Chapter 2: The Inside Story of Cao Ying

"Hah" they exhaled and slammed into each other.

There is never anything fancy in military exercises, and some of them are all at once, almost at the moment of contact, the winner or loser is immediately distinguished.

They all use wooden knives and shields. Cao Zongyu's sword and shield hands, against Deng He's sword and shield hands, their wooden knives were stained with white ash, and once they hit other places except the sword and shield, they were extremely conspicuous, and they were immediately sentenced out.

In addition to the confrontation between individuals, there is also the confrontation between the armed forces. In summary, the requirements of the sword and shield man are much stricter than that of the pikeman.

The referee is Cao Zongyu, and Deng and the two.

The two of them have a very high eye, and they can see at a glance what the victory or defeat is, and what the quality of these people is. Even with the use of wooden knives and shields, from time to time someone fell to the ground and was carried out.

Zhang Xuan was a little bored when he saw it.

This kind of competition is not at all ornamental, and it is even more boring than a fencing competition. And sometimes Zhang Xuan's eyes can't keep up, and the reaction on the field. Many places have not yet seen what is going on, and they are already over.

But even so, Zhang Xuan also has to work hard to let himself watch it, without him. Zhang Xuan has already realized that the war will be entangled with Zhang Xuan in this life, and it will be indispensable in the future, when he goes into battle to kill the enemy, even if he can't practice, it is good to have more knowledge, at least he will not let people kill, and he doesn't know how he died.

After a whole day of proofreading, Zhang Xuan read them all in his eyes, and read them all, this is the result of his hard training for a month, so that these old farmers who are not divided between the left and right can be trained like this, which can be regarded as suffering Zhang Xuan.

Fortunately, there are some results now.

It took a while to get everyone through the project.

It was already afternoon. There was still a while before it got dark, after all, it was summer with long days and short nights, but Zhang Xuan couldn't drag the time until night.

In the eyes of many people, the sunrise and sunset are idyllic romance. But Zhang Xuan now knows that this is a cold reality.

The lighting was inconvenient, and when it was dark, almost everyone had to sleep.

And lighting the lamp is a privilege in identity and status, and many people in Zhang Xuan's camp do not have this condition. Therefore, Zhang Xuan could only disband early, so that these soldiers had a little time to move freely.

Zhang Xuan's eyes swept over and saw that everyone had sweat stains on their bodies, and there was a sense of tiredness in their bodies. But still standing straight. Nodding with satisfaction, he said, "Very good, everyone will have dinner tonight." ”

"General Xie." At this time, Zhang Xuanbu already had a little bit of a soldier's temperament, and his voice responded to the Tao, to the point of having a sense of majestic mountains and rivers.

When Zhang Xuan had just let these soldiers disperse, he looked back and saw Yang Shan coming. Yang Shan's appearance doesn't seem to have just come, but he has been here for a while.

Zhang Xuan said: "Brother Yang, why are you here?" ”

"Don't dare to be, my uncle just calls me Yang Shan." Yang Shan said respectfully. Before, Yang Shan had an attitude towards Zhang Xuan as a big brother to a younger brother, but at this moment, Yang Shan's attitude towards Zhang Xuan was much more respectful.

Zhang Xuan felt a little emotion inexplicably in his heart, he knew that this attitude was not because of Zhang Xuan, but because of Luo Yujiao.

"I've really become a soft rice eater." Zhang Xuan was a little self-deprecating in his heart.

"Where's the word?" Zhang Xuan said: "If it weren't for Brother Yang, I don't know where I would have died?" Where is my Zhang Xuan today, you will always be my big brother Yang. ”

Yang Shan's face warmed slightly, and he said, "The general asked my uncle to come over." ”

The capital division is Zhang Xuan's official position, and under Zhang Xuan's suggestion, Luo Rucai rectified Cao Ying, but his rectification is standardized, unlike before, the personnel of each ministry are different, and their respective subordinates are unknown.

This is not only Zhang Xuan's suggestion, but also Luo Rucai's method of learning from Li Zicheng, whose army has long been reorganized.

Li Zicheng divided the army into five battalions, the forward, the rear strength, the left auxiliary, the right wing, and the middle army. These five battalions, these five battalions are all soldiers, there are thousands of people, and the five battalions add up to 30,000 people, this is not counting the old battalion, the old battalion is where Li Zicheng's family is located, although there are not many elites, but it does not mean that there is no one to guard.

