Since Li Chengzhong started training, the large cave dwelling that was temporarily converted into a school has been brightly lit every night, and all officers above the team leader have to attend lectures here. In addition to the training outline arranged by Li Chengzhong, the content of the lectures also includes Feng Dao's literacy skills.
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But tonight, these officers did not gather here to listen to lectures. In the lecture hall, Pingzhou Army Horse Bu Yuhou and Yuhang School Captain Zhang Long unfolded the silk in their hands and read out this letter issued by Lulong Jiedu Mansion.
Appointment to report:
"Li Chengzhong, the head of the Jiadu of the Zuoying camp in Pingzhou, removed the commander of the former camp in Pingzhou and was promoted to the captain of the Xuanjie school." This is the promotion order. It is stamped with the seal of Lulong Jiedu Mansion.
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"...he specializes in his profession, has a good temperament, is ready for martial arts, has all the talents, is courageous in special tasks, and can do extraordinary things. He is a good choice according to the previous conditions. October 19, the second year of Guanghua.
"This is a criticism of the aforementioned promotion order.
Zhang Long is a third-generation farmer in his family, and he is also a rough man. He does not know these words, but he has memorized these sentences before leaving the customs, and now he seems to be reciting them in a decent manner, which seems to be quite elegant.
.It’s just that he filed the wrong complaint, but he didn’t know it. Nine out of ten officers listening to the order were illiterate, but they didn’t even notice it. Only a few people including Jiang Miao, Zhang Xingzhong and Yuan Xingqin.
Laughing secretly below.
The words in the petition were not obscure, but basically everyone didn't understand them. They just knew that it was a petition to promote Li Chengzhong to an official position, combined with the words "former battalion commander" and "Xuanjie captain" that he heard.
Only then did everyone understand that their captain had finally become the commander of the first battalion, with the rank of Xuanjie Colonel, the eighth grade. After careful calculation, Li Chengzhong has become the number one person in the Pingzhou Army since Zhou Zhiyu. At the moment
, the cave dwelling cheered like thunder.
Li Chengzhong stepped forward and bowed, took the notice from Zhang Long, unfolded it and read it again, feeling extremely happy. This official notice was different from the ones he had before he served as a team officer. Those previous notices
When Zhou Zhiyu left Zhenpingzhou, he brought a blank petition from Jiedu Mansion. He filled in Li Chengzhong's name and stamped the petition seals of the Military Envoy and the Governor's Mansion. This petition was completed.
The canon comes from Lulong Jiedu Mansion and was written by Guo Tongpan of Jiedu Mansion. It not only contains the promotion order, but also comments and comments. The seal is also the seal of Jiedu Mansion.
Zhang Long said with a smile: "Brother Li's great achievements in Bailang Mountain have been reported to Youzhou. Jiedu Mansion is very happy and has spread the news to the border. It won't take long for Brother Li's fame to spread throughout the Lulong Army.
It is said that the commander-in-chief personally asked about the battle in detail and repeatedly praised him as "good"..."
Li Chengzhong chuckled, and put the petition away solemnly. He saw that Zhang Long had taken three petitions and handed them to Li Chengzhong: "These are the promotion petitions of several of my capable subordinates." According to the usual practice, these petitions were sent to Li Chengzhong.
Li Chengzhong came to read the order. Li Chengzhong took it and read it one by one on the spot. Amid the cheers of the officers, Jiang Miao, Zhang Xingzhong and Zhou Qidao stepped forward to take it. These three people were all promoted and "inspected the school"
The two characters were removed and he became the actual head of the capital. His rank was also upgraded from deputy lieutenant Renyong to captain Renyong, and he was promoted to the ninth rank.
Zhang Long finally handed over a thick stack of petitions and whispered: "These blank petitions were given to you by the military envoy. The officers at the rank of the former battalion general and below will be decided by me. After the draft is completed, I will give it to you."
Just make a copy and report it to the military envoy and the governor's office."
At this moment, Li Chengzhong was truly moved. These blank confessions meant one thing. Zhou Zhiyu allowed Li Chengzhong to recruit troops outside the customs to make up for the shortage of troops in the front camp, and the front camp was appointed by the officers, led by Li Chengzhong.
