Chapter 22 The Arrival of Recruits, the Prototype of the New Army

In March of the second year of the Great Song Dynasty Jingyou, when the spring flowers were blooming, the suburbs of Bianjing, everywhere are the tourists who go out, especially the famous place of the eight scenic spots of Bianjing, there are many people, and the north gate of Bianjing Yishan is located, there are more Yishan sunset, Kaibao morning bell two beautiful scenery are located, and there are many visitors. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info。 qΒ5

In the north of Yishan outside the Fengqiu Gate in Bianjing, there was a large amount of barren land, which had not been cultivated for many years, but now it has become a hot construction site, which has become the most famous new army camp in Bianjing.

50,000 military laborers, under the command of the officials of the Ministry of Industry, in accordance with Zhao Lei's requirements and drawings, have laid the foundation for the camp of the new army, and in one more month of construction, the construction can be completed, giving Zhao Lei a perfect camp of the new army.

In the army construction camp, Zhao Lei is directing the service workers to build the outer wall of the new army camp.

The military camp near Bianjing can not build a city wall, basically a protective layer composed of wooden fences and horse rejuvenating antlers, and Zhao Lei does not want the new army camp to look exactly the same as other camps, since it is a training of the new army, so some must be novel, so Zhao Lei chose to use barbed wire to form a protective net around the new army camp, and it is impossible to appear near Bianjing for a hundred years There is no trace of the enemy, the wall built of barbed wire, with the low arrow tower, is enough to defend against thieves and spies with ulterior motives in the surrounding open field.

After Zhao Lei took control of the ordnance station, it was much more convenient to do many things, and the current barbed wire fence was necessary. Only then can the military institute build barbed wire, and now Zhao Lei, in a word, directly jumped over the official family and the Chinese book, and created enough wire to completely enclose the barracks of the new army within a radius of five miles, so that the official family and the imperial court knew that the military institute had already made the barbed wire a new weapon with good resistance to the enemy.

The barbed wire is low. It's only three meters, and every fifty meters, a thick tree is nailed into the earth, and the barbed wire is entwined, and the distance between the top and bottom is less than a foot, and even a child cannot pass through.

Zhao Lei stood next to the barbed wire with great satisfaction, looking at the barbed wire with thorns, and considering whether the barbed wire could play a greater role in the military.

"Lord Zhao!" Han Qi, the deputy envoy of the new army, hurriedly came to Zhao Lei's side and said respectfully.

"What's the matter?" Zhao Lei turned his head to look at Han Qi in a hurry, and asked suspiciously.

"The first batch of recruits from Qinfeng Road has arrived in Bianjing. Wailang Pangji, a member of the military department, is bringing them here! Han Qi explained to Zhao Lei.

"Recruits are coming, how many? What about the quality? When Zhao Lei heard Han Qi's words, he immediately asked carefully.

"The number is 4,000, and the quality is unknown for the time being." Han Qi told what he knew.

Zhao Lei pondered for a while, and immediately instructed Han Qi: "Lord Han! The houses of the left army in the barracks have been built. You find someone to clean up, you should be able to move in today, and go to Lord Ding to bring 4,000 sets of step armor, and ask the household department for a batch of grain, grass and cloth! ”

Hear Zhao Lei's words. Han Qi nodded in agreement, and left with the two entourages around him, leaving Zhao Lei there to curse in a low voice in the days when the warehouse in the army was not built. How onerous things are.

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The military camp is an irregular rectangle, a radius of about five miles is the territory of the new army, the new army barracks, according to Zhao Leidi's drawings will be divided into five parts, respectively, the left army camp, the right army camp, the front army camp, the rear army camp and the middle army camp, the square of five camps, in the word "middle" scattered in the new army camp, occupy the middle part of the new army camp, the four corners are vacant. It became the training place of the New Army, and the five secret warehouses in the New Army camp were in the middle of the Fifth Army camp.

"Huge people have worked hard!" Zhao Lei looked at Pang Ji, who came to the New Army camp with 4,000 people, and said with a salute.

Forty-seven-year-old Pang Ji this year, with an old face, his eyes are full of wisdom after experiencing wind and frost, Pang Ji is not simple, although he plays the disgraceful negative role of Pang Taishi in many romances, but in history, he is a righteous person who intersects with Han Qi, Fan Zhongyan and others, and is also a teacher of Sima Guang and Di Qingdi, both civil and military, witty and upright, and the evaluation of many famous ministers in the Renzong period is no less than Bao Zheng, but it started too late, Tiansheng only stepped into the officialdom in three years, plus Geng is upright and upright, offended a lot of people, In addition, he was a Jinshi personally ordered by the Empress Dowager Liu, so he was labeled as the Empress Dowager's party, and now he can be regarded as entering the power center of the Great Song Dynasty.

"There, the lower officials just brought these people here, Lord Zhao is responsible for training the new army, building camps, and managing the logistics yamen of the new army, Lord Zhao is hard!" Pang Ji stroked the three short beards and said to Zhao Lei with a smile.

Zhao Lei instructed the people behind him to bring 4,000 recruits to the barracks, and then took Pang Ji to start visiting the new army camp.

