Great Song Pirate

Chapter 680 Recruits
"My lord, before Zongwang's death, he ordered Wushu to abandon many towns in the Shandong area, shrink his troops to Hejian and other places north of Dezhou, and redeploy his defenses. Now that he has taken over the command, he will not mourn. The other half ordered the soldiers and horses in the Hebei area to also start to retreat, shrinking to the Zhending area to gather troops. As for Wanyan Zongjun in Shanxi, Wushu couldn't command him. The fight was lively, and now it seems that even if they know that we have captured Dading Mansion, they probably won't be able to spare many troops to come and deal with us!" Ma Zhe said triumphantly.

Xu Yi lowered his head and unfolded the map that he had always carried with him, looked at it, shook his head and said, "Don't underestimate this Golden Wushu, this person is not as simple as you think, compared to Zong Wang, this fellow may still seem A little young, but he is also a well-known general in the Kingdom of Jin. Under his reputation, there is no one in vain. I am afraid that Jin Wushu will make a big move in the near future!

Come over and take a look at the map. According to the information you got, can you see what they will do in the near future? "

Ma Zhe leaned over according to his words, and looked down at the map that Xu Yi spread out on the table. After looking at it for a while, his eyes kept rolling, and his expression gradually became serious.

"I'm afraid Song Jun will suffer a loss!" After watching for a long time, Ma Zhe suddenly said something.

Xu Yi also said with some concern: "You are very smart. On the surface, Jin Jun is retreating steadily by doing this. In my opinion, it is not the case. Before Zong Wang died, he had already realized their problem. Jin Jun Compared with the Song Army in terms of quantity, it does not have any advantage, but in terms of quality, it is still much better than the Song Army. In the previous period of time, they occupied a lot of land in the Song Dynasty, so their forces had to be scattered in various places. From offensive to defensive, that's why I played very passively.

Now that Zongwang has seen this, he began to adjust when he was dying. He seemed to have given up a large area of ​​territory, but in fact he was clenching his fingers into fists. After regrouping, the Jin army would become very powerful, while Song After the army won this period of time, there will be problems. They have to disperse to take over the land of the city abandoned by the Jin army. We can predict that when the Jin army withdraws, it must have already been destroyed. After looting the place, all that was left to the Song army was a piece of white land. Now it is the end of spring, when there is no harvest. Even if the Song Dynasty does its best, it may not be able to guarantee so many supplies for the Song army.

This time, the Song army regained a large amount of lost ground at one time, advanced a short distance, and stretched their supply line for a long time. In a short period of time, there may be a shortage of food and grass. With the opportunity to disperse, coupled with the shortage of food and grass, the Song army may suffer a big loss with a fierce attack!
I dare to conclude that Zong Wang is using retreat as an advance method to deal with the Song army!He was also forced by us to do this, this is the best way they can think of right now! "

After such a long time of experience, Xu Yi has read a lot of military books and strategies. His overall view is no longer that of the young sailor who came here for the first time, and after fighting for so many years, he has long been accustomed to looking at the overall situation. This is the biggest change that has happened to him over the years.

After Ma Zhe listened to Xu Yi's analysis, he bowed to Xu Yi and said: "My lord is a great talent, I admire you! Although I claim to be a bit of a genius, my vision of the overall situation is far inferior to that of my lord! My lord said Not bad, I'm afraid Jin Wushu is about to give Da Song a hard time!"

Xu Yi waved his hand and said: "Don't flatter me, I don't like to hear this. If we are not wrong, I am afraid that our life will not be easy in the future. Once Jin Wushu succeeds in using troops against the Song army, everyone will be killed." As soon as the pressure on Song's side is lightened, they will immediately turn their heads to deal with us. Zongfu's army will not be able to take down our Dading Mansion, and Jin Wushu will never tolerate us stabbing him in the back, so we We don’t have enough time, so we need to speed up and let this area get into chaos first. Since we have decided to make a fuss out of the fire, let’s simply make a bigger fuss. If we succeed, the Kingdom of Jin will be in real trouble!”

"Yes, my lord! In the past two days, the people we have dispersed have begun to have an effect. Several people have brought a thousand or two thousand young men from outside the city to join our army in Dading Mansion. These people have been killed General Li sent people to recruit and began to train outside the city. Although they could not become the main force in a short time, most of these people had blood feuds with the Jin people, and they were ruthless. use!

