Gao Yigong wasted all his efforts to gather these 1,200 people, which can be regarded as setting up the framework of the reserve army, under Li Yan's almost perverted screening mechanism, many people who disobey orders have been brushed down, and those who are left are honest and rule-abiding characters.

In the bitter autumn wind, 1,200 soldiers were gathered and stood on the empty flat ground, while Li Yan stood solemnly on the high platform, and Gao Yigong stood next to Li Yan, as if Li Yan was the commander of this army.

The establishment has been clearly divided, and Li Laiheng, Huang Jun, Zhang Hong, and Hao Yongzhong are lined up in front of their respective sentinels, all wearing armor and hanging long knives at their waists, looking solemnly at Li Yan, who is about to speak.

Looking at the black army under the stage, Li Yan's heart was also very excited, this is the army! Although it is nominally a high-level army, in fact, it is to inject the soul of this army by himself, and this is the first time he has come into contact with an army of this size since he came to this era, although they are still a rabble.

"Beat the drums!" Gao Yigong saw that Li Yan was ready, and immediately ordered to the left and right, and the left and right immediately ran to give the order, the order of this era is like this, if there are no horses, it depends on human legs.

The sound of the drums of "dong dong dong" came, and the soldiers who exchanged their heads and ears stopped staring at Gao Yigong and Li Yan standing on the high platform.

According to the rules of breaking into the camp or according to Li Yan, the beating of the drum should be solemn, because it means that the chief officer is going to give a lecture or give an order.

Facing the army in the audience, Li Yan cleared his throat and said: "Everyone, first make a know, I am your military envoy, in charge of your training and military appearance, I think you have heard of me, the rear camp likes to call me the king of Hades, and I myself like this title, so you should be vigilant, don't do it in my hands, otherwise, you will not show favoritism." ”

Li Yan's tone is very flat, but he is notorious, many of the soldiers in the audience are from the back camp, and they are thunderous about Li Yan's name, after all, even Li Zicheng's younger brother "Little Chuang Wang" Li Zijing dares to play the role, who can not be afraid?

"This is your chief officer, Gao Zongshen." Li Yan introduced it again, although the reserve army is called the reserve army, in fact, it should be more appropriately called the reserve army, and the one in charge of the battalion is the general outpost.

Gao Yigong is not a person who is good at words, looking at the soldiers below, he just stared at him with tiger eyes, and said sharply: "Since you have joined our preparation army, you have to look a little!" I don't ask you to be as brave and good at fighting as the previous battalion, but you can't lose the face of me and Li Guanjun, otherwise you won't blame me for being ruthless! ”

Gao Yigong looks like a military general, and his words are full of anger, and he is not afraid that the soldiers below will not listen.

After Gao Yigong reprimanded a few meaningless words, Li Yan took over the conversation and continued: "We prepare for the army, although we do not return to the front camp to control it, but it is inevitable to fight hard in the future. ”

Hearing this, the soldiers didn't react, but when they entered the camp, they had already made it very clear that for these "cannon fodder reserves", don't you have to be cannon fodder if you don't enter the reserve army? If you are a reserve army, you can at least improve your food and clothing.

"Since you want to fight in the future, you have to set a few rules." Li Yan saw that there was no commotion below, so he continued to speak.

This is the right topic, Li Yan's lecture today is actually to affirm military discipline, the most critical core of an army is military discipline, your military discipline is not good, no matter how good your equipment is, it will be in vain.

"In the future, the drum three links, the bento assembly, when the drum is beating, I will insert a pillar of incense, the three drums are finished, the staff of those who do not arrive is twenty, and the incense is more than half of the people who do not arrive!" Li Yan stood on the stage and slowly said his first military law.

Organizational strength is the core point of an army, Li Yan plans to temper the degree of organization by beating drums, if it can really be done at any time, the army will be assembled neatly, then this army will not at least appear on the battlefield at the touch of a button.

"Do you have any objections?"

When the soldiers heard the first military law, they looked left and right, and found that although there were also eyes wandering around, they did not say anything against it, perhaps because of Li Yan's prestige, or it may seem that it is not an unacceptable thing for them to beat the drum and assemble, after all, the army is an army, and all battalions will beat the drum to gather the soldiers, and they will be punished if they expire, but the beheading is indeed heavier.

"Since you don't speak, then there is no problem" Li Yan looked around and saw that no one spoke, so he nodded to himself.

"This second article is the issue of meritorious service on the battlefield, from today onwards, our reserve army does not judge merit by the first rank, but by the first to judge the merit, where the battle formation, the first to charge, the rest no matter how many heads are not asked, in addition, if there are those who privately take the first rank to invite merit as a soldier, they will be beheaded!" Li Yan said his second military law.

