"Two princes, the front is the border of Henan Province. After passing the provincial border, we will reach the ground in Xinye County, Nanyang Prefecture. Long Live Lord is in Xinye County!"
The one who spoke was Zhang Xianzhong. He had now joined the bodyguards and was a disciple of the emperor.
Zhu Youjian's bodyguard regiment is actually a military cram school. All knights who join the regiment must learn from Zhu Youjian's "Taizu's Art of War" which is said to be passed down by Zhu Yuanzhang. "Taizu's Book of War" is extensive and profound, with six volumes in total, namely the cavalry volume, the infantry volume, the artillery volume, the engineering volume, the baggage volume and the general volume.
Anyone who joins the guard corps must first major in one of the five volumes of horse, infantry, artillery, engineering, and carriage.
After the selection is completed, the corresponding guard battalion will be added-every knight in the guard group has a war horse and can follow Zhu Youjian in the form of cavalry. But in peacetime, they will form five "tutorial camps" of different sizes, including cavalry battalion, infantry battalion, artillery battalion, engineer battalion, and supply battalion.
These "tutorial camps" are also divided into three teams: upper, middle and lower teams. Each team takes courses of different difficulty. The lower team is the easiest, the middle team is the second, and the upper team is the deepest.
All officers who join the Guard Corps to study "Taizu's Art of War", regardless of their position before joining the regiment, will start serving as apprentice soldiers from the rank after joining the regiment (the original rank and salary will not change).
Those who serve as officers (instructors) in the upper, middle and lower teams have all completed one of the five volumes of military books on horseback, infantry, artillery, engineering, and supplies, and have achieved excellent results, and their performance in the army is equally excellent. , and was selected as an officer to join the general camp of the bodyguard regiment and began to study "Taizu's Art of War. General Volume".
While serving as instructors, the officers of each team of the Guards also had to take various courses concurrently, and at the same time, they also had to learn staff command methods from Zhu Youjian. After completing their studies, they will enter the staff system of the Eighth Armed Forces such as Zhangqian, Dianqian, Yuqian, Datong, Xuanfu, Yanshan, Daning, and Beizhi Tuanlian. They will first serve as staff officers at all levels, and then change to other positions according to the situation. Position.
In other words, the guard regiment of the Zhangqian Army has now become a mobile army officer school, and the general camp of the guard regiment is actually a staff college.
With the "Military Academy of the Guards Regiment", Zhu Youjian can train relatively standardized military talents in batches. With these standardized and not low-level military talents, Zhu Youjian's control over the "Eight Confidants" will be further strengthened.
According to his plan, the officers of the Eighth Army will join the Guards Corps in batches to study. After completing their studies, their positions will be rearranged. Moreover, because they have mastered standardized military techniques, they can be easily rotated among various units. . And the various departments of the Eighth Army will also become more and more standardized under the management of these standardized officers... This kind of standardized army will look a little like a modern army.
Of course, it's just a semblance, not a real modern army - Zhu Youjian himself is an ancient, and he has no concept of modern times.
He established such a mobile military school and pushed for the standardization of officers and troops. In fact, it was to facilitate command and control.
Zhang Xianzhong is now a trainee at the Majun Camp of the Guard Regiment. Today, he received an order from above and took several classmates to escort Anyang Prince Zhu Qiquan to Xiangyang to invite Xiang Prince Zhu Yiming to meet him in Xinye.
This Zhu Yiming is indeed no ordinary prince. His lineage had a chance to aspire to the throne. He is the fifth son of Zhu Gaochi, Renzong of the Ming Dynasty, and a descendant of Zhu Zhanyong, the third legitimate son of Renzong of the Ming Dynasty. However, Zhu Zhanyong, the second legitimate son of Renzong of the Ming Dynasty, died early and had no children. Therefore, after the Tumubao Incident, Empress Dowager Sun wanted to make Zhu Zhanzhen the emperor.
This idea is actually a good one. Zhu Zhanzhen has a long-term longevity. If he is made the Long Live Lord, there will not be so many child kings in the Ming Dynasty. However, Zhu Zhanyi refused to ascend the throne, so he made Zhu Qiyu the emperor. When Zhu Qiyu was about to die, because he had no son, the ministers loyal to Zhu Qiyu wanted to make Zhu Zhanzhen's eldest son Zhu Qiyong emperor. But Zhu Zhanyi declined again, and this was how the Yingzong was restored and later the Ming Xianzong was established.
