Coming back from the Yamen, Yang Lin devoted himself to the training of the soldiers, Yang Lin did not believe that Zhang Zuolin could become the generalissimo of the national government from a horse thief in the troubled times, and his own crossing clan would not be without a person to get ahead this day.

Overnight, the reputation of the soldiers spread again, in the past, the soldiers were only strong men in the village to serve as laborers, but now it is completely different, every day they eat and drink, and they get a penny of silver.

Now the world is in turmoil, everyone's greatest wish is to be safe, after seeing the various performances of the soldiers in the past two days, some young people have vivid thoughts, and many are thinking about how to enter the soldiers by the way.

The soldiers are fine but not many, the soldiers have just been formed, and the top priority is to build an elite army, and Yang Lin will also agree to join them when he sees some good seedlings, so as to enter the army as a supplement.

No one in the township wants to be compared, if this is really the case, how embarrassing it is?

Everyone worked hard for the sake of face, so that in less than a month, there was a mold, and it looked very spirited.

After a month of training, according to the method of Qi Jiajun, Yang Lin divided the soldiers into three squadrons, with Yang Wei, Yang Cheng, and Long Zhijiao as squadron leaders.

Each squadron includes three squads, each squad has 12 people, including one squad leader, one man, two captains, two rattan players, two wolf players, two spearmen, and two boring palladium players.

Now the clothing is uniform, the clothes are not colorful, except for the helmet, one person has two sets of summer clothes, all blue shorts and blue shorts, bronze shoes, plus a cowhide belt.

Summer shorts are mostly made of cotton, nothing particularly outstanding, what really stands out is the shoes worn by the soldiers, and the equipment is different, even if modern people look at it, they are amazed.

The biggest difference from other armies is the shoes and straps.

Originally, poor people generally wear straw shoes in summer and autumn, and they don't need to be equipped with any special shoes, but after several long trips, Yang Lin really realized the importance of shoes.

In ancient times, the sparsely populated roads were bumpy, and there were often thorns or rocks on the roads, and if you didn't wear shoes, your feet would be pierced.

If the shoes don't fit and the distance is a little farther, it will be difficult to walk with your feet full of bubbles.

Therefore, as long as the clothes fit well, there is not much attention, but the shoes are different, which directly affects the rapid mobility of the troops.

Cloth shoes are worn on sunny days, and bronze shoes (bronze boots) are worn on rainy days.

Cloth shoes are made of dry bamboo skin, while bronze shoes are generally made of waterproof animal skin (playing a layer of waterproofing effect), and then brushed with a layer of waterproof tung oil to form a protective layer on the outside to prevent rain from entering, and then add the upper to make rubber shoes that can walk on rainy days in ancient times.

This is an ordinary person's shoe, and some of the rich and noble people cover a layer of bronze under the sole to play three layers of protection, so it evolves into bronze shoes.

Bronze boots, on the other hand, are high-rise shoes, just like the kind of boots worn by modern girls.

Whether it is cloth shoes, bronze shoes or bronze boots, it is not easy to manufacture, at the beginning of the formation of the team, each soldier can only guarantee a pair of cloth shoes, a pair of bronze shoes, and Yang Lin himself has a pair of bronze boots.

Out of shoes and boots, the other is the strap, since the Tang and Song dynasties in the southwest region of the army are tied up, all the soldiers not only make linen on the feet to make the bandage, and in order to avoid knee and elbow injuries, the knee elbow is equipped with a sheath, which looks particularly spiritual.

Just this set of clothes, everyone spent 3 taels of silver, if it wasn't for the robbery of the local rioter cottage, I wouldn't dare to imagine it.

People rely on clothes and Buddha rely on gold, before this everyone was quite discriminatory against the soldiers, but now after changing their clothes, they are straight and radiant, and they look quite capable from a distance.

In addition to military uniforms, the most important thing is weapons, and the modern army is the master of burning money, and it was not far behind in ancient times.

In the Ming Dynasty, the people realized the fragility of relying solely on iron protection, so many cotton armors appeared, like various modern special fibers to protect soldiers and reduce the damage of arrows and birds.

