Although the news brought back by Lu Jiu was terrifying, it was also hearsay after all, and it was not true or true, and people's attention quickly shifted to the construction of various places and the training of the captive army. Li Xin basically left the matter of relocation alone, and it was all coordinated by Mao Wei and Zhang, and it was also well organized, and there was no mistake. His energy was devoted entirely to the formation and training of the army.

After expansion and integration of the original soldiers, the musket battalion and pikemen totaling 2,000 men were finally determined in a one-to-one ratio. The number of musketeers was far less than expected, of course, not because of the lack of musket production, but ultimately because the time required to train a qualified musketeer was too high, and the number of musketeers could reach the maximum compromise between quantity and quality.

Although many people do not think so, because they are good at what they do, many local guards have also set up queues in their training, and the recruits are selected on the basis of merit from the local guards, which undoubtedly provides a certain foundation for the training of new recruits.

At that time, people only paid attention to the sharpness and firepower of weapons, but in fact ignored the corresponding tactics that accompanied them, such as arquebuses, if there were no suitable tactics, then even if there were tens of thousands of people, they were probably just peasants with burning sticks and vulnerable.

At the same time, with the increase in numbers, scheduling became the primary problem, and the Ming army was not suitable for the tactics compiled by Li Xin, so he was lazy to improve the modern organization.

For this reason, Li Xin also specially engaged in tactical exercises, and Heisenberg, as an artillery instructor and the most senior artilleryman, naturally brought his own trained artillery to participate in the exercise and battle.

In the exercise ground of Nuoda, the sound of large and small whistles echoed rhythmically, and the slogans of one, two, three, and four came and went, and the whole army was based on 100 people, with a 100-man musket team and a 100-man spear team as a group, and a five-person horizontal team was doing all kinds of slightly scattered forward and turning movements. Soon, the horizontal teams, which were originally just teams, began to gather and deform, and gradually evolved into several T-shaped formations.

The officers of the former guard station present all looked strange, and praised it in their mouths, but they slandered in their hearts that these were all useless embroidery movements, and they didn't rely on bravery on the battlefield? Change a few formations slowly, and when the time comes, let alone fight, it's too late to escape.

And the pupils of Heisenberg's eyes, who were standing behind Li Xin, suddenly contracted, as if he had seen something, and it involved what he was most unwilling to see. He finally couldn't help but ask Li Xin.

"Your Excellency the General has ever been to the hometown of the lower official?"

Heisenberg's hometown is naturally Europe, and this question also makes Li Xin a little involved, he did go to Europe in his previous life, but he never went to Renaissance Europe, so he shook his head categorically.

"Your Excellency General, does this formation have a name?"

Heisenberg followed suit. His face was gloomy and terrible, his father and brother died tragically under this kind of battle formation, and the family was defeated because of it, which was a sore spot that he could never touch, and the battle formation made up by Li Xin poked this place hard, awakening the past that he had been reluctant to mention.

Gustav phalanx!

Li Xin almost blurted out, but he just said that he had never been to Europe, so how could he justify it? had to explain that he patted his head and came up with it, but he hadn't thought of the name yet.

"Your Excellency, in the hometown of the lower officials, there is a phalanx improved by a king named Gustav that is almost identical to it. That king is regarded as the god of war in the world, and if His Excellency the General coincides with him......"

The implication is self-explanatory.

Li Xin secretly said ashamed, he didn't deliberately elevate his own family like this. Heisenberg, on the other hand, seemed to be in a state of remembrance, not knowing whether he was talking to himself or to Li Xin.

"I don't know how the empire is now, has it blocked the vanity of the Vikings, a war that has been fought for decades, can you still tell the winner from the loser......"

Li Xin did not know much about European history, and could vaguely guess that the Viking he was talking about was Gustav II, but neither he nor Heisenberg obviously knew that Gustav had died in battle in Lützen of the Holy Roman Empire as early as November 1632. And, despite Gustav's death, his army was able to win the battle with superior combat effectiveness.

Heisenberg must have left Europe for the East in 1632, that is, five years before Chongzhen, and it was already the spring of Chongzhen's twelfth year, and he pointed to the army in front of him that was changing formation.

"It is this kind of phalanx that has made the imperial coalition army suffer, and the phalanx of His Excellency the General is no different from it, and it is unknown when it can sweep across the eastern land."

Li Xindao can be different, the information of the war and military history in his previous life is not in vain, at least it will definitely maintain a high degree of consistency with Gustav II's phalanx.

Moreover, Li Xin's previous reform of the formation of the Zhenyu army was carried out with the phalanx as the center. He had also considered the formation of military brigades, regiments, battalions, and companies in modern times, but after all, it was evolved from the stragglers, and it was obviously not suitable for this kind of phalanx, which was still a little ancient.

