By the end of April, the formation of the army was officially completed.

Luojiabao is a large bazaar under Xiangru County, Pengzhou, Shunqing Prefecture, located in the hills of northern Sichuan, the living conditions are relatively difficult, the place has not been developed much (sweet potato, corn and other crops suitable for growing on slopes), the villagers mostly adopt the way of group living, that is, eight out of ten families live in a large courtyard, and some are many families living in the cottage to resist jackals, tigers and leopards and bandits and hooligans or something.

There are often fights among the people, and there are often fights between families over the direction of the canals (the southwest region is very rich in water sources, mainly drainage canals), and no one is convinced.

In the process of resisting jackals, tigers, leopards, bandits and hooligans, some competitive villagers are quite fond of practicing martial arts, just like when I was a child, there were several young people in the same production team who practiced sandbags in the middle of the night, and some people went to Shaolin Temple to practice martial arts.

This is still the situation where guns are popular, no matter how strong the master is, he can't stop the bullet, this is still the eighties of the last century when the tide of martial arts has long faded, and there are of course more people who practice martial arts in ancient times.

In ancient times, the imperial court implemented the co-governance of the monarch and the ministers, and the local government and gentry co-ruled, and when bandits were rampant, some local squires or large families gathered the young and middle-aged people who practiced martial arts to defend the countryside.

In this sense, at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there were various villager self-defense organizations in northern Sichuan, which was one of the most important factors in the Manchu Qing Dynasty's 14 years to conquer Sichuan (from November 1646 AD, when Haoge, the prince of Manchu Qing Su, led his troops to kill Zhang Xianzhong, to 1661 AD, when the Manchu Qing occupied the entire territory of Sichuan and then used it as a springboard to capture Yungui).

At this time, each li was very large, and in terms of area, one li was almost equivalent to seven or eight villages (quite half of the township) in the eighties of the last century.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the population of Sichuan has been several times that of the past, and now the population of each village is more than two or three thousand.

There are a total of ten li in Luojiabao, and according to the way of forming a security team in each li, almost one person is selected from dozens of people.

(Yiwu covers an area of only 1,100 square kilometers, while Xiangru County is 1,300 square kilometers, Yiwu has only 950,000 people after years of development in the previous life, and Xiangru County has a population outflow of 730,000 people for many years.)

Qi Jiguang was able to select the best of Yiwu to form a 3,000-strong Qi family army, and the number of soldiers in each market in the same populous county was of course in the hundreds), and the selection range was very wide.

Different from other soldiers, during the training period, the soldiers not only eat food, but also have a daily income of 1 cent of silver, although it is far worse than long-term and short-term work (3-5 cents in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the salary is low in remote rural areas), but some families with many children still hope that their children can see the market more, or mix up to make a name for themselves to start a family in the future (this is also a major reason why a large number of rural young people went out in the eighties and nineties of the last century, in fact, many children did not have much income in the years when they just went out).

The soldiers here can be said to be the best of the best, and the first to eliminate are those who are stubborn, those ruffians, and those young descendants who are pampered and can't endure hardships.

Instead, those who have practiced martial arts are those who are strong and honest farmers.

Not to mention, everyone was still waiting at first, but after hearing that some stubborn people who were pampered and couldn't endure hardships actually didn't even want to become soldiers, the more difficult it became, the more they wanted to enter (such as in many rural areas in the 90s).

Although there are some stubborn people among them, most of them are honest and conscientious farmers, and they are practitioners.

Everyone wore their own clothes to participate in the training, colorful patches and patches.

Using the recommendation method, the team members of each squadron recommended the squad leader, and then selected three squadron leaders among the squad leaders, and Yang Lin was a well-deserved captain.

Looking at the honest people, although everyone is strong and powerful, but the countrymen are used to it, and now it is even more difficult to twist everyone into a rope.

In ancient times, military training paid attention to orders and prohibitions, and soldiers often issued all kinds of strict orders, as long as the slightest violation was beheaded, and everyone was twisted into a rope under the iron and blood pressure.

However, this time the training was not a field army but a soldier, which was in the nature of a civilian army, and Yang Lin had to slow down his work.

Thousands of high-rise buildings rise from the ground, and the training of soldiers needs to start from everyone's daily concepts.

The first thing to inculcate is the traditional education of fathers and sons who fight in battle, so that everyone understands that smashing on the battlefield is not brothers but brothers.

Even those who have not studied private school have heard the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, know the Taoyuan Three Alliances, and the storyteller will sleep together when he talks about Liu Guan and Zhang Shi, and sleep in the same bed.

How can each squad, each squadron, and the whole brigade be better than brothers? It is to let everyone eat and sleep together after training and cultivate brotherhood, that is, it is necessary to train in a queue, so that orders and prohibitions are carried out, and the pace is consistent.

Many people have limited ability to accept, and there are often many mistakes when an action is repeated (Lao Mao believes that 60% of people have not read, 20% of people are literate in more than 200 words, 15% can keep accounts, and 5% can read the Three Kingdoms. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the literacy rate should have been higher than during the reign of the Manchus.

The same is true for Chen Cheng's training of the army in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and many people can't even queue up for half a month. ）

But everyone pays attention to brotherhood, from childhood to adulthood neighborhood disputes, family fights, coupled with the oral proverb of "brothers in war go into battle father and son soldiers", we have to teach everyone according to their aptitude, so that everyone understands that everyone in the army is brothers.

After ten days of queue training, some people still often make mistakes, while others feel that it is too noisy and boring.

Obviously felt that some people were not highly motivated, and in order to improve the enthusiasm of everyone, Yang Lin tried his best to take advantage of the villagers' gambling atmosphere.

Every day, each squad leader first trains the leader, and then competes, just like the MBA course or some MLM courses, for the sake of honor and reward to promote the training of everyone.

Hearing that the two teams that practiced best every day had meat to eat, and that the team with the worst training not only had to practice more, but also was responsible for cleaning and hygiene, and was responsible for cooking and carrying water, everyone suddenly became interested, not only afraid that they would be left behind and that the brothers around them would not be able to eat meat, but also worried that the brothers would be embarrassed.

But the banditry is getting more and more serious, especially the leader of the local riots on Bamiao Mountain, Guo Tianxing Liang Leopard, heard that Yang Lin became the chief of Luojiabao, and now he is training the soldiers and is even more annoyed and angry, and he sends his minions down the mountain to rob every once in a while, and his arrogance is very arrogant.

Less than half a month after the training, there were a series of incidents of theft and injury by local thugs in several villages near the direction of Yingshan.