There were pastries and fruits on the long table beside him, and the shade of a locust tree generously covered the scorching sun, only sprinkling spots of light that swayed all over the ground.

Since Cai Yu brought Wu Yingying back to Jinling, he seemed to be determined to subdue Wu Yingying, so he did enough to serve the Ming Jun Lixian corporal, Wu Yingying not only immediately got the house manor that was rewarded to him, but also invited Wu Yingying to the palace for a small banquet on three days and a big banquet on the fifth day. Cai Yu originally wanted to grant Wu Yingying the actual shortage of the commander of the first army, but the military minister Huangfu Jixun stopped him on the grounds that all the armies were under the command of a general, and there was no extra real job to place Wu Yingying, so Cai Yu had to give Wu Yingying the official position of a loose cavalry attendant, and added the false title of general, so that he could recruit civilian volunteers to form an army on his own. In this way, he played into the hands of Wu Yingying, and he first asked Cai Yu to transfer more than 70 soldiers who survived the last battle with him to Jiangmian as recruits. At that time, Cai Yu had realized that the Song army was inevitable to go south, since the Northern Song Dynasty attacked the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Southern Tang Dynasty almost tried its best to expand the army, and almost all the men in the Southern Tang Dynasty were requisitioned to participate in military training The rebel army resisted the southern invasion of the Song army, and Cai Yu asked Wu Yingying to select strong and strong soldiers among these people.

After seeing the bravery of the Song army in the last battle, Wu Yingying couldn't help but secretly scold the historians who portrayed the Song army like sick cats, and he believed that if you want to train an army that can go to war in a short period of time in the south where living conditions are better, especially if you want to train an army that is similar to the modern level, recruiting members from the sailors should be a shortcut. As the saying goes, if you can go up the mountain, you can't go to the sea, in ancient times when navigation technology was not developed, the probability of shipwrecking was high, and sailors in this era were the profession of the brave. Moreover, the life of sailors on board was more conducive to cultivating a spirit of obedience to authority and cooperation than undisciplined farmers. The water transportation industry in the Southern Tang Dynasty was extremely developed, and there were a large number of sailors among the civil army recruited by Cai Yu in a hurry, so Wu Yingying specially selected about 3,000 elite sailors in the miscellaneous civilian army of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Considering that the training of archers could not be completed in a day or two, and that it was impossible for the newly established army to obtain sufficient strong crossbows, Wu Yingying asked Xingu to focus on the combat training of these sailors with short swords and big shields, and prepared to adopt the tactics of rapid assault to get close to the enemy army and then rely on hand-to-hand combat to win. When everything is explained, Wu Yingying fell into a state where there is nothing to do except ask for equipment from the military department, in this era of water begging for life, sailors actually have some short-blade fighting skills, compared with Wu Yingying, Xin Gu, Xiao Jiu's fighting skills are more simple and practical, very suitable for the role of instructors, in addition to requiring Xin Gu to conduct two hours of queue training for the selected soldiers every day, Wu Ying is also relieved to let Xin Gu arrange other training content according to his cognition. Xiao Jiu and Cai Shun also became Xin Gu's assistants as a matter of course, and the three of them completely undertook the training of the recruits, and all Wu Yingying did was to guide and intervene in a timely manner according to the effect of the training.

"Liu Chengxun and Huangfu Jixun, the two turtle sons, insisted on not allocating armor to us. Xiao Jiu sat on the bamboo couch where the commander of the Jinfan Army took advantage of the cool in a vulgar Sichuan accent, and suddenly sat on the clean couch with sweaty stains.

Xin Gu also sat down and said fiercely: "These two jackals who drink the blood of soldiers, one day when the war breaks out, they will definitely die under the chaotic blade." ”

Wu Yingying couldn't help but be a little annoyed when he saw that the two of them had run into a wall with Liu Chengxun and Huangfu Jixun in order to issue armor to the new army. Last time he mentioned to Cai Yu about the distribution of armor to the new army, Liu Chengxun, the envoy of Dechang Palace, that is, the head of the warehouse in the Southern Tang Dynasty, pushed and said that most of the newly made armor was distributed to elite troops such as Shenwei and Heiyun, and the commander of the Shenwei unified army made Huangfu Jixun promise to transfer the replaced old armor to the Jinfan Army, but afterwards he shirked it for various reasons. Not to mention the armor, even the military salary, Wu Yingying personally brought more than 100 people to Liu Chengxun's mansion to ask for it, and for this reason, he was also supervised by the imperial historian Zhang Tong in front of Cai Yu on the charge of "being a subordinate".

"This account will be pressed first, once the war starts, I am afraid that they will not completely replenish the armor of our army when employing people. Wu Yingying patted Xin Gu and Xiao Jiu on the shoulders and said with a smile: "The matter of training the soldiers is going well, do you have any complaints after tying sandbags to train your physical strength?"

