Those who do not seek the overall situation are not enough to seek a domain.

The people who came to King Qin this time have a lot of long-term plans for the north. These plans are varied, covering all aspects of the development of a force.

In the middle of this, there is no doubt that army building is in the first gear.

A small number of elite cavalry, adapted to the northern climate and terrain, and can be dispatched at any time, is the core resource used for the town. Not only must this be had, but it must also be formed early, because it takes time for an army to take shape.

At present, due to the special situation, the northbound delegation does not have the resources and time to start training from recruits, so it can only recruit a group of temporary workers in the situation of "mercenaries" to help emergencies.

So there was the drama of school recruitment.

In terms of short-term cost-effectiveness, the "temporary worker" force is still quite powerful.

Because this unit is cheap and "convenient".

Although the settling-in allowance and monthly salary may seem like a lot, it is nothing compared to the resources that the military spends on the Guards battalion and the special operations team.

You must know that a regular soldier, the army not only spends resources for a long time to train and train, but also bears all kinds of hidden expenses: injury, illness, disability, death.

The injured and sick are treated free of charge, the disabled are given jobs, and the dead are given bereavement pensions to take care of their families...... The consumption of various hidden benefits far exceeds the high salary. Just like the civil servants of later generations, it seems that the salary is not high, but the total resources allocated exceed those of external staff.

Because it is a temporary worker attribute, this army does not need to be used so much, cannon fodder, if it dies, it will die, and there will be no trouble afterwards The law of nature.

But this situation can only be said to be effective in the short term. For the traversers who are determined to have a long-term layout and an overall plan, once they are freed up, the temporary worker force must be transformed.

These people must undergo formal training and brainwashing, and like other troops, become qualified "imperial ** team" before they can take on the important task of fighting in the north in the future, including the Ming army.

Of course, all of this is a long-term plan. No matter what the northern delegation wants to do in the future, it is only right to get through the current difficulties of the king. So from the day the recruitment ended, the newly recruited 530 knights began a series of pre-battle preparations.

......................

The first is to form an army.

Since after eliminating some weak people, 500 soldiers just formed a battalion, so General Cao announced the establishment of the "Flying Tiger Battalion" at the first time, and awarded the battalion officer the banner of the winged tiger pattern that was temporarily produced.

The battalion officer of the Flying Tiger Battalion is commanded by Du Dewei, deputy captain of the special combat team, and the deputy battalion officer is Chen Ce, the former commander of the Fubiao Battalion.

Under the battalion officers, there are five detachments of A, B, C, D, and E, each of which has a formal establishment of 100 people, with temporarily selected natives serving as the chief and deputy captains, and an indefinite number of special combat personnel serving as "liaison officers."

Below the detachment are squads, each with ten people.

Although the Flying Tiger Battalion is known as the "Auxiliary Battalion", in fact, this is an elite cavalry team with a huge cost, and in the Ming Dynasty, this is probably the most extravagant "Auxiliary Battalion".

The regular soldiers of each Flying Tiger battalion will be equipped with two horses, which is only the minimum standard, and in wartime, they will be temporarily equipped with three or even four horses depending on the situation. In short, in the hands of local tyrants, what can be solved with money is not a problem.

In fact, every regular soldier in the Flying Tiger Battalion will have two real auxiliaries to provide a series of logistical services such as caring for the horses.

These auxiliaries were recruited from the military households and displaced people who had been eliminated before. Although the salary is low, there is still a chance to be promoted to a regular soldier, and it can be regarded as a reserve.

So overnight, General Cao's soldiers, who were originally scarce in number, suddenly swelled up and had nearly 2,000 subordinates of all colors.

The next item in the army is regularization.

Specifically, it is to unify ordnance and clothing.

The ordnance aspect is simple. Since there is no need for bows and arrows, and there is no need to engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat in the design, the standard ordnance of the Flying Tiger Battalion is only a saber for the time being.

After the run-in period, the officer layer of the Flying Tiger Battalion, who are familiar with the way of crossing the crowd, will be equipped with some 28 large covers to fight encounters with small groups of enemies.

This was followed by a group change.

Adhering to the usual practice of a certain force, soldiers must complete a series of physical examinations, "disinfection" and other hygiene and epidemic prevention links before enlisting in the army.

However, the next step went wrong: some of the recruits complained about shaving their hair. However, a military order is a military order, and at this time, the Ming people who have signed a contract to get money have no such thing as bargaining.

Although the chief soldier said that he was stupid and had a lot of money, he also knew how to march. At this time, if you cut off ten or eight heads, who will Tianjin Wei come to avenge the unlucky ghost? So in the end, these recruits all shaved their heads honestly.

..................

In fact, from the perspective of shaving the hair itself, the Akito is not so exaggerated.

In later generations, the notorious "keep your hair without your head", that was in the context of the Manchu invasion and the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, the gentry class took advantage of the opportunity of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to promulgate the "shaving order", and set off a wave of anti-pig tail hairstyles across the country, which was actually an anti-Qing wave.

