Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

Perhaps what Pei Yuanshao said before that there are only seven or eight people left in a full platoon of 12 people must be an exaggeration, but in some of the camps with the most aggressive combat styles, such situations do exist, and there are quite a few .

As we all know, no matter in the period of cold weapon warfare or the later period of hot weapon warfare, the role that a veteran can play is far more than that of recruits several times.

An army composed entirely of veterans is certainly powerful, but with the passage of time and tough battles, these veterans will gradually leave the army, and the army will welcome their fresh blood.

Even though Zhang Yan's army is highly trained and professional, once a large number of new recruits come in, the combat capability of the entire army will definitely be greatly affected compared to before.

Under such circumstances, the most important thing for Zhang Yan to do is, as Pei Yuanshao said, to replenish the army immediately when the loss of manpower is not too large, so that the old can bring the new, and even With seven or eight or eight or nine veterans and one recruit, the recruits can quickly adapt to military life and learn a lot of combat experience from veterans who have survived the battlefield.

If you really wait until these veterans are lost to more than half before replenishing, then after the army is reorganized, the original combat effectiveness will be impacted by too much fresh blood in a short period of time.

It can be said that this time, when Pei Yuanshao just mentioned this matter, Zhang Yan quickly realized that it is extremely important for him to replenish troops as soon as possible.

But even so, after Zhang Yan thought about it, he still shook his head slightly and rejected Pei Yuanshao's request.

Obviously, he had other plans this time.

Chapter 7 Military Command Division

"Old Pei, the matter of recruiting soldiers should indeed be put on the agenda, but you don't have to worry, it's not the time for conscription yet."

"As you can see, it's only mid-August, and it's the busy farming season in Jiangdong. If we recruit troops now, it will more or less have a great impact on local food production."

"But you don't have to worry. As long as a few days pass, Qingzhou and Yanzhou on the north side of the Lujiang River will be so severely affected by the Yellow Turbans. Naturally, people who can't survive will come to join us."

After explaining to Pei Yuanshao with a smile, Zhang Yan continued:

"If my estimation is correct, due to the influence of the Baibo Yellow Turban this year, it is estimated that at least more than [-] or even hundreds of thousands of people in the Central Plains will be affected by the war and cannot survive. And our Lujiang River is located on the border between Jiangdong and the Central Plains. Naturally, a large part of the population can be intercepted."

"When autumn and winter come, these refugees who fled south with their families to Yangzhou to make a living will naturally become our best source of recruits."

Confiding his thoughts in one breath, Zhang Yan took a sip of tea, and then smiled and looked at Pei Yuanshao who was not far away.

Then, as if thinking of something, Zhang Yan hesitated for a moment, and then revealed another piece of news.

"By the way, Lao Pei, and Gongming, when talking about recruiting soldiers, I remembered another thing."

"Just a while ago, Mi Fang from the Mi family in Xuzhou defected to me with two members of the family. I have arranged for them to go to the remaining Qian County, Xiang'an, Shu County and other places in Lujiang to take up positions."

"For example, Chen Deng who was in Qian County before, I think you have already met him?"

Asking in the direction of the two, Zhang Yan reckoned that according to the current point of time, Chen Deng who went south to Qian County must have greeted Xu Huang, Pei Yuanshao and other generals.

After seeing the two people nodding slightly to him, indicating that everyone had met, Zhang Yan shared the news brought to him by Chen Deng and others a few days ago with the two people present.

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"Just two days ago, when Mi Fang and the others came over, they not only swore loyalty to me, but also brought me a piece of news."

"As for our Danyang County in the east of Lujiang River, Zu Lang, the leader of the Shanyue bandit who occupies the entire Jiangdong, seems to have heard the news that we killed Zu Mo and others and cleaned up the entire Lujiang Shanyue, and began to integrate troops around the entire Danyang area. , I don’t know when they will come to attack our Lujiang.”

"Danyang County is no better than us. Although Danyang prefect Zhou Xin has an old relationship with my friend Yuan Benchu, he is a general under his command, but he is limited by Danyang's troops. We don't need to expect him to send troops to help."

"If there is no accident, we can only fight this battle by ourselves."

He briefly described the current situation to the two people present, before Zhang Yan could continue, Xu Huang frowned slightly, and at the same time looked in his direction with some concern.

"Danyang Shanyue?"

"My lord, if the general remembers correctly, you once told us that this is the base camp of the entire Jiangdong Shanyue forces, right? Zulang, the leader of the bandits, is even more brave, and his physical strength may not be inferior to that of Duke Yang."

"If the thieves from the whole of Danyang attack in a big way, then we have more than 1 soldiers and horses in our hands..."

He asked Zhang Yan with some hesitation. Xu Huang might be a little shy, so he didn't say too much, but just nodded Zhang Yan a little.

