However, it is said that the progress of the resettlement of displaced people and the formation of a new brigade in Tongyu County by the head of Xiao Tang is now in charge, and so far, Luo Jian and Wang Jin, who are mainly responsible for the selection and training of the new army, have selected 2,500 people from among the displaced people in Hedong to form five battalions, and called in generals under Hu Yanzhuo and Guan Sheng who are familiar with military affairs to assist in the drill.

According to the military system of the Great Song Dynasty, three people are a small team, nine people are a squadron, plus the officers, team leaders, deputy team leaders, left and right banners and other officers will be organized into a large team, supervised by the school officer, and the two teams are one hundred people, under the command of the head officer; All of them set up a battalion of 500 people, and set up battalion commanders, deputy commanders, battalion marquis and other military positions, and then the five battalions of 2,500 people became an army.

The imperial court now authorized the selection and training of new troops from Xiao Tang to Hedong, and as a rule, a box composed of ten armies can be formed, with a maximum establishment of about 25,000 troops, but one compartment in the ordinary Great Song Dynasty army may not be fully staffed, and then it involves the despicable atmosphere of weak and presumptuous and corrupt salaries in ordinary military divisions, and many of the troops at the level of the box cannot even reach the number of 10,000 people, and the number of available soldiers among them ...... I'm afraid there are even fewer of them.

Xiao Tang decided to add a new team on Hedong Road, of course, he didn't plan to raise a group of waste soldiers who wasted the country's money and food, let alone take this opportunity to enrich his own pockets like many abusive officials and stupid worms. Since he relied on Zhao Ji's advantage of trusting and favoring him, and being able to get the imperial court as his backing temporarily, Xiao Tang really planned to organize this new army that was about to be formed in Hedong with full strength, and then create several troops that could fight tough battles in it according to the different functions of the division of labor.

After all, the bandit plague has not stopped, and under the guidance of the dispatched officers, soldiers, and horses, there are more displaced people who have suffered from banditry in various parts of Hedong to the surrounding boundaries of Tongyu County to temporarily settle down. The new army that Xiao Tang intends to reorganize is still continuing to absorb troops, but Xiao Tang was entrusted with the military power to pacify Hedong and select and train the new army, but he does not have the right to promote his henchmen privately, even if he can command this army for the time being, but if he wants to appoint Hua Rong, Niu Gao and other brothers as commanders, deputy commanders and other military positions, they must report to the Privy Council, and now they are only temporarily sent. After all, the founding Taizu of the Great Song Dynasty released his military power with a cup of wine, and his imperial brother Zhao Guangyi further admired literature and suppressed martial arts, and the Great Song Dynasty emphasized cultural governance and light martial arts, which is also not an empty word.

Thinking of this, Xiao Tang couldn't help but secretly think in his heart: in the end, he still acted well in the green forest, if he wanted to become a warlord's force in this year, he would train several usable armies under his hands as soon as possible, and my co-leader of the green forest and mountains must continue to do it.

In addition, the number of Yongjian and horses recruited in Hedong reached tens of thousands of horses, and it was customary to draw up a number for this army like the "Japanese Army", "Xiaomeng Army", "Ningshuo Army" and other official and military units. As for the name of the number, Xiao Tang already has some ideas in his heart now.

"Xiao Jieshuai, the lower officials have registered and sorted out the displaced people who are sheltered in Tongba in accordance with the plan, and divided several areas to resettle the people according to the layout of the surrounding villages inside and outside the county, and the village is dotted between the county town and the towns and villages, and there are military patrols and public servants to maintain public order every day, and so far, there has been no chaos."

In the county government, Luo Jian reported to Xiao Tang about the progress of the resettlement of the displaced people, and he immediately said: "It is also relying on the help of the county lieutenant Li, according to the different ministries of the displaced people, the public officials in the yamen also found the tooth shop in the county, and found the tooth people to find the ministry, so that some of the displaced people temporarily engaged in industry and commerce as domestic workers, or were hired as tenants, which can be regarded as relieving their worries." Although many of the rest of the villagers only planned to calm down the bandits and return to their homeland, there were also many who had not yet found an errand, and they did not have to worry about riots in these days. ”

Although the word tooth line is mostly seen in the Ming Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty is called 驵, 驵侩, the Tang Dynasty, the five dynasties in addition to brokers, line elders and other titles, also began to be called as the tooth, the tooth lang, the tooth Yu, is to Luo Jian is also used to call the tooth line. During the Song Dynasty, commercial and economic activities were frequent, and the tooth shops with dental stickers issued by the government not only liaised with buyers and sellers to introduce transactions, assessed the quality of goods, and provided warehousing, but also recommended and hired workers for various shops.

