Combat effectiveness is a luxury in this social context. Basically, as long as there are people, put on armor, take weapons, and train for two more days, they can be called elite soldiers.

If you can survive on the battlefield twice, you are a rare talent.

Most wars are a group of so-called "soldiers" who are forcibly recruited in poor clothes, fighting each other with shoddy farm tools and even sharpened sticks, and whether you kill the other or the other party kills you depends on luck and reaction speed.

Most of the terrifying rogues and bandits are also at this level of combat effectiveness, at most the weapons they have snatched are a little better, and they are more fearless of death.

Therefore, in this era, as long as you can manage your own army well, most of the war has been won.

Jiang Fei is a master of governing the army, and those soldiers generally don't have much loyalty to the Taishou, they are either forced to serve as soldiers, or they are hereditary jobs, and there is no way to talk about what loyalty and will, and the biggest goal on the battlefield is to save their lives.

Lin Ning wants to let them be used for their own use, in addition to using the Thunder Method to deter, he also has to make many promises, such as helping their hometown to suppress bandits, giving them enough food and so on.

Suppressing bandits is also what she wants to do next.

In short, Lin Ning locked the county dukes and the guards in the dungeon to eat and drink well, and at the same time, he incorporated their troops under his command.

Then he brought grain and grass, and the army marched to Chenliu County. Since ancient times, suppressing bandits has been the best way to train troops, not to mention taking into account the responsibility of defending the territory.

Lin Ning was busy training in Yanzhou, far away on the northern border, but Jiang Xuanche ushered in a difficult level in his life.

Jiang Xuanming became ill due to years of hard work, and because of the sudden blow suffered by his relatives, he finally ran out of oil and dried up, and died only two days after meeting Jiang Xuanche.

Before Jiang Xuanming passed away, he called all his henchmen and subordinates together, and solemnly entrusted the cause of Youzhou to Jiang Xuantho.

So Jiang Xuanche was dressed in white, with red eyes day and night.

During the day, he took his brother's henchmen to learn about the affairs of various places. Find out how many soldiers each general brings, and understand the resume, achievements, strengths and weaknesses of each general, and the habits of training and fighting. Learn about armaments and materials, from food and equipment to horses, to manu's skill in nailing horseshoe, which blacksmith's skill is the best, and the most useful knife soldiers......

At night, I had to read a scroll of papers under the lamp, and I only rested for less than an hour every day. After half a month, the whole person has lost weight twice.

Jiang Xuanming's original wife, Jiang Yun, led his young son Jiang Shan to visit him, and persuaded Jiang Xuanche not to work so hard, if he also fell, the Jiang family would completely perish, and Jiang Shan, Jiang Xuanming's orphan, would be completely unprotected.

Jiang Xuanche relented at this time, and finally seemed to be normal when he ate and slept every day.

In Sheng Jingzhong, Xiao Zilan didn't know about this series of changes at all, and he successfully crowned Yao Guifei as the queen, which was the time to be complacent.

Since he slaughtered the Jiang family and the Su family, no one in the court dared to refute his decree, and finally let him completely pass the addiction of the Ninety-Five Emperor.

Only occasionally dreamed back at midnight, always dreaming that Jiang Xuanche and Su Luoyu came back with swords and soldiers, so they were even more panicked during the day, and sent out one post letter after another, urging all parties to work hard to hunt down the traitor.

Jiang Xuanming from Youzhou did not come back, it can be seen that he had already rebelled, and Xiao Zilan was angry but helpless. Jizhou Wang Ren is Su's in-law and is unreliable. Xiao Zilan sent three summons to the general of Zhenbei in Yongzhou, ordering the Zhenbei army to attack Youzhou, kill Jiang Xuanming on the spot, and severely punish his followers if they resist.

However, Shi Yuan, the general of Zhenbei, refused the emperor's three summons on the grounds that the Zhenbei army should not move lightly when it was a garrison guarding the country.

Xiao Zilan felt a deep fear from this.

He always knew that the local military power would threaten the imperial rule, but he had never felt it so intuitively, until he found out that the local forces were disobedient, and he, as the emperor, had no way to sanction him.

Before that, he had been dreaming of dominating the world, thinking that if he mastered the one-third of an acre of Shengjing in the balance of power, he would really become the master of the entire huge kingdom.

Xiao Zilan panicked, unprecedentedly began to pay attention to the Chinese army, after many inspections of the Chinese army, Xiao Zilan felt more and more that his safety was not guaranteed, so he began to temporarily cram, train the Chinese army, and strengthen the armament of all parties in Shengjing.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is already winter. This year, from the spring of March to the winter of November, Lin Ning fought from Chenliu County, the westernmost county of Yanzhou, to Taishan County, the easternmost county.

In the meantime, she also stood in front of the stage from behind the scenes, a red tassel gun, a mountain bow, and every time there is a battle, she must stand in front of the three armies.

In this era, it is popular to fight before the battle. That is, when the two armies face each other, each side first sends a general to fight alone, and the winning side is naturally like a rainbow, and the losing side is often defeated like a mountain. Officials who watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as a child must have been impressed by this way of fighting.

And Lin Ning fought as a general, and he did not taste defeat.

The Yanzhou army also knew that its real leader was a female god of war who pulled out the mountains, and it was rumored in the army that even General Jiang Fei could not defeat General Su in a single fight, and General Su was afraid of hindering General Jiang's rule and was unwilling to compete with him.

The flood in Taishan County has subsided, but the post-disaster reconstruction is a big project, Lin Ning led the troops to collect the surrounding rogues, leaving a thousand people to help the post-disaster reconstruction, she herself led the large army back to Xiaqiu.

After more than half a year of fighting, the number of the Yanzhou army was reduced from more than 20,000 to 18,000, and then minus the 1,000 soldiers left in Taishan County, Lin Ning now has only 17,000 soldiers in his hands.

But now this Yanzhou army is completely different from the Yanzhou army half a year ago in terms of combat effectiveness.

The long-term cultivation of the concept of orders and prohibitions, the training of long-distance raids, and the encampment of villages every day are all tests for this army.

In this long process, Lin Ning did not always let the large team advance together, she let several generals intersperse with the troop routes, suppressing bandits along the way to feed the war, letting the army earn supplies for themselves, and set strict military regulations, and several times to make an example of the monkey and implement it strongly.

Now the Yanzhou army, which converged in Taishan County and followed Lin Ning back to Xiaqiu, can be called a real elite soldier who is one in a hundred.

The reason why I returned to Liqiu is to start from the current situation in the world.

During the period when Lin Ning was busy suppressing bandits and training troops, various disasters occurred frequently throughout the country, and when the people were not able to make a living, some people naturally rose up.

The great flood in the north was followed by a great drought, and Liangzhou, Qinzhou, Yongzhou, Sizhou, Jizhou, Yanzhou, and Youzhou all had disasters of varying degrees. Natural disasters and man-made disasters have filled the entire land of China with unbearable tragic conditions.