After Lu Bu arranged the construction of the cemetery, according to the custom, he would give a reward and reward to all the soldiers who participated in the war, and Lu Bu felt that the previous practice of directly rewarding women with money and land was too problematic, so he decided to reformulate the rules of rewards and commendations. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Lu Bu first asked each battalion to count and report the number of soldiers who were brave in the battle and had meritorious service in killing the enemy, then asked Jia Kui and Wang Xiang to count the number of all the trophies harvested, and finally counted the total amount of land developed and cultivated by the military camp in the spring.

According to Lu Bu's plan, in the future, rewards for the military should be comprehensively used through three methods: material rewards, honorary rewards, and promotion incentives, so as to achieve a more fair and effective goal.

Since ancient times, the first thing that any general who can lead troops must do is to clearly distinguish rewards and punishments, which is the basis for maintaining unity within the troops. However, the reward also needs to be measured, and the punishment should not be too cruel, otherwise a lot of problems will occur.

In order to buy the hearts of the army and blindly satisfy the greed of the soldiers, they will be like Dong Zhuo and plunder the people, completely corrupting military discipline and regulations. Although the soldiers under Dong Zhuo's command wantonly "searched prisons" around Luoyang, although they made huge profits for the time being, they made the troops and the people enemies, and in the long run, they were digging their own graves.

Although the cruel punishment of soldiers who are ineffective in combat or who make mistakes in order to set an example can serve as a deterrent in the short term, in the long run, it will cause the generals to be separated, the generals and soldiers to be suspicious of each other, and the internal unity will be undermined.

At the beginning, Li Ling fought 80,000 Xiongnu with 5,000 people, and finally ran out of food and was captured, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty actually killed Li Ling's entire family after receiving the news, which led to Li Ling's betrayal of the Han Dynasty and gave advice for the Huns, causing great harm to the Han Dynasty. If Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had been a little more benevolent and generous, remembering the old relationship between Li Ling's father and son who fought bloody battles on behalf of the Han Dynasty, and letting go of the Li family, the generals would only be more courageous in the future, instead of thinking about how to defect to the enemy.

There are few victorious generals in the world, if they are defeated and captured, they will suffer the bad luck of the whole family being killed, who will dare to sincerely die for the lord in the future?

Jia Kui and Wang Xiang quickly counted the list of soldiers who had made meritorious contributions in battle, and Lü Bu ordered that a reward be distributed to these soldiers according to their rank, as a reward for the first wave.

The follow-up steps of the whole army circular, commendation, meritorious service, promotion, etc., should be handled together at the end of the year, and now we can release the good news first, so that the officers and men can know that General Tiance remembers everyone's merits.

The burial of the war dead and the reward of meritorious service are being carried out in a steady and orderly manner, and the first expansion of the Tiance Army is also being carried out silently.

The scale of this expansion is not large, and the goal is to expand from 20,000 to 25,000 troops, and the expansion of troops comes from three main sources.

The first source was the more than 2,500 tested county soldiers that Lü Bu brought back from Jinyang. These county soldiers are all Han men near Taiyuan County, and they originally did not have a strong sense of belonging to the Sun family, but after experiencing the test of attacking the Taishou Mansion and the Sun Dock Fort, they can be used directly as regular soldiers.

The second source is the Xianbei captives, Qianghu captives and Southern Xiongnu captives captured in several wars. Lu Bu broke the Xianbei people outside the city of Mayi, and captured more than 1,000 Xianbei captives before and after; Gao Shun and Lu Zhi designed to attract the Qianghu people, and captured nearly 2,000 Qianghu captives before and after.

Previously, Lü Bu had incorporated some of the strong male slaves of the Southern Xiongnu into the army as cavalry servants. After this series of battles, the performance of the Southern Xiongnu entourage was not bad and played their due role. Lü Bu planned to select 1,000 strong from the Xianbei captives and Qianghu captives to be incorporated into the army this time to further strengthen the cavalry strength of each battalion.

The third source is to recruit soldiers from the Bingzhou Prefecture, select 3,000 men from the Han family who are interested in joining the army, hand them over to Gao Shun for training, and then finally accept 2,000 people, and the remaining 1,000 people who are eliminated are assigned to the counties to serve as government officials and messengers.

If all goes well, a total of more than 5,500 people could be expanded from these three sources. Subtracting the more than 500 soldiers sacrificed by the Tiance Army, it adds up to exactly 25,000 people.

It can be seen from the expansion of the Tiance Army that Lu Bu is very cautious and does not have the slightest intention of being reckless. Although the total strength of the troops increased by 5,000, 4,000 people followed Zhang Yang to Jinyang for food, and in fact, the pressure on logistics supplies did not increase much.

After some careful calculations, Lü Bu decided to keep the number of troops in the flying cavalry battalion of 3,000 and the middle battalion of 6,000 unchanged, set the number of the left, right, and rear battalions at 4,000, and ensure that each battalion had 1,000 cavalry.

If you only look at the surface numbers, it means that a thousand cavalry were added to the rear battalion, which was originally only 3,000.

But is that really the case?

Truth, of course not!

Let's not talk about the relationship between the newly established Zuo Battalion and the 4,000 old Zuo Battalion brought to Jinyang by Zhang Yang, let's just say that the current rear battalion is not the same thing as the original rear battalion at all.

Originally, the rear battalion of 3,000 people, all of whom were infantry, was led by Zhang Liao, who was mainly responsible for the logistics supply of the whole army, and basically did not participate in frontal combat. However, after this expansion, except for the flying cavalry battalion and the middle battalion, which only had a small number of supplementary troops to reach the quota, the strength of the remaining three battalions was all disrupted and reassigned, and the number of troops, horses, and weapons of each battalion were exactly the same.

In other words, the 4,000 men and horses of the rear battalion are no different from the left and right battalions, and they can fight separately in the future!

The number on the books has only increased by 5,000, but the Tiance Army is actually equivalent to two more mixed battalions that can fight alone, namely the "Shadow Left Battalion" and the "New Rear Battalion", and it has not increased the logistical supply pressure of the Tiance Mansion.

This is the magic and charm of military calculations. It only takes one or two simple permutations and combinations to make a significant difference in the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Although Zhang Liao was not in Lishi, the task of expanding and reorganizing the army was carried out in an orderly manner.

The Han Chinese population in Bingzhou is sparsely populated, but there are more than a million people, and now live mainly in the area south of Yanmen and between the Shangdang, while the rest are scattered in the counties and live together with the Hu people.

Lu Bu sent people to spread the news of the Tiance Army's recruitment of soldiers, and soon the men of the Han family who had lost their fields and means of subsistence came to vote, and in less than half a month, the scheduled posts of 3,000 people were filled.