After the spring plowing, the schoolyard outside Ji'an City.

More than 13,000 peasant soldiers lined up to practice in towns.

Only four thousand people were selected!

Li Banghua said that he would choose three thousand soldiers, but after Zhao Han thought carefully, he decided to set up four thousand soldiers.

Fei Yinggong and the bandits under his command were also standing by at this moment, watching the peasant soldiers appear in teams.

"Is this a fucking peasant soldier? The model governors of various provinces are just like this!" Yan Jiu was dumbfounded.

Fei Yinggong was also extremely shocked. The peasant soldiers in front of him were not only in line, but also in an orderly manner when changing formations, but also full of discipline and vitality.

All the bandits under Fei Yinggong have martial arts. If they are one-on-one with the peasant soldiers, they will definitely win. If they are ten-on-ten with the peasant soldiers, the bandits will be afraid of being killed and urinating.

"There are more than 13,000 such soldiers?" Tian Younian was shocked and inexplicably.

Fei Ruhe explained: "These teams in front of us are all veterans from Luling County, so they are naturally very strong. The new recruits from Jishui County and Anfu County have been training for a short time, so their performance will definitely be much worse."

Tian Younian asked: "How many veterans are there in Luling?"

"About six thousand." Fei Ruhe replied.

"How many days will you do?" Tian Younian asked again.

Fei Ruhe explained: "Don't practice during busy farming, but practice every day during slack farming, and practice in their respective villages. There is an officer in each village."

The practice habits of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers were basically that after recruiting new recruits, they spent one or two months to strictly practice orders and military formations. After that, they became unhappy. They were considered elite soldiers every five days, and they were normal for one ten days. They were okay for one month, and they were all fine for one half a year!

Tian Younian said regretfully: "Oh, there are six thousand such elite soldiers, but unfortunately they can only choose one thousand."

"It'll be fine after the army is expanded." Fei Ruhe was also very distressed.

This time, when recruiting full-time soldiers, we cannot only look at the quality of the soldiers, but also have to recruit them in different regions: one thousand Luling, one thousand Jishui, one thousand Anfu, and one thousand surrendered soldiers in Yuanzhou (all bow soldiers).

The peasant soldiers in Anfu County were finally trained for two or three months, and they were no different from ordinary township heroes, but they had to recruit 1,000.

If only the elite peasant soldiers in Luling County are recruited, it is easy to form a mountain in the army, and the other is to seriously reduce the strong labor force in rural Luling County.

Next, it was the turn of the peasant soldiers in Jishui County to appear. Sure enough, they were much worse, but they could still crush the local heroes of the government.

Until the peasant soldiers in Anfu County went out for exercise, the scene was terrible, and they were still relatively neat when they lined up. Once the formation changed, the situation suddenly occurred frequently.

Li Banghua sighed and said, "You can only draw the generals from the selves. This time, the soldiers sent troops will be mainly composed of the veterans of Luling and the soldiers of Jishui as their auxiliary. An Fu's soldiers should be taken to defend the city."

Finally, the soldiers were selected based on villages and only selected some of them with the best performance.

When the peasant soldier becomes a regular soldier, the peasant soldier officer is transferred to a formal military position, and the military pay is promoted according to the military position. If there are unselected peasant soldier officers, their military position will still be retained, but this military position is not formal.

The veteran Luling who was not selected was very unhappy and thought he was a hundred times stronger than An Fuzhazhazhan. Zhao Han could only ask the instructor to appease the morale of the army.

After three days of selection, the four thousand soldiers were finally selected.

The military flag has been slightly changed, and it is still indigo cotton cloth, but the flag is embroidered with the four words "The World of Datong".

Fei Yinggong and his bandits were disrupted and organized into various departments.

If Zhao Han's personal soldiers "Nuer Army", as well as military judges, missionaries, naval officers, etc., the official soldiers actually have more than 5,000.

The three counties have more than 5,000 regular soldiers, and the military expenditure is simply explosive!

Wu Yong, who always can capture high-ranking officials, was promoted to the captain of the "Nuer Army" this time because he made a contribution some time ago, and he was in charge of three ten-person teams.

