Then there was a drum beat on the high platform, and the flag soldiers changed their formations again.

This time it is the hundred total of each bureau to walk in the front of the queue first, after the hundred total is two pikemen, after two pikemen there are three people, after three people become five, after five people become seven people, after seven people become nine people, nine people become eleven people, in addition to the hundred total in the front, several flag captains are also at the front of the team, when changing the formation, some flag troops are not suitable for the chaos, a few calmers with slender military sticks ran to the team and whipped violently, and the flag army that made mistakes cried wolf howl.

"Except for the pacification officer, which is fixed, the pacification soldiers are rotated by each team every day." Min Yuanqi said to Zhu Wanchun, who was stunned: "Everyone has been beaten, so when it is my turn to be a pacifier, I will be just as ruthless, and the later ones remember the previous beatings, so they beat even harder." ”

Zhu Wanchun shook his head and smiled, and said, "This method is too evil. ”

"It's not very good, it affects the feelings between the robes." Min Yuanqi said with a smile: "So I plan to pick some banner troops whose military quality is not very good, and specialize in being the pacification soldiers, so that it will not affect the feelings between the soldiers, and they will only hate the pacification soldiers." ”

Zhu Wanchun didn't know what to say, so he had to focus on the changes in the array.

In this way, from one person to three people, five people, seven people, nine people, and eleven people, lined up, a hundred people always happened to be a rather tight and unusually sharp triangular array.

This array is also exquisite, the middle is the spear, the two sides are the knife cards, just like the previous three-fold phalanx, but also the flank swing knife cards, the center and the front by the spearman.

"This is the Formation of Sharp Soldiers." Min Yuanqi explained to Zhu Wanchun: "If I hadn't accompanied Brother Zhu to be at the forefront of this formation, this kind of formation would be the sharpest to charge the enemy, but it is not like a dignified formation that can stabilize the position, stalemate with the enemy, and slowly retreat if the fight is unfavorable." This formation can only advance without retreat, once it fails, most of the army will be wiped out, so for the generals before this formation, if I die in the formation, the hundred will take over the command, the hundred will be killed by the deputy, the deputy hundred will be in front of the flag captain to take over, either the whole army will be destroyed, or the enemy will be broken and return! ”

Min Yuanqi talked about the military, but he was not as smiling and kind as before, not only his expression was solemn and serious, but his tone was also extremely solemn, and there was even a faint sound of gold and stone.

Zhu Wanchun was terrified when he heard this, and when he saw the sharp array in front of him, he seemed to have seen the brave posture of these soldiers who were indomitable to kill the enemy. He unconsciously sighed: "I hope that Dahewei here will not be disturbed by swords." ”

"It's not a good prayer for us warriors." Min Yuanqi smiled and said: "As a martial artist, guarding the safety of one side, wearing a strong and stubborn one, fighting with the enemy, and even dying on the battlefield, this is the best result." ”

Zhu Wanchun was silent, feeling that at this time today, he had seen a new side of the trial hundred households in front of him.

……

When Liang Shifa, dressed in rags, returned to the 300th household, he happened to come from the construction site where the salt pond was excavated.

The outer guard towers and patrol posts all discovered him one after another, and only after checking his identity did he let him go in turn, Liang Shifa returned from the place where the bandits gathered, and only then did he feel a little at ease.

The construction site is quite lively, the presiding over the digging of the salt pond is Chen De and the Li family brothers and others, there are some craftsmen in the distance to burn bricks, tiles, to the north walked a few miles to see a large number of houses are also under construction, after the salt pond repaired, the trained flag army lives in the barracks area, across the small river that leads the water is the Yanchi workers' residential area, the two sides are very close, the barracks area should be a little west, just in the west of the two areas of Baihu Village and Yanchi District, it is considered to protect Baihu Village and Yanchi District.

When Liang Shifa arrived at the barracks and schoolyard, he was inspected by the Zhenfu soldiers for the last time before being put in.

