Chapter 436: Famous General Seeds, Loyal Man

It is not easy for ordinary soldiers from Jiaozhou Camp to join the personal military camp. One of the ways is to be promoted to the level of the deputy team. Officers at all levels will report to the non-commissioned officers who are diligent in training, excellent in combat skills, and loyal to Li Meng and those who have not participated in the personal military camp.

Another situation is to make military contributions, such as valuable suggestions, such as fighting bravely on the battlefield, such ordinary soldiers are also selected according to the rules.

All the above information must be reported layer by layer, and finally collected into Li Meng's hands, and Li Meng will be designated by members who will join the personal military camp.

After being enclosed, you will not be able to enter the personal military camp immediately. The Shandong Salt Gang and Lingshan Trading Company should now be the Inventory Department, which will investigate the origin and background of the confined soldier.

Generally speaking, those who are not from Shandong will not be considered. Moreover, Dengzhou, Laizhou and Qingzhou are preferred to be considered. The family is best for good children, and at least they have not lost their families within five years. In today's troubled times, due to natural disasters and man-made disasters, there are quite a few poor people who have gone bankrupt.

Most of the people who went bankrupt in Shandong in the past five years were inseparable from Jiaozhou. After destroying the family, they would definitely have a grudge against this system, so they would naturally not be selected.

Soldiers from military farming families are also very likely to be selected. Only after the whole family has changed their citizenship due to preferential policies, and for careful consideration, soldiers who can enter the personal military farming camp often serve as non-commissioned officers or low-level officers and have certain positions.

However, after the experimental camp was incorporated into the personal barracks, the road to entering the personal barracks was much wider for soldiers in the entire Jiaozhou camp system.

If someone analyzes it carefully, they will find that this road has actually become narrower. Since the garrison brigade and experimental brigade in the personal military camp, people from ordinary soldiers can only enter the experimental brigade. The garrison brigade accepts soldiers from non-commissioned officers and perform well.

In addition, there is also a promotion system between the experimental brigade and the garrison brigade. The experimental brigade has regular assessments, and anyone with excellent assessments can enter the garrison brigade.

Soldiers enter the experimental brigade, stay here for a certain period of time and go out to serve as non-commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers or low-level officers enter the garrison brigade, and go out to serve as officers after a certain period of time.

Unfortunately, the soldiers of the experimental brigade learned various tactics and practical skills of Jiaozhou Camp. They were originally just ordinary soldiers and they must have some shortcomings in some special aspects. Entering the experimental brigade was a comprehensive development. In addition to strengthening various skills, the garrison brigade also had to learn command skills and understand the tactical ideas of Jiaozhou Camp.

For non-commissioned officers and officers in Jiaozhou Camp, such a process is very necessary, because Li Meng's military tactics and various tactical ideas are very different from the current Ming army and even the military forces on the entire Asian continent. Even if he has served in a military service and has some military experience, this knowledge is useless. You must learn and experience it yourself before you can become a qualified member of this unit.

In addition to this meaning, the personal barracks are an elite collection of the entire Jiaozhou camp system, and are currently the middle and lower-level officers in Jiaozhou camp. The future senior officers must also come from this group.

Such a group must ensure that they are loyal to Li Meng. As Li Meng's direct troops, the personal military camp guards the Duke's Mansion every day and enjoys higher treatment than ordinary soldiers. They train with Li Meng. In addition to improving people's skills, this method is the most important way to cultivate people's loyalty.

The so-called sharing of joys and sorrows means that the generals of the Ming army treated their confidants in this way, which led to the sharing of life and death among the people and the people below.

What Li Meng did was no different from the Ming generals of the same era. People thought about it and grasped it. This was something that had not changed for thousands of years. Li Meng was not a superman, but could only follow the rules. The so-called difference was that this personal military camp was equivalent to a military academy.

Even the personal soldiers of ordinary Ming generals are at the same level as ordinary officers. They are even a little higher. Li Meng's personal soldiers are released and they are young handsome men with a bright future. Shandong has found a way five or six years ago. Anyone who enters the personal soldiers will ascend to heaven in one step. Now it is right to curry favor with Guanbao.

As a result, Shandong now has a trend. If someone says he is going to enter the personal military camp, the person who proposes the marriage will immediately break the threshold.

At the beginning, when entering the personal military camp, only local families with similar families came to propose marriages. Later, local wealthy families or even large families came to propose marriages. Now, it is possible for local county magistrates and prefects to send their daughters to their homes if they enter the personal military camp.

In response to this phenomenon, Jiaozhou Camp even issued a special order that during the personal military camp, except for the place where they had already gotten married before entering, they were not allowed to get married, and could only get engaged.

