Chapter 330 Arms
Yecheng Armed Forces Academy is located on the bank of Zhangshui River and is a military station dock.
It was originally the residence of a powerful man, but was later valued by Zhang Chong and expanded into a dock wall, which could be used for teaching and as a peripheral stronghold of Ye City.
Since taking Yecheng as his base for a long time to come, Zhang Chong has focused on the defense of Yecheng. First, he planned a small city in the northwest of Yecheng and named it Tongque City.
Tongque City is located on a high terrain and is the commanding height near Yecheng, which has important military value. In the plan, Tongque City will be composed of three dock walls, connected to each other by doorways and flying corridors, and a high platform will be built inside to watch the enemy's situation.
This Tongque City and the Military Academy to the north and south will be used as important strongholds to defend Ye City.
On the early morning of Zhengdan, even though the atmosphere of the New Year was permeating everywhere, drums and trumpets were still sounding in the Military Academy, making everyone who walked by aware of the heavy military armament here.
The students in the Armed Forces School are basically from the military and above, and they are all closed here, so even if it is Zhengdan, they just have an extra meal, and then it is the same as usual.
At this time, the sound of the students performing exercises spread across Zhangshui, and Xu Sheng, who was walking on the road, heard his blood boiling with excitement, secretly thinking that this was where he should be.
The senior who led Xu Sheng and his group was also very young, burly and powerful, and walked with great force.
Xu Sheng had seen his talisman before and knew that his name was Cheng Pu.
Cheng Pu was captured when he accompanied Sun Jian in the attack on Yecheng. A large number of middle and low-level military officials from Sun Jian's tribe were also captured with him. But not everyone has the same chance to be selected into the Military Academy like Cheng Pu.
As Lu Zhi's Han army in Hebei withdrew to Youzhou, whether for the security of the rear or to eliminate the enemy, the Taishan army would go north to Youzhou in the future.
Therefore, it was necessary to develop a group of military officers from Youzhou. It was against this background that Cheng Pu and Han Dang were pardoned and even promoted to the Military Academy.
Of course, this is also inseparable from their excellent riding skills and relatively submissive attitude. After Zhang Dan's Eastern Expeditionary Army fought the Han Army in Hebei, not one or two of the Youzhou Cavalry surrendered, but many of them were so surly and unruly that they are still building Tongque City.
Along the way, Cheng Pu was introducing the affairs of the school to these twenty junior students from all over the world.
Cheng Pu spoke very carefully, without any of the arrogance of his predecessors. On the one hand, Cheng Pu felt that he was a retired general and had nothing to be arrogant about. On the other hand, he knew that these people could be recommended to school by local officials. If they were either outstanding in ability or well-connected, they would definitely have a bright future in the future.
Cheng Pu's friendship with these people will also make it easier for him to travel in the army in the future.
But Xu Sheng behind him didn't hear clearly what Cheng Pu said.
Xu Sheng is from Langya in the south. It was his first time to come to the north, and it was also his first time to experience the severe cold in the north. He was caught off guard and felt a little unbearable. He felt a little dizzy at this moment.
Coupled with Cheng Pu's strong Youzhou dialect, even if Xu Sheng tried hard to listen, it would be difficult to understand.
In fact, regarding language communication issues, Xu Sheng knows a little bit of Mandarin.
The Mandarin here is the elegant language used to communicate among the nobles in the Han Dynasty. Yayan is the oldest official language in ancient China. It was this Yayan that Confucius used when he could communicate with three thousand disciples from various princes.
Yayan has been handed down roughly since the Xia Dynasty. At that time, it was the local language of the core civilization circle, that is, the area between Heluo and Luo. Because Xia, Shang and Zhou all had their capitals in the Heluo area, it naturally became the official language.
As the core area of civilization at that time, Yayan was not only necessary for the princes and officials to learn, but also for some remote soldiers.
For example, when the Jin Dynasty was about to attack Chu, in order to unify the rear, it decided to attack Juzhi, the leader of Jiang Rong in the north. He accused the Rong people of causing sabotage and instigating the northern princes, which led to the division of Chu in the southern expedition.
The language of the Rong people was different from that of the Chinese ancestors, but Juzhi at that time was able to recite a line from the Book of Songs to defend himself on the spot. This shows that Yayan was a common language for the upper class in various places at that time.
The personnel structure of the Taishan Army is generally biased towards the bottom, so they can basically only communicate in the language of their hometown, and they can almost speak the same language with foreigners who are a little further away. Therefore, there are actually various circles within the Taishan Army, all of whom are can be talked about together.
