"Commander patrolling the camp!"

The ninth year of the great cause, the ninth day of the first month.

The New Year is not over yet, but Luo Cheng has already recruited 5,000 old troops of the Left Fifth Army from Henan to return to the barracks. Outside Zhangqiu City, at the foot of Changbai Mountain, the camp was hot.

A group of old brothers put on their armor and robes again, returned to the barracks, greeted each other when they met, and shared the food brought by their families, this joyful atmosphere was still strong, and as a result, Luo Chengchu came to patrol the camp early in the morning.

"Commander patrolling the camp!"

A group of teenagers held high Luo Cheng's banner and honor guard, and the drum band played drums and horns, although the rhythm was slow, but as soon as this formation was opened, the soldiers in the camp became serious one after another.

Luo Cheng governs the army, and the first thing is military discipline.

Today's Luo Cheng, dressed in Shangfang Imperial Armor, rode a Qinghai dragon horse, accompanied by a group of senior generals. And the guards around them were all groups of teenagers.

These teenagers have a great background, they are Changbai orphans who have been very famous in Qi County in the past two years. Originally, they were orphans taken in by the fallen young soldiers of Zhangqiu, so that they could be the righteous sons of those fallen teenagers and inherit the incense. Later, more and more were collected, and after a few years, there are now about 1,000 teenagers in the Changbai orphan camp.

The youngest was only eight or nine years old, and the oldest was thirteen or fourteen years old.

For example, Luo Cheng's righteous sons Kan Ling, Wang Xiongdan, and Ximen Junyi are the earliest batch of righteous children. This time, Luo Cheng came back and went to the Yi'er camp on purpose, and he was very satisfied with the current situation of this Yi'er.

Then he also put forward some new plans for the development of the camp, such as continuing to adopt orphans, and teaching them to read and write, as well as learning martial arts and training battle formations for those young orphans.

After receiving a few years of basic study, Luo Cheng will assign these righteous children who have reached the age of ten to the army. These righteous children were not as soldiers, but as attendants to middle and high-level officers, and while serving as the officers' guards, they followed around them to learn about the military.

After the squire had completed three years, Luo Cheng also planned to arrange for these teenagers to go down to the team and serve as deputy positions for those fire captains.

After they go through the real tempering below, these teenagers who are already seventeen or eighteen years old will almost be able to grow up and serve as officers at the grassroots level, and then polish them, and those who can survive will become the backbone of the army in the future.

This is actually similar to the Age of Discovery, the young cadet officers in the navies of those European countries, or the medieval era, the knights of those lords in Europe.

This can also be regarded as a non-commissioned officer who has been training a professional since he was a child, starting to prepare when he is young, and learning and growing in the army for a lifetime.

It is foreseeable that as long as a certain amount of time is given, after six years, nine years, and more than ten years, Luo Chengcheng will be able to have a military literacy professional and loyal subordinates with high loyalty.

Now, in the more than 1,000 years in the Yi'er Battalion, Luo Cheng has selected the first batch of 300 people and assigned them to those regimental generals, adjutant generals, battalion captains, lieutenants and other middle and senior officers.

Even Luo Cheng himself deliberately chose eight teenagers by his side, these eight teenagers are the older and most brave in the Yi'er camp, and he chose them to be apprentices by his side, which can be regarded as a positive reward for them.

Cun Xiao and Si Ye and other generals and colonels felt a little unaccustomed to Luo Cheng giving them a batch of small radish heads at first, after all, the conditions on the battlefield were harsh, and these teenagers who were only ten years old, eleven or twelve years old, were too weak, and they would only become a drag on the battlefield.

But Luo Cheng didn't care whether they were happy or not, he solemnly stated that they must accept these teenagers, and told them that they must protect this group of teenagers well.

This big camp outside Zhangqiu City is not small.

Here is not only Luo Cheng's 5,000 direct troops, but also Qi County's 800 Weifu standing soldiers, 500 standing county soldiers, and although Zhangqiu is only a county, because this county has been very prominent in the past few years, and it is Luo Cheng's hometown, so there are also a standing battalion of 1,000 government soldiers and a standing battalion of 500 county soldiers, and even a standing battalion of 500 Xiangyong, plus Shan Binbin also pulled a standing female soldier of 800 people, which makes this company camp very lively.

The battalions added up to more than 9,000 people.

However, although there are many men and horses, each battalion is also separated by number.

Luo Cheng started with the battalion directly under him.

Of the 25,000 old headquarters of the Fifth Left Army, Luo Cheng only recruited 5,000 people back.

Now the 5,000 brothers who have returned have been reorganized.

A forward scout light cavalry regiment was set up, consisting of 500 light cavalry.

Wooden oxen and horses heavy cavalry regiment, 500 horses.

The vanguard broke the light cavalry regiment and formed a thousand light cavalry.

Shenwei Modao Heavy Step Regiment is composed of 500 people.

Jumping knife card light step group, 500 people.

First ascended the spear light infantry regiment and formed a thousand people.

The Brave Bow and Crossbow Light Infantry Regiment is composed of 500 people, and the Fearless Heavy Carriage Regiment is composed of 500 people.

Five thousand in total, two thousand cavalry and three thousand infantry.

Five thousand people made a total of eight regiments, divided into three compartments.

The purple-faced king Zhao Gui commanded the front compartment, Mo Dao general Luo Siye commanded the middle compartment, and the fierce tiger Luo Cunxiao commanded the rear compartment.

The rest of the generals, divided into deputy generals, partial generals, deputy generals, battalion captains, etc., when they were in Liaodong, they were all in command of more than 10,000 troops, but now they have only commanded 12,000 troops, but everyone didn't care much.

After all, in addition to commanding the headquarters and regiments, Luo Cheng also awarded the total of 20,000 soldiers and horses in the counties of Henan to the number together, and then divided them into Siye and other brothers.

As the elite of the elite, Luo Cheng's 5,000-man officer configuration is extremely luxurious, and the equipment of the 5,000 brothers is equally luxurious.

The cavalry was equipped with two horses, even the infantry were all equipped with mounts, and almost every soldier was equipped with a pack horse. Not to mention that everyone is equipped with armor, and everyone has a bow.

Luo Cheng's battalion patrolled over, and every time he passed the battalion, these old brothers were all dressed neatly and lined up in a neat military formation to be inspected.

Out of the old camp, and then to the county camp, the county government barracks and the county barracks are much worse, although the morale is not bad, all of them are young and strong, but the equipment is far behind, similar to the county camp when Luo Cheng was in Zhangqiu before, even if the government soldiers, only cavalry and horses, and the infantry are a group of ten talents and six mules.

"Wang joins the army, bring the weapons from Donglai as soon as possible, I hope these brothers can complete the change of clothes as soon as possible."

Wang Ziming hurriedly nodded in response, "The first batch of weapons is already on the way, and it is being transported along the Jishui River." ”

"Just in case, Zhao General, you take 2,000 men and horses in the front compartment and move to Bohai County, you must ensure the safety along the way from Donglai to Qi County, and you must not let thieves loot ordnance."

Scarface Zhao Gui patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, handsome, there are two thousand old brothers here, there will be no accidents." ”

"I will assign the 800 standing soldiers and 500 soldiers of Beihai County to you to command." Luo Cheng arranged.

Zhang Xutuo had returned to Xingyang, where he would take charge of the Hujiao Pass, where he would form his 3,000-strong troops and take charge of the western counties of Henan.