Fang Nan handed over the matter to Hu Zhuang, and the Xiandeng Battalion officially began to be formed, on this side Chen Kang gathered qualified coolies and introduced them to the Xiandeng Battalion, and on the other hand, Hu Zhuang was looking for personnel in various departments of the People's Army to serve as officers in the Xiandeng Battalion.

The first battalion is three companies and one battalion, the main weapons and equipment are shields, axes, and broadswords, and the officers above the deputy platoon commander are all KPA soldiers, and another platoon of KPA soldiers is the law enforcement team, which is mainly responsible for maintaining army discipline and ensuring the implementation of army orders, so the number of people in the first camp will be as high as 392 people, and 324 coolies will be needed.

Because of the increasing number of bandits and bandits' families, the scale of Hutou Village has been expanding, even to the point of overcrowding, after all, Hutou Village was originally a village in the mountains, and there is simply not enough flat land here to build a small city.

Taking out 324 coolies to form the first battalion will basically have no impact on the output of weapons and equipment in Hutou Village.

When the news that the People's Army was going to select coolies to form a first-place camp spread among the coolies, it immediately caused a huge repercussion.

From Chen Kang's words, the coolies could feel that the first camp was very unusual, as long as they joined the first camp, those who needed to work for three years could get rid of the coolie status by killing an enemy, and there was no obstacle to quitting the first camp, and if they could kill more enemies, they could also get money or land rewards.

They used to be bandits, but now they are coolies, and after getting rid of their coolie status, they are just ordinary people who don't even have fields.

From the village being wiped out by the People's Army to working as coolies in Hutou Village, during this period of time, they felt the strength of the People's Army, and even if they could not fight against the officers and soldiers, it was very likely that they were not the opponents of the People's Army.

Chen Kang said that the tactics of the People's Army are very simple: on the battlefield, the firearms units first use firearms to defeat the enemy from a distance, and then the cold-weapon troops rush up.

As long as you kill more enemies in the first camp, even if you leave the first camp, you can have a lot of land and money, maybe you can become a small landlord, and you can continue to eat meat and drink wine in the future.

Compared with the heavy work done every day now, the coolies really can't wait to join the first camp now, and fight with the officers and soldiers on the battlefield, but not all coolies are eligible to join the first camp, and the coolies with good performance can be selected first, and the coolies with poor performance and violation of discipline are resolutely not.

But it's not absolute, the coolies who performed poorly and violated discipline in the past, if they perform well in the future, they can get the opportunity to be admitted exceptionally.

For a while, the coolies worked harder because of the fact that they went to the camp first, so that the steel production of Hutou Village increased by a small margin.

Only three days have passed, 324 coolies have been selected, all of them have volunteered to join the Xiandeng battalion, and after another four days, the officers above the deputy platoon commander of the Xiandeng battalion, the law enforcement team of one platoon, and the "escort" team of three companies have all arrived at Hutou Village.

In less than a day, the Xiandeng Battalion was formally formed, and then the Xiandeng Battalion was about to start training, and there was no place for the Xiandeng Battalion to train in Hutou Village, and the Xiandeng Battalion was divided into three, and was "escorted" by the People's Army of three companies to the three People's Army firearms units for training, leaving only one and a half months for the training time of the Xiandeng Battalion at most.

In addition, the weapons and equipment of the first camp do not need to be built, in the past few years, Hutou Village has not only built tiger head guns, tiger head cannons, and spears, but also created some shields, broadswords, and axes, and there is no problem in equipping the first camp.

The coolies don't need to worry about them resisting when they get weapons and equipment, the coolies who enter the Xiandeng camp have wives and children, even if there are not too many people who abandon their wives and children, there are also firearms units of the People's Army next to the Xiandeng camp, and the shield of the Xiandeng camp can block the lead bullets fired by the guns of the Ming army, but they can't stop the lead bullets fired by the tiger head gun.

Of course, the ideological education of the soldiers who ascended to the camp first was slightly different from the ideological education of other units of the People's Army, and the soldiers who went to the camp first should be guided in the direction of killing the enemy, making meritorious contributions, reducing the time of hard labor, rewarding money and land, and uniting the poor people of the whole world to overthrow the Ming Dynasty.

With the completion of the formation of the Xiandeng battalion and the start of training, the time for the autumn harvest and the time for the People's Army to raise the flag are getting closer and closer, and the personnel who are active in the outside world are also uniting more poor people, and the scale of the cold weapon unit has expanded rapidly.

The development is rapid, but problems follow, and some large landlords have sensed that something is wrong with the surrounding villages, and even found that the common people in some villages are using wooden sticks for training.

The big landlords were naturally very worried about the abnormal behavior of the poor people, and sent people to take the initiative to ask what these people were doing.

According to the words of the instructor, the common people told the landlord's subordinates: "We often have bandits and bandits here to rob the grain, and the government cannot control it, so in order to protect the grain, we can only set up a village guard team to defend our homeland and our grain." ”

People from other villages can say: "We saw the formation of a village protection team in XX, and we also formed a village protection team to defend our homes and our food." ”

This was a very appropriate explanation, and when the landlord heard this answer, he could not find anything in question.

Some landlords can associate the abnormal behavior of mud legs with rebellion, but after thinking about it carefully, I feel that it will not, how can the peasant rebellion in the past be trained, often just to produce an idea, gather a large number of people, hold all kinds of farm tools, and launch an attack on the manor or even the county seat of the big landlord.

A small number of peasant rebellions could not even break the manors of large landlords, and a large number of peasant rebellions could break through the manors of large landlords, but they were blocked by the walls of the county town.

The current situation of forming a village protection team to train together does not look like a peasant rebellion.

The vast majority of landlords who found out about the situation either did not care or thought they were suspicious, and gradually stopped paying attention to the affairs of the village protection team, but there were also a very small number of large landlords who investigated the affairs of the village protection team.

"There was no village protection team before, why is there a village protection team now? Investigate, give me a careful investigation to the master, if the mud legs dare to rebel, let the officials and soldiers kill them as soon as possible! ”

If the landlord accidentally gets accurate information and finally attracts the encirclement and suppression of the officials and troops, according to the plan, the people of the entire village will bring grain and quickly move to the mountains and forests, and it will not take long for the people's army to raise the flag and they will be able to return to their homes.