There's a lot of stuff. But the most important thing is the analysis of the enemy situation. Long Qian didn't hope that Zheng Jing would be satisfied if he escaped with his life. Therefore, after basically settling down, Long Qian arranged reconnaissance of surrounding villages and towns and exploration of roads. In the main direction identified, he and Zhou Yi took the staff group and the company platoon commanders to personally conduct reconnaissance.

According to the information that has been grasped, Zhuangzi within a radius of several dozen miles, Qiucun 15 miles east of Bai Wei, Shiyuan nine miles northwest of Baiwei, 12 miles northeast of Zhengjiazhuang, Zhaojialou 10 miles south of Chenjiaya, and Shuangji Village 20 miles west of Zhengjiazhuang all knew what was happening here. On Long Qian's orders, he didn't embarrass these obviously frightened villagers, but just blocked them back.

According to the locations where the officers and troops were stationed, the most dangerous directions were analyzed by the staff group on the east and west sides, facing Fei County and Teng County respectively, and there were officers and troops stationed in both places, but the strength of the troops was unknown. The south is the Baoqinggu mountain area, and the north is Pingyi, but from Pingyi to Zhengjiazhuang, there is no big road to communicate, and the population is sparse, and the Mengshan army came here to choose this road.

Long Qian believed that if the official army launched an attack on the Mengshan army, it would most likely take Teng County or Fei County as the starting point. Zhengjiazhuang and other three villages belong to the jurisdiction of Yizhou, and from this point of view, the direction of Feixian County seems to be more dangerous.

From a military point of view, it seems that the Mengshan army should send troops to occupy Qiucun and Zhaojialou. In that case, it can effectively shield the surprise attack launched by the official army from the direction of Fei County. However, Long Qian vetoed Ning Shijun's suggestion, because the troops in his hands were too thin, and he did not dare to send the main force and relax the pressure on Zhengjiazhuang, the core Zhuangzi, after all, there were hundreds of villagers who were trained and hated the Mengshan army to stay in Zhuangzi.

If all these former villagers were arrested and executed, then the Mengshan Army would not even think about occupying this "base area", in fact, all the officers understood this truth, so Long Qian just confiscated his weapons and did not arrest people, and everyone did not raise any objections. However, before some measures can be implemented and effective, it is necessary to station "heavy troops" in Zhengjiazhuang.

There is a shortage of troops.

Fortunately, before leaving the mountain, one hundred and ten Lu San Mazi prisoners who were captured in the first battle followed them to Zhengjiazhuang. According to Long Qian's order, each person received a new army uniform before departure. Almost none of these people proposed to leave, whether it was because they were not suitable for the life of ordinary people after becoming a ringing horse or other reasons, and Mengshan Jun was unwilling to chase after him. Now is the critical moment of the shortage of troops, and the fact that these 100 men with certain military skills have joined the army is good news for the Mengshan army, which is extremely short of troops.

During this period of time, the left-behind personnel did not let go of the education of these people, what the specific results were, Long Qian had no bottom in his heart, he didn't even communicate with these people, because the time was tight at that time, as soon as he returned to the mountain, he studied the plan for the attack on Zhengjiazhuang, and deployed the expedition, and there was no time at all.

Feng Guozhu and Ning Shijun both suggested forming another company, but Long Qian's original intention was to break them up and join each company. Feng Guozhu said to Long Qian that the experience of the Fifth Company proved that it was better not to dismantle the original establishment, and those people were willing to join the Mengshan Army, but they were afraid of being dismantled. This involves an organizational theory, each with its pros and cons. After consulting with several senior officers, Long Qian adopted Feng Guozhu's opinion and decided to form a recruit company, appointing Lu Shan as the commander of the recruit company, and Shi Dashou, who was still recovering from his injuries, was appointed as the commander of the fifth company and succeeded Lu Shan.

The reason why Lu Shan was chosen as the commander of the recruit company was because after Lu Shan took over the fifth company with the most special composition, the training of the fifth company was extremely successful. This time he attacked Zhengjiazhuang, and the five companies made great contributions. At the end of this battle, the four old companies of the Mengshan Army officially accepted this special company, which was originally a prisoner.

