There were more than 4,000 registered soldiers in the city, but once they were inspected, the clerks found that there were only more than 3,400 soldiers.

Needless to ask, the more than 500 people who are short of personnel are obviously paid empty salaries, but if it is just like this, it will be counted, and the remaining 3,000 people, and 5 or 600 people, are old and weak soldiers who have no combat effectiveness at all.

Among the remaining more than 2,800 people, there were more than 300 well-equipped and strong soldiers, but after some verification, it was found that although these 300 people were compiled in the roster of the soldiers of the gall Tao County, they received food and salary from the state capital, but they only obeyed the orders of Sima Xiayang's family private soldiers of the other department of the gall Tao.

This was the case with the army at the end of the Han Dynasty, before the crusade against Dong Zhuo, the Eastern Han army had only experienced such a big war as the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and the main force to exterminate the Yellow Turban was still the forbidden army, the northern army and the local wealthy armed forces.

In comparison, the combat effectiveness of the county soldiers was relatively low, coupled with the financial constraints at the end of the Han Dynasty, and the military salary could not be paid from time to time, which caused many soldiers to flee.

This phenomenon did not gradually change until after the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

But no matter what, Wen Yuan didn't want the phenomenon of empty pay in his army. Immediately ordered all the county soldiers in Gaunt Tao City to be demoted to auxiliary soldiers, and Xia Yang was reappointed as the captain of the auxiliary soldiers, and the shortage of personnel was limited to be filled within ten days! If it weren't for the fact that he didn't want to get into too much trouble with the wealthy family of the Julu family as soon as he took office, Wen Yuan would have taken Xia Yang's official position off the spot!

Solved the trouble of the gall Tao auxiliaries, and the most cumbersome thing left was the selection of a battalion of 5,000 soldiers.

Wen Yuan's method is also simple, since Xia Quyang became an army, most of the four thousand regular soldiers directly under his command have been practicing for more than half a year, and they are all very good officer seeds, Wen Yuan and Zhang Jaw directly promoted five of the officers who usually perform well to be promoted to recruit Sima, and each formed one, so that they can choose their own trustworthy veteran subordinates.

In this way, the minister selects the song chief, the song chief picks the tun chief, and the tun chief selects the team rate, and it is not until the end that the army commander selects the recruits, and the selected people all sit on the ground, put them on the table and register the formation one by one, and record the person's name, address, age, and facial characteristics. Such a battalion of new troops was quickly formed, and although most of them were new recruits, with so many middle- and lower-ranking officers setting up a shelf, the combat effectiveness of the troops could quickly take shape.

It's just that after such a transfer, the original 4,000 qualified soldiers were transferred to nearly 1,000 people, which made Zhang Nan, Su You, and Murong Ping's expressions even more ugly than that of their dead fathers and mothers.

In addition, Wen Yuan also made a rule that all auxiliary military households who wanted to get a share of the land must be locals, or move their families and relatives into the local area, because Wen Yuan knew that only locals could arouse their fighting spirit to defend their homeland when foreign enemies invaded and exert unimaginable power.

Therefore, during the month of the reorganization of the military system, and just like in the past when it was in Xiaquyang, the entire 15 counties of Julu, you can see an endless stream of people moving from all over Jizhou on the road every day, especially the county town of Gauntao, thousands of households moved in January, and this number is still increasing.

After a month of such a busy schedule, the establishment of 5,000 regular soldiers was finally completed, led by Zhang Jaw himself, and trained in the western suburbs of Ghoutao.

The autumn harvest is a more important event than the formation and training of the new army, Wen Yuan and others did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and while inspecting and implementing the formation and training of auxiliary troops in various places, Wen Yuan did not dare to forget to go to the fields to investigate.

On June 27, Wen Yuan completed the establishment of auxiliary troops in Quzhou County, and then led 300 guards to the next destination, Pingxiang County.

At this time, it was the end of June, the sun was high, the weather was hot, although Wen Yuan was not wearing armor, but he was still hot and sweaty, and the three hundred guards behind him were all wearing iron armor, ring knives, spears, bows and arrows, although they were all sweating profusely, but they never said a word, even if they were walking all the way, they were not slightly slower than Wen Yuan's horses.

There is a pride in their eyes, in fact, they also have the capital of pride, and the selection of pro-soldiers is all drawn from the veterans, among which there are sixty-one senior sergeants! The rest of the sergeants have at least a mid-to-medium rank!

At this time, the crops are gradually ripe, the four fields look at a green and yellow, although this year is not a good weather, but there is no big famine, the farmers look in their eyes, smiles on their faces one by one.

Wen Yuan was extremely interested, and smiled and said to Zhang Yu, who was riding a horse on his side: "Zhang Yu, what is your favorite thing to do in your life?" ”

Zhang Yu was stunned for a moment, scratched his head with a smile and said: "I, of course, follow the young master, as long as the young master is happy, the little one will be happy in his heart." ”

Wen Yuan smiled and patted Zhang Yu's forehead, and said, "It's not promising, don't you want to be able to have a wife and children on the kang one day?" No more wars, no more soldiers? ”

Zhang Yu was surprised and said: "Who wouldn't want to have such a day, but now the world is full of chaos, don't fight?" How can it be? Young master, look at ......" As he was speaking, Zhang Yu suddenly saw something and pointed in one direction.

It turned out that seeing an army rushing on the avenue, the people working in the fields fled one after another, and the soldiers were in chaos, not to mention the raging Montenegrin army, the discipline of the officers and soldiers was corrupted, and they often went out to loot, and the people suffered from it repeatedly, so that when they saw an army coming, whether it was an official or a bandit, they all hid first.

Wen Yuan sighed in his heart, the people of the world live in poverty, many people have no way to live in peace all year round because of the excessive taxes and taxes on their heads, not to mention how much surplus grain is left on hand, and the officers and soldiers robbed the goods every year, had no fixed residence, and cultivated the impermanent fields, which made them even more unbearable, and many people were broken and separated from their wives because of this.

Wen Yuan was silent, and secretly swore that he couldn't manage other people's affairs, but since he was the Taishou of Julu, he must let the people of Julu live a rich and stable life!

It's a pity that the sky doesn't obey people's wishes, Wen Yuan was just about to order his subordinates to summon the people to comfort him, and suddenly a horse on Dongfang Avenue came galloping. Zhang Yu hurriedly rode up and said loudly: "Who is in such a hurry? Julu Taishou Zhang Liao is here, hurry up and see you! ”

Hearing this, the rider hurriedly pressed the horse's head, turned over and dismounted, and said urgently: "Lord Taishou, the little one is ordered by Lord Zhou Mu, and the giant deer will come to the giant deer to report the official document in the starry night." ”

Wen Yuan took the official document from Zhang Yu's hand, and after only one glance, his eyes narrowed slightly!

It turned out that there was an urgent report from Yecheng, and more than 300,000 people from Hanoi, Shangdang and other places led more than 300,000 troops to invade Jizhou! In just a few days, the head of the thief has broken Shexian and Wu'an! The thieves are mighty, and all the grain and grass they have passed along the way have been plundered, and now the forward is approaching Yecheng, Handan, Yiyang, Nanhe, and Guangnian!