Looking at the mountains in the distance, the snow is covered, the cold air of the early winter has been raging, and in the green valley guarded by two high mountains on both sides, a Song army camp is being rebuilt and rapidly expanded.

Li Zhe stood on the high platform and looked at the fire guns below who were training in full swing, all of them were fair-skinned, with high eyebrows and deep eyes, and their faces were in no way similar to those of the Song people, but they turned out to be Sogdian firecrackers who had just come out of the prisoner camp.

Li Zhe finally accepted Tia's suggestion and released the Sogdian firecrackers among the captives, and in fact, as Tia said, these Sogdians did seem to be very docile and unusually obedient after listening to the persuasion of Tia, who was the holy daughter of Zoroastrianism.

Without saying a word, Li Zhe directly incorporated these Sogdians into his own firecracker array, and mixed them with his original second battalion of firecrackers to form a second battalion, in which the relatively good soldiers of the Song people's firearms were used as squad officers, and they were trained all the time.

Li Zhe felt like a fugitive who had been cornered, and he seized the time to use all means to strengthen his strength.

The direct adaptation of the Sogdians is undoubtedly a risky move, after all, the Sogdians were the subordinates of the former Kipchak Khanate, and even if they really want to adapt, they really should not be at this juncture.

But Li Zhe has no choice.

Fortunately, these Sogdians were indeed skilled musketeers, as Tia said, and their firearms skills were very skillful, and the change into flintlock muskets was smooth, the only trouble was the training of their ranks.

There is no other army in the world that is as disciplined as the Song army, and no matter how good the Sogdian firecrackers are, how can they compare with the Song army.

The drums beat tightly in the formation, and the training does not stop for a moment.

Numerous wooden frames were erected on the edge of the site, and on each one hung horrific corpses.

There was also a high platform next to it, on which there were several erring soldiers who were hanging and screaming and moaning as they were being whipped.

Strict punishment and strict law, at this time, Li Zhe can only rely on this, desperately strengthening the control of this group of soldiers under his hands.

Li Zhe did not expect these Sogdians to be as good as the firecrackers of the previous second battalion in a short period of time, and it was impossible to expect other families to have such good soldiers as the Song people in this world, but at least they must not become a burden in the queue.

The training of the mixed battalion was a race against time, because Li Zhe knew that these people would come in handy at any time.

On the other side of the valley, a larger group of people was also training intensively, but this group was not training Li Zhe's flintlock pistol, but the old arquebus that Li Zhe had collected from captured supplies and his own spare materials.

This group of people is the volunteer army under Li Zhe before, these volunteer soldiers are all reserve soldiers temporarily recruited by the local government, there are all from all over the country, there are mixed fish and dragons, and there is not even a decent leader among them, which can be called a plate of scattered sand, but there are still some military skills, and the quality of the soldiers is also good. If Li Zhe can be given half a year, Li Zhe is absolutely confident that he can train these people to be no less than his own Wudu.

So far, even the overall quality of the other training units of the second battalion is still worse than that of the fifth battalion, and there is no way, although the training of the firecrackers is rapid, the iron-like military discipline and order cannot be cultivated in a short time.

However, Li Zhe didn't have much time to train these people in their own new army formation, so they could only strengthen the training of the Song army's old-fashioned phalanx. This is a temporary step up of training, I just hope that it can be used a little bit in the end!

Now, Li Zhe wants to turn every bit of power that can be grasped in his hands into real combat power, and no matter what changes he encounters, Li Zhe will fight-for-tat and fight out with absolute strength.

The soldiers in the valley seem to have been infected with the mind of the commander Li Zhe, that is, no matter how hard and tired they practiced, there were no complaints, and the atmosphere in the entire army before the big war made Li Zhe, who had always been on strict guard, a little surprised.

A few people walked up to the high platform from the bottom of the steps, and Li Zhe swept his eyes and recognized who these people were.

Now in the camp in this valley, the only place where Li Zhe's hand can't reach is the subordinates of these people, these people are none other than the leaders of the three private armies that assisted Li Zhe in the battle, Yan Guozhen, Qiu Qing and Wang Degong.

These people behaved decently under Li Zhe, but after all, they were private troops, and Li Zhe had no power to control them.

Therefore, at this stall where the entire barracks are going all out and actively preparing for war, the private troops under these three subordinates are inevitably a little out of place.

Presumably, these people also felt this, no, they took the initiative to come to the door.

"Command!"

Several people stood behind Li Zhe and hugged their fists.

"No need."

Li Zhe flicked one hand and motioned for a few people to be exempt.

The three of them looked at each other behind Li Zhe, and finally Yan Guozhen stood up and said:

"Command! In recent days, there have been military orders. ”

Li Zhe still didn't turn back,

"No, oh, there's no need to worry about this, with the position of three, if there is a military order from above, I will send someone to inform you."

"Oh, hehe, Commander, that's not what we meant."

"What we mean is that seeing that all the brothers in our battalion are working so hard, the brothers are not talented, and they also want to follow the command and subordinates, and the ability to command and lead the troops is obvious to all, if the commander does not dislike it, we want to ......"

"Oh!" At this time, Li Zhe couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard it, "What do you want to do?" ”

"We thought, we just thought, hey!"

"Don't hide the command, a few of us brothers have also been on many battlefields and killed a lot of brutality, but it is the first time that my brothers have seen the divine power of commanding his male soldiers on the battlefield that day. The commander can single-handedly train such soldiers, and our brothers are all admired. ”

"That's it, that's it, our brothers are all admired."

When Li Zhe heard this, he was finally moved, and turned to look at the leaders of the private army behind him, these people are all outstanding people for a while, and they can recruit and train the heroes and heroes of the private army by themselves, how can they be ordinary people.

But at this moment, under Li Zhe's scrutinizing gaze, he saw that he was trembling, and cold sweat was oozing from his forehead.

Yan Guozhen stammered and said:

"Our brothers all, all, admire, command, talent,"

"Oops!"

Listening to Yan Guozhen's stumbling, Wang Degong, who had a round face and a translucent brain over there, hurriedly answered:

"In fact, I admire the command of Shenwei, and I want the commander to send people to our army to help our brothers train and discipline their subordinates."

As soon as these words came out, the audience fell into silence.

What does it mean to let Li Zhe send people to help train and manage his subordinates? How can anyone present not know?

What is the difference between giving up the right to train and manage troops at the grassroots level and giving away the power of the troops?

These people are doing this, this, this is simply showing their hearts to themselves!

At first glance, even Li Zhe himself was a little surprised, could it be that the domineering spirit of the traverser in his own body was finally revealed after this period of forbearance?