Wen Yuan fell asleep happily, while many of his soldiers were too excited to sleep. This time, Wen Yuan fulfilled his promise and gave three of the captured ingredients to his soldiers.
Everyone received thousands of dollars. If living expenses are not taken into account, this harvest alone can be worth almost two months of military pay for one person.
But some people were happy and some were worried. When Wenyuan returned to normal life, the news that Yangjiawu Fort was robbed by Black Mountain bandits and the entire family was wiped out spread throughout Julu County within a few days.
A large wealthy family in the county suddenly became trembling and became nervous. They practiced their tactics day and night, waiting for the day to come.
The prefect of Julu was worried and ordered all counties to reorganize their armaments and repair the city defenses. Within one day, he wrote three documents and submitted them to the case of Mu Han Fu in Jizhou, requesting the deployment of troops to quell the banditry.
At this time, the heroes of the Kwantung region were preparing a secret parliamentary alliance to attack Dong Zhuo. Han Fu did not dare to be distracted and summoned civil and military officials to discuss the matter. In the end, Xin Xin came up with a plan. Each county in Julu recruited five hundred warriors from the countryside to train to protect themselves.
The supplies of grain, grass, and equipment are shared between the prefecture and county governments.
When I heard the news, it was already ten days after Wenyuan captured Yangjiapu. When the messenger arrived, Wenyuan was leading a group of soldiers to practice in the school field, and everything was as usual.
When Wen Yuan heard the news, he was a little happy. After all, the state and county were responsible for the cost of military training. If you don't practice, it will be useless. And when you think about the war that is about to start next year, Wen Yuan changed your mind.
It turns out that the best of the supply troops have been drafted into regular soldiers, and 2,000 new soldiers have been recruited to be incorporated into the supply soldiers!
In the battle of Yangjiapu, Wen Yuan's soldiers were killed forty-one, and nearly a hundred were injured. At this time, Wenyuan had more than 1,300 regular soldiers, 1,500 baggage soldiers, and an additional 2,000 baggage soldiers.
Wenyuan's military strength is close to 5,000! This is almost unimaginable for Xiaquyang County, which has a population of less than 30,000. If Wenyuan hadn't made a fortune just before, it would be enough to support the food and drink of 5,000 people.
Wen Yuan was so worried that his temples turned gray.
But now that Wenyuan is rich, he is no longer a pauper who suffers from food and grass problems all day long. If the food seized last time only supplied his three thousand soldiers, it would be enough to last for a year and a half! Even including the family members of the military households, it would be enough for them.
It would take half a year. What's more, next year Wen Yuan was going to lead his army to follow Han Fu to attack Dong Zhuo, and they would have to eat public food. Therefore, he recruited another 2,000 soldiers, which Wen Yuan thought he could take on.
What's more, Wenyuan already has more than a thousand soldiers ready to fight, and he won't be idle during the period before the autumn harvest. In the past few days, Wenyuan ordered two soldiers under his command to take turns to attack the bandit lairs that Wang Li visited, and wiped them out one after another.
They eliminated banditry in three nearby areas, not only calming the public security situation in Quyang, but also brought back thousands of dendrobiums of grain and grass.
That night, Zhang Ya led a crowd back with more than a hundred carts of loot. When Wen Yuan discussed it with him, Zhang Ya immediately agreed.
So Wen Yuan posted a notice to recruit soldiers to defend Black Mountain!
As soon as the recruitment notice was posted, Xiaquyang immediately became excited. The people in the county had long seen the benefits of becoming Wen Yuan's soldiers. Not only would they be able to eat three meals a day as soldiers, but they would also have meat to eat every day if they participated in training. However,
The most eye-catching thing is that once you join the military household, you can also get fifty acres of land. With so many benefits, how can you not make Qu Yangqingzhuang active and enthusiastic?
On the day of recruitment, the people of Xiaquyang once again came out in force. The school grounds in the south of the city were surrounded by a sea of people. Four to five thousand young men were all anxious, waiting for the selection by Wen Yuan's officers.
Seeing how lively the recruiting scene was, especially seeing the envious and admiring eyes of those young men looking at him, the soldiers under Wen Yuan's command were filled with pride and pride, and each of them couldn't help but feel their chests and belly protrude, and they were full of energy.
But when he imagined that in the near future, these new recruits would have to be served by military sticks like he did back then, he couldn't help but smile evilly.
