On the morning of the second day after the establishment of the Baoguo Army, under the leadership of Chen Yingliang, the Baoguo Army launched its first military training. The two soldiers of the national defense army were full of energy. Under the flagpole of the national flag of loyalty and loyalty, they once again sang a slightly modified song "Serving the country with loyalty" to adjust their physical strength and spirit to the best state before starting formal training.
As a time traveler, the method Chen Yingliang used to train the Bao Guojun was of course the most familiar modern military and police training method. It was practical and scientific but also very boring. First of all, he led the Bao Guojun to run around the small school field Run 20 laps in one breath, then 50 weight-bearing push-ups, 50 weight-bearing pull-ups on the horizontal bar, 50 sit-ups, 50 weight-bearing back and forth runs, and then weight-bearing exercises for standing posture, queue training and shouting slogans Practice goose steps.
What made Chen Yingliang secretly happy was that most of these soldiers who served the national army came from farming families. Although their diet and nutrition were not balanced during their growth, their physiques were quite strong after years of hard work. Therefore, although the training intensity arranged by Chen Yingliang was high, it was not a big problem for these soldiers of the Nationalist Army. Even though it was not easy to complete the whole set of training, at least they did not appear tired and paralyzed.
The same is true for a small number of soldiers of the National Defense Army from well-to-do landlord families. Although they do not need to go to the farmland to work like the peasants, they are poor and rich in martial arts, and the Sui and Tang Dynasties were the era when martial arts prevailed. The soldiers have received martial arts training since they were young. Not only are their physiques equally strong, but their body flexibility and familiarity with complex movements are actually higher than those of the soldiers of the Nationalist Army who came from peasant families.
Of course there are exceptions, and this exception is none other than Chen Yingliang himself! The dead ghost Chen Yingliang's family has plummeted since he was ten years old, and his nutritional supply during his growth period was worse than that of the poorest soldier in the Nationalist Army. He was only seventeen years old, but he couldn't accept such high-intensity physical training, so Chen Yingliang had to give up. He planned to train with the soldiers, and pretended to command the training to stop and take the opportunity to be lazy. Fortunately, the generals of Youwuwei did not personally participate in the training, so Chen Yingliang, who participated in part of the training properly, did not offend the soldiers under his command.
It was already noon after the training in the morning, and to the delight of the exhausted soldiers of the Nationalist Army, the cook of the Forbidden Army sent by Fan Zigai even served them a hot and delicious lunch—you know, before the Song Dynasty However, ordinary people only eat two meals a day, morning and evening, and only a few wealthy families are eligible to enjoy three meals a day. Overjoyed, all the officers and men of the Nationalist Army were smiling and full of praise. Chen Yingliang took the opportunity to warn the officers and men, "I'm happy to have lunch, right? After practicing, you will definitely have lunch often in the future, if you can’t practice, you can only live such a good life for half a month.”
"Chen Jishi, please rest assured that we will train hard and will not disappoint you." The soldiers of the Nationalist Army expressed their opinions one after another, and then Chen Zhihong asked eagerly: "Chen Jishi, should we practice martial arts this afternoon? Are you going to practice martial arts?" Teach us marksmanship, or swordsmanship?"
"I won't teach you martial arts." Chen Yingliang said loudly: "Although I know a set of battlefield sword skills left by my ancestors, as well as some fist and foot fighting skills for actual combat, I won't teach you, at least not now. , so in the afternoon we are still mainly practicing formation, stepping and running with weights, and martial arts training is only auxiliary, practicing the swordsmanship and gunsmanship you learned in the army before."
"Why?" Many soldiers of the Nationalist Army were stunned, and asked one after another: "Chen Jishi, if you don't teach us martial arts, how can we go to battle to kill the enemy and suppress the rebellion?"
"Two reasons." Chen Yingliang held up two fingers and said loudly: "First, there is not enough time. Fan Liushou and General Huangfu only gave me half a month. In half a month, you can't be proficient in new skills. For knife skills and fighting skills, rather than let you learn new martial arts from scratch, it is better to let you continue to practice old martial arts."
