The office of Heibing Terrace was chosen by Bai Jinxiu himself. After two days of walking around the valley with her people, she finally found a hidden place by the lake deep in the valley, a valley within a valley, and the way in and out was extremely narrow.

At first, you can allow a horse to pass, but after a while, you have to dismount and walk.

The cliffs on both sides are towering, all of them are bare cliffs, not to mention people, even apes are not easy to climb.

After walking along the trail for about half an hour, finally a small valley appeared in front of me, with a babbling stream and lush vegetation, and the most amazing thing was that there was a cave in the stone wall of the valley.

After entering the cave, it is also very narrow at first, but after walking through a section of the road, you will enter a tall and spacious cave hall, and there are several small caves on all sides of the cave.

There are obvious traces of man-made excavation in these caves, which are obviously a secret place excavated and processed by predecessors in naturally formed caves.

The reason why Bai Jinxiu likes this place is precisely because this place is private enough, and there happen to be various large and small caves, so that people can be stationed here to work without having to rebuild the yamen.

The nature of the Black Ice Observatory dictates that it requires strict secrecy measures. It can be said that in the entire Jiang family military system, only Jiang Chuan, Liu Ji, and Bai Jinxiu know about the existence of the Black Ice Platform.

When Bai Jinxiu told Jiang Chuan about this valley, Jiang Chuan was also very surprised, and then he knew that there was such a valley in this valley, as if God had specially prepared it for him.

Once you have a place, you need manpower. Jiang Chuan allocated 200 iron guards from the guard camp to Bai Jinxiu as his team, and purchased 30 assassins from the mercenary camp and handed them to Bai Jinxiu.

These Assassins were definitely the second most valuable in the fortress, after the all-powerful warrior knights. They are proficient in all kinds of assassination, disguise, infiltration, stalking, stealth, and even minor skills like ventriloquist imitation.

Bai Jinxiu's combat effectiveness of the iron guard can be regarded as having seen it, and Bai Jinxiu is of course happy to be able to give himself command for this kind of fighter with strong combat effectiveness. However, these warriors are not suitable for working on the secret front, so they can only be used as daily guards of the Black Ice Platform for the time being.

It was the thirty assassins who made Bai Jinxiu's eyes shine, and the various skills they possessed were very suitable for the requirements of the Black Ice Platform, so he was very curious about where Jiang Chuan got these many elites from.

Jiang Chuan smiled but did not speak, vowing to carry out the mystery to the end.

Bai Jinxiu also selected two hundred capable and clever men from the militia camp, and these people will be trained as candidates to infiltrate enemy cities under various identities to spy on them. They will be the strikers and main players of the Black Ice Table.

The Assassins, on the other hand, acted as a supporting force and would only strike when necessary.

With so many capable people, Bai Jinxiu is even more motivated, and she is so busy every day that her feet don't touch the ground, and Jiang Chuan almost can't see her people.

Jiang Chuan didn't rush her, and gave her three months to set up a platform and train internally, after all, there is no particularly urgent task that needs to be taken by the Black Ice Table.

The little girl Xiaowen is naturally busy with her own young lady without touching the ground.

Bai Jinxiu's master and servant were so busy, Jiang Chuan felt that his living standard had plummeted, which made Jiang Chuan occasionally flash a trace of regret.

It turns out that it feels really comfortable for someone to care about it, Jiang Chuan sighed in his heart.

The affairs of the Black Ice Platform have their own Bai Jinxiu busy, and this stall in the army is now presided over by the three generals Ran Wu, Shanjia and Bai Shan.

The training of the militia battalion was presided over by the mountain armor, and a number of soldiers were transferred from the army to serve in the militia battalion as officers at various levels and part-time instructors on a temporary basis.

In this way, under the leadership and organization of these elite soldiers, the training of the militia battalion was quickly put on the agenda.

