Wei Yan has not yet had time to build an intelligence network, and he does not have any talents suitable for spy warfare, so he has only sent ten soldiers with flexible minds and eloquent minds to pretend to be traders and go to the area around Yucheng to find out the news. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

What was discouraging was that the ten soldiers either had no news, or there was some trivial news that everything was normal, especially when they said that Jia Xu had sent people to Bingzhou to buy a large number of Xiongnu horses, which made Wei Yan very suspicious.

If it weren't for the soul of the crossing, if it weren't for the deep knowledge of Jia Xu's old ghost, Wei Yan might have believed that Jia Xu really wanted to redeem Hu Che'er, but whether it was from romance or history, that thing was a standard poisonous snake, and even Cao Cao took a few bites, let alone himself.

In the face of a small force like himself, he Jia Xu is a poisonous python, and he is thinking of swallowing himself in one gulp.

Because of this, Wei Yan's heart was filled with a sense of urgency.

Originally, he had to explain that Li Yan wanted to build an urn city and develop the city in the direction of the fortress, but looking at the progress in front of him, it would be good to be able to get the earth city well before the arrival of Zhang Xiu's army, and the rest was the icing on the cake, and it was not too late to repair it after this crisis.

Li Yan is worthy of being a bull in the political 90s, such a big city construction project was arranged by him in an orderly manner, and everyone was busy in every place where the city was built, even the old and weak women and children were also mobilized.

Li Yan also told them a white lie: "If you don't build the city quickly, Zhang Xiu's army will slaughter all the Yiyang people when it arrives!" ”

Previously, Hu Che'er and others led the Xiliang cavalry to burn and loot everywhere in Nanyang County, which is a well-known thing, so the people of Yiyang believed it and came to help, not to mention the wages, and even some tenant farmers of the family secretly came to participate in the construction of the city.

Including the 110,000 people who came from Langling County before, plus the more than 50,000 yeoman farmers in Yiyang County who did not belong to the rule of the family, and more than 10,000 people who slipped down from the mountains, a total of 180,000 people, in addition to very small children and very old people, at least 140,000 people participated in the construction of the city.

Those who have the strength to ram earth to build the city, those who don't do auxiliary work, and some cook and other service workers.

Some people came to participate in the construction of the city, except for planting spring corn and potatoes according to Professor Wei Yan's farming methods.

But because Wei Yan's plan is relatively large, the circumference of the future Yiyang New City is ten miles, and the city is three zhang high, such a big project, even if 140,000 people build the city, it will not be completed in a month.

After Li Yan's reminder, Wei Yan decided: "On the basis of the original Weijiawu Fort, first make an inner city with a circumference of two miles, and then slowly build the outer city after driving Zhang Xiu's army away." ”

Li Yan did a good job in building the city, and Wei Yan was not idle here.

Previously, Chen Zhi and Guan Hai stayed in Wubao, and they had already selected young men from more than 100,000 people who could adapt to Wei Yan's brutal training, and formed a standing army of 5,000 with the original soldiers.

Wei Yan left Li Yan and Chen Zhi with a thousand standing troops, so that Chen Zhi, Wen Ping in the old city of Yiyang, and Fu Tong in Fuyang County should be on guard, and they should pay close attention to the people who came from the direction of Qicheng, especially those with a Xiliang accent, and don't let Jia Xu touch his own reality.

Wei Yan, Guan Hai, and Wen Yang led 4,000 standing troops into the mountains for training.

At the moment of the great enemy, Wei Yan no longer cares about training those queues, and quickly enters actual combat training, which is the fastest way to turn a recruit into a hundred battle elite soldiers.

This actual combat training is different from the formation training once every few days in this era, there will be brutal actual combat confrontation, actual combat exercises, even if they are all wooden weapons, they will also beat each other's heads and bleed, and there will be a certain death rate, in order to prevent these soldiers from being unable to bear it and thus the army's morale will collapse, so we must do a good job of ideological work, or brainwashing.

