Zhao Xin went to Miao Yuan, and directly put forward the request, in terms of a longbow army, the number of people is less effective at all, there are really a dozen, it is better to use a short bow, the pressure on logistics is a little less, and it is more convenient to carry. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

20 elite soldiers as the core, these are professionally trained soldiers, strength and other basic attributes, has reached the selection criteria of the forbidden army, not as good as elite soldiers, attributes are not much different, they have gone through this war on the canal, can not be called well-trained soldiers, nor have they not been on the battlefield.

To tell the truth, the battle of the canal, the number of casualties is not large, ups and downs, bloody, every surviving family is equivalent to a high-intensity war, at the very least, when you go to the battlefield in the future, you will face blood, face death, you will not be so easy to panic.

The dead are chaotic, on the battlefield, it seems to be full of murderous opportunities, but in fact, there are general laws, to put it bluntly, there is a system, there is a strong support behind it, you can survive, but it is these scared, panicked people who flee around, easy to die.

Zhao Xin's goal is not small, he is ready to recruit 100 young people in Miaojiazhuang, which is not a big number for Miaojiazhuang with at least 500 people. Equivalent to the metric system of 1.74 meters or more, this is in the 2400 people of the big village, it is not a problem to pick out, here is the north, not only the people are relatively high, even the conditions are good, Miaojiazhuang for these dependents, it is still good, which is also one of the reasons why Miaojiazhuang can expand.

This task was handed over to Miao Yuan, and after hearing Zhao Xin's request, Miao Yuan was a little embarrassed, 100 people are not much, there are more than 50 people in the village protection team, plus some young and strong, there is no problem with the transfer, these situations are the pillars of the family, once they are transferred, the impact on farm work will be very large.

Zhao Xin's purpose is very clear, it is to train a group of standing archers, which requires off-duty and long-term training, which is a huge impact on people, but who is to say this? The old housekeeper is not here, and the young master is a child, looking at today's performance, it is the same.

Wang Song is not there, the one who is most familiar with general affairs has become Zhao Xin, seeing Miao Yuan's embarrassed expression, he knew what was going on, and said casually: "We will give Yu Lu according to the standards of the forbidden army, by ......the way" Speaking of this, Zhao Xin paused for a moment and continued: "Is there a cattle and horse market near you!" ”

"Cattle and horse market?" Miao Yuan didn't know why Zhao Xin asked this, and said: "There are them in Baozhou City, and they are very large!" ”

"Yes, since the young and strong are transferred, it will affect the family, we will compensate, and all the selected families will get the right to use a cow, which can be used to cultivate the land, and the other families will have 5 families share a cow!"

"What, really?" Miao Yuan was pleasantly surprised, and said in disbelief.

Their Miaojiazhuang is a well-known rich village, but there are only 12 large livestock, all of which belong to the Miao family, among which there are 8 horses, which are used to pull carts, only 2 cattle, and 2 donkeys, which together constitute the state of Miaojiazhuang, which has no money, and when it comes to the busy world, 12 livestock will work, but compared to the total number of tens of thousands of acres in Miaojiazhuang, it is somewhat stretched, but even so, the surrounding village does not have so many livestock in Miaojiazhuang, one or two, or three or four are enough, Miao Fu can afford to buy such a large amount of livestock.

The price of cattle is not expensive, it is the appearance of ten or so yuan, but these ten yuan is also a difficult amount of money for ordinary people, and even for rural landowners.

Now, Zhao Xin paid for it, 100 people, at least representing a hundred families, and the chances of a family contributing two or three would not be too much, besides, he was reluctant to let them become soldiers.

Plus five families share one, this is more than 180 heads, after listening to the numbers calculated by Miao Yuan, Zhao Xin simply waved his hand, 200 heads, by the way, buy 50 pigs and 100 sheep, cattle can be used to plough the land, instead of prime-age labor, the effect of cattle in this aspect is much higher than that of prime-age labor, not to give a cow, they dare not ask, the value is too high.

