The Tang Dynasty military system takes Zhechong Mansion as a strategic unit, so the soldiers of the Tang Army are also called government soldiers. Before the Tianbao period of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the government soldiers took ten people as the fire, set up the fire chief, set up the team with 50 people, set up the team head, set up 100 people as the brigade, set up the brigade commander, and set up 200 people as the regiment and set up the school captain.

Later generations praised the military system of the Tang Dynasty as the best military system since the Jingtian system, and it was the perfect military system of the Tang Dynasty that supported the huge Tang Empire.

At present, Li Congyan led the people back to Dengzhou City to start rectifying military affairs, the first thing is to reorganize the troops and horses, Li Congyan felt the completeness of the Tang Dynasty military system, and wanted to combine the experience of later generations to sum up a set of new government military system, the most important of which is to organize and train a completely out of production army, this reorganization is to pave the way for the future implementation of the new government military system.

Li Congyan is very familiar with the Tang Dynasty military system, and has made slight changes on the basis of the original military system: ten people in one fire, and one fire chief; One team of five fires, one plus team, a total of fifty-six people; three teams of one brigade and one brigade commander, a total of 169 people; One regiment, five brigades, and one lieutenant, a total of 846 people. In this way, the number of people has been appropriately increased under the condition that the structure at all levels remains unchanged. The rest of the men, doctors, assassins, etc., will be increased as appropriate in the war.

Li Congyan has 200 tooth soldiers under his command, and this reorganization is based on these 200 henchmen, plus the local soldiers who can be used in Dengzhou, first reorganize a "pacesetter", and then expand the organization.

In fact, the most perfect source of soldiers in Li Congyan's heart is farmers, not these "veterans" who have been soldiers for many years, let alone a gangster. It's just that Li Congyan doesn't have much strength in his hands at the moment, so he can only make do with the local soldiers and horses first.

After everything was on track in the future, Li Congyan planned to implement a conscription system in Dengzhou.

Compared with the conscription system, the military expenditure will be greatly increased, and the treatment given to the soldiers by the Assassin Mansion will also be greatly improved. But the conscription system is also a bit of a point, first of all, the Assassin Mansion can obtain a full-time professional army, and at the same time can minimize the impact on production activities; Second, the quality of the recruited soldiers is generally better than that of the conscription system.

These two advantages are the reasons why Li Congyan is interested in the recruitment system.

After the reorganization plan was drawn up, Li Congyan personally drafted the reorganization plan, ordered Sima Li Wei to take charge of the drills, and ordered Xu Hui to join the army to select available soldiers from the local soldiers and horses in Dengzhou, and complete the reorganization within the 15th day deadline and start the drill as soon as possible.

"This time, based on two hundred tooth soldiers, a regiment of soldiers and horses was reorganized first, Sima Li Wei concurrently served as a captain, Xu Hui joined the army, Wang Yong, and Zhu Ming, a soldier joined the army, and Zhu Ming, a team commander, and the commander of each team was selected by the follower soldiers!"

"Whoa!"

At this time, Li Congyan felt that his subordinates were lacking in talents, only Li Ren, Wu Conghan and other seven people, and the affairs of the Assassin Mansion had exhausted everyone, and there was no one available in the army, so he had to temporarily let everyone take on the job.

"Talent!"

Li Congyan couldn't help but sigh in his heart that there were too few people who could use it, Li Ren, Wu Conghan and others were all from family generals, and it was very difficult to hold a civilian position in the Assassin's Mansion. So after thinking about it, Li Congyan was more inclined to let a few people specialize in military affairs. However, at present, the affairs of the Assassin Mansion are complicated, and Li Congyan has no choice but to wait until the reorganization of the new army is completed, and then let a few people return to the army as appropriate.

As for the various departments of the Assassin's Mansion to join the army, Li Congyan decided to increase the number of personnel after all affairs were on the right track, and to select and promote the best officials from among the existing officials in one city and four counties of Dengzhou, and at the same time to recruit a wide range of talents.

