Chapter 1649: The Third Army of the Renzi Volume (2)
After playing with it for a while, Miao Zhuang reluctantly inserted the blunderbuss back into the holster. He looked around and noticed that people from the Fourth Guards Camp and the Warriors Camp on both sides began to gather here, which made him feel a little uncomfortable. Joy.
The relationship between the three pro-armies, the banner guard, the fourth guard camp, and the warrior camp, is not harmonious.
Just like today, in Miao Zhuang's opinion, these people looked too ugly, and if his flag-bearer guards performed slightly better, they wanted to steal the limelight.
Of course, when the Four Guards Battalion and the Warriors Battalion perform tomorrow or tomorrow, I will not hesitate to add to the obstacles.
Compared with the relative independence of the Banner Guards, the relationship between the Four Guards Battalion and the Warriors Battalion is much closer. Because the Four Guards Battalion and the Warriors Battalion were originally drawn from the elite of the three major battalions of the Beijing Camp, or it can be said that the Four Guards Battalion The old camp and the main camp of the Yingying camp and the Warrior camp are the three major camps of the Beijing camp.
Although time has passed, the three major battalions of the Beijing Camp, the Four Guards Camp, and the Warriors Camp have long lost their direct affiliation, but this connection cannot be shaken off. In fact, after the Tianping period, the Four Guards Camp and the Warriors Camp Instead of replenishing troops from the three major battalions of the Beijing Camp, they were directly drawn from the garrison posts in the capital and even northern Zhili, just like the three major battalions in the Beijing Camp.
However, after the 30th year of Yuanxi, this situation changed somewhat. In the 30th, 36th, and 41st years of Yuanxi, the Four Guards Camp and the Warriors Camp transferred some parts from the Beijing Camp in three rounds. The elite backbone went to the Four Guards Camp and the Warriors Camp. Therefore, the relationship between the Four Guards Camp and the Warriors Camp and the Beijing Camp still has a complicated and deep origin.
However, this relationship was completely severed after Emperor Yonglong came to the throne. At the beginning of his accession to the throne, the emperor and the Ministry of War had officially issued a decree to clarify the sources of soldiers for the Four Guards Battalion and the Warrior Battalion. Starting from the first year of Yonglong, the Four Guards Battalion The Battalion and the Warrior Battalion will no longer recruit soldiers from the Beijing Camp. The Fourth Guards Battalion will all be selected from the Tianjin Three Guards and the Xingzhou Five Guards. The Warrior Battalion will all be selected from the Zhuolu Three Guards and the Yingzhou Five Guards. They will be selected every three years.
Compared with the Four Guards Camp and the Warriors Camp, the Standard Guards are different. In fact, this can be seen from their names. They are battalions, while the Standard Guards are guards.
The flag-hand guard is actually inherited from the pre-Ming Dynasty. It is the same as the Jin-yi guard of the pre-Ming Dynasty. However, after the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the responsibilities of the flag-hand guard and the Jin-yi guard have undergone some changes. The flag-hand guard is still a guard, while the Jin-yi guard has become the Long Jinwei. , the Banner Guards are still mainly pro-military guards in the forbidden area, while the Jinyiwei (Long Jinwei) has been completely transformed into a detective agency, but its core has not changed. They are all loyal to the emperor rather than the cabinet and the Fifth Army Governor's Office.
Because of this relationship, the Banner Guards and the Dragon Guards have a deeper relationship, while the Four Guards Battalion has a closer relationship with the Warriors Battalion and even the three major battalions of the Beijing Camp. This has also become a difference in the origins of the several major armed security forces in the capital city.
As for the other armed security force in the capital city - the Five City Soldiers and Horses Division and the patrol battalion, they are in between the two.
Most of the soldiers in Gein's Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division come from the Beijing Camp, while the Patrol Battalion is more like a peripheral organization of Long Jinwei. However, in terms of business, they are only under the jurisdiction of the City Patrol Procuratorate under the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and their military flavor is lighter. , the nature of public security is more intense.
Noticing that the emperor was urging his horse to move forward, he quickly inserted his short blunderbuss into the holster and rode his horse to follow closely.
The surrounding soldiers also formed a flying goose posture, following behind them calmly.
As a senior army officer, in addition to the requirements for morale and combat power, it also emphasizes loyalty and quick response. Among the 1,500 people, the standard guard and the 500 cavalry are all one man and two horses. If you leave the capital, an additional one is required. A pack horse, and the infantry also has a pack horse battalion specially responsible for providing logistical support, in order to be able to respond to combat at any time.
The other two warrior battalions and the fourth guard battalion of the Shangsanqinjun are in similar situations, but they are slightly larger than the banner guard, both with a strength of about 1,800 people, while the cavalry army is even smaller, with only 300 people. , the other 1,500 were infantry.
Emperor Yonglong watched with great interest the flag-bearer guards and sergeants galloping forward in front of him. The rabbit was rising and the falcon was falling, which aroused his interest. He couldn't help but gallop forward, but the speed was much slower. The surrounding ministers all asked the emperor to slow down, and be sure not to fall off the horse, which would cause great disaster.
Seeing the emperor slowing down his horse, Miao Zhuang gently reined in his horse and followed the emperor closely. At the same time, he also signaled to the people behind him. The other riders also swarmed up, hugging the emperor in the middle. Not only can they maintain a certain speed, but they can also avoid the crowds from the Warrior Battalion and the Fourth Guard Battalion squeezing in from both sides. Today is the performance time of the Flag Bearer Guards, and it is not their turn to present treasures.
