- Zhuo County

"Captain Huaiyi, congratulations to Ming Gong, in this way, our army will be able to fight across states." Duan Ying looked at Jian Yong's letter and smiled happily.

"But in this way, I can no longer command the counties of Youzhou." Ma Qiang sat on the main seat and touched the Youzhou Thorn Shiyin, who was about to be handed over soon, and said, "And the captain is only in charge of the army, and the grain, grass and baggage will be controlled by others, and there are tens of thousands of prisoners, we don't treat these prisoners as official slaves, I am afraid that he will be troubled for this." ”

Whether it is according to the law or according to reason, the captured Yellow Turban Army belongs to the spoils of the government, and Ma Qiang will confiscate these people into the army, but if he also sends them to Yuyang to mine for himself, it is a personal use of power.

"Ming Gong rest assured, Liu Yu has always been lenient to the people, as long as Ming Gong explains that Yuyang iron will be made into farm tools and rented to the people at a low price, he will definitely not care."

"I hope so~ I don't know where our Liu Tingshi is now, let's solve the food problem first, what do you think of me and Kou Xian's thoughts?"

"It's really good to exchange farm tools for grain and let the people cultivate and exchange grain by themselves, but that was before the imperial court didn't have a new school of assassins, and now, Ming Gong should use a faster method."

"Faster?"

"Ying found a lot of evidence of the dealings between the scholars and the Taiping Dao in Youzhou in sorting out the finances left behind by the Yellow Turban Army."

“... You didn't fake it, did you? ”

Ma Qiang looked at Duan Ying with a suspicious expression.

...

"Ming Gong, I'm not a demon either, how can I fake these things that will kill people."

The suicide note of Guo Xun that you forged before is obviously something that will kill people and destroy the clan...

Ma Qiang silently spit out in his heart.

"A large part of the reason why Taiping Dao was able to gather so many soldiers and horses is that these scholars gave them a lot of money and food assistance before, and Cheng Zhiyuan will register every time he receives these money and grain, Ming Gong, please see, this is a list."

As he spoke, Duan Ying pushed the four-wheeled vehicle by himself and handed an account book to Ma Qiang.

Ma Qiang opened it and looked...

"Duan Ying, isn't this empty?"

"I said I didn't fake it."

Duan Ying shrugged his shoulders as he learned Ma Qiang's usual movements.

"Scare people, you're... However, it may be effective. Ma Qiang smiled and flipped through the account book without a word, and took a closer look, where is this empty, obviously there is money and food written on it!

——

Zhang Dou looked at the clothes that were sent to his hand, and was a little stunned.

It's been a magical year.

He went from being a farmer to a thief.

has changed from a thief to an official soldier.

Yes, Zhang Dou officially became a member of the glorious Han army from this moment on.

"Everyone change your clothes now, from today on, I am your Qu Chang Liu Xin, maybe on the previous battlefield, I also hacked to death which of your brothers, and any of you also killed my robe, but you remember, the battlefield is ruthless, swords and guns have no eyes, the past has passed, and we will be brothers who scoop in a pot in the future!"

Now that he knew in advance the official position he was going to hold, Ma Qiang naturally wanted to speed up the pace of army expansion.

Originally, the 3,000 soldiers and horses of the Red Star Battalion had lost a lot of money after many battles, and only more than 2,000 people remained, so Ma Qiang expanded the establishment of the five battalions in addition to the cavalry battalion from 500 to 4,000 people.

Although it is still called a battalion, the 4,000 people cannot only have a tun-level officer, Ma Qiang himself is just a captain, and the captain is actually the highest commander of the first army in the Han army, and the general above is the non-permanent position of commanding the armies, and the army or school is the largest permanent unit of the Han army.

According to the establishment of the Han army, under the captain is the military Sima, which means that Ma Qiang can only give his subordinates the position of the military Sima at most.

Ma Qiang worshiped Huang Zhong and other former battalion commanders of the five battalions as Sima of other departments, under the jurisdiction of eight songs, one song for 500 people, one song under five tuns, one tun for 100 people.

To put it simply, Ma Qiang is now the division commander, Huang Zhong and others are the head of the independent regiment, and the subordinates of the other division Sima can determine the commander-in-chief sergeant without the permanent establishment of the Han army.

Later, many of the heroes of the Three Kingdoms held the position of Sima of other departments, such as Liu Bei, Sun Jian, Lü Meng, and Xiahou Yuan.

What is the main force, Lao Tzu does not have the main force!

In this way, the strength of these five battalions swelled to 20,000 men.

Yan Rou's cavalry battalion was set up with an establishment of 3,000 men and horses, and there were six songs under it.

In addition, Ma Qiang also established a medical song, with Li Jue as the song length, and a guard song with Huang Xu as the song length.

Well, Ma Qiang fought hard to catch Huang Zhong to the death.

In this way, with the addition of soldiers from various counties and counties, the soldiers and horses that Ma Qiang could bring to Jizhou could reach the 30,000 horses he had envisioned before.

In addition to recruiting from the Yellow Turban Army, the additional sergeants of the Fifth Battalion also recruited or came on their own in Guangyang and other counties.

Zhang Dou did not become a small soldier all of a sudden after being incorporated because of his original military position in the Yellow Turban, but became the commander of a tun.

In fact, a person like Zhang Dou who has changed from a prisoner of war to a commander is an outlier in this army expansion.

It can be regarded as Ma Qiang's military heart to buy these prisoners of war.

Zhang Dou quickly took off his clothes and changed into the military uniform of the Han army.

It's all men, but no one is embarrassed.

And even if there are women, this group of people will show off their capital more proudly.

"Okay, isn't it all quite spiritual, now it's time to stand up again with Tun as a team! You're going to go back too! Liu Xin turned back to his subordinates and said.

It took almost a stick of incense for the five tuns to find their team, and among the five hundred people, one-tenth of them were veterans of the original five battalions, and most of them served as the chief and the captain.

"Okay, remember the team you are on, recognize the comrades around you, these people will help you block knives in the future!

Let me start by talking about our military discipline and rules.

The first article of military discipline! All actions are under the command of superiors! The second one! It is forbidden to plunder, and it is forbidden to take anything from the people! Article 3! All seized will be distributed to the public! Those who violate these three military disciplines will be given demerits and confinement if the circumstances are minor, and those who will be demoted or removed from their posts if the circumstances are serious! Extremely serious, chop! ”

Zhang Dou listened to this military discipline and couldn't help but feel a little strange, shouldn't military law be four words and four words and then beheaded.

Although Zhang Dou became a captain in the Yellow Turban Army, to be honest, he couldn't remember the bunch of slashing words, but he remembered the three words at once.

"Then I said eight major attentions, first, don't curse people at will, speak kindly, second, buy and sell things at a fair price, don't bully the weak, third..."

Zhang Dou found that this army seemed to be different from the official army he knew before.

"Then let's talk about our civil and military training, the martial arts is naturally to practice ordnance and military columns, orders and commands, and the text is to recognize and write, and there will be a cultural instructor in each tun, and classes will be held regularly every day!"

The battalion commander said that we would have 10 days to reorganize the army initially, and after 10 days, a competition of various songs would be held every five days, and a competition of each battalion would be held every month.

I'll talk about the ugly things first, if we lose the competition in ten days, don't blame Lao Tzu for being unkind! ”