Sweat slid down Li Xinchen's cheeks drop by drop, fell on his armor, and then smashed down the wooden board under Li Xinchen's feet in an instant, leaving a water stain.

The sun shines straight, although Bashu is foggy, but not every day is gloomy, when the sun comes out, the sun is also extraordinarily sunny, when the heavy armor is draped on the body, the whole person is like being in a huge steamer, sweat is naturally frequent out.

And Li Xinchen was unmoved, still standing on the platform with a sword, looking at the countless figures coming and going on the school field not far away. Watching recruit training here has become what Li Xinchen has been doing most often lately.

The civil affairs of Bashu have been arranged layer by layer, and in fact, there are not many people who need Li Xinchen to be responsible for it personally, especially after King Gu Ye returned to Shu County, these specific government affairs arrangements have actually been handed over to him, this old man who has been up and down in the sea for many years is obviously more handy than Li Xinchen for these government affairs.

Someone to help share worries is naturally the best, Li Xinchen is not the kind of leader who has to take care of everything alone, compared with the civil affairs that have already entered the right track, Li Xinchen is of course most worried about military training.

No matter how important civil affairs is, at least for now, it has gradually been on the right track, but military training is still just starting because of the lack of soldiers, and the reason why Li Xinchen was able to gain a foothold in this Bashu was, in the final analysis, it was fought first, without a strong army, Li Xinchen would have already been the fat on the lips of Northern Zhou and Southern Chen.

If a small force wants to survive in the cracks, and even wants to seize the opportunity to rise, then it is naturally impossible to just have territory or money, and the most fundamental thing is a strong army, which is enough to make others dare not provoke you easily, and when you go to provoke others, you will easily defeat the opponent instead of being beaten to the ground.

Li Xinchen did not interfere in the basic training of the soldiers, these are the personal responsibilities of Dai Cai, for this steady middle-aged man, Li Xinchen is still very relieved, at least now the Han and Ba soldiers are training together, the progress is not bad, at least there are no mistakes, which is very satisfactory to Li Xinchen.

And what Li Xinchen does every day is to watch from the stage at this point, and only go back after eating with the sweaty soldiers who are training at noon. Almost every soldier can see this young figure standing on the platform, and almost every soldier has talked or laughed with Li Xinchen.

Perhaps the sense of disparity caused by different social classes is difficult to make up, but at least these simple soldiers like to come into contact with this young general who is serious during training and approachable when resting, and more importantly, Li Xinchen's almost deified combat example makes this contact based on respect and even worship for Li Xinchen.

A short trumpet sounded under the stage of the general, and the sound of orders came from the school field, and a team of soldiers began to line up under the command of the master and the general, and a bucket of sweet well water had been laid next to the school field, and with the order of the generals, the neat team dispersed at once, and the strong young men rushed to the bucket.

"Queue, queue, drink slowly!" The fireheads in charge of fetching water shouted with a smile.

And the generals did not go to compete with these recruits, they gathered around their own war masters to listen to the battle master's arrangements for the next step, and then several war masters turned around to report something to Dai Cai, and soon Dai Cai quickly ran to the point of the general's platform, arched his hand, and said with a smile:

"Does the general think it's okay to train like this?"

Li Xinchen bowed slightly, now it is just basic training, in fact, it is lined up, running and the like, mainly to enhance physical fitness, and there is nothing that needs Li Xinchen's guidance. And Dai Cai obviously wouldn't be bored and ran over just to ask Li Xinchen how he was running, and he said directly: "General, should we add some projects next?" ”

Li Xinchen raised his eyebrows, and Dai Cai didn't plan to sell Guanzi: "These recruits have not participated in battles in Eastern Europe, and now rashly integrating them into the local army of soldiers and horses is likely to affect the combat strength of these veterans, and on the contrary, if they are directly left in Shu County or other places to form their own team, they are more likely to suffer defeat in the future due to lack of experience." ”

Before listening to what Dai Cai said, Li Xinchen already understood what Dai Cai wanted to express. When training soldiers and horses, a part of the veterans will generally be drawn out as the backbone, and the new recruits will form a new team.

However, Li Xinchen's recruits did not have such favorable conditions when they were trained, after all, Li Xinchen's previous soldiers and horses could really be said to be overstretched, and even many of them were directly pulled to the battlefield by recruits to hone their skills, which made Li Xinchen have no ability to draw out a team of veterans with a sufficient number of veterans to be mixed into the recruit team when dealing with the threat of Northern Zhou and Southern Chen at the same time, but only a few dozen or hundreds of people, obviously not much effect.

So in the end, these are actually recruits who are actually trained on the school field, in other words, except for a very small number of screened Northern Zhou prisoners, almost none of them have participated in actual combat, so if you want to pull them directly to the battlefield, they are no different from cannon fodder.

Li Xinchen is most lacking now is soldiers and horses, if he can train a force that can go to the battlefield without going through the baptism of war, it is naturally the best, otherwise the price paid for the screening of the layers of war is too great, Li Xinchen does not want to bear it, and he can't afford it.

Dai Cai said in a deep voice: "After discussing with his subordinates, I feel that although there is no way to directly pull them to the battlefield to hone their training now, it should also be a good choice if they can train with some veterans, such as the soldiers and horses under the command of his subordinates, and the Ba Ren troops under the command of General Du Qi, which are all good choices." ”

The ancients also realized that this way of allowing the central and local armies to communicate and compete with each other is very helpful for the army, especially the construction and development of the army in the era of peace, after all, the so-called era of peace does not mean that there is no war, especially in ancient China, border rebellions and rebellions can be said to have risen one after another, and have never stopped.

However, the drills of the ancients were generally mere formalities, mainly to parade and review, and more to show the strength of the imperial army to the envoys of the vassal states and foreign countries, with the main purpose of showing off their might, and even in the Song Dynasty, the drills and reviews of the forbidden army were more like juggling for the emperor and hundreds of officials, mainly with all kinds of bells and whistles, which was not what an army should do, and such behavior could not help but make people laugh.