And depending on the situation today, there will still be some people who will come to serve after hearing the news, and our military strength should gradually increase a lot, so we may not be afraid of the Golden Army!
In addition, Yu Fuhai's secret work sent news that Zongfu had withdrawn his troops from Jinzhou, Jinzhou City was not taken down by him, it was still in Fang Youren's hands, and Zongfu had also learned that Dading Mansion was taken by us, Immediately turned around and went to Xingzhong Mansion, where they began to gather troops in order to regain Dading Mansion! "

Xu Yi nodded and said: "Very good! This Zongfu is really not a reckless person. Knowing his strength, even if he came back, it would be for nothing. It is a wise decision not to come back recklessly! It seems The situation is not too bad, we still have some time to prepare! Well, let's go out and have a look, and see how well General Li is preparing!"

Ma Zhe said with a wry smile: "My lord, let's go on my own. My minister's legs and feet are still inconvenient! Besides, I have many other things to be busy with. I came here suddenly, and I am busy with government affairs alone. I really don't even have time to sleep!"

Xu Yi laughed loudly, patted Ma Zhe on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Who made you more capable? This is called hard work for those who can, so you can work hard. If it doesn't work, you might as well find some scholars in the city." , to help you with something, I will notify Sun Hai immediately, and send you some people from Liaodong as soon as possible to help you!"

Unknowingly, Xu Yi has begun to regard Dading Mansion as his own territory.

Teams of newly formed soldiers, led by officers drawn by Li Bo, were conducting drills in the open space outside the city, screaming and killing. Most of these people were young and strong men from this area. After hearing that Dading Mansion was conquered by the Fubo Army, they were instigated by the so-called visiting envoys, so they dropped the work at hand, got entangled, and killed the Jurchen Mouk who ruled them. After burning the houses of those Jurchens, they defected to the Fubo Army. The northerners have developed a tough temperament in the long-term struggle with nature. At this time, I finally found a place to vent.

"Don't act like you haven't eaten, you have to shoot faster! This will allow you to live a little longer after the battle! When fighting, the hands are fast and the hands are slow, and they are waiting for you to make a move. The enemy has already given you Hacked to death! Quick, quick, quicker!..." An officer of the Fubo Army pointed at the group of new recruits he was in charge of and yelled loudly.

"You all told me, here, you are not a member of the Fubo Army, but it does not mean that you cannot become a member of the Fubo Army, as long as you obey the orders and do what I say, Once you have made military exploits, you can become an official member of the Fubo Army. Don't tell me that you are here just to make a living. If that's the case, get the hell out of here. We don't need such a fool in the Fubo Army!

The Fubo Army has been invincible since its founding. Find out for yourself, our Fubo Army is the one who took care of the Jin Army!It is an honor for you to be a member of us. Being a member of the Fubo Army means that you will become the best warriors in the world!This is the honor of your life!

Now that I'm here, let me tell you that no one is immortal in a war, but if you are afraid of death, don't come here. It may be safer to go back and sleep with your mother-in-law, but I can't guarantee it. I will kill you on a whim!The more you are afraid of death in war, the faster you will die. Only when your heads are tucked in your belt, then you can become the bravest warriors!It is possible to live longer!
Now throw all those problems on your body into the cesspit, what do I want you to do, what do you do, follow our King Jinghai, and beat the Jurchen back to his hometown, so you don't have to suffer from the Jurchen's birds !
Did you all understand what I said? "A burly military officer stood in front of a group of recruits who had just assembled, and shouted loudly at them.

After listening to his words, those recruits straightened their backs, raised their chests, and shouted loudly: "Understood!"

The officer shook his head and said in dissatisfaction: "They are all like women, limp and weak. You can see how the real soldiers of the Fubo Army responded!" He turned to the group behind him. Standing upright like green pine, the low-ranking officers who were specially drawn out to train the recruits shouted: "I promise to let these guys see, how did you answer! See how the real soldiers of the Fubo Army do it!" !"

Most of the low-ranking officers who were drawn out were from Liuqiu Island, and some of them even looked childish, but the murderous look on their bodies made people dare not underestimate them. After hearing this After the officer's cry, they gathered their energy in unison and shouted loudly: "Yes!" The sound seemed to explode from their throats, and the voices of dozens of people were far covered. The voices of hundreds of recruits were heard.

This sound of yes alone stunned the recruits here, so they didn't dare to underestimate the Fubo Army. Where is the name of the Fubo Army? , I can't help but they don't admire it.

