Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 259 Salt Soldiers Teaching Review
At the turn of February and March, the spring is strong, and the grass outside Dongyang City is full of warblers.

Gao Cheng stood on the temporary general platform, looking upright at the [-] salt soldiers gathered below the platform.

His handsome face, which can be ranked in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, is full of smiles.

Uncle Lou Zhao lived up to his ardent expectations. After half a year of training, this is already a qualified army.

As full-time soldiers, the salt soldiers do not need to engage in productive labor. Apart from vacations, what they have to do every day is to listen to instructions.

Teaching means teaching warfare, martial arts, and weapons.

Reading, that is, proofreading, practicing advance and retreat, and learning formations.

But today Gao Cheng did not inspect their weapons and formations, but asked the salt soldiers to wear armor and carry out cross-country with heavy loads.

Armors were carried by horses when marching, but when they actually went to the battlefield, they still had to wear armor and fight with others. Therefore, the physical strength of soldiers should not be ignored.

步兵甲胄重量为29.8公斤，长枪手的铠甲重量在32-35公斤，弓弩手的铠甲重量为22-27公斤。

(The weight of infantry armor in the Northern and Southern Dynasties has been checked for a long time, so it is calculated according to the Song Dynasty.)
On the battlefield, carrying a weight of fifty or sixty catties and fighting with others, no matter how good the martial arts are, if the physical fitness is not good, they will still be slaughtered.

And through the salt soldiers cross-country with heavy loads, Gao Cheng can also have a good idea of ​​their daily training level.

Of course, this is not the five-kilometer cross-country run with weights carried by later generations of the army.

These full-time soldiers are supported by the state, their meals can be guaranteed, and their physical fitness has nothing to do with weakness. After all, they are not as good as soldiers in the era of material abundance.

However, it is not easy to complete the three-kilometer round trip with a load of twenty catties.

Therefore, looking at the panting salt soldiers in the audience, Gao Cheng was overjoyed, and ordered to kill pigs and goats to give wine, rewarding the three armies tonight.

The salt soldiers temporarily stationed cheered instantly.

It is not difficult to train an elite division, but among the Gao's army of 60 to 30, nearly [-] state and county soldiers are bad.

It's not that Gao Cheng is unwilling to change this situation, the problem is that the country's finances cannot afford to support so many off-duty soldiers.

The main reason why state and county soldiers do not have combat effectiveness is the lack of training. They usually work at home in agriculture, serve corvee, and hard labor, and are called up for special occasions, such as half-monthly training camps, or wars, and imperial examination proctors, etc.

Once the state and county soldiers are called, the government will provide them with meals.

If you really want to train every day like the [-] salt soldiers, the finances of the Eastern Wei Dynasty would have gone bankrupt long ago.

That night, in the big camp outside Dongyang City, the bonfire lit up the night sky, and Gao Cheng joined the salt soldiers, drinking and eating meat with them, and singing loudly.

During this trip to the south, Gao Cheng often had drinks with soldiers in various military camps.

Whether his presence and influence in the military has deepened is still unknown, but his drinking capacity has indeed increased a lot.

Gao Cheng did not stay in Qingzhou for too long. Before the salt soldiers returned to Jizhou, Gao Cheng had made it clear to them that he would look for opportunities for them to receive experience on the battlefield to satisfy him. The salary of the salt soldiers would also be transferred from foreign soldiers For the soldiers.

There is no more than [-] shi of rice and grain worth of military pay every year, and Gao Cheng, who has completely transferred the minting rights to the central government, can afford this amount.

When all the soldiers heard the words, they were all gearing up. Who doesn't want a salary increase?

For the time being, Lou Zhao continued to command the [-] salt soldiers to teach them skills, and waited for Gao Cheng to confirm the leading generals before sending them to Liaodong to hone them.

Although Wei Changming, the military guard of Liaodong in Duduping and Yingerzhou, is the father of Gao Cheng's confidant, Dudu Xingqing, he will not rest assured that the [-] salt soldiers will be handed over to Wei Changming.

