However, unlike Shi Dayong, Jiang Wanli, Li Dashan, Cao Bianjiao and other generals still recognized the performance of the Sichuan army, thinking that compared to those captured soldiers, these Sichuan troops could still barely fight.

They were happy, but Shi Dayong was not happy, and sure enough, the coach and the general looked at the problem from a very different angle. As the commander-in-chief, he is more interested in the loyalty of the troops, and as a general, he is more concerned about whether the soldiers can be pulled out to fight. No matter who these Sichuan troops obey, just because of their combat effectiveness, these Sichuan soldiers are really not called elite divisions, and they are too far from the strong army in Shi Dayong's mind, and they are at best a shelf.

Optimistically, these two thousand Sichuan troops can fight with the thieves, and they are better than the rabble under Kong Youde, but they are definitely inferior to the main force of the rebels, the Dongjiang Liao soldiers, not to mention the Manchurian Eight Banners that are standing outside the pass.

The reason why Jiang Wanli and they were happy was nothing more than because they picked the tallest one among the group of dwarfs, after all, these two thousand Sichuan soldiers were still much stronger than those captive soldiers, at least, in terms of the identification of the banner, these Sichuan soldiers were much better. They still know very well what banner is to advance and what is to retreat, what is the former army to the rear team, and what is the rear team to the front army. As for other aspects, the skillful use of firecrackers should also be an advantage.

So far, some of the captives have not had a good grasp of the amount of reloading medicine, and in the gun attack training the day before yesterday, there was a guy who almost blinded his eyes because of the fire gun explosion because of too much loading.

This accident made Shi Dayong suddenly think of the necessity of fixed ammunition, that is, to change the current way of loading gunpowder, and change to the quantitative medicine weighing package, which is standard, so that soldiers will not be too afraid of being too afraid of loading less or more gunpowder on the battlefield, resulting in explosive chambers or weakened power. However, Shi Dayong doesn't know how to order gunpowder, but there is one person who may be able to think that this person is Ma Zhong who stayed in Jinzhou with Huang An

Before Ma Zhong joined the army, he was a firearms craftsman in Jinyi Weinan Town, and his familiarity with firearms was much stronger than Shi Dayong's.

But this failure was caused by Shi Dayong's unreality, he ignored that this era could not provide him with hardware conditions, and he would naturally fail if he engaged in what he thought was an advanced technique on the basis of detachment from reality. No matter at any time, if you are divorced from reality, no matter how advanced your technique is, no matter how much you surpass this theory, it is doomed to failure.

However, with Ma Zhong's familiarity with firearms, he should be able to help Shi Dayong solve the problem of ordering gunpowder, after all, this problem is quite practical, feasible, and much simpler to operate.

If the fixed gunpowder can be realized, it can not only reduce unnecessary explosions accidents, but also greatly shorten the firing time of the gun.

On the battlefield, the moment the two armies fight, they can fire the fire in their hands one second faster, which is obviously of great significance to an army.

Soon, the gunpowder took root in Shi Dayong's heart like a seed, and he began to implement it when Ma Zhong arrived. In fact, if he had known that there were Western firearms experts and Portuguese instructors he wanted in Dengzhou City, which was occupied by the rebels at the moment, and even two machine tools imported from Macao to produce high-quality guns, he would probably not have been able to sleep

The matter of ordering gunpowder has not yet arrived for the time being, and Shi Dayong's current focus is to solve the matter under his nose.

Since he borrowed these 2,000 soldiers, Shi Dayong had no idea of returning them, and he was dedicated to training them as his own soldiers and horses, which can be seen from the fact that he has been very strict and diligent in his drills these days.

Thinking about the performance of the 2nd Wuyong Battalion that he personally trained in Songshan in the Battle of Daling River that day, and then looking at these barely able Sichuan troops, Shi Dayong was of course not satisfied in his heart.

There are two things that must be solved urgently, one is how to improve the combat effectiveness of the two thousand Sichuan troops as soon as possible, even if it still can't catch up with the combat effectiveness of the wolf cavalry army, but it must be on par with the Changping army. The second thing is to let them know who they are fighting for and whose orders they should obey.

If these two things are not resolved, the silver and food invested by Shi Dayong will undoubtedly be wasted. If these two thousand Sichuan soldiers can really be used, I'm afraid Deng Yu and Wang Hong won't lend them to themselves so easily. In the final analysis, these two thousand Sichuan soldiers are actually abandoning the army, similar to the current situation of his Jinzhou army, these individuals have no weight at all in the minds of Deng Wang and the others, and even they are too cumbersome. In this world, can there be something that touches people's hearts and saves their lives?

To put it bluntly, the two thousand Sichuan soldiers lent to Shi Dayong are actually useless waste soldiers, and the only advantage of these waste soldiers is that they have received a little military training and are no strangers to firearms. This benefit also made Jiang Wanli, Li Dashan and others very happy when they accepted the firearm shooting drill requested by the Jinzhou army, and gave rise to the optimistic idea that the army could use it.

However, if he really took them to the battlefield like this, then Shi Da was brave and sure, not to mention the Jiannu thieves in the future, even Kong Youde could bite himself to death, and even the Jingying under the command of Gao Qiqian could easily defeat him, not to mention the ancestral family who had a grudge against him for killing his brother and father.

Their trip to the battlefield will be like those captured soldiers in the first battle of Xiaoguantun, and they will collapse when they hear the sound.

Since the soldiers are borrowed, they must be trained to become elites, and become an army that can be pulled out at any time to fight and is not afraid to fight any enemy. Otherwise, what is the use, do you think there is too much money to spend?

But what can be done to make these Sichuan soldiers really integrate into the Jinzhou army, and really regard themselves as a member of the Liao army and his subordinates, rather than still treating themselves as Sichuan soldiers and guest soldiers who come to "be guests".

This problem tormented Shi Dayong for two days, and after the last trouble, he finally thought of a solution, that is, to break the original structure of the second battalion in Chongqing and Chengdu, and select the relatively strong ones from among them to form a single battalion, and the rest were assigned to use, and the worst ones were classified as auxiliary troops and used as baggage battalions.

As long as the original establishment of these Sichuan armies is broken and they accept everything from the Jinzhou army actively or passively, this centripetal force and cohesion can be slowly generated, and only then can their combat effectiveness and loyalty be enhanced. However, there is one obstacle to this plan, and that is the attitude of Deng Wei and Wang Hong.

Deng Yu may be easier to say, after all, he is a brother who worshiped the master, and besides, he has already said it thoroughly, and he didn't think about taking back this soldier. But Wang Hong never said not to pay it back, and at the beginning of the borrowing of troops, Wang Hong said that he could borrow these soldiers, but they had to be allowed to form their own battalions, which is also the origin of the two battalions in Chengdu and Chongqing. At that time, Shi Dayong didn't think about it so much, it was so far away, he just wanted to borrow the soldiers immediately, so he promised that he would not break up and directly mix with his own soldiers and horses. Now he wants to break his promise to break the two battalions, which is not easy to say.