Most of the more than a thousand and half-old children carefully selected were orphans without parents, and many of them were recruited by brothers, including fifteen or sixteen years old, and eight to ten years old.

In fact, seven or eight-year-old children are not too young in this era. In this era, there are a lot of people who go to the battlefield at the age of thirteen or four. Seven or eight-year-old children are already considered elite after five or six years of training.

These half-grown children will be personal soldiers in the future. Later, Zhang Xianzhong adopted a group of half-grown children, and famous generals such as Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Zhang Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi appeared among those children?

"Master, can you recruit my sister? I'm following you, Master. I have food to eat, but she's going to starve to death." A ragged child, looking black and thin, about fourteen and five years old, looked at Gao Shixin with begging eyes.

"Your sister? Where is it?" asked Gao Shixin.

The boy pointed to a thin child in the crowd: "Master, she is my sister."

"Call her here." said Gao Shixin.

"Three sister!" the little boy shouted. The girl immediately ran over when she heard her brother's call.

Gao Shixin looked at the little girl and saw that she looked about eight or nine years old. Her clothes were torn and her whole face was so dirty that she couldn't tell her original appearance. However, the pair of eyes looked very bright, but because of her long-term hunger, she was very thin and looked even bigger.

"Little girl, you will follow me with your brother in the future. As long as we have something to eat, you will not starve to death!" Gao Shixin comforted the child.

The brother and sister knelt on the ground with a "thump" and kowtowed to Gao Shixin repeatedly: "Thank you for your help, my brother and sister will definitely follow you to the death in the future! Master, you want to kill Jiannu. As long as you say a word, we will never retreat."

"Who else has any sisters who want to come in?" Gao Shixin shouted loudly, "If any sisters who want to come in, you can come in!"

More than two hundred children shouted at once.

"Master, I have a sister!"

"Master, I have a sister and sister!"

"Master, I have two sisters!"

Gao Shixin made a gesture and signaled everyone to be quiet: "Children, your sisters are probably your only relatives. Of course, I will not watch your relatives starve to death. If there are sisters who want to come in, register one by one!"

Kong Youde asked: "Brother, what's the use of you recruiting so many little girls? They can't fight or work, so we can't raise them in vain?"

Huang Degong also asked, "Sir, you are not raising them for a while and selling them for a better look, right?"

"How could I sell these children? The little girl is free and the little girl is used. In the future, I plan to form a military medical team and a opera troupe in the army, and they all need women. They will be our soldiers in the future." Gao Shixin replied.

"I'm afraid these female soldiers will not pay military salaries." Huang Degong said worriedly.

"The court does not give military pay, we support them. These girls are children of poor families and can endure hardships. After going to Liaodong, I believe they will not be worse than men."

Of course, female soldiers have the role of female soldiers, especially in nursing. Women do better than men because girls are careful.

After receiving these children, the first thing to do is to let these children survive. Gao Shixin sent a command to send people to these children a mixed grain cooker. Each child gave half a mixed grain cooker made of sesame flour, buckwheat flour and sorghum flour, so that they could eat it first to satisfy their hunger. Now they dare not let them eat with their stomachs. Many children have been hungry for several days, and they can easily die of fullness after eating, so they first gave them half a cooker cake and snacks, and waited for the military camp to keep them for a few days.

Xiong Tingbi sent tents, military uniforms, weapons and other military supplies, as well as food and vehicles. After getting these things, Gao Shixin asked someone to find an open space by the canal between the capital and Tongzhou, build a temporary barracks, and arrange all the children they had just recruited in it.

The children built wooden fences and set up tents. In the camp, a big pot was raised and the steaming smoke was emitting. Huang Degong, Kong Youde and several children who knew how to make porridge selected from the children were busy building stoves and setting up iron pots. Some went to wash rice and some went to fetch water.

After a while, the aroma of the mixed porridge of boiled rice and millet floating out of the big pot.

The aroma of the porridge makes the children even more hungry, but they still need to be boiled for a while before they can drink it.

"The porridge is ready, pour it into the bucket and then make the porridge." Huang Degong shouted.

The children carried a large wooden bucket full of porridge to an open space. The porridge bucket was placed on the grass. Huang Degong and Kong Youde greeted loudly: "Children, the porridge is ready, they are all lined up and come to collect it one by one, and everyone has a share!"

The children first went to collect their own wooden bowls and chopsticks, and then lined up to get the porridge.

The large wooden bowl in each child's hand is filled with a large bowl of porridge. Drinking such porridge in one bowl will not only make you full, but also have enough nutrition. These children who have been hungry for a few days will definitely not be able to feed their food as soon as they come up. They must keep the porridge for two or three days, and then eat a meal every day.

From the third day of recruitment, Gao Shixin asked these children to conduct simple training, such as low-intensity training such as standing queues and running. The two meals a day were also changed to three meals a day, one meal a day, one meal a day, one meal a day, and one meal a day, and one meal at noon, and the main food was mixed grain rice or steamed buns.

The staple food required dishes, so Gao Shixin bought a pig out of his own pocket, and also bought a stone mill and other tools to make tofu.

The children who had been training for a morning came back. They smelled the aroma of meat from a distance, and each child accelerated their pace. They walked into the open ground in the barracks, with mats on the ground, and in the middle was a large pot of braised pork stewed dried tofu, and there were fried cabbage, fried eggs with leeks, braised eggplant and egg green vegetable soup.

"It smells good!"

"tasty!"

Every child eats voraciously. When did they eat such good things? I'm afraid it's difficult to eat meat and fishy things during the Chinese New Year? They are all children of poor families. In the past, it was already very good to have a white flour bun during the Chinese New Year.

Of course, Gao Shixin couldn't give them meat every day. Most of the time, they were still cabbage and tofu, and at most they were eggplant, cucumbers and the like.

In fact, when cooking, Gao Shixin thought of potatoes, peppers and other good things. However, in this era, only a small amount of potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn were planted in the south, and potatoes have not yet been improved and breeded, so these things cannot be seen in the north; and where can chili be seen now? I don’t know yet, but as far as he knows, this kind of thing has been introduced, but it is just planted as an ornamental plant.

Starting from the next day, the training intensity of the recruits increased.

In fact, these children learn things quickly, and many adults who can’t even tell the difference between the left and right have to teach them patiently for several days, but they still can’t tell the difference between the left and right. These children basically just need to teach them once.

"Brother, what's the use of telling them to turn left, right, and step in step every day?" Kong Youde asked.

"Terminal training is the basis of future combat formation. Jiannu is known for his cavalry. Our army has many infantry but few cavalry. If infantry is used to fight against the cavalry, he can only maintain the formation during his marching." Gao Shixin replied.

Within a few days, the formations of these children were arranged neatly. When they walked on the road, they were not chaotic, and they were like the same person. When walking on the road, they walked neatly and walked hundreds of steps in a row, and the formation would not be chaotic and kept neat.

"Okay! What an elite force!" Xiong Tingbi's voice came from outside the camp.

"Mr. Xiong, you are here!" Gao Shixin hurriedly greeted him.
Chapter completed!