Forced as a guide, he led Zhao Han to attack Xiong Yao, the military camp in Yuanzhou. Because he belonged to the technical corps of archers and was also an officer himself, he was promoted to a sentry officer this time and had nine ten-person teams under his command.

Fei Yinggong is also a archer and whistleman. This guy has practiced archery and is said to be in charge of nine ten-person teams. Including the lower-level officers, he actually commands one hundred soldiers.

If you command one hundred soldiers, it is considered a hundred generals. Fei Yinggong can only comfort himself in this way.

After the reorganization of the regular soldiers, two thousand elite soldiers were left to stand by, and the rest were all returned home. These peasants must also insist on training. Once large-scale encirclement and suppression of officers and soldiers, Zhao Han may have tens of thousands of soldiers at any time!

In the next half month, all the soldiers and two thousand peasant soldiers were practicing on the school ground, mainly practicing cooperation with the archers.

At the end of April, we swore a oath to go on the battle.

The navy was sent to disguise himself as a merchant ship and transported Zhao Han's personal soldiers to Xingan County.

A few days ago, the Liu family, who was in charge of the family, had a scholar named Liu Tongyu, who is now a Chinese clerk in the army. Liu Tongyu dressed in luxury and pretended to be a wealthy businessman, Zhang Tieniu, Liu Zhu and others pretended to be a slave, and they only spent five cents of silver to bribe the soldiers guarding the city gate and went in.

"kill!"

Zhang Tieniu took out an axe from the box, Liu Zhu took out a steel knife, and slashed around the city gate.

Even the scholar Liu Tongyu drew out his sword and fought.

There were only more than ten people in total, but they occupied the city gate. The Nuer army, who were ambushing on the "merchant ship", immediately rushed to reinforce.

Because Zhao Han was too fussed, the magistrates of the surrounding counties all recruited troops to defend the city.

All are good things!

Otherwise, the sweeping king in the west would not have taken only two and a half months to quickly capture three county towns.

The officers and soldiers of Xingan County were the same. They were quite serious at the beginning. But after waiting around, Zhao Han didn't come for a year, he slowly relaxed his vigilance. As long as they were given money, they were too lazy to check the goods entering the city, which led to Zhang Tieniu and others carrying weapons into the city.

After being occupied by hundreds of Nuer troops, the remaining guards actually chose to abandon the city and flee.

The magistrate was also running away and did not forget to bring the money. This guy ran fast and disappeared without a trace from then on.

Zhao Han brought the army on a boat, and did not stop in Xingan County, but continued northward to Zhangshu Town.

Of course, I can’t help but sigh because there are historical figures in Xingan County, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong have all trained here!

From Jishui County to Zhangshu Town, you have to pass through Xingan and Xiajiang counties.

Xingan County is on the bank of Ganjiang River and must be occupied. Xiajiang County is not on the bank of the river, and Zhao Han is too lazy to even manage it, so he directly ignores the officers and soldiers of this county.

Five hundred peasant soldiers were left behind and stationed in Xingan County, mainly maintaining public order and not going to the countryside to divide the land for the time being.

Seeing a large number of ships coming with soldiers, merchants from Zhangshu Town fled one after another. Zhao Han immediately took his men off the boat and set up camp on the other side of Zhangshu Town.

Unloading the soldiers and some of the food and grass, the navy commanded Gu Jianshan and led the fleet back to Ji'an to transport the subsequent food and grass. There was no way, there were too few ships, so I scored several transportation trips.

The battle plan is as follows, divided into three steps:

First, take over the Xingan County and garrison with 500 peasant soldiers to ensure the smooth flow of the waterway.

Second, when occupying Zhangshu Town, Zhao Han personally led 2,500 soldiers to deal with the possible large number of officers and soldiers in the north.

Third, Fei Ruhe led the remaining troops to march west along Yuanhe by boat, took down Xinyu, and divided it into two counties.

...

Linjiang Prefecture City (Fengcheng).

The prefect of Linjiang is named He Tianqu, who is a serious Jinshi. He is in a very upset recently.

