July 24 of the fifth year of Lu Jianguo.

As soon as the hour of duty arrived, the officials of the arsenal in charge of the military reserves began to assign tasks to the small officials, and the small officials who received the tasks hurriedly went to instruct the servants to move out the military supplies that needed to be transported to Chen Wen's camp one by one, and after the quantity was verified, they would start shipping.

At this time, Qi Xiufeng, the new quartermaster in Chen Wen's camp, had already begun to count the first batch of materials that arrived, while his fellow villager Gu Shouli, who had just been appointed as the chief bookkeeper of the battalion, was responsible for reviewing after his counting, and if there were no mistakes or omissions, Chen Wen would sign and put them into the warehouse.

However, at this time, not all the materials that were stored were moved to the warehouse in the barracks, and some of the materials that were not stored were carried to the gate of the barracks area, while other things had to be moved to the point platform in the west school field.

In the barracks area, the soldiers who were dragged by the officers to take a shower and repair their hair yesterday began to line up to receive two sets of underwear, belts, uniforms, military shoes, and leggings from Chen Wen, each of whom had two sets for washing, while the old bedding and clothes they had used before were uniformly taken and disinfected with lime water.

The barracks of the Ming Dynasty were bunks, and if a soldier carried germs, he was likely to infect all the robes in the same barracks. Although there were no sick soldiers in the two days they entered the camp, Chen Wen felt that the establishment of a preventive system was far better than a headache and a pain in the feet if something went wrong.

After thanking their commander, the soldiers hurried back to the barracks, where they changed one set of clothes and the other with their baggage. Because they know that these clothes will be used for the army ceremony at noon today.

Changing into a brand-new military uniform, the whole person's mental outlook immediately became different, and the soldiers began to compare and tear up according to their usual social circles, and the atmosphere became more and more relaxed.

At this time, the three thousand commanders led six pacification soldiers and began to pick people out from the various barracks. Seeing this, the soldiers, who were still mostly playing, hurriedly ran out, while those soldiers who had just received their clothes and were not all dressed quickly got dressed with the help of their acquaintances.

Not to mention the three thousands, they were officers in the imperial court. Even those pacification soldiers were directly led by the general, and in the eyes of ordinary soldiers, Chen Wen's ten pacification soldiers were actually his own soldiers and family members. According to common sense, pro-soldiers and family members have a much greater chance of being promoted than ordinary soldiers, so they are also future officers.

In the military, class is everything, and in ancient times there were even examples of comparing the relationship between officers and soldiers with fathers and sons. Therefore, under such a combination of officers and quasi-officers, how dare the soldiers say a word, they naturally obey the order and hurriedly run out and follow them to the west school field.

On the pole in the West Campus, a shelf stands in the position where the main seat was originally placed, and a portrait hangs on the shelf. In front of the portrait is an offering table, on which are placed three animals and an incense burner.

In addition to all this, there is only a Taishi chair at the bottom of the platform, and the civil official who is not angry and arrogant sitting on the chair wearing a peacock complement official uniform is none other than Wang Yi, the left attendant of the Ming Dynasty and the left deputy capital of the military affairs of Zhejiang. Behind Wang Yi, two soldiers of the Jinglufu Mansion stood on the side, one holding the sword of Shang Fang, while the other held the tray containing the seal letter in both hands, and the things in their hands represented the unquestionable authority of the Ming Dynasty.

Under the stage, Chen Wen, dressed in a military uniform, hanging a sword and wearing armor, stood in front of the materials that had already been stacked in order, waiting for the start of this brand-new army ceremony he had designed, while in front of him was a narrow table with a roster.

Every once in a while, the soldiers of Chen Wen's unit were led by the officers to the side of the school field. When they saw all this in front of them, they began to whisper. Whenever someone spoke up, they would be reprimanded by officers or pacifiers, and soon the school was quiet again.

At this time, Gu Shouli, who was standing between Chen Wen and the soldiers, saw that the hour had come, and immediately stepped forward and shouted, "The ceremony begins!" ”

Hearing the news of the start of the ceremony, both the officers and soldiers involuntarily stood up straight and stared at their generals.

Chen Wen flipped through the roster on the long table and read aloud: "Lou Jiye!" ”

Hearing the summons of the commander, a tall man with long arms and a round waist came out from the scattered group of soldiers standing and strode towards Chen Wen. When he walked in front of Chen Wen, he immediately knelt on the ground and saluted.

