The training camp was in the southwest corner of Ningyuan City, which was originally a cavalry camp in western Liaoning, and Cao Wenzhao took his cavalry to Beijing, and the camp was vacated.

A camp large enough for three thousand cavalry, extremely empty. In the middle is the large school field, and behind the school field are rows of barracks and stables.

They were taken to a row of barracks, and each was given a room.

"At least call my entourage to make a bed and fold the quilt?" Looking at the empty room, Zu Dashou said dissatisfied.

"I'm sorry, the training camp is the rule, you have to do everything by yourself during the training. You are all the deputy commanders of the army, so you have one barracks per person, and only a few people can enter the camp in the future. The Praetorian Guard officer who brought them with him said.

"This is the rules and regulations of the training battalion, and the generals should familiarize themselves with it first. Today is the first day, everyone is familiar with the situation, and everything will be done according to the rules in the future. I'll go down first, and someone will take the generals to dinner in a moment. With that, he put a booklet on the table, turned and left the room.

Zu Dashou flipped through the pamphlet randomly, starting with the time system, stipulating when to get up and when to eat and sleep, and then some military discipline and punishment for violating military discipline. Zu Dashou threw the pamphlet on the bed very irritably, walked out of his room and walked towards Zhang Cunren's room, and when he entered the room, he found that He Kegang was also here.

"This is a premeditated plan to annex our brothers!" Seeing that there was no one outside the door, Zu Dashou roared in a low voice at the two.

Zhang Cunren and He Kegang both nodded silently.

There was no sign in advance at all, summoning these high-ranking generals in the name of deliberations, placing them under house arrest in this military camp, and then taking the opportunity to reorganize their subordinates! This Lu Xiangsheng is really too insidious!

"When Inspector Sun was here, although he was a little harsh, it was slightly better than Lu Jing." He Kegang sighed.

When Sun Chuanting was there, although he cleaned up some military fields and reorganized a cavalry, he generally took care of the interests of the generals in Liaodong, and many people were also dissatisfied with Sun Chuanting at that time, and now compared with Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting has become a good man of Tianzi No. 1!

"It would be nice if Inspector Sun was still here, but it's a pity that there were traitors in the court and Inspector Sun was crowded." Zhang Cunren also said.

"I'm afraid of a ball, it's a big deal to do it with the surname Lu!" Zu Dashou said with a hideous face, "Let's find an opportunity to escape from this military camp, each of us flees back to the station, summons his brothers to mutiny, and forces the court to depose this surnamed Lu!" ”

Zhang Cunren and He Kegang both looked moved, revealing a look of yearning, and immediately, Zhang Cunren shook his head: "I'm afraid not." ”

"Not to mention whether we can escape, even if we can escape back to the station, can we really raise troops to rebel? Not to mention that our wives and children are all in Beijing, even if we don't care about our wives and children, can we fight the Praetorian Guards under Lu Xiangsheng? ”

He Kegang and Zu Dashou glanced at each other, and both shook their heads slowly.

Although the Praetorian Guard withdrew part of the Beijing Division, there were still more than 10,000 people in Liaoxi, and the most elite cavalry units in Liaoxi were brought to the Beijing Division by Cao Wenzhao, and the rest were infantry except for the generals' family teams.

And the combat effectiveness of the Praetorian Guard, everyone present has seen it, it can resist the main force of Jiannu, and it is far superior to the infantry of the Liaoxi Army.

Moreover, the three were not sure that they would be able to persuade all the armies in western Liaoning to mutiny together. After all, the mutiny is not trivial, and they have to directly face the powerful Praetorian Guard, other generals may not be willing, and in fact, it is almost impossible for others to escape from this camp and escape from Ningyuan City.

"Maybe Lu Jingluo really asked us to learn the Praetorian Guard system, and he didn't plan to do anything to us." He Kegang muttered, this is the rhythm of giving up resistance.

"I didn't say it directly, but that's how it was planned, otherwise why would you put us under house arrest here?" Zu Dashou snorted coldly.

"Let's talk about it when we get a chance." Zhang Cunren sighed.

At this moment, there were footsteps outside, but they came to inform them to go to dinner.

In this way, these generals of Liaoxi stayed in the camp and began training the next day.

In the morning, it is a queue of physical training, and the practice is to walk in unison, walk in steps, turn left and right, etc., which is boring and boring. However, in the end, it is a senior general such as the deputy general and the general soldier, the quality of everyone is not ordinarily high, and there is also queue training in the training of the Ming army, which is much the same, these are nothing to them, but they used to train others, and now it is the turn of others to train them.