The costumes and armor on both sides were obviously different from those of the Banner Guards. The more than ten cavalrymen in ocher-red clothing also noticed this. The cavalrymen on the right were all in black clothes and armor. They were from the Fourth Guards Camp, and those on the other side were all aware of this. One side was all indigo. They were from the warrior camp. Seeing that they had lost their chance, they all slowed down.
The two knights exchanged glances with disdain on their faces, and the burly man with a copper helmet and a black robe snorted, "Miao is really keeping us on guard. It's just a show, no more." Let us get close, they really treat us as thieves and are on guard."
"Haha, who asked you to bring a black tiger to dig out someone's heart when you came? You almost made me look embarrassed." Another tiger-eyed man in an indigo smock half-slanted around his body sneered.
"Hmph, if he didn't deliberately come to cause trouble for us, how could I feel sorry for him? After all, I think their standard-bearer guards need to be independent and different..." The burly man curled his lips and said, "Just kidding." Those behind-the-scenes tricks are meaningless, just inviting favors and pleasing the emperor. Whether we can fight or not, we have to compete on the battlefield. It’s a pity that when will we guards who join the direct army get the chance to fight?"
"What, you really want to go into battle, but you haven't learned enough lessons from the defeat of the Three Tun Camps last year?" The tiger-eyed man shook his head: "To be honest, I really don't want to encounter that kind of thing. Look, Seeing how many wives were scattered and their families were broken up, the emperor was so angry that he almost demolished the three major camps in Beijing. How many of our acquaintances are there in the three major camps in Beijing now?"
The burly man also had a somewhat sentimental look on his face.
The Battle of Santun Camp left the entire Jingying Camp exhausted. Even the generals of the Four Guards Camp and the Warriors Camp who were originally from the Jingying Camp felt disgraced. They also made the Long Jinwei and the Banner Guards Even the people in the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division looked down upon them, which was the most intolerable thing for them.
The Shangsanqin army was originally in a state of competition with each other. There was no distinction between the Standard Guards, the Four Guards Battalion and the Warriors Battalion. However, after the battle of the Three Tun Camps, the emperor's attitude towards his Four Guards Battalion and Liao Junxiong's Warriors Battalion was somewhat subtle. Although outsiders couldn't see anything, as the commander of the Fourth Guards Battalion, Du Keli could still detect some subtle changes.
For example, the number of Miao Zhuang's meetings was obviously more, but his attitude towards himself and Liao Junxiong was not as enthusiastic as before, and sometimes his and Liao Junxiong's suggestions were discounted.
Another time when the emperor was inspecting the warrior camp, he was very dissatisfied with the military discipline of the warrior camp and became furious. Liao Junxiong wrote a letter asking for punishment himself, otherwise the censors from the Metropolitan Procuratorate would come.
In the past, the emperor would have scolded him, but that time the emperor not only used the defeat of the Santun Camp as an example to denounce the Shangsanqinjun, but also named the relevant responsible persons to be punished. Liao Junxiong was so frightened that he knelt down outside the palace gate. After half a day, the three-month fine was settled.
Although things like fines are just a trivial matter, and no one will live on that little salary, this is a trend, and it is even a warning to the generals, which means that the emperor's His attitude has changed. If he doesn't stay alert, he may be dismissed from his post or even imprisoned next time.
“Old Liao, do you think what Miao Zhuang said before was a deliberate attempt to put eye drops on us in front of Xia Bingzhong, or was he really aware of something going on here?”
Du Keli, a burly man, had a somewhat searching look in his eyes.
The day before yesterday, Miao Zhuang said that an acquaintance with Long Jinwei said that after the defeat of the Three Tun Camps, the Beijing Camp was being cleaned up, and it was found that there were many followers of the White Lotus Sect in the Three Camps, and many believers had even been members of the religion for more than ten or twenty years. Well, it is said that most of the soldiers of the Fourth Guards Battalion and the Warriors Battalion come from the three major battalions of the Beijing Camp. It is not ruled out that the Fourth Guards Battalion and the Warriors Battalion may also be infiltrated. In particular, the Fourth Guards Battalion has drawn the most sergeants from the old Shenji Battalion over the years. Most of the soldiers of the old Shenji Battalion came from the Dongsheng Zuowei, Xingzhou Youtun Guard, Shanhaiwei, Funing Guard, Zhongyi Zhongwei and other first-line guards. The White Lotus Sect activities are the most rampant in the areas where these guard posts are located, so the four guards The camp needs to be cleaned up and reorganized most.
This angered Du Keli at the time.
He felt that this was a deliberate frame-up by Miao Zhuang, especially when he put eye drops on himself in front of Xia Bingzhong, the most trusted **** of the emperor and the nominal leader of the Third Family Army. Once it reached the ears of the emperor, he was afraid that the emperor would treat his The attitude was even worse than when Liao Junxiong was involved in the accident last year. After all, Liao Junxiong was only in poor military discipline at that time. But now if there are rumors that the White Lotus Sect has infiltrated the Fourth Guards Camp, then things will be in trouble.
The tiger-eyed man Liao Junxiong was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that the other party was still thinking about this matter at this time. He glanced at the other party subconsciously and felt nervous: "Old Du, have you discovered some clues? This kind of thing? This is no joke, although Miao Zhuang has bad intentions, but if there is really any clue, you can deal with it yourself as soon as possible!"
(End of this chapter)