Erected the recruitment flag, Butcher Zhang killed dozens of pigs in one go, as long as he was willing to be a soldier, don't say anything, a big piece of meat and a big bowl of wine, eat and drink well, and receive the settlement fee.

Isn't it just for the people to serve as soldiers, and now there is still money to support their families, naturally there are a lot of people who are willing, not to mention who to sell their lives to is not to sell, so they naturally have to choose the one with the highest bid, not to mention that they are all from their hometowns.

As soon as the recruits arrived, it was the turn of the veterans to show their talents, and now these veterans are also reborn, in the past three years, in addition to being drawn by a few of Yan Xu's apprentices, they are also sent back to teach those veterans on weekdays, so now these veterans are not a problem to be a hundred generals, they immediately took over these recruits, and started training for the first time, and the enthusiasm is very high, after all, is it promoted, it is no longer the team rate, but Dubo.

And even if they are not regular officers and soldiers, they are not badly treated at all, and even much higher than the regular army.

These veterans don't have such a high pursuit, they have to have an orthodox official position, give food and money to spend, they will give their lives to whomever they want, not to mention that they are not thin, there has been no shortage of wine and meat in the past three years, there is a lot of money and food, and they also teach martial arts.

In addition to a group of veterans who were promoted to Dubo, those good sons also took up the positions of 100 generals and military candidates, set up shelves, and trained the newly recruited 3,000 young men every day.

The most trained soldiers are spearmen, because the spearmen consume little and the effect is fast, one person is issued with a wooden stick wrapped in an iron gun head, and even armor is not needed, and the training is only one move, stab, and you don't need to know too much about the order, as long as you don't get separated, a group of people know that they can hear the drum and advance and retreat, in fact, the spearman has only one order, forward.

Hula a large number of spearmen went to the battlefield, their role was cannon fodder, and when the battle began, they rushed forward, either stabbing the enemy to death, or being stabbed to death by the enemy, there was no other choice, as for Ming Jin and retreating, it was not for them.

If they have the upper hand, this group of spearmen who rush to the front will naturally continue to advance to expand their advantage, if they fall into the downwind, they will naturally break the front behind, unless they are defeated, otherwise the spearmen have no option to retreat, otherwise you will eat dry rice when the overseer team behind you.

Yan Xu has been preparing for so long, so naturally he will not train cannon fodder spearmen with the crowd, although there are many advantages of spearmen, such as high cost performance, as long as there are enough numbers of such low-cost troops, they can even threaten the noble cavalry in the troops, which shows how cost-effective it is.

But the casualty rate of the spearmen is too high, and if all of them are trained as spearmen, I am afraid that 3,000 people will die in a few battles, which is no joke.

They are not a regular army, there is a steady stream of recruits to replenish, these years, in addition to the officers and soldiers can be recruited at will, such as the militia militia can only recruit new recruits in their hometowns, because the local group, people in other places will not easily join the army composed of strangers, so once the loss is too much, it is difficult to replenish the recruits in time.

Therefore, Yan Xu has been teaching those veterans who are low-level officers a new branch of the army and those who are about to be promoted to middle-level officers.

The division of arms in the Tianlong Empire is very clear, mainly cannon fodder spearmen, backbone sword and shield soldiers, main cavalry, and indispensable archers, as for the defenders, auxiliaries and anything are not counted.

But what Yan Xu plans to train is not any kind, and of course he doesn't want to combine the advantages of all arms, and he wants to train a group of special forces, which is unrealistic, unless he is given more than ten years of training from an early age, so he plans to train heavy infantry similar to ancient Rome, equipped with half-body armor, round shields, short spears and horizontal swords.

Although the defense of soldiers equipped with half-body armor and helmets is not as good as that of heavy infantry, they are armed with round shields, as long as they cooperate well with each other, their defense is not inferior to that of heavy infantry, not to mention that there are too many restrictions on heavy infantry, and other arms that do not have several times the number of other arms cannot fight alone at all, after all, physical strength and continuous combat ability need to be considered.

The new infantry was equipped with a short spear as a weapon not as the main weapon, but as a supplement to the weapon of medium and short range attack, which meant that if it encountered a hard bone such as cavalry or heavy infantry, the short spear was thrown as a heavy javelin.

This weight of the short spear thrown out, in the range of no heavy armor can resist, and the wide spear blade and spear shaft is enough to greatly increase the lethality, as long as the stab hits, regardless of the heavy infantry or cavalry, there will be no way to live, even if there is no stabbing the vital point, it will lose most of the combat effectiveness, after all, the short spear is not an arrow, the piercing is only a finger-thick hole, the short spear is directly more than ten times the wound, this is not a wound that can stop bleeding by leaving it alone, just bleeding can die.

Of course, if you encounter light infantry, the short spear does not need to be thrown out, it can be used as a formation-breaking weapon, and when the short spear is stuck in the formation and cannot be used, then draw out the horizontal knife and cooperate with the shield in close melee.

In fact, the infantry that Yan Xu planned to train, the main combat method was to rely on a strict formation and tacit understanding to form a shield formation to press the enemy's defense line, so that the enemy would show his flaws, and then use a sharp horizontal knife to kill the enemy to achieve victory.

When necessary, as long as the armor is taken off, it is light infantry, adapted to the vast majority of terrain, and when the number of soldiers cannot be expanded, this type of army is obviously more suitable.

However, this way of fighting is not only very demanding for soldiers, but also has a high demand for weapons and equipment, so much equipment can be separated to train twice as many spearmen and sword and shield soldiers, and even add a little more weapons, armor can also train the same number of simple version of heavy infantry, you can imagine how much money a complete set of equipment costs.

Large consumption, complex training, and easy to be restrained by long-range troops, these are all shortcomings, but Yan Xu is not short of money, nor is he short of weapons, these can be obtained from ore, not to mention Zhang Bao's smuggling business as a supplement, and recruited a sufficient number of veterans and qualified officers as backbones in advance, and there is no problem in bringing out a group of qualified recruits.

As for the problem of being restrained by the long-range troops, Yan Xu also thought of a way to supplement it, through the connections between the veterans and the officers, it took Zhang Bao three years to secretly recruit three hundred archers, and they have been hidden in Zhuangzi and dare not let people know.

Don't be too troublesome, archers are not ordinary soldiers, and the degree of gold is second only to cavalry, because in addition to practicing archery before joining the army, you must train in the army for at least one or two years to become a qualified archer, and the cost during this period is enough to feed several infantry, after all, the bow has a service life, and if you can't shoot more than a hundred times, the bow body will be almost useless, unless it is a cumbersome and expensive bow to make.

Therefore, although 300 archers are small, they are still an important force and an important supplement to the entire army.