Liu Xiu looked at Wang Chang and asked: "Yan Qing, these days, there are constant memorials to impeach Zhonghua. What do you think of this matter?"
Wang Chang was silent for a long time and said with some embarrassment: "I'm afraid the words of the humble minister are not what your Majesty wants to hear."
Liu Xiu was happy and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if Yan Qing just says it."
Wang Chang said: "The ministers think that the post of Chief Situ should be removed now."
Liu Xiu smiled bitterly and said, "Even Yan Qing, do you think Zhong Hua is incompetent?"
When the ministers of the court were enjoying their happiness in Luoyang, Deng Yu was fighting on the front line. When the ministers were talking loudly in the court, Deng Yu was fighting on the front line. When the ministers collectively impeached Deng Yu, he was still fighting on the front line.
People who don't do things will never make mistakes; people who make mistakes are always doing things.
Wang Chang said meaningfully: "Wei Chen does not think that Da Situ is incompetent, but His Majesty's various protections for Da Situ will only put more pressure on Da Situ and even establish more..."
Political enemy. He was too embarrassed to say the last two words.
His words were something Liu Xiu had never considered before. Liu Xiu was stunned for a moment and fell into deep thought. After a long time, he nodded slowly and said, "I really need to think about this matter more carefully.
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Wang Chang smiled and said: "Your Majesty has always been wise and ambitious. I believe that your Majesty will be able to properly resolve the matter of Da Situ."
Liu Xiu shook his head and smiled, picked up the tea cup, took a sip of tea, and sighed: "Talk to Yan Qing, it can really ease my worries!"
The relationship between the two of them had been good in the past. Although they belonged to two factions, one was the Zhutiandu tribe and the other was the Green Forest tribe, the overt and covert fights between the factions had never affected their friendship.
According to Liu Xiu's order, Wang Chang replaced Jing Shang and became the chief general of the new army. In fact, this new army cannot be completely said to be a new army, because there are many veterans in it.
These veterans were all Liu Xiu's old subordinates. They had followed Liu Xiu to annihilate Wang Lang and put down the rebel army. They had rich combat experience and strong combat power.
After Wang Chang succeeded Jing Shang, he carried out a large-scale promotion of veterans in the army. Veterans with stronger combat capabilities were promoted to captains (for a team of five), and veterans with stronger abilities were promoted to captains (for a team of ten).
A small team, fifty people are a regular team), those who have both combat strength and ability are promoted to camp commanders (a hundred people are a camp), or even military lords (a military lord is also a commander, and five hundred people are a qu).
The new recruits are mainly trained by veterans, who teach them fighting skills and combat experience. As the "chief instructor", Wang Chang only needs to control the overall situation. Relatively speaking, what he does is relatively easy.
Soon, Liu Xiu set a date to go to the New Army camp.
At this time, Wang Chang began to get busy. His Majesty came to inspect the camp in person. As the commander-in-chief of the new army, Wang Chang naturally attached great importance to who he could meet and who could approach him during his tour of the camp.
Carry out strict screening to ensure nothing goes wrong.
In addition, Wang Chang found Hua Feiyan and placed spies from Yunxi Pavilion on a large scale into the new army. They could not only secretly search for people with evil intentions, but also protect His Majesty in the event of an emergency.
effect.
This day finally came for Liu Xiu to patrol the camp in person.
Escorted by a large number of Yulin guards and imperial troops, Liu Xiu left the palace and visited the new army camp outside Luoyang City.
Wang Chang came out of the camp to greet him and brought Liu Xiu into the camp.
Liu Xiu was an expert in military management. When he entered the camp and saw the layout of the camp, he immediately smiled and said to Wang Chang beside him: "Yan Qing, I can tell at a glance that this camp was created by you."
, very much your style!”
Wang Chang said with a smile: "After Wei Chen took over the camp, he did make some adjustments to the structure of the camp." After a pause, he said seriously: "Your Majesty, let's go to the military field!"
Liu Xiu had no objection and nodded.
When we arrived at the school military field, we looked around and saw that the place was completely dark. There were probably at least 40,000 to 50,000 people standing in the huge military field.
If you look carefully, you will see that the soldiers are wearing bright armor, full of vigor and vitality, and their formations are neat and orderly. They look like a line when viewed horizontally, and they are still a line when viewed vertically.
When Liu Xiu entered the school military field, tens of thousands of Han soldiers knelt down on one knee and said in unison: "Your Majesty!"
Accompanied by Wang Chang, Liu Xiu walked up to the high platform of the colonel's military field. Long Yuan, Long Zhun, Long Bu, Xu Ying, Xu Ting and Xu Fei also followed, standing at each corner of the high platform with their eyes like lightning.
Keep checking around.
"Pingshen!" Liu Xiu waved to the soldiers in the audience.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" People responded in unison, and then they stood up in unison. This scene was extremely spectacular. The moment people stood up, it was like the sea water suddenly rose.
Next, Wang Chang picked up a small flag, used the flag language as an order, and directed the tens of thousands of soldiers on the scene to evolve their formations.
Liu Xiu stood on the high platform and watched carefully.
I saw the Han army soldiers in the school military field first laying out the most basic rectangular formation.
On the surface, the rectangular array is a whole, but if you look closely, there are many doorways. The overall rectangular array is composed of small square arrays.
Each small square formation is a piece of music for five hundred people. Every four small square formations will form a slightly larger square formation. This is one piece. Every five large square formations will form a larger square formation.
Phalanx, this is an army. An army consists of exactly 10,000 people.
The entire rectangular array is made up of such small square arrays, but it does not give people a sense of clutter. If the rectangular array is a huge machine, then each small square array is like a component of it.
