Late Tang

If he wanted to attack in the future, he had to leave the island.At sea, you can't do without a battleship.And although his soldiers and servants can convert into sailors at any time, it is impossible to learn how to operate a battleship all at once.

This must be done by professionals.Li Jing also didn't have so much time to train the crew from scratch, so he could only recruit a group of mature and experienced people first.The three warships need at least [-] crew members. In this regard, Li Jing has no suitable candidates, so he simply handed them over to Lao Hei. no stranger.

Qiu Shengong is now very loyal to Li Jing, and he is very concerned about the tasks Li Jing entrusts to him. "General, if the three battleships are really one for walking, one for warship, and one for fighting ship, then at least one hundred skilled sailors are needed. In order to ensure the use of the battleship, it is also necessary to recruit more crew members. In addition, if the battleship is engaged in naval battles, land Temporary conversion of infantry into sailors will not be effective. Although many soldiers grow up by the sea, they may not be able to adapt to battles on battleships. It is best to recruit a group of sailors to train as sailors."

Li Jing thought about it, and what Old Hei said was indeed reasonable.Water warfare and land warfare are two completely different concepts.Sailors and land soldiers have a completely different system of soldiers, and moving land soldiers to a ship does not mean they can be called sailors.But considering the special status he was in now, he still decided to make two-handed preparations.It is necessary to have the ability to move infantry onto warships for water warfare at any time, and to immediately set up and train a professional sailor force.Now that we have all the warships, are we still reluctant to recruit a sailor?

"Then recruit [-] crew members." Li Jing considered that the recruitment and training of crew members was not easy, and the sea was no better than land, once a ship was lost, a ship's crew might be lost directly.So for long-term planning, he decided to recruit three times as many crew members as needed.Anyway, after recruiting, there must be a process of adapting to elimination. By then, a batch will be eliminated, and the number of people will be almost the same.

"Are you recruiting sailors?"

"Well, you go to recruit first, and you don't have to worry. You have to recruit all the crew first. But the sailors are not in a hurry, and they would rather be short than indiscriminate. You must find someone who is relatively clean, honest, and gentle. You try to recruit some fishermen along the coast, It is best not to recruit sailors from those caravans. We recruit soldiers, not crews, so the most important thing is to be loyal and reliable. You must not mix in pirates or caravan spies. There is not much bottom for a sailor team.Right now, we are just trying to recruit for the time being. Anyway, even if we really want to form such a team, it will be at least half a year later when the battleship arrives.

"I understand." Qiu Shengong was very grateful to Li Jing for entrusting him with such an important task, which was a sign of trust.

After Qiu Shengong left, Lin Wei and the others came again.In the past two days, they have begun to modify the warrior team and the family team.

According to the plan of Li Jing's fancy dress team, the assessment will be re-assessed and mixed according to different types of arms.Initially, it seems that the modification and reorganization are in good condition, but some problems have also been encountered.

"The Raiders are the first to fill up the soldiers, and the jumping soldiers require high skills and boldness, but many soldiers feel that the jumping soldiers are not as powerful as the cavalry and Modao soldiers, so they are unwilling to sign up. The bow and crossbow gang are not fully recruited either. , There are still too few people who can archery, the eleventh team needs eleven groups of 130 and two archers, but less than half of us are qualified for the assessment."

"As for the cavalry group and the Zhanfeng Modao group, many people signed up, and there are quite a few people who can ride horses. Almost all the cavalry has been recruited, but we are seriously short of horses now. Except for the horses of the officers, if we form a cavalry ranger group, ten A team needs 130 two horses, and we still don’t have any.”

"The Modao gang had the most applications, and we selected 130 or [-] suitable Modao players. But the problem is that although we purchased [-] Modao weapons, we still haven't got them yet. The newly formed There are eleven Mo Dao guys who don't have any swords to practice at all."

Zhang Hong summed up a few problems. Except for the Spear Raiders, everything was going well, the jumping soldiers, a high-demand unit, were rejected by the soldiers and no one was willing to sign up, and the number of soldiers was insufficient.However, the bow and crossbow group has few people who can shoot arrows, and the number of soldiers is also insufficient.The cavalry group has no horses, and the Modao group has no knives.

"The requirements for jumping soldiers are really high. During the battle, they are required to jump out and go directly to charge the enemy. They require high martial arts skills and boldness. Jumping soldiers are the courage of a team. I think the treatment of jumping soldiers can be improved. Raise the salary of the jumping soldiers by one level, and in the future promote officers, more from the jumping gangs." Li Jing directly made a ruthless move, the soldiers looked down on the jumping soldiers, so let's raise the jumping soldiers position, do not believe recruit dissatisfied people.

