At the very beginning of the fortress military conference, Wu Shigong first announced three decisions:

The first decision was to formalize the establishment of all the soldiers in Wu Shigong's hands.

The first is the cavalry. Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli divided the cavalry in their hands into five squadrons. Each squadron commands five squads. Ten cavalrymen per squad. The chief captain of the cavalry was Xue Yongli.

But among the cavalry, there are two squadrons with a special task. One of the squadrons was a cavalry reconnaissance squadron with Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe as the main and deputy squadron leaders. The other was a cavalry reserve squadron personally commanded and trained by Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli.

Because in the formulation of this establishment, Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli transferred nearly 50 guards around them and sent them to the recruits and the militia group of Zhou Xun to become officers, and then selected 50 outstanding soldiers from the recruits as their own personal soldiers.

And these personal soldiers will be trained by cavalry. Although the gambling house guards brought by Wu Shigong from the capital, although they had received nearly a year of riding training from the old military leader hired by Wu Shigong, after arriving at the fortress of Qianhusuo, they still received Xue Yongli's enhanced training, and only then did they reluctantly become a qualified cavalryman. Therefore, Wu Shigong knew that the cavalry training cycle was quite long. These soldiers must undergo at least half a year of rigorous training before they can become qualified cavalrymen.

In fact, the current Wu Shigong has already cultivated his cavalry brigade as the officer corps of his own army. Once the cavalry had been trained in all subjects, they were sent to the various units to be sent to the middle and lower ranks.

And of the 400 recruits, Wu Shigong set up four infantry squadrons. Each squadron has ten infantry squads. Each squad also has ten soldiers. The infantry unit also formed a brigade, under the direct command of Wu Shigong, and Qian Qi became a deputy to assist Wu Shigong in training these infantrymen.

After this battle, although basically all the recruits did not even have a chance to contact with the rebellious people of the Holy Spirit Society during the battle, because they all experienced the atmosphere of war, Wu Shigong still made an exception and did not look at the assessment results, and turned all the recruits into formal soldiers, that is, soldiers who received fifty percent of their salaries.

Of course, the assessment process was carried out once. Wu Shigong also had to select the best fifty soldiers among them as his own personal soldiers. These soldiers will also be paid in full. Moreover, if these soldiers can fully master the various riding subjects of cavalry, they will also receive double the salary of the guards from the capital.

In addition, Wu Shigong also announced among those soldiers who did not become pro-soldiers: Every three months in the future, they will be re-evaluated, and some outstanding soldiers will be selected as Wu Shigong's pro-soldiers.

In this way, Wu Shigong took advantage of the difference in military salaries in his own army to form a hierarchical system, and also gave every soldier a goal to strive for, so that they had the motivation to train hard.

The militia of the Weekly Patrol will also be divided into three squadrons. Its establishment is also the same as that of an infantry squadron. However, their military salaries and offerings, relying on the output of those 7,000 mu of land, may be barely enough in ordinary days, but they are definitely not enough in this year of famine, so Wu Shigong will also take out a part of the silver as a subsidy for the military salaries and offerings of the militia group.

In addition, the training standards, assessment standards, and promotion standards of the militia group will be exactly the same as those of Wu Shigong's other soldiers. In this way, on the one hand, the soldiers of the militia also have the motivation to train hard; On the other hand, Wu Shigong will effectively grasp the armed forces of the militia in his own hands through the distribution of military salaries and the subsequent transfer of soldiers.

And, of course, Liang Hui and their artillery team. Now, because the supply of gunpowder is always insufficient, the artillery team can only maintain a minimum level of training.

Wu Shigong asked all the members of the artillery team to also participate in the training of infantry and cavalry. Of course, their training standards and intensity will be somewhat reduced.

The reason why Wu Shigong came up with the nondescript titles of "squadron" and "squad" is also helpless. Because in his Thousand Households, all the official positions of the Hundred Households, the General Banner and the Small Banner are hereditary, and now these official positions are also occupied by those military households.

However, Wu Shigong himself did not have the qualifications to appoint new military official positions, so Wu Shigong had no choice but to use these temporary titles to name the officers under him.

The second decision was that Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli determined the leading officers of each squad and squadron. When assigning, Wu Shigong deliberately arranged the principal and deputy squadron leaders of each squadron separately: one was born as a guard in Xue Mansion; The other is a gambling house guard. Such an arrangement is only a precautionary measure to prevent subordinates from disagreeing.

The only exceptions are Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe. The current Wu Shigong is too short of experienced reconnaissance talents. However, this arrangement is not a big problem, after all, Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe's subordinates are all Wu Shigong's guards.

The third decision was to recruit another 400 new recruits.

Wu Shigong is thinking like this now, even if his fifth brother Wu Shiwen can't become the county commander of this county, then taking a step back, the credit he gave to his fifth brother is useless, and these credits will also be returned to him, so that Wu Shigong can get the official position of returning to the German guard.

