When the rooster crowed, Min Yuanqi woke up.

It was about five o'clock in the morning, and the sky was still dark, but the morning star became brighter, and those who have experience in getting up early know that soon the star will be dimmed, and then the eastern sky will be white, and before you know it, the sky will be bright.

After getting up, rubbing the flint to light the wick, dressing and washing, and when Min Yuanqi pushed the door out, there were already more than forty men waiting outside the official hall.

Min Yuanqi smiled and nodded, and everyone hugged their fists.

This time the number of people is more than 30 people than last time, when the grain was distributed yesterday, Min Yuanqi ordered each small flag officer to bring one or two strong men who are willing to practice, from the point of view of the number, the number of people who are willing to come far exceeds Min Yuanqi's expectations.

Not only the five small flags under Min Yuanqi's own headquarters, but also three of Han Sen's small flag officials came, and they also brought people over.

Han Sen didn't mean to boycott, since Min Yuanqi said that he was voluntary, it was not an exaggeration that many people were reluctant to come for various reasons.

Or lazy, working hard during the day every day, just want to sleep for an extra hour.

Or they are tired and don't have the strength to practice anymore.

Those who are willing to come over, one is that their body and spirit are better than ordinary people, the second is that they have a sense of distress in their hearts, and the third is that they are intimidated by Min Yuanqi's performance, and they want to see what the next step of the hundred households will be.

Min Yuanqi nodded and smiled at everyone, and returned the salute with a fist: "Since everyone is here, you have to think about it, how hard it will be in the future." ”

Min Yuanqi knew that now was not the time to force the entire hundred households to practice...... Each family has just received eight buckets of brown rice, if the working men have a full belly to eat, at least four catties a day is barely enough for physical consumption, women and children and the elderly at least two or three catties a day, let go of the belly to eat a day is almost a bucket, eight days have passed, the eight buckets of grain will be gone.

Of course, it is impossible to eat like this, men eat more than a pound of staple food a day, women and children and the elderly eat more than a pound, plus more inferior black bean material and the like, eight buckets of grain can be eaten by a family for more than half a month.

The next time the salt is sold, there will be some grain, during which there will be some short-term work, women take the soles of their shoes, make cloth, and men carry the work and do short-term work, it is impossible to be so idle, so that the food can be continuous.

Everyone lives quite hard, which is why it is impossible for Min Yuanqi to train all the banner troops at this time. The banner soldiers lived more tired and miserable than the people, they didn't give food and clothing, and then practiced with knives and guns, I am afraid that someone would shoot cold arrows behind Min Yuanqi in a few days.

"I don't have much silver in store at the moment," Min Yuanqi looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "There are hundreds of silver that are still ready to be used to build reservoirs and ponds, and they can't be used at will." You are training with me, in order to train the troops to prepare for the extraordinary, whether it is a rogue or a rebel, or a bandit or pirate, I have strong men under a hundred households to resist the enemy, so that they will not be suddenly killed, and the wives and children, fathers and elders of the family will be slaughtered. Everyone has this heart, but I can't have nothing to reciprocate, there are more than 20 stone grain in the official hall today, there are fine and coarse, fine grain is less coarse grain, the daily drillers are divided into two classes in the morning and evening, each for an hour, the evening class is over, everyone who is qualified can receive four liters of brown rice, and the unqualified ones are gone, if they are not qualified three times, they do not have to come after that...... I don't have much food to waste here. ”

After Min Yuanqi's words were finished, the people present let out a burst of muffled laughter.

The Lord of the Hundred Households really seems to be a different person now, he speaks in an orderly manner, and he understands things, and the key is to say the rewards and punishments in advance, so that everyone can understand in their hearts what the purpose of practicing here is, what they can get, and what punishment will be if they can't do it.

Min Yuanqi has the experience of being a human being in two lives, but the speaking skills in front of him are Qi Jiguang.

Treat the soldiers with sincerity, speak the vernacular, explain the rewards and punishments and goals clearly, and every soldier must know what he is doing, which is also the key to Qi Jiguang's art of war.

In the Qi family's army, each team has a system of literate sergeants, which is to make the literate soldiers and non-commissioned officers preach the general's orders clearly, so that each soldier knows the goal of the war, the general process, and the regional environment of the battle.

Min Yuanqi has no real experience in leading troops, so he can only study seriously like this and start from scratch.

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The inside and outside of the government hall was originally a small school field that was connected.

Min Yuanqi himself is practicing splitting and hanging boxing, this set of boxing is powerful and heavy, there are not many fancy, it is to practice how to exert force and hit the opponent's key point, practice for a long time, split and smash, the muscles of the whole body are like iron cast steel pouring, when punching, the tiger is vigorous, and the power is amazing.

It was the first time for many banner soldiers to see hundreds of households practicing boxing, and their eyes were full of awe.

The seven small flag officers, plus more than 30 flag troops, all fought like Min Yuanqi.

This is still thanks to the preparation of the Japanese a few decades ago, the influence of the Qi family army is extraordinary, at that time, the general of the preparation of the Japanese is Qi Jiguang's subordinates, during the preparation of the Yunti Pass, the large collection of flag troops, more than 2,000 flag troops continue to practice, are according to Qi Jiguang's teachings to train soldiers. Although the flag army is far from being compared with the Qi family army, at least they have some inheritance.

The boxing techniques practiced by everyone now are benefiting from the great exercises of decades ago.

