The two of them then explained each other's doubts clearly, and Yang Kai only lightly criticized Yan Hou's clever behavior at the beginning, and did not pursue it too much.

After all, the matter has come to this point, it is useless to say more, only to tell him that he can't do this kind of thing again in the future, as for the woman who was brought out by them, since the fortune is great, all parties have not lost their lives, and they have followed the large army here, whether it is luck or coincidence, with the identity of his own personal soldier who has misunderstood, he is a logistics officer in his own battalion, and there is no need for him to deliberately take care of it.

Yang Kai didn't have the heart to focus on the relationship between his children and daughters for the time being, now was a critical period for them to seek development, just team building, situation analysis, and studying the military book were enough for him to be busy.

In terms of team building.

During this period of time, Yang Kai was already familiar with the overall operation of the thief team, putting aside the relationship between superiors and subordinates, just commenting on Lao Huihui, Zuo Jin Wang, Ge Liyan and others, he admired them, it was nothing more than a border soldier and two crop men.

But to be able to break out of such a big fame in this troubled world, it is due to luck, and it is indeed outstanding, and it is not difficult to recognize the ability of others.

However, there is a general drawback in their ranks, regardless of the general situation of being as affectionate and righteous as the heroes of Liangshan on the surface, in fact, each person will have their own thoughts, and if their thoughts are not unified in one place, they lack organizational ability.

Generally speaking, they have a bad foundation, they have not experienced the systematic training of officers and soldiers, and they do not know much about the formation and arrangement of troops, which greatly limits their combat effectiveness.

As he ventured to reveal to Lao Huihui, he did not strengthen the ability to build the army and set political goals to win the hearts and minds of the people.

In terms of military affairs, it can be seen from the official position system in their ranks of thieves that it is very unreasonable to divide the entire military army into three positions: the old management team, the small management team, and the management team.

In addition, although they raised the five-color flag, or what they called the "five directions", they had no way to use the flags, war drums, horns, military discipline and other objects and conditions to command the troops and enhance the morale of the army.

Moreover, when the number of their ranks is increasing, they have not put much effort into the construction of the grassroots level, and the logarithm is that the leaders of all sizes and subordinates with their familiar subordinates have nothing more to think about than where to grab food, money, and women.

The army formed under the three conditions is fine when it wins the war, after all, anyone can borrow the tailwind, but once it is defeated, it will fall apart.

They had struggled to fight for long in the face of powerful attacks and stubborn defenses by officers and soldiers, as evidenced by the heavy casualties.

Even, Yang Kai felt that in a sense, this unusually large number of troops could not be regarded as a real rebel army.

In history, all uprisings that can have a far-reaching impact must have their slogans, as far away as more than 1,600 years ago, "the prince will have a kind of Xiangning", and the great uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty "3,000 tigers, straight to the land of Youyan; Long Fei Ninety-Five, reopen the day of the Great Song Dynasty", these are their calls.

And just relying on the predicament brought to the people of the world by fighting rice and money, and the harsh government is like a tiger, the team gathered together may not be that they can't find such a slogan, and among the tens of millions of thieves, there is no shortage of scholars who are proficient in Wen Taowu. Probably they never realized the problem.

At present, they only understand rebellion and uprising as the process of plundering goods and women, and then enjoying their desires.

If this problem cannot be solved, they will only be thieves for the rest of their lives, and they cannot afford the name of "righteous army".

In the previous summons with Lao Huihui, Yang Kai knocked on the side and mentioned these issues, this Lao Huihui, who can be worthy of hundreds of thousands of thieves being elected as the "mastermind", has these concepts in his heart, but probably he didn't find it himself, and after Yang Kai's reminder, he thought about it more.

Old Huihui's current status is more like the words of these four battalions of thieves, Yang Kai is just an old manager, if he doesn't speak, it is impossible for him to change the entire team in an all-round way, and in the face of such a huge number, the top naturally needs to consider more.

On the contrary, Yang Kai could use his own team to take the lead in carrying out changes in this aspect, which was done while he was pondering the power of returning to the camp to regain his strength.

If you want to survive in this troubled world, asking for others is one thing, the weak should be united, and self-improvement is the other.

However, if he wants to change his political goals, for Yang Kai, who is still just an old manager, the level is a little higher, which is not appropriate, so Yang Kai simply doesn't think about it, what he is mainly doing at present is to work army building.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), in September, rumors from far and near could be heard, Jingshi Shuntian was once again under martial law, and the prime minister Lu Xiangsheng ordered the troops of various towns to come to the rescue.

I don't know where the news leaked out, and then it was spread by ten, ten and hundred, and the thieves from all sides were all excited when they heard it, and at this time, the soldiers sent out by Lao Huihui to convey the heroic order came one after another, more like the wind to help the fire, so that the sparks everywhere quickly became a prairie fire.

When Yang Kai was captured by Han Bin, Lang Zhong changed the wound medicine, and after recuperating for a few days, he asked Gao Yingen for his life, and took the prisoners and the soldiers under his battalion out of the city to line up for rewards.

