stubborn thief

Chapter 134 Command Manual
The cold wind is howling, Shaanxi is getting colder every day after winter, and the days are passing faster every day.

Although Liu Chengzong formulated a military training plan, all the ministries were too busy digging nests to attend to the drills. It was not until November that the drills according to the plan were put on the agenda.

"It's the twelfth lunar month, and it's getting colder and colder."

Trembling, the Heavenly Monkey sneaked into Liu Chengzong's room, like a black coal ball, squatted down next to the stove, felt the warmth from it, and let out a comfortable breath.

Liu Chengzong was writing the command manual for future use under the light by the window, put down his pen and turned his head to look over, and asked, "Where's your military uniform? You don't wear a new padded jacket. If you're not cold, who is cold?"

"Send it away."

Shang Tianhou was wearing a mandarin duck war jacket that he got from nowhere, it looked as thin as a single garment, and was wrapped in two pieces of foam nail armor from the guard, and his hands and legs were also wrapped in rags, looking embarrassed.

In the eyes of serious officers, such a lieutenant has no dignity at all.

Moreover, this guy spoke lightly, which made Liu Chengzong angry: "Can you give away the soldier clothes?"

"Why are you arguing with me? The ones you send are also your soldiers. There are dozens of auxiliary soldiers at each post without cotton jackets. I'm so dirty that I can't bear to wear the new cotton jackets."

"You!"

Knowing the reason, Liu Chengzong's anger was gone, and he was helpless. He raised his finger and pointed at the monkey in the sky, and sighed: "If the commanding officer has your kindness, why should the lion camp be afraid of the officers and soldiers?"

In fact, he has been thinking about the work of Shangtian Monkey.

Since the joint venture, Shangtian Monkey has completely put itself in the position of an annexed person, pushing out any power that is given to it, and taking nothing.

As long as there is only a deputy general in name, there are actually no soldiers who can command half of them.

The status of the whole person in the Lion Camp is just two words, which is superfluous.

Shang Tianhou curled up and warmed up for a while, then turned his head and said: "I went to the work post to see, the old armor has been repaired, and the new weapons, the division chief said that there are hundreds of novices on his side. A bowsmith, or a gunsmith."

Liu Chengzong said: "Firearms smith, although there are many bows and arrows in the camp, firearms are easy to make. At this critical moment, where can I find tendons and horns to stick bow pieces on?"

"Okay, I'll warm up and go over there again."

"No, let others handle this matter." Liu Chengzong stopped him and said, "I have something to tell you."

As soon as the Heavenly Monkey heard this, he got up from the stove, pulled up a stool and sat opposite, and said, "What's the matter?"

"What do you think about rebellion and recruitment?"

Liu Chengzong got straight to the point, and then said with a smile: "You must know that I don't want to recruit, but you can speak freely, I just want to know your opinion on this matter."

The Heavenly Monkey pouted: "I don't know."

"do not know?"

What an answer.

"I never thought about being an official. If the court says to let me be the chief executive, maybe I will be?"

Shangtian Monkey looked at Liu Chengzong and was very honest: "But if the imperial court wants me to be the head of the army and lead troops to attack the old brothers, I may not recruit them. If I are asked to fight the Eastern Captives, I will probably go too... I really don't like it." I know, will I recruit you?"

"I don't even know if the imperial court doesn't give me food, food and salaries after I am recruited, will it be against me again?"

Shangtianhou scratched his head in distress, and laughed at himself: "I'm a refugee leader, why do you have to make me think about these things, anyway, if I'm surrounded by the officers and soldiers, you just remember to save me."

Liu Chengzong felt that Dirty Monkey did not lie.

Except for very extreme people, the vast majority of ordinary people are not involved in the matter, and it is difficult to determine how they will choose.

Even standing at the critical moment of choice depends on the surrounding environment.

Even if it is the same person, the choices he makes when he is besieged by the army and has no chance of winning will be different from the choices he makes when the power is at its peak.

But at least he can be sure of one thing, Shangtian Monkey has no intention of surrendering to the imperial court subjectively.

This is enough.

Liu Chengzong thought for a while, then raised his finger to the book that was being edited on the table, and said, "Zumianmao, go there and study."

"Read, study?"

The Heavenly Monkey was dumbfounded: "What book are you reading?"

"Knowledge, how long you can read counts as long as you can, the more characters you can know, the better... Forget it, you didn't learn much in the past, so how about I enlighten you?"

Liu Chengzong pondered for a moment, and said to the Monkey King: "That's what I think. You are the deputy general of the Lion Camp, and you can't read and write. Taking advantage of the time this winter, each sentry practiced four times of sentry exercises and two of the whole camp. It's very big, I'm planning to compile some manuals, and you can learn by the side."