Jizhou is slightly wealthier than other states in the Han Dynasty, and the people's life is not too difficult, so the physical fitness of Minzhuang is generally better than that of other states and counties. However, Wenyuan's recruitment of soldiers has extremely strict character requirements, and those who can be recruited must have well-developed limbs.
, a muscular man who is simple-minded, honest, obeys the law, obeys the government, dares to fight tough battles, charges without fear of death, and has the character of a fool.
After such careful screening, only 1,700 people were selected. Wen Yuan first incorporated all of these people into the supply troops, and then transferred more than 1,200 people from the original supply soldiers into the regular soldiers, forming two corps.
There are more than 2,600 regular soldiers in one song, including two infantry groups with more than 2,000 people. Wenyuan and Zhang Jia each lead one, and there are more than 500 archers in one song, and dozens of newly acquired war horses.
People join the scout team and accept the command of Wang Li.
After three or five days of such busy work, the recruitment activity finally came to an end. The selected candidates were all delighted, while the unsuccessful ones looked dejected.
According to precedent, the newly recruited more than 1,000 people should all be allocated fifty acres of land. However, the weather is freezing now, so the land reclamation can only be done together with the plowing in the next spring. Although the planting may be a few days later, but
It does not affect the autumn harvest.
On the eighth day of December, the Laba Festival, it finally snowed heavily. There was no training in Wenyuan’s camp that day. After Wenyuan had Laba porridge in his house, he led Zhang Yu in the county town under the heavy snow.
He started wandering around. But his wandering was not aimless, but he went straight to the blacksmith shop in the city.
In the battle of Yangjiapu, Wenyuan lost forty-one people, and later sixteen people died of serious injuries due to the cold weather. After that, in the two battles to encircle and suppress small groups of bandits, another thirteen people died of illness and disease, which was just a short time.
On the 10th, Wen Yuan's infantry suffered 70 casualties!
In the past ten days, Wenyuan has certainly gained a lot. Not to mention the battle of Yangjiapu, in these two bandit suppressions alone, hundreds of bandits were captured, thousands of stones of food and grass were seized, and the clothes and armor were not counted. But these seventy soldiers
But it was his heart and soul! Every soldier was a reflection of his hard work, and so much had been lost in a short period of time that Wen Yuan had to find the reason and try to solve it.
Wen Yuan thought about this matter for several days, and there were only two reasons for it. One was the low medical ability, and the other was the weak protective ability of the soldiers.
Medicine seems to be scarce everywhere in this era. The main reason for the sharp population decline in the late Han Dynasty is of course the continuous natural disasters and military disasters, as well as the lack of medical rescue forces. In the second year of Zhongping alone, the entire Central Plains was
Nearly 20 million people died due to the plague. If relatively advanced medical technology had been available at that time, more people would have survived!
Now, there are a few grassroots doctors in Wenyuan's army who know some medical knowledge, but they can only treat minor injuries and illnesses, and are not of great use. It is the cold winter now. Once a soldier is seriously injured, the wound will heal very slowly.
, it was almost impossible to save him. Wen Yuan vaguely remembered that there were three famous doctors during the Jian'an period, but these people were either in Anhui, Henan, or even farther away in Fujian, and they were not even born. They still had to solve their own medical problems.
We can only wait and see.
Now Wen Yuan could only start with the protection of the soldiers themselves. He knew that the armors worn by the soldiers were made of tanned leather from cows, pigs and other animals. They were connected with leather ropes and then coated with raw lacquer to prevent corrosion and moth. It is said that the best leather armor made of buffalo and rhinoceros skins can last for one or two hundred years without decay. However, in troubled times with frequent wars, how can we tolerate the perfect tanning, armor-making and painting of Wen Yuan's soldiers? Leather armor is just two pieces of simple tanned animal skins sewn together to protect the chest and back. And even such a simple armor, the popularity rate in the Three Kingdoms of the Later Han Dynasty can only reach about 40%. Just like Wen Yuan's subordinates, Of the initial 2,800 soldiers, only a thousand or so had leather armor, and the baggage soldiers only had shabby uniforms. The new soldiers were even worse, with no uniforms or armor. If Wen Yuan had not recently acquired thousands of pieces of clothing, these people would Clothing is a problem, not to mention that in addition to armor, the soldiers lack weapons!
Wen Yuan has always positioned his army to become an elite! Strong soldier! Every soldier must be brave and fearless of death, but first they must have sophisticated equipment to ensure their survival on the battlefield! The number can be small, but it must be absolutely Elite! Dare to fight, not afraid of death, and able to survive tenaciously.