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On the school grounds.

Looking at the neat two battalions of soldiers, everyone, one counts as one, and they are all amazed at their discipline!

Li Yan was very satisfied with everyone's reaction, got up and said: "Recently, I Liangshanbo has joined many leaders, including Lu Zhishen brothers, Xu Ning brothers, Shi Bao brothers, Ou Peng brothers, Ma Lin brothers, and Zhang Shun brothers, all of whom have the talent to lead troops, and I have the merit of the Tang Long brothers, and I Liangshanbo has obtained tens of thousands of soldiers and 1,000 good horses, so I decided to expand the army, from the original one battalion of infantry army, one battalion of horse army, and two battalions of water army to two battalions of infantry army, one battalion of horse army, and three battalions of water army. ”

According to the armor possessed by Shuibo Liangshan, it is enough to expand the twenty battalions.

But the problem is that Shuibo Liangshan has a total of more than 7,000 people, and there are less than 3,000 soldiers to fight, and the expansion of the army to two battalions of infantry army, one battalion of horse army, and three battalions of water army is already the limit.

In addition, although the new additions Lu Zhishen, Xu Ning, and Shi Bao all know how to lead troops, there are also leaders like Ou Peng, Ma Lin, and Zhang Shun who don't know how to lead troops, so blind expansion will not increase their strength, but will only increase their burden.

Therefore, after discussing with Liu Huiniang, Wang Lun and Wen Huanzhang, Li Yan decided on this general policy of expanding the army.

The specific situation of the military expansion is as follows:

Changed Bian Xiangdu to Ma Jun.

Changed the mountain Shiqi to the horse army.

Ordered Xu Ning to form a horse army.

Ordered Shi Bao to form a horse army.

Lin Chongdu, Bian Xiangdu, Shanshiqidu, Xu Ningdu, and Shibaodu formed the horse camp, with Lin Chong as the commander and Bian Xiang as the deputy commander.

In order to form an army as soon as possible, Li Yan drew forty people from Lin Chongdu and gave them to Bian Xiang, Shan Shiqi, Xu Ning, and Shi Bao.

Guanghuidu and Zhu Jing were each expanded to two infantry armies, and Ou Peng was ordered to form a capital infantry army to form the first battalion of the infantry army, with Guanghui and Zhu Jing serving as the principal and deputy commanders respectively.

Lu Zhishen was ordered to form the Liangdu Infantry Army, Deng Fei was ordered to expand to the Liangdu Infantry Army, and Ma Lin was ordered to form the First Infantry Army to form the second battalion of the Infantry Army, with Lu Zhishen and Deng Fei serving as the principal and deputy commanders respectively.

Like the expansion of the Ma army, in order to let the infantry army become an army as soon as possible, Li Yan drew 20 people from Bian Xiangdu, Shanshiqidu, Guanghuidu, Zhu Jingdu, and Deng Feidu, and then scattered them evenly to Lu Zhishen, Ou Peng, and Ma Lin.

In addition, Li Yan asked Zhang Shun to form a battalion of water army - Li Yan drew 100 water troops from the first battalion and the second battalion of Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaowu respectively and handed them to Zhang Shun, and then asked Zhang Shun to pick 200 recruits to form a third battalion of the dissatisfied navy.

Some people may be puzzled, Li Yanfei is so hard, is it just for two hundred more new soldiers?

How can it be? Li Yan actually has two intentions in doing this:

The first is to properly place Zhang Shun, who has the ability, lest Zhang Shun leave because he feels that Li Yan is slacking and despising him.

Second, for Shuibo Liangshan, which is surrounded by 800 miles of water, the navy is too important to make any mistakes, so the navy cannot only be in the hands of the Ruan brothers, even if their brothers are loyal to Li Yan.

In addition to the horse army, infantry army, and navy army, Li Yan also set up a medical battalion - Li Yan asked Wang Lun to recruit a hundred men between the ages of fourteen and eighteen (most of the men over the age of eighteen are soldiers, and those who are not soldiers are also shining in various posts in Shuibo Liangshan. The clever young man was handed over to An Daoquan, Kong Hou, and Mu Jie, and they taught him medical skills. To tell the truth, Li Yan didn't think about recruiting some women to be taught by An Daoquan, Kong Hou, and Mu Jie, needless to say, Li Yan could even make up the medical camp for An Daoquan, Kong Hou, and Mu Jie at once, but it is not so easy for men and women to be challenged, and they need the right opportunity.

Since Sun Jing and Wen Huanzhang can guess the identities of Li Yan and the others, there are other people around Gao Yu who can guess the identities of Li Yan and the others.

In other words, there is less and less time for the development of Shuibo Liangshan, and it is impossible to say that one day, there will be a large number of soldiers.

In this case, Li Yan naturally had to start preparing for the war.

It is precisely because of this that as soon as he returned, Li Yan began to expand the army, and then each army began to train separately.

In the training process of various armies, Shi Bao's training method is unique and unique.

Shi Bao's training method can be summed up in four words - simple and rude!

Shi Bao only told his soldiers the tips and precautions of riding horses once, and then let them get on the horses.

Anything that grinds is indispensable for a stick!

Anyone who is thrown to the ground by the horse, as long as he does not fall to his death, must climb back at the first time - slow down, Shi Bao will be directly whipped with a stick!

Those who fail to meet Shi Bao's requirements within the specified period will be directly thrown back to the reserve - replaced.

It can be said that Shi Bao is as simple and rude as he wants.

But—

Although Shi Bao's method was simple and crude, it achieved surprisingly good results - including Lin Chong's horse army, Shi Bao's horse army was the fastest to learn to ride horses.

Seeing that Shi Bao's method was effective, Bian Xiang learned Shi Bao's method to train his Nadu Ma Army at the first time.

Within two days, Shan Shiqi also learned Shi Bao's method of training horse soldiers.

In the end, even the good-tempered Lin Chong and Xu Ning were so anxious that they often yelled on the school grounds.

As a result, the overall atmosphere of the Ma Army became rough.

Although the soldiers of Shuibo Liangshan were extremely obedient, there were also complaints, and in the end, this complaint even reached Li Yan's ears.

The Ma Army is no better than other arms, it is not easy to train well, Shi Bao has an effective way to practice, Li Yan is too late to be happy, how can he stop it?

But then again, blind corporal punishment without an outlet is not a good thing for a long time.

Li Yan thought about it all and ordered: Ma Jun trained for five days and rested for one day, played polo for one day, combined work and rest, and strengthened riding skills and killing skills in play.

What Li Yan didn't expect was that because of the promulgation of this military order, Li Yan's prestige in the Ma army reached a new high.

Seeing this, Li Yan has launched football (yes, it is football that pays more attention to confrontation, not Keju, which pays more attention to skills), archery, swimming and other sports that can exercise the body and quality of soldiers.

In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the soldiers, Li Yan also held some large-scale competitions from time to time and set some rewards.

The spare time life of the soldiers of Shuibo Liangshan, including others, has become richer, and everyone's emotions have also been well vented.

But it didn't take long for Li Yan to find out that someone was actually using these games to gamble.

Li Yan was reminded.

A few days later, a betting station called "Sports Lottery Station" was born, and other gambling spots were pulled out overnight by Zhu Gui, the manager of the Sports Lottery Station, and the Sports Lottery Station became the only betting station in Liangshan.

Due to the monopoly of the sports lottery station, a large amount of money and silver are pouring into it every day.

Relying on the sports lottery station, Li Yan recovered a large amount of money and silver in the hands of the soldiers.

But that's all for later.

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