The special status of the personal military camp around Li Meng in Shandong was beyond imagination. It was because of the special status of the personal military camp that the senior officials and confidants of the Jiaozhou camp system were all proud of someone entering the personal military camp.

But the personal military camp never made any exceptions. Until now, only one person has entered the personal military camp because this person's quality is indeed qualified and performs much better than others.

This person was still in the garrison brigade. He was Sun Chuanting's second son. He was originally sent to the Dengzhou Army to serve. Who would have thought that the tiger father had no dog son? This young man with the pseudonym Sun Xiwu was praised for his outstanding performance in the Dengzhou Army, and even entered the personal military camp garrison brigade step by step.

Wang Hai praised Sun Xiwu's performance and told Li Meng several times that the first time he saw the soldiers in the personal military camp have such clear minds and strategic ideas, he will definitely be the rising star of Jiaozhou camp in the future.

Of course, Li Meng knew that Sun Xiwu was Sun Chuanting's second son. Wang Hai rarely went to that small courtyard during the day. He was not very familiar with Sun Xiwu's appearance. Moreover, after joining the army, this young man became much stronger and dark, and his appearance changed a lot. The praise must be from the sincerity.

It is really a family background. The descendants of Sun Chuanting, the most outstanding person in the late Ming Dynasty, must have been influenced a lot. Li Meng also praised "father's origin" and "a tiger's father has no dog's son" in his conversation with Sun Chuanting. Sun Chuanting, who has always been calm and composed, is very proud and happy every time he encounters this topic.

So the three of them had a secret conversation in the tea room. When they heard Li Meng say that Chen Yongfudi's son Chen De was coming to join the personal military camp, Sun Chuanting and Liu Fulai immediately understood the meaning of this statement.

For thousands of years, sending your son here as a proton to show your loyalty is a signal of surrender, just like when Emperor Taizong of Tang and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, the palace guards were mostly princes of countries and tribes near the Tang Dynasty. Chen Yongfu sent Chen De, which was the intention.

Sun Chuanting bowed forward and bowed to congratulations:

"Congratulations to Duke Qi for recapturing Chen Yongfu. I knew this person very well when I was in Henan. He is one of the few military generals at present, cautious and restrained, and steady. The troops under his command should be elite soldiers."

This was a matter of ending. Li Meng smiled and nodded, raised the teapot and filled Liu Fulai beside him again. Although the old eunuch's filial attitude towards Li Meng was a long time ago, he felt that every time he experienced it, he felt like drinking wine, and his whole body was extremely comfortable.

Intoxicated, Liu Fulai spoke slowly:

"I believe Chen Yongfu can call this Chen Delai. However, it is better to send troops to guard the city earlier to avoid any changes."

Kaifeng City is a big city that has never been broken. The city defense fortifications are extremely complete, and the city's manpower and material reserves are sufficient. If someone takes advantage of the situation and closes the door and defends itself, it will be a hard nail.

After all, if Shandong had not been putting pressure on the refugee army on one side, it would be difficult for Chen Yongfu to defend such a big city with more than 9,000 people alone.

In fact, as the fleet transporting cargo was heading to Henan, soldiers and relevant personnel had already entered Kaifeng City. These were all detailed arrangements, so there was no need to explain it to the old eunuch. Li Meng just smiled and said:

"Uncle said that, "It's true. We have made corresponding arrangements here. Please rest assured."

The reason why the old eunuch judged that Chen Yongfu was truly surrendered from Chen De came because Chen De was not an idiot. If Chen Yongfu and Chen De were taken outside Henan to ask, there would be more people who knew about Chen De than Chen Yongfu. There was no other reason. Chen De was a young hero who was personally called by Emperor Chongzhen.

A year ago, the camp was besieged Kaifeng. The king of the Investigation Camp Li Zicheng approached the city wall to check the Ming army's defense, but was hiding behind the city wall Chen De shot an arrow in the cheek.

The entire army of refugees was frightened and had to retreat. With this arrow, Chen De, who was still a garrison on the same day, became famous. After the rebel army pulled the siege and left, he was immediately promoted to guerrilla. Chen Yongfu's three sons, only Chen De made him most proud.

Since then, the defense of Kaifeng City has basically been led by Chen Yongfu and Chen De, and the more than 4,000 horse teams of more than 9,000 Henan soldiers were also handed over to Chen De to lead.

Although Chen De was just twenty years old and his status was just a guerrilla, in fact, he was the deputy general of Henan, so there was nothing wrong with it.

A young hero like Chen De was on the side of Emperor Chongzhen, and even in the Ming Dynasty, he had a bright future, but was sent by Chen Yongfu to join the personal military camp. This indeed shows that Chen Yongfu expressed his complete surrender to Li Meng.

