In the middle of the tent, there was a plate of barbecue, a chicken, a fish, a few salted duck eggs, and a pot of wine next to it. Du Zhongxiao, Yang Qie and Yang Wenguang sat together, discussing what they were teaching today.

The Song army had a system of food, requiring the main officers in the war to have dinner together, either every day or once a few days, which differ slightly depending on the tasks performed and the identities of the participants. The reason for this is that the main generals communicate with each other and understand the situation of each department in a timely manner. Because the army is not comparable to local areas, the commander will not be promoted to the tent every day, and the document exchange is not timely.

According to the battle, there is also a good meal. Du Zhongxiao stipulates that a meal must be gathered every day. The general is three people in the tent, and the other officers organize officers at all levels in battalions. They are not allowed to drink alcohol, and the situation is introduced after the meal and discuss. There is also an extra one, which must be recorded.

After eating a few bites of cake, Du Zhongxiao said: "In the past year, people who are of the right age in the army of the field camp have been taught several times. According to each person's situation and performance during the teaching, some outstanding ones should be selected and organized separately. These people teach and read for half a year and farm for half a year, and can be taken out to fight at any time. If there is something wrong with the court during the emergency, they can go to battle."

Yang Ting said: "If there is anything, there will be an imperial guards fighting. The training of the wing army is just to guard against local thieves, and to prevent the recurrence of Wang Lun and Zhang Hai in the past few years. Although the firearms in the army are sharp, in my opinion, if they face the Western thieves and Northern Lu, there will be shortcomings."

Du Zhongxiao said: "It is because it is still a little short of time that we have to choose some outstanding ones and form them separately. The imperial imperial guards are mostly in the north and there are almost no garrisons in several routes in the south. If there is something wrong with the border, I am afraid that the imperial guards will not be able to rescue them."

Yang Ting shook his head: "What's the matter in the south? At most, the barbarians in Hunan and Guangxi are in rebellion. Their divisions do not belong to each other, so it is difficult to be a big corps. The troops of a state are enough to pacify. If tens of thousands of troops need to be used to pacify, the world will shake."

Du Zhongxiao said, "Don't underestimate the barbarians' rebellion. A few years ago, Ouxifan's rebellion was rebellion, so he used troops from several states and fought thousands of miles. Later, Meishan Man made rebellion many times, and the commander personally led his troops to fight for several years. I heard that the Nong Zhigao, who was under Yongzhou, was very powerful. He defeated the Jiaozhi expedition a few years ago, and his momentum was greatly boosted. He asked for help but failed, and he was quite resentful to the court."

Yang Ting has been on Jinghu Road for several years and has pacified the turmoil several times. He has no concern at all about this and thinks that Du Zhongxiao is worrying about it.

At this time, the most frequent rebellion was the Meishan Man in the near Tanzhou. The major chaos was once every few years, and the minor chaos occurred almost every year. The Meishan Man blocked Tanzhou and Dingzhou, connected to the Chuanxia area through Chenzhou next to it, and Guangxi was connected to the south. A large number of barbarians occupied a vast land of thousands of miles. When the chaos arose, several roads were blocked, and it was difficult to encircle and suppress it. It was difficult to fight in the Manxing for thousands of miles and could not catch up with it, which was very troublesome. Only by pacifying the Meishan Man, Jinghu South Road could be developed, otherwise it could only be centered on a few big cities and could not be connected in a whole area.

Yang Qi has been on the southern road of Jinghu for several years and has pacified the Barbarians and chaos many times, and he does not pay attention to this. In his opinion, as long as the local officials do not have any problems and do not actively intensify the conflicts, there is no major harm. Du Zhongxiao's views are different. Tanzhou is Changsha in later generations, and Dingzhou is Changde in later generations. The two cities are the hubs for communicating north-south traffic. To develop Hunan, these two places are indispensable. Meishan Man happens to be in the middle. With the development of Hunan, conflicts are inevitable and cannot be avoided. When Meishan Man is in chaos, if the barbarians in Yongzhou in the south rise and respond, half of the country will shake.

When the Nong Zhigao was uprising, the barbarians on Jinghu South Road would inevitably respond. Du Zhongxiao still wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to suppress the rebellion and make some military achievements. In the event of the chaos, the Yingtianwuxiang Army was the most convenient army to go south to quell the chaos. This year, if the railway from Xiangzhou to Jiangling is built, take a bus to Jiangling, get on the boat from there, and go south along the waterway, and the transportation is very convenient.

