Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty

Kou Zhun has already summed up a set of effective military training methods these days.

After living in the Forbidden Army camp for a few days, he realized that the biggest problem of the Great Song Forbidden Army was not the combat effectiveness at all, but the ethos of the barracks.

The so-called combat effectiveness is nothing more than which army kills the most enemies when the two armies are facing each other. In this regard, the Song Dynasty should have the upper hand, because the Song Dynasty has much more advanced weapons than the Liao State, with large crossbows and iron soldiers. There is armor and food.

Although there are cavalry in the Liao Kingdom, it seems that they are much stronger than infantry, but after all, cavalry also has its own disadvantages, such as the cost of raising horses, and the high cost of making armor for war horses.

The material consumed by the armor of a war horse can make several pairs of human armor.

What, you said that instead of making iron armor for the horse, let the horse run naked on the battlefield?

Wouldn't the horse be stabbed to death all at once?

Moreover, a horse is a living thing, it has its own temper, it may be more violent, it may be more docile, and it may be more timid.

If you want to ride it on the battlefield and let it become your good comrade in arms, you have to spend a lot of effort to tame it.

And if one is not careful, it can easily die.

In short, a horse suitable for the battlefield is very expensive, and the Liao Kingdom cannot afford to raise too many.

Before the 20 Liao army pressed the border, [-] cavalry would be enough.

Moreover, the war between Song and Liao was basically Liao attacking and Song defending. The Liao soldiers approached the city, and the Song state was in the city wall.

Cavalry cannot be used to attack the city at all. After all, the horse cannot climb the wall, and it is impossible to contribute its head hammer to hit the city gate.

The state of Song had bed crossbows and food, and was able to shoot and kill the enemy commander from the top of the city gate. It stands to reason that he should never lose a battle.

But the Song Dynasty was able to win and lose the battle!

Kou Zhun has never had a deep understanding of the inner world of the soldiers of the Imperial Army before, so he has never figured out why.

But now, he understands.

Because the soldiers of the imperial army can't be called soldiers at all, they can only be called a group of tall and big punks who get entangled in the name of soldiers, saying that the soft-legged shrimp is flattering them, after all, no matter how soft the shrimp's feet are, there is still a hard body There is no shell, and except for a mouth, there is nothing hard on the whole body of the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty.

A group of mobs like leisure and hate hard work, preferring the easy and fearing the heavy, forming cliques, looking for flowers and willows.

Kou Zhun's temples throbbed.

After summing up the experience from the seven teams of experimental soldiers, he immediately started a major transformation campaign in the barracks.

First of all, it is the problem of the old, weak, sick and disabled in the military camp.

The army of the Song Dynasty was divided into the imperial army and the Xiang army. The imperial army was taller and was responsible for fighting, while the Xiang army was shorter and was responsible for various labors.

However, the Emperor Song liked a sense of security, so he continued to expand the size of the Forbidden Army, so that there was a mixed bag of good and bad people in the Forbidden Army, and many people who did not meet the standards were also included in the Forbidden Army.

With a big wave of his hand, Kou Zhun cleared away all those who did not meet the height and age requirements or were sick and disabled in the imperial army, leaving only the young people who were really strong and healthy, and re-made the roster and divided them into twelve battalions.

Naturally, there were complaints all of a sudden, because the salary of the imperial army was much higher than that of the Xiang army, and they didn't have to bear heavy labor. Many people entered the imperial army after going through a lot of ways, and of course they didn't want to be cleared and sent to the Xiang army.

In addition, military officers at all levels are seriously underpaid, and the prosperity and wealth of the whole family depend on this. Remaking the roster means that they can no longer lie about the number of people like they are now. How can this work?

And Kou Zhun is worthy of being Kou Zhun. After repeated orders and repeated appeals were still ineffective, he vigorously killed a few leaders who took the lead in making trouble, and then used gentle means to win over a group of people, and then used the imperial edict he coaxed the little emperor to write out to scare the soldiers.Half a month later, the Forbidden Army camp was completely subdued by Kou Xianggong's men, and he said what he said.

It also deeply touched the interests of some people, such as the few senior generals who had the most money to eat.

These people hated Kou Zhun so much that they wanted to kill them quickly.

If it hadn't been for Bei Xia Ouyang Chun who had been protecting Kou Zhun personally since the Battle of Yingzhou, Kou Zhun would have been able to go down to the ground and become the king of Hades by now.

After Kou Zhun thoroughly calculated the population of the imperial army, he found that he really couldn't complain that the court was so short of money that he had to make another fortune from the tea administration, which was too much waste.

In theory, there should be 80 elite soldiers stationed in the Forbidden Army camp, which occupies a site where 120 million troops can be stationed, but there are only 50 soldiers.

The rest of the vacant land either lived with the families of the soldiers, or was used by the senior generals to build houses and then rented out as landlords.

Those who rent these houses include ordinary residents, some run shops, some run teahouses, some run restaurants, and some run kilns.

Over time, a rather prosperous tile shop has formed here, which is somewhat of the embryonic form of a commercial street in the city center of later generations.

Although there are fewer soldiers, there is no shortage of soldiers' salaries. Every year, these generals cry poorly with the court, saying that it is not easy to raise soldiers, and ask the court to allocate more money to them.

