Chapter 66 Formation of the Red Guard Battalion of the New Army
The reason why Wu Zhi wants to form a new army is very clear. First, if he wants to increase his strength, he needs to have his own direct line forces, especially military direct line forces; second, he needs to cultivate his own people, Lin Chong, Wang Jin,
Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo, Si Fangguo and others can all be inserted into the new army, allowing them to hone and grow in the new army, which can help him in his future actions.
After the dynasty was dismissed, Wu Zhi followed Yang Jian, who was holding the imperial edict, out of the imperial city. The two got on a carriage driven by a young eunuch and headed straight to the outer city. The Dragon God Guard was stationed near Caomen in the outer city.
When the two of them slowly drove to the right wing of the Dragon God Guard camp, they saw that the camp was heavily guarded. Two guards in red armor and holding spears stood at the entrance of the camp, looking at Wu Zhi and Wu Zhi with vigilance.
Yang Jian came over and stared at him eagerly.
"Who is coming? Stop!" When Wu Zhi and Yang Jian approached the camp gate, two guards quickly intercepted them and shouted.
"Bold! This is your commander in the right wing. Why don't you open the camp door quickly and invite people in?" Yang Jian scolded the two guards. He wanted to step forward and push them away, but was blocked by the cold light of the two young guards.
The spear was blocked.
Before Yang Jian opened his mouth to speak, Wu Zhi raised his hand to stop him. Yang Jian quickly stopped and stepped aside. He was now in awe of Wu Zhi. He remembered that when he first brought Wu Zhi into the palace, he was still an eighth-grade official.
In just over a year, when he brought someone into the palace for the second time, they were promoted to five levels in a row, and they were transformed from a fifth-level Privy Councilor to a Commander-in-Chief, and he also held multiple positions. This made him
I was so scared that I was out of my body.
Wu Zhi took the imperial edict from Yang Jian, showed it to the two of them, and then said to them kindly: "Hello brothers! I am your new right wing commander Wu Zhi. Could you please report to the deputy commander?
Let me know that we are going to the camp to do business according to the order."
The two guards looked at Wu Zhi's young appearance, and then at the so-called imperial edict in his hand. They looked at each other with doubts, and the guard on the left turned around and went to the military camp, probably to inform the deputy.
All are in command, your lord.
Within a moment, two people hurriedly walked over to the barracks. The one in front was a dark-complexioned, muscular man with a Chinese character face, wearing a brocade robe, and he looked to be in his forties. The one following him was the guard who went in to report.
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"Is it Mr. Wu? Sun is so polite!" Sun Xin, the deputy commander of the right wing of the Dragon God Guard, came to Wu Zhi and quickly bowed and saluted. He had not yet received the court's order and did not know that the commander-in-chief had been replaced.
But Wu Zhi's reputation was so well known that he did not dare to neglect him.
"Hello, Master Sun!" After Wu Zhi returned the greeting, he unfolded the imperial edict in his hand and showed it to Sun Xin. After reading it, Sun Xin was so frightened that he quickly fell to the ground on one knee and shouted: "I have seen the commander!"
The two guards were so frightened that they quickly knelt down on one knee, terrified.
"Get up! Take me into the camp." Wu Zhi didn't want to talk nonsense and said straightforwardly.
Sun Xin glared at the two guards, stood up immediately, and enthusiastically led Wu Zhi and Yang Jian into the divine guard's barracks. After Wu Zhi took his seat in the commander's tent, Sun Xin hurriedly ordered a guard to beat the generals.
Drum, beat the drum to raise the tent.
After the drums sounded for a long time, all the military commanders, deputy military commanders, battalion commanders, and deputy battalion commanders came to the commander's tent. More than a hundred people crowded into the tent camp, chattering and noisy.
Wu Zhi, who was sitting on the commander's seat in the middle, looked at these procrastinating and unformed generals and couldn't help but shook his head secretly and sighed: "No wonder the 800,000 imperial soldiers of the Song Dynasty were beaten to pieces by Xixia and Liao. Isn't it?
