Liu Jingxiao's division now has four infantry regiments, with a total strength of more than 10,000 people. On the surface, they seem to be strong, but Liu Jingxiao himself understands that this is a strong outside and a hard worker. It is considered a paper tiger, and it is not very useful to fight a war.

Although these four infantry regiments have a large number, Liu Jingxiao himself estimated that one-on-one battle with a battalion of the old Ding Border Army, his infantry regiment really didn't have much chance of winning. Apart from the artillery factor, the real combat power of these seven or eight thousand troops may not be much stronger than that of the old Ding Border Army, which is less than three thousand.

On the one hand, the troops entered Hubei and frequently participated in the battle. The troops consumed a lot. The old Dingbian army officers and soldiers who fought with the Rouran rebels in Mobei rushed forward, with great casualties. Even the veterans of the Hubei army recruited in Wuhan also lost a large number of troops. Now there are almost half of the Sichuan soldiers in the army, and these Sichuan soldiers have good attack spirits. But that's all. Liu Jingxiao personally led the team to inspect the situation of the Sichuan army's new recruits, but they frowned with several regiment commanders. To put it bluntly, these Sichuan soldiers have a tactical level than those of the new recruits who have been rigorously trained for a month. They are almost all illiterate. Apart from standing attentively, they follow the butts of the people in front of them when they are fighting. When they pick up a crest, they can't do anything else when they pick up a crest gun and fire a few shots when they encounter the enemy.

While the old backbone was deprived of personnel, the troops were constantly expanding. Liu Jingxiao visited his basic army's Second Regiment and found that half of the platoon leaders did not recognize him. In the past, he could call out the names of every cadre in the cavalry battalion.

The company commanders of the Dingbian Army now almost all serve as battalion commanders or above. Some platoon leaders of the Dingbian Army now have taken over as deputy battalion commanders, and the core veterans of the Dingbian Army are all squad platoon leaders. Even among the veterans of the Hubei army recruited in Hubei, some have already become squad leaders.

These people were promoted to new positions and often had insufficient abilities and were often unable to adapt to the situation and delayed military aircraft. During this battle with the Sichuan Army, Liu Jingxiao felt that the impact and marching power of the troops were far inferior to that of the old Dingbian Army.

In fact, the current First Division of Hubei Army, from soldiers to officers, including Liu Jingxiao, can be said to be unqualified.

Although Liu Jingxiao has a complete military resume, from Zhuque's affiliated Lu Xiao to Zhuque's military academy graduation, and then served the Dingbian Army, and had a long military study career and a considerable amount of time in the military experience, his current promotion speed is too fast. As a student who graduated from a secondary military academy, he can command a regiment-level army the most skilled, but when the troops are old, he feels like he can't command.

However, Liu Jingxiao has great hope for the army. It doesn’t matter if there is any problem. The key is that the army must be energetic and energetic. Now, no matter whether it is veterans or new recruits in the army, under the influence of Liu Jingxiao’s high-paying policy, everyone is very motivated.

Because of the rapid promotion of veteran cadres and the strength of the troops, the treatment is better than that of the old Ding Border Army. It can be said that they are full of expectations for the future. Although the newcomers from the Sichuan and Hubei Army basically start from the bottom of the position, the Ding Border Army learns the style of the Hubei department. The military pay is not only paid monthly, but also the pay is much higher than that of the old troops, so everyone is very motivated.

What's more, there are still a group of old foundations in the army that have been tempered by hundreds of wars. These old backbones from Mobei to Yichang are almost incompetent and have a strong style. As long as they bring the troops out, Liu Jingxiao can rest assured. So Liu Jingxiao is busy with all his efforts to strengthen the training of the troops.

First of all, we must start with the cadres. At this time, the Suiying School that Liu Jingxiao had built was very useful. After Liu Jingxiao asked Yan Aoshuang for instructions, the Suiying School was marked as the "Hubei Branch of the Zhuque Army Officer School" and then prepared to vigorously train cadres.

This is Liu Jingxiao's plan to kill two birds with one stone. Not only can he train a group of cadres, but these students from Hubei branch will have their own strength in the future. Of course, he said publicly: "Use Zhuque's resources to train our cadres, and with Zhuque's graduation certificate, he will not be afraid of having no food in the future!"

Now Liu Jingxiao's troops are very mixed. Although Liu Jingxiao's Suzaku system is the mainstream, Xiao Rulang's former Fengjun system, some of the cadres of Murong Xuehai regiment have their own team, Li Heyi also has his own small team, the people in Mengding Country are considered the old Hubei system, and even the Sichuan Army system. However, after this, everyone united under Liu Jingxiao, and they are all considered cadres from Suzaku.

