Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 562
The standing army of Yangzhou Prefecture in the eastern capital is 3000 people from the Long Jie Army of the Imperial Army of the Southern Tang Dynasty, of which 500 people are regular soldiers, and about 500 people are officers, officers' attendants, and cooks.

This establishment is quite abnormal in Southern Tang Dynasty.

Because in the Southern Tang Dynasty, the imperial army was usually organized with a hundred people as the capital, the fifth capital as the battalion, the fifth battalion as the army, and the ten armies as the compartment. Each compartment should have 5000 people. There is a numbered army on the top of the box, and each numbered army has a left and right hatchback.

According to the normal establishment, there should be 50,000 people in the imperial army of the Southern Tang Dynasty, but in fact, not to mention the Southern Tang Dynasty, it is impossible for the Central Plains court to maintain such a standing army establishment.

Therefore, at this time, most of the forbidden army has no divisions, but the two armies, such as the left army and the right army, are the designated army.

One battalion has 500 people, five battalions are 500 people, and one army has two armies, which is 5000 people.

The establishment of the compartment is fixed at full capacity, which was after the country became rich and the population increased in the Song Dynasty.

So at this time, what is most of this organization used for?

One is to add ranks to the military officers, and they are all commanding officers, or all commanding envoys, which sounds majestic.

The second is that during wartime, auxiliary soldiers such as civilian husbands, state and county soldiers, or united township soldiers will be stuffed in, and an army of 5000 people on weekdays will be quickly expanded into an army of tens of thousands.

This is the same as Zhang Zhao’s side. Zhang Zhao’s forbidden army, such as Habayashi Guard, has a guard of 3000 people, and the left and right guards have a total of 6000 people.

In fact, Zhang Zhao is also thinking about whether to add a box like a framer to the establishment.

Because it is at the peak of cold weapons in ancient China at this time, a brave soldier needs other support personnel very much.

The peculiarity of the Long Jie army stationed in the Eastern Capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty is that it only has 3000 people, and there is no division of left and right armies. In fact, it is only the size of one army.

No matter how you look at it, this strange organization was caused by the unique political system of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Li Jing's son Li Hongji was not the heir in line, so Li Jing had to let him take the positions of Dongdu Liushou and Dongdu Yin, who could cultivate personal power.

Only in this way, the army stationed in Yangzhou, the eastern capital, will be different from the past.

If, like in Jiangning, we set up six divisions of the imperial army plus some other imperial troops, and put four 50,000 people around Jiangning, then it would not be suitable for Yangzhou, the eastern capital.

Even if it is halved, it will not work, because it will easily cause the strength of Dongdu to stay behind to be too inflated.

So Li Jing's solution is to only give a title to the Forbidden Army, and it is not full-staffed.

In addition, Long Jiejun said that they were forbidden troops, but from weapons to salaries, they were based on a model that was much lower than that of the forbidden army, but better than the prefectural and county soldiers.

In the words of later generations, the Long Jiejun stationed in Yangzhou, the eastern capital, is a second-class division.

Use such second-class divisions to guard places like Yangzhou.

well!It can only be said that Southern Tang claimed to be a descendant of Li and Tang, but they didn't learn the benefits. Party disputes and heirs played out of their minds. These two things are really useless.

So, thanks to the perfect assist from the Southern Tang court, Gao Huaide's department, who was staying in the office in the eastern capital of Yangzhou, rushed into the Yangzhou Eastern Capital, and quickly defeated the hundreds of Southern Tang defenders stationed here.

Originally, Gao Huaide thought that if he could not break through the strong fortress of the left-behind office, he could only set fire to it.

In the end, not to mention setting fire, more than [-] people rushed in and took down the left-behind office. It is estimated that no more than five people died in the battle, and the injured ones can be counted on two hands.

Even Gao Huaide sent Huangfu Chong to chase the defeated army with more than [-] cavalry until they reached the gate of Long Jiejun's barracks.

Although Huangfu Chong's commanding ability was not good, he was also a bit of a man, even Zhang Zhao deliberately looked at Huangfu Yu's face and asked him to be his confidant bodyguard.

But the experience in the battlefield is very rich, and it is more than enough to be a Dutou with two 300 people.

As soon as he saw Long Jiejun's barracks, he stopped chasing him immediately. First, he dismounted one hundred and fifty horses and lined up. He blocked the gate of the barracks with a divine arm bow and horned crossbow. He approached and let people set off smoke and fireworks. Call for reinforcements.

As soon as this set was set up, Long Jiejun organized an attack, but due to the rush of time, Long Jiejun only came with more than [-] people.

The number of people was too small. Although they had a lot of rattan cards, they were still shot back by the combination of divine arm bow and horned crossbow blocking the door. Huangfu Chong even organized the remaining cavalry to fight back.

When Long Jie's army was organized up and down and more than [-] people rushed out with their helmets and armor on, Yao Yuanfu also arrived with [-] horsemen.