In fact, the best way to get started is in Zhuantianmao, where there are the most professional teachers.

But now they have been studying there for more than a month, and the transfer student Shang Tianhou has passed, and it will not be long until spring.

The weather is getting warmer and there is no time to study.

The effect may not be as good as learning from Liu Chengzong's side
"Okay, my lord, please be respected by my disciples!"

The Heavenly Monkey bowed in a dignified way, and groped around to find a gift, but found nothing, so he sat back on the bench with a shy face, looked at the book on the table and read: "Tang, Ling ,three……"

"Commander's Handbook, this is a handbook specially written for commanders. It contains requirements for them. Now the commanders are all next to the commander. In the future, commanders will be set up next to the captain and the commander. The commander of the battalion general is you for the time being."

Shang Tian Hou was dumbfounded by the words, and laughed naively: "I am the biggest Commander? I don't even know what this Commander does."

"Don't say you don't know, many of the commanders below don't know, that's why you need this."

Liu Chengzong spread his hands as he spoke, he was also very worried: "I want to explain things to them in detail, but there are more than 300 orders, and I don't have time to teach everyone by hand, besides, what our orders need to do is not the same as The court orders are different, they are still illiterate, so they can only learn bit by bit in the future.”

"The first important task of the commander is to unite the soldiers, to unite the twelve soldiers and auxiliary soldiers together, to cultivate the loyalty of the sergeants, to encourage cowardice, to praise bravery, to comfort the tired, to punish the evil and to promote the good, and to serve the public with justice. .”

Heavenly Monkey listened with bright eyes, nodded and said: "I can do it!"

"Don't worry, this is just the beginning. In the army, we must educate the soldiers to treat the people well and observe military discipline, and tell the evil deeds of the emperor, vassal kings, corrupt officials, unscrupulous generals, and bad squires; Drill and urge soldiers to learn, inspire courage on the battlefield, and destroy the morale of the enemy."

Liu Chengzong looked at the distressed Shangtian monkey, and smiled at the corner of his mouth: "I contacted the people during the march and garrison, and publicized that my lion camp is a teacher of benevolence and righteousness. I personally lead the soldiers to help the people and punish the evil soldiers. Intelligence, material, and military support."

"In addition, confidentiality education must be carried out in the camp, and affairs other than training for the sentinels, teams, and sergeants should be arranged when they are stationed in the camp, so as to prevent them from making troubles when they are idle, leaking information to the people and the enemy, and at the same time preventing disasters. Yu Weiran was aware of the imperial court's instigation and separatism in advance, and when the whereabouts of the chief general or soldier was strange and the purpose was unknown, he reported it in advance or collected evidence to take it down."

After Liu Chengzong finished speaking, he closed the manual and smiled at the buzzing Shangtian Monkey: "Even if a sentry commander wants to surrender to the army or defect, let him run by himself, and not let him control the troops."

After he finished speaking, the Heavenly Monkey waved his hands again and again: "General, I can't handle your job."

Heavenly Monkey thought to himself, each of these conditions is more difficult than the other, and being able to unite the soldiers is already a great thing. Putting it outside the famine everywhere, he can be a king of the hill no matter what.

Who knows that the latter is even more powerful, even if he collects all the people he knows in his mind, selects talented people from them, and then combines these people's talents into one person, it may not be able to meet all Liu Chengzong's requirements.

"No one can do it. You don't learn things slowly. We say that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. We start with character recognition first, and then we consider other things."

As Liu Chengzong spoke, he raised his hand, opened his five fingers and said, "Five years, if we can all survive, by the eighth year of Chongzhen, you can bring out the commanders in the team, all literate, and able to follow the requirements of this manual Do it, and you will be successful.”

"Five years?"

Shang Tian Hou thought about it in his heart, his face was still a bit difficult, but he nodded and said: "If it takes such a long time, it is still possible, but if we are still alive in five years, how many troops do you have? There are not enough people!"

"Enough, do you know where the Lion Camp came from? I came here when I was training Xiangyong in my university. At that time, I wanted everyone in Minzhuang to have the ability to be a captain."

Liu Chengzong said with a sly smile on his face: "If the backbone of the team can succeed, the team can be expanded again. One team can be expanded into one team, one team can be expanded into one post, and one post can be expanded into one battalion. That is more than 2 people." people."

Speaking of this, the smile on his face froze again, and he said: "But when it comes to expansion, it's really worrying. There have been more than 30 sentry exercises in the Lion Camp, and the two camp exercises were not well practiced."

"what?"

Shang Tian Hou blinked: "I think it's pretty good, the team is much stronger than before."

That's because your old team is much better.

