Shi San, Qiu Wei is concerned about following the commander of the road to conquer, and Hou Xiaoming is most concerned about whether Huo Bao will go out with him or not, and he is sure that Huo Bao will personally lead the troops, so he has nothing to say.

Li Yuan thought a lot, and was very worried about the 100,000 recruits from Taiping Mansion, Jinling Mansion, and Zhenjiang Mansion.

The conscription was based on the local household registers, and the minimum age was 16 years old.

Now, three months later, this group of recruits has also been trained.

Previously, there was a gap between the child soldiers and several other marshals.

After several expansions, the gap is much smaller, and the number of child soldiers exceeds 10,000.

The other marshals had 20,000 men and 30,000 or 40,000 men.

But if these 100,000 new soldiers are divided, the other departments will have to double their numbers, and the child soldiers will still be about 10,000 people, which will be thin, and they can only be partial troops in the future, and it is difficult to be the main team.

Now it is a troubled time, and among the forces of the Chuzhou army, the military merits are the heaviest.

If it weren't for this, Deng Jian's status would not have surpassed that of Ma Zhai Master, Du Laoba and others, and he would become the second person in the Chuzhou Army.

If the child soldiers don't want to fall too far behind other teams, they should also expand the army, otherwise they will not be able to become the main force, how can they get military merit?

"Master Bao, those new soldiers in the big camp have already practiced almost, can they follow the example of Quyang......" Li Yuan thought for a while, and couldn't help but ask.

Quyang thing?

At the end of April last year, Deng Jian led more than 20,000 soldiers in Quyang to surrender to the white shirts, and when the more than 20,000 people were distributed, 1,000 soldiers who had just become Ding at the age of 16 or 7 were put under Huo Bao's name.

This group of Quyang soldiers is now the backbone of the child soldiers.

Li Yuan opened his mouth, and everyone quieted down.

The total number of child soldiers is more than 10,000, but now it is divided into five departments, three combat units, the general staff department, and the logistics department.

The three divisions of the soldiers combined, 10,000 people.

Hou Xiaoming now has 5,000 adjutant generals, but his army only has 4,000 soldiers, which is still the most among the three divisions.

Qiu Wei and Shi Sanhang are "acting deputy generals", but the people under their command are all 3,000 people.

Even if the army is not expanded, it is only 5,000 people away from the full strength of the three war divisions.

As a general, I will never dislike the number of soldiers.

Not only Shi San was excited, but even Qiu Wei also brought expectations, and now his subordinates are still the 3,000 people left by Tang Guang.

In addition to the soldiers, there is also a big vacancy in the logistics troops, and now there are more than several thousand logistics troops, which is still far from the ratio of five to one in the soldiers and logistics troops.

It is Li Yuan's staff department, and the two batches of staff officers were born, and the only ones who can be used are the first batch of 100 or so people selected from the big battalion.

Huo Bao looked at the crowd: "This morning, the commanders and the army discussed the establishment of each department, including 20,000 child soldiers, 15,000 soldiers in the three divisions, 3,000 logistics soldiers, 1,000 civilian personnel under the General Staff, 500 people in the supervision team and law enforcement team, and 1,000 ...... in the pro-military camp."

"Finalized?"

Li Yuan was not happy but worried: "Then there will be no more people in the future?" ”

It was not that he was disgusted by the small number of staff members, but that he was shocked by the "determination" of the "fixed number".

You must know that the Chuzhou Army has been expanding rapidly since it became an army in Black Python Mountain.

At first, the three villages of Python Village, Python Village, and Green Snake Village on the mountain joined forces, and the soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers added up to more than 2,000 people.

When everyone went down the mountain, Deng Jian led Quyang soldiers to vote, and the Chuzhou army suddenly expanded to more than 20,000 people.

Then he captured Chuzhou and Binjiang, and the total number of troops exceeded 30,000.

Since then, the character of the Chuzhou Army has been initially determined.

Even if there was a "Chuzhou Change" later, the expulsion of the third disciple and the delivery of thousands of soldiers and horses did not hurt the muscles and bones.

All the way down, attacking Hezhou, entering Luzhou, crossing the river to fight Taiping, Jinling, and then to the battle of Zhenjiang and Yangzhou, with the victory of one state and one government, the officers and soldiers were constantly recruited, and the number of men and horses in each department increased many times, the least were 20,000 soldiers and horses, and the most were 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and horses.

This is fixed, and it is definitely not Huo Bao, the only heir of the Chuzhou Army, but several marshals.

In the future, the commanders will not be allowed to expand the army?

Will such an obvious restriction of military power cause dissatisfaction among the commanders?

