As an excellent general, Li Ji has led his troops to fight for more than a day or two, and Li Ji knows very well what kind of soldiers are like.

Does Datang have elites? Yes! Li Ji is very sure of this, even if he fights to the death, he does not retreat, his martial arts are exquisite, and there are elites who are forbidden by order!

But there is a difference between the elite and the elite, the so-called glimpse and know the whole leopard, take these behaviors he observed, the elite may not be able to do the other party's appearance, but those who do this are definitely elite!

It seems that standing still for an hour is nothing, but this hour is monitored by no superior officers, and it can be said that no one cares, and the temperature at this moment is for some weak people, and it is possible to faint directly from heat stroke at noon.

In the Western Regions, now that June is approaching July, the temperature at noon is already very high, and the sun in the Western Regions is already scorching.

Li Ji is now wearing ordinary linen clothes, which are very thin, but after standing here for an hour, Li Ji is sweating profusely, and what about these soldiers? They were all wearing bright light armor.

If you don't know what Mingguang armor is, Li Ji can popularize it, Mingguang armor is made of special armor sewn on the outside of the cowhide lining, these armor pieces are best made of stainless steel, but Datang can't make all the stainless steel Mingguang armor, even Li Ji and his senior generals' Mingguang armor will only use steel in an important part.

These nails are already heavy, but because the inner lining of the cowhide is for the protective effect of part of the position, and to avoid the weight of the armor that is sewn up to pull the crotch, so the cowhide is the first layer of cowhide after tanning, that is, the last cowhide that has not been peeled off, which can also increase the protective capacity.

However, such a hard cowhide will break the skin after being worn on the body for a long time, so it is necessary to wear at least one linen cloth as an inner lining inside the Mingguang armor. If it's winter, maybe wear some warm clothes and extra linings.

Although there is only one layer of lining in summer, just wearing linen clothes, Li Ji feels extremely hot and sweaty when he stands under the sun for an hour. So what is it like to wear a set of armor made of thick cowhide, completely impermeable, and there are heat-absorbing iron armor pieces on the outside?

It can be said that I dare not say that it is similar to torture, but this feeling is definitely uncomfortable.

In such a situation, these soldiers can actually do not move at all! If a soldier who is forbidden in this way goes to the battlefield, if there is a good commander who is against an army that is slightly worse, it is like a massacre!

In the era of cold weapons, it is absolutely important to order and prohibit!

And such a soldier, when he was on the road, Li Ji inquired, Huo Gang had three thousand! Yiwu City is 1,000, Loulan is 1,000, and Yumen Pass is 1,000. It doesn't sound like a lot, but as a general, Li Ji certainly won't think about it purely with numbers.

Let's put it this way, if these soldiers are first-class troops, then the elite soldiers under the jurisdiction of Chai Zhewei in Datang Suoyang City are considered second-rate.

Then these three thousand first-class, in the case of the same weapons and equipment, there is no problem at all with doubling the second-rate.

But if it is said that a hundred first-class people go to overthrow two hundred second-rate people, it is not so easy. The more elite such an elite is, the greater the effect will be.

The problem is that there is another effect in this elite, if you have a hundred such first-class troops, Datang has a hundred second-rate troops, and both sides will expand their armies to a thousand at the same time.

A year later, Huo Gang may have a thousand first-class troops here, and the worst will not be lower than a second-rate army, but on the Datang side, it will be a second-rate army.

That's the elite gap! The real gap is here. So in ancient times, why were veterans so important, not to mention ancient times, that is, more than a thousand years later, the modern age, the military soul can really be brought out.

The so-called soldier bears a bear, and the bears will be a nest of bears is this truth.

Li Ji has trained soldiers, and he knows that such soldiers cannot be refined in a day or two, but if such soldiers can be trained, it means that the other party can copy more such troops.

There was silence for a while, and after the other party handed over the handover, Li Ji led the horse directly to the city gate.

When entering the city, Li Ji passed by the eight soldiers, and when he passed by them, Li Ji paid attention to their expressions, and he found that these soldiers didn't even look at him more, just silently looked at their front.

But Li Ji believed that if there were any problems here, it was estimated that the soldiers would arrive immediately.

Passing the soldiers, they arrived at the gates of the city, where two men in scribe's shirts sat behind a long table, and next to them stood a sergeant who was supposed to be a captain or something.

"Where are you from?"

"We are from the direction of Datang Suoyang City, and we want to do business in Yiwu City." Li Ji hurriedly spoke.

"Where's the clearance paperwork?"

