Chapter 202: Refined infantry cavalry 100,000 troops

Qin Hao promised the imperial court that he would lead 30,000 elite cavalry to the south to help, considering that the training cycle of cavalry was relatively long, and the Yanmen army only had five months of training time, so Qin Hao decided to convert all soldiers into cavalry. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Yanmen army originally had 40,000 soldiers, including 15,000 cavalry and 25,000 infantry, but after continuous battles, nearly 10,000 were damaged, and there were still 30,000 real elites.

Convert the infantry in the remaining soldiers into cavalry, and immediately exchange 15,000 veterans with rich battlefield combat experience for the Yanmen army, and these veterans have riding experience, so it is easy to train into elite cavalry.

After all the soldiers were converted into cavalry, the Yanmen army immediately had 30,000 cavalry that could be pulled to the battlefield immediately, and the remaining troops could only be re-recruited.

As soon as the recruitment notice of the Yanmen Army was posted, the four northern counties immediately boiled over, because the treatment of the Yanmen Army was too good and the attraction to ordinary people was too great.

The Han Dynasty has never had such a high salary as the Yanmen Army, and one person who joins the army can even feed the whole family, and there are also a series of benefits, such as more land, exemption from some miscellaneous taxes, pensions for the war dead and disabled, and so on.

If you don't go to the army, you wouldn't be stupid!

Countless young people rushed to sign up, because everyone knew that the number of people recruited by the Yanmen Army was limited, and if they fell behind and were preempted by others, they would have no chance.

This kind of scramble to be a soldier is also possible in the four northern counties, and it is impossible to happen in any place in the Han Dynasty, the population of the four counties is mostly homeless, and being a soldier is the best way out, so there are so many people willing to be soldiers.

Before the expansion of the Yanmen army, there were 30,000 soldiers, and 10,000 defenders were also directly incorporated into the soldiers, and Qin Hao recruited another 10,000 Hu cavalry, so this conscription only recruited 50,000 soldiers.

But no one expected that the people's mood in joining the army was so high, and the number of people who took the initiative to sign up for the army was as high as 300,000, which made Qin Hao happy and worried.

The good news is that after the 300,000 people who joined the army brush off the 250,000, the remaining 50,000 must be the essence, and the overall quality of the Yanmen Army will definitely be greatly improved, and a little training can train an elite soldier who can fight tough battles.

The worry is how to brush down 250,000 people?

The Yanmen Army doesn't need so many troops for the time being, and it can't afford to raise so many, so there is no way, Qin Hao can only raise the conscription requirements.

After seeing the new recruitment requirements of the Yanmen Army, many people were dumbfounded, and then they knew that although the treatment of the Yanmen Army was good, not everyone could join.

The updated recruitment criteria are as follows: Innocent of life, no disability, strong and strong, and most importantly, 18 to 25 years old.

The focus is on age, and this item directly reduced the number of people who joined the army by one-third, which made countless people beat their chests.

Qin Hao was also afraid that he would miss some real talents, so he put down the ring battle, even if it exceeded the standard, he could participate, as long as he won the ring battle, he could be directly hired by the Yanmen Army and be reused in a high position.

It's a pity that the ring has been in place for five months, and only some second- and third-rate talents have been recruited, and none of the first-class and super-first-class masters have appeared.

There is no first-class master like this among the millions of displaced people, which makes Qin Hao can't help but sigh, talents are rare!

Then for the 200,000 candidates, Qin Hao came up with a number of selection processes, such as physical fitness tests, strength tests, martial arts tests, and so on.

And this series of tests, in the end, has only one purpose, that is, to reduce the number of soldiers to 50,000, and with such an extravagant method to select soldiers, it is estimated that Qin Hao is the only one in the entire Han Dynasty.

The 200,000 candidates, after being selected by physical strength, martial arts, etc., were finally reduced to 70,000, which is really beyond the brush.

All meet the standards, and they are all good seedlings, no one wants to leave, Qin Hao has no problem with this, so he has to leave all 70,000 people.

Qin Hao selected 50,000 of the most elite from the 70,000 recruits, and after gathering 100,000 Yanmen soldiers, he carefully selected 10,000 cavalry from the 50,000 new troops.

After the stirrups and saddles and other equipment were ready, the 60,000 cavalry troops, under the leadership of Qin Hao, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao and others, started a vast training.

As for the training of the remaining 40,000 infantry, Qin Hao handed it over to Yue Fei, Gao Shun and Xu Huang, who were much stronger in infantry training than Qin Hao, so Qin Hao naturally had to make the best use of his talents.

As for the extra 20,000 new troops, after the training is completed, they will be assigned to the 38 counties under the jurisdiction of the Yanmen Army to maintain local law and order and become the Yanmen reserve army, that is, the defenders.

Originally, the Tuntian soldiers were also in the ranks of the Yanmen reserve soldiers, but now they have been banned by Qin Hao, because there are too many Tuntian troops in Yanmen now.

The 400,000 Yellow Turban prisoners of war (plus those captured by Qin Wen) have all been reduced to the Tuntian troops of the Yanmen Army, and since the Yellow Turbans have not yet failed, the Yellow Turban prisoners of war cannot be pulled into the battlefield or filled the army, and can only be used as free labor for the time being.

However, if it is according to the standard of the original Tuntian soldiers, the huge food and salary are enough to crush the Yanmen army, if it is treated differently, it is all Tuntian troops, but the difference in treatment between them is so big, it will cause dissatisfaction in the hearts of many people.

Therefore, Qin Hao simply banned the original Tuntian troops and made all the Yellow Turban prisoners of war become the new Tuntian troops, but they also had to wait until the reconstruction of Yanmen Pass was completed.

Under the continuous struggle of nearly one million laborers day and night, the new Yanmen Gate was finally rebuilt after four months, and the defense was better than before.

After the reconstruction of Yanmen Pass was completed, the 400,000 prisoners of war of the Yellow Turbans and the hundreds of thousands of slaves of the Xiongnu were all under the control of Qin Jian and Li Dingguo, and the construction of the gallop road connecting the four counties began.

However, the difference is that after repairing the county road, the Yellow Turban prisoners of war will be scattered in the three counties in the north and the south to carry out tuntian, while the Xiongnu will work hard in the four counties in the north and the endless.

After the Xiongnu slaves built the county road between the four northern counties, they also had to build the county road connecting the county seats, and after taking the county, the county road connecting the counties and counties of the state still had to be built by them.

After that, once the coal mine is mined, some drudgery such as digging coal will also be handed over to them to do.

In short, if the use value of these Xiongnu slaves is not squeezed to the point that there is nothing left, Qin Hao will never return their freedom.

If one day Qin Hao frees these slaves, there are only two possibilities: one is that their bones are already full of servility, and they will never be able to rebel. The second is the restoration of Great Qin, Qin Hao's accession to the throne, thus granting amnesty to the world.