Chapter 140: Old Pawn

Seeing this scene in front of them, Wu Meng and Zhou Jun couldn't help but look at Chen Hai, the two thousand old soldiers taken over by the Seventh Capital of the New Army can be said to be a sick tiger with teeth pulled out, dying and dying on the way at any time.

Tu Ziji and Zhao Rong entered the West Garden two months before Chen Hai to take over the two thousand old soldiers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Among the two thousand veterans, there are also more than thirty Soul Realm Tiger Ben Captains to maintain drills and other camp affairs, but these people are all veterans in their sixties and seventies, in addition to having extremely rich combat experience, they are not even as good as the young martial cultivators in the middle and late stages of the Xuan Realm simply with their strength in qi and blood.

But from the eyes of these veterans, Chen Hai could clearly feel their distrust and rejection.

This is a world where the strong are respected, according to the old practice, it should be from the eight clans of Jingjun to recommend the strong in the middle and late stages of the Ming Mind Realm to master the training affairs of this new army, although Chen Hai is the first in the Northwest Regions, and there is a great chance to cultivate the Dao Dan in the future, but that may be fifty or sixty years later, at this time, Chen Hai has very little qualifications, so naturally he has not been able to subdue the prestige and majesty of these veterans and pawns.

In the eyes of these veterans, Zhao Rong, who had cultivated in the early stage of the Enlightenment Realm and had served in the Tiger Ben Army for six years, was more qualified to serve as the captain of the Seventh Capital Cavalry than Chen Hai, a young melon.

Before Chen Hai, the chief officer, took office, Tu Ziji and Zhao Rong were mainly only responsible for the construction of the camp and the maintenance of the old soldiers.

Walking into the big tent, Chen Hai looked through the roster of generals who had been reorganized by Tu Ziji and Zhao Rong, and the situation was even less optimistic than what he had seen with his own eyes, but no matter what the mysterious figures behind Tu Ziji, Zhao Rong and even Chen Xuanzhen were thinking, Chen Hai performed his duties as the chief officer of the seventh capital in an orderly manner according to the authority granted by the Taiwei Mansion.

In addition to being over sixty years old and injured, there are less than 600 elite veterans left who can really stay, and the follow-up Taiwei Mansion will also recruit 8,000 new soldiers from all over the country to send them for training, and the seventh capital of the West Park New Army, the full strength is 10,000 people.

Chen Hai assigned more than 1,400 old, weak, sick and disabled and more than 30 veteran lieutenants to the baggage battalion, and did not give these veterans a chance to restrain him; the remaining 600 elite veterans were assigned to Ran Hu, Du Yong, Zhou Jun, Li Yulin, Wu Jinglin, and other newly selected military attachés to serve as guards, flag bearers, and messengers......

Before the 8,000 new soldiers were recruited, Chen Hai could only put up the shelves of the Seventh Capital first, and Zhao Rong and Tu Ziji took other military attaches to familiarize themselves with the "Drill Code" promulgated by the Taiwei Mansion first, and Chen Hai took Ding Shuang and others to improve the training of the baggage battalion first.

The baggage battalion is responsible for logistics and battalion affairs, and it is an inevitable structure for every new army.

The code of conduct promulgated by the Taiwei Mansion has clear provisions on the construction of the baggage camp in terms of the construction of the camp city, the transfer of materials, the repair of armor, the maintenance of injuries and diseases, and the storage of materials.

After all, although the chief general of the Xiyuan Army was in charge and no one took office, the chief secretary and the chief secretary were all fully equipped, and a complete logistics system was in operation.

At this time, Chen Hai stuffed more than 1,400 old, weak, sick and disabled and more than 30 veteran generals into the baggage camp, which can be said to be the largest baggage battalion in the new army of Zhudu.

Chen Hai kicked more than 30 veteran generals to the baggage camp because he was afraid that he would have some restraint on the formation and training of the new army, while the other old, weak, sick and disabled people did not have much combat strength, but they had rich experience in the repair of armor, the repair of combat equipment, and even the construction of the camp city.

