The father and son of the Zhou family were taken down on the spot, and after Li Yanqing had a lot of coercion and temptation, the question of the ownership of Yunzhou was completely resolved.

Li Zhongyi sat back behind the bookcase, and then reviewed the official documents, Han Xianglan and Ye Xiaolan, the two female secretaries, were not around, and he was dragged down by the case work for a lot of time.

After taking Bozhou, Li Zhongyi did not rush to attack Kaifeng, strategically speaking, it was actually contrary to common sense.

According to normal logic, Li Zhongyi should move his army westward and take Kaifeng City as soon as possible. However, this is just the reason of ordinary people, not the reason of Li Zhongyi.

The soldiers of the forbidden army in Bozhou need to be vigorously reorganized, otherwise, there will be endless troubles.

Today, among the more than 70,000 prisoners of war, more than 50,000 have chosen to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, which is almost more than eighty percent of the number of registered soldiers in the Li family's army.

Li Zhongyi didn't dare to be careless, after the second screening, the 50,000 soldiers were divided into two parts, one was the 20,000 people with the strongest physical fitness.

The 20,000 people were all from the most simple rural peasant soldiers, and among them there was not even a small leader above the rank of captain.

They were completely dismantled from their original structure, and according to the basic principle of three veterans indoctrining and supervising one person, they were assigned to each of the auxiliaries and the war soldiers to serve as reserve soldiers.

Because this is an extraordinary period, the principle of recruiting new recruits who have been trained in three months can only be shelved for the time being, and the training is replaced by war.

In other words, these original soldiers of the imperial court forbidden army followed the veterans to exercise and train together every day.

Li Zhongyi thought very clearly, people are social animals, and under the oppression of the living environment, these 20,000 forbidden soldiers with some organizational and disciplined backgrounds can only adapt to the atmosphere of Li Jiajun as soon as possible, otherwise they will inevitably be eliminated.

Sweating more in peacetime training and killing the enemy less bloodshed in wartime has always been one of the basic principles of Li Zhongyi's army building.

Matching with this is the elimination system of the last soldier, which is also one of the innovative achievements of the military system led by Li Zhongyi.

According to the regulations, at the end of each month, there must be a large-scale contest of the whole army, and several evaluation groups will be formed by the Senate Department, the Military Justice Department, the Suppression Department, and the military commanders.

The last 2,000 people in the score will be given a serious warning, and if they are still ranked within the bottom 1,000 next month, they will be kicked out of the sequence of soldiers very unceremoniously and transferred to the auxiliary system.

At the same time, 2,000 officers and men with the highest ratings were selected from the auxiliary system and transferred to the combat ranks.

In the Li family's army, the treatment of soldiers and auxiliaries is like a world of difference, and there is no way to compare them at all.

The life of the magnates of the people is too far away from the ordinary soldiers, but it is only harmful to have comparisons.

When the meal is served, the soldiers all have meat to eat, and the dishes that accompany the meal are also rich and varied, which makes the auxiliary soldiers who rarely see meat embarrassed?

Whether it is food, clothing, housing, transportation, or salary and rewards, the treatment of the soldiers is higher than that of the auxiliary soldiers everywhere, far more than five chips, which can make the auxiliary soldiers hungry to the point of saliva.

Only by laying a solid foundation can we be invincible and win every battle, and this has always been Li Zhongyi's concept of administering the army.

In addition to the 20,000 surrendered troops absorbed, among the rest of the prisoners of war, 20,000 of the old and weak soldiers were eliminated and sent to the Pinglu area on ships and scattered to the villages for care.

The remaining 30,000 people were collectively included in the sequence of the engineer battalion and assumed duties similar to those of the engineer corps. Repairing roads, building bridges and digging ditches, and receiving a day's rations for one day of labor, Li Jiajun definitely does not support lazy and idlers.

The main reason why Li Zhongyi did not let these defeated troops go was that he was worried that they would harm the township and cause serious problems of public order in the countryside.

Li Zhongyi stayed in Bozhou for 10 days, and the sentinels of the throat camp went more than 400 miles away to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, but there was no trace of the Khitans.

From Bozhou to the north, it is all a large plain area with a flat river, and if the elite iron cavalry of the Khitan people goes south, it will be difficult to escape the eyes of the Li family's army.

The Khitan people can say that Li Zhongyi deliberately stayed in Bozhou and did not move, just to lure the remaining 200,000 elite forbidden troops of the imperial court out of the Kaifeng area, and then gather and annihilate them at one time, so as not to hit the anointed land near Kaifeng.

However, the news from the imperial court was that Han Tong, who was selected as the commander-in-chief, did not have enough military rations to send troops, and was fighting a lawsuit with the political affairs hall.

Li Zhongyi understood as soon as he heard it, and the civil official group in Kaifeng was dragging Han Tong back and wanted to seize the initiative.

The discord between civilian officials and military generals is an objective law, and it is not subject to human will.

It's just that Li Zhongyi never dreamed that on the eve of the upcoming decisive battle, the political hall controlled by Fan Zhen would actually embarrass Han Tong.

Nima, this is not a realistic version of the Donglin Party's misguided country, what is it?

If Li Zhongyi goes west immediately, Han Tong will retreat back into Kaifeng City, which will be very bad.

Breaking through the Bozhou city gate, the casualties of the Li Jiajun were almost zero. However, in the chaotic street fighting, the casualties of the Li family's soldiers were staggering.

