In addition, Wang Yu specially set up benefits for joining the army, such as being allocated more land and being exempted from some excessive taxes. In this way, the taxes paid by each family will become much less.
Not only that, if a soldier makes a lot of great contributions on the battlefield, he will definitely be promoted. Wang Yu specifically stipulated that as long as he is a corps commander, he will receive a subsidy of fifty five baht every month!
The length is one hundred five baht coins.
For Du Bo, it is two hundred five baht coins.
For the general, it is five hundred five baht coins.
As for the post of Qu Junhou, it has been officially established by the imperial court, and its rank is six hundred stones.
With such benefits and benefits, if you don't join the army and get food, you would be like a fool, so as soon as the news of the recruitment came out, countless young and strong men from Bingzhou rushed to sign up.
Because everyone knows that the number of soldiers recruited by the Bingzhou Army is limited this time, and there is only one pitfall for each carrot. If you run slowly and fall behind, you will only be overtaken by others.
This also means that they will not have this opportunity.
Thanks to Wang Yu's development over the years, the economic level of Bingzhou is no less than that of some large states in Kanto. The people are naturally grateful for Wang Yu's kindness.
In particular, this recruitment is very likely to participate in the Battle of Hetao. How could they not participate in such a glorious thing?
Therefore, this led to the phenomenon of people vying to become soldiers throughout the nine counties of Bingzhou.
Seeing this situation, the refugees became even more energetic. They were originally refugees and had no roots in Bingzhou. If they did not seize this way out, their ancestors might have been farming for generations.
Promotion and wealth, glory and wealth are all individuals who yearn for such a life.
Otherwise, why would there be so many people who only read the books of sages after the imperial examination system was continuously improved, just to join the officialdom and get rid of the life of ordinary people?
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In the Battle of Hetao, Wang Yu's Bingzhou Army had a total of 250,000 troops, but in three months of fighting, it also lost more than 37,000 people.
And this does not include the more than 10,000 soldiers who were unable to participate in the next battle due to disability.
Although these soldiers were able to survive on the cruel battlefield, they had some luck, but their own experience and strength should not be underestimated.
They are definitely the best among veterans.
Being a corps commander, a junior sergeant, a grassroots backbone member of the army, there is basically no problem.
For these people, Wang Yu naturally knew how precious they were, so he did not let them retire, but were incorporated into the county soldiers. Some were incorporated into the county soldiers, or placed in the yamen.
In short, although these more than 10,000 people could not participate in the Battle of Hetao, they could still use their spare energy to train county soldiers and county soldiers from various places.
Although they are not combat soldiers and enjoy few resources, their combat effectiveness is not weak. After inserting these backbones, with a little training and after going through battles on the battlefield, they can become an elite force.
Therefore, Wang Yu specially selected 30,000 troops from the county soldiers of the nine counties in Bingzhou to be among the fighting troops. During this period, he taught and trained them in preparation for the next Battle of Hetao.
Therefore, after totaling, Wang Yu, Murong Ke and others made the following adjustments to this recruitment, and the total number of recruitment was only one hundred thousand.
Fifty thousand of them should be added to the county soldiers and county soldiers as reserve troops for the Bingzhou Army, while 20,000 troops should be selected from the remaining 50,000 troops as the basic force to move south.
As for the remaining 30,000 troops, they serve as reserve troops for the Battle of Hetao, ready to enter the battlefield at any time.
After discussing these matters, the recruitment was carried out as scheduled, but no one expected that the mood of the people in Bingzhou to join the army would be so high.
The number of people who signed up to join the army was as high as half a million.
All of this should be because Wang Yu made his name in the Battle of Hetao, which made many passionate men want to join Wang Yu's command, so as to make contributions and honor their ancestors.
At this moment, Wang Yu fell into Xin Fu's troubles.
Fortunately for him, there are 500,000 people joining the army. Even if 400,000 people are successfully wiped out, those who can survive must be the best among the best.
By then, the overall combat effectiveness of the Bingzhou Army will be greatly improved.
Under the training of Murong Ke, Xue Rengui and other famous generals, they will surely be trained into an elite force capable of fighting tough battles.
