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Yangzhou.

Recruitment point for recruits in the Jingo Army.

Chen Guang, who had been promoted to deputy commander, was sent here to recruit troops because he was slightly injured in the battle of Xiuzhou City and was not suitable to continue to participate in the battle.

Recalling the scene when he took a group of apprentices to answer the call the year before last, Chen Guang was full of emotion!

In less than two years, he has been promoted from a big-headed soldier to the current deputy commander, and the apprentices he brought at the beginning, except for a few who died in battle, have all been promoted to middle and senior military attachés in the Jinwu army, among which the most prominent, like Yue Fei, have already led an army alone, like Yu Peng, they have all been in charge alone, that is, Wang Gui, Xu Qing, Yao Zheng, have all been promoted to commanders, and there are as many as a dozen deputy commanders and capital heads.

The point is that the Jinwu army has expanded its army again.

It is conceivable that their master and apprentice are about to be promoted again.

If others don't say it, just him Chen Guang, when the injury is healed and he returns to the team, he must at least be promoted to the command level.

Therefore, following the right person is really more important than anything else.

But—

To say that Chen Guang has no regrets is also false.

Chen Guang very much hoped that he had followed General Cai Yi ten years ago, even if it was only five years ago, in that case, he would not be compared to his apprentices because of the decline in physical strength, and his life would definitely be more exciting.

But then again, it's not content to be content.

Moreover, although he is no longer young, he is only in his forties, which is not too old.

You don't see, Zhai Xingdu is almost fifty years old, isn't he still under the heavy weapons of Cai Shi.

"I, Chen Guang, am nearly ten years younger than Zhai Xing, how can I not become the second Zhai Xing?"

Thinking about it like this, Chen Guang was full of energy, and he said loudly: "General Cai seeks elite soldiers and conquers the heroes of the world!" As long as you have a little ability, you can do it with both literature and martial arts! ”

With the shouting of Chen Guang and others, twenty or thirty people came in the distance.

When they came closer, one of them politely inquired with a junior colonel of the Jinwu Army: "This military master, may I ask what is the recruitment method for the recruits of our Jinwu Army?" ”

No, that Jinwujun junior colonel was more polite than this person, he smiled and said: "Don't call me Junye, my name is Zhao Li, a native of Zhangyi Village, Xuzhou, and I have only been in the army for less than two months, and my brother can just call me by my name." ”

Zhao Li whispered again: "Remind my brother, in our Jinwu Army, when you greet people you don't know, you call them "veterans", they are very enthusiastic about keeping. ”

The man was very clever, and he immediately said: "Thank you, veteran, my name is Yan Xiaoguang, a native of Yangzhou, and I brought more than 20 descendants of our family to join our Jinwu army." ”

Zhao Li was surprised: "Yan Xiaoguang? Brother Xian is the great-grandson of Yan Shu, the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty? ”

Yan Xiaoguang was surprised: "The veteran knows me? ”

Zhao Lidao: "He just knows, as soon as we arrived in Xuzhou, we heard that Brother Xian was a local thief, and his achievements were quite good, and no local people disrespected Brother Xian." ”

Yan Xiaoguang said modestly: "The veteran praised it falsely, the little official who is not in the stream, insulting the ancestors, don't mention it." ”

In one sentence, the reason why Yan Xiaoguang had already entered the public gate and came to answer the call - the Yan family had declined, and he wanted to revitalize the family.

Hearing what Yan Xiaoguang meant, Zhao Li said: "In this way, Brother Xian is the right person, my general was ordered by the emperor to recruit a new army, and it is the time when he is thirsty for talent, Brother Xian will come to answer the call, and he will do something." ”

Yan Xiaoguang actually heard about this, so he said goodbye to his family and brought the outstanding descendants of the clan to join the call.