Among them, more than 1,700 were lightly and seriously wounded, and more than 390 were killed in battle.

Since the rise of the army, except for the last battle of Zhaozhou, which surrounded and annihilated the Khitans, this street battle has suffered the heaviest casualties.

The street battle in Bozhou has already suffered a lot of losses, and if there is a fierce street battle in Kaifeng, which is more than five times larger than Bozhou, the losses will be even more appalling.

In order to seize the city of Bozhou, the mountains of grain and baggage piled up, the army advanced too fast. As a result, the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under Fu Zhaoxin did not have time to escape from the city gate, and were compressed into several small areas.

Another important factor was that Liu Heyang wanted to seize the credit, intentionally or unintentionally delaying the time for the artillery to enter the city. The soldiers of Liu Heyang's subordinate charged three times in a row in front of the barricade, but failed to take the barricade, causing great casualties.

The forbidden army of the imperial court are all recruited strong men, who can live with money to make a living, even if they are stripped of three to fifty percent of the salary by officers at all levels, half of the money can always be obtained.

However, the officers and soldiers of the forbidden army, who died in battle, basically died in vain, and the so-called pension is just a symbolic amount of money, and whether the families of the dead can get this money and how much they can get depends on the degree of blackness of the officials.

Officials with a kind-hearted heart may raise their noble hands and only deduct 30% according to the unspoken rules. The black-hearted turtle grandson, then there is no score, and it is likely that all of them will be privately swallowed and divided, and not a single eldest son will be sent to his family.

Li Jiajun is different, in addition to the monthly salary, there is no money for food, clothing and housing, and the pension is surprisingly high.

As far as the martyrs who died in battle are concerned, in addition to receiving a one-time pension of 200 yuan, the family members also enjoy the preferential treatment of Yongyetian from now on, exempting from forced labor, not bowing to officials, and building houses free of charge.

During the busy farming season, the garrisons and government offices in various places have the obligation to help the families of the martyrs cultivate or harvest grain.

Not only that, Li Jiajun is obliged to provide for the orphans of the martyrs. Each minor orphan is given nine yuan and three stone rice on a quarterly basis. In other words, you can receive three yuan and one stone of rice per month, and this income is far above the level above the food and clothing line in Kaifeng City.

In addition to these special economic treatments, Li Zhongyi was worried that the families of the martyrs would be bullied by the local government, so he specially issued an explicit order: The families of the martyrs have the privilege of writing letters directly to Li Zhongyi, and the military judges stationed in various places will report to Li Zhongyi's desk.

The reason why Li Zhongyi asked the garrison to hand over the letters, in addition to not believing in the civilian system, was to use living examples to let the soldiers feel the warmth of the big family of Li Jiajun.

To put it bluntly, as long as the big group of Li Jiajun does not fall, even if they die on the battlefield and are shrouded in horse leather, they will be completely worry-free!

Of course, there are also sequelae of treating martyrs well, once the army is defeated, the financial pressure will be extremely tight!

In everything, there are pros and cons, it depends on how to weigh the pros and cons according to the actual situation.

At this time, Du Qinniang had already walked comfortably through the street, Zhao Chun led her, walked through a street, and came to the former Bozhou Zhizhou Yamen, now in front of the Jieshuai Mansion.

Because Zhao Chun often comes to the Jieshuai Mansion, the head of the gate guards joked while checking the waist card, "Zhao family lady, you can come late today." ”

Zhao Chunqiao's face couldn't help but blush slightly, in the past, she usually came to see Li Zhongyi before noon to help pass the news between the bad man and Du Qinniang.

Today, because Du Qinniang went to the street, she couldn't stop shopping, no matter how much Zhao Chun persuaded her, she couldn't move.

Du Qinniang took out the waist card of an ordinary palace maid, and she had never seen her, so she couldn't help but take a few more looks.

Zhao Chun noticed that something was wrong, Fang's heart couldn't help but tighten, and before she could speak, Nadu Tou had already sneered, and asked Du Qinniang sharply: "The face and neck are dark, but the hands are white and tender, why is this?" ”

Du Qinniang didn't expect that a mere gatekeeper would easily see through her disguise.

"Taiwei doesn't know, it's Chu Xiong of the guard's pro-tooth camp, Chu Commander, and the slave is dressed like this." Du Qinniang is worthy of being a master of palace fighting, and in the blink of an eye, she came up with a wonderful way to cover up.

Zhao Chun secretly breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that he was about to go to the gang, Niangniang pushed out the only person in the know, Chu Xiong, at the last moment, is there a better response than this trick?

"Oh......" Nadu thought for a while, and decisively ordered, "Come on, go and ask the commander of Chu." ”

Zhao Chun's eyes rolled slightly, Du Qinniang came secretly, and she didn't inform Chu Xiong in advance, in case Chu Xiong refused to come out, or directly refused to admit this account, wouldn't it be a big deal?

"Please take this belt card to Commander Chu as circumstantial evidence." Zhao Chun remembered that the waist card that Du Qinniang gave her was actually a gift from Li Zhongyi himself, and it was not an ordinary thing at first glance, so it should be able to lead Chu Xiong to the gate, right?

Some guards went in to find Chu Xiong to report the news, and Zhao Chun and Du Qinniang were "invited" into the guard duty room on the inside of the gate, and the four guards with swords and bows stared at them fiercely.

Obviously, as long as Zhao Chun and Du Qinniang have the slightest inappropriateness, they will be taken down immediately.