Zhang Liao has been a little annoyed lately.

Pingcheng County has a population of more than 5 million, and if calculated according to the ratio of men and women, there should be more than 2.5 million men. Then, 16~30-year-old young and strong, according to the normal age group, should account for about two or five of all men, and theoretically should reach more than 600,000.

In the battle of Xianbei invasion, 100,000 troops, plus 200,000 young people, a total of 300,000 people, less than half were left after the war, and more than 160,000 young people died on the battlefield.

After this battle, the whole county, almost every household wore filial piety, every household cried, a whole half a month, inside and outside the city, are white flags and paper money, from the sky to the earth, white. At night, when I pushed the window into the distance, I almost mistakenly thought it was snowing in June.

It can be said that after this battle, the biggest loss of the entire Pingcheng was not the city wall, not the money and food, and even the population, but the hearts of the people, and the hearts of the people were half crippled!

After the sycamore is half dead and cleared the frost, the white-headed mandarin duck loses its companion!

The sorrow of this poem, although it depicts love, is not the same as family affection? Sometimes, the pain of a white-haired person sending a black-haired person even exceeds that of a young woman who loses her husband.

For a young woman, three or five years, although it may not be possible to completely heal the wound, can at least give her a choice to start a family again. But the white-haired mother will never be able to give birth to her only son.

The child who was pregnant for ten months, gave birth once, and raised with a handful of and urine since he was a child, just lay straight and straight in the cold grave, and will never call his mother again.

After the war, there were hundreds of blind mothers crying in Pingcheng. There are also some elderly people, they may be fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, dementia, and they don't know what to do all day.

The battle of Xianbei can be said to have crippled the hearts of the people of Pingcheng!

Healing the wounds of war is a more arduous and lengthy task than economic revival and homeland reconstruction.

After the lord became the Taishou, the conscription system was changed to a conscription system, and the soldiers who did not want to continue to serve as soldiers for the rest of the battle could leave freely, and severance pay was also paid to thank them for their contributions to the war, although the government had already paid a reward before.

If you are willing to continue to be a soldier, you will be given a settling-in allowance and a monthly fee of 1 gold for the promotion of a third-order soldier, and the monthly money will be increased twice for each rank you rise!

But the remaining soldiers still left five or six thousand, and now only about twenty-five thousand remain. It has been seven days since his recruitment notice was posted, and the threshold for recruiting is not high, but looking at the current situation, not to mention recruiting 100,000 people, recruiting 50,000 people is a bit reluctant.

It is estimated that the situation of Qiangyin is similar to that of Pingcheng, and after the lord understands the truth, he shouldn't blame himself, right?

Since this situation is unlikely to change in the short term, let's follow the mantra that the Lord often talks about - "quantity is insufficient and quality is compensated".

Zhang Liao has personally experienced the crushing of ordinary troops by special arms, as long as the lord is willing to invest more, the combat effectiveness of 10,000 primary special arms will definitely crush 100,000 ordinary soldiers.

Of course, this requires more than one million merit points, more than ten million gold coins, and the strength of a soldier to reach the peak of a third-order soldier. Where to invest resources, Zhang Liao can't be the lord of the lord, but he can train his soldiers hard and let them reach the peak of the third-order soldiers as soon as possible.

After the recruitment was over, Zhang Liao no longer cared about other things, ate and lived in the barracks, and took 50,000 troops into the intense large-scale military training activities. As for the defense work of Yanmen County, it was temporarily handed over to the 2,000 junior special troops and 10,000 third-order soldiers sent by Tianma City.

The lord said that the strength of an army depends on five major factors, and Zhang Liao thought so: first, it is the discipline of ordering and prohibiting; second, it is a general who takes the lead; third, it is a military formation of unity and cooperation; Fourth, it is a superior rank; Fifth, it is skillful and ruthless combat skills.