Most of the generals were silently patient, and some were irritable and impatient, so they made noise during the training, and then Xu Xianchun gave an order and was pulled down and whipped. The whip was really whipped, and these generals cried wolf, and after the beating, they were thrown into the queue to continue training.

Looking at the fierce and vicious Jinyi guards who were watching, all the generals were honest and silently followed the command to train.

Training in the morning, classes in the afternoon, explaining the rules of the Praetorian Guard, teaching the emperor's grace, and then teaching the art of war and command.

To tell the truth, most of these generals are hereditary military households, and only a small number of them have studied, and leading troops to fight is based on experience, and they have not systematically studied the art of war at all. The way they lead the army is extremely crude, and many generals are ignorant of the formation of the army, the allocation of weapons, coordination, and logistical supply. On weekdays, it is a reckless word to fight, and when the battle is about to be fought, he rushes with his own soldiers, and if he wins, the other party wins, and if he can't win, he turns his horse and flees. In terms of the quality of the generals, these people are really much worse.

The person in charge of lecturing is a Praetorian Guard officer who was born as a martial artist, and Lu Xiangsheng will also give classes in person when he has time.

"How is this grain transportation calculated, 500 auxiliary soldiers send food to 20,000 troops 100 miles away." Zu Dashou asked with a sad face.

"Don't ask me, how do I know?" Zhang Cunren shook his head, "Shouldn't this kind of thing be the job of the grain and baggage officials in the army, why do you want the Lord to calculate in the future, have we ever learned arithmetic!" ”

"If you don't understand, learn it, what Lu Jingluo said is right, if we don't understand, it is very likely that the quartermaster will be deceived and deduct military rations, resulting in a mutiny of soldiers who are not having enough food in the army." He Kegang sighed.

"I didn't pay so much attention to the soldiers before, why are there so many rules in this Praetorian Guard!" Zu Dashou scratched his head and said.

On the sixth day of training, the camp gate suddenly opened, and hundreds of people entered the camp, and new people came!

"Big brother!"

"Father-in-law!"

Zu Dale, Zu Kefa and others came to Zu Dashou and shouted in surprise.

"You're all here." Zu Dashou had a weak voice, and his heart was completely cooled.

Zu Dale, Zu Kefa and others are the backbone of his subordinate army, among which Zu Kefa is the commander of the Jiading team, and now these people have been taken to the teaching camp, and the Jinzhou troops will be left unattended and can only be slaughtered by the Praetorian Guard.

Secretly looking for an opportunity, Zu Dashou pulled his younger brother Zu Dale aside and asked him how he came here.

"Didn't you ask Zu Kuan to go back and send a letter, saying that the officers above the general flag would come to Ningyuan to practice and study? At that time, Zu Kuan had your handwritten letter from your eldest brother, as well as Lu Jingluo's general order, I asked Zu Kuan, saying that eldest brother, everything is fine in Ningyuan, let me bring someone over as soon as possible. Zu Dale said.

Zu Dashou: "......"

On the second day of entering the training camp, Lu Xiangsheng asked all the generals to write instructions to their subordinates, saying that they wanted to reorganize the army and let the officers above the general flag come to Ningyuan to accept new posts. At that time, due to the situation, everyone had to write, and Zu Dashou also wrote, but he hoped that his brother Zu Dale could realize that the situation was wrong, but he didn't expect Zu Dale to be so stupid, he didn't even see that he was forced to do so, and that Zu Kuan was willing to be used by Lu Xiangsheng!

At this point, there's no point in complaining!

Liaoxi officers from various cities and forts came one after another and entered the training camp, with a total number of five or six hundred people.

These officers were then disorganized into battalions, with officers of all levels in the battalion being Janissary officers and instructors from the Jinyi Guard and Janissaries. And the generals of Liaoxi, whether they are the deputy general of the general army or the general banner of the hundred households, have all become ordinary soldiers. Compared with ordinary officers such as General Banner, Zu Dashou and Zhang Cunren are basically the same, except for one more single room.

But after all, they are high-ranking generals, and Zu Dashou and Zhang Cunren have all become superintendents, so they have some privileges.

Yes, the teaching battalion, like the Praetorian Guard, also implements the supervision system, but the supervision army does not refer to the civil officials appointed by the imperial court to supervise the military or the eunuchs of the supervising army, but each general banner has a supervising army, which is elected by ordinary soldiers, and the entire battalion has a chief army, or called the supervising military envoy. The general superintendent is not an officer, but there is a military salary subsidy in peacetime, and the task is to supervise the officers, prevent corruption in the army, and in wartime they are responsible for verifying military merits, etc. However, the military supervision system is different from the officer system, and it is a self-contained system, and officers at the same level do not have the right to order the military supervision at the same level.

