Although Li Rusong was always domineering, he still maintained awe of the emperor. Therefore, although he was accompanied by 500 servants when he went to Beijing, he actually only brought 300 with him. Today's trip only went to the suburbs of Beijing, so he only brought more than 100 with him.
People are trusted.
Although the entourage was small, at this moment he felt that the British minister's invitation to him at the Xishan Courtyard was intentional. Therefore, these hundred or so people must also represent the Liaodong Army and must not lose their prestige.
Just like the generals, there are the same soldiers. Li Rusong was high-spirited, and the Liaodong cavalry under his command were also high-spirited. After hearing the great master's explanation, they naturally held out their chests and belly, and marched forward proudly.
After passing the Niangniang Temple, not far away, he saw the Imperial Guard Camp that the servant mentioned before. This was the first time Li Rusong saw a "camp". He originally thought it was just a strong camp, but at this time
Only then did I realize otherwise. The camp here is a camp and the fort is a fort.
A barracks is a barracks. The barracks of the Imperial Guard are similar to those elsewhere, except that the houses are built rather strangely. They are exactly the same "big sheds" - in fact, they are common bungalows with cement brick walls in later generations, with dozens of them in a row.
The building system of the barracks is quite simple. The outer room is the dormitory, which houses one shed of soldiers (according to the regulations of the Beiyang Army mentioned earlier, one shed is equivalent to one squad of the Red Dynasty), and the inner room is the washroom and storage room. There is no toilet, and there is another toilet.
Public toilets were built for easy cleaning.
The barracks are divided into districts, and each "district" is generally organized into a battalion, housing about 500 people. There are three battalions of the Guards, usually two infantry battalions plus a horse or artillery battalion.
The two associations are one association, and the association has its own artillery reinforcement battalion; the two associations are one town, and the town also has its own independent artillery battalion and horse battalion.
It is called the Chinese Army Artillery Camp and the Chinese Army Horse Camp.
There is a separate playground outside each camp area, which is used for training of the battalion. As an independent overall unit, there is a large playground in the middle of the entire camp area of a town, which is used for centralized training and parades in the town.
The place Li Rusong passed by belonged to the edge of a town camp, and there happened to be a horse camp. Li Rusong and his cavalry looked inside through the neat gaps between deer and firewood, and found that horse fighting was being practiced inside.
Horse fighting is actually the special skill of the Li family army. Li Rusong narrowed his eyes and looked at it. However, the horse camp of the Imperial Guard was probably just doing basic training. A group of cavalry came back and forth taking turns to chop down the wooden man.
A general from the family next to Li Rusong sneered: "Wooden people can't move. How can they practice by cutting wood piles back and forth like this?"
The other general also smiled and said: "Come on, it's just the Beijing camp. It's good to be able to practice like this. At least after practicing like this for a while, you can ride the horse more steadily."
"Are you two better at military training than Qi Shaobao?" Li Rusong suddenly said coldly: "Look carefully at the placement of those wooden figures, and then think about whether such drills are useless."
The two were scolded by Li Rusong and quickly took a closer look. Only then did they realize that the wooden figures were not arranged as neatly as they imagined, but were scattered and irregular, and the distance between the wooden figures was not very wide.
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"Hiss..." The two of them gasped, knowing that this would make it very difficult for the soldiers of the Guards Horse Camp. In fact, their biggest difficulty was to pass between these wooden figures and at the same time
It is even more difficult to chop down the wooden man.
Li Rusong observed extremely carefully. Seeing their surprise, he pointed to the other side of the playground and said, "Look over there. What is the big hourglass used for? I don't need to explain it to you, right?"
There is definitely no need to explain. What else can an hourglass do besides telling time?
Li Rusong and others simply stopped to watch and saw that after all the Imperial Guard horse camps passed the "Wooden Man Formation", several more officers came forward to check on the wooden man, accompanied by a clerk holding a calculation in his hand, who seemed to be recording something.
Li Rusong watched for a while and secretly wondered: Could it be that they were recording the places where the cavalrymen wounded the enemy? But how could this be clear?
At this time, a sharp-eyed servant suddenly reminded: "Sir, please look, there seem to be vermilion marks on those wooden figures. It seems that... the saber blades in the hands of those cavalry are smeared with paint."
Li Rusong suddenly realized that this was the case. No wonder an officer came forward to check. Then he became curious again, what happened after the check?
This question did not last long, because the inspection was carried out very quickly, and soon several officers came forward to report the results to an officer in front of the reviewing stand. That officer may be the battalion commander, and he received the results from several officers.
After the report, he stood up, looked at it, and announced the results loudly.
