Chapter 432: Recruiting and Buying Horses (Part 2)
As soon as the county government came out, the county magistrate and the chief clerk immediately rushed to the recruitment site to help. Many people who were still watching came to the recruitment office to talk and laugh with the military officer who recruited new recruits, so they dispelled their doubts and began to join the registration team.
As the sky gradually darkened, the people near the recruitment office gradually became sparse. Seeing that the county magistrate and chief clerk were almost busy, he said goodbye to Taishici and left with the help of the yamen runners.
As soon as the county magistrate and chief clerk left, Taishici couldn't wait to ask the team leader: "How many new recruits have been recruited today?"
After the team leader quickly counted it, he said to Taishi Ci with some excitement: "If you want to go to the pioneer, we will recruit a total of 925 new recruits today. If we can maintain this momentum tomorrow, we can recruit at least tens of thousands of new recruits within one month."
"The county magistrate here is an acquaintance, and he will be dismissed from Yuan Shu soon, so he is fully assisting us here." Seeing that the team leader was a little proud, Taishi Ci poured him a basin of cold water: "If we change a place and are not familiar with the place, how many people do you think can trust us?"
Some of the teams were so proud that they couldn't help but sink when Taishi Ci said this. He knew very well that this was all facts. Without the help of the yamen runners, even if his conscription flag was erected, few people would come to sign up. Later, the yamen runners went to the street to recruit people, and then some people signed up one after another.
The team leader, who became a leader, quickly asked Taishici: "Pioneer, what should we do if we are not allowed to recruit soldiers in other places?"
In fact, the problems that the team leader is worried about also bothered Taishi Ci. Although he had been in Yangzhou as a subordinate of Liu Yao for a long time and knew many county magistrates and prefects, he is now a subordinate of Han Zhan, the governor of Jizhou. As a member of the Jizhou Army, he ran to Danyang County to recruit soldiers, which is somewhat unreasonable.
If Yuan Shu had not squeezed out Liu Yao and tried to replace all the county magistrates in these areas with his own people, the Danyang Order would have not let himself recruit soldiers in Danyang County so readily. But this would be an opportunity for him. According to the county magistrate, they had sent yamen runners to four towns and eight villages outside the city to notify the villagers of recruiting soldiers in each village, and strive to recruit enough soldiers in Danyang County. As for other places, recruit them if they can. If they cannot recruit them, they will not force them.
Nowadays, in addition to recruiting soldiers, there is another important thing, which is to train the recruited recruits. If the recruits do not have any combat power when they return, they may not be able to deal with the Yangzhou soldiers, Xuzhou soldiers, and even ordinary bandits or Yellow Turban thieves they encounter along the way.
Thinking of this, Taishici said to the team leader: "You don't have to go tomorrow's recruitment."
The team leader heard Taishi Ci say this and asked in confusion: "Pioneer, did you do something wrong?"
"No." Taishici shook his head, "You did a good job in recruiting today."
"Since the young ones are doing well," said the team leader aggrievedly: "Then why should the pioneer not let the young ones be responsible for the recruitment?"
When Taishi Ci saw the other party's grievance, she immediately thought that the other party must have misunderstood, so she said to him: "You misunderstood. I don't think you did something wrong. On the contrary, you did a very good job of what I gave you. As for why I won't let you participate in recruiting soldiers tomorrow, it is because the recruits we recruit today need someone to train them. I think you are the most suitable candidate."
After listening to Taishi Ci's explanation, the team leader immediately realized that he had misunderstood the other party. He nodded vigorously and replied: "Pioneer please don't worry, the young one must train this army well."
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Just as Taishi Ci and his team were leading the team to discuss the training in the house, Han Zhan, who was far away in Qingzhou, was also talking about Taishi Ci with Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Xun You and others.
Zhao Yun asked Han Zhan with some concern: "Lord, Ziyi has been setting off for a long time, and I don't know if he has arrived in Yangzhou. He has too few people, so I'm really worried that something will happen to him."
"Don't worry." Han Zhan said disapprovingly after hearing this: "This Marquis, Tao Qian, Liu Yao and even Yuan Shu, have no grudges in the past. I believe they don't have the courage to attack this Marquis' troops on their own initiative."
"Although that's the case, we are recruiting soldiers in other vassal territories." Xun You sighed and continued: "No matter whether they had conflicts with us in the past, once we found out that we were recruiting soldiers in their territories, we would definitely meet in the end."