As for Pei Yuanshao, with his character, he naturally wouldn't care so much.

"Zu Lang?"

"Good fellow, I remember that the number of thieves under that man's hands is extremely large, and he has occupied Danyang for a long time. I'm afraid he already has tens of thousands of soldiers..."

"My lord, it's not that my old Pei talks too much. If you fight tens of thousands with ten thousand, this battle is not easy!"

I saw Pei Yuanshao frowned and thought for a while, and then realized that the gap in military strength between the two was not insignificant. At the same time, in terms of general strength, Lujiang had Pan Lin, Peng Qi, Peng Shi, Fei Zhan, Yan Baihu, Jin Qi, Mao Gan, Huang Luan and other Shanyue forces surrounded by a large number of thieves did not have any obvious advantages.

During the time he lived in Lujiang, he had already heard about it from the local people. Although each of these people's strength was not too high, there were quite a few of them. Lang's subordinates are at his disposal, just like an alliance.

Now if Zu Lang wanted to attack Lujiang, these people would definitely not just stand aside and watch the show.

You know, during his training period, Pei Yuanshao has always regarded Shanyue in Danyang as his imaginary enemy.

It was because of this that he was able to discover that even though Lujiang had won the battle, the number of soldiers and generals was much worse than that of Zu Lang who was about to attack.

But when he raised his head and looked at his lord worriedly, he found that the other person's face was calm when he talked about this matter, not even the slightest worry appeared.

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"Well, it does."

"But you two don't have to worry too much. I mentioned this to you just because we talked about recruiting soldiers just now."

"Of course I know the opponent's power is tyrannical. It is precisely because I know this that I plan to work hard on the matter of recruiting troops."

Pressing his hands slightly in the direction of the two, Zhang Yan told the two of his plans that he had been thinking about for a long time.

"Gongming, and you, Lao Pei, I have absolute trust in you, that's why I told you about this in advance."

"I am also in the planning stage of this matter, and everything has not been finalized, so please don't say anything, as long as you know it in your heart."

Looking at the faces of the two, Zhang Yan said softly:

"As I said just now, after one or two months, after the autumn and winter season, we will welcome a large wave of refugees, and at the same time, I will start to recruit more troops at that time to supplement our previous 2 An army lost among men."

"It's not just a supplement. I also plan to train a second army in our Lujiang River under the condition that the food production will not be affected."

"I think you can feel it too, right? Although our 2 people are brave now, Lujiang River is located at the junction of four prefectures, and it is the place where four wars have been fought. It is difficult for an army to resist enemies from different directions at the same time. "

"It is precisely because of this that I plan to form a part of the newly recruited soldiers into an independent army and train them individually to be responsible for our defense work in the northeast and Danyang handover area."

After hearing this, both Xu Huang and Pei Yuanshao's eyes gradually became a little sharper. If they talked about the things that a general cares about most, it is nothing more than preparing for war and expanding the army.

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"Gongming, you were in charge of commanding and dispatching the five thousand longbowmen before, right? And Yang Feng and the others were in charge of leading the cavalry, and Lao Pei, you were in charge of leading our infantry soldiers with the largest number of soldiers."

"If we are only defending one city and one place, this way of leading troops is naturally enough. But if we are defending the four counties and even six countries in Lujiang at multiple points at the same time, we will have to integrate all the arms sooner or later, so that we can fight in various places. to exert the greatest combat effectiveness in battles of different scales."

"To tell you the truth, don't we have a total of twenty camps with twelve steps, three cavalry, and five bows?"

"I plan to organize this army into an entire combat unit, which will be named Lujiang Bingma Division for the time being, with a total of 2 battalions of [-] people, with a commander as the chief general and a deputy commander as the deputy general. If conditions permit in the future, a governor will also be appointed as a marching staff officer, this is our complete combat unit, that is, a complete army."

"Same as the formation of this army, I will also recruit a second or even a third complete combat unit in Lujiang. The specific number of people and the distribution of arms may be slightly different, but in terms of composition, they will all be like this. A model composed of multiple arms.”

Some hesitantly explained to the two, Zhang Yan was not sure whether the other party could understand this way of explanation.

To put it simply, this is the same as the "seven-step two guns" and "nine-step three guns". In terms of a single branch of the army, this kind of integration can be called a separate army.

As for whether this ratio will be further improved in the future due to the increase in "battlefield width" and "upper limit of troops", that is not something Zhang Yan needs to consider now.

Just like when he was still in Luoyang before, when he had only 4000 people under his command at that time, the battalion level with 1000 people as a unit was the most suitable army formation for him. The soldiers and horses came out, purely because of the influence of those games in the previous life, something went wrong with his mind.

But now, when he is preparing to expand his army to 2, [-] or more in order to meet the invasion of Sanyue, a command unit with [-] people as a unit can naturally emerge as the times require.