Before the formal training, Wei Yan combined the more than 90 seeds he had previously selected and the more than 100 new seeds he had selected to join the army and set them up as a military camp.

This is what Wei Yan mentioned before, starting from Tun, a position is set up step by step, called "Joining the Army" (abbreviation of "Counselor Military Affairs"), in addition to the duties of military staff officers, they also perform functions similar to those of political commissars and instructors in later generations, they have to tell the soldiers three things, why to fight, who to fight for, and how to fight.

After the daily training, Wei Yan had to give them a lesson, telling them how to do ideological work (brainwashing) for the soldiers, how to talk to the soldiers, how to do psychological counseling, and how to relieve the pressure of the soldiers...... After the class, they had to go to their respective combat units to brainwash and provide psychological counseling to the soldiers, so as to reduce the brutal pressure brought about by actual combat training.

Wei Yan gave a speech to the whole army every morning, telling about the ideas of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, such as Zeng Guofan's regiment training the Hunan army, such as Yuan Shikai's small station training, those ideas are not only talked about every day now, but will also be preached every year, month by month, week by week, day by day, and the lie repeated a thousand times is the truth.

He ate with the soldiers, lived together, and ate the messy but highly nutritious creatures of the mountains, such as bullfrogs, snakes, and bamboo rats......

During this month, in order to improve the effectiveness of the training, he divided the month's military salary into six parts, counted the training results every five days, and distributed the military salary according to the level of the performance, and the top 100 officers and men with the best training results received three times the military salary of the Jingzhou soldiers, the last 200 officers and men received twice the military salary of the Jingzhou soldiers, and the worst 100 military salaries were halved, so as to arouse everyone's enthusiasm.

Wei Yan was personally present every time the military salary was issued, and personally distributed it to the top 300 soldiers with the best training performance, and called out their names.

He got the [Knowledge] stunt, and was able to memorize the names and faces of every soldier like Napoleon, and every time he called their names, he brought tears of excitement to their eyes.

Just like when Yuan Shikai was training at a small station, someone shouted: "Who will give us food?" "Yuan Gongbao!" "For whom do we die!" "Yuan Gongbao!"

Wei Yan is now training in the mountains, and he is not worried about being known by Liu Biao, so he instructed the soldiers below to let the soldiers shout, "Who will give us food!" "Wei Wenchang!" "Who do we give our lives to!" "Wei Wenchang!"

When the actual combat training reached a certain level, Wei Yan took them to attack the various bandit strongholds in the mountains around Yiyang New Town.

Fifteen-year-old Wen Yang single-handedly whipped his horse, rushed into the enemy formation, as if entering a no-man's land, the thieves were in chaos, Wei Yan and Guan Hai led the troops to besiege, seven days, like this, captured thirteen mountains, reorganized more than 800 people to replenish the battle damage, and the other more than 2,000 people rushed to build the city.

After more than a month of rigorous training, more than 4,000 horses have grown into elite soldiers who are bloody, no longer afraid of battle, but eager to try.

Wei Yan did not destroy these cottages, but repaired them, if Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu's army arrived, the outer city had not been repaired, then disperse the residents to these cottages to take refuge.

In order to prevent Zhang Xiu from coming over so quickly, Wei Yan sent people to Yucheng to spread the news that Cao Cao was about to attack Nanyang County and drive the people of Xiliang to Xiliang.

Facts have proved that playing tricks in front of Jia Xu is like playing a big knife in front of Guan Gong.

Forty days later, Zhang Xiu's side completely finalized the alliance with Liu Biao, stationed in Wancheng, and collected the nearby county seats, and then Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu led the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to march to Yiyang.

However, what puzzled Wei Yan was that Zhang Xiu only brought 10,000 horses, and he also abandoned Fuyang County and Yiyang Old Town not to attack, and led his troops directly to Yiyang Old Town, claiming that 5,000 Hun horses and Mrs. Zou had been sent and asked to exchange for Hu Che'er.

Is Mrs. Zou really here?

Is Zhang Xiu really willing to send his uncle and mother to change generals?