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During the process of military reform and military expansion, Li Yan drew 10,000 elite troops from each army, and incorporated the Ma Sixth Army, the Ma Seventh Army, the 12th Army, and the 13th Army into the First Army.

Since then, the First Army has expanded to 37,000 people.

However, what is incomprehensible is that except for the First Battalion, Tiefutu, who reported the confidential special forces, Li Yan named the "Tabai Army" (Li Zong temporarily served as the commander, Yuan Zhongliang was the political commissar of the army, Jiu Tongmei was the deputy commander, Wang Shu was the chief of staff of the army, Yu Cheng, Jie Zhen, and Jie Bao were the commander) and the Detachment of Women (Chen Liqing, Hu Sanniang, Fang Baihua, Qiongying, and the Yutong of Liangshan, Li Yan named it "Jie Fanjun", but behind it they called this horse army "Women's Army". Although the name of the "Women's Army" is not strong, this horse army is the most elite horse army in Liangshan except the First Battalion.), all the other troops of the First Army were not established.

What does it mean to be an unorganized?

That's it.

Taking advantage of this military reform and military expansion, Li Yan successively transferred all officers above the command of the First Army, including some commanders, to other troops, to one level two or three levels.

Li Yan did this to increase his control over other troops, and to make room for the officers he was optimistic about.

For this reason, Li Yan decreed his personal guards, such as Yao Xing, Yang Yizhong, Niu Gao, Shi Wengong, Su Ding, Wang Gui, Zhang Xian, Tang Huai, Yao Zheng, Xu Qing, Kou Cheng, Yue Fan, Li Dao, Yue Heng, Zhao Hong, Wang Wan, Guo Jin, Cheng Min, Jie Yuan, Wang Sheng, Yue Chao, Chen Yu, Hu Yantong, Wu Lin, Yang Zheng, Guo Hao, Yang Congyi, Wang Jun and others as appropriate, and sent them to the position of command (the command of five hundred people) or team generals (the command of one hundred people) on the grounds that Han Shizhong, Wu Jie, Liu Qi, Wang Yan, and Zhang Xian were well trained (which was indeed well trained) (each person temporarily brought five commanders. In addition, considering the issue of loyalty, the people led by Han Shizhong and others were all old people from the First Army. The new members of the First Army were Li Yan did not let them lead them, but instead gave them the generals who grew up in the Liangshan system.).

Li Yan did not set up any officers above the commander, and many commanders did not even have a temporary commander, but Li Yan was directly commanded.

Doing this will undoubtedly make the First Army lack agility and slow reaction, but Li Yan knew this, but he still insisted on doing this for the time being.

One general was incompetent and exhausted the three armies.

One soldier will be a crotch, and one will be a crotch.

A lion leads a flock of sheep, better than a sheep leads a flock of lions!

Therefore, no matter how elite the soldiers are, they are not as good as generals and commanders, and they are still a group of mobs.

Communication systems, whether they are personnel, military pigeons or horses, are all the best in the First Army.

In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the First Army, Xu Guanzhong continued to be the chief of staff of the First Army, and Li Yan gave all the best staff members such as Liu Ziyu to Xu Guanzhong to establish the General Staff of the First Army.

In order to keep the First Army loyal to Li Yan, Li Yan appointed Shi Xiu as the political commissar of the wing and gave all the best political cadres trained by Zhu Fu to Shi Xiu to establish a political department, and released the wind: the promotion of officers in the future and the opinions of the political department were important references.

During the endless wars and chaos of the Five Dynasties, military rebellions frequently occurred. In order to prevent military officials from wearing imperial robe like him, Zhao Kuangyin established the national policy of dividing civil and military affairs, using civil and military affairs to build military affairs, which led to the low status of military generals and infinitely elevating the status of literati.

Although civil officials rarely rely on their own military power, they are also equivalent to slapping their own martial arts and seeking death when they are in peace.

Li Yan naturally could not do this stupid thing that was seeking death, but he could not help but prevent the generals from rebelling. Even if they did not rebel, they would just disobey the evil spirits, and Li Yan could not stand it.

