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The land stained with blood from bandits at the entrance of the North Village of Wangli Village has now become a training ground for Li Jing's new recruitment of soldiers. A temporary thatched hut was built outside the training ground one hundred steps left and right. On the left are the recruited refugee family members, craftsmen and their families, with a total of nearly 700 people. On the right are the recruited Qingning Township Party, the same village and neighbors and relatives in Wangli Village, and here are a purely one thousand young and strong new recruits.

In addition to the 100 veterans from Zuoyidu, Li Jing now has a total of 1,200 new recruits and veterans. Since killing the incoming bandits, Li Jing has already asked Lin Wei as the chief coach and began to conduct comprehensive training for these new recruits.

"General, there were more than 30 more training sessions yesterday. The recruited military doctors have already seen them. There is no big problem. You can recover after a few days of rest." On the sidelines of the school, Du Zhongwu saw Li Jing coming and quickly trotted to report.

Li Jing carefully watched the school ground. There were 1,200 people, of which 100 teams of personal soldiers recruited from refugees belonged to Li Jing. This 100 person Li Jing did not give Lin Wei the training together, but instead selected ten veterans who performed well from his old subordinates who had ambushed Feng Yanqing with Li Jing to serve as ten chief mates of the two teams. In addition, Zhang Chengzong, who had experienced veterans and served as the team, and Li Shugen, the village chief who joined the army, were appointed as coaches. They were responsible for the comprehensive training of the two servants alone, but the training method was also written by Li Jing. It was basically based on the training method summarized in Dengzhou.

The remaining 1,000 new recruits, Li Jing and Lin Wei, formed them into the ten capitals, and the veterans of the left 1 capital were dispersed and organized into the head of the team, and the team leader. Li Jing had originally thought of setting up the left 1 capital alone, while the new recruits started training from scratch. But after thinking about it, he finally decided to refute this idea. The old and the old are mixed together, and the old are leading the new, which undoubtedly allows all new recruits to grow faster.

However, after nearly half a month of training, Lin Wei, as the chief coach, trained these recruits strictly in accordance with Li Jing's "Training and Exercise Classic". Especially when he was from the Shence Army, he had a stricter requirement during training, which was even more intense than when Li Jing was in Dengzhou. At the beginning of training, the recruits fainted while running. However, even so, Lin Wei did not weaken the training intensity. He only applied to Li Jing to improve the dietary nutrition of the recruits. Now the recruits have three meals a day, with meat and soup every day, and fresh vegetables bought from the port in the middle of winter. Especially during training, Li Jing also adjusted salt water every day to give the recruits ordinary moisture. Gradually, the recruits could withstand this high-intensity training, and gradually fewer people fainted on the training ground.

It's still malnutrition. Although Li Jing invested a lot of money to supplement the soldiers after recruiting these recruits, they all survived the famine for half a year, and they were basically yellow and hungry and thin, and they were seriously malnutrition. The short-term supplement was not enough.

He had food in his hand, so he was not panicked. Before, Zhang Hong and others looked at the daily sergeant meals ordered by Li Jing and Lin Wei, and they all frowned in pain. They were worried that if they could continue to consume this, they would not last long. Now they finally got the large amount of money given by the Han family, and they had more than 10,000 stones of food in their hand at once. Li Jing finally didn't have to worry about food issues every day.

"The nutrition is still not enough, the intensity of training cannot be reduced, and if you can't endure hardship, how can you fight in the future? Du Caozuo, please discuss with Zhang Bingcao again and increase the daily food standards of the soldiers, add more oil, buy more meat, and be too expensive to afford mutton, so buy more pork. In addition, there are not many chefs among the refugees recruited last time, so they can also be organized into the recruit camp, let them be the leader, make some food, and don't stew everything in one pot, so who can eat it? Come and join me, Li Jing, that's what I believe in, so I can't treat everyone badly. Now train well, and naturally I won't be able to make meritorious contributions in the future."

Li Jing was talking here, and soon Lin Wei 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 main officers of Shamen Town over.