However, the military academy was still not ready for a while, and the students were unable to determine it for a while. Moreover, this training class of at least three months was still too long for Liu Jingxiao, who wanted to take effect quickly.

So he first had to conduct a week of rotation training for the platoon-level cadres. As for the training of soldiers, he still strengthened the basic training of infantry, training methods, marching, shooting...

After the rotation training of cadres above the platoon were completed, Liu Jingxiao began to make big moves. The first thing he did was a small-scale confrontation at the platoon level. Then Liu Jingxiao released the atmosphere, saying that after the battalion-level exercise, the regiment-level confrontation exercise should be conducted. The outstanding performance would be highly rewarded.

Now the commanders have both money and people, and what they lack is the position of a brigade commander. Everyone knows this reward. Several commanders urge the troops to step up their training so that they can win glory for the commander.

Liu Jingxiao really doesn't want to be the brigade commander. Now the four regiment commanders are obedient to him and are easy to command. However, if there is a brigade commander in the middle, it will probably be a bit troublesome, but in order to improve his combat power, he doesn't care about so much.

As for the lower-level officers and soldiers, Liu Jingxiao acted according to the rules, paid double military pay during wartime, and paid as usual. During the exercise, teams with excellent results could receive 50% of the military pay during wartime, which fully mobilized the enthusiasm of the lower-level officers and soldiers.

Of course, this set of magic weapons is not omnipotent. Liu Jingxiao criticized Meng Dingguo for being depressed and busy talking about love all day long. Finally, seeing that Meng Dingguo was really distorted, Liu Jingxiao simply gave a death order: You can get married, but you have to bring the troops out first. Only when Commander Liu nodded and passed the acceptance, Commander Meng could officially get married.

This awakened Meng Dingguo. On the one hand, he lived and ate and lived in the artillery regiment day and night, led his troops to train all day, and quickly raised betrothal gifts, preparing to complete the major events of his life as soon as possible.

The problem that troubles Liu Jingxiao is also the homesickness of the Sichuan Army. The First Division of Hubei Army is indeed good, with a brand new straight military uniform, the newly made good military shoes, new belts, new backpacks, and weapons are also first-class. Even the military pay is much higher than the Sichuan Army, but how can all this be able to compete with the faint nostalgia? Although Yichang is good, it is not the hometown. In addition, the Sichuan Army soldiers who have been repaired have not consolidated, so there are quite a few escapes.

Although a group of prisoners from the Sichuan Army were added again, Liu Jingxiao also knew that the key was still necessary to consolidate it. On the one hand, the publicity work was stepped up, and on the other hand, the vigilance was strengthened. It took more than half a month to be considered to be officially consolidated.

But the remaining prisoners could no longer be added to the army. Of course, the Sichuan Army's 2 million yuan and the beauty were not at no cost. When Liu Jingxiao was negotiating with the Sichuan Army, the Sichuan Army had already asked Liu Jingxiao to send all the prisoners and seized weapons and ammunition.

But those who have already eaten cannot be spit out. The Sichuan Army re-entered the address and asked Liu Jingxiao to return the remaining prisoners. The two sides' agreement of 2 million yuan actually included these prisoners and weapons and ammunition.

In terms of weapons, the main equipment of the Sichuan Army was a medron and two-pound cannon. Anyway, the Dingbian Army didn't like these, so they were all sent back. The remaining three, four, six-pound cannons and some smoothbore guns were retained by the Dingbian Army, and some old weapons were also sent back to the Sichuan Army.

The prisoners were easy to deal with. The eight thousand people picked by Xiao Diji were all strong, and the six thousand people who Liu Jingxiao joined the army were all young soldiers with good physical fitness and hard-working. They were all in their prime and were very satisfied.

As for the remaining prisoners of Sichuan Army, they were all old, weak, sick and disabled. Even if some of them were strong, they were returned by the army because they were lazy and were lazy. Therefore, Liu Jingxiao didn't care.

However, if the beauty is not in hand, how can we still give the most important prisoner? The Sichuan Army urged him several times. Liu Jingxiao asked to send the beauty first and then the prisoner. The Sichuan Army finally sent the two beauties.

Although Xu Rubing ranked fourth in the four beauties in Sichuan, her appearance is really no less than Shen Xianqiao, and she is even more charming on the pillow. As for another beauty, Liu Jingxiao felt that when she met, the "Stunning Wife in the World" of King Hailing was really true, but the identity of this beauty really made Liu Jingxiao laugh and cry, and she really couldn't get involved in the change for a while.

