Early in the morning, outside Juxian County.
On the open ground outside the city of Ju County, groups of refugees were lining up neatly for running training. After the running training, there would be sword and gun training, formation training and marching training.
Liu Yu's original idea was to imitate the rapid model of modern Western armies, that is, starting from standard queue training to train obedience, and quickly train these three thousand refugees into useful soldiers.
But when Liu Yu first tried to implement it, he discovered a problem.
In order to carry out the training of this kind of modern army, a large number of officers who master unified training standards are needed, so as to ensure that the soldiers trained by different officers meet the same standards.
There are no such officers under Liu Yu at all. Only Liu Yu in the entire army knows the training standards of the modern army. This means that if Liu Yu wants to train all his soldiers into soldiers who meet his own standards, he needs to train them himself. A large number of seed officers.
Of course, the reality is that it is impossible for Liu Yu to have enough energy and time to train the three thousand refugee troops step by step into the soldiers he imagined, starting from training officers.
Therefore, Liu Yu could only temporarily give up his untimely idea.
After discussing with Gongsun Sheng, a veteran of the Jin army, it was decided to continue to train the three thousand homeless soldiers in the army according to the methods of the day. However, some changes were made under Liu Yu's suggestions, mainly focusing on training intensity and military law.
Liu Yu changed the two meals a day for the three thousand refugee army to the same three meals a day as the Donglai army. While ensuring sufficient food, the daily training ensured sufficient intensity.
Another is to change a large number of military laws and regulations. At this time, the Western Jin army was full of horrific beheadings. Liu Yu felt that since many of them had no room for implementation, except for serious crimes such as betrayal, escape from battle, and intentional damage to weapons, they were retained. Beheading, and other crimes that were often punished by beheading for minor mistakes were all changed to flogging.
Gongsun Sheng originally advised that these seemingly harsh and harsh military laws can still play a great role in stabilizing a large army.
But Liu Yu said that now that he had just recruited these 3,000 refugees, it was impossible to execute some soldiers just for noisy, disrespectful and other crimes, so it was better to cancel them altogether. This would make him look more magnanimous. After all, he was just like Fei It is also a means to use Li Guang's lenient approach to manage the army. Let's wait until there is an opportunity to implement better rules in the future.
Gongsun Sheng thought for a while and felt that what Liu Yu said made sense.
Liu Yu brought his own soldiers and refugee soldiers together for training. After two days of training, the originally chaotic refugee soldiers were now able to distinguish the different orders represented by different golden drum whistles and no longer listened. When it came time to move, they were jostling and pushing each other.
On the third day, Gongsun Sheng began to teach and train various formations, including large square formations, circular formations, horizontal formations, and more than a dozen formations. For a while, even Liu Yu was amazed by them.
Seeing that the three thousand refugees under his new income were gradually starting to look good, Liu Yu was not relieved because he felt that this progress was too slow.
Because according to the historical trajectory in Liu Hou's life memory, the Youzhou Jin army should go to Linzi City to attack Liu Bogen soon. I am afraid that by then, the three thousand refugee army will be a bit showy at best according to the current progress, and they have to count on themselves. It is probably impossible for a thousand headquarters soldiers plus these three thousand rookie troops to resist the Youzhou soldiers.
Liu Yu couldn't help but think, should he just practice running, he would be able to run faster when the Youzhou soldiers came. However, there were many cavalry in the Youzhou Jin army, so no matter how much more training he did, it would be impossible for two legs to outrun four legs. of.
Moreover, Liu Yu still had a glimmer of hope in his heart, whether his appearance would change the trajectory of history.
Maybe Liu Bogen and Wang Mi can defeat the Youzhou Jin army under Linzi City. It is even possible that for some reasons, the Youzhou Jin army has no time to take care of the Donglai rebels. The Donglai army will continue to separatize Qingzhou and live in peace. ’s little days.
Thinking of this, Liu Yu ordered his soldiers to find the soldier who was going to Linzi to report to Liu Bogen today.
Liu Yu sent this personal soldier to Linzi. He originally wanted to report to Liu Bogen, saying that after capturing Guangxian and Linqu, he suffered many casualties but gained little. He needed to rest in Jixian for a period of time. He hoped that Liu Bogen could allocate a batch of grain to Juxian. .
It was a pretense that he sent his soldiers to ask for food and baggage. In fact, he just wanted to find out if there was any news about the Jin army's movements in Youzhou. After all, this was a big stone that had been weighing on Liu Yu's heart.
After Liu Yu waited for the soldier to come over, he told him not to rush back after hearing the news. He could let others come back first to deliver the message. He could then find an excuse to stay longer and see if there was any news. When the Jin army comes to attack Linzi, they will see the result of the battle between the two armies, and then come back to report as soon as possible.
