Time flies, and it's mid-May in the blink of an eye.

After Tan Xiaoda and the other craftsmen settled down, they began to get busy, and all the three hundred catties of iron that Liu Yan took back from Wangjiazhuang were handed over to Tan Xiaoda and others, and they also handed over all the charcoal in the fort and some iron-making tools to them.

"You just have to let it go, the more finished birds you make, the more money and food you will get in your hands!"

With Liu Yan's words, Tan Xiaoda and others were full of energy, busy almost every day and night, this momentum made Chen Jiang's and other soap workshops all admire, and at the same time, all his subordinates were busy working.

After settling Tan Xiaoda and the others, Liu Yan also brought back a batch of blades in his hands, if there are any shortcomings, he can also let Tan Xiaoda and others create them. As for the armor, Liu Yan doesn't think about it at all now, first, the manpower and materials in his hands cannot meet the needs of large-scale armor building, and second, Liu Yan's current financial resources cannot support the expenses of all armor.

"Let's wait until we have accumulated in the future."

However, the armor is not equipped yet, but the blades are ready, so Liu Yan began to select young men from the military households and supplement them into the dun army.

At this time in the Ming Dynasty, the guards in the tunbao generally did not have to go out to fight, so it was rare to see the training of the tun soldiers, but how could Liu Yan stop because of this?

Now, not to mention that the Jiannu Tartars in the north continue to the south, and the north of the Yellow River has been repeatedly poisoned, it is not a good thing to say that the army of thieves in the northwest is not a good thing, and even the soldiers of the thieves once rushed into various parts of Shandong.

Therefore, Liu Yan must pull up a combatable army of his own as soon as possible, this is a matter of time.

So Liu Yan decided to start training, and what he now relies on is his own martial arts and the rich knowledge of later generations.

However, for the training of soldiers and horses, Liu Yan decided to strictly follow Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "Practical Record of Military Training" for training, the practical one is the best, Liu Yan believes that this is the most suitable training manual for his army.

At present, there are eighty-three adult males in Dapan Fort, but excluding the old and weak among them, only sixty-two of them are young and strong people suitable for training. And these sixty-two people, since joining Dapanbao, have eaten enough every day, and after these years of fort building, land reclamation and other exercises, their physical conditions have been much better than before, and they can fully adapt to the next military training.

In the evening of that day, after all the military households had returned to Dapan Fort, Liu Yan brought sixty-two young men outside the fort and announced in public that they would conduct some military training every night from now on.

With Liu Yan's current net worth still insufficient, and he can't afford to support the soldiers who are out of work, the manpower situation in Dapan Fort does not allow all of these sixty-two people to be out of production. As for the rest of the old and the weak, the women worked in the fort, taking care of the logistics of training, and some chores that could be done in the evenings.

At this time, the sun was setting, and the light inside and outside the Dapan Fort had also dimmed, but fortunately, Liu Yan had already asked Chen Xun to prepare a lot of braziers in advance, and the light in the open space outside the fort was enough.

At this time, dozens of young people gathered together, twelve dun soldiers were also concentrated here by Liu Yan, after the formation was completed, everyone was excited and curious, at this time the sun had set, the breeze outside the fort was very comfortable, seventy-four young and strong, dun soldiers were in a good mood, and they laughed and talked non-stop.

After a while, Liu Yan walked out with Chen Xun and Wang Yue, Liu Yan looked at everyone, and saw that these young and strong people were all standing crookedly, staggering, only the twelve dun soldiers were relatively better, but in Liu Yan's opinion, they were not qualified soldiers.

Liu Yan sighed in his heart, the soldiers who have not been strictly trained are a rabble, and it seems that these soldiers under his command now have to be trained from the most basic queue. Moreover, in this ancient battle, a strict queue and strict discipline have always been very important, and those who can maintain a strict battle formation are tigers and wolves, and without a queue, they are a rabble.

Qi Jiguang also said: "Open a big array, against the enemy." Thousands of people lined up in the grand array, and the brave could not go first, and the cowardly could not be behind. The guns poked, the guns poked, there was only one person in the army, so invincible in the world. It is to emphasize the importance of queue and discipline, and Liu Yan also thinks so.

Liu Yan first asked everyone to be quiet, originally Wang Yue wanted Liu Yan to speak, but Liu Yan thought that there was no need for this, so he began to reorganize.

According to Liu Yan's plan, the dun army and the military household Qingzhuang a total of seventy-four people, but Liu Yan put out Wang Bo and Zhang Yi two dun soldiers, and the rest of the people were evenly divided into four teams, each team of eighteen people, led by Chen Xun, Wang Yue, Wang Bo, Zhang Yi four people each led a team, which made the four very happy, Wang Bo and Zhang Yi themselves are dun soldiers, but now they can go hand in hand with Chen Xun and Wang Yue, which is Liu Yan's reuse of the two.

At this time, Wang Bo and Zhang Yi opened their mouths and smiled, but they didn't expect that they would also lead troops. Chen Xun also laughed when he looked at the two, and the two dun troops under his command are now also coming out, and they are also happy in their hearts. Only Wang Yue was a little excited, but he didn't expect Wang Bo and Zhang Yi to be on an equal footing with him.

