PS: I wish you all a happy new year and all the best! ）

It's already early hour, the sky still can't see the sun, and the gray sky doesn't have the slightest feeling of autumn air, but makes people feel a little depressed.

He Xiaomi, who followed behind Li Zicheng, was elated, Ma Youshui was promoted to the sixth infantry officer of 100 households, and the tide rose, and the sixteen-year-old He Xiaomi became Li Zicheng's pro-soldier flag officer, the actual commander of the pro-soldiers.

"My lord, do you really want to recruit those soldiers? What if they don't listen to orders? ”

"Don't listen to orders?" Li Zicheng smiled: "Didn't you know the order at the beginning? Look at it now, you are only sixteen years old, and you are already the chief flag officer, did you think of it before? ”

"Thank you, your subordinates, for cultivating!" He Xiaomi wanted to kneel down and salute, but Li Zicheng stretched out his hand to stop him, "Don't be polite, work hard, and go to the battlefield to make meritorious contributions in the future." ”

"Yes, sir!" He Xiaomi clenched his fists tightly, and secretly swore in his heart that sooner or later, he would become the commander of an army like Ma Youshui.

"Let's go, go to the training ground, don't let them wait."

The two of them quickened their pace, and the soldiers who followed behind were almost trotting.

On the training ground, Liu Yunshui's department and Li Guobu's department, who stayed in Xining, and Ma Youshui's department, who had just been promoted to the 600th household official, had already lined up neatly and waited for Li Zicheng's lecture.

More than 300 surrendered soldiers captured in Xining City yesterday were also in the center of the training ground at this time, and they were woken up at dawn, and the officers of the Xining Guard, one by one, gave them a lecture, encouraging them to participate in the reorganization, and in the future, as always, to win glory for the Xining Army, after receiving their affirmative answers, the ropes on their bodies have been lifted. There are too many similar words, plus they haven't slept well for the past two days, and their brains have been groggy, so they want to go back to the barracks and sleep with their heads covered, even if they are tied hand and foot.

When Li Zicheng passed by the queue of surrendered troops, he did not stop, but went directly to Li Yunshui's department on the right, "Yunshui, from these three white soldiers, you can first pick out two general flags!" ”

He now has more than 3,000 stone of grain in his hands, plus more than 50,000 taels of silver, and it is expected that the imperial court will also allocate food and salary, and it is imperative to expand the army, Xiningwei was originally a establishment of 5,600 people, he took over the entire Xiningwei, and now there are only more than 700 soldiers, even if these surrenders are added, there are only more than 1,000 people, which is far from his expectations.

However, the food must be eaten one bite at a time, and the speed of army expansion must not be too fast, otherwise the combat effectiveness of the soldiers will obviously decline; besides, the current grain has not yet established a stable supply, and there are too many soldiers, and food may be a hidden danger.

"Yes, sir." Liu Yunshui was immediately overjoyed, he was the first hundred households to expand the army, and the soldiers did his best to choose, and after the expansion of the army, his subordinates will reach four general banners and more than two hundred soldiers, which is half a thousand households.

However, thinking that Li Zicheng was a thousand households, he immediately wilted and hurried to select qualified soldiers.

Liu Yunshui's principle of selecting soldiers is very simple, first of all, he can ride a horse, he is the first cavalry hundred, as long as possible, Li Zicheng will inevitably equip him with war horses, if the soldiers have a foundation, they will save a lot of time when they train in the future.

Together with those who are a little skilled in equestrianism, Liu Yunshui first selected more than 60 soldiers, and the next selection, all of whom he looked at correctly, were basically tall and strong, fierce and vicious people, so a total of 112 people were selected to form two general flags, if it can be matched with a hundred household officials, it will be a completed hundred households.

"My lord, the number of soldiers in the first cavalry has increased, but the number of war horses ......"

"Let them practice first, military discipline, military regulations, coordination, etc., all have to start from scratch, and if there is an opportunity to let them touch the war horses as much as possible, as for the horses, there will be a chance to talk about it later," Li Zicheng emphasized: "The first cavalry hundred households, soldiers must be good at equestrianism, but not necessarily all cavalry." ”

Liu Yunshui knew that it was impossible to increase the number of war horses now, and it was useless to say more, he just reminded him to let the Lord of Qianhu keep his affairs in mind, and selected more than a hundred soldiers, he was already satisfied, so he grinned and took the lead in training the soldiers.