Lou Jiye is the son of the Yiwu Lou family, and in Qi Jiguang's time, many children of the Yiwu Lou family participated in the Qi family army. By the time of their deaths, there were as many as six adjutant generals in the general army alone, and there were countless officers at all levels, including staff generals, guerrillas, garrisons, and thousand generals.

Unlike Wu Dengke's long-estranged relative, Lou Jiye is a descendant of Lou Nan, a famous anti-Japanese general in the Qi family's army who later accumulated merit and rose to the deputy general of Yunnan.

It is said that when this son was one year old (the name of Zhou in the Ming Dynasty), he ignored the things on the ground, climbed out of the house step by step, grabbed the spear on the shelf in the courtyard and said that he would not let go, which was surprising by the people of the time. At the time of enlightenment, people went to learn the Analects after reading 300,000 people, but he began to pick up the "New Book of Ji Xiao".

After tying his hair, Lou Jiye began his career as a soldier. At first, he served as a soldier in Jinhua and participated in the suppression of the rebellion of the remnants of Xudu; Soon, the Qing army went south, and his boss planned to surrender to the Qing, feeling the kindness of his boss, but as a descendant of a famous anti-Japanese general, he was not ashamed to be a barbarian minions, so he fled from the barracks with a group of township party and his subordinates that night.

In the following years, Lou Jiye had followed several coaches, but in that era when the anti-Qing forces were whirling and whirling, the coaches he followed were either killed in battle or surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, so that he had to change the owner almost every few months. Since then, no manager has been willing to recruit him.

And at that time, he had already begun to run four, and he gradually began to give up on himself. Later, he simply married a wife and had children in Siming Mountain, and refused to return to his hometown. In his words, he has been in the army for more than ten years, but he has never achieved fame, and he has no face to meet his ancestors.

It stands to reason that he and Wu Dengke are both from Yiwu, and his ancestor and Wu Dengke's ancestral brother once worked together under Qi Jiguang's account, and the two should have a good relationship. It's just that there are always coincidental things in this world, after Xu Du's death, Wu Dengke followed Xu Du's men to continue to make trouble in Jinhua, and Lou Jiye was subordinate to the generals responsible for suppressing them, and the two even fought on the battlefield. Since then, the two have begun to form a grudge, so that when Wu Dengke came to Dalanshan, he reunited with Lou Jiye, and they still looked down on each other.

After Chen Wen announced the decision to rebuild Qi's army, Wu Dengke still felt that Lou Jiye was a talent after thinking about it, otherwise he could fight him on the battlefield? Considering that the two are fellow villagers, if they stand together under the banner of rebuilding the Qi family's army, there is no grudge that cannot be resolved. So, Wu Dengke ran to persuade him to join Chen Wen's team. It's just that Lou Jiye didn't trust Chen Wen very much at that time, so he didn't agree.

However, after Wu Dengke left, the slogan of rebuilding Qi's army always lingered in Lou Jiye's mind and could not be dispersed for a long time, so he listened to Chen Wen's talk about the ancient times with the mentality of trying it out. That day, when Chen Wen once again threatened to rebuild the Qi family army after telling the story he had made up, Lou Jiye's heart longing to return to his hometown in fine clothes became hot again, and he felt that Chen Wen should be the same person who was eager to revive his family business like him.

As a result, after Wu Dengke swore allegiance on the threshing floor, there was a scene where a man from Yiwu took the lead in following Chen Wen to rebuild the Qi family's army, and that man was Lou Jiye. Thinking about it, at that moment, if Wu Dengke hadn't made up the rhetoric earlier, I was afraid that Lou Jiye would probably steal the limelight.

For Lou Jiye's joining, Wu Dengke naturally agreed, while Yin Yue, who has always been deeply influenced by feudal superstition, questioned the reason for the questioning, the nickname of "Lu among people".

However, as the main general, Chen Wen did not care about this, in addition to receiving the education of materialist atheism for many years, he felt that he heard the "husky" several times after crossing over, but he was not killed by the wolf's kiss, and later he was able to escape from a guerrilla general, and it is estimated that ordinary people will not move him.

