Chapter 50 Horse Fighting
The next morning, Chen Wen began to pay the true colors of military pay and the color of the discount.
When distributing military pay, Chen Wen did not take action, but was distributed by the military officer Qi Xiufeng, who stood beside him to monitor. The new system of distributing funds was established by him. This system and most of the systems he established were not used. It itself violated the privileges of officers, so Chen Wen must closely monitor its formation to avoid the rebound of the phenomenon of officers withholding military pay.
Seeing the officers and soldiers sincerely thank him after receiving the reward, Chen Wen believed that everything he had done before had begun to be rewarded. Whether it was to implement military laws in practice or defend the military pay of the soldiers from being corrupted by civil servants, all this would be like the bonus he added to the Mid-Autumn Festival that many poor soldiers in his camp might have eaten for many years or had never eaten. It would last for a long time with the feeling in memory, thus continuing to infect other members of the army in the future.
Seeing the soldiers cheering with smiles after receiving the military pay, he decided that there was no need to give him a gift for the time being, like Yuan Shikai, ordering his subordinates to shout "Eat Marshal Chen's food and wear Marshal Chen's clothes." Even if it is a reality for soldiers to be the generals, he did not intend to continue to stimulate the nerves of the civil servants in the military supervision.
After paying the money, Chen Wen asked the officers to continue leading the soldiers to train, while he went to the central army hall to attend the regular meeting.
Today's regular meeting is different from the previous few days, because Wang Yi had already arrived last night. However, the first thing he did when he came back was to finish yesterday's affairs.
"In governing the army, all the achievements will be rewarded, and all the mistakes will be punished. The guerrilla general Chen Wen beat up and injured his colleagues, and his crimes are not allowed. He was demoted to the garrison and was still in charge of the original ranks to observe the future. The person's military salary this month was punished as the medicine fee for the injured. This order."
"Abide by the orders of humble duties."
Although he was not used to it from the last general to the low position, Chen Wen didn't care much whether it was a guerrilla general or a garrison. In a chaotic world, if you have military power, you will have everything, and your position is not very important. Especially at this time, even the title is far less valuable than before Jiashen, let alone a position.
Besides, Wang Yi's punishment decision did not say that Chen Wen was wrong in resisting corruption. What was wrong was that the means were too rough and suspected of overreaching power, which would be demoted. Therefore, Chen Wen did not have any psychological burden for such punishment.
After solving yesterday's problems, in addition to summarizing the affairs of the old camp during the period when Wang Yi went down the mountain, the main thing was to book a competition under the command of Chen Wen's troops and a garrison in the afternoon. What surprised Chen Wen was that in addition to the officials of the old camp of Dalanshan led by Wang Yi and Wang Jiang, there were also the front camp commander Huang Zhongdao, the rear camp commander Mao Mingshan, the commander of the Ming army in Simingshan, Feng Jingdi, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War, and his general, Chen Wen's old acquaintance guerrilla general Wang Sheng.
Since this was the regular meeting of the old camp in Dalanshan, Feng Jingdi and Wang Sheng did not attend, and Chen Wen also met Huang Zhongdao and Mao Mingshan for the first time. Huang Zhongdao had the position of the governor's office of the left governor, he didn't speak much, and looked quite elegant. It was hard to imagine that this man had cooked and killed the envoy of Yan's husband a month before Chen Wen came to this era. He was very different from Mao Mingshan, who was the commander of the same battalion. He spoke straightforwardly, and even when facing Wang Yi, he dared to contradict him in a blunt manner. Chen Wen found that other colleagues seemed to be used to it, which made him recall the nickname "Mao King Kong" in Mao Mingshan, which was quite appropriate.
Perhaps because the punishment decision was announced, Wang Yi was quite rude to Chen Wen and even neglected him, especially when the competition was announced in the afternoon at the university. It was particularly obvious. During the entire regular meeting, whether it was the guard of the central camp who was very inspired by Wang Yi, or other colleagues were probably waiting to see Chen Wen's jokes. He also knew Wang Yi's intentions, just to sharpen his character.