Now it's Ma Youshui's turn, he originally thought that Li Zicheng would also let him pick out the soldiers of the two general flags, but Li Zicheng disagreed, because if this selection continues, the remaining hundred or so people can almost be retired, if such soldiers are placed in the same hundred households, it will obviously greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the entire hundred households.

Li Zicheng asked the remaining soldiers to stand in two horizontal columns, reporting the number from left to right, who knew that the soldiers not only could not distinguish between left and right, but even the number of reports was unheard of, and in desperation, Li Zicheng had to explain in detail.

"One-two, one-two, one-two......" Under Li Zicheng's tutelage, the soldiers finally learned to report the number from left to right in the form of odd and even numbers.

"The soldiers who reported 'two' just now are all out of the ranks!"

Li Zicheng divided the original two horizontal teams into four columns, and then recombined them into two teams according to the relationship between "one" and "two". ”

In this way, the advantages and disadvantages of the soldiers are random, and theoretically, the quality of the soldiers in the two teams is almost the same, and it is not too unfair to other hundred households.

Ma Youshui looked east and west in front of the two teams of soldiers, and went around in a circle, which was also reluctant, and that was reluctant, and in the end he was helpless, "My lord, then the subordinate chooses 'one'!" ”

"There is water, then you take these soldiers with you, according to the previous requirements, to the letter, strict training, they were originally soldiers, the focus of training is military discipline and coordination, remember, the training time, only one month, after a month, may have to go to the battlefield at any time."

"Yes, my lord, my subordinates remember." Ma Youshui had just been promoted to 100 households, and he caught up with the expansion of the army, and the number of soldiers under his subordinates reached more than 200, which was a full 200 households, and he was both excited and a little uneasy, in case the soldiers under his subordinates did not meet the requirements of the adults, or the soldiers did not obey his command......

Li Zicheng also knew that Ma Youshui had just been promoted to 100 households, and he lacked experience in commanding troops, so he was a little relieved, so he explained more, "There is water, let these soldiers be trained in a mixed manner with the original soldiers, and speed up the training with the old and the new." ”

"Yes, my lord, my subordinates understand, and my subordinates will arrange the soldiers." Ma Youshui also went happily.

It was Li Guo's turn, the three hundred households left in Xining, he was the last to expand the army, just as Li Guo looked at Li Zicheng with a smile, he heard Li Zicheng smile and said: "Double happiness, do you also want to expand the army?" ”

"Huh?" Li Guo was stunned for a moment, "My lord, aren't these soldiers reserved for their subordinates?" ”

"No," Li Zicheng shook his head, "You are a hundred cavalry households, and the soldiers here who are a little skilled in horsemanship have all been picked up by Yunshui, and it is really a waste of time to train them into cavalry." ”

"What does the adult mean......" Li Guo was puzzled for a while, could it be that only his own hundred households did not expand the army?

"Double happiness, when an army is expanding, the old combat system is broken, and the new combat system has not yet been formed, and the combat effectiveness is the weakest at this time," Li Zicheng sank his face and continued: "To be exact, when the army is expanded, the army is almost a straggler, and there is no combat effectiveness. ”

"My lord, I understand," Li Guo's face couldn't hide a trace of loss, "There is a sequence of army expansion, and each hundred households cannot be carried out at the same time." ”

"Well," Li Zicheng nodded slightly, "It's good to understand Shuangxi, you and Yunshan are both cavalry hundreds, and you can't expand the army at the same time, I must ensure that there is a cavalry with combat effectiveness at any time, so as not to have accidents, Yunshui's hundredth household soldiers are more proficient in horsemanship, now is a good opportunity to expand the army, your second cavalry hundred, first train the soldiers' horsemanship, and when the expansion of the Yunshui Department is over, it will be your second cavalry hundred." ”

"My lord, was there still a source of soldiers at that time?" Li Guo was still a little worried.

"Soldiers?" Li Zicheng laughed, "Aren't there herdsmen nearby?" They themselves are military households, we have to recruit soldiers, and we are paid food, and we are worried that there is no source of soldiers? Not only do we have a source of soldiers, but we can also select high-quality soldiers from the herdsmen, one by one, and carefully selected. ”

"My lord, my subordinates are confused, and my subordinates beg my lords to punish me!" Only then did Li Guo understand the hard work of the second uncle, the second uncle did not take special care of him, his own nephew, but he definitely did not forget him, and he thought about everything first, but he wanted to compete with Liu Yunshui for the sake of the moment...... He "poofed" and knelt in front of Li Zicheng and kowtowed to apologize.

