A few days later, Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao built a new military camp for Meng Zhong's Xinwei, and it was built in the area of "Feiyi" in the east of Handan City.

Feiyi, as the name suggests, is the fiefdom of Zhao Xiang Feiyi.

A few days earlier, when he learned that Meng Zhong wanted to build a military camp near Handan, Fei Yi made a kind suggestion, inviting the Xinwei army to build a camp in the northeast of his fiefdom near the Zhanghe River, and laughingly said that "he could protect his fiefdom by the way".

After getting the news of the completion of the barracks, Meng Zhong first invited Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao, and then under the leadership of Zhao Bao, they went to inspect the situation of the new barracks together.

The new military camp is located on the northeast side of Feiyi, on the west side of the "S" shaped Zhanghe River, with many woods nearby, as well as two low hills, and the terrain is quite complex, which is very suitable for training soldiers - it is for this reason that Meng Zhong accepted the kindness of Zhao Xiangfeiyi and set the new camp here.

According to Zhao Bao, only the main camp was built in this military camp for the time being, with a scale of about 1,000 people, and a total of 5,000 servants.

However, according to Meng Zhong's visual observation, the scale of this camp is far more than 1,000 people, and the reason is that Zhao Bao also built an auxiliary camp next to the main camp - which is used to house "supernumerary personnel".

The so-called supernumerary personnel refer to the supernumerary miscellaneous soldiers belonging to an army, although they are called soldiers, but in fact they are no different from civilian miscellaneous soldiers, who will be responsible for the needs and miscellaneous tasks of the barracks on weekdays, such as transporting grain, cooking, planting vegetables, and even cultivating fields.

In the Central Plains, all the troops stationed in remote areas basically followed this pattern: the non-commissioned officers in the establishment trained with peace of mind, and the non-staff soldiers were responsible for all the needs of the non-commissioned officers in the establishment.

According to Zhao Bao, this is probably close to a one-to-one ratio, take Meng Zhong's Xinwei as an example, the establishment of 500 Xinwei can get about 500 supernumerary miscellaneous soldiers, these miscellaneous soldiers are generally composed of Zhao people who serve, but they will also be supplemented by a small number of prisoners who are in the army, the difference is that the Zhao people who serve can leave after the service period is completed, while the prisoners will stay in the army until they flee or die.

"Thank you Yang Wenjun, thank you Fat Xiang."

After inspecting the newly completed military camp, Meng Zhong said to Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao with gratitude.

Although their political positions are somewhat different, it cannot be denied that Yang Wenjun and Zhao Bao are not as difficult to get along with as rumored - of course, this is just Meng Zhong's opinion.

"You're welcome, the old man also wants to see how far you kid can go......"

Speaking of this, Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao glanced at Meng Zhong a few times, and finally couldn't help asking, "You kid...... Do you really plan to train a group of 'Zhao Wushu'? ”

"Does the prince feel that he can't do anything about it?" Meng Zhong asked with a smile, in fact, he had heard some news in the past two days, such as Anpingjun Zhao Cheng and Fengyangjun Li Dui didn't think he could do it, and were waiting to see his jokes.

In fact, Meng Zhong was very puzzled by this: Are you two really idle to this extent?

"Huh."

After listening to Meng Zhong's words, Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao shook his head and said, "The Wei Wushu trained by Wu Qi is actually not immutable......

Indeed, although Wu Qi is a famous general, can't the Wei Wushu he trained really not be copied?

Even a male lord like Lord Zhao's father can't follow suit?

This is not the case.

I still remember what Le Yi said a few days ago that the foundation of Wei Wushu is the special treatment of Wei for Wushu - Wei clearly stipulates that as long as the common people are elected to the Wushu, the entire household can be exempted from taxes; In the case of soldiers who died in battle, their relatives can still receive a pension from the state every year until the male in the family reaches adulthood.

It is precisely because of this generous pension policy that Wei Wushu has no worries on the battlefield.

But what is behind this generous pension policy? That was because of this, the economy of Wei was dragged down, and it was dragged down by more and more "warrior households", and the worst thing was that Wei did not dare to withdraw the preferential treatment of Wei warriors.

Therefore, including the Zhao State, other Central Plains countries are not unable to copy Wei Wushu - even if they can't reach the Wei Wushu in the Wu Qi period, seventy or eighty percent can at least do it, right? But why haven't other countries copied Wei Wushu? It is because they see the drawbacks of the "military pawn system".

Of course, like Meng Zhong today, it is not a big problem to get 500 soldiers to follow Wei Wushu's example.

"Since I was ordered to train a guard for Lord Zhao's father, I naturally hope to train a better one." Meng Zhong replied in general terms.

Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao looked Meng Zhong up and down a few times, and finally nodded and smiled, without saying anything more.

After returning to Zhao Bao's military camp, Meng Zhong said goodbye to the former and moved to their new military camp with Le Yi and his party with 500 soldiers.

Just as the guards were reorganizing their quarters in the new camp, Meng Zhong summoned Le Yi, Meng Sui, Meng Hu and other small friends to the commander's office to discuss with them the issue of officers in the army.

Military positions, all countries in the world are different, although most of them are from the "Zhou Li", but there are also a few differences, and it is easy to be confused.

Therefore, Meng Zhong replanned the establishment of the army according to the "Tianqu Rishu" of the Crane Guanzi: five people are a team, and there is a commander; The second army is one tithe, and the tithe is long; Five tithes for a tun, set up a tun chief; Ertun is a pawn, with a pawn chief (100 generals), and five pawns are just 500 people.