The prison army adopts a rotation system, and incompetent people will be dismissed to prevent collusion with officers. All in all, this is a relatively complex system, which greatly limits the power of generals and officers, and can effectively prevent soldiers from acting as generals.

Moreover, in the Praetorian Guard, the generals only have the right to exercise command, and other officers are responsible for matters other than military affairs, for example, the generals have no right to pay the military salary, the quartermaster is responsible for the payment of military salaries, and the military envoy is responsible for checking the account book and supervising it, and the money and food are directly distributed to each soldier, and no officer has the right to receive it on his behalf.

"With such a system, it is almost impossible to embezzle and eat empty salaries." He Kegang sighed.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the military system had become rotten, the army was corrupt, and it was common for generals to eat empty salaries and drink soldiers' blood. Only a very small part of the money and food issued by the imperial court was distributed to ordinary soldiers, so as to ensure that they would not starve to death. In addition to taking out part of the embezzled money and food to support a small number of families, the rest was used by the generals to enjoy.

The generals and their families lived a life of poverty and luxury, and the families lived well, while most of the soldiers lived like flowers, not even as good as the peasants who farmed the land.

Whenever there is a war, the generals lead the family members to rush to the front, recklessly for a while, win if they can, and run away if they can't. It's okay for such an army to build an anti-peasant army, and it is not an opponent at all to fight with the Jiannu Eight Banners, so in the face of Jiannu's repeated defeats, there are few victories.

And because the imperial court allocates millions of taels of money and grain every year, Liaoxi Town can still support some elite soldiers and defend Liaoxi. The combat effectiveness of other border armies is poor, so Jiannu can easily break through the pass from Jibei, which is really too good for the border army of Jizhen. If it was replaced by Liaoxi soldiers to defend the city, it would not be so easy for Jiannu to take down Zunhua Santun Camp and other cities.

"If you don't handle any food, you still have to eat empty wages." Zu Dashou also sighed. If you can't eat empty salary, you won't have money to support your family, and it's almost impossible to rely on strong soldiers and horses to make profits. In the future, the generals of Liaoxi could only receive the salary issued by the imperial court on a monthly basis, and it was impossible to live a life of poverty and luxury.

"It would be better if the fields were still there." He Kegang said.

Generals like them each owned a large amount of military land, all of them were big landowners, and ordinary soldiers were hired by them. If the land is still there, even if you can't eat empty wages, you will naturally have no worries in the future.

But now that Lu Xiangsheng has swallowed up all their troops, will he still keep the land for them?

At the beginning, Zu Dashou also wanted to secretly connect with the Liaoxi officers in the teaching battalion, and wanted to do something to see if he could escape from Ningyuan City with everyone, after all, he lost everything like this, and it was uncomfortable for anyone to change. Not only Zu Dashou, but other generals were also unwilling to lose everything in the past.

can become a senior general like the deputy general of the general army, all of them have some skills, they are all rebellious, how can they be willing to be captured?

At first, their former subordinates listened to them, but the training camp was extremely closely monitored, and it was easy to find an opportunity. And after some time, Zu Dashou and the others were shocked to find that their former subordinates, the family members they had cultivated, had become much more estranged from them, and many times they would avoid them.

"These ungrateful bastards, I owe them so much to trust them before!" When he got together with Zhang Cunren and He Kegang again, Zu Dashou scolded angrily.

"It's over, there's no chance." He Kegang muttered.

Even the most trusted family members have alienated them, and if they make a fuss, there is no possibility of success at all.

"Those instructors in class are so powerful that they give them a lot of things we can't give." Zhang Cunren sighed.

During the class, the instructors taught cultural courses, taught about the glorious past of the Ming Dynasty, lectured on the great achievements of the Praetorian Guard since its establishment, taught His Majesty the Emperor to be benevolent and loving to the people, and told these Liaoxi officers to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty and loyal to His Majesty. At first, many people didn't think so, but under the brainwashing all day long, especially in this particular atmosphere, slowly their thinking changed, and they were proud to be a member of the Praetorian Guard, and proud to be loyal to the emperor.

And in the Praetorian Guard, they will be treated no worse in the future than if they followed the original generals to become the head of the house, and they are more promising. Many ordinary peasant military households, such as Li Chongzhen and Lei Shisheng, have become generals, and some exile soldiers, such as Li Hongji, have also become generals. And these officers from the family are all strong in martial arts, and they boast that they are much stronger than those people, and they naturally have a better future in the Praetorian Guard, and what future can they have if they continue to be a family soldier?

People's hearts are fickle, and there is no constant loyalty!

ps: Four thousand words, invigilated tomorrow, go to bed early.