Although the winter of Jiwei year was cold, the unique geographical conditions of Bailang Mountain kept Li Chengzhong's troops stationed here away from the thorns of frozen bones. In addition to the surrounding mountains that can block the cold wind from the north and south, the army
The geothermal spring water in the mountain behind the village also makes people feel very comfortable and comfortable. I guess this is also the reason why the Andong Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty established a grain storage army village here.
Without the worry of Khitan invasion, Li Chengzhong immediately began the long-awaited military training.
Before training, he reorganized the troops at hand. Currently, he has a total of more than 220 soldiers. He also selected more than 100 young men from the refugees who hid in the mountains to join the army, bringing the number of troops to three.
One hundred and fifty people. He divided the 300 people into three capitals and six teams, appointed Jiang Miao, Zhang Xingzhong, and Zhou Qidao as the capital heads respectively, and established a scout team and a logistics team. This method of organization was equivalent to breaking the Lulong Army.
It was customary for squadron officers and captains to live on empty pay, so others could say otherwise. However, Zhang Xingzhong and Zhou Qidao were experienced veterans of the Lulong Army. Li Chengzhong was worried about what they had in mind, so he went to talk to them one by one.
The conversation went smoothly beyond Li Chengzhong's expectation, and all three leaders expressed their understanding and support. The reason was that these three were all officers who had climbed up from the bottom, and their starting journeys were the same as Li Chengzhong's.
When they were team leaders, several of them were not eligible for empty pay. After arriving in Pingzhou, although they were promoted to team officers and then to the head of the inspection school, they still did not have the opportunity to receive empty pay. They started recruiting troops
Since then, he has been following Li Chengzhong in the battle, from Yuguan to Bailang Mountain. The originally set empty wages are still listed in the account book of the Pingzhou Army Envoy. The wages and the land have never been seen, so he is not satisfied with the empty wages.
I don't have many direct feelings about the benefits of salary, and I don't have much resistance to Li Chengzhong's persuasion and explanation.
Li Chengzhong also promised that in the future, in his army, each officer would be paid ten guan per month, and each head would be paid 20 guan per month. After creating a world in the future, when allocating acres of land, the officers would be given priority to select one according to their rank.
It ranges from one hundred to five hundred acres... Putting aside the matter of acres, after all, it is the Year of the Monkey and the Horse, but this monthly salary is much higher than that of other troops in the Lulong Army, which to a large extent makes up for the lack of free salary.
Of course, Li Chengzhong has no money now, so he can only make empty promises. The officers can still only receive money from the accounts of the Pingzhou Army according to regular monthly rates, but Li Chengzhong found Feng Dao and solemnly
Everyone's salary arrears are recorded in the account book, and they are repeatedly guaranteed to be paid out when they have money in the future.
At least everyone now has full confidence in Li Chengzhong, so they are also full of confidence that he can fulfill his promise, which makes Li Chengzhong breath a sigh of relief. He is very resistant to the military custom of empty pay, so he can get used to it at this time
He felt sincerely happy that the signs of the epidemic had been eradicated in his army. As for the debts, let's pay them first. Anyway, if there are too many lice, don't worry about them. If there are too many debts, don't worry. He is already heavily in debt, and just a few more will be enough.
never mind.
The first batch of debtors he owes are the survivors of the soldiers who died in the last battle and the soldiers who performed meritorious services. The second batch of debtors includes: Jiang Miao, Zhou Chopper, Zhang Xingzhong, Wang Dalang, Meng Xuxing, Jiao Chengqiao, Zhong Silang, Zhao
Among them, Jiang Miao, Zhang Xingzhong and Zhou Qidao are the inspection chiefs of A, B and C respectively. Each of them leads a soldier of the capital and is also the captain of the left team of the capital. Zhong Silang serves as the right commander of Jiang Miao's first capital.
The captain of the team, Meng Xuxing serves as the captain of Zhang Xingzhong's Bdu right team, and Jiao Chengqiao serves as the captain of Zhou Zhidao's Bingdu right team. Wang Dalang serves as the captain of the scout team, with a temporary establishment of 20 people. Zhao Da serves as the captain of the logistics team.
There are also twenty people, ten of whom are hunters among the common people. In addition to providing supplies, their responsibilities are also responsible for the important task of treating wounded soldiers during wartime.
In addition to the above establishment, with the unremitting persistence of officers at all levels, Li Chengzhong finally selected ten people as his personal guards, and Zhou Xiaolang, who was trained by Zhou Qidao, served as the captain of his personal guards.
As Zhou Xiaolang's fellow countryman and colleague, Zhou Xiaolang was brave in killing and dared to risk his life when fighting. He performed well in these battles. He can be regarded as an old man who followed Li Chengzhong, because there was no suitable opportunity, so he died from Yuguan.
He has not been promoted since he became the captain. This time he was appointed as Li Chengzhong's personal guard captain. Although his rank has not changed, according to the military practice of this era, he is more popular as a personal guard captain than a serious captain.
Therefore, he was extremely elated. He repeatedly patted his chest in front of Li Chengzhong to express that the future safety of Li Chengzhong would be left to him and he would ensure that no accidents would happen. The energy with which he patted his chest and swore was very similar to that of Zhou Qidao, which originated from the same lineage.
