Luo Siwei, as a martial arts person, a general of the first-class army of the Ming Dynasty, is naturally not a problem to train 10,000 recruits, and because he is a martial arts leader, Qin Liangyu, the commander of the first legion of the Praetorian Guard, also values him very much, and even made an exception for him to participate in the compilation of the "Ming Infantry Drill Code".

The training of recruits must first be organized, Luo Siwei does not care what the foreigners have in the army, he directly reorganizes these 10,000 recruits according to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.

Starting from the most basic level, there should be a team of five people, a team of 10 people, a small flag, a flag of 50 people, a general flag, a brigade of 100 people, a regiment of 1,000 people, a battalion of 5,000 people, and a general officer. As for the main general, now it is him, and when the war is fought, it is naturally Svera.

In order to facilitate management, he temporarily set the 100 musketeers of the Praetorian Guard as 100 generals, and all the dozen or so officers originally scheduled by Schvera were appointed by him as 100 generals, and the two generals were temporarily replaced by the two hundred generals he brought in.

Because of the language barrier, Shi Weira specially hired a Portuguese interpreter from the caravan of Zheng Zhilong, the king of Zhennan, to accompany Luo Siwei throughout the exercise, and he also transferred two hundred guards to serve as the general banner, although these people do not speak Chinese, but after staying in Daming for so long, they can still understand some common words, so that the management of soldiers at the grassroots level is also more convenient.

After the formation was completed, the drill officially began, but I didn't expect the 10,000 recruits under Svera to complain at the beginning, it was too strict, too strict, so strict that they couldn't stand it.

If you have been a soldier, you may still have such a strong reaction, but Portugal has been annexed by Spain for decades, the regular army is definitely not, and the veterans are also old, these are authentic civilians, and most of them are poor, or they will not be mercenary private soldiers for money, for them, the training of the regular army of the Ming Empire is too strict.

For example, standing in a queue, this is how it should be, no matter which country's army drills have queue training, they think it's okay to stand up straight, but this Ming officer is ridiculously strict:

First of all, everyone must raise their heads and chests and tucked their hips, so that they are not tired of standing?

Then the thighs are required to be straight and close together, and even the angles of the feet must be exactly the same, is there any mistake?

Finally, the opponent also has strict requirements, be sure to straighten and cling to the thighs, and the arms must be clamped, all boring!

These recruits began to complain at the beginning of the exercise, and many people were unwilling to cooperate, but fortunately, Schvera watched from the sidelines, seeing their attitude, and ran directly up to give a lecture: "You have a little professional ethics, I gave money, a salary of five taels a month, do you know how high?" The people who train you are all soldiers of the first-class legion of the Ming Empire, the most elite troops of the great Ming Empire, their salaries are the same as yours, and they are five taels a month! They can do it, why can't you? ”

At this time, some ruffian civilians among the recruits directly shouted: "Impossible, how is it possible?" Standing in a queue with so many strict requirements, can they all do it? When pigs fly! ”

Shi Weila was so angry, and was about to make a killer move: deducting wages, but Luo Siwei shouted directly: "Musketeers, assemble." ”

It turned out that the Portuguese translator around him was also a powerful character, and every time they finished speaking, he directly listened to Luo Siwei in Chinese.

Hearing that they were not convinced, and even thought that it was impossible for his soldiers to stand in line as required, he directly ordered the musketeers to assemble and stand there for them to take a good look to see if everyone had stood up according to the requirements.

As soon as they gave this order, the musketeers scattered among the ten thousand recruits immediately came running from all over the place, and in the blink of an eye they formed a neat phalanx in front of him.

Luo Siwei waited for the musketeers to assemble, and immediately turned to the translator beside him: "Tell them that if they are not convinced, they can come up and have a look, and see if they stand strictly according to the requirements." ”

The interpreter immediately chattered to the recruits in Portuguese, and a few of them were really unconvinced, and looked at them carefully one by one. After looking at it for a while, the men walked back dejectedly, they couldn't find the slightest fault, and the posture of a hundred people was very standard, just as they had requested.

Now no one is shouting, the queue training can continue, the recruit training is of course not so simple as standing in a queue, and then it is moving forward, now these recruits can't stand it, just walk, and everyone is required to swing their hands and feet at the same time, that's it, the angle of the swing of the hands and feet is strictly required, is it sick, or sick?

Luo Siwei still used the old method, and let a hundred musketeers go back and forth in a team, and sure enough, the angle was the same and uniform, and the recruits had no choice but to do it. In fact, these actions are not difficult, but the requirements are stricter, not that these recruits can't do it, but they are used to being free and loose, and they don't want to be manipulated back and forth like a puppet.

This queue and forward are the most basic things, there is no difficulty, the recruits have practiced for a few days and it is a little bit of a look, the next thing is to train the operation of firearms, the recruits are holding a brand new two-four flintlock pistol, one by one smiles and eyebrows, good things, look at this work, there are edges and corners, tight seams, just like a work of art. The reason why these people are willing to come to make money as mercenaries is one aspect, the main reason is that they have guns, which is relatively safe, if they are allowed to fight face-to-face with the natives with swords, it is estimated that no one will dare to come.

