life in ancient gods

Chapter 106 106 Basics
The wind is sunny and the sky is blue.

Ye Chenli and Su Ping'an acted separately.

There are two parts of soldiers Ye Chenli recruited, a small part is mainly the children of the noble clan who have learned martial arts and swordsmanship as the main members, and they hold important positions such as centurion and thousand commander respectively.

The other majority are farmers and military households. Farmers are basically ordinary soldiers, while military households can be promoted to corps commanders or more.

Ye Chenli's army supplies are basically provided by the imperial court, so they are naturally the main force.

The troops recruited by Su Ping'an are small-scale guerrillas.

Because there were so many refugees going north, most of the village men in nearby villages and towns were recruited by Ye Chenli.

Therefore, Su Ping'an basically recruited young and strong men among the refugees as soldiers.

Moreover, he has to raise food and grass alone, and manufacture logistics and military supplies such as armor and weapons.

How could it be that Ye Chenli was a fourth-grade Zhongwu general, while Su Ping'an was only a seventh-grade Zhiguo captain.

However, refugees have one advantage, that is, they are homeless, as long as they are given food and a place to live.

When Lu Da and Wu Song heard that Su Pingan was recruiting troops, they both enthusiastically joined Su Pingan's army and became Su Pingan's right-hand assistants.

There are also students in martial arts schools who have also signed up to join the army.

At one time, Su Ping'an recruited more than 1000 recruits, all of whom were young adults aged 14 to 30.

But the recruits have no fighting power.

However, the students who have been trained in the martial arts hall are quite capable of fighting, and these students have money. The armor, weapons and horses are all bought with their own money, which is beyond Su Ping'an's expectation.

The only ones that Su Pingan can fight now are Lu Da, Wu Song and Li Tianba.

He arranged Wu Song, Lu Da, and Li Tianba as coaches to teach these recruits martial arts.

Except for the more than 100 martial arts students who bought the armor and weapons themselves, the other recruits are unified with spears, iron swords and wooden shields, black leather armor, black leather boots, and black leather helmets.

The main reason is that leather armor is cheap, easy to make, and takes a short time to make, so it can be handed over to some small workshops for mass production.

It just so happened that Li Yinger's cloth shop could make leather armor, so she temporarily recruited more than a dozen tailors to make a thousand sets of leather armor overnight.

Su Ping'an's original intention of recruiting soldiers and horses was just to protect Jinling and his family.

He wanted to have his own army, an elite Su family army.

Three miles away from the south gate of Jinling City, Su Ping'an ordered his more than 1000 recruits to cut down the trees near the suburbs and build a camp overnight.

The camp is the size of a football field and is mainly used as a martial arts arena and barracks for recruits.

Under the spring sun, in the camp, more than 1000 recruits, wearing leather armor and helmets and holding long daggers, are receiving military training in uniform rows.

One of them was a team of more than 100 students from the martial arts hall. They held iron swords and wore black iron armor.

Su Ping'an used a combination of modern and ancient physical training plus military patrols to strengthen the physique of these recruits.

Soldiers do push-ups, run, and play cuju to increase their physical fitness.

Together with Li Tianba, Lu Da and Wu Song, these three people taught martial arts, swordsmanship, and marksmanship. In just a dozen days, the physical fitness of these more than 1000 soldiers has improved a lot.

A group of young and middle-aged refugees with ragged clothes, disheveled hair, and hungry faces dragged their exhausted bodies to Su Ping'an's barracks, "My lord, I heard that you are recruiting new soldiers. We...we want to be soldiers..."

"Yes...My lord, as long as there is a stutter... Please accept us..."

Su Pingan saw that most of these refugees were young and middle-aged, and they seemed to come here for fame, "Okay, you go to the military camp to report and register."

The person in charge of the roster of recruits was a student from a martial arts gym. He had some money at home and knew a little bit of writing. Su Pingan asked him to be in charge of registering recruits and writing some military documents.

During this period, more than 1000 young and middle-aged refugees joined the Su Family Army after hearing that they would not only have food to eat, but also a military salary of 100 Wen per month.

However, the Su Family Army was not a refuge camp. Su Pingan carefully selected and strictly controlled the recruits who joined later.

And as long as a soldier violates military regulations, he will be punished by military law immediately.

Similarly for excellent soldiers, Su Ping'an will make an exception and promote him to be a corps leader, even a leader.

Those who have worked as local doctors will temporarily serve as military doctors in the army.

Those who worked as veterinarians and treated war horses were mainly responsible for taking care of war horses.

Those who are good at cooking will become the fire leaders of the army. There are 10 people in total, and they will be the leader of the fire husband.

There are also two tailors missing in the military camp, who are mainly responsible for making and mending soldiers' clothing, shoes and socks.

Those who are good at forging and forging will be trained as special blacksmiths in the barracks, responsible for forging and repairing weapons and armor, and making horseshoes, saddles, and stirrups.

Carpenters are used to make siege equipment, ladders, and crossbow beds, bows and arrows, wooden shields, gun shafts and so on.

Those who are good at hunting and archery are trained into a team of archers.

As long as new soldiers join, Su Pingan will ask them what skills and specialties they have, so that the soldiers' skills and specialties can be fully utilized.

On this day, Su Ping'an was dressed in bright armor, with a green sword hanging from his waist, and rode a bloody BMW into the camp.

In front of the gate of the camp, two soldiers standing guard immediately saluted Su Ping'an.

Su Ping got off his horse, and a soldier immediately led the bloody BMW to the stable.

It was in the morning, on the martial arts field, Li Tianba, Lu Da, and Wu Song were training soldiers.

Li Tianba was closer to the gate of the camp. When he saw Su Ping'an walking towards him, he immediately greeted him, "Brother Su, what do you think of the soldiers I trained?"

Su Ping'an looked around and saw a large black mass of soldiers on the martial arts arena, waving their spears rhythmically and shouting modern slogans loudly.

"Bleeding, sweating, no tears. Shedding skin, shedding flesh, not falling behind."

The soldiers on the martial arts arena are quite different from when they first joined the Su Family Army. They are full of energy, neatly arranged, and well-trained. Everyone has a look of bravery in their eyes.

Under the training of the three strong generals Li Tianba, Lu Da and Wu Song, they seem to have trained a group of sheep into fierce tigers.

Sure enough, a strong general has no weak soldiers!

(End of this chapter)