Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1454 Meeting with Li Rusong (Part [-])
Although Li Rusong has always been domineering, he still respects the emperor. Therefore, even though five hundred family members were accompanying him when he came to Beijing, he actually only brought three hundred. cronies.

Although there are few entourages, at this moment he feels that the invitation by the British Duke in the Xishan Courtyard has a meaning, so these hundred people must also represent the Liaodong Army, and they must not lose their prestige.

What kind of generals there are what kind of soldiers, Li Rusong is high-minded, and the Liaodong cavalry under his command are also high-minded.Hearing the Elder Master's explanation, they all naturally puffed out their chests and belly, and marched forward boldly.

After staying past the Niangniang Temple, after a short walk, I saw the fortress of the imperial guards that the servant had mentioned earlier.This was the first time Li Rusong saw a "fortress". He thought it was just a well-built camp, but only then did he realize otherwise. The camp here is a camp, and a fort is a fort.

The barracks are the barracks. The barracks of the Imperial Guards are similar to other places, but the houses are built in a strange way. They are exactly the same "Datong sheds"-in fact, they are common bungalows with cement brick walls in later generations, with dozens of rooms in a row.

The building system of the barracks is quite simple. The outer room is a dormitory, and there is a shed for soldiers (according to the regulations of the Beiyang Army mentioned above, a shed is equivalent to a squad in the Red Dynasty), and the inner room is a washroom and storage room.There are no toilets, and there are public toilets built separately for cleaning.

The barracks are divided into divisions, and roughly each "district" is organized into a battalion, housing about [-] people.The three battalions of the Janissary are one standard, usually two infantry battalions plus a horse battalion or artillery battalion.

The two marks are one association, and the association has a separately attached artillery battalion; the two associations are one town, and the town also has a separate artillery battalion and a horse battalion directly under it. It is called the Chinese Army Artillery Battalion and the Chinese Army Horse Battalion.

There is a separate playground outside each camp, which is used for the training of the first battalion.As a separate overall unit, there is a large playground in the middle of the entire camp area of ​​a town, which is used for intensive training and reading exercises for the whole town.

The place Li Rusong passed by was on the edge of a town camp, and there happened to be a horse camp.Li Rusong and his cavalrymen looked inside through the gaps between the tidy deer wood, and found that horse fighting was being performed inside.

Ma Zhan is actually Li Jiajun's housekeeping skill, Li Rusong squinted his eyes and looked at it.However, the horse battalion of the Imperial Guard should only be doing basic training, and back and forth, a group of cavalry took turns to chop the wooden man.

Li Rusong's family laughed and said: "The wooden man can't move. What can they practice by chopping wooden piles back and forth like this?"

The other general also smiled and said: "Come on, it's just the Beijing camp. It's not bad to be able to practice like this. At least after practicing like this for a while, you can always ride the horse more stably."

"You two are better at training soldiers than Qi Shaobao?" Li Rusong suddenly said coldly: "Look carefully at the arrangement of those wooden figures, and then think about whether such a drill is useless."

The two of them were scolded by Li Rusong, and they took a closer look, only to find that the wooden figures were not neatly arranged as they imagined, but scattered in random order, and the distance between the wooden figures was not very wide. .

"Hiss..." The two of them gasped, knowing that this would make it difficult for the soldiers in the horse battalion of the imperial guards.In fact, their biggest difficulty is walking between these wooden figures, and at the same time they have to chop wooden figures, which makes it even more difficult.

Li Rusong observed them very carefully. Seeing their surprise at this moment, he pointed to the other side of the playground and said, "Look at that side again. What is that big hourglass used for? I don't need to explain it to you, right?"

Then there is no need to explain, what else can an hourglass do besides timing?

Li Rusong and others simply stopped to watch, and saw that after the Imperial Guard's horse battalion had all passed the "wooden man formation", several officers stepped forward to check on the wooden figures, accompanied by clerks with counters in their hands, as if they were recording something.

Li Rusong looked at it for a while, secretly wondering: Could it be that they are recording the wounded positions of the cavalry?But how to find out?

At this time, a sharp-eyed servant suddenly reminded: "Look, my lord, there seems to be scarlet marks on the bodies of those wooden figures, as if...the blades of the sabers in the hands of those cavalrymen were painted with paint."

Li Rusong suddenly realized that this was the case, no wonder some officers came forward to check.Then he became curious again, what happened after the inspection?

