Chapter 118: Loyalty
Li Xin stayed with Lao Ma for a while, and then left in a hurry, returned to the training camp, and continued his training. However, he made some adjustments to the training of the new army.
One of the most important is the training of the cavalry, which has not been fully utilized since the acquisition of those horses. As a result, there are not many troops that can really fight on horseback today.
At the same time, because the cost of training a cavalry unit is too high, it is impossible for the Huashan Army to afford it with its current financial and material resources. Therefore, it is almost impossible to turn all these horses into cavalry.
Real cavalry is impossible, but it is perfectly fine for the new army to train them to ride. After all, if the infantry has horses, it will not be able to exert the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, but it will be able to exert the mobility of the cavalry. For a flat place like Guanzhong, there are naturally many benefits.
At this point, especially after the last time they were used, the Huashan army already understood this. Even the infantry on horseback can also cause strong psychological pressure on the enemy, after all, it is impossible for those Qin soldiers to know whether the cavalry of the Huashan Army is real or fake.
According to Li Xin's plan, this group of recruits can learn to ride horses, so that when they have the opportunity in the future, they can quickly be transformed into cavalry. Li Xin is only preparing to develop a thousand cavalry now, and now they are all training with Peng Lin, which is where the most powerful combat power of the Huashan Army lies. Once it is necessary to fight to the death with Fu Qin, this cavalry is definitely the key force in it.
In addition to this, a number of other arrangements are gradually being made. As the training of the army became more and more ~ proficient, it gradually began to be sent to garrison in various places, and the first place to bear the brunt was Shimen Pass. In order to achieve a better training purpose, the idle places such as the water defense line have become the best place for them to practice.
In the weather of July, it can be said that the sun is blazing, and the veterans mobilized from various battalions form the backbone of this 10,000-strong army, and then under the leadership of Li Xin, they practice endlessly every day. For these veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, they don't have much feeling, after all, they were not trained by Li Xin in the first place.
But for those who have just joined the army or who have not been trained before, it is not a good time. Every day, sweat rains, and Li Xin conducts a drill from time to time, and has a red and blue confrontation or something.
Sometimes after training all day, everyone is tired to death, and suddenly there is an emergency gathering, and then in the middle of the night to go out to carry weights off-road running, who can stand it! Especially the formation training, which made these pro-soldiers very nerve-wracking, because they were all carrying it under the scorching sun!
Not long after the training, many people couldn't support it, and some even wanted to quit the Huashan Army. However, the military regulations of the Huashan Army are that it is difficult for you to get in, and it is even more difficult to get out. If you can come and go if you want, then what will it become?
As a result, under the restrictions of military regulations, this army began to slowly transform, and a lot of progress can be seen every day. Moreover, because the treatment of the Huashan Army has always been nothing to say, and at the same time, these recruits really can't find a better place to go, so they slowly settle down.
Today's Li Xin doesn't have to personally take everyone to train every day, as long as he arranges it for the generals under him to carry it out. As for myself, I just participate in it, sometimes I train the same subjects as everyone else, and sometimes I train alone.
At the end of each day's training, he would make a tour of the camp, mainly to understand the state of the soldiers. After all, he wanted to train these recruits into qualified warriors as quickly as possible, not to torture them.
The setting of the recruit camp is no different from that of a general barracks. The only thing that is different is that the officers and their own soldiers have to live together, especially when they eat, they have to sit together and eat the same food. This is also a practice of the Huashan Army to maintain cohesion between the upper and lower levels, basically, from Li Xin to Wu Chang, they all follow this rule.
"I'll tell you! Don't be afraid to train harder now, and when you go to war, you'll know how important this is. This is a life-saving thing, our captain, no, it should be called a leading general now! When we were training with the general, he often told us that we sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime. Look at our Huashan Army in the past year or so, when has it ever lost a battle? Listen to General Lee! Li Xin walked slowly in the middle of the army, looking at what everyone was eating, and as a result, he heard someone whispering, still talking about himself.
Huashanjun is not forbidden to speak when eating, but the voice should not be loud. After all, the ancient military camp was not like the army of later generations, and if something was wrong when speaking, it might cause many unnecessary problems.
