At present, the descendants of Zhu Youzhen can control are the First Guards Army of He Xin, the Imperial Horse Supervisor, the Second Guards Army of Ning Wubo Zhou Yuji, and the Third Guards Army of Jian Ningbo Liu Fangliang.

A total of about 150,000 people.

It mainly controls the regions of Fengyang, Yingtian, Huaiyang, and Shandong, and plays the role of defending Nanjing and Gyeonggi.

This is also the foundation of Zhu Youjian's ability to call for wind and rain in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, among these 150,000 people, there are not many real elite soldiers in a hundred battles.

Mainly Liu Fangliang was attached to the Ming Dynasty, and 20,000 veterans of the hundred battles among the 100,000 thieves before the Ming Dynasty and Zhou Yuji brought to Beijing to escort Zhu Youzhen's southward 20,000 border towns.

plus some elites later collected from Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo, as well as the remnants of the officers and soldiers attached along the way.

The remnants of these officers and soldiers were mainly Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, Yang Sichang and other elite officers and soldiers who were defeated due to defeat when they encircled and suppressed rogue thieves in Henan, Huguang, and Shandong, and even many of them became local thieves.

Although in order to prevent the dictatorship of the generals.

Zhu Youzhen disorganized and reorganized these experienced elite veterans, except for themselves, the official archives no longer know whether they were thieves or official soldiers before, but what they know, what kind of troops, what battles they have participated in, and what achievements they have had, but they have always recorded.

According to the statistics submitted by Li Banghua to the War Department of the Generalissimo's Office, there are about 50,000 veterans in total, and they are all grassroots officers or main soldiers of the three armies of the Guards.

Since Zhu Youzhen is now going to train his troops, he naturally needs a large number of grassroots officers who are skilled in military skills and have experienced battles.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen asked Zhou Yuji of the War Department to first transfer all the officers who held regular positions among these veterans of a hundred battles to Huai'an.

The deputy position is directly promoted to the main position and stays in place.

The veterans of the hundred battles who did not have official positions were all transferred to Huai'an to serve as the captain of the training team.

According to the military attache system of the Ming Dynasty, there are general soldiers, deputy general soldiers, deputy generals, staff generals, guerrillas, garrisons, thousand generals, general generals, hundred generals, flag generals, and captains.

That is, the officer at the bottom is the captain.

The number of captains generally ranges from five to ten, and Zhu Youzhen now directly transfers the officers of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Guards Corps to serve as officers for recruit training.

This will not lead to a decrease in the combat power of the Guards who defend against these few defenses, and it will also allow for the training of recruits with enough instructors.

Zhu Youzhen has about 50,000 elite soldiers, and he plans to train about 100,000 more, so that each army will have about 50,000 elites.

Then it will be equipped with auxiliaries, and the scale of 150,000 people per army is also relatively reasonable.

In other words, now Zhu Youzhen needs to train 100,000 elite soldiers.

Of the more than 600,000 conscripts who are now available, the ratio of soldiers of the three armies of the Guards is six to one.

The remaining 500,000 men could only be used as auxiliaries or transferred to the other nine Guards.

This elimination rate is not low.

Now Zhu Youzhen has screened out veterans who have fame, learned martial arts, or have actual combat experience before, and there are about 10,000 people in total.

The reason why these people are allowed to take the green channel and directly become soldiers is mainly because these people can be regarded as social elites.

Needless to say, although the body bones are relatively weak, there is no need to popularize culture, and it can achieve fame, which shows that their intelligence is not low, and their willpower and psychological quality are very strong, so they can be killed from thousands of candidates to become a talent and even a jinshi.

What's more, in these years, the average family who can afford to read is not bad, and the nutrition can keep up, unless the congenital spleen is deficient, and the general is not thin, and after acquired training, they are not afraid of the same might, and because the nutrition can keep up, they don't have to worry about these people having night blindness.

In this era when cold weapons still have important war value, there is indeed a body of martial arts that is more suitable for being a soldier than ordinary people.

Although the veterans who did not die after the war experienced defeat, it is a kind of ability to survive the war, and many old people who have followed Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Sichang, Sun Chuanting, Cao Wenzhao and others for several years have excellent skills, even if they are now directly senior officers.

You must know that the current qualifications of Huang Degong and Zhou Yuji in the army are similar to those of many veterans who have fallen into the grass.

"Your Majesty, now there are 4,300 scholars and 5,745 brave scholars, how do you see these two groups of people to be trained?" Ma Shiying said.

"Then select 1,700 literate and hyphenated people, make up 6,000, and select a few more sturdy ones to make up 6,000 in the bravery, one is organized as the Xiucai Battalion, and the other is the Strong Men Battalion, Liu Fangliang, director of the General Training Office, personally trains the Xiucai Battalion, and Zhou Yuji, the chief of the War Department, trains the Strong Men Battalion, and the two battalions compete in half a month, and the winner is given the number of the first battalion of the First Army of the Guards. The rest of the battalions will be half a level lower. ”

It will certainly take a long time to sift through these hundreds of thousands of people now.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen thought that he could train in batches

Now, it is necessary to select more than 10,000 people with special abilities for the first batch of training.

Active-duty officers and veterans who were transferred to serve as instructors were first transferred to serve as instructors among the more than 10,000 people.

The rest, along with Li Banghua, Lu Zhenfei and Li Mingrui, were responsible for screening and training other applicants.

As the name suggests, the Xiucai Battalion is naturally an army composed mainly of scholars, so it is habitually called the Xiucai Battalion by Zhu Youzhen.

This camp is obviously a high level of education, relatively high intelligence, and relatively easy to accept new things, but lack of social experience, disobedient, easy to contradict, and have a big temper.

And Zhu Youzhen let the peasants come from but went through countless vicious battles, and Liu Fangliang, who became a veteran of a hundred battles from an ordinary person, led this talent camp, just to let Liu Fangliang inject some masculinity into these talents.

Most of the people in the strong man camp are generally easier to manage, more obedient, but they are not spiritually enough, or they are more casual, and Zhou Yuji is from a family of generals, although he is a martial artist, he is also proficient in literature and ink, so he can naturally add some bookish air to these strong men, so that they are not only martial artists, but can become qualified commanders of the Ming army in the future.

Liu Fangliang looked at the group of talents in front of him who were still wearing square scarves and holding folding fans and looked weaker than women.

He couldn't understand why His Majesty handed over this group of people to him to practice, and he had to compete with Zhou Yuji.

Liu Fangliang looked at the team in charge of Zhou Yuji, all of whom were tall and mighty, and even a famous Liao army general like Liu Zhaoji, he couldn't help but be depressed for a while, shook his head dejectedly, looked at Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi and other talents in front of him, and secretly complained:

"Your Majesty, it's still eccentric, in the end, Zhou Yuji has been with him for a long time, give him all the old people who have killed the Tartars, let me bring you to this group of Xiucai who only have ink in their stomachs and no hair on their mouths, how can I win him!"