"Although these recruits are basically young and strong, they are still somewhat of a good and bad. So far, many people have not been able to keep up with the training." Lin Wei, as the chief coach, was the first to make an opinion.

"This is simple. Survival of the fittest. If you can't keep up, you will be eliminated. We will go to Shamen Town to take up the post. I mean that after the New Year, we will reorganize the soldiers who performed well in the training based on the results of this training. We will eliminate the new soldiers with weak physical fitness and poor performance. The best performers will be drawn out and the best performers will be the soldiers of five teams. These five teams will also be the soldiers of Shamen Town on our surface. The remaining 850 people will be organized into Sandu and auxiliary soldiers. The remaining 550 people will be organized into logistics soldiers. The auxiliary soldiers will be trained normally and are reserve soldiers of the combat soldiers, while the logistics soldiers will serve as errands, logistics and other work. The other craftsman battalions will also belong to the logistics camp."

"However, in order to encourage morale, the qualifications of soldiers in the military camp, auxiliary barracks, and logistics battalions are not always unchanged. Those who perform well and have made meritorious performance can rise from the logistics camp and auxiliary barracks and all the way to the military camp. If soldiers in the military camp and auxiliary barracks perform poorly, they will be demoted to the next level of barracks. The assessment time is three months. If a special contribution is made, they can also be promoted in an extraordinary way. The soldiers' food and salary will also be divided according to their military positions and the subordinates of the three barracks. In addition, the town level can be equipped with fifty or ten servants at the municipal level, and all the subordinates are not allowed to be favored by the subordinates. The servants are selected from the logistics camp."

This plan was written by Zhang Hong and handed over to Li Jing. Li Jing modified several of the places. Overall, it was very satisfied. This plan divided all the soldiers into four categories, namely combat soldiers, auxiliary soldiers, logistics soldiers and servants around several main generals. In name, only combat soldiers are real soldiers, and the rest are not considered formal soldiers. Li Jing's soldiers under this command will not exceed the 300 soldiers in Shamen Town. On the other hand, several levels have been set in the army to improve competitiveness. In addition, detailed regulations have been made on the adoption of family servants by generals. Only those who are at the first level can have servants. Moreover, servants must strictly control the number, and they are not allowed to directly attack the war soldiers and auxiliary soldiers. They can only attack the logistics soldiers to avoid the generals turning the most elite soldiers into their own servants.

This was the first time that the three generals Lin Wei, Lin Wu and Wang Chong heard this plan, but after thinking about it, they did not object. In addition to them, the officers attended were Liu Shouqian and Zhang Chengye, two leaders of Li Jing's family team, as well as village chief Li Shugen, the head of the Genshin Ce Army and Wang Shi, who had been newly recruited under Li Jing's command. In addition to the four chief and deputy leaders of Li Jing's family team, there were also the ten chief generals, deputy generals, and general Yu Hou who had been promoted and appointed. These officers were basically the group of people who had ambushed Feng Yanqing with Li Jing, and now they have been promoted to first-class officers. Seeing that Lin Wei and the other generals did not speak, no one of the newly promoted officers naturally opposed it.

"Which day will we set off? How are we preparing?" 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 both his deputy. Zhang Hong opened the note in front of him and looked at it, saying, "Our plan here is to set off on the third day of the first lunar month. The plan is divided into two routes. Take the Ninghai River and take the sea route to Dengzhou Port. Here, there are mainly several generals who lead the 250 soldiers and the families and servants of the generals. On the other side, they take the land route. The remaining soldiers and craftsmen and their families will be left to Dengzhou according to our previous route."

Since Li Jing once said when recruiting soldiers, it is best to take his family with him. Those who take his family will pay for the settlement fee, and those who don’t take their families will only pay half of the family. In addition, Li Jing also promised that after arriving in Shamen Town, he would give the soldiers and family members apart land and arrange work in the workshop in the future. Therefore, most of the newly recruited soldiers have decided to take their families with him. One thousand new soldiers and more than three thousand family members will be more than five thousand.

