Anyone with a strategic vision must be well aware of the importance of population to political and military affairs. Ever since Su Lingxuan learned that he was the county guard of Xue County, he had been thinking about how to increase the population and army under his jurisdiction.

Due to the household registration policy currently being implemented by the Great Cadres, it is not feasible to abduct villagers in poor areas along the route, but those who have fallen into the grass do not enjoy the treatment of ordinary people in terms of the law, and after they are caught, they will either be sent to the northwest to build the Great Wall, or they will be sent to the sites of water conservancy and civil engineering projects under construction in various places, and they will work hard all their lives.

Therefore, the grass cobs who occupy the mountains have become the prey in Su Lingxuan's eyes, after all, government officials everywhere don't care about their whereabouts.

It's just that when Liao Hai reported the results of the battle the next day, Su Lingxuan was taken aback, and then there was a burst of joy.

"So strong, one thousand three hundred and eighty-five bandits, at least a thousand people can be enriched into the team as soldiers, and the results of this battle are not small!"

There are masters above the fourth grade of martial arts, such as Da Si Ming, Shao Si Ming, Dian Qing, and Liao Hai, and there are three hundred elites who have received Liao Hai's all-round rigorous training in the basic training of the black school ninjutsu, and many of them are martial artists who have entered the grade, and within an hour, all the bandits and bandits entrenched in the mountains within a radius of 100 miles have been captured, and no one has escaped.

Of course, there are many stubborn people among the bandits, but they are all solved by Liao Hai and his soldiers, and the corpses are casually thrown on the mountain after being hacked to death, and they are handed over to the beasts in the mountains to deal with.

In the process of capturing the bandits, Liao Hai and the others also rescued more than 20 women and more than 50 children who had been taken away from various thieves' dens.

These people were sent out of the mountains by Liao Hai overnight, Su Lingxuan mobilized the women in the village to take care of them, and asked people to ask their identities and origins, and after resting for the night, he sent people to send them back to their respective villages.

In addition, when the soldiers conquered the bandits' dens and counted the booty, they found that the thieves' warehouses were full of goods, not a lot of money and other things, but the food was piled up, and roughly calculated, it was enough to support the consumption of an army of thousands of people for several months.

Due to the dense trees in the mountains and the poor roads, there was no way to transport food and money for a while, so Su Lingxuan decided to stay here for two more days, while sending soldiers to the mountains to open up a way in and out, and on the other hand, carrying out his own whimsical plan to build a new type of army.

According to his instructions, there was a special person to try this group of bandits, and the bandits with the blood of the villagers on their hands and their lives on their backs were directly killed, and those bandits who had never killed anyone gathered them on the open field in front of the village to accept the change.

However, before formally integrating the more than 1,000 bandits remaining after the trial into the army, he first reorganized and reformed the army.

At present, there are four types of armed forces, chariots, infantry, cavalry, and sailors, and most of the establishments and subordinate personnel of the four major branches of the armed forces are different. It may seem like nothing to people now, but for people in later generations, it feels very confusing. Especially after Su Lingxuan was able to cultivate, his mind was clear, and most of the memories of his "previous life" that he had forgotten about the same had been revived, which made him feel speechless about the military system of the great cadres, and he was a little confused about the military positions such as the commander of the army, the chief of the army, the commander of the tun, the hundred generals, the five hundred masters, and the two five hundred masters.

Therefore, the first step in reforming the army was to standardize the establishment and military ranks, discarding all the infantry establishments currently used by the great cadres and adopting the three-three military system that he was most familiar with, but the number of people changed, that is, 8 (with chief and deputy squad leaders), 30 (with chief and deputy platoon commanders), 120 (with chief and deputy company commanders), 500 (with chief and deputy battalion commanders, with 50 guards), 2,000 (with chief and deputy regiment commanders, and 200 guards), and 8,000 (with chief and deputy brigade commanders, and 800 guards).

According to this division of the military system, the team led by Liao Hai, even if there are more than 1,000 bandits and bandits, is only a regimental-level army that is not satisfied with the formation.

