In a sandy clearing at the foot of Huangzhu Mountain, about twenty and a half boys lined up in a neat formation, constantly advancing and turning.

These half-grown boys, who were only fifteen or sixteen years old, obviously couldn't fully adapt to this dense formation, as well as the slogan of turning left and turning right in Lin Zhe's mouth next to him.

Before Li Xuan shouted to take a few steps forward, some people took three steps and some people took four steps, making the originally neat formation instantly become chaotic.

And when Li Xuan shouts to turn right, or turn left, there will always be people who follow the password to make the right turn, but some people will not be able to distinguish between left and right, and then make the wrong choice.

Whenever the formation was out of order, the sturdy bandits who were brushing their swords would stop, laugh loudly, and then look at Li Xuan as if they were looking at an alien.

They couldn't understand why their own emperor wanted to pull these half-grown children to play in a queue.

Three days ago, Li Xuan told Fang Dongquan and others that he was going to establish a guard army.

At the beginning, Fang Dong expressed his opposition euphemistically, his opposition was within Li Xuan's expectations, it was nothing more than that he was afraid that Li Xuan would overtake him to control the military power.

Therefore, Li Xuan directly said that this guard army would not be drawn from those backbone bandits, but only from the half-grown children between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, at this time, Fang Dongquan thought that Li Xuan just liked to play, so he went with him.

In fact, if Fang Dongquan gave him those backbone bandits with a lot of bravery, Li Xuan wouldn't want it.

Because the guards he wants to organize are not pursuing personal bravery, but discipline, absolute discipline!

Although Li Xuan was not a military expert in his previous life, he was not even a hobbyist, but he also knew to some extent that if an army wants to become a strong army, not to mention its weapons and equipment, tactics, etc., the first and most important point is that it needs to obey orders.

Especially those modern armies who play in line to shoot, they need to face the enemy's shells and bullets, ignore the continuous fall of their comrades, advance step by step, and only shoot dozens of meters in front of the enemy.

Li Xuan naturally couldn't expect to train a modern army now, but he felt that at least the formation was needed, and the basic battlefield discipline had to be there.

You can't be like those bandits, rushing forward in a hurry, and in the end only a few brave people really participated in the fight, and more of them were waving flags and shouting in the back, fighting with the wind, and running away in a swarm when the opportunity was not good.

Those adult bandits are basically old fritters, and it is no less difficult to get them back to the furnace and retrain.

However, these half-grown children are easier and more convenient to train, and as for the problems such as low personal martial arts and lack of physical strength, these are not too big problems.

Because in Li Xuan's imagination, after they go to the battlefield, they only need to obey the orders to execute the predetermined tactics, and they don't need any personal martial arts, nor do they need a strong body.

As long as you can be in a neat formation and obey orders, then even if you have met Li Xuan's psychological expectations.

As for what to do if the 20s or so people encounter heavy infantry, cavalry, and archers, what else can they do, cold salad!

Just like that, there are more than 20 people, you really want to have a decisive battle with the officers and soldiers, this can win against other weak chicken bandits, and the county Yong Li Xuan, who can block hundreds of officials, is very satisfied.

Training such a group of half-grown children to line up, distinguish between left and right, and obey orders, this is what Li Xuan has been most concerned about, and even the only thing he has been concerned about in the past few days.

Because this is the key to whether Li Xuan's follow-up series of plans can be carried out smoothly, he must know that his training methods are feasible.

It's just that as the saying goes, half of the eldest son eats Lao Tzu to death, although these half of the eldest son who was found by Li Xuan said that they brought their own dry food, and even the spears and swords used for training had to be brought by themselves, and Li Xuan would never pay a penny of salary.

However, after the training intensity comes up, the physical requirements are quite high, and to maintain sufficient physical fitness, you must eat well and eat well.

If you don't have enough to eat and play high-intensity training every day, it's easy to train soldiers to be skinny!

These half-grown families are not wealthy families, and they are already very short of food, so it is naturally difficult for them to be full.

After discovering this kind of problem, Li Xuan found Liu Bagou: "Prime Minister, in the future, the people of the Guards will prepare an extra lunch for them, and the food will be provided by the public school!" ”

After Liu Bagou heard this, he thought about it in his heart and said, "The minister obeys the order!" ”

However, after agreeing, Liu Bagou said again: "It's just that we don't have much grain reserves, and if we spend so much, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult to hold on until the autumn harvest!" ”

Li Xuan said: "In the past two days, haven't you discussed the purchase of grain? ”

Liu Bagou said: "We don't have much silver in our hands, and we have to buy some iron tools to build weapons, I'm afraid we can't buy much food!" ”

This bandit's den is poor and white, Li Xuan has known for a long time, if this bandit's den is so rich, Fang Dongquan and they won't go out to plunder the countryside and caravans every year, it's not because they don't have anything to eat.

The silver that Liu Bagou said was actually brought out by Li Xuan when they fled, the Li family was also a landlord before, and they still had some savings, although the time was very tight when Mrs. Bai packed it when she ran away, but she still brought out some silver, but it was not much, only more than a hundred taels of silver.

"What about the generals, what can they do?" Li Xuan continued to ask.

Liu Bagou said: "General Fang said that after the summer harvest, they will go out to see if they can collect some grain and come back, but the officers and soldiers have been looking for our traces, if we go out on a large scale, it will be easy to attract the attention of the officers and soldiers!" ”

After hearing this, Li Xuan frowned slightly, and then said, "What about the Water Dragon Village?" ”

Go to grab the water dragon village, play a handful of black and eat black, this matter has been discussed by Butcher Chen for many days, and after Fang Dongquan came back, a few of them also said this when they were fine, but it was never determined.

However, whether it was to loot the villages outside, or to play black and eat black and rob the water dragon village, they had to wait for Xia to pass, so that they could free up enough manpower to act.

So they still have at least half a month of buffer time, so they don't have to be too anxious for a while.

Liu Bagou said: "They are still discussing, but this matter will not be easy to make a decision for a while!" ”

"In that case, let's wait until Xia is busy to talk about it!" Li Xuan said that, he let Liu Bagou retreat first, while he himself was thinking about how to train most of the children, so that they could form combat effectiveness faster and become a real army, not just bandits.

He knew very well that whether he could survive in the future would depend on the army composed of these half-grown children, as for Fang Dongquan and their old fritter bandits, it was unreliable.