After the 600 Changping soldiers were equipped with cotton armor and cards, it was the end of March. Except for transporting grain to Jinzhou twice, there was basically nothing to do, which allowed Shi Dayong to have enough time to train his troops.

During the days of waiting for the arrival of cotton armor and shields, Shi Dayong divided the 600 Changping soldiers into six teams and two battalions, which were named "Yongzi Battalion" and "Wuzi Battalion" respectively.

Huang An, the general manager of the Yongzi battalion, led the three teams of A, B and C, and the three teams were Ma Zhong, Guo Er, and Shi Hai.

Shao Wu, the general manager of the Wuzi Battalion, led Ding Wuji's three teams, and the three teams were Zhao Kegang, Lu Jiang, and Wang Zhengqi.

The three hundred cavalry were combined into a battalion, and Jiang Wanli was still the commander of the three teams, Wu Tieshan, Sun Youjin, and Li Changhe.

There are five small flags under each commander, and one small flag leads twenty soldiers.

Shi Dayong originally had a pro-soldier team of thirteen people, and he drew 37 people from each battalion to form his own pro-soldier team, and the captain was called Guo Yi.

Although they did not understand why the garrison wanted to disrupt the original establishment and reorganize the new battalion, the generals had no objections. After all, after the establishment of the new battalion, the top and bottom are much clearer. In the past, some generals had forty or fifty people, while others only had twenty or thirty people, and they were more than you, and there was often some trouble in the payment of military salaries. Now that everyone has the same strength, there are no complaints.

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After the reorganization was completed, Shi Dayong invited the governor Qiu He Jialing to requisition 300 young men from the people who sent grain from Ningyuan to form the Songshan Baggage Battalion. In peacetime, he was responsible for the management and escort of the people, and in wartime, he served as an auxiliary. The thousand members of the baggage battalion were always the original pro-soldier captain Li Dashan, and the general and small banners of each team were directly appointed from the young and strong.

Ning Yuan was quite dissatisfied with Songshan's unauthorized detention of three hundred young men, and repaired a letter to the governor Yamen of Jinzhou, but was suppressed by Qiu Hejia. After that, the attention of the entire Liaodong was attracted by a major event, that is, the Jinglu Sun Chengzong ordered to hang the seal of the forward general, the general of the Liaodong striker, Zu Dashou, led 13,000 troops, and 26,000 people went to the Daling River, which was more than 30 miles away from Jinzhou, to build a city.

This is the third time to rebuild Dalinghe City, using 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers and civilians, almost the main force of the Ming army on the front line of Jinzhou, and the cost is very huge. Under Sun Chengzong's strict order, from the yamen of the governor of Liaodong to the guards in various places, they were all engaged in the task of building the city of the Daling River. And these things that happened in Matsuyama were no longer noticed

The construction of the city on the Daling River began on the third day of the fourth month, and from that day on, Shi Dayong's task became heavy. In the past, he used to transport the grain accumulated in Songshan to Jinzhou, and the journey was only more than 20 miles, but now he has to transport it to the Daling River, which is almost 60 miles away, and the hardships are needless to say.

Fortunately, after more than two months of luck, nothing has happened, and the Houjin side seems to be deaf, ignoring the Ming army's rebuilding of Dalinghe City that happened under their noses, except for the occasional Houjin cavalry to come to reconnoitre, there has been no movement.

The officials who were originally very worried that the Houjin side would send troops to obstruct the Ming army's rebuilding of Dalinghe City were all relieved. Zu Dashou reported that if the current progress of the project is carried out, the construction of Dalinghe City will be completed by the end of August, and at that time, the forefront of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong will be transformed from Jinzhou to Dalinghe City, and the report to the imperial court can also be added to the "recovering more than 30 miles of lost land", which is undoubtedly a great joy for Emperor Chongzhen, who is eager to see an improvement in Liao's affairs. Under the joy of Longyan, the civil ministers and military generals in Liaodong naturally have to feel the emperor's grace.