Li Jing nodded. Although the number was a bit amazing, he did not change his mind. He knew that Dengzhou would be a year of drought next year in history and was a year of locust plague. Leaving the families of these soldiers in their hometown would only make their subordinates unstable. Bringing them together. Although there was a bit of pressure at the beginning, he now 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, these thousands of people can become his best help. Whether it is hoarding land or opening workshops, it is inseparable from manpower.

"Well, this plan is good. We need to arrive at the Salmon on the eighth day of the lunar month, so we took the 250 nominal soldiers on the boat and left first. The rest of the people, then slowly came by land."

He wanted to bring thousands of people, and he had to bring more people with him if he had the opportunity. Only when there was someone, he had the strength. Now Li Jing still had a lot of money in his hand. He opened the book of Zhang Hong's statistics and read it. In terms of grain, the Han family gave 10,000 stones and 300 stones in Zhendonghai. During this period, he also sent people to buy grain, beans, rice, wheat, millet, sorghum and other things, and bought 5,000 stones in total, and spent a full ten thousand guan. All of them were added, and he now had enough food in his hand.

Ten thousand three hundred stones. He now has 1,200 people, two liters per day, and more than 1,300 kilograms per day will be eliminated, and eleven stones will be combined. If only these 1,200 people are supplied, the food he has accumulated can be enough for three years and eight months. But here is not counted as the food that soldiers have to send each month and the food subsidies for the soldiers' families. If these are included, Li Jing's food reserves will probably be able to maintain this thousand soldiers for about two years. It can completely survive his initial period!

In addition to 15,300 stones of grain, Li Jing only had 13,000 pieces of silk and 10,000 pieces of cloth left by the Han family. In addition, only the batch of treasures given by Zhendonghai could be worth about 20,000 cents, but if he took action, he would probably have to change them to 5,000 cents. Together, Li Jing didn't have much money in his hand, which was about 23,500 cents.

The biggest food problem was solved, and he had more than 2 chunks of money in his hand. What Li Jing was really worried about now was the problem of armor and armor. Now he had 1,200 soldiers, but the equipment was only 100 veterans. In addition, he had 300 sets of equipment in Dengzhou, but he still had 800 sets of equipment. This was not considered a preparatory supplement.

"Zhang Bingcao, how are you doing with the Armory in Dengzhou?"

Zhang Hong said excitedly: "Just about to tell the general a good news, after Song Wen took over as the governor, the position of chief of Dengzhou was Wang Jingwen, the brother of Wang Jingwen of the tooth general of the Qingzhou army of Pinglu Army. Wang Jingwu held the tooth general of Qingzhou, but he was the most disobedient person at the moment of the commander of the Jieshou. Now his brother took over as the governor of Dengzhou. The relationship between the governor of Dengzhou Song Wen and Wang Jingwu is the same as that of the previous governor Cui and Feng Changshi. When I first went to find Song Wen, Song Wen was unwilling to help. Later, after he returned from Qingzhou, he took the initiative to send someone to the post and show me the 1,000 sets of supplementary equipment that were originally to be transported to Da Xie Fort and the Dengzhou Navy. He said that as long as we were willing to pay the full cost, he would be willing to give us this equipment."

"Give us all a thousand sets of equipment? How much does he want?" Li Jing was moved after hearing this. He was not equipped, but he didn't expect a big pie to fall from the sky. Feng Zhang, who was the Feng family, was a member of the Feng family, and Wang Jin, the military envoy of the Dengzhou Navy, was the same clan of Wang Jingwu. Now the tooth general of the Pinglu army, Wang Jingwu, is the leader of the Pinglu army's unwilling to obey Song Wei's military orders, and the Feng family was also standing opposite Song Wei. Song Wei's move was obviously a move to get firewood under an axe. He sold the supplementary equipment that originally belonged to these two troops to Li Jing directly, not only suppressing their strength, but also helping Li Jing once, which sold Cui Yunqing and King Zhao and even gave him a face. What's more, this military equipment was not for nothing. Li Jing bought it with money, and he made a fortune in vain. He scored in one fell swoop, why didn't Song Wei do it?

