Chapter 192 Lecture on Martial Arts
In fact, Xiao Tianjian only said half of his words, and the rest was hidden in his heart. In fact, there is no need for everyone to argue. He also knows what to do next. Shaanxi will not lead his troops to fight back. At present, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting are in Shaanxi. After many years of operation, Shaanxi still has a considerable number of capable soldiers, not to mention Shaanxi. After years of disaster in the west, coupled with more than ten years of military disasters, it has long been a hundred miles away. What can you do even if you occupy the territory? It is impossible to restore productivity in a short period of time. At least there will be a serious shortage of labor. In addition, Li Zicheng and other Lu volunteers are still entangled with Hong Chengchou in Shaanxi, which makes Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanding unable to pull out their hands to enter Henan to compete with him. At present, he will not jump into the muddy water of Shaanxi.
Originally, according to the strategy, it is not a good choice to fight Huaiqing Mansion and Wei Hui Mansion, but after all, Xing Tianjun has a base in Jinnan, which is to connect Henan, close to the Yellow River in Yuanqu County and Mianchi County. Obviously, there is not enough room for movement. At present, in the Yuzhong area in the south of the Yellow River, the people's livelihood is withered. A large number of people starved to death or fled, or died in the disaster of war, making Henan's labor force insufficient. If he wants to vigorously restore the labor force in Henan, he must introduce more talents. At present, Huaiqing Mansion and Weihui Mansion are relatively not too serious to suffer from military disasters, and these two places are also gathered. There are many people. As long as these two places are taken down, he will have more space to move. In addition, he also has an idea that can't be said for the time being. With his understanding of history, it may be necessary for him to go north once in the near future, but as for whether this kind of thing will happen, he is not sure at the moment, so even if For the sake of the future, it is also necessary for him to gain a foothold in the Yellow River, which is why he chose to cross the Huaiqing Mansion in Hebei first.
The big plan was certain, and the Xing Tianjun immediately took action. This time, Xiao Tianjian used the generals of Luo Li's Second Division to fight. Although Huaiqingfu and Weihuifu still had the strength of some officers and soldiers, through the detailed collection of information about these two places, Xiao Tianjian calculated with Luo Li's With the strength of the second division, it should not be a problem to take these two places.
Therefore, after Xiao Tianjian confirmed the plan, Luo Li's second division began to gather in the area of Mengjin. After Xiao Tianjian led his troops to capture Luoyang, Meng Jin's defenders automatically muted. Zhixian and other officials abandoned the city and fled, and took a boat to Huaiqingfu to escape for their lives, so that Xing Tianjun did not have much effort. He easily took Mengjin County, so that Xing Tianjun controlled all the territory from the west of Zhengzhou to Tongguan. At the same time, he also took the famous Mengjindu on the south bank of the Yellow River. In the Mengjindu area, he captured a large number of ships that did not have time to escape. As soon as Xiao Tianjian took Mengjindu, he immediately sent people to station in the ancient town. The Xingtian army water camp was transferred to Meng Jindu, and Meng Jindu was used as the new station of the Xingtian army water camp from now on.
Nowadays, the water camp led by Yang Kunshan is no longer what it used to be. By collecting the young people who are good at water in the exiles who fled from the south to the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army, they are added to the water camp. In addition, they collect the fishermen who rely on the fishing in the Yellow River along both sides of the Yellow River for a living, the water camp is now full, with more than a thousand soldiers. There are more than 500 people, with hundreds of ships of all sizes. As early as a year or two ago, they began to run rampant on the Yellow River. At present, there are merchant ships going up and down the Yellow River. As long as they are not official ships, the water camp will not rob them. They just set up cards on the water to pay the taxes they pass. All merchant ships that have paid pass taxes can If you get a small flag, you will not be looted on this section of the Yellow River within a few days.
Originally, there were still some water thieves on the Yellow River. In order to ensure the absolute status of Xing Tianjun, Yang Kunshan has been fighting other water thieves on the river section in his hands for the past two years. In this way, Xing Tianjun keeps his trust, and merchants are willing to pay for money for profit, so the water camp can now be used every year. He collected a lot of shipping money from Xing Tianjun, at least more than enough to maintain their water camp.
Now the Xingtian Army has taken control of the south bank of the Yellow River in Luoyang, which has given the water camp a place to use, including the ships of Fuwang's family, which did not have time to escape in Mengjindu, and handed them to the water camp, so that it can transfer Luo Li's soldiers and horses to Mengzhou, north of the Yellow River and within the jurisdiction of Huaiqingfu at the fastest speed. Take ashore in the area.
For this reason, Yang Kunshan did not dare to neglect it. He immediately mobilized most of his men. At the same time, he recruited a considerable number of fishermen nearby and began to organize and arrange this matter.
Although doing so will reveal Xing Tianjun's plan, it is to ensure that more soldiers and horses can be transported to the north bank of the Yellow River at a time, so as not to prevent the officers and soldiers of Huaiqingfu from defeating the troops who crossed the river earlier, so this risk is still worth taking. Hearing the news that Xing Tianjun was going to cross the Yellow River in the north, the fishermen around him were silent. He These fishermen have also had enough of the birdishness of officials. They have long wanted to follow Xing Tianjun. As soon as Xing Tianjun came, they were exempted from their fish tax, which made them hopeful in the future. Therefore, they quickly began to gather all kinds of boats around Mengjindu, and a large number of Xingtian soldiers also began to march towards Mengjindu. He started to board the ship according to the dispatch of the officers.
