In the blink of an eye, several months have passed since the spring martial arts examination. After Li Wenyuan brought Xiping County and Heyuan County under his control, he began to reorganize the county soldiers of these two counties. Now in the entire Western Regions, all the populous counties except Dunhuang County have all been under Li Wenyuan's rule.

Now that Li Wenyuan has 60,000 officers and soldiers, he once again reorganized all the troops in a chaotic manner, so as to cut down the original small groups and hills in the army. In addition, in order to facilitate management, Li Wenyuan unified the army under his command as the Western Regions Army. After the reorganization, the Western Regions Army had a total of four legions, which were organized into the first to fourth legions in order. There are Li Wenyuan's long-standing descendants Zhang Juntai, Wu Delu, and Qin Qiong and Fu Wen, who stood out in the spring martial arts examination, and each of them is in charge of a legion.

Among the four legions, the first legion led by Zhang Juntai was the most complete and the most elite. The First Army Corps consisted of two traditional Central Plains Infantry Divisions, two cavalry divisions composed of elite veterans, and a mixed infantry division of Modao and musket with the approval of Li Wenyuan himself. The Second and Third Army Corps were led by Qin Qiong and Fu Wen respectively, and the corps consisted of four traditional Central Plains infantry divisions and one cavalry division. As for the Fourth Legion, it was a pure cavalry division corps led by Udru, with five cavalry divisions under its jurisdiction.

After the reorganization, among the four legions of the Western Regions Army, Zhang Juntai's First Army was responsible for the siege and field warfare; Udru's Fourth Regiment was responsible for harassing the rear of the belligerents; As for Qin Qiong and Fu Wen's two legions, they temporarily served as the stability maintenance corps that took over the pacification and suppression of the occupied areas. It's not that Li Wenyuan himself is biased, but that the production efficiency of Mo knives and muskets really can't be improved. After half a year of production with all its might, it can barely afford to equip a mixed infantry division.

Moreover, the officers and men of the army have a respectful attitude towards the kind of weapons that cost a lot of money, are only more than one meter long, and fire iron pellets with a loud noise. Some people even directly made suggestions to Li Wenyuan, hoping that the establishment of the mixed infantry division would be abolished. The funds and financial resources consumed by that infantry division were used to form more cavalry divisions and traditional infantry divisions, but these did not set off any storms under Li Wenyuan's strong pressure, and when the time came, it would be clear against the Turks.

"Who are you?" A red-faced instructor asked a group of recruits in front of him who were undergoing physical training.

"Western Regions Army." The recruits, who were training, responded hoarsely.

"What is your role?"

"Defend the country and the family."

Such scenes are staged in the four counties of Zhangye, Wuwei, Xiping, and Heyuan. All soldiers who want to join the Western Regions Army must train in the recruit camp for three months, and only after passing the examination can they be officially incorporated into the army to participate in combat.

"I hope you can remember that they are not just ordinary soldiers, they are also my sons of Huaxia. None of them should be discriminated against, isolated, and sacrificed. Your position is that of an instructor, and you should be able to relieve the anxiety of new recruits when they enlist in a strange place. You should try to help them solve the difficulties of their lives as much as possible. If any soldier in your company feels dissatisfied or feels that his military career is boring, then you are derelict in your duty! In addition, after you join the company, you must not forget to work hard to improve your military quality. My hope for you is that you can be a centurion or a scholar. At the graduation ceremony of the students of the company's instructor training class, Li Wenyuan said to the scholars in front of him who were full of enthusiasm and passion.

As a traverser, Li Wenyuan will not forget how terrifying the combat effectiveness of the army that can be improved by the powerful political commissar system in the army in later generations. And in their own planning, their own armies will have to walk all over the earth. Under the labor expedition, one of the inevitable problems is the homesickness of the soldiers. At this time, it was not that later generations had developed communication systems and transportation systems, and even if they had ideas in their minds, it was impossible to build thousands or even hundreds of thousands of kilometers of railways in such a short period of time to allow their soldiers to return to their hometowns to visit their relatives. Therefore, before high-speed means of transportation can be developed, these instructors who reach the grassroots level are the key to ensuring the combat effectiveness of an army, and they are also the largest investment in Li Wenyuan's investment in the army, except for ordnance and materials.

Under Li Wenyuan's special care, and the sentence that you can be a centurion or a scholar. The atmosphere of the entire Western Regions suddenly changed. The martial arts began to become popular among the people, whether it was a scholar, a merchant, or an official who was proud to have a sword at his waist that could fight at any time, and for a while, the sword was better than the book began to spread. In addition, under the influence of semi-open military drills, the folk customs were gradually no longer satisfied with passive defense in the face of Hu invasion, but slowly began to favor the counterattack against the invading Hu people.

This also means that the dovish concept peculiar to the traditional agrarian civilization of small wealth and peace has begun to be suppressed by the hawkish concept of daring to occupy the invaders. And this is also the result that Li Wenyuan wants, after all, throughout history, no war can be won without the support of the people.

These four legions are the sharpest knives in Li Wenyuan's hands, and since they are knives, they naturally have to be pointed at the enemy. For the security work in their own territory, they are all in the local recruit camps led by the supplementary generals of the Eagle Yang Mansion who have not been selected by the army in each county. The Township Protection Regiment formed by the Xiangyong who were not selected to serve as soldiers was responsible.

At the same time, the officials who were surveying and dressing the ore veins in Lechuan County also came back with the news that Li Wenyuan was most pleased with: they had found a high-quality saltpeter mine in Lechuan County, which provided a stable source of saltpeter for the gunpowder used in the musket infantry division formed by Li Wenyuan.

In addition, along with the improvement of gunpowder processing technology and processing tools by craftsmen who have been producing gunpowder for half a year, the production speed of gunpowder has also been greatly improved compared with before. Moreover, after many experiments, these craftsmen increased the proportion of saltpeter in the formula given by Li Wenyuan, which greatly delayed the loss of gunpowder properties. These are also the ones that finally make Li Wenyuan now have the strength and capital, and he can start to knife Li Liang.

Although the Western Regions has always been a very remote place compared to the Central Plains Imperial Court, Li Wenyuan's inaction in the face of Li Liang's rebellion was still impeached by many people. Although Yang Guang did not clearly express his dissatisfaction, he sent people from the Yushitai to inquire about the details three times and twice, and he had already expressed his blame for his ineffective suppression of bandits. In order to keep himself from continuing to serve in the Western Regions, Li Wenyuan decided to move Li Liang after thinking for a long time.