Late Tang

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The land at the entrance of the North Village of Wangli Village, which was stained red with the blood of bandits, has now become a training ground for Li Jing's new recruits.On the left and right of this training field, a hundred steps away, a temporary thatched hut was built.On the left are the recruited refugees, artisans and their families, the total number of which is nearly [-].On the right are the recruited Qingning Township Party and the same village and neighbors of Wangli Village. Here are purely a thousand young and strong recruits.

Including the one hundred veterans from Zuo Yidu, Li Jing now has a total of 200 recruits and veterans.After beheading the bandits who attacked, Li Jing had appointed Lin Wei as the head coach and began to conduct comprehensive training for these recruits.

"General, there were more than 30 training sessions yesterday. The recruited military doctors have seen all of them. There is no major problem. You can recover after a few days of rest." come to report.

Li Jing watched the school grounds carefully. There were [-] troops, of which [-] were recruited from the refugees. The two teams of soldiers directly belonged to Li Jing.The [-]th person, Li Jing, did not hand over to Lin Wei for training. Instead, he selected ten veterans from the old subordinates who performed well, and the veterans who had ambush Feng Yanqing with Li Jing came to serve as the top ten of the two teams. The post of a regular partner.In addition, Zhang Chengzong, who has veteran experience and served as a team leader, and Li Shugen, the village chief who joined the army in the village, were appointed as coaches.They are solely responsible for the overall training of the two domestic teams, but the training method is also the "Training Exercise Code" written by Li Jing, which is basically in accordance with the training method that was originally summarized in Dengzhou.

For the remaining one thousand recruits, Li Jing and Lin Wei organized them into ten capitals, and the veterans from Zuo Yidu were scattered into each capital to serve as team leaders and team leaders.Li Jing originally thought of leaving Zuo Yi alone, and the recruits would start training from scratch.But after thinking about it, I finally rejected this idea.Mixing the old and the new, bringing the new with the old, will undoubtedly make all recruits grow up faster.

However, after nearly half a month of training, Lin Wei, as the head coach, strictly followed Li Jing's "Training Exercise Code" for these recruits.In particular, he was from the Shence Army, and the requirements were a bit stricter during training, which was even more intense than Li Jing's training when he was in Dengzhou.At the beginning of training, the recruits fainted while running.But even so, Lin Wei did not reduce the training intensity.I just applied to Li Jing to improve the diet and nutrition of the recruits. Now the recruits eat three meals a day, with meat and soup every meal, and fresh vegetables bought from the port in winter.Especially during training, Li Jing also adjusted the salt water every day to give the recruits normal water.Gradually, the recruits were able to withstand the high-intensity training, and gradually few of them fainted on the training ground.

They are still malnourished. Although after recruiting these recruits, Li Jing spent a lot of money to supplement nutrition for the soldiers, but after all, they all survived the famine for half a year, and they were basically yellow and hungry, severely malnourished, short The replenishment of time is simply not enough.

With food in hand, don't panic.Before Zhang Hong and others looked at the daily sergeant meals that Li Jing and Lin Wei ordered personally, they all secretly frowned with heartache.They are all worried that if they continue to consume like this, they won't last long.Now that he finally got the large sum of money sent by the Han family, with more than 1 shi of grain in his hands, Li Jing finally didn't have to worry about food every day.

"Nutrition is still not enough. The intensity of training cannot be reduced. If you can't endure hardships, how will you fight in the future? Du Caozuo, you can discuss with Zhang Bingcao again, and increase the daily food standard of the soldiers. Buy more meat, mutton is too expensive to eat, so buy more pork. In addition, there are a lot of cooks among the refugees recruited last time. They are also assigned to the new barracks and let them be the leader of the army. Make the food better, don’t stew everything in one pot, who can eat it like that. If you come to join me, Li Jing, then you have trusted me, so I can’t treat you badly. Train well now, and of course you won’t be in the future. The opportunity for the family to make meritorious service and be rewarded."

Li Jing was talking here, and soon Lin Wei also ordered a temporary break and ran over.Li Jing simply asked Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian to call Lin Wu, Wang Zhong, Zhang Hong and other main officers of Shamen Town.

"Although these recruits are basically young and strong, there are still some good and bad. Up to now, many of them have been unable to keep up with the training." Lin Wei, as the head coach, was the first to express his opinion.