Only one Lushan can't support this new company, and the quality of these people is much worse than Shi Dashou. Long Qian could safely combine Shi Dashou into a new company, but he would never dare to send only one company commander. Therefore, Long Qian drew more than a dozen people from the whole army to serve as squad and platoon leaders in the recruit company, and this company became the most fully organized company in the whole army, but its combat effectiveness was worrying, and he did not dare to put it into battle immediately.

Good thing there was time.

Long Qian was very concerned about the training of the recruit company during this period, personally revised and approved the training plan formulated by Lu Shan and the staff group, and sent two staff officers, Wu Nian and Deng Qinghua, to the recruit company to assist and supervise the training of the recruit company, and reported the training to him every night.

As Long Qian expected, it would be more difficult for these bandits to complete the transformation from bandits to soldiers than it was to train the original Mengshan bandits. Of course, it is still starting with the training of the platoon, with the aim of strengthening their discipline and cultivating the obedience of the soldiers. However, the whole training on the first day did not go well, and Lu Shan beat a total of three people with military sticks and locked up two people, which made the atmosphere very tense.

"Just hold on like this, don't be soft." After listening to Lu Shan's report that night, Long Qian affirmed his approach, "They are unwilling to go back to be ordinary people, in fact, they have also lost their qualifications to be ordinary people, so they are willing to join us, but they definitely didn't expect the formal training to be so hard, don't be soft, stick to it." In my opinion, the amount of training needs to be increased. However, while severely punishing those who are slippery, it is necessary to grasp the positive examples, and do not reward silver, but can use the way of food and praise. ”

Long Qian firmly believes that material rewards can never replace spiritual incentives, and the two are indispensable.

"I'm afraid it won't work for a month." Lu Shan was deeply worried, "I don't know if the officials and soldiers of Lu Dao will give us a month." ”

Long Qian felt that Lu Shan had made rapid progress during this period of time, and he was more and more pleased to have a sense of the overall situation, "It doesn't matter, the basic training is to be as solid as possible." One month is not enough, just two months. Don't think about war, concentrate on training your soldiers. When those village soldiers are recruited, their quality will be stronger than these bandits. ”

The transformation of a simple peasant into a qualified soldier is much less difficult than that of a slick bandit.

"Will they join us?" Lu Shan was surprised.

"What won't you do? Just look at it. Long Qian smiled and patted Lu Shan's shoulder.

The subsequent training continued to confirm Long Qian's concern for the recruit company. This gang has committed too much discipline, all kinds of things, fighting, resisting, pretending to be sick, and even running away with their bare hands. Military discipline has never been stricter, it is still the old way, the military rules and regulations are repeatedly taught to the recruits, and the ideological class is also opened, or at night, Long Qian also personally teaches these guys who are sick, but the effect is not as good as the original training of the Mengshan Army, these slippery guys don't seem to care about food, clothing and fun, according to the statistics of the squad platoon leaders, at least half of them regret joining the Mengshan Army.

Lu Shan and the more than a dozen squad platoon commanders who were transferred to the recruit company were tired to death. In their words, Mengshan was not so tired from the whole training.

Facts have proved that Sun Dewang's means of governing Mengshanzhai are more powerful than Lu San Mazi.

"Can't you just get those guys who don't get in the oil and salt?" Zhou Yi suggested to Long Qian.

"What's the line? In the future, the expansion of our team will mainly be through the transformation of prisoners. It's kind of a training session for us. Long Qian vetoed Zhou Yi's unobtrusive suggestion.

During this time, Long Qian was busy forming the second intelligence station of the Mengshan Army, that is, setting up a point in Fei County, and now that he had money in his hands, Lu Huali had gained some experience in Caozhou. This matter was handed over to Jiang Yun's office, but Long Qian still asked about the details, from the selection of personnel, cover occupations to contact information. In fact, he knew that because there were many locals under him, and the government's awareness of anti-espionage was almost none, there was not much danger in setting up an intelligence point with a reasonable cover identity, and Long Qian felt embarrassed by the serious lack of intelligence talents in his hands, and only Jiang Yun was able to use it, Long Qian was considering whether to set up a special intelligence group.

