Liu Yuan was also anxious during this time, and his task was to train soldiers. Liu Yuan now has 3,000 soldiers at hand, of which 2,000 are county soldiers from the original Wu County. There were also a thousand recruits recruited by Yang Yun from the capital.

These 3,000 men are very poor, and since they will be the backbone of dealing with bandits, their training has become a priority. They were not even asked to participate in such an important event as repairing the city walls.

Yang Yun's task to Liu Yuan was to strengthen the training of these soldiers so that they could have a certain combat ability. So as not to appear vulnerable in the face of the imminent bandit attack.

On the first day of his arrival at the barracks, Liu Yuan met with these soldiers, gave them a lecture, and encouraged them to train hard to protect Wu County. In addition, the rules of the barracks were announced, requiring everyone to train on time every day, starting the next day.

Early the next morning, Liu Yuan came to the training ground early and ordered the trumpeter to blow the horns of the assembled ox.

However, Liu Yuan was very disappointed by the situation that appeared, and these soldiers came out slowly, and most of them were disheveled.

There were even some old soldiers who hid in the tents and slept and did not come out at all.

Liu Yuan grew up in the army. He was very clear about the rules of the army, and he sent people to drag out the veterans who were hiding in the barracks, and each of them had twenty military sticks, and beat them to the flesh.

When the rest of the soldiers saw this, they were all frightened and frightened, and secretly rejoiced in themselves. Arrive at the school on time as ordered. In the later training, these soldiers were much more honest and carried out Liu Yuan's orders to the letter.

Liu Yuan's first order was to let these soldiers catch and fight, and he wanted to see which of these soldiers' kung fu was good and could be reused.

The second order is to run circles around the school grounds. He wanted to know which people were usually self-disciplined and had better physical fitness.

Due to the rush of time, he did not have time to pick carefully. The three thousand men were divided into three thousand. Among them, three people with good kung fu and good physical fitness were selected to serve as commanders.

These three commanders further refined their respective teams and elected the centurion, the captain and the captain. These elected officers then lead their soldiers.

Because these soldiers needed to be put into the battlefield as soon as possible, Liu Yuan could not systematically train them step by step. So Liu Yuan mainly worked hard in three aspects: boiling up physical strength, practicing combat skills, and manipulating formations.

Among them, boil up physical strength. The main training method is to practice stone locks and smash wooden stakes, which is a common training method in the army. The main thing is to increase the strength of these soldiers.

As for the practice of combat skills, that is, the practice of using weapons such as knives and bows, there are solo exercises for piling (target shooting) and sparring exercises in pairs.

The most troublesome thing is to drill the formation, and the change ratio is quite complicated, but fortunately, the requirements are not high, such as the time of the whole team, the accurate position, and the requirements are relatively low (after all, most of these soldiers are illiterate, and it is difficult to do it if the requirements are high).

"Sweat more in peacetime, shed less blood in wartime". Liu Yuan was like a treasure to Yang Yun's words. Therefore, he often used this phrase to spur his soldiers.

When training, all soldiers are required to do it. I'm not afraid to get tired, and I'm not afraid to get hurt. Under Liu Yuan's almost brutal training, these soldiers couldn't wait to lie there and not move at the end of their training every day.

In order to motivate the soldiers in training, he implemented a policy of rewards and punishments. Every day, the kitchen divides the soldiers' meals into two standards, and the soldiers who are trained seriously and have obvious results will have big fish and big meat.

And the soldiers who are lazy in training and have a particularly poor effect. The food is very poor, and there may even be no food to eat. The most serious thing is to be served with a military stick.

In the short term, Liu Yuan's carrot and stick training method is still very effective. Over the course of a few days, the soldier's strength, endurance, and combat ability had improved somewhat.

Although there are still many soldiers running in the wrong position or crowding each other during formation training, they can be seen in formation.

Even the old Du Wei Tieshan was very busy during this time. Because of these 3,000 soldiers, in addition to the 1,000 soldiers brought from Xijing and the soldiers recruited by themselves, the original county soldiers in Wu County were still very poorly equipped.

So, these days, Tieshan is busy organizing these blacksmiths who were brought from Xijing and recruited locally from Wu County. Those who work overtime to make all kinds of weapons are rushed.

Forty miles away from the county seat of Wuxian County, Phoenix Mountain, where the scenery is beautiful, the mountain is steep, and the mountain is high and densely forested, which is not suitable for attacking, and is an ideal place for bandits to set up camp. The most powerful bandits around Wu County opened their cattle and built the cottage on this Phoenix Mountain.

At this time, more than a dozen people gathered in the righteous hall of the open cow cottage. The strong man with a beard sitting in the highest position is a cottage advocate of opening a cow.

"Big brother. I think the new King Wu may not honestly give us silver taels. Our people went a few times, and the master always agreed well. But when they really needed to come up with the money, they pushed back. A young man dressed as a scholar said.

"Big brother! It seems that this yellow-haired boy really doesn't understand the rules, we have to beat him to make him understand who is in charge of this Wu County! Then another thin black man said.

"Then I'll send someone to contact those cottage people immediately, and we'll give this King Wu a little color together." Sitting on the upper hand of the open cow closed the road.

"Big brother, I don't think there's any need for this, according to the news from the brothers who went down the mountain. Although there are 3,000 soldiers under this King Wu, as far as we know, these soldiers are very weak. The armament is not complete.

We are copycats, and we can take them down. Why should the benefits be distributed to a few other cottages? The young man dressed as a scholar said again.

"Then we will send fifteen hundred men. First give this King Wu, who doesn't understand the rules, a little color. Let him understand. Who has the final say in this Wu County? Zhang Kainiu obviously trusted this young man dressed as a scholar, and after listening to his words, he immediately made a decision.

Yanqin was in the courtyard of the county government, directing his maids to pull out the weeds in the yard. Suddenly, a white dove flew into the yard and flew to Yanqin, Yanqin grabbed the white pigeon, took off the one on his feet, took out a paper roll, opened it and looked at it. Immediately changing color, she quickly walked towards the county office.

"Young master, the eyeliner we hid in the mountains came with news that a group of bandits had come, and it is estimated that there are still about twenty miles away from the county seat." Yan Qin said hurriedly after coming in.

After listening to Yan Qin's report, Yang Yun, Ju Yuanguang, Qi Wei and others who were sitting in the room immediately became solemn, the time to come is finally here!

"Go and call Liu Yuan, Long Ge, Zhong Wenrui and the others." Yang Yunche said calmly to a soldier standing next to him.

As the leader of this group of people, Yang Yun knew that he had to be calm and calm in order to give everyone the confidence to defeat the enemy.

"Master Long, you go and tell the people and workers who are building the city wall to withdraw to the city and take back the tools. Brother Yao, you go and organize, the people in the city, let them stay at home and try not to go out. Liu Yuan, bring all your soldiers to the city wall, and ask Master Long, where the defense ability of the city wall is the weakest, and arrange more soldiers there. "And he saw that all the people had come. Yang Yun, according to the plan that has been planned for a long time. Methodically arranged.

"Liu Yuan, when fighting, you have to arrange for people to pay attention to the original county soldiers in the county town and the local people, especially those merchants and landlords, and pay attention to which people may be the inside line of the bandits. These bandits have been operating here for so many years. There must be their people in the city. According to Yuanguang added.

With Yang Yun and the issuance of various orders, all the soldiers in Wu County are ready to meet the attack of the bandits, and the first battle to defend the fiefdom is about to begin!