Everyone has a herd heart, and many people are still hesitating, but when someone stands up to recruit archers, some people immediately waver in their hearts. Yes, if the Mantars come to Xishan Town, let's not talk about it, but five acres of fertile land is a benefit in front of you. Besides, even if the Mantars are really here, what difference does it make if they are not archers? It's not like it's time to run away! Although Chen Yue kept saying that the purpose of recruiting archers was to fight against the Manchu Tartars, when the Manchu Brigade came over, no one thought that Chen Yue would really take people to fight the Manchus, and he was not hiding in the mountains or running away.

After figuring it out, more and more people began to stand up and sign up.

However, not everyone can be an archer, Chen Yue also has conditions for recruiting soldiers, one is that the age must be between sixteen and twenty-five years old, too young has insufficient strength, and too old is slow to react and difficult to shape.

The second is that he must be single and not the only child in the family. This condition was put forward by Chen Yue after thinking about it, and it was completely reflected in his selfishness. Although he nominally recruited archers from the Inspection Division, he was actually building his own team, and the recruited soldiers would definitely follow him to fight in the north and south in the future. If you are single, you don't have a burden with your wife and children, so you can just go. If you are not an only child, you still have a brother at home, so you don't have to worry about no one to take care of your parents.

After satisfying these two conditions, let's talk about other things, generally speaking, as long as there is no physical problem, they will be accepted, and most of the villagers in the mountain villages are relatively simple and are the best soldiers.

After a morning of recruitment statistics, there were 218 people who finally signed up and met the conditions.

After the recruitment of archers, the next step is to form an army, Chen Yue after thinking, he felt that it was not reasonable to set up only two single arms of pikemen and musketeers, if you want to defeat a strong enemy on the battlefield, first of all, the team must have both offense and defense.

After consideration, it was decided to adopt a combination of firearms, swords and shields, pikemen, and archers. There were fifteen men in a small banner, including three musketeers, four sword and shield men, two archers, and four pikemen, and finally a man. In terms of equipment, the musketeers are equipped with a bird gun and a waist knife, the sword and shield soldiers are equipped with a waist knife and a square shield, in addition to being equipped with a spear, the pikemen also carry three short spears behind their backs to throw and kill the enemy, and the gang is only equipped with a two-ended pointed flat pole to carry some grain baggage of this small flag, and if necessary, they can also use sharp flat poles to kill the enemy. The Flag Officer is armed with a spear and is to be at the front of the line when facing the enemy. In addition to the small flag officer, each small flag also has two captains who serve as the deputy of the small flag officer.

Then there are five small flags and a general flag, and the general flag officer is equipped with four guards, and a general flag has a total of eighty people.

The two general flags are a team of 100 people, and the captain is called the general team, and the guards who always have a small flag add up to a team of 176 people.

This time, a total of 218 recruits were recruited, plus the original 40 family members, a total of 258 people, Chen Yue was temporarily organized into three general banners, and the remaining eighteen people were organized into a small banner as his own guards.

Yang Zhengping was appointed as the general secretary as his deputy, Chen Ping, Chen Mo and Li Yi were appointed as the chief flag officer, and Chen Yan was appointed as the chief flag officer, temporarily serving as his own guard captain. Chen Yan has great strength to obey orders, but his head is not very bright, and it is okay to charge into battle with him, but it is not possible to lead the team.

The small flag officers and captains in the team are all served by the original family members, and they are the backbone of the team, and they can blend the team together as quickly as possible.

After the establishment of the team, it is the distribution of weapons, the original weapons plus the captured weapons, there is no problem with a weapon per person, but the problem is that the number of firearms is too small, completely unable to meet the requirements of three small flags, each small flag can only be assigned one, and then there are archers, the number of bows is also seriously insufficient, only in Zhao Li's arsenal seized more than 20 pairs of hunting bows, all of which are soft bows under one stone, this kind of bow and arrow can deal with people without armor, and it is completely impossible to shoot the Qing soldiers wearing heavy armor.

The most weapons are steel knives and spears, and there is no way but to equip these two classes first, and then get some muskets and bows and arrows later.

The team was formed, and the weapons were distributed, but looking at the team gathered together, Chen Yue felt that something was wrong, and it took him a long time to figure out that it was clothing. The original family members wore uniform military uniforms, which were customized by Chen Yue in the ready-to-wear shop on Xuanwumen Street, all of which were uniformly placket armor and long-waisted military boots, and later the weather turned cold and customized a red mandarin duck jacket for each of them, knee-length, narrow sleeves, filled with cotton, and had the functions of defense and warmth.

Before Chen Yue led the team to leave Beijing, the silver spent on the families alone was more than 2,000 taels, but fortunately, thanks to the continuous input of the coal yard, they could afford to support dozens of families.

The family members wore uniform uniforms, but these newly recruited archers wore a variety of clothes, including sheepskin jackets with bare boards and hairlessness, torn cotton jackets with exposed cotton, and even more in such a snowy winter, they shivered and wore a few single clothes, which looked like the poor family could not afford to make cotton jackets.

If an army wants to become an army, the key point is to achieve uniform clothing, and no matter how bad the uniform is, the team will have some momentum. And uniform clothing will increase the sense of belonging of the soldiers.

So Chen Yue decided to make uniform uniforms for the recruits. In the manor's warehouse there were dozens of cotton cloths, enough to make a military uniform for each recruit. Send someone to buy a large amount of cotton in the shop in Xishan Town, and then ask the women of the town to sew military uniforms at the price of fifty copper plates for a set of clothes, and the style of military uniforms is the mandarin duck battle jackets worn by the family members. Of course, because they are all dyed cyan cotton, the sewn jacket is no longer red, but this can also accurately distinguish the difference between soldiers and officers, those wearing cyan uniforms are new recruits, and those wearing red jackets are the original family members, all of whom are officers in the ranks.

With the concerted efforts of hundreds of women from all over the town, two days later, all the uniforms were sewn. When it was distributed, after each recruit was on board, the momentum of the standing line was immediately different, although it was untrained, but it had a hint of a strong army.

It has been snowing heavily for three days, but it is still falling, and the whole land and rivers and mountains are snow-white. In such a season of snowflakes, everyone will choose to stay in the warm home of the cat winter, but in the inspection department east of Xishan Town (that is, the original Zhao family manor), shouts are heard from time to time, floating over the entire Xishan Town, and all the townspeople know that it is the inspection master who is desperately training those poor guys.