Next, Lu Yuan asked Qiao Shaoyi and Gu Hesheng, the supervisors of the newly established Ministry of Civil Foreign Affairs, to take Wu Sangui to observe and learn in the mighty army.

Wu Sangui only thought that the reason why the mighty army was strong was simply military strength, so he came directly to the training ground of the mighty army.

When Wu Sangui saw that there were brave men training all over the mountains, he was a little shocked and asked Qiao Shaoyi: "General Staff Gu, I'm afraid that your army has more than one regular barracks, right?" ”

"General Wu doesn't know, this is not the town battalion of our mighty army, these are the local people, our mighty army is helping them train for free, after all, no one knows when Jiannu will enter the customs again, where it will suddenly loot, the people also have to learn to defend themselves, can't wait for the court officials and soldiers to come to rescue, after all, the court officials and soldiers may not be able to resist Jiannu, how dare the mighty army expand its troops privately."

Gu Hesheng said with a smile.

Wu Sangui couldn't help but smile awkwardly, he knew that the implication of this Gu Hesheng was that the officials and soldiers of the imperial court were unreliable, which made him a little embarrassed, after all, he couldn't stop the Jiannu by his own Guan Ning soldiers.

But Wu Sangui had to be surprised that the people trained by these mighty troops were so neat and orderly, and they had the feeling of well-trained elite soldiers, so he couldn't help but take a serious look.

Only then did Wu Sangui discover that the instructors of these mighty armies trained the people just like training soldiers, emphasizing discipline, and there were actually militia officials.

"A good soldier of the whole people, Jiannu can repeatedly defeat my Ming official army, relying on his whole people are soldiers, if my Ming people are like this, why worry about Jiannu will not be destroyed!"

Wu Sangui was deeply moved, but he had to admit that the daily consumption of food and ammunition for training so many militiamen was estimated to be a huge amount.

Wu Sangui had to admit that if he returned to Liaodong, he would not be able to replicate this, so that the entire Liaodong people would become such well-trained elite soldiers, how much food would it cost!

Wu Sangui continued to observe, and what he was even more excited about now was the muskets in the hands of these militiamen.

Therefore, this Wu Sangui couldn't help but ask Gu Hesheng about these muskets.

"This is the firearm we purchased from the flower planter, and it is also the artifact of our ability to defeat the heavy arrows of Jiannu, let the militia master this now, and defend their homes in the future."

Gu Hesheng said.

But Wu Sangui had to admit that this mighty army was too willing to spend money, and even equipped the militia here with this kind of firearms.

Wu Sangui was no longer much interested in militia training, he preferred to give such good firearms to his own family, so he did not care about the internal organizational structure of the militia, how the organizational structure of the militia was combined with the organizational structure of popular production, and how the mighty army was different from the grassroots controlled by the traditional gentry in terms of grassroots level.

Wu Sangui urgently asked Gu Hesheng and Qiao Shaoyi to bring him to the training ground of the field soldiers of the mighty army.

At this time, Wu Sangui saw a mighty army field soldier training, but what Wu Sangui couldn't understand was that the way the field soldiers of the mighty army were trained was completely different from his own Guan Ning soldiers, they either crossed a single-plank bridge or crossed obstacles, and then there were mud climbers, and even long-distance cross-country travel, and only practiced firearm shooting and assassination actions.

Wu Sangui found that the field soldiers of the mighty army seemed to focus only on the training of firearms soldiers.

And what Wu Sangui didn't expect even more was that the field soldiers of the mighty army actually sang after the training, and even played an activity called "basketball" in groups after the training, and they were still playing the "Keju!" that began in the Song Dynasty. ”

"Why do field soldiers play this?"

Wu Sangui asked.

"Strengthen your body and practice your teamwork and resilience at the same time."

Gu Hesheng replied.

Wu Sangui nodded, he felt that if he wanted to train like this, he was afraid that he would only be able to train a thousand people.

Wu Sangui was not interested in civil affairs, he simply thought that the mighty army was so willing to spend money on the army, it was nothing more than Lu Yuan, the head of the army, who would do business.

Wu Sangui was therefore more determined to continue his business with Lu Yuan, and he also wanted to earn more silver to raise more troops.

In the evening, Wu Sangui also watched a theatrical performance.

When he heard the storyteller talk about the last time Jiannu entered the Guanning soldiers and even were defeated, Wu Sangui's face was quite ugly.

But when Wu Sangui also witnessed the brutality of Jiannu reproduced by acting, and listened to the people chanting "Kill Jiannu", he couldn't help but sigh: "This method is good, let the people understand the crime of Jiannu, Wu Mou will have to find a drama to do such a play after he goes back, Supervisor Qiao, can you send Wu some excerpts about Jiannu." ”

Qiao Shaoyi naturally agreed, after all, Lu Yuan said that in addition to the military and political aspects involved in dealing with Jiannu, cultural aspects can be given casually.

In the end, Wu Sangui only learned two points that could be replicated in the mighty army, one was to purchase advanced firearms to equip some core family troops, and the other was to expose some dramas exposing the atrocities of Jiannu and moving them to Liaodong.

Of course, what Wu Sangui would not have expected was that after the latter was brought to Liaodong by him, the people of Liaodong would be even more reluctant to see him take refuge in Jiannu in the future.

Because the field soldiers of the mighty army have now begun to prepare for the installation of mini guns, and the mighty army is now very short of war horses, Lu Yuan finally decided to agree to sell only one thousand flintlock pistols to Wu Sangui, but not to the technology and craftsmen, but each flintlock pistol has to be exchanged for five high-grade war horses.

Wu Sangui also had to agree in order to form a powerful firearms force that could defeat the Jiannu heavy cavalry and infantry.

Lu Yuan was also very satisfied with this result, exchanging 1,000 flintlock pistols for 5,000 war horses, the key is that the relevant ammunition and important parts and components are still controlled in his own hands.

And with these five thousand war horses, it means that it is no longer a problem for the mighty army to form one or even two cavalry thousand headquarters, and it can also hold out until the first batch of war horses of the mighty army itself appears.

In the end, Wu Sangui left the mighty army, and brought with him a large number of soap and glassware, as well as 500 flintlock pistols, and the rest would not be delivered until his war horse arrived.

Two months later, the mighty army received 2,000 high-grade war horses from Guan Ningbing.

Lu Yuan immediately asked the newly established Ma Zheng Academy to breed and prepare to establish its own war horse supply base, on the one hand, this transferred these war horses to Uncle Fei and asked him to immediately expand the cavalry.

With the source of war horses, what Lu Yuan needs now is to conduct actual combat training for the mighty army.

What can be done now in actual combat training is to suppress bandits, so on the one hand, Lu Yuan asked Shang Kexi's troops to pretend to be bandits to clean up the disobedient gentry, and on the other hand, he desperately suppressed bandits in the area under his own control, and for a time, the four counties of Guantao, Pingshan, Tangyi, and Wendeng became the counties with the best public order in Shandong.

The magistrates of the imperial court of these four counties are also very satisfied with the mighty army, after all, they still don't have to do anything now, but they don't have to worry about not being able to pay the money, grain and taxes, and they don't have to worry about any civil mutiny and bandits in the territory, they are happy and relaxed, and even they don't bother to deal with criminal cases, and let these mighty troops deal with it.