"It's simple. Survival of the fittest. Those who can't keep up will be eliminated. Immediately we have to go to Shamen Town to take up the post. What I mean is that after the Chinese New Year, we will reorganize according to the results of this training. Bring out the soldiers who performed well in the training, and eliminate those recruits with weak physical fitness and poor performance. Draw out the best 250 soldiers and organize them into five teams of soldiers. These five teams will also be our On the bright side, there are 850 soldiers left in Shamen Town, and 300 of them will be organized into Sandu and auxiliary soldiers. The remaining 550 people will be organized into logistics soldiers. Auxiliary soldiers and logistics The soldiers are different, the auxiliary soldiers usually focus on training and are the reserve soldiers for the combat soldiers, while the logistics soldiers are responsible for miscellaneous services, logistics and other work, and the other craftsman battalion will also belong to the logistics battalion.”

"However, in order to boost morale, the qualifications of soldiers in the battle barracks, auxiliary barracks, and logistics battalion are not always the same. Those who perform well and make meritorious deeds can be promoted from the logistics battalion and the auxiliary barracks to the battle barracks according to their performance. If the soldiers in the barracks and auxiliary barracks perform poorly, they will also be demoted to the next level barracks. The assessment time is three months. If they have made special contributions, they can also be promoted exceptionally. Soldiers The food and pay will also be graded according to the position in the army and the three barracks. In addition, the town level and the capital level can each have fifty or ten servants, and no servants are allowed below the head of the general. The servants are selected from the logistics battalion.”

This plan was written by Zhang Hong and handed over to Li Jing, who modified several places.Overall, I am very satisfied. This plan divides all soldiers into four categories, namely combat soldiers, auxiliary soldiers, logistics soldiers, and several servants around the general.In name, only war soldiers are real soldiers, and the rest are not official soldiers. This way, Li Jing's soldiers will not exceed the [-] soldiers in Shamen Town. Several levels to enhance competitiveness.Moreover, it also made detailed regulations on the adoption of servants by generals. Only the first-level generals can have servants, and the number of servants must be strictly controlled, and they are not allowed to recruit directly from soldiers and auxiliary soldiers, but can only be recruited from logistics soldiers. Prevent the generals from turning the most elite soldiers into their own servants.

The three generals Lin Wei, Lin Wu, and Wang Zhong heard this plan for the first time, and after thinking about it, they didn't object.In addition to them, the officers present also included Liu Shouqian and Zhang Chengye, the two leaders of Li Jing's Ding team, as well as the village head Li Shugen, the former Shence army leader who had just joined Li Jing's command, and Wang Shi.In addition to the four captains and deputy captains of Li Jing's Ding team, there are also the recruits who were promoted and appointed before, the ten generals, the deputy generals, and the general Yuhou. These officers were basically the ones who had ambushed Feng Yanqing with Li Jing. Those people have now been promoted to first-class officers.They saw that Lin Wei's generals didn't speak, and naturally none of their newly promoted officers objected.

"When are we going to leave? How are the preparations going?" Li Jing turned to look at Zhang Hong. Now Zhang Hong is basically the head of the staff, and Du Zhongwu and Cui Zhiyuan are both his deputies.Zhang Hong opened the booklet in front of him, looked at it, and said: "Our plan here is to set off on the third day of the first lunar month. The plan is divided into two routes. One way is to take the Ninghai ship and take the sea route to Dengzhou Port. This way is mainly a few generals with 250 people. Soldiers and the family members of the generals and family members. The other way is to take the land route, and the remaining soldiers, craftsmen and their families will total more than 3000 people to Dengzhou according to our previous route."

As Li Jing said when recruiting soldiers, it is best for the guards to bring their families with them. Those who bring their families will be given the settlement fee, and those who do not bring their families will only be given half.In addition, Li Jing also promised that when he arrived in Shamen Town, he would distribute land to the soldiers' families and arrange work in the workshop in the future.Therefore, most of the newly recruited soldiers have already decided to bring their families with them. One thousand recruits have more than 5000 family members. Together, there will be more than [-] people.