After going up the mountain, Chen Wen found an opportunity to talk to Lou Jiye, and he soon discovered the difference between Wu Dengke and Lou Jiye, the two children of the Qi family's army. Wu Dengke was taught by the clan in his early years, and he knew the cold weapons used by the Qi family army well, and he was also able to understand why these weapons appeared in the battle array; Lou Jiye, on the other hand, focused more on the use and change of formations, as well as Qi Jiguang's army-building thoughts, which was probably related to the fact that he began to read Qi Jiguang's military books when he was young and enlightened.

In Chen Wen's view, this person is literate and proficient in the art of war, and he is the most suitable candidate to be the chief of staff in his current officer corps. It's just that Chen Wen didn't plan to promote him so early, because Chen Wen knew that most of the Jinhua people in the camp were recruited by this Lou Jiye, except for those men who swore allegiance to him under the leadership of Wu Dengke and Yin Yue, and he came to Siming Mountain earlier than Wu Dengke, and the Jinhua people who lived here were more prestigious than Wu Dengke. After the army has been established for a period of time, especially after a victory, the concept of class and the affection of the robe in the army will gradually overwhelm the friendship of fellow villagers, and Chen Wen will naturally promote this person.

Seeing Lou Jiye kneeling respectfully in front of him, Chen Wen helped him up, and then took a helmet from a calmer soldier beside him and put it on Lou Jiye's head; Then he took the waist card and a flag gun to prove his identity and handed it to his left hand; Finally, Chen Wen took out an ingot of silver worth one tael from the box next to him and put it in his right hand.

"Brother Lou, do it well, Qi Shaobao will never watch us heroes who joined the army in order to drive out the Tartars not be able to return to their hometowns."

When he got the silver, Lou Jiye did not show any joy, he had been in the army for many years and was not short of silver. But when Chen Wen said those words, Lou Jiye's eyes faintly flashed with tears. I saw that he immediately clenched his flag gun, clenched his hands into fists, and said loudly: "The humble post will live up to the high expectations of the general!" ”

Signaling Lou Jiye to stand aside, Chen Wen shouted out the second name loudly: "Niu Ping'an!" ”

Niu Ping'an, like Lou Jiye, is a native of Yiwu, but he came to Dalanshan with Wu Dengke and others, and he is not familiar with Lou Jiye. This man is usually silent, but he will try his best to do the things arranged for him, when Chen Wen told the ancients, Wu Dengke arranged for him to take care of the bonfire, no matter how wonderful Chen Wen's story is, he will never forget what needs him to do well while listening.

Chen Wen admired such a man who knew how to be loyal to his duties, but he was illiterate and did not understand the mandarin duck formation and the art of war, so Chen Wen had no reason to promote him for the time being. However, this man is so burly that he has lived up to his surname, and according to the selection criteria of the Mandarin Duck Formation, his personality and figure are very suitable as a long player. So, Chen Wen arranged him under Lou Jiye.

After Chen Wen put on his helmet, Niu Ping'an took the waist card, long card, waist knife and the silver tael handed to him by Chen Wen. Mu Na was like him, and after receiving the silver, he immediately expressed his loyalty to Chen Wen.

Handing weapons in one hand and silver in the other, this is the method that Chen Wen came up with to motivate the soldiers in the battalion to practice martial arts diligently, and the idea is very simple, that is, to tell the soldiers to practice martial arts diligently through psychological hints, and they will not worry about wealth and nobility if they make military achievements. Of course, this is not enough, there should also be team spirit and strict military discipline in order to become an army in the true sense.

After signaling Niu Ping'an to stand on Lou Jiye's side, Chen Wen shouted ten people one after another, and these ten people got rattan waist knives, wolf stalks, spears, boring palladium and pointed flat poles in addition to silver.

Seeing these twelve people standing in a row, Chen Wen said to them: "From now on, you are the members of the first killer team of the Mandarin Duck Formation in this camp, the one who holds the flag gun is the captain, the one who holds the license is the captain, the two captains are honored with long cards, and those who hold the pointed head and flat shoulder are the firefighters, who are directly led by the captain, and the others are all soldiers, and they are divided into troops according to the queue where they are. Go ahead! ”

"Inferior obedience." As he spoke, the first members of the First Killer Team knelt down on one knee in front of Chen Wen with their respective weapons, and after getting up, the team stood on the school field under the guidance of the calming soldiers.

