Liu Chengzong's return to Yan'an was not for the purpose of worshiping his ancestors in name only.
He was actually there to see Zhang Zhen's Yanqing brigade reorganized, and other matters such as He Renlong, Ju Sirang or Qingyang Mansion were just incidental.
Because Zhang Zhen did something very outrageous this time.
The order for the newly formed brigade was sent to each commander-in-chief twice.
The first time was a notification of promotion and the specifications of one brigade and four battalions; the second time was a notification that on this basis, soldiers from each brigade were dispatched, ranger battalions, and reinforcement battalions to join the two Mongolian Panqian headquarters.
As for the Yan'an Prefecture, due to the objective situation of landmines on the official road, the interval between the two orders was a bit long, and it was a few days later than the commander-in-chief of the commander's office received the order.
It just happened that in just a few days, Zhang Zhen was able to accomplish something big.
This grandson expanded the three camps with just a wave of his hand.
When he entered Yan'an Prefecture, there were already two battalions of him and Ding Guodong, but now the Yanqing Brigade, which was designed to have 12,000 troops, was fully equipped.
Ordinarily, this situation would not be a big deal in the very unorganized Marshal's Mansion.
When the army is full, you just need to eliminate the old and the weak. You can dismantle as many troops as the commander-in-chief can replenish for you and send them home to farm.
However, Zhang Zhen was not able to disobey Liu Chengzong, or he did not want to disobey him because he was old and weak, but he had no other way and did not dare to disobey Liu Chengzong's order.
I had no choice but to write a letter to the Generalissimo to inform him of the situation in Yan'an Mansion.
Liu Chengzong came.
When Liu Shishi returned to his hometown, he didn't come specifically to deal with Zhang Zhen, he just came to see him for a surprise.
Because he was also undecided about whether the Yanqing Brigade needed Shatai's troops.
The Yanqing brigade expanded to more than 6,000 people without authorization. When Liu Shizi received the letter, his head was buzzing and he was furious.
Your mother's rations are more than 70,000 stone a year. It's not your fault, right?
At that time, he was thinking about letting Zhang Zhen take his expanded 6,000 people on a business trip to eliminate the Chechen Khan's base of 40,000 soldiers on the grassland.
Or be killed by Shuo Lei.
This is why he did not choose to go to Qingyang Mansion first, but went directly north to Yan'an Mansion.
For him, even if the sky falls, it will not be as important as the army.
Of course, there is also a reason that Ju Sirang and He Renlong of Qingyang Mansion are indeed of very low importance in his heart.
Even if these two guys beat Qingyang Mansion to pieces, they still can't change the situation.
But...Liu Shizi went to Yan'an and saw Zhang Zhen, and he became stupid.
On his way to Yan'an Prefecture, Zhang Zhen wrote in a letter that he did not want to disband the army because these more than 6,000 people had to provide their own food and wages.
Provide your own food and wages?
Liu Chengzong's rising anger seemed to be doused by a basin of cold water when he saw these four words.
Only the murderous intention remains.
The matter was so outrageous that Liu Chengzong was more willing to believe that something was wrong with Zhang Zhen.
But when Liu Chengzong made full preparations to return to his hometown to put down the rebellion, he finally arrived at Yan'an Mansion and discovered that what Zhang Zhen said was actually true.
The Yanqing Brigade in Yan'an Prefecture really has more than 6,000 registered soldiers. Not only does it not eat the military rations from the Marshal's Mansion, but it also pays troops directly to Zhang Zhen's General War Headquarters according to the different types of infantry and cavalry.
Even after Liu Shizi understood the situation, he took a long time.
Those soldiers were basically the guardsmen who were recommended by the village elders from various counties and villages in Yan'an Prefecture gathered by Zhang Zhen.
At first, Zhang Zhen recruited them as soldiers because he did not understand the specific policy of the commander-in-chief's reorganization of the new brigade and thought that he had to recruit all the soldiers himself.
Secondly, it was to prevent trouble in Yan'an Mansion.
There was no way, Yan'an Prefecture was already in chaos, and the villagers were all autonomous. Zhang Zhen led two battalions of Ding Guodong into Yan'an, and they left in fear.
It wasn't until Liu Shizi announced that Yan'an Prefecture would be exempted from taxation for five years that Zhang Zhen dared to send people to local areas to deliver orders and ask village elders from various places to remove all landmines on official roads.
When Liu Chengzong entered Yan'an this time, the landmines on the official roads had not been cleared yet.