It's just that compared to Min Yuanqi, everyone in front of them can play boxing in a decent way, and the decent ones are Li Junsun, Wang Wumai, as well as Min Yuanjin, Min Yuanzhong and others, Xie Xiang and other flag soldiers, some are brave, some are powerful, but how can they have time to practice boxing seriously? The boxing moves are all practiced with his parents when he was a teenager, which is generally good, but he has not been polished and exercised for a long time, and he has no form but no spirit, and the method of breathing is full of mistakes......

Min Yuanqi is extremely patient, these people in front of him are his real foundation, and he can train a strong army of hundreds of people in the future, with this as the core, the world can go there.

Even if you are in exile overseas, you can easily gain a foothold with these people, although there are no Manchuria Eight Banners overseas, but the colonizers and indigenous regimes of this era are also extremely vicious, not a happy land.

Under the teaching of Min Yuanqi, the posture of the banner army gradually became reasonable, after all, they are a group of middle-aged men between the ages of twenty and thirty, and they have been practicing boxing for many years, but there has been no one to teach and train for a long time, so they are not allowed to enter......

Min Yuanqi was also relatively satisfied with the effect, practicing boxing for half an hour, everyone was drenched in sweat, steaming, and the boxing was becoming more and more proficient...... After all, these people are not ordinary households, but banner troops with a certain foundation of military strength and boxing!

"The next step is to train your strength." Min Yuanqi ordered everyone to rest for a quarter of an hour, and then ordered Min Yuanjin and others to take out the bow in the warehouse and hang the bowstring one by one.

Then it's time to set up the line and let everyone play the strings to practice their strength.

These step bows are long, and after the bowstring is good, there are at least eight forces, which is also the minimum strength standard of the Ming army archers. In fact, many people now do not meet this standard, in comparison, the minimum of the Eight Banners Army is ten forces, and the Mongols are weak and weak in their riding bows, with only five or six forces at most, which disgraces their ancestors who ran rampant in Europe and Asia.

Min Yuanqi himself is also a bow training, his bow is a Kaiyuan bow, and only military attachés can match such a good bow. The bow has fifteen forces, the handle of the bow is made of fine bamboo chips and dried for ten years before it is used, and the tip of the bow is made of fine horns, and then matched with the best animal tendons, and a strong bow of great value is completed.

The bow of the ordinary flag army, most of them are two wooden bows, or small bow bows, the Ming bow is different from the Han bow and the Song bow, which was influenced by the Yuan bow and the foreign Central Asian and Western Asian bows and arrows, but in general, the bow body is shorter, and the bow tip is much stronger than the Mongolian bow, but it is much weaker than the Qing bow.

Min Yuanqi has never seen the Qing bow, but he knows that the Qing bow is the strongest hard bow in this era, the bow tire is large and wide, the bow tip is wide and thicker than the Ming bow, its large reverse long bow tip and symmetrical thick bow body make it burst out more powerful, not only the bow, the arrow with the clear bow is also quite elegant, all kinds of arrows are divided into several kinds of uses, such as shooting, armor breaking, chasing the enemy, siege, etc., because of the long residence in the mountains fishing and hunting for a living, shooting and hunting is an instinct. Then after more than 200 years of conflicts and wars with the Ming Dynasty, as well as the annexation wars within the clan, to the Chongzhen period of Manchuria Eight Banners into the most powerful period, a large number of strength, courage, martial arts riding and archery skills, the extremely experienced Eight Banners are also the highest peak of the era of cold weapons, not only invincible in East Asia, but also looking at the whole world is also standing at the peak.

But the Europeans have completely abandoned cold weapons, and even the Spanish and Swiss squares have been eliminated.

Min Yuanqi slowly pulled the strong bow in his hand, the bow body and the bowstring were drawn into a full circle shape, and after pulling dozens of times, he felt that the bow body and his arms were trembling, and his arms began to ache significantly.

All the small flag officers and flag soldiers are similar, although their bow strength is slightly weaker, they are also used to doing work, although their bodies are thin but not weak, but they have not done much before such special actions to fight their strength.

The day was bright, and when it was the first moment of the hour, everyone had been practicing for exactly an hour.

No one complained and no one left, and despite the trembling of tired arms, everyone persevered.

Min Yuanqi's head was sweating, and everyone else was about the same, and everyone was sweating profusely.

A few servant women had already come over, and Min Yuanqi ordered to use a large pot to steam rice, with some side dishes, the table was not enough, everyone just squatted down and sat around with a bowl to eat.

Everyone felt refreshed, and although the body was tired, the mind was uplifted, and the mind was much happier.

"That's how I'll practice from now on." Min Yuanqi smiled and said: "Get up early to practice boxing and then draw the bow, your physical strength will be better in the future, plus a running lap, you can exercise your heart, lungs and legs." Practice marksmanship again in the afternoon until before dark, queue. In the future, we will add the method of array. One day of practice will have a one-day effect. Training weapons, one piece is familiar, and there will be one benefit. Boxing, swordsmanship, spearmanship, arrays, golden drums, flags, all are indispensable. If you want to become a strong army, you must insist on training. It is impossible to protect this land and their families without sweating or even preparing for bloodshed...... Now that they are scattered, when the cistern is to be built, everyone still has to do work, can they withstand it? ”

Xie Xiang stood up, first smuttered, saw Min Yuanqi looking at him with a smile, and immediately said boldly: "As long as the four liters of rice promised by the hundred households are true, and the morning and evening exercises will also provide food, I will come every day, no matter how hard it is, I am not afraid!" ”

Including Min Yuanqi, everyone burst out laughing.