Liu Chengzong bought a horse and set off to Huyao again.
He brought Cai Zhongpan, Gao Xian and Guo Zashi with him.
The number of tax-evading farmers with a tiger's waist turned into more than 300 in a few days.
Li Wanqing did not refuse anyone who came to seek refuge with him.
This is almost a microcosm of summer and autumn in northern Shaanxi. During the harvest season, there are a large number of refugees.
Most of the refugees knew Tiger General, and the takeover became smooth.
He planned to spend two days to get to know the person with a tiger's waist.
Guo Zashi brought pen, ink, paper and inkstone, Liu Chengzong and Cai Zhongpan set up a small table, and first counted everyone's hometown, age, origin, and occupation.
Three hundred and sixty-three people were counted the evening before.
When I woke up the next day, there were eight fewer people, now three hundred and fifty-five.
One hundred and thirty-seven of them have no proper names.
There are names, seventy-five of them have sold themselves, and their names were given by their masters.
There is only one family of carpenters, and the rest are bankrupt farmers and bankrupt small traders.
The situation of diseases among people is much more complicated than Liu Chengzong imagined.
And he treats this power that belongs entirely to him very seriously.
For this reason, he divided people suffering from various diseases into three categories.
One is tuberculosis, bacillary dysentery caused by eating bad food, severe colds and various incurable wound infections.
One type is those that affect movement, are not contagious, and may cause death or survival, such as disability, displacement leading to miscarriage, gangrene in the elderly, etc.
The last one is that as long as you rest, you will definitely be able to live. For example, if you have eaten Guanyin soil but not too much, or you are severely malnourished, this basically means you are not sick.
The first category needs to be isolated, the second category needs to rest, and only the third category and those who are completely healthy can engage in training.
In other words, there are only one hundred and thirty-four people who can learn and train.
Li Wanqing was very dissatisfied with this figure.
I am a mountain king who is in charge of more than 300 people. How come I suddenly have 134 people under my command?
"Brother Tiger General, here, many people in this first and second class can move, there must be more than 200 people anyway, right?"
"The first-class isolation disease is contagious. If you don't let them rest, many people will get sick in the end. The second-class rest disease, some people could have survived, but if you let them move, they will die."
In fact, Liu Chengzong knew that what Li Wanqing said made sense.
In this era, diseases are rampant among people, and people themselves have antibodies to these common diseases.
Even if they were left among the crowd, they wouldn't cause much damage.
Only uncommon severe infectious diseases such as plague can cause large-scale infections.
It’s just that Liu Chengzong didn’t think it was necessary.
Even if it only infects one person, even if it only dies one person who wouldn't otherwise die, it's not necessary.
Now after selection, the remaining people are of very high quality. They are strong and powerful and have received basic training in village armor protection.
It represents natural selection in northern Shaanxi today.
A strong person may not be able to feed and clothe himself, but a weak person may not be able to survive well.
A large group of people named Liu appeared at Tiger Yao.
Zhang Tianlin's formation method for the Ming army brought great inspiration to Liu Chengzong.
Although Tiger Yao doesn’t have that many big animals, the team’s general framework is set, and the animals can be added later.
Taking advantage of the meal time the next day, Liu Chengzong and others gathered together to discuss how to organize the troops according to the current situation.
"There are four warriors in every tenth, namely Shi Chang, Yong Chang, Zhang Ling, and Fire Chief. The fighting soldiers have two auxiliary soldiers, making a total of twelve people."
Li Wanqing smiled and said: "It sounds like every soldier is an officer."
"Yes, Chief Shi is dead, Yong Changji is dead, Chief Yong is dead, Zhang Lingji is dead, Zhang Ling is dead, Huo Changji is dead."
Cai Zhongpan's perspective was rather special. He asked: "Then the auxiliary soldiers are dead?"
Liu Chengzong said: "It's not like I'm in the early days. In my imagination, the auxiliary soldiers will be young people and healthy women as much as possible. In the early days, they will mainly do things like animals..."
This was an unpleasant thing to say, but Liu Chengzong had nothing to do. He spread his hands and said, "We don't have any animals."