Although whether it is an official tooth or a private tooth, the tooth person has a good temperament and uneven temperament, because he eats by his mouth to make money, in ancient times, there was also a saying that the car and boat shop had feet and teeth, and the innocent should also be killed, but because the Song Dynasty was highly developed, the participation of small self-employed people dominated by small merchants and hawkers was unprecedentedly frequent, which also gave rise to many part-time tooth people who profited from doing buying and selling, and promoting hired workers (just like the Wang Po who helped Ximenqing hook up with a married woman in "Water Margin", obviously opened a tea shop to make a living, but also said that he was not only a Ma Boliu who matched some male and female amorous styles, will also make a tooth woman to eat with a mouthful of food), although whether it is a full-time or part-time tooth person's character, but usually they need to look at the eyes of the yamen public to act, now Xiao Tang's number of officials is insufficient, Luo Jian thought of using those tooth people to settle the homeless through the local county government, so the arrangement is reasonable.

"It's good to be able to teach the people to live in peace, this matter must not be neglected at all, because the government has been cornered by the inaction of the government in the past, and the villagers who have to be thieves under Tian Hu's hands do not know how many, but if there is a way to live, who is willing to kill people and set fire with that group of grass thieves? As long as the hearts of the people in Hedong are stabilized, it can be regarded as cutting off one of Tianhu's back roads. ”

Xiao Tang bowed his head and immediately asked Wang Jin: "Sect leader Wang Jin, the five battalions of township warriors recruited, is the training going smoothly now?" ”

Wang Jin also nodded, and said to Xiao Tang again: "Xiao Jieshuai is really insightful!" Most of the soldiers recruited according to the meaning of the soldiers were from peasant tenants, and almost all of them were honest people from the countryside who were big and stout, with solid skin and flesh, and I first warned the recruits to be strict in discipline when they joined the army, and now teach them to recognize the orders of the banner and golden drum, and strictly order them to obey the orders of the generals when they march and retreat in formation, and not to disobey them. Most of the families of these village warriors recruited from the displaced people have been resettled, and I have also repeatedly ordered the military orders issued by the commander of the festival, and this group of village warriors is indeed easier to command than the ordinary army with troops. ”

In fact, according to the military law of the Song Dynasty: if the battle is not the main general's order, the first person to leave the team will be killed; The thief army is still far away, and the bow and crossbow shoot indiscriminately and behead; When the battle hears the drum and sends the bow and crossbow but does not send it, or although the arrows are not exhausted, it does not mean that if the crowd shoots three arrows, they have shot two arrows alone, and those who abandon the remaining arrows are killed; The school soldiers are killed, and the sick are beheaded; In the border towns, those who are exempted from fraud are hanged in battle or in the realm of thieves, and those who do not deserve to be rumored and raise their voices...... The law is not strict, but now most of the armies of the Great Song Dynasty are deserted, and the soldiers who can really enforce the order and prohibition are very scarce.

As a Song general, Xiao Tang did not want to tamper with the military laws that had been established for a long time in the army of the Great Song Dynasty, but not only for the new army now led by Wang Jin, but also for the officers and soldiers under the command of Hu Yanzhuo and Guan Sheng, Xiao Tang also emphasized to them one sentence: All the battles against Tianhu in Hedong, no matter any military order, are real.

It's just that Xiao Tang told Wang Jin about his newly established military rules, such as what punishment should be given to those who make noise during drills, those who have low grades in drill assessments, and those who incite homesickness, and what kind of rewards and pensions should be attached to those who are in the front line when fighting thieves, beheading thieves, and sacrificing the dead. Just as everyone was discussing carefully, a military official suddenly went to the county government to report that Wang Huan, Han Cunbao and other military generals who had led 15,000 soldiers and horses to help them on the military order of the Privy Council, had left Gyeonggi and passed through the border of Longdeok Province, and it was estimated that they would arrive in Tonglu County in two days.