The remaining officials of the garrisons around Liaoyang were almost crazy. In just three days, eleven officials were wiped out at home. It was a real family extermination, and even the dogs in the family were killed and used as military rations.

The new general went crazy. He forcibly took away all the farmland and distributed it to those mud legs. The defenders of each fortress and the garrison were all forcibly dispersed and reorganized into different teams.

Except for the fortresses on the frontier, Lu Xuan has not moved for the time being, and all the troops around Liaoyang have been taken under his command.

More than 5,000 people took back four thousand. The rest were buried on the spot.

In this way, Lu Xuan barely gathered a 10,000-person army in his hand. But looking at the soldiers who were thin and looked like bean sprouts, he felt a deep sense of powerlessness. In this era of bad luck, the Ming army was indeed rotten.

At this time, Lu Wenzhao found Lu Xuan.

"Sir, you need to get a charter for training."

"What kind of practice is to keep it for two months first. Three meals a day, at least one meat, and dry food is enough. Make the foundation first. During this period, let them jog and practice formation every day. Be familiar with various military orders and slogans. Wait until the spring begins, and then fight in actual combat."

"Every day?" Lu Wenzhao showed an extremely strange expression, which made Lu Xuan stunned for a moment.

"Is there any problem?"

"Sir, you don't know anything. In the Ming Dynasty, soldiers usually practiced every three to seven days."

Lu Xuan: "..." He swears that he really doesn't know about this. In his previous life, he personally led his troops to fight countless battles. He thought he was very clear about the training process in ancient times. But now...

"How to ensure the combat effectiveness of soldiers after training every three to seven days?"

"Well, it's mainly because it's a daily practice, which is very expensive. No matter it's military or food, it can't keep up. Moreover, these military households still need to take care of the military farms, so there's not so much time."

Lu Xuan suddenly realized that these soldiers under the garrison system were not the professional soldiers he was familiar with. In a sense, they were actually half-agricultural and half-army.

This is also one of the reasons why they lack combat power. Most grassland barbarians have higher combat power than Han soldiers because they do not work in production and are more concentrated in training. Only in this way can they become stronger.

There were not many feudal dynasties in China that could defeat foreign tribes. However, those armies were all professional soldiers who were full of production. They did not work, and all their energy was devoted to war. How could such an army not be strong?

However, sadly, only a very small number of powerful dynasties can accumulate enough resources to raise such an army. Moreover, most of them will become corrupt in the second half of these dynasties. The Ming Dynasty is a typical example.

Was the Ming army weak during the founding period? It was the strong army that destroyed the Yuan Dynasty. Even the Yuan Dynasty was already weak at that time. However, the lean camel was bigger than a horse, and his foundation was still a little bit.

To be honest, if Zhu Yuanzhang knew about it, his descendants would be beaten into a dog by a small tribe outside the border with a total population of only a few hundred thousand. He would probably jump out of the coffin in anger and strangle these unworthy descendants to death.

Lu Xuan was also a little helpless about this. There was no way, but there was still a shortage of people.

"Before spring, keep practicing every day. After spring, practice half a day every day."

"Yes, sir. But training in such a way is too expensive. Our reserves can't last long."

Lu Xuan made those reserves from Li Rubai. It seemed that there were a lot of them, but that was based on the previous standards of the Ming army. Now Lu Xuan was full of three meals a day, at least once a day. The consumption increased by more than doubled. That little reserve seemed a bit too little.

"The standards cannot be lowered. Farming after spring cannot be stopped. As for food and grass, I will find a way."

"Yes. There are also adults. When they were investigating military farms, they confiscated eleven households that led the trouble. All of them were large clans who had been elite in Liaodong for a long time."

Lu Xuan understood what Lu Wenzhao meant as soon as he heard it.

"How much money did you get?"

"You may not believe it if you say it. It's a full three million taels. I saved it all to the General's Mansion."

"Why are you saving me? If you don't spend money, it's no different from scrap iron. First, pay the soldiers below for two months. Then start recruiting!"

“Invest in a business?”

"Yes. Let everyone know that we have money in our hands. Let them do business with us. Food, ore, livestock, and whatever they want. In this way, we should be able to persevere until the next Liao Sheng arrives."

"It's more than enough. When the spring comes, we will recover the farming process. The autumn harvest is ten, and the food for the farming alone will be enough for us to consume for half a year. The adults have banned all the salt and iron business before, and when we start this line again, we can get most of the money. At that time, all the garrisons in Liaoyang will be under the control of the adults."

"That's right. But you're satisfied?"

"Sir, do you have a longer-term plan?" Lu Wenzhao was a little confused. Lu Xuan was not satisfied with such a great situation?

“How many firearms do we have now?”

"There are sixty cannons, more than one thousand shells, and there are ten thousand muskets, and countless ammunitions." Lu Wenzhao said proudly.

"Is that true? How many muskets can be used?"

Lu Wenzhao was stunned at first, and then realized that this was indeed a problem. It was mentioned in the Battle of Sarhu before.

There were three thousand musket soldiers in Liu Jing's army. However, all of these three thousand people were Koreans. Liu Jing was a famous general of a generation in the late Ming Dynasty. He was especially good at using musket soldiers. Then why were all musket soldiers foreigners? Because the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were unwilling to use them.

The firearms of the Ming Dynasty were of many kinds, absolutely the best in the entire era at that time. However, they were in a bad mood as soon as they arrived in actual combat.

In fact, it is not that the firearms have problems with the design. It is that the quality of the firearms created is really poor.

It is said that the cost of manufacturing muskets in the North Korean army is only 10% of the funds allocated from above...

The standard of ten taels of silver is that you only use one tael of silver. Even the craftsmen’s wages are embezzled. If the things made are qualified, I will be able to live broadcasting five-stage electric fans every day.

Therefore, most Ming soldiers would rather use rusty large blades and spears than use muskets. At least the big swords and spears would not kill themselves, but the muskets would not be necessary. Maybe they would be "successful" before the war began.

Seeing that Lu Wenzhao was silent, Lu Xuan did not make any trouble for him. This was not his fault.

"You go back and ask Shen Lian to count and check all the firearms. Pick out what can be used and give me all the unused ones."

"Sir, are you?"
Chapter completed!