Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

"Oh? Emperor Xuanwu left the palace?" Xiaoyaozi said happily.

Cheng Wuji and the others next to him also showed pleasant smiles on their faces, and everyone looked at the magic master who broke in.

"Yes, Emperor Xuanwu is now heading towards the east of the city." The magic master said.

"How many soldiers and horses are there beside Emperor Xuanwu?" Xiaoyaozi asked hastily.

"Probably only four or five hundred! There are Song troops everywhere in the Ning Mansion, and he doesn't need to lead too many troops!" said the master of the Demon Sect.

"That's great!" Xiaoyaozi laughed.

"Uncle, do we need to go to the east of the city now?" Cheng Wuji asked.

"No! There are too many Song troops in Huining Mansion. If we move around randomly, we will definitely be discovered by Song troops! Let's wait for Emperor Xuanwu to come to the north of the city! By the way, have you found a good ambush location?" Xiaoyao said.

"There is a main street in the north of the city. There are only a dozen Song soldiers there. Emperor Xuanwu will definitely pass by there. We can ambush Emperor Xuanwu there!" said the master of the Demon Sect.

"You draw the terrain!" Xiaoyaozi said.

Now the magician master drew the terrain, Xiaoyaozi observed carefully for a while, nodded, and said: "This place is really good."

"Uncle, how sure are we of assassinating Emperor Xuanwu?" Cheng Wuji asked again.

"At least 80% sure! We have more than a hundred masters in Huining Mansion, and these masters are by no means the ordinary soldiers of the Song Army who can resist! They only have four or five hundred soldiers, and we can kill them all! At that time, I will Look for Emperor Xuanwu and prevent him from escaping! We must make a quick decision and kill Emperor Xuanwu as soon as possible!" Xiaoyaozi said.

Cheng Wuji nodded.

Xiaoyaozi was very excited at this moment. He finally got off the bed, stood up straight, and laughed loudly: "Emperor Xuanwu can be regarded as a rare Ming emperor! He actually ruled the world in just eight years! Xixia, Khitan, and Jurchen are not his opponents. The people in Jiangnan, Central Plains, Sichuan, and Yanyun live and work in peace and contentment. Zu is nothing more than that! For him, I still admire him! However, if we assassinate him at his most proud and glorious time, we will surely leave our names in history and be admired by future generations!"

Hearing this, Cheng Wuji couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Okay! Let's make preparations in advance. Observe Emperor Xuanwu carefully. This time we must not let him escape!" Xiaoyaozi said.

At the moment, the masters of the magic sect in this room headed outside one after another, preparing to ambush Zhao Chen.

Xiaoyaozi still stayed in this house, and news from Huining Mansion continued to reach him.

"Uncle Master, we just got the news that Emperor Xuanwu has gone to the south of the city!" Cheng Wuji said when he arrived half an hour later.

"It seems that he went from the east of the city to the south of the city, then to the west of the city, to the north of the city, and finally to the north of the city!" Xiaoyaozi nodded and said.

"Uncle, I can't wait!" Cheng Wuji said.

"Wait, you must wait! This time we will create an unprecedented feat for the people of the world, so don't be impatient!" Xiaoyaozi said.

Cheng Wuji took a deep breath, nodded, and said, "Everything is up to Master."

"Anyway, Emperor Xuanwu hasn't come yet, let's play a game of chess first! Someone will report the news outside!" Xiaoyaozi laughed.

Cheng Wuji was indeed very nervous at the moment, but Xiaoyaozi's leisurely demeanor infected him, and now he calmed down and played chess with Xiaoyaozi in the room, not to mention that.

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On this night, the bright moon hung high, and the cold moonlight filled the earth!

Zhao Chen has come to the south of the city at this moment, where there is a temporary barracks of the Song Army.

Tens of thousands of Song Army soldiers here are celebrating the Lantern Festival. After Zhao Chen arrived, the soldiers cheered excitedly.

The soldiers performed on the stage, and Zhao Chen sat with the generals in the army.

Yang Zhengnai is the commander of this army, and he accompanied Zhao Chen excitedly.

"Are the soldiers homesick?" Zhao Chen asked after taking a sip of hot tea.

"Your Majesty, the soldiers are far away from home, and they are a little homesick, but we all know that we are soldiers, and it is our duty to fight for the country, so everyone will stay safely in Huining Mansion!" Yang Zheng said.

"For the sake of the Great Song Dynasty and for our Han people, the soldiers have paid a lot! The country will never forget you, and I will always remember your contributions in my heart!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, these are what we should do!" Yang Zheng laughed.

"You may have to stay in Huining Mansion for a long time!" Zhao Chen said after thinking for a while.

"Oh!" Yang Zheng had a surprised expression on his face.