"Double happiness," Li Zicheng helped him up and pulled Li Guo up, "Double happiness, we are not only uncles and nephews, but also have withstood the test ......of life and death."

"My lord, my subordinates are confused." Li Guo's head drooped like a sunflower.

"Double happiness, cheer up," Li Zicheng said with a smile: "This kind of sick look, how can you compete with Liu Yunshui?" ”

"Yes, my lord, my subordinates understand!" Li Guo suddenly felt like he had been beaten with duck blood, waved his right hand, and took his brothers to practice.

The remaining more than 100 surrendered troops, Li Zicheng was reserved for Song Wen, but Song Wen now went to Shixia, and Li Zicheng had to train these soldiers himself.

At the end of the morning, Li Zicheng couldn't help but sweat profusely, his voice was almost hoarse, he had to shake his head and sigh, if it weren't for the fact that these soldiers really couldn't deal with it, it would be better to recruit new recruits simply, there were no bad habits they had developed in the army, and sometimes, correcting some mistakes was more laborious than directly teaching the correct posture.

When it was finally time for lunch, the soldiers were shouting, especially the soldiers who had just joined.

There were originally five or six hundred soldiers in Xining City, and now the soldiers in the city are almost the same number, and the meals should not be crowded, but the canteen of the military camp is not well managed, and the dining tables and stools are seriously missing.

Deng Le is a soldier, during the morning training, he was in a group with Liu Sansan, and at lunch, he found a vacant lot as if flattering, and picked up a stone for Liu San to sit down, but he was sitting on the mud floor.

"Liu San, hey, third brother, do you have mutton every day?" Deng Le grabbed three steamed buns with his right hand, pulled the steamed buns out of a few finger-thick holes, and unconsciously his fingers were still deep in the cave, and his left hand tightly pinched the mutton soup bowl, which was not too hot, and there was a plate of cabbage, which he really couldn't take down, so he had to throw it on the ground, and the two thighs were like firewalls to isolate the cabbage from others.

"You're supposed to catch the wind for you?" Liu San said angrily, the training in the morning, in the same group as Deng Le, needs to train the synergy of the two, this Deng Le, looking at the arms are quite strong, but the strength is pitiful, every time at the critical moment, he always can't stand up, so that he was scolded by the little flag officer several times, when he saw Deng Le, he was angry, if it wasn't for the sake of him handing a stone as a seat, he didn't bother to pay attention to him.

"Huh? Third brother, is this true? Deng Le was a little unconvinced, he was also a Xining army, and they didn't even dare to think about such treatment.

"It's a bit difficult to eat mutton every day, but on days when there is no mutton soup, there will be fish soup, and we see meat here almost every day." Liu San drank the sheep's head soup in one gulp and swallowed the steamed buns in his mouth.

Water came out of Deng Le's mouth, "Fish soup? I haven't drunk fish soup for a long time, the last time I drank it when I was in Xinyuan, a big bowl of piping hot fish soup, I only drank two sips, and it was snatched by the little cub, more greedy than me. ”

Liu San gave a look of contempt, "The fresh fish soup we have here is full of a large bowl per person, which is more than the amount of mutton soup, so I have the right to drink it as water." ”

"Huh? It turns out that your Zhenhai Fort army ......"

"What Zhenhai Fort Army? Now it's all the Xining Army," Liu San corrected: "As long as you train seriously, mutton soup and fresh fish soup will not be less, if you continue to be like in the morning, you can't even compare with a girl, then it's hard to say." ”

"How? Will the fire army withhold the soup? Deng Le suddenly became nervous.

"That's not going to happen," Liu San stuffed the last piece of steamed bun into his mouth and chewed a few bites, swallowed it before he said: "Lord Qianhu saw it but wanted to kill his head, have you heard that Lord Qianhu cut off four heads when he first trained the Xining Army?" ”

"Is this true?" Deng Le was shocked, and even the mutton soup bowl in his left hand almost fell, he didn't understand the truth, but for the mutton soup and fresh fish soup, as well as his own head, on the training ground, he fought hard!