"The second reason is enough." Chen Yingliang added with a smile: "Don't forget, our opponents are just a group of civilian boatmen who were coerced by Yang Ni, and some Youwuwei who are as cowardly as mice and surrendered to the rebels. Old pawns, to deal with them, it is enough to use your old martial arts."
Hearing Chen Yingliang's words, the soldiers of the Nationalist Army were skeptical. The tall Guo Feng couldn't help asking: "Chen Jishi, what are we practicing? This practice is the same as what we usually practice in Youwuwei. Seems to be about the same?"
"Practice your organizational discipline, practice your orders and prohibitions, point and hit that, and enter the same!" Chen Yingliang replied loudly: "Brothers, you must always remember that a chopstick will break when you pull it, and a chopstick will break when you pull it. But no one can pull it off!"
"Our Youwuwei has been defeated by the rebels several times before. In addition to low morale and lack of fighting spirit, another more important reason is that there is no organization and discipline, and we cannot work together. A thief, no one wants to take the risk of killing a thief. No matter how strong an individual soldier is in such an unorganized and undisciplined army, it is useless! So I want to train the 423 members of the Baoguo Army, including me, into a whole. Train the four hundred and twenty-three people into one person, fight together, advance together, retreat together, organize and discipline to advance and retreat as one, as long as we can do this, then don't talk about Yang Ni outside the city The mob, even if we encounter elite veterans and Turkic cavalry, we will be victorious in all battles when serving the national army!"
Looking around at the thoughtful soldiers of the Baoguo Army, Chen Yingliang said loudly again: "I almost forgot to tell you that this afternoon we will run twenty laps with a load on our backs, and for the next ten laps, we will carry our companions on our backs and run five laps in turn. In addition to physical training, the other thing is to prepare for our future. In the future, on the battlefield, our team will inevitably suffer casualties, but we must never abandon a companion, whether it is injured or sacrificed for the country. You must carry them all back!"
"The companion you carry today is the companion who will carry you back to rescue you after you are injured on the battlefield in the future! The companion you carry on your back for running today will be the companion who will carry your body back and let you rest in peace in the future. Send your inheritance and last words to your home, and hand them over to your parents, relatives and companions! Do you understand?!"
"Understood!" The soldiers of the national newspaper army answered very neatly.
"Just understand, get the meal now!" Chen Yingliang ordered loudly again: "Take turns to get the meal, and I will be the last to get the meal. After receiving the meal, you can't eat first. You have to wait for me to eat together. I lift the chopsticks to eat before you allow it." After eating, I put down my chopsticks, no matter whether you have finished eating or not, you must put down your chopsticks immediately and stop eating! This is also training your organizational discipline, understand?!"
"Understood!" The soldiers of the Nationalist Army who had become accustomed to Chen Yingliang's demands answered neatly again.
"Very good." Chen Yingliang waved his hand and shouted, "Start serving the meal!"
The training in the afternoon started again after the song "Patriotism" was sung, and in the evening it also ended with the uniform singing of military songs. It was night, and Chen Yingliang led the two lieutenants Guo Feng and Chen Zhihong to patrol the camp in person, and personally prepared for the sleepers. The well-acquainted soldiers of the Nationalist Army tucked in the quilts, massaged and kneaded the ordinary soldiers with muscle injuries during training, soaked their feet with water, chatted with the soldiers who hadn’t slept, and quickly remembered the faces and names of many soldiers. Comparable, Huo Hanwen Nuan did his best as a film king, and moved the soldiers of the Nationalist Army who hadn't seen other film kings to perform until these years. He was grateful to Chen Yingliang, and he was willing to work for Chen Yingliang from the bottom of his heart, but he didn't know it at all. He himself has become a stepping stone for Chen Yingliang to climb desperately, and he has never heard of a bad guy named Wu Qi, who used to suck drug sores for a pair of father and son soldiers one after another, so that the father and son soldiers fought to the end one after another, and both died on the battlefield. This bad guy who wanted to be a general and kill his wife became a stepping stone.
