All 50 recruits were arranged 10 kilometers north of Li Town, where there was originally a small village of less than 50 households, after the transformation of Huangzhuang, the villagers here were arranged to other villages, and this place was vacant, this time Zhu Houwei recruited craftsmen to build the soldiers' dormitory building first, as for the fence, you can take it slowly, first use a wooden fence to prevent wild beasts from entering.

On the north side of this small village is a saline field, about the size of five football fields, which is now used as a martial arts field. How to train soldiers, Zhu Houzhao brothers also discussed for a long time, Zhu Houzhao believes that they will be pure firearms army in the future, so as long as the practice queue and familiarity with weapons are enough, so that these soldiers can also be put into the battlefield as soon as possible. But Zhu Houwei has a different view. There is no way to completely replace cold weapons with firearms in this era, and if only firearms are practiced, then the cooperation of other troops must be carried out in future wars, and even in the War of Resistance Against Japan, there are also situations of fighting bayonet and white-knuckle battles, let alone now. Therefore, in order to be able to fight independently in the future, training in cold weapons is also needed.

So what skills do you have to learn as a soldier of the amphibious battalion? The first is to learn to use firearms proficiently, and then to be familiar with cold weapons. Zhu Houwei has already thought about what to use in his heart, but he has not yet made it, and the formation and weapons of cold weapons have also been considered, but it is not yet time to learn.

Although these 50 people are all from the Zhu Mansion, there is basically no problem with the number of queues, but they were not regular soldiers before, and they were basically only 17 to 18 years old, and most of them still looked a little thin. Therefore, first of all, they should exercise their physique, get up at 6 o'clock in the morning, start running around the martial arts arena at 6.15 o'clock, start having breakfast at 7 o'clock, and then practice the queue from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock, standing, after 9 o'clock is sit-ups, frog jumps, push-ups and other exercises to enhance their physical fitness, eat at 11 o'clock, still stand at 12 o'clock, queue, continue to exercise at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, eat dinner at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, go to class at 6 o'clock, learn ancient war examples by a special person to give a speech, and get out of class at half past 7 o'clock to write down the experience, The main thing is to write about what kind of strategy you would adopt if you were an attacker or defender at that time, how to arrange the troops, and discuss the gains and losses together in class the next day.

These people were trained as officers, so the professional course of war could not be left behind, and the Zhu Houzhao brothers also specially asked craftsmen to make sand tables according to historical books and illustrations for them to use in class. In the afternoon class, the two brothers personally guided, and the experience written by these people will also be personally checked to understand the qualifications of this group of people and the character of the soldiers.

As a person who explains the course is very important, it is best to be both civil and military, to be able to analyze the examples of war through geography, politics, economics and other aspects, so that these 50 people can be convinced, for these 50 people's methods, strategies can be summarized, the best candidate is Bai Xiaode, but he is still in Shandong, so he had to go to the Ministry of War to find an ambassador to explain. This ambassador sounds very magnificent, but in fact, he has not entered the stream, that is, he is not even from the ninth grade, and he will guide him when he returns to Beijing.

Every day, these students have a huge amount of exercise, and if the nutrition does not keep up, it is easy to waste people's training, so Zhu Houwei ordered these 50 people to eat a pig every 2 days. Other vegetables and rice are available in unlimited quantities, but it is still the old rule that you can eat as much as you want, and you can't leave anything left.

The barracks are there, and the weapons are about to be manufactured, and at present, these firearms craftsmen are still in Zhufu, but Zhufu is not a good place to make firearms, and in the event of an accident, the loss will be too great. The north of the Jingshi is not safe, in the Yingzong period, when the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was still very strong, Wara also hit the vicinity of the Jingshi, for the current military strength of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houwei did not dare to rest assured, so he could only put it in the south.

In the end, it was chosen to establish a weapons research and manufacturing base in a mountain between the capital and Baoding Province, and now some craftsmen have been sent to build some necessary buildings in the mountains. The land is about 2,000 meters long between two mountains, 300 meters wide at its widest point, and the narrowest point is the north and south entrances, only 4,5 meters wide, where craftsmen will build a wall with cement. After some dormitories have been built inside, the firearms craftsmen will move in.

Zhu Houwei had already handed over the drawings of the firearms to be manufactured, and asked them to study them first to see if there were any difficulties. This time there was only one firearm in the drawings, and that was the flintlock pistol. The arquebuses now used in Europe are affected by the weather, as soon as it rains and snows, windy days, while flintlock pistols are much less affected. With the current smelting technology of the Ming Dynasty, it is no problem to make an arquebus, and the difference between a flintlock pistol and an arquebus is that the gunpowder is fired from flint, so it stands to reason that there should be no problem. Zhu Houwei asked them to study this individual weapon first, and as for the God of War cannon, they could only take their time.

Time flies quickly, a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and the 50 soldiers of the land and water battalion have become much stronger, it is the age of the long body, with the amount of exercise and nutrition, the physical changes are very fast. This month, not only these fighters, but even the two Zhu Houwei brothers have become much stronger, and when guiding them to train, most of the time the Zhu Houwei brothers also trained together. Zhu Houwei is still young, the flesh on his body is only much tighter, and there are no obvious lines, Zhu Houzhao has trained his abdominal muscles, and his arms and chest muscles are also a lot thicker.

