Every morning, the Zhao family would blow a loud wake-up call, and a group of family members would drag their tired bodies out of the barracks, and then go for a half-hour morning jog.

Then, after breakfast, they began to hold stone locks and practice marksmanship, each with a spear, and stabbed at the straw men. After an hour in a row, he began to stand in place like a wooden man, turning left and right with the password, and if anyone did something wrong, he would be beaten by the son of the Zhao family with a stick.

This is repeated until noon, and after lunch, we continue to stand. After standing for an hour in the afternoon, each of them held a spear in their hands, carried a few stones on their backs and began to run wildly in the field, at least that's how Zhang Buyun saw it.

In the evening, a group of exhausted family members began to camp under the command of the Zhao family's son, and at night they gathered in a circle and listened to what the Zhao family's son said.

Zhang Buyun couldn't get closer, and he didn't know what he was talking about. However, based on his observations, the Zhao family's behavior was a little abnormal.

The Zhao family seems to want to train an elite army, although Zhang Buyun doesn't know much about military affairs, but he can also clearly find the changes in those families.

At first, those housekeepers stood sparsely, but in less than half a month, those housekeepers were already able to move around neatly, and they also had an indomitable momentum when the spear was stabbed.

Zhang Buyun, who couldn't hold it anymore, decided to stay and observe for a while, because the conditions offered by the Zhao family were really tempting, and the literati could get one stone of grain and one tael of silver a month when they worked in the Zhao family.

Zhang Buyun wanted to run away and then wait for next year to participate in the scientific expedition, but after seeing the treatment offered by the Zhao family, he was moved, and swayed between going and not leaving.

So I decided to wait a little longer.

When he saw Zhao Yan training on a large scale, he kept an eye on it and observed it from a distance. I was quite confused in my heart, what is this Zhao Yan going to do?

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After Zhao Yan put the plan of training the new army on the desk, he began the devilish training of his subordinates.

Every morning for a half-hour morning run, and then after eating, let the family lift a hundred stone locks, in the training of the cold weapon army, lifting stone locks is an important link.

In particular, pikemen have high requirements for waist strength, so they must lift stone locks for each surname. After lifting the stone lock, it is time to practice marksmanship.

Two hours of gunnery, and then start training to stand in line.

Although the training team is tedious, the progress is not bad, and after more than ten days, the subordinates can basically distinguish which is left and which is right.

The problems encountered by the British in training Indian soldiers did not appear in Zhao Yan, perhaps the British shouted left and right in English, which led to the training for more than half a year, and those Indian soldiers could not even distinguish between left and right.

In the afternoon, it is still fighting, and carrying weights off-road, the cross-country distance is increasing day by day, and in the evening training and camping.

In the evening, it was the time for Zhao Yan to instill faith, tactics, and vision in the family, and it was also a time to exchange experiences.

Zhao Yan let his family live in the camp every day, and he himself lived with them.

Even if there were houses to live in Zhaojia Village, Zhao Yan would not let them live in them. Because living in a house makes soldiers lose their vigilance, they are easily attacked.

The Zhao family's family was so hard trained by him that they couldn't complain, but they insisted on it, and there was no escape.

Military law stipulates that deserters are punishable by beheading. And they ran away, and the family is still in the Zhao family! Where can they go?

In addition, as long as you become a member of the new army, you will be paid 5 taels of silver per month, you must know that the salary of the big head soldier of Denglai is only 1.5 taels of silver in a month, and he often can't get it.

Coupled with Zhao Yan's weal and woe with them, what else can they do? Let's practice with your head bored!

The Zhao family's family is relatively high in personal quality, originally it was a practice style, but also with the Zhao family trafficking in illicit salt, last time against tens of thousands of thieves, they have also seen blood on hand, and the practice is naturally more comfortable, under Zhao Yan's stick education, the progress in standing in line is very fast.

After half a month of training, I already have a good look, but I still occasionally make mistakes in standing in line.

Standing in line is almost the same training, it's time to start training the formation.

Zhao Yan already has the appearance of this army in the future, he comes from later generations, he is a soldier in the background, and he also studied the history of ancient wars when he worked in the research institute.

Therefore, Zhao Yan planned to train an army dominated by pikemen, and the phalanx composed of pikemen was definitely a solid defense line that the cavalry could not pass.

The pikemen specialize in restraining the cavalry, and the cavalry collides with the phalanx formed by the pikemen, that is, to find death, but in advance, this phalanx must be thick enough.

Most of the Manchu troops were cavalry, so pikemen were indispensable, and the white pole soldiers led by Qin Liangyu of Sichuan had achieved certain results in the battle against the Manchus.

But pikemen alone are not enough, they also need long-range kill units and cavalry. Long-range anti-personnel units are necessary, because the pikemen phalanx is relatively dull, and in case the opposing cavalry fights in a mounted manner, the pikemen will not be able to fight back at all.

Cavalry is even more important, and the result of infantry against cavalry is that victory cannot be pursued, defeat cannot be escaped. Even if it was a combination of pikemen and ranged kill units, it would be impossible to completely eliminate the Manchus. The role of cavalry is to reconnoitre, raid, pursue and capture the enemy, etc.

As for the cavalry, there are no conditions yet, the main thing is that there are no horses.

In terms of long-range kill forces, Zhao Yan has two choices in his heart, one is muskets, which naturally needless to say, muskets have become the mainstream weapons of the West in this century, and the troops of the Ming court also use a large number of firearms.

The second is the longbow, the surname of the longbow is still not weaker than the musket even in the eighteenth century, and the longbow is easy to make. But the only drawback is that it takes a long time to train a qualified longbowman, and to organize a legion dominated by longbowmen, a large number of people who practice archery are needed. The British could only organize a longbow army of tens of thousands of people to train archery all over the country.

The reason why the longbow did not show its skills in the Western campaign was mainly because the British had been expelled from the European continent, and the Western soldiers of this era wore more and more plate armor with perverted defense, and the power of the longbow was weakened to a certain extent.

At the same time, Westerners in this era were reluctant to spend a lot of money to build a regular army, so they chose to recruit peasants and use cheap muskets to fight. You must know that Europeans have one characteristic of fighting wars, the purpose of fighting is no different from that of bandits, mainly to capture the enemy and ask for ransom. Longbowmen were incapable of capturing enemies in close combat, and often shot nobles to death.

For various reasons, the longbow did not appear in large-scale warfare in Europe.

If it is a well-trained army of longbowmen, it will definitely be more powerful on the battlefield than the musket troops, because the muskets of this era can only be regarded as rudimentary firearms, and the power is not as strong as the longbow.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Yan decided to form a force composed of pikemen and musketeers, supplemented by cavalry and longbowmen.

The mixture of muskets and longbows was also due to the equipment considerations of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there were two kinds of armor in the Manchu Dynasty, one was the armor of the Ming court, and the other was cotton armor.

Pierce armor to defend against arrows and weapons, and cotton armor to defend against firearms and cold.

The Manchu Qing often let the cavalry wear several layers of cotton armor to attack the Ming army, and it was difficult for the Ming army's firearms to receive satisfactory results under the blocking of cotton armor.

But when a rudimentary body armor such as cotton armor is applied to a bow and arrow, it is like papier-mâché.

There is still a long way to go to build such a war machine. However, the gears of the pikemen have been preliminarily built, and after half a month of training, Zhao Yan selected three people from the family as the captains.

They are Zhao Yong, Lin Yi, and Wang Wenyue, and these three people performed the best, each of whom was divided into 30 family members. It's time to expand the recruitment, and the newly recruited soldiers will be trained by the three of them.

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