After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he walked to the front of the team and shouted, "Everyone run with me!" After saying that, he took the lead and started running.

Ma Cheng had never been a soldier before, but he had always participated in military training for college students, and the five-kilometer cross-country run every morning really cost Ma Cheng half of his life. In the past, Ma Cheng could always find various opportunities to escape the five-kilometer cross-country, but now it is different, Ma Cheng knows that if he wants to win the support of the soldiers, he must lead by example, so today Ma Cheng must persist in running ten miles.

Everyone began to run under the leadership of Ma Cheng, and Ma Cheng's estimate was about the same, many people were able to hold on in the first lap, but not in the second lap, and a large number of people began to fall behind. Ma Cheng is also tired, but Ma Cheng's physical fitness is good, after all, he eats much better than those farmers, although he is as tired as a cow, but he still persevered.

What impressed Ma Cheng was Gu Xiying, but she didn't expect a big girl to be able to run down. However, Gu Xiying was also tired enough, and her face was flushed, which was very cute.

Running to the finish line, Ma Cheng's legs went straight to the ticket, as if it was not his own, but Ma Cheng still insisted on standing there, watching the follow-up teams run to the finish line one after another.

In the end, there were fifteen people left, and they really couldn't run, so Ma Cheng asked them to be carried over and announced that these guys didn't have breakfast.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and there was a lot of movement when Ma Cheng was running with people just now, this was the school field of the governor's yamen, and someone had already reported the news to the Chinese officer Zhang Guozhu.

Zhang Guozhu stood on the edge of the school field with great interest and watched Ma Cheng lead people to run, he didn't expect that Ma Cheng, the second generation of the second generation of officials, could still have this perseverance.

After Ma Cheng finished running, Zhang Guozhu came to Ma Cheng's side and said: "Second young master, yesterday Lord Yue told Xia Guan about the situation, and now Xia Guan has brought a hundred sets of military uniforms. ”

Ma Cheng looked at more than a dozen carts behind Zhang Guozhu, and there was some food in addition to military uniforms. Ma Cheng was happy to see this, so that he could save his already insufficient funds.

"Uncle Zhang, thank you, little nephew!" Zhang Guozhu's family and the Ma family have been friends for generations, so Ma Cheng can get by by calling him uncle.

Zhang Guozhu looked at the soldiers found by Ma Cheng, and said with a smile: "Virtuous nephew, you don't object to playing with your uncle, but what are you getting?" The soldiers have to practice the formation of knives and guns, what is it for you to run with them? Is it faster to run away in the future? ”

Zhang Guozhu's slap in the face made Ma Cheng very unable to get off the stage, and Ma Cheng scolded in his heart: What do you know about the old thing? Lao Tzu's technique of leading troops is 600 years more advanced than yours!

Although Ma Cheng was dissatisfied in his heart, he said: "Uncle Zhang's lesson is that the little nephew has learned a set of training methods, and when the training is completed, please ask Uncle Zhang for advice!" ”

Zhang Guozhu regarded Ma Cheng as a foolish second ancestor at all, he shook his head and left the general's uniform, and then took people back to the house.

At this time, Gu Changwei and his people had already made breakfast, the meal was very simple, it was still steamed porridge, and the pickles were radishes and Chinese cabbage pickled in salt. After a morning of exercise, everyone was hungry, and after getting Ma Cheng's permission, they immediately devoured it, except for the fifteen unlucky ones who didn't stick to it.

Although the meal is very simple, Ma Cheng is hungry, so this breakfast is very sweet, and it feels better than the crab roe soup dumplings made by the chefs in the house.

According to Ma Cheng's plan, he will be armed with five kilometers of cross-country in the morning, learn the queue and standing posture in the morning, and learn cultural classes in the afternoon. But now that the military shipment is coming, the study queue can only be dragged back.

After breakfast, Ma Cheng asked the hundred people to take off their ragged clothes, and then set them on fire. The next thing is to bathe and change clothes for these 100 people.

After half an hour, I finally sent the clothes down, as the pacesetter equipment of the governor's yamen is still good, in addition to the mandarin duck robe outside, the number coat, trousers, hat, and cloth shoes inside are all complete.

These 100 peasants did not expect to be given new clothes when they joined the army, and they were very happy with their own clothes.

After they changed into their new uniforms, when they stood in front of Ma Cheng again, their military appearance changed. In the past, these guys were a group of peasants, but now they have changed into new military uniforms, and their heads and faces have been washed again, although they are still farmers in their bones, they finally look like them on the surface.

These guys are all in a good mood when they change into new military uniforms, and they are giggling and playing one by one, and Ma Cheng saw that Xu Dahu was in a good mood to tidy up the team. With the military order, the ten small flags immediately picked up the sticks and let the guys know what discipline was, and soon the guys finally quieted down under the sticks.

Ma Cheng stood on the newly built high platform and looked at these soldiers and said: "From now on, you are official soldiers, and if you are a soldier, you must abide by the military orders of the barracks, and in the afternoon I will take you to learn the seventeen prohibitions and fifty-four beheadings in the army." Now I'll teach you the most important thing in the army, the queue! ”

The queue is a simple thing, but it can train the soldier's sense of obedience and organization, which are indeed essential for a qualified army. At the same time, the war of the Ming Dynasty has entered the war of hot weapons, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the number of firearms and equipment in the Ming army has reached sixty percent, and some of the main forces such as the Shenji battalion are composed of all firearms, so the queue is the top priority of Ma Cheng's training.