Immediately afterwards, three of the dozens of cavalrymen who had just passed the examination dismounted and walked out of the line. They walked dejectedly to the reviewing stand and knelt down. Three more officers walked out from the reviewing stand, each holding a whip and walking forward with a stern look on his face.
Go to the three cavalrymen.
The three cavalrymen lowered their heads and took off their shirts on their own, leaving their chests and backs bare and motionless. The three officers seemed to yell and curse a few words, and then they raised their whips at the backs of the three cavalrymen, giving each of them ten lashes.
The backs of the three cavalrymen were streaked with blood.
A servant next to Li Rusong couldn't help but said: "Fuck! I've heard that Qi Shaobao is strict in managing the army, but I didn't expect it to be so strict. This group of cavalry can pass through such a wooden formation, and can also chop the wooden figures with their swords.
Where can I not be called an elite? But unexpectedly, three people were arrested and beaten. This is so... so unreasonable."
Li Rusong looked stern and said nothing, but the servant who led the way before smiled and said: "Actually, it's not a matter of elite or not. I heard that they don't look at others. In short, after calculation, the three with the worst performance will be eliminated.
They were pulled out and beaten, and then they were also punished with other items - such as the hut where they lived, and everyone was fined to clean the hut for seven days.
Sometimes there are too many people cleaning the latrines, and there will be other punishments, such as helping the latrines with the best training performance to wash clothes. In short, although most of the punishments are not serious, they are very embarrassing."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Li Rusong looked at it expressionlessly for a while, then suddenly turned back to the servant who was speaking and said: "What other rules of the Imperial Guard do you know? Tell me about them when you get back."
listen."
"Yes, sir, I understand."
Li Rusong didn't say anything about it anymore, and coldly ordered: "Let's go." After saying that, he grabbed the horse's belly and left first.
Not far away, Li Rusong and others suddenly noticed a large group of people running from a distance. When everyone took a closer look, they found that these people were all wearing brown shorts, carrying large square bundles with unique shapes on their backs, and holding a bag in each hand.
Carrying a big stone lock in his hand, the whole crowd came trotting in neat rows.
The brown bunt was originally a common folk costume, but there are very few people wearing it uniformly. To be precise, it is the only one in the world: Jinghua armed servants. And when Jinghua got the book sword flag, "book and sword" became Jinghua's signature
To unify the logo, Jinghua's armed servants also embroidered the book and sword emblems on the left chest of the brown bunt.
This group of people have the calligraphy and sword emblem on their left chests, and there is no need to explain their origins. Even Li Rusong knows them.
However, Li Rusong was still a little surprised by the group of armed servants who came with big stone locks. He asked the previous guide servant: "What are these servants of the Gao family doing?"
The servant replied: "Oh, this is their routine training, called running with weights."
"Running with weights?"
"Yes, sir." The servant explained: "The square bag behind them is also carrying stone slabs, which weigh thirty kilograms. The stone locks in their hands are fifteen kilograms each, and the whole body carries a sixty kilogram weight.
As far as I know, the servants in Jinghua do exercises five times a day. Before the exercises, they have to run with weights. They have to run twenty miles with a weight of 60 kilograms. Then they return to the camp to bathe and have meals. After that, they have two breaks to burn incense.
Start 'technical and tactical training' - things like musket shooting and bayonet fighting."
"Five exercises in seven days, are they so intense every time?" Li Rusong asked with a serious face.
"That's probably the case." The servant scratched his head and said, "However, the training here in Jinghua has more variety. Sometimes there is no technical and tactical training, but they are pulled out in groups to do some 'training'. This training also requires weight-bearing.
But it will be slightly lighter, as if the whole body is carrying a weight of forty pounds, but you have to run a long distance..."
"How far?"
"Ah, they often run from Jianxinzhai to Sanshenyuan. This trip is fifty miles, but they always go there in the morning, go to Sanshenyuan for lunch, and come back in the afternoon to finish their meal. They go back and forth like this every day,
It’s always more than a hundred miles away.”
"Fucked such a good boy..." A servant said dumbfounded: "They say Gao Situ is kind, but why does it sound like he is treating the servant like a mule?"
The guide took a peek at Li Rusong and saw that although Li Rusong looked serious, he could not see any emotion or anger. He felt a little relieved and replied: "I must be as tired as a mule, but the food in the Baiyulou barracks is very good, all of them are
Not to mention white rice, they still have plenty of meat and eggs to eat. In addition, they all get four taels of regular salary and occasionally some merit rewards, which are no worse than the county magistrate, so I am quite happy to see these mules.
"
But before, the servant still shook his head: "No, no, no, even if the food is good and the salary is high, who can handle this damn exercise seven days and five times? Besides, what's the use of them practicing so hard, and they can't make any money."
