Uncle Liu said: "In this case, then what kind of Pu Xingfeng comes, we don't have to be afraid." ”

Li Guozhu smiled slightly and said, "Brother Huang said, maybe they won't come to us next year, it's likely that we'll go to them!" ”

"That's for the best!" Liu Shujing didn't want to say more, but when he saw a large group of gray-robed soldiers coming on the official road in the distance, his eyes lit up, and he said, "The new army has been requisitioned outside the island again." ”

"Well, Mr. A, let's send one off?"

"Of course we have to send it, in the words of His Royal Highness, the soldiers are the pillars that protect us, so that they can feel our support, and ask everyone to prepare some water and eat!"

There are many people up and down the hills, and many people also saw the soldiers coming from afar at this time, under the promotion of Liu Shujing, Huang's father and Huang mother, Li Guozhu and other families prepared separately, some people prepared water, as well as all kinds of fruits, eggs and other things, the army was still far away, and when they were ready to stop and walked to the side of the official road on the other side of the field, a large number of government soldiers had just arrived.

"It's the Ninth and Tenth Armies." Liu Shujing's eyes are quite complicated, he was hit by a heavy arrow during the battle of Jiangtan, and his calf bones were shattered at that time, and he was later cured with a splint, but he was still a little limp when he walked, and he usually covered it with the hem of his robe, and outsiders couldn't see it at a glance, only he knew that his calf was weak, and it would be a little sore when it rained on a cloudy day.

Even so, Liu Shujing never regretted the time when he fought with His Royal Highness King Qin. Seeing these new army officers and soldiers, it seems that Liu Shujing can recall the past.

The Ninth and Tenth Armies, each with more than 3,000 men and six battalions each, were armed with a certain number of stubble crossbows and single-bow bed crossbows, which were placed on wagons and marched forward along with ordnance, including arrows.

The army set up a marching column, far away from the sentinel reconnaissance, even if it was marching on the island, the troops were ready to engage the enemy at any time.

The military attachés all rode horses, and now the shogunate has more and more war horses, but most of the war horses are still directly attached to the cavalry battalion and the future cavalry army, and ordinary officers still mainly ride miscellaneous horses, and only military attachés above the sentry officer have horses.

The endless stream of soldiers lined up in a neat queue, and a large number of people gradually gathered on both sides of the official road, and people began to hand over water and food to the soldiers, the soldiers were not hungry, but this kind of spontaneous labor order The soldiers of the government were quite moved, so the soldiers thanked them and began to eat and drink symbolically, but because there were too many people in the labor army, when they arrived at the port, everyone felt a little bit of food and support.

Cai You because he was born as a miner leader, he took the initiative to come when he joined the army, and many miners took it as the mainstay, after passing the enlistment assessment and training in the new army, the senior military department found that Cai You was still literate, so he directly gave him the qualification for the junior military attache examination, and after passing the first test, Cai You took less than half a year from joining the army to becoming a sentry officer.

There are a large number of warships moored in the port, a while ago the officers and men of the naval division from the conquest of Jianzhou, the warships are parked in the port for maintenance, and now the officers and men of the naval division are gradually returning, but they are still mainly receiving new ships.

Everyone knew that the naval division was going to be expanded in large numbers, and the Military Administration Department and the Military Training Department were recruiting soldiers in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, as well as Fuzhou, Xinghua Army, and even Mingzhou and Hangzhou and other coastal places.

About 20,000 men should be recruited within three months, preferably coastal residents, preferably young and strong men who have been on the boat. In addition to sailors, sailors also had to be recruited in large numbers, as long as they had been on the ship, men between the ages of fifteen and forty-five were required, because a large number of manpower was required in a short period of time, and the age was much relaxed.

Cai You is not too interested in the sailors, they come from Jiangxi and Jingnan, as well as miners from western Zhejiang live in the mountains, all the way to the big place, such as from Quzhou to Mingzhou, all the way is a big mountain, six or seven hundred miles of the journey is mostly a mountain road, to cross the mountains to the seaside ordinary people have to walk at least ten days and half a month, few people make this determination, don't look at Quzhou and Fuzhou and Qianzhou, Jianzhou, Shao Wujun, these places are said to be people from the southeast coastal roads, but many people have never seen the sea from birth to adulthood, there are many people.

Cai You had never seen the sea before he arrived in the Eastern Domain, and he didn't want to be a sailor, after a few months of training in the new army, and then passed the officer test, he became a sentry officer after showing his ability to lead troops, Cai You now only wants to go to Jianzhou and other places to garrison, under the command of His Royal Highness the King of Qin, he has constantly made military exploits, from the sentry officer to the capital, and then to the battalion Yuhou, the battalion commander, the regiment commander, and the army commander.

His Royal Highness said that every military officer must have an upward heart, a heart that wants to be the commander of the army, and even a commanding officer, a general in charge of the army, and a future captain!

The way of a warrior is to fight from the sword and gun!

Cai You pressed the horizontal knife in his hand, feeling the coldness and heaviness at the handle of the knife, the weather was cold, and he was not as good as spending the New Year with his family when he went out at the end of the year, but his heart was hot, he couldn't feel the cold weather at all, and he didn't feel the sorrow of parting.

When I was a miner in Jianzhou, although I was paid a lot, I also had a lot of expenses, and my family was just a little bit of food. After joining the army on the island, the families of the soldiers have a house, the military salary is paid monthly, and there are many additional benefits. If you are unfortunate enough to die in battle, the bereavement is much more generous than when you were there.