Li Jing nodded. Although the number was a bit surprising, he had no intention of changing his mind.He knew that in history, Dengzhou next year would be a year of severe drought followed by a year of locust plagues.Leaving the families of these soldiers in their hometowns will only destabilize the morale of the subordinates.Take it together, although it was a bit stressful at the beginning, but now he has a large amount of food and money in his hands, which is enough to help him survive the first stage.As long as he survives the beginning, these thousands of people can become his best support.Whether it is hoarding fields or opening workshops, manpower is inseparable.

"Well, that's a good plan. We need to arrive at Samana on the eighth day of the lunar new year, so we will take a nominal 250 garrison soldiers and go first by boat. The rest of them can come slowly by land."

He will bring thousands of people, and if he has the opportunity, he will bring more people. Only when there are people, can there be strength.Now Li Jing still has a lot of money in his hands, so he opened Zhang Hong's statistics book and looked at it. In terms of food, the Han family sent 200 shi, and Zhendonghai sent 300 shi. During this time, he also sent people Buying food everywhere, beans, rice, wheat, millet, sorghum, etc. added up to 200 shi, which cost a full 1000 guan.Adding it all up, he now has fifteen thousand three hundred shi of grain in his hands.He now has [-] men and horses, and each person takes two liters a day, and he needs to lose more than [-] catties a day, which is [-] stones.If only these [-] people were supplied, he would have enough food for three years and eight months.However, this does not count the additional food that the soldiers need to distribute every month and the food subsidies for the soldiers' families. If these are included, Li Jing's food reserves are estimated to be able to maintain the more than [-] soldiers and horses for about two years.Can survive his initial period of time!

Except for the [-] shi of grain, Li Jing only has the [-] pieces of silk and [-] pieces of cloth that the Han family just gave him, and only the treasures from Zhendonghai, although they are worth two About [-] guan, but if you make a move, you can only exchange five or six thousand guan.Adding all these things together, Li Jing doesn't have much money in his hands, about [-] yuan.

The biggest food problem has been solved, and he has more than two pennies of money in his hands. What Li Jing is really worried about now is the problem of ordnance and armor.Now there are twelve hundred soldiers and horses, but the equipment is only owned by those one hundred veterans.In addition, there are [-] sets of equipment in Dengzhou, but there are still [-] sets short, which is not considered to be supplementary.

"Zhang Bingcao, how is your going to Dengzhou Ordnance going?"

Zhang Hong said excitedly: "I am about to tell the general a good news. After Song Wen took over as the governor, the position of long history in Dengzhou was taken over by Wang Jingwen, the brother of Wang Jingwu, the tooth general of the Qingzhou Yajun of the Pinglu Army. This Wang Jingwu is in charge of Qingzhou's dental general, but he is the most difficult person to deal with Song Wei, the commander-in-chief at the moment. Now his brother is taking over as governor of Dengzhou. Fire and water are incompatible. When I first went to find Song Wen, Song Wen was unwilling to help. Later, after he returned from a trip to Qingzhou, he took the initiative to send someone to find his superiors and subordinates, and transported the original plan to Daxie Village and Dengzhou Navy He showed me a thousand sets of supplementary equipment. He said that as long as we are willing to pay the full cost, he is willing to give us this equipment.”

"Give us a thousand sets of equipment? How much does he want?" Li Jing's heart was moved after hearing this, and he knew that he had no equipment, but he didn't expect a big pie to fall from the sky.Feng Zhang of Daxie Village is from the Feng family, but Wang Jin, the envoy of the Dengzhou Navy, is Wang Jingwu's family.Now Wang Jingwu, the tooth general of the Pinglu Army, is the leader of the Pinglu Army who refuses to obey Song Wei's military orders, and the Feng family is also standing opposite Song Wei.Selling the supplementary equipment that originally belonged to these two soldiers and horses directly to Li Jing not only suppressed their strength, but also helped Li Jing for a while.What's more, this armament was not given away for nothing, Li Jing had to buy it with money, and he earned a sum of military expenses for nothing.If you can count on one fell swoop, why not Song Wei?

The so-called fight between the snipe and the clam, the fisherman's profit, and the superiority of the fight, Li Jing accidentally picked up a bargain, which can be regarded as helping Li Jing reduce the problem of equipment.

"A set of fifty guan, a thousand sets of [-] guan!" Zhang Hong said with a smile.

