Early in the morning, the sky was just slightly bright, and the sound of suona had already sounded in Hutou Fort.

Li Zhenli played the card game last night, and Chen Zhenhui and others almost ended until dawn, and at this time she was in a daze, and she couldn't help but pull the quilt over her ears and shout, "What kind of suona is blowing in the morning." ”

Chen Zhenhui, who was lying beside her, sat up suddenly, "The suona is called the palm horn flute in the army, which is to gather the leaders of the official flags and distribute military affairs, and it has to be blown until all the officers have arrived." ”

"Ah, it's annoying to keep blowing." Li Zhenli muttered a few words, she was not very lucky last night, and she lost more than 100 taels of silver in one night.

"Listening to the sound of this horn, you will know that the nine-headed bird is indeed in order. You sleep again, I'll have to go out and see. ”

"It's up to you." Li Zhenli's whole person shrank into the quilt a little more, and wrapped her whole head. After Chen Zhenhui got out of bed and dressed briefly, she went to find Li Chunjiang with Mao Xiang, Fang Yizhi, and Hou Fangyu, and went to the camp outside the south gate of Hutou Fort together.

By the time they arrived, the sound of the horn had already stopped, and even Liu Jun's officers' morning discussion had ended. He was walking towards the school with a group of officers, and Chen Zhenhui and the others hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

"Brother Liu's early morning gathering will be discussed, is there any big move today?"

"Today, the recruits will be officially bound into the army." Liu Jun replied.

"How do you tie up the army?" Chen Zhenhui is not very familiar with the affairs of the army.

Liu Jun walked in front wearing a long sword on his cotton armor waist, and explained to them, "The nine-headed bird has just undergone a major expansion, although these recruits have also been in the camp for ten days and half a month, and they have also been organized and divided before, but that is only a temporary formation, this time is the period of their recruit training, and we still have to conduct some basic training and observation and assessment for them. Originally, this training camp would have to take at least three months, but now that the troops are about to be dispatched, it can only end in less than half a month. Today, we are going to formalize the ministries. ”

On the Nanying school field, on the wide school field, there were already teams of soldiers and horses. Although most of the recruits have been in the army for less than half a month, this time has not left them idle. The training program of these recruits during this period is very simple, the first item is naturally the running station queue, then let them practice boxing, and let them choose different weapons for training according to their physical conditions, the third training content is to learn the flag and drum commands, and the fourth is to memorize military regulations by rote.

These four workouts are available every day. The barracks are good to eat and drink, but they are also strict. In the past half a month, it has begun to bear some results, at least at this time, tens of thousands of people are standing on the school field, and they are also presentable, horizontal and vertical, and the crows are silent.

Liu Jun stood on a makeshift wooden viewing platform, his gaze sweeping over these old and new soldiers. They are all young and strong young men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, and they are basically Huguangqi yellow people. With the same township and the same party, such a team can enter the state faster.

What Liu Jun has to do now is actually very simple, that is, to formally organize these recruits into three battalions: the combat battalion, the training battalion, and the baggage battalion. Zhang Shan's garrison battalion and Zhu Yuancheng's regimental training battalion have just begun to recruit new troops, and they will not be able to be formed for a while and a half.

Chen Zhenhui and the others all stood aside with a curious expression. I want to see how Liu Jun organizes his team. But it turned out that it seemed a little too simple, Liu Jun first announced the camp officers of the three battalions, and Liu Jun himself served as the camp officer of the war battalion. Wang Qian served as the commander of the teaching battalion, and Cai Yuan served as the commander of the battalion, and announced that Zhang Shan would be appointed as the garrison of Macheng. Zhu Yuancheng served as the general manager of Macheng Lian.

Then Liu Jun appointed nine thousand commanders of the three battalions of war, auxiliary, and teaching, mainly Liu Jun's brothers, and there were also old team members like Zhang Donggou who were regarded as Liu Jun's disciples.

Liu Jun announced the appointment, but did not arrange positions for them. Liu Jun asked the three battalion generals and the nine thousand generals to choose their own commanders.

The battalion generals and the general officers of the 1000 divisions of their battalion headquarters selected the general commanders of their subordinate divisions, and then the officers at the two levels of the ministry and department selected a number of 100 general officers at the bureau level, and after the selection, the generals themselves selected the general officers of the various bureaus and bureaus under their own among these people.

Then, the officers at the two levels of each department and bureau formed a selection panel to select the flags and flags together, and then the hundred flags and flags of each bureau selected their subordinate flags from them.

Then the officers of the two levels of the bureau flag jointly elect the team leader, and then the flag general selects the three team leaders of the flag.

This method was not created by Liu Jun himself, but was ready-made in Qi Jiguang's book. Qi Jiguang and Lu Xiangsheng were both famous generals in the Ming Dynasty, and they all had a characteristic in their use of soldiers, such as Qi Jiguang focused on the general selection of thousands of generals, the total selection of 100 generals, the total selection of 100 flags, the total selection of flags, the total selection of team members, and the selection of team members. And Lu Xiangsheng, who became the governor of the world in his thirties, paid more attention to the method of leading the troops, and paid more attention to the relationship between relatives and friends of the township party to train and lead the troops, and the entire army was this kind of relationship between relatives, friends, and neighbors.

