Xing Jie did not admit defeat, although he was not selected to become a field soldier because of his age, he was also a brave and ruthless master since he was a child.

Even, this Xing Jie has always been quite an idol of Song Jiang in the Water Margin, and he cares about brotherhood very much, and it is because of this that this Xing Jie will become the leader of the production team.

Now Xing Jie saw that Xiong Zhiyuan had thrown himself to the sky, and he was not convinced, and shouted at the militia behind him: "Brothers, their field soldiers look down on our militia, damn, let's fight with them!" ”

Thereupon.

Under the call of Xing Jie.

These militiamen rushed towards Xiong Zhiyuan in a swarm.

Some of them were originally field soldiers but retired from the army, while those who served as militia bureau directors were busy helping Xiong Zhiyuan.

For a while, these soldiers and civilians, these young men who usually call them brothers and sisters, became a pot of porridge.

Lu Yuan happened to come over at this time, and when he saw this, he asked Gu Hesheng, who accompanied him, "What's going on?" ”

Seeing this, Gu Hesheng didn't know what was going on, so he only blushed and shouted, "Stop!" ”

Seeing this, Lu Yuan immediately fired a shot.

Bang!

The militiamen who were beaten together and the instructors from the field units stopped and looked at each other in surprise.

Gu Hesheng came to Xiong Zhiyuan's instructors and yelled, "What are you doing!" Let you go through military training to fight Jiannu in the future, who let you fight! ”

"Report! Xiong Zhiyuan humiliated our militia, and we couldn't get angry, so we started fighting. ”

Xing Jie explained at this time.

"Be louder!"

Gu Hesheng continued to roar.

"Xiong Zhiyuan humiliated our militia and kicked me, I let the brothers teach him a lesson!"

Xing Jie replied.

"You bastard!"

Gu Hesheng kicked Xing Jie to the ground: "Xiong Zhiyuan is now your commander!" His orders are everything! If you want to question him, you can go to the militia department to sue him, but during the training, if you disobey the order, you are breaking the military law! ”

"Xing Jie cane is punished for sixty and confined for five days! The rest of the militia trained for another three hours, and the meat was removed for dinner! ”

Gu Hesheng looked at Xiong Zhiyuan again as he spoke: "Xiong Zhiyuan and other instructors are unorganized and undisciplined, participate in private fights, and are field soldiers, who know the law and break the law, and are locked up for seven days!" ”

Lu Yuan walked over at this time, looked at Xiong Zhiyuan and the others, and said: "Thank you for your patience in training militiamen, after all, they are no better than field soldiers, and they can participate in training around the clock!" ”

"The little ones understand! However, the official, the little one thinks that Gu Qianzong's training method is wrong! ”

Xiong Zhiyuan said a word first at this time.

Gu Hesheng's face turned green, and he didn't care about Lu Yuan's presence, so he immediately shouted: "Xiong Zhiyuan, the militia training regulations are approved by the militia department, and it's not your turn to make irresponsible remarks, look at you, what kind of soldiers are you training!" There's a fight, shut up and go to the confinement room immediately! ”

"It's not just my problem!"

When Xiong Zhiyuan spoke, Lu Yuan immediately snorted coldly: "Xiong Zhiyuan, obey the order!" ”

Xiong Zhiyuan saw Lu Yuan say this, so he had to salute and reply: "Yes!" ”

Thereupon.

Xiong Zhiyuan and the others went to the confinement room.

Naturally, Xing Jie is also included.

And Gu Hesheng had to personally train the militia of Xiong Zhiyuan's bureau.

Lu Yuan didn't say anything more when he saw this, how to train, in his opinion, Gu Hesheng was already more experienced than himself, after all, Gu Hesheng had been studying this since he was in charge of recruit training, so he didn't plan to interfere.

Next.

For Lu Yuan, what he needs to pay attention to most is the issue of army expansion.

After the end of the land reform of the Pingshan Battalion, it can be regarded as providing a material basis for the expansion of the army.

And Lu Yuan finally decided to expand the strength to about 5,000 troops first, because the current land scale of the Pingshan battalion could support so many field soldiers.

