The 3,000 Dingzhou troops brought by Zheng Jixuan from Hebei by Dingzhou Town were arranged by Li Qi to be stationed in three royal manors in Jinyang Beiyuan, Yuci Manor and Qingyuan Manor (later Qingxu County). This is a unit given to Li Qi by the cheap old man, the envoy of the Dingzhou Yiwu Army, which can be regarded as his own pro-army or a subordinate.

Li Qi prepared to use this army as a basis to train and build his own forbidden army.

Since ancient times, the pro-army of military generals in the army has been the most trusted force in their hands, and they are usually well-equipped and well-paid. The generals relied on these pro-armies to suppress the three armies and maintain their prestige. On the battlefield, this pro-army unit not only needs to ensure the safety of the main general, but also many times, it is used as an important assault force on the battlefield.

The combat effectiveness of ordinary pro-army units is more than two or three times higher than that of ordinary troops.

Outside Yuci City.

The chariots, Ma Xiaoxiao, this thousand-strong army from Dingzhou was dusty as they marched, and the sound of the crashing of the armor leaves was endless. However, the morale of the whole army was obviously low, and many people had obvious unwillingness in their eyes.

During the five dynasties at the end of the Tang Dynasty, due to the corruption of the government soldier system, the government soldiers were transformed into the town army and became the private army in the hands of the envoys of each section. Most of these righteous soldiers are from Dingzhou and Yizhou, several generations of military households, father and son in the army, with military as a profession. These children of military families who grew up in the barracks have been brave and ruthless since they were young, and fights and brawls are commonplace. Such a force, with its combat effectiveness far beyond the ordinary, if it is not properly controlled, will raise tigers to cause trouble, often have some civil strife, and even kill the generals.

Most of these town soldiers were veterans of the Yiwu Army, and they had very rich experience in revolutionary struggles. Now that Wang De ordered them to move to Jinyang and leave their hometowns, everyone was resentful, and they were always ready to find an opportunity to flee back to their hometown in Dingzhou.

If you don't get it right, it's a mess.

On the wheat field of the Yuci Royal Manor, Li Qi personally came to lecture these soldiers.

After seeing Li Qi, the crown prince and temporary top boss, these soldiers were very well-behaved and lined up neatly, but they just performed a simple flat-chested salute, all of them expressionless, like several rows of clay warriors. If it weren't for the hostility, disdain, and contempt in their eyes, Li Qizhen had some suspicions that he had received a group of puppets without any feelings.

Li Jiqi rode on the jujube red horse, squinting at the team in front of him.

Anyway, he didn't nod, and these people's flat right arms didn't dare to put it down at will.

After being silent for about half a pillar of incense, Li Jiqi found that none of these soldiers showed any impatience, and this patience and self-discipline were more than a star and a half stronger than ordinary farmers.

So he smiled a little, nodded with a little satisfaction, and shouted loudly: "All the soldiers of the Yiwu Army, everyone has worked hard! ”

Those generals once again leveled their chests with their right hands, and said in unison: "See His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Li Qi raised his right hand, signaled, and then raised his voice and continued: "Everyone is from the Yiwu Army, it turned out to be the Zhen Army, and the Zhenshuai of the Wuwang of the Yijun Army handed everyone over to the hands of Gu and became my pro-army. Gu is now the crown prince, and after a while, he will ascend the throne and become the emperor. From now on, you will be Lone's pro-army and the Son of Heaven's Praetorian Guard, I hope you can become a brave army and live up to Lone's expectations! It's just that a certain family has a relatively high vision, and ordinary soldiers can't meet the requirements. However, everyone has become a lonely subordinate, and in ordinary times, as long as they obey military orders, a certain family can ensure that everyone has enough food and clothes to wear every day! ”

After Li Qi finished this paragraph, he didn't even applaud, and the soldiers were still expressionless, and there was no reaction at all, and the atmosphere at the scene was a little embarrassing.

"You were originally a town army, a regular peasant, and a soldier in wartime, but when you come to Jinyang, it's still the same. In addition, if everyone thinks that life here is good in the future, you can let the whole family move to Jinyang, and Gu is responsible for the resettlement, and once again assure everyone, including your family, that Gu will let everyone live a good life! Seeing that there was still no reaction, Li Qi said loudly in front of everyone, "Now, disperse!" ”

There was no battalion commander in this unit, only the head of each team, a total of ten heads, each commanding a hundred soldiers.

After the disbandment, Shi Dang took dozens of pro-soldiers to help the housekeeper Wang Cun arrange the distribution of the military camp in the manor.

This is an abandoned barracks of the original Jin army, and there are more than a dozen rows of earthen houses rammed from loess in the camp, and there are more than a dozen sheds for raising horses, which have collapsed four or five. Li Qi knew the arrangement in advance, but he didn't send anyone to clean it up, and this dilapidated camp was left for these people to come and clean up.

Let everyone develop the habit of working first.

The army itself is a gold-swallowing beast, with huge daily expenses, and Li Jiqi is ready to transform this professional army into a militia and develop the habit of self-reliance.

At first, these newly arrived Dingzhou Yiwu soldiers had to be aggrieved and crowded into these dilapidated adobe houses, and after the accommodation was allocated, they basically filled all the places that could live in them.

Fortunately, Li Qi knew that the new army had just arrived, so he rewarded him first, and ordered someone to send two live pigs, dozens of bags of white noodles, cabbage, vermicelli, tofu and other items, and boiled a few large pots of meat and vegetables, which made the soldiers feel that the food they were rewarded for was not bad.

Looking at the way these people eat, Li Qi knew that they were not difficult to feed. The soldiers of the fifth generation at the end of the Tang Dynasty did not have a satisfactory life, doing the work of bandits, but what they got was barely enough to support their families - most of the looted goods were looted by the officers layer by layer......

Zheng Jixuan, as the commander of the army sent by Wang De to help the crown prince, did not have any opinions, and acted according to Li Qi's arrangements. After Li Qi was disbanded, he asked these leaders one by one, and was relieved to learn that the Dingzhou Army was also a farmer and a soldier at ordinary times, and everyone was also skilled in farm work.

I'm afraid these guys won't do anything!

Naturally, the three thousand Yiwu troops could not get together, and they were evenly distributed to the three Tuntian manors in the east, south and north of Yuci, Qingyuan and Beiyuan. Li Qi recruited 1,000 young men in Yangqu, Xin, and Dai areas, plus 2,000 infantry troops transferred by Zhou Guangfu and An Jinquan, and mixed them with the Yiwu Army to form the three battalions of 6,000 forbidden troops in Gongwei Jinyang.

In the river beach to clean up the silt, formwork, mixing, laying the foundation, and then laying bluestone strips, pouring concrete in the middle is basically all done by manpower, although there are some levers or pulleys and other auxiliary equipment, the efficiency of labor is still outrageously low compared to later generations.

There is nothing to complain about when you work and eat, especially when you see that the prince's pro-army has gone down to the river beach, and most of the grievances from the Yiwu soldiers have been eliminated. People, they are not afraid of suffering and suffering, but they are afraid of being treated unfairly, as long as everyone is the same, this heart is balanced.

The construction of the embankment and dam is an extremely physically demanding job, and the food provided by Li Jiqi for the army is quite good, and there will be a meal of meat every two days, which is also a major reason why everyone can endure it like this. In this era, the attraction of meat to ordinary people is unimaginable to later generations.

Now, Li Qi has 6,000 soldiers under his command, but there are only less than 400 military horses for the time being.