It may be that the magistrate and the detention department have taken care of it, and the food that night was very rich, not only the white rice was full, but also the meat could be seen in the dishes.

The accommodation conditions are extremely poor, the school grounds are not large, and the barracks are even more pitiful.

Zhu Ming and more than 30 other people were crammed into a chase shop.

It is now the end of the fifth lunar month, and the night is also very hot. The smell of sweat from dozens of men, as well as the smell of the feet, made Zhu Ming nauseated, and it took a while to get used to it.

When I got up in the morning, I didn't know where to wash, and the government didn't even arrange a water delivery.

The food has also deteriorated, the rice is brown rice, and the oil stars in the dishes are hard to see. It clicked when I chewed it, but the sand in the rice was not cleaned.

Some officials were so bold that they deducted the food expenses of the archers under the noses of the magistrate!

"How can you eat this kind of pig food?" Chen Ziyi threw away his rice bowl, turned over and said, "Come with me to eat Hu spicy soup outside!" ”

This guy disregarded military discipline and rode away, but no one stopped him.

A group of swingers, laughing and playing to catch up, they didn't have mounts, and screamed to make Chen Ziyi run slower.

Zhu Ming watched the whole process and felt speechless.

At the same time, I am very pleased that if the local armed forces of the Great Song Dynasty are all like this, my rebellion will be much smoother in the future.

Swallow your breakfast, and then have nothing to do.

The archers sat in twos and quarters on the school grounds, chatting and bragging, and some simply lay down to sleep.

Until noon, Chen Ziyi returned with the prodigals.

After another half an hour, Xiang Zhixian finally came.

There was also a white-bearded old man, who sat tremblingly on the bamboo. The sedan chair man lifted him up to the high platform, got off the sedan chair and put it down, and the old man didn't get up, just sat next to the magistrate.

The archers came to assemble one after another, and the queue was chaotic.

Xiang Zhixian began to lecture: "You are all warriors in the township, and now the bandits are in turmoil, and you have to rely on the big gang to eliminate harm for the people." Today, I invited Mr. Fang. When the old gentleman was young, he was a soldier in Yangzhou, and he was proficient in the method of battle formation, and he would definitely be able to train a warrior ......"

Zhu Ming rolled his eyes when he heard this, and he was no longer able to complain.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the feudal towns were everywhere, and there were no military officials, all of whom trained and promoted staff to do things.

By the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the magistrates still had a large number of staff members who held real power. In order to centralize power, the imperial court turned these staff officials into official officials, which is equivalent to the establishment of the master group in the Ming and Qing dynasties. At the same time, it is strictly forbidden for local officials to hire staff privately, and there is not even a master at the level of a county magistrate.

Confucius is a regular staff, in essence, the clerk in charge of the documents, in the Ming and Qing dynasties called the "registered master".

Let a retired civil servant train the army?

It can only be said that Xiang Zhixian is very imaginative.

After the lecture to the magistrate was finished, the old and decrepit Fang Kongmu finally stood up slowly: "The generals are selected first, and those who are conceited and brave can come forward to listen to it." ”

The head of the soldiers was treated better, and in order to eat white rice, dozens of people stood up in an instant.

Fang Kongmu glanced at it, pointed at Gu San and said, "Come here." ”

Gu San immediately stepped forward, and he was the first to be chosen, all because he was carrying an eyebrow knife in his hand.

Xiang Zhixian whispered a few words, Fang Kongmu smiled and nodded, and chose Chen Ziyi and Zhu Ming.

Fang Kongmu sat down again and spoke: "The rest of the people wait, the horn is a play, and the winner can be the leader." ”

So the draw began, two by two, one team, sumo wrestling competition.

At first, Zhu Ming felt very funny, but when he saw that everyone had no objections, he was also full of interest. Even the archers who had been forcibly recruited scattered their sad faces and shouted loudly to cheer and cheer.

Zhu Ming understood.

It seems to be a child's play, but it is actually the best solution. Dealing with a group of bandits, you don't need to be so formal. Those who have the courage can be generals, and playing fairly on the spot can also boost the morale of the archers.

The school field, which was originally scattered and depressed, became lively in an instant because of the sumo selection.

Especially when Zhang Guangdao came on the court, he grabbed his opponent's belt and threw it directly out of the circle, and all the archers cheered.

At the end of the game, Fang Kongmu asked Gu San: "How are you following your feet?" ”

Gu San replied, "I am a tea household." ”

Fang Kongmu had a plan in his heart, and announced on the spot: "There are a total of 332 archers, and they are tentatively organized into three capitals. Chen Ziyi is the head of the first capital, Zhu Ming is the head of the second capital, and Zhang Guangdao is the head of the third capital......"

Immediately afterwards, he appointed the deputy head of the capital, the ten generals, the marquis of generals, and the bureau of Cheng.

Zhu Ming is the head of the capital, and there are about 100 people under him.

The deputy who was assigned to him was called Dialect, one of the prodigal sons, and had a tiger tattoo on his chest. Although he has a relatively strong physique, he is obviously more unreliable than Zhu Ming.

Fang Kongmu really knows how to fight formations, and it is estimated that he has seen others practice it before.

What he is training at the moment is the popular Yajiao formation method in the late Northern Song Dynasty, with five people and one team, five teams as a team, and five teams as a formation. Melee soldiers in front, distant soldiers in the back, with the sound of drums as a command.

Knitting and weaving, Fang Kongmu was a little embarrassed.

He had never eaten pork, only seen pigs running, and soon realized that the number was wrong and that the archers lacked ranged weapons.

What can I do?

Cold!

It doesn't matter what the formation is, a team of 75 people is lined up in a rectangular line. The rest of the soldiers, as reserves and flag-bearers, drummers.