This question did not last long, because the inspection was done very quickly, and soon several officers stepped forward to report the results to an officer in front of the reviewing stand.That officer might be Yingzheng. After receiving the reports from several officers, he stood up and took a look, and announced the result loudly.

Immediately afterwards, three of the dozens of cavalrymen who passed the examination just now got off their horses and stepped out, walked to the reviewing platform dejectedly and knelt down.Three more officers came out from the reviewing stand, each holding a whip, and walked forward to the three cavalrymen with tiger faces.

The three cavalrymen lowered their heads and took off their jackets by themselves, with their chests bare and backs motionless.The three officers seemed to have yelled and cursed something, and then they whipped the backs of the three cavalrymen, each with ten lashes, leaving bloodstains on the backs of the three cavalrymen.

A servant next to Li Rusong couldn't help but said: "Fuck! I heard that Qi Shaobao's army is strict, but I didn't expect it to be so strict. This group of cavalry can pass through such a wooden formation, and they can even chop wooden figures. Where can it be said that it is an elite? Unexpectedly, there are three people who were caught and beaten, this is so... so fucking unreasonable."

Li Rusong's face was stern and he didn't say a word, while the servant who led the way said with a smile: "Actually, it's not a matter of being elite or not. I heard that they don't look at other people. After all, after calculation, the three people with the worst performance will be eliminated." They were pulled out and flogged, and then they were fined for other items—for example, the shed they were in. All of them had to be fined to clean the hut for seven days.

Sometimes there are too many people sweeping the latrine, so there will be other punishments, such as washing clothes for the best performers in training.In short, although most of the fined items are not heavy, they are very embarrassing. "

Li Rusong looked at it blankly for a while, then suddenly turned his head to the servant who was talking, and said, "What other rules of the imperial guards do you know, tell me when you go back."

"Yes, my lord, I understand."

Li Rusong didn't talk about this anymore, but ordered coldly: "Let's go." As he spoke, he grabbed his horse's belly and left first.

Not far away, Li Rusong and others suddenly noticed a large group of people running from a distance.When everyone took a closer look, they found that the group of people were all wearing brown bunts, carrying a large square bag with a unique shape, and holding a big stone lock in each hand.The whole crowd came trotting all the way in neat ranks.

The brown bunt was originally a common folk costume, but there are very few people who wear it uniformly. To be precise, it is the only one in the world: Jinghua Armed Guards.Moreover, when Jinghua got the book and sword flag, "book and sword" became the unified logo of Jinghua, and Jinghua's armed servants also embroidered the book and sword coat of arms on the left chest of the brown bunt.

There is a coat of arms with books and swords on the left chest of this group of people, the origin of which is needless to say, even Li Rusong knows it.

However, Li Rusong was still a little surprised by this group of armed servants who came running with big stone locks, and asked the previous guide servant, "What are these Gao family servants doing?"

The servant replied: "Oh, this is their routine training, called running with weights."

"Running with a load?"

"Yes, my lord." The servant explained: "They also carry stone slabs in the square bundles behind them, weighing thirty catties. The stone locks in their hands are fifteen catties each, and the whole body bears sixty catties.

As far as I know, the servants of Jinghua do exercises five times a day. Before the exercise, they will run with a weight of [-] catties for [-] miles, and then return to the camp to take a bath and eat.After resting for two incense sticks, the "technical and tactical training" began - such as firecracker shooting and bayonet fighting. "

"Five exercises for seven days, are they always this intense?" Li Rusong asked with a serious face.

"Probably so." The servant scratched his head and said, "However, Jinghua's training is more varied. Sometimes there will be no technical and tactical training, but a "zip training" that is pulled out in a team. This zip training also needs to carry weight. But it will be a little lighter, it seems that the whole body bears forty catties, but it has to run a long distance..."

"How far?"

"Ah, they often run from Jianxinzhai to Sanshen Garden. This trip is fifty miles, but they always go there in the morning, go to Sanshen Garden for lunch, and then run back in the afternoon to finish their meal. Such a round trip a day, There are always more than a hundred miles."

"Fuck it, my boy..." A servant stunned and said: "It is said that Gao Situ is kind, why does this sound like he is using the servant as a mule?"

The guide took a peek at Li Rusong, saw that although Li Rusong had a serious face, he didn't show any emotion or anger, so he was a little relieved, and replied, "I'm sure I'm tired like a mule, but the food in the Baiyulou barracks is very good. Not to mention white rice, meat and eggs are still enough. In addition, they get four taels of regular salary, and occasionally a little reward, which is no worse than the county lord, so I am quite happy to see these mules. "

But the servant still shook his head before: "No, no, no, even if the food is good and the salary is high, who can stand up to this damn thing? Besides, what's the use of them practicing so hard, and they can't get it." Fighting! The first-level merit reward is a head of ten taels, without which, what is the way out?"

