Compared with the north, Anping's winter is not cold, although it is a Xiaoice era when Taihu Lake is frozen, and Fujian and Guangdong are snowing, but Quanzhou's winter can still maintain above zero temperature during the day.

Sometimes, the sun is a little poisonous in the middle of the day! It's hot on the sun.

But even so, in the cool sea breeze, the soldiers of the Iron Man Army put on dozens of pounds of heavy armor, and they were fully armed and motionless on the school field, and one stop was an hour or two.

Earlier, Zheng Zhilong trained only 100 troops, and at the end of March, there were only 60 left. But now there are 1,500 of them!

Fifteen hundred people stood motionless in full armor on the school grounds, and the pressure was obviously not comparable to that of the previous people. Moreover, those people before were acquaintances in Anping City, but the current 1,500 people are all taken from Denglai refugees who moved south.

When ordinary people meet, I'm afraid they can't even have a conversation.

Zheng Zhilong looked at the Iron Man Army standing upright in the school yard and nodded with satisfaction. In the past few months, he has taken a few days a month to visit the northern part of the Great Force, and he has a lot of affection for the current Iron Man Army.

Just like he made people choose children under the age of ten to enlist in the newly established boy scout camp in Anping City. Among them, those who are excellent will also be sent to the middle and senior officers in the army to be the attendant officer. Just like the British junior midshipman at the time of the Great Voyage.

These young men are accustomed to battle, and they are also familiar with the military, and when they reach adulthood (16), they must all be qualified officers.

"In the past, Qi Shaobao swept away the general army of Jizhen in the north of the Japanese Kou. Although the army of Jimen is a strong force of the Ming Court, it is arrogant and arrogant, and it looks down on the southern army, but it is strong and empty. The army of the seven battalions did not practice military affairs, military discipline was not in order, and the armament was lax. Just like the situation of our army today.

Qi Shaobao transferred 3,000 Zhejiang soldiers to the north to think that the soldiers were like soldiers, and the army arrived, coinciding with heavy rain in the sky, and the Qi army was arrayed in the suburbs, standing upright until dusk. The border troops were horrified, and they all obeyed, and they knew the military orders. ”

The so-called 'Iron Man Army' established by Zheng Zhilong is actually a heavy infantry. In the western battlefield of this era, armor has withdrawn from the mainstream of military armament, but in the east, the corrupt officials of the Ming Dynasty have dragged down the entire military industrial system, and guns have completely given way to the mainstream position in the military.

Thinking about the mandarin duck jacket of the Ming army, it is obvious that it has changed from guarding against swords, guns and arrows to guarding against firearms. But after hundreds of years of development, the firearms of the Ming army have become not ordinarily rotten.

To deal with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong does not have a reliable hand-to-hand combat soldier in his hands, so it will not work! I don't know the bottom of my heart.

And how to rectify a hand-to-hand combat army that resists the Manchu Tatars?

Zheng Chenggong in history gave the answer - to form an elite heavy infantry.

The brave and brave in the selection army, with good encounters and hard training, can they be taken out for a battle? That's why there was a great victory in Zhenjiang, and the thousands of elites of the Eight Banners and 10,000 Han soldiers of the Green Battalion were killed.

Although it is not all the credit of the Iron Man Army, the Iron Man Army, as the front-line main combat unit of the Zheng Army, cannot erase the merits.

In Zheng Zhilong's eyes, that battle was actually a collision between heavy infantry and armored cavalry, and the two fought against each other, as long as the infantry army could stand in position, the cavalry would have no possibility of breaking the formation. Looking at the white pole soldiers in the first battle of the Hunhe River, the so-called Eight Banners powerhouse can't even break through the poorly equipped white pole soldiers, and it is even more impossible to break through the Iron Man Army.

Zheng Zhilong will never be satisfied with just 1,500 ironclad soldiers, if there are traversers who have an understanding of the Beiyang Army, they can already understand it from the hierarchical structure of the ironman army shed queue camp, Zheng Zhilong is copying the establishment of the Beiyang Army.

And there is a mark above the battalion, and there is a cooperation above the standard, and then there is the town.

It can be said that Zheng Zhilong put aside the military system of the Ming Court and set up a new team.

In this regard, no one was surprised up and down in Anping City, because this was too normal in the Ming army. The current situation in the Ming Dynasty is that several well-organized troops, such as the Guanning Army, the Qin Army, the Xuanda Force, the Zhengjia Water Division, etc., are all prepared according to the ideas of their respective commanders.

