After the spring plowing, the school field outside Ji'an city.
More than 13,000 farmers and soldiers lined up on the field for drills, taking towns as units.
Only 4,000 people are selected!
Li Banghua said to choose 3,000 soldiers, but Zhao Han decided to set 4,000 soldiers after careful consideration.
Fei Yinggong and the bandits under his command were also standing by the side at this moment, watching the peasants and soldiers enter the field one by one.
"These fucking peasants and soldiers? Governors and pacesetters in all provinces are nothing more than that!" Yan Jiu was dumbfounded.
Fei Yinggong was also extremely shocked. The peasants and soldiers in front of him were not only neatly lined up and orderly when changing formations, but also full of discipline and vigor.
All the bandits under Fei Yinggong have martial arts skills. If one-on-one with the peasants and soldiers, the bandits must win. If you fight ten against ten with peasants and soldiers, the bandits are afraid that they will be killed to death.
"There are more than 13,000 soldiers like this?" Tian Younian was inexplicably horrified.
Fei Ruhe explained: "The teams in front of us are all veterans from Luling County, so they are naturally very capable. The recruits from Jishui County and Anfu County have only a short training period, so their performance must be much worse."
Tian Younian asked, "How many veterans are there in Luling?"
"Around six thousand." Fei Ruhe replied.
"How many days do you exercise?" Tian Younian asked again.
Fei Ruhe explained: "I don't practice when the farming is busy, and I practice every day when the farming is slack. I practice in my own village. Each village has an officer."
The drill habits of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are basically that after the recruits are recruited, they spend a month or two rigorously practicing to familiarize themselves with orders and formations. Since then, I have stretched my hips. Exercise once every five days is considered an elite soldier, exercise once every ten days is normal, once a month is okay, and there are people who exercise once every six months!
Tian Younian said regretfully: "Alas, there are six thousand of such elite soldiers, but it's a pity that only one thousand can be selected."
"It will be fine after the expansion of the army." Fei Ruhe was also very distressed.
This time the recruitment of full-time soldiers should not only be based on the quality of the soldiers, but also recruited by region: 1,000 soldiers from Luling, 1,000 from Jishui, 1,000 from Anfu, and 1,000 from Yuanzhou (all archers).
The peasants and soldiers in Anfu County were finally organized and trained, and they only trained for two or three months in total.
If only the elite peasants and soldiers in Luling County are recruited, firstly, it is easy to form the top of the army, and secondly, it will seriously reduce the strong labor force in the rural areas of Luling County.
Next, it was the turn of the farmers and soldiers of Jishui County to play. Sure enough, they stretched their hips a lot, but they were still able to crush the government's Xiangyong.
?Until the peasants and soldiers in Anfu County went out to practice, the scene was horrible. When they lined up, they were relatively neat. Once the formation changed, things would happen frequently.
Li Banghua sighed and said: "I can only pull out the generals from within. This time the troops will be dispatched mainly from Luling veterans, supplemented by Jishui soldiers. Let Anfu soldiers go to defend the city."
? In the final selection of soldiers, the selection is made in units of villages, and only some of the best performers are selected.
? When peasants and soldiers become regular soldiers, peasant and soldier officers will be converted to official military positions, and their military pay will be increased according to their military positions. If there are unselected peasant and soldier officers, they still retain their military ranks, but this military rank is not official.
The Luling veterans who were not selected were very upset. They thought they were a hundred times better than the Anfu slag soldiers. Zhao Han could only ask the missionary officer to appease the soldiers.
After three full days of selection, four thousand soldiers were finally selected.
The military flag has been slightly changed, it is still made of indigo blue cotton cloth, but the words "All Under Heaven" are embroidered on the flag.
Fei Yinggong and the bandits under his command were disorderly organized into various ministries.
If you add Zhao Han's personal soldiers "Nu'er Army", as well as military judges, mission officers, naval officers and soldiers, etc., the number of regular soldiers actually exceeds 5,000.
