Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 7 The Army
Longxi is located in the east of Wukang County, which is the later Zhongguan Town of Deqing County. On the left is Wukang Mountain, which was named Tongguan Mountain after Tang Dynasty.The copper official, the official who made copper, can be traced to Liu Bi, king of Han and Wu, who mined copper and coined coins here, so he took his name.

The Shen family's old house is here, with an area of ​​tens of hectares.Shen Zhezi sat on the bullock cart and looked up. There were barracks stacked beyond the rice paddies. Soldiers came in and out, with a military appearance.

In ancient times, the land of Wu has always been known as easy to move and difficult to settle down, and the folk customs can be described as tough. Later generations are famous for their cultural governance and Confucianism, which probably started after the Jin Dynasty.

After crossing the gate-like archway, his father Shen Chong got out of the car and boarded the horse, and entered inside surrounded by a group of people. Shen Zhezi's ox cart followed closely behind. Walking in this important place of ancient military camps, it is inevitable that his heart will sway.Since he took the Northern Expedition as his own responsibility, he should be familiar with military affairs, otherwise he would be like a person with great ambition and lack of talent, who talk about it in general.Wu Xing's Shen family has always been known as a general. Although later generations are ashamed to call themselves Yan Wu Xiuwen, but at present, with his old father Shen Chong who is a rebellious and habitual criminal who preaches by example, Shen Zhezi naturally cannot let this family learn from the inheritance. , to develop it.

But to be honest, after entering the camp, Shen Zhezi was actually rather disappointed.Looking around, the ravines in the camp run obliquely, the barracks are staggered according to the terrain, and there are quite eye-catching mounds as high as half a person piled up beside the barracks door. It looks like a simple large construction site, not like a majestic barracks.

When the commander entered the camp, there was no such scene as Shen Zhezi imagined, where the soldiers lined up and cheered, the father waved his hands on the horse and shouted "comrades have worked hard", and the soldiers shouted "serve the people" in unison, and then they were as majestic as a mountain. , the sound rushed to Xiaohan.The only living people that Shen Zhezi could see were soldiers carrying weapons who occasionally passed through the camp, while most of the other places were very quiet, as if no one was there.

As for these patrolling soldiers, after seeing their father and his party, they didn't react very enthusiastically. At most, they got out of the main road and waited for them to pass by, and then continued to patrol. The majesty of the coach.

"Is it what the ancient army should have been like, or are these brave men recruited by my father just a mob?"

After being greatly disappointed, Shen Zhezi had such doubts in his heart, but his father walked in front of him solemnly, and no one answered him.However, the next scene taught him a vivid lesson.

A small commotion suddenly broke out in a barracks in front of them. Without hesitation, a group of patrolling soldiers came out of the barracks. Several young soldiers were pushed out with their arms twisted behind their backs. Their faces were gray and their lips were tightly pursed.Walking under a flag erected, one of the battalion patrols swung his stick and rang a small gong hanging under the flag, and then shouted: "The camp is forbidden to perform the Xipu opera, the offender will be beheaded, and the follower will be given twenty lashes."

Seeing this scene suddenly, Shen Zhezi took a breath and was stunned!As a modern person, he had never seen such a cruel scene. It was not until the ox cart had been driving for a long time that he suddenly shivered. The stale air accumulated in his chest was slowly exhaled, and he felt chills all over his body.

He couldn't help but look back again, there were soldiers splashing water to wash away the blood on the ground, and the two soldiers were still being whipped, which was very eye-catching.But other than that, there wasn't much commotion, it was as calm as if it wasn't a few people who were killed just now, but a few chickens.Only its calmness shocked Shen Zhezi even more.

"This is the so-called order and prohibition. Does kindness command soldiers?"

Shen Zhezi doesn't know how many times this scene has been played out in the military camp, but he has really felt something called "military prestige" pervading the camp. Because of its existence, everyone in the camp is no longer a As an independent individual, the sense of personal existence is oppressed so weak that it almost doesn't exist, and he can't help but become a small component of a huge killing machine!

With this understanding, Shen Zhezi had more feelings when he observed this simple camp like a construction site.He found that although the barracks were staggered and messy, they were connected by small paths. The dirt road was compacted and leveled, and there were not even larger stones.The mounds next to the barracks are generally of the same size.As for those camps where there are no human figures, they seem to have life, like ferocious beasts attached to the haystacks patiently waiting for their prey to take the bait, and may violently rise at any time and choose to eat people!

The soldiers are fierce!
The so-called viciousness is not the domineering arrogance that must win the battle and the attack must be conquered, nor is it the solemnity of the mountain of corpses and blood, but the indifference to human life and the suppression of human nature!