But what is interesting is that Chen De gave up his position as a lieutenant and went to join the army in vain. He thought it would be natural to join the personal barracks, but the personal barracks are a reserve military academy in Shandong and a training base for officers and non-commissioned officers. The recruitment of every new member is carried out in accordance with standards and rules.

If this is not the case, I am afraid that the personal military camp will be filled with the nobles and nobles from Shandong Lianghuai, but this action was misunderstood by Chen De.

Before Chen De came, his father told him that this time he came to Shandong from Henan to survive and die. He wanted to leave behind the pride and reserve in Henan, and he would not have any conflicts with the other party. After all, this time he came here, he was asking the other party to take in.

Whether it was Chen Yongfu or Chen De, they didn't know much about the Jiaozhou camp system. At best, they knew the following generals and the approximate troops. They naturally thought that this personal military camp was just a trusted guard around Li Meng, and was of the same nature as the servants elsewhere.

Come to join this personal military camp by yourself, even if you put yourself in front of the other party, ask the other party to monitor nearby and clearly act as a hostage.

What Chen De didn't expect was that the personal military camp actually turned him out, and the reason was even more incredible, saying that he did not meet the standards of the personal military camp. Even before coming, Henan General Chen Yongfu reminded him not to be angry and be calm, and he was furious after hearing this reason.

Chen De was just twenty years old, and it was the so-called youthful and energetic time. He could endure humiliation for the overall situation, but it could not be underestimated.

Moreover, the attitude of the chief officer of the personal military camp at the reception site was obviously not perfunctory. It was not because he was the son of the General of Henan, but because he did not meet the standards, so he said so. The more he did this, Chen De became more and more angry. He was skilled in the bow and horse and martial arts, thinking that no matter how elite the soldiers in Shandong were, they would not be stronger than those at my level.

I was angry and ignored it. Since I was doing my job, I had to give a fair explanation. Why can't I enter this personal military camp?

What to explain to him in this situation? For example, the soldiers from the personal military camp cannot join directly, but can only be selected among the soldiers and non-commissioned officers in the Jiaozhou camp troops. This is obviously inappropriate.

The son of Henan General Chen Yongfu gave up his official position in Henan and joined the army in vain. These factors combined should indeed be treated with special treatment.

However, this special treatment is not an exceptional admission, but a competition between Chen De and the soldiers in the personal military camp. This competition also has the purpose of testing and demonstrating the combat effectiveness of the personal military camp.

Chen De had no meaning for this method. Whether it was real money or not, you would know it in one competition. Originally, Chen De thought that this competition must be a fight immediately, a skill of archery and guns.

Who would have thought that the first subject was physical fitness, how many laps would run around the school field, then grabbed a certain bar and pulled the body off the ground with your arm, etc.

Chen De was not too bad in this item. After all, as a general, he has been on the battlefield in recent years and has been working hard every day. This aspect is not inferior. Whether it is running or the rest of the test, he passed relatively smoothly, but Chen De was surprised to find that the soldier who competed with him also completed it, and the completion was easier than himself.

The next competition made Chen De embarrassed. After one stick of incense was burned out (one stick of incense here was calculated based on the short incense in fifteen minutes), the musket fired at least eighteen bullets. Chen De had always practiced bows and arrows. Although this musket could be fired, it was not skillful.

The assessment has become a big bustle. The idle people in the Jiaozhou Camp in Jinan City all came to watch. Chen De is also the best among the generals of the Ming army. The personal military camp is naturally the elite among the Jiaozhou camp. There is a vague idea between the Ming army and the Jiaozhou camp.

Chen De knew in his mind that the soldier he was competing with was selected by himself at will. Jiaozhou Camp has been extremely fair and open, and is also extremely confident.

Moreover, before the competition, Jiaozhou Camp gave him a compromise plan, which was to first participate in the ordinary Jiaozhou Camp troops, and then select the secondary troops experimental brigade of the personal military camp, and then be selected into the garrison brigade according to performance. However, at this time, Chen De was already in a hurry and did not expect to make concessions.

Of course, this is also what Chen De wants to see how strong the Shandong soldiers are, what the Jiaozhou camp, which wants to claim the situation and annex Henan soldiers, looks like. I believe that one or two can be seen from this elite personal army.

When it came to the firearms, Chen Deke was in a dilemma. According to Shandong soldiers and horses for firearms, this specification would definitely not be intentionally difficult for him. It was very unfamiliar to him to control the firearms, let alone to shoot eighteen lead balls when the short incense burned out.

Chen De hesitated for a while, but came up with an idea, which was to use bows and arrows and muskets to compete for the best. Anyway, both sides were long-range weapons and they also asked to compete with the other party for accurate heads. Although they were not familiar with the control of muskets, some of the Yu soldiers in Kaifeng City also used muskets to fight, and the accurate heads of this weapon were really not worth mentioning.

