The three sites of the Zhu family father and son have a special population age structure.

Take Daming Township as an example——

0 to 14 years old, accounting for 33.6%.

15 to 40 years old, accounting for 58.2%.

41 to 55 years old, accounting for 6.7%.

Over 56 years old, accounting for 1.5%.

In particular, the displaced people brought back from Shaanxi hardly see the elderly, and they have died of hunger and disease in their hometowns.

The high proportion of children is mainly due to the fact that in recent years, under Zhu Guoxiang's governance, the birth rate and survival rate of newborns are very high.

The 300 archers trained by Zhu Ming at the beginning, after being dismissed and returned home, more than 90 people came to Daming Village with their families.

Tong Ershun's brother is one of them.

The elder brother died of illness, and before he died, he asked Tong Ershun to bring his father, sister-in-law, nephew, and younger brother to vote.

My father is not yet 50 years old, he is already gray-haired, and now he farms in Daming Village.

Tong Ershun married his sister-in-law and became the pillar of the family.

This year, his younger brother Sanshun is also 16 years old, and it is time for Zhang Luo's marriage.

But Tong Sanshun is very picky, because he studied in the village school. I can recognize hundreds of words, and I can add, subtract, multiply and divide, and I have been assigned to the warehouse as an apprentice in the bookkeeping room, and I want to marry a woman with slightly better conditions.

"Ershun, come with me!"

"Okay."

Tong Ershun ran out of the door quickly, it was the neighbor's eldest brother Jiang Yong.

When his brother was not dead, he worked as an archer with Jiang Yong and followed Zhu Dutou to suppress bandits. The relationship is not bad, both families came to Daming Village, and Jiang Yong has always taken good care of Tong Ershun.

The two didn't go far before they met a few more villagers and walked towards Heifeng Village together.

"Brother Jiang, what is this going to do?" Tong Ershun couldn't help but ask.

Jiang Yong said: "The miscellaneous taxes of the government are getting heavier and heavier, and there are thieves in all corners and eight townships. ”

"Can I also be a village warrior?" Tong Ershun was very excited.

Although Mura Yong does not receive military salaries, he eats very well during the exercise, and his family can reduce some taxes.

If you become a captain or above, you can also be rewarded with farm property.

It's not just a freshly cultivated wasteland, it's a ripe land!

Villagers can apply for a lot of wasteland to be reclaimed according to their own situation. If you cultivate five acres, after ploughing, you can keep four acres, and the remaining one acre will be used as public land in the village.

These public fields are usually cultivated by tenants, and occasionally they are rewarded.

There is no shortage of tenants, because it is too difficult to open up the land, and the output is not high in previous years. Newly arrived immigrants often cultivate land and harvest a small harvest, while cultivating cultivated land to support their families.

Newcomers who are too far away from the ripe fields are even picked up by boat during the busy farming season to transport them to the ripe fields a few miles away.

Jiang Yong whispered: "I am a veteran, and I can be promoted to captain this time." If you are honest, don't be a soldier, come to my team to be a fireman. ”

"What is a fireman?" Tong Ershun asked.

Jiang Yong said: "Each team is equipped with a fireman, and they usually have to carry iron pots and dry food. When he was fighting, he took a knife in his hand and cut off the ears of thieves and counted people's heads. The stolen goods captured by the team were also collected by the firefighters first, and handed over to the commander for distribution after the battle. If the thieves rush into the team, the firefighters will have to fight with their swords. Don't be afraid, you can't rush in. Your brother has a good relationship with me and will not put you in danger. ”

Tong Ershun suddenly realized: "It's just to give my brothers a hand." ”

"That's what it means." Jiang Yong nodded.

Everyone went all the way to Black Wind Village, and Tong Ershun came here for the first time.

But the sound of rumbling horses' hooves was heard, and the cavalry had already started training.

The horses in the village are not good, most of them are horses bought from other places, and there are only more than 20 horses in total.

The riding skills are also relatively bad, it is enough to send a message to the sentry, and it is not bad to chase and slash the rout, but it is enough to fight head-on.