"The soldiers have been ordered, the formation is also listed, and the rest are practicing on their own." This old thing actually slipped away.

He didn't even teach the flag order and the order, and it is estimated that he himself would not know it.

And Xiang Zhixian was very satisfied with this, and followed Fang Kongmu together, and the two went to the county government to drink together.

Leaving a group of archers, staring at each other in place.

Zhu Ming was the first to speak: "They are just playing tricks, we really want to go into battle, and the big and small generals will come over and sum up." ”

"Brother Zhu is right," Chen Ziyi echoed, "I just think that old Confucius has never fought at all." ”

An open space was selected in the school field, and a group of "generals" began to discuss it seriously.

Bai Sheng also got a military rank and was appointed as a tenth general.

If it is changed to a regular army, ten generals can probably command a hundred people, which is a real hundred generals, and can also be understood as a company commander. But in this improvised broken team, there were only ten soldiers under his command.

Among all the archers, Zhang Guangdao wanted to set foot in Heifeng Village the most.

He couldn't wait to say: "The five troops are formed into a team, and this formation is not suitable for attacking the mountain. I am very familiar with Heifeng Village, and I also know how to deal with the bandits. More than 10 peasant households along the river are all bandit sentry posts, and once the officers and soldiers appear, some people will go into the mountains to report the news. Near the cottage, there are many farmers. When the thieves got the news, they would gather the young and strong to enter the village, and the old and weak women and children would flee to the mountains. When the time comes, they will be holding on to the cottage, and there will only be one way up the mountain, and there will be too many officers and soldiers to spread it. ”

"How wide is the road up the mountain?" A ten-year general named Zhao Gang asked.

Zhang Guangdao said: "At the widest point, you can stand four or five people side by side. At the narrowest point, only one or two people can stand. ”

Gu San muttered: "This is very difficult to fight, if the bandit is in the narrowest place, just build a waist wall to guard, no matter how many of us are, we can't kill it." ”

Chen Ziyi asked, "Can't you climb the mountain from somewhere else?" ”

Zhang Guangdao said: "It's difficult, the mountain is really steep, but you can also try." ”

Although Zhu Ming lacks actual combat experience, he talks about theories one by one: "It is best to win without a fight." Does Third Brother Zhang still have cronies in the village? ”

"I'm afraid...... They were all killed," Zhang Guangdao was a little sad, "Even if there are still people alive, it can only be the farmers under the mountain, and the leaders above must be gone." The Tian brothers on the riverside also talked to me, but they couldn't get along. ”

Zhu Ming asked again: "The owner of the village, Yang Jun, is dead, can Yang Ying suppress the thieves?" ”

"He can't hold it down," Zhang Guangdao speculated, "but if the officers and soldiers go to suppress it, most of the bandits will be together." The bandit leaders and leaders all have land and property at the foot of the mountain, and they are unwilling to flee or surrender to the government unless they have to. ”

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "Then shout when attacking the mountain, as long as the bandits surrender, they can not blame the past and make up their households and people." If the bandit leader surrenders, he will not die, and the meritorious person can still keep his land. As for the bandit leader, whoever can capture or kill Yang Ying alive can also keep his land alive. ”

Chen Ziyi clapped his hands and praised: "It should be used like this, the thieves will definitely fight among themselves, and there are not many people who defect in battle!" ”

"We have to be able to fight," said a prodigal Marquis, pointing to the archers in the distance, "and see what kind of soldiers they are?" These soldiers go to suppress bandits, not to mention letting the bandits fight fight, I am afraid that they will be laughed at by the bandits. ”

"You have to train the soldiers," Chen Ziyi said, "Also, get some decent weapons, the weapons given by the government are not usable." ”

Zhu Ming said: "I have a set of formations, which are suitable for fighting in narrow terrain, and can also alleviate the difficulty of insufficient weapons. ”

Chen Ziyi was a little unconvinced, and asked, "Brother Zhu is so young, has he ever joined the army?" ”

After the crossing, Zhu Ming did look too young to be convincing in front of strangers.

Zhu Ming had to come up with practical results, he patted his chest and said, "Give me two days to practice the formation, and then compare and compare." If it is possible, follow my law. If not, follow your way. How is it? ”

"That's easy to say!" Chen Ziyi immediately agreed.

Zhang Guangdao took the opportunity to help Zhu Ming establish his prestige: "I believe that Brother Zhu has a way, before the thieves attacked at night, he killed more than ten thieves with one sword and one person." ”

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was surprised.

Bai Sheng was very clever, and immediately turned around and shouted, calling the archers from Shangbai Village to testify.

They are all from the same village, so they naturally have to blow hard.

What's more, Zhu Ming killed the bandits that night, which is equivalent to the life-saving benefactor of the entire Shangbai Village!

Regardless of whether they were present at the time or not, they all insisted that they saw Zhu Xiucai kill the thief with their own eyes.

Gu San also cooperated: "Yang Jun, the owner of Heifeng Village, died under Zhu Xiucai's sword. ”

With so many archers, everyone praised Zhu Ming, and no one else could not believe it.

Chen Ziyi arched his hand and said: "If you are really a hero, I almost lost my eyes." After those thieves are destroyed, Brother Zhu can go to my house as a guest, riding a horse and shooting arrows and playing with guns and sticks every day, wouldn't it be happy? ”

"Brother Chen is invited, he must go." Zhu Ming replied.

"Hahahaha!"

Chen Ziyi laughed loudly, came over to hook up with Zhu Ming, and said to those prodigals: "I have met a good man again." You must remember that when you see Brother Zhu in the future, it will be like seeing me, and you must not slack off! ”

"Don't dare, they're all my own brothers." The prodigals hurriedly spoke.