Three days passed in a flash. Early that morning, hundreds of households lined up neatly on the Kaipingwei training ground. The infantry were in the middle and the cavalry were on the two wings. These are elite soldiers who have been fighting with the Tatars all year round.
They lined up neatly, and the entire team could not help but feel a murderous aura. Ordinary people would feel shuddering when they came here.
There is a square formation for each hundred households, and the officials of the hundred households stand in front of the team. There are twenty square formations in total, waiting neatly for Jia Ke to come to review.
At the end of Chen Shi and the beginning of Si Shi (about nine o'clock in the morning now), Jia Ke came to the large teaching ground with his soldiers. When they saw Jia Ke coming, some officers and soldiers couldn't help but look at the new Lord Qianhu.
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I saw him wearing a purple gold crown with a phoenix on his head, a unicorn and bright light armor, a fire dragon horse under his crotch, and a bird-wing ring hanging on the victory hook with Fang Tian's painted halberd.
He has a majestic body and a majestic appearance. His eyes shine like cold stars, his eyebrows are as thick as paint, his chest is broad, and he has an aura that is hard to defeat.
Seeing Jia Ke like this, all the officers and soldiers felt awe in their hearts, and they couldn't help but feel a sense of awe in their hearts towards this young Master Qianhu.
Jia Ke came to the parade with his soldiers, got off his horse, and went straight to the stage. The soldiers had already brought a big chair, and Jia Ke sat upright on the chair, while his soldiers set up in the fourth center of the parade.
Jia Ke looked down from the reviewing platform. The soldiers below were all strong men with more or less murderous looks on their faces. However, except for Baihu, the other soldiers were only wearing mandarin duck uniforms. Although the weapons were
It's pretty neat, but no one is wearing armor. But think about it, if all the soldiers were wearing armor, the imperial court's finances would have been bankrupt long ago.
However, Jia Ke was not optimistic about their formation. He decided to rehearse the formation in the future, using the Macedonian phalanx that had been rehearsed by the soldiers in Xiacaozhuang to deal with the grassland cavalry. It can be said that they complement each other.
When the hundreds of households in the audience saw Jia Ke sitting down, they all came to the front of the stage, knelt down on one knee to Jia Ke, and reported together: "Your Majesty, all the households in Kaipingwei have arrived. Please review."
Jia Ke said loudly on the stage: "Each hundred household officials returned to their teams and started checking immediately."
With the soldiers in the audience, he began to practice various formations. There were nine formations, including fish scale formation, front arrow formation, crane wing formation, and moon formation.
Jia Ke can see clearly from above that if these formations really work, they are really powerful. However, these formations have a common problem, that is, they are too complicated and require very high cooperation from the soldiers. Once someone leaves,
If one position is wrong, the entire formation may collapse. In the drill, this problem was very prominent.
You must know that most of the ancient soldiers were from farmers and were illiterate. It was really difficult for them to perform such complicated operations. The soldiers of Kaipingwei were already considered elite in the entire Xuanfu Town, but their formation drills,
It's still not ideal. It shows how bad the situation of other troops is.
Therefore, Jia Ke decided to improve the Kaiping Guard formation. He used the Macedonian phalanx for all infantry formations. This formation is simple and practical, and has great lethality against the prairie cavalry. But for the training of his own side, it is very effective.
Simple. Just in line with the current situation.
After the formation drill was completed, each household returned to their respective positions. A hundred households came to the stage together, knelt down on one knee and said to Jia Ke, "Your Majesty, the formation drill has been completed."
Jia Ke said to them: "Return to the team each, I have something to say."
After Jia Ke finished speaking, each household returned to the team and waited for Jia Ke's lecture.
Jia Ke stood up and walked to the forefront of the parade. He said to the following: "Brothers below, some of you may already know that there is a traitor in our Kaiping Guard. The traitor not only embezzled money and food, deducted military pay, but also committed crimes against the enemy.