Originally, military institutions above the brigade level also existed in Su Lingxuan's vision, but now the number of people is too small, a regiment is not yet established, and there are hundreds of units above the brigade level. Moreover, the First Emperor had a very strict grasp of the army, and the largest military position in the army during the non-war period was the captain, leading 10,000 people, and the establishment of the Su Lingxuan Brigade was 8,000 people, and then it exceeded the limit of the First Emperor's accommodation, even if he didn't care, those ministers in the court would not give up.

In addition to changing the military system and military ranks, Su Lingxuan also made drastic changes to military law. For example, the military law stipulates that if the archer misses the crossbow, the imperial hand will not be able to drive, the worst knights and horses will be severely punished, and the relevant supervision and training officials and supervisors responsible for recruiting soldiers will also be implicated.

When Su Lingxuan changed the military law, he fully referred to the "miscellaneous science" in his head, making the military law more reasonable, slowing down the harshness and cruelty, and adding many dogmatic precepts, such as the "three major disciplines" known to Chinese in later generations: all actions obey the command; Don't take a stitch from the masses; All seizures shall be returned to the public. There are also the "eight points of attention", that is, speaking kindly, buying and selling fairly, borrowing things to be returned, compensating for damaged things, not beating and scolding people, not damaging crops, not molesting women, and not abusing prisoners.

These reforms and changes are an unacceptable thing for any army that has continued the tradition for more than 700 years, especially the "three major disciplines" and "eight points of attention" that go beyond the soldiers' understanding of their duties.

However, things were very different when it came to Su Lingxuan's side.

First of all, the more than 300 people who followed him out of the capital, plus the dozens of logistics people, all belonged to his private soldiers in the strict sense, and their lives were all in his hands. He is a "big rebellion" in the army, but for these people, the will of the lord is absolutely not allowed to be questioned, even if they do not understand why they want to change the military system that has been practiced by the cadres for hundreds of years, why they have changed the military titles to platoons, companies, battalions, regiments, and brigades, and why they have set up so many "strange" rules, they will still resolutely implement any decision made by Su Lingxuan without the slightest hesitation or hesitation.

Secondly, when Su Lingxuan perfected the punishment system in the army, he also established a new reward system. To put it simply, if a sergeant performs well in peacetime, implements the three disciplines and eight points of attention well, or obtains meritorious service in battle, he will receive a rich reward, in addition to the normal promotion and transfer of the military system, he can also exchange weapons, exercises, pills, and so on from Su Lingxuan.

Especially after Su Lingxuan announced that he had developed the Blood Yuan Pill that strengthened Qi and Blood and the Jing Yuan Pill that strengthened the spirit, and also agreed to put the Supreme Merit in the exchange list, all the officers at all levels who participated in Su Lingxuan's meeting on the reform of the military system were all short of breath and their eyes were shining, just like a pervert who saw a peerless beauty.

"This reorganized army, Liao Hai served as the brigade commander, Dian Qing served as the deputy brigade commander, and the original three hundred generals served as the regiment commander, each in charge of a regiment, and the officers below the regimental level were served by the officers in the original army. In short, I want you to set up a brigade structure for me as quickly as possible, so that if there are not enough soldiers, you can pick up people from the bandits and bandits who have just been captured. As of the time we entered Xue County, the bandits and bandits we encountered along the way, except for those who committed human lives on their hands, were all filled into the army and handed over to veterans and squad leaders to be responsible for reform. ”

Su Lingxuan ordered in a deep voice, and all the officers at all levels present were shocked, secretly moved by Su Lingxuan's demeanor and intentions, Liao Hai was even more surprised and happy, thinking: "The young master originally didn't care about army construction, I thought he wasn't interested in the army, and he didn't want to cross the battlefield like the marshal." But now, judging from what the young master has done, it is clear that he has a gap in his mind for a long time, otherwise, he would never have been able to propose such an outstanding and forward-looking reform. ”