When Li Xiu heard this, he had already guessed a rough idea in his heart. He nodded, motioning for the other party to continue, and he had to understand the specific situation first.

Things were similar to what he guessed, according to Lin Hu's temperament, after taking over the position of Xuanwu Weidusi, he really wanted to show his strength and ambitions.

It's a pity that the reality is too cruel, and the imperial court asked him to make up for the shortage of soldiers, but the military salary issued is not so much.

In view of the poor combat effectiveness of the officers and men of the guard, they are rarely mobilized to fight. Don't go to war, as long as they can resist the plundering of the peasant army, Zhu Youzhen can be so happy that he can't sleep.

But just this requirement is difficult for the guards and the army to do.

What Zhu Youzhen doesn't know is that it's not that people are unwilling to sell their lives, it's that the imperial court can't even guarantee the food and clothing of the soldiers, who would be stupid enough to charge into battle for you?

At the beginning, Lin Hu did replenish the number of soldiers to 5,600. It's a pity that nearly half of them have run now, and Xuan Wuwei now has less than four thousand people left.

And among these 4,000 people, it is estimated that it will not be long before some more people will run, and it is estimated that only half of them will be left in the future.

Lin Hu is still relatively upright, and at the beginning, he really never withheld military salary.

However, the fact that the main general will not withhold military salaries does not mean that the official will not withhold them. The soldiers of the local guard station all have their own tuntian, and the military salary they have been paid is not much, and if the higher-level officials intercept half of it, how much will be left?

There is another one, the system of guarding the tuntian has reached the present, and in addition to the frequent disasters in recent years, the soldiers have not had much harvest in the tuntian at all. Coupled with the little military salary in hand, the soldiers at the bottom can barely eat enough, and they can be regarded as the main general has a conscience. As for eating meat, don't expect any more.

Lin Hu didn't know much about these at first, but after doing it for a while, he found that it couldn't work, so he followed the trend and began to treat his own soldiers preferentially and cultivate his family.

As a result, many soldiers could not eat, and eventually had to run away, and the number of soldiers was naturally drastically reduced.

Lin Hu can't take care of these anymore, it's useless if they don't run, if they don't focus on cultivating twenty or thirty family members, this army is probably weaker than other guards.

The military salary of the guard station is much less than that of the border army, and it is already a rare thing to be able to train twenty or thirty cronies and subordinates.

As a result, the new Dusi Linhu once again followed the old path of his predecessor and ate empty salary.

After listening to his words, Li Xiu couldn't laugh or cry. It seems that at the local level, the real situation of the guards is indeed not much different from what he knows.

The collapse of the system really can't be entirely due to the main generals, and individual generals can actually be regarded as having a conscience. After all, when they really want to go into a war, there are still twenty or thirty people under their hands, can they fight for a while?

But to be honest, when the peasant army really fights, there will always be more generals who flee than those who fight with others.

Li Xiu groaned, although his current family wealth is quite surplus, if he continues to increase his troops, the future expenses will be very large.

There are now more than 10,000 people in the Shenji Battalion, and after the battle of Jiazhuang, more than 4,000 people have been lost, and the current team is already a little miscellaneous. The 5,000 villagers who joined in later, because they had not been trained, were actually not good at using firearms, and these people were now using cold weapons to fight.

Li Xiu didn't plan to increase the number of firearms soldiers, because this thing was too advanced, and it was not easy for people in the Ming Dynasty to play well, and they couldn't be trained without a year or two of kung fu.

It took two years of training in his Shenji battalion to get to its current scale, which can be regarded as a bit of an elite posture, but where is the time for himself to train firearms now?

In fact, Li Xiu also knew that he couldn't rely too much on firearms, because at this time, only overseas flintlock pistols were developed, and the Ming Dynasty did not have them, and bird guns were all based on ignition.

If you fight in rain and snow, this advantage will be completely abolished and it will become an ordinary army. If the enemy is too strong, it will have to be annihilated.

Therefore, Li Xiu really wants to cultivate thousands of elites of cold weapons and run rampant in the world!

That's right, as long as you have a few thousand elites, it is not a big problem to go sideways in the Ming Dynasty, as long as you don't run into the main force of the Qing army. Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, the two famous generals, how can the elite under their hands ever exceed 10,000?

The people recruited by Jiazhuang were actually still capable of fighting, because they were similar in nature to the Tianxiong Army recruited by Lu Xiangsheng before, and they were all of the same township and clan. On the battlefield, if you become a deserter, it is equivalent to leaving all the relatives of the clan, and you will survive alone, but the whole clan will die under the enemy's sword.

Among the 5,000 people, there are actually only more than 4,000 men, and they still need to be trained well to be reliable.

Lin Hu saw that he pondered for a long time, and thought that he was unwilling to accept himself, so his heart was gloomy for a while, and he got up and prepared to leave. Li Xiu said at this time: "Xuanwuwei can take refuge in me, but all military affairs have to be arranged by me." ”

Li Xiu has his own considerations, and he doesn't want his team to have a situation of self-respect.

Don't spend a lot of time and energy to train the soldiers yourself, and don't listen to your own dispatch, that is, to make wedding dresses for others.

Lin Hu was stunned when he heard this, then solemnly knelt on one knee, hugged his fists and said: "Xuanwuwei is willing to listen to the general's dispatch, and Lin Hu swears to follow!" ”

Li Xiu nodded with satisfaction, and then arranged the first priority training.

5,000 villagers were transferred from the Shenji Battalion and incorporated into the Xuanwuwei, and only more than 10,000 people were left in the Shenji Battalion, which could also reduce the consumption of some gunpowder.

As for the continuation of gunpowder, Li Xiu had already sent people to the capital to contact the spies distributed in the city by Hawkeye, intending to buy some gunpowder from the household.

As long as you don't reveal your identity, this kind of thing is actually very simple.

There are very few officials in these years who are unwilling to make money. Don't be yourself, even when you fight with the Tartars, the generals of the border army will trade with the enemy.

In this way, with the addition of more than 4,000 men, Xuanwuwei originally had nearly 4,000 people, so the total number of soldiers was 8,000.

Kaifeng is the place of four battles, and these 8,000 people usually seize the time to train, and when the enemy comes, they can still help defend the city, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

The time spent on cold weapons training will naturally be shorter, after all, it will be much easier for people in this era to play with knives, guns and sticks than firearms.

As for weapons, Li Xiu doesn't have any hard requirements, soldiers use good weapons, as long as they are not hoes or the like, the advantages and disadvantages are not very great.

When the time comes, select a few common ones, and practice the same for each thousand households.

The local guards are in a hurry, and Xuanwuwei definitely doesn't have so many weapons now. It doesn't matter, Li Xiu has already thought about it, there are still several guards in Kaifeng Mansion, and when the time comes, it will be enough to snatch all the weapons together.

The second echelon of the Grass Head King cannot be too high, as long as it does not affect the combat power.

After sending Lin Hu away, Zhang Luoyan, He Kuan and other generals had already received orders and gathered at the general's mansion.

Li Xiu immediately ordered them to send troops to various county towns to arrest people.

After understanding Li Xiu's intentions, the soldiers were no longer ambiguous, and immediately went to mobilize troops and horses after receiving the order.

The general is all for the sake of everyone, let whoever is arrested be arrested! (To be continued.) )

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