Qin Nan's Thunder Hell Demon Knife was powerful and domineering, and when it was brought to the battlefield, it was a sharp weapon to kill the enemy, charging into battle, invincible.

Imagine a hundred-person brigade, all holding the Thunder Hell Demon Knife, using a powerful sword technique to cut down the enemy, what kind of terrifying force would it be?

Qin Nan is in trouble now, Li Hongzhang and Lu You, the two sworn friends, did their best to help, pulled their soldiers to the countryside, and practiced with Qin Nan to make up for the vacancy of aging soldiers and insufficient numbers, while Qin Nan taught a set of knife techniques.

The next day, Lu You and Li Hongzhang really pulled the soldiers to the countryside, and hundreds of people gathered in the abandoned house, with high walls built around it, and the courtyard gate was closed, so that no one knew what was going on inside.

Qin Nan found that his soldiers were a few less, and there were just ninety people left. It is estimated that it was because he saw the sluggish scene on Qin Nan's side, poor equipment, poor food, and was very disappointed, so he didn't come back after returning home.

Regardless of whether there are deserters or not, the total number is not right in the first place, and it is the officers who falsely reported the number of people to the top.

Their favorite method was to declare the salaries of 1,000 people, but in fact only 900 people were paid, and the remaining 100 people's salaries were all blacked out by them, filling their own pockets.

No matter where it is, this phenomenon is universal, and even the money on the heads of soldiers has been deducted by them, and the wind of decay prevails.

Including the amount of money sent by Luo Soul to Qin Nan, the amount is not quite right, but there is no place to check this kind of thing, and if you check it, it will be a lot of relatives, unless the entire military camp is overturned for him.

In this case, it is very difficult to train a good soldier, and there is basically no hope, unless you pay for it yourself and use the silver to smash it.

Now the weapons and armor on Qinnan's side are not enough, and there is also a problem with the amount of silver. For the time being, he can only do this for a while, and then think of a way, if he can prepare a little cash for military salary.

Soon, the hundred people each brought by Li Hongzhang and Lu You, plus the ninety people from Qin Nan, lined up in the school field.

Then, Qin Nan and the other three began to customize the drill plan.

After some discussion, they abandoned the practice of having a diverse number of troops in their ranks. Originally, there were only a hundred men, but there were spearmen, broadsword soldiers, shield soldiers, and archers, and if you count them, there are not many people in one class at all.

Considering that the remnants of the previous dynasty were encircled and suppressed, and the battles were carried out in the mountains, the plan formulated by the three of Qin Nan was to abandon some unnecessary troops, with broadsword soldiers as the mainstay, spearmen as supplements, shield soldiers as the third, a small number of archers, and some technical fortifications.

Among them, there are 100 broadsword soldiers, and one person with excellent psychological quality is selected from every ten people to serve as the commander of the ten, and this group of people mainly practices broadsword.

Fifty spearmen, all of whom were more than three meters long, were placed diagonally on the ground and held in front of them, and if they were held by their hands, they could cooperate with fifty shield soldiers to resist the onslaught of cavalry.

The Yamato Kingdom is sure that there are no cavalry, no horses and no money, and they can't afford to support them at all. And those remnants of the former dynasty who hid on the Wind Blind Island, then maybe.

The other party has been entrenched in this area for a long time, and it has been banned repeatedly, and its strength is by no means as simple as it seems on the surface.

This was followed by fifty archers, and forty skilled fortifiers, who were mainly responsible for emergency road paving, building bridges, building fortifications, and so on.

In mountain warfare, the possibility of using fortifications is very low, after all, there are many times to fight guerrillas, but it is also possible that, on the whole, it is good to be prepared.

The next thing is the field exercise, Qin Nan selected a hundred people to come out to be big sword soldiers, he simplified the Thunder Hell Demon Sword Sutra, leaving only the killing moves, teaching those big sword soldiers.

The task of the broadsword soldier is very heavy, and when charging into battle on the mountain battlefield, it must be the vanguard of the broadsword, because other classes are useless.

The next step is to train spearmen, and this task is, of course, for Li Hongzhang to do. Li Hongzhang is good at using a spear, a pistol is a skilled man, and with many years of experience in suppressing bandits, no one is more suitable for this task than him.

In addition to training spearmen, the tactical coordination of the entire team and so on were all completed by Li Hongzhang alone. And the training of shield soldiers and archers was handed over to Lu You to complete.

The three of them divided their own labor, gathered hundreds of people and trained them separately, and then practiced tactical coordination, crossing, defense, covering retreat and so on in their spare time.

After a few days like this, Qin Nan began to find a way to raise military salaries, and he had no choice but to go to Luo Soul.

But this kind of thing, Luo Soul can't control it, because the military salary is received directly by Lao Shan from the imperial court, which has nothing to do with Luo Soul.

In the end, Luo Soul looked at his friend's face and privately borrowed tens of thousands of taels of silver from Qin Nan. After that, Qin Nan said goodbye and left.

Tens of thousands of taels of silver is too little, but it's not that Luo Soul is stingy, he hasn't been in office for a long time in Dongbo Province, and he hasn't been like other officials, as soon as he comes, he loots, embezzles and takes bribes, etc., in general, Luo Soul is a clear water official.

And it is precisely because of his practice of not entering oil and salt that he has offended many local heroes. Therefore, Qin Nan is doing this favor, and he has no way to help.

Qin Nan took tens of thousands of taels of silver back to the house, and the money was only enough for temporary use. The army has to train here for several months, a drop in the bucket, and it will not be possible to come without hundreds of thousands of taels.

There was no way to be forced, Li Hongzhang wrote a letter and handed it to the imperial city, and asked the thirty-eighth prince.

This method really worked, and he immediately borrowed 200,000 taels of silver from the thirty-eighth prince, and a verbal check had been typed, and the cash would be delivered in a few days.

Now the silver is good, and 200,000 taels of silver are put in, which is enough to cover the food and salary of a hundred people, plus equipment and weapons to renovate.

In this way, the silver is enough, so in the next time, Qin Nan and the others will have to hurry up and practice, but they can't live up to the kindness of the thirty-eight princes.

The time when the army went to Wind Blind Island was three months later, that is to say, Qin Nan and others only had three months to train their troops.

In terms of the training regulations they have drawn up for themselves, they will train individual strength in the first month, and in the middle month they will practice in coordination with combat, and they will run long distances in the mountains, cross thorn forests, cross sandy beaches, swim across rivers, and so on.

In the third month, it was time to train tactics, and the 300 men were divided into three brigades to practice alternate cover, forward, combat, retreat, and so on.

Of the more than 200,000 taels of silver, some of them were cut off to buy equipment and weapons, and most of the other was used for food.

Among these soldiers, including Lu You and Li Hongzhang, they all had yellow muscles and thin muscles, and they were obviously malnourished.