Seeing that Zhao Li took the initiative to mention the recruitment of the Jinwu Army, Yan Xiaoguang asked: "Veteran, I don't know how to recruit our Jinwu Army?" ”

Zhao Liyi pointed to a few recruiting offices not far away, and said: "If you don't have a specialty, you can go there to be assessed, as long as you are strong and honest, you can be selected if you accept some simple inquiries and simple tests." ”

Yan Xiaoguang looked there, and saw that the soldiers there were all stout and simple, and he was a little surprised: "This ...... Will they also be selected? ”

Zhao Lidao: "Brother Xian doesn't know, when I first joined the army, I also had this kind of doubt, and after getting along with them for a while, I found that although they reacted slowly, they were extremely obedient, and they were particularly good at fighting, and they were all extremely good Jinwu soldiers." ”

Yan Xiaoguang was still a little skeptical, but he didn't want to ask directly, so he changed his question: "That...... Does it have to be someone like them to be selected? ”

Zhao Lidao: "Naturally not, my family wants all talents, literary, martial, all of them, that is, they can speak Khitan dialect, can speak party dialect, can raise horses, raise flying slaves, have good water nature, and can support boats, even if you only know some chickens and dogs, my generals will do it." ”

After a pause, Zhao Li said again: "By the way, my general still needs a craftsman." ”

"Craftsman?"

Yan Xiaoguang was a little surprised, and even more puzzled?

Zhao Li explained: "Yes, craftsmen, blacksmiths, carpenters, leathermasons, stonemasons, paper craftsmen, lacquer craftsmen, plasterers, boatmen, as long as they are craftsmen, all the generals in my family want them, and the remuneration of craftsmen is still high, excellent craftsmen are better than the salaries of officers, and the best is craftsmen who make gunpowder and fire, as long as they come to apply, the treatment will definitely make anyone red." ”

Yan Xiaoguang was even more surprised, and he said, "What does General Cai want so many craftsmen for?" Making weapons? ”

Zhao Li smiled and said nothing.

Yan Xiaoguang immediately understood, knowing that he couldn't ask randomly, and Zhao Li wouldn't answer randomly.

Yan Xiaoguang immediately changed the topic and said, "Is there a difference between the people recruited on the two sides?" ”

Zhao Lidao: "At the beginning of the election, there was no difference. ”

Yan Xiaoguang's heart moved and asked, "What about after that?" ”

Zhao Li said with a smile: "After the recruit period is over, you will be divided into various places according to your performance and specialties during training. ”

After a pause, Zhao Li said again: "Usually people with ability generally perform better, so it is possible to directly serve as the commander of the army, or even the chief." Those with specialties will be arranged according to their specialties, and they are special talents, and their benefits are higher than those of ordinary soldiers. ”

Zhao Li hesitated, but still reminded Yan Xiaoguang: "Like Brother Xian, who is strong in martial arts, can read and write, and has served as an official and has a prestige talent, after the recruitment is over, it is possible to start directly from the capital, and the worst will start from the Zheng, all in all, our Jinwujun is a place where ability to speak, and people with ability will never be buried." ”

Zhao Li said this, it was naturally because he had personal feelings.

Zhao Li enlisted in Xuzhou.

At the beginning of his enlistment, Zhao Li was a recruit who was so ordinary that he was no longer ordinary.

But Zhao Li performed exceptionally well in the process of recruit training, and as a result, after the end of the one-month recruit period, Zhao Li was immediately awarded the position of chief.

It was also Zhao Li's luck.

After the battle under Xiuzhou City, Cai still received a holy order from the imperial court to wait for the opportunity to train 30,000 new troops.

The next day, Cai still ordered:

Two battalions of men and horses were transferred from the Jinwu Central Army, the Jinwu Right Army, and the Jinwu Rear Army, and used this as a skeleton to form the Jinwu Front Army and the Jinwu Left Army (the original Jinwu Left Army became the Shenji Army, and Zhang Xian and other left-behind personnel recruited new recruits to make up 10,000 people), transferred Yue Fei, deputy commander of the Jinwu Rear Army, as the acting commander of the Jinwu Front Army, transferred Niu Gao to replace Wang De as the acting commander of the Jinwu Right Army, and transferred Wang Sheng to replace Yue Fei as the deputy commander of the Jinwu Rear Army - the Jinwu Front Army, the Jinwu Middle Army, the Jinwu Left Army, the Jinwu Right Army, and the Jinwu Rear Army were all expanded to 3,000 people.

In addition, two battalions of men and horses (incomplete) were transferred from the pro-guard army, and the white army was formed with this as the skeleton, with 3,000 men and horses, led by Wang Deren.

Two battalions of men and horses (incomplete) were transferred from the pro-guard army, and the skeleton was used as a skeleton to form a back cub army, 3,000 men and horses, led by Yang Zaixing.

