Eat people with soft mouths, take people with soft hands.

This eats and takes, you little people, don't train well, how can you be worthy of my efforts. Zheng Chenggong led the newly established army to train soldiers in Kinmen.

Infantry training is the easiest and most strenuous at this stage.

Without saying anything, he first carried a ten-pound stone in his pocket, and then ran, running around the island.

The general is merciful, look at your little sample, with yellow faces and thin muscles, you can run ten kilometers first at this stage. After a while, we will slowly add stones and distances.

In order to play an exemplary role, Zheng Chenggong ran ahead in front of many soldiers, carrying a twenty-pound stone on his back.

The honorable generals all ran away, and the soldiers under his command also ran after him, if they had anything to say.

If you don't keep up, you want to be lazy.

Hum! Hum! The law enforcement officer rode a horse and followed leisurely, and the one who ran slowly dragged behind, hit!

Horsewhips and cloth-wrapped sticks were pumped vigorously at the meaty places, so that people could not hurt them.

What, you are not afraid of beating with rough skin and thick meat, don't worry, what you have is a whole person.

It's not okay to go it alone, give me a group beating, and beat that bastard to the point that he can't even fucking recognize it.

This is martial, however, Zheng Chenggong generally does not use it. spent a lot of money to recruit and was injured, but it would make Zheng Chenggong's heart ache to death.

Anyway, he used to be a literary person, and he generally has a literati popularity! Communication, laundry stacking, small meaning. The toilet needs to be cleaned! Nightshade needs someone to pour it!

You're not afraid of any of this, and that's okay. Go and copy the military rules and discipline for me a thousand times. Illiterate, scribble! Okay, you have a kind, come on, put this bastard in the black cellar for me, let him taste the taste of the black ground with five fingers, as for when it comes out, it depends on his attitude of admitting mistakes!

After coming and going, all the thorns in the army have become good students, exercise hard, and make progress every day.

Training once in the morning and another in the afternoon is enough for the main training volume of the day.

As for the nights, the long nights are long and you don't want to sleep, and so must you! The general is considerate of you, just exercise your military posture. All of them are there, stand upright!

This is not only the soldiers, but even those generals have been ordered by Zheng Chenggong to study together. At first, many generals refused to comply, but after the military stick broke a few lines, all those who disobeyed were suppressed by Zheng Chenggong's tough attitude.

If you obey, then you have to exercise your military posture, and if you don't obey, you have to exercise your military posture.

Zheng Chenggong took a soft whip and walked to the front of the team. At the bastards, he yelled, "Tell me, what did you do when you came to the army?" ”

The soldiers shouted in unison, "Do what you told me to do, sir!

"Yes, that's right. You bastards remember to me that what is reasonable is called training, and what is unreasonable is called grinding, whether it is reasonable or not, it is a kind of exercise! Do whatever Lao Tzu tells you to do, even if there is a sea of fire in front of you, Lao Tzu gives an order, you have to rush forward for me, do you hear? “

"Yes, sir!"

"Yes, good. Start practicing now, all of them, stand upright! ”

Zheng Chenggong walked back and forth in the team, correcting their mistakes all the time.

Look at you like a bear, yes, that's you! Standing without standing, sitting without sitting, no wonder you can't get a wife, and if you continue to mix like this, you will be beaten as a single for the rest of your life. Stand up for me, tuck your abdomen, raise your head, and hold your chest up, well, that's how you look like my Han man!

Whoever did not stand well, without saying a word, whipped it until he was standing.

The stupid, stupid, and stupid ones can't always learn, and they whip them until they learn them.

After a month of exercising like this, many soldiers who were originally thin finally raised some meat in their bodies under the double medicine of steamed buns and running.

Seeing this situation, Zheng Chenggong also began to train boldly, running 25 kilometers with 20 catties on his back and 30 kilometers with 25 catties on his back. Continue to run in the morning, and start practicing killing skills and formation in the afternoon.

In ancient times, communication was a big problem, and if it was moving, it would be tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, and even more so on battlefields where soldiers had to occupy several kilometers.

The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the marshals and generals have to make a judgment in a short time, and then let the herald convey it to the soldiers below.

But the military situation is like fire, how can people slowly explain to so many soldiers, how should you do this general, and how should you do that soldier.

At the same time, when a complicated order is spoken by the herald, it may change into another meaning, and then the soldiers will have a misunderstanding, and then the fun will be great.

The light army is confused and overwhelmed, and the heavy one is defeated.

Therefore, the wise men of ancient China thought of formations and designed many formations. Let the soldiers practice familiarization according to a certain routine in advance. When they are on the battlefield, the generals can use the most concise orders to make all the soldiers understand their intentions according to the situation.

Soldiers can also make changes in the shortest possible time. In this way, you can not only gain time, but also bring out the maximum energy of the army as a whole.

Of course, the formation also has shortcomings, that is, it is rigid.

First, unexpected variables appeared on the battlefield, and the non-commissioned officers did not dare to take the initiative to make changes under the deterrence of military law.