After all, this team will be the soldiers he will rely on in the future.

Gao Cheng has a clear understanding of Chinese and foreign soldiers. There are indeed troops capable of fighting among foreign soldiers, such as Hou Jing's 1 people, Ke Zhu Hunyuan's 3000 people, Hou Yuan's 5000 people, and Liu Feng from Lingzhou East. 5000 people returned.

The latter two will be included in the new Gyeonggi Army in Gao Cheng's plan.

But more of them are state and county soldiers whose mud can't support the wall, so they just defend the city and do auxiliary work.

What I can rely on is the 25 large-scale full-time soldiers.

They don't do production, they teach and study every day, and what they ponder are killing skills, they are real martial arts.

Gao Huan relied on [-] warriors to rise in Hebei, how could Gao Cheng easily hand over the [-] salt soldiers to others to lead.

Gao Cheng left Qingzhou, passed through Jeju, Qizhou, and Yanzhou, and finally arrived in Daliang in mid-March.

And Gao Huan's reply also fell into Gao Cheng's hands.

For Gao Cheng's series of arrangements, Gao Huan agreed in principle to all of them, and only made two amendments.

The original East Jingzhou and South Jingzhou will be merged into Jingzhou, East Jingzhou, and the west of South Jingzhou will be merged into Jingzhou.

The eastern part of Southern Jingzhou merged with Yuzhou and Yingzhou to form Yuzhou, which was ruled in Xuanhu City, and Yaoxiong was still the governor.

In the letter, Gao Huan explained his arrangement to Gao Cheng, saying that Hou Jing has talents in various fields, and he can take on the important task of keeping the western front safe.

He thought that Hou Jing would not dare to rebel if he was there.

This is also true in history. Hou Jing, who worshiped Henan Daxingtai as an official and guarded Henan for nearly ten years, with a [-] army under his command, even though Gao Huan suffered repeated defeats, he did not dare to have two hearts.

Gao Huan can restrain Hou Jing by himself, and he also believes that Gao Cheng can restrain him.

Gao Cheng didn't argue much about this, and Gao Huan's ability to explain to himself on a special trip was enough to satisfy King Gao.

At that time, he wanted to appoint Yuan Zigong as the governor of Jingzhou and Hou Jing as the governor of Southern Jingzhou. After Gao Huan made the revision, he didn't even explain it.

After so many years, He Liuhun has made some progress.

In Gao Huan's vision, Gao Yue on the east line, Yaoxiong on the center line, and Hou Jing on the west line, these three people are enough to deal with Nanliang.

And Gao Cheng and the reorganized Gyeonggi Army can follow him to find opportunities to enter the pass to put down the rebellion.

With Gao Huan's permission, Gao Cheng immediately ordered people to deliver letters to communicate with the governors of various places in advance.

However, as Southern Jingzhou was divided by Jingzhou and Yuzhou, Zhang Liang, the governor of Southern Jingzhou, also became idle.

Gao Cheng thought for a long time, and decided that Zhang Liang would lead [-] salt soldiers to Liaodong for training.

There are two reasons why he made this decision. The Yanbing was formed by Zhang Liang, and they are familiar with each other. Zhang Liang is also a staff member. In Gao Cheng's view, there is a reason to return to civilian work in the future. Medium influence is too heavy.

The big deal is that after the salt soldiers are trained, let Zhang Liangwu transfer the text.

The second reason is naturally Zhang Liang's own ability.

Gao Cheng chose to believe in the vision of the original owner, how can he be an ordinary person who is able to serve as the governor of Eryu, Yang, Ying and other eight states' military forces, and guard the newly acquired Huainan land.

Of course, Zhang Liang now leads the salt soldiers from civil to military, and it is a certainty that he will switch from military to civil in the future.

　There should be another chapter, but it will be very late, everyone should rest early, and try to update as early as possible tomorrow.

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