Iron Dynasty

PS: There are two chapters first, and there are four more chapters in the evening

His Royal Highness, the total number of recruits in the six states is 20,000. After all, the number of young and middle-aged people in the six states is limited, but relatively speaking, there are many soldiers in Pengzhou, Yangzhou, Huaizhou and Tongzhou. Lu Fei said that it is only Pengzhou. There are 10,000 recruits, and the total number of recruits from Huaizhou is about 25,000, and the number of recruits reported by Ye Qingyun is slightly more than that of Lu Fei, a total of 30,000.

In the tent of the Qingzhou camp, Niu Ben reported the recruitment matters to Xiao Ming during this period.

Seventy-five thousand people! Xiao Ming was a little surprised when he heard the words. This number has exceeded his expectations. After all, the recruits joined the army voluntarily, not by force.

Niu Ben nodded with a proud look on his face, he said: We lost 3,000 soldiers in the battle of Wei and land, and now these soldiers are made up, the total number of troops in Fengguo is 160,000, of which 10 are infantry. Ten thousand, 40,000 cavalry and 20,000 charioteers.

160,000 people, um, the annual military salary is close to two million taels, and this does not include the consumption of silver horses and equipment. Xiao Ming sighed and said, if it wasn't for the war, he really didn't want to maintain this. With a huge army, the number of recruits recruited this time almost catches up with the number of previous veterans.

Niu Ben said: His Royal Highness, the number of our soldiers is not too many. According to the last commander, the king of Wei, the king of Yan, the king of Liang, and the king of Zhao are all recruiting soldiers, and some even directly recruit strong soldiers to fill the army. In chaos, who doesn’t want to fight the world with heavy troops in hand.”

You are right, it's just that these vassal kings are now causing anger and resentment, and this king can't follow them. A stable rear is the foundation of conquest, and soldiers are not expensive. Now the number of troops has reached this king. The number in mind, the four states that are now being won are able to feed these 75,000 people.

Yes, Your Highness. Niu Ben said.

Also, you can't be slack when recruiting new recruits for training. You have to train them as rigorously as you train the Qingzhou Army. Xiao Ming said.

His Royal Highness, if the last commander can't do this well, it's better to go back to farming. Niu Ben laughed a few times, and then he pointed to the school field outside and said, Please look at your highness, that is the new recruits who are being trained, according to the training manual. , When these recruits first enter the barracks, they must first train their physical strength, endurance and discipline, and only when they are physically strong and able to strictly abide by discipline will they enter the musket loading and shooting training.

Xiao Ming looked outside and greeted Niu Ben to go to the school grounds with him to observe the training of these recruits.

Different from the traditional training methods of the soldiers of the Great Yu Kingdom, Xiao Ming's army now belongs to the modern army, so the training and subjects are naturally different from those of the feudal army.

Because of this, recruits do not start training battle formations immediately after entering the army, but start physical training first. After all, if a soldier is powerless, his survival rate on the battlefield is still very low.

In the camp just now, Niu Ben has explained it very thoroughly. Generally speaking, there are several requirements for training a feudal army into a modern army. One is the modern concept of nationality and state, the other is the high spirit of martial arts, and the soldier's morale. The status is no longer low, the third is strict discipline, the fourth is scientific training, which includes such as reasonable distribution of physical fitness, diet, sleep, and the fifth is strict drills, such as shooting, drills, standing in line, folding quilts, doing Internal affairs, the sixth is the selection of grass-roots officers and the theoretical study of the military school, and the seventh is the standard equipment.

Now for the Qingzhou Army, these seven points have been satisfied, and this means that the Qingzhou Army has completed the transformation from a feudal cold weapon army to a modern army with hot weapons.

After observing the physical training of the recruits for a while on the school grounds, Xiao Ming and Niu Ben walked towards a resting recruit camp. At this time, the soldiers of the recruit battalion were sitting on the ground.

And the military chief in the dark green uniform is explaining to the recruits what is a nation and what is a country.

When the recruit battalion commander Shi saw Xiao Ming and Niu Ben approaching, he immediately shouted: All stand up, salute!

Under Chang Shi's order, the recruits stood up immediately and gave Niu Ben and Xiao Ming a uniform salute. Seeing this, Xiao Ming showed a satisfied smile. According to Niu Ben's words, the first thing these recruits do when they enter the camp is to learn to obey. Order.

Go ahead. Xiao Ming said, he wanted to hear how the long history in the army gave the soldiers ideological education.

After the soldiers sat down, the military chief talked about the Hall of Valor. Between words, being a soldier is a noble thing, and dying in battle is the most glorious place for a soldier to return.

Next, the long history of the army recounted the history of the humiliation of Da Yu by the barbarians, and the soldiers gradually became excited. After all, the atrocities of the barbarians were not far away from them.

After arousing the emotions of the soldiers, Chang Shi sang the battle song of the Qingzhou Army at the right time, and the soldiers blushed with excitement and sang along with Chang Shi.

Xiao Ming was relieved after observing the work of the military chief in the army. He looked in the direction of Jinling City in the south. In a few months, he would march forward with his division.

The Great Yu Country has suffered too much, and he used the army in his hand as a sharp sword to cut through the darkness that shrouded the Great Yu Country.

Your Highness, are you satisfied with the training of this recruit. Niu Ben laughed when he brought Xiao Ming to the gate of Qingzhou Camp.

Force. Xiao Ming didn't want Niu Ben to be too complacent, he reminded: The only thing that makes this king dissatisfied is the selection of grassroots generals. The generals are all generals, and there are still a few generals like Zhu Sansi. In a few days, this king will split the Military Academy from the Bowen Academy to expand the training scale of grassroots generals. This time, you should choose more people without background. Excellent generals enter the study.

Niu Ben nodded when he heard the words. It wasn't that he deliberately gave preferential treatment, but that most of the generals at the grassroots level were illiterate. To enter the academy, they had to be literate first. It was for this reason that he chose the person who could read first.

Now that Xiao Ming brought it up, he had to explain it.

This reason? Xiao Ming frowned, and he said, Well, let me leave these generals' literacy to this king, and this king will teach them how to read.

Yes, Your Highness. Niu Ben was a little envious. It would be a smoke on his ancestral grave for these guys to be able to teach King Qi in person.

Xiao Ming naturally has his own considerations. If there are still generals in the army, his army will inevitably have a group of generals. In this way, if such a modern army mutiny, this is very serious. matter.