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The blood-stained land at the entrance of the north village of Wang Li Village has now become a training ground for Li Jing's newly recruited soldiers. More than 100 steps away from the left and right of this training ground, a temporary thatched hut was set up. On the left are the recruited homeless families and craftsmen and their families, numbering nearly seven hundred. On the right are the recruited Qingning Township Party and the relatives and friends of the same village and the villagers of Wangli Village, and here are the pure 1,000 young and strong recruits.

Coupled with the 100 veterans of the original Zuo Yidu, Li Jing is now a total of 1,200 new recruits and veterans. Since killing the attacking bandits, Li Jing has made Lin Wei the head of the head coach and has begun to conduct comprehensive training for these recruits.

"General, there were more than 30 training exercises yesterday, and the recruited military doctors have already seen them, there is no big problem, and you can recover after a few days of rest." On the side of the school, Du Zhongwu saw Li Jing coming over, and hurriedly trotted to report.

Li Jing carefully watched the school field, 1,200 people, of which 100 recruited from the homeless people, two teams of personal soldiers directly belonged to Li Jing. Li Jing, the number one hundred person, was not handed over to Lin Wei for training together, but transferred ten veterans with good performance from the old subordinates who had killed Feng Yanqing with Li Jing to serve as the ten captains of the two teams. In addition, Zhang Chengzong, who had veteran experience and had served as the head of the team, and Li Shugen, the village head of the village, who had joined the army, were appointed as the head of the sect. They are solely responsible for the overall training of the two teams, but the training method is also the "Training Drill Code" written by Li Jing, which is basically in accordance with the training method summarized when he was in Dengzhou.

The remaining 1,000 recruits, Li Jing and Lin Wei organized them into ten capitals, and the veterans of the left capital were scattered and assigned to each capital to serve as team leaders, team leaders and other positions. Li Jing had also thought about leaving the left one alone, and the recruits would start training from scratch. But after thinking about it, I finally rejected the idea. The old and the new are mixed, and the old leads the new, which will undoubtedly make all recruits grow faster.

However, after nearly half a month of training, Lin Wei, as the head coach, trained these recruits in strict accordance with Li Jing's "Training Drill Code". In particular, he was born in the Shence Army, and when he trained, he was a little stricter, which was even more intense than when Li Jing was in Dengzhou. At the beginning of training, the recruits fainted while running. But even so, Lin Wei did not reduce the intensity of training. I just applied to Li Jing to improve the diet and nutrition of the recruits, and now the recruits have three meals a day, meat and soup for each meal, and fresh vegetables bought from the port in winter. Especially during training, Li Jing also adjusted salt water every day to give the recruits ordinary water. Slowly, the recruits were able to withstand the high-intensity training, and gradually few people fainted on the training ground.

is still malnourished, although after recruiting these recruits, Li Jing spent a lot of money to supplement the nutrition of the soldiers, but after all, they all survived the famine for half a year, and they were basically yellow, hungry and thin, severely malnourished, and the short-term supplement was not enough at all.

I have food in my hands, and I don't panic in my heart. Before, Zhang Hong and the others looked at the daily sergeant meals ordered by Li Jing and Lin Wei personally, and they all frowned secretly. I am worried that if it continues to be consumed like this, it will not last long. Now that he finally got the large sum of money sent by the Han family, and suddenly had more than 10,000 stones of grain in his hands, Li Jing finally didn't have to worry about food every day.

"The nutrition is still not enough, the intensity of training cannot be reduced, and if you can't endure hardship, how will you fight in the future? Du Caozuo, you can discuss with Zhang Bingcao again, raise the daily food standard of the soldiers a little more, put more oil, buy more meat, mutton is too expensive to eat, then buy more pork. In addition, there are not a lot of cooks among the displaced people recruited last time, and they are also arranged in the new barracks, let them be the leaders of the gang, make the food better, and don't stew everything in one pot, so who can eat it? Everyone came to me Li Jing, that is, I believed in me, so I can't treat everyone badly. Train hard now, and wait for the opportunity to be rewarded for meritorious service in the future. ”

Li Jing was talking here, and soon Lin Wei also ordered a temporary rest and ran over. Li Jing simply asked Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian to call Lin Wu, Wang Chong, Zhang Hong and other major officers of Shamen Town.

"Although these recruits are basically young and strong, they are still a bit of a mixed bag. By now in training, there are already a lot of people who can't keep up. Lin Wei, as the head of the coach, was the first to put forward his opinion.

