In March of the first year of the Apocalypse, the 100,000 border troops drawn from various towns finally arrived in the capital. Zhu Youxiao's main energy was also put into the reorganization of these border troops.

The scale of the lecture hall has expanded more than ten times.

Among the original five infantry divisions in Jingying, with this expansion operation, a large number of grassroots officers and ordinary soldiers were transferred out and sent to the lecture hall for a three-month training.

In particular, a large number of soldiers of the Fifth Infantry Division, which was transferred to Jinzhou, were promoted to grass-roots officers, and a large number of grass-roots officers were transferred back to the Beijing Division, preparing to become the backbone officers of the 100,000-strong border army in this reorganization.

Zhang Guangtu was depressed, and after this transfer order, the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Infantry Division suddenly dropped a lot. After all, officers are the soul of an army, and the Fifth Infantry Division is just growing. However, after all, the Fifth Infantry Division has combat experience, and it is relatively easy to recover its strength, and it only takes a while, but in the short term, Zhang Kuotu does not plan to sweep north.

With the current state of the Fifth Infantry Division, if it encounters the main force of Jiannu, it is easy to have problems, after all, there is a huge disparity in strength, and more than half of the grassroots officers of the Fifth Infantry Division have been siphoned off.

Zhang Kuotu could only hide in Jinzhou to train troops, but fortunately, the martial arts hall sent a group of instructors over and set up a temporary martial arts training hall in Jinzhou, which was teaching the promoted group of ordinary soldiers with a certain amount of education.

The night school has achieved good results, and there are still a large number of ordinary soldiers in the army who are willing to learn culture. The current model of the Beijing camp does not require soldiers to have complex thoughts, and they only need to obey military orders when they go to the battlefield. But culture still has to be taught, otherwise where will the officers be promoted. Moreover, night schools are not designed to teach complex ideas, in addition to equipping soldiers with a certain level of culture, the main purpose is to further inculcate the idea of loyalty.

Compared with before, the treatment of the soldiers in Beijing has changed dramatically. At the same time, they are also fully guaranteed in terms of equipment and logistics, and they have never been badly treated in terms of rewards, so what reason do these soldiers have not to be loyal to the emperor?

But a lot of times, it's a fool to just do it and not say it. Just say it and don't do it, that's a liar.

Since they have been given good treatment, it is natural that they should also publicize it more, and always make it clear to the soldiers who gave them such good treatment.

Real treatment, plus continuous publicity. In addition, many stories of Zhongjun were used as teaching materials in the cultural classes of the night school, so the effect was very good.

Ordinary soldiers almost regarded Zhu Youxiao as a reborn parent.

Such a policy is obviously very effective in preventing mutiny. The reluctance of ordinary soldiers, as well as middle and lower-ranking officers, to rebel has formed a powerful 'momentum' that will be coerced by which they will strangle any thoughts of rebellion at the source.

The benefits of making soldiers literate are obvious, the only problem is that the cost will be higher. But the cost will not be much higher, and soldiers learn culture mainly in their free time such as night. That is, to pay more salaries to some teachers, and to spend more pen, ink and paper.

For Zhu Youxiao, who is very afraid of death, when training a group of troops with strong combat effectiveness, the first thing to consider is whether there will be a rebellion, so he is still willing to pay this cost.

Zhu Youxiao, who was training the new army in the capital, was busy at this time. This time, the 100,000-strong Beijing battalion was organized and trained at one time, and the personnel were relatively large, which tested the organizational ability very much. In order to compile and train this batch of border troops, more than 300 people were recruited for all kinds of documents alone. There are also many scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and there are always people who are willing to come to Beijing as clerks.

The treatment given by Jingying is also relatively good, and ordinary clerks have a salary of 10 silver dollars a month, and what they do is nothing more than all kinds of registration and co-ordination.

The 100,000 border soldiers were placed in 10 scattered barracks, and after some further registration, each border soldier was given an identity tag and two sets of uniforms.

