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  Chapter 160 158 [Resurgence of Military Affairs] (addition for the leader "Yanhan Wuxin")

  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 **** peasants and soldiers? The provincial governors and pacesetters 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.

  The bandits under Fei Yinggong all 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?"

   "About 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 in rigorous drills to familiarize themselves with orders and military 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. 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.

  The recruitment of full-time soldiers this time should not only be based on the quality of the soldiers, but also recruited by region: Luling 1,000, Jishui 1,000, Anfu 1,000, and Yuanzhou 1,000 soldiers (all archers).

  The peasants and soldiers in Anfu County were finally organized and trained, and they only trained for two or three months.

  If only the elite peasants and soldiers from Luling County are recruited, firstly, it will be easy to form an 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 Jishui County peasants and soldiers 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 for exercises, 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."

  The final selection of soldiers is based on the village as a unit, and only some of the best performers are selected.

  When the peasants and soldiers become regular soldiers, the officers of the peasants and soldiers will be transferred to the official military rank, and the military salary will be increased according to the military rank. 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 **** soldiers, so Zhao Han could only ask the mission 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 four 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 "Nuerjun", 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 is always able to catch high officials, has been promoted to the captain of the "Slave Army" this time because of his meritorious service in the past, and he is in charge of three ten-man teams.

   Forced to act as a guide, he led Zhao Han to surprise Xiong Yao in Yuanzhou's barracks. 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. This guy has practiced archery. He said that he is in charge of nine ten-man teams. Counting the low-level officers, he actually commands a hundred troops.

   Commanding a hundred troops, is also considered a hundred generals, Fei Yinggong can only comfort himself in this way.

  After the reorganization of the main army is completed, the peasants and soldiers who have not been 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 will practice in the school grounds, mainly practicing the cooperation with the archers.

  At the end of April, the oath master went out.

  The advance navy pretended to be a merchant ship and transported Zhao Han's personal soldiers to Xingan County.

  A few days ago, the Liu family, who joined his family to serve, had a scholar named Liu Tongyu, who is now serving as a military secretary. Liu Tongyu dressed luxuriously and pretended to be a wealthy businessman, while Zhang Tieniu, Liu Zhu and others pretended to be house slaves. They bought the city gate guards to enter for only five qian.

"kill!"

  Zhang Tieniu took out an ax from the box, Liu Zhu took out a steel knife, and hacked wildly at the gate of the city.

   Even Liu Tongyu, a scholar, drew out his scribe sword to fight.

   There were only a dozen people in total, and they actually occupied the city gate. The slave army ambushed on the "merchant ship" immediately rushed to reinforce.

  Because Zhao Han made too much noise, the magistrates of the surrounding counties all recruited soldiers to defend the city.

  It’s all about looks!

   Otherwise, the sweeping king in the west would not have quickly captured three counties in just two and a half months.

  The same is true for the officers and soldiers of Xingan County, who were more serious at the beginning. But waited and waited, Zhao Han didn't come for a year, so he slowly relaxed his vigilance. As long as the money was given, they didn't even bother to inspect the goods entering the city, which caused Zhang Tieniu and others to bring weapons into the city.

  Ximen, which is on the verge of the Ganjiang River, was occupied by hundreds of slave troops, and the remaining officers and soldiers who defended the city chose to abandon the city and flee.

  The magistrate was also running away, and he didn't forget to bring his money, but this guy ran fast and disappeared without a trace.

   Zhao Han came with a large army by boat, did not stop at Xingan County, but continued north to Zhangshu Town.

  Of course, I can’t help but sigh, because there are historical figures in Xingan County, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong both trained soldiers here!

  From Jishui County to Zhangshu Town, it has to pass through Xingan and Xiajiang counties.

  Xingan County is on the bank of the Gan River and must be occupied. Xiajiang County is not located by the river, so Zhao Han didn't even bother to take care of it, and just ignored the officers and soldiers in this county.

  Leave 500 farmers and soldiers, stationed in Xingan County, mainly to maintain law and order, temporarily not going to the countryside to divide the land.

  Seeing a large number of ships carrying soldiers, merchants in Zhangshu Town fled one after another, Zhao Han immediately took people off the boat and set up camp on the opposite bank of Zhangshu Town.

  Unloading the soldiers and part of the grain and grass, the navy commanded Gu Jianshan, and led the fleet back to Ji'an to transport the follow-up grain and grass. There is no way, there are too few ships, and several transportations are scored.

  The battle plan is as follows, divided into three steps:

  First, take Xingan County and garrison it with 500 peasants and soldiers to ensure the smooth flow of waterways.

  Second, Zhangshu Town was occupied, and Zhao Han personally led 2,500 soldiers to sit in the town to deal with the large number of officers and soldiers that might appear in the north.

  Thirdly, Fei Ruhe led the remaining troops, sailed westward along the Yuan River, and captured Xinyu and Fenyi counties.

  …

  Linjiang Fucheng).

  The name of the prefect of Linjiang is He Tianqu, a serious Jinshi background, he has been feeling very irritable recently.

  First, there is Zhao Yan, a giant bandit in Luling, in the south. He Tianqu must recruit troops to defend, and wait for the governor's army to go south to conquer together.

  Secondly, He Tianqu's hometown is in Luzhou, and it is a small town outside Fucheng. A few days ago, there was news that Zhang Xianzhong had repeatedly ravaged Luzhou, and it was unknown if his people had escaped. Even if the tribe can escape, his family's money and food will definitely be robbed!

   It's really unlucky, He Tianqu wants to cry but has no tears.

   "Fu Zun, Fu Zun, it's not good, Zhangshu Town is occupied by Zhao thief!"

"what?"

  He Tianqu was suddenly struck by lightning. Zhangshu Town is only ten miles away from Linjiangfu City.

Seeing that the magistrate was a little confused, the master quickly suggested: "Master, please give an order quickly. First, let the soldiers guard the city immediately, and collect a lot of rolling logs, falling rocks, vegetable oil, golden juice, etc.; second, send people to the city immediately. In Nanchang, report the thief to the third division and the governor; third, immediately send spies south to find out the true and false movements of the Zhao thief."

   "Yes, yes, yes, just as the master said." He Tianqu came back to his senses a little.

   Soon, He Tianqu received information from the enemy again. The thief Zhao built a camp in Zhangshu Town, and temporarily had no intention of going north to attack Fucheng.

  This made He Tianqu a little relieved, and called the government and county government officials to continue the meeting.

   Come to discuss, discuss to go, there is no good way, can only quickly gather troops to defend the city, and then wait for the governor to lead troops to come for reinforcements.

  The gentry in Qingjiang County are very interesting, knowing that Zhao Han will not run away, anyway, Zhao thief will not rob money and food. While staying at home, they donated money and people to help the magistrate and county magistrate to recruit brave men.

  The officers and soldiers won the battle, and naturally everyone was happy.

  The officers and soldiers lost the battle, and they were just waiting to be divided into fields, and it would not be too late to run away.

  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 magistrate 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: "The rebels have attacked hundreds of miles away from Linjiang Prefecture, how can the officers and soldiers sit idly by? Zhangshu Town must be taken back!"

  There are 33 major taxation towns in the Ming Dynasty, and Linjiang Fucheng plus Zhangshu Town 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 thief 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 led 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 soldiers have been re-recruited and there are another 5,000 infantry, this kind of recruits are useful!

  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, 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 the south in 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 would have exploded long ago.)

  (end of this chapter)