The villagers saw that Yuan Yun had driven back the robbers with one arrow, and they all cheered loudly. The arrow boosted their morale. The robber is nothing more than that, and he turns around and flees as if he is wounded.

Seeing that Xie Lao Er had retreated, Qin Feng was angry and reported his name in a loud voice: "Downstairs, listen to the grass kou, I am Qin Feng, the former commander of the Black Flag Army's Wind Battalion." From now on, if you dare to come to Qinjia Village again, I will kill one and I will kill one of the two. His voice was powerful and imposing. The villagers cheered again. Everyone thinks that these two people are indeed brave, and if they follow them, they may really not have to be afraid of those bandits who do all kinds of evil.

At this time, Xie Lao Er lost too much blood and was already unstable on horseback. When I heard that the former commander of the Black Flag Army in the city was actually the commander, I was even more shocked. The Black Flag Army has guarded the Black Stone Pass against the barbarians in the north for many years, and everyone in the world knows about it. It was full of brave people who dared to fight for their lives against the fierce barbarians. It's not easy to mess with a small soldier who comes out, let alone a commander.

"How could there be a Black Flag Army commander in this damn place?" Xie Lao Er was very depressed. He knew that today was planted, and if he didn't leave, he would probably have to fold here. A group of horse heads left the two Qinjia villages with more than a dozen minions.

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The robbers of Xiejiazhai temporarily retreated. Qin Xianglin vacated his backyard to become the military headquarters of the Qin family's army. Qin Feng is not polite, anyway, his family's old house is too small to do things. moved to Qin Xianglin's house with Yuan Yun.

Now the Qin family army is officially established. The first battle was not bad, and the flag was won. Although the enemy did not kill the captured supplies, it greatly boosted the morale of the recruits. Qin Feng was very satisfied with this. However, the issue of military equipment is far from ideal.

Qin Feng asked Zhang Tianliang to gather all the weapons that the villagers used to defend the village on weekdays, and he wanted to see how many of them could be used. Zhang Tianliang usually doesn't talk much, but he is very neat in getting things done, and he soon collected the weapons commonly used by the villagers and piled them up in the courtyard.

Look at the hoes, kitchen knives, rolling pins, nine-tooth nail rakes, slingshots, flat poles, and earthen bows in the yard...... A whole bunch of mess. Qin Feng even has the heart to cry, can these things be used to fight?

"What do you do with these guys and robbers on weekdays?" he asked Zhang Tianliang.

Zhang Tianliang replied very honestly: "No, we just used it to scare and scare the robbers, and we have never really fought with them." ”

Qin Feng was a little dizzy and stopped talking.

Back in the house, he asked Qin Xianglin where there were weapons for sale. Weapons and equipment must be purchased, and the pile of tattered rabbits in the yard may be fine, but it is simply to find death when used to fight.

Qin Xianglin told him that there were iron shops in the county, but the iron materials used for iron tools such as knives and guns were more expensive. A good steel knife costs about eighty taels of silver. The spear only needs a spear head, and the barrel of the spear can be made by itself, and it doesn't cost much iron, about fifteen taels of silver. As for bows and arrows and armor, they are not sold on the market at all.

It is not enough to have weapons without armor, the role of armor on the battlefield is too great, and having good armor can greatly reduce the casualties of soldiers. The Qin family army was all new recruits and had never been on the battlefield. If you don't wear armor, the casualties will be frighteningly high. In addition, bows and arrows are also necessary, long-range suppression and killing of the enemy, and there will be no loss of their own, archers are an indispensable role in any army.

Qin Xianglin thought about it and told Qin Feng that he could find someone to make the bow and arrow by himself. There is a hunter named Zhang Zhong in the nearby Zhang Village, who can make bows and arrows. As for the armor, if you really can't help it, you can ask the village women to help you make some of it. The women of Qinjia Village have always been skillful, and sewing iron pieces into the inside of cotton clothes should also play the role of some armor.

Qin Feng nodded, feeling that he could only do this for the time being.

Now there are fifty-eight recruits in the Qin army, and according to a steel knife and a spear per person, it will cost more than 5,500 taels of silver. This does not include the cost of making bows and arrows and buying iron pieces of homemade armor. Qin Feng had earned some silver by selling Jiao meat, and he robbed more than nine hundred taels from the robbers, and he almost spent all of his money at once, and his heart ached.

"Spend it, spend it! Sooner or later, Lao Tzu will earn this money back. Qin Feng gritted his teeth and handed the silver ticket to Qin Xianglin, asking him to go to the county town to buy steel knives and gun heads. He also instructed Zhang Tianliang to invite Orion Zhang Zhong over.

Qinjia Village is far away from Qinghe County, and with so many weapons ordered at once, it will take a lot of time for the blacksmith shop to build them. In order for the recruits to get weapons as soon as possible, Qin Xianglin took a few villagers straight to the county seat that day. Qin Yu didn't worry, and his father also went with him.

Zhang Tianliang was neat, he was already familiar with Zhang Cun and Zhang Zhong, and he took Zhang Zhong to Qin Feng's house that afternoon.

This Zhang Zhong is a man in his thirties, lean and thin, and looks very capable. He had already heard about Qin Feng and the two of them killing the robbers, and among the women Qin Feng saved were the two of them in Zhang Village. The woman in the village had a broken mouth, and after returning to the village, she added fuel to the fire about how Qin Feng killed the robbers and rescued them. It is almost necessary to say that Qin Feng is a fairy-like figure who can do everything from heaven to earth, and Zhang Zhong admires it very much. It just so happened that Zhang Tianliang came to him again. When he came to Qinjia Village with Zhang Tianliang, he was not only willing to help Qin Feng make bows and arrows, but also participated in the Qin family's army.

