When Zhao Yan arrived at the river, he immediately saw the water turbine he drew on the drawing, which was a very low-level water turbine, and the water head was estimated to be more than ten meters.

Blacksmith Zhou was leading people to count the drill bits, and a stick of incense was inserted on the side, which had burned to the tail.

"The owner is coming, the owner is coming." Several craftsmen reminded. Blacksmith Zhou just nodded, still counting the drill intently.

Zhao Yan smiled and nodded, trotted into the crowd, and watched Blacksmith Zhou count there. After a while, a stick of incense was finally burned, and Blacksmith Zhou shouted: "A stick of incense is 1365 turns!" ”

"Owner, the water turbine has been built, and a stick of incense is 1365 revolutions, which is much faster than using an awl." Blacksmith Zhou wiped the sweat on his forehead and said to Zhao Yan happily. This New Year's week blacksmith has not been over for many years, and every day he leads people to pounce on it, and finally gets the water turbine out.

"Not bad." Zhao Yan nodded with satisfaction, "Each person will go to the tent to receive ten taels of silver in a while." ”

"Xie Dongjia." The surrounding craftsmen happily thanked and replied, it was comfortable to do things in the Zhao family, and the treatment given by the owner was much better than outside.

Some craftsmen remembered the days when they used to be craftsmen in the government, and compared with their current lives, they couldn't help but shed tears.

Since the turbine has been built, it is necessary to use the turbine in actual production, Zhao Yan drew a steel drill bit, and asked Blacksmith Zhou to lead people to build it and install it on the turbine.

Muskets and artillery could be produced in a short time, Zhao Yan was in a good mood, and after staying in the Ordnance Bureau for a long time, Zhao Yan began to restructure the army.

First of all, Zhao Yong was appointed as the commander of the first battalion, Wang Wenyue was appointed as the commander of the second battalion, and Lin Yi was appointed as the commander of the cavalry battalion.

The infantry battalion consisted of 750 men per battalion, 500 pikemen and 250 musketeers, and the tactics were to divide the pikemen into two columns, each in five rows of 50 men. The musketeers were lined up on either side of the two columns, and at the junction in the middle of the columns, that is, on the three entrances.

When facing the enemy, the musketeers line up in three formations, fire in the first order, retreat to the rear row to reload, the back row is on top, one row kneels, and one row stands to shoot at the enemy.

When the enemy approached, the musketeers quickly retreated from the three openings, approaching in a horizontal formation and engaging in close combat with the enemy. The musketeers in the rear should draw their melee weapons at this time to assist the phalanx in battle.

The cavalry battalion planned to recruit 300 men, and the cavalry lined up on both flanks of the phalanx during the battle, and when the enemy formation was chaotic, it could attack to create chaos for the enemy army, and cooperate with the infantry to defeat the enemy army. If the enemy army is routed, the cavalry is responsible for pursuing and capturing the enemy. At the same time, cavalry can also be used to attack the enemy's weak points and sneak attack important strategic locations.

Under the infantry battalion, there are 3 companies with 250 people each, 5 platoons with 50 people per platoon, and 2 squads with 25 people per squad. Each company is equipped with 5 reconnaissance cavalry, and the battalion is equipped with 20 reconnaissance cavalry.

Due to the current lack of troops, only 3 companies can be temporarily set up, and the depth of the phalanx is only 5 platoons.

The standard battalion should have 1,500 pikemen, forming three columns, each with 10 platoons of pikemen, and such depth was safe enough against cavalry. The number of musketeers should have reached 600, and 150 men were distributed at each of the four junctions of the three columns, with 25 men in a platoon, divided into 3 columns and 6 platoons to bombard the enemy.

And that's not counting the number of artillery, with the addition of artillery, the number of soldiers in a battalion should reach 2,500, and with some other auxiliary arms, the number may reach 3,000.

In terms of logistics, soldiers bring 5 days of rations, battalions bring 10 days of food, and regiments bring 3 months' food, and a hierarchical supply system is established.

Of course, this is just the plan. At the moment the army has not yet been established.

However, recruitment was already underway, with half of the pikemen being selected from the cantonments and the musketeers from among the displaced people who had not been settled.

In terms of cavalry, young men who can ride horses were recruited and trained by Lin Yi. The cavalry battalion was tentatively numbered three hundred, mainly because there were not enough horses.

As for the 30 family members who were eliminated before, they were assigned to each cantonment as deputy group training, and after the scale of the cantonment was expanded, they were turned into regulars.

Zhao Yan adopted two production systems, one was the tuntian system, and the other was the armor protection system that was popular in the current era.

The exiles and captives were assigned to the cantonment land for production, and the land rent was higher. The Baojia system is aimed at those villages that own their own means of production, and the land paid is lower.

