Zhou Ji raised sufficient money and food, and used his prestige to recruit 1,000 Dingjun households again, ready to participate in the encirclement and suppression of Lü Shi's thieves, first, to be loyal to the imperial court, and second, to protect his own Suide interests and maintain the population from declining.

Since he suffered a big loss from the thief last time, Zhou Ji didn't want to go down the old path of failure, and no longer counted on that thousand households, so he personally went into battle and carried out training and rectification of this thousand Ding Zhuang.

For the signing of Ding, promised them, three meals are full, there are 500 yuan in a month, and the whole family is exempted from one year's labor money and food, for the military Han, of course, there is no military field to distribute, but in accordance with the Ming Dynasty, the recruitment system is adopted, and the equipment is given military salary, and each soldier is paid two taels per month, and it is guaranteed that under his own supervision, the full amount is paid, and resolutely put an end to the corruption of officials at all levels.

If this is promised by other officials, everyone thinks that he is a fart, and even everyone thinks that it is a fart and a sound, a little taste, and the words of the bureaucratic court of the Ming Dynasty, the promised things, then there is not even this minimum thing, so everyone promises to the government, the decree, then would rather wait to see the sow go up the tree, and will never wait for the government to fulfill the promise.

But Zhou Ji is different, Zhou Ji is among the people of Suide, that person is definitely not more than ordinary, that is a good official who is dedicated to the people, of course a good official can not be untrustworthy, so, being signed, and being a military household, everyone has no conflict, especially in this green and yellow time, when a wild vegetable meal can not be found, there can be three full meals, and five hundred money, that is the hope of a few ** lives of a family.

It's the first month in a blink of an eye, according to the ancient rules, the emperor is killed, or the New Year, even if the enemy country has to stop fighting, let alone just suppress bandits? I think that the real big war will come out of the first month, and if there is some preparation, it will be the end of February and the beginning of March, so everyone is not very nervous.

But others are not nervous, Zhou Ji doesn't see it that way, the lessons of the previous car are in front, at that time, Suide signed 5,000 Ding, if he hadn't been trained, how could he rush out of the county and fight with the thieves like a swarm of bees? As a result, they were praised with big defeats and losses, so this time, I definitely had to personally supervise the formation, and I couldn't let those pickled things spoil the big thing.

So, with grain and grass, he pinched the necks of thousands of households and assigned their respective tasks.

Qianhu still leads his Qianhu, and he leads the signing, the establishment of the signing is still in accordance with the old Ming army, and the training is the same as that of the Qianhu, but looking at the effect of the training of the Qianhu, there is really no bottom in his heart, and everything has to rely on himself, so Zhou Ji rummaged through the military books, and finally chose the training method of Qi Jiguang, a famous general of the anti-Japanese war in this dynasty, and regarded Qi Jiguang's military training experience as a treasure, and it was absolutely out of shape step by step.

First of all, Qi Jiguang advocated that only "honest people in the countryside" should be used, and "people who skate in the city" should not be used. Well, let's draw lots in the countryside, and they are all bitter and hateful lords who have no food and clothing, and are hard-working and honest and brave.

In peacetime training, Qi Jiguang asked the soldiers to be proficient in the commands of golden drums, horn cannons, and flags, and demanded that they should be unified in pace and all in one. During the battle, all officers and men must move forward collectively, one person will be beheaded if one retreats, the captain will be beheaded if the whole team retreats, and the whole team will be beheaded if the captain dies in the line of duty and the whole team retreats.

This Zhou Ji is not strictly implemented, because this is not a wave of the effort, it takes long-term training to achieve, but the time left for Zhou Ji will not be too long, besides, according to this method, I don't know how many heads I want to cut off my own people in one day, but I have a good reputation of loving the people like a son, that is, beating and scolding these men who will serve themselves and serve the court in the future, which will damage their reputation, so this can only be put first. As a result, the nerd gave up the most basic thing for an army to win.

In addition, Qi Jiguang also formulated various reward and punishment measures, such as setting a fixed date for the examination, rewarding those who are proficient in martial arts, and punishing those who are unfamiliar with martial arts. Meritorious service in battle, unyielding capture, observance of military discipline, etc., will be rewarded; Domineering, false rumors, stealing melons and fruits, raping ** women, etc., will all be punished.

This week Ji did it, anyway, he now has money and food in his hands, and at the same time, he hates being a traitor the most, which is in harmony with his spleen and stomach, and for a while, this team has won the praise of the people in this regard.

There is also training, according to the Ming army style, ten days of exercise, five days of practice, in fact, later, even this time is no longer strictly enforced, because, this drill and practice, is very physically demanding, the current Ming army, lack of pay and lack of food is already commonplace, a soldier even stood for a while and fell to the ground, if it is really according to that training method, then it is not tired to death of most of it?

However, Zhouji is different here, Zhouji's food is still full, two dry meals in the morning and evening, full, and a meal of gruel at noon, so that the chopsticks do not fall, so that the signing Ding Ding can withstand such training intensity.

After looking at it for more than ten days, when Dingding's physical strength improved, he immediately implemented Qi Jiguang's three-practice and five-exercise system, which made the men who thought they had fallen into the Fujiao complain. But Zhou Ji just didn't listen, gritted his teeth and insisted on Zhou Ji's method, but he didn't expect that after this paragraph, he really made these signatories look decent, much neater than the soldiers in the thousands of households.