"Where would it be?" As soon as he mentioned training Xin Gu, he was energetic, and said loudly: "But Lao Xin is honest again after a scabbard." He said as he eagerly tried his fists, making Wu Yingying suspect that he had some kind of sadistic tendencies.

"The commander had already made it clear in his last lecture that the captain of each team should compete in these training subjects, and all of these fellows who have a little upward spirit, even if they have some complaints, are all training desperately, not exactly afraid of our punishment. Xiao Jiu explained.

"That's good, we have to teach them to know that in this troubled world, practicing martial arts is the foundation of life. Wu Yingying smiled and took the fragrant tea handed by the maid, closed his eyes, and took a sip with an intoxicated expression. Next to him, Xin Gu and Xiao Jiu took the tea and munched on the pastries on the table, and Wu Yingying didn't think it was angry.

"When the soldiers are mature, they can cut out five hundred people who are arrogant or arrogant or whose physical strength cannot keep up, and select five hundred people with tenacity as the elite among the recruits, and practice the art of stabbing and blocking in formation. Listening to Wu Yingying's advice, Xin Gu and Xiao Jiu answered yes in unison with their mouths full of food. Wu Yingying's ideas in training are endless, such as attaching great importance to queue and password training, adding sandbags to soldiers during training according to twice the weight of actual blades and armor, etc., requiring soldiers to summarize and discuss the effect of training on their own every day according to a team of ten people, asking scholars to teach soldiers to know the words needed to write military orders, etc., and telling them at the beginning to understand that they must be implemented, and if they do not understand, they must be executed. It was only after the actual training of the soldiers that the two of them began to realize the beauty of these methods.

Xiao Jiu seems to be an insignificant entourage in the Erlang Sect, but after getting along with each other for a few days, Wu Yingying found that he actually has a lot of experience in commanding the soldiers, and even when Wu Yingying trained the soldiers according to the modern methods he knew, Xiao Jiu was not surprised except for some surprises, but with the gradual achievement of the training effect, this Xiao Jiu was happy and convinced of himself, but this person's loyalty has always been on the side of the Erlang Sect in Shuzhong, and now he is willing to help himself, just to find a support for Cai Xiaoqibo, whom he is concerned about。 Xiao Jiu is okay, Xin Gu, he wants to repay Wei Wei for saving his life, but he really lacks the experience of commanding his subordinates, Wu Yingying has to mention him many times every time he is face-to-face, fortunately, as the days of the Jinfan Army are getting longer, this guy has also begun to slowly get on the road, but the soldiers like Captain Xin who is rectal is better than Captain Xiao who is eight-faced.

Wu Yingying nodded with satisfaction, and was about to mention a few more words about the two of them, when a loud shout came from the corridor in front of the courtyard: "Okay, you Wu Dalang, last night at His Majesty's night banquet in Beixiangyuan, he also said that the training of the new army was busy. It turns out that life is so free, I want to participate in a book. ”

The person who came was Liu Yi, another minister who accompanied Cai Yu to inspect Jiangfang that day, and Zhang Yi, who deliberately felt sorry for Wu Yingying, this Liu Yushi admired Cai Bai's style of playing the sword and writing poems, so he deliberately folded and handed over Wu Yingxing, who could not only kill the enemy with a horizontal sword, but also write poems.

"Liu Yushi's words are serious, every time His Majesty's night banquet is a poem, Wu has to rack his brains, search his intestines and scrape his stomach to come up with an article, and he will definitely collapse the next day, only by recuperating in this courtyard and recuperating Haoran's qi can he see things!" Wu Yingying replied with a smile.

Liu Yi laughed and said, "In that case, today Liu happened to invite a few literary friends to a gathering to relieve General Wu's fatigue?"

"By the way, this is my subordinate lieutenants Xin Dalang and Xiao Jiulang, both of whom are heroes in the army, you have seen Liu Yushi soon. Seeing Liu Yi looking at the two subordinates who were still chewing refreshments in their mouths with interest, Wu Yingying couldn't help but blush a little, the difference between the top and bottom is still very important in this era, but Wu Yingying, who comes from modern times, does not recognize the distinction between dignity and inferiority in addition to normal work, thinking that this is just a poor skill of the ruler to fool the people's wisdom, so he deliberately indulged in the "informality" of his subordinates, but in the eyes of others, he was a little surprised.

Although Xin Xiao and the others were a little casual in front of Wu Yingying, they were not ignorant of the world, and they knew that readers, especially favored readers like Liu Yi, were the most important and could not be offended, so they both formally saluted Liu Yi, and their demeanor was more respectful than that of Wu Yingying.