After the beauty was obtained, Liu Jingxiao also used the Shen family's fleet to send back two thousand prisoners and a piece of arms. Now the Shen family's fleet is very powerful in Sichuan, and no one dares to stop them. In addition, this batch of goods is related to the capital of each department in Sichuan, so it is naturally a smooth journey.

The salt from the liujing can only be transported to western Hubei for sale by Shen's ship. Now Sichuan salt is expelling Huai salt in western Hubei and driving Huai salt out of the market. A group of Anhui merchants asked Liu Jingxiao for complaints, but Liu Jingxiao felt that Sichuan salt was not good at helping Chu. Usually, the salt merchants don't have a penny to honor themselves, but Sichuan salt is different. As long as they pass through Liu Jingxiao's defense, each load of salt will automatically pay tribute to two cents. This month, it will be enough to pay a regiment of military pay. Moreover, Shen Xianqiao's family can also benefit in this regard. This is not a killing of two birds with one stone.

Sichuan now thinks that Liu Jingxiao is guarding western Hubei, which is very consistent with the taste of Sichuan people. Although the sales volume of salt in Ziliujing is large, it has always been oversupply, with more than 100,000 dan of salt in stock, and many salt people are unemployed. Although there has been a precedent for "Sichuan and Salt to Help Chu", the whole province of Hubei is a sales area for Huai salt, and Huai salt has been supported by the central government, so the export of Sichuan salt to Hubei has been restricted, only more than 1,000 dan a year.

But Liu Jingxiao is now stationed in Yichang, and Sichuan salt is only exported to Hubei. Regardless of the quantity, as long as it is the Shen family's fleet, Liu Jingxiao's division will be released, and the sales will be protected by Liu Jingxiao's troops.

Anhui merchants value profit, and the price of salt in Hubei has always remained high, and the people are suffering. Now a batch of low-priced and high-quality Sichuan salt has come. People in Hubei Province cheered and rushed to buy Sichuan salt. Under the protection of Liu Jingxiao, Sichuan salt not only sells it in western Hubei, but also merchants from northern and southern Hubei have come to Yichang to buy Sichuan salt.

Sichuan salt is better than Huai salt, but the price is lower than Sichuan salt. Merchants value profit. Although they have the monopoly of Anhui merchants, Liu Jingxiao's signature is very useful in the two lakes. As long as they hear it is Liu Jingxiao's goods, the brigade commanders will naturally be willing to let it go.

Some merchants were sent by various division brigade commanders from Hunan. The salt tax has always been controlled by the Hunan Provincial Government and is a very important source of economic resources for the provincial government. Although the division brigade commanders did not dare to detain salt tax openly, it is still feasible to do some salt business in private to make up for military expenditure. However, there has been no channel to get a large amount of salt from Sichuan. Now, Liu Jingxiao, who is guarding western Hubei, has released it, what else can you be afraid of?

Salt is a daily necessity for people. Two lakes can sell millions of dans of salt a year, so the business is naturally very prosperous. More than 100,000 dans of salt in Ziliujing were sold out, and many salt residents were recalled to produce it day and night.

However, it was Liu Jingxiao who gave Sichuan Yan a heavy blow in the future.

But now Liu Jingxiao only cares about collecting money, regardless of the rest. The only surprise is that the last beauty is coming late, which makes Liu Jingxiao anxious.

At this time, Wuhan and Chen Yunjie both sent people to ask Liu Jingxiao to join his side. Liu Jingxiao used the word "drag" method to deal with everything, "Wu... the direct line is very good... the E line is also very good..." When someone was forced to make an end, Liu Jingxiao said: "Don't fight, don't fight... All peace is better... peace is better..."

Chinese people are best at changing their minds, and Liu Jingxiao is determined not to express his opinion before the two sides of Hubei have reached a result. He could only tell the truth in the telegram to Wang Bincheng: "Brother Bincheng... Jingxiao is still watching...I am willing to advance and retreat with my brother..."

During the rest of the time, Commander Liu lived a very relaxed life. He trained the troops during the day and had three ladies in bed at night, which was even more tiring than during the day. If he had free time, he would either go shopping with his wife or be busy translating his shaman dictionary and translating the recipe of Bingjing Cream. It can be said that Liu Jingxiao's life was very interesting.

Since the two sides of the Direct and Hubei have always been in a state of disagreement on the front line of Wuhan, Liu Jingxiao is also willing to maintain this balance of power. No matter which side grows stronger, it will be of no benefit to him.

On September 27, Xiong Wu of the Sichuan Army came to Yichang again. When he saw Liu Jingxiao, he said, "Teacher Liu... You have faith and righteousness, but our Sichuan Army is really sorry..."

When Liu Jingxiao heard this, she knew something happened to the last beauty and asked loudly: "What's going on?"
Chapter completed!