There is a small Huating County, five towns and seven towns, and only more than 50,000 registered people.

Therefore, when Li Ling decided to summon the people to form an army, the number of people he could gather was really limited. In three days, there were only more than two thousand young men who reported to the county government.

But even for these two thousand people, Li Ling did not stay all of them, but conducted a screening. The weak did not stay or the slick ones. He also persuaded him to retreat. In the end, he actually kept only one thousand two hundred and eighty people. In addition, the hands that were originally used under his hands were less than 1,400.

In response to this, the two assistant officials who had already been on the same boat as Li Ling felt that the number of people was too small. They also wanted to advise him to keep more young and strong to make the army stronger, but he refused: "The soldiers are in the spirit but not in the number of people, especially when there are almost no generals here, the number of people is even more chaotic. It is better to leave more than a thousand people who are obedient, and it is easier to practice like this."

As he said that, Li Ling walked out with a full crown and strides. The next step was to educate the more than 1,000 newly enlisted soldiers, unify everyone's ideas, and encourage them to devote themselves to the training and the battle that followed. And this ideological work naturally had to be done by him, the county magistrate.

The open space outside the lobby of the county government office was not enough for so many people to line up, so more people were arranged outside the yamen, and the last group stood on the street. This naturally attracted a lot of people to watch. It was not until a messenger came to drive away the people with sticks that they drove them away. At this time, County Magistrate Li's voice also sounded from the inside:

"My fellow villagers, I think you all know why I want to summon you to form an army this time, right? Yes, Jiangnan is undergoing drastic changes now. A thief Luo Tian Sect broke my embankment and killed my officials just to trigger the chaos in Jiangnan. In some places, because of the incompetence of officials, the city has been taken away by them, and some prefectures have already started disputes.

"Although my Huating County is still peaceful now, I believe that it won't take long to invade those thieves, destroy our county town, and kill our people. Do you want to see the enemy breaking the city at that time, hurting and killing your family, stealing your property, and treating you and your family as slaves?"

Everyone was stunned at first, and then someone shouted loudly: "I don't want to!"

Then more people also reacted and shouted: "I don't want it! I don't want it!"

Finally, more than a thousand young men shouted at the same time, the louder and louder the shouts, the more they shouted, the more neat they were. The three words "unwilling" were shaking, and spreading them from the county government to every corner of the county town.

Such shouting also gave these more than a thousand people a certain degree of cohesion, and everyone began to become focused, have goals and determination.

Li Ling swept over the excited faces in front of him with satisfaction, and his expression was still solemn: "I never doubt everyone's determination to protect their homes and protect their families. But relying solemnly on these is not enough. If we really want to protect our Huating County, we must do our best to practice, prepare, and make the worst plans for any future changes and battles!

"Although I am only a scholar, since I have come here and become the magistrate of Huating County, he is a member of Huating. So from today on, I will practice every day like you. When the enemy attacks, I will fight with everyone and fight with the enemy!"

This final decision immediately gave the young and strong hearts a greater motivation and became more intimate to the county magistrate. So they shouted again: "We are willing to follow the adults, train into an army, and fight against the thieves!"

"Okay, then from now on, start practicing well and follow the orders!" Li Ling no longer delayed. As he said, he signaled several veterans to come forward, organized everyone to stand in a square formation, and then took them out of the city to carry out the most basic exercises.

With the encouragement of County Magistrate Li, he set out with everyone to practice. The training of the entire army on the first day was naturally very smooth. Although for these illiterate young and strong men, the training methods in the army were really difficult and complicated, and the hot weather also caused a lot of trouble for them, they had certain determination and gritted their teeth and persevered.

Li Ling also followed them and practiced until the sun set. He was sore and sweating all over, and then he returned to the county town with heavy steps.

However, this hard work also gave Li Ling a certain idea of ​​the current military training. The training of hundreds of people was not like the imagination of everyone waving some swords, guns, swords and halberds and playing happily on the open space, but was mainly in line and array, which was much different from the military training in later generations.

After Li Ling returned, he also asked the veterans about the basis, but the other party couldn't explain the reason. He stammered for a while before saying that this was the focus of military training on weekdays. On the contrary, it was a personal martial arts practice. Nowadays, ordinary soldiers in the army are not very particular.