Therefore, as soon as the Bee Tail Needle arrived in Yan'an, the Qingyang General War Headquarters was reorganized into the Yanqing Brigade, with four battalions under its jurisdiction. It immediately recruited all the young people from Baojia in the villages and counties of Yan'an Prefecture into the army.
He was originally the leader of the militia army from Yan'an Prefecture, and he knew very well how the people turned from obedient people to rogues.
Showing Liu Chengzong his hometown in Yan'an Prefecture, Zhang Zhen didn't dare to cause any trouble.
He knew very well that if he wanted to prevent trouble, he had to force the commander-in-chief to form de facto rule over Yan'an during the five years of exemption.
This matter is very simple for Zhang Zhen. Anyway, the Marshal wants to recruit troops. I will recruit all your young people into the army. In five years, they will all be officers, and their interests will be tied to the Marshal's Office.
Let me see who can stand up to the handsome man!
As a result, a large number of local people in Yan'an Prefecture were strong and powerful and were recruited into the army by him.
But his Yanqing brigade had just expanded to four battalions, and the second order from the Xi'an Prefecture regarding reorganization arrived.
"There are four battalions under the brigade. The reinforcement camp has a thousand Spanish regular troops, and the wandering camp has a thousand Mongolian regular troops. At the same time, soldiers will be transferred from other battalions to supplement the strength."
Zhang Zhen was dumbfounded and thought that my army was already overstretched, so what should I add to it?
Finally, this guy bit the bullet and wrote a letter to Liu Chengzong explaining the situation, while summoning the village elders to discuss the matter.
Village elders from all over the country said that many of them were wounded soldiers from the Lion Battalion back then and had a close relationship with the Generalissimo. After everyone discussed it, it was easy to find out the reason why the Generalissimo was unwilling to expand the army.
It's just military rations.
The township elders in the three prefectures and fourteen counties all believed that it would be beneficial for the younger generation to serve as soldiers in the Yanqing Brigade.
Anyway, they were training to strengthen their people, and they couldn't afford to eat the same rations, so they might as well hand over the troops to Zhang Zhen. After all, the military equipment and training in the Marshal's Mansion were much better than those in their hometown.
What's more, the troops are in the Marshal's Mansion and are stationed in these three prefectures and fourteen counties, so they will have a stronger ability to assemble if something goes wrong.
He simply came up with a way to provide his own food and wages.
The regulations are very simple. According to the number of troops, each county and township elders are responsible for their own food and grass, and they are escorted to Yan'an Prefecture twice a year.
Infantry, musketeers, and artillery can earn one hundred kilograms of millet flour per month, while cavalry can earn fifty kilograms more flour per month than infantry.
If Liu Chengzong set out from Xi'an, all he could think about was how he had to deal with Zhang Zhen.
So when Liu Shizi really saw the newly recruited soldiers of the Yanqing Brigade in Yan'an Mansion, his regard for Zhang Zhen increased.
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It allows people to spend money to go to work and work for them.
What kind of weird talent is this?
Talent!
The key is that Liu Shishi calculated that one state and county has more than 300 soldiers. Considering the current population and economy of Yan'an Prefecture, it is actually not much worse than paying taxes.
At this time, he had nothing to say, so he said to Zhang Zhen: "Then let's handle the matter like this, but your Yanqing Brigade and the two Mongolian Panqian headquarters still have to take over, so they will be overstaffed to 14,000 people."
A brigade with two Mongolian and Fanqian headquarters is a national policy related to the pool of troops for the Marshal's Office.
This cannot be changed.
Anyway, even if it is overstaffed, the Yanqing Brigade's ration consumption is still one-third less than that of other brigades.
No matter how you calculate it, he will not lose. It is nothing more than giving up part of the future political power of Yan'an Prefecture to the local township party.
Liu Chengzong was very open-minded about this matter.
He has the ability to dominate the world. The Yan'an Prefecture is very small.
On the other hand, if you don't have that ability and retreat to the Hehuang Valley or even be driven to the Tianshan Mountains and break into Uzang, then even if the Yan'an Prefecture is de facto independent, what does it have to do with him?
After a major incident was resolved, Liu Shishi summoned local elders in his hometown and held a banquet. At the same time, he sent people to Ningzhou to visit the old chief He Renlong.
The person he sent was Tian Shoujing.