Huangfu Chong immediately pretended to be invincible, and led more than [-] Long Jie troops out of the barracks, and waited for them to pursue to the northeast corner of Yangzhou City.

Yao Yuanfu rushed out suddenly with thousands of five hundred riders, and Long Jiejun chased them all the way. The formation was chaotic. Those with good physical strength had already entered Yangzhou City, and those with weak physical strength only ran halfway. Long snake array.

How could this withstand Yao Yuanfu's surprise attack, Long Jie's army almost collapsed in response, except for a few who jumped into the river to escape, most of them were captured and killed.

The only force guarding Yangzhou disappeared in less than a quarter of an hour.

. . . .

Zhou Zong was sitting in the main hall of the government office in Jiangdu. In his mind, scenes of his encounters and acquaintances with Li Min, Liezu of the Southern Tang Dynasty, flashed out in his mind.

The classics that Zhou Zong had been familiar with since he was a child were also driving him to go to the death festival now.

However, when he thinks of the beautiful concubine and fine wine at home, the mansion in fertile land, and the daughter whom he secretly regards as a mother who is worthy of the world.

Of course, it is also possible that he was afraid of pain, so Zhou Zong, accompanied by a servant who was almost paralyzed by fright, was still reluctant to die.

Li Cunhui quickly wiped out the resistance left behind in the office, and then saw Zhou Zong with a troubled face and the servant beside him who was limp on the ground.

Li Cunhui narrowed his eyes, held the long knife in his hand, and walked towards Zhou Zong.

Seeing the blood-smelling, iron-clad warrior of Zhou State who looked like a demon god, Zhou Zong couldn't help but tremble all over. He really wanted to kneel down like a servant or kowtow on the ground limply to beg for mercy.

But the last trace of human dignity in his heart, as well as an inexplicable sense of relief in his heart, stopped Zhou Zong.

Li Cunhui looked at the terrified old man who hadn't knelt down, and with a smirk, he gently dragged the horizontal knife in his hand on the ground.

It made people's hearts tremble, and the sound of goosebumps sounded, as if death was approaching. Zhou Zong couldn't help but clucked in his throat, and his body always wanted to slide to the ground.

Li Cunhui suddenly stopped in good time and continued to threaten, he pulled up the round collar robe that scared the paralyzed servant of Zhou Zong on the ground, wiped off the blood on the horizontal knife, and then put the horizontal knife back into the scabbard.

After finishing this set, he bowed his hand to Zhou Zong. "Li Cunhui, the Commander of the Right Feather Forest Guard of a certain Great Zhou family, dare to ask if the elder in front of you is the Duke of Zhou staying in the east?"

Seeing the bloody Zhou Jun fierce tiger on the opposite side put his sword back into its sheath, and asked politely, Zhou Zong suddenly felt a little strength in his body, and the part of the three souls and seven souls that ran away seemed to be back again.

He was about to answer when he suddenly heard a shout. "What kind of person are you? This is the son of the Great Zhou Emperor, the Great Tang Clan, and the Duke of Shouchang County. How dare you sit and answer!"

It turned out that Li Cunhui was accompanying him personally, seeing that Zhou Zong wanted to sit on the chair and return the salute, so he shouted loudly, Zhou Zong blushed immediately, because it was indeed him who was rude.

"Talk!" Li Cunhui pretended to be angry and glared at him, then reached out and helped Zhou Zong who had just stood up to sit down again, still saying: "Zhou Weng is an elder, it's okay to sit and talk."

At this time, how could Zhou Zong dare to sit still, as soon as his buttocks touched the chair, he quickly stood up as if he was scalding someone.

"May I ask the Duke, which clan is my relative?"

Uh!Zhou Zong regarded Li Cunhui, the great Tang clan, as having kinship with Li Min and Li Jing, the "great Tang".

A playful smile appeared on Li Cunhui's face, and he deliberately said lightly.

"I would like to trouble the elders to ask, the ancestor, the governor of Lingzhou, and the king of Changping Su, Shu Lianggong, was the founding king of Zhongsu. His descendants have fallen so far, and they have no face to mention their ancestors!"

In fact, the ancestor of Li Cunhui was not Li Shuliang, the king of Changping, but the cousin of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, the great-grandfather of Li Linfu, the sweet-hearted swordsman, who died in the war against the Turks in the early Tang Dynasty, and was the pillar of the great clan.

Li Cunhui's ancestor is actually Li Youliang, the sixth younger brother of Li Shuliang, the king of Changle County.

However, Li Youliang was executed because of his conspiracy, so Li Cunhui's family generally mentioned their ancestors by replacing Li Youliang with Li Shuliang or directly mentioning Li Yuan's sixth uncle Li Yi.

Zhou Zong blushed again, and only then did he know that the person in front of him was the genuine Great Tang clan.

