Yuan Shao looked at the performance of the horn soldiers below, the more he looked at it, the more frightened he was, and saw that the horn soldiers could be called a big fight, although the veterans were few, they could be extremely fierce, and although the number of recruits was large, they were greatly inferior in terms of ferocity.

The whole show ended in less than two quarters of an hour, and the recruits were pressed and beaten by the veterans from the beginning to the end, and after the final collapse, the veterans still did not spare each other, pressed all the recruits to the ground, and let the recruits squat with their heads in their hands.

The general, who led the veteran soldiers into battle, looked up at the fort wall and waited for Li Qin to give an order.

Yuan Shao turned his face to look at Li Qin, and saw Li Qin raise his right hand, stretched out his thumb, and shook it at the veteran generals, and then aimed his thumb at the recruits who were squatting with their heads in their hands, his hand slowly flipped, and his thumb rushed down!

Yuan Shao thought to himself: "What does this mean, and what does this gesture represent?" ”

As soon as Li Qin made this gesture, he heard the veteran general below shout: "The defeated are whipped." Recruits, all of them, lined up! ”

The recruits stood up and trotted to the line, while the veterans, each with their whips, ripped off the recruits' trousers, crackled and whipped them, and with each whip the recruits had to shout: "Yes! ”

Draw neatly, shout neatly, as if rehearsed in advance!

Yuan Shao was so surprised that it was indescribable, and he asked Li Qin, "Li Lang, why is this?" It's just a show, there must always be winners and losers, but after defeat, it seems that there is no need to beat the soldiers, this will make the soldiers complain, not to mention being whipped while shouting, you are not afraid of the soldiers mutiny? ”

Without waiting for Li Qin to answer, Zhang Qin said with a sloppy mouth: "This is called smoking, as the saying goes, heroes are not judged by success or failure, that is because the losers are bears." General Yuan, don't you think that the defeated are all bears? Shouldn't bears be whipped? Shouldn't you shout when you are whipped? If you don't shout it, do you want them to shout it? ”

Li Qin glanced at Yuan Shao and said: "Only in this way can the defeated soldiers feel humiliated, shameful and courageous, so that in the future, whether they are performing or fighting, the soldiers will move forward bravely." The same is true of the veterans who beat people in the past when they were recruits, but now they are veterans, and it is their turn to draw new recruits. ”

Although Yuan Shao had tried his best to pretend to be calm, he couldn't help but stutter a little at this time, and he said, "This, this, I'm afraid...... I'm afraid it will cause a mutiny, right? When I was in Beijing, I also took the Yulin Army to perform, but there was never such a rule, and, moreover, ......"

He really couldn't figure out how Li Qin beat the soldiers like this, and he didn't cause a mutiny among the horn-raising soldiers, and seeing the way the recruits were beaten, it seemed that they were still very well-behaved, and no one was angry, let alone scolded and resisted, if it was placed in the Yulin Army, it was really unimaginable. In the Yulin Army, even if it is the defeated side, it can only give encouragement, and it can't even say too much, otherwise the Yulin Army will have to scold. The mutiny of the Yulin Army is not daring, after all, the family members are all in Beijing, but they are not happy but it is certain, if they do not mutiny, they will make trouble, or "excessive injury", lie at home and do not go to the barracks, anyway, any kind of strange tricks can be used, and the general must bow his head.

Yuan Shao is the Zhonglang general in the capital, he encounters this kind of soldier all day long, he can only pull and coax the Yulin Army, how can he use a whip to whip, and he can smoke one or two to kill chickens and monkeys, and he must not smoke such a large area, and he still shouts while smoking!

Li Qin said to Yuan Shao very patiently: "Brother Yuan, my Fujiao Army is different from the Yulin Army in Beijing, my soldiers are all from poor men, and they can't survive before they come to serve as soldiers to eat, and if they are disobedient, I won't give them food; But the Yulin Army in the capital is different, they are all children of a family, even if the family is not very high, but I always know a few high, they are all people who don't worry about food and clothing, how can they be honest? ”

Yuan Shao nodded slowly, thinking, "This makes sense, but with such a beating method, it is impossible for the soldiers to have no complaints!" ”

Li Qin smiled and said, "Brother Yuan, are you wondering if the soldiers who were beaten below would have complaints in their hearts, right?" ”

Yuan Shao sighed and said, "Yes, what do I really think about this, I can't figure it out!" The soldiers have a complaint in their hearts, and when they go into battle in the future, you are not afraid that they will take the opportunity to retaliate at the critical moment, shoot the veterans who have beaten them, or simply not listen to your orders? This kind of thing has happened in the armies of the Central Plains, I don't think you Liangzhou has never had this kind of thing, right? ”

Li Qin smiled and didn't squeak, but Jia Xu said proudly: "General Yuan, in our Fujiao Army, this kind of thing really hasn't happened. The reason is very simple, so simple that it will be broken as soon as you say it! But after he finished saying this, he just didn't say anything, and waited for Yuan Shao to ask.

Yuan Shao was very embarrassed, this surnamed Jia was selling Guanzi, what to say was simple, but no matter how simple he was, he wouldn't be able to solve this problem himself! He had no choice but to harden his head and ask, "I don't know why?" ”

Jia Xu said with a smile: "Because these beaten recruits know very well in their hearts that they will not be beaten in vain today, they will become veterans one day, and after they become veterans, they can whip the recruits as much as they want, and they can whip as much as they want." Filial piety comes out under the stick, and strong soldiers come out under the whip! ”

Yuan Shao sighed, and couldn't help but suddenly realize in his heart, it turns out that the trick is here!

