Song Youcai, Song Tiegen and his entourage Liang Chuan asked them to go back and see the situation at the old beggar's house, send the brother home and finally make arrangements for his funeral.
Several people had no nostalgia and finally returned from Shaanxi. After Li Yuanhao's raid this time, the northwest was even more dilapidated. Finally, some good news was brought back. When a few people came back, they brought more than 3,000 young and strong Guanzhong disciples with them.
These people went on the road with the last rations at home. Song Youcai and Song Tiegen did not have the money to pay them. If they could not become soldiers, they would have to return to their hometowns hungry.
A group of people are like a group of refugees. When hundreds of thousands of refugees rushed to Bianjing, they were pacified by the Liangchuan diversion and disappeared without a trace. These more than 3,000 young people are all as strong as wolves and tigers, but their faces are... With a disgraced look on his face, he looked like he was here to rob the Taoists, not to surrender to the army.
Liang Chuan looked at these three thousand people and his heart was filled with joy. Three thousand people are such good men!
Song Youcai's eyes lit up when he saw Liang Chuan transformed into a battle armor. Liang Chuan was born to be a general. The armor fit him so well, and he looked full of righteousness. Except for the tattoo on his face, everything else seemed out of place. Just perfect.
"Sir, we have collected them for you. You take your pick and leave as many as you can to the younger generations. There was a heavy snowstorm last year and many people froze to death. A lot of land was left uncultivated. Farmers Even old men can do it, and they don’t have to take care of it so much for the younger generation. There are so many young people who have no way of living, so just give them a bite to eat!"
Three thousand pairs of longing eyes looked at Liang Chuan. I am not a charity here. I am doing hooks on dead people instead of doing good deeds. If bad people stay, they will harm more people!
After 3,000 people picked it up, only 2,000 people can use it, but it’s still not enough!
He got a lot of soldiers from Xia Song. Now Xia Song can let him have 5,000 regular troops. The soldiers are self-recruited, and the number of soldiers can be nearly 10,000. The more people, the better. Song Youcai and the others are I brought a lot of people here, but I still can’t meet my needs!
"That's not enough. I'll tell you directly. You go back to your hometown, visit Linzhou, Suizhou, and several other places. You can pick out the people and bring them here. I'll keep all the people I brought this time. !”
When the three thousand people heard Liang Chuan's words, they burst into enthusiastic cheers. It is better to die as a soldier than to starve to death! The feeling of hunger is so terrible. If a good living person is so hungry that his eyes are filled with stars, the feeling would be worse than being stabbed!
People all over the world say that a good man should not be a soldier if he is not a good man. But if a man in northern Shaanxi does not become a soldier, what future will he have? If the royal court's salary is really distributed, it will be much better than farming. Even the money earned by serving as a servant is better than that of farmers farming!
"Sir, how many more people are you going to recruit?"
"Three thousand servants and three thousand soldiers!"
Song Youcai took a breath, what did the court plan to do this time? Also, Liang Chuan has too much energy. In the blink of an eye, the imperial court dared to give him such great power and let him lead 10,000 soldiers alone!
"Sir, you are causing trouble. Please give me a standard. What standard should these six thousand people have? Otherwise, I won't dare to bring anyone to you!"
Xin Wubing followed Liang Chuan the whole time, wanting to see who he wanted.
Liang Chuan thought for a while and said: "I don't want four kinds of people!"
Song Youcai asked: "What four types?"
"I don't want people from the city, I don't want people who have served in the government, I don't want anyone over forty, I won't want people like old beggars in the future, I have to go back when I'm about the same age! And the last one, the cowardly one. Not even the big ones!"
Xin Wubing became very interested when he heard this: "Brother Liang, what are you talking about? Why don't you want these four types of people?"
Liang Chuan said: "After we have been busy for a while, let's go inside and have tea. I will tell you in detail!"
"What four kinds of people are you looking for?"
Liang Chuan clapped his fingers and said: "One is a farmer! The second is a tall, strong, dark, thick man with great physical strength! The third is a man with good energy in his eyes, the kind of man who wants to die and is half asleep! The fourth is the last one. What’s important is that people who are afraid of the government and always talk about the government and Niao Zhi County rebelling against the imperial court should not be used!”
Song Youcai thought that although these requirements were very weird, they were not too harsh. If you catch a lot of people like this, there are still a lot of them. This is not a difficult task, and it is easier and more respectable than building a city wall. The big guys are still rushing to do it. Miles!
"What, can't you recruit me?
"Of course not, my lord, how long will it take for people to take their seats?"
"Half a month! Time is running out! By the way, it's best for these people to be recruited together if they are relatives and brothers. They are brothers going into battle!"
After saying that, Song Youcai took a few fellow villagers and left again.
Liang Chuan and Xin Wubing returned to the big tent to rest.
"Brother, what's the point of your choice?" Xin Wubing was more casual with Liang Chuan when there was no one around. Liang Chuan's political transformation of Xin Wubing was not in vain, turning him from Xia Song's person into his own. !
Liang Chuan took a sip of tea: "This is a method developed by a general named Qi Jiguang. I'm just copying it!"
