With the newly recruited 3,000 soldiers, the number of the Jingbei Army has snowballed to 5,000, and the sharp increase in the number will inevitably lead to a serious decline in the combat effectiveness of the Jingbei Army.

In order to make these 3,000 troops combat effective as soon as possible, Li Xingzhi decided to expand the battalions and use veterans to bring in new recruits to improve the combat level of each battalion.

According to Li Xingzhi's plan, the Gangfeng Battalion and the Rapid Fire Battalion each had two infantry units of mandarin ducks, and the cavalry brigade should also be replenished to the size of 500 people, and the remaining 800 people would be incorporated into the Zhenyu Battalion to ensure the stability of the rear battalion.

However, Qin Ying, who was newly admitted to the battalion, made a suggestion to Wang Zhong, deputy of the Gangfeng battalion, that he believed that the north was located in the plain, and it was not necessary for the Jingbei Army to use all the same establishment as the Qijia Army, and it could also use the establishment of the white pole soldiers to expand the army.

Wang Zhong has also heard of the legend of the white pole soldiers, after all, eighteen years ago, the battle of Hunhe was too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people of Gyeonggi, so Wang Zhong immediately recommended Qin Ying to Li Xingzhi.

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The peach blossoms are immediately pleased.

How many strange men are there in the world,

Who is willing to travel thousands of miles on the battlefield.

Regarding the legend of the white pole soldier, Li Xingzhi, as a senior emperor, naturally heard of it.

Shipai Qin Liangyu can be described as a well-known strange woman in the late Ming Dynasty, and in later generations, in various online texts in the late Ming Dynasty, she is also a highly regarded figure.

Pacifying the rebellion of Banzhou Luxury, at the age of seventy, he could still lead his troops to defend the stone pai, forcing Zhang Xianzhong, who called himself the king of Daxi at that time, not daring to violate the border, and the white pole soldiers who were founded single-handedly in the Hunhe River were comparable to the eight banner soldiers who were like the sun at that time.

The old slave Nurhachi still brought in heavy artillery to break through the white-pole army formation.

Now Wang Zhong actually recommended that there were descendants of the white pole soldiers in the army, Li Xingzhi was overjoyed, so he ordered Wang Zhong to invite people into the county office.

Qin Ying was the county government who entered with a spear, and when he entered the lobby, he clasped his fists and saluted: "My subordinate Qin Ying, I have seen General Li." ”

Li Xingzhi saw that although he was not very old, he was only similar to himself, but his steps were steady, his figure was burly, and his eyes were bright.

Immediately got up and said: "Brother Qin is exempt from courtesy, now that the Tartars have entered Kou Jinggi, the officials and soldiers are invincible, and the people have died in the hands of Jiannu is uncountable, so Li Moufang has raised a righteous division and prospered the righteousness, and led the Gaoyang army and people to resist the Tartars. ”

As the saying goes, heroes are heroes, although Li Xingzhi is not a hero, but after Jiannu entered the country, he resolutely led the army to Gaoyang, which will naturally make a hot-blooded man like Qin Ying respect, so Qin Ying will not hide the tactics of the white pole soldiers.

According to Qin Ying, the white pole soldier formation is the inheritance of the Tang Army's training method, with 25 people to form a kind of cone-shaped formation, the periphery of the cone of the soldiers are all five long spears, the inner layer is the spear and shield soldiers, if the first row of soldiers is injured and falls, the second row of soldiers immediately make up for it, the third, fourth, and fifth rows of soldiers and the soldiers who help the formation after the formation are also adjusted accordingly, and constantly supplement to ensure the integrity of the formation.

Of course, twenty-five people is just the most basic formation of the white pole soldiers, in the face of large-scale battles, the white pole soldiers can also be transformed into a large formation of hundreds of people according to the changes in the battlefield situation, of course, such a formation conversion has very high requirements for the soldiers.

But as long as you practice, you can use one as ten, and even the ability to resist the cavalry of the Eastern Captives.

