On the second day, Li Jiancheng recommended more than ten old soldiers to help. Xu Zi accepted it with great gratitude, temporarily appointed all of them to low-level positions such as team leader, team deputy, recorder, and army member, and secretly assigned some tasks for them to report to the Xiongwu Xiaoguo Camp on their own. Then, Li Xu pulled Liu Hongji and persuaded some officers who were interested in seeking fame in the grain protection army, and asked them to temporarily serve as his staff. Before taking up his new post, Li Xu forcibly pulled fifty skilled archers and horses from the Tiger Wing Brigade, and the veterans who were usually close to him were used as personal guards and handed over to Zhang Xiu to command.

In the next few days, Xuzi was busy in his new position. The situation in the Xiongwu camp was indeed as Liu Hongji expected in advance, there were a mixture of fish and snakes, not only were the soldiers not as honest and obedient as the brothers in the grain protection army, but the generals at all levels also relied on the background behind each other, and did not take the new young men and generals in their eyes at all.

According to the advice of several old staff members of the Tang Mansion before the banquet, Li Xu did not attack immediately. While placing the officers brought in the grain guard army in key positions, he took time to pay homage to the generals who had shown favor to him. No matter which general's camp you go to, no matter whether the other party has done something beneficial to you, thank the other party for their recommendation. Then Xuzi, in the name of the juniors, asked the seniors in the army to guide the strategy of managing the army. Seeing that the juniors were so interested, even though they were a little dissatisfied and disappointed, several generals had to put them aside for the time being, and after personally dictating some well-known "secrets", they began to recommend their capable subordinates to "help" in the Xiongwu camp.

Li Xu accepted the "talents" recommended by the generals one by one, and he was not appointed, and he listened to them as ordinary staff members for the time being. At the same time, all the strong men who came to join the army with various letters of recommendation and famous posts were also laughed at, and arranged for them to be around them as personal guards.

After a few days of commotion among the thorns of the Xiongwu Xiaoguo Battalion, most of them got instructions behind the scenes and took the initiative to silence them. There are also a few who don't give face and want to force the new Lang Jiang away. Li Xu first tolerated everywhere, and when the "thorns" made too much trouble, he suddenly had a seizure, and ordered the personal soldiers he brought from the grain guard army to capture the person who took the lead in making trouble. First, in the name of "contempt for the boss and disobedience to military orders", each of them was beaten with 80 sticks. Then, regardless of their original position, they were all demoted to ordinary soldiers.

Some people were resentful, and in the middle of the night, they took people to Li Xu's bedroom with their faces covered and took revenge. As soon as he entered the tent, he was surrounded by soldiers who were lying in ambush in the shadows. Li Xu didn't ask the other party's origin, and ordered his soldiers to bend their bows and shoot. Shoot the masked people like hedgehogs, and the next day they will be picked up on the flagpole as high-hook spies.

The soldiers of the Xiongwu Xiaoguo Battalion didn't expect the new young man to be so ruthless, and most of the limelight was knocked out at once. Only then did Li Xu begin to rectify the order in the army, first demoting a group of low-level officers with bad intentions according to the observations of his henchmen, and filling the vacant positions with strong men recommended by the adults. Then, according to the secret reports of Zhang Xiu and his own soldiers, some incompetent civilian officials were also kicked out of the barracks, and their positions were supplemented with "virtuous talents" recommended by the generals. As for those who are honest and conscientious, they will be rewarded with a lot of meat, so that they can work without complaint.

A few days later, the Xiongwu Xiaoguo Battalion finally had some of the appearance of a military camp. Li Xu beat the drum and gathered the generals, and told everyone that His Majesty the Emperor was about to come to the camp to review the soldiers, and if everyone worked together, Ben Lang would be rewarded by the emperor, and the benefits would naturally be indispensable to everyone. If someone deliberately makes trouble, before Ben Lang will lose his official position and resign, he will definitely do something to kill people.