It doesn't make sense. If one soldier is frightened, a whole bunch of them will be frightened." His idea of forming a new army seemed to be right.
The generals who arrived one after another saw a young official of about 20 years old sitting on the commander's seat (Wu Zhi had not had time to change into his official uniform, and was still wearing the uniform of a sixth-grade Kaifeng Prefecture judge), and the deputy commander of the sixth-grade commander.
Sun Xin could only stand with his head down, and there was a white-faced and beardless eunuch next to him. He couldn't help but be secretly surprised, and kept guessing in his heart.
Seeing that everyone had almost arrived, Wu Zhi stood up and gestured to Yang Jian. Seeing this, Yang Jian hurriedly picked up the imperial edict on the table and shouted in a high voice: "This is the imperial edict!" After hearing this, the generals quickly knelt down on one knee.
, and listened quietly to Yang Jian's announcement.
After Yang Jian finished announcing the decree in the imperial edict, everyone didn't come back to their senses for a long time. When Sun Xin shouted, "Meet the commander-in-chief!" everyone woke up and hurriedly shouted: "Meet the commander-in-chief!" Wu
They were shocked by the youth of Commander Zhi.
"Excuse me, everyone!" Wu Zhi suppressed his unhappiness and raised his hand to signal everyone to get up. After everyone stood up, Wu Zhi calmly glanced at everyone in turn and said again: "I have three things to do here.
Announced, firstly, I was ordered to take over the right wing camp of the Dragon God Guard and meet with everyone; secondly, I was ordered to select personnel from the Dragon God Guard to form a new army and follow me to the front line to make contributions; thirdly, I am mainly focusing on
Let’s train the new army, Lord Sun will be responsible for the matters on the right side from now on!”
Wu Zhi then announced the selection criteria to the generals: first, they should be young, preferably no more than forty years old; second, they should be able to obey orders and obey orders and prohibitions; third, they should have strong throwing ability. He handed over the specific matters to Sun Xin, who
He was responsible for selecting a thousand guardsmen who were obedient and had excellent throwing ability within three days.
After the explanation, Wu Zhi took Yang Jian and left the military camp without any hesitation. Everyone watched him leave with fear and fear. Wu Zhi, the number one scholar, and the twenty-year-old right wingman all commanded the troops. They were so shocked that they had not recovered yet.
Come.
After Wu Zhi returned home and told the situation to Wu Xiu, Feng Niang, Jin Lian, Xiao'e and others, everyone was happy and sad. They were happy that Wu Zhi had been promoted, but they were worried that Wu Zhi would go to the northwest soon.
We were on the front line, and we didn't know how long we would be away from home. Wu Zhi had no choice but to comfort them one by one.
At the same time, Wu Zhi came to discuss with Suo Chao's family, Li Zhenguo's family, and Si Fangguo, asking Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo, and Si Fangguo about joining the army and soliciting their opinions. Li Zhenguo's parents and sister had been killed by Wu Zhi in mid-September.
The four dispatched subordinates were brought back to the capital and are now living with everyone. Wu Zhi's family has three more laborers, and Wu Xiu and Feng Niang suddenly feel much more relaxed.
Learned martial arts and sold them to the emperor's family.
Suo Chao has extraordinary martial arts skills, and now he has the opportunity to serve the imperial court and make contributions. Suo Yanqing and Yang are too late to be happy, so how can they not agree? Hearing this, they naturally agreed, and Suo Chao was even more eager to try.
After nearly a year of practicing martial arts and boxing, Li Zhenguo and Si Fangguo, under the careful teaching of Wu Zhi, who claimed to be a famous teacher, their martial arts also improved by leaps and bounds, becoming more and more sophisticated, and they were born to practice martial arts. Now that they heard that they can join the army, the two of them
They were all quite excited, but Li Zhenguo's father Li Wanchun, mother Liang Shi, and sister Tianjiao were still a little worried, but they did not stop them.
