Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 53

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Although Lin Chong had tried his best to think about the horses in Shuibo Liangshan before coming here, he still underestimated the more than 140 good horses in Shuibo Liangshan!
Lin Chong touched these horses one by one, and said: "These horses are not draft horses, most of them are authentic northern war horses, they can go to the battlefield with a little training, village master...brother, where did this horse come from?"

Deng Fei answered for Li Yan: "My brother went north to meet a group of horse dealers some time ago. They sold this horse to us, and they will continue to sell it. Unfortunately, their strength is limited, and they can bring up to thirty or fifty horses at a time. , but in the long run."

Hearing Deng Fei say that there will be more such good horses, Lin Chong's heart moved, and he said to himself: "If I can command one or two battalions of horse troops, I will also be able to be a general. capital."

Thinking of this, Lin Chong's mind was divided!
Suddenly thinking of the imperial court and Gao Qiu's treachery, Lin Chong's heart that had just warmed up quickly cooled down again!
But it doesn't mean that Lin Chong doesn't want to be the head of this horse. On the contrary, after seeing these good horses, Lin Chong can no longer restrain his utilitarianism!
In the final analysis, Lin Chong is still the Lin Chong who is eager to lead the army to make contributions and get ahead.

In fact, this is not Lin Chong's fault.

During the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, the military personnel who were in charge of training were in order: patrol envoys, capital instructors, and instructors.

The visiting envoys are military officers, because the envoys are low-level military officers of the eighth or ninth rank, and they can be named by various names before the "envoy".

A military rank lower than that of an envoy is a military officer without rank.

The instructor of the capital is slightly taller than the instructor. The initial setting is to select a person with high martial arts skills to be the instructor of the capital at a ratio of [-] to [-] to [-].

The instructor first appeared in the army of the Song Dynasty because of Fan Zhongyan's order, "Each commander selects 25 young, strong and brave men, and first teaches them to use bows and crossbows and short soldiers. Once they are skilled, they will be supplemented as instructors. Ten people will be taught separately, and they will be taught according to each other"-that is to say, soldiers will be selected by a ratio of ten to twenty to one as the instructor for teaching martial arts.

However, at this time, it was only a temporary position for martial arts training and pacesetters, and there was no formal staffing.

It was not until Song Shenzong that there were full-time instructors, such as:
"Kaifeng Fujie, Jingdong, and Xijiang will send soldiers, and every ten people will take one person, and order them to teach horse archery." This is to select soldiers ten to one, and then gather to receive training from the instructor.

"The 26 generals in Kaifeng's prefecture and Beijing East and West were selected to be young, strong, light and agile, and they could teach eight soldiers. They were sent to Tiju to learn what the Ma Jun taught them." Five people went to the Infantry Division"-about one person was selected from every few hundred people to be trained as an instructor.Then train the transferred soldiers in batches.On average, each coach taught only a few dozen soldiers each time.

In addition to training the imperial army, the coach also has a task of training volunteers and Baojia militiamen.

One time, a concentrated military training was conducted for the chief security guards in Kaifeng’s prefecture, and the trainers were selected from the Forbidden Army. Only once in Kaifeng, "270 instructors of the Forbidden Army, [-] instructors, and [-] envoys" were selected. From this, we can also get a general idea The ratio of the number of visiting envoys, capital instructors, and instructors.

And the taught Baochang will train the Baojia militia after returning to his hometown, and he can also be called a "teacher"-of course, this is not the category of "80 forbidden army instructors".

According to the above-mentioned selection criteria of several hundred to one, not to mention thousands of instructors in the Forbidden Army, there are always hundreds of them.

The "80 Imperial Army Gun and Stick Instructor" pointed out that at best, he was a senior non-commissioned officer. According to the division of later generations, he belonged to professional technical non-commissioned officers, at best he was a sergeant, and did not belong to the rank of cadres.

For Lin Chong, who has good martial arts skills, how can he be reconciled to being such a sergeant who has nothing but a good name?How can he not be eager to lead troops to make contributions with his own ability?

After inspecting the horses one by one, Lin Chong said: "These horses are really well taken care of. There must be someone who knows horses on the mountain. I beg my brother to take me to see him!"

Seeing that Lin Chong knew the goods, Li Yan nodded secretly, thinking: "Letting Lin Chong lay the foundation for Liang Shanbo's horse army should be the right choice."

Do you know why Li Yan didn’t choose Shan Shiqi and Bian Xiang to build the horse army in Liangshan? It is difficult to change the foundation of the army, what foundation is laid, the future is the foundation, and Lin Chong, let alone those brilliant achievements in the future, is just his experience as the instructor of the Ma Jun in the Imperial Army. Appointed to be more professional than the local tyrant Shan Shiqi and the farmer Bian Xiang.

Li Yan introduced Huangfuduan, who had been by the side all the time, to Lin Chong: "Brother Huangfuduan, I met you last night. He is a first-class veterinarian in the world. He is good at grooming horses. He gave me a pure blood BMW. Now Huangfuduan The brothers are using it for breeding, and when the foal is born, Brother Lin Chong will pick one first."

Lin Chong couldn't believe it: "There are still bloody horses in the village?"

Deng Fei pointed to the Lion Cong who occupied a stable by himself not far away, and said, "It's right there."

Lin Chong looked along Deng Fei's hand, and subconsciously walked towards Shizi Cong.

Li Yan and others also followed.

Li Yan originally thought that Lin Chong would be deceived by Lion Cong's appearance just like everyone else.

But it turned out that Li Yan was wrong.

Lin Chong came to Shizi Cong's side, looked at it for a while, then circled around Shizi Cong a few times, and then suddenly stretched out three fingers to press Shizi Cong's back!

At this time, the lion Cong who was eating grass quietly turned around and bit Lin Chong!

Seeing this, Lin Chong took a step back unhurriedly and withdrew his hand.

Lion Cong was furious and wanted to kick Lin Chong!

Li Yan said: "How dare you, beast!"

After hearing Li Yan's scolding, Shizi Cong resentfully put down his raised leg again!
Lin Chong said with burning eyes, "This must be a BMW!"

Huangfu Duan gave Li Yan a look of "this person understands horses".

Li Yanchong Huangfuduan nodded, and then asked Lin Chong: "Brother, do you want to ride and watch?"

Lin Chong hurriedly said: "Only a brother like this can ride this kind of BMW. A villain can wake up from his sleep with a smile if he gets a pony!"

Li Yanxin said: "If we hadn't met the seemingly unsolvable knot of 'Gao Yanei fell in love with his wife, he would die of illness if he didn't grab it, and his wife is a chaste and strong woman who would rather die than obey'. Lin Chong, who has learned how to love and let go, may not have a chance to succeed."

At this moment, three people in the distance rode towards this side on fast horses.

Li Yan took a closer look, but it was Shan Shiqi, Zhu Jing and Bian Xiang.

Seeing these three people coming on horseback, and thinking of Wang Lun who just left with an excuse, Li Yan, who had roughly guessed what was going on, couldn't help but feel a little headache, "The team is getting bigger, it's hard to lead at first."

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(End of this chapter)