After a shower, the sky is clear, the air is fresh, and the lush green grass of the mountains is dotted with all kinds of unknown wildflowers.

Accompanied by the sound of dense steps, nearly 4,000 soldiers marched forward under the clear blue sky. Xiao Tang rode his horse to a high slope at this time, he looked at the march, and saw this group of soldiers standing with guns and hooves as they marched neatly between the winding mountain paths, and there was no trace of confusion in the military appearance, he also showed a happy face, and nodded with satisfaction.

When he heard that Xiao Tang planned to personally lead the new army and come to the battle array again, generals such as Luo Jian and Guan Sheng advised Xiao Tang that this move was not appropriate. In particular, Luo Jian persuaded Xiao Tang: "In the specific battle, most of the generals who are about to fight judge the situation and adapt to the situation on their own, just because the fighters are changing rapidly, Rao is everything is thought out clearly, but there are also times when the good and the bad are unpredictable." The marshal should also sit in the center of the county government, and must not rush to the front line repeatedly, not to mention the initial establishment of the new army, even if the marshal really wants to unify the army and supervise the battle, it should be coordinated by the generals of all departments to ensure the emergency. ”

It's just that Xiao Tang insisted that he must lead this group of new troops, and said that in addition to Xu Jing and Xu Jieshuai leading 5,000 officers and troops to guard Tongluo County, all the officers and troops should set up camps and fences to intercept the thieves gathered in the middle of Hedong Road. After all, the thieves will not be beaten passively, if the leader of the thief army finds that the signs are wrong, and leads his troops to escape before the official army is encircled, and continues to run rampant on the boundary of Hedong Road, then when will this battle be fought?

After all, Luo Jian was only ordered to come to assist Xiao Tang in taking care of the selection and training of the new army, pacifying the people in the local bandit-stricken counties and towns, and the power to make the final decision was still in Xiao Tang's hands.

But how long does it take, a year, to build a group of recruits who have never experienced war into a well-trained army? Two years? Or is it just a few months enough?

If it is really that in the troubled times, the source of soldiers cannot keep up with the consumption of the population in the war, and the strength of all forces is used to capture the strong men in order to strengthen the power of the people and horses of the headquarters, and only stuff a spear or short knife into the hands of the hungry homeless, then he can be regarded as a soldier. If an army is full of such poor people in troubled times who are only called together to fill their bellies, their combat strength will naturally be lackluster. However, in times of war, many people have been in and out of the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood several times, and their reputation for being fierce and good at war has been passed down to future generations, and their predecessors are precisely those hungry people who only want to survive in a world where human life is as cheap as dogs.

For example, the army formed in the period of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, it was just a group of Han victims who wandered around in the north and south of the Yellow River, but in later generations, because of the ferocity and unstoppable battle, the armed forces of the disaster victims were famous in the history of ancient Chinese wars.

And Xiao Tang not only wants this army to beg, but also wants the soldiers of this army to know that as long as they fight bravely, they will naturally be able to live better.

At present, the new army of displaced people selected from various parts of Hedong should only be classified as a member of the Xiang Army, and not only should they not be allowed to buy barracks in the barracks for themselves and their families to live in, but their salaries and salaries should also be greatly reduced. Now Xiao Tang has been ordered to train the army, so that these new troops can be classified as forbidden soldiers, and the money and food received by Guan Zhi are enough to feed a few people in his family. In addition, when families want to return to their former homes, the families of recruited recruits can also be given priority to receive the borderless land in their hometowns after the banditry.

Not only that, Xiao Tang's regulations on the pension of the new army killed and wounded in the war were also increased by five times (since the Qingli period, the Great Song Dynasty court stipulated the grade standard of money and goods given to the families of fallen soldiers, and the edict: "From now on, those who have no children and grandchildren in the military academy will be given money to their families, 70,000 for the commander, 60,000 for the deputy commander, and 50,000 for the military envoy, the head of the capital, the deputy soldier and horse envoy, and the deputy head of the capital." During the period with Xining, the Song Dynasty also issued an edict according to the preferential care regulations of the armor protection system: "From now on, the dead who fight with the thief will give his family 50,000 money; Those who have household tax are still exempted from tax for three years. If the disease is disabled, 30,000 shall be given. The wounded, twenty thousand. The wounded, 5,000"), and according to the level of military merits, drill and assessment, set up various rewards, and other Song Dynasty original "should be a soldier's family officer, the division often added a pension, repaired the house, and increased the amount of food", "returned to the hometown as a peasant soldier, and paid for one year, ordered to buy cattle breeds, exempted from rent and taxes, and made it a permanent industry" and other preferential regulations will not be discounted in any way, which also allows the new army to get the greatest protection after death, and there is no need to worry about the helplessness of food and clothing for the family and not fear death when killing.

Of course, Xiao Tang so arbitrarily revised the pension and reward system for soldiers in the army, which is very unruly. However, most of the military divisions of the Great Song Dynasty were not very compliant, but almost all the generals and officers of other armies were in order to fill their own pockets, and they deducted the salaries and pensions of soldiers and fallen soldiers in battle, but Xiao Tang did the opposite, although the salaries of this batch of new troops were still the level of ordinary forbidden troops, but the provisions on welfare and preferential care, and the settlement of military families were enough to make almost all other forbidden soldiers jealous.

But how much benefit you have, how much you will naturally have to suffer before.

Wang Jin, who is now entrusted by Xiao Tang to practice the new army, although his original ministry is the same as Lin Chong's head of the forbidden army's guns and sticks, and the head of the forbidden army has the head of the army, the head of the overseer, the head of the gun and stick, and other functions such as teaching the soldiers guns and sticks, arranging troops, and inspecting the department. Wang Jin, who was assigned by his father Wang Sheng, since he was a child, was not only proficient in all eighteen kinds of martial arts, but also many classics that were required to be read by military officials who shouldered the duties of teaching and learning military services, such as "General Essentials of the Martial Arts".

Although he lacked experience in battle, Wang Jin was an expert in teaching the middle and lower class officers in the army, as well as the training of newly enlisted generals, the formation of troops, marching and camping, ancient and modern formations, communication reconnaissance, military terrain, the application of infantry and cavalry, and the attack and defense of cities. Wang Jin can also roughly understand why most of Xiao Tang's selection of this batch of new troops is mainly based on down-to-earth rural farmers, and then according to the promulgation of the military punishment regulations, various behaviors such as failing to meet the standards in the assessment, talking loudly during the lecture, and even laughing in a low voice during the march will be held accountable and beaten up. Needless to say, when it comes to the time of war, those who violate military orders will not be ambiguous.

Originally, these people brought their families and children but were desperate, if the true sect thieves occupied most of the Hedong Road Prefecture capital, they were very likely to go to Tianhu to beg for survival. As for how to build you into a good fighting army, at least only so that you can rely on strict military rules and discipline to maximize your combat power, I have done my best......

Xiao Tang secretly thought to himself in his heart: Now it is only a few battles on the battlefield that can turn you, the lambs who were originally oppressed by thieves and thieves, into bloodthirsty wolves who can teach the enemy to be terrified.