Now Liu Jun paints the gourd in the same way, but there are still some differences.

For each level of officer, a group of candidates will be selected first, and then the officers at the upper two levels of the post will form a review panel to select a sufficient number of officers from among them, and then the officers at the higher level of the post will draw lots to get the order of selection, and then select their own direct subordinate officers from among them in order.

The first level will continue to be picked like this until the team is picked up.

All officers are selected in turn, and then they are selected into the battalions and units.

Of course, this method requires not only the selection of officers, but also the selection of soldiers.

Chen Zhenhui and others were really eye-opening, they didn't expect that officers could be selected like this in the army.

"Brother Jiye, shouldn't officers be appointed from above? Why is it your own choice? ”

Liu Jun said with a smile, "Under normal circumstances, of course, it is directly appointed by the above, or promoted by merit." However, the current situation is special, we have nearly 10,000 people in three battalions here, not to mention enough officers, even the veteran team members only have about 600 people, and many of them have to be transferred to the garrison battalion and regimental training battalion to make seeds, so the situation is special and we can only use special methods. ”

Of course, Liu Jun can directly appoint all officers with rank above the flag chief, but it is impossible for him to be familiar with tens of thousands of people in such a short time. At the same time, he also believed that this method of selecting officers step by step will enable the commanders at all levels of this new unit to gain the authority of officers more quickly.

After all, the two battalion generals except Liu Jun were originally only bureau commanders, and each thousand generals were more just flag generals. At present, many of the new commanders are more just ordinary team commanders, and it is difficult for them to gain authority as soon as possible without adopting some special methods. And now, the subordinates selected by the commanders at all levels themselves will definitely be able to give them some help.

But Liu Jun did not completely let this matter go, he still engaged in a candidate and selection panel mechanism, setting up candidates, so that all talented people can be selected, and the selection panel can also be more fair and just. Although the officers in charge at all levels can choose their own subordinate officers, the premise is that you can only choose the officers of that rank selected by the selection panel according to the order of their own lots.

And the jury doesn't just judge whoever they want, they have to choose from among the candidates.

Although the list of candidates at all levels can be recommended for election by all officers and soldiers, the final nomination power is still in Liu Jun's hands. In short, Liu Jun also worked hard.

The effect is not bad, and the establishment of each battalion is still the same, and in the end, the officers of the flag teams of each battalion, department, department and bureau are quickly selected.

"What's next?" Chen Zhenhui asked.

"The next step is when it's time for the teams to choose their players." Liu Jun replied. The team always has to select its own team members, but their selection method is somewhat different from that of officers.

After this half-month intensive training, the nine-headed bird also initially grasped the general situation of the recruits, so with Liu Jun's order. The soldiers on the captain began to stand in division.

The fundamental performance and results of their training were to single out hundreds of the worst and weaker recruits among them, and they stood in the far right corner. There was a big sign there, "Mariners." "These soldiers are called firefighters, and they are the worst soldiers.

And then the rest of the recruits. Fundamentally, their comprehensive score was eventually divided into archers, firecrackers, knife players, hook gunners, boring palladium players, and so on. There are even some who are chosen as gunners, riders, etc.

The recruits were scattered and stood in their own teams.

Then, it's up to the team leaders to choose the people.

Of course, the barracks have the right of first refusal.

Hundreds of commanders of the barracks were selected by drawing lots. Then each team always selects its own soldiers in order, of course, this selection of soldiers is also limited, for example, the combat battalion is now mainly infantry, but there are also artillery, cavalry such establishments, and different formations, Liu Jun has made detailed regulations on the composition of each team of soldiers. For example, there are 12 infantry teams, but there are also two different formations: the fire team and the killer team.

The infantry firecracker team is always the total team and the firecrackers plus ten firecrackers, except for the firefighters who carry copper pots with knives and sticks, the remaining eleven people are equipped with firearms. The killer team is a cold weapon team, and the team is always a spear and a bow and knife, then two knife players, four archers, two archers, two boring archers, and one fireman.

The commanders of each team have to select people according to the allocation of the troops to which their teams belong.

The first team to win the right to choose was always the captain of the killer team, he first went to the knife and card player area, walked around in it, and selected two people in their twenties, who looked more stable, but more lean, and let these two people be one of the rattan players, and the other was the long player, and at the same time appointed these two people as the left and right captains of his team.

Then the three of them went to the archer section together, and discussed the selection of four recruits who had good archery scores to come back and serve as the four archer fighters of the team. Then he chose two more swarthy but very strong ones to come back and let them be boring archers, and finally two young men who looked very imposing came back to be archers. As for the last fireman, this soldier is the drinking soldier in the team according to the rules, and is responsible for carrying dry food and equipment and cutting off the head when marching and fighting, and is responsible for fetching water and cooking and other chores in peacetime, but the other people in this firewood team have no right to command, only the commander-in-chief.

The team always went around in the firefighters, and finally chose a big one that was very sturdy, but looked a little innocent.

After the team always selected all the eleven members of his team, he took them to the long row of tables under the stage, where there were many handwritten books, which were specially responsible for registering and making books. Once selected, it cannot be changed. (To be continued......)