Kou Zhun is not afraid of offending people, but he also knows that some things cannot be investigated in a short while.

Now that the emperor is still underage, and the queen mother is not dealing with him, it is not too late to clean up these moths in the military camp.

I can only endure it for the time being, train the imperial army well first, and keep these generals until the little emperor grows up.

So Kou Zhun just recalculated the salaries of 50 soldiers, and started to pay real salaries according to the soldiers this year.

As for where the salaries of the past few years have gone, and why there are only 80 of the 50 forbidden troops that were agreed, Kou Zhun did not happen to these things.

He just selected 50 truly healthy and middle-aged men from the 30 soldiers, and classified them as "Shangjun". The soldiers who retired from the Qing Dynasty and became the Xiang Army were placed near Wasi.

In fact, according to Kouzhun's original intention, this tile shop should not be kept, and it would be best to burn it with fire.

There is such a place of pleasure and pleasure near the barracks, it is too difficult to get rid of the extravagant and lustful atmosphere of the soldiers.

But when Kou Zhun actually went to Wasili for a walk, he finally gave up on this idea.

At the beginning, the tiles were only built by the generals of the military camp to earn money, but as time went by, more and more people lived here.

When Kou Zhun strolled in it, he saw the small vendors running around for their livelihood, the restaurant girl selling wine and jugglers, and the jugglers traveling north and south.

These people have nothing to do with the military officers eating empty salaries. They just chose this place among the thousands of tiles in Bianliang City to make a living.

If the tiles are burned, where should they go?

So Kou Zhun finally decided to let it go.

He came from a wealthy family, but he is not ignorant of the sufferings of the world.

On the contrary, he felt more empathy for the suffering of the common people than many so-called scholar-bureaucrats from poor families.

That's why he can have such a grand popular heart.

For civilians, he is not the simplest official, he lives extravagantly and extravagantly, but he is the best official.

When Zhao Yiyi came to the barracks, Kou Zhun had already divided the 30 troops into twelve battalions for training for a while.

Kou Zhun's military training method borrowed from the art of war taught to him by the gods.

The so-called nature of soldiers is obedience. In fact, training people is like training dogs, it is to cultivate a conditioned reflex.

As long as a man is used to obeying, he will always obey.

At this time, Kou Zhun was training soldiers' obedience.

So Zhao Yiyi saw such a shocking scene on the training ground.

50 soldiers surrounded the city in a big circle, squatting on the ground with their hands behind their backs, and a number was pasted behind each person, and a person stood in the center shouting the number, whoever shouted the number would jump up from the ground.

There are countless circles like this in the entire training ground. Under the scorching sun, the voices of shouting numbers come and go, and the figures of soldiers jumping leapfrog also come and go...

And Kou Zhun, sitting on the viewing platform beside the training ground, holding a teacup in his hand, said to Zhao Yiyi with a smile, "What do you think, Your Majesty?"

Zhao Yiyi asked: "What's the meaning of the master's practice of training soldiers?"

Kou Zhun said: "I found out that these soldiers are not well-educated, and training is very difficult. Not to mention training, sometimes you can't even find your own dormitory. Tell him that you are the second platoon of the eleventh battalion. There are three beds in the fourth dormitory of the seventh group. He walked around the barracks all afternoon and couldn't find where his bed was. This is not counting. Now Chen uses this method to train them, not only can make them more responsive, but also It can teach them to count. Otherwise, 30 people will not even be able to count, so there is no training, no management.”

Zhao Yiyi nodded: "So that's the case, I understand."

"By the way, I came to the master to ask the teacher about something."

Kou Zhun asked suspiciously, "What is it?"

Zhao Yiyi tilted his head: "Master, the queen mother said that I will be imprisoned in a few days. What is imprisoned?"

Kou Zhun was puzzled for a moment, and suddenly realized: "Look at me, I've been busy with the military camp recently, and I forgot about this important event."

"What is a prisoner?"

Kou Zhun pondered: "Actually, Your Majesty is still young, so you shouldn't be anxious about these things. It's just that this year's situation is a bit special. There are many disasters in various places, and the Khitan invaded in the north. I can only wrong Your Majesty."

Zhao Yiyi said: "I will not be wronged, as long as the master teaches me how to do it."

Kou Zhun said: "The so-called prisoner registration means that Your Majesty is invited to meet the prisoner in the prison of Kaifeng Mansion. If the prisoner has a grievance, His Majesty is invited to make the decision for him. After all, it is inevitable that there will be omissions in the government's handling of cases, or officials will bend the law for personal gain and wrong good people. There is no place to appeal for grievances, so we can only place our hopes on His Majesty. There are frequent natural and man-made disasters this year, but it is not easy to amnesty the world again, so we can only ask His Majesty to personally imprison us, so as to reassure the people of the world."

Zhao Yiyi said in his heart, it's not busy, it's just that there is an unjust prison, after a few years I get Bao Zheng and let him go to the Kaifeng mansion, I don't believe there will be any grievances.

"However, how do I know that that person is indeed wronged, or is he lying to me?"

Kou Zhun laughed and said: "Your Majesty is so holy and majestic, how could anyone dare to lie to His Majesty. As long as His Majesty listens carefully, he will not be deceived."