It was still in front of the Guan Gong Temple at the south gate of the county seat, where Liu Jun and Li Chunjiang gathered the horse team Xiangyong. After the recruitment on the same day, those qualified people were required to go back and ask the old head of the township to be a guarantor, proving that they were innocent and good people in the local area, and after having no criminal record, Liu Jun gave each person five taels of silver to settle down, and advanced a month's salary of two taels of silver, in addition to sending down a piece of cloth for each person, and a set of clothes for each.

After having a meal at Li's house, they were given three days off the next day and let them each go home to settle down.

Liu Jun was still a little worried that these people would run away after taking the money, but then he thought about it, except for the eight monks who were recruited because of their outstanding martial arts, the rest of the dozens were basically locals in their hometowns, and they all went through the township to do the security first.

Sure enough, when Liu Jun came to the front of Guan Gong Temple, the villagers had already returned one after another.

"Twelve of us stand in a row, and then count." Liu Jun shouted.

A group of sturdy young men stood in line as requested, and then reported the numbers. Although Liu Jun told them how to report the number, but after a long time, they always made mistakes, and it took about half an hour to finally report correctly.

A hundred people in total.

Originally, only 40 people were recruited that day, but in the past few days, many people have heard the news and rushed to the county seat to ask for recruitment. In the end, after Liu Jun and Li Chunjiang discussed, they recruited more than 30 people from among them, and finally gathered 100 people.

A team of 100 people is already a force. But now these hundred people are just a group of hunters, monks, householders, farmers, post men, etc., and there is still a long way to go to train them into a group of elite riders.

Li Chunjiang looked at the villagers standing in rows, and his heart was full of excitement. He asked Liu Jun, "What should I do next?" ”

Liu Jun smiled to hide the nervousness in his heart, "The most important thing at present is to organize a team and make it clear that it is a unit." ”

As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper from his arms, which was a compilation table he had made in the past two days based on the results of the assessment at the time of recruitment.

"Five people in a team, choose a strong and smart person as the captain. The second corps shall have one team, ten soldiers, plus one team commander, and one additional fireman. ”

"Three teams are one flag, one flag commander, three is the team total of three soldiers, plus thirty soldiers."

"There is a bureau for two flags, one hundred general, two flags total, six teams of general, six group soldiers, plus sixty soldiers. In addition, the bureau has set up a middle flag, including military prisons, night non-collection, doctors, veterinarians, grooms, flag bearers, drummers, heralds, clerks, etc. 100 total flags, each with a number of families. ”

Li Chunjiang nodded after reading it, and he could see that this should be in accordance with the method of establishment in Qi Shaobao's actual military training record. In the late Ming Dynasty, all military generals would collect Qi Jiguang's two military books, the actual record of military training and the new book of discipline. Qi Shaobao has become the god of war of the Ming Dynasty, and his bravery and fierce fighting of Zhejiang soldiers is the attention of the world. Therefore, the military book he wrote has become a popular military textbook for military generals.

Liu Jun's establishment is three flags in one bureau, the left and right flags belong to the combat flag, and the middle flag belongs to the non-combat flag, which is the logistics support and division command flag.

There were three teams on the left and right, each with twelve soldiers.

Liu Jun planned to try his best to establish a team organization according to Qi Shaobao's method. According to what Qi Shaobao said in the soldier's book, first select the team leader, then let the team leader select the ten soldiers of their own team, and finally assign them the weakest ability to be a firefighter in each team.

"Gongji, I suggest that the two of us should be the flag chief of the left and right flags, what do you think?" Li Chunjiang is the leader of this horse team, so naturally he is the head of the hundred, and two of the three battle flags below, Liu Jun plans to bring one himself, and then let Li Chunjiang also take care of one.

"No problem. How do you plan to choose these six team leaders? ”

Li Chunjiang brought eight family members into the horse team, all of whom were carefully selected by the Li family, and all of them were veterans with battlefield experience. Originally, it was okay to pick six people from it to be the head of the team, but for other considerations, Liu Jun didn't want this. He thought for a while and said, "Gongji, look at how this is, you are in charge of the left banner, and I am in charge of the right banner." The three team leaders of the left banner will pick three people from your family, and the three team leaders of the right banner will pick three people from my brothers, so that the left and right flags can be more familiar, how about it? ”

Li Chunjiang smiled and did not object.

In the end, the matter was determined in this way, Li Chunjiang led the left banner, Liu Jun led the right banner, and the three team leaders under each banner were served by the two brothers of their respective families.

"Zhang Shan, Wang Qian, Zhang Xiyu!"

"Here!" The second, third, and fourth of the thirteen Taibao responded loudly together.

Liu Jun said to the three people, "From now on, you are the team leader of the Queen's City Horse Team Right Banner Team A, Team B, and Team C." There are twelve of you in each team, and in addition to being the leader of the team, there are also ten soldiers and one soldier, so now, go and choose your own ten soldiers. ”

Let the captain choose the soldiers of his own team, which is also a point emphasized in Qi Jiguang's book, and Liu Jun has no intention of changing it.

Zhang Shan, who was appointed as the captain, was excited, they acted quickly, they were all involved in the recruitment assessment that day, and naturally they knew which one was great, and they all ran over to persuade those with the best performance to join them.

Zhang Shan and the three of them were very smart, they first selected two brothers from each of the remaining nine Taibao and appointed them as their own commanders, and then asked the two commanders to recruit four soldiers each.

