Since the drill, the middle and high-level officials in Huangzhushan have discovered a strange thing, that is, they have seen Li Xuan taking Zeng Ziwen in and out of the school for several days.

Could it be that Zeng Ziwen, who has been a captive for half a year, finally figured out that he wanted to return to the Tang Dynasty?

But it's not like it, although this Zeng Ziwen has been in and out of the school frequently with Li Xuan in the past few days, it has revealed what position he holds.

With Zeng Ziwen's original identity and qualifications, if he wants to return to the Tang Dynasty, then the official position he obtains will definitely not be low, the title of a general will not run, and the actual position will not be low.

However, everyone had never heard of Li Xuan giving him the title of general!

It can be said that he did not return to the Tang Dynasty, which is not like this, because many people have seen Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen often discuss military affairs, especially training matters.

How strange is this situation.

The reason why it gave such a strange impression to outsiders was that Zeng Ziwen refused the title of general or even any other official position that Li Xuan wanted to grant him.

Although Zeng Ziwen's heart was already loose, and he was willing to help Li Xuan solve some problems in army training and even tactical command, he was still unwilling to hold any position in the Tang Dynasty, because he would not be able to pass the level in his heart.

Li Xuan didn't care about this, what he needed was Zeng Ziwen's ability, as for the official title, anyway, the official hat of the Tang Dynasty was not worth much, and Zeng Ziwen's rejection of the official position of the Tang Dynasty would not affect him to help him solve some training problems.

And Zeng Ziwen's behavior is more of a psychological comfort for himself, could it be said that he did not return to the Tang Dynasty without holding an official position?

This kind of behavior is a bit similar to covering your ears and stealing a bell.

Therefore, Zeng Ziwen refused to serve as an official position in the Tang Dynasty, and Li Xuan did not force it, nor did he use any titles such as private military advisers to save the country, and directly took Zeng Ziwen to get busy to improve the training system of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

I have to say that even though Zeng Ziwen was not very good at leading troops to fight at the beginning, he was born in a family of generals, and he has read all kinds of military books and books, and he has a very solid theoretical foundation on how the army should train and even fight in this era.

Well, to put it bluntly, his ability to talk on paper is quite good.

However, what Li Xuan wants is his ability to talk on paper, you have to let Li Xuan really let go and let Zeng Ziwen take the Tang New Army to fight, Li Xuan is still not at ease, he is worried that Zeng Ziwen will be scared and cry on the battlefield again!

Zeng Ziwen's theoretical level is quite good, although most of his theories are limited to the training and combat of cold weapon troops, but the army, whether it is a cold weapon army or a modern army, many things can be figured out, and things that don't work can be used with a little adaptation.

Five days later, with the help of Zeng Ziwen, Li Xuan finally came up with a complete training manual for the New Army.

This drill code is not newly written, but it sorts out many training methods of the Datang New Army that have been issued one after another, and finally summarizes them into a document.

The number of words in the full text is not much, but more than 10,000 words, and the content is also very simple, only recording the compilation and basic training methods and basic tactics used together.

However, although most of these things have been formulated by Li Xuan before, Li Xuan was not a professional soldier before, and his military theories are all hearsay, and it is inevitable that there will be some jokes and mistakes from laymen looking at insiders.

For example, when Li Xuan trained the troops before, they had always been prepared for large-scale head-to-head duels, which led to the size of each team being a single unit.

In other words, none of these teams can actually fight alone.

In this regard, Zeng Ziwen raised his own question, what should I do when I want to divide my troops and fight?

For example, when dealing with a small patrol force of the enemy, only twenty or thirty people are enough, but how to attach the troops at this time?

In response to this problem, Li Xuan and Zeng Ziwen discussed for a few days, and at first Zeng Ziwen suggested that the subordinate teams should be integrated, and the spearmen, musketeers, sword and shield players, and archers should all be scattered and distributed, so that each team has the ability to fight independently.

But this proposal was rejected by Li Xuan without hesitation.

Why?

Because the enemy facing the Tang Dynasty is the Ming army, and the number of the Ming army far exceeds that of the Tang Dynasty, it is foreseeable that in the foreseeable future, the Tang Dynasty will face any Ming army, and it will take all its might.

The other classes are okay, but the musketeers need scale effects, and if the number is too small, there is no obvious actual combat effect.

Limited by the fact that the hit rate of muskets in this era was too low at medium and long distances, if musketeers wanted to achieve effective hits at medium and long distances, what they needed was covering the shot, that is, they had to shoot with a large group of people, and it was useless to shoot with fewer people!

However, the need for small-scale operations mentioned by Zeng Ziwen does exist, and after Li Xuan thinks about it, he plans to make a temporary formation.

On weekdays, they still train separately, and when there is a need, they directly draw personnel from each team to form a small-scale combat team.

After all, the new army of the Tang Dynasty now has a small number of troops, and it is too small to concentrate troops in combat, so it is unlikely that it will adopt the strategy of dividing troops during the battle, so it is enough to make a temporary establishment and use it when necessary, and there is no need to disrupt the training and deployment of the whole army specifically for this purpose.

After all, according to Li Xuan's plan, he wanted to gradually increase the proportion of musketeers, and finally eliminate spearmen, archers, and even sword and shield men.

Nowadays, the number of musketeers in the new army of Datang is limited by the number of muskets, but now the output of muskets can reach twenty a month, and it is gradually increasing, considering that the number of musketeers in the new army of Datang is not much, the output of twenty guns per month is enough for initial use.

After the official issuance of the New Army Training Drill Code, the training of the Datang New Army is obviously more formal, and the effect on the musketeers may not be obvious, after all, Zeng Ziwen's specialty is not in the musketeers, but in the cold weapon troops, so the effect on spearmen and archers and sword and shield hands is quite obvious, and the archers who used to look soft and lying on their stomachs have improved significantly.

These archers have individual archery ability, but what they lack is only systematic training, especially in formation.

Now with Zeng Ziwen's help, the quality of these cold-weapon soldiers has improved quite significantly.

When the Datang New Army was training intensively, time passed day by day, and soon it was the day of the upcoming summer harvest!

If it was before, the Datang New Army would suspend training to help with the summer harvest and summer planting, but this summer, the Datang New Army had already embarked on the road out of the mountain with knives, guns and dry food before the summer harvest officially began!

The old and weak women and children who stayed behind in Huangzhu Mountain did not complain that they went out of the mountain at the busiest time of the year, but were willing to take on more farm work.

Because everyone in the mountains knows that they will not be able to harvest enough grain this summer harvest, they need to go out of the mountain to 'harvest grain' when the grain outside the mountain is also being harvested, so that thousands of people in Huangzhushan will not go hungry in the second half of the year!