Ma Cheng first divided the team according to the small flags, each small flag was eleven people, and the leader of the platoon was the officer, and then divided the ten small flags into two horizontal columns, each of which was led by a general flag. According to Ma Cheng's idea, in the future, the two general flags of one hundred households will be the basic unit of the musket team.

Of course, there are 1,000 households above 100 households, and 1,000 households have jurisdiction over 1000 households, that is, ten basic units and twenty rows of musketeers.

Above the thousand households are guerrillas, and the official position of guerrilla has belonged to middle-level officers in the Ming Dynasty, and guerrillas are also middle-level officers in Ma Cheng's planning, which is equivalent to the regiment commander of later generations. One guerrilla was in charge of three thousand households, that is, three large phalanx musketeers, plus an independent artillery unit, and one guerrilla of 3,600 men should be able to withstand the same number of Manchu cavalry attacks.

The guerrilla generals are further up, and according to the later generations, they are the division commanders, and the generals are responsible for three guerrillas, that is, 10,800 people, plus the number of troops directly under them should be about 12,000.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was also a deputy general soldier above the military general, that is, the deputy general, but Ma Cheng canceled this official position, because 12,000 people were already very large-scale, and the general army of the Ming Dynasty could lead a battalion of 5,600 people, so the deputy general soldier was canceled, and the general was directly the general soldier.

There is no specific number of troops in the total army, and the total number of troops in Ma Cheng's plan is equivalent to the commander of the front army, and the specific number of troops is determined according to the specific situation. Therefore, the staff general is the largest combat unit in the new army organized by Ma Cheng.

But these are all on paper now, Ma Cheng only has a hundred households and one hundred and eleven people in his hands, and it is too early to think about that. (The military system of the Ming Dynasty is almost the same as the modern military system, after all, the Ming Dynasty has appeared with all-firearms troops, so the author does not want to change the military system of the Ming Dynasty too much, after all, the military divisions and brigades in the previous book are considered to be poisonous points.) ）

The team was already lined up, Ma Cheng looked at the neat team, and the shy soldiers were very satisfied.

Ma Cheng saw that everyone was ready, and shouted: "Everyone has it, listen to my command, one step left foot and two right feet!" One, two, one... ”

Ma Cheng thought very well, but as soon as the password was messed up, everyone didn't know what foot was in front of him, and the whole team was in a mess for a while.

Ma Cheng saw it like this and scolded: "Stop, stop!" Are you all stupid? Don't know the left and right feet? ”

Xu Dahu, who was a hundred households, said weakly at this time: "My lord, we really don't know the left and right feet. ”

Ma Cheng heard Xu Dahu say this and remembered that these people were not those recruits with high school degrees in later generations, these people didn't know a word, and it was a joke to expect them to know that the left and right feet were simply joking.

Ma Cheng had no choice but to explain patiently: "Remember, it is the right hand that holds chopsticks when eating, and vice versa, the left hand, and the same for the feet?" ”

After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he was afraid that they wouldn't understand, so he said: "Now everyone will raise their hands with chopsticks!" ”

More than 100 people raised their right hands one after another, and sure enough, as Ma Cheng expected, two people raised their left hands.

Ma Cheng scolded angrily: "Are you deaf? I said the hand with chopsticks! ”

The two unlucky ones said cautiously: "My lord, this is the one we hold chopsticks in our hands!" ”

Hearing them say this, Ma Cheng remembered that there were still left-handed people, and Ma Cheng couldn't say to the two: "You two raise your other hand!" ”

Ma Cheng looked at the team again, and then said loudly: "This is the right hand, and the right hand side is the right foot, I shout two to step the right foot, one to step the left foot, do you understand?" ”

There were sparse words of understanding in the team, Ma Cheng was afraid that these guys didn't know how to pretend to understand, so for the sake of insurance, Ma Cheng said again: "Okay, now I'm going to shout, everyone follow me and shout together!" ”

"One!" After Ma Cheng shouted, he took a look at everyone's feet, a few of them were wrong, and most of the others were right, not bad. Ma Cheng stepped forward to correct those few, and then shouted: "Two! ”

In this way, Ma Cheng wasted a morning's work and finally taught more than 100 people to distinguish between the left and right feet. By noon, Ma Cheng saw that these guys were finally able to walk skillfully, and sighed and thought: I originally thought that it was too simple, thinking that as long as I gave myself 100,000 horses, I would soon be able to train qualified soldiers, but now it seems that I think it is simple.

In fact, Ma Cheng does not need to be discouraged, not to mention that in the Ming Dynasty, even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were a large number of recruits who did not know the difference between left and right, until the whole country eliminated illiteracy, and the annual recruit training did not need to be trained first.

By the time the soldiers were able to separate their left and right feet, it was already noon. Ma Cheng looked at the sky and ordered the kitchen to open the meal.