Indeed, as Director Wang said: start now.

In mid-May, Sima Yue reorganized the Forbidden Army.

There were not many Imperial Guards soldiers whom he won over, just over 20,000.

With such a small number of people, not to mention restoring the old establishment of the Seventh Suwei Battalion and the Yamen Army Battalions, the entire three battalions were barely able to come out.

The current situation of the Forbidden Army is that many of its establishments have been disabled or even completely eliminated. Various departments are seriously short of establishments and have few personnel.

This state is not suitable for battle and must be reorganized.

After everyone in the shogunate discussed it, they felt that it was most appropriate to organize it into two battalions, the left and right, plus some independent troops, such as the Youzhou Cavalry Governor, to form a new forbidden army.

It is terrible if the organization is not perfect, and you will suffer big losses on the battlefield.

Thus, the plan for the reorganization of the Forbidden Army was finalized.

The two guards on the left and right each have eight to nine thousand men, both on foot and cavalry, heavy armored infantry, light infantry and heavy cavalry - the men are armored, but the horses are not.

In addition, Youzhou's sudden cavalry supervisor was equipped with thousands of armored riders - both men and horses were wearing heavy armor.

The Knight Cavalry Army was reduced to the Knight Rider Governor, with a strength of 2,500 men, who were light cavalry - men were equipped with leather armor, and the horses were not armored.

Sima Yue also recruited some Forbidden Army soldiers who had retired at home and asked them to come back to help train new soldiers.

But not now.

Because only the money and food from Yuzhou has arrived in Beijing at this time, and the money and food from other places have not yet arrived. He does not have enough money and food to recruit new soldiers on a large scale and organize them into an army, so he can only make preliminary preparations first.

Among several army meetings, Shao Xun only attended one and provided some decent suggestions.

He just lamented that dialectical thinking is useful at all times.

Even though Luoyang has all kinds of disadvantages, there is one thing that is difficult to match in other places in the country: it has extremely abundant craftsman resources, a huge weapons reserve, and a steady stream of foreign scholars arriving in the capital. They will bring a large number of people to the capital.

Goods were consumed, and as soon as they arrived, merchants formed teams to go to Beijing to provide various supplies...

This reminded Shao Xun of a person in history: Han Jian.

This man once kidnapped Emperor Zhaozong of the Tang Dynasty to Huazhou, and then all the officials went to Huazhou to attend court. The nobles and ministers also followed. Scholars from other places who were rushing to take exams, officials who came to Beijing to work, and even all kinds of people all went to Huazhou.

In Zhouyong, Han Jian took the opportunity to collect business taxes and counted the money until his hands cramped.

Of course, the Western Jin Dynasty lacked a complete commercial tax system, and commercial taxes are another matter, but the craftsman resources are too precious. From low-end farm tools to high-end brocade clothing and even luxury goods, there are corresponding talents. As long as Luoyang does not

Being blocked, all kinds of raw materials can enter Beijing, and they can make everything for you.

This is a precious treasure that the refugee army cannot get even with their eyes widened and their mouths drooling.

In addition, there is another advantage of Luoyang that I have to mention: it is the headquarters of the imperial power, and the power of the aristocratic families is greatly suppressed.

In a chaotic situation, a big-headed soldier could kill a member of a wealthy family, which is difficult to do in a local area. This is what Pan Tao meant when he asked Shao Xun to be careful when he went to Yingchuan County.

Jingcheng is Jingcheng, it is a magical place.

After the meeting, Shao Xun stayed in the military camp and worked hard to train his troops.

He personally led ten teams.

After reorganization in February, there are -

The leader of the first team, Huang Biao, had a full strength of fifty people, infantry;

Yu An, the leader of the second team, has a full strength of fifty people, infantry;

Zhou Ying, the leader of the third team, has a full strength of fifty people, infantry;

The leader of the fourth team, Yao Yuan, has a full strength of fifty people, infantry;

Zhang Gu, the leader of the fifth team, has a full strength of fifty people, infantry;

Qin San, the leader of the sixth team, has a full strength of fifty people, infantry;

The leader of the seventh team, Wang Queer, had a full complement of fifty people and led Luoyang coolie recruits;

Jin San, the leader of the eighth team, has a full strength of fifty people and leads the young soldiers;

Mao Er, the leader of the ninth team, had an over-staffed number of fifty-six people and led young soldiers;

Li Zhong, the leader of the tenth team, was dissatisfied with the number of forty-two people, archers.

Counting him and Supervisor Wu Qian, the total of the whole building was five hundred, and almost half were veterans - of course, these people were only considered veterans in this era. In Shao Xun's view, their skills and experience were still not enough.

There is also a teaching team of thirty people, with Chen Yougen as the team leader. Strictly speaking, they are not soldiers of the main building, but a bit like Shao Xun's personal soldiers, although he is definitely not qualified to be a personal soldier at his level.

