"Run, run for Lao Tzu, didn't you eat?!" One of the generals shouted loudly, the whip in his hand slamming on the ground.

The school field was dusty, and a group of soldiers were running forward in a neat formation, and around them, there were countless wrestling, wielding soldiers, and the entire school field training was not interrupted by the upcoming march and transfer.

Compared with the Northern Dynasty, Nanchen originally had the disadvantage of insufficient manpower, and the lack of manpower naturally meant that the number of soldiers in the army was also insufficient, so he could only use one soldier to resist more enemies as much as possible, otherwise Nanchen would have been submerged in the sea of people in Northern Qi or Northern Zhou.

Or rather, this is actually a strategy that the Southern Dynasty has not changed for hundreds of years. The Battle of Weishui, where the Xie family swept hundreds of thousands of Northern Wei troops with 8,000 to 800,000, and Chen Qingzhi's Northern Expedition with 7,000 cavalry all proved that the Southern Dynasty had no choice but to adopt the elite army route.

"Hurry up, if you run so slowly, the barbarians would have already run away, not to mention wanting to eat meat, even if you drink soup!" The general's voice was even louder, his face was red from the sun, his eyebrows were thick and long, his eyes were as big as copper bells, and his tendons and flesh were unconcealed, and he knew at a glance that he was not a guy to be messed with.

It is no wonder that those soldiers only obey his orders.

Soon the general stopped his movements, and the sound of horses' hooves behind him made him temporarily abandon his interest in training these soldiers.

Xiao Shilian stretched out his hand and pulled the reins of the horse, the war horse neighed, and the person stood up, and Xiao Shilian casually inserted the horse whip into his waist, skillfully controlled the war horse, and a harrier turned over and skillfully turned over from the horse. His hand made many of the soldiers who came over show admiration.

And Xiao Shilian smiled at the general who walked forward quickly: "Brother Zhishen, I haven't seen you for a while, but you are a lot more majestic!" ”

"The young general said so, we can't afford it!" The general scratched his head and said with some embarrassment, "The young general rushed over so early, I don't know where the general is?" ”

Xiao Shilian was obviously very familiar with this general, and said with a smile: "Daddy, he is still in the city to order the deployment of the army, there is nothing to do, so I will come to see you." Of course, the most important thing is to introduce you to your future boss! ”

After a pause, Xiao Shilian directly turned sideways and moved out of the way: "This is Li Xinchen, the expression Shizhong, is the brother of a certain Xiao Shilian, and he will lead you in the future." ”

"It turned out to be Mr. Shizhong, Mr. Jiuyang's name, but I was originally in Jingkou, and I was unable to participate in the battle of Luliang with the general and the major general, and I couldn't see Mr. Strategizing, which is really a pity." The general hurriedly and respectfully bowed his hand to Li Xinchen.

And Li Xinchen had already figured out the reason for the matter at this time, and it was obvious that these soldiers standing in front of him were the private soldiers assigned to Xiao Maha, and in the name of later romance novels, they were "family generals".

From the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there are generally a certain number of private soldiers under the command of the generals, and these private soldiers are directly under the dispatch of the generals.

The advantages of setting up private soldiers are obvious, and when it comes to fighting, these well-trained private soldiers are much better than ordinary soldiers in terms of their determination to follow their commanders in battle, and in their skills in killing the enemy.

But there are also many drawbacks correspondingly, the private soldiers are loyal to the main general rather than the emperor, and even to a certain extent, it can be said that the orders of the main general are more authoritative than the emperor's will, and when there is a contradiction between the main general and the emperor, they are more likely to obey the orders of the main general and resist the emperor.

Of course, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, the various separatist forces marched and fought even to the point of completely relying on the private soldiers of the family, such as the Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, which relied on the support of the Lu family, the Zhu family and other families in Wu to stabilize the country for so many years.

And once the family with a large number of private soldiers becomes dominant, the consequences will naturally be unimaginable, and the most typical one is naturally the Sima family who finally unified the Three Kingdoms.

After the improvement of this system with great potential threats in successive dynasties, the private soldiers under Xiao Maha who appeared in front of Li Xinchen at this time were actually only four or five hundred, and minus the guards guarding Xiao Maha's side, the real number of people available for him to command was almost two or three hundred, compared with the scale of private soldiers that were often thousands during the Three Kingdoms period, this can be said to have been reduced too much.

A few hundred people is to let the generals have the ability to protect themselves on the battlefield, which is far from threatening the security of a country.

Obviously, although these private soldiers of the Xiao family did not participate in the Battle of Luliang, they had already heard of Li Xinchen's name, otherwise they would not be so respectful when they saw Li Xinchen at this time.

Now Li Xinchen is nominally a suspended war lord, and there should be a few troops under his command, but his battle master is just an empty official position given by Xiao Maha, and his purpose is naturally to prevent Li Xinchen from entering and leaving the East Palace and the rest of the mansion as Bai Ding, and the army in front of Li Xinchen at this time is the team left for him.

It belongs to the Xiao family and Li Xinchen's team.

"Shizhong, let me introduce you some, this is Chen Zhishen, the general of more than 100 people." Xiao Shilian pointed to the big man covered in tendons and flesh and said, "Don't look at this guy hasn't been on the battlefield a few times, but most of our Xiao family's personal guards were trained by him, and this guy is infinitely powerful, and he can lift the stone grinding disc on the grain field over there with his bare hands." ”

Chen ······ Zhishen? This name made Li Xinchen stunned for a moment, and almost blurted out the sentence "Master Lu is good". It seems that this Chen Zhishen is not only the same name as the Lu master Lu Zhishen who uprooted the weeping willows, but even the size and strength are almost the same.

Of course, Li Xinchen didn't know that in history, Xiao Maha failed to rebel and was killed, and one of his subordinates stepped forward to collect Xiao Maha's bones regardless of the possibility of implicating his own life, and was praised as a "righteous man" for a while, and this person's name was Chen Zhishen.

At this time, Chen Zhishen looked only in his twenties, although he was strong, but he was definitely not such an arrogant and unreasonable person, at least in front of Xiao Shilian, the young general, Chen Zhishen maintained a respectful and polite appearance.

"Shizhong, you are the master, it stands to reason that there must be at least five hundred people under your command, that is, three to five buildings, but you also know that my Xiao family has not many people available for deployment, so I can only hand over this one building to you, plus Brother Dashi has promised to allocate you manpower, and you can barely get together three hundred people."

Li Xinchen looked at the soldiers with tired looks in front of him, and after getting up early in the morning to practice, sweat swept across their dusty cheeks, leaving clear traces. And although these soldiers were tired, they looked curiously at this young man who stood in front of them and made the devil-like instructor Chen Zhishen respect each other.

This is their future master.

This is his soldier.