It has been more than a month since the team drilled. The eight post chiefs each led the team to conduct four drills at Wangzhuangbao, and the whole battalion also conducted two parade drills.

From Liu Chengzong's point of view, the decline in combat effectiveness is very obvious.

As for the joint venture, originally his people had high military quality, while the Heavenly Monkey’s people had low military quality, but now the combination is basically three plus one less than two, and the effect of all-round decline.

"Just talking about the rapid march, the distance from each post to Wangzhuangbao varies from ten to twenty miles. They ran back and forth, the fast ones waited for the slow ones, and some fell behind."

Fortunately, the emperor issued an imperial edict to King Qin. If the court used the strength of King Qin to deal with him, Liu Chengzong felt that they would not be able to escape after the joint venture.

"Fortunately, they are all practicing, and the cooperation will become more and more tacit. In recent times, the auxiliary soldiers have become more and more decent. Unfortunately, there is still not enough time."

Liu Chengzong rubbed his hands: "And I have another worry."

"What?"

"food."

The Heavenly Monkey frowned and said, "What happened to the food?"

He thought about it, but he didn't think there was any problem with the food. Before the winter, they raised enough food for the whole camp to prepare for the winter, and they were even a little rich, enough to last until February next year, when spring would start early.

"There is enough food now, but what if King Qin's army mutinies and deserters come here? As long as 200 people come with horses, we won't have enough food to last until February. What if there is more?"

The Heavenly Monkey slapped his head and it broke.

They really didn't count the people who came to defect as food, but in terms of action, they made arrangements to recruit deserters.

"Because of this, I can't make up my mind now. My subordinate Shuang Yao, Yang Yao at the outpost is from Guyuan, and he suggested going to the west to recruit deserters; Cao Yao at the artillery post had been in Shanxi for several years, and suggested going to the east to recruit deserters. "

Sometimes it is quite worrying to have all talents under your hands.

The suggestions of these two people are very good, but counting Yang Yanchang who set off with Wu Zimian, it is calculated that they brought back 300 people on one side, and they don't have enough food.

However, in Fushi County and Ansai County, there are not many big households that are easy to fight, and the rest are all with strong walls and high walls. Small artillery can't be fired, and cannon can't move.

"Yuzhou."

The Heavenly Monkey said: "I'll go to Fuzhou again, bring a sentry team, and go grab some food... But then I won't be able to learn from you."

"Is there any other candidates who are familiar with Fuzhou?"

"Fei Shanhu, I was Qianchang when I brought the troops here, and now I am the captain of the left sentry commander Feng. He is familiar with Yanzhou, and he used to be in Yichuan. You can transfer Feng to the south to get some food and grass. return."

Liu Chengzong nodded slowly: "If that's the case, we can let Commander Feng lead the troops to go south, Commander Yang to go to the west, and Commander Cao to go to the east. These two sentries will also collect food and grass along the way. Our food storage in Wangzhuangbao will last until next year. .”

If it weren't for the rare opportunity, Liu Chengzong would not want to divide his troops.

It's just that this time the court Qinqin, in his opinion, must be a disaster for the elite troops of the three frontiers and five towns.

No one can help but be very moved by this.

Just as Liu Chengzong and Shangtianhou were discussing carefully about dispatching troops, someone knocked on the door of the house.

It was Wei Qian'er who came in, with a serious face, he looked at Liu Chengzong, and then at the monkey in the sky, hesitant to speak.

Liu Chengzong said: "What's the matter, tell me directly?"

"General, Zhuantianmao has sent a letter intercepted by the common people. I don't know who to send it to. The messenger Shi Baihu said that the master ordered that no one can read this letter except you."

Wei Qian'er said, and handed the unpacked letter to Liu Chengzong.

Liu Chengzong opened the letter, only to see that it was not clearly written who received the letter, but the tone of the words was condescending, to the effect that the recipient should not be impatient. The court promised that his official position would be given to him after the matter was completed, and he was asked to continue to lurk under the leadership of the leader.

When the imperial court decides on a conquest strategy, it will still act according to the original plan. If it sends someone to recruit for security, ask him to oppose the recruitment; if it sends someone for a campaign, ask him to oppose surrender.

Strive to let the leader fight to the death with the officers and soldiers. Only in this way can he make meritorious deeds.

The inscription is Guyuan Trilateral General Mansion.

"Who else read this letter?"

Wei Qian'er shook his head and said, "I sent the letter to the general as soon as I received it, and no one else saw it."

The Heavenly Monkey asked: "What is written on it, to persuade you to surrender?"

Liu Chengzong shook his head, took a deep breath and said: "Yang He has made a move, divorce."

(End of this chapter)