Zhou Zhiyu made the decision and did not interfere at all. How much support and trust is this? Thinking of Zhou Zhiyu's kindness to his family, Li Chengzhong felt that he had nothing to repay.
After the appointment was read out, Li Chengzhong ordered the banquet to be set up to greet Zhang Long and other officers who were escorting the military supplies. He felt a little ashamed and said: "There is a lot of game in Bailang Mountain, but there is no wine. I really can't help my brother."
Zhang Long laughed: "I knew this would happen, so I brought ten jars of fine wine to get drunk with my brother tonight!"
That night, dozens of officers held a banquet in the cave dwelling to celebrate. Unfortunately, there was too little wine and everyone was not enjoying themselves.
The next morning, Li Chengzhong invited Zhang Long and other officers and soldiers from Yuguan to watch the ceremony. His military training plan had been carried out for ten days, and it was the time for the review.
Li Chengzhong's more than 300 people, arranged in a row of ten people in each group, lined up horizontally, holding swords, shields, wooden guns, bows and arrows and other weapons, marching through the school field in unison. When passing the reviewing stand, they changed from marching to goose-stepping.
, turned his head neatly to the right, paid attention to the reviewing stand, shouted "kill" and passed by. This set of movements was plagiarized by Li Chengzhong from the "distributed style" of later generations. It took eight years to truly teach this set of movements.
Days, as for letting the soldiers practice, it only takes two days.
In Li Chengzhong's eyes, the "distributed" march of his own soldiers was too crude. First of all, they were unevenly arranged horizontally, either with the right side leaning forward, or the left side leaning forward, or the two ends and the middle being uneven, forming a front or rear gap.
The concave and convex surfaces are really ugly. Secondly, the steps of the soldiers are not uniform. There are always one or two steps in each row that are inconsistent with the steps taken by others. Then, when walking forward in front of the reviewing stand, many soldiers are walking
Along the way, there are a few soldiers jumping and jumping, just like the "goose-style" walk that Li Chengzhong saw when watching TV in the northern part of the peninsula in later generations. It was quite similar to the three, but it looked really awkward.
Extremely bad; also, the soldiers’ shouts of “kill” were incoherent, not bright, and completely devoid of energy...
Fortunately, after each group of soldiers circled the field for a week, they were able to find a final foothold to stand at attention. More than thirty groups of soldiers gradually formed three large square formations of six teams, with scout teams and logistics teams on both sides.
Li Chengzhong's face was livid. It was not that he had not thought about this bad result. He was actually prepared for the poor results. After all, the training period was too short. For these recruits with extremely low quality, how could they be trained in such a short period of time?
They were able to complete the entire set of prescribed actions without getting separated or wandering around within the time limit, and finally formed a formation in front of the reviewing stand, which was pretty good.
If there were not Zhang Long and others watching the ceremony on the reviewing stand, Li Chengzhong would have encouraged his soldiers to keep up their efforts. But at this moment, he felt that it was really difficult to save his face, so he was ashamed and angry for a long time and was speechless. Li Chengzhong did not say anything, and the soldiers in the front camp
They all stood on the spot with their chests raised, and no one dared to make a sound. Only the sound of "creeping" horses riding on one side of the scout team's horses could be heard from time to time.
The soldiers of the front camp stood on the spot, with their chests and abdomen raised, and their eyes looking forward... This action was called "Standing Military Posture" by later generations of troops. It was specially trained by Li Chengzhong these days. At noon every day, all soldiers must train on this subject
For half an hour, anyone who makes the slightest move will be immediately picked out and punished in front of the entire army. The method of punishment is to lie down on the spot, support the body with both arms, and adjust the height of the body by flexing and extending the arms.
, according to the instructions of the team leader, it is completed after fifty flexions and extensions. This action was called "push-ups" in later generations of troops.
Li Chengzhong did not move, and all the soldiers in the front camp did not dare to move. Even the officers escorted by Zhang Long on the review stage did not move. They did not learn to "stand in a military posture", but were completely "distributed".
"Shocked.
