Over the past two months, more than 14,000 Ming troops have been recruited, and 15,000 new recruits have just been recruited.

Under Qin Chuan's instructions, the Military Affairs Department specially asked the instructor to pay attention to the ** of the strokes, and singled them out one by one for a thorough screening.

These ** are time bombs, even if they behave obediently now, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not corrupt military discipline in the future.

Because Qin Chuan believes that the nature of the country is easy to change and difficult to change.

Moreover, it is difficult to manage if there are more troops, so I would rather clear them out than risk keeping them.

In addition to ordinary soldiers, some of the generals of the Ming army will also be cleaned up, all the generals who have been greedy for military rations, eat empty salaries and even rob the people, regardless of the size of the position, will be given key care, and the serious circumstances basically have no chance to lead the troops, and the light cases will be kept for investigation, if the heart does not change, and then slowly marginalized.

Of course, there must be sweet dates under the stick, and for those generals with passable conduct, Qin Chuan will all be promoted, such as Cao Jue, who will be promoted to a general.

To this end, Qin Chuan made some changes to the army system, changing the original battalion officers of each battalion to the general soldier, and setting up a deputy general soldier between the general soldier and the general.

Moreover, he also set up two new battalions, one called the Shence Battalion, which was commanded by Hu Dawei, and the other was called the Hengchong Battalion, which was the second cavalry battalion, commanded by Cao Bianjiao.

So far, there are a total of ten battalions under Qin Chuan's command.

The four battalions of the first camp, the trapping camp, the Wudang camp, and the Shifang camp are the elite under their command, and they are led by Luo Daniu, Li Dingliang, Liu Youzhu, and Luo Ba respectively.

The Feng Shan battalion was led by Feng Yilong, the tiger and leopard battalion was Liao Sangun, the Longwu battalion was Ren Liang, and the tiger guard battalion was Lynx, with a total of ten general soldiers.

Those soldiers and recruits will definitely have to screen out some people, Qin Chuan estimates that after they finish training, the total number will eventually be between twenty-five and twenty-seven thousand.

With the addition of 25,000 veterans, the total strength of Emperor Guan's army reached more than 50,000, and it is likely that there will eventually be 52,000 people.

In addition to the strength of those ten battalions, Qin Chuan also transferred some elites and directly expanded the strength of the red-clothed attendants to two thousand.

In this way, the nature of the red-clothed squires has changed from personal guards to pacesetter battalions, all cavalry, still wearing red armor and red clothes.

It turned out that some of the 100 guards were transferred to the battalions to lead the troops, and some remained with Qin Chuan, who transferred dozens of elites to reorganize the 100 guards.

These 100 guards and 2,000 red-clothed attendants were personally trained by him.

The basic training is not much different from that of other battalions, which is to drill platoons, marches, formations, javelins, and constantly repeat basic movements such as slashing, stabbing, and blocking, as well as cavalry tactics such as charging, raiding, and harassing.

However, the training of the red-clothed squires was greater than that of the other battalions, although they were cavalrymen, they still had to insist on running with heavy loads every day, and the combat training was more brutal than that of the battalions.

Of course, the treatment of the red-clothed attendants was also better than that of the other battalions, and the monthly salary of ordinary soldiers was two taels of silver, and three meals a day were not only full, but also two meals of meat to eat.

Moreover, everyone has double armor, one iron armor and one cotton armor, shields, javelins, long knives, and other equipment.

It takes a lot of time to train the army, so Qin Chuan, who wanted to come back to rest, got busy again.

Fortunately, there are Wang Jizong and Wen Cheng in terms of internal affairs, except for major events that require Qin Chuan's decision, the rest are not bothered.

However, in addition to training, Qin Chuan still often went to the gun factory and the gun factory.

Chen Zhan is trying to build a fortress cannon, this new design of the heavy artillery style is similar to the Tianwei General Cannon, but the body size is larger than the Tianwei General Cannon, the design weight is about 4,000 catties, and the effective range is more than five miles.

As the name suggests, a fortress cannon is a heavy artillery placed on a fortress, and field battles are not considered, so there is no need to pursue lightness, and it doesn't matter if it is heavy, as long as the power is strong enough.

Chen Zhan once followed Sun Yuanhua to build the Hongyi cannon in Dengzhou, and had experience in building heavy artillery, but when he built this fortress cannon, he still failed three times in a row.