, looked like a smaller version of Zhou Qidao, which made Li Chengzhong feel funny.
The appointment of Zhao Da as the school's logistics team leader made him somewhat unbelievable. His old problem of lack of self-confidence recurred, and he repeatedly asked Li Chengzhong to carefully consider others. The appointments of other officers were enthusiastically supported by the parties involved.
Only this guy's repeated "disobedience" made Li Chengzhong a little impatient. He said with a straight face: "Old Zhao, do you not believe in yourself, or do you not trust my vision? Come on."
You performed very well the first time we fought against the Khitans! You have made such a great contribution, so it’s appropriate to promote you. Besides, you are good at logistics, so having you as the team leader will give full play to your strengths!"
The word "logistics" was invented by Li Chengzhong in this era. The establishment of a special "logistics team" can also be regarded as his pioneering innovation in this era. When he established the "logistics team", everyone was very upset.
Understandably, the officers have proposed changing the name of this group to "transportation group", "grain and grass group", etc., but none of them are consistent with the responsibilities and tasks assigned to this organization by Li Chengzhong.
What we fight in wars is logistics. The connotation and extension of logistics are very broad, including not only escorting food, grass and baggage, but also all aspects such as clothing, meals, ordnance. After thinking about it, really only the word "logistics" from later generations can fully describe it.
Expression, so even if these officers did not understand, he still insisted on using this title. Regarding the insistence of the top leader, everyone could only obey the order, so the original "Logistics Guy" and now the "Logistics Team" appeared here
era.
Of course, after hearing this title for a long time, everyone gradually got used to it, so they understood it literally. This understanding came from Feng Dao's thinking. He believed that there is nothing wrong with the word "logistics", which means "post"
It is at the rear of the battlefield, behind the soldiers; "Qin" means "labor", as stated in "Poems of Songs of Zhou Dynasty", King Wen was diligent, and "Book of Rites Tamamo" also said that those who are diligent,
If there is something to do, just accept it, that is, to deal with the humiliation of labor. Speaking of it, Li Yuyang's word "logistics" is really appropriate.
A scholar like Feng Dao praised the word for its good use, and the officers gradually realized that the word was really good, so they began to use it.
After receiving some kind words of admonishment, Zhao Da left with a grimace. He could only bite the bullet and manage the twenty people assigned to him. When he was only responsible for ten people, he would
It was a bit difficult. Now there were ten more people, and his head felt even bigger.
Jiang Miao, Zhang Xingzhong and Zhou Qidao had already been appointed as inspectors when they came out of Yuguan. However, there were never enough soldiers, so they were actually fulfilling their duties as team officers. Now that they had finally achieved success, they all felt
I am sincerely happy. Anyone who has doubled the number of soldiers under his command will feel joy from the bottom of his heart. The slight disappointment that he heard that he could not be paid on an empty basis has also disappeared. He has more soldiers than when he was on an empty salary.
In fact, it feels pretty good.
A large number of swords, guns, bows and arrows were seized during the battle to guard the Bailang Mountain military camp, so that the new soldiers under Li Chengzhong did not have to worry about having no weapons to use. Li Chengzhong carefully inspected the captured Khitan weapons and found that the quality was very good, almost as good as that of ordinary soldiers.
Those weapons made by the governor of the state.
Zhang Laojiang carefully inspected the weapons captured from the Khitan people and couldn't help but sigh: "It has reached the level of fifty refinements. Our best craftsman in Pingzhou can only reach seventy-two refinements."
Li Chengzhong was very surprised and asked: "How skilled are the Khitan people in making weapons?"
Zhang Laojiang shook his head, nodded again, and said: "I didn't have it originally, but judging from these weapons, they are really good."
Li Chengzhong was a little worried and said with a sense of luck: "Could it be sold by us from the Central Plains?"
Zhang Laojiang said: "Definitely not. We in the Central Plains have always used forged horizontal knives. The captured knives are a bit curved, but they are commonly used by barbarians outside the pass. According to the old man's thinking, the Khitans must have robbed some of us Han people in these years.
Craftsmen, that's why they can create such good knives.
Being able to forge excellent weapons means that the Khitan people have comprehensively improved in mining, iron-making, casting and other crafts. This kind of improvement may not be noticed by others, but Li Chengzhong came from later generations and deeply understood the meaning contained in it, so he
He was very worried about it. But at the moment, he was powerless to do anything about these things, so he had to put them behind him for the time being and focus on military training again.
Regarding the idea of military training, Li Chengzhong had already had it since he followed Zhou Zhiyu to Pingzhou. When he was appointed as the captain, he tried hard to recall the daily training methods of the original army, combined with the war he had experienced in this era.
Based on what I saw and heard, I finally pieced together a training outline.
But because of the upcoming Yuguan Guard Battle and Bailangshan Guard Battle, he never started training soldiers. He just continued to improve the training outline in his mind in his spare time. Now that he finally had time, he planned to train soldiers this winter.
After careful verification, even if he cannot achieve the effect he imagined, he should at least give his troops a preliminary prototype. After winter, he also plans to try to have a head-on confrontation with the Khitans in a field battle. He is not capable of fighting in the field.
An army that can defeat its opponent can never be defeated. Li Chengzhong was very insistent and persistent on this point.