Chapter 47 Brothers
For the army, the speed of the marching is undoubtedly extremely important. Wang Fu asked to run to escape the Yulin Guard. Although it was a bit strange, Yan Yingyuan did not think much about it. During the training of the Yulin Guard, there were already events that would marche ten miles a day.
Of course, it is unlikely that there will be tests together. Yan Yingyuan divided them into eleven groups, each group took the first thousand people, and then selected 7,000 people from the one thousand people. In this way, only two tests are required, and the recruitment work can be completed.
Sun Kexian is now a garrison general of the Jiehu Camp. The Yulin Guard is divided into three camps, Wang Wannian's Tiger Camp, Lu Zhengxian's Flying Tiger Camp, and Wang Gongluo's Jiehu Camp. The name of this camp was taken by the guerrilla general himself. Wang Wannian and Lu Zhengxian were both named after the tiger. After thinking for a long time, he simply took a tiger killing camp. Of course, Wang Wannian and Lu Zhengxian were not happy. They forced Wang Gongluo to change the name. Wang Gongluo changed the killing to Jie. Although Wang Wannian and Lu Zhengxian were still not satisfied, they could only do so.
At this moment, Sun Kexian was riding on a horse, looking up at the road running crowded with thousands of people. Among them, there were many people who signed up for about the same time as him. Compared with them, Sun Kexian was undoubtedly very lucky. At the moment, the Yulin Guard was in urgent need of officers and was suddenly promoted to the garrison general. It was a step to reach the sky.
It was a taboo in the army when he first joined the army. However, he did not have much jealousy for Sun Kexian's original Yulin Guard. The Yulin Guard was not formed for a long time and there was no too serious bad habit of seniority. Sun Kexian's reading and literacy could be respected by most people. Moreover, he defeated Wang Guerrilla under a fair competition. Although he had gained some advantage in weapons, many people in private said that Sun Kexian would never only defend his future, and he might soon become Guerrilla.
The running of ten thousand people is spectacular. Many men in tattered clothes are holding their breath and running with all their might. Some smarter people slow down their pace and follow the team at a slow speed. The distance they want to run is not one or two miles, but more than ten miles, and they have to run from the city to the foot of the Zijin Mountain.
No one wants to leave. If they are still half-doubted about whether they have five taels of silver for military pay when registering, this doubt will soon disappear after registration. It is not that the court paid them military pay, but in terms of food, the food provided by the Yulinwei to these men who have not yet become soldiers is full of white rice. At noon, each person has about three taels of braised pork, bone soup, and at night it is about four taels of fish, and at the rest of the vegetables and robu.
Everything is going on, and eating is a big deal. You can eat white rice, braised pork, and fish every day. Even some landlords don’t have such a good life. In order to eat white rice, braised pork, many people have to stay without military pay, let alone high military pay.
Due to financial resources, Wang Fu can only recruit 7,000 people this time, but it does not mean that he will not expand in the future. Those who can join the army today are potential soldiers in the future, leaving a good image for these people who join the army. The next time they recruit soldiers will definitely be more surging. In terms of food of 110,000 people, it is actually not much money a day. The price of a fat pig in the Ming Dynasty is about three taels of silver, and three taels of meat per person is enough for five or six hundred people to share, and 110,000 people will consume about two hundred fat pigs every day. With other food expenses, 1,200 taels of silver is enough for a day. Spending less than 10,000 silver in a few days can exchange for a potential source of more than 10,000 soldiers. This transaction is really worth a lot, and this is actually a normal food for the Yulin Guard.
At the beginning, everyone gritted their teeth and advanced in unison, and the distance was not too large. Only after two or three miles, the gap appeared. The team had already grown into a long line. Some people who started to run too fast were already breathless and slowed down. However, no one was willing to stop. Stop meant giving up, which meant that the high military pay for five or two months was gone, which meant that the daily life of white rice and braised pork was gone, and they returned to the poor life they used to be.
"For braised pork, for white rice." At least nine out of ten people encouraged themselves with this sentence in their hearts.
After running five miles, many people couldn't support it anymore and had to sit on the ground and rest for a while. Seeing that the people behind them were surpassing them one by one, some people couldn't help crying loudly. After crying, most people still got up and continued running. After all, there was still a glimmer of hope after running.
Most of the backward people are honest farmers who have not participated in the army. Their physical fitness may not be poor, but they are not experienced and run hard at the beginning. When those veterans march more, they naturally know how to save physical strength. However, most of the ones who can run in the front are not veterans.
A young man in front whispered, and an unstable man fell to the ground. A man next to him quickly stopped and helped the fallen man up: "Second brother, how about it?"
"Brother, I sprained my ankle." The younger brother shouted.
The eldest brother looked up at the team and saw less than a hundred people in front of them. If they reached the finish line according to this result, their brothers would all steadily enter the Yulin Guard, but at this critical moment, what should I do?
Without thinking much, the elder brother squatted down and said, "Come up, I'll carry you."
"No, brother. You can't escape this way."
"Don't talk nonsense, come up."
Perhaps it was because of the authority of being the brother, the younger brother hesitated for a while and climbed up. The older brother took a big step forward again. After all, there was one more person on his back and he couldn't get up anyway. Gradually, more and more people surpassed his brothers.
Purple Mountain is not far ahead. They can already see the Yulin Guard flag that arrived early at the foot of the mountain. The two brothers fell from the front echelon to the second echelon, and the third echelon, at least thousands of people surpassed the two brothers. Each one who surpassed them looked at the two brothers with the eyes of an idiot.
"Sir, look at them both." A Yu Linwei pointed at his brothers in surprise and said, "These two brothers were too conspicuous in front of the crowd."
This Yulin Guard is Sun Kexian's personal soldier. As a garrison, Sun Kexian can be equipped with five personal soldiers. In the general army of the Ming Dynasty, personal soldiers are military generals who feed them with silver to protect their servants. Their military pay is often higher than that of the Yulin Guard and they are willing to work hard. This is the case with the personal soldiers brought to the capital by Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing.
The combat power of an army is sometimes the number of soldiers in the chief general, and the others are just miscellaneous soldiers who make up the numbers. The Ming army often has tens of thousands, tens of thousands of people defeated by the Qing Dynasty, and tens of thousands or twelve thousand. In fact, the real battle of these troops is also the chief general's personal soldiers. Often hundreds of people are great. Once these hundreds of people are defeated, it is not far from the defeat of the entire army. Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing have all destroyed their personal soldiers. Even if they escape back, their combat power will immediately drop by 10%.
Wang Fu naturally did not want his Yulin Guard to become like this, so he strictly limited the number of personal soldiers. Yan Yingyuan had only twenty personal soldiers, ten guerrilla soldiers, five garrison soldiers, and below the garrison, and no personal soldiers were allowed to be granted. Moreover, the military pay of the personal soldiers was the same as the other Yulin Guards. However, during war, they were responsible for the safety of the main generals. When the main generals were killed, the personal soldiers would be killed. If the personal soldiers died, the main generals would be killed. If the personal soldiers died, the main generals would be commended by the court and a generous pension would be given to the family.
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Chapter completed!