Chen Wen looked at all this with a sneer and thought to himself that today may disappoint you.
After the regular meeting, Chen Wen returned to the West School grounds with disdain for Chu Suxian, whether he was demoted to him, or his new recruits.
After the punishment was announced, Chen Wen's subordinates seemed quite indignant. In their opinion, those corrupt officials should have learned a lesson and even beheaded for public display. Regarding Chen Wen's actions to hurt Chu Suxian for them, whether it was due to the subordinate relationship between the general and subordinates, or because Chen Wen was defending their interests, they would choose to stand firmly on Chen Wen's side. Chen Wen's behavior also won their loyalty even more, because it made them feel that they were following the right person.
How could a general who can defend his subordinates’ interests not be loyal to his subordinates?
However, Chen Wen still stopped them from going to the Central Military Hall to ask for an explanation. In addition to not intending to stimulate the nerves of the civil servants, more importantly, the principle of rewarding and punishing merits in the army. So he used the theory that if there were any mistakes, he would be punished all of his subordinates back to the West School and continue training.
In addition, after announcing the order for the afternoon competition, Chen Wen rejected other officers' suggestions for re-training the queue next, because he did not think that the current mandarin duck formation might be defeated by those old-style troops, especially after Wang Yi announced the rules of the competition. For him now, the key is how to win beautifully.
After the morning training was completed at the prescribed time, the soldiers of the camp went to have lunch and slept for half an hour after dinner. Everything in the camp seemed orderly, as if the afternoon competition had nothing to do with them. The only difference was that each person had an extra bowl of thick fish soup at noon today, which tasted very good.
At the agreed time, Chen Wen led the entire battalion to the large schoolyard in front of the Central Army Hall. Since the Central Camp used this large schoolyard on weekdays and its military camp was also next to the schoolyard, it arrived earlier than Chen Wen's troops.
After the two ministries arrived, a minor official went to the central army hall to invite the officials. Soon, under the leadership of Wang Yi, a group of people who were watching the battle came to the large school grounds, and then climbed onto the military station and sat down one by one.
Seeing this, Chen Wen and the garrison passed the steps on both sides of the military placing platform on the main campus, one left and one right, and also climbed the military placing platform. After the two of them passed the ceremony, a civil servant who was in charge of the ceremony walked forward and began to recite aloud with a military order.
"According to the order of Wang Jingluo, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War of the Emperor Ming Dynasty and the left deputy commander of the Imperial Palace, today, to test the training results of the new camps compiled by the Central Camp garrison and the garrison Chen Wen, two battalions were specially arranged to compete at the Dalanshan Laoying Grand Camp. There are three competition items, one is cavalry battle, the second is bow and arrow, firearm shooting, and the third is array confrontation. Both sides are the robes of our Ming Dynasty King's Army, and they need to be clicked to stop and cannot kill the opponent. This order."
"As for the order." After the ceremony, the two of them got off the squad and went to arrange the troops to fight in the headquarters.
Wang Sheng stood beside Feng Jingdi, looking at Chen Wen's back with a complicated face. This scholar who was alone for more than a month ago was almost the same as his status as him, and even more troops than he led. He felt quite unhappy about this change.
He had previously sent someone to seek an opportunity to assassinate Chen Wen, but the officer in charge of this matter reported that this guy had never left the Dalan Mountain range. Later, he became a guerrilla general in the Dalan Mountain Old Camp and led the first battalion to give up. After all, the consequences of murdering a white scholar and murdering a working general are completely different.
Wang Sheng knew very well that with the strength of the Dalanshan Old Camp, Chen Wen, a camp with only more than 300 people at the moment, could become five hundred, eight hundred or one thousand at any time. Once this person gained power, according to the temperament of the warriors of this era, it would never be possible to make up with him. On the battlefield, he would be ready to be plotted by this guy at any time. All this prompted him to curse Chen Wen and Chen Wen's subordinates at this time.
