Vol 2 Chapter 2592: Yue Yun Li Ke, military reform

Chapter 2592 Yue Yun Li Ke, military reform

Chapter 2588: Yue Yun Li Ke, military reform

 Jizhou, Changshan, Zhending training camp.

 The person in charge of this camp is Yue Fei's son Yue Yun.

Yue Yun also started conscription after arriving in Changshan, but his recruitment mode was completely different from Xue Dingshan.

Xue Dingshan recruits troops from civilians. The total quota is only 10,000, but the number of applicants is as many as 10,000. Therefore, one or even multiple rounds of selection will be conducted to screen out the unqualified ones and select those with the best quality. Thousands of people formed an army.

Of course, there will definitely be many recruits who meet the requirements but are not selected due to insufficient quotas. Xue Dingshan will send these people to other training camps;

Yue Yun is completely different from Xue Dingshan. He recruits soldiers directly from veterans and county soldiers, two types of reserves.

Of the 300,000 troops laid off during the last disarmament of the Qin Dynasty, nearly half of them were surrendered troops from Hebei, so Hebei also had the largest number of veterans.

These veterans have not only participated in training, but have also been killed in battle. Many of them have seen blood. Their overall quality is naturally far inferior to those of new recruits. After being gathered together, they can become an army with only a little training.

Therefore, the new army formed by recruiting veterans is not only the fastest to form an army, but also has the strongest combat effectiveness among the 700,000 new troops.

On the other hand, the recruits who were recruited by Xue Dingshan from civilian backgrounds had to undergo more than half a year of training, no matter how good their conditions were.

But even so, without any experience against the enemy, the combat effectiveness will not be too strong. Only after you have seen blood can you truly transform into an elite soldier.

Therefore, in terms of recruiting troops, if Xue Dingshan recruits first-level soldiers, then Yue Yun recruits fifth-level soldiers, which is not much worse than the regular army.

Xue Dingshan, on the other hand, had to train this new soldier from scratch to make him stronger bit by bit, and the time and energy he expended was far beyond what Yue Yun could compare to.

Xue Dingshan and Yue Yun obviously have similar military ranks, but why are there such big differences in conscription treatment?

This was actually Xue Dingshan's choice. He could naturally recruit soldiers from veterans to form an army as soon as possible, but he took the initiative to ask for orders to train new soldiers.

Not only Xue Dingshan, but also many young generals such as Wang Xuance and Chen Tang also made the same choice.

As for the reason, it is because although the new soldiers are a blank slate, it is precisely because they are weak that the credit for building them into a strong army is greater.

In addition, if you are in charge of everything from training to army formation, this army will have your own brand.

Even if you leave in the future, this army will become your political assets and help you in your future promotions.

Civil servants rely on political achievements, and soldiers naturally rely on military merit. But military merit is not just killing the enemy. Leading a strong army is also a great achievement.

Look at Gao Shun's trapped camp and Zhang Liao's broken military camp. Even if they are no longer under the command of the two men, as long as the two battalions win the battle, the names of Gao Shun and Zhang Liao will be mentioned.

 So, although training new recruits is more laborious, the more you pay, the rewards you get will be proportional to it.

Yue Yun naturally knew this, but his talent was in martial arts. His talent in the art of war was more than one step behind Xue Dingshan, and training soldiers was not his strong point.

Yue Yun naturally wanted to build an elite battalion similar to his father's Beiwei Army, an elite battalion with its own mark. However, even if he studied in secret, his progress in the art of war was still limited, so he naturally had to make the most of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses.

Although the potential of veterans has been discovered, their future growth may not be as good as those of carefully selected recruits, but they have received militarized training, have combat experience, dare to fight and kill, and can in the shortest time Training into an army.

While Xue Dingshan was still screening the new recruits, it only took Yue Yun three days to recruit an army of 10,000 troops. After a little training, they could go directly to the battlefield.

Yue Yun is not good at military training, but choosing to retire can give him a big step ahead at the starting line, and if things go well, he can even lead step by step.

