Of course, while rejecting the request of the veterans, Yang Wu also took the opportunity to propose that they come to the new army in their free time in the future to talk about the various experiences of leading troops to fight. Although the old guys agreed verbally www.biquge.info Yang Wu knew that he would have to urge him personally in the future.

In this way, only three days later, before the rest of the army reorganization could be implemented, this new army of only 1,000 men was established in Guangling. According to what Yang Wu said, there were a total of twenty captains, nine of whom were Li Chengding, Tao Jingzhao and others who were left by Yang Wu that night, and five of the other eleven captains were selected from Yang Wu's original army of 500 people, and the other five were from the 3,000 people after the expansion, as for the remaining one, Diao Yanneng who made great contributions in the Battle of Xuanzhou.

These people were originally his descendants, and they had no problems with loyalty, and these people had followed Yang Wu to participate in previous battles in the past year, and they had rich experience in actual combat, but their disadvantage was that they had not systematically learned the art of war; The situation of Li Chengding's nine people is just the opposite of that of these ten captains, they have read some military books with their respective fathers, but they have very little actual combat experience. Yang Wu arranges these two parties together, which also allows them to complement each other.

Contrary to what ordinary people think, Yang Wu's new army did not teach those strategies for marching and fighting at the beginning, but taught everyone various military disciplines.

Yang Wu has an understanding of the importance of military discipline, all the generals have an understanding, when Yang Wu asked his subordinates to desperately recite military discipline on the first day of entering the barracks, the matter is still circulating in the army, and even the rumors have changed, and now there are rumors in the army that Yang Wu asked his soldiers to recite military discipline on the first day of entering the barracks, and those who can't recite it were cut off by Yang Wu, which made Yang Wu cry and laugh after hearing it.

And after the establishment of the new army this time, Yang Wu asked Cui Su to formulate stricter military discipline, and even made clear regulations on everyone's behavior, sitting and lying down. He felt that only after such a long period of years could he teach a real soldier whose military discipline was integrated into his bones.

In addition to the extremely strict requirements for military discipline, the second characteristic of Yang Wu's new army is that it has very strict requirements for the basics.

According to Li Chengding's thoughts, to train generals, they should send people to explain the art of war, and then teach them how to analyze the enemy situation, how to respond, how to command in battle, and so on; However, they were dumbfounded when they entered the new army, which did not teach these big strategies at all, but some very specific things, such as how far apart the soldiers should be when they were in array; For example, how to set up camp when camping in the wilderness, etc., are all similar details.

In one sentence that Tao Jingzhao said when he complained, this new army taught them all the work done by battalion commanders, and even the work of captains, but they were not taught at all how to be a future famous general.

Tao Jingzhao's words are actually not wrong at all, what Yang Wu is teaching them now is really how to be a qualified battalion commander. According to his thinking, the first thing these people should learn before they can become good generals should be how to become a qualified battalion commander.

Now, if the first batch of twenty captains can become qualified battalion commanders in the future, they will be twenty battalion commanders, who can bring out an army of 10,000 people; And as batches of new recruits are trained, more qualified battalion commanders will appear in the future, so that at least at the level of middle-level officers, there will be no problems in the Huainan army.

As for whether these battalion commanders can further become excellent commanders, excellent commanders, and even real famous generals in the future, it will be a matter for the future; What's more, famous generals are not taught, but trained on the battlefield.

Of course, Yang Wu today is not as much time as he did at the beginning, so he specially invited a few instructors to assist him.

These instructors include Sun Yan, who is good at defense, and is responsible for teaching how to conduct defensive operations; and Li Decheng, who has a calm personality and follows some rules in the fight, is responsible for teaching how to set up camp in the wild; And Shang Gongnai, who made great contributions in the process of discovering Tian Yan's rebellion, was also invited by Yang Wu to teach how to train soldiers and so on.

The generals selected by Yang Wu are all capable but have no ambition, nor much seniority and prestige, and even for various reasons, they are not currently reused in the Huainan Army, so let them serve as instructors Yang Wu is naturally relieved.

In addition, the new army must also need a person with deep moral prestige and who can calm the field to serve as the chief instructor, Yang Wu chose an old general named Ding Yuan, who is a commander, when Yang Xingmi raised troops in Luzhou, he joined, and later although there was no big merit, but the victory was calm, and he continued to accumulate small merits to become the commander.

Ding Yuan has a deep sense of morality, but he is very low-key, and he knows how to advance and retreat, and understands that today's Huainan is the time for the transfer of power between the old and new generations, and there are both opportunities and huge risks, so he handed in his resignation very early and wanted to go home to retire, and later came here as the chief instructor under the persuasion of Yang Wu.

After the selection of instructors was determined, the new army was officially established and began to gradually get on the right track, and Yang Wu could also draw his nerves from these complicated things.

On this day, Yang Wu had just come out of greeting from his mother Shi Shi, and was invited to the study in the front hall by someone sent by his father.

"What? Xu Wen wrote that he wanted to separate the military from the government, and he also offered to resign from the military and only be responsible for civil affairs? Yang Wu's eyes widened, and he looked at the piece in his hand with an incredulous face.

Just now, a piece of music sent urgently from Suzhou was placed in front of Yang Xingmi's desk. In the recital, Xu Wen mentioned that it has been more than ten years since Huainan was completely pacified, and although Yang Xingmi has been asking all localities to be lenient and recuperate, the people everywhere are still living in difficulty, which is not much better than during the war.

Xu Wen said that the main reason for this is that most of the people who serve as assassins in various places are military generals, and they are not good at managing civil affairs, and they are also busy with military affairs, so they have no time to deal with civil affairs.

He also deliberately gave an example, saying that after he took over the position of Suzhou Assassin, he was busy with government affairs all day long, such as the upcoming autumn fu, he found that the account books used in the autumn fu are still the old account books of more than ten years ago, and some families' fields have long been sold, but they still need to pay taxes according to what is written in the old account books, while some families are just the opposite, and they have become rich in the past ten years, but because there is no information about their fields in the old account books, they do not need to pay taxes at all.

Xu Wen needed to sort out all these situations, which made him feel that local governance was really not easy, and he simply had no extra energy to take on the responsibility of leading troops to fight.