In his early years, he was the commander of his brother Liu Chengzu's team in Yuhebao. He went to Qinghai and joined the Xining Camp. Later, he assisted Mr. Liu in handling military affairs at Xincheng Academy.
It was not until this time that Liu Chengzong's Huben Battalion was promoted to three brigades as officers, and then he was taken back to Huben Battalion to serve as the Qian Commander of the Battalion.
Tian Shoujing was not familiar with He Renlong. He was unilaterally familiar with the garrison general of Yuhe Fort, while He Renlong only knew that he had such a person under his command.
But this was enough for Liu Chengzong.
For example, Zhang Zhen suggested picking a fellow Mizhi fellow from He Renlong from the Yanqing Brigade. After this, many things were still difficult to say.
In fact, this is what He Renlong is worried about.
Tian Shoujing led more than ten guards from Yan'an Prefecture and galloped all the way to Zhenning. When he learned that He Renlong had raised troops to go north, he galloped to the outside of Ningzhou City at night and intercepted He Renlong's troops attacking Qingyang.
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He Renlong is attacking Ningzhou.
Tian Shoujing was very familiar with Ningzhou. When he followed Liu Chengzong to Ningzhou, he stationed himself on the plateau of Dongzhi Town.
Liu Chengzong was waiting to negotiate with Yang He, and he was ordered to take charge of the surveying and mapping topographical map.
This time he came to look for He Renlong. He climbed up the mountain road a long way away and took a look, and saw that He Renlong's camp was similar to the Lion Camp back then.
There are also several camps dotted on the plateau.
There are those who garrison the city, some who are attacking the city below, and some who are running around attacking the fortress.
But it seems that Tian Shoujing suspects that he has been following the commander for a long time... and his horizons have become higher?
Why did he feel that calling this group of people an army seemed flattering?
He Renlong's troops were indeed in dire straits at this time.
The entire army is nearly ten thousand strong, but less than half of it can be called elite soldiers, only about two to three thousand.
The people stationed in the camp were only women and children, and there were three to four thousand of them, more than elite soldiers.
In addition, there are more than 2,000 people stationed in two camps, one of which is attacking Ningzhou City. It looks like a rogue bandit.
The key point is that the elite soldiers are not that good. There are less than a thousand war horses scattered around. The armor is okay, but there are no clothes.
Many people wore cloth-covered iron armor and iron-leather boots, but their legs were bare beneath the armor skirts, or they were just wearing single pants.
Others were wearing ill-fitting cotton jackets and cotton trousers, but no armor, or they simply had iron armor leaves nailed to the cotton jackets.
When Tian Shoujing saw that He Renlong's soldiers were like this, he simply called a guard to ride down the mountain and tell He Renlong that he was coming.
I didn't wait too long on the mountain when I saw my own guards leading a small group of people galloping towards me.
After a while, Tian Shoujing's guards came up and said: "General, He Renlong sent a general named He Yongqian here."
Tian Shoujing laughed when he heard this, thinking that He Yong had also been given the title of general.
Before he could go down, He Yong had already come up and said from afar: "General Tian, I'm here to greet you!"
He Yong didn't know Tian Shoujing at all in the past, but that didn't stop him from calling him affectionately now.
There's nothing we can do about it, it's just one moment and another.
Anyway, He Yong has always been able to bend and shrink when it comes to Liu Chengzong.
The two met, and after He Yong deliberately got close to him, they had an awkward chat, and then walked down the mountain side by side.
Tian Shoujing endured it all the way, but couldn't help but asked: "Brother He, why are the general's soldiers so miserable?"
He Yong looked at him very strangely and thought to himself, why are the brothers so miserable? Isn't it because of your handsome family?
"To be honest, when Brother Tian's guards found the camp, General He was scolding Yang Yanchang and Ren Quan'er. How are they doing in the Marshal's place?"
He Renlong's battalion immediately went up and down, and these two people were the most annoying people.
Earlier, everyone thought that Yang Yanchang was a selfless bastard who would lead troops to rob them at every turn; Ren Quan'er was a smart little guy who knew how to behave, and stayed behind to wipe Yang Yanchang's butt every day.
This made He Renlong fearful every day in the fifth battalion of the coalition forces, thinking that he was the only one who understood Liu. He talked secretly with his cronies all day long, urging them to be smart and be more careful when encountering trouble.
It turns out that these two bastards were the iron nails planted by Liu Chengzong earlier. They had colluded with each other a long time ago. If something really happened, one would jump faster than the other.
