I want to be emperor

Chapter 44
On the way to the prisoner-of-war camp, Luo Zhixue spoke earnestly to the seven cavalrymen under his command:

"Our Township Battalion is still expanding. In the past three months, our Battalion Battalion has recruited nearly 400 new soldiers, and it is still in the process of recruiting. Although the expansion of recruits is now mainly infantry and artillery, the cavalry The recruitment and expansion will also be carried out simultaneously, and now the selection of cavalry auxiliary soldiers is the first step."

"Now each of you is the captain of the corps, and when there are more cavalry auxiliary soldiers in the future, you will naturally be the captain of the cavalry."

"I hope that you will keep up with our military expansion and not fall behind."

Sure enough, after hearing this, Ernst and Young directly patted his chest and said: "Don't worry, sir, we will keep up with the pace of expansion, and we will never fall behind, let alone miss the business of sir."

An Yong waited for four people to do this, and the three gunners transferred from the artillery team were more active.

One by one said that they will keep up with their husbands in the future and will never fall behind.

In fact, these three gunners didn't want to be gunners at all. After all, they were serious cavalrymen. It was only because they had played some bowl-mouth guns before that they were found out by Sun Jianli, and then they were stuffed into the artillery team of the supply battalion under Luo Zhixue's command. as an artilleryman...

Now that Luo Zhixue let them restore their status as cavalrymen and become captains of the cavalry, and promised a bright future, they all looked excited.

Of course, Luo Zhixue asked the three gunners to continue to help train the gunners, and they were regarded as the instructors of the gunners.

But it’s just for show. After all, they are half-baked. They have already emptied out all their knowledge in the past period of time. In fact, there is nothing to teach those artillery recruits in the future. It is better to let those artillery Under the guidance of Luo Zhixue, he explored on his own.

Luo Zhixue led a group of people towards the prisoner-of-war camp, and the prisoner-of-war camp had already received orders in advance to gather the old thieves.

Luo Zhixue looked at the nearly one hundred people standing in the open space, and carefully sized them up.

After these people became prisoners of war, because they had been hungry for many days, in order to prevent them from dying directly, the treatment was slightly better a few days ago, but after their initial recovery, their various The treatment is the same as that of the original prisoners of war. They don't eat much every day and have to bear high-intensity labor.

These people thought that in the future, they would live in the same dark days as the prisoners of war transported in, and eventually they would die of exhaustion.

Luo Zhixue appeared!

When they heard that Luo Zhixue was planning to select some of them as auxiliary soldiers, and mentioned that once they were selected as auxiliary soldiers, they would be a member of the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp and a member of Luo Zhixue's personal army. When the food supply was compared with the infantry supply, everyone's reactions were different.

Some are looking forward to it, while others are numb, and some are disdainful.

In this regard, Luo Zhixue will not ask them one by one, talk to them and so on.

Instead, he directly drew out the selection criteria: being able to ride a horse, and being good at shooting is even better!
These people are indeed old thieves. When Ernst and Young shouted and the riders came out, more than 70 people stood up.

That's right, they are all old thieves. Even if they were not from the cavalry of the army, they should have learned to ride horses during their years of thieves.

Immediately Ernst and Young shouted again: Those who are good at riding and shooting come out!
At this time, the number of people who stood up was much less, only a dozen or so people stood up.

Knowing how to ride a horse and being able to bow and shoot arrows on horseback are completely different concepts in terms of difficulty, and require long-term training.

Luo Zhixue is already very satisfied that ten people can come out.

At this time, Luo Zhixue stepped forward and said: "My personal army is short of elites, are you willing to work for me?"

This is actually all nonsense. Luo Zhixue has made it clear before that this is for the selection of soldiers. If he is not willing to work for Luo Zhixue, then naturally he will not take the initiative to stand up.

As for whether they have other thoughts in their hearts, such as escaping in the future.

There is no way to control this. After all, Luo Zhixue has no way of confirming whether they are sincere in their service.

But still not important.

These days, whether they follow Ta Tianhu as a bandit, follow Luo Zhixue as a rebel, or go to the army to join the army, what is it for?
But there are not so many messy reasons, they just want to make a living.

As long as Luo Zhixue treats them well and has enough food to feed them, they don't mind fighting for Luo Zhixue!

Therefore, after hearing Luo Zhixue's words, the more than ten old thieves who were good at riding and archery came out one after another, saying that I would like to.

Seeing this, Luo Zhixue nodded slightly: "Good!"

Although I found more than a dozen old thieves who were good at riding and archery, they were still a little short of the seven cavalrymen, so I immediately selected some people who could not shoot on horseback, but they could use it. Step bows or old thieves who are good at close combat join in, and then 28 people are gathered.

After selecting people, Luo Zhixue did not procrastinate, and directly divided the 28 people into groups of four, and asked Ernst Young and others to lead four people each.

In this way, the seven cavalry regiments appeared to be the same on the surface, but for the convenience of command, Luo Zhixue turned the seven cavalry regiments into three cavalry regiments.