After a period of time, under the rectification of Sima Li Wei and Xu Hui, who joined the army, two hundred tooth soldiers were the first to arrive and began to assemble and train in the school field in Dengzhou City.

In the course of fifteen days, Xu Hui, who joined the army, selected more than 500 available soldiers from one city and four counties in Dengzhou after three rounds of selection, and it took three days for all of them to assemble in the school field in Dengzhou City. With the addition of two hundred tooth soldiers, a regiment of troops was finally assembled.

Li Congyan immediately plunged into the school yard and began to personally supervise the training of the soldiers of this regiment.

Although Dengzhou's armament is slack, since the Tang Dynasty, the style of martial arts in China has been strong, and the army's training method is very perfect, so Li Congyan has nothing to worry about, just implement it step by step according to the existing discipline code, and Li Ren, Li Wei and other generals are familiar with these things.

It's just that Li Congyan strictly grasped the quality of the drill, and deliberately ordered people to rush to make a large number of sandbag leggings, horizontal bars and other equipment, and then used the rigorous training of the "red army" in later generations as a blueprint, and joined the queue, weight-bearing long-distance running, push-ups, wilderness survival and other "private goods", almost squeezing and tempering the physical fitness of these soldiers.

At the same time, Li Congyan also vigorously promoted the code system to strengthen the new army's sense of secrecy. During the training, Li Congyan asked the soldiers of the New Army to shout "one, two, one" when they were walking and running in unison, and the lower-level officers and soldiers should shout "report" when reporting their affairs to the higher-level generals. In the future, Li Congyan is also preparing to implement the internal affairs system in the army, set up auxiliary officers similar to the political ~ commissar, etc., but these are all later stories.

In addition, Li Congyan also added some new regulations to the existing military discipline, such as: No gambling, no drinking, no plundering of the common people, strict health regulations, no corporal punishment of soldiers, and so on.

Li Congyan specially ordered people to compile the newly added military discipline and the reasonable parts of the original military discipline into a book, compile it into the "Essentials of the New Army," and then distribute it throughout the army.

Under Li Congyan's supervision, the officers and men of the New Army were given a copy of the "New Army Essentials" for every fire, and literate people were responsible for reciting it every day, and even more generals at and above the brigade commander level.

Li Congyan strictly ordered: The whole army must memorize the "Essentials of the New Army" proficiently within 15 days. After 15 days, the whole army will conduct a major inspection, and those who fail to recite will be punished with 20 canes in public, and 30 canes by generals at all levels, and then they will be recited and recited for 5 days.

At first, the soldiers of the New Army were very resistant to this "New Army Discipline", thinking that they were just martial artists, and gambling and drinking were common things, so why should they ban it? And why do you have to memorize it word for word? On weekdays, the training of the new army is already very hard, and you still have to recite military laws day and night, and you still have to live!

Within two days, several soldiers of the New Army who came from Dengzhou took the lead in making trouble, instigating dozens of New Army soldiers to come to Sima Li Wei's residence in the barracks, demanding that the whole army stop reciting the "New Army Minutes" and delete military discipline.

At this time, Li Wei concurrently served as a new military captain, looking at dozens of soldiers who were clamoring, his face was like frost, and he immediately mobilized a large number of soldiers to surround this place, and then said loudly: "If you commit a blatant crime, you should be beheaded according to military discipline!" Today, for the sake of your training and hardship, I order you to disperse on your own, and then you will be fined and confiscated your military pay for March. If you don't retreat, you will be pulled out of the gate today and beheaded to show the public! ”

The dozens of trouble-making soldiers were immediately deflated when they saw this, and originally everyone just wanted to make a fuss and vent the bitterness in their hearts. Now seeing this, where is there still the heart to continue to make trouble, and most of it immediately dispersed, and only a dozen people were still holding on.

Seeing this, Li Wei was about to order these dozen people to be taken down, and at this time, Li Congyan arrived with people, and Li Wei whispered about the current situation while pleading guilty.

