In October, on the official road from Ulzhou to Zhencheng, there were often several pacesetters riding horses to and fro, and after about a month of preparations, under the order of Xiao Yi, the chief military officer of Datong Town. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On November 1 of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Yong'an's fifth enrollment expansion began.

The expansion system of the Yong'an Army is becoming more and more mature every time, and it is no longer directly facing the people from the fourth time, although there are a large number of good men among them, but in Xiao Yi's opinion, it is not impossible to choose from these good and bad people, but it is too wasteful of time.

It is better to directly select from the veterans who have been in the army for a long time, these veterans have been sharpening their knives since the first announcement a month ago, and every expansion of the Yongan Army is an opportunity for them.

Whether they can join the family to live a good life and whether they can enter the world-famous Yong'an Army depends on their daily military merit settlement and performance in the examination, and everyone has a chance.

Compared with these veterans, almost all of them go to the regular soldiers, and no one will go to the Zhenwei Battalion, which trains new recruits, to sign up.

Of course, if a man from a certain household in a village is lucky enough to be included in the regular soldier sequence, the whole village will be known to outsiders.

The treatment of this family was immediately improved by several levels, and they went straight to the well-off life that they had envied for a long time.

On the contrary, the residents of those towns and cities are not very interested, they do not know enough about the Yong'an Army, although the Yong'an Army frequently reports successes, but most of them are afraid at this time.

Xiao Yizi knew this, so he didn't plan to recruit regular soldiers from the town at all.

However, even so, the auxiliary soldiers still need to be recruited in the town, and the sergeants of the Zhenwei Battalion do not have the same strict requirements as the Yongan Army, as long as they are not too thin and too extreme in their thinking, they are all qualified to enter the Zhenwei Battalion.

In the eyes of the soldiers and civilians in these towns, the food treatment of the Zhenwei Battalion is unimaginable, and after the silence of the first day or two, the number of people who signed up became more and more.

Yong'an Army's expansion this time, Xiao Yi thought about it for a whole month, and finally came up with a charter that satisfied him.

The notice has just been posted, not mentioning the movement of the town, but Ulzhou is already busy, and there are people coming and going on the official road.

Among them, there are those who send their father-in-law or son to join the army, they are all going to the Zhenwei battalion, if they want to enter the Yongan army, they can only have a chance after being selected for the Zhenwei battalion to practice and go into battle for a month.

While the Zhenwei battalion is screening elite veterans who have joined the army to be selected for the Yongan Army, it is also recruiting young and strong soldiers as recruits to make up for the shortage.

In addition, most of those veterans were garrison soldiers from all over the country, wearing the standard armor of the Yong'an Army to accompany their families.

Compared with these old soldiers, those who signed up for the Zhenwei battalion are slightly immature, these old soldiers are all in the forts for a long time, because of the long experience in the army, they are all tigers and tigers when they walk.

If nothing else, the vast majority of them can successfully pass the examination and be directly selected into the Yongan Army Barracks.

After sending away this group of veterans, the local authorities are also intensively preparing for recruitment, and the local defenders naturally cannot be shortage.

In short, this time in Ulzhou is as big as Ulzhou City, as small as every village and fort, it is full of people all day long, busy with recruiting troops, and the town is also quite lively.

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Yong'an Fort, after more than two years of continuous expansion and maintenance, is no longer the small fort built by Xiao Yi himself.

Although it is still a tunpu, no one regards it as a tunpu, only from the scale of view, Yong'an Fort is no longer inferior to the current Ulzhou City, and it is not much better than the East Road Acropolis.

What's more, almost all the high-ranking officers in the current Yong'an Army have personally participated in the construction of Yong'an Fort, which has long been regarded as a treasure by the surrounding people, and is even more regarded as a place where bandits cannot come and go.

There are constantly displaced people who come to live in Yong'an Fort after hearing about the policy of Yong'an Fort, so even if Yong'an Fort is constantly expanded, the supply of private houses in the city is still in short supply.

But this is not difficult for the hard-working people, anyway, there are no more bandits on the border of Ulju, and the later people simply built houses around the walls of Yong'an Fort, and cultivated them nearby after allocating land.

For a long time, the vicinity of Yong'an Fort has been quite prosperous, groups of village forts gather in this small dozens of miles, ditches, waterwheels, irrigation wells are stacked on top of each other, and it is also very lively on weekdays.

Therefore, in order to protect the law and order of the people, the patrol guards of the defense officer Liu Shiren outside the city have been strengthened several times, and the local night sentry rate has also increased instead of decreasing.

Yong'an Fort is ranked first in the performance appraisal of Yong'an Fort every few months.