Liang Shifa finally confirmed: "Your Excellency is in the barracks, right?" ”

Previously, people called Min Yuanqi a trial hundred households, and later some people referred to it as a hundred households, but after all, Min Yuanqi's official position was a trial hundred households, so it was a bit awkward, and then everyone was directly referred to as adults, so that in fact, he boasted of himself as a private soldier, but made everyone feel better.

After all, the soldiers and horses in front of them were not eating from the imperial court, nor from the will of the chief of the guard, but Min Yuan used the money he earned to buy ordnance and food for armed training, and there was nothing wrong with saying that it was a private soldier.

Even if it is the battalion commander who is paid by the imperial court, isn't it the same as treating the soldiers as a private soldier now? Liu Zeqing's tens of thousands of subordinates, if according to the rules of the imperial court, Liu Zeqing, the general soldier, could not control the rest of the strange battalions and guerrilla battalions, and in peacetime they were not allowed to intervene in the affairs of the general battalion, otherwise they would be impeached, and the armament, food and salary of the battalion should be handled by civilian officials, supervised by eunuchs, and the battalions would be gathered in wartime, and civilian officials such as military commanders or governors would be responsible for commanding, and military generals could not interfere. After the apocalypse, the rules were gradually broken, the law and discipline were abolished, and some civilian officials who could go to the battlefield to control the generals died in battle, or were arrested and taken to prison. At this time, Liu Zeqing was already an out-and-out feudal town, since the general army and the division of the imperial court were like this, what could a military attache of the guard station do to train some private soldiers?

"Your Excellency is an official room." Zhenfu Bing said to Liang Shifa: "Thousands of households are here, it should be a happy event." ”

"I see." Liang Shifa had something in his heart, so he didn't care about talking to the soldiers of this town, so after entering the camp, he rushed all the way to the official room in the north.

Many soldiers in the school field under the leadership of the team officers to practice personal skills, these flag soldiers into the camp at the latest has been about half a month, the queue is gradually very like, the body is gradually lean and stout, the foreign hundreds of households into the camp are not allowed to go out without reason, the food and salary received by each person signed, unified by the quartermaster sent people to the home of the flag army. In this way, the banner soldiers are even more satisfied, because the food and salary are received, they can still eat a lot in the camp, and they don't have to eat with their families like before, they train every day, and they are sweating and heavy clothes every day, and the consumption is very great, if they eat four liters of coarse grain with their families like before, it is difficult for the body to bear such a heavy consumption.

If this increases the salary of the flag army, after the news spreads, many flag soldiers who are strong and healthy and of the right age are tempted, although digging salt ponds is the same as being paid for salt, but four liters of coarse grain a day, more than one stone per month is suitable for farming, if it is busy farming, this income is actually not high, but this salt can be done for many years, after all, the time for farming is limited, and you can only find a way to choose between it.

The treatment of the flag army has been significantly improved, and it is very different from ordinary salt.

Of course, this is what Min Yuanqi intentionally did, there is no big difference in the treatment of the flag army and the Yanding miscellaneous servants, if so, why should people suffer and be disciplined in the camp, and it is possible to go to the battlefield and fight with people?

Liang Shifa found that more than 100 people in front of him had more than 100 people wearing iron helmets on their heads, most of these iron helmets were the hats and helmets of the Ming army, and it seemed that the manufacturing process was quite sophisticated, and these helmets were at least twenty or thirty years old, and the maintenance was still appropriate, and they still looked quite solid.

Knife players and team officers and above wear iron helmets, pikemen and boring handles, and firefighters still wear only fanyang hats or folded scarves.

There are also more than 100 people wearing armor, before Min Qiande sent 20 collar armor, which was the source of the courage of the banner army of the first battle of Heqiao to defeat the enemy, and then Min Qiande sent some muskets, bird guns, large and small passions and various weapons, including bows and arrows such as small bows and Kaiyuan bows, but there were no nitrate and lead bullets, and there were not many arrows. There is no armor and iron helmet, a family of military attachés in the guard, and the background is like this.