They all thought that the hard days were finally over, as long as they practiced aiming and shooting, they didn't expect that the training of this firearm was stricter, so they opened the bolt, loaded the bullet, loaded the medicine room, and then tightened the bolt of the gun.

Open the bolt, load the bullet, load the medicine room, tighten the bolt, then open the bolt, take out the medicine room, take out the bullet, and close the bolt again; Then I opened the bolt again, loaded the bullet ......, practiced back and forth a hundred times, another hundred times, another hundred times, and a hundred times, and then a hundred times, and I didn't play anymore.

Well, boring is a little boring, but not very tired, for the sake of money, endured, after the training of queues and positive steps, these recruits have a sense of obedience to orders, so no one jumped out to complain about this training of loading bullets, everyone gritted their teeth and practiced a hundred times and a hundred times, and the more they practiced, the more skilled they became.

Is that the end of it? It's still early, and the next thing is to run forward with a gun, and it takes two hours to run, and then it's a boring training with bayonets, blocks, assassinations, and bayonets, and so on, and I practiced it a hundred times and a hundred times.

Now the recruits are gone, they are neurotic, they run for half a day, and then they have to practice assassination for half a day, do you want to tire people to death? We are musketeers, not pikemen, what's the use of practicing these? **After practicing tens of thousands of times and not firing a single shot, are the spearmen used for hand-to-hand combat? If you really want to practice hand-to-hand combat, you can also practice some practical movements, this is the same as a puppet, back and forth twice, there is a fart!

This is not in Daming, Luo Siwei can't find 10,000 cavalry to rush over and let them see whether simple actions are useful for cavalry or complex routines are useful for cavalry, he thought about it, and simply asked the translator to tell them that they can challenge his soldiers if they think they have two strokes, and they don't need to practice if they win.

Those tall and muscular people naturally think that they have two hits, so there is an endless stream of people who challenge, and they are tragic. The soldiers of these Praetorian Guards are all from military families, and their ancestors are carefully selected from more than two million Ming troops.

Therefore, the people who came up to challenge were basically put down as soon as they saw their faces, and there was no one who could get up and fight again, and the Ming army used all the tricks to kill the enemy, and it was already merciless to kill them all at once.

Now, these recruits are completely convinced, it turns out that these Ming soldiers who trained them are all hidden masters, seeing that they are stiff one by one, meticulous like marionettes, I thought they couldn't fight, and they fought for a long time and were more ruthless than the other.

When the soldiers admire the strong, all the recruits not only did not complain after this fight, but became obedient, telling them to do whatever they wanted, and there was no complaint, and even the training was over, and there were many recruits who went to train their Praetorian Guard soldiers to learn some kung fu.

For a while, this training camp not only set off a craze for learning kung fu, but also set off a craze for learning Chinese, the language is not clear, you go to ask people for advice, you can't let people learn your language.

In the back, almost all the recruits learned a little Chinese to a greater or lesser extent, and everyone understood the training terms such as "gathering", "positive step", and "forward", and they practiced every day in jokes, and if they didn't understand these words, they would be idiots. What "hello", "thank you" and other everyday expressions not only do you understand, but also say, won't you say that you are embarrassed to talk to the instructor! Words such as "master" and "kung fu" also began to become popular in the army, because the "kung fu" of "master" was so powerful.

After practicing these boring movements, I finally started to practice shooting, it's not just shooting, it's good to be able to shoot a few shots a day, the main thing is to practice the end of the gun, aiming, squatting, standing up, it is impossible to teach the effect of stacking waves in a short time, Luo Siwei can only retreat to the second, teach them to shoot in sections, that is, stand in several rows, continuous shooting, this is much simpler than continuous shooting on the move, and it won't take long to practice.

The firearms training is not over, the artillery training then begins, Luo Siwei specially selected two thousand of the recruits who are the most serious in training to practice artillery shooting, this artillery is not a joke, a random mistake may cause casualties, accidentally ignite the powder keg is not a big deal, basically no life, if you accidentally blow up the barrel, then the squad that fired the cannon will suffer heavy casualties.

Therefore, the training of artillery is more strict, and all those whose actions do not meet the standard are eliminated, anyway, a hundred cannons only need a thousand people to operate, and the remaining thousand people are used to eliminate. This time there was no dissatisfaction, they only admired.

Because Luo Siwei asked a hundred artillerymen to use ten artillery pieces to rehearse the process of firing the cannon for them, the action, from loading gunpowder, to loading shells, to adjusting the firing range, ......, everyone was meticulous and did not do it badly, just like carving out of a mold, the action was neat and smooth, and it simply rose to the height of art.

This is the real elite soldier, and it can't be admired if you don't admire it.