The army is now stationed on an open flat land, not far from the front is a small river, the river is not wide, the river is not deep, and the water is clear, many soldiers at this time ran to the river to go to the river, but Liu Xia hurriedly stopped.

After all, Liu Xia is a person from the 21st century, and his understanding of bacteria and viruses is clearer than that of today's people, even if nature has not been seriously polluted at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but there are still a lot of bacteria in the river.

The place where Liu Xia is now is obviously a small village, but the houses in this village are now burned, and only a pile of residual ashes is left on the ground, as for where the people have gone, Liu Xia thinks that it is not very likely that they are alive.

There is a stone bridge built by these people above the river, and there are many weeping willows along the river, and the ground is overgrown with weeds and no people.

"The general has an order, camp on the spot, and the logistics team boils hot water, all of them must drink hot water, and they are not allowed to drink river water."

"The general has an order, everyone is not allowed to defecate in the open, and all go to the designated place to solve it!"

"The general has an order, the second team of scouts is scattered in front and back, left and right, and begins to detect!"

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"I wonder why the general gave the order not to let the river water? The subordinates looked at the river water very clearly, and this is still living water, so there shouldn't be any big problems! Could it be that there is poison in the river water? Chen Liu didn't know what his psychology was, and after listening to Liu Xia's order, he walked to Liu Xia's side, and then began to ask Liu Xia about the person.

Liu Xia was sitting on a stone under the weeping willows by the river at this time, and Bian Yujing was standing behind him. At this time, Bian Yujing was pinching Liu Xia's shoulder, while Liu Xia closed his eyes and enjoyed the grace of beauty.

Chen Liu's appearance undoubtedly broke Liu Xia's desire to continue to enjoy, because as soon as Chen Liu came, Bian Yujing hurriedly left here with a red face.

Liu Xia picked up a stone and threw it into the river, hit a few water floats, and then sank, only to see Liu Xia clapping his hands, standing up, and saying to Chen Liu: "Although the river water is very clear and clean, but it is only what it seems, I know that there is no poison in this river water, and if there is, I will not let people take the water in this river water to cook."

"Although there is no poison in the river, but there is no other thing in the river, and we do not know where this little river flows, and if there is a plague in his upper reaches, then if we drink this water again, will we also be infected with the plague?"

Plague is a very powerful infectious disease in ancient times, mentioning the plague can make many people's faces change greatly, of course, there is no plague Liu Xia doesn't know, even if he knows that there is no plague, Liu Xia will still give this order, as for the plague, it is just an excuse for Liu Xia, after all, if Liu Xia tells them that there are bacteria in this water, you may be infected if you drink it, it is estimated that they can't understand it, as for what the bacteria are, it is very difficult to explain clearly.

Chen Liu didn't know where to get a feather fan, fiddled with it a few times, and then nodded in agreement, and said: "What the general said is reasonable, we should be cautious when marching and fighting, we don't have many people, and we can't ignore the lives of the soldiers because of a little mistake."

Liu Xia turned around, then walked towards the camp, and said as he walked: "I think you must have thought of this just now, is it General Kaoben?" ”

"Hehehe, the general said and laughed, his subordinates just had some doubts, just some doubts" Chen Liu smiled embarrassedly, followed Liu Xia, and walked towards the camp.

After Liu Xia ordered to camp on the spot, the people of the logistics team concentrated all the goods, grain and grass in the center of the camp, so there was grain and grass in the center, and no one lived, Liu Xia's tent was next to the grain and grass, except for Liu Xia, everyone else was scattered left and right, four battalions, just stationed in four directions, and the guards were stationed next to the grain and grass, even if someone sneaked attacked, it was impossible to touch the grain and grass.

"General"

"General"

Liu Xia walked towards the camp, and the soldiers on both sides saw Liu Xia talking to Liu Xia one after another.

"The general is in the army? The subordinates will retire first! Chen Liu watched Liu Xia walk towards his tent, so he hurriedly said, since Liu Xia wants to go inside his tent, it must be to rest, and he Chen Liu naturally has no reason to stop Liu Xia from resting.

Liu Xia nodded and said, "You go back first!" ”

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves outside, Liu Xia hurriedly looked outside, and then a personal guard ran over and said to Liu Xia: "General, general, the battalion commander is back."

Liu Xia said: "Well, you go and tell him to go, let him go and rest first, don't see me!" ”

However, the soldier did not leave after listening to Liu Xia, but continued: "General, when the battalion commander said that he had something to tell the general, he wanted to see the general!" ”

Something? Liu Xia frowned, what's the matter? Is something wrong?

