Chapter 54: Expanding the Army Again

In the Hulu Valley, there is a busy scene, nearly thousands of people are working hard for their new home, and everyone can see the gratifying smile of yearning for a new life on their faces.

In addition to nearly 600 people from Guanjiatun to join, some women who were originally robbed by horse thieves in Hulu Valley and some ordinary people who did miscellaneous labor were also included in the total population.

Since then, the total population of soldiers and civilians under Hao Jian's rule has exceeded 1,200 people.

Such a large population made it possible for Hao Jian to expand his army again. And the glory value is also increasing in these days, and there are now more than a thousand points.

There is no need to worry about money, and with the capture of Hulu Valley, Hao Jian ordered the expansion of the army again.

In this army expansion, all the population was used to train soldiers, because Hao Jian always had a strong sense of crisis in his heart, and he always felt that there would be a big battle to be fought in a short time, so the army expansion became a crisis demand that he could not explain to outsiders.

In this expansion of the army, Hao Jian increased the number of archers and crossbowmen to 300 in one go, and the crossbow team was all led by Li Yi.

In order to strengthen the protection of crossbowmen and spearmen, Hao Jian purchased a large amount of armor in the system market, and equipped all crossbowmen with leather armor with medium protection ability.

And the combination of archers and crossbowmen, whether it is an archer or a crossbowman, the standard weapon configuration is a longbow, a crossbow, two pots of crossbows, and a portable short sword. In this way, when encountering an enemy, use a longbow to kill the enemy at a long distance, and use a crossbow with great damage to kill the enemy at close range. If the enemy is approaching, you can still use the short sword at your waist to fight when you can't evacuate, and you won't be tied up in close combat.

In this way, the combat effectiveness of the crossbowmen will be greatly enhanced, and the survivability of the battlefield will naturally be greatly enhanced.

The number of spearmen was also increased to 300, with Tie Ning as the commander and Tie Mu as the deputy commander, and the infantry team was established, and all their armor was changed from the coarse cloth robes of the whole to the armor of the iron armor, so that the survivability of the battlefield was greatly increased.

The archers were increased by fifty, bringing the total to a hundred, and with the addition of one hundred light cavalry, this was a total of two hundred cavalry, forming a cavalry team, led by Ran Wu as the cavalry commander, and the other two knights as deputy commanders, each leading a hundred cavalry. At the same time, Ran Wu is also the captain of the scout team, responsible for daily military reconnaissance and reporting.

And Hao Jian also formally established his own personal guards, all composed of ironclad swordsmen, Bai Mu served as the captain of the guard, and the number of the first batch of personal guards was fifty people.

And Leopard Lingzi and Yang Chuliu, that is, the little guy who was accepted on Heiniu Mountain, were also incorporated into the military command team, led by Li Qian, a military commander, who was responsible for conveying Hao Jian's orders.

The fifty monks of Xuzhu were temporarily converted into labor camps to supervise and dispose of all prisoners, and Hai Dongqing and his men were already whipped every day to dig coal.

In order to avoid some unnecessary troubles and snooping, Hao Jian planned the people's residences to the deeper part of the valley, and in order to avoid the formation of small hills and mutual discrimination in the future, the people of the original Heiniu Mountain and the people of Hulu Valley and the people of Guanjiatun lived together, so that it was also convenient for the people to get acquainted with each other and integrate.

For those single women, Hao Jian still let them live in the courtyard of the original bald wolf, and was responsible for the food and drink of Hao Jian and all the soldiers. They are temporarily managed by Bai Jinxiu's master and servant.

This is also to prevent these women from being harmed again.

At the same time, a large area is planned not far from the entrance of the valley to be used as a barracks, which is also the first step in the realization of Hao Jian's system architecture.

In the field of systems, Hao Jian has built an engineering battalion and trained 100 engineers from the engineering battalion.

The barracks was now being built under the leadership of these engineers, with the help of pikemen, and the entire barracks was expanding at a rate visible to the naked eye.

In fact, the difficulty of the project is not very large, after all, there is a bonus to the speed of the system, and it is mainly based on civil structures, so the construction speed is fast.

Liu Ji was specifically responsible for the resettlement of the people during this time, all the housing construction, the people's eating, drinking, and Lazar, the distribution of various materials, the receiving, and even some disputes between the people were temporarily responsible for him, and Hao Jian also gave ten armor soldiers as guards and helpers.

In short, after the initial hectic situation, after Hao Jian and Liu Ji sorted out, the affairs of the entire valley are gradually becoming normal.

The various anxieties of the people at the beginning gradually disappeared under the discipline of the army and Hao Jian's appeasement, and were replaced by a yearning for a new life and a gradual recognition of Hao Jian.

In particular, when people looked at the pair of soldiers who drove in from outside the valley with a neat and majestic military appearance, the sense of security in their hearts increased day by day.

"You see, this banner of the Chinese army should be larger, and it should be very conspicuous among thousands of troops, so that our soldiers will see that the commander is still standing still in the formation, so that the army will not be confused and kill the enemy with peace of mind, do you say yes or no?" Hao Jian was in the third courtyard to watch Bai Jinxiu and Xiaowen's master and servant take a group of women to make various flags in the army.

In the era of cold weapons, there was no combat command system, nor did there be any battlefield communication system, and all orders on the battlefield were commanded through various flags.

Although the scale of Hao Jian's army is not large at present, there must be a flag. First of all, there must be a Chinese army banner for central command.

Each branch of the army also needs to have its own flag, which can be embroidered with the surname of the commander-in-chief, which can be used on the battlefield as a sign of identification and the assembly of soldiers.

In addition, there is a need for small flags of various colors to convey some complex military orders, so they must be very recognizable.

Hao Jian didn't know much about these before, but after discussing it with Liu Ji, he basically understood a general idea, so he came over to take a look.

"Got it, Childe, what do you think of my needlework?" The little girl grinned, threading the needle and thread quickly, and boasting about herself.

"Not bad, not bad, very good at the level of a sewing machine." Hao Jian glanced at the little girl's fine stitches and neat movements, and praised casually from the bottom of his heart.

"What is a sewing machine? Is it a personal name? The little girl looked curious.

"Pretty much. What is that girl's name, do you know her? Hao Jian casually perfunctory, and suddenly saw the woman in the blue dress who made him a little curious, who was quietly sewing the flag at the moment, so he pointed and asked.