Seeing the extra cotton armor worn on the bodies of the sword players and team officers, Liang Shifa had a keen mind, and after thinking about it, he knew that most of the Zhu family managed to buy and send it, he felt a little calm in his heart, and his walking pace slowed down a little.

Knowing that the pirates and bandits colluded and were about to attack the 300th household in the near future, Liang Shifa was anxious, there were no post houses in many places in Yancheng, and there were no foot shops and carriage and horse shops, only small boats on the small river to undertake freight, and there were no express delivery shops and delivery stations, so it was impossible to have mules and horses to ride the road. Liang Shifa was anxious, but he could only take a boat and travel with his feet every day, although he was anxious, his speed was really not fast.

When he finally rushed back, there were guard towers on the periphery, patrol posts on the inside, and the situation in the barracks made Liang Shifa feel relieved and excited. He looked at the spearmen who stabbed forward with their arms in the school field, and felt that the deeper these banner soldiers grasped the spears in their hands, whether it was the body frame or the method of exerting force, or the frame of stabbing, the method of raising the gun, swinging the gun, and collecting the gun, they were almost proficient, and they also felt stable and calm in their hearts.

The mainstream of the Ming army's marksmanship is the Yang family's marksmanship, that is, the pear flower marksmanship, after putting an end to some useless fancy, it is to pay attention to cooperation, and the assassination should be violently forced, fierce forward stabbing, with the length of the spear plus the fierce assassination, as well as the cooperation of the pikemen, with this fierce gunnery to form a gun formation, the enemy will be more difficult to match.

Along the way, Liang Shifa saw the garrisons of several battalions, most of them more than 1,000 people, and some of them were hundreds. Although Liu Zeqing is aiming at Yangzhou, but Huaiyang is one, Huai'an will not let go easily, his tens of thousands of soldiers are mainly stationed in Huai'an Fucheng, there are also a few stationed in Shuyang, Suqian counties, and gradually send troops to the counties of Yancheng, there are soldiers and horses stationed in the passes, but most of the people sent out are not Liu Zeqing's descendants, and most of their descendants are elite soldiers and horses, and now most of them are stationed in Huai'an.

The weapons of the battalion soldiers are still passable, and the number of armor and iron helmets is not much, and they are not practiced, let alone practice spearmanship as in front of them.

About seventy percent of the battalion soldiers use firearms and bows and arrows, and the remaining thirty percent or so are spears, long knives, long axes, halberds, boring handles, only the guns are divided into more than ten kinds, all kinds of long weapons are miscellaneous, if the layman sees it, only feel that the camp gate is slaughtered, the armor soldiers are dazzling, Liang Shifa has been training with Min Yuanqi for many days, and gradually knows about the soldiers, Qi Jiguang said that the soldiers are expensive and miscellaneous, that is in the Mandarin Duck tactics and the narrow water network in the south, to the north, it is nothing more than the car battalion, cavalry, pikemen and other arms of the cooperative drill, but to streamline and condense more.

There are many and miscellaneous long soldiers, firecrackers and bows and arrows, there is no joint training, the quality of weapons is also poor, there are not many armor, there are not many iron helmets, the real elite are a small number of horsemen, with iron helmets, waist knives, spears, iron spears, leather armor or cotton armor, there are also a small amount of iron armor, and even carry a foot bow, a short horse bow, can ride and shoot on horses. Most of these soldiers come from the nine sides, that is, the elite of Shandong Town is also from the nine sides, the horsemen of the nine sides, the night is not collected, the sentry cavalry, is the essence of the Ming army, and the personal combat power is also extremely elite, but unfortunately the number is too small.

As far as Liang Shifa saw in front of him, the formation time was extremely short, but when it came to the fighting spirit and the intensity of training, I was afraid that those ordinary battalion soldiers had been left far behind.

It is the unarmored banner army, the hat and the short red military robe in the shape of the arrow robe, the belt, the boots, all worn down, there is a neat and solemn atmosphere, and the salty miscellaneous servants and women who pass by on the periphery all glance at this side.