Three days later, Qi Ke, the supervisor of the Quzhou Military Station, in the name of the Quartermaster Bureau, and Wu Ming, in the name of the newly formed 10th Brigade of the Central Army, simultaneously published a one-week conscription notice in newspapers in Quzhou and Jinhua.

After the conscription notice was issued, Wu Ming immediately dispatched 18 conscription teams under his command to recruit troops from various counties in western Zhejiang and southern Zhejiang, taking advantage of the favorable opportunity when Huang Shao's new official took office and did not have time to take care of western Zhejiang, and recruited 8,000 recruits again.

As for whether these 8,000 recruits can be recruited within a month, and whether it will affect the recruitment and replenishment of the Zhejiang army or the local security force, Wu Ming and Qi Ke are not issues that Wu Ming and Qi Ke need to consider.

Wu Ming, who returned to Changshan, did not go deep into the grassroots level to inspect again, nor did he stay in the Changshan military camp to teach the second batch of 200 outstanding scout cadets from Maoliangwu and various counties in western Zhejiang, but threw the military affairs at hand to Deputy Brigade Commander Long Shaogang, Chief of Staff Zhang Dongning, and Operations Section Chief Dai Ziran, and then asked supervisors at all levels to take turns to attend classes in the military academy, and then asked for leave to return to Changshan's home to really rest.

During the half-month-long vacation, Wu Ming relaxed and accompanied his wife Fang Zhichun and his daughter who was born less than a month all day long, which not only made his wife, who did not give birth to a son, grateful inexplicably, but also made Fang's sister-in-law and the two elders of the family who came back from Quzhou to take care of her sister let go of the regrets in their hearts.

Facing the reasonable and broad-minded Wu Ming's happy appearance of smiling from ear to ear at any time, everyone let go of all the knots in their hearts, where did they know that Wu Ming, the model husband and filial son-in-law in their eyes, already had a son who was almost a year old, and as long as he was free, he secretly went to Maoliangwu to visit his son and his mother under the pretext of inspecting the Phoenix Mountain training base.

In May, the conscription work was successfully completed, and with the efforts of Chen Qian, deputy station supervisor of the Quzhou Military Station, and others, all the 4,000 recruits recruited passed the physical examination and will soon be sent to the Changshan military camp for training

The headquarters has recruited 6,500 recruits, most of whom are Suichang and Songyang in southwestern Zhejiang, Yunhe and Longquan counties in remote areas in western Zhejiang, followed by the children of Chun'an and Jiande counties.

Wu Ming couldn't sit still anymore after receiving the news.

This large-scale conscription is mainly to train two regiments of hometown soldiers for Yu Jishi in advance, followed by the training of three regiments of recruits for the newly established transportation baggage corps of the Quartermaster Bureau, the total number of the five regiments is exactly 8,000 people, although before the conscription, Wu Ming ordered that there are good soldiers may wish to recruit more people, but he never expected that the qualified soldiers recruited after the most requisition would exceed 10,000 people, and the extra 2,500 people, whether it is military uniforms, military shoes, military food and salary, is a huge consumption. So in desperation, Wu Ming could only tell Qi Ke, the big shopkeeper in charge of the money, about the situation.

Who knew that after listening to Wu Ming's report, Qi Ke smiled indifferently, and after laughing, he told Wu Ming to rest assured, the extra part was his, and he wanted it all.

Wu Ming, who put down the phone, immediately rushed to the brigade headquarters and instructed the brothers to conduct a physical test of the 4,000 recruits who entered the camp, and at the same time ordered the Phoenix Mountain Training Base to select 1,000 outstanding recruits within three days, and together with the 500 top recruits selected by the Changshan military camp, two recruit battalions were formed.

A week later, 1,500 recruits who had been carefully selected went to the garrison of the Second Regiment in the east of Kaihua City under the name of the recruit battalion of the 10th Brigade of the Central Army to undergo rigorous recruit training, while the remaining 9,000 recruits were divided into two parts according to the test results, and all of them were concentrated at the Fenghuangshan base for a three-month recruit training.

At the end of May, 1,500 recruits recruited by Wu Ming from Shangrao, Yushan, and Guangfeng in eastern Jiangxi Province entered the Changshan military camp to receive recruit training

In late June, the four recruit regiments belonging to the Quartermaster Administration left the Fenghuangshan barracks and entered the Changshan barracks, where they were reorganized into five new regiments after a disruptive battle with 1,500 Jiangxi recruits, and continued to receive strict training from the instructors of the 10th Brigade

After all the adjustments were made, Wu Ming called Qi Ke, who had long wanted to come to see the training of the recruits.

On the morning of the next day, Qi Ke and Chen Qian, deputy station supervisor in charge of military training and command, and more than 10 other generals and colonels drove four large and small cars to the Changshan barracks.