This can be considered as taking advantage of the other party. The personal military camp was originally planning to win this and Chen De was convinced and accepted the conditions proposed by the other party.

The competition is a distance of fifty steps, erect a target with multiple rings. After the short incense is burned out, calculate the results according to the bow and arrow and lead that hit the target.

Before the game, Chen De was full of confidence and thought that he would definitely win, but the result was beyond his expectations. The result of this game was a crushing defeat. Even though Chen De had practiced hard, within a stick of incense, after he opened his bow fourteen times, his shoulders began to hurt.

At the beginning, the eleven arrows were quite accurate, and they hit the red heart or the same, but the arrows shot next were not accurate. The soreness of the arms and shoulders made the arrows not accurate at all, and even off the target when the sixteenth arrow was released. After all, it was too physically exhausting.

Chen De shot sixteen arrows, and the personal soldier from the personal barracks who competed with him finished shooting nineteen shots. At this distance, the guns and guns were not far away, either hitting the heart or hitting the red heart.

In the next riding technique, Chen Deluo stood up and shot with the opponent's underground horse stairs. Finally, he was inspected with command technology. Assuming each person had a certain number of troops. He encountered it on a certain terrain and then commanded the battle. This competition was also Chen De's most depressed.

Both sides were troops holding firearm spears, but for Chen De, he had no idea how to use such firearms and cold weapons troops.

Among the Henan soldiers in Henan, if you can use firearms when fighting, try not to use them. After all, the quality of firearms is low. Instead of standing and putting them in a row, it is better to rush forward with swords and guns in your hands.

As a result, several terrain deductions, the troops commanded by Chen De were all destroyed by the opponent's troops either fired with firearms or were destroyed by spears. Every time Chen De was very careful to learn the other party's new tactics, but the combination of firearms and cold weapons in Jiaozhou Camp was not something he could understand after listening to for a while. Many nouns and tactics seemed to be listening to heaven.

After this competition, Chen De was finally convinced and finally knew that Shandong soldiers were not a false reputation. He also decided to obey the other party's arrangements, sit up from ordinary soldiers, and learn step by step. After all, the Jiaozhou Camp's tactics, including his command system, would not be fully understood without the experience of grassroots troops.

Li Meng also watched several competitions that Chen De participated in casually. Li Meng was quite happy about the final result. He was not happy that he impressed the young and energetic prince of the general and Jiaozhou Camp had face, but that he felt happy that his subordinates had a chance to have a future famous general.

In the Jiaozhou Camp system, every soldier and even every officer are a part of the entire army. He only needs to follow the pre-set strategic routine. The Jiaozhou Camp requires every soldier and officer to receive training step by step to make them parts, but they also need talent and independent thinking generals. However, there is no such land for the growth of famous generals in this system.

However, the pseudonym Sun Chuanting's second son, Sun Xiwudi and Chen De, both seem to be the seeds of famous generals in Jiaozhou Camp in the future. Seeing such a vigorous young man joining his team, Li Meng really felt like he was watching a Jinshi on the tower of Emperor Taizong of Tang back then - all the heroes in the world have entered my Yi.

Before the imperial decree was issued, the governor Li Xianfeng, the highest civil and military commander in the lonely city of Kaifeng, Henan, made a decision. When Chen De went to Shandong to join the army, the governor Li Xianfeng and the Henan governor organized a list of Henan officials and land, and also sent it over by water.

Henan reacted very slowly, but there was no resistance. It handed everything in Li Meng step by step.

The one who came to Kaifeng along the Yellow River waterway was not only a huge amount of goods, but Guide guerrilla Yuan Shizhong led his three subordinates to go upstream, but came to Kaifeng City.

However, Chen Yongfu, the general of Henan, did not stay in Henan by Li Meng as expected by others, but led his troops out of Kaifeng City and crossed the Yellow River to the north bank.

Henan General Chen Yongfu submitted a report to the court, saying that the army is now gathering in Zhangde Weihui's palaces, and Shanxi is empty. It is afraid that the land barbarians of Outer Mongolia will be spy on the invasion and are willing to lead the border nine thousand children in Henan to defend and defend.

The court was moved by his loyalty and righteousness. The Duke of Qi did not stop him and issued an order to appoint Chen Yongfu as the general of Datong, and to be the general of the Western Front of Datong, and to take charge of the border town of Datong.

In early June of the 16th year of Chongzhen, Datong General Chen Yongfu set off on his own defense of Hui Mansion and went to Datong, Shanxi to the border of Datong, and everyone in the world praised his loyalty and righteousness.
Chapter completed!