But the current Zheng Group's establishment is still chaotic, the sailor, the land division, the specific number and system, Zheng Zhilong has gone through more than half a year, and there is still no result.

He's got his men to do it.

Separation of military and business.

From the more than 100,000 or 200,000 people under his command, an elite army was 'refined', whether it was a navy or an army.

And in fact, it's sharing the cake, the more you have, the less I have, and this process alone is entangled until the beginning of the winter before it is agreed. Eight Flags Tartar is a large joint-stock company, and Zheng's Group is actually a small joint-stock company.

The separation of military and commercial affairs has spread in the Zheng army, but the progress has not been large. It's hard to get an order.

Among them, the army can be said to say that the latter's position within the Zheng group is raised by a little girl. That is, the team in Anping City still has some status. The others, then they are all the goods that can be transferred to sailors at the first order.

But the water army is a little more difficult.

When the pirates started as a member of the Zheng group, too many people were inextricably linked to the navy. The sea also means too much and too much for them. But it cannot be denied that many people have bought fields and built estates on land, and they have the capital to become rich and become big masters.

Now that the military and business are separated, many people cannot give up the interests of joining the army, and on the other hand, they are worried that the guns have no eyes. Everyone knows that after the New Year, Zheng Longtou will lead the team north. Fighting with the Eight Banners Tartars outside the Guan, fighting against the murderous Tartars outside the Guan, who dares to say that they can't die?

It was hard to give up, and it was a lot of suffering.

Zheng Zhilong was not too harsh, and directly put the time at the end of the year, giving them enough time to think and fight. Now, there's only one month left.

When the water is clear, there are no fish, and when people are observed, there are no fugitives.

Zheng Zhilong earlier was not a person who didn't rub sand in his eyes, which of his cargo ships didn't carry other people's goods?

When a trip to the sea trade comes down, he naturally takes the big head, and burns from the bow of the ship to the sailor, and there is also a share of the profit. It's like a boat that transports grain to the imperial court.

He is still the leader of the leader, and this is true for his subordinates, and even more so for other generals. With such a team, there are ghosts who can fight tough battles at critical moments.

So, this parting is a must.

Zheng Hongkui's eyes were full of relief when he looked at the Iron Man Army, although the army in front of him was still a good thing in Zheng Zhilong's mouth, with a silver-like pewter spear head, it could only put up a battle, and it was far from the real elite soldiers on the battlefield who were not afraid of danger. But this already made him very happy.

Because, such a 'pewter spear head' can also stand on the school field for two hours, how can this be a real pewter spear head?

This is a billet of elite soldiers. No, this is already a crack soldier.

As long as you have experienced one or two battles and seen blood, who dares to say that such a soldier cannot be trained?

"Qi Shaobao, it's really Qi Shaobao." He knew about the new army of the senior officers, and that was to refer to Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "Practical Record of Military Training" to conduct the exercises.

Zheng Zhilong personally selected a hundred elites from the Anping defenders, but only sixty persisted to the end. These people are the seeds of the new army, and whether they are good or bad, they are all trained by him with a book in one hand and a stick in the other. After three months of training, they were released to the senior ranks, and when the new army was formed, they were bound to go to the senior officers once a month.

For the master of the army, the effort spent is seen by all.

In this way, how can the bravery selected from them be comparable to the Zheng family Lu Shi in the past?

And looking at the defenders in Anping City, they were all stunned and had already been suppressed. And with such an army overhead, if you come to rectify them, you will definitely get twice the result with half the effort!

It's really not in vain, Zheng Zhilongfei's heart in Denglai!

Zheng Zhilong is also a little complacent now, he felt that it was difficult to make a fundamental change in the Zheng Group only by relying on military regulations and military discipline.

Because the country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change.

The Zheng group, which was born as a pirate, is fundamentally contrary to discipline.

Therefore, just as he wanted to build a foundation overseas, Zheng Zhilong also decided to build a new army.

To seize the Central Plains and realize his greater ambitions, what he needs is not a strengthened version of the original Zheng Army, but a new army, a real new army.

Although he doesn't know anything about military training, he has taken physical education classes, hasn't he? Have you also received military training? Draw a scoop according to the gourd. Refer to Qi Jiguang's masterpiece in detail, and then combine the 'experience' in his mind to train a team of instructors first.

During that time, Zheng Hongkui said that he was holding a book in one hand and a stick in the other, which was really not wrong. And as it turned out, those seeds didn't disappoint him. The 1,500 people in front of me are all like goods, and that's not great. Is the foundation firmly laid?