"What do the huge people think of these barbed wire?" Zhao Lei looked at Pang Ji's curious study of the barbed wire fence more than three meters high, and asked him with a smile.

"Not bad! Very sharp iron spikes, toughness is also good, if in the field, several layers of barbed wire are enough to resist the charging cavalry, can resist the impact of cavalry, is a good thing! Pang Ji touched the sharp iron thorns and strong barbed wire on the barbed wire, and said appreciatively.

"Not bad! In the territory of Western Xia and Liao, there are either vast grasslands or vast deserts, and there are no things needed to set up camps, and with wooden fences and increasing the logistical burden, these light barbed wire fences are the best choice for camping in the wild. Zhao Lei explained carefully to Pang Ji.

"It's a bit wasteful to use it here, near Bianjing, not to mention the enemy, even a small group of bandits don't have it, I'm afraid these things will be dusty." Pang Ji looked at the defensive net composed of barbed wire, and said to Zhao Lei with a sigh.

Zhao Lei looked at Pang Ji who sighed, and said nothing, he actually deliberately pulled all these barbed wire here, after being exposed to the wind and sun, it will soon rust and contain a large number of bacteria, and at that time, once these barbed wire are pulled to the battlefield, a small wound is enough to kill in the era of low medical conditions in the Northern Song Dynasty.

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In the training ground opened up by the military camp, four thousand recruits who had just been recruited from Qin Feng Road, sweating, wearing heavy step armor, stood straight on the training ground, undoubtedly, Zhao Lei began to use the training methods of later generations to start eliminating soldiers with weak will and poor physical fitness, and then select the most elite backbone of the new army.

In the temporary tent of the collapsed military camp, Zhao Lei and Han Qi were holding the roster of leading generals of the new army recommended by the Privy Council to select the most suitable candidates.

"Except for the new army, I'm afraid there is no second army that has the treatment of selecting generals, for so many years, the Great Song Dynasty has assigned generals and selected generals, it's really the first time!" Han Qi looked at the recommended candidates in his hand from the commander of the Eighth Rank Battalion to the Commander of the Sixth Rank Army, shook his head and said to Zhao Lei with a smile.

"Is this what a new army looks like! If the privy envoy appoints generals, I am afraid that they are all arrogant and arrogant, and what the new army needs is generals with real skills, and they don't need those embroidered pillow wax gun heads. Zhao Lei looked up at Han Qi and said.

"The 25,000-strong new army is just a one-sided establishment, ten army establishments, fifty battalion establishments, and now the new army does not have a single general, do we have to pick sixty leading generals, this is too difficult!" Han Qi looked at the roster in his hand and said with a wry smile.

"The new army is an expanded establishment, an army will have 5,000 people, and a battalion is 1,000 people, so the new army only needs five six-rank army commanders and twenty-five eight-rank battalion commanders, in addition to the Chinese army of the official and the right army of Lord Han, only three army commanders and fifteen battalion commanders, the generals of the Chinese army are responsible, the generals of the right army, Lord Han recommended it, Lord Han is also from a famous family, and he intersects the world, so he won't even find a few generals with real skills!" Zhao Lei looked at Han Qi with a smile and said.

"Lord Zhao, don't worry, just a few partial generals and subordinates can still find suitable candidates, but the other three armies, who are you going to use?" Han Qi looked at Zhao Lei and asked.

"It's just the three of them, Yang Zun, the battle of Gyeongju rescued Fengchuan Village, cautious and witty, the Yongxing Army's three-way reinforcements were annihilated, and the seven hundred cavalry led by him still held on to Dunliang Village, and insisted until the retreat of the Western Xia Army, the advance and retreat were well-founded, and they came up step by step from the grassroots level, the most important thing is that people are cautious enough, and the rear army is also relieved to hand it over!" Zhao Lei pointed out Yang Zun's name and said to Han Qi, hearing Han Qi nodding frequently.

"Gao Zunping, the first master of the young generation of Bianjing Jiangmen, brave and fearless, his reputation is still above Yang Wenguang, he is a rough and fine person, he was born in Jiangmen, he is good at the battle formation, and he is the best candidate for the former army; Shi Yuanchun, after the Jiangmen Shi family, and Gao Zunping and called the young generation of Bianjing Jiangmen, witty and erudite, very good at training, the best candidate for the left army generals, there is another advantage to choosing these three people, one of them is a veteran of a hundred battles, and two are Jiangmen Huzi, both of whom have certain qualifications in the army, and hand over the three armies to them, and let them recommend them by themselves. Zhao Lei picked out two more candidates and said with a smile to Han Qi.

Of course, these candidates are good, the three heroes who are the most prominent in Bianjing, Yang Wenguang has been brought to Gyeongju by Zhao Lei to serve as the defense envoy of Gyeongju, the first battle of Gyeongju has proven Yang Wenguang's ability, and there are two people left, of course Zhao Lei is not willing to let go, it just so happens that they are all military attaches of Zhengliupin now, and they can just serve as the official position of deputy envoy of the new army, and letting them go is Zhao Lei's loss.

With the arrival of recruits from all walks of life in the north, as well as Yang Zun, Gao Zunping, and Shi Yuanchun, a large number of low-level generals have also been brought in, and the training of the new army has finally begun.

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