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According to the principle of the three-three system, Lu Bu set up the lowest level of armed forces structure of Jiuyuan County New Army, that is, one platoon has three squads, with one platoon leader and one deputy platoon leader, one company has three platoons, with one company commander and one deputy company commander, one battalion has three companies, with one battalion commander and one deputy battalion commander, one squad has 10 people, with one squad leader and one deputy squad leader, and each soldier has a corresponding order of arrangement. The Security Bureau and the Special Operations Team are set up in separate sequences, and the personnel and organization are adjusted as needed at any time according to the actual needs.

Squad and platoon leaders are the lowest-level cadres in the Jiuyuan County New Army, and they can be promoted to higher-level commanders at any time. All grassroots cadres in the army start as squad leaders and platoon leaders. Squad and platoon leaders are the most basic command officers and must be soldiers with corresponding battlefield experience. Those who have no actual battlefield or actual combat experience are not qualified. Only those who have participated in actual combat and have outstanding performance will be given priority to be grassroots commanders, that is, squad and platoon leaders.

The reason why each combat unit has one commander and one deputy commander is to clarify the duties of the battlefield commander. If the squad is the combat unit, if the squad leader dies, the deputy squad leader will take over the command duties. If both the commander and the deputy commander are killed, they will be replaced as commanders in sequence to avoid unnecessary wrangling and shirking of responsibility.

In view of the limited size of the new army in Jiuyuan County, it is temporarily divided into three battalions, with Li Su and Zhang Yang as the second and third battalion commanders respectively, and Lu Bu as the commander-in-chief and the first battalion commander, as well as the director of the security bureau and the captain of the special operations team. When the number of soldiers and soldiers increases to a certain level and scale, further adjustments will be made.

In addition to the necessary military physical fitness and weapons preparation training, Lu Bu also arranged for all the new soldiers to be responsible for their own piece of land, to be reclaimed, cultivated and sown to grow crops and raise livestock, and to take out a certain amount of potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn to grow seedlings. You must know that these crops are the most drought-resistant and have the highest yields and are irreplaceable varieties. They can not only supply food shortages, but can also be used as feed to raise more chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle, sheep and other livestock to provide meat and protein.

In order to improve the overall strength of Jiuyuan County in the shortest possible time and make the people of Jiuyuan County live more stable, Lu Bu had to temporarily change his way of commanding troops and learn from the military farming system of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty. When the troops did not need to fight, they had to reclaim wasteland and plant certain crops in addition to necessary training. After all, it was still the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and small peasant economy was very common. Only the relative stability of agriculture could make the development of Jiuyuan area smoother.

Lu Bu also thought about it repeatedly. At present, managing the army in this way can most effectively reduce the pressure on civilians. After all, the wool comes from the sheep. The expenses of raising troops and wars in any dynasty are ultimately levied on ordinary people, especially since the current population of Jiuyuan County is relatively small. Therefore, it is time to find a way to raise troops on a self-sufficient basis, or wait until the population of Jiuyuan County is no longer in short supply, before changing this system of raising troops by farming.

Jiuyuan County was located on the border of the Han Dynasty. Due to decades of Xiongnu incursions, the social environment at the time, and various natural disasters, the population of Jiuyuan County dropped sharply, and large tracts of farmland were abandoned.

As a person who has experienced it, Lu Bu (Liu Yuan) is well aware of the sufferings of ordinary people in history, and can better understand the nature of the military maintenance system and war. In a sense, war is ultimately a battle of economic consumption, and the ultimate challenge is economic and military strength.

The system of military farming to support the army can self-sufficiency in supporting a large number of troops without using other forces, increasing taxes or placing any pressure on the local people.