By the time they gathered the day after tomorrow, the neighborhood of the township armed forces department was already crowded with people.

Vendors in the streets shouted loudly selling roasted peanuts and sunflower seeds, as well as some cheap goods commonly used by sergeants.

A few guards with red armbands patrolling the neighborhood were driving away a few vendors who wanted to sneak in and peddle alcohol.

A few people who had known each other from their previous service were squatting in the corner and chatting, and a few people who were addicted to the chess that had become popular in Sishang over the years were playing against people on the chessboard drawn on the ground with their wooden chess pieces, and a group of people stood next to them.

Doodoo ......

When the whistle sounded, people from all the villages in the township got up one after another, packed their bags, and quickly closed their mouths.

The person in charge of the military in the township held a thick military booklet, and the people of each village community stood together according to the village community.

It's just twelve volumes of military books, and there are people who haven't come.

The village officials of several villages explained that those who did not come either came later due to illness, or left the village community to go to the South China Sea after applying for permission before, but everyone who could have come has already come.

"It's the same when you go to the South China Sea, as long as you are within five years of retirement, you will be drafted, but the place of service is in the South China Sea, so there is no difference."

After checking the list with the people of the various villages, the people of the armed forces department of the township gave an explanation.

When each village community is specially recruited, it is the representative of the ink who stays in the village, and the village is responsible for some service and other things.

At the very least, the village leaders of each village have served as military chiefs, and they are generally former low-level officers such as Sima Chang, who have certain organizational skills.

In particular, in recent years, the collective work of the village community and the activities that require organizational skills such as digging water canals have also exercised the village leaders of each village community, and the ability to lead the villagers to gather still exists.

After the assembly, the people from the Xuanyi Department of the township came forward to explain the general situation, and tomorrow they will set off for the county, and finally assemble at a total of five assembly points such as Pengcheng, Peiyi, Guangling, and Ju, and distribute them to the nearest departments.

Not all of these people are soldiers, and when they really want to fight, except for some people who are transferred to the army as second-line troops, more than half of them will be used as baggage soldiers.

The real main force of operations is still those standing divisions, and these temporarily conscripted retired soldiers of the second line are generally used for the purpose of resisting the line and stretching the front line in battle.

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Peiyi.

As one of the five assembly points in Sishang except for Yangyu in the South China Sea, nearly 20,000 people have gathered here in a few days.

Tents were erected, and internal affairs officers from the Supervision and Inspection Department, who wore armbands, roamed the market to inspect the order.

In a military camp outside the city, the prisoner Mi, who had just been promoted to lieutenant colonel, was chatting with a few colleagues.

Because of the existence of the original sergeant, sergeant, and corporal system, and the fact that the lieutenants were generally high-level bureaucrats similar to the great Sima who served in the central government of various countries, the company commanders and the like in Sishang were generally sergeants, and the higher ones were the colonels, which was in line with the times and the habits of the world at this time, bypassing the name of lieutenant.

Four years ago, Shu prisoner Mi came back from Zhao Di, because of his meritorious service in Zhao Di, he was promoted to a colonel, and then entered the military academy to study, and after two and a half years of study, he directly entered the cavalry brigade as a deputy brigade commander for more than a year.

Later, he was assigned to a cavalry brigade with an empty shelf as a brigade commander, and this empty cavalry brigade was an irregular light cavalry brigade, a brigade that normally should have 1,500 men, but in fact there were less than 400 men.

But the officers at all levels are complete, from the brigade commander to the commander of the Sima, the frame is complete, but there are not so many soldiers.

Chief Sima said that he was in charge of seven or eight people, and if he was less, there might be two cadres, and the entire establishment was empty.

At that time, many people came back from Zhaodi, and their riding skills were superb, but they were not suitable for the regular martial knight establishment in Sishang, and the establishment of infantry knights gradually decreased, and most of them were cavalry officers of this irregular light cavalry.

One is that the martial knights who are responsible for charging into battle are strictly trained, and they are basically veterans who are over-aged; The second is that with the popularization of horse farming, there are many people who can ride horses in Sishang, but those who can charge intensively according to discipline want to rely on direct recruitment.

Anyway, the Song and Chu countries did not have too strong cavalry, and the elite of the martial knights of the Wei State was still built before Wu Qi defected, and the regular cavalry of Sishang could also be suppressed, and the irregular light cavalry composed of a large number of good families became the largest number of cavalry in Sishang.

The partner with Shu Prisoner Mi as a brigade representative, is a young man about the same age as him, a regular professional background, directly after completing his studies, he was a staff officer for a few years, and then he was incorporated into this kind of frame brigade as a brigade representative, the two of them were still classmates back then, but it was not a session, and Shu Prisoner Mi was a year earlier than him.

After the reorganization four years ago, Sishang had a total of eight regular divisions, except for their shelf troops.

Not counting the South China Sea region, these eight divisions are in different directions.

The Peiyi area is the first-class main force stationed in Sishang, with a total of three regular infantry divisions, two martial knight brigades, one artillery brigade, and one engineer brigade.

The main purpose of the operation is the southwest direction of Song, Wei and Qi, in the concept of the General Staff, in the event of a major battle, the Peiyi Army can attack Song and Wei, or it can be mobilized to the direction of Jucheng to cooperate with the Jucheng Army to penetrate Linzi from the flank and rear.