Before the new soldiers were sent over, Chen Hai on the one hand expanded the site for the repair of armor and the repair of war weapons in the camp city, and on the other hand, he organized manpower to continue to increase the construction of the camp city, and soon built a new stone dam along the Qiuye River in the south of Fujiaoling Mountain, enclosing the grassland beach with an area of thousands of acres in the Qiuye River in Fujiaoling.

In addition to arranging manpower, Chen Hai threw the young animals that were poached from the mountains and rivers of the West Garden into this grass beach and fended them for feeding, and at the same time cultivated some fields and sowed medicinal herbs and grain seeds......

The Xiyuan Army Governor's Mansion has built a logistics system, and the Taiwei Mansion will also provide sufficient food and salary for the new army, and there is no duty to organize and train the new army, but with such a huge baggage battalion, Chen Hai always has to find enough things for them to do.

Chen Hai disdained to learn from other generals and privately withheld food and salary to fill his pockets, but he had so many people to support in Yanjing, and it was impossible to completely clean his sleeves, and he needed to rub some oil to make up for the lack of Yaoshiyuan.

It can be said that many people are qualified craftsmen, and the armor shop secretly sent batches of broken armor, and also sent three craftsmen to use the personnel of the baggage battalion to repair and improve, and then smuggled them to the armor shop for sale, which is the biggest oil and water that Chen Hai has thought of at present.

In the big warehouse of the Yingcheng warehouse, Chen Hai directly arranged for Zhou Jingyuan and Ding Shuang to be in charge, and Tu Ziji and Zhao Rong also opened one eye and closed one eye.

They didn't think there would be much oil and water in it, but they didn't know that the armor shop in the Medicine Master Garden in Tieqiao Lane in Xicheng had suddenly increased by more than three times the amount of fine armor that could be supplied every month.

A considerable number of these old pawns have been in the army for more than 30 years, and they can all be disarmed and return to their hometowns, but the clans and clans they relied on in the past have been deeply suppressed by the prince Yingdan over the years, and many of them have broken families, and these old pawns have no place to return, especially those who are injured and sick, they can only remain in the army to eat food and pay to survive.

Chen Hai let some injuries and illnesses withdraw from the camp in batches and arranged for them to recuperate in Taohuawu.

Chen Hai's arrangement is also to change the blood for the training of the new army and reduce the additional burden of the baggage battalion, Tu Ziji and Zhao Rong will not say anything, but he does not know that these injuries and illnesses are all qualified craftsmen that Chen Hai values.

These injuries and illnesses can be recuperated to make up for the shortage of manpower in Taohuawu.

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It was not until the end of April that the Taiwei Mansion successively selected and sent new pawns from the following prefectures and counties, but seeing the batches of new pawns sent to Fujiaoling, Chen Hai began to be dumbfounded again.

I don't know if the mysterious person behind the scenes deliberately arranged that the new pawns selected to be sent to the seventh capital were all heavy prisoners sentenced to exile or degraded to slavery in the prefectures and counties near Gyeonggi.

The situation in Yanjing has been stalemate, with major disasters year after year, displaced people raiding and plundering places, even in the important places of Gyeonggi, a large number of Jiangyang thieves, rogues, and bandits have emerged in recent years, and the prison cells in the prefecture and county have long been overcrowded.

The prefectures and counties sent these heavy prisoners to the Xiyuan New Army, but the prefectures and counties below were suddenly trouble-free, but these heavy prisoners who were born as Jiangyang thieves, rogues, bandits or ranger swordsmen were mainly concentrated in the seventh capital, and Chen Hai was really three circles bigger.

Chen Hai had experience in organizing and training Kou Nu soldiers in Yulong Mountain, but at that time, he had only trained 60 Kou Nu soldiers, but now he suddenly stuffed him with more than 8,000 unruly Jiangyang thieves and rogue bandits.