This is why Li Yan set up a political department and sent political cadres to the army.

In fact, political commissars and other political cadres are equivalent to military supervisors, but they are groups, and are organized and believe (I believe that only Li Yan can lead them to a bright future), and have guiding ideology. Liangshan Political Department was established as early as when Hu Yanzhuo attacked Shuibo Liangshan. It has been established for three or four years. It has trained a large number of outstanding political cadres and has also introduced relatively mature political ideas (mainly combining loyalty to Li Yan and worship of Li Yan), and there are also many practical political promotion methods (such as remembering the bitterness and thinking about sweetness, learning the quotations of the Grand Commander, etc.).

In the role of the political department and a large number of political cadres, most soldiers must know Li Yan and are interested in Li Yan.

In this case, those generals dare not show it even if they have the intention of rebelling or disobeying the emperor.

In addition, Li Yan accepted the suggestion that "the military rank is too simplified and may not be promoted enough" proposed by Sun Jing and others, and introduced a medal reward system.

Medals are familiar to people in Liangshan. As early as the beginning of the army, Li Yan awarded the martyrs medal. This time, Li Yan just used the medal reward system of later generations to launch the medals (first-class merit, second-class merit, third-class merit) and medals of honor.

In short, in the past six months in Seoul, Li Yan performed a major operation on the Liangshan Army, laying a solid foundation for future competition.

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In June of the second year of Xuanhe, Incheon Port.

Cai You pointed to dozens of sea boats behind him and said, "The students, craftsmen, boatmen, keels and supplies you want are all here."

Cai You was happy, Li Yan was happy, and said, "All the antique calligraphy and paintings and money are prepared for Lord Cai."

The two parties successfully completed the transaction.

Li Yan wanted to stay in Seoul for a few days, but when he went back to receive the favor, Cai You refused directly.

Li Yan felt that Cai You might be useful in the future, after all, he has not turned against Song State yet.

Moreover, thanks to Cai You, Li Yan used a pile of broken glass, broken soap, antique calligraphy and paintings that could not be sold, and depreciated copper coins and iron coins to exchange for a large number of talents and a lot of good things.

In addition, I was really sorry for Cai You before.

So, Li Yan waved his hand and put three boxes of local specialties for Cai You, maintaining the "friendship" with Cai You.

at the same time.

The 100,000 elite troops drawn by Tong Guan from the Western Army have already arrived at the city of Tokyo.

Gao Qiu was not willing to be outdone, and also took out all his family's assets and ordered: Wang Huan, the governor of Hebei, Xu Jing, the governor of Taiyuan, the governor of Shangdang, Wang Wende, the governor of Hongnong, the governor of Runan, Mei Zhan, the governor of Runan, Zhongshan, Zhang Kai, the governor of Anping, Jiangxia, Yang Wen, the governor of Yanmen, Yunzhong, Han Cunbao, the governor of Hanyang, Longxi, Li Congji, the governor of Pengcheng, Langya, Xiang Yuanzhen, and the governor of Tianshui, Qinghe, each brought 10,000 elite troops to the headquarters to gather under the city of Tokyo.

Su Taiwei received the imperial edict and went to the court to go straight to the front of the Songjiang camp army.

Song Jiang and others hurriedly prepared incense tables to welcome them and knelt down to listen to the edict.

When he heard the court sending a warning to them with his own ears, Song Jiang burst into tears and said, "I am trying to work with the country and make achievements. Now I have received the kindness of the Taiwei, and I have given you a letter of kindness to the emperor, and I am grateful to my parents. But I still ask the Taiwei to give me a few days to wait. When we send our family back home, we will rectify the equipment, guns, swords, armor and horses and serve the country with all our loyalty."

Su Taiwei was easy to talk to, and, at this critical moment, it was not too harsh, so he gave Song Jiang and others ten days to prepare.

Song Jiang, who was eager to serve the country, took only three days to deal with everything, and then brought his 100,800 generals and 20,000 troops to Beijing quickly.
Chapter completed!