The commander of the Peiyi Legion is the Six Fingers, and in addition to those regular troops, once a major war breaks out, the brigades such as Shu Prisoner Qi are also under the jurisdiction of the Six Fingers.

The prisoners of Tianshu and others had already gone to Peiyi for a meeting, and their brigade would give priority to replenishment, and once the battle would follow the main force, it would be used for the purpose of attacking, harassing, cutting off food, and copying the rear.

The entire brigade has been busy these days, and it has been since the mobilization order was officially issued.

The cadres of the brigade are complete, the establishment is complete, and even the barracks exist, that is, the number is not enough.

At this time, it was not time to officially accept those retired soldiers, and the officers in the brigade were arguing inside, mainly discussing how big the gap between them and the most elite First Martial Knight Brigade in Sishang was really going to fight.

Many of the officers in the brigade were from Zhao Di, and they all felt that when it came to killing people in battle, they were not necessarily worse than the First Martial Knight Brigade.

The deputy brigade commander shouted: "I was in Gaoliubian Fort back then, and I led our company's people to attack the Hu people's settlement, and I don't know how many times I fought. ”

"Speaking of which, when the First Martial Knight Brigade followed the giant to fight the Battle of Nanjishui, it deployed foot soldiers on both sides to raid the defense line of the Qi people."

"Seriously, now look at that battle, if our brigade is on it, so can we. At that time, the Qi people could no longer hold on, and with a bombardment of artillery, they had already dispersed. And at that time, it was just a gap, and when it burst inside, the opposite side had already collapsed, and there was no formation, so it was okay to fight no matter how you wanted. ”

"If it's a fight, ...... We can't beat them, but they can't beat us in other things. ”

Another person also shouted: "That is, in terms of equestrianism, the equestrian skills of the people of their Martial Knight Brigade are not better than ours......

A few people laughed, speaking of which, in fact, most of them had already softened, realizing that the rush was much different from those martial knights, and they could only find confidence in equestrianism.

Shu prisoner Mi did not participate in the debate, he went to the Martial Knight Brigade to be a temporary deputy brigade commander, and he had seen the training and charging practice of the Martial Knight Brigade, and he knew very well how big the gap was.

The cavalry of the Martial Knight Brigade could keep the riders close to each other within a hundred paces, and those cavalry in Zhao Di back then could not maintain such a good formation.

This kind of training can't be practiced for three or four years, and if you charge into battle, you can't compare with them, and if you hedge against the cavalry, the prisoners also understand that if the two sides face each other, it won't take long for your brigade to collapse.

Speaking of light cavalry brigades like them, all of them are good at fighting in the village community, with superb riding skills and great courage, but in terms of discipline, they are really inferior to those martial knights.

In recent years, the task of every training exercise of a light cavalry brigade like theirs has been either to raid the granary, or to disrupt the opponent's formation when they are about to go around and disrupt the opponent's formation, or to pursue and rout the troops and not allow the other side to regroup, basically there is no task of charging the formation, and basically no training for similar tasks.

There are also differences in the configuration of some armaments, and the Warrior Knight Brigade uses swords, and basically does not use spears.

However, their brigade is issued with ring-headed knives, mainly chopping, and some companies are also equipped with some disposable spears, which are used when charging, and directly discarded after the charge is completed, and some companies will be issued with some flint guns with short barrels.

In some places, it seems to be similar to the Hu people of the Northlands, except that the Hu people there mostly use short bows that are easy to cast on horses, and these people are issued with short-barreled muskets.

In the self-deprecating words of the prisoners, these people are foot soldiers who can't shoot in formation, they can't rush into the martial knights, and they are not as good as chariot soldiers in the formation, so they have the two advantages of running fast and being able to harass.

Light cavalry brigades like theirs, similar to most of the Sishang army, have everything inside, including representatives of the Moshi at all levels, quartermasters, doctors, military musicians, and heralds, but the difference is the difference in the purpose of the battle.

When the argument in the barracks was about to end, someone came in and said, "Brigade commander, brigade representative, your superiors have ordered you to go." It seems that tomorrow we are going to divide the people. ”

This is something that has been known for a long time, but the specific time has not been determined, and everyone is not surprised.

Two people can go to one, and the brigade representative said to let the prisoner go, and he just happened to hold another meeting for the rest of the people.

Out of the barracks, not far from the location of the camp, after entering, he did not see Six Fingers, but the representative of the legion saw him.

After saluting, the representative of the legion said with a smile: "The prisoners are all old cavalrymen from the past, and there are many who have made meritorious deeds, and they are very wild." ”

"Back in Wenshui, more than 20 people dared to rush to the Qi army to grab the flag, and later they also fought with the brother troops for robbing the nobles and prisoners for military exploits."

"They are all good at fighting in the courtyard of the village community, and they must be calmed down. If you can't hold back, it's okay to fight a good fight, everyone is brave, but the real big war still relies on discipline, not personal bravery. Speaking of which, you also know that back then, those Beidi Hu people were only afraid that they were not weaker than you in terms of personal bravery, but they couldn't win. ”

"You are famous in Gaoliu, but in Sishang, you are a young man in their eyes, discipline is discipline, convincing is convincing, do it well."