First, there was a giant Luling bandit Zhao Yan in the south, and He Tianqu had to recruit troops to defend himself and wait for the governor's army to go south to fight together.

Second, He Tianqu’s hometown is in Luzhou, and it is a small town outside the city. A few days ago, news came that Luzhou was repeatedly rampant by Zhang Xianzhong, and his clan members did not know whether they had escaped. Even if the clan members could escape, his family’s money and food would definitely be stolen!

It was so unlucky that He Tianqu was about to cry without tears.

"Main Master, Main Master, it's not good. Zhangshu Town was occupied by Zhao Bid!"

"What?"

He Tianqu was suddenly struck by lightning. Zhangshu Town was only 100 miles away from Linjiang Prefecture City, and it took half a day to get there by boat.

Seeing that the prefect was a little confused, the master quickly made a suggestion: "Prince, please give an order quickly. First, let the soldiers guard the city immediately and collect more objects such as rolling wood, falling rocks, vegetable oil, gold juice, etc.; Second, immediately send people to Nanchang to report the relationship between the three officials and the governor; Third, immediately send spies to the south to inquire about the virtual and real movements of the Zhao bandit."

"Yes, yes, yes, just as the master said." He Tianqu came to his senses a little.

Half a day later, He Tianqu received the enemy situation again. Zhao thieves built camps in Zhangshu Town, and there was no intention of going north to attack the city.

This made He Tianqu breathe a little relieved and summoned the officials of the government and county government offices to continue the meeting.

There was no good way to discuss and go, so I could only gather troops to defend the city quickly and wait for the governor to lead the troops to reinforce.

The gentry in Qingjiang County was very interesting. They knew that Zhao Han would not run away when he came. Anyway, the Zhao thief would not rob money and grain. While staying at home, they paid money and people to help the prefect and the magistrate recruited township heroes.

When the officers and soldiers won, they would naturally be happy.

The officers and soldiers lost and were just waiting to be divided, so it would not be too late to run away.

A few days later, He Tianqu recruited thousands of local warriors, and with the soldiers he had recruited before, the troops had increased to more than 1,800.

...

Nanchang.

Wang Siren was originally training navy in Poyang Lake, but was urgently summoned by Governor Li Maofang.

"Supervisor Fu, but the Zhao thief in the south has any abnormal movement?" Wang Siren asked.

Li Maofang explained: "The Linjiang Prefect sent an urgent report, and the Zhao bandits stationed troops in Zhangshu Town, intending to attack Linjiang City."

Wang Siren spread out the map and quickly shook his head and said, "The target of Zhao thief is probably not Linjiang Prefecture, but Xinyu in the west. It is divided into two counties. Zhao thief has taken a fancy to the iron ore and iron smelting plant there. Otherwise, he would not have stationed troops in Zhangshu Town, but would have a sudden attack on Linjiang Prefecture."

"Do we want to send troops?" Li Maofang asked.

Wang Siren sighed and said, "The rebels have been attacked a hundred miles away from Linjiang Prefecture City, so how can the officers and soldiers sit idly? Zhangshu Town must be taken back!"

There were 33 important taxation towns in the Ming Dynasty, including Zhangshu Town outside Linjiang Prefecture City, which together accounted for one of them.

If Zhangshu Town is occupied by rebels, one day when Lengzi is used to defeat Linjiang Mansion, wouldn’t Zhao Thief Luling want to go to heaven?

"Oh, I shouldn't go north during the Chinese New Year." Li Maofang regretted it.

They led a large number of naval troops and led 5,000 infantrymen to rescue Fengyang. As a result, they fought in a confused manner, and the elite infantry soldiers who had been trained with painstakingly were beaten by Zhang Xianzhong to only more than a thousand people.

Although we have re-recruited troops and have five thousand infantry again, these new recruits are of great use!

Wang Siren thought carefully and said, "Go to Linjiang Prefecture first, and wait until more thieves' troops are found, then decide how to fight. We have a navy, we can advance or retreat, so don't fight easily with the thieves."

"That's all." Li Maofang said.
Chapter completed!