These thirty people are all carefully selected and can be regarded as the elite of the old army.

He was given a pair of iron armor, a crossbow, a heavy sword (not all of them have been equipped yet), a ring-headed sword, and a horse.

Relatively speaking, they have higher skills and richer combat experience. They often help Shao Xun share the training pressure, leading one group of five hundred soldiers from the main group and another group.

There is also a new owner of that Bing building, a man named Gao Yi, who is young, in his early twenties.

This person was one of the conditions for Wang Bing to give in.

After a little inquiry, I learned that he was not from a noble family, but was a descendant of a horse merchant in Wancheng. He was tall and had outstanding strength.

As for appearance - it can only be described as "Kui Jie", anyway, he is quite "masculine".

Shao Xun didn't know why Wang Bing owed favor to the Gao family. Could it be that he owed them a large sum of money?

You are buying an official position and selling it! Although the official positions of building owners and their like are originally prepared for local powerful and powerful businessmen who have no family background.

Shao Xun agreed without refuting Wang Bing's face.

After all, Gao Yi's body is suitable for being a strong man carrying flags or charging into battle, and his family background is not bad. He is actually equipped with armor, weapons, and two war horses, one riding horse and two pack horses.

Each of the five parts also has horses and weapons, which is indeed the standard style of local powerful businessmen.

If he is willing to come to Luoyang to "die", then come.

The building commanded by Gao Yi is called the "front building" and has a full strength of five hundred men. At least two hundred soldiers were forced by Shao Xun.

The people who passed through were not very trustworthy, such as team leader Zheng Gou'er, governor Yang Bao, etc. Shao Xun asked them to inform them about something. This was a test. If Yang Bao directly defected to Gao Yi, he would naturally be favored by him in the future.

It's not that simple to gain Shao Xun's trust.

After everything is settled, it’s time to train.

Shao Xun put more energy into the "back building" where he was the owner of the building, and he personally paid close attention to it and set strict requirements.

As for the front building, he would sometimes use his identity as Lieutenant Sima to intervene, adjust their training content and direction, and select people for assessment.

Gao Yi was generally more cooperative, maybe Wang Bing said something to him.

What's more, if you ride alone into the formation, capture the thief and then return, you can show it? Don't talk about the Jizhou soldiers not being prepared that day. If it works, it will work, if it doesn't, it won't work.

Overall, the Qianqian Army is slowly getting on the right track. Individual skill training, golden drum flag recognition, and various military formation and tactical drills are taking turns, and they are racing against time, hoping to have a better chance of winning when the next war comes.

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"Have you thought about everything? Answer the questions one by one." On the training ground, Shao Xun looked at the young soldiers gathered and asked.

"I'll come first." Wang Que'er did his part and talked eloquently: "The key point for the entire army to pass through a dangerous area is that it cannot be ambushed, so it is necessary to send more sentries as a warning."

After a break from training, Shao Xun asked an "application question": How to safely pass through a narrow and dangerous area?

This is an old tradition, just like when he asked his subordinates how to deal with the cavalry in Piyong.

Fifteen-year-old Wang Queer is already the leader of a fifty-man army.

Those honest coolies were obsequious to him and would kneel down at every turn, which had built up his spirit. When it came time to answer a question, he was the first to stand up and give a plan.

"What if the sentry was killed quietly?" Shao Xun asked.

"Then let's send more."

"Do you have any idea of ​​how much is too much?"

"There must be at least dozens of people..." Wang Queer replied somewhat unconfidently.

"How to distribute these dozens of people?" Shao Xun asked.

"Send in every direction."

"How far to disperse? How many people at how many miles? How many horses does each person bring? How many days of water? How to communicate with each other? What if a team of sentinels loses news and fails to communicate within the specified time?

Deal with it?" Shao Xun asked a series of questions, all of which were details, which made Wang Que'er frown and didn't know how to answer for a while.

"That's the problem..." Shao Xun smiled, then pointed at Wang Que'er and said to the others: "Spying is not a matter of just one sentence. In fact, it is very complicated. Many of you are just like Wang Que'er.

Likewise, we only pay attention to the general outline and not the details, but details often determine success or failure. Now that we have introduced the matter of sentinels, each of you will write down a strategy on how to carefully arrange the sentinels and submit it, and I will personally correct it."

"No." Everyone responded one after another.

"Now -" Shao Xun said again: "We will treat this as the sentinels have been properly dispatched and will not consider this issue any more. Is there anything to add?"

"Master Shao." Jin San stood up and said loudly: "When passing through a dangerous section of road, the entire army must pass through with armor and weapons."

In ancient times, during battles, it was not necessary to wear armor when marching, as it would be too tiring.

The bow is also unstrung, otherwise it will be tight all the way and will be useless when it comes time to shoot.

Long pole weapons, like armor, are not carried with you, but are placed on baggage vehicles.
To be continued...