The generals already understood the power of Lord Lang and obeyed his orders. Li Xu referred to the suggestions of the staff of the Tang Mansion and his own training experience, and arranged the short-term training tasks one by one. The review is imminent, and it is obviously too late to practice the real skills of facing the enemy at this moment. But what aspect can best reflect the appearance of the army and what aspect can best fool the boss, the masters of the Tang Mansion have already planned clearly for Xuzi. So although everyone is now cramming, they won't be unable to figure out anything.

Since then, without wind and rain, the soldiers of the Xiongwu Xiaoguo Battalion have become a scenery by the Liao River. I saw that they were neatly armoured, their weapons shining, shouting trumpets, and trotting along the river bank in a procession. Regardless of the officers and soldiers, they would run ten miles in the morning and back in the afternoon. At night, they have to pick up the lights and drill the queue in the camp.

On the afternoon of April (27th), the other armies crossed Liaoshui and went to besiege Liaodong City. More than a dozen Xiaoguo battalions were thrown into reserve on the west side of the Liao River by Yu Wenshu, the commander of the Left Route Army, because they were not able to form combat effectiveness.

If this is the case, Li Xu will have more time to train his troops. Every day, he practiced from early morning to midnight, ready to perform in front of His Majesty the Emperor.

The Great Sui Dynasty has always implemented the government soldier system, and the government soldiers are mainly the sons and nephews of good families. Traders, sons-in-law, criminals, beggars, etc., are usually not accepted into the army, and even if they have the opportunity to join the army, they often receive half the military merit and rewards compared to soldiers from good families. Last year, the army went east and buried all the elite soldiers of 300,000 prefectures, so this year the imperial court remembered the idea of recruiting Xiaoguo into the camp. His Majesty the Emperor once personally promised in the holy decree that no matter whether he was born or low, as long as he joined Xiaoguo, he would be treated as a good family in the future.

Therefore, although the soldiers of the Xiongwu Xiaoguo battalion were loosely disciplined, their physique was much better than that of the soldiers in the regular army. No matter how strong Li Xu's daily refining is, he doesn't have to worry about exhausting people to death. In order to prevent Li Xu from being moved down as soon as he climbed to a high position, Tang Gong Li Yuan and Ying Yanglang also opened the door to Liu Hongji, and all kinds of supplies such as military rations, ordnance, wine, and meat were given priority to the supply of Xiongwu Xiaoguo Battalion. In order to fight for himself and not let people see jokes, Li Xu eats and lives with the soldiers every day, and as long as he has time, he also participates in running and drilling.

The soldiers complained at first, but they were frightened by the corpse hanging on the high pole, so they had to practice hard. Later, when I saw that Lang would suffer with him, the armor, equipment, and food treatment of the people in the headquarters seemed to be slightly higher than that of the other Xiaoguo camps, and the dissatisfaction in my heart gradually decreased. After Li Xu rewarded several well-trained brigades with heavy money, and promptly recommended several brigades that were not from the lineage as captains, everyone was even more convinced of him. If so, half a month later, the three thousand temporarily recruited Xiaoguo actually showed some elite style.

At this time, the other side of the Liao River was already in full swing, and the emperor's imperial chariot also drove to Liaodong City to supervise the battle. Because this expedition to Liao learned the lesson of the last time and allowed the generals to let go of their hands and feet, the war went quite smoothly. At the beginning of May, Wang Rengong led his army to attack Xincheng (now north of Fushun, Liaoning), defeated the enemy army of 30,000 with 1,000 cavalry, and then besieged the city, conquering it in one fell swoop. Jing Yuanheng, the general of the left Xiaowei, Zhang Jin, the general of the right imperial guard, Zhao Xiaocai, the general of the right Wuhou, and other generals who lost the battle last time, attacked everywhere and made achievements. By the middle of May, in addition to the long-term siege of Liaodong City, Gaimu, Xincheng, Jian'an, Fuyu and other small cities near the Liaohe River fell into the hands of the Sui army.

