Li Tiedan happily led the way in front, and began to call when he was about to reach the door.

"The child is his mother, the child is his mother, come out quickly, there is a guest coming." Li Tiedan shouted loudly.

He called many farmers at home to come out to watch, but when he saw Ye Chen with a lot of guards, he didn't dare to approach.

"The lord, the lady, and my family are a little shabby." Li Tiedan put Ye Chen in front of a house.

The house is indeed not very large, with earthen walls and tiled houses, but it can be seen that it is very sturdy.

Ye Chen took a look, the houses were lined up, most of them were the same, and the front of the houses was relatively clean.

When Ye Chen and the others arrived at the door of Li Tiedan's house, a peasant woman was standing at the door with a child about two years old, she saw that Ye Chen and his party were very different, and they didn't dare to approach.

"child, what are you still standing for, a distinguished guest has arrived, hurry up and prepare two dishes." In order to show his status in the family, Li Tiedan instructed his daughter-in-law to hurry up and do things.

"My lord, my lord, please."

Ye Chen followed Li Tiedan in, Zhang Jing hesitated for a moment and also entered, and the soldiers of the guard battalion only followed up with two, and the rest guarded the door.

The furnishings inside are simple but clean and tidy.

"Lord, lady, the family is simple, don't be surprised." Li Tiedan scratched his head embarrassedly.

"Haha, Iron Egg, we went to war more when we were marching and fighting than when we were more humble than this."

"Yes, yes, when we went to the northern grasslands to fight the Huns, we slept in the snow and ate snow."

As soon as Tie Dan talked about the past, his eyes showed a glint of excitement, and he missed very much the time when he was in the guard camp, which was the most glorious period of his life.

"By the way, Iron Egg, you said you were training militia here?"

"Yes, my lord. A year ago, it received a lot of refugees and Yellow Turban soldiers, and in order to prevent accidents, every farm and village had to form a militia to help patrol the village and village. Since I came out of the guard battalion, let me take the lead and help with the training. ”

"Well, how many militiamen do you have with you, and what is their quality?"

"Lord, I have a total of thirty militiamen, they naturally can't compare with our guard battalion, but all of them are strong guys selected from the village, and after a long time of training, they are also good hands, many times better than the county soldiers we have seen before."

County soldiers? The county soldiers in this period really had no combat effectiveness, and they were not as good as bandits.

"Tiedan, how do they compare to our Ye family's caravan guards?"

"My lord, the combat effectiveness of our militia is definitely higher than that of the caravan guards, and the individual combat effectiveness may be about the same, but our militia is trained by the method of training the escort battalion, and the team combat power is super strong." Li Tiedan said excitedly, waving his only arm from time to time.

As soon as he said this, Ye Chen had a bottom in his heart, now a large number of refugees have been resettled in the entire Liaodong, for the sake of stability, it is true that each village has a certain militia, but Ye Chen did not attach great importance to the militia before.

Now that I saw Li Tiedan, I knew that he was actually training the militia, and he was training it by the method of the escort battalion.

These militiamen are all strong young people, once necessary, Ye Chen can immediately recruit them, they have all gone through the training of the escort battalion, put on armor, take weapons, and reorganize, it is an army.

Although the combat strength of such an army cannot be compared with that of a real guard battalion, it is no worse than an ordinary army. Once you have time to train, after a short period of training, you can even quickly form an elite army that is not much weaker than the escort battalion.

What such an army lacks is only actual combat, what it lacks is blood, and once it is on the battlefield, it will soon be a strong army.

Moreover, there is no obstacle to the command of such an army, as long as a part of the officers of all levels is sent over, they all go through the same training, and there is no problem at all in commanding it.

The more I think about it, the more excited I become, this is called hiding soldiers from the people, and there is no need for high military expenditures, they are usually engaged in production, and they train when they are free, and Ye Chen gives them a certain subsidy every year, and this can also place a lot of injured soldiers, so that they can continue to exert their residual heat.

"Tiedan, is there any difficulty here, if there is any difficulty, even if you have difficulties, you are all my old brothers, and you will never be treated badly."

"Lord, no, no. I thought I had broken my arm, left the army, and became a wreck, but now I'm doing well. I married my mother-in-law, I have children, and the most important thing is that I have something to do now, training the militia every day, and I feel like I'm still in the guard camp. Li Tiedan's tears swirled in his eyes, and he said emotionally.

"I want to thank you. It is your efforts that have made Liaodong peaceful and prosperous now. If there are any difficulties in life, just say, your arm is broken, you can't do farm work, this land? ”

"Lord, don't worry, when you were injured, you didn't spend a cent of the pension. This house was built with the help of the government, my family has 20 acres of land, and there is a ploughing cow, although I can't do farm work, but my family has ploughing cattle, and I lend the ploughing cattle to others for free, and others help me farm for free, so there is no problem. ”

There are still very few ploughing cattle, especially after the resettlement of a large number of refugees, and the efficiency of ploughing cattle is needless to say, so it is very normal to lend ploughing cattle in exchange for others to help plough the fields.

As for the harvest, he had to ask for someone, but his wife could also help, and he could also help carry things, so he was also busy.

Ye Chen saw that his life was indeed fine, so he could rest assured, there were ploughing cattle in the guard camp, and he was not afraid of being injured, Li Tiedan came alone from the wilderness, Ye Chen was afraid that this kind of person would not have a settled life in the future.

Ye Chen talked a lot with Li Tiedan, mainly because Ye Chen asked about the things in the village, he wanted to understand the lives of the people, and he also specially learned about the Yellow Turban soldiers.

The two of them chatted, and Zhang Jing listened quietly, she was also very concerned about the former Yellow Turban soldiers, and through the conversation between the two, she could understand a part, at least for the time being, they were doing well.

It is indeed very good, there is food, shelter and work here, and life is stable, they naturally do not think about rebellion, and they have gradually forgotten the former Taiping Road.

After all, the real diehards of Taiping Dao were only the earliest ones, except for some who fled with Zhang Liang, the rest died on the battlefield.

The more he knew, the more confident Ye Chen was in his heart, he wanted to establish a strong militia organization in Liaodong, this militia was completely trained by wounded and retired guard battalion soldiers, and if needed in the future, they would be recruited first when the army was expanded, which could save a lot of time and quickly form combat effectiveness.

The most important thing is that such an army has a small burden in peacetime.

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