The training of the recruit company was still not satisfactory, and almost all the training plans were not completed on time. It wasn't until two guys who tried to rape women were shot that things took a turn.

Living in the same village, and not being locked up by prisoners, there is always an opportunity to contact women. On the night after Long Qian began to arrest Zhengjiazhuang's "reform" and publicly tried Zheng Jiazhu, the housekeeper of Zheng Jing, who was very angry by the people, and was shot in public, the soldiers of the two recruit companies actually touched Zheng Jiazhu's home and intended to rape Zheng Jiazhu's wife and daughter, Zheng Jiazhu's wife who was in panic did not dare to resist, but Zheng Jiazhu's seventeen-year-old daughter was a fierce one, and the shouting alarmed the neighbors, so some villagers reported to the "military", and Lu Shan immediately led people to arrest the two guys who had slipped out of the station.

"If you don't say it, shoot it." Long Qian gave the order with a blushing face.

According to the military rules, attempted rape does not lead to death. This time, Long Qian was ready to make an example. The meeting explained the situation, including Cao Minzhong, who was relatively dull in enforcing military discipline, and all agreed to carry out the execution. The next day, a villagers' meeting was convened, and it was announced in public that the two guys who had seriously violated discipline would be sentenced to death and executed immediately.

"Folks, our Mengshan Army is not bandits, I have told you more than once." After announcing the results, Long Qian said to the villagers in front of the ancestral hall, "Zheng Jiazhu relied on Zheng Jing's power to be an evil village, and the crime was extremely evil, and we executed Zheng Jiazhu to eliminate harm to the villagers." But Zheng Jiazhu's wife and daughter are not guilty and deserve to be protected by our army. These two scum are soldiers of our army's recruit company, and everyone has also seen that they are undergoing recruit training, and they don't understand the military regulations of the Mengshan Army so well, thinking that the family members of Zheng Jiazhu, who were suppressed by our army, are people who can be bullied casually, and their calculations are wrong! The Mengshan Army will never bully people who are not guilty, the Mengshan Army is to protect the good! You have seen that I, Long Qian, govern the army, and the guilty will be punished! Today, we shot these two scum in public to tell the villagers that we are an army, not bandits. ”

Long Qian grasped the psychology of the villagers. It is to tell the villagers, especially those who have been village soldiers, that even Zheng Jiazhu's family members are not allowed to be violated, let alone others.

Sure enough, the villagers were surprised and moved by the Mengshan army's practice of killing chickens and monkeys, but the biggest effect appeared in the recruit company, and the shooting of the violators shocked the hob meat. To be honest, they didn't look so closely at the military regulations of the Mengshan Army before, and they felt that they didn't care about what they should manage, whether they should be strict or not, and what they shouldn't manage blindly, but the rules of the Lu family were not like this. As long as you listen to the master, you can say anything. Now they know that this dragon commander is a tiger with sharp teeth, and he can also eat people.

The shooting of two scum shocked a group of guys who had not yet integrated into the Mengshan Army. The basic training, which has been not going well, is starting to take shape. After entering the tactical training course, Long Qian made a decision to disband the recruit company and organize them into five companies, each old company formed a new platoon, all of which were three platoons, and each company had more than 80 people. The starting point for this was that Long Qian found that it might work best after disrupting the gang. Now, two to three recruits are assigned to each squad, and the veterans will carry them, and the problems on their bodies will be corrected more quickly.

Lu Shan was "unemployed" again, and the old captain under Long Qian temporarily acted as the commander of the Fifth Company (Shi Dashou was still recuperating from his injuries), and squatted in Chenjiaya. Long Qian said to him, don't worry about running out of soldiers, when the people accept us, our Mengshan army will usher in a big expansion.