Jinghu North Road, Ezhou, Ezhou Barracks.

The generals are lined up, and a random general is picked out here, all of whom are enemies with names in the Jin army.

"General, Qin's sentence has arrived."

A small school came in to report.

"Generals, come out of the camp with me to greet you."

The man who was dressed in a military uniform, hung a sword at his waist, and gave orders to the general was Zhang Xian, the former military commander who led the military for Yue Fei.

"Obey."

Even if the generals are dissatisfied with Qin Hui in their hearts, they will not show it now, only one of them is full of indifference and muttered in a low voice: "A bird is frustrated and sour, and the general is so angry that he returns to his hometown to guard his filial piety, and he still wants us to greet him?" ”

"Re-xing, be cautious!"

A staff member dressed as a scribe in front of him heard his words and turned back and shouted.

"Humph!" The general known as Zaixing snorted coldly and restrained the disdainful expression on his face.

"Mr. Huang, a certain family thinks Zaixing is right. If this prison army is as reasonable and military as Zhao Xiangye, it would be fine, but it can be seen that its deeds are obviously sent by the officials to monitor us because they are dissatisfied with our excessive power. ”

The name of the person who opened the mouth was Sun Ge, who was originally a general of the Yue family's army, and now he is also one of the staff.

In the fourth year of Shaoxing, because of Yue Fei's invitation, Chengxinlang and Shenwu Houjun were ready to send the right Chengwu Lang and sign the Xiangyang Mansion Judge. Afterwards, he changed his literary resources to Zuo Chao Sanlang and appointed Yue's army to do office work.

He is a rare civil and military general in the Yue family's army.

Therefore, he also saw through the intention of this overseer's trip.

"Then we won't have to tie our hands and feet when we start a war in the future?"

The burly man on the side, dressed in iron armor, was none other than Niu Gao, a brave and fierce general under Yue Fei.

"Humph!"

Sun Ge snorted coldly and said to Niu Gao: "We not only need to restrain our hands and feet, but also have to entertain him with delicious food and drink." ”

"Otherwise, he is not satisfied......"

Before he could finish speaking, the generals understood what he was saying.

"Alright, everyone, be careful! Everything is decided by waiting for the general to come back. ”

Zhang Xian slapped his face and motioned for everyone to follow.

……

Outside the gate, a carriage and dozens of armor soldiers had been waiting for a long time.

The curtain of the carriage door was lifted, revealing a thin middle-aged man, dressed in green clothes, with a gloomy face and a few bloodshots hanging from the corners of his eyes.

Of course, this person is Meng Ke, but his black face is not that he has any dissatisfaction with the Yue family's army.

It's really tiring to travel and sleep, and this body is not tempered since childhood like leap soil, and it is really not suitable for this bumpy environment.

Meng Ke got out of the carriage and suddenly heard a rapid sound of military drums, followed by a deafening shouting of killing.

Meng Ke was stunned for a moment and followed the prestige.

I saw that in the barracks in front, countless soldiers were holding various flags, practicing formations and catching and fighting.

A pole array flag was raised high, waving in the wind.

In the very center of that banner, the word 'Yue' is embroidered with gold thread.

"Is this a dismount?"

Looking at the Yue family's army, which was uniform in appearance and discipline, and had a momentum like a rainbow, Meng Ke said secretly in his heart.

In terms of well-equipped equipment and neat military appearance, the imperial squad that I saw in the palace some time ago was even better than the Yue family's army.

But if it really fought, Meng Ke didn't think that Yang Yi had the slightest chance of winning.

"Qin pronounced the verdict, and the front is the barracks."

At this moment, there was an urging voice from a small official in front of him.

This person's name is Chen Hong, and he is the counselor of the Ezhou Army, responsible for contacting and dispatching and transporting materials with the Yuejia Army.

Meng Ke went to Fucheng first, and asked for a small official who had a good relationship with the Yue family army as a raft.

"Oh, okay."

Meng Ke nodded, raised his legs and stepped out of the carriage.

Seeing this, the little official on the side hurriedly helped Meng Ke get out of the carriage.

"Qin pronounced the verdict, please." Chen Hong greeted with a smile.

"I'm tired."

Meng Ke smiled faintly.

The camp gate was not opened, and the military discipline of the Yue family army was no worse than that of Zhou Yafu's fine willow camp back then, and there was no general order, so they could only wait outside.

"Can you introduce this Yue family army to the old man?"

Idle, Meng Ke put his hands behind his back, looked at the soldiers lined up neatly around him, and asked.

He directly called this army the Yuejia Army, which is actually not unavoidable.

Yuejiajun was a habitual statement at that time, although it was not an official name, but it was customary to call a certain army by the surname of the commander at that time, for example, Zhang Junbu could be called "Zhang Jiajun", Han Shizhongbu was called "Han Jiajun", Zhejiajun, Yang Jiajun, etc.

This is a verbal designation, not a fabrication, and does not appear in formal settings. However, some people mistakenly believe that the name "Yue Jiajun" has the nature of a private army, which is one of the reasons why Yue Fei was later killed, which is actually an unfounded hope.

"It's ...... nature"

Chen Hong, who was on the side, didn't say anything when he heard this, but his face was full of smiles, and he said: "Two years ago, Captain Yue led the army to defeat Yang Qi's army, annexed his army of more than tens of thousands, and got the official family to allocate more troops, so that the size of the army increased from more than 30,000 people to about 100,000 people. ”

These 100,000 people are divided into 12 commanding "armies": one is the back army; There are also front, rear, left, right, and center, and these five armies also; Seven for the Youyi Army; Eight is not collected at night, and the name is called to step on the white army; Nine for the selection of the front army; Ten Victorious Victories; eleven for the destruction of the enemy's army; The twelfth is the Hengjiang Army, that is, the Water Army. ”

That's right, there are actually sailors in the Yue family's army.

After its establishment, the Hengjiang Army has always been the crown of the Southern Song Dynasty's army stationed along the Yangtze River. The Yuejia army is a huge navy, and it takes Hanyang, which is opposite the river in Ezhou, as the place where the navy is stationed, and one-third of the Hanyang army is occupied by the water village.

Even the naval army under Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun actually had some Hengjiang soldiers who were presented by Yue Fei.

"Each army has corps, generals, departments, teams and other units. Commanders at the military level have the names of command, co-commandery, and deputy commander. And ...... further down."

Listening to Chen Hong's ramblings, Meng Ke finally had an understanding of the disadvantages of the Song Dynasty's bloated institutions and over-employing people.

Isn't this just redundancy? It's just too bloated.

Bloated was the beginning of festering, and the officialdom of the Song Dynasty was very corrupt and inefficient. It stands to reason that the Song Dynasty produced a large number of talents, but their effectiveness was either buried or eroded in the bureaucracy. Due to the corruption of officials and the mistakes of the talent policy, the Song Dynasty was poor and weak, showing the true nature of the end of the feudal dynasty.

After thinking everything through, the idea of changing the law flashed in Meng Ke's mind.

In this case, it is already unbroken and unstanding, even if Yue Fei really finishes cleaning up the old mountains and rivers, it will not be long before they will collapse again.

According to Chen Hong's recount, the Yue family army now has eighty-four generals. It's huge. With the increase and decrease of troops, each general began with 3,300 men at the beginning and gradually dropped to 1,200 troops per general.

This is only the generals who can lead the troops, and the rest of the adjutants, logistics, and auxiliary generals have not been counted.