At the same time, in order to make themselves a temporary captain and become a real captain, Guo Feng and Chen Zhihong also worked hard to comfort the soldiers with Chen Yingliang, and learned from Chen Yingliang the truth that soldiers are like children and soldiers can die for themselves Together, they became Chen Yingliang's powerful accomplices in buying the army's morale, and then influenced the four commanders of the Nationalist Army who were determined by wrestling their wrists, and asked them to follow Chen Yingliang to inspect every barracks and condolences to every soldier without orders. It took only one day and one night for the Nationalist Army to be formed, and the entire team experienced qualitative changes in terms of morale, fighting spirit, and cohesion. It also subtly made most of the soldiers of the Nationalist Army make up their minds, that is, they will never let the Nationalist Army The national army only existed for half a month.
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Time passed slowly day by day. When the cohesion of the Nationalist Army was improving a little bit, the situation of the rebels outside the city was also gradually changing. They captured a large number of Sui soldiers, captured weapons and armor, and captured a large number of heavy-duty siege weapons in Jinyong City, an important military town, as they wished.
This huge harvest was the great split of the ruling class in the Sui Dynasty. When the news of Yang Xuangan's rebellion was sent to Daxing City in the Western Capital by fast horses, Yang You, the acting king who stayed behind in the Western Capital, naturally actively dispatched troops to rescue Luoyang. Like Chen Yingliang, many sons of high-ranking officials and dignitaries have sensed the hidden opportunity to get ahead. In order to be more beautiful, more prosperous, rich and beautiful wives and beautiful concubines, many sons of powerful and powerful families immediately brought them to the army without waiting for them to send troops. Ding Dong, a large number of family soldiers, came out of Tongguan and came to Dongdu to join the army. He wanted to fish in troubled waters and take the opportunity to gain military exploits and official titles. For a while, the official road from Daxing to Luoyang was full of rich children in fresh clothes and angry horses. There are rich and powerful children surrounded by family soldiers and generals everywhere.
By the way, Mr. Chai Shaochai, who almost became Chen Yingliang's brother-in-law, originally wanted to join the army in Luoyang, the eastern capital, and try his luck to see if he can make further progress. Unfortunately, he is currently in an official position, and he dare not go out without permission from his superiors. He went out of the city, and at the same time his background was a little worse, and those powerful children who accompanied him simply looked down on him. Chai Shao tried to go with Han Shi'e, the son of Shangzhu Guohan's captive tiger, and was humiliated by Han Shi'e with words. In a fit of anger, Chai Shao Shao also completely dismissed this idea, and even held back his brother-in-law Li Shimin who also wanted to join the army in Luoyang.
The story is far away, let’s get down to business, when these rich and powerful children led countless military strategists to Dongdu, they saw that the Youwuwei army sitting in Dongdu was beaten into Luoyang City by Yang Xuangan’s rebels, and no soldier dared to leave the city Fighting against the rebels, I also saw that the Yang Xuangan rebels were invincible on the battlefield of the Eastern Capital, killing the Youwuwei team with their helmets and armor, and saw the civilians who surrendered to the Yang Xuangan rebels and the soldiers of the Sui army like crucian carp crossing the river. , the rebel army grew rapidly, and these pampered, ambitious and talented children of the rich and powerful could not help but make up their minds, thinking that it is definitely a bad thing to join the army in the Eastern Capital now, and one of them will be killed. It is better to follow the present The old friend Yang Xuan, who is so powerful, feels that it is more cost-effective to rebel and seek rebellion. In the future, being a founding father is far better than being promoted to an official and a title now.
After this idea was born, these rich and powerful children sat down to discuss for a while, and quickly reached a consensus, and then they did not enter Luoyang City, and went directly to Jinyong City, where the main force of the rebel army is currently stationed, to join their wine and meat friend Yang Xuangan. Yang Xuangan was overjoyed and immediately Accept all these rich and powerful children, and entrust them with heavy responsibilities. What is unbelievable is that among these rich and powerful children, there are not only Han Shier, the precious son of the late Shangzhu Guohan Qinhu, but also Zheng Yan, the son of Dali Qing Zheng Shanguo, Yu Rou, the son of Yu Shiji, a senior official of the Ministry of Officials, and Tai Chang Shao. Pei Shuang, the son of Qing Peiyun, Zhou Zhong, the son of Zhou Luohou, the former general of Youyiwei, and even Yang Gongdao, the son of Guan Wang Yang Xiong, who was a relative of the emperor, also jumped out to follow Yang Xuangan to make his cousin, Emperor Sui Yang. opposite.