"They learn from the soldiers for two or three years, and the young men become young men, and the healthy women become female soldiers, and then they become officials."
Liu Chengzong knew the general trend. He knew that the war would last for many years, and he also knew that there was a huge gap in strength between the peasant army and the official army.
Almost death upon discovery.
Because of this, his assessment of everyone's prospects is close to ruthless.
They are the ones who are on the vanguard of the king, and the ones who are on the vanguard of the king to kill people.
Unless he could keep going, he himself might not be able to survive until five years later.
After the four chiefs died in one round, half of the earliest auxiliary soldiers were dead, and the remaining ones grew from teenagers to young men, from healthy women to female soldiers, and they became new soldiers.
At that time, they would be able to grow up to fight against the army.
Li Wanqing asked again: "Then what do these chiefs, chief yongs, commanders, and chiefs of fire do? I know the chief of fire cooks."
"The chief must be able to obey the crowd, distinguish flags and drums, and know the formation; the brave chief must unite the soldiers and fight bravely; the commander must convey orders, be responsible for training, and supervise the whole army during war; the fire chief must cook delicious food."
Several people laughed when they heard this, and Liu Chengzong said seriously: "Don't laugh, this is very important. Food is scarce in northern Shaanxi right now, so the cooking must be delicious and worthy of the food."
These things are not new to Gao Xian. He frowned and asked: "Chengzong, the commander and the fire soldiers are not in the team-level establishment. Why should they be placed in the army? They will be very weak in battle."
The commander-in-chief of the Ming army was established during the military reform in the 14th year of Orthodoxy. He was in charge of training soldiers in peacetime, observing the soldiers' hard work, and guiding the atmosphere within the team. In wartime, he served as the captain of the military police and had the power of life and death over the entire team, including the captain.
In addition to them, in the Ming Dynasty, there was also a martial arts society initiated by the border governor, with retired military generals and martial arts examiners as teachers, and military officers and military students at all levels as battalion and guard students as students.
On the one hand, it ensures high-quality officers, and on the other hand, it allows the Ming army to have a high degree of initiative in small-scale operations.
But there is no solution to the payment arrears.
Gao Xian believes that four soldiers with diverse responsibilities will lead to a decrease in the team's combat effectiveness.
Liu Chengzong did not take this seriously. He said: "Even if we are all soldiers, we can't defeat the official army, so we first consider whether we can outrun, and the command can prevent the team from collapsing when we run."
When the fire soldiers are placed at the 10th level, they can use lighter pots, and each of the eight auxiliary soldiers carries a little food to reduce the burden of baggage. "
"What's next, the five-tenth team?"
"Fifty Shi in the front, center, left and right, plus twelve Tangbao soldiers and sixty-seven servants in each team, making one team eighty.
Five teams have one sentry, plus one sentry belonging to the baggage team and twenty sentry captain's servants, each sentry is five hundred.
Further up is the camp, I haven’t thought about it yet. "
Liu Chengzong smiled as he talked and memorized, and gradually expanded his team.
His idea is that the captain can lead troops to run around without being scattered, the captain can lead people to act independently without fear, and the sentry commander can fight independently and attack the rich Zhuangzi to get food, so he must lead a baggage team.
As for the battalion-level establishment, it is only a general idea now.
It is envisaged that this level of establishment should be able to develop independently in peacetime and be able to compete with the army's battalions in wartime. Simply strengthening the military strength cannot achieve this goal.
It is necessary to strengthen the battalion's normal team, drum corps, artillery team and even artillery sentry, as well as earthwork sentry.
It's too early to think about this now.
The group that surpasses Liu Chengzong currently has too many abilities. Even if they reluctantly recruit so many people, they will not be able to manage them. They will collapse as soon as they walk.
"We only have two teams now, and we can recruit more healthy and carefree refugees later on to try to get one guard. No matter how much food we have, we won't be able to supply them.
If the world is in chaos again in the future, you can consider forming a camp. "
Liu Chengzong grinned and said: "Lion Camp."
