I am Li Shimin of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 10
Finally, Li Shimin got his wish and became the county lieutenant of Mayi.County magistrate Li took the initiative to come to invite Li Shimin. After meeting, he found that this man was indeed extraordinary and heroic. He thought that being a county lieutenant would be more than enough.

At the beginning, I was worried that Li Shimin would not accept such a low-level official position. Naturally, it was a warm solicitation, which felt a bit like a corporal.After some refusals, and under the persuasion of Mr. Zhang, Li Shimin reluctantly agreed.Li Shimin's gesture was actually to gain a greater initiative in recruiting and training soldiers in the future.

Seeing Li Shimin's agreement, County Magistrate Li was naturally very happy, and immediately took the initiative to say that he would spend 1000 taels of gold from the county as military funds for recruiting soldiers, and let him take the armor and weapons in the treasury.

He was only asked to train his troops with all his strength and guard the city well. He did not interfere with the recruitment and training of soldiers. It was all up to Li Shimin himself to decide. If the higher-ups recruited them to fight in other places, they would go there as well.

When resisting the Hu people before, Inspector Zhang had mobilized the county soldiers from Mayi, which is why County Magistrate Li said this.

Li Shimin was very happy to see that Li County Magistrate was very upright. From now on, he was going to build his own army, and when the troubled times were coming, he would have a rising power.

A detailed "personal information registration" was done at the county government. Because he was a "black householder", he had to ask Mr. Zhang to come forward as a guarantor to prove that Li Shimin's family background was innocent, and he also recognized Mr. Zhang as his distant relative.

In the end, after all this was done, Li Shimin was already the "Commander of the County Police Headquarters" in name of the county government. Internally, he was in charge of the law and order in the county and punished criminals. responsibility.

In the future, it is only necessary for the county magistrate to recommend him and file a record with the prefect's mansion. Generally, the prefect will agree, and there is also Mr. Zhang as a guarantor.

The next day, I bid farewell to Gan Xinghan and Cao Wenbao, and asked them to go to Yanmenguan to hand over errands. At the same time, I asked for a period of "sick leave" for Zhang Liao, falsely claiming that Zhang Liao was seriously injured and recuperating in Mayi, and that he would return to the military camp after recovering.

After doing all this, a banner of recruiting soldiers was erected in Mayi City, and a recruiting notice was posted, telling everyone in easy-to-understand words that we are the heroes who recruited the barbarians.

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Li Shimin has put a lot of thought into establishing his own direct line army, thinking about the military system and the construction of the army. Although his team now has less than 1000 people, the "organizational structure" of the army still needs to be improved. Plan ahead.

At first, Li Shimin thought that the Fubing system was the best system. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the Fubing did fight bravely and made great contributions to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty.But in the later period of Zhenguan, he had already keenly felt that there was a problem with the Fubing system.

At that time, the elite soldiers in Guanzhong joined the army during the war and farmed in their spare time. Because everyone had land, the property that needed to be protected would not be violated, and joining the army could also exempt taxes and corvees, and rewards for meritorious service would also encourage land. The fighting power of the government soldiers is extremely strong.

However, with the intensification of land annexation and the limited amount of land after all, the imperial court can reward less and less land.The land in the hands of the government soldiers was gradually taken away by wealthy families or officials.

The government soldiers lost their land, became tenants, and even became refugees. Without their permanent property, they naturally lost their perseverance, which directly led to a plummeting decline in the combat effectiveness of the government soldiers. In the late Tang Dynasty, the government soldier system completely failed, and the court gradually Agreeing to the local Jiedu envoy's own recruitment of soldiers also indirectly led to the intensification of the Tang Dynasty's separatism.

Therefore, in terms of the large military system, he is more inclined to the recruitment system.

Local state and county officials have no right to interfere with the mobilization of the army, which is uniformly mobilized by the generals appointed and dismissed by the emperor, and they cannot act privately except in wartime.

The point of paying military salaries is actually beyond the cognition of this era. For ordinary soldiers, the tangible benefits are far more real than spiritual motivation or the realization of their ideals and ambitions.

In this way, the army can be largely prevented from becoming the private property of individual generals, and it can also reduce the self-esteem of local supporters.

In terms of the specific army system, he still followed the system of the Tang Dynasty.

According to the function and equipment of the military branch, it is divided into middle base, garrison cavalry, shooting students, Yue cavalry, infantry, long water and so on.The official ranks of his subordinates are: BIE Jia, Chang Shi, Liu Cao Wei, and join the army.

He made some changes in the configuration of the number of personnel in the army.

