After a few days of emergency conscription, Shen Fu and others also recruited more than 2,000 recruits in Qizhou and Qishui counties.

Together with the original veterans of the Huangzhou Regiment Training and Guard, they made up enough for 3,500 people.

It can only be said that having money and food to do things is a good thing, this kind of world of continuous disasters and famines, to stutter and give some food to support the family, a lot of poor people with strength are willing to work hard.

The composition of the source of soldiers has also been briefly sorted out and screened.

There were more than 2,600 recruits, and the dockers accounted for more than 40 percent, or more than 1,000 people. There are also six or seven hundred who are from Dabie Mountain Orion, and the rest are all farmers from good families.

The identity registration is filled out according to the occupation that each person declares when he or she registers. In today's troubled times, I don't have the energy to carefully check the household registration, so I can only screen it roughly, plus let them prove each other's identities and provide guarantees, so as not to get involved with thieves.

Among the three types of soldiers, the peasants are the best to confirm, and they are all guaranteed by the neighbors in the township, so it is difficult to falsify.

The dockers and hunters are highly mobile, and it is relatively difficult to verify, but Shen Shuren has a long heart, takes care of Shen Fu and crosses it according to the assessment results, and finds that it should be very different-

Among the more than 2,600 people, there are about 800 people who can ensure that at least one of the three arrows is on target, and the vast majority of the soldiers who report their Orion profession are on target. Among them, at least 600 people were able to hit the target with two arrows, and nearly 500 people were able to hit the target with all three arrows.

The standard of the arrow stack used in the assessment is 30 steps away and 1 foot in diameter, and the bull's-eye is not assessed, as long as the target is on the target. With this archery skill, it is said that Orion basically can't run.

In the same way, if you report to be a dock worker, most of your swimming level is okay, and your water endurance is guaranteed.

As for the very few soldiers who reported themselves to be dock workers but did not know how to water, and self-reported to be hunters but missed the target, Shen Shuren also asked Shen Fu to carefully screen them out, live alone, and then check them quietly and slowly. There are only a few dozen people in this part, which is very easy to handle.

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After the source of soldiers is screened and rectified, it is time to assign troops and train.

Before Shen Shuren came to Huangzhou, he also bought a copy of Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Ji Xiao" and read it carefully.

In addition, in his previous life, he studied history, military affairs, and international relations, and he also had a little dabbling in the history of the development of military training methods in ancient and modern China and foreign countries.

After reading it, Shen Shuren felt that Qi Jiguang's training method was still very easy to use in some basic parts. As for specific tactical training, it can only be said that it is more applicable to complex terrain and small-scale battles.

The Mandarin Duck Array is suitable for a group of more than a dozen people, divided into many small formations on complex terrain, and flexibly cooperates with each other. When Qi Jiguang fought the Japanese invaders, he was mainly in the mountainous areas of southern Zhejiang, and the number of Japanese robbers was not large, and they would not form a large array, so the mandarin duck formation was easy to play.

If it was a large army in the Great Plains, a small formation as flexible as the Mandarin Duck Formation would be too loose on a macro scale, so Qi Jiguang later came to the north to defend Jimen to deal with the Tatars, so he optimized the car formation.

Shen Shuren's reading will not be muddy, but will be analyzed for specific problems. His current defense area Huangzhou is located on the edge of the Dabie Mountains, so mountain warfare with complex terrain must be indispensable, and the Mandarin Duck Array also has a certain use.

However, Huangzhou also has a certain terrain of the river valley plain, if there is a frontal decisive battle with the thieves in the river valley plain in the future, the mandarin duck array is afraid that it will be easily overwhelmed, so it is necessary to train a large army dense battle formation.

When he first finished reading "Ji Xiao's New Book", Shen Shuren also had the urge to imitate the car formation in his heart, but after thinking about it, Qi Jiguang's car formation was to fight against the cavalry, where did the thieves in the southern mountains come from? The chariot formation was also inflexible in the river valley plains, which was not convenient for the march to be transferred.

So, for the time being, let's go to the Spanish phalanx first, and use pikemen and musketeers to cooperate. Whether or not they can engage in all-musketeers in the future depends on how well firearms and bayonet technology develops.

At present, Shen Shuren has not yet established his own military weapons research and development system, and the tactics that require the cooperation of new equipment can only be postponed.

As for how to practice the Spanish phalanx, Shen Shuren will not figure it out by himself - this is not a novel thing that has not yet appeared, in Spain, as early as 1540, the early prototype of the Spanish phalanx appeared, and this thing will be used until about 1700.

So, now the Spanish phalanx has been around for 90 years, and it's very, very mature. Even Zheng Zhilong occasionally fought with the Spaniards in the Philippines in the South Seas, or when he was trading with the Spaniards, watching how the Spaniards cleared the natives, he had seen this thing.

The gentleman's nature is not different, and he is good at faking things.

Since Shen Shuren had a good relationship with Zheng Chenggong, on the way to Huangzhou, he asked Zheng Chenggong to help him early, and invited a few capable Spanish mercenary officers from Manila to come, and they had to be able to speak Chinese.

Shen Shuren's last request seems excessive, but it is not impossible to do, many of the Spaniards and Dutch who came to the East in the 17th century will learn a little Chinese diligently in order to be able to do business with the Ming Dynasty.

The silk tea and porcelain of the Ming Dynasty are very attractive to Westerners, it is completely a seller's market, and Westerners are very happy to learn Chinese for money, and they are not shabble at all.

Now that he has been farming for three months, it is time to train the troops, and the Spanish instructors should be invited soon.