With the remaining pro-guard army as the skeleton, a new pro-guard army was formed, led by Yang Yizhong, with 3,000 men.

With the amphibious battalion as the skeleton, an amphibious army of 3,000 people was formed, led by Li Bao.

Because the Jin Wu army brought by Cai was doubled all of a sudden, the five thousand supplementary troops brought by Cai in the name of the people were simply not enough.

Later, Cai still simply screened out nearly 4,000 more from the 20,000 captives of the Fang Qi Buddha Sect, and after training and political education, they were scattered and incorporated into the Jinwu army.

But even so, the armies were not satisfied.

There was no way, Cai still had to send people around to recruit troops.

It was also in this environment that Zhao Li was called to join the gang, and later entered the Jinwu front army as a chief.

Not long ago, Cai still sent Yue Fei to lead the Jinwu front army to recover Huzhou.

Every time Zhao Li fights, he always rushes to the forefront and makes a lot of contributions.

After a few battles, Zhao Li was promoted to the position of the head of the capital.

This has only been more than a month.

Therefore, Zhao Li said to Yan Xiaoguang that Jin Wujun is a place where people can speak with ability, and those who have the ability will never be buried.

Yan Xiaoguang has been studious since he was a child, and Wen Taowu is all excellent, even those people he brought, and none of them are mediocre.

In addition, the Jinwu Army is currently expanding its army and is eager to recruit talents, and the scale of recruitment will inevitably be relaxed a little.

So much so that Yan Xiaoguang and others were all selected.

Three days later, Yan Xiaoguang began his journey as a recruit.

During the recruit period, there were two people who managed Yan Xiaoguang and his recruits - one was called "instructor" and the other was called "instructor".

The instructor is responsible for handing over the military skills of these recruits, and the instructor is responsible for helping them with the trivial matters of life.

Yan Xiaoguang's instructor in this capital is surnamed Gao Minglin, he was originally a capital of the pro-guard army, in the battle of Xiuzhou City, he once followed Yang Zaixing into the army formation of Fang Qifo, so he was not lightly injured.

Originally, a soldier like Gao Lin, who was so seriously wounded, was going to the rear to recuperate, and it was impossible for him to participate in the next battle.

But Gao Lin didn't want to be idle, and after a month of cultivation, he ran back by himself, wanting to return to the team.

Cai still wanted Gao Lin to recuperate for a while, and didn't want him to go to the battlefield now, so he sent him to train the new army.

Although Gao Lin was unwilling to train recruits, he did not dare to disobey Cai Zhen's order, so he could only obediently report to the recruit camp.

Yan Xiaoguang's instructor in this capital is surnamed Yao Mingwu (Cai still renamed him Yao Wu, but everyone still likes to call him Yao Wu), he was seriously injured in the battle of Wanhuashan and completely lost one of his legs, and then entered the political department and turned to political work.

Gao Lin is not a very patient guy, but he still has the patience to fold quilts like his instructor handed over to him hand-in-hand to teach Yan Xiaoguang and other recruits, and while teaching, he learns the appearance of his instructor and says: "Neat, square, octagonal side, flies fly up - split!" Mosquitoes fly up – slippery! ”

For conflicts with the new army in other capitals, Gao Lin also punished according to the tradition of the Jinwu army:

Without asking who is right and who is wrong, the recruits are directly divided into three parts - those who win, those who lose, and those who don't.

If he wins, he will be punished for running 3,000 steps.

If he loses, he will be punished for running 5,000 steps.

If you don't do it, you can take 10,000 steps.

Officers doubled.

And Yao Wu also instilled the tradition of the Jin Wujun to Yan Xiaoguang and others anytime and anywhere:

"Don't abandon, don't give up!"

"In the future, we will always stay together, and it is a test to stay together, anytime, anywhere, for a lifetime."

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Gao Lin and Yao Wu would also teach them to write and teach them to sing "Qin Feng Wuyi", "Three Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention", "Military Ethics Songs", "For Whom", "Red Flower in the Army", "The Soul of the Chinese Army", and "General's Order".

Although the life of the new barracks was only a short month, Yan Xiaoguang grew the bones of the Jinwu Army in this short month.

Zhao Li did not lie to Yan Xiaoguang, Jin Wujun did not bury him as a talent, after the training of recruits was over, Cai still personally talked to him about a pillar of incense, and soon he was transferred to the pro-guard army as the head of the capital......

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