He was a tip-off, and he was discovered by me a few days ago. He tried to escape, but I sent people to chase him back. Does anyone know who he is?"
After Jia Ke finished speaking, he stared down fiercely and saw no one answered. He went on to say: "He is our chief clerk Wang Wan. You can't think of it. This guy tried to escape, but luckily I chased him back. He wanted to
Otherwise, the consequences will be disastrous.”
Jia Ke paused and then said: "I think he did more bad things than this. Otherwise, how could Qianhu, who took office, die for no reason? This is completely contrary to common sense."
After listening to Jia Ke's words, the people below also started to discuss, and they all felt that what Jia Ke said was very reasonable. They knew that being an officer on the battlefield was the safest, but this Kaipingwei didn't know what happened, and he died several times in a row.
Thousands of households, that is completely unbelievable.
As for the withholding of military pay, money and food, it is a matter of major concern to everyone. In the past few months, food has indeed been worse than usual. Military pay has also changed from cash to scattered copper coins.
You must know that in this era, silver is precious and copper is cheap, and the ratio between the official quotation and the private price is very different. In the official world, one tael of silver can only be exchanged for seven or eight hundred copper coins, while among the private sector, one tael of silver can be exchanged for more than one thousand copper coins.
Since Wang Zongbu came to Kaiping Guards, several thousand households have placed their trust in him. He is in charge of the military equipment, money and food. Since he came, military pay has been paid in copper coins, and naturally he cannot go to the private sector.
The exchange ratio was given to the sergeants. He gave the soldiers one tael of silver or eight hundred copper coins according to the official quotation. Although the soldiers complained, the king's director also paid the soldiers according to the official quota. On the surface, it was not
There was no deprivation of military pay, but the silver was exchanged for copper coins. The soldiers had nothing to say, but the king made a profit from the difference.
Many poor soldiers hated the king. When they heard what Jia Ke said, they all started to shout, "Kill him? Kill this corrupt official."
Jia Ke waved his hands above, suppressing the voices below, and then said to the people below: "If it is just embezzlement of military pay, the crime will not lead to death. It is just a matter of handing him over to the superior officer for punishment. This bitch dares to leave the fort privately."
"Those who leave the fortress privately in accordance with military regulations will be punished as spies and executed."
After Jia Ke finished speaking, he ordered Liu Yu next to him: "Bring Wang Wan up."
Liu Yu immediately went down and asked someone to bring the king's book up. The king's book now has messy hair, red eyes, dark circles, and messy clothes. It is not as majestic as when he and Jia Ke were fighting against each other.
Wang Wan was pulled up and forced to kneel down in front of Jia Ke. Wang Wan was not convinced. Until now, he still thought that he was just embezzling military pay. The most Jia Ke could do was to detain him for interrogation and then hand him over to the superior officer for processing. When he got to the top, he would naturally have
The prefect tried to smooth things over for him, so when he saw Jia Ke again, he was furious and unconvinced.
Wang Wan knelt down and shouted to Jia Ke: "You framed Zhongliang and you have no law. I will take revenge in the future."
Jia Ke looked at him contemptuously from above and said, "Are you still thinking about the future? According to military regulations, if you leave the fort privately, you will be punished as a spy. What else do you have to say now?"
The chief clerk was stunned for a moment, then an idea flashed in his mind, and he scanned everything Jia Ke did when he came to Anpingwei, and suddenly he understood it completely.
Only then did he realize that he had fallen into Jia Ke's trick. Jia Ke asked him for the account books at that time, not to check the accounts, but to make him panic and flee to Xuanfu Town for help.
The Kaiping Guard is in the army, not in the local area. Military law is enforced here. As long as he dares to step out of the Kaiping Guard without Jia Ke's order, Jia Ke can take his head in any name, even
His family members were not immune and would be demoted to official slaves. After thinking about the cause and effect, he collapsed to the ground and could not get up again.