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After sorting out the troop establishment, Shen Shuren instructed his thousands of households Shen Fu, as well as the two magistrates who are now gradually being introduced as henchmen:

"In the past few days, let the soldiers practice basic endurance, queue and military discipline. Don't take any heavy physical projects, specific technical and tactical drills, and wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival is over and the equipment and instructors are gradually in place.

Zhao Zhixian, the food and logistics of the soldiers, it depends on you to keep an eye on it, you must give the soldiers a full meal, make sure that there is a meal of stewed tofu with leafy vegetables every day, and you can give a little chicken and fish every five days.

Chickens and fish, you ask my housekeeper to dispatch, give priority to finding those who are old and will not breed anymore. If it is not enough, then it is better to get ordinary crucian carp and carp, and it is not allowed to move tilapia that can lay seeds. ”

Shen Fu immediately received the order, and asked some details: "Are there any specific requirements for practicing endurance?" ”

Shen Shuren thought for a while and took care of it carefully: "Just climb the mountain to practice endurance, you don't have to run fast, you have to teach them to divide into small teams and march long distances at an average speed, so that no one can be left behind."

If there is a problem in the first few days, the soldiers should be organized to discuss with each other, so that the fast runner can sum up the experience, and teach the slow runner and the poor endurance how to adjust the breathing and distribute the physical strength.

The battle of the army does not rely on individual bravery, but on the neatness of the team. If a mountain march can travel thirty or fifty miles without falling behind or scattering the formation, it is a great victory.

Those who pull the bow and lift the stone lock to practice their arm strength have stopped for the time being, and the government does not have so much meat for them to replenish and recover for the time being, and blindly enhancing their physical strength will only backfire. ”

Shen Shuren was also a person who had lost weight in his previous life, and he still has a good understanding of modern exercise physiology theory.

In anaerobic strength burst training, if you don't have enough protein supplementation, you will only build smaller muscles. Nowadays, the government is still too poor to have a large-scale supply chain for meat, so it cannot do such a thing with half the effort.

What's more, the dock workers have been carrying large bags for so many years, and their strength has been trained enough, and it is more important to make up for other shortcomings after entering the army. Therefore, Shen Shucai will not be like many time-traveling novels, forcing soldiers to do push-ups and the like every day.

Even if it is aerobic exercise, Shen Shuren is very careful about proportion. He knows the so-called "fat-burning heart rate" and "how long to keep exercising to fully burn fat".

But the people at the end of the Ming Dynasty have lost weight like this, and now no one needs to lose weight at all, and the things with high fat burning efficiency can't be done casually. Therefore, the rhythm of exercise should also be arranged in the way of "the most conducive to improving the potential of cardiopulmonary function, but it is not easy to burn fat".

To put it bluntly, Shen Shuren wants to exercise the soldiers' heart endurance and lung capacity, but try to minimize fat burning. Pure fat burning that does not help to improve lung capacity should be completely removed.

Shen Fu got the order, so he first asked the soldiers to go back to practice lung capacity and queue discipline, and temporarily maintain training with minimal consumption.

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After Shen Fu went to arrange a unified military discipline training, Shen Shuren took the statistical documents that recorded the ability composition of these soldiers and carefully combed through them.

He also decided to make the best use of people, so he discussed with Zhao Yunfan, who had some experience in defending the territory, to divide the soldiers' troops.

"Zhao Zhixian, this official is also the first time to lead troops, you see if there is anything wrong with this division - there are 800 people here who can ensure that archery is on target, so in the future, this part will be drawn out and trained as an archer and firearms player. Among the original more than 800 veterans, those who have a foundation in archery skills can also be selected to join forces in one place, so that the old can lead the new.

The remaining 1,800 recruits had no knowledge of archery and trained as pikemen. Those with good water quality can also practice swords and shields, which are suitable for both land and water battles. ”

Zhao Yunfan does have some military experience. Before Shen Shuren came, he had experienced two small-scale city defenses, the first time was when Yuan Jixian was in charge of the Taoist platform three years ago, and the other was last year, when Liu Xiyao had just recovered.

Zhao Yunfan held Qizhou to the death, and the thieves lacked siege strength, so after a little siege, he saw that there were no flaws, so he did not spend a long time, and retreated directly.

At this moment, after listening to the commander's arrangement, he was also a little apprehensive: "The allocation of the army's troops is also very suitable for defense-oriented, waiting for the veterans of the thief division to be tired, and then cooperating with a moderate waterway detour counterattack."

However, are there more firearms soldiers? I haven't seen you open a workshop to make firecrackers and gunpowder for months. Could it be that the adults still give their own firearms to these regiments to train recruits?

With all due respect, the predecessor of the Yan Governor's Mansion originally had some great achievements in this regard, and thought about recruiting more firearms soldiers, but in the end, he couldn't stand the poor wealth of the people of Huangzhou and couldn't implement it. In the end, he was killed by Liu Xiyao in breaking the city...... Please forgive me, my subordinates' words may not be auspicious, but what my subordinates say is really something that happened. ”

Shen Shuren: "Firearms are not something you need to worry about at the moment, and I didn't ask my subordinates to equip them with any shocking and unprecedented weapons, as long as ordinary bird guns and turtledove guns." Look farther, stare at the whole world, don't just look at the three acres of land in Huangzhou.

Weapons that can be made anywhere can be bought directly for silver, and only those things that people don't have to make themselves. I've already received a letter from home, and before the Mid-Autumn Festival, a fleet of ships will arrive with ordnance. ”