In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 210
Time soon entered March of the second year of Baoqing (1226).

There are two mountains between Dongping Prefecture and Jinan City in Shandong, separated by Mashan and Fangshan.

On the left and right sides of the two mountains are the Daqing River and the Shahe River, and there is a large plain in the middle.

Since last year, a large circle has been surrounded by wooden fences, starting from the Daqing River in the west and reaching the right of the Shahe River in the east. In the plains and forests between the two rivers and the two mountains, the largest military camp near Jinan - Shandong In the training camp of Dusi, Xu Yan, a young man from the Wei Palace, is the person in charge of the training camp.

In August last year, Peng Yibin went to Beijing to have a face-to-face meeting. He received a lot of rewards and was summoned by the emperor, and he had a good talk with the emperor. He felt that he was valued by the emperor. After Peng Yibin came back, he completely restructured the place he occupied in accordance with the emperor's requirements.

The imperial court successively sent hundreds of young and strong men to his army and horses to serve as officers at all levels, and the rest of the 6 men and horses of the Shandong Metropolitan Division took turns to train in the camp one after another.

In mid-March, Shandong Dusi training camp.

The big camp covers a huge area, but the facilities are simple, there are tents everywhere, and there are almost no houses. Once it rains, the conditions become extremely poor.

But the instructors of the training camp are like everyone else, and everyone can't help it.

Early this morning, another group of former red coat soldiers came outside the gate of the camp.

There were about 500 people in this group, all of whom were former soldiers of Peng Yibin.

35 of Peng Yibin's nearly [-] soldiers were selected, and the rest were all young men between the ages of [-] and [-], and they were relatively elite.

Early in the morning, this group of people rushed to the gate of the camp and were stopped outside.

Song Tian and Zhou Bing, the deputy capital and corps commander, were among the crowd.

Song Tian was in his early thirties, and Zhou Bing was 27 and eight years old. Both of them were from Zhangqiu, both from Shandong.

The two fought with Peng Yibin for several years, and after being reorganized by the court, they were called the deputy capital and corps leader respectively.

Because it was a rotation training, it took them more than half a year to get their turn.

Song Tian and Zhou Bing usually stationed in Ziyang (Yanzhou). To the south of Ziyang is Xuzhou. Xuzhou is still in the territory of the Kingdom of Jin. In the past, they often fought back and forth. Recently, after the peace talks between the Jin and Song Dynasties, the fighting ceased.

But the two didn't know that Song and Jin were talking about peace, and they were quite dissatisfied when they were transferred here for a three-month training camp.

"Damn it, will the Jin people attack Ziyang while we're not here?" Song Tian stood in the crowd and yelled, fearing that they would be broken by the Jin people without Ziyang.

"Isn't there still a brother guarding Ziyang, there should be nothing wrong, and I will go back in three months." Zhou Bing said.

"Training a bird, I want them to teach you how to fight? I heard that those people haven't fought much?" Song Tian objected.

"Shh, it's always the court officials, who asked us to take their salary now." Zhou Bing told him to keep his voice down.

Song Tian didn't care, and still shouted.

At this time, someone shouted in front, why didn't you let me in?

Humanity at the gate of the camp: "Line up, line up, register—"

Soon someone came over to complete the team and asked them to line up in two long lines.

The crowd was cursing. These people usually don't line up very much. When fighting, they rush forward in a swarm. The discipline is relatively poor.

The scene was chaotic for a while, but fortunately, they had five leaders and a deputy commander, which could calm everyone down.

Song Tian saw people registering on the left and right sides of the gate of the camp, and there were two rows on the left and right, and they all seemed to want to say a few words after entering.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, it was his and Zhou Bing's turn.

"Name, hometown, position."

On the opposite side was a young man who looked less than 20 years old. Song Tian looked down on this young man, but after taking a look at him, he found that the other party was very stable, sitting there with a straight back, and he was more imposing. He wanted to tease him, but he held back : "Song Tian, ​​from Zhangqiu, Te Niang's, seems to be--deputy chief and corps chief."

He murmured in his heart that this official rank was not as pleasant as before. In the past, in Peng Yibin's army, everyone could call themselves generals.

The other party asked him how many armies, battalions and capitals he had?

Song Tian remembered it, and Zhou Bing remembered it on the right, and registered everything on the opposite side.

Then he said: "According to the new policy of the imperial court, the deputy head is a military officer of the seventh rank, with a monthly salary of 21 guan, and four acres of working land. Have you got it?"

Song Tian straightened his face and became serious.

It has to be said that his monthly salary as a soldier is nearly ten times higher than that under Peng Yibin before.

When I followed Peng Yibin, everyone was the same as the bandits. They mainly cared about eating enough. If they won the battle, had weapons, and robbed money, they could share some of it. The military pay was not fixed. Sometimes it would not be paid for several months, and sometimes it would be paid. a lot.

After being assigned to the imperial court, the monthly money is fixed every month. It has been more than half a year since last year, and Song Tian found that he couldn't spend all the money.

But the imperial court is also very bad. There are kick-off card rooms in various places, and Ziyang County also opened it in January this year. Sugar is sold next to the game room.

Song Tian often went to play golf, and the mother-in-law at home had to eat white sugar, so the expenses increased. Fortunately, his monthly income was relatively high, so he could have a surplus.

Thinking about it this way, I really want to thank the court.

"All of them, I got them all." Song Tian hurriedly said, his expression softened a lot.

"If you can't get it, the Shangguan will deduct it. This year, you can report it to the counties and prefectures. After next year, you can report it to Jinyiwei."