After Liu Yan assigned the personnel of each team, he didn't pay attention to the mood of the four people, and directly asked the four to return to the team, all standing in front of their respective teams, and then said loudly: "I recruited you today, is to train your battle formation skills, the current soldiers are in chaos, the world is not peaceful, a few months ago, the Tartar Koubian, the Tartar soldiers have even rushed to Shandong, these you also know, although we are here in Tunbao, but we also have to manage the skills, so that you can protect your wife and family in the future." ”

Liu Yan's expression was serious when he spoke, and everyone below subconsciously stood straighter. Chen Xun and Wang Bo are also equally serious.

"From now on, every day when you come back from the military work, you can go home and rest for half an hour, and then you have to start training, every day, rain or shine!"

After the training, Liu Yan first asked them to learn to stand in line, turn left and right, walk in unison, run, etc., everyone first felt novel, and then it became a mess.

The queue can be said to be miserable, the four teams are crooked, not to mention for the time being, there are many people who can't even tell the difference between left and right, not to mention the young and strong military households below, even Wang Yue, a small flag officer.

After an hour of training, everyone was more tired than a day's farm work.

For several days in a row, everyone was still indistinguishable from the left and right, but Liu Yan came up with a way to tie a rope to the right arm of each young and strong military household, marking the left and right, so that the situation slowly improved.

In the training, Liu Yan would patiently correct the mistakes of those military households and dun troops at first, but after a long time, Liu Yan saw that everyone still couldn't change it, and his temper became hot.

It's strange to say that Liu Yan's seemingly irritable method is actually more effective, and those military households and dun troops who have been beaten will be more stable next time. For themselves to be beaten, those young and strong military households and dun soldiers seem to be not strange, they are all accustomed to it, even some military households and women who are watching the excitement next to them are laughing, and the beaten people are embarrassed to touch their heads.

When there is nothing to do, the soldiers and women of Dapan Fort will come to the outside of the fort to watch the training, and everyone will give guidance as they watch, discuss how the children are, who can stand better, and so on. Under the watchful eyes of others, the spirit of the young and strong military households and the dun soldiers is also more sufficient, and they all work hard and stand more upright with high spirits.

After a long time, the night training of Dapanbao has also become a scene, and it has become a night pastime for everyone in Dapanbao, and even the families of the soldiers who are adjacent to Huolu Dundun, and many people gather to watch every night. And those military households and dun soldiers saw that there were so many people watching their training, and they all consciously became serious, and Liu Yan's training effect was getting better and better.

In this way, after ten days of training, everyone's queue finally looked a little shaped, and when Liu Yan beat the starting drum and asked them to line up and trot, everyone was already a little neat.

On this day, the night training had just ended, and Liu Yan was about to go back to the house, but he saw that the weapons workshop was still burning with oil lamps, so he went to see Tan Xiaoda and their bird guns.

At this time, it was already late at night, and when I came to the workshop, I saw that it was still in full swing, and it was already the height of summer at this time, even if there was some cool breeze at night, it could not blow in the workshop, Liu Yan only felt that a stream of hot air came out, and he was sweating profusely in an instant.

Tan Xiaoda and the others were working hard to create some bird guns, and it seemed that they were still far from completion, Liu Yan took a casual look and found that the making of this bird guns was really complicated. According to Tan Xiaoda's introduction, the production of this bird pipe is first of all a pipe, after the wrought iron that is made of the pipe is burned red, it is struck on a steel core, so that it is rolled into an iron pipe, and then wrapped in several layers after cooling, and the percussion is fine, and after reaching a certain thickness, the steel core is extracted, and a section of the pipe is completed.

After making several sections of the pipe, and then welding the several sections of the pipe, the key is here, and it is easy to blow up and bored if the welding is not good. After the initial gun pipe is ready, it is necessary to drill the gun boring with a steel cone to break out the crosshair, which is the longest time here, sometimes up to a month.

After that, the boring is scraped clean with steel bars, and then various assemblies are carried out. Liu Yan couldn't imagine that a bird gun has so much knowledge and is so complicated, it seems that it is not possible to do it well in a month, so I should take a look at it after a while.

So Liu Yan encouraged everyone and told everyone to pay attention to rest and not stay up too late, so he went back to the house to rest.

After fifteen days of training in the four teams of military households, Liu Yan began to let them continue the training queue one day and start to replenish some things every other day.

For example, let everyone run in a queue, so that everyone can run a mile in one breath, not panting, and the queue is not seriously dispersed. After that, everyone was asked to run with weights, and the weight was slowly increased, which was the most basic requirement for Qi Jiguang's "Actual Record of Military Training" to practice hand strength, foot strength, and physical strength.

After another five days, it was already the beginning of June, and Liu Yan began to practice adding weapons to everyone.

Among the four teams, Liu Yan only let them train spears and waist knives for the time being. Among the eighteen people in each team, four brave and convenient people were divided into four men with knives, and the rest were armed with guns. The man who wields the sword will be the one who will be the one to be the bearer of the bird. Everyone was given weapons one by one, and everyone was elated.

After all the weapons were distributed, Liu Yan first taught everyone the skills of gunning, and he said loudly: "You are all optimistic." ”

I saw Liu Yan put on a sideways posture and shouted: "Kill!" ”

After a loud roar, Liu Yan rushed forward, and the spear instantly stabbed the eyes, throat, heart, waist, and feet of a humanoid wooden handle twenty steps ahead, and all the movements seemed to be completed in the blink of an eye.

Everyone applauded, with Wang Yue's shouting being the loudest, and Chen Xun also praised it sincerely: "It's really good marksmanship!" ”

All the military households asked one after another, how can they be like Liu Yan. Liu Yan said: "Without him, skilled, you can stab 10,000 times a day like me, 100,000 times, and you can be the same as me." ”