And Luo Rucai is not as tightly divided as Li Zicheng, but the general is also divided into five posts, each post is a horse team, about 2,000 horses, the five posts are Luo Yulong, Wang Long, Zhang Yingyuan, Yang Shenzu, Yang Chengzu is in charge, and there is not much difference from before, however, there are also 3,000 cavalry of the Chinese army personally in charge of Luo Rucai, and these 3,000 cavalry are the elite of the whole battalion.

And Zhang Xuan's department was included in the rear camp.

The rear camp is in charge of Luo Dain, and Zhang Xuan, as Luo Dain's deputy, is responsible for protecting the rear camp baggage. There are also women and children in the back camp. Zhang Xuan even has his own official title, Zhang Xuan's official title is Du Si, and Zhang Xuan's Du Si is actually just Luo Rucai casually found an official name, and Zhang Xuan also set up two generals according to the military system of the Ming Dynasty battalion, one is Cao Zongyu and the other is Deng He.

Although the so-called horse team is the foundation of Cao Ying's dominance of the world, it does not mean that the rear camp is not important, the rear camp is where Luo Rucai uses to check and balance generals at all levels, so Luo Rucai's cronies are not allowed to enter.

And after Zhang Xuan married Luo Yujiao, he was naturally included in Luo Rucai's cronies.

Luo Dain is very sensible and understands what Luo Rucai means, and all the soldiers and horses in the rear camp are in charge of Zhang Xuan.

But Zhang Xuan couldn't look down on the soldiers and horses in the rear camp when he came.

Although the soldiers and horses in the rear battalion are not old, weak, sick and disabled, in Zhang Xuan's view, they are all rabble. Zhang Xuan felt that the soldiers he had trained were still useful,

Second, Rodain is an old-timer after all, and this time he will take away Rodain's power, and he doesn't know how to be a man.

Zhang Xuan had a faint enemy in Cao Ying, none other than Ji Jue.

Ji Jue seemed to be worried that Zhang Xuan would take his place in Cao Ying, although he didn't dare to deal with Zhang Xuan blatantly, but he had been secretly stumbling on Zhang Xuan, which was enough for Zhang Xuan to bear. Zhang Xuan really didn't want to offend this elder of the wife's clan again.

"Do you know what's going on?" Zhang Xuan asked.

Yang Shan pondered for a while, but thinking that there was nothing worth hiding from Zhang Xuan, he said, "The army is about to move." ”

Zhang Xuan said secretly in his heart: "Sure enough." ”

Zhang Xuan was not surprised by this, being able to be stable in Songshan for more than a month was already commendable in Zhang Xuan's opinion. Tens of thousands of troops, nearly hundreds of thousands of people, the food they need is an astronomical amount, and the capture of Luoyang alone will not last long.

"But there's not enough food?" Zhang Xuan asked.

"King Chuang asked the general to discuss, the general has just returned, summoned the leaders of the battalions, and thought that he had already decided where to go to collect food." Yang Shan said.

"Where's the grain?" Zhang Xuan said secretly in his heart.

You don't have to think about it at all, it must be Huguang.

Huguang is ripe, the world is full, the grain in the south of the Yangtze River now depends on Huguang to support, Henan not only drought for three years, but also locust plague continuously, for several years there has been no harvest, it has long become a white land, except for Kaifeng, where is the grain available.

And the strength of Kaifeng City, the last time King Chuang had already touched it once, he lost his soldiers, and by the way, he lost an eye. If you want to go down in one go, it is simply impossible, and to besiege and attack, a fortified city like Kaifeng must take a long time, and the so-called materials are also astronomical.

Therefore, without replenishing the grain and grass, King Chuang will never come to Kaifeng again.

Zhang Xuan followed Yang Shan, and after a while, he came to Luo Rucai's place, but saw that many people were already there, the five sentinels, as well as Luo Dain from the old battalion, and some generals of the Chinese army, there were more than a dozen people densely packed, among these dozen people, Zhang Xuan was the least qualified, sitting at the bottom.

Luo Rucai and Ji Qi have not yet arrived, so these people are whispering, not knowing what they are talking about, Zhang Xuan looked at them silently, and thought of what Luo Yujiao said to him in his heart: "There are three factions in the camp, and the biggest faction is my Luo family." ”

Zhang Xuan silently counted in his heart, Luo Yulong, Wang Long, and Luo Dain are all considered members of the Luo family, and now they are counted as themselves, coupled with Luo Rucai's prestige, the Luo family is naturally the biggest faction.

"And then it's the old brothers of Shaanxi. They followed their father to fight in the world, and they were the backbone of the battalion, but they suffered a lot of losses in previous battles, and now there is not much left. ”