That is, to adopt the "52 system", which Meng Zhong believes is the most simple and easy to remember.

In this regard, Le Yi and others have no opinions.

After the establishment of the 52 system was determined to be established in the army, the next step was to elect five commanders.

However, before that, Meng Zhong ordered Le Yi and Meng Sui to serve as his assistants, after all, the treatment of Xinwei also required him to come forward to negotiate with Zhao Xiangfeiyi and other important ministers of Zhao State, and when he was not in the army, Le Yi and Meng Sui would train soldiers instead of him.

Of course, the friends will not have any opinions on Le Yi's appointment as the "Zuojun Sima", after all, Le Yi's ancestors have produced famous generals such as Le Yang, Le Shu, and Le Chi, and Le Yi is familiar with the art of war when he is free; As for Mengsui, the little friends will not have any opinions, after all, they are close to each other.

As a result, there are seven people left: Wu Ying, Meng Hu, Hua Hu, Mu Wu, Xiang Yi, Le Jin, and Le Xu, and they will compete for the position of five pawn commanders.

As for the criterion for contention, it is naturally force.

"I'm quitting."

Xiang Yi took the lead in saying that he would withdraw from the competition, after all, he was not good at martial arts among the cadres.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong said to Xiang Yi: "Ah Yi, then you are in charge of the military quartermaster." ”

The so-called quartermaster, that is, the logistics officer, that is, the commander who commands the 500 "supernumerary miscellaneous soldiers", has to be responsible for a lot of things on weekdays, and Meng Zhong believes that Xiang Yi, who has a flexible brain, can naturally be competent.

"Leave it to me." Xiang shrugged and accepted.

So, there was one more.

glanced at the silent Wu Ying, and then looked at the three people who were gearing up Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu, Le Jin and Le Xu brothers glanced at each other, and immediately, Le Xu also withdrew.

Le Xu also has self-knowledge, knowing that if he competes in martial arts, he is not the opponent of Wuying, Menghu, Huahu, and Mu Wu at all, so he simply took the initiative to withdraw.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong appointed him as a military officer, responsible for the safekeeping, maintenance, and repair of military equipment.

In the case of the withdrawal of Xiang Yi and Le Xu, Wu Ying, Menghu, Hua Hu, Mu Wu, and Le Jin became the five commanders in the army.

After the discussion, Meng Zhong gathered the five hundred guards under his command and appointed the little friends in front of these soldiers.

I have to say that among Meng Zhong and others, only Meng Zhong has some prestige at present, and the rest of Le Yi, Meng Sui, Wu Ying and others, the five hundred soldiers do not have much respect for them, it is no wonder, after all, these soldiers are basically around the age of twenty to thirty, who would be willing to obey the orders of a group of fifteen-year-old teenagers?

Even Meng Zhong reluctantly made these 500 soldiers obey his orders by virtue of his eloquence, his method of "camping the gate and standing wood", as well as the 5,000 cloth coins rewarded by Lord Zhao's father and various promises.

"Let's try to gain the trust of the soldiers."

Meng Zhong said to the five captains of Wuying, Menghu, Huahu, Mu Wu, and Le Jin, after all, the five of them are actually the most critical, and only by convincing the soldiers can the training of Le Yi and Meng Sui be carried out more smoothly.

On 23 October, the Xinwei Army began its first day of training in this new battalion.

The exercise is very simple, it is still a physical strengthening training, to put it bluntly, it is still to let the soldiers each fight a log to run outside the camp.

During this period, Meng Zhong returned to Handan with Xiang Yi and discussed with Zhao Xiangfeiyi about the daily needs of the Xinwei army, as well as food and salary.

I have to say that Fei Yi also felt quite a headache for Meng Zhong's request of "eating meat at once".

Although Fei Yi can understand Meng Zhong - after all, Meng Zhong wants to train an elite army, and under such strict training, it is natural for the soldiers to eat meat at every meal, otherwise the nutrition will not be able to keep up with the physical consumption, but the problem is that such expenses are really not small, not to mention that Meng Zhong has to ask for extra food.

Fei Yi privately calculated that if according to Meng Zhong's request, the cost of feeding five hundred Xinwei troops might be able to support an army of three or four thousand people.

However, considering that Xinwei was the guard of Lord Zhao's father, Fei Yi finally agreed.

So, Meng Zhong stayed behind to discuss the specific regulations with Yu and Feiyi, such as transporting grain and grass once a few days, and so on, while Meng Zhong himself returned to the barracks.

To Meng Zhong's surprise, when he returned to the barracks, he found that Gu Guanzi was sitting in his tent waiting for him.

"Is it just the senior? What about Brother Pang Xuan? ”

At the ceremony, Meng Zhong asked Que Guanzi curiously.

Hearing this, Que Guanzi said with a smile: "Lord Zhao's father ordered Pang Xuan to take charge of an army, and Pang Xuan went to take up his post. ”

To be fair, Meng Zhong had expected this for a long time.

Because in his opinion, Master Zhao, who was bent on recultivating the power of his cronies, could not pin all his hopes on the five hundred Xinwei under his leadership, and he would definitely appoint others to train the new army.

But even though he knew this, Meng Zhong was still a little disappointed in his heart.

However, when I thought about it, the stronger the strength of Lord Zhao's father's line, the more stable the relationship between Zhao and Song became, and the disappointments in Meng Zhong's heart suddenly disappeared.

He smiled and said to Que Guanzi: "So, I believe that Wei's future competitor is the new army trained by Brother Pang Xuan?" ”

"Hahaha."

The crane smiled but did not speak.