Sending the little girl back to the room, Qin Yu didn't care anymore, and came to the outside of the city with Li Dingguo to start recruiting people.

Thanks to the breach of the county seat, the old and weak women and children outside the city also had a few full meals, and their faces were full of hope for the future.

In the rebel army, only by becoming the personal guard of the leaders can they go to live in the city, and similarly, only by the personal guard, can they eat and dry, and their families can also enjoy happiness. The rest of them are cannon fodder.

If you want to become a personal guard, in addition to being tall and big, you must also dare to fight and fight, so that you may be favored by the leaders, of course, if you know how to do martial arts and ride horses, it must be the object of competition among the leaders.

Zhang Xianzhong has ten leaders under him, two or three hundred henchmen are strong, only a few dozen are weak, and even the eight kings themselves are only more than five hundred guards.

In total, the number of people will not exceed two thousand, only these people will have real knives and guns, and a few will even have cotton armor and war horses.

And the families of these people will be managed in a unified manner, called the rear camp, plus Qin Yu's firearms battalion, and the personal guard battalion of the eight kings, a total of thirteen battalions.

Qin Yu planned to choose all the fourteen or fifteen-year-old teenagers, and they were orphans.

Adults are afraid that he can't be lowered, and he is not easy to manage, and he can't support those who have families, so orphans are just right.

After beating gongs and drums, the teenagers who came to sign up almost lined up on the edge of the Han River.

Qin Yu personally selected, tossed it around, and finally determined a hundred places, the largest no more than sixteen, and the youngest fourteen.

These 100 people, don't be too smart, don't want to be too stupid, and those who have eaten human flesh are even more aside.

"Brother Qin, wouldn't it be inappropriate for you to recruit all these orphans?" Li Dingguo looked at the thin teenagers who were only skinny and bone-lining, and frowned.

Casting cannons and operating firearms, that's all manual work, can these guys really do it?

"Brother Dingguo, don't look at them now, but as long as they eat two full meals, they will immediately be vigorous, and it is too dangerous to configure gunpowder to cast artillery, and they are more obedient and easier to manage when they are young."

Qin Yu explained, and his heart said, I'll cast a fart cannon.

Of course, if there is enough copper and skilled craftsmen, he may not be able to make it, isn't it just to make a mold out of mud and pour an iron pipe?

Li Dingguo didn't say anything more when he saw him say this, he was no more than two years older than Qin Yu, and he had often suffered losses before, so he understood his hardships.

After returning to the city with people, Qin Yu originally wanted to find a separate courtyard as a station, but he found that those that were slightly suitable were occupied by the rest of the battalions.

In the end, he had to partner with Li Dingguo temporarily, and then find a vacant place outside the city to set up a camp again.

Otherwise, if he is always crowded with Li Dingguo's people, it is inevitable that he will not become his vassal in the future, and it will also affect the loyalty of those young people to him.

Li Dingguo had two hundred henchmen and guards, stationed in two courtyards, and the last small courtyard was given to Qin Yu, that is, the courtyard where he rested last night.

This time, a large number of iron and weapons and food were seized, and each battalion was greatly expanding its henchmen, and Li Dingguo also recruited 2,000 young men, but these people were stationed outside the city.

Qin Yu's courtyard is not big, in addition to the one bedroom in the front, there are four wings on the left and right sides.

One of them was used to prepare gunpowder and stack firearms, and the other three were still able to sleep with a hundred teenagers.

In the hospital.

A hundred young men in shabby and dirty clothes stood together, looking a little crowded, and everyone had excitement on their faces.

"From today on, you are the people of my firearms battalion, let me introduce myself, my name is Qin Yu, I am your commander, your food and clothing, and your parents, and I am the great benefactor who rescued you from the edge of death.

A person, in order to survive, can do whatever it takes, but he must not be ungrateful, otherwise what is the difference between him and an animal? I hope you remember that. ”

Qin Yu stood on a table, glanced at the teenagers and said awe-inspiringly, completely forgetting that there was also the word shame.

The teenagers all looked at Qin Yu with burning eyes.

"Mother, the little brother is so majestic, what he said makes sense."

"Mother knows that he is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, Wan'er, you have to remember that it was he who rescued our mother and daughter, and you must not be ungrateful in the future, otherwise you will be a brute."

"But are they badass? Both my father and grandfather were killed by them..."

"Hey! It was the other thieves who killed your father and grandfather, it was the eight kings, and my mother believed that he also joined the thieves as a last resort, and you must distinguish between the enemy and the benefactor, you know? ”

"Hmm!"

The mother and daughter lay behind the door, looking at the scene in the courtyard, and the beautiful woman began to teach her daughter.

Outside, Qin Yu's speech had also come to an end, and seeing that the hundred young men were no longer as muddy as before, he nodded with satisfaction.

"After eating later, go to the well in the front yard to fetch water to wash your body, wash your clothes, and then come back to clean up the three rooms.

"Yes, Chief!"

A hundred replied in a loud voice.

At this time, the rice in the big pot on the side was almost cooked, and a hundred people lined up, and each person ate two large bowls before going to take a bath.

Qin Yu returned to the room at this time, and the mother and daughter immediately fell to their knees.

"Thank you Engong for rescuing Wan'er, Wan'er, quickly, kowtow to Engong..."

"Thank you for saving your life!"

"Okay, you don't have to call me Engong, just take it as a joke, Mrs. Li, I can only shelter you temporarily, I hope you have a number in your heart." Qin Yu waved his hand.

"The concubine understands that as long as the son can protect Wan'er, the concubine will die." The beautiful woman nodded, as if she had been prepared.

"Mother, Wan'er don't leave you." Li Wan'er threw herself into her mother's arms again and cried.

"Mrs. Li, wait a minute, I'll get a set of men's clothes to change into for you, and wrap it there, it's too eye-catching, don't go out of the yard in the future, and you also have to change into men's clothes, you will lay on the floor in the house at night."

"Hmm!"

The beautiful woman nodded a little embarrassed.

After finishing the instructions, Qin Yu came to the side room to check the firearms sent by Li Dingguo.

More than a dozen bird guns, only one way back to the furnace, otherwise it is a sharp weapon for suicide and self-harm, but the cannon on the side, although rusty, but tinkering, should still be usable.

It is said that it is a cannon, but in fact it is a bowl mouth, the barrel is about the thickness of the bowl mouth, one meter long, and it has to weigh three or four hundred pounds, and I don't know what year it is an antique.

However, the earlier it is cast, the better the quality, and the market of the Ming Dynasty is there.

Hundreds of catties of sulfur, because it is used by the pharmacy, the purity is already very high, and it can be used directly.

The formula of gunpowder was basically known to everyone in the previous life.

So these hundreds of catties can at least be matched with a thousand catties of gunpowder.