There is power in the barrel of a gun, and Liu Bei understands this truth better than anyone else.

Therefore, after Guan Yu and others each led a battalion of troops to go out to guard the place, Liu Bei used the strength of the remaining five battalions as the basis to recruit warriors to serve in the army in Liangzhou.

Not only Han Chinese, Qianghu people and other people who are willing to join the army, he also accepts, but he can only join the army as an individual, and he needs to accept the reorganization of the army, and cannot go against the orders of the army.

In the process of recruitment, many locals in Liangzhou chose to join Liu Bei's army because of Liu Bei's prestige, and after half a year's effort, about more than 10,000 people came to join the army, and Liu Bei limited the number of people with various recruitment thresholds, and finally successfully recruited 6,000 people.

Among these people, there are Han Chinese, Qianghu people, etc., who were arranged by Liu Bei to launch a new round of reorganization with the original five battalions, expanded into seven battalions, and put into the intense and exciting large-scale military training.

In this recruitment process, there is also a link that is divided according to their own cultural level, and among the group of people who have read the book, Liu Bei saw several familiar names.

For example, Ma Teng, a person from Fufeng Maoling, and Yan Xing, a person from Jincheng County.

For these two familiar names, Liu Bei thought about it for a while, and then skipped it and stopped paying attention.

If they are really talented, they can stand out as officers on their own.

If you don't have power, you don't have power.

A little later, Ji Jian and Cheng Dazhi arrived late with six hundred and seventy-three soldiers of the Liu family in Youzhou.

As soon as Liu Bei arrived in Liangzhou, he ordered them to come to Liangzhou with him, obviously the distance from Youzhou to Liangzhou was far away, and they hurried all the way, and it took them half a year to rush over.

I haven't seen him for a long time, Liu Bei hugged Ji Jian, and also patted Cheng Dazhi's shoulder, who was looking at him.

Since Liu Bei went out, Ji Jian and Cheng Dazhi have been staying in their hometown for him, guarding the family and business, and protecting their mother, and after their mother also came to Luoyang, they actually had no need to continue to stay in Youzhou to take care of the family and nursing home, but Liu Bei didn't think of them for a while.

It wasn't until Liu Bei came to Liangzhou and began to raise further troops that he finally remembered Ji Jian and Cheng Dazhi, as well as the Liu family soldiers in his hometown, and quickly wrote to them to come over, which allowed them to come.

Ji Jian looked at Liu Bei with complaints, and told him about his thoughts and sufferings for so many years, Liu Bei smiled bitterly, apologized to Ji Jian, and asked about the situation at home.

"The situation at home is still very good, the Liu clan has developed a large scale, your uncle is good at managing the industry, and the property belonging to you has also increased several times, of course, I have not slacked off in the matter of military training for a day.

This time I came to Liangzhou, I also asked the opinions of the big guys, 673 people are willing to come to Liangzhou to make contributions, and the rest want to stay in their hometown to accompany their families. ”

"Of course it's enough, all of them can be military commanders, and even take on higher military positions, they are all good seedlings of officers, where is it not enough?"

Liu Bei hugged Ji Jian fiercely: "Jian, for so many years, I've worked hard for you." ”

Ji Jian's nose was sour, and he began to shed tears and cry again.

"If you remember me, I'm worth it! Wow, ah, ......"

Good guy, Ji Jian's crying directly wet half of Liu Bei's shoulder.

"Don't cry, don't cry, okay, it's just so that you're here, I have an important task for you."

As soon as he heard the word task, Ji Jianli stopped crying, wiped his eyes, and stood up straight.

"You say!"

"I still have a vacancy here, it is the animal husbandry department, I remember that I like horses very much, before our hometown in Youzhou is also your main responsibility for the storage of horses, you should be very good at raising horses, I will give you this task, for me to raise horses, cattle and sheep, can you do it?"

Ji Jian blinked.

"It's not a war, is it?"

"To raise a horse is to fight, to fight a war is to raise a horse, how to fight without a horse? It's inconvenient for me to hand over this matter to others, I don't believe in others, only you, I believe it the most, so, can you take this position and do things for me? ”

Liu Bei stared at Ji Jian.

Ji Jianjian made a statement.

"Yes!"

"Well, that's right!"

Liu Bei patted Ji Jian's shoulder with a smile, and handed over the position of animal husbandry to Ji Jian, who was responsible for carrying out animal husbandry for Liu Bei and the state pastoral government, as for Cheng Dazhi, he was arranged to be Ji Jian's deputy to assist Ji Jian in carrying out animal husbandry.

And the six hundred and seventy-three soldiers of the Liu family in Youzhou brought by them were received by Liu Bei with a sumptuous reception banquet.

Then he went up one by one to meet them and called out their names one by one.

The soldiers who were called out were very surprised one by one, and some of them burst into tears with excitement and shed tears in front of Liu Bei.

Later, Liu Bei found that more than 500 of the 673 people were the ones he could call out their names, and the remaining 100 or so he didn't know them, and there was no such person in his memory.

Some people fell ill and died, some people were older and wanted to go home to take care of their children, so they didn't continue to take on the duties of Liu's family soldiers, and some people didn't want to leave their hometowns, so they didn't follow.

But even if they stayed in their hometown and didn't follow, they were still loyal to Liu Bei.

It is worth mentioning that more than 300 people who were changed or given their names by Liu Bei were all present, and no one was left behind.

Liu Bei was very happy.

"You have never forgotten me, I have never forgotten you, you are my fellow villagers, my Liu family soldiers, I promise you, as long as I have a bite to eat, I will not starve you!"

The soldiers cheered and gave Liu Bei a sincere cheer.

Except for a few of them, who were singled out to follow Ji Jian because they were considered good at raising horses, the rest were incorporated into the newly formed Liangzhou soldier group, and basically all of them took up the positions of grassroots officers.

How to train soldiers, Liu Bei's army already has experience and rules and regulations, and the "Infantry and Cavalry Drill Code" is an existence that must be thoroughly understood before the officers under his command take office.

Officers who are familiar with the "Infantry and Cavalry Drill Code" will be trained according to the content of the drill ceremony as long as they take office, whether they are Han or Qianghu, etc., they will be treated the same, the requirements are the same, and if they make mistakes, all of them will be punished by the military justice department, demonstrating the majesty of military law.

And every day when the military salary is paid, Liu Bei will also come to the military camp in person and personally supervise the distribution of military salary to each soldier.

For the [pacesetters] selected in the barracks every quarter who have outstanding performance in all aspects, Liu Bei will personally build a high platform, personally give soldiers salaries and awards, and praise and encourage in front of the whole army.

In this way, the morale of the army will be boosted.

In addition, the army has repeatedly enforced strict military regulations and military discipline, including not disturbing the people, not plundering, not committing suicide, not fighting each other, and so on.

Jia Xu is a nimble head, and he compiled Liu Bei's military regulations and military discipline into a catchy song called the Military Discipline Song, which was taught to the soldiers to sing.

Liu Bei was overjoyed, so he demanded that before lunch and dinner were served every day, the whole army sang military discipline songs, and only after singing could they eat.

The military judges of the Judge Advocate Advocate General's Office may also randomly inspect soldiers and sing military discipline songs anytime and anywhere, so as to require the soldiers to engrave military discipline in their minds and not forget it.

Military training is first necessary to train military discipline, and if military discipline cannot be trained, no matter how strong it is, it is only a beast army, which is not of great use.

In Liu Bei's plan, he wanted to train the army under his command into a real rule-abiding and disciplined elite, and then use this army of tens of thousands as a foundation to comprehensively reform the country's already degenerated military.

(End of chapter)