Ang Lee's recruitment plan was to recruit a sufficient number of qualified recruits within ten days, but on the sixth or seventh day, the various teams responsible for recruiting troops returned to Luzhou City one after another and brought the qualified recruits with them. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

All of these recruits have already received their first month's salary, and for this reason, they have a lot of trust in the soldiers who recruited them and are full of hope for their future.

And because the construction of Hulu Valley has not been completely completed, these newly recruited recruits can only temporarily live outside the city of Luzhou City, but fortunately, Luzhou Thorn Shi has already transferred a large number of tents, so that these people do not sleep in the open.

Li An stayed in Hulu Valley for many days, and when he heard that all the recruits had brought all the qualified soldiers back to Luzhou City, he was very happy, and immediately took Kunxiong and Feiyu back to Luzhou City on horseback.

"Big brother, the construction progress of Hulu Valley has been very fast, but I didn't expect the recruitment speed to be faster, as a result, I still couldn't let the recruits live in the barracks as soon as they joined the army, and they slept outside Luzhou City, which really made them aggrieved."

Li An grinned: "The recruitment progress is so fast, this is beyond my expectations, after all, it has only been six or seven days, it seems that there are still quite a lot of talents in Luzhou, but my recruitment requirements are lower." ”

"Big brother, your recruitment conditions really can't be higher, if they are higher, even I may not be qualified! Ha ha! ”

Indeed, Li An's recruitment conditions are already very harsh, at least in the entire Tang Dynasty, there is really no general who dares to set such high recruitment conditions.

"Big brother, it's already here, and there are tents outside the city."

At the same time as Ang Li arrived, Li Fei Shouyu, Zhang Erniu, Zhang Guangsheng and others also greeted him.

"It's okay, how is the preparation of the gourd valley, the recruits we recruited can't stay in the tent all the time, haha!"

"It's still the general's strategy, if it weren't for the general's strategy, we're afraid that we won't even be able to recruit a single soldier now."

The soldiers in charge of recruiting were all excited, because they had completed the task ahead of schedule, and they had overfulfilled it with quality and quantity.

Li An looked excited, looked at Li Fei Shouyu and the others, and said: "The soldiers have worked hard, you have completed the task excellently, congratulations, the construction of the Hulu Valley is nearing completion, and the soldiers can enter the Hulu Valley to start training early the morning after tomorrow." ”

"No harm, this time we not only completed the task of recruiting 3,000 recruits, but also recruited more than 500 recruits."

"General, people from all walks of life are worried that among the recruits recruited, there will be recruits that the general thinks are unqualified, so they privately recruited a few more, and as a result, there are more than five hundred more together, if the general thinks there are too many, we can immediately start to dismantle."

Li An thought for a moment, waved his hand and said: "Three thousand five hundred recruits, not much at all, as long as they are qualified soldiers, all must stay." ”

"General, but the imperial court has set the salary for us, which will create a vacancy of more than 500 people, and it is okay to say for a few months, if it is like this for a long time, I am afraid that the problem will be very serious, unless we ask the imperial court for more money and food."

A general reminded.

Regarding the problem of insufficient military salary, Li An naturally considered it a long time ago, but how can a big living person be suffocated to death by urine, there will always be a way.

"Regarding the issue of the military salary of these 500 people, Ben will have his own way, you don't have to worry about it at all, just take care of these recruits."

"Yes, General."

Li An nodded, led all his henchmen to a tent, and took out the training minutes he had written, and at the same time determined the army establishment according to the current actual situation.

The Pingnan Army is an army that Li An is responsible for recruiting, and in order to have strong combat effectiveness, some adjustments have been made in the establishment, at least it is different from other armies in the Tang Dynasty.

In order to make this army more mobile, flexible, and easy to command, Li An abolished the battalion and brigade and set up a two-level military system, with 3,000 ordinary soldiers in the Pingnan Army, divided into 10 regiments, each regiment with 300 people, and a captain in charge of the commander, and the regiment was divided into six teams, each team of 50 soldiers, and the team was responsible for the commander.

The teams below are divided into five or 10 groups according to the characteristics of the geographical location of the operation.

