When Zhao Ji squandered the treasury and the inner treasury of Taifu Temple, he was also thinking about waiting until he defeated the Khitans to seal Mount Tai and watch the sea.

Near Jiehe Shang City, a temporary training is underway.

As the saying goes, raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use them for a while. It can be seen that this soldier has to be raised in advance, and when he thinks of raising and training soldiers, it is a little late to look at it.

But Wu Haogu, a profiteer and capitalist, always has to be careful when doing things. Therefore, there is no need to raise soldiers for a thousand days, only to train soldiers in battle.

Of course, this is not a question of money, but a question involving the trust of the officials, the checks and balances of officialdom, and the balanced development of the Shixue group of Wu Haogu.

If it weren't for Yelu Yanxi stationed in Xijin Mansion City, Wu Haogu would not dare to let go of his hands and feet like this, and recruit all the soldiers and auxiliary soldiers under his command. Six generals are a full 30,000 soldiers! Because the sappers and cavalry auxiliaries were also included in the auxiliaries, the number of auxiliaries also reached about 25,000.

After the six generals were fully manned, the number reached as many as 55,000! There are so many soldiers, and there are positivists up and down in charge, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't conform to the old rules of the Great Song Dynasty!

In addition to these fifty-five thousand new officers and soldiers. Cangzhou's regimental training was also led by Jiehe Shang City, and at the "Daimyo Mansion Conference", Wu Haogu won a quota of 20,000 people for Cangzhou's regimental training. After returning to Jiehe Commercial City, he no longer delayed waiting and watching, but immediately convened a meeting of Cangzhou gentry and businessmen, and apportioned the quota for the formation of group training to the following cities and counties. Including Jieheshang City, Qingchi County, Yanshan County, Nanpi County, Leping County, and Wudi County, a total of five counties in one city participated in the distribution of group training.

Among them, Jieheshang City undertook the quota of 10,000 regiments for training, and the remaining five counties each allocated 2,000.

The training of these 20,000 regiments has now also been concentrated in Jiehe Shang City. Together with the new officers and soldiers, under the threat of the Khitan iron cavalry, they began to undergo rigorous and harsh training.

The recruits of the brigade changed into the regular clothes personally selected by Wu Haogu. In fact, it is the linen shirt often worn by farmers in the north, as well as the linen pants that are closed, plus a fan yang hat. The pants are not dyed, and they are made as strong and durable as possible.

These recruits, in battalion units, 500-800 people, dressed neatly, stood on the playground outside their newly built barracks. In front of him is a new army military attache or a small military attache without an official body, who has a straight uniform and a straight hat on his head, and a straight sword or sword hanging from his waist, so he naturally has a kind of military bearing.

It's not easy to bring these recruits out in a short period of time!

If it weren't for the Yuntai Department's Knight Academy, which started from the predecessor of the Privy Council's Military Science Department, it has been eleven years since this year, not only cultivating a large number of officers, but also figuring out a set of training paths that focus on cultivating large and small military ministers (that is, officers and non-commissioned officers) in peacetime, and then use junior military ministers and veterans to assist in training new recruits in wartime. With only 55,000 new troops, Wu Haogu, the Xuanfu Division, can't take it down, let alone train troops in those regiments.

Of course, Cangzhou's regimental training is not without a foundation at all. At least the 10,000 horses pulled out of the Jiehe Business Market are still quite good. Their base is the Doctor Regiment and the Boundary River Citizen Soldiers, plus some hired utility soldiers. The infantry army of two generals was also formed, and the equipment was almost the same as that of the new army, but it was not equipped with many armor, and most of the recruits could only receive a suit of paper armor after the training was completed.

It was not because he was afraid that someone would talk about the weapon ban, but because he didn't have time to build so many armor in a hurry.

Even though there were many iron mills using hydraulic hammers and two iron factories using charcoal to make iron, there was still no way to fully arm the army of 75,000 people in a short period of time.

As a regimental training of the second-line troops, naturally they can only suffer a loss.

When Wu Haogu arrived at the camp south of Jiehe Shang City with his staff today, he was just in time for dinner. Because the people in the commercial market are relatively wealthy, they always eat three meals a day. Therefore, including the six generals of the New Army and the soldiers trained by the Cangzhou regiment, everyone has three meals a day.

The soldiers lived in battalion units and conducted daily training. At this time, in the thatched-roof canteen temporarily erected in the garrison of each battalion, a cook wearing a white apron was distributing meals. I saw that one of them was guarding a big iron pot. Each iron pot is bubbling with an enticing aroma. The "city soldiers" from Jiehe Shang City are okay, they are also used to eating. Those group exercises from the countryside, not to mention the poor middle peasants, even the children from the rich families who worked hard and got rich, saw the pots of white-flour steamed buns and food that looked a bit like the legendary meat, and their saliva couldn't stop flowing.

Jiehe Commercial Market is really like the legend, it is a good place to be rich in the world! is to have a meal of meat every three or five days, and this soldier (regiment) also has a head!

In addition to having meat to eat, the money should not be less!