Precisely and perfectly combined.
As an insider, by observing the formation of a team, you can basically judge the training level of the team, as well as its combat capabilities, mutual cooperation capabilities, coordination and integration capabilities among the various armies, etc.
Wang Chang turned to look at Liu Xiu, and saw that His Majesty was watching attentively. He waved the small flag in his hand. Seeing the flags he waved, the generals of each army gave orders, and the orders were passed on, and the whole army moved.
The original rectangular array quickly changed. The arrays on the two wings retreated, and the array in the center pressed forward. In just a moment, the rectangular array had turned into a highly offensive forward array.
The characteristic of the front arrow formation is that the center is forward and the two wings are back. The overall formation is like an arrow. When two armies are fighting, the front arrow formation is suitable for breaking through the center.
After the formation had evolved, Wang Chang took a peek at Liu Xiu again, and saw that he was smiling and nodding slightly from time to time. Wang Chang finally felt relieved. He once again played the flag, and the front arrow formation in the school military field quickly transformed again.
It became a wild goose formation.
The characteristic of the wild goose formation is that the central force is concentrated and the two wings are stretched out to both sides, like a flying wild goose. Its characteristic is that while the central breakthrough is being made, the two wings are moving forward to outflank the enemy. Its purpose is to completely annihilate the enemy.
At least it must rely on outflanking from both wings to cut apart the enemy's main formation.
Next, Wang Chang performed various formation drills using flags. It can be seen that Wang Chang worked hard on the formation drills, and the whole army was very coordinated.
When the formation changes, chaos will only occasionally occur, but for a newly formed army, this is not easy.
Liu Xiu was very satisfied with this. By noon, the formation demonstration was basically completed. Liu Xiu thought that this was the end. Unexpectedly, Wang Chang had other arrangements next.
He put away his command flag and said a few words to his subordinates. The general ran down the high platform, and then led ten soldiers carrying bows and arrows to the high platform. The general raised his head.
, stepped in and saluted, and said: "Your Majesty, please watch our army's archery drill!"
Hearing this, Liu Xiu raised the corners of his mouth and nodded slightly.
The general received the order and took ten soldiers to the side of the school military field. There was a row of archery targets. When the ten soldiers were eighty steps away from the archery targets, they stopped.
Then, under the command of the general, people took off the long bows on their shoulders, took out an arrow from the quiver, twisted the bow and set the arrow, pointing the arrow in the air. After a moment of pause, ten soldiers shot out almost at the same time.
Arrow.
The arrows drew a parabola in the air and hit the target eighty paces away.
At such a long distance, no one missed the target, and seven of them hit the target. After seeing this, all the soldiers in the school military field cheered in unison. Liu Xiu also nodded repeatedly and exclaimed: "Not bad!"
Wang Chang walked to Liu Xiu and whispered: "Your Majesty, please also demonstrate your archery skills to boost the morale of our soldiers!"
He didn't mean to cause problems for Liu Xiu. He and Liu Xiu were old comrades in arms. Wang Chang knew very well how capable Liu Xiu was. Even though Liu Xiu didn't use arrows very much on weekdays, his archery skills were...
It can be said to be a leap of faith.
Let Your Majesty demonstrate your superb archery skills in public, which can not only enhance your reputation but also boost your morale. Why not do it?
Unexpectedly, Wang Chang had plotted against himself in order to manage the army. Liu Xiu couldn't help but burst into laughter and said: "If you want to say that archery is good, it must be Ziwei (Fu Jun)!"
Wang Chang smiled and said: "Your Majesty is too modest."
Liu Xiu smiled, stopped giving in, stretched out his hand and said, "Give me a stiff bow!"
Wang Changxi smiled brightly and immediately asked the side general beside him to get a hard bow. Not long after, the side general held a long bow in both hands and came to Liu Xiu. He bowed respectfully and said, "Your Majesty!"
Liu Xiu took the long bow and weighed it in his hand first. It felt a little lighter. He spread his feet apart, hooked the bow string with his two fingers, and pulled it out hard. There was a crisp sound in the helix, and the bow was unexpectedly pulled.
Liu Xiu was forced to break.
At this moment, both the people on the stage and those in the audience were stunned.
Wang Chang's expression suddenly changed, and he turned around and glared at the general who was holding the bow. It's not good for you to drop the bow at any time, but you did it just when His Majesty was patrolling the camp. You really gave face to the new army!
The general was so frightened that he was sweating profusely. He knelt down on one knee and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, Wei Chen... Wei Chen is going to get another bow!"
Liu Xiu disagreed and said: "This bow is a bit light, remember to use a hard bow!"
"Wei Chen knows, Wei Chen understands!" General Pian stood up and hurried off the stage. Not long after, he took out another bow. This bow was obviously longer than the one just now, and the bow was thicker.
,thick.
However, when Liu Xiu took it, it still felt lighter. He took a deep breath, hooked the bowstring with two fingers again, and pulled outward with force. When the bowstring was fully drawn, the bow made a crisp sound again, and it
Broken again.
This situation made all the soldiers in the audience stunned.
If there was something wrong with the first bow and was broken by His Majesty, how can we explain the second bow? The general who took the bow could not have made two mistakes in a row, and there could be no problem with the second bow.
People looked at Liu Xiu with eyes that were not only respectful, but also a little awe-inspiring.
It is very unlucky to have two bows broken in a row, it is simply a bad omen.
The general who took the bow was already kneeling on the ground, shaking like chaff. Wang Chang also felt that he could not bear to lose his face. Before Liu Xiu could speak, he scolded him: "It's really useless! Go and get my bow!"