"Jinyiwei?" Song Tian was stunned for a moment, he had never heard of this department, but he was still quite happy: "There are all, there are all, Brother Peng will not cheat us."

"The training is more difficult." At this time, the man said again: "If you can't stand it, you can take the initiative to ask for it. For the older ones, can we be more tolerant? Can you leave early?"

"Who are you saying is older? Damn, believe it or not, I beat you, have you ever killed a golden dog and a tartar?" Song Tian had a good impression of this young man just now, but his next words made him furious.

Zhou Bing nearby hurriedly pulled him: "Ah, it's okay, it's okay, let's go."

Song Tian entered the camp cursing, thinking to himself, who are we going to scare?Did I get scared?
Zhao and Rui's treatment for grassroots officers is the same across the country, only the sergeants are different.

The emperor who guards Lin'an has the highest pro-army, and the monthly money is five guan.

The former Ma Junsi is now the Liangjiangdu Siyue Qian Sanguan.

The capitals of other provinces are consistent, because he really doesn't have enough money for the time being, so he can only come here first, and when he has money later, he will definitely improve the treatment of sergeants.

And it has always been far more than the sergeants from all over the country before the Southern Song Dynasty, and they often defaulted in the past, but now they are not allowed to default. In the early stage, the emperor used his own money to pay.

After Song Tian was an ordinary sergeant.

After asking about my name and hometown, I asked again.

"Have you been a soldier for several years, have you been following the Marquis of Jinan?"

"Now the monthly payment is consistent, is there any deduction?"

"Do you know Wu Chang's monthly money five guan?"

"Excellent training performance, can be promoted to captain."

Everyone has to say these words when they come in.

After more than 500 of them went in, everyone knew that the sergeants performed very well here, and they could be promoted to captains, and their monthly salary increased to five guan.

After entering the camp, they were divided into groups of about ten people, and each group had someone who led them to train and ate and lived with them.

Song Tian was still very familiar. He chatted with the instructor for the first time, and then he was dumbfounded.

Their instructor was actually from Peng Yibin.

The instructor's name is Zhang Yong. The first batch of trainees came at the end of July last year.

He trained for three months first, performed well, and was promoted to captain, and then trained for another three months.

Starting in February, I will prepare to train newcomers here.

Song Tian was the first wave of people he led.

At this time, Song Tian and Zhou Bing discovered that the camp was very large and divided into more than a dozen blocks by wooden fences. There were only more than 500 of them in this block, plus more than 50 instructors.

Song Tian and Zhou Bing looked at it from a height, and estimated that there were at least three to four thousand people training at the same time in the entire camp, and there were about three to four hundred instructors.

In addition, there are about [-] armored sergeants in each battalion to maintain order. These people are all people who have been trained before.

Song Tian still knows a lot. Some brothers haven't seen each other for a few months. They seem to be different people. When they stand still, they walk steadily and rhythmically. He looks a little dazed.

He felt uncomfortable looking at it, but also vaguely felt that it seemed to be different, more imposing and more disciplined.

"How do you train people to look like wood?" Song Tian quietly asked Zhou Bing.

The corners of Zhou Bing's mouth twitched slightly, and he didn't know what to say.

There are quite a lot of people in their group, there are 12 people, and they are randomly chatting together in twos and threes.

"My name is Zhang Yong, and I am your instructor. Today is the first day of training. In the training camp, there are only three requirements————"

Zhang Yong stood in front of them at this time, talking loudly about the discipline of the training camp.

Everyone looked at Zhang Yong with half-smiles, most of them didn't take it seriously.

These people are all veterans. They have fought with the Mongols and the Jinren. After receiving the order to come to the training camp, many people thought it was the same as before, and they didn't care at all.

But Zhang Yong became more and more exaggerated when he said it: "Those who challenge the instructor, beheaded."

"Those who don't listen to the instructor, behead—"

Zhang Tonglian said several cuts.

Everyone who said a few cut words was startled, and everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

Someone opened his mouth and wanted to scold his mother, and there were sounds from all around.

Everyone turned their heads and saw a group of sergeants in armor passing by.

The sergeants were fully armed and their armor was sharp, which immediately shocked everyone on the scene.

Song Tian thought about what his immediate superior battalion commander said before he came here. When you come here, you must obey the order, or you will be beheaded, and it will be a disaster. Whoever makes trouble on the training ground of a certain army and a certain battalion is personally killed by Brother Peng. Take someone to chop.

Thinking about it this way, and looking at the scene in front of him, even Song Tian didn't dare to make trouble.

Next, Zhang Yong started training. The first day was very simple. He said some precautions, that is, orders and prohibitions, they can only do what they are asked to do, and they cannot do what they are not allowed to do. They must report before speaking.

Then they started to stand. There were 12 people in the team. They first stood for [-] quarters of an hour, and they were required to be motionless before talking and reporting.

If someone breaks the rules, the whole team will be punished.

As a result, there was a little guy left and right who wanted to urinate when he stood up, but he said he wanted to urinate without saying a report.

Zhang Yong immediately punished the whole team to run two laps (about 1000 meters).

Everyone ran up and down panting and swearing at the boy one after another.

With this lesson, everyone in the future will be more honest.

Then I continued to stand, recalculated, and stood for another quarter of an hour without moving.

There is still a standard when standing, the back should be straight, the head should be held high, and Zhang Yong would come to correct him from time to time.

Song Tian rolled his eyes and found that the people who came with him around him sometimes went for a run in a whole team. He suddenly became happy in his heart. It turns out that everyone is so stupid.

(End of this chapter)