Zhang Guangdao himself rode a good horse, the daughter of a cornucopia and another mare. The mare is also a real war horse, having given birth to two litters, and now she is pregnant again, and the veterinarian is waiting for her.

When the gathering was almost over, Zhang Guangdao finally began to form a team.

5 people are a team, and the rattan or long player serves as the captain.

A team of 12 men consisted of a captain, a fireman, and two soldiers.

49 people are a sentry, consisting of a sentry commander and four teams of non-commissioned officers.

100 people are a capital, composed of the head of the capital, the deputy head of the capital and two sentinels.

The five capitals are one battalion, with a total of more than 500 people.

The battalion officer is called the commander, and there are also standard-bearers, trumpeters, doctors, carpenters, tailors, etc. (and will also join the firearms unit in the future).

Zhu Guoxiang asked Daming Township to expand the army to 800 people, and Zhang Guangdao directly expanded the army to nearly 1,100 people, forming two full battalions and a cavalry team.

There are only more than 5,000 people in Daming Township, and one of the five draws seriously affects production.

After removing the elderly, women and children, most of the young and strong people were conscripted, and they didn't care about Zhu Guoxiang's saying that they would not recruit the only son in the family.

Fortunately, they are all trained in the off-season, and only some maintenance workshops and shops are left, which can barely ensure the operation of Daming Township.

Shi Yuangong, Deng Chun and others, who were responsible for investigating the news of various roads in the Sichuan Gorge, had already returned during the Chinese New Year.

Shi Yuangong served as the clerk.

Deng Chun served as the commander of the first battalion, and Xu Ning served as the deputy commander.

Sun Lan served as the commander of the second battalion, and Hua Rong served as the deputy commander.

Sun Lan is a veteran who followed Zhu Ming to suppress bandits, and brought his family to join him four years ago, and his performance in smuggling was extremely eye-catching, and he was promoted by Zhang Guangdao. Moreover, this person knows a few big words.

Xu Ning and Hua Rong are officers in Tokyo, and their martial arts are quite outstanding.

But they are foreigners and underqualified. Being able to be a deputy commander is already considered an extra promotion, Zhu Guoxiang spoke behind his back.

As for Yang Zhi, Lin Chong and others, they all went to Jintan Village in Yangzhou and Tiemao Village in Jinzhou, and they would form their own troops.

Tong Ershun received a knife, a pair of armor, and a helmet in the army.

The armor is a half-body leather armor that only covers vital parts, and the helmet is also an ordinary rattan helmet.

Tong Ershun suddenly didn't want to be a firefighter, he wanted to be a soldier, because he looked more imposing.

The soldiers wore rattan armor, rattan skirts that extended to the knees. The rattan helmet is also different, and a circle of cloth is fallen, and there are iron pieces hanging on the cloth, which also protects the neck.

Tong Ershun looked at Jiang Yong and found that Brother Jiang had become a general.

Brother Jiang had a spear in his hand, a bow and arrows on his back, and after putting on his armor, he was dignified.

For several days in a row, Tong Ershun was dizzy.

Except for one hour of physical training every day, the rest of the time is spent familiarizing with the orders.

As a fireman, he only needs to know Jiang Yong's pennant.

But Jiang Yong, the squad leader, when identifying the higher-level flags, the soldiers should also be familiar with it. Creeps are not required to memorize, but the basic concepts must be present.

There are also all kinds of sounding orders: gongs, drums, trumpets, whistles.

There are three kinds of trumpets, horns, trumpets, and Polo.

Polo is a musical instrument made of conch, which can also be made from other materials, and the "big blowing conch" is what it says.

With all kinds of flags and all kinds of musical instruments, not to mention small soldiers like Tong Ershun, even Jiang Yong's captains are difficult to adapt to.

I continued to train until the sixth day, and finally everyone made no mistakes.

But this is the only time, and there are people who are wrong about retraining.