Discuss and order people to set up a platform in an open position more than ten miles outside Yuncheng, set up a few big drums on the platform, put several altars on both sides of the old wine pasted with red paper, the drummer raised his hammer with open arms, the drum sound was slow and powerful, he was not good at arranging troops, and in terms of logistics and organization, when, what to do, and how to do it, but it seemed to be at ease.

In the sound of drums, let the leaders of each department lead their subordinates to erect flags, gather in front of the Jiangtai, thousands of people are divided into three districts of cavalry and foot bows, among which the foot soldiers are divided into two banks, and the prisoners are sandwiched in front of the Jiangtai, and the flags in front of each team are hunting and flying.

Replenished to more than 100 personal soldiers, the handle of the knife ring under the stage, the battle of Shanshan, Yang Kai's department was higher than the other three battalions under Yingen, the wounded were particularly serious, reaching nearly 2,000 people, and the soldiers who marched to Yuncheng along the way barely returned to about 4,000 blood.

Because Yang Kai had an order, after winning the battle, he looted the undamaged armor on the corpses of the officers and soldiers lying on the ground to replenish his body, but he barely had half a formation of armored soldiers.

After all the affairs were arranged, Yang Kai slowly ascended to the general's platform, and was ordered to follow the generals Cao, Han, Zhao, Wang, Cai, Wei, Yan, and Chen Zhu like a shadow.

Because they had many wounds on their bodies, they did not wear armor, but because it was the first time they attended such an occasion, they all held their heads high, and they could see the eyes of the soldiers in the audience.

Yang Kaili was in the center of the general's platform, and in front of him, there were all the deputy officers of more than 100 households, standing upright in two columns according to their official positions.

In the autumn season, the sun is shining overhead, the autumn wind is weak, rolling up a few swirling sand, dust, and dry grass, and the autumn wind is killing the weather.

He stood on the stage and was silent for a while, only when the autumn wind blew away the sound of horses' hooves, and the voices of subtle disturbances and discussions from all parties in the audience gradually subsided.

"Just half a day ago, our army rushed to Kaifeng, took advantage of the empty defense of Xiguan, burned Xiguan, the officers and soldiers wanted to take advantage of my surprise soldiers to attack, unexpectedly, God blessed, first our army rangers learned of the enemy's situation, and Wei Laoguan's bloody battle, ambushed outside the Xicheng, the officers and troops were surging, but they were blocked by our army, resulting in a slow, step by step can not keep up, this is the palm plate for our army to remember the miracle one, but also for the reason for the victory later."

After talking about the battle outside the city of Xiguan as a foreshadowing, Yang Kai gradually adapted to the rhythm of speaking, raised the volume, and said: "Second, the division of troops outside Yanling City to lure the enemy, our soldiers are still brave, not chaotic in the face of danger, and become a false and real image, and before the enemy formation, shouting the battle, so that the officers and soldiers despise us, and the party wants to use the righteous division to cut down the mountains and forests, only after that, although the official army is shocking, Cao, Han, Zhao, Wang, Cai, Wei, Yan and all thousands of households, soldiers and soldiers are fighting with their guns, and the officers and soldiers are like a flood of breaking the embankment, Panic is like a rat crossing the street. This is the result of antecedents.

However, although this battle was blessed by heaven and the mountain wind helped me, I was able to break the enemy in battle, and because you fought to the death and did not retreat, he was able to win the battle, all thanks to the merits of the army! Today, we gather here, without him, just to comfort the warriors, meritorious addition, meritorious encouragement. We will never break our promise to encourage the army before the war with the palm of the plate. ”

He didn't say a word about his own merits. After the military paid attention to the heroic Yang Fa on the stage, they were all excited.

In the past few days of entering the city, although most of the brave soldiers have been promoted and changed their official positions due to merit, the news of entering the official position told in private is of course different from the feeling of being sealed before the three armies.

"Where is the head of the logistics supervision army?" After summing up the events on the battlefield, Yang Kai snorted again.

Discussion hurriedly took two steps to Yang Kai's position later: "Discussion is here." ”

"What is the general situation of the supervising army, read it out and listen to it with the army."

At the beginning of the battle of the mountain stream, he and Yang Kai's personal soldiers ran around the mountain, and the records were naturally detailed, but the battle situation after leaving the mountain, he was difficult to record.

This time, he was not stage frightened, and slowly took out a thin book from his arms, turned a page, and read it aloud: "This battle, according to the official record, was later submitted in combination with the head of the family, listing the fourth-class meritorious service.