A set of armor is at least thirty taels of silver (more than a middle-sized family's income for a year and a half), and there is more good armor, and there is no money to equip it.

Relatively speaking, the helmet is much cheaper, and it is equipped with a standard, the helmet is different from the ordinary helmet, the outside is sewn with a thick layer of cotton cloth to reduce the impact of the arrow lead, and the inner edge of the hat is sewn with a few strips of coarse cloth for easy wear, and it looks like a modern helmet (or helmet) from a distance, which can prevent long-range shots from bows and crossbows, which is very applicable.

In terms of weapons, Yang Lin's favorite is the arquebus, which can be radiated after more than three or five days of training, and the price is only ten taels of silver. But in the Ming Dynasty, this bird gun was a big killing weapon, and ordinary craftsmen couldn't build it at all.

There is no way to use a bow and crossbow instead, and many families also use bows and crossbows, and the insufficient part is built by craftsmen.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the handicraft industry was very developed, there were two or three blacksmith shops near Luojiabao alone, and there were more blacksmith shops in the surrounding markets, so you can make bows and crossbows according to ancestral craftsmanship.

Different from the folk, the bow and arrow of the eighteen weapons of ancient times often ranked first on the battlefield, and in ancient times, to become a good archer, you need to practice from a young age, and you have to work hard for several years.

The soldiers were selected from dozens of strong men, but there were not many people who could really use bows and arrows, and even fewer were good at shooting.

But this is not the case with crossbows, which can be formed with a little training.

However, the range of a crossbow with the same pull is far inferior to that of a bow and arrow, just like many restored Zhuge crossbows and repeater crossbows have a very short range, which cannot meet the requirements of combat operations at all.

In order to increase the range of crossbows, crossbows such as foot crossbows and kick crossbows appeared in ancient times, which required foot pedaling, arm pulling and other means, and used the whole body strength to put on a good crossbow string.

Even so, the range of a normal crossbow is not much different from that of a normal bow and arrow. (The Song Dynasty's large divine arm crossbow is the legendary ballista, which requires dozens of people to operate, and the range is very long.)

But the range of the same crossbow is of course not as good as the bow and arrow, if the range and rate of fire of the crossbow far exceed the bow and arrow, the ancients are not fools, why should we use bows and arrows, why not use crossbows in large quantities instead of bows and arrows? ）

It took half a month to finally complete the armament.

According to the establishment of the Qi Family's army killer team, Xiaoqi is equipped with a bird gun and a long knife.

The captain is armed with a bow and a crossbow and a long knife.

The rattan plaque is equipped with a hand round medal or a long plaque and a long knife, which is mostly baked from baked rattan bamboo, although it is quite troublesome to make, but it is not expensive at all.

According to the practice of the Qi family's army mandarin duck formation, each squad is equipped with one, which is served by two men with flexible and brave bodies, to guard against the opponent's attack, and to fight in close quarters with short weapons.

The wolf whisk hand is equipped with a wolf whisk about two zhang long, and the wolf whisk is tied to some sharp weapons.

Each squad selects two tall and strong men to serve as wolf whisks, and everyone holds two-zhang long wolf whisks to attack in the medium range.

The palladium boring hand is equipped with a large stick and a bow crossbow, and the large stick has a crescent-shaped sharp weapon, which mainly shoots from a distance and fights in close quarters to prevent the opponent from approaching.

Armed with a spear and a crossbow, the Lancer shoots from a distance and in close combat just like the Palladium Borer.

The men were armed with a long knife and a burden, including a camp pot and marching rations.

The Qi family army often won a hundred battles with the weak and the strong on the battlefield of anti-Japanese warfare, because of the ingenious formation of the mandarin duck formation, long-range shooting through the bow and crossbow, the wolf of the wolf hand, the middle range of the wolf hand, the boring of the palladium hand and the spear of the palladium spearman in close combat, and the rattan player Wu Changdao close hand-to-hand combat to ensure combat effectiveness.

In addition to this, it is defense, the rattan player holds the rattan card to defend, or when some soldiers attack, others retreat to defend, often forming a combination of offense and defense in the local situation.