The 6,000 recruits in Sadland were also handed over by Jose to Gray for training, although nominally the recruits belonged to the county town of Sadland, that is, under the orders of Jose, the county governor. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

But after all, the recruits were trained by Gray, and it is difficult to say whether he will take the opportunity to arrange some subordinates in this army and take the opportunity to get involved in this new army. So these days, Gray has shown great enthusiasm for this new army, practicing and training every day, and putting almost all his energy into this new army.

In the eyes of Gray and even the Northwest Army, one of the reasons for reluctantly agreeing to Joseph's conscription was a compromise with the Empire. However, it would be a good thing if this new army could be brought into the hands of the Northwest Army.

However, what they didn't expect was that this new army was originally Jose's means: on the surface, 6,000 relatively weak recruits were selected, but secretly the most elite 9,000 young men were put in Boulder Town for training. The purpose of recruiting these 6,000 people is to show Gray and the generals of the Northwest Army, and handing over this new army to Gray for training will make the Northwest Army relax its vigilance. After all, he did not hold this new army firmly in his own hands, but handed it over to Gray for training, which was naturally a good way to paralyze the Northwest Army.

In fact, Gray was indeed fooled, and he gladly accepted the 6,000 new troops. Although, in his opinion, such a new army is too weak, almost a rabble. However, fortunately, when Joseph recruited the soldiers, he had already screened them in advance, so although the overall quality of these new troops was average, they were not old, weak, sick and disabled. These homeless people were originally young and middle-aged, but because they had been in vagrancy and famine for a long time, their health was a little worse, so they naturally needed more time and energy to train.

Jose wasn't too worried that Gray would co-opt these recruits, as he was also showing the responsibility of a good lord in this regard. Soon after the establishment of the New Army, he made a speech directly in the army, and these new troops, who he was responsible for recruiting, naturally knew him as a county guard.

In addition, Gray has been training them strictly, and José will encourage and reward these recruits every time he comes, and José will enter the barracks once every three or five days. He is also very good at winning people's hearts, and every time he comes, he either brings some meat or some clothes or daily necessities, and for these simple civilian recruits, they naturally like this county guard very much.

However, this is just some means, he will definitely not let Gray pass this new army, and how much effort does it take for an army to go from recruitment to training? The reason why Jose is willing to hand over the army to Gray is not because he doesn't want this new army, but because he really doesn't have any extra people under his command to lead the army and train the army.

Gould and Alok were almost busy training their private troops, and the tens of thousands of men were in charge of the two guys, who ate and lived in the barracks all day long. The veterans under Alok are all incorporated into these recruits, these guys are really baptized by war, and they are naturally far more elite than these recruits.

However, these 2,000 people can only be integrated into the private army of tens of thousands of people at most, and if the remaining 6,000 recruits are not put in Gray's Northwest Army for training, where will they have extra generals and troops to accommodate these 6,000 people? Therefore, it may not be a compromise to hand over the recruits to Gray at this time, at least this recruit with a bad foundation will definitely gradually improve the combat effectiveness of the army after the training of the Northwest Army.

At the same time, weakening the combat effectiveness of elite soldiers with weak soldiers and lowering the combat effectiveness of veterans with new recruits is also one of the ways that Joseph can find to weaken the combat effectiveness of the 4,000 Northwest Army under Gray. It's like pouring a scoop of cold water into the boiling water, and the temperature will naturally drop, and if the boiling water wants to continue to boil, it will inevitably increase the firepower, which will invisibly transfer Gray's energy to the recruits.

José also did not forget to go to the barracks from time to time, deliberately pretending to compete with Gray for military power, so that the Northwest Army could see his posture, so that it would not be easy to notice his secret movements. After all, if you don't care too much about this new army, it will make the Northwest Army doubt your intentions, and the competition for appropriate benefits will make the Northwest Army more convinced that it attaches great importance to this new army.

Another point that makes Jose confident that he can win the hearts of the army is that the salaries of this new army are not the responsibility of the Northwest Army, but are distributed by themselves like his own private army! The reason is also very simple, the Northwest Army is busy training and operating troops in Moduocheng, and the military funds collected from outside the customs have also been pasted on the supplies of tens of thousands of his troops, where is there any spare money to raise troops in Sadland?

So when the first month of military salaries was paid, Joseph deliberately led one of his subordinates, and then paid the military salaries to the six thousand recruits one by one, regardless of the hard work. Although this is a bit of a show, but when each recruit received the military salary from Jose, Jose was very satisfied: because this move undoubtedly won a lot of military hearts for Joseph, at least in the eyes of these recruits, the so-called sense of responsibility for soldiers and the sense of mission to protect the family and defend the country are too far away, only the heavy salary in his hand is real!

Since you have taken the money of the Empire, you will work for the Empire, and since you have taken the money of the Viscount of Sadland, you will work for the Viscount-this is the most simple idea in the hearts of many recruits.

Gray was very helpless about Jose's rich and capricious approach, after all, the Northwest Army did not have spare money to deal with such a group of recruits, and according to the quality of these recruits, even if they were trained for a year and a half, I am afraid they would not have much combat effectiveness. However, after a year and a half, how much military expenses will be spent on the food and drink of these 6,000 troops? At least 120,000 gold coins, such a loss-making transaction will not be done by the Northwest Army. However, in the eyes of Gray and Ronktor, the Northwest Army, José's approach was not necessarily very clever.

Although Gray was a little helpless, he also had a secret thought in his heart: in his opinion, as long as he could bring this new army over, he Jose was just a fool to raise troops for our Northwest Army!

The attitude of Joseph and the Northwest Army is now, one is confident, the other is smart, since everyone thinks that they can finally master this new army, then let's wait and see! This is probably the real thought of both sides.

Outside of this balance, the two sides surprisingly maintained a good relationship, which allowed Jose to spare his hands to run his workshop.

After Sophia took over the workshop, she quickly used her clever mind to plan the details and processes of the workshop clearly, and Sophia, a scholar who has traveled in the northwest all the year round, naturally knows more about the local people than Joseph.