Yangzhou, known as Guangling in ancient times, hence the name Siyi, its land is mountainous, but it is also low hills. More than 20 miles north of Yangzhou City, south of Shaobo Lake, west bank of the canal, and between the hills, there are rolling camps, which is the training place of the new army in Pingnan, and the original 10,000 troops plus the newly recruited soldiers will be trained here for a period of three months, and after the training is completed, they will be organized into an army and sent to garrison in various places.

On the canal, boats come and go, for the military to supply supplies, away from the city, do not have to worry about disturbing the people, the undulating hills block the eyes of the outside peeping, is a rare place for military training.

Yang Zhengping, director of the War Training Department, sat in the barracks and was fully responsible for military training, and a large number of veterans and grassroots officers were transferred from the Pingnan Army to serve as instructors for military training.

Over a period of three months, the recruits have to complete various basic military skills such as queue training, formation change, recognition of flags and golden drums, and marching and camping. As for the more advanced abilities, they will continue to train and learn after they become in the army.

In the training ground, it was very lively, according to the general flag as the smallest unit, formation training was underway, under the deterrence of the instructor's stick, the newly recruited peasants were struggling to adapt to life in the barracks.

Although the training was too boring and too harsh, these new recruits could only endure it in silence, and three full meals a day was the best temptation, not to mention that they could also get a salary of one or two or five dollars a month to send to their families to support their families. Compared to not having enough to eat and hungry every day, heavy training is nothing......

Of all the Ming armies, the training of the Pingnan army was perhaps the most rigorous, of course, provided that there was sufficient food and sufficient salaries.

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Recruit training is in full swing, and in Yangzhou City, Pingnan Hou Chen Yue is in a hurry.

Busy! Very busy! Really busy! This is the portrayal of Chen Yue now.

A new thing must go through a complicated process from scratch, not to mention the behemoth of the shogunate. At present, all the start-ups of the shogunate, except for Yang Zhengping's War Training Division, which has entered the formalization of the other divisions, have many problems.

The rules and regulations, the staffing are not perfect, and there are problems everywhere. However, with the level of everyone in the shogunate, many problems could not be solved, and many things could only be brought to Chen Yue and asked him to decide.

Although Qian Fenglin was the founder of the shogunate, he was only familiar with the system of the imperial court, and he also knew little about many parts of the shogunate that were more biased towards military functions, while Chen Yue came from later generations and also knew some of the military systems of later generations, but he was just a small policeman in later generations. Therefore, in many places, we can only discuss together and slowly improve.

"Master Hou, although the staff department has set up a shelf, there are too few people who know military planning, and there are very few people who can be qualified as staff officers, so I implore Hou Ye to transfer Yu Feng to the staff department and serve as his subordinate's deputy."

Qian Fenglin pleaded with Chen Yue.

According to the structure of the shogunate, the staff department will play a very important role, but Qian Fenglin himself is only a civilian official, although he has read a few military books, but he also knows nothing about war planning, of course, he has the end of his specialization, and there are many people who serve as military commanders in the Ming Dynasty as civilian officials, and Qian Fenglin can be promoted to the position of chief of staff.

But the problem is that except for Qian Fenglin, there are not many people in the army who are familiar with military strategy, and most of the people in the Pingnan Army are from families, peasants, miners, where do these people know what strategy. Yu Feng was born in a military family, and his military quality was obviously higher than that of everyone else, so Qian Fenglin hit him with the idea.

However, Yu Feng is now the commander of the cavalry battalion and a major general beside Chen Yue, and Qian Fenglin is worried that Chen Yue will not let him go.

"Yu Feng, I will be of great use in the future, but for now, I can temporarily seconded to you to help you set up the shelves of the staff department."

Chen Yue pondered for a moment and said, "Actually, there are still some people in the army who have strategies, and you can be transferred to the General Staff Department." ”

"Who?" Yu Fenglin asked in surprise.

"People are in the teaching camp, Li Chengdong, Guo Hu, Yang Chengzu, Hu Maozhen, etc." Chen Yue said indifferently.

These people were all generals of the former Gaojie Division, and they were later incorporated into the training battalion, and they also made contributions in the attack on Nanjing. More importantly, these people have all served as important generals under Gao Jie, leading troops for many years, and are proficient in commanding operations. Maybe these people have no culture, but they are no worse than others in leading troops to fight. In another time and space, most of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was helped by these people.

During this period of time, the performance of these people is quite tame, and the good treatment and stable life of Pingnan Army is the reason for their return, following Chen Yue, life is much better than the upheaval life when they followed Gao Jie, so these people have gradually returned to their hearts and can be used.

"Also, I can ask the imperial court for an edict and issue a list to recruit officers from the Tianxia Guard." Chen Yue said lightly.

Although the Ming Dynasty's guard system was close to collapse, the guards were no longer the main force of the Ming army, and most of them were reduced to farmers. But don't forget, these guards are all hereditary officers of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how poor they are, they have the ability passed down from generation to generation by their ancestors, and their military qualities are far better than those of farmers who don't know anything and those who only know how to read the Four Classics and Five Books.

There are so many guards in the world, and there are thousands of hereditary officers in the guards, and there are a lot of capable ones, if they are willing to give them a chance, maybe there will be another Qi Jiguang!

"That's a good idea!" Qian Fenglin was overjoyed, the military qualities of the children of the hereditary officers of the Wei Institute were of course much better than ordinary people, but the question was whether the imperial court would agree? Are these hereditary officers' sons willing to come to Yangzhou to join the Pingnan Army? After all, they themselves have hereditary military positions, and no matter how bad they are, they are better than defecting to the Pingnan Army.

"What are you afraid of! The most important thing for the Ming Dynasty now is to be able to hold the Jianghuai and resist the future attack of the enemy. Although the imperial court also conducts martial arts, it does not attach importance to these martial arts, as long as we give them full attention, we are not afraid that they will not come. I believe that there are still many bloody people in the health center, and I am not afraid that I will not be able to recruit talents! ”

Chen Yue said confidently. Now that the guard house is almost costed, these children of hereditary officers do not have many outlets except to inherit the positions handed down by their ancestors and become landlords. The Pingnan Army was able to give them such an opportunity, but Chen Yue didn't believe that no one would come.

"I'm going to ask the court for an order to recruit capable officers from all over the world. As long as there are those who have the ability and ability, we are not afraid of those who come from the Pingnan Army. The recruitment exam is scheduled for September! Chen Yue said resolutely.

ps: There is a shortage of people in the staff department, and the world is sincerely recruited, and those who are interested can leave a message in the book review area, the hired person has a great future, and it will be okay to pay homage to the marquis!