choke element

Chapter 250 Ten Thousand People

"I see." Zhang Rong heaved a sigh of relief.

In the end, he and Yan Shi are both subordinates with their families, unlike Yan Ning, whose subordinates are all fierce warriors.When they came to Haicang Town to take a look, they were certainly shocked by the power of the Ding Navy, but if they had just joined Guo Ning's command, they would be the first in a series of battles, that would be bad.

And when the group left, several soldiers who had been lying down and rested suddenly got up.

"Did you hear it? Did you hear it? What Jie Shuai said just now!"

A soldier with a round face, red and black, who seemed to be of some alien blood laughed and said: "Jie Shuai said he has no majesty! He's a liar, he went to the fighting field to fight, his grandeur, his power, how powerful! To be honest, I can't even look at him!"

"...You guys are really a bit stupid."

"Bastard, what can you say! Do you underestimate Jie Shuai's majesty!"

The round-faced soldier cursed angrily, while several soldiers beside him all nodded: "Of course Marshal Jie is majestic, but you are indeed stupid, old Wu. What you said is not the same thing."

"It's not the same thing? Then you guys, what did you hear from Jie Shuai?"

Before that soldier was waiting to speak, Chen Ran hurried over from behind with a cold face.The soldiers seemed to be more serious about this attendant who held the secret than they were about Guo Ning, so everyone kept silent.

It wasn't until Chen Ran was far away that the soldier stood up and pointed at his round-faced companion: "Expand the army! Expand the army!"

He said heartbrokenly: "Marshal Jie said just now that we will set up a navy and expand it to ten thousand people!"

Many people farther away did not hear Guo Ning's words clearly, but now they all looked up: "Really? Are you going to expand the army again?"

Guo Ning's subordinates have gone from hundreds of people by the river to the current situation step by step. They have experienced several fierce battles and suffered heavy losses. expansion.

In such a world, the soldiers' ability to endure death and sacrifice is terrible, and Guo Ning's style of rewarding the soldiers for their meritorious deeds has enabled many of them to benefit greatly from the expansion.In particular, most of Guo Ning's companions who gathered at the Feijunhe camp at the beginning became officers.People like Han Xuan and Qiu Huiluo are already commanders.

When Ding Haijun came to Laizhou, there were more than 5000 people in the main army and the congregation. After several fierce battles, more than a thousand people were killed or seriously injured, and there were less than [-] people left.This loss is real, and the soldiers all know that Tuo Lei and Guo Ning were negotiating in the cell at that time, and they even used this to threaten Guo Ning.

But after all, Tuo Lei was the first time to go south to the Central Plains to fight. He saw the vastness of the Central Plains and the luxuriant population, but he couldn't imagine how easy it would be to expand the Central Plains army.

With the manpower that Guo Ning has in Laizhou, if he fully mobilizes the best men, he can easily pull out an army of 2 people.When Guo Ning is about to obtain Jinan's household registration, as long as the army expands to [-], it is already a prudent move to strive for elite soldiers and strong generals.

The expansion of five thousand soldiers to ten thousand is not a reorganization of new and old people.Experienced generals will definitely retain the elite composed of old soldiers, and then recruit meritorious soldiers and grassroots officers to be promoted to serve as instructors and backbones of the new army.

Even though the officer establishment of the Navy is not as bloated as the usual imperial army, among the 5000 expanded personnel, there will actually be hundreds of generals, hundreds of captains, dozens of lieutenants, and even higher ranks. All will work.

With so many positions, each one is a step up for veterans.Each of them represents a better future, more military pay, and more generous land grants... Who wouldn't be jealous?
And in the original army, the vacancies left by old soldiers and low-level officers after being transferred will also become a step up for others!
In such a world, soldiers will die at any time, but precisely because they face death at any time, soldiers' desire for status, wealth, and future is naked and undisguised, and it is deeply engraved in their bones, just like their love for Guo Ning. The worship of the strong is the same.

Before Guo Ning and his group walked out of the military fort, the soldiers in many barracks inside were all spreading the news.

Apart from Guo Ning's headquarters, those who could rest in the military fort were the wounded and meritorious soldiers. Many soldiers couldn't help laughing out of their own merits, guessing that they would have to make a fortune no matter what.

The generals of the Dinghai Navy are not the ones in the imperial army, nor are they farts. One general is in charge of five regular troops, five servants, and fifty families!Fifty shady households equal five thousand acres of land!
Although the rank of Shijiang can only get [-]% of the output from the five shade households directly under his own family, but there are not a few acres of land owned by military households?How beautiful is it to share it with shady households to farm and harvest grain every year?

Putting it on Zhongdu Road, or Hebei Road, I'm afraid those wealthy Jurchens would only live like this, right?Once you have the land, you can build another house, marry a relative, hug a wife, and give birth to a few children... How beautiful are those days?
Who would have thought that the big guys were all from poor military backgrounds, and they could really win such a good life by killing the enemy and doing meritorious service?

At the moment, many people are thinking about it, and some people are thinking about it, with smiles on their faces, and a wisp of saliva trickling down their chins.

The entire barracks was quiet for a long time, and everyone was immersed in anticipation for the future.

After a while, someone suddenly gasped and said in a low voice, "No, there is something troublesome."

The one who is speaking now is Zhang Qian, his elder brother Zhang Jiao, who died while guarding the camp of Haicang Town.He himself has always been on the front line of fighting the Mongols, his face and shoulders were injured, and he was quite admired by ordinary soldiers.

At the moment, several people around asked: "What's wrong? What's the trouble?"

Zhang Qian pointed his fingers and said, "Think about it, when the commander-in-chief of the day set up the military household system, we had six thousand generals, and then there were 1 shade households. Therefore, it is said that each soldier sheltered five households. Farmers, in fact, when the Mongols came to kill them, many brothers only had the turn to shelter one or two farmers. Jie Shuai said that after the war, they would recruit people and enrich them..."

"That's right, I only shelter one family. After a while, if I marry the daughter of that family, the two families will become one family... There will be no more shade households!" Some people nodded repeatedly.

"Then, now that the war is over, and the commander-in-chief is going to expand his army to ten thousand people, where do so many shady households come from?"

Zhang Qian looked at his companions on the left and right: "What's the use of relying on more than 3 people from Jinan alone? Not enough?"

"This……"

Someone was stupefied for a long time, and said in a low voice: "Jie Shuai won't lie to us, will he?"

"Nonsense... When did the commander-in-chief lie to you..." Someone sneered and said, "Zhang Qian, you are a fool! Let me tell you, everything is under the control of the commander-in-chief! The navy must first expand its army by [-] people , and then there are all kinds of shady households and fields!"

Zhang Qian was suddenly reprimanded, and couldn't help curling his lips: "Then there must be 30 households for distribution! Don't be afraid of [-] or [-] people? So many people, where did they come from? Did they fall from the sky?"

With his mouth still curled up, Zhang Qian suddenly saw the soldiers in front of him saluting one after another. Zhang Qian felt something was wrong, so he turned around quickly and saw Wang Shixian's livid face.

It seems that Wang Shixian spent a lot of effort in the school to smooth over the officers who questioned his impediment to command, but this matter will never make people happy. At this moment, his mood is irritable and he is looking for someone to vent.Zhang Qian was so desperate that he hit the gun head of his immediate boss.

"Zhang Qian, you are doing a military review in the school. You can't make excuses, but you have the energy to talk about the great policies of the Jiedu Mansion here? Wait for confinement!"

(End of this chapter)