After Jiang Chuan inspected the training of the militia battalion, he specially asked the mountain armor to include queue training and housekeeping training in the training.

The army training in the era of cold weapons is more about the use of weapons, the drill and coordination of formations, although some branches of the army also have some simple queue training, but it is still far from enough for Jiang Chuan.

Naturally, the same is true for the stronghold base army.

The reason why Jiang Chuan allowed the queue training and internal affairs training to join the modern army was due to two considerations: the first is that the queue training and internal affairs training can enable these ordinary soldiers to complete the transformation from farmers to soldiers in the fastest time, and can cultivate their high degree of discipline and obedience as soon as possible.

For the army in the era of cold weapons, the formation is very important when fighting against each other. Once one soldier collapses and disrupts the formation, the entire phalanx may collapse.

Therefore, it is necessary to let them form a high degree of conditioned reflex habits, so that they do not use their brains at all when fighting against each other, and only have the instinct to obey orders, so as to dispel all kinds of panic emotions of individuals.

Cohort training is the best way to do this. The same is true of internal affairs training, which emphasizes and cultivates the discipline and obedience of military personnel from all kinds of subtle aspects at all times.

The second reason is that Jiang Chuan is preparing for the establishment of the first firearms team of the Jiang Army.

Last time, a large number of weapons and equipment were seized from the Qing army barracks outside Liaoyang, including 500 brand-new arquebuses.

Although in Jiang Chuan's opinion, these front-loading smoothbore arquebuses are completely a bunch of old antiques that can be thrown into the garbage heap, but this incident also made him realize that the development of firearms in this world has reached a considerable level.

According to Jiang Chuan's knowledge, the artillery and arquebuses of the Qing army were captured or copied from the Ming army. That shows that the number of firearms of the Ming army is larger and more varied, which is basically the same as the situation of the Ming Dynasty in history.

Although in the current few battles, cold weapons still dominate. But for Jiang Chuan, who came from the modern world where hot weapons are highly developed, he knows the trend of future development, and it may not be far off for hot weapons to crush cold weapons.

So now that he has thought of this, he has to start preparing in advance to deal with this change in the general trend.

The reason why it is planned to select people from the militia battalions to form firearms teams is because these recruits are as malleable as a blank sheet of paper, and the training is easy to produce results.

The obedience of soldiers selected from the fortress army is unquestionable, but learning to fire a musket with a largely fixed combat skill can be half the effort.

In addition, if we select people from among them to form a firearms corps, it will inevitably lead to a decline in the combat effectiveness of the existing army, because it involves the adjustment of many tactics, and this is a big project.

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, Jiang Chuan decided to select soldiers from the militia battalion to form a firearms team.

On this day, Jiang Chuan was inspecting the training of new recruits in the militia camp. Standing on the podium, I watched the recruits training in the stop-and-go rotation method, that is, turning back and forth, left and right.

Many recruits can't tell the difference between front and back, left and right, either in the wrong direction, or they trip themselves when they turn, or the password is turned backwards, only to find that the people behind them are facing them, looking at each other and laughing.

Jiang Chuan looked at it for a while, and his teeth hurt a little, these guys were so stupid, Jiang Chuan wanted to go up and kick them.

However, the first soldier in the first row of one of the squads had very standard movements and quick reactions, which made Jiang Chuan a little comforted, and finally there was someone who was not stupid.

The mountain armor in charge of training was also annoyed, and carried a whip all the way from the school yard to draw. He doesn't draw those recruits, but draws the instructors who are in charge of each team.

After the instructor was smoked, he didn't dare to get angry at the mountain armor, and used a whip to whip the captains of each squad, and those captains had to smoke the eggs of the recruits.

The result was a gasp of cold air throughout the school yard. Because he didn't dare to move, he didn't dare to shout, so he shouted and added a whip.

These recruits were grinning one by one, and many people began to regret coming to be soldiers.

