Song Xiance understands now.

Zhang Mu had already arranged people in, think about it carefully, what will happen to these soldiers who are willing to follow Gao Guiying in the future? Whether they take refuge in Gao Yingxiang or Li Zicheng, they will inevitably be reused.

As long as they are reused, they will inevitably provide Zhang Mu with a lot of intelligence and information.

Absolutely, really absolutely!

"Lord, these people!"

Song Xiance asked tentatively: "But you control their family?" ”

"They went voluntarily!" Zhang Mu smiled, poured a cup of tea for Song Xiance, and said with a smile: "Mr. Song, what do you think of our meeting here?" ”

"Good, very good!"

Song Xiance said quickly: "I have traveled to the north and south, and I have never seen such a person who governs the people under the Communist Advancement Association, the lord has a benevolent heart, gives the people land, lets them cultivate, and even digs ditches and reservoirs, and also lends them ploughing cattle and iron plows, and teaches them to read and write. ”

Song Xiance recalled many of Zhang Mu's policies and methods, but he also had to admit that under Zhang Mu's rule, he was not too happy.

After a pause, Song Xiance continued: "I have also read the books and articles written by the lord, and it is precisely because of this that I think that the lord can achieve great things!" ”

Listening to Song Xiance's sycophancy, Zhang Mu smiled noncommittally: "I don't need to control their families, although I really need them to do intelligence work, but more often than not, they still need to play a propaganda role!" ”

"Let me ask, there are our people in Li Zicheng's team, promoting the concept of our Communist Association, publicizing our lives, tell me, will these rebels be willing to join our team?"

Song Xiance's eyes widened, but he understood.

Zhang Mu's move is really ruthless, this is the real murderous heart, Zhang Mu can give too many things, not to mention anything else, just a division of land is enough to make the low-level soldiers of the peasant army want to take refuge in Zhang Mu.

Of course, this is not enough.

This also requires Zhang Mu to come up with the corresponding strength, the strength is not enough, it is not enough to be convincing, Zhang Mu said to give you the land, whether you Zhang Mu can keep these land, this is also a big problem.

Therefore, the strength of the armed forces determines your trust.

Whether these people who are arranged to go out will defect, this is also to see if Zhang Mu's strength is strong enough, as long as they are strong enough, they don't have this mind.

Zhang Mu still handed over some spy infiltration tasks to Song Xiance.

In addition to the rebel army, there are also officers and soldiers.

For the time being, let Song Xiance handle the intelligence work, see Song Xiance's performance, and then slowly decide how much he trusts him.

There is no way, there are too few people under my hands who can use it.

This position is really the most suitable for Song Xiance.

Zhang Mu is not worried about Song Xiance's dominance, such an intelligence department, Song Xiance can't play it, he needs an assistant and someone to support him.

Next, it's time to expand.

If you don't expand, you can't do it, and Zhang Mu doesn't have much food in his hands.

During this time, Zhang Mu was also regarded as an officer and soldier, a soldier who started out, and the recruited rogues carried out a round of integration, and the number was controlled at a total of 3,000 people.

After the integration is completed, it's time to pull out and fight hard.

Muskets, storms, spearmen, and swords.

The training method is basically Qi Jiajun's new book of discipline, which is led by Wang Huchen, but Zhang Mu has no bottom in his heart about his actual combat ability, so he can only let them go to actual combat as much as possible.

After the actual battle, the experience and lessons learned from the soldiers at the most basic level should be summed up.

Then go for expansion.

Daniel Zhang was appointed by Zhang Mu as the commander-in-chief of the Communist Army, and the deputy commander-in-chief was Zhang Lian, in addition to some military cadres who were promoted, and there was also a matching military administration, mainly responsible for teaching the soldiers to read and write.

The commander-in-chief is three thousand people.

1,000 people for a regiment.

Three hundred people for a battalion.

A hundred people for a company.

About 30 people in a class.

A team of about 10 people.

The military administration was directly placed at the level of the company, and after doing all this, Zhang Mu immediately began to expand.

The first to be attacked was Liu Jizhen.

Liu Ji Town is not far from Longyan Township, in addition, Liu Ji Town is not without armed forces, in the face of the Liukou to break through Dengzhou County, these landlords and gentry also formed a township at the first time to resist the Liukou.

However, the combat effectiveness of these townsmen is average, and it is not a big problem to deal with ordinary rogues, but it is far from enough to deal with Zhang Mu's well-trained ones.

In addition, Zhang Mu's side is concentrating his strength, while Liu Jizhen's rich people are scattered and can be broken individually.

Organized, disciplined, deal with disorganized, undisciplined.

Zhang Mu's battle is not simply to put the carriage and horses on the way, and confront you head-on.

Instead, first infiltrate, arrange my people here with you, publicize Zhang Mu's policies and ideas, and then gather the surrounding farmers to study in Longyan Township, and then, set off a peasant riot, and then come to the army to dispatch.

Directly attack Liu Ji Town.

This time, Zhang Mu did not directly attack, and directly let Daniel Zhang lead the troops and break them one by one.

When attacking, with explosives bags, the wall of the landlord's house was first blown down, and then the attack was unstoppable.

In three days, Liu Jizhen took it.

After the take, let the soldiers focus on discussing what was not done well in the process of attacking, and what is worth improving.

Train troops through actual combat.

Now, Zhang Mu also knows very well that he has gradually become a climate, and he must become a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of the officers and soldiers, so he must let his soldiers conduct actual combat training.

Solve your own problems little by little in actual combat.

At the same time, it is also to enhance the trust of the people under his rule in his rule.

Zhang Mu immediately began to arrange for the cadres trained during this period to go to Liuji Town, not in a hurry to expand the army, but to form a militia, form a production team, let the militia protect their hometown, and conduct a certain amount of military training, but they must not be out of production.

In fact, now the population of Longyan Township is about 12,000 people, more than 3,000 soldiers, the ratio is 1:4, and then to expand the army, four peasants to raise a soldier, this is basically impossible, Zhang Mu grain tax is 1 into 5, moreover, it is still not the time to collect taxes.

To be able to raise so many soldiers, all of them relied on the grain of the landlord's family to help, and more than 3,000 people were out of production, which forced Zhang Mu to expand, and if he didn't fight Liu Jizhen, Zhang Mu's family would have no surplus grain.

For Zhang Mu, the ideal ratio is 1:20, 20 peasants raise a soldier, to support these 3,000 soldiers, he must at least master half of Dengzhou County, and if he completely controls Dengzhou County, he can consider expanding the army to 5,000 people.

If one's territory expands, if one has to travel long distances and fight across provinces, this proportion will be further expanded, and the ideal state of an agricultural society is 1:100, and one hundred peasants will raise one soldier.

Of course, if you choose to take the Rogue route, there is no question of proportion, but the problem also comes, the Rogue route is obviously not long-lasting.

After taking Liuji Town, Zhang Mu immediately continued to search for grain here, scavenged out the grain, and gave the profits to the people.

Nanyang Province

The officials of the entire Nanyang Mansion were gathered together, and in addition, there was a burly man with exceptionally thick arms, who was Lu Xiangsheng, the prime minister of the five provinces.

Among the officials, there is one person who only feels that his heart is about to break, and this person is none other than Lao Pan Juren.