In order to improve the cohesion of various regions, Zhang Chong has consciously popularized Yayan, but this is still a small-scale practice and is only taught in schools.
Although Xu Sheng is a Langya thief, his ancestor is actually a branch of the Xu family, the aunt of the Langya Kingdom. Although his land disciples are no longer available, some of the literary and martial arts of the gentry are still passed down.
Although this article is just a bit of elegance, it is still much better than an illiterate one.
Xu Sheng was able to stand out from thousands of Langya thieves and was appreciated by his superiors. This elegant speech was a very important job.
The aunt Xu family is still a very small gentry, and their family will have to wait until Yongjia crosses south to make its fortune, but even so, some inherited things can give Xu Sheng and the people at the bottom a very high starting point, and directly decide different fates.
Xu Sheng could not understand Cheng Pu's Youzhou dialect, but it did not prevent Cheng Pu and some northerners among the students from introducing the situation of the Military Academy.
The current Arms Academy has two classes, the Infantry Warfare Department and the Cavalry Warfare Department. There are currently 100 students, and 50 new members will join in the future, so there will be 50 students in each period, and the training time will be three months.
The training officers in the Arms Academy are basically mid-level military officers and veterans. After the Taishan Army attacked Guancheng, the veteran recruits Xiang Weng and more than 20 veterans surrendered to the army.
Zhang Chong used these people as teachers of infantry tactics to train his students in tactical coordination.
The subject training in the Armed Forces School does not involve armor training very much, because the people selected from each team are brave men on the battlefield. These people come here to learn how to command fifty people or a hundred people. Battle formation training.
Therefore, the military preparation school is also a training school for middle and low-level military officials.
The best students from each batch of qualified students will stay in Yecheng and join the collision team. As a personal follower of Qu Commander, the Cross Collision Team is no longer a simple follower of the army, but a training ground for mid-level military officers.
In the Cross Collision Team, in addition to being able to get along with Commander Qu day and night, the more important thing is to have a qualification. This kind of recruitment will directly start the team, and later on, he will be promoted with merit, and there will be no wastage.
Therefore, it has become the dream of every soldier in the army to join the collision team.
As for other qualified graduates of the Armed Forces School, they will go to different teams to serve as deputy team members, that is, the chief among the fifty people. The auxiliary team will be responsible for the tactical training of the entire team, and the credit and recognition are here. You can be promoted to captain.
Therefore, the gap between the top performers and qualified candidates in each period is so big. Although the former also join the collision team as a deputy team, once they come out of the collision team, they will become the generals. There is a direct difference of three levels here.
It’s no wonder that the competition in the Armed Forces Academy has become extremely fierce.
These things are all related to the future, and Cheng Pu has told everyone carefully. Although these people will be informed after they enter school, the earlier they know, the earlier they can enter the state. Sometimes, the difference is just this little bit.
Of course the northern military officials among them knew this, so they looked at Cheng Pu with grateful eyes, saying that Cheng Pu had the air of an elder.
When he was done talking, he arrived outside the wall of Wubei Academy. In order to defend the dock wall, the Taishan Army dug a moat and brought in the Zhangshui River. Therefore, to enter the Military Academy, you had to take a sampan to cross the moat.
Of course, there is a suspension bridge on the dock wall, but unless there is a war with the army, the suspension bridge will not be opened. Even the daily supplies for the trainees' training are sent into the dock wall using these sampans.
This is the Military Academy. As a place that trains middle and low-level military officials, Zhang Chong not only teaches the military officials tactical doctrines, but also integrates the rigor and precision of military use into the daily routine of these people, and then brings them to the troops below.
Everyone followed the process and crossed the moat, and then they saw that the place was heavily guarded, and there were soldiers with halberds and armor everywhere. Then there was a military officer with a yellow headband and a yellow armband, and he took a book and limped over.
This is to verify identity.
Cheng Pu asked everyone to take out all their letters of introduction and talismans for verification.
This military officer was lame, and he must have been injured in some battle, but his military spirit was something that no one dared to underestimate, and he immediately intimidated the newcomers.
So these people quickly handed the talisman and the letter of introduction to the military officials.
Each talisman contains their own identity information, such as how tall they are, whether they are black or white, and whether they have any distinctive features. The military officer took the talismans and compared them one by one to confirm their identity.
Soon, after confirming that everything was correct, the military officials let Cheng Pu and his men go.
Just like that, as the gate opened, twenty freshmen, including Xu Sheng, officially entered the Military Academy and started a new chapter for them.