And this wave soon disappeared silently with the military defeat of the Ming Kingdom...... The seventh grandmother in the gate of the mansion said very sadly: "Your ancestors didn't have braids." ”

Yes, the ancestors did not keep braids, but the ancestors did not say that they did not leave an inch......

Mo said that it was the Ming Dynasty, and then traced back to the Tang and Song dynasties, and the monk class has always been a class that the people yearn for.

The court of the Song Dynasty often sent some degree of money to the local officials. Why? Because in that era, the degree was equivalent to an approval, which could be easily sold for money.

This is the same as when the government was financially tight, so the officials who went to Hainan to take office could only take some color TV approvals to take office first......

And the same was true of the Ming Dynasty. When Zhu Yuanzhang was in Taiwan, the degree that was not distributed indiscriminately was also very valuable: the citizen class would try every possible way to get a degree at a high price and become a formal monk.

What are the benefits of becoming a monk? The most important point is tax exemption.

You must know that ancient temples like Shaolin Temple have actually been local landlords for generations. There are not only tens of millions of fertile fields in the temple property, but also various workshops and wine shops, which ordinary squires can't compare at all.

Therefore, the ancestors actually did not resist shaving their heads or shaving their boards at all. Whether it is the monk class who become a monk, or the citizen class, which accounts for the largest number of people, to become a monk and "generate income", this is a very natural and even desirable thing.

In this case, in fact, the demand of the people under their rule to shave the size of the board has not been resisted by a large area. As for the rebellion that was raised to the level of political morality when the Manchus entered the customs, there was no such thing.

Mingren is very realistic: if you eat the master's food, you have to obey the master's management. In this cruel society where classes are clearly divided and corpses are dumped, the lower classes have little bargaining power.

So when the lord was angry and was ready to drag out two people who were talking a lot of nonsense and slaughtered the military law, these Tianjin gentlemen who were still a little complaining also admitted that shaving their heads is better than cutting off their heads, isn't it? What's more, these southern soldiers have all been removed.

After that, everything went very smoothly.

After taking a bath and having a physical examination, the Ming people changed into a line coat, a military jacket, a green military coat, and a buffalo leather boot that looked very high-end.

This set of winter cotton clothes is not much different from the regular soldiers of the Guards Battalion in appearance, except for the buttons: the coats of the regular soldiers are double-breasted copper buttons, and the Flying Tiger Battalion is white iron buttons.

Aside from the strange style, when it comes to military-quality coats, these people who have experienced it first-hand immediately feel comfort and warmth. The military uniform used in later generations was much stronger than the messy padded jackets and leather robes of the seventeenth century.

The reason why it is necessary to force the shaving of the head is that there is also a military hat problem to be solved.

One of the reasons why the helmets of ancient warriors were made into a bell shape is that most of the ancients had long hair, so the helmets needed to leave space, which is the same at home and abroad.

The military hats of later generations, whether they are pot-lid steel helmets or cotton thunder & front hats as training hats, did not consider this, because the soldiers of later generations were all short-haired.

Therefore, the recruits of the Flying Tiger Battalion can only change into military caps after shaving their heads.

......................

After all the preliminary preparations were completed, the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Battalion, who had a new look, immediately began the most important run-in training.

The task is heavy. If you want to knead together 500 scattered people to meet the minimum requirements of the army, there is no other way than to strengthen training.

So from this day on, the soldiers divided into five groups began intensive training.

The subject is very simple: there is no military posture and kicking, everyone just gets on the horse and goes out to march and practice.

In the course of a long, deliberately roundabout march, the brand-new unit began to grind in and select personnel while solving the problems that had been exposed.

Not only do the teams have to practice various marching and battle formations, and become familiar with various signal transmission methods, but they also have to divide from large units into small teams at any time, and practice concealment and camping in the field...... In short, the recruits are busy and fulfilling.

Although this kind of training is fast-working, it is undoubtedly possible with the support of huge funds.

It is important to know that the cost of marching is far greater than that of stationing. Five hundred, one person and two horses for long-distance training, the daily consumption of resources is a huge number. The military generals of the Ming Dynasty will never be able to do it, and the crossing crowd is now like a kryptonite player in the game, for that bit of experience, in order to save time, in order to swipe the card for a knife 999...... Maybe it's Alipay.

And at the same time as the tense run-in here, the northbound fleet also began to return.

This time the fleet sailed back, except for the smallest frigate, which remained in Tianjin, the rest of the ships were all loaded with cargo, and they went south together, taking advantage of the tailwind to transit in the port of Shanghai.

As for the cargo of the fleet's return journey, except for a lot of Mongolian cowhide in the bottom cabin, the rest of the cabins were all carried with the help of local trading houses, carrying a large number of northern refugees, and no other goods were loaded.