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The same applies to the arms of the army. The reason why elite soldiers are elite soldiers is that they invest a lot of manpower and material resources to build an army, and the selection of military sources alone must be refined, and the materials needed to train elites are even more massive.

A country's national strength is destined to "produce" how many elite soldiers, not that soldiers who can recruit and fight well are called elite soldiers, but from the food, weapons, and armor to see whether the soldiers in a unit can be counted as elite soldiers.

Under normal circumstances, it is already difficult for the country to support an elite army, such as the military soldiers of the Wei State and the Shenxi Division of the Chu State in the past, which are the elite of the elite who have been trained by investing at least half of the national strength.

Of course, with the change of the times, the increase of productivity, the improvement of technology, etc., everything is not static. The current production of Yinan County, and then according to Lu Zhe's plan for the army, it is not whimsical to focus on training 5,000 heavy infantry, 10,000 crossbowmen, 20,000 jumping soldiers, 20,000 rattan armor soldiers, 10,000 Pu sword soldiers, and 5,000 spearmen.

Seriously calculated, the most mainstream type of troops in this era should be charioteers, for example, the Qin State has a 10,000-ride chariot army, and the war horses produced in various pastures in the Qin State are supplemented by this kind of troops, not cavalry troops.

The chariot is mainly concentrated in Guanzhong and Northern Xinjiang, and the cavalry is only an auxiliary troop, most of which are used to cut off the enemy, and because there is no saddle or stirrup, the cavalry is a kind of infantry on horseback in many cases.

What is an infantry on horseback? It is a kind of infantry that rides on horseback and dismounts during battle, and most of the cavalry of the Qin State is such a mounted infantry, and they move very fast. It also has a relatively small dependence on logistics, and because it carries a lot of crossbows and arrows, it has a very strong long-range strike ability.

Under the leadership of the current leader who controls the troops, probably only Lu Zhe has not built a chariot unit, and those who raise troops will build chariots as long as they have a little ability, and in many cases, how many chariots are still regarded as powerful.

As with the restricted direction of its cavalry units, the charioteers were not suitable for fighting in the mountainous and watery environment of the South. And to be honest, Lu Zhe can't afford to raise a chariot, and the metal needed to build a chariot is enough to create dozens of weapons or several pieces of armor.

When Cao Ji entered the territory of Zhouling County, he saw that the troops were very traditional spearmen and a small number of archers, and he was very curious about the actions of these soldiers. I don't understand what a large-scale camp is for.

"It seems that about a thousand strong soldiers are really formed by the Zhao people," Xiang Bian's tone was full of exquisiteness: "Looking at these soldiers with uniform robes and weapons, I think that Nanjun should be managed well by Lu Shizhe?" ”

The armies that rose up in the southern counties rarely had uniform uniforms, and most of the troops who had unified uniforms were the pro-armies of a small number of leaders of various units. The troops who raised the army also did not have sufficient weapons, except for the pro-army who could muster some weapons, most of the troops only had agricultural tools or sticks in their hands.

"I can't see the business for the time being," Cao Ji looked intently at the spear in the hand of a soldier next to him, "You take a closer look." The weapons in the hands of the soldiers are marked, which is a sign that only the Qin State will have, and it should be obtained from the arsenal of the Southern Expeditionary Army. ”

Xiang Wei took a closer look, and sure enough, he saw a row of manufacturing years and the names of craftsmen. He didn't know how to restrain himself and caught the soldier's attention.

"You guys!" The soldier looks young, and he doesn't seem to be young enough to grow a beard? He walked over, pointed in one direction and shouted, "If you come, go get the number plate!" ”

Plate? Cao Qi and the others looked in the direction pointed by the soldiers, and some people were lining up under the supervision of the soldiers. Some of the civil servants in South County were handing out small wooden signs to those people.

"Listening to the accent, this soldier should be from Yan State, no wonder he is so tall at a young age." I thought to myself. Cao Ji didn't want to attract anyone's attention, so he led the people to follow the queue.

Originally, there were 3,000 county and county soldiers in the state tomb, of which 1,000 were transferred to Shaxian for reinforcements, and 2,000 of the 3,000 people he saw when Cao Ji came were also county soldiers in the state tomb.

At present, there are 2,000 garrisons in Zhouling County, and this garrison is temporarily transferred from the Gangneung battalion, and it is not a battle sequence, but an auxiliary force.

After waiting in line for a while, when it was Cao Ji's turn, the civil official asked some words such as "celibate or family", he received a number plate, looked up and looked at it, and found that the words "Yi Jiuqi" were written on it, and there was a row of unintelligible characters "1897" under these words.

"Take this number plate," the civil servant who distributed the wooden rafts pointed to the camp on the other side without raising his head: "Go inside and find the place to queue, and you will receive some household utensils and food." ”

Cao Ji looked over, and not far away was a camp fenced with wooden fences, and there were many tents inside.

The number of soldiers around the camp is much more than here, and from a distance, there are many people walking around the village, and it seems that the people inside are not soldiers, and it is incomprehensible that there are so many people that they do not hear the noisy noise.

All the thirty or so people received the number plates, and all of them looked at Cao Ji.