The difference in scale is so huge, they are two different things at all, not to mention the military attachés below, there are few people who are the descendants that Chen Haineng really trusts.

Less than ten days ago, the eight thousand new soldiers from the Seventh Capital were all sent over, and the Fujiaoling Camp City also successively perfected the structure of the Nine War Battalions.

Nine major war battalions, each battalion has three chief and deputy commanders, served by the military attache with the rank of captain of the Tiger Ben, and 30 captains of the hundred martial arts, who are served by the military attache of the Hu Ben attendants, but except for sixty or seventy veterans who serve as soldiers and flag officers, the others are unruly Konu recruits.

The structure of the Nine Great War Battalions is easy to determine, but it is impossible to control the scene of people turning over on their backs everywhere in the camp city.

In the first few days, the frequent bloody brawls between the Konu recruits were still a trivial matter, and there were even military attaches who strictly controlled their subordinates, who were secretly put down with sticks.

Although the vast majority of the military attachés are the elite of the elite selected from the disciples of the Soul Clearing Realm of the Counties, they are still too young, and they have been concentrating on penance in the sect or clan for more than ten years, but they have little understanding of the sinister affairs of the world, and they are unable to guard against the insidious and obscene tricks of these slaves.

Even Chen Hai, Tu Ziji, and Zhao Rong's meals were drugged, and in the end, no one was found out; in order to prevent excessive disturbance, Chen Hai had to order the investigation to be suspended.

Chen Hai stood on the top of Fujiaoling Mountain, where the camp city was located, looking at the vast water surface of the Qiuye River for more than ten miles, and he didn't know what confidence the mysterious person behind the scenes had, believing that he would definitely be able to train such a new army composed of Konu into an elite division.

"Drill and train the new army, can Captain Chen have a plan?"

Chen Hai turned around, and saw Tu Ziji and Zhao Rong walking over from the stone steps in the north, he was in a trance in his heart, he was still a little unaccustomed to others calling him "Chen Duwei" at this time, he used to be in Hexi, and he always thought that he needed to cultivate until the middle of the Mingqi Realm before he had the opportunity to serve as a middle-level general such as Cavalry Captain, Cavalry Captain, General Suwu, and General Duwuwei......

The Taiwei Mansion demanded that the new army be able to use it within half a year, but everything was organized and trained in accordance with the method taught in the "Drill Code" promulgated by the Taiwei Mansion, and these 8,000 river and ocean thieves had all become ghosts, and it was impossible for them to become an elite male division that could not be destroyed in a hundred battles within half a year.

Chen Hai could see that Tu Ziji and Zhao Rong were also a little discouraged when they saw the mess in the camp in the past two days.

It is true that this is a world where the strong are respected, but there are too many bold and reckless fanatics among the 8,000 slave soldiers, and there are too many treacherous people who are scheming and ruthless.

If these people would easily obey this world order where the strong are respected, they would not fall into the grass and plunder the countryside.

Chen Hai let out a long breath, he didn't care what the mysterious person behind the scenes had, but since he was the commander of the seventh capital of the new army, he couldn't lose his face, and he always had to show his skills, so that he could have a place in the future hegemony situation.

"When it comes to training, if I have a plan, the Taiwei Mansion won't impeach me for violating the code of conduct, right?"

He wanted to find another way, but he, the chief officer of the Seventh Capital Training, was really humble and had very limited powers, and if he wanted to make any outrageous moves, he would be impeached by others, and he might be dismissed from his post the next day.

Zhao Rong and Tu Ziji glanced at each other and said, "If Chen Shuai is confident, no matter what means are used, Ziji and I will do our best to assist Chen Shuai to train the current 8,000 rabble into a hundred battles!"

Hearing Tu Ziji and Zhao Rong's assurances, Chen Hai also exhaled lightly and said, "Okay, give me three or five days to compile a camp and drill manual, and I hope that Ziji and General Zhao can support me at that time." ”