Han Zhan also agreed with Xun You's statement very much. If anyone dared to send someone to his territory to recruit soldiers, he might fight to the death with the other party. If he hadn't remembered that Danyang soldiers were one of the strongest soldiers in the Three Kingdoms, he would not have risked offending others and sent Taishi Ci to Danyang County to recruit soldiers.
"Gongda," Han Zhan and Xun You finished speaking, added: "What you said is a bit reasonable. But the reason why this marquis sent Taishi Ci to Danyang County to recruit soldiers was that in addition to the elite troops there, more importantly, Yuan Shu and Liu Yao were fighting for Yangzhou, and many places were temporarily unavailable, so this marquis ordered Ziyi to go to Danyang County to recruit soldiers."
Huang Zhong was a little embarrassed when the content of the few people talked about. He could only wait for them to finish and change the topic in time: "Lord, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, the second pioneer of the vanguard, have captured two cities in a row in recent days, but their troops have been reduced a lot. Do you see if you can add them?"
"Hansheng." Han Zhan looked at Huang Zhong and said, "If the troops under Guan and Zhang were too large, you can immediately adjust the Yellow Turbans of the Tugu to replenish the troops they lost. Anyway, there are more than 300,000 troops there, and we can select tens of thousands of available soldiers from them. I think there is no problem."
"My lord is right." As soon as Han Zhan finished speaking, Xun You echoed: "The Yellow Turban thieves in the Tugu do nothing every day. In addition to consuming a large amount of food and grass, they are still an unstable factor. No one can tell what they are in a bad mood and raise the flag again to rebel. Hundreds of thousands of troops gathered together. Even if our army is brave and good at fighting, if we want to pacify them, we will inevitably suffer heavy losses. At that time, it will affect the plan to seize Qingzhou."
"This place is too far from the earth drum, and it may take a lot of time to go back and forth." Zhao Yun put forward a different view on Han Zhan's use of the Yellow Turban Army to supplement the vanguard troops of Guan and Zhang: "If we add the earth drum troops into the vanguard camp, it will inevitably dilute the combat effectiveness of the vanguard troops. I think this method is not advisable."
Huang Zhong retorted: "Do we add the troops from Jizhou to Guan and Zhang? You must know that they just surrendered to our Jizhou in order to save Liu Bei's life, but they always have two hearts."
"Zilong," Han Zhan paused for a moment after Huang Zhong finished speaking. Seeing that Zhao Yun did not defend himself with the other party, he asked curiously: "Do you have any good ideas?"
"The 80,000 Yellow Turbans under Guan Hai have already been very powerful after some training." Zhao Yun said slowly: "We can select enough personnel from them to enrich the teams of the left and right vanguards. As for the vacancy in Guan Hai's army, it will be supplemented by the Yellow Turban thieves in the Tugu."
"Good solution, really good solution." Before Zhao Yun finished speaking, Xun You clapped and said first: "The Yellow Turban thieves who were transferred from Tugu were added to Guan Hai's army. Because the entire army was full of Yellow Turbans, they would definitely achieve twice the result with half the effort when trained. Zilong's proposal was really good."
"Since the military advisor also thinks that somebody's proposal is good," Zhao Yun looked at Xun You and asked, "Will we immediately send an order to ask Guan Hai to draw 10,000 troops to replenish Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's troops?"
Xun You did not answer immediately, but turned his gaze for help to Han Zhan. Han Zhan waved his hand and said, "Gongda, Zilong is the commander of the Eastern Expedition, and you are his military advisor. All the mobilizations in the army are up to you, regardless of the opinions behind the request."
Seeing that Han Zhan had no intention of interfering in his affairs, Xun You finally put his heart back in his stomach. What a unit feared the most was that it would lead to a miserable defeat in the army. Thinking of this, Xun You shouted outside: "Come here!"
With the shouting, a military Sima walked in with great strides, clasped his fists at Xun You, and said loudly: "I wonder what the military advisor has to give?"
Xun You pulled out an arrow from the order box and said to the army Sima: "You should immediately rush to Guan Hai's army with orders and transfer 10,000 troops to the vanguards. By the way, tell Guan Hai that the troops he lacks will be drawn from the Yellow Turban thieves in Tugu to make him feel at ease."
"Here!" Jun Sima agreed, stepped forward and took the arrow from Xun You's hand, turned around and walked out of the tent.
