Yingtao City had more than 4,000 registered soldiers, but upon inspection, the clerk discovered that there were only more than 3,400 soldiers.
Needless to say, the more than 500 people who are short of personnel are obviously free of charge, but if it is just like this, forget it. The remaining 3,000 people and 500 to 600 people are old, weak and disabled soldiers with no fighting ability at all.
Among the remaining 2,800 people, there are more than 300 well-equipped soldiers. However, after some verification, it was found that although these 300 people were included in the Yitao County soldier roster, they were from the state.
He received food and salary from the government, but he only took orders from the private soldiers of the family of Sima Xia Yang of the Yitao tribe.
This was the situation of the army at the end of the Han Dynasty. Before the crusade against Dong Zhuo, the Eastern Han Dynasty army had only experienced one big war like the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and the main force in destroying the Yellow Turbans was the Forbidden Army, the Northern Army and the armed forces of local wealthy families.
In comparison, the combat effectiveness of the county soldiers was relatively low. Coupled with the financial constraints at the end of the Han Dynasty, military pay could not be paid from time to time, which caused many soldiers to flee.
This phenomenon gradually changed after the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
But no matter what, Wen Yuan did not want to see empty pay in his army. He immediately ordered all the county soldiers in Yingtao City to be reduced to auxiliary soldiers, and Xia Yang was changed to the auxiliary captain, and the vacancies were limited to be filled within ten days!
If he hadn't been unwilling to have too much trouble with the Julu family as soon as he took office, Wenyuan would have removed Xia Yang's official position on the spot!
After solving the problem of Ying Tao's auxiliary soldiers, the most tedious thing left was the selection of Zhang Jaw's first battalion of five thousand soldiers.
Wen Yuan's method is quite simple. Since Qu Yang formed the army, most of the four thousand regular soldiers under his command have been training for more than half a year. They are all good officers. Wen Yuan and Zhang Jia directly promoted five of them.
An officer who has performed well in ordinary times is promoted to a new recruit Sima, and each of them forms a unit, allowing them to select trustworthy veteran subordinates.
In this way, the minister selects the song leader, the song leader selects the camp commander, and the camp commander selects the team leader. At the end, the corps commander selects the new recruits. All the selected people sit down on the ground, put on the table, register the formation one by one, and record the name of the person.
, address, age, facial features. In this way, a new battalion of the new army was quickly formed. Although most of them were recruits, with so many middle- and lower-level officers setting up a racket, the combat effectiveness of the army could be quickly formed.
Just like this, the original four thousand qualified soldiers were transferred to nearly a thousand soldiers, making Zhang Nan, Su You, and Murong Ping look uglier than their dead parents.
In addition, Wenyuan also set a rule that all auxiliary military households who want to be allocated fields must be locals, or move their families and relatives to the local area, because Wenyuan knows that only locals can stir up trouble when foreign enemies invade.
Their fighting spirit to defend their homeland shows unimaginable strength.
Therefore, during the month of reorganizing the military system, just like the previous time in Xiaquyang, in the entire fifteen counties of Julu, one can see a steady stream of people migrating from all over Jizhou on the roads every day, especially the county town of Yingtao.
Thousands of households have moved here in January, and the number is still increasing.
After a month of such busy work, the formation of 5,000 regular soldiers was finally completed. They were led by Zhang Jaw personally and trained in the western suburbs of Yingtao.
The autumn harvest is a more important event than the formation and training of the new army. Wen Yuan and others did not dare to neglect it at all. While going to various places to inspect and implement the formation and training of auxiliary troops, Wen Yuan also did not dare to forget to inspect the fields.
On June 27, Wen Yuan supervised the completion of the formation of auxiliary troops in Quzhou County, and then led 300 personal guards to the next destination - Pingxiang County.
It was already the end of June, the sun was high, and the weather was hot. Although Wen Yuan was not wearing armor, he was still hot and sweating all over. The three hundred guards behind him were wearing uniform armor, swords, spears, and bows and arrows.
He had everything he needed, and although he was sweating profusely, he never said a word. Even if he walked all the way, he was no slower than Wenyuan riding a horse.
There is a sense of pride in their eyes. In fact, they are proud of themselves. The soldiers are selected from among the veterans. Among them, there are 61 superior sergeants! The rest of the sergeants are at least
They all have an average military rank!
At this time, the crops were gradually ripening, and the surrounding fields were green and yellow. Although the weather was not smooth this year, there were no major famines. The farmers saw this with smiles on their faces.
Wen Yuan was in high spirits. He smiled and said to Zhang Yu, who was riding his horse beside him: "Zhang Yu, what do you like to do most in your life?"
Zhang Yu was stunned for a moment, then smiled and scratched his head and said: "Of course I will follow you, young master. As long as the young master is happy, I will be happy in my heart."
Wen Yuan smiled and patted Zhang Yu's forehead and said: "You have no future, so you don't want to have a wife and children one day? No more fighting or being a soldier?"
Zhang Yu said in surprise: "Who wouldn't want to have such a day, but now the world is in chaos, no war? How is it possible? Master, look..." Just as he was talking, Zhang Yu suddenly saw something and pointed
Walk in one direction.
It turned out that when I saw a large army rushing towards the road, the people working in the fields fled one after another. These days, the war was chaotic, the Black Mountain Army was wreaking havoc, the officers and soldiers were in bad discipline, and they often went out to loot, and the people suffered repeatedly.
As for when an army comes, whether they are officials or bandits, they hide first.
Wen Yuan lamented in his heart that the people all over the world lived in poverty. Many people could not live in peace all year round because of the overwhelming taxes and servitude on their heads. There was not much surplus food left on hand. However, officers, soldiers and bandits plundered property every year, and they had no fixed place to live and no regular farming.
Farms made them extremely tired, and many people lost their families, wives and children.
Wen Yuan remained silent and swore secretly that he could not control other people's affairs, but since he became the governor of Julu, he must let the people of Julu live a prosperous and stable life!
It's a pity that God did not follow his wishes. Just when Wen Yuan was about to order his subordinates to summon the people to comfort him, suddenly a horse came galloping on the Dongfang Avenue. Zhang Yu hurriedly led the horse to meet him, and said loudly: "Who behaves like this?"
In a hurry? Julu Prefect Zhang Liao is here, hurry up and pay your respects!"
When the rider heard this, he hurriedly pushed down his horse's head, turned over and dismounted, and said in a hurry: "Master Taishou, I have been ordered by Master Zhou Mu to come to Julu at starry night to deliver official documents."
Wen Yuan took the official document from Zhang Yu, glanced at it, and narrowed his eyes slightly!
It turns out that an urgent report came from Yecheng that the Black Mountain bandit leader Sui Gu from Hanoi, Shangdang and other places, Yu Du, Bai Rao and others led more than 300,000 troops to invade Jizhou! In just a few days, the bandit leader had broken through Shexian County and Wu'an!
The thieves are so powerful that all the food and grass they passed along the way have been looted. Now the vanguard is approaching and has approached Yecheng, Handan, Yiyang, Nanhe, and Guangnian!