As the saying goes, the snipe and clam fight, the fisherman gains the profit, and the upper class fights, Li Jing accidentally gets a bargain, and this is now a problem of helping Li Jing reduce the equipment.

"Fifty stakes per set, one thousand sets totaling 50,000 stakes!" Zhang Hong said with a smile.

"What? Fifty guan is a set, why don't they come and grab it directly?" Lin Wu jumped up and shouted loudly. The equipment he bought in the United Army was twenty guan. That set of equipment including all kinds of equipment was very complete. Now it has doubled and a half times. It really feels like robbing money.

Li Jing also frowned slightly, although he thought that if he had money, it would be worth buying directly, after all, it would save that time. What's more, except for Song Wei, even if Li Jing wanted to buy it, there would be no other place to buy it.

"Don't be anxious, the second general, it's worth it. According to me, fifty taels are definitely worth it."

"Why?"

Zhang Hong stroked his beard proudly and smiled: "Because in addition to the equipment we bought before, he even had those we didn't have one before. Among the one thousand sets of equipment, there are two hundred Modao!"

"Two hundred Mo Daoes? Really?" Li Jing, Lin Wei, Lin Wu, Wang Chong, Li Shugen, Liu Shouqian, Zhang Chengzong and other generals shouted almost at the same time. Mo Dao is the most sharp weapon of infantry. Li Jing has never seen it in Dengzhou camp. However, Li Jing had long been famous for Mo Dao in later generations. Lin Wei and others were born among the imperial guards, but Mo Dao was not unfamiliar with him. When he heard Mo Dao, he couldn't help but get excited.

"That's right, among the one thousand sets of equipment, in addition to the full set we bought before, there are also two hundred modao knives, two hundred sticks, two hundred cowhide square rows, four hundred dough rows. Two hundred arms and two hundred horned crossbows, one thousand two hundred crossbow strings, one thousand two hundred crossbows, twenty crossbow arrows, twenty crossbow arrows, three hundred steps and twenty crossbows, and one thousand two hundred iron feather crossbow arrows." Zhang Hong finished reading the new equipment that was extra in this batch of equipment in one breath.

"Buy it, buy it all, no matter how expensive it is!" Li Jing, when Zhang Hong finished his thoughts, immediately slapped the table heavily and shouted loudly. He was already moved when he heard two hundred Mo Daoes. He heard that there were four hundred shields, four hundred individual crossbows, and forty sets of heavy crossbows. Li Jing could not hold back his breath. Not to mention that Mo Dao and crossbow arrows were the most sharp weapons in the Tang army, but the forty sets of heavy crossbows, which could directly allow Li Jing to jump from the second-line troops to the Tang Dynasty ace equipment army.

"One set is fifty, one thousand sets are fifty, and one thousand sets are fifty thousand. We don't have that much money now, why don't we buy 800 sets?" Du Zhongwu is worthy of being a businessman, and he doesn't have to take out the calculations to calculate, and he has already had a scheming in his heart.

"No, buy all, buy a lot of sets." Li Jing would not say that the world will be in chaos soon. Then there will be no such good equipment to supplement military equipment. Then you can buy land even if you have money. What's more, these equipment also include powerful equipment such as Modao, shield, and crossbow. "Don't worry too much about money. Zhang Bingcao will bring 10,000 guan of flying money to Dengzhou tomorrow and tell the governor Song that we will buy all of the 1,000 sets of equipment. We will pay 10,000 guan first, and we will pay the remaining money later."

"Can this work?" Zhang Hong was a little confused. The governor's money was not easy to owe him credit. Li Jing smiled. Since he knew the origin of the military purchase, Li Jing had already expected that Song Wen was willing to owe him credit for the time being. What's more, Li Jing did not intend to owe him for too long, 50,000 guan. He now has more than 20,000 guan. He can also borrow it temporarily from Zhendonghai and others, and it will be almost done. You can find a way to make mistakes in the money. If you miss this batch of equipment, you have no place to buy it.

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