As long as he is far enough ahead and has made enough contributions, Xue Dingshan is destined to be unable to catch up with him.

Looking at the veterans who participated in the training and began to gradually restore military discipline, Yue Yun nodded with satisfaction. After all, this army is related to his future military exploits.

“General, after three days of conscription, the Zhending camp in Changshan, Jizhou has been recruited, and the 10,000-strong army has all met the recruitment standards.

 A month of recovery training will follow, followed by six months of consolidation and strengthening training.

 This is the training plan. "

After speaking, Lieutenant General Li Ke handed the report to Yue Yun.

Yue Yun took it and started to climb over it seriously.

Li Ke looked at the superior general Yue Yun, and a complicated look flashed in his eyes.

More than ten years ago, during the Battle of Yanmen Pass, Li Ke was just a low-level county soldier, but he met Yue Yun's mother and son while maintaining law and order.

At that time, Yue Yun pointed to Yue Fei, who had returned from victory and was running alongside Ying Hao, and said that this was his father.

 Li Ke thought he was referring to Ying Hao, so he naturally didn't believe Yue Yun's words. However, seeing that he was very cute and tiger-like, he thought of teasing the child.

Unexpectedly, this child couldn't help being amused at all. Not only did he brazenly say that he would become a general when he grew up, he also said that he would take me as his personal soldier, go to the chamber pot every day, and even kick himself.

Li Ke naturally did not take it seriously, and in the following ten years of military career, he was gradually promoted from a small soldier to the rank of captain;

Just when he was about to completely forget this memory, Yue Yun suddenly appeared in front of him, and he recalled this memory from more than ten years ago.

The naughty kid back then has actually become a general now, with a military rank two levels higher than him.

 It took him more than ten years to be promoted to captain, but it only took him two or three years to become a general.

However, he did not make himself a personal soldier, but was promoted to his adjutant and promoted one level.

The reason why Yue Yun promoted Li Ke to be his adjutant was naturally not because of his childhood jokes. After all, he was only five or six years old at that time and had long forgotten his former heroic words. Li Ke is an officer who graduated from the twelfth phase of the Jiulong Guards and served under Yu Jin for five years. He is deeply learned from Yu Jin in terms of military training and training.

Yue Yun himself is not good at training troops, but he has to train tens of thousands of troops, so he can only find an adjutant who can train troops to assist him.

In the process of selecting adjutants, Li Ke came into Yue Yun's sight again, which also reminded him of the dark history of his childhood. In addition, Li Ke himself was indeed very capable, so he chose to promote this young adjutant. Old friend.

Yue Yun is very satisfied with Li Ke as his adjutant. After the Changshan training camp was established, there were too many affairs that Yue Yun could not manage.

 Yue Yun basically left his hands behind as the boss, letting his adjutant Li Ke run in front and behind him, but he also managed the army in an orderly manner. This also shows that he did not make a wrong choice as the lieutenant.

Yue Yun was confused when he saw the document. After reading it pretendingly, he quickly said: "Adjutant Li's arrangement is very reasonable, so let's do it."

After saying that, he signed his name on the plan.

 Li Ke did not leave after taking the plan. After much hesitation, he still persuaded: "General, regarding Yu Yuan's master and apprentice, I think the general's handling was not appropriate."

Yue Yun's biggest surprise during his trip to Changshan was Yu Yuan and Yu Hua's master and apprentice, and it was these two people who gave him the biggest headache.

Yue Yun's Changshan Camp was all built according to the standards of a strong army, directly comparable to the regular army, and the court documents also clearly stipulated that recruits could only be recruited from veterans of Jizhou.

However, in the process of army expansion, two powerful masters joined the army, namely master and apprentice Yu Yuan and Yu Hua.

Yue Yun saw at a glance that Yu Yuan was a master, so he started to test him, and the result was a deadlock.

Yue Yun naturally wanted to stay in his own army for such a master of the same level as himself, but Changshan Camp could not recruit troops from civilians. According to regulations, it could only recruit troops from reserve forces.