As for the matter of reviewing the recruits, His Majesty the Emperor himself has long forgotten that Li Xu does not know how to make money, and the bigwigs in the court will naturally not create an opportunity for him to show off in front of the emperor. The Xiaoguo of the Xiongwu Xiaoguo Battalion finished practicing the formation of the queue, practiced the formation and practiced cooperation, and finally even covered the bow and arrow required for actual combat, and began to train in subjects such as light riding and detour, and still did not wait for any opportunity to perform.

The heroes were jealous of the merits of others, and they asked Li Xu to fight. Li Xu saw that his morale was available, so he wrote a letter of invitation to fight and sent it to him, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea. In order to calm the morale of the army, he had to think of other ways to distract the soldiers. First of all, do some small-scale competitive and wrestling games, and use bounties to divert everyone's ideas. Later, the competition and wrestling games were bored, so he simply divided more than 10,000 soldiers into two parts and played offensive and defensive drills on the west bank of the Liao River. In the notes given by Master Yang, there are many detailed discussions about the coordination of battle formations. Li Xu was just trying to please his master, and he memorized by rote and didn't do any in-depth understanding. At this moment, compared with the actual situation of the Xiongwu Xiaoguo Battalion, combined with his own observation in the Su Si Department and his experience in the grain protection army, I reviewed this note again, and many things that I didn't understand were actually cheerful. After thoroughly understanding the training methods, Xuzi recalled the strategy, planning, detours, battles, ambushes, and strong attacks discussed in the notebook in turn, and his understanding of the use of troops unconsciously improved by another level.

Whenever he realized something, he secretly practiced it in his camp. Anyway, the Xiaoguo are idle and panicked, and the more new flowers Lang will play, the better they will pass the time. Slowly, Li Xu also had some experience in some field formations and temporary formations, and whenever the battle report on the east bank of the Liao River came back, he could analyze the gains and losses with his cronies in a straightforward manner.

The days waiting to go out are simple and hectic. Li Jiancheng still often comes to his camp to go around, pulling Liu Hongji and Xuzi to find a place where no one pays attention to drinking and chatting. Li Shimin also came to ask for martial arts every once in a while, as before, and he would be very happy if he got something occasionally. Li Wan'er rarely shows up again, even if she appears in front of Xuzi once by chance, she lowers her head and says a few words and walks away in a hurry, no longer being willful and fooling around like before. Her hurried cold attitude made Li Xu feel a little depressed, and when she thought about the identity gap between them, the young man was quickly relieved.

"After all, she is the daughter of Tang Gong, I can't climb high!" Again and again, Xuzi looked at Wan'er's figure and thought with a smile. He felt a faint bitterness in his mouth, and at the same time, he was also ignited by this bitterness again and again.

At the end of May, the left-hand crusade army was again approaching Malishui. Under the personal command of the emperor, the army on the right road made millions of cloth bags and piled up into a 30-step wide Yuliang Avenue outside the city of Liaodong. At the same time, His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Sui gave an ultimatum to the defenders of Liaodong, 'If you don't surrender, the day the city is broken, there will be no chickens and dogs!' ”

The defenders of Liaodong replied, "I only wish for a war!" ”。 His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty was furious and mobilized an army of 600,000 to prepare to level the city. The two sides fought on the city wall for a day and a night, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner. When the soldiers were tired, someone suddenly discovered that the Great Sui still had a new force on the west bank of the Liao River.

"Your Majesty, I heard that the Zhu Xiaoguo battalion is training in Huaiyuan, and it has recently become a scale!" Pei Ju, the waiter of the Yellow Gate, leaned over Yang Guang's ear and reminded in a low voice.

"That's right, it's not Aiqing's reminder, I almost want to forget it!" Yang Guangda was overjoyed and immediately pulled out the arrow.

On the first day of the first month of June, the emperor ordered 120,000 Xiaoguo to cross Liao, and the Xiongwu camp ranked first among all the battalions.

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