However, Wang Yu's only worry now is how to get rid of these 400,000 people. Even if Wang Yu has a lot of money, it is difficult to support such a large army with just one state!
This will overdraw the war potential of Bingzhou!
Therefore, after some reflection, Wang Yu decided to change the recruitment requirements.
After all, with such good welfare benefits, not to mention being as strict as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, we should at least be on par with him. After all, this is a world of high martial arts.
If you want to be a soldier, you must at least be a warrior.
For a soldier whose force value was not even 40, Wang Yu felt there was no need to include them in the Bingzhou Army.
After all, Wang Yu has been spending money to train Bingzhou Army soldiers over the years, which has resulted in the soldiers being basically warriors.
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Therefore, in recruiting troops this time, Wang Yu only recruited warriors to join. Anyone who was not a warrior would be directly eliminated.
After seeing the new recruitment conditions, all the people who were excited to join the army were dumbfounded. Only then did they realize why the Bingzhou Army's salary was so high but there were so few troops recruited.
These are the best of the best!
The updated draft standards are as follows.
Those who join the army must have a clean background, no physical disabilities, and at least reach the body-tempering level. If these conditions are met, there is another condition that cannot be ignored, and that is age!
Wang Yu requires that those who join the army must be between eighteen and thirty years old.
If they are strong enough to move thousands of miles to Bingzhou, many of them are warriors. Although their strength may not be great, they fully meet the recruitment requirements.
However, the age is different. The maximum is thirty years old. Coupled with the limitation of his own strength, he killed nearly one-third of the people who joined the army in an instant.
This made countless people beat their chests.
Of course, Wang Yu is not so rigid!
After all, if this is done, some talents may be missed, such as men in their thirties. If their talents are still good, they may be able to reach second-rate or even first-rate levels.
Putting such strength into the army, the starting point is very long, and it is at the level of a general. Therefore, Wang Yu was worried about missing some talents, so he specially set up an arena battle in Jinyang.
The purpose of this is to select talents. Even if you have passed the recruitment standards and have the strength, you can participate. As long as you can win the arena match, or fight with the opponent for thirty rounds or more, you will be considered passed.
Moreover, the generals in the army will also watch. If there are lucky people who join the army and can gain the respect of these people, they will be accepted as their trusted guards. It is not impossible to reach a high position in the future.
What Wang Yu didn't expect was that during the four consecutive months of competition, there would mostly be second- and third-rate talents, and there were basically only a few first-rate masters.
As for the super first-class masters, Wang Yu finally recruited three, but they were all in the early stage of super first class.
Residential management, force 92;
Geng Shuang, force 90;
Tian Li, force 93;
Only the strength of these three people has reached the super first-class level, and the rest are first-rate, or even second- or third-rate.
Wang Yu made preliminary calculations and found that the second and third-rate people combined totaled more than 220 people.
Although this number does not seem to be very small, if compared with the number of people joining the army, it is simply a handful. After all, there are 500,000 people who signed up to join the army this time.
Even if some are eliminated midway and those who meet the conditions are retained, there will still be more than 300,000.
In other words, among the more than 300,000 people, there are only about 200 masters from the third-rate to the top, which is directly equivalent to one in a thousand.
This made Wang Yu couldn't help but sigh, talents are so rare!
There are more than 300,000 qualified people. If they are incorporated into the army, with a little training, they will definitely become elites.
It's a pity that Wang Yu doesn't have that much money to train so many people, so he can only get half of it.
Therefore, Wang Yu discussed with Murong Ke, Xue Rengui and others on how to select the most elite soldiers from the 300,000 candidates. After discussions with several big bosses, Wang Yu finally decided to go through the selection process.
That is an endurance test, a strength test, and a combat prowess test.
When marching and fighting, endurance is the most indispensable part, because it tests the marching speed of an army. At critical times, an army that marches quickly can even play a decisive role.
For example, when seizing a pass.
The strength test is also the basis for measuring a soldier. After all, ordinary soldiers do not have much skills and rely purely on strength to kill.
As for the combat strength test, it tests the comprehensive ability of the soldiers.