Although a bit remote and excessive, the identity has been passed down for hundreds of years, and there is indeed a bloodline.

Compared with Li Cunhui, Li Min, Li Jing and his son, who falsely claimed to be the clan of the Tang Dynasty, immediately became parallel imports.

Zhou Zong understood this point, because when Li Min was looking for his ancestor, Zhou Zong followed him to make suggestions.

In fact, it may not be fake, because the Tang Dynasty enjoyed the country for almost 300 years, and before that, the Longxi Li family, the Li Tang clan, had been passed down for hundreds of years.

Over the past four hundred years, the Li family with Li Tang's blood has spread all over the country. Maybe Li Min's ancestors are really clans, but he can't prove it, so he can only look for ancestors randomly.

After being rude twice in a row, Zhou Zong couldn't continue to act like a loyal minister, so he bowed his head and saluted Li Cunhui.

"Zhou Zong, the deputy of Jiangdu Mansion in the Southern Kingdom, stayed behind and met Duke Li of the Great Zhou. The Duke of the Great Zhou was originally an honorable man of the Great Zhou. Why did he lead the army of tigers and wolves to destroy our Eastern Capital?"

Li Cunhui chuckled, "Li Jing pretended to be the clan of the Great Tang Dynasty, presumed to be the emperor first, sent troops to the north, and occupied Songzhou after standing in Xuzhou.

My father, the lord of destiny, obeys the heavens and should be punished by others, why not? "

Zhou Zong really wanted to refute it, but he couldn’t. You have all gone to Songzhou. You must know that Songzhou is only three hundred miles away from Kaifeng Mansion, the capital of Zhou. Come?

Zhou Zong actually had a lot of questions he wanted to ask, such as how did Zhou Jun's iron cavalry get to Yangzhou, etc., but he didn't dare to ask them at the moment, so he could only stand on the spot in embarrassment.

Li Cunhui didn't mind the old man humiliating himself a few more times, and only spoke when he saw that he was silent.

"The matter has come to this, please ask Zhou Weng to issue some safety notices. Where is Judge Feng hiding? Please also tell me."

Li Cunhui came to Zhou Zong because he wanted him to cooperate in issuing a notice to calm the people. Although Yangzhou, the eastern capital, has only [-] troops, it has more than [-] residents.

Once there is chaos, such as robbery and rape, murder and arson, it will be troublesome.

After all, Li Cunhui only has 3000 people, but he can't stand a messy Yangzhou, and it is impossible for him to release all his subordinates to enforce law and order, so he is going to let Zhou Zong, who is the deputy left behind in the Eastern Capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, come out to calm the people.

Faced with Li Cunhui's request, Zhou Zong, who gradually lost his resistance in the conversation, could only agree.

. . . .

After receiving Zhou Zong's Announcement of Anmin and the Golden Seal, Li Cunhui directly retained the officials who stayed behind in the Southern Tang Jiangdu Mansion, let them go as usual, and went out with Zhou Jun to appease the people.

This is the result of Li Cunhui's efforts to learn and supplement related skills after he first entered Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo last time, but he couldn't do anything. He could only watch Murong Xin grow up and shine in vain.

Coming out of the left-behind office, Li Cunhui left Huangfu Chong to guard Zhou Zong, and immediately found Gao Xingzhou. At this time, Zhao Kuangyin also led dozens of cavalry as heralds.

Li Cunhui immediately asked the two of them to find the officials of the left-behind office, get the key to the official warehouse in Dongdu, and take out part of the cloth, grain and oil in the official warehouse.

Then set up twelve distribution points in various urban areas of Yangzhou to distribute all these things.

Gao Huaide looked at Li Cunhui puzzled, "Didn't Zhou Zong be put on the list to calm the people? Why do you need to open a warehouse to release grain?"

Li Cunhui smiled lightly, just like Murong Nobunaga pretended to beep in front of them in the past, he said in front of Gao Huaide as if he was holding a wisdom pearl.

"You can't always rely on others for everything. Zhou Zong's release of the list can only relieve the panic of the people in Yangzhou. Only when we distribute all the things in the official warehouse, they will benefit from it, so they will not be afraid and even support us.

After the people support us, we can drive them and gain a firm foothold for the time being. "

Zhao Kuangyin's eyebrows twitched. There is another advantage to doing this, that is, the people of Yangzhou won't report to the Southern Tang court so easily after taking the money and food from the official warehouse.

"Your Majesty, why don't you take out some more money from the official storehouse, and give some more, anyway, it will be the Southern Tang Lord's account in the end."

"Hahahaha!" Li Cunhui laughed a few times, "That's right, you will be responsible for this matter."

Then he turned his head to look at Yao Yuanfu and several cavalry generals who were all at the top level.

"Drop 300 people out and patrol the city. Anyone who dares to commit crimes, no matter who they are, will be killed without mercy!"

(End of this chapter)