Li Wanchun, Liang Shi and Li Tianjiao knew that Li Zhenguo and Si Fangguo had been rescued by Wu Zhi and accepted them as apprentices. They secretly followed Wu Zhi's people to escape from Langzhong and returned to the capital. After being taken in by Wu Zhi, they began to attack Wu Zhi.
The Zhi family was extremely grateful and admired the ability of Wu Zhi, the young master of their son (brother). Since Wu Zhi had his own reasons for this arrangement, although the three of them were a little reluctant and worried, they still did not object after all.
, if you can make achievements through this, after all, it is something worthy of happiness and glory!
Wu Zhi was also quite happy to see that seventeen-year-old Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo and sixteen-year-old Si Fangguo, who had grown into half adults, could join the army.
Early the next morning, Wu Zhi came to the Yuquan Hall and found his master Zhou Tong. Through Zhou Tong, he found Lin Chong and Wang Jin, explained to them the formation of the new army, and stated that he was ready to recommend Lin Chong and Wang Jin to serve as red guards respectively.
The commanders of the left and right battalions asked them what their wishes were.
When the two heard this, they were extremely pleasantly surprised. They were now serving as instructors in the Forbidden Army. They were both low-level military attachés without official rank and rank. Now they could rise to the top and serve as battalion commanders from the eighth rank. Can they not be ecstatic? The two people quickly expressed
Willing to obey Wu Zhi's arrangements.
When they heard that Wu Zhi, the junior disciple, had been appointed as the Privy Council Commander of the Fifth Rank and the Commander of the Right Wing Commander, they and Zhou Tong were even more exasperated. When Wu Zhi returned to the capital from Weishi County, the four masters and apprentices
At that time, Wu Zhi was still a sixth-rank judge in Kaifeng Prefecture. In less than a year, he was promoted to three levels in a row, which amazed Zhou Tong, Lin Chong, and Wang Jin. Now, in less than a year, he has been promoted to two levels.
This shocked the three of them even more.
Wu Zhi then explained to Lin Chong and Wang Jin the essentials and standards for training the new army, and practiced with them several times until they fully mastered it before he stopped. Among them, formation drills were also one of the training subjects.
Those who are near the water come first, so these methods of training the new army were naturally taught to Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo and Si Fangguo first by Wu Zhi.
Zhou Tong, Lin Chong, and Wang Jin felt that the training methods he taught were very strange and new, but Lin Chong and Wang Jin still studied seriously until they completely mastered what Wu Zhi taught. They are now convinced by Wu Zhi.
.Both of them are martial arts experts, so it is not difficult to learn.
The soldiers were very quick. After coming out of the imperial boxing hall, on the same day, Wu Zhi submitted a memorial to Zhao Xu proposing that Lin Chong and Wang Jin should serve as commanders of the Red Guard's left and right battalions respectively, and Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo and Si Fangguo should serve as commanders respectively.
Then, Wu Zhi found a competent tailor shop in the city, placed an order for 1,100 belts, spent 220 yuan, and requested that they be made within ten days. The style of the belt should be based on his previous design.
Each belt has eight small pockets, just enough to hold the bamboo hand grenades he made.
Two days later, the imperial court's approval came out, fully agreeing with Wu Zhi's proposal, and officially appointed Lin Chong as the commander of the left camp of the Red Guard Camp, and Wang Jin as the commander of the right camp of the Red Guard Camp. Both were awarded Bingyilang, the eighth rank.
Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo and Sifangguo were appointed as the heads of the capital respectively, and they were all awarded Chengxinlang, ranking ninth grade.
Lin Chong and Wang Jin were overjoyed after being appointed by the court. They finally had official status. Although they were just junior military attachés, they were worthy of celebration. Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo and Si Fangguo and other three young men were also extremely excited.
Within three days, Sun Xin had selected a thousand qualified guards in advance.