There are two main reasons, one is that it is difficult to avoid bubbles when casting, and the other is that the fortress cannon is too large and heavy, and the annealing operation is too difficult.

Qin Chuan, who can only point to the fur theory, can't help at all at this time, the only thing he can do is to provide infinitely sufficient materials and manpower.

During this time, the backlog of iron inventory was serious, and it was just a waste for Chen Zhan, that is, to scrap dozens of fortress cannons, and Qin Chuan was not distressed.

As for manpower...... There used to be a shortage of craftsmen, but now there is no shortage of them, and factories and workshops have produced a large number of skilled apprentices and workers.

The artillery factory was no exception, there were several craftsmen who could preside over the casting of Tianwei General Cannon, and Chen Zhan was able to liberate himself and lead a group of craftsmen to try to make fortress cannons all day long.

Sufficient manpower means that the production capacity increases, in the past, only three Tianwei general cannons, five to eight red general cannons and big Fran cannon guns can be built, but now, the production capacity of Tianwei general cannons has reached more than five per month, more than ten red general cannons and big Fran machines, and more than 30 tiger squat guns and small Fran guns.

In the next few years, they may have to face multi-front operations, so Qin Chuan asked Chen Zhan to adjust the production capacity structure, reduce the output of light and flexible tiger squat guns and small Francos, put more manpower into the cannon production line, build more cannons, and strengthen the defense of various military forts and passes.

At the beginning of spring next year, it is necessary to ensure that the most important military forts and passes, such as Ningwu Pass, Gujiao Military Fort, and Yongning Prefecture, will each have at least 30 cannons.

Add other small cannons and muskets to make those strategic strongholds impregnable.

The production capacity of muskets has also increased significantly, although the reservoir is short of water, and the water mill boring machine is often stopped, but Qin Chuan has invested a lot of energy, and Li Xuejing has also built more and more boring machines, and now he can make at least 300 flintlock guns a month.

More than 30 rifled guns have been built with auger drilling machines, which can produce more than 50 rifled guns a month, and the production capacity is still steadily rising.

The importance of rifled guns is no less than artillery, and this kind of musket with an effective range of 300 paces is a super weapon in field warfare, especially in encounters, 500 rifled guns can determine the victory or defeat of tens of thousands of troops.

Today, the Guan Emperor's army has more than 350 rifled guns and more than 1,600 flintlock guns, and its firepower is more than double that of a few months ago when Xuanda fought with Jiannu.

In addition, Li Xuejing also has a new weapon, and the short gun that Qin Chuan asked him to study has been created.

This short gun is a foot long, with a wooden handle, a barrel that is slightly larger than the barrel of a rifled gun, and a slightly larger caliber, with six rifling inside, fires large conical bullets, and a safety is added to the position of the head of the dragon to prevent misfire in the case of preloaded ammunition.

Qin Chuan personally test-fired, this kind of black and thick large-caliber short gun can penetrate cotton armor within ten steps, cloth iron armor within seven steps, and double armor within three to five steps.

It's just that if you take more than ten steps, you can't hit accurately, and the power is greatly reduced, and you can't even wear leather armor.

But that's enough, just take out the enemy in three or five steps before the handover.

Due to the short barrel and simple construction, this gun is not difficult to build, and the yield is also very high.

Li Xuejing called ten boring machines and drilling machines, and made ten short guns in only three days, scrapped two, and finished eight pieces.

Qin Chuan asked Li Xuejing to concentrate on the production of short guns first, and make 500 expenditures before the spring of next year.

He wants to use these short guns to equip Zhao Wu's Ye Bushu, as well as Lao Huang's intelligence officers.

The intelligence system of the Guan Emperor Army was in charge of Zhao Wu and Lao Huang, and they trained a total of 500 night guards and bright sentry sharps, most of these people were novices, lacking sentry and fighting experience, and if they went out to face Jiannu, they would probably only be more auspicious.

Therefore, Qin Chuan planned to equip them with short guns, and when they were one-on-one with Jiannu in the wild, as long as they could dodge the opponent's bow and arrows and let the opponent get close, they would be able to destroy the opponent with one shot.

Although the gunfire will reveal the location, it is better than being killed or even captured alive by Jiannu.