Qin Feng was very happy and asked Zhang Zhong what he needed to make a bow and arrow. Zhang Zhong made a list. There are hemp ropes, cooked cowhides, large spotted bamboos, wooden boards, horsetails, pig iron... And so on and so forth. But fortunately, these things don't cost much silver except for pig iron and cooked cowhide. It's just that this bow and arrow is more troublesome to make and requires a lot of manpower. Qin Feng arranged for Qin Shuang to find some old people and women in the village to help.

There is also a blacksmith shop in the village, although it is not comparable to the scale of the county town and cannot make swords, but it can still be done by making arrows for bows and arrows, and making some iron pieces wrapped in cotton clothes. Qin Feng took out another five hundred taels of silver and handed it to Qin Shuang, asking her to do the things of making armor and making arrows at the same time.

After arranging all this, Qin Feng and Yuan Yun began to do the most important thing - training recruits. Weapons and equipment are of course important, but the most important thing for a unit to fight depends on the soldiers. If these fifty-eight soldiers were those veterans of the Black Flag Army at the beginning. Qin Feng had no doubt that he could lead them to sweep away all the bandits in Qinghe County. But at the moment, if these recruits are not trained, even if they are given the best weapons, it is useless.

Archers are a must, but now the entire Qin family army has a total of only fifty-eight people, and it is impossible to set up a separate archer army. All recruits had to learn archery and use them as archers when they started fighting. The short knife is a sharp weapon for hand-to-hand combat, but the knife technique is very technical and requires a long period of training. At present, it does not seem suitable for large-scale use by recruits.

The pikemen are relatively simple, and the pikemen phalanx relies on a neat formation and a tacit understanding between the soldiers. A well-trained phalanx of spears can maximize the lethality of all soldiers in the array. This kind of battle formation does not require how strong a single soldier is, but only needs everyone to work in unison and cooperate tacitly to reflect the team's combat strength.

Qin Feng and Yuan Yun decided that all the recruits would practice bows and arrows and spearmanship, and the short knives should be carried with them in case of emergency. Of course, before these tactical trainings are conducted, the rectification of military appearance and military discipline is also a compulsory course. The reason why an army is strong must be backed by strict military discipline. Otherwise, the whole army will become a plate of scattered sand, and no matter how many people there are, it will be useless.

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The threshing floor in the village was temporarily converted into a military training school. Fifty-eight recruits stood crookedly on the school grounds, waiting for Qin Feng's lecture.

Looking at this group of lazy recruits, Yuan Yun couldn't help but shake his head, Qin Feng looked very relaxed, he took out a five hundred taels of silver ticket from his arms, and walked in front of the recruits with a smile.

"Do you see that little tree in front of you? You go and pee on the little tree and then come back. Whoever is the first to complete the task will have five hundred taels of silver in my hand. ”

What is the concept of five hundred taels of silver tickets. The villagers worked hard all day, and they could only earn twenty or thirty truckloads of silver a year. Five hundred taels was an astronomical amount to them. This Lord Qin Feng is joking, he will give five hundred taels of silver if he pees on the small tree.

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and they all think that Lord Qin is full of food, idle and playing with everyone. None of the recruits cared, and they were still lazy and chatting in groups.

Qin Feng saw that everyone ignored him, and he didn't say anything anymore. I moved a bench and sat on it, used the silver ticket in my hand as a fan, and fanned it leisurely.

Among the recruits, there is a young man named Qin Qiong, who is a thorn in the head, who likes to cause trouble, either blocking the chimney of the east family today or beating the children of the west family tomorrow. This guy has always been bold, and he is not afraid of heaven and earth. I heard that there were five hundred taels of silver to take, and I thought to myself, isn't it just to pee on the small tree, even if I don't give the silver, I won't lose my meat. Decided to give it a try.

Qin Qiong ignored the people beside her, ran under the small tree like a gust of wind and returned to Qin Feng after urinating.

Qin Feng laughed, raised his hand and threw the five hundred taels of silver tickets over.

There was an exclamation on the school ground, no one expected that Qin Qiong really got the five hundred taels of silver. Even Qin Qiong himself was dumbfounded, he never expected that this Lord Qin Feng would be so trustworthy. Didn't I just pee, and I got five hundred taels of silver, and it felt like I was in a dream.

Looking at the five hundred taels of silver tickets in Qin Qiong's hand, the other recruits regretted it one by one. I thought that I would have known that this Lord Qin was saying this, don't say that peeing is blood in the stool. That's a real five hundred taels of silver.

Everyone was remorseful, Qin Feng suddenly stood up, his face sank: "Everyone runs thirty laps around the school field, and it must be completed in half an hour." Whoever falls behind shall be fined twenty sticks and shall not be allowed to eat for three days. “

The recruits who still regretted not earning five hundred taels of silver were stunned again, the school field was a mile away, and it was not necessary to run thirty laps in half an hour. But listening to Lord Qin's tone is not like a joke. And just now, everyone also saw Lord Qin's style of saying the same, and he gave out five hundred taels of silver without blinking an eye. It seems that he wants to be serious.

What a military stick is, the recruits don't know. But it's not good to go without food for three days. Everyone spread out and began to run around the school grounds.

Half an hour passed quickly, and most of the recruits had completed thirty laps. Only five of the older recruits were left behind and failed to complete their mission.

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