Everyone responded enthusiastically and wanted to sign up for the army.

"Captain, you are the only son in the family, don't join the army!"

A certain team member said to Squadron Leader Li Zhique.

Li Zhique was a little displeased, and said heavily: "So what, even if you are the only son in the family, it is your duty to defend your homeland." ”

The vast majority of people on the scene are interested in joining the army, but the number of places in the Shenji Battalion is only 6,000, and they have to be admitted on the basis of merit.

The members of the supervision team rushed to various places on horseback to inform them, and most of the personnel had to receive the news today.

Two days later, the training ground at the southern foot of Shenlie Mountain.

Under Guo Wendong's order, 20,000 team members gathered here.

If it had been placed in the past, it would not have been possible for so many people to gather at the same time, otherwise it would have been suspected. Now it's different, it's the officers of the Beijing battalion who choose the soldiers.

In the front of this training ground, there is a wooden platform with a height of three meters.

On the stage, Guo Wendong was wearing a six-grade official uniform, with a Qingfeng sword hanging from his waist, and Chen Zilong, Yu Yufeng, and Liu Jifang stood in the left and right positions.

As the head of the guard, Chu Yuan and several guards, guarding the master.

Yu Yufeng raised the horn and said, "All assemble!" ”

The voice spread far away, and all the personnel quickly gathered and lined up neatly on the basis of each team.

"Take a break!"

"Stand upright!"

"Count!"

For all kinds of instructions, the team members are very familiar with and execute them accurately.

After five months of training, they were fully qualified non-commissioned officers, except that they did not have the status of soldiers.

At the end of October last year, 20,000 people participated in the training. In November and December, land was purchased and 8,000 planters were recruited, who participated in the training after the Chinese New Year.

A total of 28,000 people have been trained.

Chen Zilong witnessed this team, the team was neatly arranged, everyone held their heads high, full of energy, and the novel way of gathering, the instructions he had never heard before, he was amazed.

There is also such a magical thing as the "trumpet", which is used in the army, issuing various orders, and officers making speeches, which could not be more suitable.

"The players have been training from November last year to March this year, and what they have left behind is that they don't have real weapons yet."

Now that Guo Wendong has become a general, the nurses who are usually equipped with sticks will be replaced with real knives one after another.

Ordinary people can't go out with knives, and with the identity of an officer in Beijing, it's different.

The 1,000 nursing homes, which were expanded last winter, have completed a six-month training, and in addition to defending the Guo Mansion in the city, some of them are arranged to be in important places outside the city, such as large warehouses and breeding farms, to be responsible for the security work.

Chen Zilong said: "My lord, I have heard of the humble position, and I heard that you have gathered all the crops under your hands to practice. ”

These trainings were not carried out in secret, and many people in the Nanjing area knew about them.

Guo Wendong said: "Fortunately, the training has been successful, and recruiting these people with a foundation to become soldiers of the Shenji Battalion will greatly shorten the training time."

Chen Zilong was puzzled: "My lord, are you prescient?" I have a premonition that the Qing army will enter the customs and invade the south of the Yangtze River, so take precautions and prepare in advance? ”

Guo Wendong smiled, did not answer directly, and there was no need to explain everything to others.

Unless the police interrogate the prisoner, or the immediate supervisor cross-examines the prisoner, the answer must be answered.

He said: "My Shenji battalion needs to be equipped with a large number of hot weapons, mainly hot weapons, supplemented by cold weapons. ”

What is a thermal weapon? What is a cold weapon? Chen Zilong was puzzled again.

Guo Wendong gave a brief explanation.

"If you want to deal with the cavalry of the Eight Banners, you can either form cavalry to attack against each other, but Jiangnan lacks good horses, which is simply unrealistic, and it is a good choice to use muskets to deal with cavalry."

Chen Zilong frowned and said, "But I listened to the people in the army, in the past, when the Ming army fought against the Qing soldiers, the muskets were only fired once, and the Qing cavalry rushed up. ”

For these problems, after several dignitaries arrive, Guo Wendong will say a unified solution.

After discussing with Yu Yufeng, Guo Wendong directly selected the 6,000 people with the best results in daily training as the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion.

Among the 28,000 people who have participated in the training, there is a special book record of each person's achievements and performance, and the list is directly selected according to the records.

The captains of each team returned to their own teams with the list and announced the personnel who could be soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, and selected 6,000 people on the spot.

Those who are fortunate enough to become soldiers of the Shenji Battalion are happy about it; Those who failed to become soldiers were depressed for a while.

These six thousand soldiers, who no longer need to farm, but are professional soldiers, will later be concentrated in the barracks for accommodation.

This training ground will be used as one of the training grounds of the Beijing camp, and a military camp will be built nearby.

When the captains were still reading out the list of personnel, Guo Wendong said to Yu Yufeng: "Captain Yu, let me introduce to you, this is Chen Wozi, who once served as a military officer, and is now the general manager of the Shenji Battalion. ”

Yu Yufeng and Chen Zilong fought each other.

Yu Yufeng whispered to Guo Wendong again: "Young Master, can you arrange for your subordinates to go to the Shenji Battalion?" The subordinates hope to go to the battlefield again and kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions. ”

It's not that he doesn't want to join the army, he just hopes to have a good leader, the previous leader Liu Zeqing was a bastard, forcing him to leave, and Guo Wendong is a good leader, and he is the person Yu Yufeng wants to follow for the rest of his life.

Guo Wendong said: "But there are still people left here to train and manage the reserves, you are the most suitable candidate, I will also remember your merits, and there will also be a chance of promotion." Your position is more important than the position of the thousand. ”

People with military experience are needed to train and manage reserve personnel, and Yu Yufeng is the best candidate.

After Guo Wendong comforted him, Yu Yufeng no longer complained, he served Guo Wendong personally, not the Ming court.

Guo Wendong said to Liu Jifang again: "Liu Jifang! ”

Liu Jifang turned to face Guo Wendong and said respectfully: "My subordinates are here!" ”

Guo Wendong said: "I appoint you as the deputy general manager of the Shenji Battalion, from the eighth grade!" ”

"Thank you, sir!" Unexpectedly able to become an officer, Liu Jifang was very excited.

Chen Zhenlian, Li Zhique and other management personnel were all selected as grassroots officers of the Shenji Battalion.

Except for Chen Zilong, Yan Yingyuan, Zhang Huangyan and others, all the people in the Shenji Battalion were selected from the reserves, and they only obeyed Guo Wendong's orders.

Guo Wendong did two things next, the first choice was to choose the address of the arsenal.

After many field investigations, the site was finally selected in the northwest of the city, and after the selection was made, the original house was transformed into an arsenal suitable for the manufacture of weapons and equipment.

After Song Yingxing arrives, let him manage the affairs of the arsenal.

Originally, Guo Wendong opened many blacksmith shops and many craftsmen, and he happened to be arranged to work in the arsenal.

Second, it is to build a military camp, the southern foot of Shenlie Mountain outside the city is one of the important military camps, and it is also necessary to build a military camp in the city, which has dormitories, training grounds, weapons warehouses, etc.

For the address, Guo Wendong also went through a field investigation and chose the site not far north of Guo's mansion, which is also for his own consideration, his home is close to the military camp, which is more convenient to control and manage.