Guan Hai's camp was north of Han Zhan's camp. When he saw the army Sima walking in with a command arrow, Guan Hai quickly stood up and asked respectfully: "Do you dare to ask the army Sima, the lord is his dispatch?"
"Lord has an order!" The army Sima raised the arrow in his hand and said loudly: "Immediately draw 10,000 troops and horses to replenish them to the Pioneer Camp."
Guan Hai's orders to Han Zhan were never very discounted. After the orders conveyed by the army's Sima, he immediately called Qingniujiao and said to him: "Niujiao, the lord asked our troops to draw 10,000 troops to reinforce Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's troops. I think you will lead the troops there."
After hearing Guan Hai's order, Qingniujiao said slowly: "We only have 80,000 soldiers in total. We will draw 10,000 today and another 20,000 tomorrow. In less than a month, our subordinates will have no soldiers available."
"Don't worry about the lieutenant Guan," Fortunately, Guan Hai's attitude was already in Xun You's guess, so the commander of the army continued: "The Lord will draw troops from the Yellow Turban thieves in the Tugu to supplement the soldiers you are short of."
"That's great." Guan Hai was overjoyed when he learned that Han Zhan was planning to use the Yellow Turban thieves from Tugu to replenish his troops. You must know that there are still more than 300,000 troops in Tugu, and there are so many that I dare not say. It is still no problem to pick out 50,000 or 60,000 to fight. These troops came to his camp, and with a little training, they could become a good brigade.
As soon as the county government came out, the county magistrate and the chief clerk immediately rushed to the recruitment site to help. Many people who were still watching came to the recruitment office to talk and laugh with the military officer who recruited new recruits, so they dispelled their doubts and began to join the registration team.
As the sky gradually darkened, the people near the recruitment office gradually became sparse. Seeing that the county magistrate and chief clerk were almost busy, he said goodbye to Taishici and left with the help of the yamen runners.
As soon as the county magistrate and chief clerk left, Taishici couldn't wait to ask the team leader: "How many new recruits have been recruited today?"
After the team leader quickly counted it, he said to Taishi Ci with some excitement: "If you want to go to the pioneer, we will recruit a total of 925 new recruits today. If we can maintain this momentum tomorrow, we can recruit at least tens of thousands of new recruits within one month."
"The county magistrate here is an acquaintance, and he will be dismissed from Yuan Shu soon, so he is fully assisting us here." Seeing that the team leader was a little proud, Taishi Ci poured him a basin of cold water: "If we change a place and are not familiar with the place, how many people do you think can trust us?"
Some of the teams were so proud that they couldn't help but sink when Taishi Ci said this. He knew very well that this was all facts. Without the help of the yamen runners, even if his conscription flag was erected, few people would come to sign up. Later, the yamen runners went to the street to recruit people, and then some people signed up one after another.
The team leader, who became a leader, quickly asked Taishici: "Pioneer, what should we do if we are not allowed to recruit soldiers in other places?"
In fact, the problems that the team leader is worried about also bothered Taishi Ci. Although he had been in Yangzhou as a subordinate of Liu Yao for a long time and knew many county magistrates and prefects, he is now a subordinate of Han Zhan, the governor of Jizhou. As a member of the Jizhou Army, he ran to Danyang County to recruit soldiers, which is somewhat unreasonable.
If Yuan Shu had not squeezed out Liu Yao and tried to replace all the county magistrates in these areas with his own people, the Danyang Order would have not let himself recruit soldiers in Danyang County so readily. But this would be an opportunity for him. According to the county magistrate, they had sent yamen runners to four towns and eight villages outside the city to notify the villagers of recruiting soldiers in each village, and strive to recruit enough soldiers in Danyang County. As for other places, recruit them if they can. If they cannot recruit them, they will not force them.
Nowadays, in addition to recruiting soldiers, there is another important thing, which is to train the recruited recruits. If the recruits do not have any combat power when they return, they may not be able to deal with the Yangzhou soldiers, Xuzhou soldiers, and even ordinary bandits or Yellow Turban thieves they encounter along the way.
Thinking of this, Taishici said to the team leader: "You don't have to go tomorrow's recruitment."
The team leader heard Taishi Ci say this and asked in confusion: "Pioneer, did you do something wrong?"
"No." Taishici shook his head, "You did a good job in recruiting today."
Chapter completed!