After Qin Ying finished finishing the military formation of the white pole soldiers, he raised the spear in his hand and said loudly: "General, please see this spear of his subordinates, it is left by his father, and it was painstakingly built by Qin Shuai." ”

Li Xingzhi hurriedly walked down the hall, took the spear in Qin Ying's hand, and looked at it, only to see that the spear was five feet long, and it was made of sturdy ash wood, and the head of the spear was made of iron, equipped with a bladed iron hook, and the tail of the gun was equipped with a hard iron ring.

Qin Ying said with a smile: "General Li, this robbery can be stabbed, chopped, hooked, and the tail of the gun can be used as a hammer, my father once said that all tens of thousands of elite white-pole soldiers, Qin Shuai will be able to sweep away the Tartars that day, and the horse will step on Liaoyang." ”

"Good! Brother Qin, I wanted you to train the guerrilla for my Jingbei Army, mainly responsible for the training of the white pole soldiers, but now there are Jiannu outside Gaoyang, and there is a shortage of materials in the city, can you use ordinary spears for training first, as for the weapons, I will order the blacksmiths in the city to rush to make them. ”

After Li Xingzhi finished speaking, he looked at Qin Ying with a smile, the so-called thousand troops are easy to get, and one general is hard to find, but he has picked up a treasure this time, if he trains two more white pole soldiers, the skeleton of the Jingbei Army will be really built.

Qin Ying knew that what Li Xingzhi said was right, it was not a matter of a day or two to build so many white poles to rob, it was the materials needed for this gun body, and it was estimated that Gaoyang City would not be able to get it together for a while and a half, so it was a last resort to replace it with an ordinary spear at present.

With the training method of the white pole soldiers, Li Xingzhi reorganized the battalions, and the Zhenyu battalion and the cavalry brigade were still expanded according to the original plan.

As for the Steel Front Battalion and the Flame Battalion, they were expanded to four infantry units.

Among them, Team A is a mandarin duck soldier, Team B is a firearm ranged soldier, and Team C and Team D are white pole soldiers.

As for the reason why there are four infantry teams of 2,000 white pole soldiers, the reason is that this spear is easier to build than other weapons.

The process of expansion is not difficult, in just one day more than 3,000 new soldiers into the battalion filled into each battalion, there are 3,000 sets of iron armor brought back by Huang Wenchang, plus the previously captured cotton armor, in addition to the artillery team, almost everyone in the Jingbei Army is wearing armor.

However, there are officials and soldiers in these armors, and there are also Qing troops, which always look a little inappropriate, as the dog-headed military division of Li Jiazhai, Qian Anning also suggested that the cotton armor of the white flag be dyed black, and the iron armor lining and red tassel of the equipment were also dyed black, so as to distinguish the army of the Fang and the Ming and Qing dynasties.

According to the trajectory of history, after Lu Xiangsheng and Guan Ning's plan to attack Niulanshan failed, Emperor Chongzhen dismissed him from the post of secretary of the military department, and took him to aid Baoding, and the time when the Battle of Julu broke out was in early December.

In comparison, the annihilation of the Ming army's ace Tianxiong Army is naturally much more attractive than just a Gaoyang City, so according to Li Xingzhi's estimate, as long as Abatai is still there, it is impossible for Dolgon to move to Gaoyang.

There were only more than 4,000 Manchurian soldiers outside the city, and it was a newly defeated army, as long as they were strictly defended, and in the absence of heavy weapons, it would be impossible for Abatai to break through the city.

Therefore, the Jingbei army must seize this rare gap, seize the time to train new soldiers, and prepare for the evacuation of Gaoyang after defeating Abatai.

Due to the appearance of Qin Ying, Li Xingzhi changed his previous arrangement, and after replenishing the mandarin duck soldiers and firearms long-range soldiers, he ordered the 2,000 soldiers of Xinbei and handed them over to Qin Ying and Wang Zhong for training, and handed over the remaining 800 soldiers to Yang Biao, and they trained the fighting skills of the white pole soldiers and sword and shield respectively according to the requirements of the Jingbei Army's overall training.

Of course, the work of digging tunnels is also in full swing, Li Xingzhi does not want to stay in Gaoyang for a long time, taking advantage of the opportunity of the capture of the east and the gathering of the imperial army in Gyeonggi, and finding a base as soon as possible is the top priority of the Jingbei Army.