Chapter 31 Expansion of the Army
"Bell, bell! Recruit, recruit! β
"Bell, bell! Recruitment, all those who want to join the army should go to the barracks and school to sign up! β
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Early the next morning, as soon as everyone had breakfast, several soldiers shouted around the village with gongs.
With the rapid increase in the population of the village, with the current population of 110,000 in Qilin Village, the original four battalions of 800 soldiers and horses are far from enough to maintain the stability of the village.
Moreover, the current war between the Qing army and Daxi, the war between Dongliu Town and the 32 villages in the west, and the war between Xiangjia Village and Shangfeng Village in the east have not ended, and Qilin Village must have enough troops to ensure that it has the ability to intervene in the war on three sides in the future.
Therefore, there is no need to delay in the expansion of the army.
However, Sima Yu did not blindly expand the recruitment of troops, and this time he planned to recruit a total of 3,400 new recruits, plus the original 800 veterans, a total of 4,200 people.
At this stage, Qilin Village is in the stage of large-scale construction, which requires a large number of young people, and if too many soldiers are recruited, it will inevitably affect the development of the village.
The military system of Qilin Village Sima Yu directly followed the military system of the Han Dynasty and adopted the conscription system, all soldiers were recruited voluntarily, and the army paid salaries on time.
The most basic unit of the army is the army, that is, every five people are a team, with a team commander, two teams for a tithe, a tithe, five tithes for a team, a team leader, two teams for a tun, a tun commander, five tun for a song, a military waiter, two songs for one, a military commander, two to five departments for a battalion, and a school captain.
Among them, 4,000 people are divided into four departments, respectively by Cheriji, Hu Chuquan, Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao, four people as military Sima, each commander of a soldier. The remaining 200 people were divided into two tuns to form a guard, which was led by the vultures, who also served as military commanders, and had two tun commanders.
The four divisions are all infantry and bow combinations, each of which is composed of three tun archers and seven tun infantry, and the two hundred guards are all composed of infantry.
Each infantry was armed with a short spear, a simple knife, and a wooden shield, and no archers had a short bow, a simple knife, and a pot of arrows (30).
These weapons and equipment were all opened by Sima Yu with weapon bags, and in order to gather the equipment of these 4,200 soldiers, Sima Yu opened a total of 200 weapon bags, that is, arrows and wooden shields are the most difficult to open.
Although all of them are primary equipment, such a neatly equipped and well-armed army is still the first in the entire coastal villages, and even the main force of the Great Western Army, there are still a large number of soldiers with uneven weapons.
"Hey, it's recruiting again!"
Looking at the soldiers beating the gong, a young man about 20 years old muttered with a happy face.
"Dog baby, let's go, it's hard to wait until it's recruiting again, it's too late to go, but there's no chance."
Just when the young man named Dog Baby was stunned, the companion next to him pulled him directly in the direction of the barracks and school.
"Let's go, join the army!"
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At the same time, many young and middle-aged people who received the news rushed to the barracks.
After more than a month of Guoyuan's management, several laws and regulations promulgated by Qilin Village have been gradually improved, and Guoyuan has issued a reference list of wages for various tasks in the village in combination with the existing material level and job categories, and all villagers employed by Qilin Village are implemented according to this detail.
In order to select elite soldiers and improve the loyalty of soldiers, Sima Yu ignored Guoyuan's opposition and greatly improved the treatment of soldiers, that is, ordinary soldiers can also receive a salary of 300 copper coins per month, which is enough to buy food at the current price in Qilin Village.
Such a generous treatment naturally attracted many Qilin Village villagers to join the army enthusiastically, and under the vigorous promotion and popularization of Guoyuan, even those villagers who had just joined were extremely familiar with the policies of Qilin Village.
Therefore, as soon as the announcement of the recruitment of troops in Qilin Village was announced, the villagers in the village enthusiastically participated, and the entire military camp was overcrowded for a while.
The unprepared four people, Cheriji, Hu Chuquan, Zhou Cang, and Pei Yuanshao, were immediately stunned by people's enthusiasm, how could they have seen such a lively recruitment scene, didn't this recruitment announcement just be released.
"Come on, come on, don't mess up, don't mess up, line up, there are two levels, everyone come one by one"
However, the four of them soon came to their senses, and immediately began to screen the applicants happily.
For them, the more people who sign up, the more they will be able to select high-quality soldiers.
"Come, you, if you see those rocks on the school ground, you can try them first! If you can lift it, you will pass the first round
Before everyone could line up, Zhou Cang couldn't help but point directly to a person and pointed to the stone lock on the school field and said to him.
"Drink!"
The young man who was ordered by Zhou Cang was not stage frightened, and came to the middle of the school with a happy face, and lifted the stone lock on the far right weighing about 100 catties.
I don't know if it's because this world has more aura, but most people feel that their bodies have become much stronger than they used to be after coming to this world.
"Good!"
"Good!"
Seeing this, the others below said goodbye.
"Okay, pass the customs, go over there and wait, the next one" Zhou Cang was also overjoyed when he saw this, and hurriedly sent the young man aside, and then ordered the next one to come up for testing.
For a while, the cheers in the school yard came and went, including the sound of the testers exerting their strength, and the shouts and cheers of the onlookers next to them.
There are a total of 8 stone locks on the school field, and the speed of the first round of testing is very fast, and in less than an hour, nearly 20,000 people who came to sign up for the test have been tested, and more than 8,000 people have met the conditions.
After completing the first test, Cherrigi and the other four immediately organized a second round of testing, running 10 miles around the village, supervised by the original veterans, and the 4,200 people who ran at the front were selected.
In just half a day, 4,200 recruits were recruited, and after the vulture took the lead in selecting 200 soldiers, Cheriji, Hu Chuquan, Zhou Cang, and Pei Yuanshao also selected their own men and brought them back to their respective camps.
"Look to the right! Look forward! March! β
"One-two-one, one-two-one"
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On May 25, the first year of the Great Battle, there were bursts of neat cheers in the school field of Qilin Village, and a team of soldiers were marching forward in the school field.
Since most of the recruits had no previous experience in marching, the initial marching training was very slow.
Seeing this, Sima Yu immediately moved the set of queue training that he learned in military training in later generations, after all, this set was summed up by countless experiences in later generations.
It can quickly cultivate the soldiers' awareness of strictly abiding by military discipline, enhance the soldiers' team consciousness and self-confidence, cultivate perseverance and perseverance, and lay a solid foundation for the follow-up military formation training in the shortest possible time.
Sure enough, after combining Sima Yu's queue training experience, under the bonus effect of the fragments of the soldier's book, the temperament of all the recruits changed rapidly and quickly entered the role of soldiers.
As the soldiers continued to move forward, an awe-inspiring momentum continued to spread, and many villagers passing by around couldn't help but look sideways.