The mighty army has now been replenished with new recruits several times, and has a total of more than 2,000 troops, which has expanded to 5,000 troops, which is not too fast, and there are enough experienced veterans who can serve as army commanders, and some veterans can also be left to continue to serve as the main force and maintain combat effectiveness.

However, according to the imperial court garrison system, the Pingshan battalion could only be more than 3,000 people.

Therefore, Shang Kexi, who was appointed by Lu Yuan to be the general of Denglai's general Zhangwen Deng's camp, called over and said, "How many troops do you still have under your command?" ”

"Back to the general, Shang still has more than 1,000 remnants."

Shang Kexi replied, although he was also appointed as a general like Lu Yuan and was in charge of the Wendeng camp, but Shang Kexi was a general in the end, so he naturally did not have much trust from the imperial court.

The imperial court allocated less money and grain to Shang Kexi, and Shang Kexi did not have his own industry like the mighty army, and there were civil officials who engaged in land reform and development of production, so it was difficult for Shang Kexi to expand his troops and horses.

Even Shang Kexi is now difficult to even feed his remaining more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, after all, now that he is a general of the imperial court, he can't openly rob the money of the wealthy gentry.

Lu Yuan also knew this, so he asked Liu Yuliang to find a way to let Shang Kexi take charge of the camp.

So, at this time, Lu Yuan said: "I think you have 1,000 soldiers, and the remaining 2,000 soldiers and horses are composed of my soldiers and horses to form the Wendeng camp, in the future, I will let your Wendeng camp get rich, and the income from the wealth, you take 30%, I take 70%, how about it?" ”

"I wonder how the general can make a fortune?"

Shang Kexi asked.

"Set up a card to collect business taxes!"

Lu Yuan replied.

"But this will cause dissatisfaction among the gentry", Shang Kexi naturally knows that collecting business taxes is very expensive, but he also knows who is doing business.

"What are you afraid of, even if the gentry are dissatisfied and make trouble to the court, the court will not dare to do anything to you unless you force you to rebel, even if the court wants to get rid of you, it is also for me to exterminate you, and when the time comes, I will act with you and each other, how can these local gentry take you and me?"

Lu Yuan said.

Shang Kexi was also a little moved, and then thought that he had no other way to go now, so he gave up his hand and said: "It's all up to the general's arrangement." ”

So, Lu Yuan asked Shang Kexi's troops to stay in his Pingshan camp for the time being, and after he had reorganized more than 2,000 troops, he asked Shang Kexi to take him to the Wendeng camp together.

In this way, Lu Yuan will have the opportunity to reorganize and expand to 5,000 troops.

First of all, there are more than 3,000 troops in the Pingshan battalion, plus more than 2,000 troops in the Wendeng battalion, a total of more than 5,000 people.

Although on the bright side, the imperial court would only know that Lu Yuan would only have more than 3,000 troops in the future.

Determine the number of additional troops, and the next step is to recruit troops.

At this time, all the recruits of the Recruits Bureau before December last year had been added to the field soldier sequence of the mighty army, and they were already undergoing a period of rest and recuperation.

The recruits after December, plus the more than 1,000 recruits currently recruited from the homeless, can only stay in the recruit camp to continue the queue and basic skills training during the recruit period.

It is clear that the expansion of the mighty army will not be completed until May.

"The Recruit Bureau was changed to the General Training Department, and the General Training Department set up a recruitment department, and the General Training Department was temporarily managed by you Gu Hesheng, Fan Siyuan served as the deputy general commander of the General Patrol Department and the director of the Recruitment Department, and continued to recruit recruits among the militia and the displaced people who came to take refuge. There must also be a secondary main force that exists on the same scale as the main force of the field troops, so that the most elite field soldiers can be selected at any time to supplement the main force. ”

When Lu Yuan was thinking about the expansion of the army, he gave such an order to Gu Hesheng and others.

"But will this increase the pressure of the people within the mighty army, and raise so many troops who don't do farming, and the fields in the Pingshan camp will not be enough."

Xiao Ren can say.

Lu Yuan smiled and said: "The army is expanding, isn't the field of the mighty army expanding, and the field expansion has to go ahead, so Brother Xiao, your task is very heavy, your land reform work cannot be stopped, you have to occupy more land and more land, as for other things that may cause conflicts, you don't have to worry about it, the army will settle it for you." ”