Smooth is smooth, but there is no train in these years, thousands of miles of travel is a few months, which is slow enough, and the cost is too high.

Wu Yong said: "The road is long, and it takes two months to walk, and the consumption of this road is very large. In fact, it's a good thing that our soldiers are sent out, there are fewer soldiers and they can be recruited, it turns out that there are six generals in the navy, and now there are still Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu left, and the others have gone out to perform tasks in various places, and the infantry and cavalry are also insufficient. ”

Chao Gai nodded: "Guiyang is too far away, far water does not quench the thirst of the near, how about recruiting troops in Danyang, in the name of recruitment, generously recruit three thousand two thousand." ”

Zhu Wu said: "Danyang has produced elite soldiers since ancient times, and the distance is not too far, just in Anhui, my brother intends that Zhu Wu can take a trip and guarantee to recruit 3,000 people." ”

Chao Gai said, "Okay, you can bring someone over tomorrow." "Danyang soldiers have been famous since the Han Dynasty, especially when the Three Kingdoms fought for hegemony, Danyang elite soldiers became famous all over the world.

Although the training strength of the Jeju regiment is almost 20,000, most of them are outside, there are more than 10,000 in Heilong Island, and more than 2,000 people remain on New Jeju Island. Pang Wanchun's 1,000 people, 500 people stayed on Jeju Island, and all the 1,000 cavalry of Tang Bin's department stayed, and then Cangzhou Yanchang, Jingcheng County, and Rizhao Port all had garrisons, so Jeju's local strength was only 3,000 troops, and Li Yun, Chao Zhang, and Chao Ran led 500 patrols, but the patrols carried out patrol tasks, and their combat effectiveness was a little weaker than that of soldiers.

After discussing with the military advisors, Chao Gai went to the outside training ground to find Yang Zhi, Yang Zhizheng taught a hundred soldiers knife skills, although Yang Zhi is good at Yang's gun, but the knife skills are also unique, the soldiers all know that Yang Zhi's knife skills are good, so they study seriously, and the sweat of the practice on a cold day, Yang Zhi points out the soldiers who are not in place from time to time. Wu Yong said beside him: "Yang Zhi is very calm and down-to-earth since he came, and he is much less impetuous than before. ”

Chao Gai nodded, after Yang Zhi was the founding general of the country, he always fantasized about being able to get a reputation from the imperial court and restore the reputation of the Yang family, but the reality is very cruel, because he was about to be beheaded after killing a few splashes in self-defense, Yang Zhi was very disappointed, and he was completely disappointed in the imperial court.

Chao Gai said: "Brother Yang Zhi, you can get used to it. ”

Yang Zhi saw Chao Gai coming, and immediately asked the soldiers to practice on their own, came to Chao Gai's side, knelt on his knees, and bowed: "Yang Zhi thank Chao Tuan for saving his life." ”

Chao Gai hurriedly supported him with both hands and said, "Brother Yang Zhi is serious. The brothers in our army are not said to be generals, even a small soldier who does not abandon or give up, please hurry up, and there is no need to mention this matter in the future. ”

Yang Zhidao: "That's true, when I arrived in Jeju regiment training, I knew what elite soldiers were, high-intensity training every day, high standard nutrition, combat effectiveness of soldiers, strong unity, and mutual life and death on the battlefield." It's a little stronger than the Tokyo Forbidden Army. ”

Jiao Ting said: "How is it than the Western Army?" ”

Yang Zhidao: "The Western Army led by Tong Guan rarely appears in Tokyo, and the Sprinkle family has never seen it. ”

Chao Gai said: "We are still not comparable to the Western Army, the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia have never been interrupted, so many years of baptism of war The Western Army is a hundred battles of elite soldiers, but we are not bad, work hard, and strive to catch up with and surpass the Western Army." ”

Luda is a typical representative of the Western Army, known as the Lu madman when he fights, and the combat effectiveness of the Western Army should not be underestimated.

Yang Zhidao: "The Sprinkle family has been accustomed to the life of the military camp since childhood, and they live very well here, coaching soldiers every day, and discussing martial arts with Wang Jiaotou and Luan Jiaotou at the same time. ”

Chao Gai said: "It is enough to lead a battalion of soldiers with your talents, I discussed it with all the military advisors, and decided to arrange Ou Peng to be your deputy and set up a battalion of horse army, how about it?" ”

Yang Zhi was very happy, but he changed his mind and said: "Yang Zhi is still a wanted criminal by the government, and it is inconvenient to enter and exit. ”

Wang Jin next to him also said: "If you lead the troops, you have to go in and out of the state capital, there are many people, and it is inevitable that bad things will happen, and it is not appropriate for us to tear our faces with Gao Yu in our current situation." ”

In fact, at present, it is already incompatible with Gao Yu, but it is better to try to have as few handles as possible, and Yang Zhi is a wanted criminal in the imperial court.

Chao Gai immediately appointed Yang Zhi as the head of the Jeju regiment to practice guns and sticks and equestrianism, and in addition to Wang Jin and Luan Tingyu, there was another coach in the Jeju regiment. And it can be regarded as a real leader, and the level is still there.