What's even more funny is that one of these rich and powerful children is Laiyuan, the son of Laihuer. The Sui army attacked Goguryeo by land and water. Lai Huer's trust and attention can be seen. As a result, Lai Huer worked hard for Emperor Sui Yang on the front line, but his precious son Lai Yuan was in the rear to kill Sui Yang Emperor. After knowing this news, what kind of feelings will you have
Don't look at these rich and powerful children who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and are incompetent, but their father's prominent status is placed there, so after they joined Yang Xuangan's rebel army, they still had a huge impact on the morale and fighting spirit of the two warring parties on the Eastern Capital battlefield. Of course, the morale of the army was greatly boosted, and the number of followers increased rapidly, and the team size rapidly expanded to an astonishing 80,000 or more. Everyone from top to bottom was full of expectations and hopes for the success of the rebellion.
On the contrary, when these rich and powerful children came to Dongdu City to show their identities and shout slogans for Yang Xuangan to surrender the Luoyang garrison, the Luoyang garrison was in an uproar. Countless soldiers felt that the current imperial court must be over. Even the sons of these famous families stood up to rebel, what hope does the court have now? Because of this, countless Luoyang defenders became more determined, that is, once the rebel army broke through the city wall, they would immediately put down their weapons and surrender to the rebel army! There was a pessimistic atmosphere in the team, and the morale that had finally been boosted by a small victory in Shangchunmen suddenly fell to the extreme again.
The same is true for the dignitaries and dignitaries in Luoyang City, because the nephew Pei Shuang also joined the rebel army. Pei Hongce, who was sitting in the main battlefield of Shangchunmen, was so angry that he shed tears on the spot, pointing at the unfilial nephew on the city wall and crying endlessly. Shuang is shameless and continues to loudly persuade the clan uncle to open the Shangchun Gate and surrender to Yang Xuangan. Fan Zigai, Huangfu Wuyi and other hard-core lackeys of Emperor Sui Yang's faces were ashen, wishing to strangle all the dignitaries and scum in the city to death! Many civil and military people in Luoyang have already begun to quietly inquire about Yang Xuangan's birth date, researching whether Yang Xuangan has the fate of a real dragon emperor.
Of course, it is not without good news for the defenders of the Eastern Capital. At least that night, a messenger from Daxing escaped the interception and killing of the rebel scouts and sent an important message to the Eastern Capital. The content of this news is that Yang You, the acting king of Daxing, has sent Wei Xuan, who stayed behind in the western capital, to lead an army of 40,000 cavalry to the east for reinforcements. He will arrive in Luoyang within ten days and join forces with the Luoyang defenders to suppress the rebellion!
Hearing this news, Fan Zigai's old face, which had been gloomy for many days, finally showed some gratified smiles, but he was still a little uneasy, and asked the messenger, "How is Wei Wensheng's team preparing? Dongdu sent troops to suppress the rebellion before. It is because of the lack of preparation that they lost consecutive battles, Wei Wensheng must not repeat the mistakes of Dongdu."
"Please rest assured, Fan Liushou, Wei Shangshu's army is very well prepared." The messenger bowed and replied: "After receiving the warning from Dongdu, His Royal Highness immediately began to prepare for the battle. In place, the 40,000 anti-rebellion army is all strong and strong soldiers. His Royal Highness at the same time has also sent an order to Hongnong Taishou and Cai Wang Yang Zhiji to use the food stored in Changping warehouse and Hongnong Palace to serve Wei Shangshu's army. Provide supplies to ensure that reinforcements can quickly reach the Eastern Capital for reinforcements."
"There is more." The messenger added: "Wei Shangshu has also ordered the digging of Yang Su's grave, and plans to smash Yang Su's body to ashes when the army arrives in Huayin, so as to boost morale and encourage the army. According to time estimates, This time Wei Shangshu's army has already destroyed the body of Yang Ni's father Yang Su."