Whether the emperor's grace is vast or not, for the little Matsuyama garrison, it is not yet possible to say that there is any sense of skin.

Shi Dayong was busy with his business.

Transporting grain is a major matter, and training troops is even more important.

Dalinghe City is in full swing, and Shi Dayong's training is also in full swing.

Make a great leap with the knowledge of the afterlife. Although the revolution in weaponry failed, the training methods of later generations can still be adopted.

For a month-long period, Shi Dayong tirelessly taught the soldiers of the second battalion of Wu and Yong every day to distinguish between left and right and line training, so that they reached the level of military training in later universities.

Platoon training is boring and doesn't seem useful, but it allows soldiers to find a sense of belonging to the group, which is especially useful in wartime.

An army that is prone to collapse cannot become a strong army in any case.

The weapons and equipment of the second battalion of Wu and Yong are still the old bird guns, which are the standard weapons of the Ming army, although Shi Dayong knows that this kind of bird guns have no effect, even if the three-stage shooting method is used, the lethality is extremely limited. But if they don't use a bird's gun, he won't have any good weapons to provide them with for a while. Therefore, the soldiers could only continue to use the bird gun, but at the same time, Shi Dayong emphasized the importance of the broadsword and spear, and hinted to the generals that the bird gun was only an auxiliary weapon, and the key was to rely on the broadsword and spear.

Under Shi Dayong's continuous indoctrination, all the generals generally have a clear understanding, and combined with the previous battles against Jiannu, they all agree with the view of the garrison.

Of course, knowing the disadvantages and not doing anything is not Shi Dayong's style, let alone a gambler's style. With an ugly hand, the wisest thing to do is to give up, rather than pretending to be a big hand and trying to "steal the chicken" to win.

On the battlefield, it is always strength that determines everything, and there is only one consequence of "stealing chickens", that is, there is no place to bury you.

If you want to win, you have to have big cards, and the truth at the table is used on the battlefield – not to fight uncertain battles

It doesn't matter if the bird gun is useless, as long as the array can be kept from being overwhelmed by the Eight Banners cavalry, the burning stick can always have some effect. And to keep the array from being overwhelmed by the cavalry, it is definitely not possible to rely on birds.

On 17 April, Shi Dayong ordered the Wuzi Battalion and the Baggage Battalion to go to the nearby mountains to cut down birch trees, and there was only one requirement for the birch trees to be cut: not too thin, not too short.

The standard is one zhang, the thickness should be more than half and more than half a foot, and the measurement method of later generations is to reach three and a half meters in length and more than 20 centimeters in width.

The wood texture of the birch tree is the hardest, not easy to break, and can withstand gravity, so after experimenting with more than a dozen tree types, Shi Dayong set his sights on the birch.

The subordinates ordered the garrison to cut down the birch trees, but the military order could not be violated, and three days later, according to Shi Dayong's requirements, a hundred birch trees that met the standard were neatly placed in the camp.

After inspecting the birch trees one by one, Yuan Dahai gave an order: "Sharpen all these trees!" ”

Hearing the order, Huang An, the general manager of Qian, had no choice but to order his subordinates to lead people to sharpen the birch tree.

A birch tree that is more than three meters long and more than 20 centimeters thick is still very heavy, and it is a little difficult for one person to hold it, but it is just right for two people to take it, but Shi Dayong asked three people to take one.

After ordering all the soldiers of the Wuzi battalion to hold a birch in their right hand and a shield in their left hand, Shi Dayong climbed to a high platform, waved the command flag, and ordered the soldiers to advance or retreat according to the command flag.

When marching, it is required to carry a log forward; When stopping, the tip of the birch is required to face outwards and lay flat on the ground; When fighting, hold the wooden tip diagonally upwards, and at the same time, raise the shield on the top.

"Enter!"

"Stop!"

"Vertical!"

After such an exercise more than a hundred times, until the soldiers were tired and their mouths were dry, and everyone had a bitter color, Shi Dayong nodded with satisfaction, signaling that today's drill would end and continue tomorrow.

The next day, he practiced again for three days in a row.