Turbulent Times Chapter 1013: Square soldiers and horses

For example, the farmer’s wife remembers that the man she is now is not the original man, but she looks better. At that time, the higher-ups ordered each household to live separately, completely ending the situation of mixed shacks, and now the man is stronger. After returning, the two men had a fight, and she became the man's woman.

While the two women were talking, they had already arrived at the cesspit. The cesspit was outside the village. It was gathered here for the sake of cleanliness on the one hand, and on the other hand to facilitate the accumulation of manure for the farmland.

There is a public toilet on one side of the pit, and on the other side is the place to empty the toilet. There is a sign beside the pit that reads "Five hangings for feces not entering the pit." The two stood on the edge of the pit carefully and emptied the toilet. .

Zhou Xiaoya ran a dozen steps away and got up a bucket of water by shaking the cart. The fairy-like ice woman from the saltworks taught people how to make it, and it’s called a orange, and it’s really convenient to lift the water in the well.”

After the water came up, the two of them were talking while washing the toilet. The farmer's wife stretched her waist and looked up at the fields outside the village. The wheat seeds and beans had been planted, waiting to be watered. Germination, thought of this and looked at the two small waterwheels by the small river next to the village.

There has been very little rain since the beginning of spring, and now it is mainly watered by the well dug. The well mouth is too small, and it is tiring to lift water with oranges. Two small water tankers were built on the side, which can lead water to the farmland for irrigation.

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After Wang Junlin inspected the salt field for seven days, he summoned Nie Xiaoyu, Liu Ziming, Shan Xiongxin, Du Ruhui, Xiangxiang, Shen Guoer, Zhang Tiangang, Yuchi Jingde, Lu Han, Guan Xiaotong, Xu Xiaohu, Lu Shijun and other subordinates All the important confidantes gathered in the salt field to hold a meeting on the next step of military development, and Luo Shixin and Li Xuanba were also present.

The reason why they chose to hold the meeting in the salt field instead of the county town was to avoid Xue Li, General of Yingyang Mansion, and others, as well as Tongshou Zhao Zhanpeng and others who could not yet be regarded as confidantes.

At present, Wang Junlin's army can be divided into four parts.

Shan Xiongxin has a thousand soldiers under his command. According to Wang Junlin's request, they will all be trained as cavalry in the next step. Because the government soldiers are in the clear, one thousand is already the limit, so we must strive for excellence, whether it is personal force or combat experience. They all strive to be true elite soldiers. In the future, when they go to the battlefield, these thousand cavalry will not only equal one to ten, but at least they will be comparable to the ordinary three thousand cavalry.

The second part is Yuchi Jingde's 3,000 troops. These people were originally bandits under Yuchi Jingde's command, but when they met Yuchi Jingde, a fierce general with the talent of a general, how could they be ordinary bandits? , Now that we have a good supply of armor and weapons, we don't have to worry about being besieged by the government, and we don't have to worry about food and drink, so we can concentrate on training soldiers. According to Wang Junlin's plan, among the three thousand people, one thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry, and they are infantry proficient in mountain warfare.

The third part is the 3,000 people in the salt field led by Lu Han and Guan Xiaotong. Because of the concealment of the salt field and the cover of the salt field, it is clear that there are 3,000 people in the salt field, but in fact it will eventually be Six thousand troops, these people have more than 500 elite soldiers from Youzhou as the backbone, and Nie Xiaoyu personally led them for a month or two, combined with thousands of years of military training and battle experience, a unique set of soldiers was set for them. training method.

Although it is composed of salt men and salt slaves who have never been on the battlefield before, it is the army Wang Junlin looks forward to most. According to the plan, there will be 2,000 cavalry and 4,000 infantry. Of course, there will be some subdivided arms, such as archers, sword and shield hands, spearmen and so on.

The fourth part of the troops is naturally the navy on Snake Island, led by Lu Shijun, and Nie Xiaoyu is currently watching the training personally. Right now there are more than 3,000 officers and soldiers who "defected" from the Fanyang County navy. The family members in Fanyang County were also sent to the island. In addition, Nie Xiaoyu absorbed some of the more than 2,000 rebels from the original Lu family who were sent to the island, and gathered 4,000 sailors. Currently, there are only 10 warships. The next step is to build ships. The factory will continue to build warships for them. According to the plan, there will be four large ships of 5,000 shi, ten grains of 3,000 shi, and fifty warships ranging from 1,000 shi to 2,000 shi.

Because the Sui Dynasty will go to war with Goguryeo in more than three years, so the navy is the army that Wang Junlin attaches the most importance to. According to Wang Junlin's plan, the number of troops will eventually reach 10,000. The island can't accommodate so many people, Wang Junlin urged Nie Xiaoyu to train the sailors as soon as possible, because he wanted to send 3,000 of the 4,000 sailors to the two islands given to him by the Goguryeo Prime Minister Yuan Tae-joo , control it in your hands first.

This matter cannot be delayed any longer. Jin Yibei and Mao Haitao sent by Yuan Taizuo came to Wang Junlin to cry every day. After all, Jin Yibei also helped deal with Dou Shihai before, and Yuan Taizuo also finished For all Wang Junlin's demands, no matter what, he should return his son Yuan Gai Suwen to him.

Based on this calculation, before he knew it, Wang Junlin's army in Fanyang County already had 10,000 troops, and according to this plan, in half a year at most, he would have 15,000 troops.

And this is not counting the 8,000 county soldiers in the eight counties. The captains of the county soldiers are all from Wang Junlin, and they also practice the county soldiers according to Wang Junlin's order, although they are not as good as the government soldiers, and The army trained by Nie Xiaoyu personally designed the training method in the salt field, but according to Wang Junlin's assumption, the combat power of the 8,000 county soldiers could not be inferior to Yuchi Jingde's 3,000 soldiers from bandits.

In addition, according to Wang Junlin's request, all the males among the 20,000 farmers in the salt field must also train soldiers during their slack time, and prepare like the reserve members of later generations. , or to deal with various civil wars in the country, these people can be added to the depleted regular army at any time, and they can also be organized at any time. With a little training, it will be a quite effective army.

There are still eight counties. Wang Junlin ordered the counties to organize rotation training for civilian bravery in units of villages and towns, and set up additional village camps. Like the salt farm, certain training will be carried out during the slack season.

Wang Junlin's subordinates, apart from the government soldiers who can be paid by the finance of Fanyang County, the salary of the salt workers in the salt field can subsidize part of it, and he has to pay for the rest, and all the generals and officers of these armies They all understand that the three places, Salt Field, Lu's Back Mountain, and Snake Island, are actually Wang Junlin's personal soldiers.

These people add up to 10,000 people now, and there will be no fewer than 15,000 in the end. To maintain the expenditure of 15,000 troops, there are 4,000 cavalry, 4,000 sailors, military pay and Food and grass are on the one hand, and war horses, armor weapons, and warships all cost money.