The Ming Dynasty made a retro military merit system, and the merit was judged by the head, and it had to be said that this could indeed inspire the soldiers' will to fight, after all, the head was real, and it was reasonable to exchange the head for reward, at least theoretically, cutting off the head to invite merit, than expecting the officer to report the merit to you is much more reliable.

However, the problem is that the problem of reporting meritorious service at the first level soon appeared, mainly concentrated in two aspects, one is to "kill the good and take the lead," and the other is to "compete for the first rank."

Because the first level means military merit, and it is obviously impossible to perfect the screening of the first level with the efficiency of the imperial court, so characters such as Li Chengliang are not soft at all, such a situation is simply like a cow hair in the late Ming Dynasty, and the people suffered from it, and after all, the army was born from the Ming border army, and the system of judging merit by the head was inherited.

If the former is only a danger to the people, then the latter is a direct endangerment to the victory or loss of the war.

It was recorded in the battle of Salhu that when the Ming army cut down a Houjin soldier, there would immediately be dozens or even dozens of Ming troops rushing up to compete for the head, which would instantly lead to scattered formations, and even fight with each other in order to grab the head, and they were busy cutting the head after the battle, who still had the heart to pursue the enemy?

After fully seeing the harm of the "first rank" to the army, Li Yan resolutely canceled the practice of judging merit by the first rank, and instead changed to judging merit by taking the first rank; no matter what your results are, as long as you are "brave" enough and willing to rush to the front, the first-class credit will be yours.

Naturally, the reserve army will not have any objection to this military discipline, many of them have never killed anyone before, and it is too far for them to say that cutting off their heads is too far away.

However, Li Laiheng showed a look of approval, on the issue of the first level, Li Laiheng and Li Jin have discussed it many times, in fact, breaking into the camp, including Li Zicheng himself, intends to change this method of using the first level to judge merit, but he has not found a reasonable alternative, but he did not expect to let Li Yan run first and do it first.

Seeing that no one objected, Li Yan nodded with satisfaction, the peasants are good, if they change the gang of soldiers, I am afraid that someone will immediately jump up and speak out against it, after all, collective merit is not as good as individual merit, and individual merit has many opportunities to cheat and cheat, but it is difficult for the collective.

"This third point is that the battle is about to retreat, if it is a battle and retreat, the first to retreat, the chief officer will die, and the rest will be killed!" Li Yan said slowly.

Perhaps this is a little cruel, but in the world of great controversy, it is impossible not to be ruthless, Li Yan's method of punishing the rout and escape is also simple, as a characteristic of the late Ming Dynasty, officers often preserve their strength and "say goodbye", often in the battle suddenly led the troops to flee, this is especially typical of Comrade Zuo Liangyu, several battles first withdrew led to the Ming army's fiasco.

Although the army did not have as serious mountaineering as the Ming Court, every general still had some petty ninety-nine in his heart, so Li Yan made up this military discipline.

I don't punish all those who run away, because the collapse on the battlefield is human nature, I want to punish the people who take the lead in escaping, no matter who dares to run first, then you will win the lottery, no matter what the reason, the Lord will be directly beheaded, and the rest of the battalion soldiers will be drawn regardless of whether you run or not, whether you take the lead in running or not, all gather to draw lots for smashing.

Eleven smashing, the cruel military law of the ancient Roman period was taken by Li Yan, and the cruelty lies in the fact that those who may really take the lead in escaping are fine, while those innocent people may be killed.

Sure enough, when he heard this, even Gao Yigong's face changed slightly, Li Yan was too ruthless, and he actually came up with such a vicious thing, I am afraid that it will not be much better than Zhu Wen's team, but it is indeed effective at the moment, out of the consideration of self-preservation, I am afraid that when anyone proposes to escape, if he does not work to supervise the team, his robe will end him.

The soldiers under the stage are naturally a little reluctant to this military discipline, but now the situation is stronger than people, although they are reluctant, they can only pinch their noses and admit it, who told you to choose to prepare for the army?

Although the reserve army is positioned as a reserve force, Li Yan has no intention of training him as a reserve team, he wants to train an elite army, a modern army in the true sense.

"Okay, that's all there is to it," Li Yan said with a smile after saying the three military laws.

Most of the soldiers below are illiterate and illiterate, and they can't read when you write it, so it doesn't make much sense to have more military laws, because they can't remember it, and Li Yan can be regarded as understanding why Liu Bang entered Xianyang in the first three chapters of the law.

It's not that he Liu Laosan really only wants to rely on the three laws to govern the world, but according to the cultural level of most people, the three laws can be remembered.

So Li Yan simply chose the most important three directly, so that he didn't have to remember a lot, just remember these three, as long as your IQ is normal, then you can remember.