"What? A set of fifty sticks, why don't they just come and grab it?" Lin Wu was the first to jump up and shouted loudly.The equipment that the united soldiers bought before was a set of [-] pieces. That set of equipment included all kinds of equipment, which can be said to be very complete. Now it has doubled and a half times, which really feels like a money grab.

Li Jing also frowned slightly, although he felt that if he had money, it was actually worth buying directly, after all, it would save those time.What's more, apart from Song Wei's place, even if Li Jing wanted to buy it, there was no other place to buy it.

"Second General, don't worry, it's worth it. In my opinion, fifty guan is definitely worth it."

"why?"

Zhang Hong stroked his beard proudly, and said with a smile: "Because this thousand sets of equipment not only have what we bought earlier, but also he has what we didn't buy before. Among the thousand sets of equipment, There are two hundred Mo knives!"

"Two hundred Mo knives? Really?" Li Jing, Lin Wei, Lin Wu, Wang Zhong, Li Shugen, Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong and other generals shouted at almost the same time.Mo Dao, this can be said to be the sharpest weapon of infantry.In the Dengzhou camp, Li Jing never saw him.But Li Jing's reputation for Mo Dao had been known for a long time in later generations.While Lin Wei and the others were born in the forbidden army, Mo Dao was no stranger to them, and when they heard about Mo Dao, they couldn't help but get excited.

"That's right, among the thousand sets of equipment, in addition to the full set we bought earlier, it also includes 12 mo knives, [-] sticks, [-] square rows of cowhide, [-] rows of dough, and [-] crossbows. , two hundred horned crossbows, [-] strings, and [-] arrows. Twenty winch crossbows at [-] paces, [-] Fuyuan crossbows at [-] paces, and [-] iron feather crossbows." Zhang Hong finished reading the extra new equipment in this batch of equipment in one breath.

"Buy it, buy it all, buy it no matter how expensive it is!" Li Jing waited for Zhang Hong to finish reading, and immediately slapped the table heavily and shouted loudly.He was already moved when he heard that there were [-] Mo knives, and then he heard that there were [-] shields, [-] individual crossbows, and [-] sets of heavy crossbows. How could Li Jing sink? Hold on.Not to mention that the Mo Dao and the crossbow arrows are the sharpest weapons in the Tang army, even the forty sets of heavy crossbows can directly make Li Jing jump from the second-line army to the ace of the Tang Dynasty.

"A set of [-], a thousand sets of [-] guan, we don't have so much money now, why don't we buy [-] sets?" .

"No, buy them all, buy a lot of them." Li Jing would not say that the world will be in chaos in a short time, and there will be such good equipment to supplement ordnance, and you will buy it even if you have money. to buy it.What's more, these equipment also include powerful equipment such as Mo Dao, shield, and crossbow. "Don't worry too much about money. Zhang Bingcao will bring [-] guan to fly to Dengzhou tomorrow, and tell Governor Song that we bought all the [-] sets of equipment. We will pay [-] guan first, and we will pay the rest later. pay."

"Is this possible?" Zhang Hong was a little puzzled. It's not easy to owe the governor's money on credit.Li Jing smiled. Now that he knew the reason for this arms deal, Li Jing had already expected that Song Wen would be willing to pay on credit temporarily.What's more, Li Jing didn't plan to be in arrears for too long, 2 guan, he now has more than [-] guan, and he can ask Zhen Donghai and the others to borrow it temporarily, which is almost the same.The money can be wrong in any way. If you miss this batch of equipment, you will have no place to buy it.

"Okay, then I'll go to Dengzhou right away!" Zhang Hong responded quickly.

"When you meet Governor Song, ask him again to see if you can get some of this kind of equipment for us. Tell him, we will take as much as you have, and the price is easy to negotiate." Li Jing said regardless of the surprise of Lin Wei and others.Troubled times are approaching, and Li Jing now has another piece of land. He thinks that recruiting soldiers, training soldiers, hoarding fields and food is not too difficult. What is really difficult should be developing a complete set of military workshops from scratch.However, if you want to create a whole set of ordnance workshop by yourself, the scale will definitely not be large in a short time.Li Jing couldn't wait, now that he had the opportunity to buy, he naturally wanted to eat them all.