After dinner and chatting about the situation for a while, Du Zhongxiao said: "The most important thing now is to practice more. Training soldiers is secondly. The training of generals and officers at all levels is particularly important. Fighting with muskets and cannons is very different from before. Generals need different skills. I am not familiar with the military, but I know the most important thing is to be down-to-earth and familiar with everything. In the next few months, I will first select excellent people and reorganize them. Then I will continue to practice and learn while practicing. Since the team is starting, generals and officers at all levels must use words to learn and review each other, learn new skills to lead troops, and learn new tactics. Those who cannot adapt will be eliminated. There are about 150,000 or 10,000 people in the Yingtianxiang Army of West Jinglu, and one of the five people will be selected, and it is still OK to select 30,000 soldiers to fight. It takes one or two years to cultivate a soldier to fight."

This is Yang Ting's job, and there is no objection. Since Jingnan was infected with miasma, Yang Ting's intention to make achievements became weak and he was not enthusiastic about the battle formation. He asked to be reborn as a civil servant before, so he had this idea. Now he actively cooperated with Du Zhongxiao and had the intention to pave the way for his nephew Yang Wenguang.

Since the establishment of the Song Dynasty, the three states of Linfeng Prefecture have been like vassal states. In less than a hundred years, the Wang family in Fengzhou had completely declined and was defeated by Dangxiang. The Wang family lost control of Fengzhou and can only be small officials in the mainland. The Yang family in Linzhou is not as good as before. Although they still have power in Linzhou, they are military-controlled by the Zhe family in the Prefecture and Prefecture, and the political affairs are governed by the prefecture and prefecture. The Yang family gradually integrated into the bureaucratic system of the court.

The two branches of the Yang family, Yang Ye, have long been separated, belonging to the imperial system of generals and officials, and have little to do with Linzhou. The Yang Chongxun branch, the only one who guarded Linzhou in the world, was the only one who passed the imperial examination and passed the imperial examination to become an official. Now Linzhou is gradually losing its color as a vassal state, and the status of the Yang family in Yang Ye is even more prominent. Yang Wenguang is Yang Yanzhao's third son, and the two brothers have passed away at this time. The future of the Yang family is in him.

The Yang family was a typical general in the Northern Song Dynasty. They joined the army for generations, but they were far less glorious than the Yang family generals who were later legendary. Without marriage with the royal family, Yang Yanzhao had been guarding the border and had not entered the three yamen to manage the army, which led to the rapid decline of the family background. Yang Wenguang's two brothers were both military generals, without military achievements, and their lives were ordinary. If Yang Wenguang had not been the rise of Yang Wenguang in history, the Yang family general might have ended. It was precisely because of Yang Wenguang that he had achieved the position of military management in history. His ancestors and father were therefore granted the title of the Yang family generals, so the status of the Yang family generals was to a higher level, so the so-called glorious family and glorious ancestors.

Most of the opportunities for Yang Wenguang were given to him by his clan uncle Yang Ting in the early days. At this time, low-level military officers were rampant, and there were many people who could not be vacancied for 10 or 20 years. The same was true for Yang Wenguang. It was not until the Zhang Hai Rebellion in the west of the capital that Yang Ting received the opportunity to lead troops to fight and was promoted to the palace to Zhi due to his merits. The nearly fifty-year-old Dingzhi had a very low position, and according to common sense, he had no future. The most important thing was to lead troops from this to catch up with Di Qing's campaign in the south, accumulate merits and finally reach the military. As long as you can fight in this era, you are really capable, and there were quite a few military officers who were promoted from the lowest-level officer to the military general in ten years, not only Di Qing and Yang Wenguang.

Du Zhongxiao didn't know who Yang Wenguang was and what kind of experience he had. He knew the story of this person from the story of the Yang family general. In the story, Yang Wenguang was the grandson of Yang Yanzhao. Di Qing was still a white-robed young general when he was conquering Nan, which was completely incompatible with the facts. Since there were no Yang Zongbao and Mu Guiying, most of the legends of the Yang family generals were compiled and extremely unreliable. Du Zhongxiao was cautious about such characters, for fear of being deceived by inexplicable impressions. Therefore, when Yang Wenguang arrived, Du Zhongxiao regarded him as an ordinary general. According to normal procedures, he should train and use them, and he should not be too close to him. Everything depends on his own performance.
Chapter completed!