The ox cart rolled along, and waited until he returned to the old house to be resettled. Shen Zhezi still couldn't recover from the previous huge shock.But in addition to being shocked, a faint excitement grew in his heart.So far in this chaotic world, poetry and books are all gone, only the strong bones come at the right time!If Shen Zhezi wanted to build a volunteer army for the Northern Expedition before, it was just an empty fantasy. Now that he has seen the Wu soldiers under his father's command like a mountain, he feels that his dream has a solid foundation.

The Longxi old house is located on the high hill behind the army camp. From the outside, it looks like the enclosure that Shen Zhezi saw later, but the scale is larger.The high wall rises to form a surrounding dragon, and there are watchtowers several feet high on both sides. It is a beautiful place to watch the changes in the surrounding fields. The artificially dug deep canal passes around the wall. Once the suspension bridge is closed, it will become easy to defend and difficult to attack. military fortress.

Today's Wu Xing Shen clan is divided into two clans, East and West, and most of the people living in this Longxi old house are members of the East clan of Shen Zhezi's lineage.The old man took Shen Zhezi into the old house, crossed the courtyard into the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors, and then led Shen Zhezi to meet the elders of each branch, and then hurriedly left the old house to take care of military affairs in the camp.

Shen Zhezi was brought into the camp in the name of a military counselor arranged by his father. As soon as he entered the tent of the Chinese army, Shen Chong called his staff to discuss matters.Sitting in the corner, Shen Zhezi saw his father's confidantes filing in.

These subordinates can be roughly divided into two categories. Among the members of the Shen family, Jianba is a general, such as Shen Zhezi's uncle, Shen Fang, and Lu Jie, the silent general. They each supervise an army and are members of the direct line. direct descendant.The other category is the clansmen of other families in Wuzhong who are attached to the Shen family. For example, Sima Gu Yang was born in the Gu family of Wu County, Zhu Zhen who joined the army was from the Zhu family of Wu County, and the staff officers Qiu Shan, Lu Zheng, Yu Fen, etc. .

Everything in the army was kept simple, and everyone sat in a small group. Although they felt a little surprised when they saw Shen Zhezi in the tent, they didn't react too much. They only said that Shen Chong was worried about putting his son elsewhere and protecting him with him.

Shen Chong first consulted on military affairs, and asked about the deployment of logistics such as grain, grass, equipment, etc.Shen Zhezi listened carefully. These common affairs may seem insignificant, but they are the foundation of supporting an army, and they are also the experience he lacks the most. Now that he has the opportunity to learn from his father, he must cheer up.

The Shen family is powerful and rich, plus the old man has long experience in raising troops and rebelling, so it has been less than a ten-year period since the start of raising troops, and he has assembled enough troops of ten thousand people to consume them for two months.The ordnance that was originally scattered in various manors and villas was also transferred to Longxi for distribution. Now the first order of soldiers has been reorganized, and there are more than [-] soldiers, divided into three armies.There are also [-] auxiliary soldiers in the second sequence, which can be supplemented by the main force in the second sequence.

And behind this [-]-strong army, more than [-] peasant tenants were employed!Of course, there are many old and weak women among them, who have no combat effectiveness, but it is enough to ensure that the army has no worries about logistics.

Shen Zhezi was even more tongue-tied when he heard these situations from the side, and had a more intuitive understanding of the resources that his family could use.According to the virtues of the ancients, the troops that the Shen family has mobilized and used during this period alone can already declare an army of [-] to the outside world without any hesitation!
How many households are there in the entire Eastern Jin Dynasty?Just looking at the forces used by the Shen family for the rebellion, they are all forces hidden in the countryside by the family, and the imperial court has no way of controlling and mobilizing them.This situation in one place can be extended to the entire Jiangnan, and the strength of the Shen family is no less than that of a small separatist regime.No wonder the imperial power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was weak. Faced with such a situation, it is only a ghost that the imperial court can have strength!

In history, at the turn of the Jin Dynasty, before and after the south crossing, there were frequent turmoil in Wu, and every time there were figures of local powerful gentry.Looking at this situation as an outsider in the future, Shen Zhezi should hate these local tyrants and thieves deeply. If they didn't dominate the village and build their own self-respect, the imperial court might not be unable to integrate the manpower and material resources of the south of the Yangtze River to launch the Northern Expedition.

But now that he is also in the game, he has another feeling about it.The clan of the Sima family has gone on a rampage and turned the fertile land of China into a miasma, and now they want to come to the south of the Yangtze River to do their best and seek peace, which is intolerable!Instead of entrusting one's own manpower and material resources to these mediocre hands and being corrupted by them, it is better to hold them firmly in their hands and strive for prosperity!
During the Qin Dynasty, when Liu Bang Xiang Yu saw the first emperor driving, one of them sighed with emotion, "a man should be like this", and the other said strongly, "he can replace him"!Shen Zhezi didn't dare to compare himself to Liu Xiang, but he also had an impulse in his heart, wanting to shout to the royal family of the Sima family: "You can't, I'm going!"

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