Wu Ming led his brothers to greet him in a queue at the gate of the camp, and when he shook hands with Chen Qian, who was full of gratitude, Wu Ming grabbed in front of Chen Qian and laughed loudly: "Brother Chen, the quality of this batch of recruits is quite good, my brothers and I are red-eyed, you have to give me some benefits, haluha"

Chen Qian's nose was sour, he nodded heavily, and it took a long time to squeeze out a sentence: "It's hard work, little brother"

Wu Ming's smile was like a gentle drizzle, extremely warm, and he pulled Qi Ke, who had been successfully promoted to major general, to the side of the playground: "Brother Qi, look at it, after a month and a half of training, it is finally a little bit good, and it is estimated that it will not be able to enter your eyes." ”

Qi Ke looked at it for a moment and was very satisfied: "The military appearance is neat, the pace is strong, the queue is neat, and the spirit is full, very good, Brother Fool has seen the training of recruits from other units more than once, and many recruits have been training for three months, and they can't tell the difference between the left and right feet." ”

Everyone laughed loudly when they heard this, and when they saw that the remaining five recruits on the playground were still highly praised by Qi Ke, the brothers of the 10th Brigade laughed even more happily.

In the blink of an eye, another four months have passed.

Autumn and October are the best seasons of the year in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is also the harvest season with the most laughter of the year.

Zhejiang, which is known as the land of fish and rice, has been stimulated by the enlightened policy of "reducing taxes, exempting forced labor, establishing education, and encouraging industry and commerce" of the administrative bureau and the county governments, and all industries of agriculture and industry have made great progress, and the people's lives have become more stable and prosperous. No one dares to say behind his back that he will only lead troops and will not understand civil affairs.

Wu Ming and his new 10th Brigade also gained greatly.

As of the beginning of September, all the recruits of the five regiments trained for the Quartermaster Department had returned to the barracks in the north of Quzhou City, and the generals and colonels of the Quartermaster Administration, who had been waiting at the Quzhou Station to take away the recruits of the two regiments, were very surprised and satisfied when they watched the platoon drills and military skills performances of the new regiments, and they did not believe at all that the recruits of these five regiments had only undergone three and a half months of military training.

Qi Ke and Chen Qian of the Quzhou Military Station could not refuse the hasty decision of the generals of the General Headquarters who were like a robbery, and apart from taking the opportunity to ask for a sum of compensation for military expenses, they could only recruit recruits from another regiment for training, otherwise they would not be able to meet the needs of troops garrisoning the Quzhou Military Station and the more than 300-kilometer railway transportation line.

Yu Jishi, who had already served as the commander of the 58th Division in July, was worried about the two brigades under his command that had neglected training and were not satisfied with their formation, and he was overjoyed after receiving the Zhejiang recruits from the two regiments, and in his reply to Wu Ming, he was full of praise for the overall quality of the two regiments, saying that their "overall performance was better than before," and he also used the adjective "to solve the urgent need."

More than 11,000 recruits were sent off, and most of the Fenghuangshan base and Changshan barracks were emptied, and the officers and men of the newly formed 10 th Brigade not only did not feel relieved, but became more intense and trained more hard

On 8 October, Wu Ming, deputy brigade commander Long Shaogang, deputy chief of staff Zhang Dongning, and operations section chief Dai Ziran led a huge staff group of 75 men to formally stationed at the Fenghuangshan training base to prepare for a 12-day large-scale military contest and tactical confrontation exercise. Participated in the largest military event since the founding of the headquarters.

Maoliangwu, which was just upgraded to a town in April, is almost the same every year, and the dwellings that expand to the west and north along the old village are all two-storey arcade-style buildings with gray tiles and white walls, and the two horizontal and three vertical streets are all 12-meter-wide cement roads with perfect drainage facilities and green belts.

Unconsciously, the center of the town has moved to the west of Longji Mountain, and the brand-new school at the foot of Longji Mountain, which is close to the town office, has 52 teachers of various subjects and more than 800 primary and secondary school students, and the whole town has expanded more than ten times the size of the original, and a number of houses under construction have been extended to the foot of the mountain.

What makes Wu Ming most happy is that from the wharf at the entrance of the village to the two mines in the west and northwest, several small hills have been blown up, six small bridges have been erected, and a five-kilometer-long special transportation road has been built. Grain production has increased year after year, and in addition to the continuous cultivation of land and the increase of corn and beans produced in the fields of the She villages over the past few years, Maoliangwu has not only been able to be self-sufficient, but also has a slight surplus.

The big trees and bamboo forests on both sides of the Longji Mountain and the surrounding creeks and rivers have all been preserved, and tens of thousands of peach and plum trees have been planted in the past few years.