After a month of basic training, the team finally began to train in combat ability, at which time archers, infantry, and cavalry were trained separately.

The crossbowman was required to shoot ten arrows in a row within a minute, and that these arrows should have some accuracy and directionality. It is also necessary to practice the use of shields and knives, in case the enemy suddenly rushes in front of you and has no time to retreat, at this time archers are needed to use shields and knives for the final resistance.

The most important and largest number of infantry in Kaiping Town is the phalanx army, that is, a small phalanx composed of 256 people, a total of twenty such small phalanxes, and these small phalanxes form a variety of large phalanxes, which can be flexible and diverse on the battlefield. These spearmen are guaranteed to be able to deliver effective strikes to the enemy in any direction.

In addition to marching in formation, spearmen were trained to march quickly with spears in their hands, to pursue the enemy, and to march more than a mile without the slightest confusion. In order to deal with the enemy's sudden counterattack, as well as surprise attacks from the flanks and rear, the integrity of the formation is maintained at all times, so that the enemy is incapable.

Next is the cavalry, Kaiping Town originally had six hundred trained cavalry, this time the cavalry trained are all recruits, and it is impossible for others to stuff the baby-like cavalry, so they are selected from these people, and two thousand four hundred people who have experience in horseback riding are trained as cavalry.

Each of the old cavalrymen led four new cavalrymen and trained them on horseback, teaching them how to maintain formation, how to charge in a dense manner, how to slash the enemy with a sword on their horses, and how to shoot arrows while running.

The training lasted for three months, and it didn't stop even during the Chinese New Year. And Jia Ke, in order to show that he shared weal and woe with the soldiers, also stayed in the barracks during the Chinese New Year and did not go back. With all the soldiers, he had a Chinese New Year's Eve meal in the barracks, eating meat and drinking wine in large bowls.

After three months of training, the 10,000-strong troops were clearly reborn. Under the policy of veterans leading new recruits, the combat effectiveness of the ranks did not decrease much.

Winter went to spring, and after three months of training, the troops were basically formed, but there was no actual combat, and Jia Ke still felt a little unsure in his heart.

After careful consideration, Jia Ke decided to conduct a big competition between the troops, between the phalanx and the phalanx, and conduct confrontation training.

Training, is to be able to simulate actual combat as much as possible, so as to achieve the best results, otherwise it is not interesting to engage in those showmanship.

However, in order to prevent casualties among the soldiers, all of them used bamboo poles to wrap cloth strips and dip them in lime during the training. In the confrontation, it was ordered that anyone who was poked in the vital part of the body immediately quit, which was a trick, but the white spots on the body were very obvious, and the hundred households who were supervising next to him were not blind, so they were immediately pulled out.

In fact, this method was not conceived by Jia Ke, this is the training method described by Shi Nai'an in "Water Margin". It should be a training method commonly used in the army during the Song Dynasty. However, no one has used it on this plane.

Fan Kang was very impressed by Jia Ke's idea, which could simulate actual combat as much as possible under the premise of ensuring safety, and the effect of training troops would naturally be twice the result with half the effort.

At first, Jia Ke still asked for confrontation between small phalanxes, but later gradually expanded the scale.

Later, it developed into a large-scale confrontation with 5,000 people each led by Huang Baifeng and Feng Mo, crossbowmen, phalanx army, and cavalry.

Then the cavalry maneuvers of the opposing formations were also conducted.

Three thousand cavalrymen played the role of the Tatars, charging the phalanx army in formation.

It was not easy for Jia Ke to raise these 3,000 cavalry, and almost all the horses captured in several wars in Kaiping Town were used. What remains, all uncastrated stallions, have been captured very little in these wars, and almost all of them are private horses owned by the Tatar nobility.

The Tatars had a very strict control over horses, and all those who could be sold to the dynasty were castrated horses, just to prevent the court from buying back the horses and breeding them themselves, so as to strengthen the cavalry. Even Tang Kuai, as the internal response of the Tatars, is difficult to buy uncastrated stallions. Jia Ke set up a horse farm for one or two hundred stallions to breed horses.