In the land of three counties, more than 5,000 regular soldiers are raised, and the military expenditure is simply exploding!
Wu Yong, who was always able to catch high officials, was promoted to the captain of the "Slave Army" this time because of his meritorious service in the previous period, and he was in charge of three ten-man teams.
Forced to act as a guide, Xiong Yao led Zhao Han to attack Yuanzhou's barracks by surprise. Because he belongs to the technical branch of archers, and he is also an officer, he was promoted to sentry officer this time, and he is in charge of nine ten-man teams.
Fei Yinggong is also an archer and sentry officer. He has practiced archery and said he is in charge of nine ten-man teams. Counting the low-level officers, he is actually in command of a hundred troops.
Commanding a hundred soldiers is considered a hundred generals, Fei Yinggong can only comfort himself in this way.
After the reorganization of the main soldiers is completed, the peasants and soldiers who were not selected will leave 2,000 elite soldiers on standby, and the rest will all go home. These peasants and soldiers must also persist in their drills. Once encountering a large-scale siege by officers and soldiers, Zhao Han may have tens of thousands of soldiers at any time!
In the next half month, all the regular soldiers and 2,000 peasant soldiers practiced in the school grounds, mainly practicing the cooperation with the archers.
end of aprilNot too late.
A few days later, He Tianqu recruited thousands of brave men from the countryside. Together with the soldiers he had recruited before, the number of troops had grown to more than 1,800
Nanchang.
? Wang Siren was originally training sailors in Poyang Lake, but was summoned urgently by Governor Li Maofang.
"Fu Shuai, but there is something strange about the Zhao thief in the south?" Wang Siren asked.
Li Maofang explained: "The prefect of Linjiang sent an urgent report that Zhao bandits stationed troops in Zhangshu Town, intending to attack Linjiang City."
Wang Siren spread out the map, quickly shook his head and said: "The target of the thief Zhao is probably not Linjiang Mansion, but Xinyu and Fenyi counties in the west. Zhao thief has taken a fancy to the iron mines and iron smelting factories there. , they would not garrison Zhangshu Town, but raid Linjiang Fu City quickly."
"Should we send troops?" Li Maofang asked.
Wang Siren sighed and said: "The rebels have attacked hundreds of miles away from Linjiang Prefecture, how can the officers and soldiers sit back and watch? Zhangshu Town must be taken back!"
There are thirty-three important tax-paying towns in the Ming Dynasty, Linjiang Prefecture City plus Zhangshu Town, which together account for one of them.
If Zhangshu Town is occupied by the rebels all the time, and one day they take down Linjiang Mansion, wouldn't the Luling Zhao bandits want to go to heaven?
"Oh, you shouldn't go north during the Chinese New Year." Li Maofang's intestines were full of regret.
They brought a large number of sailors and 5,000 infantry, and rushed to rescue Fengyang. As a result, Zhang Xianzhong beat the elite fighters who had trained painstakingly to only a thousand people.
Although the soldiers have been re-recruited and there are another 5,000 infantry, such new recruits are of use!
Wang Siren thought carefully and said: "Let's go to Linjiang Mansion first, and then decide how to fight after finding out more about the real situation of the rebel army. We have a navy, and we can advance or retreat. Don't easily fight against the rebels."
"That's the only way to go." Li Maofang said.
(Reply, some book friends said that the enclosure movement, the agricultural revolution and so on. The agricultural revolution in Britain, before the use of large-scale machinery for production, was mainly reflected in two aspects. First, the peasants were driven away, and the landlords enclosed the land, and then Hiring farmers to cultivate is the big landlord and tenant system in the late Ming Dynasty. Second, intensive farming. After hundreds of years of agricultural revolution, the yield per mu in Britain has finally reached the level of yield per mu in the south of the Ming Dynasty. Is it interesting to discuss? Please don¡¯t ignore the differences between Britain and Ming Dynasty Population difference, Ming Dynasty played like England, the peasant uprising had already exploded.?