Li Xin first divided the army of 2,000 men into 20 centuries, including 10 musket centrifles and 10 spear centrifles. Then, on this basis, a team of 100 men was formed into a platoon, in which the musket platoon and the pike platoon were combined into one team, and in wartime they were divided into left and right, the musket platoon was responsible for long-range strikes, and the pike platoon was responsible for hand-to-hand combat. In addition, the spear platoon has also been improved accordingly, from the original two zhang to one zhang, to meet the needs of mobility and flexibility.

A complete phalanx consisted of three platoons of muskets and three platoons of pikes, plus a supplementary platoon, usually a platoon of muskets, for a total of seven platoons. The phalanx, consisting of seven platoons, was combined into one battalion. The entire 2,000 people of the Zhenyu Army can be roughly divided into three battalions, forming three phalanxes, and then they are combined into one brigade.

Cheng Mingjiu and Gu Shixi, who had previously been sent to the imperial court to report their merits, had already returned and were appointed as the officers of the first and second battalions respectively, while the third battalion had one less platoon as a reserve battalion, and the battalion officers were selected from the new army of Yang Hewei.

"Of course, the premise of this qiē is that the captives must have iron discipline, otherwise they will still be a rabble in Eastern terms."

This is very polite, but it hits the nail on the head, Heisenberg was known for his harshness when training artillery, and some people even couldn't stand it and ran away in anger, but after all, it was the big Lang who searched the sand, and those who could persevere to the end were the elite and elites. In fact, the queue trained by Heisenberg is indeed much more neat than the queue brought out by others.

After the formation drill was completed, the artillery battalion appeared magnificently as an independent force, and in Li Xin's improved organization, the artillery was of a very high level, no longer subordinate to any infantry or cavalry, but a separate army.

After previous preparations, the artillery battalion under Heisenberg now has ten six-pounder guns, six eight-pounder guns, and two twelve-pounder guns. These were produced by the ironworks after the iron was mined, and although the performance and durability are unknown, they were finally made on a large scale, and it is said that a new anti-explosive chambering technology was used on the twelve-pounder gun.

Under the command of Lingqi, all the cannons lined up in formation, firing at the same time, and in an instant, the entire valley, which was used as a training ground, reverberated with a deafening sound of cannonballs, which lasted for a long time. After one round, the gunner began to clear the chamber of the gun, re-charged, and fired again, firing nine rounds in a row until the cannon turned red.

The officials of the Guards and Yamen, who were not impressed by this kind of showmanship at first, were deeply shocked, the deterrent effect of the cannon salvo on the hearing and vision was really unimaginable, and then looked at the originally neat ground in the distance was full of round pits of different sizes.

Due to the short training time and safety concerns, the musket battalion did not conduct live firing, but only carried out various tactical maneuvers three times before stopping. In any case, after this exercise, all the officials of the Sanwei reached a consensus that with the new army formed by Li Xin, they could compete with the Tartars who fought in the grass valley, and they no longer had to be afraid.

However, the situation changed so quickly that everyone, including Li Xin, was dizzy.

At the end of March, the news came from the imperial court that Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, was officially transferred to the governor of Xuanda, and then the news of the fall of Taiyuan was proved to be untrue, but the thieves had indeed besieged Taiyuan for more than half a month, and Pingyang, Lu'an and other places had indeed been captured and looted by the thieves, and the court was shocked. So Emperor Chongzhen ordered again, and Yang Sichang, a cabinet scholar, was dispatched to Baoding, Shanxi, and Henan military affairs, Henan Governor Li Xianfeng, and Zuo Liangyu, the general soldier.

On the first day of the fourth month, Yang Sichang's army set off, Taiyuan fell, and the news of the martyrdom of the King of Jin had already reached Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen was shocked and cried bitterly on the spot in the Wenhua Palace. complained about his subordinates, saying that the thieves were not all wiped out in the last year, the surrender of those who should surrender, and the escape of those who should flee, why is it that now the momentum is suddenly sharp again, and there is a tendency to explode and be uncontrollable, so he planned to transfer Sun Chengzong to the south to suppress it, but he was persuaded by the minister to give up.

After getting the news of the fall of Taiyuan, the entire Datong Mansion was also frightened, and the fall of Taiyuan was equivalent to Datong having faced the rebels, but after a series of Tartars entered the Kou, Datong Mansion was already weak, and almost all the soldiers who could fight were lost in the battle with Jiannu last year.

On the second day of the first month, Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong Town, arrived at Datong Mansion with 3,000 recruits recruited from the Gyeonggi area, and the hearts of Datong people settled down a little. The lieutenant envoy Gao Shiming didn't dare to mention the matter of returning to Beijing, and half of his hair turned white.

Bad news came one after another, and the thieves were marching all the way to Daizhou. Daizhou belongs to Shanxi Si Zhenwuwei, and is next to Hunyuan Prefecture of Datong Prefecture to the north. What worries Li Xin even more is that a person who worries him is still in Daizhou.