Cecilia chose soldiers, and Yan Rou just watched at first.
After choosing ten, Yan Rou thought to herself, does the governor want to train some personal guards? That's fine.
After choosing thirty, Yan Rou thought to herself, there are a lot of guards, okay, okay.
After choosing fifty, Yan Rou thought to herself, fifty, there can't be more. The ones chosen are all veterans with great potential, which can't be tolerated!
Cecilia did not stop, choosing more than seventy in the first three rows, and then moved to the fourth row.
Yan Rou took a deep breath: I can bear it.
It wasn't until Cecilia selected a hundred soldiers that Yan Rou finally couldn't bear it anymore.
"Lord Governor, what does this mean?"
Bai Xiaowen smiled and said: "When I came back from Jizhou this time, I received an order from my father from my third brother. I want to select sergeants from the Youzhou army and train them rigorously to form elite troops to support the Guandu war. General Yan, don't ignore my father's military order.
I have an opinion."
Yan Rou was frightened when she heard this: "I will not dare."
He is not Yuan Shao's confidant, so naturally he will not complain to Yuan Shao.
After all, Bai Xiaowen's identity is Yuan Shao's biological son. Even though he is hampered by his subordinates and generals, he can still do a lot if he really sacrifices his face and does something.
As an awakener, Bai Xiaowen's bottom line is obviously much lower than that of the previous Second Young Master Yuan, and his face is much thicker!
Cecilia picked faster and faster, and finally selected 600 people out of a team of 5,000 people.
Yan Rou said with a bitter face: "Master Governor, the number of 5,000 men and horses under my control is registered. Now there are 600 less people. It will be difficult to explain when there is a military parade in the future."
"Don't worry, General Yan. The six hundred men are vacant. I allow you to recruit new soldiers in the countryside of Youzhou to make up for it. All of this is to defeat Cao Cao. I will never forget General Yan's contribution." Bai Xiaowen was in a good mood.
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Yan Rou sighed. During the last major conscription, seventy-eight percent of the elite soldiers under his command were mobilized. Now the Second Young Master Yuan sent this vicious female general to pick off six hundred warriors. Now he commands these four thousand soldiers.
Multiple people are basically dogs with broken spines, and their combat effectiveness plummets.
No matter how diligently we recruit local warriors, they cannot keep up with these veterans who have been on the battlefield.
However, Mr. Yuan promised to make up for the vacancy, but finally did not get the job done.
Yan Rou took the opportunity to ask for money and food: "Master Governor, if you want to recruit soldiers, you have to pay some accommodation expenses, as well as the new soldiers, weapons, food and wages. This is a big expense. Will you give it to the general?"
An approval document so that I can go to Mr. Zhao Rong, the internal historian, to withdraw it?"
"No need, I will give you whatever you need to recruit troops. There is no need to go to Zhao Rong."
If Yan Rou goes to Zhao Rong, Zhao Rong will definitely be confused, because he has not heard of Yuan Shao's order to recruit troops again. And to withdraw money and food, it must be Yuan Shao's order. When the time comes, Zhao Rong will ask Yuan Shao for instructions.
, the plan was to betray the gang, and Bai Xiaowen's surprise attack mission would definitely come to nothing.
Bai Xiaowen knew that the money for recruiting soldiers could not be avoided, and the rules of the spiritual world would not allow him to poach employees from the Youzhou army without any cost.
Recruiting a group of veterans like this and spending money to recruit a group of new recruits to Yan Rou is almost the biggest benefit that Yuan Xi's status can bring.
Bai Xiaowen gave Yan Rou ten pieces of gold to supplement his military resources with new recruits, and finally appeased Liu Yu's old subordinate.
However, everything is worth it. Ace units such as the Winged Cavalry are one of the strongest units in the Kane plane. In the Three Kingdoms plane, they should be considered elite soldiers, at least not inferior to Tao Qian's Danyang soldiers.
Or Liu Daer's white soldiers.
Bai Xiaowen continued to write approval documents, asking the ordnance shop and racecourse to provide a batch of equipped war horses as soon as possible.
Of course, this is not free, and the required funds must be borne by Bai Xiaowen himself. Again, he cannot use the money and food stored in Youzhou's treasury at will, otherwise Zhao Rong will definitely ask Yuan Shao for instructions.
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The only advantage is that neither the armory nor the horse farm will make any profit from the governor, and they will provide equipped war horses at a price close to cost.
"Cecilia, calculate how much it costs to train a wing cavalry?" Bai Xiaowen asked.
Cecilia said: "A set of armor made of fifty-smelting steel requires thirty strings. I hope the spears, steel knives, and arrowheads can be made of one-hundred-smelting steel, which also cost thirty strings. A war horse requires ten strings, plus
For three months of food and wages, the horses consume a total of 10 guan of food, a total of 80 guan of money."
"It's so expensive." Although Bai Xiaowen was somewhat mentally prepared, he was still a little shocked when he heard such a sum. With more than 20,000 yuan of money obtained from his cheap uncle, he could only recruit three hundred winged cavalry!
Cecilia frowned and said: "The hussars armed in this way are definitely first-class elites. Although I don't know how powerful the tiger and leopard cavalry you mentioned Dio are, but I believe that my hussars will not lose to
Any elite soldier in the Three Kingdoms plane!"
After a pause, Cecilia reached out to smooth the trace of sadness on Bai Xiaowen's face: "Dior, if there is no other way, I can also reduce some budget. The armor requires thirty steel refining, and the spear steel knife requires fifty refining.
Steel... By training each wing cavalry in this way, you can save about twenty or thirty steel."
"No, we must use the best weapons and equipment to train truly elite soldiers," Bai Xiaowen shook his head and said, "A surprise attack on Xudu, the soldiers are more expensive than the elite! Let's train three hundred winged cavalry for the time being, and wait until Lao Han takes over Julu Tianjia
The financial support will be escorted here, and we should be able to train a few more batches. In short, I will find a way to deal with the money."
Now that 600 veterans have been selected, Bai Xiaowen thought that he would be able to train at least 600 winged cavalry! An elite force of 600 people was already considered an elite force that should not be underestimated in the Three Kingdoms era.
You must know that it is easy to recruit soldiers but difficult to maintain them, and the maintenance cost of elite soldiers is huge. No force in the Three Kingdoms world can maintain a large-scale elite army. According to the Three Kingdoms information that Bai Xiaowen consulted, Gongsun Zan's White Horse Yi followed a total of 3,000 people.
Gao Shun's trapped camp only had 700 people.
Bai Xiaowen does not need to spend long-term expenses on raising troops, and he himself cannot stay in the Three Kingdoms plane for a year and a half. Three months of food and salary is enough. This is not an advantage.
In Beiping City, Bai Xiaowen sat in charge for a day, and Cecilia's training work was on track.
Although Zhao Rong, Jiao Hu and other Yuan Shao's subordinates saw General Bai Sanniang training new soldiers, firstly, the number of soldiers was small, and secondly, Youzhou's money, food and soldiers were not used, so naturally they would not meddle in others' affairs.
Bai Xiaowen was not a master who could take time off. After the military training work got on track, he immediately summoned Yan Rou.