Now Yelu Yanxi is in Xijin Mansion! For his sake, Wu Haogu was able to ask for salaries for his new army soldiers and regimental soldiers...... People are going to fight for their lives with the Great Liao Heavenly Soldiers soon, can they not give money? If they don't give money, they won't sell their lives, if they lose the battle, the Great Song Dynasty will change hands, and Zhao Ji will no longer be able to Fengheng Yuda.

Therefore, now the 55,000 new army and 20,000 regiments under the direct jurisdiction of Wuhao Gu, regardless of whether they are government soldiers or not, are all paid - the government soldiers who have given land in the northwest may not be paid, but they can't do this in Cangzhou, which is commercially developed!

The standard of pay mainly depends on the post and level, and the soldiers are divided into the upper and middle and lower four classes to get money, and the auxiliary soldiers are divided into three classes of workers, baggage, and cavalry to give money. The money for regimental training is less, and the same post is 80% off than that of soldiers.

As for going to the battlefield, of course, you have to pay another bonus!

Anyway, Wu Haogu can now justifiably obey Zhao Ji to pay military expenses in his pocket, so he doesn't have to save for him.

Wu Haogu rode a horse and walked around the military camp of Nuoda, from the station of this battalion to the station of that battalion, and from time to time he would dismount and go into the shed where the soldiers ate to check, and he would also pick up the peasant soldiers who looked honest and had a little dirt to ask a few words.

"What's it called?"

"If you return to Xuanshuai, the little one is called Zhang Erdan."

"Where's the people? Yinzitou Village, outside the East Gate of Nanpi County. ”

"What do you do at home?"

"The small family is farming."

"How's the harvest?"

"The harvest is okay, but the wheat has been too cheap in the past few years......"

"Is there enough to eat in the camp? Is someone bullying? ”

"If you eat enough, you will have a meal of meat in two or three days, but you will be happy, that is, it is ......"

"It's just that the official is too fierce, and he always beats my board, and his ass is open."

"Why fight?"

"I can't tell the difference between the front and the back, the left and right, and the old and unaligned steps......"

"Oh, that's what you should beat, but after the beating, you have to take some medicine, and don't beat people's butts, it's not easy to break up, you have to change places."

"Whoa!"

A battalion from the Knight Academy was ready to stand behind Wu Haogu, responded loudly, and swept the Nanpi Zhang Erdan with the corner of his eye...... As if looking for a place to start, Zhang Nanpi was trembling.

Wu Haogu smiled and patted Zhang Erdan's sturdy shoulder, "Don't be afraid, the recruits all come over like this...... Practice well, and when you go into battle to kill the enemy, you will know that what you practice now will be useful. By the way, what kind of soldier is he? ”

"Back to Xuan Shuai, this kid is tentatively going to be a crossbowman!"

"Crossbowman......" Wu Haogu nodded, and said in his heart: No wonder he is always beaten...... In the Knight Academy's "Infantry Drill Code", a crossbowman is a beaten!

Because the crossbowman's fear of the superior officer must be greater than the fear of the Khitan soldiers. Only then will they be able to fire arrows at close range against the surging enemy under the command of the officer.

Of course, being a soldier and being beaten are inseparable in this era. Even in a place like the Knight Academy, there are all kinds of corporal punishments there.

In addition, there are a lot of death sentences in the army! Not only do they have to kill individuals who disobey military orders and military laws, but sometimes they also have to sit left and right and sit in a row and even sit in the whole army!

Without all kinds of strict military laws and military discipline, how can the army go into battle and win the war?

And in the enforcement of military law, the new army is much more brutal than the forbidden army. In many cases, the forbidden army has been cultivated into a world soldier, and the grassroots officers and soldiers are often related to each other, so how can they do it?

This is not the case with the new army, the soldiers are in five years' service, and the officers do not have such a deep friendship with them, so they can be ruthless when they start! Moreover, the soldiers of the new army are basically young people, with rough skin and thick flesh that can withstand fighting, and they can learn things quickly. Unlike the uncle and uncle of the forbidden army, he can't fight.

Wu Haogu came out of this shed, got on the horse again, and continued to patrol the camp with Ma Zheng, who had just returned from the northwest.

"Xuan Shuai, we should have known about such undisguised military training from the Khitans, right?"

Hearing Ma Zheng's question, Wu Haogu just smiled: "How could you not know?" Yelu Yanxi also has spies.

But what if you know? Do you want to cross the boundary river and attack immediately? It's still summer, and there are no horses running on the surface of the river. ”

"Maybe Yelu Yanxi will send troops to enter the Kou from the direction of Dingzhou Road." Ma Zheng expressed his worries, "The four generals stationed on Dingzhou Road can't do it, there are too many vacancies, and the weapons are not enough, not to mention the training, and the regimental training on Dingzhou Road has just begun to recruit ......."

"It doesn't matter." Wu Haogu interrupted Ma Zheng and said with a smile, "Liang Zimei is an old minister who has been an official for decades, and there will definitely be a way." We only need to speed up the training of troops, and we must also build fortress embankments along the boundary river as soon as possible. Jiehe Commercial City and Cangzhou are our territory, and we can't lose them no matter what, but you know? ”