Chao Gai called Sun An and arranged Ou Peng as his lieutenant, and the two expanded the cavalry battalion to 300 people. In this way, Jeju has 1,200 cavalry, Chao Gai's own soldiers 300 cavalry, Luan Tingyu's battalion 300 cavalry, Niu Gao's battalion 300 cavalry, plus Sun Anbu's 300 cavalry. A total of 1,200 cavalry.

The infantry now has 500 people from Li Kui and Bao Xu, 500 from Pang Wanchun, 500 from Wu Song, and 500 from Mi Sheng. Other battalions such as Bian Xiang and Ruda were not in Jeju.

Shuibo, a large camp of the water army. Now the number of people in the naval battalion is scarce, only 400 people, which is much less than before. But the sound of the soldiers' drills is still very loud, and the soldiers who are not on duty on the water run ten miles early, and then practice horizontal bars, parallel bars, dumbbells and so on. The soldiers were well nourished, and their muscles were bulging.

When Chao Gai arrived, Ruan Xiaoer was also practicing, although he is now an officer, but he still retains his previous habits, seeing Chao Gai coming, Ruan Xiaoer said happily: "Brother can be regarded as coming back, this has been going for many months, brothers miss it, I heard that there are many big fish on the sea and delicious." ”

Chao Gai said: "The fish outside is delicious, but I don't forget the smell of carp in the water pool, whoever goes into the water to catch one for me." ”

Ruan Xiaoer rubbed his hands: "I'll go, this is not a hand-to-hand capture." ”

"Slow, I have to test the navy army today and gather the soldiers." Chao Gai said.

Ruan Xiaoer blew the whistle for the emergency assembly, and within three minutes, two hundred elite and strong sailors who were not on duty appeared in front of Chao Gai, who looked at this group of strong soldiers and asked, "If you want to fight a tough battle now, do you dare." ”

"Dare, dare, dare." The soldiers shouted.

The spirit is very full, and the morale is also very high, Chao Gai's firm eyes carefully searched the team, and there was a small soldier in the team, who seemed to be seventeen or eighteen.

"You, out of the ranks." Chao Gai said.

"Yes." This little sailor is out of the ranks.

"When you go into the water, you must not use tools, and you must catch a fish." Chao Gai said.

This little water army dragged off his coat, only wore waterproof underwear and drilled into the water, now the weather is below zero, just not freezing, if you practice swimming all year round, you really don't dare to drill into the water.

After a quarter of an hour, the little soldier came up and clasped the head of a large carp with both hands.

"Report, the fish has been caught." Said the little sailor.

Chao Gai nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, it seems that the sailor's housekeeping skills have not been forgotten, so let's send the fish to the canteen." ”

Chao Gai asked people to call Ruan Xiaowu back, and in the naval camp, Chao Gai, Wu Yong, Ruan Xiaoer, and Ruan Xiaowu discussed military aircraft.

Wu Yong said: "There is a lot of water in our Jeju area, especially this huge water pool, so the water army is particularly important, and now there are only 400 people left in the water army guarding the hometown, which is obviously insufficient, we must expand, otherwise we can't control this water pool alone." ”

Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu nodded: "That's true, there are fewer people, and it's really hard to deal with if the big enemy comes." ”

Chao Gai said: "After all, we are still a militia group, and it is not appropriate to expand too much, each fleet is expanded by three hundred, and there are enough five hundred people, so that the two fleets have a total of one thousand people." The reserves are all readily available and can be picked up quickly. ”

"Five hundred men per fleet, this number is enough for ordinary small-scale battles, but how many warships are equipped." Ruan Xiaowu asked.

Chao Gai said: "You two know the situation in Shuibo better than me, how do the two brothers think it is more appropriate?" ”

Ruan Xiaoer said: "We have lying cattle cannons, giant crossbows, many diving places in the water, and many harbors, so there is no need to equip the Flying Eagle warship with a deep draft, all of them use centipede warships." The water wheel centipede warship can be driven normally by four people, and if you want to be faster, eight people can step on the water wheel. According to the maximum requirements, eight people control the warship, twelve people control the weapons, and one centipede ship is still twenty people. However, we have a large control area and many places that need to be patrolled, so I suggest that there are sixteen people per boat, and if necessary, reduce the number of people who control the warship, and four people step on the water wheel. ”

Chao Gai and Wu Yong discussed, the warships in the water in these years are basically sails or oars sliding, to the centipede ship, which can not only use sails, but also use pedal water wheels is considered very fast, if it is not particularly necessary, there is no need to use eight people to step on the water wheel, and immediately said: "This will be done according to what you say, each ship is equipped with sixteen sailors, and each fleet is equipped with thirty-one centipede ships." ”

Immediately, Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu expanded the two naval fleets, each with 500 people, equipped with 31 centipede warships, and the main station weapons were improved divine arm crossbows and lying bull cannons.

Eight hundred miles of water in Liangshan is an exaggeration, but there are still one hundred and fifty miles from east to west, from the waterway west to Dongping Mansion, south to Yanzhou, Tengxian, Xuzhou, so this water area is particularly important, now more on the prosperity of Yuncheng Trade City, every day the merchant ships are continuous, how can the navy not be strong?

The reserve sailors who were transferred in were all strong people from fishermen, with preliminary military knowledge, and there was no need to train basic things such as queues, so Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu were still very easy to train after taking over, and they were proficient in operating crossbow arrows and artillery in a few days.

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