Seeing that Zhang Guangdao was still continuing to practice the flag order, Shi Yuangong couldn't help but say, "General Zhang, is it time to train the army?" ”

Zhang Guangdao shook his head: "No hurry." ”

Shi Yuangong was extremely surprised, although he didn't know how to fight, he had seen the Xiang army in various places. Those van soldiers can recognize that the order is already elite, but Zhang Guangdao intends to prohibit it.

At this moment, there is no formation on the school field at all.

Many of the soldiers stood in a squad, standing crookedly in a group. But as soon as the order came out, under the command of the officers, the chaotic soldiers were able to respond quickly.

After practicing for half a month, Zhang Guangdao began to train the formation.

A month later, the Mandarin Duck Array and the Command were combined, and actions were made according to the Order.

In the blink of an eye, it was the busy season again, and in order to ensure agricultural production, the soldiers of the two battalions could only come in turn.

One battalion drilled for three days in a row, while the other battalion went home to do farm work, and so on. Neighbors must help each other, especially the soldiers who are training to harvest food.

Zhu Guoxiang inspected the fields all day long, and the lieutenant chief, the chief of security, and the chief of A reported their work at any time.

With the first level as a unit, the grain in which field is ripe first, the whole A peasant household must harvest that field first. The number of acres is different according to the number of people and days, and the number of acres is different for each family, and under mutual help, there must be people who have more work, and these people will give material rewards afterwards.

It is necessary to train troops and produce troops, Zhu Guoxiang can only do this, but he has tempered the organizational strength of grassroots armor protection.

After the busy farming, they still rotate to practice.

It is equivalent to each soldier, three days of training, three days of rest, and can do his own thing during the rest.

This kind of training has already surpassed the forbidden army.

Of course, if you follow the system, the drill of the forbidden army is still very good.

After Wang Anshi changed the law, the forbidden army practiced twice a day, and in winter, it had to train for ten days to drill the big formation. At the height of the enforcement, the non-commissioned officers of the forbidden army preferred to go to war rather than stay on the school grounds for training.

Even the people of the Gyeonggi area, Wang Anshi, also used the armor as a unit to train the militia during the agricultural slack.

In order to escape military training, people actually harmed themselves one after another. Because of the various deductions of the officers, the militia did not have enough to eat at all, and they had to bring their own dry food on the way back and forth, and they were even transferred by the officers to work for free.

Wang Anshi hasn't stepped down yet, this kind of practice can't hold on, and the forbidden army is retaliatory and lazy from top to bottom.

The soldiers of Daming Township are very active, anyway, there is no work to do in the slack, three meals a day during the training period, and it does not cost money to eat enough.

is that the food is consumed quickly, and Zhu Guoxiang has to go to the next few villages to buy grain.

After three consecutive months, in the face of a rapidly decreasing grain stockpile, Zhu Guoxiang ordered to change to a five-day practice.

At the same time, the smuggling trade was also resumed, and a group of soldiers were selected to sell tea to Shaanxi with the peasants.

It was not until the winter that the people were completely idle, and Zhang Guangdao once again ordered the whole army to train intensively.

"Knock knock!"

Hearing the agitation, the 1,000 soldiers commanded to issue orders to the officers and men under their command according to the order of the Chinese army.

Cities, sentinels, and teams pass on messages and make different military actions. At first, it was a little sluggish, but gradually it became smooth, and it really achieved the order and prohibition.

Of course, this is just a drill, and it will definitely be deformed when it really goes to the battlefield.

You have to go through a few wars to play more perfectly, and you will always be a recruit without seeing blood.

But that was enough, Shi Yuangong looked at the army in front of him, although there were only a thousand people, he seemed to have a million army in his eyes.

1,000 elites, enough to sweep Lizhou Road.

Fight a county, and you can immediately riot troops. Fight all the way, and you can have tens of thousands of soldiers.

Laying down the four roads of the Sichuan Gorge can raise more than 100,000 troops.

Among the more than 100,000 troops, only 10,000 such elites need to be trained, which is enough to divide the entire Sichuan to get a glimpse of the world.

(End of chapter)