Liu Xia said: "Then let him come over."

"Yes"

The soldier received the order and went to tell Yu Mingjun that Liu Xia also returned to his tent, and Liu Xia's tent was divided into two, one was the place where Liu Xia was deliberating, and the other was the place where Liu Xia rested.

Liu Xia went to the tent where the deliberations were held, sat in the tent, and waited for Yu Mingjun to come over, but after a while, Yu Mingjun hurriedly ran into the tent, and after seeing Liu Xia, he bowed to Liu Xia and said, "General, my subordinates have something to report."

"What's the matter?"

"After the subordinates distributed all the grain to those homeless people and tenant farmers in Zhaojiabao, eight of them ran out of the homeless people and wanted to join our army, I think they have a lot of perseverance and took them, I don't know what you mean, general?" Yu Mingjun asked this Liu Xia carefully, private expansion is something that every boss who wants to seize power does not want to see, Yu Mingjun, who has been in the army for so long, knows this matter deeply, so he will be very careful.

However, Liu Xia was not angry, in fact, Liu Xia also wanted to expand the army, but there was no chance before, now that there is food and resources, it is imperative to expand the army, so Liu Xia said: "You go down first, take care of those eight people, and then give them something delicious, and I will arrange them later." You go down and rest first, and then you will discuss it in an hour! ”

"General, my subordinates will retire first" After speaking, Yu Mingjun walked out.

Liu Xia is now thinking about how to expand the army, Liu Xia has always thought about expanding the army, but now he has not figured out how to train the newly recruited army, how to organize it, and who will manage it. But Yu Mingjun brought back eight soldiers this time, so that Liu Xia had to implement this idea as soon as possible.

A thousand-strong army may not be able to face the attack of the Manchu Tartars, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to hold the territory, so the expansion of the army is necessary and inevitable.

Liu Xia picked up the brush on the table and began to think about the specific details needed to expand the army on the rice paper.

"The new army will certainly not be able to go to the battlefield immediately, and when it comes to fighting, it is not just that there are many people who have an advantage, no matter how many people there are, there are some people who are not well fed, clothed, old men, women and children, and they do not have much combat effectiveness at all, and they will definitely not work. The newly recruited soldiers must be young and strong men over eighteen years old and under forty years old, otherwise they can't be used, Liu Xia is just a little food, it is impossible to do any charity, and when he sees the displaced people on the road, he will go to relief, and it will not be like those peasant rebels, whether old or young, women and men, they are recruited, regardless of the number of people, no matter what the quality is.

Since recruiting new soldiers, the recruits not only have to be strong men, but also have to not drag their families with them, Liu Xia doesn't have so much food to give so many worthless people to eat. There are no idlers in the army.

After thinking of various plans, Liu Xia wrote down some army training methods in his previous life and put them away, now is not the time to train soldiers, after all, he is still marching and fighting, and there is no time to train.

Then Liu Xia wrote down about the various treatments of the recruits and the things to be done, Liu Xia himself said that he would wait for the meeting to be held in an hour, and now there is not much time left after an hour.

After a while, when Liu Xia wrote down everything he could think of, he shouted to the guards outside: "Someone."

"General, the villain is here"

"You go and tell the battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders to come over to discuss matters!"

"Yes, General"

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After a stick of incense, at this time, the eight battalion commanders and a captain sat on the chairs on the left and right sides of Liu Xia's tent, and there was a chair at the back, which was Chen Liuzi sitting there. They all looked at Jing Xiao and wanted to listen to what Liu Xia wanted to do, except for Yu Mingjun, no one else knew what Liu Xia wanted to do.

Liu Xia said directly: "There are also a lot of homeless people along the way, many of them are healthy, and we also need to expand the army, so this time I called you here to discuss the matter of the new army."

Liu Xia paused, and then continued: "We have some food now, and there is no shortage of food, so it is a good time to expand the army." Of course, this newly expanded army naturally cannot directly participate in the war, and needs some veterans to take it with them, and then gradually give them actual combat experience, and then enter the main combat army. ”

"And the criteria for selecting soldiers also need some, we can't have any kind of people, those old, weak, sick and disabled, women, children and children can't want, we are the army, don't raise idlers, this is not the general's cruelty, we really can't raise, if you wait until you have a territory in the future, maybe you can absorb some homeless people, but not now, you have to remember, don't recruit those unqualified soldiers for me because of your own temporary softness, you must be responsible for the army!"