was getting dark, but Xu Yongzhi's house was brightly lit, and several soldiers threw the fine work on the ground.

"Let's all get out." Xu Yongzhi instructed the soldiers.

Xu Yongzhi, Li Shoujie, Duan Meimei, Duan Zishou and Ah Crisp were left in the room, staring at this fine work.

"Who sent you? Speak up and spare your life. Xu Yongzhi said.

This is a man with extremely mediocre facial features and no features, and you see him, trying to remember the face, but the next time you see it, you still can't remember it.

"Hey, hey, hey, do you really want to know? Xu Jin? Are you sure? ”

The sound was as harsh as metal grinding.

"Is it really good that you need to know so much?"

Xu Yongzhi suddenly remembered that face, and the legend about the "Faceling" that he had heard when he was a child.