Let’s fight! The first-level reward can be as high as ten taels per head. Without this, how can we talk about a way out?”
Each branch of the Ming army had different standards for merit rewards for their heads, and the origins of the heads they obtained were also different. Generally speaking, Mongolian heads were the most expensive, followed by Japanese pirates, and Jurchen heads were more average.
Don't be surprised, the heads of Japanese pirates are really more valuable than the heads of Jurchens. This is probably because the Japanese pirates invaded along the coast in the past. If you can't defeat them, you can still get on a boat and escape, so it is harder to get heads.
The Jurchens are different. Although there are mountains and forests, they live in strongholds. As long as the Ming army encircles and suppresses them, it is easier to get their heads. Moreover, the Jurchens at this time were not very powerful in combat. When Nurhachi first started his army, he often fought with Shuer.
Haqi and his group of more than ten or twenty men overran hundreds of enemy troops - this is a historical fact, which shows that the wars between some ordinary Jurchen tribes at this time were at the level of group fights between villages.
The dead guy is there, and there is a problem on the opposite side that can be solved by charging.
Generally speaking, only powerful chiefs like Yehe, Hada, Ula and other powerful chiefs can be considered to have serious military organizations. In Jianzhou, before Nurhachi, only Wang Gao and Wang Wutang were at the military level.
Since their combat effectiveness was not very good, their heads obtained by the Ming army were of course not that valuable. This servant's so-called "twenty taels and more" was because Li Chengliang rewarded them more generously.
Of course, conversely, Li Cheng and Liang Jiading have strong combat effectiveness, which is one of the three main reasons. The other two main reasons are that the Li family has the habit of taking the lead in charging, which is "Follow me" rather than "Follow me".
The morale is high; secondly, Li Chengliang is not stingy in spending money to improve the soldiers and armor, and the equipment suppression is obvious.
Li Rusong said calmly at this time: "Okay, please shut up. Gao Situ has his own rules, and what his servants rely on for food is not what we should care about. But after listening to this, you should know where you are these days.
It’s not easy to earn a living. Our Liaodong Army doesn’t have many rules like theirs. Generally speaking, there is only one rule: if you dare to fight, you will be rewarded, if you can fight, you will be killed; if you are afraid of fighting, you will be killed! Do you understand?”
"Here!"
"I understand!"
"The great man is so proud!"
Li Rusong glanced majestically and ordered: "Let's go." He thought to himself: I heard that the Gao family has at least more than 100,000 armed servants. Are they all trained according to such intensity of training? Fortunately, Situ Gao is a civil servant.
Otherwise, if someone is from the Li family like me but has a hundred thousand strong soldiers, I am afraid that I will be killed and my family will be destroyed.
But then he thought about it and thought that Gao Jinggong still had many servants in southern Xinjiang. He suddenly realized it and said secretly: Yes, although Gao Situ's servants are many, they are scattered everywhere. The capital is here as the headquarters of Jinghua.
But there are no more than three thousand servants all year round.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The place with the most servants of the Gao family was originally Kaiping, but it did not exceed 10,000. Later, when he visited Liaodong, the number of servants increased sharply, but so far it should only be 20,000 or 30,000.
And they were also scattered throughout Liaodong. It seems that although Gao Situ was a civil servant, he was very careful.
However, Li Rusong curled his lips when he thought of this and said to himself: This is too cautious. You are a civil servant and a classmate of the emperor. When the Imperial Guards already numbered 60,000, you actually only dared to let loose in the suburbs of Beijing.
Three thousand servants, why is this so? Which of those nobles does not have thousands or even tens of thousands of servants? When has the emperor ever cared?
However, thinking about the strict discipline of the Imperial Guards and the strong training of the Gao family's servants that he had just seen, Li Rusong felt heavy in his heart, as if something was wrong. It would be okay if there were only 60,000 Imperial Guards in the Beijing camp. If there were more
Sixty thousand more, what about sixty thousand after sixty thousand?
The treatment of the frontier army is already poor, and the status of the frontier army may be even worse by then. After all, even if the frontier army cannot fight, the Beijing Guards can still achieve a great victory by attacking, and the prestige of the frontier commander will be wiped out by then.
Thinking of this, he thought about the defeat of his father Hetuala, and his heart became even more heavy. That his father's great reputation would fall into the hands of a little-known Jianzhou chieftain, who happened to be the leader of his father's tent.
The little pawn is really unbearable.
"I'm going back to Liao Town this time. When the decisive battle against Chahar takes place, I will definitely take down Tumen's head and restore glory to the Li family! As for today... hmph, it's just a training exercise, and you want to bend my pride?"
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