As the situation became more and more critical, the people on Laoshan felt a sense of urgency, and everyone began to actively train under Wei Shuo's urging, but a few days later, Wei Shuo found that the training effect was very poor.

At the foot of Laoshan Mountain, looking at the sparse hundred and ten people in front of him, Wei Shuo frowned, before this he had expected to encounter great resistance, but he didn't expect to underestimate the difficulty of training, especially the spirit of the people is very wrong, most people don't seem to be aware of the impending crisis, but there is a kind of thinking that a little wealth is safe.

"It's not okay to go on like this, we have to find a way to arouse everyone's enthusiasm for training."

Thinking of this, Wei Shuo stepped forward and motioned for everyone to gather around. Looking at the listless young men, Wei Shuo took a deep breath and shouted, "I know that everyone doesn't want to train hard, but why should I urge everyone to train at this time?" Am I really worried? Or is it just that some people are muttering in their hearts? ”

"I can understand that everyone has such complaints, after all, everyone is busy taking care of Yantian during the day, and they want to spend some free time with their families and children, and they are resistant to this training plan implemented in the trading company. Many people feel that now that there are salt pans anyway, there is hope for the future, so there is no need to toss around. ”

Wei Shuo's analysis suddenly reached the hearts of most people, and those present were ordinary people, if it weren't for the reality that forced them to a desperate situation, I believe that most people would never be able to pick up arms to fight in their lives. At this moment, Wei Shuo suddenly understood why people like Zeng Guofan and Yuan Shikai also needed to rely on silver to open the way when they were training.

It is true that using money can quickly increase everyone's enthusiasm for military training, but it also has endless consequences. The soldiers trained in this way only have the appearance of the soldiers and have no soldiers, and the army composed of such soldiers has no ideas. It is impossible for an army without a soul to be brilliant for too long, and sooner or later it will be destroyed.

Although Wei Shuo is not a professional military talent, he has experienced the baptism of various information on the Internet in later generations, so it is impossible for him to use the same means as Zeng Guofan and Yuan Shikai. But it is not enough to blindly rely on strict punishment and strict laws, if the royal majesty is too strict, maybe one day he himself will end up with Zhang Fei.

After thinking about it, Wei Shuo felt that he still had to learn from Taizu, and improve everyone's understanding through ideological transformation such as complaining about grievances, so as to achieve the effect of consciously participating in training. No material reward can compare to the effect of spontaneous participation in training.

"Are we really fooling around doing this?" Speaking of this, Wei Shuo's eyes swept away, and many people showed a look of confusion on their faces, obviously they didn't understand Wei Shuo's painstaking efforts.

"I can tell you with certainty that this is not a blind toss, this is to protect our interests from infringement!"

"What kind of life did you all live before you fled to Laoshan, do you need me to say it again? We are all poor in the truest sense of the word, little people living at the bottom of society! No one can afford us, and people with a little power can bully us, and we have no other way but to swallow our anger and escape. ”

"Laoshan is our new home, we have finally seen the hope of living through our own efforts, do you want to see that one day, this place will also be destroyed by the bad people outside? Are we going to run away again? But we can't run away forever, because evasion will not solve any problems, and will only fuel the arrogance of the enemy. ”

Wei Shuo's sharp gaze swept over everyone's faces, and asked word by word: "Why can the officials in the county town eat big fish and meat every day?" Why can those aristocrats have so many women? Why can those great families have a lot of land? Why can those bandits and robbers be powerful over us? ”

"Why? Why is that? Which of you can answer me? Are we inherently inferior to them, and deserve to struggle to survive in the midst of precariousness? ”

This series of reasons pierced into the hearts of the hundred and ten people present like daggers, and everyone's faces were no longer indifferent, and their expressions became very rich: fear, excitement, entanglement, excitement, and so on.

Everyone who comes to Laoshan can't live in reality, and it can be said that everyone present has their own bitter history. Wei Shuo's words can be regarded as speaking in everyone's hearts, usually everyone only knows that life is not easy is a fact, and the poor should suffer from poverty, but they will not think about the deep-seated reasons.

In fact, in ancient history, all those who thought like this rebelled without exception.

"The reason why we are bullied and forced to sell our children is because we don't have the power to protect ourselves! As long as we have the power to protect ourselves, I can assure you that no one will dare to take our women and land easily, and no one will force us to be cornered! ”

"Now, I would like to ask you, would you like to take up the spear in your hand and defend your home?"

"Yes!"

"We do!"

At this moment, the blood in everyone's hearts was finally stirred up by Wei Shuo, and grievance education is indeed the only magic weapon for ideological work. The next thing is simple, after everyone straightens their minds, the training effect skyrockets.

In view of the thin foundation of everyone, Wei Shuo did not have any too complicated training plan, except for simple queue training, there was only one item: spear direct stab.

"Everyone, watch my movements!"

"Listen to me!"

"Ready!"

"Thorn!"

One hundred and thirty men stabbed their spears out in unison.

"Thorn Left!"

"Thorn right!"

"Thorn on!"

"Stab!"

That's all there is to it, and then it's a matter of repeating the exercises. In fact, this kind of simple training is most suitable for everyone, after all, they were all unarmed ordinary people before, and they had never experienced any battle formations, and this simple spear stab was the easiest for everyone to master. However, spearmen are not without weaknesses, especially spearmen without any foundation, once they are close to elite soldiers armed with short weapons, then they can only be slaughtered.

Spearmen can only be most effective when they are used in combination with sword and shield soldiers and archers, but Wei Shuo can't afford to buy sword and shield weapons at the moment, so he can only temporarily use archers to assist, which makes his soldiers quite powerful in long-range attacks, and if used properly, they may not be able to play a big role.

The physical strength of the ancient people was still too weak, but after only a while of practicing, everyone began to panting. But Wei Shuo felt that he had just warmed up, and he didn't know if the dense fog changed his physique during the passage, in short, after coming to the ancient times, Wei Shuo felt that his body was much stronger than before.

"Let's take a break."

"Brother Wei, can we just stab around like this?" During the break, Zhang Erlang walked over with a spear and sat next to Wei Shuo, very suspicious of Wei Shuo's training ability.

After getting acquainted with the Zhang brothers, Wei Shuo also knew that Zhang Erlang was a straight man, and he wouldn't hide anything in his heart at all, thinking that his disdain for Wei Shuo was often on his face. Therefore, Wei Shuo would not feel that this was Zhang Erlang's dissatisfaction with him, he squinted his eyes and seemed to joke: "What? Don't believe in Brother Wei's ability? ”

"I don't believe that it's impossible for anyone not to believe you, Brother Wei, it's just that I have a little doubt in my heart." Zhang Erlang hurriedly waved his hand.

"Now we have too few people to see the advantage of the spearmen. In fact, if you think about it carefully, you can understand the advantages of spearmen, close your eyes and imagine: thousands or tens of thousands of spearmen are lined up, what kind of situation is it, even in the face of the Hu cavalry, I am sure that I will win the battle. ”

"Brother Wei, this spearman is really powerful!"

With Wei Shuo's explanation, everyone, including Zhang Erlang, completely dispelled their worries. After a short rest, everyone threw themselves back into the hot training. The spear phalanx of more than 100 people was awe-inspiring and murderous, and Zhang Laohan and the others, who were observing from the side, couldn't help but nod secretly, as long as the escort of more than 100 people was built, they would have at least the protective power.