Xu Yi saw the officer clearly from a long distance, so he said with a smile to Hou Cheng beside him: "Daniu looks more and more like a general now, this momentum is really good, but the words are a bit rude! Ha ha! But I like it." He taught the recruits such a lesson!"

"Yes, my lord, Daniu is now the idol of the officers and soldiers of the third division. It is a name spelled out. It is impossible to deal with these recruits without some foul words. If you don't suppress them first, they may not know that they are Who are you! If you let me go, you may not be better than Daniu! Awesome! Hehe!" Hou Cheng nodded aside.

"Salute from all!" Daniu suddenly saw Xu Yi and his party, so he knocked his feet fiercely, his whole body tensed up, and roared loudly.

The officers and soldiers who were training and speaking heard his roar and immediately stopped what they were doing. The officers stood at attention one after another, and at the same time saluted Xu Yi and his party with a standard Fubo army salute. Their movements were neat and beautiful, very powerful, So those recruits followed suit and saluted Xu Yi quickly, but their movements were not standard and looked a bit messy.

But Xu Yi didn't care about the non-standard actions of the recruits. He raised his hand and gave them a military salute, looking very chic, and then answered them loudly: "Relax!"

The officers put down their arms after hearing Xu Yi say to take a break, and looked at Xu Yi eagerly with their eyes. As low-level officers, it is not easy for them to see Xu Yi at ordinary times. Now Xu Yi is the idol of everyone in the Fubo Army. !

"Very good! Welcome everyone to join the Fubo Army. I am Xu Yi! I am also the commander of the Fubo Army. Now that I am here, you will no longer be bullied by the Jinren. As long as we work together, we will be able to overthrow the Jinren sooner or later." Train well, I hope you can become officers of the Fubo Army one day! A soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier. As long as you work hard enough and are brave enough, anyone has this opportunity! I will not delay your training , One more drop of sweat on the school field means one less drop of blood on the battlefield! Now we have them all, let’s continue training!" Xu Yi walked to the front of the school field and said these words to them loudly.

This time even the new recruits have learned to be good, so thousands of people stood at attention at the same time and shouted in unison: "Yes!"

Then the officers took these recruits away, and each began to select manpower from among the recruits!

"Stand up who knows how to ride a horse!" A Khitan cavalry officer shouted to the recruits first.

The cavalry is the most important arm of the Fubo Army, and it is a technical job. Most of the Han people are farming economy, so there are very few people who are skilled in riding. Therefore, it is also an important reason why the Han cavalry has always been weak. Since the establishment of the Fubo Army, the infantry, Based on Khitan people like Xiao Jianfeng, a preliminary cavalry team was established. Back then, in order to get a cavalry team, Xu Yi racked his brains and tossed for a long time to get a 500-man cavalry battalion. However, after arriving in Liaodong, countless horses have been captured after winning consecutive battles, and most people in Liaodong can ride horses. The cavalry has already accounted for a considerable proportion of the army. This time the third division came here because they crossed the sea. In combat, it is not easy to transport horses, and there are very few cavalry, which greatly limits the mobility of the third division.

Therefore, this time the conscription began. Because of his bravery in the battle outside Gaizhou City, Li Bin was hand-picked by Xu Yi, and Rocket was promoted to the position of the commander of the cavalry regiment of the third division. The cavalry could feel bitter, and as soon as they heard that someone had joined the army, they were the first to find Li Bo and asked him to select new recruits to be incorporated into the cavalry regiment.

Li Bo is well aware of the importance of a cavalry force to them. What's more, after capturing Dading Mansion, they have also obtained a horse farm here from the Jin Army, and they have captured as many as [-] horses. In terms of selection, Li Bin was given the green light to choose first.

When the recruits who joined the army heard the shout of the Khitan cavalry officer, some people immediately stood up and promised that they could ride horses. The cavalry officer looked at them and shouted: "Assemble!" Get up, stand up, stand up! I have it all, listen to my password, turn right! Walk together! Idiots, I mean you turn to the right, follow me together! Damn, do you know that the right side is there!" As a result, after a burst of laughter from the crowd, he managed to pack up the group of recruits who couldn't tell the difference between the left and the right, and took him away from this open space alone, and went back to the west of the city to train alone.

Then the officer of the crossbowman came to pick people: "Those who think they can shoot arrows come out now!"

