On February 7, 426 of the Great Jin Dynasty, Liu Ji led the border army under his command and entered Chengyin County for 3 days, in these 3 days, because of the cooperation of Zhou Kai, the captain of Chengyin County, Liu Ji has completely controlled the entire Chengyin County, Zhou Kai and the remaining soldiers of the Chengyin City Border Army have been incorporated into Liu Ji's own team. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At present, the number of soldiers under Liu Ji's command alone has exceeded the 7,000 mark, with more than 2,000 cavalry and nearly 5,000 infantry.

Among the more than 2,000 cavalry, in addition to the 1,286 Hu cavalry who were loyal to Liu Ji, the rest of the cavalry also included more than 20 people from the Chengyin City Border Army, as well as the original more than 700 cavalry in the border army, as for the infantry under Liu Ji's command, it only supplemented the dozens of people in the Chengyin City Border Army.

These more than 7,000 soldiers did not all enter Chengyin City, after all, Chengyin City is only so big, even the 10,000 war horses in Liu Ji's hands can't fit Chengyin City, so more than 2,000 cavalry and 10,000 war horses are temporarily placed in a barren grassland in the north outside Chengyin City.

The infantry under Liu Ji's command all lived in the military camp of Chengyin City, which was located in the northwest corner of Chengyin City and was the station of the original 3,000 border soldiers of Chengyin City.

The establishment of these infantry has not changed for the time being, it is still the same 5 divisions, but dozens of soldiers have been transferred to form the guards around Liu Ji, temporarily led by Chen Hao and Zhao Ben, and the establishment of the cavalry has been redistributed by Liu Ji, more than 2,000 cavalry are divided into four divisions, each of which is about 500 cavalry.

Each cavalry is a mixture of Jin and Hu people, at present, the commander, the captain, the team leader, the tun chief, and the military marquis, are all served by the Jin people for the time being, and these Jin cavalry may have a big gap compared to the Hu cavalry in terms of combat effectiveness, but at least there is no problem in terms of loyalty.

Moreover, Liu Ji has promised the 1,286 Hu cavalry that he will be eclectic to reduce talents, and as long as they make military achievements in the future, they will have the same promotion opportunities and the same rewards as the Jin people, and they will not suppress you because you are a Hu person.

Although Liu Ji's methods used to make these Hu cavalry loyal to him were a bit ruthless, when all the more than 1,000 Hu cavalry signed a letter of allegiance and joined the cavalry unit under Liu Ji, Liu Ji gave each Hu man 1 tael of silver that night, telling the Hu cavalry that the 1 tael of silver was their military salary for this month.

To be honest, even Liu Ji would not have thought of the power of this 1 tael of silver, you must know that more than 1,000 Hu cavalry, in addition to the war slaves of the 13 Wuheng tribes, are the ordinary cavalry of the 13 Wuheng tribes.

There is no need to say more about the war slaves, one by one, the poor jingle bells, in the past in the Wuheng tribe, the war slaves were captured on the battlefield, and all of them were attributed to the officers and nobles of the Wuheng cavalry, at most they were rewarded with some food for the war slaves, as for the silver, it was impossible for the officers and nobles to reward the war slaves, and even the copper plate would not be given to the war slaves, and the military salary was not a fantasy for the war slaves.

Even the ordinary cavalry of the Wuheng tribe also has no military salary, and the trophies captured in each battle, the ordinary Wuheng cavalry also have to hand over most of them to the officers and nobles, and they don't get much, 1 tael of silver is not a small amount of money for an ordinary Wuheng cavalry.

The Hu cavalry, who were still gritting their teeth against Liu Ji, couldn't help cheering excitedly after getting the military salary of 1 tael of silver, you must know that the military salary is available every month, and 1 tael of silver on the grassland is enough to buy 2 very fat sheep.

The cattle, horses, sheep and these livestock on the grassland are not valuable, and they are only valuable if they are transported to the territory of the Great Jin Kingdom, and if they are in the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty, the price of a sheep is at least 3 taels of silver.

According to the military salary formulated by Liu Ji, the soldier is 1 tael per month, the captain is 2 taels per month, the chief is 3 taels per month, the team rate is 5 taels per month, and the tun chief is 8 taels.

Only 1 tael of silver was given to each Hu cavalry, which made the army's heart calm down all of a sudden, Liu Ji also didn't expect that in the county government in Chengyin City, Liu Ji asked Zhou Kai: "Brother Zhou, according to the reaction, those Hu cavalry who were recruited were very happy with the military salaries issued, and they were also a lot more active in training. Even if that Jiangmen didn't take such a means as a letter of allegiance, it wouldn't make the Hu people defect! ”

Zhou Kai pondered for a moment and said: "General, the specific reasons for recruiting Hu cavalry to defect at that time are not very clear to his subordinates, but the Hu people recruited by Jiangmen at the beginning were recruited in a tribal situation, recruiting a number of small tribes of Hu people, although the Hu cavalry unit formed also arranged some Jin officers, but the real control of the cavalry unit is still in the hands of the tribal leader and Hu officers, even if there is a military salary, it cannot fall on the head of ordinary Hu cavalry. Presumably, this is one of the reasons for the failure of the gatekeeper. ”

Liu Ji understood as soon as he heard it, it turned out that the general who recruited the Hu cavalry was not like himself, only recruiting ordinary Hu people and war slaves, and eliminated the nobles and officers of the Hu people.

Liu Ji then smiled and asked Zhou Kai, "Brother Zhou, how is your cavalry training?" Is it okay to get along with Yutong? ”

The four cavalry under Liu Ji were respectively served by Su Lie, Hua Xiong, Wei Xiaokuan and Zhou Kai, while You Tong, Li Fangliang, Yang Xiong and Cheng Lian served as the Sima of the four cavalry as the deputy of the four captains, and You Tong was arranged in Zhou Kai's cavalry.

For Zhou Kai, the top general, Liu Ji's intention to win over is quite obvious, and he directly handed over more than 500 cavalry to Zhou Kai to lead, and Zhou Kai also made it clear that he was willing to serve under Liu Ji and continue to guard Chengyin City, a city guarded by the children of the Zhou family for generations.

Of course, Liu Ji did not receive any prompts from the system, although Zhou Kai promised to work for Liu Ji, but because Liu Ji was appointed by the imperial court as the guard general of Chengyin County, and if another person came over, Zhou Kai would be the same, it was impossible to be sincere to Liu Ji just after he met Liu Ji.