Therefore, for Zhu Youjian's line, King Xiang's line is considered a great favor. Moreover, Prince Xiang Zhu Yiming is a senior member of the clan. He is senior, older, and has no evil deeds. He is considered a highly respected old prince and has great influence in the clan. Therefore, in his previous life, Zhang would think of "borrowing the king's head to make Yang Sichang trap the vassal and subjugate the law."
And in this life, Zhang Xianzhong would not dare to chop up Prince Xiang Zhu Yiming... He would carefully guard him along the way, not daring to let the old prince make any mistakes.
However, no matter how diligent Zhang Xianzhong was, Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiang, was still unhappy along the way. It was not because he had awakened any memories of his previous life, but because he saw the "Beggars Camp" spread out along the Feishui River - millions of people! Along the Ji River, we traveled hundreds of miles.
Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiang, followed Zhang Xianzhong and passed through these "beggars' joint camps". Before passing a camp, countless armed beggars would come out to greet him!
Yes, this beggar is armed! Not a dog-beating stick, but a ten-foot-long spear and a bamboo bow.
Although it is only an entry-level weapon, and no one is wearing armor. But it still made Xiang Wang Zhu Yiming tremble with fear - one million armed hungry Shaanxi people marched into Xiangyang Mansion!
And the leader of the team was the Ming Emperor... How could such a thing happen? How can Xiangyang Mansion cope with this?
If the refugees gathered spontaneously, the Huguang Governor's Yamen would naturally deploy troops to stop the hungry people and prevent them from harming Huguang.
But now these hungry people have been organized into groups and organized to set up camps. Although they are still a mob, they are definitely more powerful than the government troops in Huguang.
Moreover, this group of hungry people came with the emperor...and the emperor's army in front of the tent came to supervise the battle! If a war really breaks out, won’t the land of Huguang be leveled in one fell swoop?
In addition, if Huguang dares to stop the begging soldiers led by the emperor, then it will be Huguang who rebels, and the begging soldiers will become the officers and soldiers who suppress the rebellion, and they can be killed with confidence!
Thinking of this, the old prince, who was already old but well-maintained and still had thin skin and tender flesh, sighed and looked at Zhang Xianzhong, who looked scary no matter what, "Then hurry up and hurry up. Don't let me wait." long time."
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When the uncle came, Zhu Youjian certainly couldn't neglect it, so before Xiang Wang Zhu Yiming saw the city of Xinye, he had already seen Zhu Youjian, the emperor of tomorrow and the leader of the Beggar Clan, who came to greet him in person.
Although he came to beg for food, Zhu Youjian was still very brightly dressed, with a tall horse, plate armor and red robes, surrounded by hundreds of cavalry, flying twelve emperor's banners, coming on horseback.
After arriving, he did not allow his great-uncle to bow down and bow down, but also invited him to walk together, passing through one beggar camp after another, heading towards Xinye...
This is truly a thrilling experience!
The old prince has been pampered and privileged all his life, and he lives in a prosperous and comfortable place like Xiangyang. When have he ever seen beggars? And there are millions of people!
"Uncle, what do you think of the millions of people here?"
When Zhu Youjian and the old prince entered one of the camps together, he looked at the begging soldiers kneeling in darkness and asked with a smile.
"This is an elite division..." When the old prince saw the spears standing like a forest, his heart went numb!
Zhu Youjian shook his head and said: "Uncle, they are not elites, they are just millions of rabble... But when millions of people gather, even a rabble can shake the foundation of the world. But Do you know why I gathered these millions of people?"
Just to scare us Huguang people!
The old prince felt like he had a mirror in his heart, but he couldn't say it directly, so he had to say: "Long live the Lord is kind-hearted and can't bear to see the hungry people in Shaanxi starving, so he brought them to Huguang to eat."
"I'm not that kind!" Zhu Youjian snorted, "But I know that the people of Shaanxi will not starve to death! If I don't gather them to come to Huguang to beg for food, there will be heroes who will emerge and lead them to run rampant in the world. , ruined our family’s fortune!
Uncle, you are the eldest member of the clan. You are highly respected and respected by the gentry and wealthy families in Huguang. You cannot just watch millions of people here cause chaos due to lack of food and turn Huguang into a hell on earth! "
The old prince frowned: "Your Majesty, what do you want me to do?"
Zhu Youjian smiled and said: "We can beg for food together!"
