"Report, Geng Jie, the chief of the first division and the third bureau of the first flag team in the left part of the barracks, has selected the members of this team, please register."

The handwriter in charge of registration behind the desk felt that his ears were a little deafening, so he nodded quickly, picked up the pen and began to register.

A clerk is responsible for keeping a record of the roster, detailing the name of each member of the team and detailing the position, position and rank of each member.

Another clerk took a dozen pieces of white cloth and began to write the names of the members of the team on them one by one.

"Huguang Guerrilla Nine-headed Bird Battalion Left Division 3rd Bureau A Banner A Team Left Wu Chang and Rattan Player Zhang Qiusheng"

"Zhang Qiusheng, take it." The clerk handed him the strip of white cloth along with a waistcoat without sleeves and collars, with slits on both sides and down to the knees. There is a nine-headed bird pattern on the chest and back of the armor, and under the pattern on both sides is a large white Yong character. "This is your coat, go back and take a needle and thread and sew this strip of cloth on the left side of your placket."

Zhang Qiusheng took the coat and cloth strips, walked to the next table, and handed over a wooden plaque to the clerk behind the table. On the front of the wooden plaque is written the nine-headed bird soldier Wang Qiusheng, and on the left side is the words "Soldier No. 0007" of the war barracks. On the back, it is written that the five-foot tall face has a black mole on the left side of the face with a yellow short beard, and there is also a line of words on the left side, where the nine-headed bird warrior hangs this card, the unlicensed, the lost, the borrower and the borrower are all engaged in military law.

Zhang Qiusheng received the wooden card, but he couldn't understand the words on it, but he still understood the meaning of the document, this brand is his identity card, lost or lent to others, and even does not usually carry it on his body.

He hurriedly held the wooden card like a baby.

At this time, the middle-aged clerk behind a desk in front of him was already shouting impatiently, "Hurry up, rub something." ”

This time he received a bright helmet. It is also commonly known as the eight-petal iron hat, but he only knew that he knew that he also had marks on his hat. There is a piece of iron on it, which has already engraved a line of words, listening to the explanation of the document, he knew that it was engraved on the left side of the nine-headed bird barracks, the first division of the third bureau A and B flag A few words, the hat was not engraved with the name, only engraved to a certain flag and a certain team. There is a blank space at the back of a certain team, and you can go back and engrave your name yourself. The original words are all pre-engraved, and this hat must be kept without loss.

More than one team has been selected on the school field. Each time, twenty teams always choose people together, and the scene is very lively.

Chen Zhenhui and others were dumbfounded, feeling that the school field was like buying vegetables, or some hidden people in some places.

"It's a shame."

"There is no way to do it, the team of 600 people has now become nearly 10,000. That's all there is to it. Liu Jun said. However, he felt that this method of selecting generals and selecting troops had achieved quite good results, and through this process of selecting generals and troops, the relationship between superiors and subordinates at all levels quickly became closer.

And divide all the troops out of the arms in advance. It also makes the collocation of each team more reasonable.

Chen Zhenhui and others were a little surprised that Liu Jun's expansion speed was so fast, six hundred people expanded by nearly 10,000 at once, in fact, Liu Jun now has two battalions recruiting. Once the garrison battalion and the regimental training battalion are recruited, Liu Jun will have five battalions of soldiers and horses at once, which is simply inflated.

That's an amazing speed.

So much so that Li Chunjiang, who had been watching from the side, had to remind Liu Jun in a low voice. "It's not much more expensive to recruit so many soldiers at once, I'm afraid it may not be suitable."

For this old partner, Liu Jun could only smile back, "I also know this, but now it is not as good as before, we can no longer shrink in this corner of eastern Hubei Province, you have also seen, Premier Xiong recruited me to Xiangyang, but I have to face Zhang Xianzhong, Cao Cao and other thieves, and what these thieves are best at is to wander around and fight, they can coerce tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people at every turn, if we are still hundreds of people, it is really not enough to stuff people's teeth." ”

In addition, Liu Jun still didn't say it in his heart, "Time waits for no one, and the thieves will once again resurrect and spark the prairie fire." At the same time, Liu Jun is expanding so aggressively, and he is more on guard against those top bosses in Xiangyang. There is no number, just a few hundred people, not to mention being swallowed by bandits, and may even be swallowed up or even betrayed by those bosses at any time. It's a bit faster now, but it's like some creatures are confronted with dangerous enemies and quickly swell themselves to intimidate them. You only have 600 people, and no one is afraid of you, no matter how elite you are. But if you have 6,000 or even 10,000 people, then even the emperor may have to think a little higher of you.

In troubled times, having soldiers is the right to speak. It turned out that many generals were taking up the quota of soldiers to eat empty salaries, but at this time, some ambitious generals had begun to secretly expand their troops and horses, just like Zuo Liangyu, who was already known as having an army of 800,000 under his command a few years later.

Liu Jun took Li Chunjiang and the others down the high platform, came to a row of long tables below, and watched the clerks register and distribute uniforms, hats, and plates. The card table was very long, and in addition to the registration register, the number of the card, the number of the hat, the back of the handout began to distribute all kinds of equipment.

Zhang Qiusheng watched the guerrilla general walk in front of him, and his hands trembled a little with excitement.

"Hello sir."

"Hmm." Liu Jun nodded to him, and then walked to the table, "What is his equipment, put it out for everyone to see." ”

The clerk behind the table hurriedly stood up, most of these documents were actually not people from the nine-headed bird, but Liu Jun in order to cope with today's scene, especially the students borrowed from the major academies in the county, and asked them to help register and distribute the goods, of course, it was not in vain, each person received five cents of silver a day, and the academy was also happy to do the new guerrilla general a favor, and the academies sent hundreds of students.