At the same time, in the Military Academy, in an ordinary wooden building, several people were sitting and chatting. If it weren't for the armored men on duty outside the door, no one would have known that this was the main room of the Arms Academy.
The interior of the house is very simple. Except for the floor, which is made of wood and has been oiled, there are only a few desks and straw mats. Except for an apricot-yellow flag placed in the center, there is nothing else.
But if the inside is ordinary, the people present are not ordinary.
One of them is Dong Zhao, a staff member of Qushuai shogunate, one is Qushuai Jisun of Qingzhou Yellow Turban, and the other is Tao An, who is responsible for the daily teaching affairs of the Military Academy.
He came to Yecheng very early to offer sacrifices to his grandson. In fact, he led his troops and camped with Zhang Chong since the battle with the Han army.
This battle made Jisun understand that his own strength could not make much achievements in today's current situation, so even though many people in the army had opinions about the Eastern Expedition Army, Jisun still decided to fight with Zhang Confluence.
At that time, when he went south to pay homage to his grandson, Zhang Chong led the shogunate ten miles out of the city to meet him. After that, the two talked openly and honestly about their attitudes towards Taiping Road in Hebei and Taiping Road in Qingzhou, the death of Master Liang, and their respective experiences over the years. Condition.
In these conversations, Jisun was either satisfied or dissatisfied, but he could always feel Zhang Chong's sincerity. After all these years, this kid is still as sincere as before.
After that, Ji Sun handed over the army to Zhang Chong and asked Zhang Chong to reorganize it. He himself went to Zhang Chong's high-level school to observe, where he heard a lot.
There are practical ones, such as how to organize households within ten miles of land to bring together people, how to understand the geography of mountains and rivers, and how to coordinate the supply of grain and fodder.
There are also some that are not so practical, but make Jisun suddenly enlightened. For example, how the world is corrupted and how organizations are ineffective. He gave Sun Xue a new term for inefficiency.
In short, after spending a long time in the advanced school, he wanted to see the Military Academy and see how the Taishan Army became a warrior.
This time, Dong Zhao accompanied him, and Ji Sun also came to visit the teaching at Wubei Academy.
Then Jisun met an interesting person, Tao An, who was the general manager at the time.
I heard that Tao An was a student of a hermit, and he had a good sense of the overall situation. He had planned important strategies for Zhang Chong several times before, and this time he went north to Yecheng based on this plan.
Of course, Ji Sun has also heard some rumors about this person or this or that.
You said that this person has no real talent and learning, but you don’t see it, this person even offered advice to go to Guanzhong before. Now it's just that one or two of us often offer suggestions and one or two are successful. If it were him, he would be fine too!
I just don’t know, who is this him?
Thinking of this, Jisun glanced at the smiling Dong Zhao.
Jisun didn't like to deal with this person. From this person, he could often see that the people who planned and praised the paintings when he was a Northern Army official were not honest people.
But the Tao An in front of him was different, he looked like a gentleman.
Although he is lean and short and wears simple cloth, he gives people a very stable feeling, as if many things are as they should be for him. There is an out-of-this-world flavor.
After observing the teachings at Wubei Academy, Jisun was led here to rest.
Jisun used to be cheerful and talkative, but after experiencing too many things, he became less talkative. Tao An is like this by nature, and he is also taciturn.
Fortunately, Dong Zhao kept stirring up topics one after another with his witty remarks, so that the atmosphere was not too awkward.
At this time, Dong Zhao had just finished speaking and looked at Tao An beside him. His eyes moved and he suddenly said something:
"Do you know that Qu Shuai was furious because of something this morning?"
When Ji Sun first arrived in Yecheng, many channels were not opened, so he really didn't know about this. So Ji Sun asked curiously:
"Oh, for what?"
Dong Zhao kept staring at Tao An, and when he saw that he still didn't respond, he spoke slowly.
It turns out that this time on Zhengdan, all the chief officials from various base areas came. Among them, the most important person is Zhang Chong's important companion, Duman.
As Zhang Chong's confidant, Duman has been in charge of Taishan's work before and can be said to be the number one housekeeper. Even the position of Lang General in the General Division was specially reserved for Du Man.
This time, the two had been separated for a long time, so they were naturally excited to see each other again. But soon there was a dispute between the two. The important issue in the dispute was the new changes in the Taishan area, especially the Laiwu area.
Hearing this, Tao An, who had always looked calm, suddenly asked:
"Oh, what change made Qu Shuai so angry?"
With expansion temporarily halted and new internal construction about to begin, some past internal conflicts will begin to surface. In short, this is a true story, please follow me as I unfold it.
(End of chapter)