Therefore, in the military regulations of the Huashan Army, there is a clause that in wartime, generals can order the whole battalion to prohibit free movement and free communication. The purpose of this is to prevent some rumors and gossip from flying around and causing trouble to the morale of the army, especially when the morale is not high, and the soldiers are under great panic and pressure, it is very easy to cause the battalion to roar.
Hearing these people talking about themselves, Li Xin couldn't help but stop and listen curiously.
"Commander Wu, what if General Li is wrong? I think our current training is hard enough, if we don't even get through the training, how can we go to the battlefield?! A recruit asked quietly.
"What did you kid say? How dare you doubt General Lee's words? Don't want to live anymore? Don't let the other captains hear this, otherwise, you will look good! Hearing this, the Wu Chang who spoke suddenly changed his face and reprimanded.
"Captain Wu, why!?" The little soldier was a little aggrieved and asked puzzled.
"Why? You don't want to think about it, if there was no General Li, where would the Huashan Army come from? At present, these generals, captains, captains, and generals of the various battalions basically came down from the mountain with General Li at the beginning. Several big victories in a row, which one is not because of General Lee's wise leadership? When you kid says this, you are clearly doubting General Li's ability! Wu Chang snorted coldly, and then said.
"Commander Wu, don't be angry, I heard that you are also a veteran of the Huashan Army, why don't you tell us about General Li!" Several other soldiers saw Captain Wu's angry appearance and hurriedly comforted him.
"It's okay to talk about it. However, you all remember that our Huashan Army can be where it is today, and it is all because of General Li. Besides, we are all soldiers under General Li's command, but we all have to listen to General Li, and if anyone dares to disobey General Li's orders, I can't let him go! The Wu Commander glanced at a few people, and then said in a deep voice.
"Look at what you said, of course we are resolutely obeying General Li's orders!"
After Li Xin heard this, he groaned for a while and quietly walked away.
Obviously, there is a voice within the current Huashan Army, which has begun to unite everyone around him. This may have been due to the successive victories under his leadership. After all, a commander who can keep soldiers victorious, save their lives, and let everyone get benefits will inevitably be supported by everyone.
This is of course a good thing for Li Xin. In times like these, individual heroism is sometimes important. After all, the education level of the people at this time has not yet reached the level of later generations. Speaking of hard truth, they may not understand it clearly, but the actual direct benefits and benefits can be felt by themselves.
Now the benefits they have obtained are clearly telling them that they must follow Li Xin in order to have meat to eat and soup to drink. This feeling is even stronger for soldiers who have families and have been given a share of the fields.
It can be said that an interest group with Li Xin as the core began to slowly form. Of course, this does not mean derogatory, when this interest group is strong enough, it means that the power in Li Xin's hands is more and more powerful.
Now these soldiers simply see that they can continue to win battles after him, so they have admiration and awe for him. But over time, this sentiment will inevitably turn into loyalty, and these soldiers will gradually become loyal supporters of his Li Xin. And such a group of truly loyal people will certainly play an important role in the future development process for Li Xin.
In addition to the recruits, the generals under Zhou Tong and Li Erhei were not idle, and they also trained hard every day. In this way, although the war did not happen, the intention of killing still continued to drift towards the opposite bank, making those Di Qin soldiers stationed on the opposite side panic all day long.
Now stationed on the opposite side are the Jin King Fu Liu and others, who have placed 10,000 troops on the opposite side of the river. Coupled with the soldiers they took away, Chang'an City at this time can be said to be quite empty.
In order to replenish his troops, Fu Chang had no choice but to order the recruitment of new soldiers, and forcibly recruited strong men from many places west of Chang'an. In this way, on the contrary, they will make the people's resentment boiling under their own rule, and it can be said that the current situation is very good for the Huashan army.
Fu Liu naturally understood that it was impossible to defeat the elite of the Huashan Army by relying on the recruits under them, so they also began to train every day when the Huashan Army was training. In this way, the two sides have a faint hint of other signs. However, this kind of training could not eliminate the fear of the Huashan army among the Fu Qin soldiers, after all, it was the prestige of the successive battles. 22