The five groups are a group of ten people, with two sword and shield soldiers in front, four pikemen in the middle, two crossbowmen and two archers in the back, the crossbowmen are prepared with 100 arrows and a short knife, the archer is equipped with 100 arrows and a horizontal knife, and the two sword and shield soldiers in the front serve as the chief and deputy chiefs respectively.

If they encounter an area with relatively narrow terrain, they are divided into ten groups, each group has a sword and shield soldier, two pikemen, a crossbowman and an archer, and the sword and shield soldiers become the commanders of each team.

The Pingnan Army is divided into 10 regiments and 60 teams, with 3,000 ordinary soldiers and low-ranking officers, but each team must also set up one chief and one deputy team, one reconnaissance soldier, one herald soldier, and one service soldier, and a total of five team-level leading groups, and 60 teams in the whole army, totaling 300 people.

At the regimental level, there is one lieutenant, two lieutenants, and seventeen auxiliary soldiers, a total of twenty men, and ten regiments with a total of two hundred men, so that the officers and auxiliaries account for a full five hundred, and together with the three thousand ordinary soldiers, there are exactly three thousand five hundred.

In other words, the Pingnan Army actually had 55 men per team and 350 men per regiment, totaling 3,500 soldiers.

After listening to Li An's introduction, all the people nodded approvingly, thinking that this was a feasible way, abolishing the second level of the battalion and brigade would make the command of the troops not too bloated, the command would be more flexible, and there would be more people responsible for fighting the war.

Then Li An focused on introducing the baggage regiment and the special regiment, the ten regiments of the whole army, of which, the first to eighth regiments are combat regiments, the ninth regiment is the baggage regiment, and the tenth regiment is the special regiment.

The baggage regiment has two boat and bridge teams, one medical rescue team, and three transport teams, the boat and bridge team is responsible for opening roads and filling bridges in the mountains and rivers to ensure that the troops can advance and retreat quickly, the medical rescue team is responsible for rescuing the wounded on the battlefield, and the three transport teams are mainly responsible for transporting grain, grass and baggage to the front to ensure the supply of materials for the army.

Of course, when there is no war, in addition to training, the baggage battalion also has additional economic tasks, such as cultivating fields, raising livestock, and collecting herbs to provide basic material support for the troops.

The main task of the special regiment is operations, and it is a special operation, which is divided into two reconnaissance teams, two siege teams, and two cavalry teams.

Among them, the two reconnaissance teams are the core of the whole regiment and the most elite units of the entire Pingnan Army, and they must not only learn to camouflage reconnaissance and provide accurate information for the army, but also have extremely strong combat effectiveness and can be used as the vanguard of the whole army.

The siege team is mainly equipped with all kinds of siege equipment, when encountering the enemy's fortifications, there is no siege team, the battle is not fought, rushing cars, ladders, catapults, large shields, these are the basic equipment of the siege team.

Of course, in addition to using these most basic siege equipment for siege battles, the siege team soldiers also need to learn to make equipment, and can use the materials available near the battlefield to quickly build siege equipment, and even learn to build more powerful heavy siege equipment to break through the enemy's strong fortifications.

The cavalry is set up to quickly pursue and strike at the enemy, although the terrain in the south is rugged, there are many valleys and rivers, which is not convenient for cavalry to fight, but it actually refers to large-scale cavalry battles, small-scale cavalry, in such terrain will not be disturbed too much, and the speed of cavalry is still incomparable to infantry, such as the need to quickly seize a strategic point, and there are roads for cavalry to pass, the best choice is to dispatch light cavalry.

Seeing that Li An divided the Pingnan army so meticulously, and every small detail was clearly considered, everyone was stunned and praised Li An's outstanding ability.

Ang Lee's establishment and distribution seems simple, but each step is allocated according to the unique terrain of the south, and the operational needs, eight combat regiments, only sword and shield soldiers, pikemen, crossbowmen and archers four types of troops, it seems very simple, but it includes long-range attacks, short-range attacks, close hand-to-hand combat and effective defense of various situations, and even the frequency of attacks is also taken into account.

Crossbowmen are definitely long-range high-power attack troops, which can shoot and kill enemies from a long distance, but their firing frequency is too slow, and if the opponent has a large number of troops, it is difficult to carry out quick killing.

The attack power and attack range of the archer are not as good as the crossbowmen, but the attack frequency is much higher than the crossbowmen, and the crossbowmen form a good match for long-range attacks.