"Mo Dao is not available now, but you can practice with a long stick first. Anyway, Mo Dao will arrive in a few days. Guan Jian is the problem of the cavalry's horse. We are on the island. It is a bit reluctant to match the ranger, right? War horse They are extremely expensive and hard to buy, so I think it’s better to cancel the cavalry and equip more spears.” Zhang Hong suggested.

Li Jing shook his head, Zhang Hong handled those logistical matters very well.But when it comes to these decision-making aspects, he is born with shortcomings, always appearing to be short-sighted and short-sighted.Cavalry is an extremely important arm at any time.Although Li Jing and the others are only on one island now, who said they will stay on the island for the rest of their lives?

In the future, if you go ashore, if you don't even have a cavalry, even if your infantry is trained to ride again, you will fight the enemy and win. If you can't catch up with the enemy, you won't be able to win a complete victory.If you are defeated, you cannot escape the enemy, and a small defeat may lead to a big defeat.Cavalry not only represents strong mobility, but also represents strong offensiveness, which is absolutely indispensable.

If you don't practice now, if you want to practice in the future, you can't do it overnight.

Without waiting for Li Jing to object, Lin Wei was the first to object: "There must be cavalry. With cavalry, whether it is maneuvering, reconnaissance, ordering, cavalry, security, wing cover, assault, pursuit, retreat, etc. It can play a great role. Although cavalry is expensive, you still have to have it."

Zhang Hong continued to settle accounts: "Raising one cavalry is equivalent to five infantry, and raising 130 and two cavalry is equivalent to raising [-] infantry. Moreover, cavalry is not only expensive in horses and equipment, but also the consumption of each horse is even more astonishing. A horse chews and wraps for a month, which is more expensive than us people, such as grass, beans, and even eggs."

Li Jing waved his hand: "There is no need to calculate these. If the consumption is too high, we will draw more. We cannot stop forming cavalry because of high consumption. This idea is wrong. The correct thinking should be that cavalry is expensive, so we have to find a way Make more money. Now there are no war horses, we can send some people to buy them first. Salmon Island is close to Liaodong, and Shandong does not have it. We can find a way to go to Liaodong, to fight with Khitan people, Xi people, and even Bohai people and Goguryeo people. Buying horses. For the time being, at this stage, the cavalry can be trained on rough horses first. Anyway, everyone is just starting, and it is appropriate to start training on weak horses first."

A group of people burst into laughter, thinking that it was funny to think of a group of new cavalrymen practicing riding and archery on short naive horses.

"What's so funny about this? If you don't have enough horses, I think you can practice riding and archery on a mule, or even a donkey."It is absolutely impossible for Li Jing to give up such an important branch of cavalry.

After agreeing on the matter of changing the costumes of the warrior team and the family team, Li Jing briefly discussed with everyone about the equipment of the auxiliary team and the logistics team.Considering the scarcity of equipment nowadays, Li Jing proposed to list all the auxiliary troops and logistics troops as pure troops.However, this pure team is not absolutely pure. The auxiliary soldiers and the logistics team will all be equipped with spears, and then they will also be equipped with a horizontal knife and a bow. Spears, horizontal swords, bows and arrows, this is the auxiliary soldier. And all the equipment of the logisticians.It has both long-range and melee capabilities. It is actually a fancy dress, but they are all equipped with the same equipment.

At this stage, there is not enough equipment, so we can only equip spears and horizontal knives first.Due to the lack of equipment, spears and horizontal knives cannot be equipped at the same time. The team equipped with spears is the full spear team, and the team equipped with horizontal knives is the full horizontal knives team.The auxiliary soldiers and logistics soldiers numbered nearly a thousand, equipped with all the hundreds of sets of weapons brought from Daxie Village, and equipped some extra spears and horizontal knives after the combat soldiers and auxiliary soldiers were mixed. , and a batch of spears were temporarily built by the blacksmith shop, and finally they were fully armed.

Auxiliary Sandu Sixth Team has a total of 420 people, all equipped with horizontal swords, and the six teams are pure horizontal swords teams.

The logistics five capitals and ten teams have a total of 700 men and horses, all of which are equipped with only spears. There are ten teams of [-] pure spear teams.

Li Jing signed his name on the equipment order with some sighs. Zhang Chengzong suddenly reported outside the door, walked in and whispered in his ear: "The lady boss of Tianjie Jianwu Pavilion is here, and she named her in front of the castle gate. Said to see you."

Li Jing was taken aback, why did this woman come here?

(To be continued)