After watching the performance, Li Qin pulled Yuan Shao to visit the fields around Fujiao Fort, at this time it was the busy time of spring, the people of Fujiao were busy in the field, and the farmland of Fujiao Fort adopted a large farm-style management, the fields were connected, as far as the eye could see, the green fields could not be seen at a glance, the green fields intersected with the blue sky in the distance, and intersected into a line at the end of the horizon, and the scenery was spectacular.

Everyone was riding on horses, standing on the edge of the field, Li Qin pointed to the distance, and said with a smile: "Brother Yuan, you have been in the land of Gyeonggi for a long time, there are many people and few places, I'm afraid you rarely see this kind of scene, right?" I think only in a frontier place like Liangzhou can you farm like this, if you change Luoyang and Chang'an......"

As he spoke, he found that Yuan Shao didn't react, and turned his head to look, but saw Yuan Shao's contemplative face, half-bowing his head, as if he was thinking about something.

Li Qin said: "Brother Yuan, Brother Yuan, what do you think of my farmland in Fujiao Fort?" ”

Yuan Shao sighed, then raised his head and looked at the farmland, he had something in his heart, although he came out with Li Qin and others, but his mind was still on the performance of the Fujiao Army, at this time Li Qin reminded him that he paid attention to the crops of Fujiao Fort.

Facing the endless field, Yuan Shao was slightly shocked, he nodded and said, "It seems that a bumper harvest is expected, Li Lang is a rich man!" He didn't mean anything, he just said it casually.

For Yuan Shao, no matter how well the crops are planted, they are just farmers, and the characters of the top wealthy families usually don't even go to the kitchen, thinking that the price is dropped, as for watching the farmer farming, it is simply a drop in price, plus a drop in price. Not only that, but most of the children of wealthy families in Beijing are like this, they don't care about agricultural production, even when the world is in turmoil, many children of wealthy families still rob the people and destroy farmland, Yuan Shao's brother Yuan Shu is one of them. These children of the nobility, only when they are forced to the point of no way out, will they vigorously develop agriculture and sympathize with the common people, such as Cao Ying.

Everyone saw Yuan Shao's absent-minded look, and couldn't help but pout, especially Zhang Qin, he was not a person who cared about production, but he stayed in Fujiao Fort for a long time, and saw that everyone here cared about production, and under the influence of his ears and eyes, he also began to pay attention, but now when he saw Yuan Shao's appearance, he naturally looked down on him in his heart, scolded in his heart, and couldn't help but say a few words of sarcasm.

Zhang Qin said: "General Yuan, but are you still thinking about the performance?" The Fujiao Army's performance, our family is involved in the whole process, if you have any questions, just ask our family, and our family will teach you well! "It's nice to say, I want to teach Yuan Shao, but the expression on my face is, look at your stupid appearance, even if you don't understand anything, don't ask me, think about it yourself!

When he was so sarcastic, Yuan Shao was naturally angry, he really wanted to ask, but Zhang Qin was so sarcastic, he couldn't ask, laughed a few times, and didn't speak.

Everyone looked at the fields for a while, and then went back to the castle, and then the county guard Yusuke came, and after seeing Yuan Shao, he naturally complimented him again, and feasted again, and ate and drank and had fun.

After the banquet was dismissed, Yuan Shao returned to his residence, opened the bamboo slips, and began to write down his experience. He summed up that there are three key points to train a strong soldier, one is to pull a strong man, because it is easy to manage, and you can't use the children of the family as soldiers, because it is not easy to manage, the second is to have strict military law, and the punishment of soldiers should be heavy, so that the soldiers dare not disobey the military order, otherwise they will not be given food, the poor man is not a soldier just to eat mixed rice, in order to eat a full stomach, how to smoke them, the poor man has to accept his fate, the third is to act like a battle, not sloppy, don't be afraid of casualties, the casualties are waste, those who stay are strong soldiers, and he trains, Isn't it just to get strong soldiers?

After summing up, Yuan Shao looked at the bamboo slips and thought: "If I train like this, I can also train strong soldiers, and my financial resources are much stronger than Li Qin, if he can train 10,000 people, I can train 100,000 people, and my fame will not be too far away." ”

But he thought again, he just watched how to act, but he didn't see the real battle, it just so happened that the imperial court wanted Li Qin to go to Bingzhou to suppress Li Wenhou, it was better to follow and see it himself, anyway, he was not in a hurry to return to Beijing, since he wanted to steal the art, why not steal it completely!

After making up his mind and blowing out the lamp to sleep, Yuan Shao decided to urge Li Qin to send troops tomorrow to suppress Li Wenhou, and he had to see how the Fujiao Army fought.

Lying on the bed, Yuan Shao closed his eyes and thought: "In a poor place like Liangzhou, let Li Qin toss, he is also a side general." Now the Central Plains is not very peaceful, what kind of peace is there, it is estimated that the chaos is not far away, and the Central Plains is the place where I can show my skills, waiting for me to train strong soldiers...... Hey, the highest glory of my Yuan family, let me cast it! ”

(To be continued)