Perhaps in the farther future, with the addition of new arms such as artillery and grenadiers, "twelve steps, three rides and five bows" may evolve into "twelve steps, three rides and five cannons" or even the more exaggerated "twelve steps "Three tanks and five cannons", but if that time really comes, it's hard to say whether Zhang Yan will add some units such as "Dudu's Mansion" in addition to the Bing Ma Si.

Maybe by that time, the concept of "war zone" has already appeared?

Zhang Yan tried his best to explain his thoughts to the two of them. Fortunately, both Xu Huang and Pei Yuanshao were battle-tested generals, so they naturally accepted such things very quickly.

It didn't take too long, and the two who understood the meaning of the positions of "commander" and "governor" laughed and began to argue about who should be the better "commander of Lujiang soldiers and horses".

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"Haha, my lord, you spared such a big circle, my old Pei thought it was something!"

"Isn't this the commander-in-chief of our Yellow Turban back then, or that dog... well, the commander-in-chief and general under the Emperor Han!"

Laughing and looking at Zhang Yan's figure, Pei Yuanshao listened for a long time before he understood that Zhang Yan just wanted to normalize the large-scale army that would only appear during the war, and this army and horse division corresponded to It's a whole army.

If it is a general from a Han official family, he may not be used to this kind of thing, but it is a coincidence that whether it is him, Pei Yuanshao, Xu Huang, or other generals under Zhang Yan, all of them are yellow scarves. Born general.

They have been in the Yellow Turban Army for a long time, but they know this "Shuai Qu" very well.

"Well, that's almost what it means, as long as you can understand it."

On the other side, Zhang Yan also nodded when he saw this.

It doesn't matter whether the other party regards the position of Commander of the Army and Horse Division as Qu Shuai or whatever, but as long as the other party can understand what he means, even if Pei Yuanshao regards him as Zhang Jiao's reincarnation one day, there is nothing wrong with it.

Then, he gave instructions to the two of them.

"Since you have roughly understood what I mean, then I will say it directly."

"This time, in order to expand our troops to defend the Lujiang River, I plan to recruit a second army in the autumn and winter seasons in Wancheng and Shu County, the two places we are most familiar with. Even if there are enough refugees who seek refuge with us this autumn and winter, we may even A third team can be recruited."

"Since the main duty of this army is to be in charge of the defense of Lujiang, we will first recruit and train according to the configuration of 2 battalions of sword and shield fighters and five battalions of longbowmen, which is still [-] people."

"The formation of cavalry is too expensive. Besides, the regiment leading the defense work does not need cavalry. Therefore, the army and horse division is mainly infantry, and the horses are only equipped with some messengers."

Roughly gestured towards the two of them, Zhang Yan did not plan to deploy extremely expensive cavalry in this army, but planned to focus on infantry first, supplemented by longbowmen with long-range attack capabilities.

Whether it's steel knives, iron-clad wooden shields or longbows, these things are no better than horses. They are military equipment that Lujiang is capable of independently producing at present.

As long as he accumulates peace of mind for a few months, it will not be too difficult for Lujiang to slowly assemble the equipment of this batch of troops.

As for Xu Huang and Pei Yuanshao, they obviously expected Zhang Yan not to build a new cavalry, so they just nodded and didn't say much.

"Well... basically after this military expansion, the total strength of Lujiang will reach more than 4, and may even reach the level of 6."

"In addition to the fact that there are tens of thousands of officials from the Public Security Department responsible for guarding the four counties, the entire Lujiang population will be out of work and fighting will exceed one-tenth of the population. This has almost reached the limit of our ability to support troops."

"If this is not enough to defeat Zu Lang's Shanyue Allied Forces, then we have no other options."

He muttered something softly in the room, and Zhang Yan didn't know whether he was explaining to Xu Huang and others, or simply comforting himself.

But soon, he adjusted his mood, and his divine eyes looked at the two people present again.

"Basically... that's it. This newly established Army Army Division was established to defend the Lujiang River and suppress the bandits in Shanyue, so it's better to call it the Army Army Division Against Rebellion. As for the name of the third army , Since we have not yet determined whether to recruit so many soldiers, we will wait until the actual formation to make a decision."

"In addition to the newly recruited army this time, I will also make up for the lost manpower of the previous Lujiang soldiers and horses, so you don't have to worry, Lao Pei, I will definitely not forget about it."

"Besides that, I plan to distribute thunderbolts to all Lujiang's infantry and bow army officers above ten commanders, which is the kind of thing you used to suppress bandits this time."

"Speaking of this, what is the effect of your trial of this new weapon this time, can the power still catch the eye?"

He glanced at the two people present with some curiosity. Zhang Yan did not go to the front with them this time, so he is not sure whether the theoretically powerful weapon is as reliable as his paper data in actual performance. .