At the same time, Feng Jingdi, who was sitting next to Wang Yi, was also paying attention to Chen Wen. Unlike other people's disdain, Feng Jingdi's eyes were more wary. If someone familiar with Feng Jingdi knew, he would definitely see that the wariness appeared in Feng Jingdi's eyes last time, when he and Yu Huang met Yu Huang a few years ago in order to ask for a teacher in Japan.
Looking at Chen Wen who was arranging the appearance, Wang Jiang sighed. Because the cavalry and firearms were not easy to train, he initially disagreed with the competition because it was unfair to do so. However, after what happened yesterday, he did not persuade Wang Yi to change his plan. Now he only hopes that Chen Wen will not lose too badly. After all, the talent of this young man is still very exciting, but his temper needs to be polished to be useful.
After a while, the central camp had already made arrangements, and Chen Wen and the garrison returned to the Soldiers' Platform to report, and then they stood on the side of the Soldiers' Platform near the Soldiers' Platform to facilitate the maintenance of order.
The first competition was a cavalry battle. The four personal soldiers guarding the central camp turned on their horses and performed some horses immediately.
Seeing that his servants' riding skills won the cheers of everyone on and off the stage, the guard in the middle camp couldn't help but show his face. He led 300 troops and only raised ten personal soldiers with a salary of 100 people. The four on the field were the best among his personal soldiers, and the leader of the leader was his personal soldiers, which was definitely the word "extremely brave".
At the same time, on Chen Wen's side, the captains of the two cavalry teams and a squad leader turned over and stepped on the war horse. Unlike their opponents, their riding skills seemed very unfamiliar. It was probably good to be able to charge on the horse, and equestrians seemed too luxurious.
Just as everyone showed disdain, Li Ruixin led his dark clouds and snow to the crowd from the cavalry's horses and came to the other three people who were fighting. He supported his whole body with both hands and flew up as if he had escaped from gravity. He sat directly on the saddle, and he didn't step on the stirrups after sitting on it. The dark horse under his crotch also showed calmness, as if he had suddenly added a burly man on his back who was not inferior to Chen Wen's time traveler.
Unlike the other seven people, Li Ruixin was not wearing armor. As Duke Jingguo, who was once appointed by Emperor Hongguang of the Ming Dynasty, was under the personal army of Huang Degong, who was known for his bravery in the late Ming Dynasty. He did not want to fight with these local buns. However, because of this cavalry team that had only been practicing for a month, he was afraid of embarrassing his current general Chen Wen, so he volunteered to appear.
When he rode his horse to the school ground, Li Ruixin was caught in the training training wooden gun dipped in white ash and wrapped one end with thick cloth, and curled his lips very much. The weight made him very uncomfortable, especially compared with the ancestral horse paddle.
Seeing that Li Ruixin was playing here, the Central Camp seemed quite surprised. He looked at the face of the captain of the Central Camp. He obviously knew Li Ruixin and knew about the bravery of this person. He whispered with the other three personal soldiers before saluting immediately.
It was precisely because of his bravery that the captain of the personal soldiers revised the plan that had been formulated before. In the new plan, these four of them would focus all their attention on Li Ruixin, striving to pick him off the horse in the first round. As for the remaining three, he didn't care. It was already very good to be able to charge on horseback after a month of cavalry. How could such advanced cavalry warfare be so easy to practice?
After the civil servant of Sili on the stage announced the start of the competition, the captain of the personal soldiers immediately led his subordinates to rush towards Li Ruixin and others. The first thing that cavalry warfare emphasizes is speed. If the horse speed is faster, the chance of winning is higher. This is the basic common sense that any cavalry general knows, and he believes that Li Ruixin also knows this.
But at this moment, he found that Li Ruixin did not seem to be planning to fight with him, but rushed directly to his three subordinates, but the other three new recruits met him. This made him speechless. He didn't know whether he should be happy for Li Ruixin's underestimation or angry at the other party ignoring the cavalry he trained.
