Now that the weapon is there, the next step is the man!

Although the Qing army was in the city, because it was only the relationship between the vanguard and the vanguard, Zhu Guoqiang was not in a hurry, especially now that the weapon problem was solved, he was even more relieved.

Before they arrived at the school grounds, they heard the noise in the school yard through the fence, and through the fence, you could see that the officers with wooden sticks were shouting and beating the soldiers who could not form a team.

Different from what later generations imagined, the ancient army also had to train the queue first, and then train the formation to cooperate, and the queue was also the basis of military training in ancient times. The so-called "five religions" are very clear. The first is to teach his eyes to be the banner of all shapes, the second is to teach his body to be the number of orders, the third is to teach him to be enough to advance and retreat, the fourth is to teach his hands to be long and short, and the fifth is to teach his heart to reward and punish sincerity, which is the five methods proposed by Guan Zhong to train soldiers, also known as the "five teachings"

Although Zhu Guoqiang does not know how to train the army, it does not mean that he does not care about military training, especially at this critical moment when his life is at stake. Therefore, he specially found some military books and learned some about ancient training.

Although the time was pressing, Zhu Guoqiang still looked at the school with great interest.

Although he did not directly intervene in the training of the troops, Chen Wudi and the others have been training the army, and this school field was also specially opened up in the city for the purpose of training the troops. On the school grounds, there are 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers training there. In fact, this is because more people are defending the city wall, or at least twice as many people and horses will be squeezed out.

Although the soldiers under his command have swelled more than ten times, Chen Wushu and they also have a way to deal with it - using the honor soldiers and tomb guards of the palace as the backbone, so that the outline of the troops can be roughly supported.

Most of the soldiers in this army are the people rescued from the Qing military circle, although they have been tortured in the human circle, but on the whole, these young and strong bodies are not bad, after all, such a cold winter in the open air in the human circle, the half-starved body but if it is a little worse, even if it does not freeze to death, it will starve to death, perhaps, this is also deliberately done by the Manchu Qing Dynasty - to eliminate the poor health, and the rest are naturally in good health.

Because of this, when it comes to Zhu Guoqiang, there is basically no need to screen, Chen Wudi and they just send the young and old ones to repair the city wall according to the rules, and those who are left behind are all strong men over fifteen years old and under forty years old!

Compared with Minzhuang, who eats one meal a day and eats two meals a day, each of these soldiers can eat one porridge and two dry meals, which really makes many people envious. After all, food is now limited in the city, and most of the people live on two porridges.

And being able to eat enough has become the motivation for these soldiers to train seriously.

After Zhu Guoqiang arrived at the school, he was not polite to Chen Wudi, but directly clarified his intentions.

"A hundred?"

Chen Wudi looked at Shizi suspiciously, just for this?

"Yes, 100 people, preferably all literate and numeracy ......"

Before Zhu Guoqiang finished speaking, someone over there almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

"Is 100 hard?"

Zhu Guoqiang raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Back to the words of the prince, the prince of the world does not know, our Jinan is Tongzhou Dayi, not to mention men, women, and a few people are illiterate and can't count. Let's stand in this place, in the past, it was Wende Street, there were no less than dozens of bookstores on both sides of the street, even ordinary women would buy a few novels such as "The Legend of the West Chamber" to pass the time, not to mention men, if they were illiterate, who would those novels sell to? But whenever people have children in their families, they will buy a few literacy books such as "Four Words of Opposites", and the women in the family will teach the children to read and write. ”

Qian Degong's "Four Words of Opposites" is another world's "look at pictures and speak", it is a sentence of four characters, with vivid pictures, including hundreds of common creatures or objects in life, including the abacus introductory instructions, is a standard enlightenment education book. Involving thousands of commonly used words and simple addition and subtraction arithmetic, like other "miscellaneous words" books, there is no Confucian and Mencian way in the book, Cheng Zhu Lixue, but more popular words and sayings, to the children of peasant families, the common people in the market as the service object, to help them literacy is not for the sake of scientific research, but for the purpose of unhindered daily application. And this is also the fundamental reason for the popularity of novels in the Ming Dynasty - most of the people in the market are literate (1).

However, because he didn't know much about it, Qian Degong's explanation made Zhu Guoqiang suddenly a little embarrassed, who said that the ancients were illiterate? However, Zhu Guoqiang didn't feel anything embarrassed, and even said happily.

"As soon as I say this, I can rest assured, uneducated soldiers are not good soldiers, our soldiers, not only have to be rough in pen and ink, it is best to be able to write and calculate, and have been familiar with each other for a few years. Okay, you guys go pick out the people first, well, since there are a lot of literate people, let's pick 150 people first. ”

It doesn t matter if there are more people, maybe you can use it as a seed officer when Qian Degong went to select people, Zhu Guoqiang pointed to the big car on the side and said to Chen Wudi.

"Invincible, this car is loaded with muskets, similar to bird guns, do you know how to train bird guns?"

"Bird-soldiers? Shizi Ye, look at what you said, although the last general said that he had never played bird guns in the past, but he didn't read the war book less, didn't we also capture hundreds of bird guns this time, and the last general kept them to train a battalion of bird guns. After all, we don't have many arrows, and the Bird Soldiers can always come in handy. ”

Chen Wudi's words surprised Zhu Guoqiang.

"We have a battalion of birdies?"

"That's right, it's not that there are more than 400 bird guns in the camp, and that kind of thing can't be wasted."

Hearing this, Zhu Guoqiang said.

"Then don't choose any other people, just choose one hundred and fifty people from among them, and by the way, and the three thousand people you choose will be trained to be musketeers, and the use of this musket is not the same as that of a bird's gun, you choose some clever and clever ones, and I will teach them to use muskets when the time comes."

"The prince will use a musket?"

Although he didn't know what the musket was, Chen Wuyi, who was thinking that it should be similar to a bird's gun, deliberately glanced at the prince of the world.

Actually, I'm not proficient myself!

But it's okay, anyway, we have the Internet, we have videos, and we have ......

That night, Zhu Guoqiang naturally took out his mobile phone and played the firing gun drill video downloaded from another world to observe and study again......

(1) Regarding the literacy rate of the Ming Dynasty, I don't believe in the so-called 5% theory, this ratio is the estimated literacy rate of the late Qing Dynasty, but the novels of the Ming Dynasty were not as popular as the novels of the Ming Dynasty at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. The premise of the popularity of novels is that the people must be literate, which can be seen from the popularity of novels in Chinese mainland after the 80s, and it can be seen from the book "Jin Ping Mei" that the overall literacy rate of the people at that time was relatively high, Pan Jinlian (Yahuan) was literate, the prostitute Zheng Aiyue was literate, and even Han Daoguo, Wang Liuer's daughter Han Aijie (singing) was also literate. They are from ordinary or even low-ranking families, and they are women, but they are still literate, and it is conceivable that the literacy rate of the average male will be higher. According to the records of Japan and Korea, basically men are more or less literate, and the ancient literacy standard is not equal to the coarse writing and ink, they may not be able to do a good job, but they can understand vernacular novels, which happens to be the fundamental reason for the popularity of novels in the Ming Dynasty.