"You did a good job. After all, you are the former General You Yuwei. That old guy Wei Xuan is really good at running the army." Fan Zigai, who had a close relationship with Wei Xuan, praised him, then suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked Lu Chu who was next to him asked, "Lu Silang, what's the situation with Chen Yingliang boy? Today, so many rebels came to the city to surrender, how did the teams of his two regiments react?"
"Report..., report to Fan to stay behind." Lu Chu said with difficulty: "Chen Yingliang publicly announced that Daxing rebelled and surrendered under the city, and..., also announced some rebellious names and identities, telling his subordinates that the opportunity to become famous has come. , as long as you kill or capture one of these traitors by the way, you can immediately become famous in the world and get a big reward. Then I asked those subordinates who were bullied by the rich and powerful, and said... the opportunity to express their anger has come, and they can’t usually deal with it A rich son, an official son, can’t violate the laws of the country, and now hacking these… these idiots, it’s nothing, only credit rewards, no…, not guilty. His subordinates are all cheering..., all cheering very loudly.”
"This brat really knows how to go with the flow." Fan Zigai cursed with a smile, and said to Lu Chu: "Tomorrow you go to see Chen Yingliang, tell him the news that Wei Wensheng's army will come to help within ten days, and then tell him, the old man will give him It happens that there are only ten days left. After ten days, he must lead this army to attack, serve as the vanguard of the Dongdu army, and receive Wei Wensheng's army to help! If he can't do it, then he has only two choices, One is that the old man beheaded him to show the public, and the other is that the old man died in battle and apologized with blood!"
At the same time Fan Zigai said these words, Chen Yingliang, who had never left the camp since the formation of the Nationalist Army, left the camp temporarily for the rare first time. At the request of Pei Hongce's messenger, he came down to the tower of Shangchunmen to give a message to the new acquaintance. His uncle, Pei Hongce, kowtowed to pay his respects, and gave a great gift to the younger generation.
What puzzled Chen Yingliang was that Pei Hongce hurriedly called him to the Shangchun Gate, but he didn't say a single important word to him, other than a symbolic question about the training situation of the national army, and a casual introduction I looked at the situation of the rebels outside the city, and said that some children of the rich and powerful had their heads flooded and joined Yang Xuangan's rebels to rebel. At the end, Pei Hongce asked casually, seemingly unintentionally: "Nephew, you are also a descendant of a family. Is it possible that some of your relatives and friends in Daxing are also guilty of this kind of foolishness? They don't want to be rich and honored, but they want to follow Yang Ni Rebellious and treasonous?"
"Uncle, forgive my little nephew, it's useless for you to ask this question." Chen Yingliang smiled bitterly and replied truthfully: "If there are my relatives and friends among the ordinary people who were bewitched by Yang Ni and accompanied the rebellion, then maybe there are some of them." Possibly. But the children of these rich and powerful families... well, if my uncle is not afraid of laughing at me, if my nephew has such relatives and friends, I won’t be able to drink porridge every day after my mother passed away, and eat the leaves picked from the vegetable market.”
Pei Hongce seemed to be secretly observing Chen Yingliang's expression and reaction. His eyes were still sharp and nervous. He noticed Pei Hongce's gaze, and Chen Yingliang, who was not afraid of crooked shadows, felt a little guilty. He almost thought that Pei Hongce had found evidence that he used public funds to buy an Apple phone. . But fortunately, after pondering for a moment, Pei Hongce nodded quickly and said, "It's okay, you can go back, if you have anything to do, you can come to me directly, and I won't see you off."
Chen Yingliang, who really had no ghosts in his heart, bid farewell and left in a daze. Pei Hongce really didn't send off Chen Yingliang, his nephew. Looking at Chen Yingliang's leaving back, he secretly said, "Don't worry too much about him, come to protect my son Laiyuan I even defected to Yang's rebel army, not to mention my distant nephew who came to Dongdu to join the army to counter the rebellion. In the future, if the emperor really wants to investigate, there will be more court officials who are closer to him. For example, that Mayi named Li Jing Juncheng."