Before the romantic wall-style charge that belongs to men appeared, the cavalry and cavalry of both sides of the cavalry would be separated by a considerable distance from each other to facilitate the enemy, because this would make it easier for them to use the length of weapons such as horse oars, spears, halberds, and big swords to attack opponents from all angles. Of course, in order to prevent accidental injury of teammates, it is also a big reason for this.
At this moment, the eight cavalry generals who fought on the colonel's field did not leave this category. After taking over the enemy, the captain of the central camp shot one of the opponent and then fought with the other two, even with a sense of fighting. At this time, the college field also heard the sound of cheers and praises at the right time.
Fighting with these new recruits made the captain feel really relaxed and tight, but the opponent seemed to be very diligent in practicing, and Li Ruixin must also have the unique skills and experience in cavalry fighting. The two cavalrymen on the opposite side did not look like new recruits who had only been practicing for a month at all. They felt that they were already a little introductory, which made him look at Chen Wen and Li Ruixin again.
However, this is useless for this competition. If these two are solved, you can cooperate with the other three to fight against Li Ruixin. He is very confident in the three personal soldiers who have been practicing with him for more than two years.
The captain of the personal soldiers, who was confident of winning, continued to attack his two opponents with the wooden gun in his hand, and his two opponents could only use defensive moves to delay the time of defeat. However, for the cavalry, flexible hands and eyes were the most basic quality. The captain of the personal soldiers was not slow at this time, but he glanced at an amazing scene. The appearance of this scene almost made him beat him by the opponent who saw the flaws.
Also facing the three people with one man's strength, Li Ruixin rounded up the wooden gun in his hand and knocked one opponent down the horse, and then fought with the other two. As a cavalry general who had been fighting with bandits and cavalrymen on the battlefield for many years, Li Ruixin's moves were completely fancy. Each shot aimed at the key attack, which was definitely the word "steady, accurate and ruthless".
He took the other person out of nowhere, and the remaining person was knocked down by Li Ruixin at the same time, and the captain noticed that Li Ruixin shot his barrel in his chest and flew out of the horse. The force seemed to have a broken rib.
The captain of the personal soldiers tried his best to resolve the attack that the opponent had just found a flaw because of his loss of consciousness. However, because all his other teammates were sentenced to be dismissed, his mind began to panic, and his moves were completely gone. He could only draw with the two opponents at this moment.
Fortunately, the martial arts of these two people on horseback could not be compared with him. After a while, he took the initiative again. But what was strange was that during this period, Li Ruixin just stood in the distance and had no desire to enter the battle group.
Li Ruixin looked quietly at the three people who were still fighting. The captain of the personal soldiers was indeed quite brave. Both his strength and skills were considered good near Dalan Mountain, but for him, it was still not very good.
In his opinion, the relatives of the Ming army's personal soldiers should be the elite like the Manqing Baijia soldiers. Although this personal soldiers captain is not weak, his level cannot reach that level, and it cannot be trained overnight. Even if this person's level is good in the Dalanshan area, looking at the future, it is still not enough to compete with the Manqing Halal Tartars.
After looking for a while, he saw that the two cavalry captains had truly felt the normal cavalry battle. The cavalry standing around also saw clearly what the cavalry battle was going on, Li Ruixin did not intend to waste his time. He ordered the two to retreat, and when the opponent recovered some strength, he signaled that he and the personal captain had a one-on-one duel.
In front of everyone, both sides retreated to a distance suitable for cavalry acceleration, and then rode towards the opponent with wooden guns at the same time. When they were in the battle, Li Ruixin saw his opponent shake a flower gun and then headed straight to his chest. Obviously, he didn't want to fight anymore and planned to decide the outcome in one battle, and he happened to have this intention.
Li Ruixin was lying on the horse's back, and Qiangqiang passed the spear that was stabbing straight, then a kite turned over and stood upright again.
But at this time the captain of the personal soldiers had already rushed over. Li Ruixin pulled the reins while getting up. By the time he got up, the war horse had almost completed its turn. With the forced time difference, he then rode his horse up and stabbed the captain of the personal soldiers who were just about to turn around to fight, causing him to fall directly.
Chapter completed!