Cai You has been on the island for a long time, and he knows all these things, he used to be in the mine, and every time he went down the mine, he was scared, in case he couldn't get up, the few yuan of money for the pension would not last long, and he was afraid that his wife and children would have to beg for food. Now he doesn't have this kind of worry at all, but is full of pride and ambition to make a contribution!

When the army marched all the way, from the Huaxi military camp to the port under the Nan'an River, there were many official roads and flat buildings along the way, and there were farmland everywhere for more than 20 miles along the way, with a lot of livestock, water canals, windmills, channels, buffaloes, miscellaneous horses, carts, and those sturdy and happy farmers, if they didn't see it with their own eyes, how could Cai You and others dare to imagine and believe that what was in front of them was a fact they saw with their own eyes?

From the old military village of Nan'anxi to the port, there are dense buildings everywhere, there are many trading houses, warehouses and piles of goods everywhere, and the shopkeepers and guys are busy with sweat, and they don't forget to rush over and salute the soldiers. The number of foreign merchants and docked merchant ships also gradually increased, and these outsiders also stared at the soldiers of the government army with curious eyes.

"The people and the soldiers carried the armor together." A battalion commander came over and ordered: "This is just made by the Craftsman Division Armor Staff Bureau, and Master Fu personally brought someone to send it over, just in time for our two armies to move to defense, a good thing!" ”

As soon as the battalion commander said this, everyone saw Fu Qian on horseback not far away.

The newly established Shogunate Military Division, Fu Qian continued to lead the craftsman division, and this division included almost everything related to engineering technology. Including shipbuilding, farm tools, ordnance, daily management of iron yards and mines, and so on. There are textile mills, silk fields, etc., although salt, tea, silk, these are industrial and commercial trade, but the daily production management, technology upgrading, all need the guidance of the craftsman department, it can be said that Fu Qian is the overall person in charge of the technology of the entire Eastern Domain, the status of the craftsman division is also quite high, it is considered to be both the civil division and the military division of the two major sections, both civil and military, both sides of the important function.

Because of the importance of the Craftsman Division, coupled with Fu Qian's leadership of the Eastern Domain's marching military department, after the establishment of the government affairs department, Li Yi and Kong He, one is the main overall government affairs, the other presides over the financial plan, they are all members of the administrative officer, and Qin Dongyang is a military representative, originally a member of the cardinal's room, this time Xu Zixian personally added Fang Shaoqun who presided over the attendant division, Fu Qian of the craftsman division, the number of administrative officers reached five, Li Yi was in charge, and the rest of the financial, military, technical, and three aspects, the attendant division was up and down, the information was passed on to the younger brother, and the files were returned. According to Xu Zixian's assumption, the Privy Council established in the future is in charge of military orders, military training, military law, logistics, as well as staff and daily management, and the military and political department is in charge of military attache positions, soldier recruitment, retirement, pension, placement and other affairs, which are classified in the category of government affairs.

"This time there are 6,000 armors, which is considered to be complete." Fu Qian's eyes were blue and black, obviously quite tired, and he was surrounded by Zhang Mingming, who was also fully supported by the iron field in this assault armor casting.

Of course, it is also related to the fact that a large number of hydraulic forging machines and machine tools are gradually filling the gap, and the production capacity has gone up.

"That's a lot of excess?" Zhang Mingliang said with a smile: "The two armies originally had two thousand collars, and His Highness's idea was that as long as he was in the army, he had to wear armor to prepare for war, so even the firefighters were considered soldiers and had to wear armor, but if they were made up, four thousand collars would be enough."

"The Ninth Army moved to Quanzhou to cooperate with the security operation there to exterminate the thieves, and at the same time eliminated all the troops there. The 10th Army went to Jianzhou. Fu Qian said a little tiredly: "By the way, I brought two thousand armor to the First Army and made up for all their shortcomings." ”

"Very good, the combat power of the soldiers of our government can go up to a level again."

Fu Qian nodded and didn't speak again, at this time, Gao Huairen, the commander of the Ninth Army, and Ge Cunyi of the Tenth Army all came over, and everyone clasped their fists and saluted each other.

Gao Huairen was originally placed in Nan'an garrison, and after Nan'an was broken by the thief army, he would not be able to recover for a while, just after the training of the new army was completed, and after the handover, it was natural for this old qualified tooth general to be promoted to command.

Ge Cunyi was also separated from his brother and led the Tenth Army alone.

Because of Ge Cunyi's unique style of leading the army, his subordinates, that is, in the Tenth Army, have a lot of people who like to use spears, and the number of spears carried by the soldiers can also be seen.

"Thank you, Gong Fu." Gao Huairen arched his hand and said: "This time, our army is fully armored. ”

"Unknown how the armor is distributed?" Ge Cunyi said with a smile: "I want to say one more thing, I hope that the Weapons Bureau will use more spears for my sons." Of course, the more the better. ”

"For the time being, it can't meet the needs of the Divine Arm Bow." Fu Qian said with dark eyes: "Now skilled craftsmen and hydraulic machine tools and other things are used to make bed crossbows. Because the number of bed crossbows required for the newly launched warships is extremely huge, we are now meeting the sailors first, and this layer has been specially requested by His Highness, and it must not be shaken. Although the Divine Arm Bow is smaller than the bed crossbow, the process is complicated and not under the bed crossbow, but the materials used are small, but to meet the needs of the army, I estimate that it will take at least two years......"

"Two years?" The two generals shook their heads together, and Gao Huairen said: "Then it is still not useful for pirates, but only for the Donghu people in the future." ”

"When the time comes, the divine arm bows we make can achieve more than 500 per army, and with elite archers who can shoot quickly with hard step bows, the scene can be imagined."

"The elite forbidden army doesn't have so much armor, and there aren't so many strong bows and crossbows!"