The head reward standards of each division of the Ming army are different, and there are also differences in the origin of the heads obtained. Generally speaking, the heads of the Mongols are the most expensive, followed by the Japanese pirates, and the Jurchen heads are relatively ordinary.

Don't be surprised, the heads of the Japanese pirates are really more valuable than the heads of the Jurchens, probably because the Japanese pirates invaded along the coast at the beginning, and they could escape on a boat if they were defeated, so the heads were not easy to obtain.

The Jurchens are different. Although there are mountains and forests, they live in a village after all. As long as the Ming army encircles and suppresses them, their heads are relatively easy to take.Moreover, the Jurchen's combat effectiveness at this time is not strong. When Nurhachi first started his army, he often defeated hundreds of enemies with Shu Erhaqi and others. The war between villages is the level of gang fights between villages. As long as there are a few brave guys on one side, the other side is a problem that can be solved by charging.

Generally speaking, only strong chiefs like Yehe, Hada, and Ula can be regarded as having a serious military organization. Jianzhou is before Nurhachi, and the subordinates of Wang Gao and Wang Wutang are considered to be at the military level.

Since the fighting power is not very good, it is of course not so valuable for the Ming army to obtain their heads.The so-called "up to ten liang" in this family is because Li Chengliang's rewards are more generous.

Of course, looking at Li Cheng and Liang Jiading's strong combat effectiveness in turn, this is also one of the three main reasons.The other two main reasons are that the generals of the Li family have the habit of taking the lead in charging, which belongs to "follow me" instead of "follow me", and their morale is high; .

Li Rusong said indifferently at this time: "Okay, shut up. Gao Situ has his own rules, and what his servants rely on for food is not something we should care about. But after hearing this, you should also know where we are in these years." It's not easy to make a living, my Liaodong Army doesn't have many rules like theirs, in general there is only one: if you dare to fight and can fight, you will be rewarded, if you are afraid of fighting, you will be killed! Do you understand?"

"Here!"

"I understand!"

"My lord is proud!"

Li Rusong glanced majesticly, and ordered: "Let's go." He thought to himself: I heard that the Gao family has at least a hundred thousand armed servants. Could it be that they all practiced with such intensity of training?Fortunately, Gao Situ is a civil servant, otherwise, if he was born like my Li family but has [-] strong soldiers, I am afraid that he will be murdered to death.

But after thinking about it, he thought that Gao Wu still had a lot of servants in southern Xinjiang. He suddenly realized, and secretly said: Yes, although there are many Gao Situ servants, they are scattered everywhere. The Jingshi is the headquarters of Jinghua. But there are no more than [-] family members all year round.

The place with the most members of the Gao family was originally Kaiping, but there were no more than 1 people.Later, when he was the governor of Liaodong, the number of servants soared, but so far there should be only [-] to [-], and they are also scattered throughout Liaodong.From this point of view, although Gao Situ is a civil servant, he is very careful.

However, Li Rusong curled his lips when he thought of this, and thought to himself: This is too cautious. You are a civil servant, and you are a classmate of the emperor. With the number of imperial guards already as high as [-], you actually only dared to release your troops in the suburbs of Beijing. Three thousand family members, why is this?Those nobles who have thousands or even tens of thousands of servants, when did the emperor care about it?
But thinking about the strict military discipline of the imperial guards and the strong training of the Gao family members, Li Rusong felt heavy in his heart, as if there was always something wrong.It's okay that the Beijing camp only has [-] imperial guards now, but if there are [-] more, what about [-] after [-]?
The treatment of the frontier soldiers was already poor, and the status of the frontier soldiers might be even worse by then.After all, even if the frontier army is unable to fight, the imperial guards of the Beijing camp can still win a big victory if they attack, and the prestige of the frontier commander will be wiped out by then.

Thinking of this, he also thought of the defeat of his father Hetuala, and his heart was even more heavy.It is unbearable that my father's first fame would fall into the hands of an unknown chieftain from Jianzhou, but this chieftain was still a pawn in his father's account back then.

"I'm going back to Liao Town this time. When the decisive battle in Chahar is over, I will definitely take down Tumen's dog head and restore glory to the Li family! As for today... hmph, it's just training, and you want to make me proud?"
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