Chapter Twenty-Nine: Bloodshed
In any case, the orders for guns, cannons, and armor are drawn.
The artillery Jizhen wants to be continuously transported by 100 doors in March, and the single-sided cuirass of a thousand pairs of soldiers is set first, and the messenger back to Nanyang is galloping on the road, and the strips of the military department must be conveniently given along the way, and the speed is not to be said, and at most half a month can run to Nanyang.
There is no need to worry about the transportation capacity in the future, the letters from the six departments can open the door of convenience along the way, regardless of land transportation or Cao Yun, there is no need for Chen Mu to worry about the things behind, the whole process is supervised by others, Nanyang only needs to send guns, Jiliao only needs to collect guns, and there is Daming Express to help with the work.
This is also a matter of concern for Chen Mu, he doesn't want to use sea ships to transport Tianjin, although it is so fast and convenient.
As a military attaché, he never knows where the scolding of the official is, so he can do less work and save himself from being scolded more.
After inspecting the situation of the soldiers and horses in the garrison, Chen Mu went to the Yamen of Jiliao Governor in Miyun again, and just got off the horse, but he saw the man leading the horse, and after looking at it, he smiled and said: "General Chen, it is unfortunate that you came, the master is about to go out, you wait a minute." ”
Chen Mu smiled, this Jiliao Governor's Yamen was not opened for his family, and there was no way to catch up, so he raised the horse whip and scratched the back of his neck and saw Tan Lun coming out of the yamen with a large number of attachés, and saw Chen Mu next to the horse-tethered stake, and said a few words to the servants, turned over and waited in the middle of the road, and the attachés behind him stood according to the military formation.
At a cursory glance, the attaché was forty or fifty, and Chen Mu thought in his heart: Tan Shuai is very particular about pomp, and he can barely catch up with half of Nanyang Wei Chen.
"General Chen, the master asked you to get on the horse and follow you."
"Thank you!"
Chen Mu thanked him, then turned over and got on the horse, and paced the horse outside the queue for half a moment before he realized that something was wrong.
Wait – who are these?
He didn't pay attention just now, thinking that Tan Lun was followed by all family soldiers, all of them fully armed, and when he got closer, he found that although they were wearing armor, there were men, women, old and young, although this spirit and discipline were very similar to soldiers, but the things in their hands were wrong.
There are those with stilts under the ribs, those who carry big drums and small drums, and those who pinch flutes.
Damn! Master Tan went out with the troupe!
Tan Lun went out without sitting in a sedan chair, riding a high-headed horse, looking sideways to see Chen Mu's surprised expression towards the troupe, chuckled, waved his hand to the soldiers who were evasive, and marched forward, only then did he slowly pace the horse to Chen Mu, who was one horse behind, raised two fingers and said, "Haven't you seen it?" This is my drama troupe, Tan Zili only likes two things in this life, one is a soldier, the other is a play, I am from Jiangxi, but I like the sea salt cavity in Zhejiang, General Chen is lucky. ”
When it comes to opera, Tan Lun is not as serious as sitting in the yamen hall, and said with a smile: "Today, Qi Shuai is worshipping the sky in Jizhen, and Tan's Haiyan opera troupe also went to help the soldiers. In the past, there was a rebellion in Zhejiang, and these musicians had no livelihood, and I served as the prefect of Taizhou, so I left them in the army, and listed a separate one for training. ”
Chen Mu nodded and said: "Yes, the Japanese people liked Xiaowu before the war, their movements were slow and stiff, very serious, they clapped their hands and praised the conch, and then attacked." Killing the dancing and blowing conch with a bird gun can frustrate the enemy's spirit. ”
"Haha! You are direct, Tan is not like this, I trained a thousand soldiers and horses in Taizhou back then, they danced, I sang this opera, and happily defeated them and annihilated them, so that later the Japanese invaders fled whenever they listened to the singing, and saved many musicians in Zhejiang! ”
Chen Mu blinked, but he heard that Tan Lun fought in Taizhou in the past, and he fought until the blood soaked his wrists and sleeves, and it took a long time to wash off the bloodstains, and he couldn't figure out why a civil official had such a high combat effectiveness, and you are a man with your own background music for a long time.
What could he say, he arched his hand very seriously and said, "This is really a merit!" ”
In fact, Chen Mu had thousands of horses and thousands of troops rushing by in his heart, and he really couldn't imagine how the army that sang a big drama in the camp before the war won the battle, and how Tan Lun, the commander, commanded the sergeants to march and set up the formation in a Haiyan play.
If he loses or has never fought the Japanese Invaders, Chen Mu can still understand how high his command ability will be if this kind of almost playful method is mixed in the military formation, but all the attacks are broken?
"Today, the general came over, presumably he already has a draft for the training of Yanqing Sanwei, how long will it take for Yanqing Sanwei to be like Nanyangwei, with complete armaments, joint use of flag troops, and self-sufficiency of soldiers?"
"Two years." Chen Mu paced the horse with him, slightly short on the horseback, and said: "It is not difficult to train the troops, but the difficulty is that the orders are difficult to unify, and the lowly post is not the commander of the three guards in Yanqing. ”
Tan Lun's face was different, he pulled his beard and glanced back at Chen Mu, then closed his eyes and thought for a moment while pacing forward, and said: "There is no hurry to implement the Jingshi, since you want to train the army, the power to control the three guards will definitely be given to you." ”
Chen Mu didn't know what his words meant to Tan Lun, the imperial court already had a rule, usually nothing bothered the two masters, and whoever played and implemented the matter was generally done by this person.
The foreign guards are subordinate to the command of the embassy, and the commander of the envoy is subordinate to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and Jingwei is directly under the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies - Chen Mu's sentence to promote the Beijing Division made Tan Lun listen to him as having the ambition to enter the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.
Who can say yes to this? Three or four years later, a general who was less than 30 years old joined the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army, and no matter how good he did, he would have at most one Governor, but such a major event as the Reform of the Guards Army could not be done by only the Governor.
At the age of thirty, I became a first-class officer, and I won't do it anymore?
Tan Lun didn't take this stubble.
"When General Chen was in Nanyangwei, did he also worship the gods of heaven and earth to restrain his soldiers?" Seeing Chen Mu shaking his head, Tan Lun nodded lightly, raised his whip and pointed forward: "Then just go and see, you can learn more, and you can teach you that Tan is better at generals, where you are shrewd and shrewd, there are no taboos, you can rest assured and let go in the future." ”
Chen Mu didn't quite understand what Tan Lun meant by this, until he saw more than 20,000 Jizhen New Army flags covering the sky in the Miyun school field, and all kinds of Qi Jiguang's hand-painted flags rose in the wind.
"Heaven and earth, man and god learn from each other, we hereby swear that in the future, if we arbitrarily collect military funds for feeding, natural and man-made disasters, plagues, water and fire, will make the whole family die; If you have two hearts and don't love military power, you will steal men and prostitutes, more than ten generations! ”
"And know the Dharma, talk about heaven and hell, and talk about reincarnation. Now you obey my commands as if they were the Dharma, and when the wheel is returned, they should be feared, and everyone should obey them, and everyone will obey them, this is the unity of all people, and the northern captives have nothing to fear! ”