"Liaodong is now the territory of our Great Song Dynasty. There is a need for troops to be stationed here. The General Staff Headquarters intends to divide the soldiers and horses of the Datong Military Region into two. Han Shizhong and Wang Yan led the infantry to station in Datong, and General Yue Fei led 100,000 cavalry to station in Liaodong! In addition, Some of the navy will also be stationed in Liaodong! Most of the soldiers and horses of your Datong Military Region are from Guanshan, and then went to Datong, but now you have to stay in the bitter cold outside the pass. I can’t bear it! I came from Zhongjing When I came here, I had already discussed the retirement system with the officials of the General Staff Headquarters. If there is no accident, the retirement system will be introduced within this year, and a group of soldiers will retire from here and return to their hometowns!" Zhao Chen said.

"Ah!" Yang Zheng stayed there for a while, and said, "Retire? Soldiers can retire?"

In ancient times, being a soldier was a lifelong occupation. "Conscript in the army at fifteen, and return at eighty. If you meet a villager, you have someone in your family." This is the military system of the ancients! He started serving as a soldier when he was ignorant at the age of fifteen, and he could not return to his hometown until he was eighty years old. Almost all relatives at home had died, and he didn't know the younger generation at all! Such a military system is extremely cruel, and there is no human rights at all! The ancients said that it is not unreasonable for a good man not to be a soldier. If it is not true that he cannot survive, who would like to stay in the army for the rest of his life, guarding the frontier for the rest of his life, and fighting in the battlefield for the rest of his life. Even if he is old, he will not be able to rest! Zhao Chen had long planned to change all of this, and now this matter has been officially put on the agenda!

"Soldiers can of course retire! Moreover, after soldiers leave the army, they will receive the army's settlement allowance! In addition, now that the Song Dynasty has just recovered the world, there are many states and counties, but the number of officials is very small. People who perform well in the army After retiring, you can enter the government and continue to serve the country!" Zhao Chen said.

"Great! Great! Your Majesty, the soldiers don't know how to thank you for doing this!" Yang Zheng said excitedly.

"These are just what we should do! Isn't it a good thing for the young people of the country to continue to be trained in the army when veterans leave the army and new recruits continue to come in? Don't we have to be soldiers from generation to generation? Is that good?" Zhao Chen said.

"Yes, Your Majesty is right! Young people from the Central Plains should also continue to join the army, and they can retire after entering the army. Young people will definitely not object to joining the army! Your Majesty is such a good idea!" Yang Zheng said.

Zhao Chen smiled and continued to watch various programs of the soldiers in the barracks.

"Your Majesty, just in this way, all the elite soldiers in the army have returned to their hometowns, and we still have to fight the world, what should we do?" Yang Zheng said.

"Of course it is impossible to retire all the soldiers at once. Wouldn't the army be abolished? Only a part of the soldiers can withdraw from the army every year, and most of the elite soldiers remain in the army! The first to retire should be older soldiers , or was injured in the war, or had only one child in a difficult family life, some troops have less heavy missions to participate in the war, and the retirement system can be implemented immediately, and some, such as the navy, will attack Korea, Dongying and other places, which cannot be implemented for the time being The decommissioning system and the resettlement of veterans are also very complicated, requiring a lot of expenses, etc., and the country currently spends too much money, so it will take some time for this system to be rolled out! However, you will later You can tell the soldiers about this first!" Zhao Chen said.

"The general understands!" Yang Zheng said excitedly.

Zhao Chen stayed here for half an hour and then headed towards the west of the city. Not long after he left here, there was a thunderous sound of long live from the barracks in the south of the city, and countless soldiers bowed in the direction Zhao Chen left. .

"Your Majesty is really a benevolent king through the ages!" Zhao Chen and Kang An led the troops towards the west of the city, and Kang An praised from the side.

"Letting soldiers stay in the army for the rest of their lives is not only cruel to the soldiers, but also not conducive to the improvement of the army's combat effectiveness! The army is constantly replaced with new young blood, which is also good for the growth of the army! This matter It was proposed by me, but it will take a certain amount of time to perfect it! From now on, soldiers’ military service time will be determined, and once the time limit is reached, they will leave the army, and only those who perform well can continue to stay in the army!” Zhao Chen said .

These are the military systems of later generations, which are much more advanced than the military systems of this era. Zhao Chen has been carrying out military system reforms over the years. However, because it was a war period, the number of troops could not be reduced, so it was not until this time that the formal proposal was made. retirement system.

"How are Xiaoyaozi and the others doing now?" Zhao Chen asked again.

"Your Majesty, they are waiting for you to go to that avenue!" Kang An said.

"How are our soldiers and horses prepared?" Zhao Chen asked.

"General Dong Xian led 2,000 military masters to lurk in that area! Once Xiaoyaozi and others show up, we will never let him leave!" Kang An said.

Zhao Chen nodded, and a sneer appeared on his face!

He doesn't have the slightest liking for Xiaoyaozi, Cheng Wuji and others, and he hates them very much! However, although these people are jumping clowns, they are like flies flying around, and it is difficult to slap them to death! Of course, this time, quite a few intelligence officers entered the Demon Sect, and some of them even became Xiaoyaozi's confidants, like the Demon Sect master who reported to Xiaoyaozi before was an officer of the Intelligence Division! Under such circumstances, it is not difficult to catch Xiaoyaozi all at once!