It is impossible to be satisfied with people's hearts, and no matter how fair you are, you can still pick out thorns. However, this time, along with the final results, there were also those pieces of music, which had some doubts on them, and then supplemented the information again, from which it can be seen how seriously the emperor checked it. In this case, unless there is a very big injustice, no one dares to make trouble.

Thus, the announcement of the list of officers ended without alarm. In the list of those officers, there is no doubt that there is the name of Cao Bianjiao.

The next step is to deploy according to the type of troops, pikemen, sword and shield men, archers, riders, etc., these are the elite of each side army, and personal combat skills are the primary condition for selecting into the new army, and there is no need to practice again, so as to save a lot of time.

The pikemen, all of whom are tall and arm-long, powerful soldiers, allow them to use longer spears, palladium, and other long weapons, so that the enemy cannot get close; The sword and shield hand can skillfully use the sword and shield coordination. The strength of the cavalry is also selected, and they are the best riding skills among the armies on each side. Fighting against the enemy in battle, even compared with the Mongols who have been on horses all their lives, it is not far behind. In fact, some of these cavalry soldiers are themselves Mongols and have been serving as generals in the Ming border army.

The training of the battle formation was carried out in accordance with Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck formation, and the smallest unit was a squad of ten people. After the training of the battle formation with the squad as the unit is sufficient, it is necessary to train a larger number of large mandarin duck formations in platoons, companies, and so on. The purpose of the training is that when the first division is facing the enemy, it can be as large as almost the entire division as a large mandarin duck formation, and as small as a mandarin duck formation with a squad as a unit. Of course, these small mandarin duck formations are mainly to pursue the enemy.

All archers and artillerymen were grouped separately, i.e. long-range firepower was assigned separately and carried in vans. Not only can you block the attacks of the opposing cavalry, but also protect your artillery from the enemy's long-range fire. And the archer is because the rate of fire is fast enough, everyone is a strong bow, and the range is long enough.

For others, the training of an archer, especially an archer who can draw a hard bow, takes too much time and costs too much. But for the new army, these archers who can draw strong bows are ready-made, just drawn from various border armies, and there is no need for additional training in personal bow and arrow skills. At this time in the Ming Dynasty, even if the musket could be improved into a flintlock musket, its immediate power was far less than that of this kind of archer with a strong bow.

Of course, after this new batch of troops, it will be more difficult to draw such strongbow archers to form an army. After all, archers like this who can draw strong bows are scarce in themselves. At that time, the advantages of the musket were manifested. As long as you can spend money and the training time is short enough, you can quickly form combat power. In the future, if the long-range firepower of the new army is added, it will have to be equipped with flintlock pistols and the like.

This battle formation trained by the new army is a new formation developed on the basis of the original "mandarin duck formation" after Qi Jiguang was transferred to Jizhen, and initially has the scale of coordinated operations of various arms, mainly to deal with an enemy with a large number of cavalry like the Mongols.

It's just a pity in the original history, when Qi Jiguang's army was trained, the Ming Dynasty and the Mongolian Altan Khan had reached a reconciliation, and there was no major war between the two sides, so this army with a new formation did not play its due role.

For the formation, Emperor Chongzhen didn't need to worry about it, because the chief instructor he appointed, Xi Yuanyi, was an expert. Trained by Mao Yuanyi, he was very relieved.

Relatively speaking, Emperor Chongzhen was more concerned about the course arrangement of eunuchs and political commissars, as well as the effect of teaching. He was even more concerned about the report and summary of the eunuch political commissar's grasp of the soldiers' thoughts, personally checked it, and never was lazy.

In the equipment of the new army, there was a little surprise to him. Originally, he wanted to tell the idea of the flintlock pistol. But what he didn't expect was that before he could say anything, Bi Maokang, the new director of the Ordnance Bureau, took the initiative to show him the fist product of the Ordnance Bureau, which was the flintlock pistol that Emperor Chongzhen wanted to announce.

"Your Majesty, this is a self-generated firecracker! Compared to the previous bird, it is too much better. ”

Watching Bi Maokang show off his flintlock pistol invention, Emperor Chongzhen just smiled and nodded, patiently listening to his display.

"I think about the battle of Salhu, when our Ming army retreated to Jilin Cliff, the fog was thick and the characters were difficult to see. However, the artillery and arquebuses of our army must be ignited in advance to trigger the artillery firecrackers, so that the flames will become targets for the captives to see. Bi Maokang said eloquently in front of the emperor, "This minister has been pondering carefully for many years, and finally he has to make his own fire." There is no need to light the arquebus in advance, so you don't have to worry about the arquebus running out, and you don't have to worry about the gunpowder of the surrounding comrades, and it can also be used for windy day battles. The minister dares to guarantee that since the fire is equipped with our Ming army, it will be able to destroy Jianyu and recover Liaodong! ”

The battle of Salhu that year has always been a pain in the heart of Daming. Bi Maokang was also one of the officials of that era, so he was also very concerned. Because of this, when he talked about this self-generated fire, he even used the example of Salhu back then.

After listening to Bi Maokang's words, Emperor Chongzhen was actually a little disapproving, what can decide the war has always been people, not weapons, unless it is an epoch-making weapon, advanced enough to make up for the human factor. The gap between arquebuses and self-generated firebolts alone has not yet reached this level.

In Bi Maokang's expectant eyes, Emperor Chongzhen nodded with a smile and said, "This self-generated fire gun is really good, Bi Qing is obviously thinking about it, and I am very relieved!" ”

Hearing the emperor's praise, Bi Maokang was happy in his heart, and when he was about to be modest, he heard Emperor Chongzhen's words turn sharply and asked him: "But everything has advantages and disadvantages, I want to hear it, what are the disadvantages of this self-generated firecracker?" ”

"......" Bi Maokang didn't have time to be modest, so he was there. He didn't have much contact with the emperor before, but he didn't expect the emperor to be so young, but he had such a mature mind, and he knew that everything must have its advantages and disadvantages. After listening to his own description, he can still keep his own thoughts, and he has to talk about the shortcomings of his own fire.

To be honest, Bi Maokang was a little shocked. However, when he saw Emperor Chongzhen watching him, he quickly came back to his senses, and felt that the emperor's gaze was very discerning, so he didn't dare to hide it in the slightest, and hurriedly said: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, everything has its advantages, and there must be its disadvantages. The key to this self-generated fire is on this self-generated system. ”