Chapter 21: Recruitment

Although several subordinates tied a lot of strips of cloth, most of them were traumatic, and as long as they were handled well, there was no major problem.

Gao Yihuan pulled the food back, and took a few catties of dried fish from Wang Jiaping as interest, and then helped the injured brother to clean up the wounds again, and began to prepare for the evening's food.

His subordinates were short of manpower, and the brothers who were able to move came to help, and at this time, Gao Xinghao and Gao Yicheng each came back with a big bag.

"Xinghao, take out the things and see what has been changed." Gao Yihuan greeted, and the surrounding brothers all gathered around, and saw the two of them open the large cloth bag in their hands and began to dig things out.

Pork, dried fish, mutton, and eggs, and finally took out a jar of wine, which made the brothers who gathered around boil.

Gao Yihuan didn't expect that they, the supernumerary people, could only eat hard cakes that were difficult to swallow every day, and their dependents could only drink gruel, and the food in the old camp was still so rich.

Gao Yihuan smiled, pressed his hand, and waited for everyone to be quiet, then he spoke: "Brothers, we are born and die with me, today let's let go of eating and drinking, and after eating and drinking, we must lead the team well, work together to earn a wealth in this troubled world, and strive for everyone to have meat to eat and drink every day in the future." ”

When the men heard this, they immediately boiled and cheered in unison, causing the other people to look at them one after another.

At that moment, everyone was like the New Year, and they were all doing it, chopping firewood, boiling water, and chopping meat, and the whole camp was full of meat, and the subordinates of Wang Jiaping, who were greedy, had a stomachache.

At night, everyone set up a long table with wooden boards, Gao Zurong sat on the top, and the others sat on both sides, a large vat of broth on the wooden board was covered with a layer of yellow and clear oil flowers, and large pieces of meat were directly placed on the wooden board with a basin, and they wanted to eat it with a knife.

Even if it was the New Year, everyone didn't have a chance to eat and drink like this, and Zhao Daxian was also carried out, holding a piece of meat in his hand, and eating happily.

Everyone ate and drank nonsense, attracting other general soldiers to come and watch, and they were envious and jealous.

Gao Yihuan ate for a while, put the meat on the table, wiped his hand on the rag, and then said to Wu Shizhao on the side: "This time I was promoted to the head of the brigade, how about Brother Wu being wronged and being a minister?" ”

Wu Shizhao hurriedly put down the meat at hand, "My life is saved by the Palm Brigade, don't call Brother Wu in the future, I will be the head of the Commander Brigade in the future, only the head of the Brigade is the first to look forward." ”

"Good brother! Come on, let's go! Gao Yihuan was happy to hear this, picked up the bowl and touched it with him, and then drank the tea with his head up.

This is when he looked at Zhao Daxian next to him and said: "Daxian, you are also a department chief, and I will leave the other department chief to Yi Yan, and the other brothers will also be promoted to a level, all of them are sentinel chiefs." ”

Under normal circumstances, the strength of the army is about the same as that of a bureau of the Ming army, but the quota of a bureau of the Ming army is 112 people, 3 flags, 37 people per flag, 3 teams of flags, 12 people per team, is the establishment of three three, and the personnel are basically fixed, but a brigade of the army, there is no fixed number of people and horses.

There are people on the periphery with thousands of homeless people, but they are still just a brigade, Gao Yihuan is now a dozen people, and he is also a brigade.

Gao Yihuan's brigade, according to the normal establishment, should have three departments and nine sentry commanders under his command, and the full strength should be 112 people, including 99 non-commissioned officers, plus his officers, a total of 13 people.

Now, excluding his father, there are a total of ten people present, so even if everyone becomes officers, there are still three officers for the entire brigade to be full.

The men were all promoted to the next level, and they were excited to touch the bowls again and again, but there was a problem after being happy, the official was sealed, but there was not a single soldier under his hands, and it seemed that there was no point in this official.

"In charge of the brigade, now we have more than a dozen people, all of whom are officers, where do the non-commissioned officers come from, does it say that they want to be supplemented?" Wu Shizhao couldn't help but ask.

Liu Heizi is now considered the second-line army of the army, and there must be a supplement, but the system of the army is chaotic, and I don't know when it will be.

Liu Heizi's guy may not be kind enough to give him supplements, or simply give him some crooked melons and cracked dates.

Gao Yihuan didn't expect to add in his heart, he had already thought about it, and without waiting for the supplement, he pulled people by himself, so he immediately smiled and said: "I plan to go to the wounded barracks to recruit some people, those soldiers are basically not taken care of, I will give them enough food to ensure that they do two meals a day, and someone should be willing to come." ”

As he spoke, he looked at everyone again, "You also spread the news for me, just say that we have enough food here, and we will all go and recruit some people for me, but don't recruit everyone, try to find some sturdy ones with a little experience." ”

Everyone didn't know if they listened or not, and the two cheeks bulged, nodding their heads again and again while eating.

At present, there is an advantage of breaking into the camp, that is, there is no set of strict management system, if Gao Yihuan has money and food, and pulls up a tens of thousands of people and horses, there will be no impeachment by the imperial historian, and no local officials will report to the court that he has rebelled.

At this time, due to environmental restrictions, the wounded soldiers were easily infected and it was difficult to return to the battlefield, so their original team basically gave up on the wounded soldiers and left them to fend for themselves.

In the next few days, Gao Yihuan went to the wounded barracks a few times, and when he collected the body, he carried out some simple treatment of the bandaged bandages, and saved many people, many of whom were only slightly injured, and there was no problem in returning to the battlefield.

In addition to picking people from the wounded barracks, Gao Yihuan also asked Gao Yicheng to set up a stove near the wall, where he steamed steamed buns every day, and advertised that as long as he came here, the steamed buns would be enough.

In this way, within a few days, Gao Yihuan selected forty or fifty sturdy people, but some people ate him twice, and they couldn't stand his training and discipline and quietly slipped back to their original team.

Early in the morning, Gao Yihuan stood in front of the soldiers and said loudly: "Let's run two laps today, and then conduct a mandarin duck formation confrontation drill." It's still the old rule, those who win eat meat, and those who lose continue to nibble on flatbread. ”

Time flies, and unconsciously in July of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the army has besieged Kaifeng for more than half a year, and Gao Yihuan's soldiers have also practiced for more than a month.

Since the last time, Liu Heizi and Wang Jiaping have not troubled him, and let him toss in the camp, which has made Gao Yihuan clean for a long time, but recently, Gao Yihuan's days have been a little sad because the army has been surrounded for a long time.

Before, he thought that Zhou Ronghua's price was more expensive, and he was reluctant to exchange all the silver and salt in his hand for grain, but now more than a month has passed, but he doesn't want the price of food to double again, and the silver in his hand is stretched, and it can't last for a few days.