"This is simple, survival of the fittest, and those who can't keep up will be eliminated. Soon we will have to go to Shamen Town to take up our duties, and I mean that after the New Year, we will reorganize according to the results of this training. Bring out the soldiers who have performed well in training, and weed out those recruits who are weak in physical fitness and have poor performance. The 250 people with the best performance were selected and organized into five teams of soldiers, and these five teams will also be the soldiers of Shamen Town on our surface. There are still 850 people left, and 300 of them who are slightly better will be organized into three capitals and serve as auxiliaries. The remaining 550 men were organized into logistics troops. Auxiliaries are different from logistics soldiers, auxiliary soldiers will be training-oriented in peacetime, and they are reserve soldiers for combat soldiers, while logistics soldiers are responsible for miscellaneous labor, logistics and other work, and other craftsman battalions will also belong to logistics battalions. ”

"However, in order to encourage morale, the qualifications of soldiers in the combat barracks, auxiliary battalions, and logistics battalions are not eternal, and those who have performed well and meritorious can rise from the logistics battalion and auxiliary battalion to the combat barracks according to their performance. Soldiers in the combat battalions and auxiliary battalions will also be demoted to the next level of the barracks if they do not perform well. The assessment time is once every three months. If there is a person who has made special contributions, he can also be promoted. The soldiers' salaries will also be divided according to their positions in the army and their affiliation to the three barracks. In addition, the town level and the capital level can be equipped with 50 or 10 family members, and the general is not allowed to match family members below the head. Families are selected from the logistics battalion. ”

This plan was written by Zhang Hong and handed to Li Jing, and Li Jing revised several of them. On the whole, I am still very satisfied, this plan divides all the soldiers into four categories, that is, soldiers, auxiliary soldiers, logistics soldiers and several generals around the family. Nominally, only the soldiers are real soldiers, and the rest are not regular soldiers, so that Li Jing's soldiers will not exceed the 300 soldiers in Shamen Town, and on the other hand, several levels are also set up in the army to enhance competitiveness. Moreover, it also made detailed provisions for generals to adopt family members, only the general level can have family members, and family members must also strictly control the number, and are not allowed to directly recruit from the soldiers and auxiliaries, but only from the logistics soldiers, so as to avoid the generals from making the most elite soldiers their own family members.

The three generals, Lin Wei, Lin Wu, and Wang Chong, heard this plan for the first time, and after thinking about it, they did not object. In addition to them, the officers present were Liu Shouqian and Zhang Chengye, the two leaders of Li Jing's team, as well as the village chief Li Shugen, the head of the original Shence army and Wang Shi, who were newly joined under Li Jing's command. In addition to the four main and deputy leaders of Li Jing's Ding team, there are also the ten generals, deputy generals, and generals Yuhou who were promoted and appointed before, and these officers are basically the same group of people who followed Li Jing to beat Feng Yanqing at the beginning, and now they have all been promoted to first-class officers. They saw that Lin Wei's generals didn't speak, and naturally none of their newly promoted officers objected.

"What day are we going? How's the preparation? Li Jing turned his head to look at Zhang Hong, now Zhang Hong is basically the head of the staff, Du Zhongwu and Cui Zhiyuan are his deputies. Zhang Hong opened the fold in front of him and looked at it, and said: "The plan on our side is to set off on the third day of the first month, and the plan is divided into two roads. All the way to the Ninghai by sea to Dengzhou Port, here are mainly a few generals with the two hundred and fifty soldiers and the generals' families and families. On the other hand, by land, the remaining soldiers, craftsmen, and their families will make a total of more than 3,000 people who will go to Dengzhou by our previous route. ”

Because Li Jing said when recruiting soldiers, it is best to bring their families with them, and those who bring their families will be given a settlement fee, and those who do not bring their families will only be given half of them. In addition, Li Jing also promised that after arriving in Shamen Town, he would give land to the soldiers' families and arrange work in the workshop in the future. Therefore, most of the newly recruited soldiers have already decided to take their families with them, and there will be more than 5,000 new recruits with more than 3,000 family members.

