Chapter four hundred and ninety-ninth camp recruiting troops
The next morning, the mighty army also set off.
There were also more than forty cargo ships with 3,000 dan, full of food and food supplies.
Chen Lin planned to use these medium-sized transport ships for two months.
One day later, Gongzhou will look again.
However, the ships still flowed upwards.
When you encounter a shallow, you have to go over if you force it to pull it.
No one cares about wear and tear.
It's just two months, and it won't be scrapped.
This left for most of the day.
The source of the Wei River has arrived.
This place is called Niaoshi Mountain, which is very close to Weiyuan County.
Even in Lanzhou, it is only three hundred miles away.
One man and two horses, the cavalry can arrive in two hours.
There was originally a village built on the mountains and rivers here.
It is called Dingxizhai, with a steep terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack.
However, Dingxi City is in the southeast direction.
It's four hundred miles away!
Lu Zhichang took time out all the cavalry in Qinzhou camp and barely gathered 20,000 people.
If Chen Lin hadn't brought nearly 50,000 cavalry.
Well, it's only 45,000 now.
Lao Lu would never dare to do this.
"Hahaha, it's really good to choose Dingxizhai to camp."
"The cavalry can arrive within two or three hours in Lanzhou to the northeast, Qinzhou to the rear, Xizhou to the west, and Minzhou to the west in Sichuan to the south."
"Even Xining, the farthest, is only seven hundred miles."
Chen Lin curled his lips.
"How many Han people are there in the broken places such as Xining and Huangzhou except for the garrison and their families?"
"The coalition forces in the Western Regions are not too rare to rob!"
"We use Dingxizhai as the base camp, and take waterways and have convenient logistics."
"We are not in a hurry, we will recruit soldiers and train first."
Lu Zhichang didn't have many ships on hand.
All the available ones were concentrated in Tongguan Water Village.
Chen Lin's arrival solved his big trouble.
Forty transport ships, no matter how slow it is.
In three days and nights, one can deliver 100,000 dan of food.
As for the forage, Weiyuan and Bird and Mouse Mountain, are there grass in shortage?
Just take advantage of the bright and cool autumn weather, arrange people to harvest and store them.
Chen Lin must camp by the water, mainly because he can catch fish.
In this era, the rivers trawled for three or five miles, and they were several thousand pounds.
How much food can you save?
The fish and meat are full and nutritious, but the food is saved a lot.
Why did Lao Lu and the others dare not expand their troops on a large scale?
According to the Yellow Book of Shaanxi Road, there are nearly 800,000 households and more than 3 million people.
In fact, the official statistics are very inaccurate.
There are many black households in the mountainous areas who conceal, miss reports.
This is the case throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Chen Lin felt that the entire Shaanxi Road should have more than four million people.
The household registration should be more than one million.
In other words, the Western Army has not yet reached the level of three Dings to draw one!
In other places, such as Fengqiu Jingcheng, or rich places such as Jiangnan and Jingxiang.
Not to mention the three Dings draw one, five Dings draw one, eight Dings draw one, the people will complain.
However, the northwest is vast and sparsely populated, and the land is barren.
The people don’t have many means to make a living, so it’s natural to eat food when they become soldiers.
The camp has not been expanded yet!
From the next day.
Officials from all over the country who had been well-known for a long time came in a constant stream with the right age.
Chen Lin asked someone to set up hundreds of large pots by the river.
Regardless of whether you choose or not.
The head is full of white flour, and the big bowl of fish is enough first.
The officers and soldiers who maintained order shouted.
"Don't worry."
“Look in line!”
"We are the Iron Front Army and Murong Army from Anding Prefecture, Chanzhou."
"The Liao Tartars and the two Tartars who died at our hands have exceeded 100,000."
"Once you are selected, you will start with one or two monthly salary and you will never be in arrears."
"Each soldier will pay ten taels of Anjia silver at home."
"Die, double the pension if injured!"
"Even if you don't choose it, I will give you a 20 kilogram of fish when you go back."
The men and women on the river beach were immediately boiling.
The treatment is so good?
God, it would be great if the Western Army could actually pay half a tael of silver monthly salary.
Isn’t everyone joining the army just to fill their own stomachs and help their families?
The purchasing power of one tael of silver in the northwest is far stronger than that in the Central Plains.
It's enough to buy a fat sheep worth hundreds of pounds.
After a year, wouldn’t we add a cow and horse to our family?
Yes, no!
Just a ten tael of silver deposit can buy a bull.
Or a slow horse and two fat sheep.
It's worth it if you die!
In fact, the monthly salary of ordinary soldiers of the Iron Front Army has long increased to one or five.
But here, we have to be in line with Murong Jun and Yongxing Jun?
Wait until the three-month recruitment period is over, and then it will be distributed in the form of subsidies!
The news spreads more and more widely.
On the fourth day, even the people from Dingxi, Xizhou and Wushan arrived.
More than 100,000 young and strong people are available.
Chen Lin's requirements have naturally increased a lot.
First of all, there is equestrianism, and then there is priority for hunters and martial arts.
Black households without household registration.
Neighbors must be used as insurance, and those who have a residence period of less than ten years must not be allowed.
It doesn't matter if you are weaker.
Eat meat every day and make up for two months, but you still can’t be fat and strong?
Murong Dongsheng didn't compete with Chen Lin either.
He gave in moderation and let the Tiefeng Army take the lead.
What are you kidding?
With so many young and strong men, the Iron Front Army only chose 30,000 people.
As a result, Murong Army also picked 30,000 people.
Chen Lin promised to treat Murong Dongsheng equally.
Even if it's a little behind, it doesn't matter.
The iron armor eliminated from the army cannot be thrown away all the leather armor, right?
Assisted soldiers, the more supplementary soldiers, the better!
When Lu Zhichang saw the magical trawling fishing, he caught more than 100,000 kilograms every day and was easy to catch.
Chen Lin also generously agreed to give him skills for free.
How much military ration does this have to be saved?
He gritted his teeth and stamped his feet.
Within ten days, he left eighty thousand people behind, all of whom were incorporated into the Western Army.
It doesn’t matter if there is no armor, just train first.
These soldiers were all the Iron Front Army, and the Murong Army took the rest.
The Western Army could not afford so much money.
Lu Zhichang promised the recruits.
Fifty kilograms of salted fish can be paid to deduct monthly salary.
Anyway, there is a salt pond on Shaanxi Road, and there is never a shortage of salt.
Isn’t the common people joining the army just to feed themselves and support their families?
Fifty kilograms of dried fish are sent home every month.
The whole family can't finish it, right?
If you sell it differently, you can change some needles, threads, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, cloth, cotton, and go home?
Dingxizhai has expanded again and again, occupying a large territory.
The new and veterans combined have more than 200,000.
I'm not afraid of any enemy attack.
The huge camp alone is enough to stop.
The walls of wood are fast and easy to use, and there is no need to replace them with rammed earth or stone.
The Iron Front Army is responsible for all the missions.
Taking small flags and the Ministry of Households as units, the farthest one has been scattered to the front lines of Lanzhou and Hengshan.
Although the Lanzhou defenders in Lu Yanshi had only 30,000.
But the people of the military city are also obliged to participate in defending the city.
One hundred thousand Western Regions coalition forces came from afar, lacking enough siege equipment.