After Su Yan and Lin Zhong and his party came to the county office, he ordered the cook to prepare a few plates of side dishes and prepare to have a drink with Lin Zhong.

It is worth mentioning that on the way to the county office, most of the people on the street cut off the braids of the money rat tail on their heads, so the city is almost full of bald heads on the street.

The cook also knew that Su Yan was going to entertain a person with a lot of status today, and she didn't dare to slack off, so she grabbed one of the chickens and ducks donated by the squire yesterday and slaughtered them, and cooked them into a sumptuous feast.

That night, the two brothers Su Yan, Liu Wenmin and Lin Zhong sat in the back hall, and Su Yan personally entertained the two and enjoyed the fine wine purchased from the city.

The alcohol content in this era was not as high as in later generations, but Su Yan's body was not good at drinking, and after drinking a few bowls, he was not strong enough to drink, so he had to be supported by the guards to return to the room, leaving Liu Wenmin to continue entertaining the brothers.

Although Liu Wenmin is a civil official, his alcohol consumption is not inferior to that of two people in the army, according to the guards left behind outside, the three of them drank until midnight, Lin Zhong and Lin Xian were helped to the guest room, and Liu Wenmin's face was red, and he looked at the two people who were helped away energetically.

The next day, Su Yan woke up to the sound of a rooster crowing, and when he finished washing and rubbed his swollen temples and walked out of the yard, he saw that the two brothers Lin Zhong were already practicing boxing shirtless in the yard.

When the two saw Su Yan coming, they stopped what they were doing and greeted Su Yan.

After drinking last night, Lin Xian's attitude towards Su Yan has also become much more harmonious, and the so-called relationship between the banquet and the upper pull, whether it is modern or ancient, is effective.

"Brother Xian, you have to practice more in the future."

Looking at Su Yan, who was still rubbing his temples, Lin Zhong quipped.

Su Yan naturally knew what he meant by practice, he smiled helplessly, nodded and agreed, and promised to agree, as for whether to do it or not, it was two different things.

Lin Zhong didn't dwell on this matter, he wiped the sweat on his body, and asked Su Yan again, "When will we go to Xiangyong Camp to have a look?" ”

Last night, Su Yan promised Lin Zhong to take him to the barracks the next day, Lin Zhong mainly wanted to see the power of the firearms under Su Yan's command, and by the way, to see how the morale of Su Yan's soldiers was.

In a way, morale is also an important part of a soldier's combat effectiveness.

"We're done eating, and we're leaving." Su Yan knew what Lin Zhong was thinking.

Although he used the strength of wine last night to high-five Su Yan as an alliance, and agreed to jointly send troops to attack the Qing army as soon as there was artillery, but after he woke up the next day, he began to worry, worried that Su Yan's soldiers were a group of crooked melons and cracked dates, and when the time came, he was afraid that he would get artillery, and it would be unbearable.

In that case, he would have to think about his brothers, who had been greatly weakened by last year's anti-encirclement and suppression, and could no longer afford to lose again.

After hastily eating breakfast, Su Yan and his party did not go directly to the Xiangyong camp, but went directly through the city gate and came to the open space outside the city.

When they were eating, Su Yan had already asked Chen Ying to mobilize the army and take them all outside the city for review, so when they came to the outside of the city, nearly a thousand soldiers had already stood in the open space, among which the military formations of the Zhongwu Battalion and Su Yan's troops were clearly distinguished, and the military flags raised high on the side of the Zhongwu Battalion also showed the identity of these soldiers.

"Chungwu Battalion?"

Lin Zhong looked at the military flag with the banner of "Zhongwu Battalion" written on it, and read it softly.

"They are the surrendered troops of Wang Manhan's surrender." Without waiting for Su Yan to speak, Adjutant Chen Ying took the initiative to introduce.

Hearing this, Lin Zhong nodded, this kind of thing of absorbing and surrendering troops for his own use was not uncommon in the late Ming Dynasty, just like most of the main forces of the Qing army in the southern expedition to Jiangnan were surrendered Ming Dynasty surrenderers, so after listening to the introduction, he didn't say more.

"Let's get started."

Su Yan said to Chen Ying, who immediately waved the colored flag, and with his movements, the line infantry standing at the front began to move.

"They are the mainstay of our army, line infantry." Su Yan introduced Lin Zhong in a rather proud tone.

With Su Yan's words, the line infantry quickly lined up into a line with three rows, and the colored flags in Chen Ying's hand moved again, and the soldiers in the first row pulled the trigger and fired the first volley at the scarecrow erected in advance in the distance, and the earth-shattering gunfire even made Lin Zhong and the ten cavalrymen who came with him uneasy and restless, and the horses' hooves were digging the ground, and they couldn't help but want to retreat.

Ahead, the line infantry continued to fire, the first row of soldiers immediately after firing the bullet on one knee to reload the rifle in hand, the second row of soldiers then pulled the trigger, the projectile shot the opposite scarecrow to the side, several of them were even directly knocked down.

After the second row of firing was over, he also knelt on one knee like the soldiers in the first row, leaving the shooting vision to his comrades behind him, and in just a few seconds, the line infantry completed a fierce three-stage attack, and the movements of each row of soldiers were neat and uniform, and no one made a mistake.

After the three-stage attack, the line infantry returned to the army formation with neat steps under the order of the company commander, leaving Lin Zhong and his party stunned.

"This ......"

After a long while, Lin Zhong finally came back to his senses, he looked at Su Yan with a complicated expression, pursed his lips, and said, "The performance of these bird-sturding hands is very good, I am afraid that there is no army in the world that can do the same as them, and the movements are uniform." ”

"It's over." Su Yan said with a smile, and asked Chen Ying to continue to command the army's actions.

With the line infantry at the lead, the next demonstration did not surprise Lin Zhong anymore, and after the last loyal battalion returned to the military formation, he said to Su Yan:

"This is indeed a strong army, but the number of people is still too small after all, compared to the performance of your soldiers, the loyal battalion on the side looks much inferior, it is no exaggeration to say that the two are completely different."

After speaking, he asked in a somewhat hurried tone, "What are the ...... of your subordinates How long does it take for line infantry to train to this extent? And where did the bird's gun, oh no, a firearm that is longer than the bird's gun, come from? ”

"Those firearms are called rifles, and they were purchased from Taixi, as for the training ......" Su Yan didn't dare to tell him that it would only take a month, because this was really shocking, so he deliberately extended the time, and said: "It will take three months at the earliest." ”

"It takes three months to train such a strong army?" Lin Zhong couldn't help but look up to the sky and sighed, "It's really a training general, I, Lin Zhong, am completely convinced by you now." ”