In Li Chengzhong's eyes, the marching in columns was full of mistakes, but in the eyes of Zhang Long and others, it was really neat and serious. They had never seen such a neat queue, never seen such a unified pace, never seen such a solemn stance.
.Although the army of this era pays attention to formations, it does not train soldiers in this way. When the soldiers arrange the formations, they pay attention to compactness and strictness, focusing on orders and prohibitions, and emphasizing fighting bravely. As for whether each horizontal row is neat or not,
The spacing between the front and rear rows, the uniformity of steps to the left and right, etc. are not important, and no one has even thought about training the soldiers to "stand in a military posture" like wooden stakes.
Therefore, Zhang Long and others looked at each other, and everyone was thinking in their hearts, with curiosity, doubt, confusion, and even disdain. Yuan Xingqin stood behind Zhang Long, and he felt disdain for it. When he thought about it,
This Li Chengzhong really lived up to his great reputation. He spent all his energy training soldiers to make these useless displays. They look good, but what is their use on the battlefield? Yuan Xingqin believes that the focus of training soldiers should be on fighting skills.
We should pay attention to cultivating the warrior spirit of soldiers. Even if we are rehearsing formations, we should also train soldiers to perform according to formations such as Yanyue formation or sudden arrow formation. This is the real method of military training. Can walking in an orderly manner scare the enemy? Is it possible?
Standing as tall as a wooden stake can withstand the enemy's swords, guns and arrows? How ridiculous!
Li Chengzhong secretly looked at the expressions of Zhang Long and others, especially the slight disdain on Yuan Xingqin's lips that he saw very clearly, so he felt even more embarrassed. Holding back his anger, Li Chengzhong shouted loudly: "Disband!
"He stopped paying attention to the soldiers in the queue below the stage, turned around and smiled bitterly at Zhang Long: "It's a joke, brother, the training time is still short, we can't take it seriously, we can't take it seriously."
It was the first time for Zhang Long to experience this kind of training, and he didn’t know whether it was good or bad. He was poor at words, so he didn’t know how to say it, so he said calmly: "It's okay...it's okay..."
It was okay that he didn't speak, but it was really bad when he spoke. His words sounded like perfunctory words of comfort. Li Chengzhong thought that Zhang Long was too polite to point out the shortcomings of his team, and he was holding back in his heart.
His anger grew a little stronger, and he secretly decided to go back and drill these guys even harder, and create a formation that would make other "brotherly unit" officers take a high look!
Zhang Long led his troops back to Yuguan. It is not good for them to stay in Bailang Mountain for too long. After all, 800 people means 800 mouths. If they stay here for one more day, Bailang Mountain will lose one day of food. With the arrival and arrival,
With the experience of fighting between the Khitans, Zhang Long seemed a little more confident about the return journey, and he was not afraid to set off at this moment.
Before leaving, Zhang Long asked: "We have known each other for a long time, but you don't know my cousin's name?"
Li Chengzhong scratched his head: "I'm just kidding, I don't have any words to express at the moment."
Zhang Long said "Oh" and couldn't help but remind him: "I didn't have a nickname before, thanks to the soldiers and horses who gave me the word 'Quanhe'..."
When Li Chengzhong heard this, his eyes lit up. He had been in this era for more than half a year, and he understood the relationship and meaning attached to the words. He immediately said: "I have an unkind request. I would like to ask the military envoy to serve me."
Please give me a name and I hope that I can convey it to you."
When Zhang Long heard that Li Chengzhong was so kind, he felt a little closer to him. He patted his chest and made a promise, and the two of them said goodbye reluctantly.
The arrival of fifty carts of military supplies greatly alleviated the shortage of materials in the Bailang Mountain military camp. Food was stored in cave dwellings, enough to last for three months. Cloths were immediately distributed to women and children, who stepped up their efforts to sew winter clothes and quilts.
In addition, newly arrived swords, shields, wooden guns and leather armor were also distributed to the army, replacing a batch of Khitan sabers and carbines that were not readily available.
After everything was straightened out, Li Chengzhong began to train the soldiers with all his strength. Feeling that he had lost face in front of Zhang Long and others, his training was really good. As a result, the soldiers in the front camp finally realized what Li Chengzhong said: "