If it weren't for the strict military law, coupled with the fact that there was enough food and food, and there was meat to eat, someone would have been a deserter long ago.

Jiang Chuan couldn't stand it anymore, so he stopped the training, pointed to the soldier whose training was very standard, and said, "That soldier, come here." ”

After the soldier was brought over by the mountain armor, Jiang Chuan was amused, this happened to be an old acquaintance.

Everyone must have guessed that it was Guan Hu who was rescued by Jiang Chuan.

Guan Hu was also very excited when he saw Jiang Chuan. But these days of training made him know that he had to salute after seeing Shangguan, otherwise he would be punished by military law, so he straightened up and crossed his hands and said loudly: "Guan Hu, a recruit from the first squad of the seventh team of the militia battalion, reported to the general and asked for instructions!" ”

Jiang Chuan wanted to talk to him, but he didn't expect Guan Hu to follow the rules so much, which was a bit surprising, but more of an appreciation.

After he finished saluting, Jiang Chuan Zhengse said: "Straddle." ”

Hearing this, Guan Hu put his hands behind his back, his feet were in a straddle posture, and his body stopped looking at Jiang Chuan, a standard military style, which made Jiang Chuan even more appreciative.

"Brother Guan Hu, take it easy. I didn't expect to see you here, how is it, are you still used to training? Jiang Chuan smiled and patted Guan Hu's shoulder and said.

Guan Hu saw that Jiang Chuan was so approachable, and he relaxed a little, and said with a smile: "Thank you for your concern, everything is fine with me, I have enough food here, I can also give clothes, and I can also lead the army's salary, I am very satisfied." I don't think it's hard at all. ”

"That's good, I see you're practicing very well, how did you do it, can you tell me?" Jiang Chuan said with a smile.

"I don't actually have any special method, I tied a red rope to my hand, which is the red head rope used by my daughter to tie her hair. I tied it to my right hand, and every time the instructor shouted to turn, I judged the direction according to the rope. So after practicing a few times, I memorized the left and right. You don't even have to look at the red rope now. ”

Guan Hu scratched his head a little embarrassed, as if he felt a little embarrassed to say this stupid method.

Jiang Chuan laughed, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Okay, good, the method that works is a good method." Guan Hu listens to orders! ”

Guan Hu has formed a basic conditioned reflex these days, and he immediately stopped and said loudly: "Recruit Guan Hu listens to the order!" ”

"General Ben has now appointed you as the captain of the recruit training team, and selected and trained outstanding personnel from each team to form a teaching team, which is specifically responsible for training the recruit team, do you understand?" Jiang Chuan said in a deep voice.

"Guan Hu understands!" Guan Hu reflexively replied loudly before he came back to his senses, he was appointed by Lord Jiang to be an official, and a strong sense of pride and excitement suddenly arose in his heart.

"General Shanjia, you can make arrangements." Jiang Chuan instructed the mountain armor next to him.

Shanjia took the order and took Guan Hu to each team to pick people.

Jiang Chuan suddenly realized just now that the instructors served by these base soldiers themselves did not have the experience of this kind of queue training, and of course, it was impossible to train qualified soldiers.

If Guan Hu and other ordinary people are trained pacesetters to be instructors, they can set an example for the recruits, and if others can learn it, they will definitely be able to learn it. Second, Guan Hu and these people can better communicate with these recruits, and the training effect will be better.

For recruit training, it is naturally not enough to rely on whipping alone, and it is also necessary to pay attention to methods. Otherwise, the more they are beaten, the more nervous they are, and the more likely they are to make mistakes.

Jiang Chuan was about to go to the barracks to take a look again, when suddenly the military commander Li Jian hurriedly walked in from the camp gate, came to him and said with a serious face: "Lord, something is wrong." ”

Jiang Chuan glanced at him, Li Jian whispered a few words, Jiang Chuan's face suddenly sank, he didn't say hello to Shanjia, and hurried away with someone.