An Yongduo is still the captain of the personal army and concurrently the captain of the first army.

The leaders of the three cavalrymen were Zhao Hongshu, Ma Dapao, and Ding Chuwu, and each of them was also a corps leader.

There are three more corporals, and they are cavalry from the three artillery teams.

In this way, a 35-member personal squad consisting entirely of cavalry was established.

But in order for them to exert their combat effectiveness, they have to train again in the future.

As for horses and sword equipment, it also needs to be resolved.

However, they already have swords and spears in stock, as well as ordinary bows and arrows, but riding a bow is a bit more troublesome. They don't have much stock, and they have to find a way to do it slowly.

War horses can also be barely made up. When they escaped for their lives, all the baggage was directly carried by mules and horses. Therefore, there are actually quite a few mules and horses in the army, and many of them can be selected for use as riding horses.

After finalizing the cavalry, which is called the personal army, but has actually become the cavalry, Luo Zhixue asked An Yongduo and the others to immediately put them into training, familiarize themselves with coordination, and so on.

But he continued to be busy, he still had to choose new captains and commanders for the infantry and artillery teams in the supply battalion.

For this reason, Luo Zhixue made a comprehensive consideration of the existing chiefs and corps chiefs in the supply camp, and planned to select some new chiefs from them.

At the same time, it is also preparing to select several people to serve as captains.

The current military system of the supply battalion is very simple, basically imitating the battalion post system of the official army. After all, they were born as mutiny officers and soldiers, so what they are familiar with is naturally the same as the official army, and the organization of the official army may be different , but much the same.

At present, the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp adopts the most common battalion sentry system, that is, five people form a team, two teams form a team, three teams form a team, three teams form a post, five posts serve as a general, and five generals form a battalion.

For the time being, regardless of infantry, cavalry or artillery, Luo Zhixue has not yet had time to form a unified formation, and it is not easy to get other types of formation for a while, so he can only continue to use the existing formation.

However, the scale of the various departments of the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Battalion is very small, far from the level of the headquarters and the battalion, and even now there is no official post or even a team organization.

At present, the supply battalion with the most infantry is like this. Before that, there were nine even under Luo Zhixue's direct control and a 20-man artillery team, but the previous artillery team did not have a captain.

This was mainly due to the small number of troops, and most of the soldiers were recruited after the autumn harvest, Luo Zhixue hadn't had time to set up a first-level team yet.

Now, Luo Zhixue intends to do it all at once.

This time, he will set up three infantry teams and an artillery team in addition to the personal soldiers.

This means that three infantry captains and one artillery captain need to be selected.

At the same time, it is necessary to select a number of directors to fill the vacancies.

After a detailed investigation, Luo Zhixue finally selected four people as the captains of each team.

The captains of the three infantry teams were Huang Chengyong, Huang Dingquan, and Li Duo, and the captain of the artillery team was Zhang Malin.

The names of these four people were actually chosen by Luo Zhixue himself, because when they were recruited to serve as soldiers, they were from poor families without even a big name. the name of the class.

Therefore, when these people were selected for registration and compilation, Luo Zhixue gave them each a name, because at that time, there were dozens or even hundreds of names, so Luo Zhixue naturally didn't pay much attention to naming them, they were all casual. fetched.

The four newly elected captains were all selected in the first batch of recruits, and among them was Huang Sangou who was the first to stand up and join the bandits, no, join the army.

Of course, people don't call him Huang Sangou anymore, but Huang Chengyong, which is also the name Luo Zhixue gave him.

Apart from joining the army early, these four people have one thing in common, that is, they can do whatever Luo Zhixue asks them to do, without any doubts or excuses.

When Luo Zhixue selected soldiers, he basically only selected honest and responsible people.

And when the corporal chief, the super chief and others are promoted later, they will choose those who are more resolute in carrying out orders.

During the previous training process, Luo Zhixue often issued some seemingly absurd orders to test the obedience of the soldiers, but during this process, anyone who showed hesitation and compromised their execution was basically marked by Luo Zhixue in his heart , When they are promoted later, they will basically have no chance.

After all, Luo Zhixue's biggest requirement for officers is to obey and resolutely execute orders, no matter how absurd the order is.

As long as he can achieve this point, even if he is less capable, in Luo Zhixue's eyes he is a good captain, very good.

After all, you can learn later if you are not capable enough, and you can accumulate slowly if you are not experienced enough.

But if the xinxing is not good, then there is really no other way.

When Luo Zhixue was preparing his army in Sanshui Village to face the possible attack of officers and soldiers.

The officers and soldiers outside the mountain did not keep Luo Zhixue waiting. Just five days later, Xu He sent messengers in the direction of Wuliguan to inform that a team of about 200 officers and soldiers began to go deep into Funiu Mountain from the periphery of Funiu Mountain.

According to the itinerary of this team of officers and soldiers, they will be able to reach the hinterland of Mount Funiu in a few days.

Regarding this, Luo Zhixue did not hesitate, and directly ordered the supply battalion to dispatch troops, preparing to intercept the officers and soldiers.

(End of this chapter)