Chapter 68 Recruitment

"Order!" Sha Eucalyptus answered the call, and immediately drove forward with about forty people, as long as the homeless people who reached their range were directly whipped over. Of course, it is indispensable to shout at them to disperse, otherwise how can such an indiscriminate beating be able to convince the public. Seeing Sha Yu Ke and others coming on horseback, these homeless people scattered in fright.

"Want to join the army?" Li Cunhuan slowly drove his horse to the front of everyone, and his tall figure was so upright, like a mountain standing in front of everyone.

"Lord Thorn Shi, Xiao Min is useless, just one body of strength is okay, I hope Lord Thorn Shi can let the villain join the Loyal and Filial Piety Army!"

"Yes! Lord Thorn Shi, we all want to join the Loyal and Filial Army! ”

"That's right! Lord Thorn Shi, look how strong I am, I will definitely do my best to die after Lord Thorn Shi! ”

"That's right! As long as Lord Thorn Shi accepts me, I will definitely serve the country loyally! ”

As soon as everyone saw Li Cunhuan coming, they immediately quarreled again, and even said such exaggerated words as they did their best to serve the country.

Li Cunhuan raised his eyebrows, and said with his hands: "Everyone calm down, if you want to join the Loyalty and Filial Piety Army, you can run five laps around this camp, and as long as you get my approval, you can join the Loyalty and Filial Piety Army." ”

When everyone heard this, they all looked at each other, and the refugee camp was four miles in one circle, and five miles was twenty miles. Many people are retreating in their hearts.

Li Cunhuan didn't care what they thought, so he asked people to call the loyal and filial piety army who was in charge of garrisoning here, and asked them to shout, if they wanted to join the loyal and filial piety army. Although there were only five or six hundred people who made trouble, the generous treatment of the loyal and filial piety army still attracted many people, especially those Yu Ding in the family.

Yu Ding is the son except for the eldest son, unless it is a large family, otherwise only the eldest son inherits the family business after the marriage of a small family, and the other sons have to start their own businesses. The treatment of the loyal and filial piety army is so high, which also makes many people excited. The most important thing is that the loyal and filial army can get twenty acres of Yongye land.

Li Cunhuan's Yongye field is different from the Yongye field in the Tang Dynasty, in Danzhou, if the Yongye field is not cultivated normally within three years, it will be recycled, and if there are no descendants to inherit it, it will automatically become government land. The most important thing is that in order to restrain the land annexation, Li Cunhuan was not allowed to rent or sell Yongye land, and once it was discovered, the government confiscated the land, and the whistleblower obtained five acres of Yongye land.

More importantly, if one of the sons in the family joins the army, he will be exempted from the tax of 20 acres of land. If it is said that the family does not have 20 acres of land, the government will discount half of the tax on 20 acres of land in cash to compensate the family. The benefits are rare. No, no

In fact, not only the loyal and filial piety army, but also the black-clothed army, but the Danzhou soldiers only enjoy half of the benefits. Moreover, Li Cunhuan plans to reduce the old and weak and old fritters among the Danzhou soldiers this year to strengthen their combat effectiveness.

In the end, although many people retreated, nearly 2,000 people participated in the conscription, and there were not as many people as those from nearby refugee camps who rushed to participate. Li Cunhuan asked for 500 people to compete at a time. However, because there are so many people, if someone is one lap behind halfway, blends in with the crowd, and pretends to run five laps, it is difficult to tell the difference.

Li Cunhuansuo changed his route, starting from the refugee camp to Yunshan, a branch of the Yanshan Mountains, and then turning back from there, but the road back and forth was different, which also prevented some people from fishing in troubled waters. However, the distance was also lengthened to about twenty-two miles.

Li Cunhuan sent 50 personal soldiers to supervise along the way, and no matter how many of them were, he set off in groups of 500 people. Every half hour, that is, an hour, another group of people set out. The front and the back of the two groups of people are basically five or six kilometers apart, ensuring that there will be no people taking the opportunity to cheat because there are too many people.

However, what Li Cunhuan wants is not a person who can run these twenty-two miles, what he wants is a soldier who faints on the road after running. In fact, there is nothing special about the loyal and filial piety army created by Li Cunhuan, and the spear phalanx they use is pirated by Li Cunhuan from the West. Moreover, the spear phalanx attacked slowly, and after defeating the enemy, it was not able to kill and injure the enemy on a large scale, so it required cavalry to cooperate in combat. At the same time, the weapons are bulky and have low long-lasting combat capabilities.

But in fact, there are so many shortcomings, but the loyal and filial army has one advantage, even the black-clothed army does not have, that is, tenacity. The soldiers composed of the loyal and filial piety army were basically recruited from Han Chinese slaves. These Han Chinese slaves, often mistreated by the Khitans, had tempered their minds to be as tough as steel.

Li Cunhuan tried a military exercise, the enemy and the Khitans united, the north and south flanked, after the loyal and filial piety army defeated the enemy, half a day, four hours, fully armed and rapid march 60 miles, arrived at Gubeikou immediately into battle. Although it was a military exercise, and there were many fictional elements in it, it was real that it was fully armed and marched 60 miles in four hours. Moreover, after a military exercise and battle before, they had already consumed a certain amount of physical strength, and then went to Gubeikou to fight.

Li Cunhuan suddenly understood why the Macedonian soldiers under Alexander the Great could defeat the Persian Empire, which was several times larger and more powerful than Rome at that time. And when it came to the successors of Alexander the Great, Macedonia was no match for the Romans, on the one hand, although the rulers were incompetent, but it was undeniable that the quality of the soldiers was a problem.

The Macedonian soldiers under the leadership of Alexander the Great, but tens of thousands of people, could withstand the attack of the Persian army of millions for half a day without collapsing, creating an opportunity for Alexander the Great to win.

In fact, the soldiers of the Macedonian phalanx were able to fight for half a day with spears in their hands, which was already a very amazing and very proud achievement. Their spears were even more powerful than Li Cunhuan's, the longest reaching seven meters and the shortest reaching more than four meters. Even if it is a strong man with such a spear at the flat end, it will only take about twenty minutes at most for his limbs to be numb. Not to mention assassination, stabbing spears into the body of the enemy.

The results of the conscription were good, and Li Cunhuan actually found that there were more than 200 of them who had fainted. These are all good seedlings with tenacity, and there are more than 300 thin teenagers who are persevering even if they walk, even if they climb, they have all been recruited by Li Cunhuan into the Loyal and Filial Piety Army.

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