Due to the food problem, the intensity of military training, which takes place every three days, has also been greatly weakened.

In the past, the pikemen had to do a thousand qualified assassination actions every day in addition to the queue training and marching training.

Now the queue training is retained, the marching training mileage is cut in half, and the assassination training is reduced to three hundred times a day.

In addition, Xu Shiyang added an anti-cavalry training to them - in fact, it was to set up a hollow phalanx, and all the pikemen bent down to hold their guns, the tips of their spears tilted outward, and then remained motionless until the end of the training.

In order to increase the feeling of actual combat and familiarize the pikemen with the cavalry, Xu Shiyang would personally ride a war horse, wear armor, and simulate the impact on the opponent's formation.

He was the only cavalryman in the fifteenth tun, and the horse would unconsciously turn around three meters away from the tip of the spear, but the momentum of one man and one horse and shining armor still made the new army pikemen feel uneasy.

In the first few times, Xu Shiyang was even able to break down the entire phalanx, and he had to throw up his military stick and beat these soldiers so that they remembered with their bodies, not their brains—in the face of cavalry, under no circumstances, pikemen could not shake.

After a few round-trips, the soldier's mood began to stabilize, and by the end, Xu Shiyang alone could no longer make the pikemen have any mood swings.

Xu Shiyang knew that the Tartar would not only have one cavalry in battle, but now it was the limit of what he could do, and the training that was closer to the actual combat would only be said after the development of the dock fort in the future.

This kind of training also trained the firearms soldiers who were organized into the phalanx and stood behind the pikemen, and they could now calmly reload the weapons in their hands under the pressure of Xu Shiyang.

In the previous two battles, the firearms had only fired one round at close range, and then immediately entered the white-knuckle fight.

But with the cooperation of pikemen and the new arquebus, it would be a waste of fire in the hands of the soldier to stick to one round of fire - with the effective killing range of the arquebus, it could shoot two rounds at the cavalry, and even four or five rounds at the infantry (if they did not stop to shoot with the bow and arrow, and the pikemen failed to block the assault) (of course, the musket could still only shoot one round).

Of course, Xu Shiyang wanted to take advantage of this unique range advantage, so a lot of reloading was added to the training of firearms soldiers, whether using arquebuses or muskets, Xu Shiyang required every firearms soldier to be familiar with the loading process of arquebuses.

This can also be regarded as some preparations for the future replacement of the whole army with arquebuses or flintlock pistols - I would rather be equipped with equipment than with others.

Due to the shortage of gunpowder, all firearms officers can only get a chance to fire live ammunition once every three training sessions.

Of course, this kind of firing frequency is not high, in fact, it can only make the soldiers familiar with the feeling of firearm shooting, and it does not seem to be of much help to improve the hit rate, but this bit of gunpowder can not be saved, and soldiers who have not experienced live ammunition shooting training will seriously lack confidence in the weapons in their hands (or too much confidence), it is difficult to grasp the shooting distance, and the ammunition will be empty when they are outside the range, so that there are many cases of being easily broken through by the enemy.

At the beginning of March, Xu Shiyang basically completed the redeployment work, leading his family (now Zhao Shan is alone), all the soldiers of the New Army, and the medical team to the new dock fort.

The militia and family members assigned here had already arrived half a month in advance, and Xu Shiyang only needed to move in directly this time.

Women who have no male relatives still live alone in a compound, managed by Zhao Shan, and her current task is the same as when Mama Rong was in Fifteen Tun, because the latter needs to stay in the original Wubao to be responsible for the work of the women there, so Zhao Shan is in charge of this side.

Xu Shiyang did not obtain the right to build a new dock fort and appoint the owner of the dock fort from his own family, because after the destruction of the Fulai Mountain bandits, three strongholds like this that were not far away could actually be under the control of one person.

But in order to distinguish, the original fifteen tun was called 151 (demon five demons) fort by Xu Shiyang inside, and the far Zhao Jiatun was called 152, and the place where Xu Shiyang was located was 153.

Of course, this is just an internal title, even if it is brought to the family meeting, Xu Shiyang is still just the owner of the dock fort.

Since the location of 153 is the westernmost and the western border of the entire family, the next time the Tartars come to raid or retaliate, it can be said that they will bear the brunt, so Xu Shiyang chose his new base camp here, hoping to reassure the people of Wubao.

After Xu Shiyang arrived at Fort 153, a pure red military flag was raised in the private residence of the original owner of Fort Wu - the Xu family itself did not have a flag, but since a new army had been formed, Xu Shiyang thought that he should not be without a symbolic symbol.

At the beginning, Xu Shiyang still wanted to embroider a five-pointed star on the red flag, but then the flag would be too similar to the national flag of a monkey in Southeast Asia in his previous life, and Xu Shiyang didn't dare to embroider five of them.

In the end, he decided to simply put it on a rectangular pure red flag.

On the third day of March, Xu Shiyang organized an actual combat exercise at Fort 153 against 90 soldiers of the New Army and 200 young and middle-aged militia reinforced by 10 scouts.

The purpose of the exercise was to test the results of the training of the New Army throughout the winter, and to give everyone in Fort 153 confidence that outside of the Lonely Family's sphere of influence, facing the possible retaliation of the Tartars, everyone here needed to know that there was an elite force in front of them to protect them from the wind and rain.

The result of the exercise was not unexpected, as the soldiers of the Forces nouvelles had beaten twice as many militia as their own, and this was when the musketeers in the rear row and the artillery on both sides were not in full force.

Although the militia's combat effectiveness had increased considerably during a winter hunt, their chaotic formation still could not pose a threat to the rock-solid array of the new army.

In the end, even Xie Zhen was poked with a wooden stick wrapped in cloth and "died" in glory.

This exercise did play the expected role, the new army's crushing combat effectiveness gave the people of Fort 153 a bottom, taking this opportunity, Xu Er's and other clever new troops began to cause a topic in the fort - is the new army powerful or the Tartars powerful?

Deliberately guided, the burghers began to think, at least for now, that it was indeed possible for the New Army to defeat the Tartars.

As for the homeless or bandits, the militia even thought that they could cope with it themselves without the help of the new army.

After the exercise, the training task of the new army was transferred to Xu Da and Xu Er, and there was no special accident, and Xu Shiyang would not interfere in the training work for the time being.

Because at this time, spring ploughing began, and Xu Shiyang, as the owner of the dock fort, had an important task of leading by example and participating in the work in the farmland.

In fact, this is the most important job of the year at Dockfort, and it should not be sloppy at all. In the headquarters of the Xu family, even if the underage descendants of the Xu family can do some farm work within their ability, Xu Shiyang does not allow the soldiers of the New Army to participate, which is already a huge exception.