Since Liu Shiren was appointed by Xiao Yi as the chief flag officer of Yong'an Fort, although he had no chance to make military exploits, as long as he acted according to Xiao Yi's orders, there were not many things on weekdays.

Yong'an Fort added defense, and the surrounding village forts were naturally upgraded, and the village fort was transformed into a tun fort that could garrison troops.

Of course, Changning Town also followed, and soon set up a defensive officer, and now maybe even Xiao Yi, Huang Yang and others will be surprised when they see it after they go back.

On November 3, the expansion notice had been posted for two days.

The ancestral hall of Yong'an Fort was crowded with people who came to pay their respects, not only for the men in their families to join the army, but also for the successful selection of Yong'an Fort soldiers or Zhenwei battalion auxiliaries and came back to pay their respects.

In addition, the foot merchants and tourists who continue to come here are crowded all day long.

The current Yong'an Fort ancestral hall has become the largest building in Yong'an Fort after several major repairs, with several deep rooms, plus high walls, and a spacious courtyard inside.

On the outermost part of the ancestral hall stand two majestic stone lions, with nailed mahogany doors, which are both majestic and respectful.

On both sides of the mahogany door are still hung the solemn oath written by Xiao Yi on the day the fort was built, and everyone did not expect that this oath would now come true.

The Yong'an Army has really become a strong army, and even Emperor Chongzhen has issued a holy decree to make the Yong'an Army strong.

After entering the ancestral hall, there are several deep rooms in the wide mansion, and the spiritual seats of the Yong'an Army soldiers who died in battle are neatly placed.

The names of these soldiers are engraved in blood-red letters in front of these spiritual seats, and the position information is engraved with a small red seal next to it, and their life deeds and places of death are engraved with a small black seal on the back.

Xiao also attaches great importance to the production of spirit cards, Liu Shiren naturally does not dare to slack off, and has always been personally in charge of the spirit position, so every spirit card here is carefully made by craftsmen, and there is a sense of exquisite carving at a glance.

In the ancestral hall, an old mother who is at least in her fifties, with gray hair and a face full of wrinkles, keeps worshipping with her son, and muttering something in her mouth.

"Yong'er, say goodbye, let these heroic souls bless you with more Tartars and more meritorious service, so as to save the face of our Hou family!"

Hou Yong stared at the full spiritual positions in front of him, and there were several shocking blood-red characters engraved on each spiritual position.

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"Fang Xun, the first general four teams of the Yongan Army, three sentinels and four armor soldiers."

"Dong Lushan, the first general team of the Yongan Army, the second outpost and the fifth class leader."

"Zhao Ming, one sentry and one sergeant of the second team of the first battalion and the second general team of Zhenwei."

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Looking at these big brothers, Hou Yong's face was full of awe, and he took out the wooden waist card in his hand, and a line of small characters was engraved on it vigorously.

"Yong'an Army's First Battalion, Fifth General Team, Third Team, Second Sentinel and Fourth Armor Soldiers, Hou Yong."

For some reason, this ancestral hall seems to have some invisible power, and Hou Yong, who has just been successfully selected as a regular soldier, is full of excitement that gradually fades, holding this small waist card, only to feel that the burden on his shoulders is getting heavier and heavier.

Fiercely, Hou Yong knelt down and kept buttoning his head towards the spiritual position, and his head was bruised and swollen, and there was a 'bang' sound.

Hou Yong's expression was extremely firm, and he muttered: "Old buddy, I, Hou Yong, will defend the glory of the Yong'an Army with this body and kill all the Tartars!" ”

After Hou Yong finished speaking, many people around him looked at him with surprised eyes, and they all talked about it.

"Look, isn't that the kid from the old Hou family?" A person pointed to Hou Yong, who was kneeling on the ground and kept buttoning his head, and said in surprise.

Another person nodded, and said with envy: "This kid from the old Hou family has joined the regular army, and now their family can enjoy happiness!" ”

Hearing this, a woman who seemed to be more than a year old patted her son, hated iron and steel, and said: "Erhei! You must be selected to avenge your dead father! Even if you can't enter the regular army, you have to enter the Zhenwei camp! ”

This young man is about twenty years old, surnamed Ning Erhei, and he was also excited when he heard the words, and said firmly: "Don't worry, mother, I will definitely be selected, I am better than Brother Hou!" ”

The woman slapped Ning Erhei on the back of the head and said, "Don't just say, what are you doing in a daze, go and worship, go quickly!" ”

"Hey!"

This Ning Erhei was honest, but he was happy after being slapped, and he ran into the lobby to line up.

The woman folded her hands outside the ancestral hall and kept worshipping: "His father, you must bless our family's Erhei, but you can't lose to that kid from the old Hou family!" ”