The second is that the formation is a pre-set position, position, and running position to maximize the combat effectiveness of the army, but once the enemy general sees through this formation, he sends his men and horses to forcibly enter the formation, hindering the operation of the formation, which can cause confusion in the army, and the enemy may take advantage of the situation to attack, and it may be defeated.

However, even if the disadvantages are so obvious, on the whole, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, otherwise there would not be so many famous generals and marshals who are keen to let their soldiers practice formations for thousands of years. For example, it is for a famous player who can not only use the formation well to play a role, but also be able to quickly make changes according to the actual and unexpected situation. is like Han Xin who is as good as possible, Zhuge Liang who is good at using the Bagua Array, etc.

Circle array, square array, and word array are the simplest and most basic formations.

On this basis, according to the actual situation and the cooperation of their own troops, many famous generals and marshals in history have created strengthened formations, such as the famous Bamen Golden Lock Formation, Bagua Array, Mandarin Duck Sancai Formation, etc.

Zheng Chenggong set up a multi-arm cooperation system of the five armies and five towns, so the infantry practiced five plum blossom arrays. This formation is biased towards defense, with four circular formations on the periphery, and the formation eye is a square formation of plum heart.

After a few months of training, Zheng Chenggong stood on the platform of the generals, watching the soldiers in the audience standing with their heads held high, holding guns and knives, and they were quite majestic and majestic. Zheng Chenggong was relieved to think that this army had been pulled to the battlefield and seen blood, so it should be regarded as a strong army.

While training the infantry, Zheng Chenggong did not forget the training of the sailors.

The sailor is the reliance of the Zheng family's army, and the selection and training of sailors is stricter than that of the infantry.

The selection conditions for sailors are that they must be familiar with the nature of the water, accustomed to life at sea, and able to endure the hardships of wind and waves.

When selecting sailors, Zheng Chenggong ordered all the soldiers to go to the sea, holding a big knife or a gun in the sea, swimming in the water, and the water could only be submerged to the waist, not to the chest. This requires sailors not only to be able to swim, but also to have good swimming skills, to master skills such as treading water, or not to be selected.

Fortunately, there are more veterans of Zheng Zhilong's time in the water division, and most of them are people from the coastal areas such as Zhang, Quan, Chao, and Hui, and they are superb in water and can easily meet the standards and be selected.

Zheng Zhilong had not treated them badly before, and Zheng Chenggong would not treat them badly, their physical condition was the best in the Zheng family's army.

Moreover, most of the officers and men of the naval division are veterans, and they naturally have rich experience in life and combat at sea. For the training of sailors in the naval division, while maintaining a certain amount of training, it is only necessary to let them get on the ship more to familiarize themselves with the formation, and have more experience in maneuvering artillery at sea, so as to improve the hit rate.

Speaking of artillery, Zheng Chenggong was annoyed.

The mainstream of future wars is firearms, and this Zheng Chenggong knows.

But the problem is that Zheng Chenggong studied economics before he was possessed, so he knows some of the most basic science knowledge.

For example, gunpowder is made of sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal, which Zheng Chenggong knows, but he doesn't know what the specific proportion is.

As for high-explosive gunpowder and metallurgical ironmaking, which are high-tech things, they are even more dark-eyed.

Zheng Chenggong knew in his heart that he didn't have to rely on himself to make cross-era weapons such as muskets and artillery.

Zheng Chenggong had no choice but to spend money to recruit some blacksmiths to try and study firearms, and he himself gave guidance in the direction of research.

It's just that most of the firearms manufacturing blacksmiths in the Ming Dynasty were in Jingshi, Liaodong, Shandong and other places in the north, and now most of them are under the supervision of the Qing army.

There are few in the south, Zheng Zhilong spent a lot of money to hire a lot of craftsmen and blacksmiths to make artillery in order to be able to cross the East China Sea.

But Zheng Zhilong, the cheap father, was so desperate that he placed the hard-established firearms factory in Xiamen.

Zheng Chenggong has a headache now, and the relationship between Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian and him is not good.

In order to be able to buy artillery, Zheng Chenggong put down his posture and wrote to Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian in a modest tone to buy them, but they all refused.

Zheng Chenggong, who was angry, vowed to teach them a lesson if he had the opportunity in the future.

Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian couldn't do it, so Zheng Chenggong had to spend a lot of money to buy some three- and six-pound cannons from Macao and Xiyi.

Light artillery can be bought, heavy artillery nine-pound, thirteen-pound can not be bought in a squat,

Those who ran by sea were sometimes regular traders, and sometimes they turned into fierce pirates.

They also had to keep the cannon to protect themselves, and at the same time they had to use it to rob others, so they refused to sell it at all.

The artillery on one's own ship is the guarantee of one's own life, and it cannot be dismantled. It doesn't work, it doesn't work either.

Zheng Chenggong can only rely on those recruited craftsmen and blacksmiths, and under his own guidance, they can develop good firearms as soon as possible.