After several drills, we have been trained in different forms of warfare. In the course of the operation, they fully discovered their own shortcomings, corrected these deficiencies, and continued to carry forward the advantages they discovered.

And Liu Yu came back from the capital before the Chinese New Year, and brought more than 120 good guys according to Jia Ke's instructions.

As soon as Liu Yu returned to the capital this time, he first met Lin Zhixiao and told him that this time he came back on the orders of his uncle and sent a letter to his master.

Lin Zhixiao did not dare to slack off, and immediately went to meet Jia Zheng and reported to Jia Zheng that Jia Ke had sent someone to deliver the letter. Jia Zheng heard that Jia Ke sent someone back to deliver the letter. Without hesitation, he immediately summoned Liu Yu.

In Mengpo Zhai, Jia Zheng met Liu Yu, who was in the dust.

When Liu Yu saw Jia Zheng, he immediately invited him to pay a big salute, Jia Zheng is Jia Ke's father and their old master.

Jia Zheng knew that Liu Yu was the captain of Jia Ke's personal guard and was loyal to Jia Ke, so he was still very friendly to him, and when he saw him saluting, he asked him to hurry up.

After Liu Yu saluted, he took out Jia Ke's letter from his arms and presented it to Jia Zheng with both hands.

Jia Zheng took the letter and opened it to look at it carefully, and Jia Ke gave him a detailed explanation of the situation at the border during this time. and told Jia Zheng that he had assigned his own soldiers to take charge of the troops below. Now he is short of people, and he needs some honest guys from peasant backgrounds to serve as his personal guards so that he can continue to cultivate.

Jia Zheng's heart moved when he saw this, thinking that Jia Ke wanted to treat the army as his own private soldier. I was shocked that he had such ambitions at such a young age.

But this matter still needs to be covered up for him, after Jia Zheng read the letter, he directly took out the fire sickle and lit the letter and burned it.

After Jia Zheng finished these things, he said to Liu Yu: "I already know the purpose of your return this time. You first select people from Xiacaozhuang and Wangjiatun, and if it is not enough, I will transfer it to you from other Zhuangzi. ”

Liu Yu respectfully replied to Jia Zheng and said, "Bring these two Zhuangzi people with you, it's almost over." ”

Jia Zheng also told Liu Yu: "When choosing people, it is better to lack than to abuse, and do not require good martial arts, as long as the net worth is innocent." People are loyal and honest. ”

Liu Yu wrote down Jia Zheng's words one by one.

For the next ten days, Liu Yu was busy between the two Zhuangzi. One hundred and twenty sturdy lads were selected from them.

Originally, many family members in Wangjiatun didn't want their children to go to the border, but later I heard that many of the people who served Jia Ke as a personal soldier before are now officials and can be on an equal footing with the county magistrate. So he immediately changed his attitude, stuffed his children into the pro-soldier team, and gave Liu Yu money and gifts, which became a common thing.

But Liu Yu did not live up to Jia Ke's expectations of him, and did not take any benefits from them, but selected the best of these young men, and selected one hundred and twenty out of the two Zhuangzi. After choosing the right people, without a trace of delay, he hurriedly returned to Kaiping Town with one hundred and twenty people. When I arrived in Kaiping Town, it was just before the Chinese New Year.

Jia Ke didn't give them any preferential treatment, and directly ordered Liu Yu to start training, their training was even harder than ordinary soldiers, and those soldiers were still soldiers for a while.

And the people Liu Yu brought back this time were all farmers who had just put down their hoes. The training was extremely difficult, and Jia Ke took full responsibility for Liu Yu in this matter, which was a test for him and a chance for him to perform.

Jia Ke's personal army had to train not only infantry subjects, but also archery subjects, sword players, cavalry subjects, and almost everything that could be trained.

Therefore, the training time is extraordinarily long, when ordinary soldiers have completed their training and entered maintenance training. The pro-soldier team still got up and crawled in the middle of the night, training desperately. This kind of training lasted for half a year, and Jia Ke was satisfied. The pro-soldier team is also considered to have completed official training.