Li Jing nodded, although the number was a bit amazing, he had no idea of changing his mind. He knew that in history, Dengzhou next year was still a year of great drought, followed by a year of locust plague. Leaving the families of these soldiers in their hometowns will only make the subordinates unstable. Bringing it with him, although it was a bit stressful at the beginning, now he has a large amount of food and money in his hands, which is enough to help him survive the first stage. As long as he survives the beginning, then these thousands of people can become his best help. Whether it is hoarding fields or starting workshops, it is inseparable from manpower.

"Well, this is a good plan, we have to reach Shamen at the eighth day of the first month, so we will take the nominal two hundred and fifty garrisons and go first. For the rest, it's okay to come slowly by land. ”

He wants to bring thousands of people, and if he has the opportunity, he will bring more people. Now Li Jing still has a lot of money in his hands, he opened the book of Zhang Hong's statistics and looked at it, in terms of food, the Han family sent 10,000 stones, and Zhendonghai sent 300 stones, during this time he also sent people to buy grain everywhere, beans, rice, wheat, millet, sorghum and other kinds of things added up to buy 5,000 stones, spending a full 10,000 yuan. All of them all, the grain in his hand now is 15,300 stones. He now has 1,200 men and horses, and each person has two liters a day, and he will lose more than 1,300 catties a day, which is 11 stones. If only 1,200 people were supplied, he would have enough food to last three years and eight months. But this does not count the monthly food for the soldiers and the food subsidies for the families of those soldiers, if these are counted, Li Jing's food inventory is estimated to last more than 1,000 soldiers and horses for about two years. Totally able to survive his first time!

In addition to the 15,300 stone of grain, Li Jing only had 13,000 pieces of silk and 10,000 pieces of cloth that the Han family had just given him, and only the batch of treasures sent by Zhen Donghai was worth about 20,000 yuan, but if he made a sale, it was estimated that he could only exchange it for five or six thousand yuan. Together, Li Jing doesn't have much money in his hands, about 23,500 yuan.

The biggest food problem has been solved, and there are more than two surplus money in his hands, and Li Jing is really worried about the problem of ordnance and armor now. Now there are 1,200 soldiers and horses, but the equipment is only available to those 100 veterans. In addition, there are still 300 sets of equipment stored in Dengzhou, but there are still 800 sets short, which is not considered to be a reserve to replenish.

"Zhang Bingcao, how did you go to Dengzhou Ordnance Matters?"

Zhang Hong said with some excitement: "I was about to tell the general a good news, after Song Wen took over the assassination history, the position of the long history of Dengzhou was taken over by Wang Jingwen, the elder brother of Wang Jingwu, the tooth general of the Qingzhou Tooth Army of the Pinglu Army. This Wang Jingwu is in charge of Qingzhou's tooth generals, but he is the most disobedient person to Song Wei at the moment, and now his brother has taken over as the governor of Dengzhou, and the relationship between Song Wen and Wang Jingwu is the same as the previous Cui Thorn History and Feng Changshi, water and fire are incompatible. At first, when I went to look for Song Wen, Song Wen was reluctant to help. Later, after he came back from a trip to Qingzhou, he took the initiative to send someone to find his subordinates and show me the 1,000 sets of supplementary equipment that were originally going to be transported to Da Xie Yan and Dengzhou Sailors. He said that as long as we were willing to pay the full cost, he would be willing to give us this equipment. ”

"A thousand sets of equipment for us? How much does he cost? Li Jing was thrilled when he heard this, knowing that he had no equipment, but he didn't expect a big pie to fall from the sky. Da Xie Yan's Feng Zhang is the Feng family, and Wang Jin, the soldier and horse envoy of the Dengzhou Water Division, is Wang Jingwu's kindred. Now Wang Jingwu, the general of the Pinglu Army, is the leader of the Pinglu Army who refuses to obey Song Wei's military orders, and the Feng family is also standing opposite Song Wei. Selling the supplementary equipment that originally belonged to these two soldiers and horses directly to Li Jing not only suppressed their strength, but also helped Li Jing once, which can be regarded as selling Cui Yunqing, King Zhao and even Yu Xuan a face. What's more, this ordnance was not given away for nothing, Li Jing had to buy it with money, and he made a lot of military expenses for nothing. Counting in one fell swoop, why wouldn't Song Wei do it?

The so-called snipe and clam compete, the fisherman profits, and the interests of the upper fight, Li Jing accidentally picked up a cheap, which can be regarded as helping Li Jing reduce the problem of equipment.

"Fifty sets, one thousand sets, a total of fifty thousand!" Zhang Hong said with a smile.