This archer is also a technical unit. It is really not difficult for people who don't know how to archery to train to become an archer in a short time, so they choose the second one.

So a group of recruits who thought they were good at archery were also taken away, and went directly to a nearby shooting range to start shooting.

Seeing that after the two major technical arms had finished selecting people, the rest of the guys had only two arms, so they were divided into groups and handed over to the remaining officers, and began to train them to be pikemen and sword and shield players. He ran over and selected some cooks from this group of people, added them to the Huotou army, and went to serve as cooks.

Because time is tight, it is impossible to train these recruits to be like veterans according to the conventional training, so Da Niu, who is the chief officer in charge of recruit training, simply adopted the crash training method, It is not required how high the personal skills of these people are, only the officers are required to let these people form an absolute sense of obedience in the shortest possible time. As long as they have a sense of obedience, they can be used as human beings without confusion after going into battle. , and this is the only thing they can do right now.

After the allocation of personnel was completed, the training ground outside the city began to be lively. The voices of passwords in various tones became one, and the sound of shouting and cursing became a series. , went back to the city, and walked to the training ground for the auxiliary soldiers.

The drills here are very different from those outside the city. The recruits outside the city are the recruits who will be added to the regular army in the future, while the auxiliary soldiers here are all the strong people of the city who are temporarily used by the army. Therefore, they cannot be drilled in the same way as those recruits outside the city.

Li Bo, a battle-tested general, was very clear about this, so he divided these people into two groups for training.

"Listen to my command! One, two, three, pull! You are using your strength! You guys will be responsible for the operation of the trebuchet in the future. You must use enough strength and use it together, otherwise you will How can I throw stones far away! I’m really going to be mad at me?” An officer commanded a large number of civilians, pulling thick ropes tied to big trees, conducting corresponding training, and non-stop The strong men yelled and shouted.

As soon as Xu Yi heard it, he knew that this group of people had been determined to be in charge of the operation of the catapult. The catapults in the Song Dynasty were collectively called cannons. They were powered by human pull and fired various stone or fire bombs. Different, it is divided into single sentry cannon, double cannon, five cannon, seven cannon, tiger Zun cannon, belly cannon, etc. The largest is the seven cannon, which has 120 five lanyards and 250 people to pull it. It can throw hundreds of catties of stones hundreds of steps away. The smallest one is a kind of hand cannon, which can be operated by a single person. It can throw half a catty of stones tens of steps away. One step in Song Dynasty is equivalent to that of later generations. A little more than 1.5 meters, this kind of power is already very great. Even if a stone weighing half a catty is thrown from the top of the city, as long as it hits someone, no matter where it is, it can immediately break a person's tendons and bones Losing combat effectiveness, so both Xu Yi and Li Bo paid more attention to this matter.

Although the Fubo army also brought an artillery regiment this time, equipped with dozens of light thunder cannons and blast cannons, the number is much smaller than that of Gaizhou and Liaoyang, and the ammunition is not counted. Sufficient, so when Xu Yi decided to defend the city, Li Bo immediately ordered the artisans accompanying the army to immediately call the artisans in the city to build various catapults to increase the firepower for defending the city. But there should be no problem in doing such a thing, so most of the people are used as guns, and they don’t need to occupy the number of regular troops, but they can also exert their maximum combat effectiveness. out of experience.

In addition to these Min Zhuang who will be used as gunners in the future, there are also some Min Zhuang who were taken over by Yang Ci, who came with the army this time, and let them serve as full-time stretcher bearers, responsible for rescuing the wounded in wartime and transporting them to the city. First aid is used to boost morale so that frontline soldiers can fight with peace of mind.

So on the training ground, a group of civilians were driven by medical soldiers with red cross armbands on their sleeves, carrying stretchers with stones on the footpaths and horse paths of a section of the city wall, running up and down. The stretcher bearers were panting like cows and sweating profusely. In addition to carrying the stretcher, the doctors in the city were also temporarily recruited to serve as medical soldiers. They also found a group of women who were willing to help, and Yang Ci personally taught them some things. Hygiene knowledge, as well as various wound treatment methods and dressing methods.

In addition to doing these things, Yang Ci also arranged for a group of people to set up a cauldron and a steamer to cook a large number of cut cloth strips to serve as bandages, and prepared various hemostatic and anti-inflammatory medicinal powders for future use.

(End of this chapter)