Li Ji immediately took out the customs clearance documents on the three of them and handed them to each other. After the other party checked it carefully, he wrote a few lines on the customs clearance document, marking their origins, purposes, etc., and then stamped them.

"Alright, let's go inside." After the other party finished writing, he returned the things to them, and nodded and motioned for them to enter the city.

After entering Yiwu City, Li Ji didn't care about observing these military facilities, the cavalry Li Ji didn't see, and the city defense was nothing to look at, these cities were built by the former Sui Dynasty before, and the cities of the Tang Dynasty were not compared, and there were other things he had to see now.

The main reason is that Li Ji wants to find a caravan to see if the interior of the Han's territory can pass, and he wants to go into the Han's territory to have a look.

Huo Gang didn't know that Li Ji had arrived in Yiwu City, but Huo Gang was now dealing with one thing, that is, the issue of expanding the army.

To be precise, it cannot be regarded as an expansion of the army, but rather a matter of cultivating reserves. Or rather, the police can too.

These tribes migrated together before, and as Huo Gang continued to divide the fields and cattle and sheep, the people continued to gather, but some of the original tribes have been broken up, and these people from different tribes must have contradictions.

But because everyone didn't know what kind of character Huo Gang was at that time, most of the herdsmen were restrained when they had contradictions, but as time went by, now the contradictions between herdsmen have accumulated a lot.

Generally speaking, most of these contradictions are handled by Muramasa or a person of prestige, and the Turks have actually been like this before, but this situation cannot continue forever.

Huo Gang also wants to establish a local protective force, whether it is a militia or a reserve, or a policeman, whatever you want to call it, but on a daily basis, they must act as the guard force of various towns and cities.

And if it's wartime, these people are trained to be pulled out as soldiers at any time.

And certainly much stronger than the previous untrained Turkic cavalry.

The reason why Huo Gang seriously considered this matter was because Huo Gang was ready to take this opportunity to erect the rules of the army, as a modern person, although Huo Gang was not a soldier, but he had never eaten pork and never seen a pig run? At least the military TV series must have been watched.

However, Huo Gang felt that if he remembered the full set of internal affairs regulations of the People's Liberation Army at this time, it should be a little too fake. It's a pity that he hasn't looked at these carefully in his previous life, but the internal affairs regulations won't, and he still knows the eight honors and eight shames.

This thing can be used with a slight change.

The premise is that Huo Gang first put the training together, and Huo Gang will train the soldiers, not fake, it is true, and he has the memory of Huo Quai's illness, although Huo Qubing has been fighting almost all his life, and it is not Huo Qu's turn to train the soldiers, but in fact, Huo Qubing also understands.

But as a modern person, antiquity is very rough.

Many things in the training methods of the modern army actually seem meaningless to outsiders, but in fact, all of these training methods have been explored and summed up over a long period of time, and they are all very practical things.

There are some things that you can't explain, but you will only find out when you use them, and these things are really useful.

And now the first batch of people Huo Gang started was naturally his own personal guard cavalry.

The main thing is that they are all literate people, so there are some things that are more convenient to teach.

For example, in ancient times, many people knew that official positions were divided into left and right, and they thought that in ancient times, they were divided into left and right, but in fact, to be precise, in ancient times, they were indeed divided into left and right, but in training soldiers and the like, these slogans of turning left were not there.

In addition, there was queue training in ancient times, but queue training, there was a battle formation in ancient times, although this thing Huo Gang has the memory of Huo Quai, but Huo Qubing is playing cavalry, what is really like what is written in the romance, gossip array and the like...... Huo Gang seriously doubted whether this thing existed.

At least the war he knows for now is some basic, such as a circular defensive formation, a sharp arrow formation, and other basic formations.

Standing in front of Huo Gang at this moment were a hundred elite cavalry, but at this moment, they naturally did not ride horses, and they all stood in front of Huo Gang in unison.

To tell the truth, in his previous life, Huo Gang liked soldiers since he was a child, but unfortunately he was short-sighted in junior high school, and there was no way, but he had participated in military training in high school and college, so he thought that he would be able to train others one day.

Coming to this world, Huo Gangdu has already crossed the ideals of his previous life and directly became a general, but unfortunately, he has gone straight to the top, he has never experienced anything, and now he can finally return to the cage to make it.

"Now I'll teach you to divide the right and left first!" Huo Gang started from the most basic first, because when they train recruits in the future, they will also start from this, although there are left and right in ancient times, but it is different from modern times.

In ancient times, the left and right sides were facing south, the east was left, and the west was right. Therefore, if there is a gate on the left of a city, then it must be on the east side of the central axis of the city.

Including various palaces, the same is true for the naming of mansions.