Zhu Qiang said happily: "We are now 12,000 hundreds, and 7,000 more at once, but it's a lot!" ”

He is now in charge of the logistics department, and his subordinates are auxiliaries, heralds, and miscellaneous soldiers, before there were more than 1,000 people, but now if it is full, it will be 3,000 people, although it is not as large as the number of soldiers in the three divisions, but it is not less, and it is very satisfying.

The commander of the pro-military battalion and the captain of the law enforcement team are both Zhu Gang, and now Zhu Gang is still in the Lingshui gold mine, and the commander of the pro-military battalion is vacant, and the captain of the law enforcement team is temporarily replaced by Zhu Qiang.

Before he was named, there were not enough soldiers, and Zhu Gang's position was also somewhat marginalized among the child soldiers.

There were many vacancies in the soldiers of these two sides before, but now that the fixed number is filled, it is also 1,500 people, and they will have more confidence among the people in the future.

With Liang Zhuang's example in front, Zhu Qiang didn't want his brother to fall into that situation.

It's really that all the teenagers are growing up, if Zhu Gang has been marginalized and has no real power, he will either be replaced or wiped out in the end.

Now the person in charge of the monitoring team is Song Qianzhi, and seeing Li Yuan's expression, he also thought about it.

Where there are people, there is strife.

Not to mention other places, that is, among the child soldiers, there are factions from the beginning, and the Chuzhou Army is no exception.

The Song family was on the watch list before, not only because the Song clan was not cautious themselves, but also because of the calculations and schemes of others.

It's just that Song Lin's status is here, he is the first gentry to vote for the white-shirted army, and he has an old relationship with Master Lin, and he can't be replaced by others if he wants to.

On the side of the generals of the Chuzhou army, because since the beginning they have formed an independent army, there is a lot less intrigue, but Huo Wu's control over these horses is also much weaker.

With the "fixed arrangement", even if there are some complaints for the time being, it is not a bad thing in the long run.

It's just that this idea, at first glance, is not from Captain Huo.

If Captain Huo had such a defensive heart, he would not have let go of his military power in the first place.

Is it Mr. Lin?

If several marshals are dissatisfied and angry, will they be angry with the entire civil and military system, but the civil and military are opposed?

There are only a few people like Li Yuan and Song Qianzhi who think a lot, and most of everyone thinks like Zhu Qiang.

Seeing that the expedition is about to be made, there are 7,000 more people, happy.

Headed by Qiu Wei, he took Zhu Qiang and Shi San, took Huo Bao's warrant, and went to the Jinling camp to pick people.

Huo Bao had time to talk to An Changsheng, Li Yu, and the Jia brothers.

An Changsheng was originally a child of the military family, Huo Bao had nothing to worry about, but Li Yu and the Jia brothers were different.

"How? It's been two months, can you get used to it? ”

Li Yu looked at the Jia brothers and did not speak first.

He is not very old, but he has a slightly sleek personality, and he knows that he is a son of a businessman, and he is not as confident as An Changsheng, nor as good as the brothers of the Jia family.

Jia Daihua said with shame: "I dragged everyone back, it is not easy to train soldiers, it used to be 'on paper'......"

Jia Daishan said with a smile: "In the first ten exams, the eldest brother got two downs, either the literary exam was up, or three down, haha!" ”

Jia Daihua's face was flushed, and he was very helpless with his heartless brother.

Li Yu hurriedly said: "Wait until the second exam, and Brother Jia's drill score will be ......."

Jia Daishan nodded and said: "Yes, the eldest brother can use his heart, not only the drill points, but also the last ten-month exam in the first month, archery is also in the middle and lower, and the long knife has also begun to practice......"

Huo Bao glanced at Jia Daihua carefully.

Compared with last year's weak boy, Jia Daihua's body looks stronger, and there is a bit of fortitude between his eyebrows and eyes.

Don't look at his age, only fifteen years old, but he was a child at thirteen, and the reason why he didn't become a thirteen-year-old talent is not because of lack of homework, but because there was no college exam the year before last.

By last year, all the white-shirts were rebelling, the Jiangnan Academy examination was stopped, and Jia Daihua's road to the imperial examination had come to an end.

Now that Wen has turned to martial arts, he echoes the way of preservation in this troubled world, which is not surprising to Huo Bao.

His son Jia Yan is a martial artist, and now he can't compare to his younger brother Jia Yuan, who has always been good at martial arts, but the difference is not too big.

Since he can become the second of the eight princes of the founding of the country, he relies on real military exploits, and Jia's Kunzhong will always have a bright future.