More than 12,000 new recruits were divided into 12 battalions, each with a thousand people. He did not intend to divide the battalions according to tradition, but instead disrupted the battalions according to skills and troops. Then, Yicong, who was sent to recruit soldiers, served as the chief lieutenant, and the military marquis was responsible for training and command, and if he had enough abilities, he was appointed as the captain.

This is his soldiers, of course, he must be firmly held in his own hands. Yicongying is his direct line. He has been cultivated for so long, loyalty and ability are the most reliable. Let them become the commanders of these men, and no one can take away the command from him. He can temporarily assign generals as commanders, but ownership will always be his.

In his plan, this is his Imperial Guard, his trump card. At any time, this army will not be disbanded, nor will it deal with others. No one can get involved except his heirs.

Time flies. Half a month later, the autumn harvest is over, and new soldiers from all counties rushed to Gusu to gather. Sun Ce set up a camp in Dalei Mountain in Taihu Lake and Xiaolei Mountain. He is preparing to conduct closed training as planned. He will be assessed every ten days. Those with excellent grades can go out and go to Gusu city. Those with good grades can go around the island and relax. Others can only stay in the camp to make up for classes, and those with special bad grades will be repatriated.

On the first day of September, Sun Ce ascended to the general's position and faced the entire army for the first time.

Before everyone arrived, Sun Ce had already settled in the camp, inspected various camps every day, chatted with recruits from various counties, learned about their situation, asked about their well-being, and brought them closer together. Many people recognized him, and he also recognized many people. In this regard, Sun Ce himself has extraordinary talent. As long as he met soldiers, he would have an impression. Although he might not be able to name a name, he knew which camp he was and whose subordinate he was.

But when he stepped onto the stage and watched more than 10,000 young and strong recruits standing in front of him in unison, he was still indescribable. These were children carefully selected from more than one million Wu Hui's children. They did not come from force, but took the initiative to recruit. They were strong and skilled in martial arts. They had parents, wives and children, and were willing to fight for their happiness. They had heard of his reputation, were willing to follow him, and live and die.

Compared with the Danyang soldiers, who are known as the elite in the world, Sun Ce believes more in these slightly simple new recruits in front of him. The Danyang soldiers have good personal combat, but it is difficult for them to improve. They are undecided in rebellion and surrender. The habit of soldiers is too heavy to receive harsh training, let alone discipline, and cannot become a true elite. The battlefield is more about collective strength than personal combat power. Without strict discipline and tacit cooperation, no matter how strong the individual combat power is, it is impossible to become a real elite.

Qi Jiguang trained troops instead of scoundrels, but chose simple miners and fishermen for this.

During the Former Han Dynasty, the people were the soldiers as the main body, and the household registration was as famous as the place to be trained. The county also had to conduct regular assessments and reviews to ensure that they could be recruited at any time, which was called the capital test. The Eastern Han Dynasty began to advocate Confucianism since Emperor Guangwu, and the capital test system was exempted. Except for certain specific areas, the county no longer conducted regular reviews, and the use of troops was mainly temporary recruitment. The conscript was in name only. The recruitment was for emergency response, and there was no sufficient time to train, so the generals preferred soldiers with a certain martial arts foundation, such people were full of soldiers, rangers, rogues, hooligans, etc. who had a certain martial arts foundation. Such people would turn against each other if they were a little heavy. If they were disagreeable, they would rebel and scatter.

In the early days of the Three Kingdoms, many generals suffered from recruiting troops, and Cao Cao and Sun Ce were also among them.

In order to change this trend, Sun Ce was determined to break this inertia. He endured for more than half a year, gave up the Danyang soldiers who were within his reach, made a lot of preparations, and finally completed the recruitment and achieved his goal. Looking at these energetic new recruits, he could already see the invincible heroic posture of these Jiangdong soldiers traversing the Central Plains.

A 100,000 army was defeated by Zhang Liao and 800 people? Sorry, this kind of thing would never happen in my hands.

"The Wu Hui children..." Sun Ce cleared his throat, used his Dantian Qi to speak loudly. There was no loudspeaker these days, and he could only rely on a fleshy voice, which is really not something that ordinary people can do. Fortunately, God gave him face today, and there was not even a trace of wind. If there was a strong wind, no matter how good his throat was, few people could hear him.

"Many of you already know who I am, and I know who you are, but today is different. Starting from today..." Sun Ce raised his hand, pointed to his chest, and pointed to the new recruits standing in the audience. "I am your general, you are my soldiers."

The soldiers in the audience held their breaths at each other and stared at Sun Ce intently.

"We will train together, we will fight side by side, we will create glory together, we will face strong enemies together. When training, I am your standard. When fighting, I am your direction. When charging, I will rush in front of all of you. When retreating, I will be your strongest back..."

Sun Quan stood on the stage, looked at Sun Ce's tall back, and listened to Sun Ce's extremely bewitching speech, his blood was boiling. He arched Lu Yi on the side with his shoulders and squeezed his eyes. "How about my eldest brother?"

Lu Yi said lightly: "The general is worthy of the name of a little overlord."

Sun Quan curled his lips, feeling it was boring, but he was not in the mood to argue with Lu Yi. He just opened his eyes wide and pricked up his ears, and wanted to remember all this in his mind, hoping that one day he could speak to tens of thousands of soldiers like Sun Ce.

Yang Xiu frowned and said to Shen You next to him: "Jijiu, who is the ghostwriter of General Sun's article? Could it be that he wrote it himself?"

Shen You said, "What, do you think it's inappropriate?"

"As the chief general, he is the leader, how can he lead by example? Today, he said in front of so many people that he can't do it in the future, wouldn't he deceive himself?"

Shen You laughed silently. "Yang Dezu, the general has high hopes for these soldiers and cannot be regarded as ordinary subordinates. When they go into battle, it must be a time to decide the outcome. How can General Sun still plan? Naturally, he crosses a horse and holds a spear, and decides the outcome between the two battles. If he doesn't lead by example, how can he get the soldiers' death power?"

Yang Xiu shook his head. "I am sorry that I cannot agree with this. Those who are generals should be polite and should be wise. Being brave and fighting is not what the generals do."

Shen You smiled but said nothing. He understood Sun Ce's expectations for these new recruits, but he did not expect Yang Xiu to understand it. Yang Xiu was a real family. He could gain wealth without charging in the battle. Joining the army has never been his first choice. Even the former Han Dynasty, who was known as the prime minister, had to join the army, did not see any prime minister's son fight in person, let alone the dynasty that advocated literature and was less powerful than military.

Yuan Shao thought so, right? I heard that he didn't like wearing helmets between battle formations, but showed his scarf to others to show his calmness and elegance. If this is true, the final winner must be General Sun in front of him.

At this time, Sun Ce's speech was at the end. He raised his hand and shouted loudly.

"Jiangdong children, we will compete for the Central Plains, traversing the eight wildernesses, our iron hooves will walk all over the grassland, our warships will sail to the sea, our enemies will tremble, history will write down our great achievements, and descendants will share our glory, because we are invincible children of Jiangdong."

The soldiers were filled with blood and long live the mountains.
Chapter completed!