Xiang Wei pondered for a moment and said, "Why don't you go in and have a look?" ”

Cao Ji nodded, in addition to asking to see Lu Zhe, the lord of Nanjun, they came to Nanjun to see the people's livelihood and military strength of Nanjun.

The number of soldiers guarding the camp is indeed quite a lot, and the number of Qianshou inside is even more, Cao Ji, who stepped into the camp, raised his eyes and could see that there were at least more than 10,000 people in this camp, and he only then recalled, the words on the number plate were clearly a kind of count: "I am the eighteen thousand ninety-seven people who entered the camp?" ”

After walking a short distance, a middle-aged man who looked like a farmer came up, who was smiling from a distance, and when he got closer, he asked, "What is your license plate number?" ”

Cao replied inexplicably, and the farmer smiled again.

It turned out that the farmer was the guide, and he would take Cao Ji to the tent assigned to them, and because of their numbers, only two of the more than thirty people did not live in the same tent, and the rest gathered together.

"Since you are all together, then please ask this man and woman to lead a few people, and go with me to receive the supplies with all the number plates." The farmer carefully repeated: "Remember to take all the license plates, they distribute the materials according to the number plates, and only recognize the number plates but not the people." ”

Nowadays men and women are used as a term to the effect of "this person". This title was still used until the Song Dynasty, when the Mongols invaded south...... Well, the cultural fault line is broken, and the term "man and woman" has been "fused" to the point that there is no bone scum left.

Cao Qi said strangely: "Only recognize the number plate? Then if someone snatches ......."

"Hehe," I don't know if it was ridicule or what, the farmer's face became a little exciting: "A few days ago, someone snatched the license plate, and the person who was robbed tried to go to the soldiers for help. All those who snatched the number plates were ......," he gestured to wipe his neck, "thirty human heads are hanging in the north gate and waiting to be dried." Who would dare to rob it since then? Don't even dare to make a loud noise. ”

"I see, that's ......," Cao Ji finally knew that there was nothing for so many people, and there was no noisy noise. He tried to ask, "Are the soldiers of Nanjun very murderous?" ”

The farmer's face changed, and he seemed to stiffen a little, and then he glanced at Cao Ji strangely, and the enthusiasm in his tone was gone: "Let's go." After speaking, he walked forward by himself, and seemed to be muttering: "Clothing, food, and shelter, so many things have been given for nothing." How can you speak ill of people behind your back......"

Xiang Bian's face changed again when he heard the farmer's muttering, and he asked kindly, "This eldest brother, are you the ...... of Nanjun?" ”

"No, no," said the farmer, who did not want to speak. Seeing Xiang Bian's smiling face, he reluctantly said: "I came from Lujiang Xingan." ”

Xiang Wei asked again: "Just came over, I was conscripted into labor by the government of Nanjun?" ”

"You man!" The farmer seemed to be really angry: "How do you speak?" There is no such thing as conscription, and the work is to give money and food. ”

There is no conscription in South County? Xiang Wei is a little confused.

Another queue, Cao Ji and the others received a bit of a lot. They returned to the tent and counted, and the supplies that Nanjun gave to each of the Qianshou who came here were a blanket, a set of eating utensils, and five catties of beans.

I asked. In this way, there are camps that gather other counties and counties to come to Qianshou not only here, but also in many places. Xiang Wei didn't understand it more and more, and he dreamed: "Just what we see is 90,000 Qianshou, does Nanjun have enough financial resources to support such a distribution?" ”

Cao Ji was also shocked, he was chatting with people just now, and he found out the information that there were more than 200,000 troops in Nanjun, and it seemed that Nanjun had already sent troops to capture Qianzhong County, and now he was marching to Hengshan County, and he was very shocked how Lu Zhe could have such an achievement in three months.

Over the next few days, they saw more.

Another unit came over from Gangneung, and the new types of troops were two types of troops that Cao Ji and others had not seen, and I heard that the people of Nanjun called those troops the rattan armor soldiers and the Pu Dao soldiers, and the total number was three thousand.

"About five miles from here, there is something called the Soldier Fort, I ran over to see if I was driven back," Xiang Wei described the appearance of the Soldier Fort slightly, "I heard that there are hundreds of such Soldier Forts in the territory of Nan County, and they are distributed along various main roads and dangerous locations. ”

Cao Ji paid more attention to the information about whether Nanjun had 200,000 troops, as well as the news that Nanjun sent troops to Qianzhong County and Hengshan County.

"I didn't expect that Lu Shizhe would be able to develop into such a strong military in just three months, and seeing that he was obviously attracting people to enter Nanjun...... Cao Ji looked at Xiang Wei with a thoughtful face: "Lu Shizhe also doesn't know whether Lu Dao obeyed Xianyang's orders to send troops to Qianzhong and Hengshan, or did he send troops without authorization?" ”

Xiang argued: "I happened to hear the soldiers talking, they were talking about the Tianmu of Qianzhong County, and they looked very longing from their appearance. I want to come to Nanjun's strategy to attack Qianzhong is going very smoothly. ”

Cao Ji was stunned for a moment: "Did you hear it right?" ”

Xiang Wei nodded affirmatively.

"In this way, Lu Shizhe sent troops privately!" There was excitement and jealousy on Cao Qi's face, and jealousy was far more than excitement. (To be continued......)

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