The clerk behind the desk is a scholar who is not even a child, there are many Macheng Academies, and the literary style is prosperous, and many people with a little conditions go to the academy to study. Seeing that Liu Jun was obviously very excited, the young clerk hurriedly stood up and stammered a little, "Back to General Liu, this brother is the captain of the infantry team and the rattan player, according to the regulations, his main equipment is a six-pound rattan card, a waist knife, and a pair of double inserts." A bow, thirty arrows, and a short sword. ”

I have to say that although the soldiers are new recruits, Liu Jun is still very well prepared for the soldiers' equipment. In the late Ming Dynasty, although the imperial court was corrupt and the military equipment was abolished, on the other hand, the commerce of the Ming Dynasty was also unprecedentedly prosperous, so to speak. As long as there is silver, there is nothing that cannot be bought.

is like Zheng Zhilong, who was recruited by Xiong Wencan a few years ago, known as the rich and rivaling the country, with a net worth of more than 10 million taels of silver, far exceeding the annual financial income of the imperial court. The Zheng family has a fleet of thousands of ships, and the annual maritime trade volume is as much as millions of taels, and even profits can exceed one million per year.

The Zheng family's fleet was even an extremely large maritime armament, with many ships possessing dozens of cannons.

This is also the Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, the court is poor. The people are poor, but on the other hand, many gentry, landlords, maritime merchants, and salt merchants are all wealthy. The wealth is rivaled by the country, and even their private armed forces are far superior to the elite of the imperial court's army. It is precisely because of this that this era, especially in coastal places such as Guangdong and Fujian. There are many underground military workshops of all kinds, not to mention knives, guns, bows and arrows, and even Hongyi cannons. It is also continuously manufactured.

Liu Jun had a lot of money in his hands for the time being, and he also had a good reputation, so when he planned to expand his army, he began to purchase ordnance on a large scale, and in just one month, all the equipment he wanted had arrived.

In addition to rattan cards, waist knives, bows and arrows, Zhang Qiusheng's equipment also includes a backpack rucksack, a bright helmet, and a set of cotton armor. There is also a wide-brimmed hat, two sets of training uniforms, and a pair of training boots. There are ponchos, backs, cowhide belts, and leggings. A single soldier's tent, a felt blanket.

In addition, there is a satchel, a kettle, a palm thunder bag, and two palm mines in wartime. A lunch box, a bag of dry food, and ten days of dry food during the war. In addition, there is a set of fire sickles and flints, and a sapper shovel.

As a knife player, you also have to carry ten strings of thistle terrestris in wartime, six in each string.

Zero-zero total, a lot of equipment.

"So much equipment? It's all this knife player? ”

"Yes, if you want to do your job, you must first sharpen your tools." Liu Jun nodded, although it seems that there are a lot of things, but when fully equipped, it is actually not too heavy. The backpack can hold tents, blankets, spare clothes, boots, and ponchos, and the helmet can be worn on the body or put in a bag, and there are so many things that can be carried in that bag.

In addition, there is a satchel that can also hold a lot of things. Dry food bags can also be worn crossbody, and water bottles can be hung on a belt.

If he is fully armed, Zhang Qiusheng's responsibility may weigh thirty or forty pounds, but Liu Jun believes that it is better to bring more than to only carry rudimentary weapons to fight.

The fireman's equipment is much less, the firefighter has no cotton armor, his main equipment is a copper pot, another sharp knife and stick, which can be used as a flat pole, and the other two wooden barrels, which can be used to pick up supplies for the whole team, and can also be used to fetch water for cooking.

The firearms crews, on the other hand, are equipped with a dragon gun, equipped with a gun holster, as well as an ammunition box and an ammunition backpack, and in wartime, the firearms will distribute and carry a base 200 rounds of fixed ammunition on their bodies.

Each soldier has a lot of equipment, but the real cost is the cotton armor and iron helmets and weapons, and the rest of the backpacks, blankets, clothes and the like are not worth a few dollars. It's just that the army of the imperial court usually has to deduct even a little money, so how can they be willing to buy these things for the soldiers.

But in the final analysis, Liu Jun is actually short of money, otherwise, the nine-headed bird would not have changed from a pure horse team to a foot army after all. Compared with any blanket and water bottle, horses are still too expensive after all, and horses are not only valuable in themselves, but also expensive in their offerings, and one horse consumes the equivalent of six people.

Liu Jun now has about 600 horses, barely forming a cavalry bureau, and has established a cavalry department that does not collect at night and a cavalry department of personal soldiers.

His baggage battalion could not even afford ordinary horses, so he had to buy more than 1,000 mules to replace them.

Fortunately, Liu Jun's own firearms workshop has invested so much, and now it has finally become a scale, which can not only meet the needs of the nine-headed bird's own firearms equipment, but also sell it to the outside world. Not only does it exempt the nine-headed bird from a large amount of firearms and equipment costs, but it can also start to make money to feed back. Otherwise, Liu Jun really wouldn't be able to get all these equipment all at once.

"Brother Jiye, I have to say, you are indeed very courageous. With your courage, I believe that you will be able to make new achievements when you move to Xiangyang this time. Fang Yizhi sighed. Although Liu Jun's three battalions of soldiers and horses are all new recruits, with these equipment, it is enough to improve their combat effectiveness a lot.

Hou Fangyu and the others also felt the same way, it seemed that they had decided to send a batch of members of the Restoration Society to Nine-headed Bird for training, which was indeed a wise move. (To be continued......)

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