"Qi Jiguang?" Xin Wubing thought for a while but couldn't remember when there was such a number one figure in history?
"Yes, General Qi."
Xin Wubing had never heard of Qi Jiguang, so he didn't understand Qi Jiguang's military selection method.
"Why do you like the soldiers from the three places in Suilin Prefecture so much, but you don't like the soldiers from other places at all? It seems that the Imperial Army is not worth mentioning in your eyes!"
Liang Chuan let out a loud snort: "How can those people in the Forbidden Army think highly of me, a little person with a background in the army? They are all as high-minded as an uncle. They say they are not good at fighting hard, and they say they are better at enjoying pleasures!"
Xin Wubing took this very seriously. The Song Dynasty had not used its troops for thirty years and had turned them into pigs!
However, it cannot be ruled out that there is a group of quite powerful people among the Forbidden Army. It is a recognized fact that the Forbidden Army of the Song Dynasty is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
"The three areas of Linfu and Suizhou have been the boundaries of Yulin since ancient times. This is not an ordinary place. There are a large number of coal mines buried underground. The common people are killing each other every day in order to rob these mines. Large-scale armed fights are repeated. This bird place is also related to Xia. The two states border each other, and Li Yuanhao's Western bandits come to cut a bunch of leeks from time to time. They hate the Western bandits to the core, and they have fought too many wars, so naturally the blood flowing in their bones is the blood of the war!"
"Exactly, most of the soldiers in the army are from these three places. Often when there is a mutiny in the army, they share the same hatred of the enemy. Their brave and fierce style is much better than that of the Forbidden Army!"
"Let me tell you, the people in the city are not afraid of us being officials after they have seen the world. We don't want people like this. People who come out of the government are all old fools. They will go ahead when they see benefits and avoid danger when they are critical. It’s unreliable. If you don’t take the lead in a war, forget about it. If you run away with your brothers and are caught, you’ll talk about running a carriage to excuse yourself! What do you want them for? The older ones are like retiring, the timid ones don’t dare to fight, and the bold ones take the lead in making trouble. , these people can’t have it!”
Xin Wubing was impressed by Liang Chuan's insights. This was about knowing people and being good at their duties. People who are not from among the common people will never have such a deep understanding of human nature!
"If we want to win the war, we rely on these people. Since we want to be reliable, we must be healthy and obedient. Those honest people from the country with solid skin and black flesh are the cornerstone of the army! The great national hero General Qi Jiguang used this He has trained an iron army using this method, and if I, Zhang, can also train half of it according to his method, I will be worthy of the court and the people!"
Liang Chuan's open-mouthed Qi Jiguang is so great, why haven't I seen a word of it in the history collection? Looking at Liang Chuan's intoxicated and adoring eyes, I believed that this person should be real. Otherwise, why would he make up such a person out of thin air? This method of recruiting soldiers is also original. If it is recorded in the military classics and is passed down from generation to generation, wouldn't he care about this reputation?
"I hope so!"
Qi Jiguang not only had methods to recruit troops but also had military formations for training troops. The Yuanyang Formation has proven through the mountain people and the battle at Qingyuan Port that this formation is invincible in land warfare and infantry combat. It can be powerful even if practiced by a small farmer. Now that it is used in a real army, he really wants to see it. How powerful!
Once you have the soldiers, you still need equipment!
The first thing Liang Chuan did when he opened his eyes every day was to go around the village. This team was short of knives and that team was short of guns. He wrote down all of them and ran to Xia Song to ask for them! Although Xia Song felt pain in her body, she thought she had to give it to her for her future, but this guy asked for it too damn often. Did he regard herself as his warehouse? Do you have to stretch out your hand even if there is a missing nail?
Xia Song finally got fed up, because he had resources at hand to support not only his Dingchuan village, but also more than a dozen military towns in the northwest of Huaide Army and Zhenrong Army! The blindly partialistic people in Liangchuan are not so easy to stop talking about!
Liang Chuan quits. You were so damn happy when you took my information, and now you are so unwilling to ask for money, food and equipment from you. Scholars are the most ungrateful people!
It doesn’t matter if you don’t need money or food. You can give me the craftsmen’s raw materials and I can make them myself. That’s how it works!
In order to prove that the so-called ten strategies for defeating thieves proposed by Liang Chuan were not a lie, Xia Song thought that there was no shortage of craftsmen and a lot of raw materials such as iron ore, so just give it to him. Not many people wanted this stuff. It's too troublesome to sharpen a knife in battle, so I'm not in my right mind so I'm just hammering in front of the battle!
Liang Chuan, who had three thousand Qin soldiers, felt like he had found a treasure. After picking out one thousand, he first formed a personal army. These two thousand people would be the cornerstone of his own army. Back then, General Qi had trained three thousand Qi's army to quell the trouble in the southeast. After a hundred years of Japanese rebellion, he was looking forward to how powerful his two thousand elite soldiers were!
What is the name of this team? Yulin soldiers were called Qin soldiers in ancient times. Later, it was not Qi Jiguang who promoted them, but Lu Xiangsheng, another outstanding figure in the Ming Dynasty. Lu Xiangsheng gave them a resounding name - Tianxiong Army!
Just call it Tianxiong Army!
