"Run away, run away for me, haven't you eaten yet?!" A general shouted loudly, and the whip in his hand hit the ground with a crackling sound.
The dust on the school field was flying, and groups of soldiers were running forward in neat formation. Around them, there were countless soldiers fighting and wielding their swords. The training on the entire school field was not affected by the upcoming march.
transferred and blocked.
Compared with the Northern Dynasty, Nanchen had the disadvantage of insufficient manpower, and the insufficient number of people naturally meant that the number of soldiers in the army was also insufficient. Therefore, we could only use one soldier to resist more enemies as much as possible, otherwise Nanchen would have been in the army long ago.
The Northern Qi or Northern Zhou were drowned in the sea of people.
In other words, this is actually a strategy that has never changed in the Southern Dynasty for hundreds of years. In the Battle of Feishui, the Xie family used 8,000 against 800,000, and Chen Qingzhi’s Northern Expedition used 7,000 cavalry to sweep hundreds of thousands of Northern Wei troops, all proving this
The Southern Dynasty had no choice but to adopt the elite military route.
"Hurry up, if you run so slowly, the barbarians would have run away long ago. Not to mention wanting to eat meat, they won't even be able to drink soup!" The general's voice became louder, and his face was covered by
His face was reddened by the sun, his eyebrows were thick and long, his eyes were as big as copper bells, and his body was covered with flesh. You could tell at a glance that he was not a guy to be trifled with.
No wonder those soldiers only obeyed his orders.
However, General Zhuang soon stopped his movements, and the sound of horse hooves coming from behind made him temporarily give up his interest in training these soldiers.
Xiao Shilian stretched out his hand and pulled the reins of the horse. The horse neighed and stood up. Xiao Shilian casually inserted the whip into his waist and skillfully controlled the horse. He turned over with a kite and skillfully turned off the horse. His hand made him
Many soldiers who looked over showed admiration.
And Xiao Shilian smiled slightly at the general who walked forward quickly: "Brother Zhishen, I haven't seen you for a while, but you have become quite impressive again!"
"We can't afford what the Major General said!" The general scratched his head and said with some embarrassment, "The Major General came here so early. I wonder where the General is?"
Xiao Shilian was obviously very familiar with this general, and said with a smile: "Dad, he is still in the city instructing the army to dispatch things. Anyway, nothing happened, so I will come over to see you. Of course, the most important thing is to introduce you to the future.
boss!"
After a pause, Xiao Shilian stepped aside to get out of the way: "This is Li Xinchen, whose pseudonym is Shizhong. He is the brother of a certain Xiao Shilian. From now on, he will be in charge of you."
"It turns out to be Mr. Shizhong. I have admired his name for a long time. Unfortunately, we were in Jingkou and were unable to participate in the Battle of Luliang with the general and the major general. We also failed to see Mr. strategizing. It is really a pity." The general of the building hurriedly said.
He bowed his hands respectfully to Li Xingchen.
At this time, Li Xingchen had also figured out the cause of the matter. It was obvious that the soldiers standing in front of him were the private soldiers assigned to Xiao Maha. They were called "family generals" in later novels.
Private soldiers are an important force that aristocratic families rely on to protect themselves. From the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, generals generally had a certain number of private soldiers under their command, and these private soldiers directly obeyed the generals' dispatches.
The benefits of setting up private soldiers are obvious. During a war, these well-trained private soldiers are much better than ordinary soldiers in terms of their determination to follow the general in fighting and their skills in killing enemies.
But there are also many disadvantages. Private soldiers are loyal to the general rather than the emperor. To a certain extent, it can even be said that the orders of the general are more authoritative than the emperor's will. When there is a conflict between the general and the emperor, they obey the general.
It is more likely to rebel against the emperor's orders.
Of course, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, the various separatist forces relied entirely on the private soldiers of aristocratic families for their marches and wars. For example, Soochow during the Three Kingdoms period relied on the support of the Lu family, Zhu family and other aristocratic families in Wu to stabilize the country.
So many years.
Once a family with a large number of private soldiers becomes dominant, the consequences will be disastrous. The most typical example is the Sima family that finally unified the Three Kingdoms.
After successive dynasties have improved this potentially threatening system, the number of private soldiers under Xiao Mohe who appeared in front of Li Xingchen at this time actually only numbered four to five hundred, minus the personal guards guarding Xiao Mohe.
There are only about two to three hundred people under his command. Compared with the number of private soldiers in the Three Kingdoms period, which often numbered in the thousands, this can be said to have been reduced too much.
A few hundred people only allows generals to have the ability to protect themselves on the battlefield, and is far from threatening the security of a country.
Obviously, although these private soldiers of the Xiao family did not participate in the Battle of Luliang, they had already heard of Li Xingchen's name, otherwise they would not be so respectful when they saw Li Xingchen at this time.
Now Li Xinchen is nominally a temporary commander, and he should have several troops under his command. However, his position as commander is just an empty official position given by Xiao Mohe. The purpose is naturally to prevent Li Xinchen from using Bai Ding's
The identity entered and exited the East Palace and other government offices. The army in front of Li Xingchen at this time was the team left for him.
It belongs to the Xiao family and Li Xingchen's team.
"Shizhong, let me introduce something to you. This is Chen Zhishen, the general of more than a hundred people." Xiao Shilian pointed at the big man covered in tendons and said, "It doesn't matter that this guy hasn't been on the battlefield a few times, but we Xiao Shilian
Most of the family's personal guards were trained by him, and this guy is so strong that he can lift the stone millstone in the grain field over there with his bare hands."
"Chen... Zhishen?" This name made Li Xinchen startled for a moment, and he almost blurted out "Hello, Master Lu". It seemed that this Chen Zhishen was more than just the name and the Lu who uprooted the weeping willows.
The master Lu Zhishen is the same, even his size and strength are almost the same.
Of course, Li Xingchen didn't know that in history, Xiao Mohe failed in his rebellion and was killed. One of his subordinates stepped forward to collect Xiao Mohe's body regardless of the possibility of implicating his own life. He was praised as a "righteous man" by the public for a while.
, and this person’s name is Chen Zhishen.
At this time, Chen Zhishen looked to be only in his twenties. Although he was physically strong, he was definitely not an unreasonable person. At least in front of Major General Xiao Shilian, Chen Zhishen remained respectful and polite.
"Shizhong, you are the commander. Logically speaking, you must have at least 500 people under your command, which is three to five buildings. But you also know that our Xiao family does not have many people at our disposal, so we can only use this one.
The building is handed over to you, plus the manpower that Brother Da Shi has promised to allocate to you, I can barely make up 300 people."
Li Xingchen looked at the soldiers with tired expressions in front of him. After training in the early morning, sweat streaked across their dusty cheeks, leaving distinct traces. Although these soldiers were tired, they looked at this soldier curiously.
Standing in front of them, the devil-like instructor Chen Zhishen respected the young man facing him.