The crossbowmen were heavily equipped with a short knife for melee defense, while the archers were lighter and equipped with a horizontal sword, which could better cooperate with the pikemen and kill the enemy in close quarters, making up for the lack of flexibility in the pikemen's activities.

Pikemen are the main force in close-range combat, and the long spearhead piercing into the enemy's body can cause great damage to the enemy, so the number of this class is twice as large as the other three troops, and in close-quarters combat, the pikemen are definitely the main force to kill the enemy and protect their comrades.

The round shield can effectively resist the attack of the enemy's arrows, so that the enemy's arrow attack becomes ineffective, so as to protect themselves and the four companions behind them, in hand-to-hand combat, the sword and shield soldiers can also cooperate well with pikemen and archers, fight against the enemy, form a two-long and two-short close-quarters combat mode, and protect the crossbowmen from damage.

In the basic establishment of the Pingnan Army, the sword and shield soldiers are at the forefront, the two pikemen are close behind, and the rear are the crossbowmen and archers, these five soldiers constitute the most basic combat unit, they cooperate with each other, protect each other, and form the smallest whole, and the combat power of the ten-person team composed of the two smallest combat units is even more doubled, not to mention the battle of one team and one regiment.

The main task of the baggage regiment is to be responsible for support, the boat and bridge team to open up a smooth road for the army and ensure the rapid march of the army, the transport team to transport supplies for the army and ensure the combat effectiveness of the army, and the medical rescue team is responsible for rescuing the wounded soldiers and men to avoid more casualties, which is an indispensable part of an army.

The special regiment, like the combat regiment, mainly conducts operations, but the operations of the special regiment are more special and more important, and these special combat tasks can only be completed by handing over to the special regiment, so the special regiment is the elite of the whole army and the upgraded unit of the combat regiment.

After a detailed explanation of these specific formations and the tasks of each army, all the henchmen and subordinates understood and supported Li An's decision, after all, they were all officers who led troops to fight, and they knew that the establishment set up by Li An was very reasonable and a practical measure.

"Okay, everyone has listened to the people, and let's start reorganizing the troops separately! Before the day after tomorrow, the reorganization of the Pingnan Army must be completed. ”

"Yes, General."

All the henchmen and subordinates received the order together.

"Big brother, it's not difficult to reorganize, but are the officers above the team directly selected from the recruits, or transferred from the Longwu Army?"

Li An thought for a moment, and said: "The recruits haven't learned to fight for the time being, let alone command, of course, first transfer from the Longwu Army, transfer more, let them be responsible for training these recruits, and I will personally guide the specific training." ”

"Understood, big brother."

Li An waved his hand and asked all his henchmen to immediately prepare to reorganize the troops.

"Let me in, I want to see General Lee."

"This is the barracks, blast me out."

"I'm here to join the army, why stop me and get out of the way."

Li An heard the noise outside, and subconsciously asked, "What's going on outside, who is making trouble." ”

"General, a rude man, has to break into the barracks."

A general, who had just left, turned around and returned to the big tent.

Li An nodded and walked out of the big tent.

"The general has arrived."

One of the soldiers shouted, and all the onlookers stepped aside.

Li An saw very clearly that it was a burly middle-aged man who was making trouble, with more than a dozen companions behind him.

"You're causing trouble here?"

Ang Lee asked.

"You're General Li, and you look really young."

The middle-aged man was slightly surprised, he had already heard of Ang Lee's prestige, but he didn't expect it to be younger than he imagined.

"Thank you."

Li Anwan smiled, seeing that the other party was strong, he had already moved his mind to recruit.

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "General Li, the grass people came to be soldiers, and these watchdogs didn't let me in." ”

"What do you say, the general has already ordered that only locals in Luzhou will be accepted for this recruitment, and no foreigners will be accepted, especially northerners."

The soldiers guarding the gate were enraged and shouted loudly.

"General Li, why don't you accept outsiders, we northerners are no worse than southerners."

Li An did give these orders, this is because northerners are not suitable for the sultry climate in the south, so they do not accept northerners, but the middle-aged man in front of him is extremely strong, which makes Li Ang love talent.

"What's your name?"

Ang Lee asked casually. (To be continued.) )