If Yu Yuan Yuhua was left behind, Yue Yun would have violated the military order. He could recommend the two of them to other military camps to support other generals, but he was not willing to do so.

Therefore, Yue Yun could only deceive the two of them, first leaving them in Changshan Camp, but did not register them as military members, and then quietly reported to the Yecheng Ministry of War, preparing to go through the normal procedures and make an exception to keep these two people in his army. , and this obviously takes time.

 But Yu Yuan and Yu Hua's master and apprentice are not stupid. They have been in the army for so many days, and Yue Yun has not applied for military registration for them. As time goes by, they will obviously become suspicious. After all, they are not related to Yue Yun.

"I also want to retain these two masters, why is it inappropriate?" Yue Yun asked puzzledly.

Li Ke explained: "General, I think that there is a high probability that Jizhou will not break the recruitment rules set by the imperial court just because of two people.

Even after receiving a message from the general, masters and apprentices of Yu Yuan and Yu Hua will be transferred to other training camps instead of letting them stay in our Changshan camp.

But these are not the key. The key is that time has been delayed for a long time, but it has not been implemented. What will Master Yu Yuan and Yu Hua think of the general? If unnecessary misunderstandings are caused, will they continue to stay? "

Yue Yun was instantly alert. He only wanted to keep Yu Yuan and Yu Hua, but ignored the feelings of these two people who had been waiting for so many days. After all, with the abilities of these two people, they would definitely be reused wherever they were incompetent.

After deep thought, Yue Yun decided to confess to Yu Yuan. It was his confession that made Yu Yuan feel his sincerity, so he decided to stay in Changshan Camp.

Yue Yun was naturally overjoyed about this, and promised to list the two as special talents and report them directly to the court, and would never let them start as low-level soldiers.

 Army expansion operations across Da Qin are in full swing.

 At the same time, Luoyang, inside the imperial palace.

Wang Meng reported with a smile on his face: "Your Majesty, in just seven days after the military expansion order was issued, the number of people who signed up to join the army has reached 1.5 million. Wei Chen believes that registration can be completed in advance."

 “What? Why so fast?”

Ying Hao's face was also full of surprise. After all, it had only been seven days since the military expansion order was issued, and 1.5 million people had signed up to join the army. This was a bit too fast, and the information alone would have taken more than that to ferment.

“Our country, the Qin Dynasty, has a perfect reserve system. Whether before or after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, we have never recruited soldiers on a large scale among the people. The people who are willing to serve the country have no way to do so.

Now that I finally have the opportunity to join the army, I naturally flock to it, scrambling to sign up, for fear that I will not be able to apply. "

Hearing Wang Meng's words, Ying Hao suddenly realized that this was not just joining the army out of revenge.

It was too cruel to be suppressed before. The people had no way to join the army, and they were even more long for participating in the army. Now they finally have the opportunity. Regardless of whether he can successfully recruit it.

Ying Hao pondered for a while and then said: "It cannot be ended early. The people have the desire to serve the country, but they are always unable to find words to vent their anger. It is inevitable that they will also feel resentment. Regardless of whether they can enlist in the army, it cannot dampen the enthusiasm of the people to join the army."

Hearing what Ying Hao said, Wang Meng immediately realized the disadvantages of early registration deadline, quickly admitted his mistake and made corrections.

Wang Meng proposed a plan to recruit county soldiers from the common people who entered the final round of screening but were ultimately unsuccessful, and gave each of the other unsuccessful common people ten catties of rice as a show of encouragement.

Ying Hao thought for a while and nodded in agreement. After all, even if rice was distributed to one million people, the total would only be ten million kilograms.

Hundred kilograms is one stone, which is converted into one hundred thousand stones.

 For the current Great Qin, a hundred thousand stones of grain and grass are just a drop in the bucket in the granary, but they can gain the gratitude of millions of defeated people, which is considered to be worth the money.

“Prime Minister, taking advantage of this military expansion, I want to reform the military system.” Ying Hao said in a deep voice.

One more chapter

　　

　　

 (End of this chapter)