Chapter Twenty-Six: Change

Zhou Changshou's face was overjoyed, and he heard Chen Wang say that he had passed, and he could go to drink porridge with his military card.

He first knelt on the ground and kowtowed, then took the military badge and hurriedly ran to the cauldron where the rice porridge was boiling.

The soldier guarding the cauldron glanced at the soldier card in Zhou Changshou's hand, and then directly scooped him a full bowl in the cauldron.

This was not the end, the soldier standing aside lifted a white cloth, and under the white cloth was a drawer of steamed buns that were almost piled up into a hill.

The soldier in charge of distributing rice and grain took one out of it and handed it directly to Zhou Changshou.

This caused a commotion in the whole scene, and everyone couldn't stop swallowing their saliva.

The government soup porridge, that porridge is almost a little miscellaneous rice, and it can only hang a mouthful of life without dying.

Now that I see the rice porridge that can stand with chopsticks, and the big steamed bun, where can I bear it.

The crowd boiled for a while, and everyone rushed forward one by one, scrambling forward, pushing each other.

Some came late, afraid that they wouldn't be able to get in line, so they just desperately squeezed to the front, and the people in front were pushed all the way forward and couldn't control it, so they could only desperately stabilize their figures.

For a while, the shouts and shouts rang out, and the scene was faintly out of control.

"Bang!"

Just as everyone was arguing, a loud explosion suddenly spread in all directions, and the crowd couldn't help but stagnate.

The smoke drifted away with the wind, and Chen Wang threw the bird gun that had been fired in his hand to Chen Gong, who was standing next to him.

"Those who push and cut in line, my fellow soldiers will not want it."

"All line up and move forward one by one."

Chen Wang's eyes were full of anger, and he swept over everyone's bodies, and everyone's backs couldn't help but give birth to a chill.

Those who have killed people and those who have not killed people can be distinguished by just looking at them, and those who have killed people generally have a fierce air on them.

Chen Wang has not only killed people, he has already killed more than hundreds.

Those displaced people who were swept by Chen Wang's gaze were all chilling and terrified.

Looking at the steel knife with a bright handle, a sharp spear, and a group of soldiers wearing armor, no one dared to push and crowd anymore.

One by one, people lined up and walked towards Chen Wang's location.

Chen Wang identified and checked one by one, not everyone was able to pass the audit, and many people were brushed down.

Hu Zhili, who was standing on the side, was a little puzzled, and took advantage of the gap to ask in a low voice.

"Brother Wang, do you have anything to pay attention to when you choose soldiers, I just saw that the man is tall, his palms are strong, and he looks like he has some foundation, and it is not a problem to be a family member after raising his body."

"Wait a minute."

Chen Wang raised his hand to stop the people behind him who wanted to step forward.

Chen Gong, Hu Zhiyi, and Hu Zhili have a blood relationship with him, and he will need the support of the three of them many times in the future, and Chen Wang did not perfunctory about Hu Zhili's problem.

"If you were asked to choose soldiers, what would you choose?"

Hu Zhili frowned slightly, and muttered for a while.

"Naturally, he is tall and strong, has studied martial arts, and has a foundation, so he will be selected for such a person, and when the time comes, he will be a good player in armor."

Chen Wang shook his head, the standard Hu Zhili said was basically the standard for many battalion soldiers.

"But such a person has uncertain martial arts habits, and is not afraid of being difficult to be restrained by military law."

"Ordinary people, which one will go to practice martial arts?"

"The person just now, although there was fear in his eyes, but what he was afraid of was the sword in our hands, but he was not afraid of others, but he was not afraid of military law.

Hu Zhili nodded thoughtfully, and then asked.

"Then Brother Wang, why did you choose these people?"

Hu Zhili's eyes looked at the dozen or so homeless people sitting on the ground drinking porridge and eating steamed buns next to the cauldron.

"It's simple."

Chen Wang pointed to Zhou Changshou, who had already eaten almost enough and was sitting on the ground resting.

"These people are all from the countryside, either poor peasants or tenants."

"If they want to live, they must do farm work and serve as a conscription, endure hardship, and endure fatigue."

"The reason why I want to look at their hands is to see if they are telling the truth, people with solid skin and calluses on their hands, and people with yellow and slightly dark skin, are basically such people."

Chen Wang turned his head and looked ahead, and Hu Zhili also followed Chen Wang's gaze and looked ahead.

"Those green skins in the city can't be soldiers, these people are slick on the battlefield and run faster than anyone else, while the peasants are afraid of the government, and when they enter the barracks, they are naturally afraid of us and military law."

"Don't dare to cheat and cheat during training, military orders will be followed and implemented, and you won't run away easily when you go to the battlefield."

"When I return to the camp, I'll tell you slowly, it's not early now, and it will take a lot of effort to bring them back to the camp after recruiting soldiers."

Chen Wang did not continue on this topic, and the recruiting team began to move again.

Chen Wang still slowly checked one by one, screening them one by one.

These newly recruited soldiers, he is ready to train according to his own methods.

Although Cao Wenzhao is strict in governing the army, the soldiers under his command can basically be regarded as elite in the Ming army in Guannei.

But even so, he still doesn't look down on the infantry recruited by Datong in the battalion, these so-called elite soldiers, but they have fought too many battles, seen blood, and have excellent armor, and their morale is really not high.

When they were fighting against the wind, they were all vying for the lead, and when they had a slight decline, they would retreat and their morale dropped greatly.

When Chongzhen was in the seventh year, Cao Wenzhao led the army out of the city to fight with the Houjin army who entered the customs.

A chariot battalion composed of thousands of foot soldiers lined up in the wilderness, and Houjin's cavalry only attacked for a moment, and then panicked and hurriedly released firearms.

The battle was lively, but there were no casualties among Houjin's cavalry.

As a result, he was grabbed by Houjin's cavalry, rushed to the front, and rushed to the camp with just a wave of charge, killing a great defeat.

There is still a little courage to fight with the Liukou in his heart, and he has a little courage to fight against Houjin without fighting.

Chen Wang's thinking is very simple, he has to train the newly recruited soldiers in these three rounds.

According to Qi Jiguang's military training methods, combined with some military training methods of later generations, find a way to train an elite army.

As long as an elite soldier is trained, he can have more strength to protect himself in the next big war, win combat exploits, and continue to climb upward, and at the same time get more attention from Cao Wenzhao.

No matter how many events have changed now, there is one thing that has absolutely not changed.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, the Ming court's advantage over the Liukou was still huge.

Although only from Shaanxi alone, the Ming army was scarce and could only barely maintain defense.

The Ming army was scattered in four places, and there was a shortage of troops.

But all this will change in October of the eighth year of Chongzhen.

Because.

Lu Xiangsheng is coming......

"The History of the Ming Dynasty: The Biography of Lu Xiangsheng":

In May of the eighth year, he was promoted to the right deputy capital of Yushi, and Tang Hui patrolled Huguang on behalf of Tang Hui.

In August, he ordered the prime minister to serve as the governor of Jiangbei, Henan, Shandong, Huguang, and Sichuan, and the governor of Huguang.

Governor Hong Chengchou is in charge of the northwest, and Xiangsheng is in the southeast.