With such a way, if you don't support your brothers, it's fine. If you rob your brothers every day, it's still the damn Yan'an Township Party.
Tian Shoujing did not answer directly, but just asked: "Brother He was under the general's tent, and now he has been promoted to General Qian?"
When He Yong nodded, Tian Shoujing looked sympathetic, and then said with a smile: "General Yang is currently a staff general, and General Ren... is the chief military officer of the handsome man's new second brigade."
"Your brother wanted to join the commander-in-chief back then. Not to mention the commander-in-chief, he was also a guerrilla general."
He Yong could see Tian Shoujing's joking, but he didn't care. He waved his hand and said: "Hey, it's boring to say this. One person has his own destiny. If it hadn't been for General He, I, He Yong, would have died and I would have died in my hometown for the landowners of the Chang family.
After a few years of hard work, I will be exhausted."
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As he spoke, He Yong raised his hand and pointed to the camp full of women and children, saying: "Since Ren and Yang led their troops to defect to the general, the fifth battalion on the North Road collapsed, and the general led us to station in Zhenning. We have sent people there in the past few months.
Let’s fetch all the brothers’ mothers-in-law and children who can be picked up.”
"As for the soldiers in the camp who are looking down and out, there is nothing we can do about it. It is summer when the troops are dispatched, and all the winter clothes of the brothers have been thrown into pawn shops to exchange for money."
"I thought I wouldn't need to wear clothes on the battlefield, but I didn't kill the two of them and the clothes came back. Who would have thought that I left my hometown and ran to Qingyang without fighting a single battle."
He Yong waved his hands and did not want to mention these useless things again. He just asked: "The commander sent Brother Tian here this time, is he planning to surrender us, or..."
"The commander-in-chief sent me here because he must be thinking about old friendship. Otherwise, he would have sent troops directly after receiving Magistrate Ju's request for help. Why would he ask me to come here?"
Tian Shoujing said: "The commander-in-chief didn't say death, he just said it depends on what you want. In short, the troops and horses should stop first and not go to Qingyang, otherwise there will be no discussion."
"For other things, you can come up with the conditions. Official positions, soldiers and horses, food and wages, armor and weapons. You can tell General He. There is no need to ask for high prices, just give me a hammer."
"If the conditions are right, we will be a family eating from the same pot again. If the conditions are not right, we will be a family eating from the same pot."
Tian Shoujing shook his head, and his meaning was very clear: "Yan'an, Pingliang, and Guan Nei, if the soldiers and horses enter Qingyang, there will be nowhere to run."
"It's okay to stop the march. The brothers and the commander are one family. There are hundreds of people in our Yuhe Fort alone."
He Yong laughed, and then said seriously: "But we have all been favored by the general, and we must listen to the general. General... Brother Tian, you know, I have too many acquaintances in the commander's mansion. This official position is low, and the general has an ugly face.
We feel uncomfortable too.”
He Renlong does have a heavy burden of thought.
Let’s not talk about Liu Chengzong’s hometown, Ding Xuanfeng.
Cao Yao, the governor of Gansu, Liu Chengzu, the governor of Tianshan, and Zhang Tianlin, the commander-in-chief of Tongguan, were all under his command in the past, and Feng Zhen and his gang were simply the top soldiers under his command.
There are too many acquaintances.
To vote for Liu Shizi and give him the title of general is enough to make him feel embarrassed.
If Liu Shizi doesn't miss his old friendship and gives him the military power and gives him the title of Qian Zong, he will have to grind his teeth and swallow it.
"To be honest, the general is attacking Qingyang this time because, firstly, the soldiers are starving because they have no food, and secondly, he wants to take over the civilian army in Qingyang and then talk to the commander about joining him."
"Now that it has been stopped, I am afraid that the official position that the commander-in-chief can offer will not exceed that of a staff general. I am afraid that General He will not be able to accept it."
After He Yong finished speaking, he raised his chin towards the camp not far away and said: "Of these ten thousand men, there are thousands of women and children, more than two thousand dependent bandits, and in addition there are more than two thousand elite soldiers, all of whom are hard-working and patient.
A good warrior, I heard that the commander-in-chief has a vast territory."
His tone gradually became more sincere: "Is there anything? It's a remote and cold place. It's fine if you can settle down and live a happy life, but you have to fight and kill people and perform meritorious service."
"It can not only find a general position for the general, but also prevent acquaintances and old troops from meeting each other without looking up?"