This was similar to the situation on Li Chunjiang's Left Banner, where everyone first appointed the people they knew best as their commanders, and finally the twelve commanders began to compete for the best soldiers.

Among them, Wuxin and other eight monks naturally became the focus of contention. These monks are the best in a group of recruits, the competition scene is very hot, and even in the end, some people began to roll up their sleeves, and in the end it was Liu Jun who proposed to let the various captains compete, and every time they won a game, they could compete for a monk.

The other recruits also gathered around with relish, watching the duel between their respective bosses and captains. This contest even attracted many people in the city to watch.

The competition was fierce, but the requirements were to the end, and in the end, the captains decided the winner with their own skills. At the beginning, it was just a competition for eight monks, but compared with each other, it was simply every time he won a game, he had the qualification to pick people. Everyone took turns to pick one by one, until the strongest ones were all picked away.

The twelve captains each relied on their ability to fill four subordinates.

The rest, some with special abilities, were classified into the Central Banner, and most of them were recruited in a targeted manner, such as veterinarians, doctors, and drummers. And then the rest are mostly the weakest.

These people were not chosen, they were all left.

They stood on the field, a little embarrassed.

At this time, Liu Jun stood up.

"You are all now all listed as firefighters, and firefighters are auxiliaries, one level lower than soldiers. The rest of your monthly salary remains the same, but your salary is reduced from two taels to one tael. Of course, if you can practice your skills hard, you can also be promoted to the battle soldier sequence, and then your monthly salary will be restored to two taels. In the same way, those who are selected for war today will also be demoted to auxiliary soldiers and their salaries to one or two if their performance is not good. In short, how much salary can be paid, it all depends on their own ability, and in the future, the worst able soldiers will be demoted to auxiliaries, and the auxiliary soldiers with outstanding performance can be promoted to soldiers, so work hard. ”

As soon as he heard this, several young men who had not been selected and were listed as firefighters quit and became angry.

Liu Jun glanced at them coldly, "If you don't want to do it, I won't force it, you can leave now, but before you go, please hand over the Anjia silver and the January advance silver issued to you." ”

In a word, the young men hesitated again. Although listed as a fireman, some are embarrassed and some are angry. But there is still a chance to be promoted to a soldier again. Moreover, even if you can really only be an auxiliary, one or two a month, there are still twelve taels a year. Coupled with six buckets of monthly rations, as well as clothes and cloths and other distributed items, this treatment is actually quite good.

It's so hard to just go.

Eventually, the young men fell silent, and none of them really moved their legs.

"Very well, since you are willing to stay, you will have to abide by the discipline of the horse team from now on. And I'm here to tell you in advance, don't think that since you have become a fireman, it is impossible to be demoted, don't hold this kind of thought as soon as possible, our horse team is not for people to mix up food and pay, and if the performance is too poor, we will be sent back. ”

After sounding the alarm bell for these firefighters, Liu Jun assigned one firefighter to each of the six teams.

In the end, Liu Jun and Li Chunjiang each selected four people as their family members, and then selected personnel for various positions in the Central Banner, among which the military prison was equivalent to the military police, responsible for maintaining military discipline, and the night was not collected, it was a scout. Liu Jun set four military prisons and six prisoners who were not accepted at night. The rest of the standard-bearers and drummers are also available.

After the organization, the whole horse team is no longer chaotic, and with organizations at all levels and officers at all levels, there is already a preliminary atmosphere of a team.

"Now, the general manager of each team and the general manager of Wu come forward to lead the army." Liu Jun shouted loudly. The equipment ordered in the Lu family, the first batch of summer clothes has been delivered.

Although the recruits were given a set of ready-to-wear clothes that day, these guys went home, showed off for a while, and all stored their clothes well, and none of them wore them on their bodies today.

The hundred people stood there, still wearing monk's robes, wearing patches, all kinds of colors, flowers and green, no sense of neatness, like a group of flowers.

Dressed like this, where does the momentum come from.

A set of new summer uniforms was distributed, and unlike the fiery red clothes of the imperial court, the color of the clothes that Liu Jun chose for his township was blue-gray, well, the color of the military uniforms of the Eighth Road.

The texture of this batch of clothes made by the Lu family is good, although it is only cloth, but the handiwork is very good, and the materials are also good. In particular, the style designed by Liu Jun himself, although it is still not out of the style of this era, it has improved.

When the clothes were issued, Liu Jun asked them to change into them immediately.

Everyone happily took off their old clothes and put on this brand new uniform, and immediately felt that the whole person was much more powerful, and even the person was much more confident.

Li Chunjiang's eyes were happy, "Okay, very good, this is the horse team I want." ”

Liu Jun held the flag of the horse team sent by the Lu family at this time, "Gongji, this is our flag." ”

Li Chunjiang took the flag, unfolded it, tied it to the long flagpole, and waved it vigorously, and the flag immediately waved in the wind, hunting and flying, and the fiery red flag was embroidered with a mighty and fierce nine-headed bird.

This flag pattern is also designed by Liu Jun himself, all say that the nine-headed bird in the sky, the Hubei Yankee on the ground, the nine-headed bird has always been the worship totem of the Chu State, Liu Jun hopes that their township team in Hubei will eventually one day, like the nine phoenixes soaring for nine days!