Therefore, Zhang Liao practiced discipline first, and on the first day of the assembly of the troops, he preferred to read the military discipline, and asked all the soldiers to spend three days to memorize it, and those who did not recite it after three days were punished with fasting, and those who did not recite it after five days were punished with whipping:

Those who falsely claim to be sick shall be beheaded;

Those who abandon their weapons in battle are beheaded;

Those who do not advance when they hear the drums and do not retreat will be beheaded;

If you don't obey the official, you can't do it, you can't stop prohibiting it, and you will be beheaded;

Kill people, ** women, beheading;

and some of the lesser penalties of fasting and caning.

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He spent half a month training Ye Teng to train all the generals of the Tianma City forces in the later military training: standing, resting, turning left, turning right, turning half a step to the left, half a step to the right, starting to walk, walking in a positive step, running and walking, long-distance running with weights, crawling forward, shaping exercises, gathering, disbanding, sorting out housekeeping, etc.

Although the vast majority of the people in the army are illiterate, and there are many people who do not distinguish between left and right, after half a month, the unit still has the initial prototype of a soldier.

At the same time, some people in the training also gradually emerged, Zhang Liao began to gradually promote some outstanding people to leadership positions according to factors such as strength, understanding, diligence, law-abiding, and leadership.

For example, on the twelfth day of the training, the army appointed a group of officers, Xiao Shan became the captain, and Huang Yao and Chen Ming became the commanders.

Being an officer has real benefits, not only with a number of subordinates, but also with job subsidies and priority reward opportunities.

Therefore, the promotion and appointment of the first batch of officers caused a sensation in the army, and gradually formed an atmosphere of benign competition in which you chase after each other, and the atmosphere in the army has changed from then on.

Although the training during the day is very hard, there are still many people who practice at night, and they all hope to stand out and be appreciated by the officials.

Naturally, it is impossible to train a group of recruits into units with initial combat effectiveness without more than a year's effort.

It takes a lot of time to form the concept of abiding by discipline and law and to promote outstanding talents to suitable positions, not to mention the training of military formations, the sharpening of skills, and the promotion of ranks, which not only require long-term training, but also require the investment of resources.

For example, the investment in skill books, such as the Avatar Dan, etc., is astronomical.

Even if it is an ordinary army, it is best for a grassroots officer to have a qualification of grade B or above, otherwise, when will he have the strength of a junior general? It is barely possible to serve as a third-order soldier as a captain, even a captain, but the strength of this kind of unit is naturally not too strong, and sometimes bandits who encounter strong points may suffer.

A-level qualifications, and even S-level qualifications, have the basis for raising the rank to an intermediate military general in a short period of time. Although, B-level qualifications are fine, but how many levels do you have to be promoted, at least above 50? An ordinary army commander or even a chief, maybe he died on the battlefield before he reached level 50, so the exercise books and skill books invested in the early stage will be wasted.

Therefore, resources must be used intensively on a small number of elites in order to maximize efficiency! Transforming Fan Dan, Gongfa books, and skill books, once there are shortcomings in a certain aspect, the final outcome may be a chicken and egg fight.

After all, the fastest way to gain experience in the army is to go to the battlefield. If you want to raise your level to level 40 or above by training alone, you don't know if you have to wait until the Year of the Monkey.

Therefore, whether it is the exercises, skill books, or the Transformation Pill, it is not just to smash it on the main generals in the army, the practice of the Tianma City forces mainly smashing a few generals and training a few special types of troops in the early stage is only suitable for small troops and small-scale battlefields.

In the future, if we do not want a large number of ordinary arms to become weak chickens, it is the cornerstone of all combat effectiveness to consolidate the cornerstone of grassroots and middle-level officers and enhance their combat effectiveness. As long as these foundations are consolidated, the third-order troops will still crush the enemy's troops of the same rank in field battles, and it is not impossible to even smash the troops of one rank higher, and this is the role of strong officers.

Of course, all this, whether for Tianma City or Zhang Liao, is a long way to go!