Li Congyan didn't say a word after hearing this, pointed at the dozen or so troublesome soldiers, and scolded loudly: "Come on, bring these dozen or so rebel soldiers to justice on the spot!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a group of soldiers of the New Army around them rushed up, tied up the dozen or so troublesome soldiers, and pulled the dozen or so people out of the gate in a panic cry for mercy, and a dozen bloody heads were presented a moment later.

At this time, the hundreds of soldiers gathered here were silent, Li Wei was also pale, he just wanted to deter the troublemakers, and he didn't really want to use the knife, who would have thought that these unlucky ghosts would catch up with Li Congyan to inspect the military camp and lose their heads in vain.

"Why are you called the New Army? It is because you have to draw a clear line with those soldiers and ruffians, and those private soldiers who are temperate, you are the warriors who defend the country and defend the city and four counties of Dengzhou, not the bandits! ”

Li Congyan scolded loudly: "I hope that today's events will never happen again, and I hope that the blood of your soldiers will only be spilled on the battlefield." In the new army, the "New Army Discipline" is the law of the country, and those who violate the law of the country will be killed without mercy, all kings should remember! ”

The sentence "Those who violate the law of the country will be killed without mercy" suddenly shocked everyone's hearts, and with more than a dozen bloody heads on the side, the status of "The Essentials of the New Army" in the hearts of the officers and men of the new army was instantly raised to the highest point, and it became a majestic existence like the law of the country, and no one dared to despise it.

However, after this incident, Li Ren, Li Wei and others still felt that the "New Army Discipline" was too strict, and they found Li Congyan one after another, thinking that it was not necessary for everyone in the army to memorize military discipline to implement military discipline, and it was good to directly set up assassins in the army to strictly manage military discipline, as for drinking and gambling, as long as the soldiers did not gather to make trouble, he would go.

But Li Congyan had a resolute attitude and directly reprimanded everyone: "My soldiers and horses in Dengzhou are used to guard one side and protect the territory and the people, not bandits in the mountains, nor local rebels!" Other soldiers' horses can gamble, drink heavily, and even kill good people and take risks, but my Li Congyan's soldiers cannot; Other soldiers and horses can be unreasonable and ignorant of military discipline, but my Li Congyan's soldiers must make sure that everyone remembers military discipline! Whoever dares to disobey the military order, those dozen heads are a lesson from the past! ”

Seeing this, everyone did not dare to disobey the order, and they retreated.

After a whole month of training, these more than 700 soldiers were miserable, basically everyone took off a layer of skin, and hundreds of soldiers and officers were beaten in public because they failed to recite military discipline. If it weren't for Li Congyan's stipulation that he would eat meat every two days, and raised the military salary by 30 percent, and paid double military pay in the last month of each year, it is estimated that the hundreds of soldiers of the New Army would have dispersed in a hurry.

The "Essentials of the New Army" compiled by Li Congyan can be said to be unique at this time, but after only a month, the temperament of these more than 700 soldiers has become different. Originally, the vices of gambling, fighting, and drunkenness that were common among soldiers and horses in various localities were completely wiped out in the new army; the officers and men of the new army went in and out of the barracks to hand over codes and passwords, and the officers and men of the new army checked the military discipline and any soldier could recite it with his mouth open; in the barracks, the soldiers of the new army formed a team of three and two in a row, and the military posture and posture were unusually upright, and the spirit of all the officers and men of the new army was completely new.

Although there is still a big gap between the officers and men of the New Army at this time and the "Red Division" in Li Congyan's memory, the officers and men of the New Army have far surpassed the vast majority of soldiers and horses at this time in terms of military appearance and discipline, team orders, and the degree of drill.

And this is exactly what Li Congyan wants: "A journey of a thousand miles, this is the first step!" ”

At dusk, Li Congyan stood in the barracks covered in sweat, looking at the new army soldiers who were training in the barracks, and the slogan of "one, two, one" came from time to time in his ears, and his eyes gradually became blurred, and suddenly the picture in front of him suddenly changed, and he seemed to see that in the near future, a strong army that was rampant all over the world was heading to the distant battlefield, and the land of China was once again fluttering the banner of prosperity.

At this time, Li Congyan's face was full of smiles, and his eyes were more determined.