Then turn out Qi Jiguang's training elements and take a look, when I see things, I can't implement them, and the reason why I can't implement them is that Qi Jiguang has a sound military class and synthesizes against the enemy, not to mention the world's famous mandarin duck array, Zhou Ji can only envy and don't understand at all, even those matching weapons recorded in the war book, Zhou Ji didn't have it in the governor's allocation, the governor in order to encourage Zhou Ji to serve the country, the knives and guns are as good as possible, but it is only limited to the swords and guns are not rotten, the armor is not paper paste, and the shield is not rotten wood, that's all, so we have to practice what kind of mandarin duck array, It's really not something that he, a nerd who is dedicated to serving the country, can drum it up, and he can talk about poetry and clouds, and because of the deep study of Qi Jiguang's art of war day and night, he also said that the head is the Tao, and even the old and thousands of military households of that generation are full of envy and frequent praise. But talking and doing are completely different things, Zhou Ji still has this consciousness, so he no longer demands anything else, and only works discipline and assassination food.

Eat well, morale is good, this is the truth that has been unbreakable through the ages, and now Zhou Ji's subordinates have signed, that is the morale of the roar, every time the county lord who inspected the military book entered the school, it was the reason for the cheers and cheers, every time the county came, it was not empty-handed, it was all with something.

Zhou Ji is very satisfied with this effect, of course, he is very happy to come to the school to feel such an atmosphere, who has no ambition? Go on the horse to govern the army and get off the horse for the people, can you be a pillar of the country? At this point, Zhou Ji was satisfied in everyone's cheers.

In this way, a month has passed, but I have not seen the order of the governor Yang He, or the commander Li Yuanhao, who is directly responsible for exterminating the thieves, to send troops, which is also understandable, it may be a big military matter, not rash, Zhou Ji thought.

It also happens that I need to strengthen my training again, although I am only a scholar, but in this month, I have also experienced the connotation of fierce and dangerous soldiers, and it is not easy to practice, so I can seize this time and continue to work hard to train into a crack soldier.

It's the first month in a blink of an eye, and the first month of the previous year is also the most difficult time for Zhouji, he is honest, and he doesn't have filial piety up and down, and he can only nest in his own yamen, and he doesn't dare to go to Yan'an and other places to move around, and he can only watch his classmates and fellow people continue to rise, and he can only stay in this Suide without moving, and he can't even pay for the shackles of his career, so he can only play a white strip, and as a result, his original three masters ran away from hunger, and only the most heartfelt and loyal ones are still relying on themselves, In fact, the master also saw that Zhou Ji was a good official, so he tried his best to help, but he didn't expect that a good person would be rewarded, the last time he sold an official, the adult actually gave himself the high position of the county Cheng, this time for the New Year, the master gave himself enough rewards, so that he not only got promoted, but also had a small amount of money, so he was even more desperate for Zhou Ji, and there was no second heart.

At the same time, Zhou Ji did not have the embarrassment of previous years, and it was different from previous years, not only could he bring rich money and things to his family members in Henan, so that his poor family could really turn over, but also how much he could play up and down, and he was praised again by Shangfeng and blamed by the old lady at home.

According to the custom, there is no need to use the sword in the first month, so Zhou Ji also signed a big holiday in accordance with the rules, and those soldiers with sufficient money and food, as well as the signing with full rations and pocket money, all went home happily for the New Year, so that after the original miserable New Year's difficulties, there was a little change in vitality, and so on until the end of the first month of the strict county regulations gathered to go out.

As a result, there was no news throughout February, well, let's hurry up the training, February 20, finally looked forward to the commander's order, on the first day of the first month of March, asked the army to converge under the Black Tiger Village, to destroy the thieves, Zhou Ji couldn't help but be ecstatic.

After all, after more than three months of training and hard work, Zhou Ji firmly believed that the combat effectiveness of the more than 1,000 military horses in his hands could already fight against the thief.

So, beating the drum and raising the account, gathering thousands of households and hundreds of households and other large and small generals, after some discussion, Zhou Ji once again took out Qi Jiguang's military book to persuade the thousands of households to fight steadily and steadily, and chose a surprise and quick strategy.

This time, it is not that Lord Qianhu blindly accommodates this scholar overseer, but according to his own ideas, if he follows Lord Zhouji's strategy this time, he can really achieve great success.

First, this time it was reported to the outside world that the troops were sent to encircle and suppress the thieves, with Zhang Yuan, Li Yuanhao, Luochuan and Ganquan Qianhu as the main forces, and they didn't count last week's Yansui at all, so that the thieves were not psychologically prepared.

Second, along the way to the base of the thieves, Yansui is a high mountain and dense forest, which can hide their whereabouts, and it is indeed a good way to take the other party by surprise.

As a result, Lord Qianhu also supported the county's strategy of sending troops.

However, Zhou Ji has not been idle these times, and has already sent someone to inquire about the military situation in front, which is also what Qi Jiguang said in the Art of War, is it the so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent that will not be defeated in a hundred battles.