Due to the strong organization, only the first wave of ferry boats transported a battalion of soldiers and horses across the Yellow River at a time. This time, Xiao Tianjian overestimated the officers and soldiers of Huaiqing Mansion. It was not that they did not notice the action of the Xingtian Army's crossing Hebei, and the officials of Huaiqing Mansion had long been scared by Xing Tianjun and did not think about it at all. He sent troops to the edge of the Yellow River and attacked Xing Tianjun in Bandu. As soon as he heard that Xing Tianjun was going to cross Huaiqingfu in the north, he was so scared that he contracted his troops and shrank to the city of Huaiqingfu.
This time, Xiao Tianjian did not cross the north with Luo Li. All this battle was handed over to Luo Li, but he sent Li Xin to Luo Li as Luo Li's military councilor. Before Luo Li's departure, Xiao Tianjian specially recruited Luo Li to his account and personally told Luo Li again and again, although this time the Northern Expedition to Henan was his main army. However, he must listen to Li Xin's opinions and make sure that he does not suffer a big loss to the officers and soldiers in northern Henan because of recklessness. If it is because of his stubbornness, Xiao Tianjian asked him to be more careful after coming back.
Even if Luo Lidang patted his chest and promised to listen to the opinions of Li Xin, a scholar, to ensure that he would not fool, and he would definitely fight the battle in northern Henan.
Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin explained in private that Li Xin was quite grateful for Xiao Tianjian's trust. As a new person under Xiao Tianjian's command, he could get so much use of Xiao Tianjian. Even if he said that the scholar died as a confidant, he was originally Xiao Tianjian's death, and he also told Xiao Tianjian that his family was in Huaiqing Mansion. This time, he threw himself into the Xing Tianjun. He estimated that once the government knew, he would not spare his family. After crossing the river this time, he would go home and recruit the brothers, uncles and nephews in the family to work for Xiao Tianjian. Moreover, Li Xin also told Xiao Tianjian that many people in the Li family were the same as him. If he can write and can do martial arts, he will definitely live up to Xiao Tianjian's trust in him.
Xiao Tianjian immediately welcomed him. At present, there are many situations like Li Xin. When a person joins the army, he often gathers relatives in the clan to join the army. However, there is a drawback, that is, it is easy for an army to form its own force group through the clans in the army. In history, Li Zicheng was slandered by Niu Jinxing and suddenly killed Li Xin. In fact, there is also this reason. It is because Li Xin's meritorious deeds, the Li family under his command formed a relatively independent group, and Li Xin was not a poor person, but the family was also a landlord class. Li Zicheng has always not trusted Li Xin, so This also caused the tragedy that Li Xin was eventually killed.
However, this kind of thing is placed in the Xingtian Army, but there will not be any big problem. The Xingtian Army has a set of methods to compile an army. All newcomers who enter the army will receive training in each reserve camp, and then select elites to send to each battle camp to supplement the battle barracks. Through this means, plus the deployment of soldiers Deleptly prevent that even if a large number of relatives join the army, they will basically be completely dispersed in the end. They will be assigned to be soldiers or officers in various units. Officers are not allowed to expand their subordinates at all. In this way, it is no longer possible to form a small force group maintained by relatives.
Therefore, Xiao Tianjian is happy to let Li Xin recruit their clan into the Xing Tian Army and serve for himself. People like them who are good at literature and martial arts will need a lot in the future, which is also a direction for him to strengthen the army in the future. Soldiers can't be all big soldiers who can't understand, but must strengthen their cultural quality. Only then can he ensure the development of the army, which is also one of his original intentions for establishing the youth camp.
However, the youth camp no longer exists in the Xingtian Army at present. Since the last time Xiao Tianjian returned to Yangcheng during the Spring Festival, the youth camp has been changed to the Xingtian Lecture Martial Arts Hall by him. All the teenagers in the former youth camp are collectively referred to as the students of the Martial Arts Hall. After graduation, they will be assigned to the armies and serve as low-level leaders. Or officers such as deputy generals gradually build the backbone of the Xingtian Army with these young soldiers and improve the quality of the Xingtian Army.
After capturing Luoyang this time, Xiao Tianjian ordered to make use of the original vacant military camp in Yongning County, where a larger-scale Xingtian Army lecture martial arts hall was re-established, widely recruited teenagers or children of ordinary people in Henan to study in the martial arts hall, and ordered to be transferred from the army. A large number of experienced officers entered the martial arts hall to serve as military instructors. At the same time, they also transferred people who are familiar with military books among the literati to teach students relevant military science and culture. In short, the martial arts hall should be built according to the military academy of later generations. In the future, it will continue to provide fresh blood for Xing Tianjun, so that Xing Tianjun The officers will become his strong supporters in the future. Of course, the principal of this martial arts hall will not be filled by others, but also free himself. One of the important lessons is to publicize his thoughts and make these students and soldiers become his supporters.
When he ordered the preparation for the construction of Yongning Lecture Martial Arts Hall, he even plagiarized the couplets at the gate of the later Huangpu Military Academy, and personally wrote "Please go to another place; be greedy for life and afraid of death, don't enter this door" 16 big words, which made people carve it on the wooden pillars on both sides of the door of the lecture martial arts hall. Later, these sixteen words became In the future, a couplet must be engraved at the gate of the lecture hall established by Xing Tianjun. The original Yangcheng lecture hall also quickly carved these 16 words on both sides of the gate of their lecture hall.
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