Chapter 202: Refined infantry and cavalry troops

Qin Hao promised the court that he would lead 30,000 elite cavalry south to assist. Considering that the training cycle of the cavalry was relatively long and the Yanmen Army had only five months of training, Qin Hao decided to convert all the war soldiers into cavalry.

The Yanmen Army originally had 40,000 combat soldiers, including 15,000 cavalry and 25,000 infantry. After the continuous war, nearly 10,000 were injured, and 30,000 were left.

The infantry among the remaining soldiers was converted into cavalry, and the Yanmen Army was immediately exchanged for 15,000 veterans with rich experience in fighting on the battlefield. These veterans had cavalry experience, so it was easy to train into elite cavalry.

After all the war soldiers were converted into cavalry, the Yanmen Army immediately had 30,000 cavalry that could be brought to the battlefield immediately, and the remaining troops could only be re-conscripted.

As soon as the Yanmen Army recruited soldiers was posted, the four northern counties immediately became in love because the Yanmen Army was treated too well and it was too attractive to ordinary people.

The Han Dynasty never had the military pay as high as the Yanmen Army. One person could even support the whole family. There were also a series of welfare benefits, such as more land distribution, exemption of some miscellaneous taxes, and pensions for deaths and disabilities in battles.

If you don’t join the army, that’s not stupid!

Countless young and strong people were scrambling to register, including, because everyone knew that the number of people enlisted by the Yanmen Army was limited, and if they fell behind and were taken first by others, there would be no chance.

This phenomenon of fighting for military service may occur in the four counties in Bingbei, and it is impossible to happen in any part of the Han Dynasty. The four counties are mostly refugees, and joining the army is the best way out, so so many people are willing to join the army.

Before the Yanmen Army expanded its troops, there were 30,000 combat soldiers, and 10,000 guards were directly incorporated into combat soldiers. Qin Hao summoned another 10,000 Hu cavalry, so this time, only 50,000 combat soldiers were summoned.

But no one expected that the people's sentiment in the army was so high that the number of people who actively signed up for the army reached 300,000, which made Qin Hao both happy and worried.

What’s good is that after 300,000 soldiers defeat 250,000, the remaining 50,000 will definitely be the essence. The overall quality of the Yanmen Army will definitely be greatly improved. With a little training, a team of elite soldiers who can fight tough battles can be trained.

What is worrying is how to defeat 250,000 people?

The Yanmen Army does not need so many troops for the time being, and cannot afford to support so many. There is no way, so Qin Hao can only increase the recruitment requirements.

After seeing the new recruitment requirements of the Yanmen Army, many people were stunned. Only then did they realize that although the treatment of the Yanmen Army was good, not everyone could join.

The updated recruitment standards are as follows: the life experience is clear, the body is free of disabilities, the body is strong, the most important thing is that the age must be between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five.

The key is age, and this item directly reduces one-third of the number of people participating in the army, which makes countless popular beating their feet and stamping their chests.

Qin Hao was also afraid that some real talents would be missed, so he set up a ring battle and could participate even if it exceeded the standard. As long as he won the ring battle, he could be directly hired by the Yanmen Army and reused it at a high position.

Unfortunately, the ring was held for five months and only recruited some second-rate and third-rate talents. None of the first-rate and first-rate masters appeared.

There is no first-class expert among the million refugees like this, which makes Qin Hao sigh that it is rare!

Then, for the 200,000 candidates, Qin Hao came up with the selection process, such as physical fitness test, strength test, martial arts test, etc.

The final purpose of this series of tests is to reduce the number of soldiers to 50,000. In such a luxurious method, Qin Hao is probably the only one in the Han Dynasty.

After 200,000 candidates were selected for physical strength, martial arts and other methods, they were finally streamlined to 70,000, and there was no way to beat them.

They all meet the standards and are all good seedlings. No one wants to leave. Qin Hao has no choice but to stay 70,000 people.

Qin Hao selected 50,000 most elite soldiers from 70,000 of the new soldiers, and after gathering 100,000 of the Yanmen warriors, he carefully selected 10,000 cavalry from 50,000 new soldiers.

After the stirrups and saddles were all equipped, the 60,000 cavalry troops, led by Qin Hao, Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao, started a huge training camp.

As for the training of the remaining 40,000 infantrymen, Qin Hao gave it all his power to Yue Fei, Gao Shun and Xu Huang. These three people trained much better infantry than Qin Hao, so Qin Hao naturally wanted to give full play to his talents.

As for the additional 20,000 new troops, after the training is completed, they will be allocated to the 38 counties under the Yanmen Army to maintain local public security and become the Yanmen reserve troops, that is, the guardian troops.

Originally, the military farm troops were also in the ranks of Yanmen reserve troops, but now they have been banned by Qin Hao because there are too many military farm troops in Yanmen now.

The 400,000 (plus the prisoners of Qin Wen) of the Yellow Turban prisoners of war have all become the military farming forces of the Yanmen Army. Since the Yellow Turban has not yet failed, the Yellow Turban prisoners of war cannot be brought to the battlefield or become troops, and can only be used as free labor for the time being.

However, if we follow the original standards of military farming soldiers, the huge amount of food and money will be enough to crush the Yanmen Army. If we treat them differently, they will be all military farming troops. The gap between the treatment is so large that it will arouse dissatisfaction in many people.

So Qin Hao simply banned the original military farming force and let all Yellow Turban prisoners of war become new military farming forces, but their military farming had to wait until Yanmen Pass was rebuilt.

The new Yanmen Pass was finally rebuilt after four months, with the efforts of the people of Yanmen, Yellow Turban prisoners of war, the Huns, and the continuous struggle of nearly one million laborers day and night. It was finally rebuilt after four months, and its defense was even better than before.

After the reconstruction of Yanmen Pass was completed, the 400,000 Yellow Turban prisoners of war and the more than 100,000 slaves of the Huns were all under the jurisdiction of Qin Jian and Li Dingguo, and the road connecting the four counties began to be built.

However, the difference is that after the Yellow Turban prisoners of war were repaired, they would be scattered in the three central and northern counties to carry out military farming, while the Huns would work endlessly in the four northern counties.

After the Xiongnu slaves built the county cycling road between the four counties in the north, they also had to build the county cycling road connecting each county town. After taking Bingzhou, they still had to build the county cycling road connecting each county cycling road between Bingzhou.

After that, once coal mines are mined, some hard work such as coal mining will be left to them.

In short, if Qin Hao did not squeeze out the value of these Hun slaves to no end, he would never give them freedom.

If Qin Hao releases these slaves one day, there are only two possibilities: one is that their bones are already full of slavery and will never be able to rebel. The other is that Qin restores the country and Qin Hao ascends the throne, thus immigrating the world.
Chapter completed!