Paying according to the level of the forbidden army is a great thing. As for the pigs and sheep, of course, they are used as food, this is the first force that Zhao Xin wants to master, and it needs to be in accordance with the training methods of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Discipline, faith, and even the spirit of courageous sacrifice, especially discipline, in the army, no matter what the origin, no matter what the strength, the iron general probability required, this is also the most obvious difference between the modern army and the feudal army, in fact, in history, there is a strong combat effectiveness of the army, most of them are iron-like probability, whether from Li Shimin's Xuanjia Army, to the Yuejia Army, the Qi Army, and even the Mongolian and Manchu Eight Banners in the initial period, discipline is the key element.

I have to say here that the destruction of the Han central power Mongolia and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Mongolia is good to say, the territory controlled is large enough, and all kinds of races are also very large, they just rely on the Mongolian cavalry, they can already sweep the world, but when attacking the Southern Song Dynasty, more of them are using the attached Han army and the Southern Army, the Manchu Qing is even more so, the total number is less than 800,000 Manchu Qing, there is no ability to unify China at all, they rely on a large number of surrendered Ming troops.

But there is a very strange thing in common, those soft-footed shrimp, the Song army and the Ming army with weak combat effectiveness, after surrendering, showed strong combat effectiveness, to a certain extent, those Han Army Eight Banners in the early Qing Dynasty, their combat effectiveness was not even weaker than the elite Manchurian Eight Banners, but before, the Manchurian Eight Banners could be a hundred, hundreds of people, chasing tens of thousands of Ming troops to attack.

In the middle, giving money is only one aspect, and the other aspect is discipline, which is extremely strict discipline, and under the threat of money and death, the Manchu Qing Dynasty finally won the country.

The reason why the Manchu Qing Dynasty was able to rise has a huge relationship with the reform of the Eight Banners, forming a strict discipline from top to bottom, and the Ming army that has just surrendered to Cheng is at the bottom of this food chain, and it can be said unceremoniously that they have no sense of security, and the bloody killings make them have to submit to harsh odds, and therefore, it has created the strength of the Han army.

Zhao Xin, from the very beginning, did not plan to establish a feudal army, the feudal army, more relied on the prestige of the royal family and the personal charm of the generals, each army is very distinctive.

In the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, chasing the north, fighting the Huns and running around, after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the prestige of the emperors was not enough, the combat effectiveness of the entire Han Dynasty army was greatly reduced, and the same was true of the Ming army, two generations of male masters, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, the Mongolian army did not know where to run, even in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there was one more Qi family army, and the army was prosperous, but these did not last, just a few years or more than ten years, and it degraded rapidly.

Only the army in the modern sense, even in the modern sense, pays attention to tradition, rather than the characteristics of a military general and an emperor, and requires everyone with strict discipline, no matter what level you are, no matter what your strength is, you can only follow a set of policies, slowly step by step, and may cultivate some military forces, but the longbow and future thermal weapons, his own characteristics determine that the possibility of mutiny is greatly reduced.

Whether it is a longbow or a thermal weapon, the requirements for logistics and productivity are much higher, and only the state can build large-scale military industrial enterprises to provide them with enough weapons and ammunition, and if they have less weapons and ammunition, they will also hold a burning stick, which minimizes the possibility of mutiny.

And the biggest feature of the modern army is that it erases talent, reduces the difference and difference to the minimum, every component is an ordinary screw, and a small unit is exactly the same, which makes the characteristic types of troops completely disappear, which also greatly reduces the situation that the generals do not know the soldiers, and the soldiers do not know the generals, because the basic units of each army are exactly the same, and the soldiers you have brought in Bianliang are completely no different from the soldiers in Longxi, and even the personnel, the differences between various arms and even the logistics are the same.

Don't give the general the opportunity to lead the troops for a long time, when he goes out, he leads the army to go out, and when he returns, he goes back, and how to rebel, which fundamentally puts an end to the tragedy of the Song Dynasty, and will protect these famous generals to the greatest extent, not to mention Wang Shao in the later period, just say that in this era, Di Qing is the biggest tragedy, and if you want to save the fate of the Northern Song Dynasty, this point must be solved.

Since the goal has been set higher from the beginning, it has been impossible to relax from the beginning, and Zhao Xin's first army has always been a quasi-modern army, at least a modern army.