After the banquet of the Salt Transport Division, Liu Fan left a yamen who had only been here a few times. Fully supervise the sale of salt goods in the Shihe Salt Farm, and the Shihe Salt Farm was full of traffic for several days, and there was an endless stream of Jiaozhou salt merchants who came to sell salt. Truckloads of salt were shipped out, but truckloads of silver were exchanged. Liu Fan built a warehouse in the camp of the Broken Army to store silver. Nearly one million taels of silver were piled up almost in the entire warehouse, and Liu Fan had to sigh that the salt merchants were rich, they were too rich.

As the saying goes, "There is food in your hands, and there is no panic in your heart!" Holding nearly a million taels of silver in his hand, the mountain that had been suppressed in Liu Fan's heart finally loosened. Liu Fan can finally let go of his hands and feet.

On July 15 of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Liu Fan issued a conscription order and began to recruit troops within Jiaozhou. Liu Fan has a relatively good mass base in Jiaozhou, and the people of Jiaozhou have a certain degree of confidence in Liu Fan and the Broken Army. After Liu Fan issued a conscription order, the entire Jiaozhou was almost boiling. After receiving the news, military households and ordinary people in ten miles and eight townships enthusiastically joined the army. The military stations set up in various places in Jiaozhou were almost overcrowded. Liu Fan had to raise the standard of conscription, giving priority to those military households who were literate and blessed by the salt works. After some careful selection, Liu Fan recruited more than 5,000 young and middle-aged people between the ages of 16 and 35, plus the original 2,000 people of the Broken Army, the number of the Broken Army has reached more than 7,000.

Faced with such a huge number of recruits, Liu Fan transferred almost all the veterans of the Broken Army and began a one-month recruit training. Liu Fan divided the 5,000 recruits into five battalions, each battalion was taught by 200 veterans as instructors, according to Professor Liu Fan's routine, starting from the formation of training, platoon, turning, military orders, flag language and other aspects began to train these newcomers with all their might, getting up every day at four watches, until the end of dinner, the high-intensity military training made these farmers who had never experienced the crops complain bitterly, and every day the barracks were full of all kinds of screams and complaints. Gradually, some soldiers could not keep up with the training and were eliminated, and Liu Fan organized these eliminated soldiers into the baggage battalion.

For a time, the baggage battalion was overcrowded, and the number of people gradually exceeded that of the war barracks. Liu Fan had a big headache about this, and had to call the soldiers of the baggage battalion to give a lecture. Standing on the high platform of the school yard and looking at these soldiers of the baggage battalion, Liu Fan's heart grew angry, and he said loudly: "Why did I recruit you? Do you eat mixed rice? Could it be that you came to serve as soldiers just for the salary of two taels of silver a month? Then I tell you, you are wrong to think so! The army is a place where the strong are respected, and the weak have no place to stand! Do you know where the Raiders are? This is where the weak are. In peacetime, the baggage battalion not only has to train, but also is responsible for the hardest and most tiring work in the army, and once the war starts, it is also the enemy's primary target on the battlefield. There is no fluke on the battlefield, only you live and die, and only the strong can survive. In terms of military salary, the military salary of the baggage battalion is only two taels of silver, while the combat battalion is three taels, not only is there meat in the meal, but the training in peacetime is not much heavier than that of the baggage battalion! The capture of the war battalion is 30% of the booty, while the baggage soldiers are only 20%, don't underestimate this percent, that often means dozens or even hundreds of taels. So tell me, what is the reason for you to give up the privileged treatment of the war camp and choose a baggage camp with no future? I Liu Fan don't need cowards, and I don't need the Broken Army, I'm giving you a chance, if you don't cherish it, then go home and pick up the child! From today, the baggage camp will be cancelled, and once there is a disqualification, it will be directly repatriated! ”

More than 1,000 people in the baggage camp bowed their heads when they heard Liu Fan's reprimand, their faces full of shame. After all, they didn't participate in the Broken Army just to be soldiers, but also hoped to change their fate, get rid of the life of not having enough to eat every day, and be oppressed, and become a master, now Liu Fan gave them a chance, but they didn't grasp it, and if they went back like this, they would be ridiculed and despised by the villagers, and they would never be able to raise their heads again. Now that Liu Fan has given them one last chance, everyone is secretly determined in their hearts that they must grasp it and no longer go back to live the hard life of being a cow and a horse.

After Liu Fan's reprimand, the soldiers of the baggage battalion were ashamed and brave, and the training gradually followed, and some training items that could not be completed by several other battalions, the soldiers of the baggage battalion were able to exceed the quota. Liu Fan is also very happy about this, if there is a fault, he will be punished, and if he has merit, he will be rewarded, this is the way of his majesty, in view of the hard training of the soldiers of the former baggage battalion, Liu Fan specially convened a plenary meeting of the Broken Army. At the meeting, Liu Fan emphatically praised these soldiers of the former baggage battalion, and decided to give the name "Endeavor" battalion, hoping that they would not forget the lessons and forge ahead bravely in the days to come. What Liu Fan didn't know was that this Endeavor Battalion composed of heavy soldiers would become one of the three main forces for him to conquer the world in the future. Even in his most dangerous moments, he remained unabandoned.

After more than half a month of training, the newly recruited soldiers gradually became familiar with the discipline and life in the barracks. After getting along day and night, they also added some trust to each other, and gradually integrated into the big family of the Broken Army, so it can be said that everything is developing in a good direction.

At this time, Liu Fan was going crazy.

With so many recruits suddenly added to the Broken Army, Liu Fan's pressure suddenly increased. There are too many problems exposed, the most prominent of which is that Liu Fan can't find a weapon that can be used by soldiers! Seeing that he was about to end the training of the recruit period and officially entered the actual combat training, Liu Fan searched all the blacksmith shops in Jiaozhou City, and worked overtime to make less than a thousand spears. And it's just an ordinary gun head made by an ordinary blacksmith, and even the gun shaft is just a few hard wood to fill up, and its quality is simply miserable. Not to mention that compared with the weapons allocated by Chongzhen from the War Bureau, even the spears captured from Kong Youde's rebels are not as good. As for the armor? Don't even think about it, let's not talk about whether it can be built, even if you can build it, you can't find the corresponding amount of iron ore for a while.

This is not the most important thing, what worries Liu Fan the most at the moment is that he does not have a senior commander, to be precise, a senior officer without corresponding talents. Take Wu Tao as an example, he was born as a peasant and had almost no education, let alone read a book of soldiers, although he learned some words in the Broken Army, but how to effectively command the battle, and he did not have a systematic understanding of the use of stratagems, so that he could always be a leader, and no matter how high it was, it would affect the combat effectiveness of the army. In this era dominated by cold weapons, the command skills of a senior officer often affect the victory or defeat of a battle. However, there is no talent from a military family under him Liu Fan, and they are all wild people. When the number of people is small, it is fine, but when the number of people increases, the combat effectiveness will drop exponentially. Liu Fan almost turned gray because of this.