Ten people make one fire, and the fire will grow.Five fires form a team, 50 people, and the team is set up.The five teams are a brigade, with 250 people, and the brigade has a brigade commander.The fourth brigade is a regiment with 1000 people, and the regiment has a school lieutenant.The five regiments are a division with 5000 people, and the division is set up with partial generals. The 2nd division is an army with 10000 people, and the army has generals.

At this stage, such a structure can already meet his needs for hegemony, but it is a bit far away to think about it now.

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There are so many heroes in the land of Sanjin, especially Mayi is the frontline battlefield against the Hu people. The folk customs are tough, and many villagers spontaneously organize themselves to fight against the Hu people and protect their homes, so they are very bloody and have a certain fighting power.

What’s even more rare is that most men can ride horses. The earliest general Meng Tian of Qin Shihuang chased the Xiongnu north outside Yanmen Pass and besieged the city to raise horses. In the early years of the Han Dynasty, Mayi was also an important place for raising horses, so most families had horses. They also know how to ride horses, which means that these people are cavalry when they have war horses.

Many of the surrounding villages in Mayi became refugees under the frequent harassment of the barbarians, and some even lost their families. Many even went up the mountain to become the king of the mountain. Harmful.

Therefore, it is relatively easy for Li Shimin to recruit troops at this time. There are county government endorsements, "local troops organized" and military salaries. Just come to sign up. In less than a week, 1000 people have already received signups.

But Li Shimin didn't want to accept all of them. One reason was that he had limited financial resources and couldn't support too many soldiers. In addition, he had to keep a low profile and not be too conspicuous. Otherwise, with so many troops in a county, he would definitely be targeted by many forces. Therefore, at this stage, we must take the route of elite soldiers.

I seized property worth more than 2000 taels of gold, the county magistrate Li gave 1000 taels of gold, and Grandpa Zhang took out 3000 taels of gold to support me. The funds are sufficient in a short time, but I still have to build cavalry , but also to consider for the future, the money is still stretched.

In the end, under Li Shimin's selection of the best, more than 800 strong and strong people were selected, and most of these people could ride horses to form the garrison of Mayi City.

But this barracks is a big problem, which makes Li Shimin scratch his head very much.

The site in the county town was originally small, and the original barracks were only big enough to accommodate 200 people, so there must be no room for them to be stationed.What's more, I have to continue to recruit soldiers and train soldiers, and I can't do without a relatively concealed and large enough venue.

During the Han and Tang dynasties, military camps were generally built outside the city. One was convenient for stationing and training troops, and the other was easy for large troops to provoke troubles in the city, which was not conducive to public security in the city.Later, I was worried that the mercenary generals would rebel and occupy the city, so they could only march into the city in case of war or when there was an order to transfer troops.

Later, he remembered a place and thought it would be very suitable.

I have been here in my previous life. At that time, the Tang army stationed and trained troops in a valley of Guancen Mountain not far from Mayi. The valley has a large open space, and there are high mountains on both sides, which is very hidden.

Finally, he groped his memory and found this place. The venue is large enough to accommodate at least 5000 people to train and camp here. There are towering mountains on both sides, and there is only one entrance to the entire valley, which is very convenient for defense.

After finding the barracks, Li Shimin officially started to train soldiers. Zhang Liao was the main general of the training. Although Zhang Liao was young, he was very skilled in martial arts and was well-known in Mayi, so it was only appropriate for him to train the soldiers.

Li Shimin had already taught him "The Art of War of the Duke of Wei", which recorded the pharmacist and his own military training experience, which was very rare and precious. Li Shimin told him that this was the art of war taught by his family teacher, and asked him to keep it carefully and study it carefully.

Ever since Zhang Liao got this book "The Art of War of the Duke of Wei", he has never put it down. As he studies diligently, he feels more and more that this book is extraordinary. He often takes it out to study and enlighten, so he is naturally very grateful to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin and Zhang Liao began to drill while asking the recruited soldiers to build the barracks.Almost all the pig iron and other strategic materials available in the county were emptied, and finally the military camp was built within a month, and the weapons and armor were forged.

At this stage, the military system cannot be announced. He just secretly set up the command structure of the team. The short-term goal is to have at least 5000 elite soldiers, so he selected 5 young generals with extraordinary martial arts from the team and appointed them as school lieutenants. A school lieutenant temporarily leads 200 people, and the other low-level officers are fully appointed by Zhang Liao.

The next period of time was full of intense military training. Li Shimin and Zhang Liao went out together to train together, eating and lodging with the soldiers, training hard during training, and very approachable and approachable during rest, without putting on airs at all.

Moreover, the military law is strict, and anyone who violates the military law will be severely punished, so the soldiers obeyed the orders. More than a month later, the army ordered to prohibit, the battle formation was well coordinated, and the military prestige was quite strong. Lack of iron and blood on the battlefield.

(End of this chapter)