For this identity card uniform, many border soldiers feel novel. The role of the military card is to confirm the identity of the fallen soldiers on the battlefield. The red military uniform looks very conspicuous and mighty. The Ming Dynasty advocated fire virtue, and the uniforms of officials were mainly red. Later, the Manchu Qing Dynasty believed that it was the black water in the north that defeated the fire of the Ming Dynasty, and the water was black, so the Manchu official uniform was black.

Then it was confirmed that the establishment was confirmed, and it was not until mid-March that the 100,000 border army was organized into nine infantry divisions.

On the issue of the establishment of infantry divisions, Zhu Youxiao absorbed the experience accumulated by the Fifth Infantry Division on the battlefield in eastern Liaodong and decided to equip the musketeers with iron armor. However, Sun Chuanting had a different opinion, and said to Zhu Youxiaojian: "The minister thinks that musketeers do not need to be equipped with iron armor. First, after equipping the iron armor, the mobility ability has decreased. Second, it is only necessary to equip the Beijing camp with enough field artillery, and before the Jiannu infantry approaches the battlefield, they will be bombarded by our field artillery first, and the Jiannu may not be able to pour many arrows on the musketeer phalanx at that time. ”

"What Aiqing said is not unreasonable, but the musketeers are equipped with iron armor, and they can be foolproof on the battlefield." Zhu Youxiao thought about it and felt that artillery sometimes may not be able to support the infantry all the time, and the situation on the battlefield changed a little quickly, so he still insisted on equipping the musketeers with iron armor.

"Your Majesty, it is better to train the Beijing battalion into two kinds, one kind of musketeers wearing iron armor and specially sent to Liaodong to fight. The other is not equipped with iron armor and does not need to be equipped with archers. Can be used on other battlefields. At the same time, it is also more economical in military spending. Sun Chuanting tried to build a way and came up with a compromise plan.

"Okay, just do it." Zhu Youxiao immediately agreed after hearing this, the main thing is the cost!

"In addition, in terms of the depth of the pikemen, ten people are indeed too many, and the minister thinks that three is very sufficient. If the position is set up, the enemy can rush to the front under the blow of firearms, and the formation will inevitably be relatively scattered, and three rows of pikemen are enough to stabilize the position. Sun Chuanting continued to build the Yì Road, cutting the depth of the pikemen even harder. The main thing is that after equipping the field artillery, there is no need for that at all.

Zhu Youxiao's thoughts in this regard tended to be conservative, and said: "There are too few people, and the continuous hand-to-hand combat ability is relatively poor, so it's still four!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Sun Chuanting did not continue to insist, and the poor hand-to-hand combat ability of the Ming army's firearms units has always been a problem. The Battle of Salhu was particularly deadly.

At the beginning of the Battle of Salhu, the wild boar skin was able to defeat a large number of Ming troops in the mountains with cavalry, which was due to multiple factors. First, the Ming army was a firearms unit, which was difficult to deploy in the mountains, unlike dealing with the Mongols on the steppe, and found the main cavalry of the Mongols from afar, and then set up a formation in advance, and first used firearms to carry out a saturation bombardment on the enemy. Therefore, although the cavalry of wild boar skin was not very suitable for fighting in the mountains, the Ming army was at a greater disadvantage. Second, someone sent a message to the wild boar skin, and it was none other than the current king of Joseon, Canghaijun. This guy ostensibly claims to be a vassal to the people, but in fact he is a reactionary.

So the wild boar skin with the cavalry suddenly killed, and the Ming army marched in the mountains, and there was no formation at all, so it was naturally directly defeated by the wild boar skin.

To put it simply, in the Battle of Sarhu, the problem of the Ming army was that it could not withstand the 'front row', and its hand-to-hand combat ability was too poor. The firearms in the mountainous areas could not be placed in formation, so that there was no firepower output. There is no front row, no output, and the result is naturally GG.

After some discussion among the monarchs and ministers, they made changes to the establishment of the Beijing camp. The 'Apocalypse Phalanx', which once made Zhu Youxiao mingming, has been modified beyond recognition at this time. (To be continued.) )