The paid conscription of the Northern Expeditionary Army has achieved very good results, and the people in the south of the Yangtze River are vying to recruit accordingly, especially the poor people, and in just half a month, the number of people who have been recruited has exceeded the number of recruits.

The Northern Expeditionary Army selected the best among the good and the best among the best, and selected 20,000 strong and healthy elites from this large number of recruited people.

After entering the camp, all the recruits received food as promised, which was enough to show the integrity of the Northern Expeditionary Army's recruitment.

When a recruit enters the battalion, the first thing to do is to carry out discipline education, so that the soldiers know what they can and cannot do in the big battalion.

After these ideological educations are completed, the next step is to conduct drills, and then different weapons are awarded to the soldiers according to their physique and reflexes.

In the middle of winter, the weather was very cold, but on the school ground of the Northern Expeditionary Army, there was a hot training scene, and the 20,000 soldiers of the recruit battalion were divided into 20 queues and carried out assassination training under the demonstration of their respective battalion owners.

Hua An, dressed in military uniform, led several personal soldiers to patrol back and forth between the twenty queues, stopping from time to time to personally correct the irregularities in the movements of the recruits during the drill.

With the commander-in-chief here to personally supervise and guide, all the recruits did not dare to be lazy, and they were extremely serious in training, and the battalion commanders of each battalion were also serious and responsible, lest they leave a bad impression on the commander-in-chief.

Hua An patrolled back and forth on the school grounds, and suddenly found that two recruits were extremely good and powerful, even surpassing the demonstration camp owner, which made Hua An'an sigh.

"You two are out of line." Hua An walked over and pointed at the two.

Hearing this, the two took a few steps forward and walked in front of Hua An.

"Have you ever been a soldier before?" Hua An asked bluntly.

The two shook their heads and said loudly, "General Hui, no." But between the words, the corners of the two of them showed a different smile, and they seemed to be a little excited.

This abnormal expression naturally did not escape Hua An's sight, which made Hua An'an suspicious, could it be that these two people knew themselves.

"You guys, what's your name?" Hua An stared at the two of them, and then asked.

"Villain King Five."

"Villain Wang Liu."

The two said excitedly, and their eyes were slightly red after speaking.

Hua An was shocked when he heard this, could the two in front of him be the little five and six who played together as children, so many years have passed, Hua An has been busy with military affairs, and he has not returned to his hometown once, and now, his childhood brother is in front of him, Hua An can no longer recognize it.

"You are the fifth and sixth children of Yin Jiating." Huaan had almost no suspicion of their identity.

"Hmm." The two nodded and replied, "General, it's us." ”

Completely confirming that the two were childhood playmates, Hua Anxin was extremely happy, and hurriedly smiled: "Hahaha! Great, you don't say hello in advance when you come, and besides, they are all brothers, so you can call them big brother in the future. ”

"Yes, big brother." The two of them changed their tunes quite quickly.

Hua An smiled slightly, patted the shoulders of the two, and said, "Wang Wu, Wang Liu, you come to me, I haven't seen you for many years, go to the eldest brother's tent to sit down." ”

"Yes, big brother." The two happily followed Hua'an to Hua'an's Chinese army tent.

Entering the big tent, the two chatted with Hua'an about family life, the reason why they didn't say hello this time, and quietly applied for recruitment, was to figure out their own strength, and after making some achievements, they recognized Hua'an, lest others say that they got a good position because of their good relationship with the main general, and they didn't want to be noticed by Hua'an because of their outstanding ability just after entering the camp.

For this reason, Huaan praised them greatly and said that he would let them start from the lowest soldiers, so as not to be gossiped about by others.

The two of them had planned to join the army four years ago, but due to some delays at home, they did not come to enlist until today.

When Hua'an asked another playmate, Wang Biantou, they told Hua'an that when Wang Biantou got married, he went to the camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army to invite Hua'an and Wang San, but he didn't want to, and Hua'an happened to go to sea to Liaodong at that time and missed the opportunity to meet his brothers.

Now, Wang Biantou went to the naval army camp north of the capital to enlist, because his water nature is excellent, and it is his dream to be a naval army.

I couldn't see Wang Biantou, Hua Antou was a little regretful, but the camp of the Jingbei Navy was not far from the camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and it could be arrived in two hours by riding a horse, and there were many opportunities to meet in the future.

The three of them chatted for more than an hour in the big tent of the Chinese army in Hua'an, and then Wang San entered the big tent, and the four brothers chatted for another half an hour.

Three days later, Wang Wu and Wang Liu were recommended by the owners of the pro-military battalion with their excellent tactical skills, and they were appointed as the commanders of the left and right brigades respectively, and all the soldiers in the battalion were convinced.

Two months later, the 20,000 soldiers of the new barracks had begun to have combat strength, and Hua'an was planning to pull to the nearby mountains to suppress bandits to test the combat strength of the soldiers, but unexpectedly, the imperial court issued an order to disarm.

It turned out that there was an accident in the Zhao State in the Central Plains, excessive conscription and the difficulties of some officials, one-third of the troops collected by the Zhao State did not reach the barracks, many soldiers died on the road, and some soldiers who did not want to die in vain gathered in the mountains and forests, and hundreds of armed forces gathered together to occupy the mountains as the king and the Zhao court as enemies.

Seeing that his perverse actions had caused trouble, Shi Hu stopped his conquest of the world and disbanded some of the conscripted troops.

The soldiers of the Central Plains were dismissed, and the threat to the Great Jin Dynasty naturally did not exist, so the imperial court ordered that all the troops that had been temporarily expanded should go home to work in agriculture in order to save the expenses of the state treasury.

In full accordance with the orders of the imperial court, the soldiers and horses dismissed the temporarily conscripted soldiers, and only the Northern Expeditionary Army in Hua'an did not dismiss for a long time.

The court asked the reason, Hua'an made a detailed description of the benefits of Tuntian to the court, saying that the 20,000 horses would be converted into Mintun, which would never increase the burden on the court, and more than half of the harvested grain would be handed over to the court.

This is not a bad thing for the imperial court, but these soldiers used to cultivate the land of the big clans, and they stayed in the fields near the camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army, which naturally harmed the interests of some scholars, and for this reason, they were also hindered by many officials of the noble clan.

However, Hua'an stated step by step, saying that the 20,000 horses could not only be used to increase grain and grass to the treasury, but also to carry out military training during the slack time, and once the army of Zhao went south, 20,000 horses could be quickly assembled, so as to improve the defense of Zhao.

At the same time, some ministers who represented the interests of the scholars gradually realized that once the Zhao army broke through Jiangnan, they would lose a qiē, and with the 50,000 horses of the Northern Expeditionary Army in front as cannon fodder, they could sit back and relax.