So, Wu Zhi took Lin Chong, Wang Jin, Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo and Si Fangguo on an ox cart to the right wing camp of the Dragon God Guard, preparing to receive the new army. Lin Chong and Wang Jin met Wu Zhi, their junior brother
Suddenly there were three more young apprentices, and they were all surprised and sighed.
At the same time, Zhao Xu also approved Wu Zhi's request to make new weapons. When Zhao Xu saw Wu Zhi's proposal to make a batch of new weapons in the memorial, he just thought it might be to make some new weapons such as swords, guns, bows and arrows.
, didn't take it seriously at all, and readily agreed to Zhunzou's order, leaving Wu Zhi to create new weapons.
Sun Xin diligently led Wu Zhi and the others to the school grounds. They saw that a team of a thousand people had been neatly divided into ten columns and lined up in the square, quietly waiting for Wu Zhi's arrival. They heard that the new right
The commander of Xiangdu was just a twenty-year-old young man who was preparing to form a new army. He was full of curiosity and signed up enthusiastically. Only then did he stand out and become a member of the new army. He was full of expectations for his commander-in-chief.
When Wu Zhi brought Lin Chong and Wang Jin to the crowd, everyone could really feel Wu Zhi's youthful and calm temperament, and they were heartbroken. Wu Zhi brought Lin Chong, Wang Jin, Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo and Sifang
After the five people from the country were introduced to the guards, Lin Chong and Wang Jin were asked to select people to form a team and divided them into two battalions, a total of ten companies. They were allowed to do their work and train the new army. Suo Chao,
Li Zhenguo and Sifangguo served as the captains of the 1st, 23rd and 3rd companies respectively. The captains of the other seven companies were selected by Lin Chong and Wang Jin from the recruits, and then submitted to the imperial court for approval. On the next day, the approval document from the imperial official department was issued.
I made the decision and fully agreed with their proposal.
There are three main contents of the new army training: first, formation training and formation cleaning. Wu Zhi used the formation training subjects of later generations on the new army, and he personally went on the field to practice; second, throwing training, he
First, a thousand guards from the Red Guard camp were ordered to cut down bamboo tubes, and then fill the bamboo tubes with sand and soil. The weight was about the same as a bamboo grenade. After sealing the mouth, they picked up the bamboo tubes and simulated bamboo grenades for throwing training. Who could throw the best
The farther, the better, and the more accurate, the better; the third is to form a team of ten people, each team has a captain, to conduct cooperative killing drills, which require both independent and coordinated operations.
The guards in the Red Guard Camp were not only curious, but they were also curious about Wu Zhi’s training subjects, which they had never heard of or seen before!
The Red Guard Battalion is still stationed in the Dragon God Guard's right wing camp. It is an independent army with independent organization and independent camp structure. It is not affected by other battalions at all. Except for Wu Zhi, no one is allowed to interfere with the Red Guard Battalion.
affairs.
Lin Chong and Wang Jin cherished the opportunity in front of them, worked hard with their own hands, and showed no mercy when training the new army. When the officers and soldiers of the new army saw Wu Zhi coming to train the team in person, they also paid special attention to it and had high morale. Especially when they
When I heard Wu Zhi announcing that all the guards of the new army would receive an additional five hundred cents in military pay every month, they couldn't help but be ecstatic. They were even more in awe of Wu Zhi and trained even harder.
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd companies led by Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo and Si Fangguo were training even more vigorously! Originally, the recruits of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd companies were very unconvinced when they saw that their leader was still an underage boy.
After the three of them failed to challenge Suochao, Li Zhenguo and Si Fangguo and were brutally tortured by the three of them, everyone finally realized what it means that since ancient times heroes emerge from youth, and they became convinced.
Three days later, Wu Zhi saw that the training of the new army had achieved good results, so he felt relieved and became a hands-off shopkeeper, letting Lin Chong, Wang Jin, Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo, Si Fangguo and others manage and train with confidence.
He now holds many positions and doesn't even know which yamen he should work in, so he simply doesn't go anywhere. He concentrates on the affairs of the New Army and staying at home with Jin Lian, Xiao'e and the others.