Next, Chen Wen followed this example and organized one after another Mandarin Duck Array killer teams into columns, and began to organize the cavalry team and the firearms team that only one-third of the soldiers used firearms according to the roster.

The same is to wear a helmet, to hand a weapon in one hand, to hand a silver in the other, to organize into a team, and to accept the oath of allegiance from every soldier and their group. Chen Wen took the trouble to do everything well, in order to be able to build an army that could really fight the Qing army on the battlefield in more than a month.

Of course, this is not enough, in addition to the high-intensity training that is about to begin, he needs some natural or supernatural powers to help.

Under the witness of Wang Yi, the supreme commander of the Ming army in the Siming Mountain area, and the Lu Jian Guo Xing Dynasty behind him, and under the attention of the soldiers who had been reorganized into an army in the audience, Chen Wen boarded the military platform and put on three sticks of incense in front of Qi Jiguang's portrait. Then, he took a few steps backwards, flicked the scarlet cloak he was wearing, and fell to the ground in front of the portrait, knocking his head a few times.

After getting up, Chen Wen straightened his helmet and nodded to Wang Yi, then turned around and walked to the edge of the point platform, facing the officers and soldiers standing in a row on the school field to start his speech.

"Gentlemen, today we are standing on this Dalan Mountain, on this land where Qi Shaobao once protected his wings, to rebuild the invincible and invincible Qi family army that was invincible and invincible, and whether it was a Japanese or a northern captive, they would be terrified when they heard its name."

"This road may not be smooth sailing, we need to put in more effort than ordinary people, we need to leave more sweat than soldiers in other armies to train and fight, and even some of us will pay the price of blood and lives in generals."

"However, no one can stop us, no one can resist our soldiers, and no one can wipe out our pride as sons of the Han family!"

Speaking of this, Quartermaster Qi Xiufeng ascended to the point platform under the escort of two calming soldiers. I saw that he solemnly handed over the flag in his hand to Wang Yi, who had already gotten up and walked behind Chen Wen's side. After Wang Yi took over the flag, he also solemnly handed it to Chen Wen, who was already preparing to bow in front of him.

After getting up, Chen Wen waved the flagpole back and forth, and the pattern on the flag also appeared at that moment - it was a colorful tiger with wings, and it was about to pounce on the flag.

At this moment, Chen Wen continued to speak to the soldiers under his command in an impassioned tone: "In the Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli dynasties, Qi Shaobao was called Qi Tiger by the Japanese and the Northern Prisoners. Although the general is not surnamed Qi, as long as our battalion flag is still there, we are the Qi family army, and Qi Shaobao's heroic spirit will also be the same as me! ”

On the school ground, the soldiers listened to Chen Wen's exciting speech, especially when they saw the flag and heard that everything that it represented would be with them, and every soldier wanted to shout confidently. It's just that the power and majesty of the imperial court represented by Wang Yi on the military platform, the strangeness that they are no longer familiar with when they first enter the teams, and the stern eyes of the officers and pacifiers at all levels around them, make them have to temporarily suppress these cries in their chests.

"From today onwards, we will rebuild the Qi family army under the protection of Qi Shaobao, and then we will defeat the enemy, regain the lost territory, and establish a larger military formation, so that the Tartars will tremble when they hear our name."

"One day, we will fight a decisive battle with the Tartars in the north and south of the capital, one day, we will recover all the lost territory, and one day, we will use the head of the Tartars to comfort the spirits of the Han brothers and sisters who have died in vain at the hands of the Tartars over the years."

The mountain breeze raised the flag, and the winged tiger on the flag showed its bloody fangs. On the platform, Chen Wen's set of shiny mountain armor that he wiped was shining in the sunlight.

At that moment, in the eyes of the soldiers in Chen Wen's camp, their general was like a god in the noon sun, in front of Qi Jiguang's portrait, and under the banner for which they would fight in the future.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

“……”

On July 24, the fourth year of Yongli, in the hinterland of Siming Mountain at the junction of Shaoxing, Ningbo and Taizhou, Zhejiang Chengxuan, all the officers and men of a small army of only more than 300 people shouted with all their strength their desire for victory in the future battle, and the sound shook the sky.

At this moment, each of them firmly believes that the invincible hero team of decades ago will definitely be resurrected thanks to their efforts!