Of course, now that Zhao Yan has no official status, it is naturally impossible to collect taxes from those villages.

Before the spring sowing, the young people of the 30 tundi put down what they were doing, and under the leadership of each tun group training, they participated in the first township brave competition.

More than 3,000 villagers rushed to Zhaojiabao with their own weapons. Under the auspices of Zhao Yan, the Xiangyong Dabi began in full swing.

On this day, almost all three forts came, and the number of people present was nearly 20,000.

Every young man who participated in the big competition was gearing up, and the last time they were defeated in the recruitment, during this time they were well fed and diligent, and many young people were full of confidence.

Zhao Yan sat in the stands, Zhao Quan, Zhao Yong, Lin Yi, Wang Wenyue and other core personnel sat on both sides, and Tang Zhengze of the Ministry of Agriculture, Zhang Buyun of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the head of Sanbao and his cadres.

Looking at the three thousand young men lined up in a neat thirty phalanx, Zhao Yan said to Zhao Yong: "Let's start!" ”

"Yes." Zhao Yong stood up, walked to the front of the stands, raised the command flag in his hand, and shouted: "The martial arts show begins, and Yitun Township Yong stepped forward." ”

One hundred village warriors, under the leadership of the regimental training, marched forward with spears in hand. Zhao Yong waved the order flag and issued orders one by one, and Natun Xiangyong echoed with a neat killing sound in the order, and Xiangyong responded with the order.

"Huh! It seems that they have been working hard in the past few months. Zhao Quan looked at the neat queue below and said with a smile.

Zhao Yan also smiled and nodded, although the training progress of these townsmen in the queue cannot be said to be uniform, but it is still okay, amateur training can reach this level, it is already rare and valuable, if it takes a long time, it can reach the standard level in the queue.

As the villagers of the tundi stepped forward to accept the formation test, the whole drill began a few hours later.

"First row, think I'm ......"

"Second row, take me as the benchmark......"

"Tenth row, based on me......"

With an order, 3,000 township warriors were led by their respective tun chiefs, and each tun township was lined up in two columns, with 50 people in each column, and the five tuns were combined into a horizontal line of 50 people and 10 rows.

A total of 30 tuns formed 6 horizontal teams. Under the leadership of each tun chief, 6 horizontal teams were formed very quickly, and the spears like a forest stood in the cold.

Zhang Buyun's expression couldn't help but be cold, in the past, when he saw the young and strong training in those tundi, he didn't know much about military affairs and couldn't see any doorways, but he felt that those regimental exercises made people turn left and right every day.

However, when I saw that the village warriors of the 30 cantonments just now quickly formed six horizontal teams under the command of the regimental training without cooperating before, I knew the role of this.

Although he didn't know anything about military affairs, he also knew how important the position of the formation was on the battlefield. I was even more intimidated by the spectacular scene in front of me.

"Flat gun." Zhao Yong shouted.

"Flat gun."

"Flat gun." ……

In the whirring, the village warriors in the first two rows of the six horizontal teams leveled their spears, and the two spears were one in front of the other.

"Kill!"

"Kill~!"

In the midst of the killing, the spear stabbed forward.

"All move forward ......"

All the martial arts performances ended quickly, and according to the previous performance of each tun, under the discussion of Zhao Yan, Lin Yi and Wang Wenyue, the results of each group practice were quickly determined.

Next is the personal skills competition of Xiang Yong.

One by one, the townsmen stepped forward with spears in their hands and stabbed at the target. There was a clerk standing on the side, recording the achievements of Xia Xiangyong.

After the marksmanship assessment, there is the archery assessment.

But what made Zhao Yan frown was that many young men couldn't pull the longbow, and only more than half of them could open the bow.

Although the longbow is cheaper and simpler than the compound bow in terms of cost and production, and is stronger than the compound bow in terms of range and penetration, it is more laborious to open the bow than the compound bow.

There are only two longbow assessments, one is flat shooting, which requires accuracy. One is the projectile, which is divided into one to nine levels, and the distance between each level is thirty meters. The real assessment is from level 2 to 9, as long as you can accurately throw the arrow to the specified distance, you are considered qualified.

As a result, the results of the longbowmen were not ideal, most of them could not accurately hit the target, let alone accurately throw the arrows to the specified distance, and Zhao Yan found that the longbowmen were not so easy to train.

The biggest advantage of longbowmen is that they can hide behind pikemen and shoot, even when the two sides are engaged in a white-knuckle battle, the longbowmen can still suppress the enemy behind.

Musketeers, naturally, could not have had such abilities, and it turned out that bullets do not turn. Even if it could, it would only be possible for non-humans to do it.

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