"So the confrontation between the two armies and the fight in the world are completely different concepts?" Li Ling asked Li Moyun to massage him while doing research with Wan Shenji and others.

Chang Fan and other heroes of the Cao Gang were really unable to tell the reason. Only Wan Shenji said after pondering: "When I was in the capital before, I had seen the daily training of several battalions of soldiers in the capital. Now I think about it, they do have few fancy moves, but the aura of a hundred people being one and moving forward and retreating together is indeed not something that ordinary people in the world can resist."

"Well, that's it. Although our few people can't catch up with the elite of the Beijing camp, as long as we practice well, we can always exert a lot of combat power when encountering war." Speaking of this, Li Ling suddenly frowned again, "In this way, the actions of those traitors will have some problems. Will they also take time to prepare for training? If this is true, it will give the court a chance."

As far as he knew, Wei Liang had sent people to send the news of the chaos in Songjiang to Jinling and the capital a few days ago. Now, the report has been reported to have entered the capital. Within two or three months, the court will inevitably draw nearby troops to quell the rebellion. In addition, the local garrison in Jiangnan cannot allow the rebels to rob and attack the city. Even if some of them must defend the key cities, more troops will go out to quell the rebellion.

Therefore, for the rioters, time is the most precious thing. They will never prepare for the battle like themselves and lay a solid foundation for the next battle!

"This is not only an opportunity for the court, but also ours." Li Ling's eyes flashed and he quickly made an assertion, "Those rebels composed of rioters can have some combat power, and they cannot waste time training again. So no matter how powerful they are, as long as our whole county is united, it is enough to defend and even defeat them in turn!"

"What the lord said is that this is exactly what the humble official thinks!" Wan Shenji also looked confident, "I am afraid that they will not dare to invade now, otherwise they will be able to make no return!"

Li Ling and others were all satisfied and laughed. With the formation of the army, everyone had more confidence. Now the only thing they had to worry about was the food issue. Because with the training, the food issue of more than a thousand soldiers had to be borne by the county government. Until today, they had not yet obtained the batch of food hidden by the Fang family.

In fact, two days ago, the Fang family's family was brought back by the Cao Gang people and allowed them to meet Fang Jinbo. In this case, Fang Jinbo, who had no choice, had to draw the sea location where the grain was stored, and then Li Ling sent some Cao Gang brothers to the sea to find them.

Until today, they have not returned. However, only half of the food in the county government warehouse is left. According to this situation, it will take less than three or five days to consume the food.

On the third day when Li Ling and the others were worried about this and were afraid of another change, several fishing boats that had gone out to sea swayed back to Huating Port. Behind them, more than a dozen large cargo ships with very deep draft and slow speed were followed.

When Li Ling heard the news, he rushed to the port, he saw the happy smiles of many Caogang men and the grain bags that were carried off the boat.

County Magistrate Li immediately came forward excitedly and personally took a grain bag. He made a cut on the top of his head. In an instant, he saw the white rice inside exposed from the crack.

"Okay! How much food is like this?" After confirming that, Li Ling asked quickly.

"When I say goodbye, let's take a look. Each ship has stored no less than 30,000 kilograms of grain, a total of hundreds of thousands of kilograms..." The man also reported a general number in surprise, and Li Ling was even more stunned: "So much?"

Even if he had some expectations, when he heard such a huge number, his first reaction was not joy, but accident. What has the Xu Fang family done over the years? How could he stock up on such a huge number of grain?

No! Li Ling quickly reacted. This could never be the food that two families could get. There must be some reason for it. I am afraid that some of the food belonged to the Luotian Sect privately hidden!

After thinking about it, Li Ling finally solved another question. He had wondered before why a Luotian sect leader ran to Huating to settle down. Logically speaking, as a helm leader, he should hide in the capital city to control the overall situation. Now it seems that he has another function here, which is to help Luotian sect monitor the food necessary for rebellion.

Fang Jinbo deliberately omitted this point without saying it, but now, with the food in hand, the truth has been revealed.

While being happy, Li Ling also knew that if he had only guessed that there would be a traitor from Luotian Sect to attack Huating, he could now confirm that this battle would be inevitable.

So we must seize the time and practice well, so that this new army can master certain combat capabilities as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!