Now there is no physical problem with the queue of the water and land battalion, whether it is moving or stationary, it has the appearance of a modern army. The daily military courses also benefited them a lot, and Zhu Houwei decided to move on to the next stage and practice cold weapons.

In the era of cold weapons, the formation and the coordination between the arms were very important, in order to allow them to burst out with strong combat effectiveness when fighting in small units, Zhu Houwei shamelessly "invented" the "Mandarin Duck Array". This mandarin duck formation is famous in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and its inventor Qi Jiguang and Qi Shaobao relied on this small army formation to fight the Japanese and frightened.

The combat effectiveness of the guards was notoriously low, and in the Jiajing Dynasty, there were often dozens of pirates chasing hundreds or even thousands of guards to slash and kill, but the casualties of the pirates were pitiful. Qi Jiguang's troops were different, relying on elite troops and mandarin duck formations, sometimes killing 2,300 enemies while suffering less than 10 casualties of his own.

The Mandarin Duck Formation is adaptable, he adapts to narrow terrain such as mountains, forests, roads, etc., and most importantly, it is very practical to fight in small units and against more than 10,000 people. In the past, there have been many famous formations in history, the most famous is Zhuge Liang's Bagua Array, and what are the Glaive Formations, Cone Formations, and Goose-shaped Formations, but these formations are a bit mysterious in the eyes of later generations. The Mandarin Duck Formation clearly stipulates the number of people, the duties of each person, weapons and so on. The mandarin duck formation is a team of 12 people, the first is the captain, the second two hold a long card, a rattan card, the long player holds a long shield to block the heavy arrows and spears of the Japanese Kou, the rattan hand holds a light rattan shield and carries a javelin, waist knife, the long player and the rattan player mainly cover the rear team to advance, and the rattan player can also fight with the enemy in close combat in addition to covering. Then the two of them are holding the wolf whisk, the wolf whisk is the use of the southern growth of the bamboo, choose its old and solid, the end of the bamboo is obliquely cut into a pointed shape, and leave the sharp branches around it, each wolf whisk is about 3 meters long, the wolf whisk hand uses the sharp blade at the front end of the wolf whisk to assassinate the enemy to cover the advance of the shield hand and the attack of the pikeman behind. Then there were four spearmen with spears, two on the left and two on the right, and the shieldmen and wolf-bearers on the left and right in front of them. This was followed by the skirmishers with short knives, who, if they did not stab the enemy, rushed forward with their daggers to slash the enemy. The last one was the fireman in charge of the meal. In this formation, Zhu Houwei has made some changes, that is, to remove the food soldiers, all of them have become combatants, and the food will be specially arranged to form a cooking class to be responsible for the food of several groups, in addition to these, Zhu Houwei will also join the musketeers in the future to ensure that the Mandarin Duck Formation has a certain long-range strike capability.

As for whether the 10th is bad or not, we will only know through actual combat. Now there are 50 people in total, each group has 1 captain, 1 long player and 1 rattan player, 2 wolf players, 4 pikemen, 2 short soldiers, and 5 musketeers, and two groups of 6 musketeers, divided into three groups.

Assign individual positions in the group according to the soldier's physical fitness and strengths, and each class only needs to mechanically train a few movements, such as the pikeman, then train the left stab, the right stab, and the front stab. In large-scale wars, there are very few places where individual martial arts can be played, so the movements need to be simple, fast, accurate, and ruthless.

Of course, everyone will have to train muskets in the future, and if necessary, all of them will become musketeers, so as to inflict a lot of damage on the enemy at a long distance.

Now three groups of two groups of 17 people, one group of 16 people, according to the war experience written by 50 people in the past month, Zhu Houwei selected 3 people as a small flag, that is, equivalent to the squad leader of later generations, the long player and rattan player in each group as the deputy flag, there is no such thing in the official position of the Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Houwei still added, after all, it is the army of their two brothers. Of course, there is also a strange thing happening here, that is, the general of the sea waterproof land battalion (equivalent to the battalion commander) is Zhu Shou, Zhu Shou specially asked people to make an official seal by themselves, the boss is a piece, carved with good jade, and sighed after getting it, "The official is too small, he is a general, it is better to directly call a man a mighty general Zhu Shou, what do you think?" Zhu Houwei replied angrily, "I don't think it's good, you can do it." Zhu Houzhao was a little puzzled: "What does this 'work' mean?" ”

Zhu Houwei thought for a while, and then said, "A very narrow single-plank bridge, just enough for one person to pass, under the bridge is an abyss, normal people cross the bridge carefully, and people like you have to run and jump when crossing the bridge, while looking back, this is called 'work'." Zhu Houzhao listened, but said with a smile, "This work is very good, I like to do it, otherwise it will be too boring in this life if you follow the rules." Zhu Houwei couldn't laugh when he heard it, and he didn't know whether to praise or criticize Zhu Houzhao's attitude to life.

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