"What? Fifty sets, why don't they just come and grab it? Lin Wu was the first to jump up and shouted loudly. The equipment that the united soldiers bought before, but twenty sets, that set of equipment includes all kinds of equipment, which can be described as very complete, but now it has directly doubled and a half, which is really a bit of a money grab.

Li Jing also frowned slightly, although he felt that if he had money, it was actually worth buying it directly, after all, it would save that time. What's more, except for Song Wei, even if Li Jing wants to buy it, he doesn't buy it anywhere else.

"Second general, don't worry, it's worth it, in my opinion, fifty times is definitely worth it."

"For what?"

Zhang Hong stroked his beard proudly and said with a smile: "Because this thousand sets of equipment are not only the same as the equipment we bought before, but even he has what we didn't buy before." Among the 1,000 sets of equipment, there are also 200 Mo knives! ”

"Two hundred knives? It's true? Li Jing, Lin Wei, Lin Wu, Wang Chong, Li Shugen, Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong and other generals shouted at almost the same time. Mo knife, this can be said to be the sharpest weapon of infantry. In the Dengzhou camp, Li Jing has never seen it at all. But when Li Jing was in his later life, he was famous for a long time. And Lin Wei and several of them were born in the forbidden army, but Modao was no stranger, and when they heard Modao, they couldn't help but get excited.

"That's right, among the 1,000 sets of equipment, in addition to the full set we bought earlier, there are also 200 Mo knives and 200 sticks. 200 cowhide square rows, 400 dough rows. There were 200 crossbows with open arms, 200 crossbows with horns, 1,200 crossbow strings, and 120,000 arrows. There are 20 winch crossbows of 700 steps, 20 crossbows of 300 steps, and 1,200 iron feather crossbow arrows. Zhang Hong finished reading the new equipment in this batch of equipment in one go.

"Buy, buy them all, buy them no matter how expensive they are!" As soon as Li Jing waited for Zhang Hong to finish reading, he immediately slapped the table and shouted loudly. When he first heard that there were two hundred Mo knives, he was already moved, and when he heard that there were actually four hundred shields, as well as four hundred individual crossbows, and forty sets of heavy crossbows, where could Li Jing still calm down. Not to mention that Mo knives and crossbow arrows are the sharpest weapons in the Tang army, it is those forty sets of heavy crossbows that can directly make Li Jing jump from the second-line army to the Tang ace equipment army.

"A set of fifty, a thousand sets of fifty thousand, we don't have so much money now, why don't we buy eight hundred sets?" Du Zhongwu is worthy of being a businessman, so he doesn't need to take out the calculation chips to calculate, he already has a plan in his heart.

"No, buy them all, buy a lot of them." Li Jing will not say that it will not be long before the world will be in chaos, how can there be such a good equipment to supplement ordnance at that time, and then you will have the money to buy the land. What's more, these equipment also include powerful equipment such as Mo knives, shields, and crossbow machines. "Don't worry too much about money, Zhang Bingcao will immediately take 10,000 yuan to Dengzhou tomorrow, and tell Song Tingshi that we have bought all the 1,000 sets of equipment. We will pay 10,000 yuan first, and we will pay the balance later. ”

"Will this work?" Zhang Hong was a little puzzled, the money of the assassin is not good to owe on credit. Li Jing smiled, since he knew the reason for this arms deal, Li Jing had already expected that Song Wen was willing to take credit for the time being. What's more, Li Jing doesn't plan to be in arrears for too long, 50,000 yuan, he now has more than 20,000 yuan in his hand, and he can also ask Zhen Donghai for them to borrow it temporarily, and it's about the same. Money can be wrong, and if this batch of equipment is missed, there is no place to buy it.

"Okay, then I'll go to Dengzhou right away!" Zhang Hong hurriedly responded.

"When you see Song Tingshi, ask him again, see if you can get us some of this kind of equipment, and tell him that we will ask for as much as we want, and the price is easy to say." Li Jing said despite the surprise of Lin Wei and the others. The troubled times are coming, Li Jing now has another piece of territory, he expects that it is not too difficult to recruit troops, train soldiers, hoard fields and accumulate grain, and the real difficulty should be that he has developed a complete set of military workshops from scratch. However, if you want to make a complete set of ordnance workshops by yourself, the scale will definitely not be large in a short time. Li Jing can't wait, now that he has the opportunity to buy it, he naturally has to eat it all.