And even if it is the worst plan, Wu Shigong will become the garrison of Guide Mansion. Before breaking up with Li Lu, Wu Shigong had already asked Li Lu about the basic situation of the garrison.

Wu Shigong pondered: Even if he is the same as Li Lu's squeezed out garrison, there is only a quota of 800 soldiers, and the imperial court only pays 50% of the military salary, so he finally has the silver to raise 400 more recruits. Besides, the training of recruits can be started one day earlier.

As for the fifth brother Wu Shiwen, if he gets the official position of the county order, there will be no problem! With the help of the fifth brother Wu Shiwen, what kind of big deal is it to raise 400 more soldiers by himself?

When Wu Shigong announced the decision, everyone began to have a summary meeting. All those attending the meeting unanimously agreed with Wu Shigong's decision to strengthen the training of soldiers and recruit new soldiers.

When Wu Shigong had just arrived at the Thousand Households, Wu Shigong spent a lot of money and mobilized a lot of manpower to build the Thousand Households fortress, recruit soldiers, and strengthen training. Everyone is really a little confused about Wu Shigong's approach. Because, at that time, the situation around Senhe was still very stable.

But in less than half a year, such a large-scale rebellion occurred. In all fairness, if Wu Shigong hadn't made early preparations, it would not have been possible to say whether this rebellion could have been quelled, or whether Wu Shigong and others could keep their peace or not.

Therefore, all the people now fully agree with Wu Shigong's current expansion of force.

In addition, the participants also summarized the following points:

The first is to vigorously develop cavalry. Having passed the farewell charge, the power of the trained cavalry has been fully unleashed. It should be said that the first contribution to the rebellion of the people in this rebellion against the Holy Spirit Society was Wu Shigong's cavalry.

However, Wu Shigong also knew that if he increased the cavalry in a large amount of time and three moments, his own financial resources would definitely not be able to bear it. The method adopted by Wu Shigong is that he would rather wait for the horse than let the horse wait for the horse. Therefore, he demanded that the new soldiers should be trained by cavalry;

The second is to make more firecrackers. In this defense of the county seat, everyone saw the role of firecrackers in defensive operations. In addition, Wu Shigong also found that for those who have never seen the firecracker, the effect of psychological deterrence is also very huge;

At present, Yang Goudan's blacksmith workshop is also understaffed, so Wu Shigong wants him to make as many firebolts as possible.

However, among the copper coins seized from the Holy Spirit Society this time, there were several large pieces of copper, and those copper pieces were all pieces of copper Buddha statues that had been broken by the Holy Spirit Society. Wu Shigong asked Yang Goudan to melt down those copper pieces when he was free, and cast a small cannon in a shiyan manner;

The third is to strengthen the training of the queue. This time, when Wu Shigong was training those young men who had been gathered in the county seat of Qi County, he was carrying out a training project that made them run side by side first and then assassinate, and these young men could not do it. Wu Shigong found that the role of the queue is actually here.

In addition, Wu Shigong found that his idea of "shrinking the head of the turtle flow" seemed to be very beautiful, but in practice, it was impossible to do it at all. In this battle, Wu Shigong had to defend the county seat of Qi County, and he had to rescue the city of Guide, so he had no way to shrink in his fortress of Qianhusuo.

Therefore, Wu Shigong appropriately changed his strategy, which was to rely on the fortress of Qianhusuo as a fortress for defense, and to support the attack in the surrounding area in a limited way.

In line with this change in strategy, Wu Shigong should strengthen his cavalry on the one hand, and on the other hand, he should also strengthen the field combat capability of his infantry. At the very least, these infantrymen must be able to escort captured supplies and prisoners. In this battle, Xue Yongli only had one hundred and fifty cavalry, but he had to escort thousands of prisoners and so many supplies, which was too embarrassing.

In addition, there is a map of the surrounding area. Wu Shigong's army, which was mainly guarded from the capital, was not familiar with the terrain here at all, except for a few major roads. If you want to do a limited attack in the future, you won't be able to do it without a map.

On the one hand, Wu Shigong asked Xue Yongli to arrange for those recruits who were familiar with the local terrain to help draw the map, and on the other hand, asked Zhang Biao and Li Sanhe to immediately lead their reconnaissance squadron to the vicinity to observe the terrain and draw a map after the meeting.

Of course, with the current level of education of Wu Shigong's soldiers, it is simply impossible to draw a standard military map with contour lines in modern times. Not to mention what sandbox to do. What Wu Shigong asked them to draw was a brief map that illustrated the basic terrain.

This fortress military conference allowed Wu Shigong to take the first step in the regularization of the army. It also basically embodied Wu Shigong's basic idea of building the army.

But more importantly, Wu Shigong's army, since the fortress military meeting, developed the practice of summarizing the battle after each battle. Wu Shigong's army has also become an army that can learn and grow in the war.