Although Wang Yu is the highest and can only choose 150,000 people, but given the current situation of the Bingzhou Army, 100,000 is the best. If it is too much, it will be too expensive.
If Zhang Jiao, who was in Chenliu at this time, saw Wang Yu adopting such extravagant methods to select elite soldiers, he would probably be very envious and jealous.
After all, although there are many Yellow Turbans, there are not that many real elites.
In this way, under Wang Yu's cruel test, out of 300,000 candidates, only 130,000 were finally selected, because the remaining 30,000 were really unavailable.
Moreover, this is also within Wang Yu's tolerance.
After all, his maximum endurance limit was an army of 150,000, but now he only recruited 130,000, which was 20,000 less than the limit. Naturally, he breathed a sigh of relief.
After recruiting an army of 130,000, Wang Yu immediately selected the most elite 100,000 and put them into the Bingzhou army. At this time, the total strength of the Bingzhou army had reached more than 330,000.
And this does not include Liu Yunan's Xiongnu military strength.
Considering that the newly recruited troops were basically infantry, and the Battle of Hetao that Wang Yu participated in next was a contest between cavalry, Wang Yu selected 30,000 troops from the 100,000 troops as cavalry.
The remaining 70,000 infantrymen were put in charge of Gao Shun, who had strong training ability, Xu Huang, who had just defected, and veteran Zhang Huan.
After all, to deal with the foreign coalition forces, it is impossible to use cavalry alone. Infantry units must also be used to cooperate, so as to achieve miraculous effects.
Wang Yu handed over these 30,000 cavalry to Xue Rengui, who still had his own unique experience in commanding cavalry.
As for the extra 30,000 new troops, Wang Yu assigned them to various counties. As county soldiers, they usually maintain local security. In wartime, they become Bingzhou reserve soldiers, that is, defenders.
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For example, this time, Wang Yu specially transferred 30,000 troops from the local army to fill the fighting force.
As for the field soldiers, sorry, they can only be regarded as militia.
In this way, after four months of intensive training by Xue Rengui, Duan Jue, Gao Shun and other military training masters, the 100,000 Bingzhou army finally achieved certain results and barely entered the ranks of elite troops.
In the past few months, in addition to these recently recruited new troops, Wang Yu has not let go of even the veterans of the Bingzhou Army. After all, what Bingzhou now lacks most is the training of troops.
Those veterans were originally elites, but after training now, their tacit understanding has improved much more than before. Although the current comprehensive strength may still lag behind the Xianbei cavalry, this gap has been infinitely narrowed.
Of course, this comparison refers to the Xianbei cavalry a few months ago.
If the current Xianbei cavalry has also grown, the only way to compare the combat prowess of the two sides is on the battlefield.
As the saying goes, there is less than the superior, but more than the inferior. Even if the Bingzhou cavalry is not as good as the Xianbei cavalry, compared with the Han cavalry, it can still form a dimensionality reduction blow.
After handling these matters, Wang Yu turned his attention to the 30,000 troops who went south to support the Han army.
As for the leading general, after some thought, Wang Yu decided to let Murong Ke lead the army to fight against the Yellow Turbans.
After all, no matter in terms of ability or status in the Bingzhou Army, he does his part!
As for the 30,000 cavalry going south to join the battle, Wang Yu already had a plan in mind.
Therefore, during this period of time, Wang Yu selected 25,000 infantry from various county soldiers and war soldiers. In addition, there were 5,000 truly elite cavalry.
After all, the strength of the Yellow Turban Army cannot be underestimated, and it is necessary to keep an elite cavalry on hand in case of emergencies.
As for the 25,000 infantry, although most of them are county soldiers, they have also undergone many trainings and been on several battlefields. They are definitely not the kind of army that has never seen blood.
What's more, their opponents are the Yellow Turbans, whose combat effectiveness is generally average. As long as they are led by an excellent commander, it is enough for them to grow in battle.
It can be said that Wang Yu's operation not only dealt with Liu Hong so that he could find no reason to target him, but also allowed 25,000 soldiers to stay and participate in the subsequent Battle of Hetao.