The fourth-class meritorious service is to participate in the battle, bravely kill the enemy in battle, raise the prestige of our army, suppress the arrogance of the enemy, reward 50 silver coins, give 3 pieces of cloth, and make up 20 silver coins for the wounded. ”

The words read out were passed on by the loud voices he had already chosen to be delivered by the high-voiced soldiers in front of the ring in unison, so that all the troops in the array could hear them. There was a slight commotion in the black oppressive ranks. The discussion paused, and after Yang Kai had calmed down gently, he said:

"The third-class meritorious service, belonging to the most brave and fierce soldiers in the fierce battle, brave and brave, is to be in the enemy's formation, kill dozens or even hundreds of enemies, the meritorious service, a total of 36 people, the non-commissioned officers into the second level of the officer, the official into the first level of the officer, reward 100 silver money, repair the wounded 50, give six pieces of cloth, detailed information, later ask the army to come to the stage to be enshrined and then read out.

Second-class meritorious service, three deputy thousand households, taking the lead in meeting the enemy, bravely killing the enemy is one of them, reorganizing the battle line many times, commanding well, maintaining the high morale of our army, until our army encounters the enemy's stubborn resistance, it can still be as powerful as a bamboo, and it is the second to kill the enemy to flee like a rat; In addition, Zhao Hu and Wang Biao, deputy commanders of the cavalry, chaotic enemy formation, until the enemy's defense line and offensive route were completely destroyed, and the situation on the battlefield changed left and right.

Those who have made meritorious deeds of the first class should make miraculous achievements. Those who have done miraculous deeds, breaking free from the shackles of the strategy of encouraging the army, not using conventional rewards, or striking more with less, or eliminating many generals of the enemy, until the enemy's morale collapses, decides the victory on the battlefield, and reduces the losses of our army, are Cao Qianhu and Han Qianhu, the vanguard generals of the front camp of the closed camp, reward 500 silver coins, make up for 200 wounds, give 200 cloth and silk, and live in the same house with the head of the family, so as to facilitate the discussion of the war. ”

After discussing and closing the merit book, he looked up at everyone, and then said: "Your performance, this official is vividly remembered, and to this day, I still praise it in my heart, and I hope that the army will fight in the future, and then make meritorious deeds, and the name of the army can be seen again in the merit book, and the general situation of the supervising army can be seen again, which is the case." After some impromptu remarks, he turned his head and looked at Yang Kai.

Yang Kai nodded, and then looked at the morale of this army, after a great victory, it finally reached its peak at this time. Even the captives who were wrapped up in it raised their spirits and listened attentively. Compared with the imperial court, which has been in arrears for many years, they have mixed tastes in their hearts, and they inexplicably feel that this team of thieves seems to have a more future.

Rewarding the three armies, morale is naturally high, but Yang Kai is not satisfied with the construction of the army, with a good reward system, but also to avoid the idea of greedy merit and rashness among the soldiers under the war, so that the team that is driven out of Yang Kai's whip can do ridiculous things.

So there is also a penalty order.

After the reward was read out, the discussion was approved by Yang Kai's nod, and he began to read out the list of people who had made third-class meritorious deeds, most of them were Yan Feng, Wei Shisan, Cai Qian, and Han Bin's corporals and generals, and especially Han Bin's subordinates accounted for the majority, and Yan Hou was in this list, and the archers had an advantage in such battles, but this was a skill, although others were envious, they had nothing to say.

The archer camp opened the door for them at any time, but very few could pass Han Bin's assessment. Chen Yuzhu, the head of the night non-collection, was also ranked in the third-class meritorious position, because Yang Kai wanted to let the armies know that he would reconnoiter the enemy's situation, cooperate with friendly forces in combat, and have the same merit as killing the enemy bravely on the battlefield, and even surpass it.

After the reward ceremony, thirty-six people, each of whom received a banner embroidered with a tiger's head on his head that Yang Kai hurriedly made, all five colors, the latter was not in a hurry to let the person who was entitled, so that the soldiers gave wine to drink with them, and let the soldiers in the audience see their faces clearly.

Finally, it was the turn of the chaser to announce the penalty order.

It's just that Yang Kai didn't expect that before this order was spoken, Zhao Hu walked up from behind him without saying a word. He had no intention of punishing Zhao Hu, in his opinion, although Zhao Hu was brave for a while, but in terms of the final result, since he mistakenly sent Zhao Hu to follow Han Bin to the front of the enemy formation to call for battle, and let the newly recruited cavalry to follow Cao Mang's order on the flank of the battlefield (the soldiers returning to the camp are accustomed to the old Huihui combat method), this has already doomed the outcome of this war.

Probably because Zhao Hu also had insight into the intention of Yang Kai's announcement of the punishment order, plus as a general who was promoted all the way as Yang Kai's subordinates, he felt that he represented Yang Kai's face, and his requirements for himself were particularly high.

Walking to the position at the level of Yang Kai, he took off his robe in full view of everyone, revealing his upper body. He is slightly taller than Yang Kai by half an inch, but his posture is about to be strong, although he is far less burly than Cao Mang, but he is enough to stand out in this famine era.

After many years of being a thief, his body was visibly scarred, and the few new wounds, unbandaged, were still red.

The soldiers with high morale suddenly calmed down and looked at the tiger general, not knowing what he was going to say.