Everyone has a desire to follow the herd.
Many people were still hesitant at first, but when someone came forward to apply for archers, some people were immediately shaken. , Yes, it is not a matter of whether the Mantars will come to Xishan Town, but five acres of fertile land is a benefit that is close at hand.
Besides, even if Mantar really came, what difference does it make if he is not an archer?
He should just run away.
Although Chen Yue kept saying that the purpose of recruiting archers was to fight Mantar, when the large group of Mantar came, No one thought that Chen Yue would really lead the people to fight Manta, instead of hiding in the mountains or escaping.
After figuring it out, more and more people started to stand up and sign up.
However, not everyone can be an archer.
Chen Yue also has conditions for recruiting soldiers.
First, they must be between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five.
Those who are too young are not strong enough, and those who are too old are slow to react and are difficult to shape. .
Second, he must be single and not the only child in the family.
This condition was proposed by Chen Yue after he thought about it, and it was entirely out of his selfishness.
Although he is nominally recruiting archers from the Inspection Department, he is actually building his own team.
The soldiers he recruits will definitely follow him in the wars in the north and south in the future.
If you are single and don't have the burden of a wife or children, you can leave at your convenience.
If you are not an only child and have brothers at home, you don’t have to worry about your parents having no one to take care of you.
After meeting these two conditions, we can talk about other things.
Generally speaking, as long as there is no physical problem, we will accept them.
Most of the villagers in the mountain villages are relatively simple and are the best soldiers.
After a morning of recruitment statistics, 218 people finally registered and met the conditions.
After the archers were recruited, the next step was to form a team.
After thinking about it, Chen Yue felt that it was unreasonable to only have two single arms: spear soldiers and fire gun soldiers.
In order to defeat powerful enemies on the battlefield, the team must first be both offensive and defensive.
OK.
After consideration, it was decided to adopt a combination of fire gun soldiers, sword and shield soldiers, spear soldiers, archers and other arms.
A small flag has a total of fifteen people.
In addition to a small flag officer, it includes three gunmen, four sword and shield soldiers, two archers, four spearmen, and finally a cook.
In terms of equipment, the fire gunner is equipped with a bird gun and a waist sword, the sword and shield soldier is equipped with a waist sword and a square shield, and the pike soldier is equipped with a long spear and three short spears on his back for throwing to kill the enemy. , the cook is only equipped with a pole with two pointed ends, which is used to carry some of the food baggage of the small flag.
If necessary, he can also use the sharp pole to kill the enemy.
The small flag officer is equipped with a long gun and must stand at the front of the team when facing the enemy.
In addition to the small flag officer, each small flag also has two corps commanders, who serve as the deputy of the small flag officer.
Then there are five small flags and one general flag.
The general flag officer is equipped with four guards, and there are eighty people in one general flag.
The two general flags form a centurion.
The captain is called the general, and the general has a guard with a small flag.
In total, a centurion has a total of 176 people.
A total of 218 new soldiers were recruited this time, plus the original 40 servants, a total of 258 people.
Chen Yue was temporarily organized into three general banners, and the remaining 18 people were organized into a small group.
The flag is your own guard.
Yang Zhengping was appointed as his deputy, Chen Ping, Chen Mo and Li Yi were appointed as the chief flag officer respectively.
Chen Yan was appointed as the chief flag officer and temporarily served as his guard captain.
Chen Yan has great strength and obeys orders, but his brain is not very bright.
He can charge into battle, but cannot lead the team.
The small flag officers and captains in the team are all served by the original servants.
They serve as the backbone of the team and can blend the team together as quickly as possible.
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After the team was established, weapons were distributed.
With the weapons originally owned and the weapons captured, there was no problem in having one weapon per person.
However, the problem was that the number of muskets was too small, which completely failed to meet the requirement of three for each small flag.
Each small flag can only be assigned one.
Then there are the archers.
The number of bows is also seriously insufficient.
Only more than 20 hunting bows were seized from Zhao Li's arsenal.
They are all soft bows with less than one stone.
This kind of bows and arrows can deal with people without armor.
If you want to kill them, Qing soldiers wearing heavy armor are completely impossible.
The most common weapons are steel knives and spears.
There is no other choice but to equip these two arms first, and then think about getting some muskets, bows and arrows later.
The team was organized and weapons were distributed.
However, looking at the assembled team, Chen Yue felt that something was wrong.
It took him a long time to figure out that it was the clothing.
It turns out that the servants all wore uniform military uniforms.
Chen Yue spent money to customize them at a clothing store on Xuanwumen Street.
They were all uniforms with double-breasted hoods and long-waist military boots.
Later, when the weather turned cold, a red uniform was customized for each of them.
The Yuanyang War Jacket is knee-length, has narrow sleeves, and is filled with cotton.
It has both defense and warmth functions.
Before Chen Yue led the team to leave Beijing, he spent more than two thousand taels of money on the servants alone.
Thanks to the continuous income from the coal mine, he was able to support dozens of servants.
The servants all wear uniforms, but these newly recruited archers wear a variety of clothes, including bare sheepskin jackets, tattered cotton jackets with exposed cotton, and even more like this It's snowing in the winter, but I'm shivering in a few single clothes.
It seems that my family is too poor to make cotton-padded jackets.
If an army wants to become an army, the key point is to have uniform uniforms.
Once the uniforms are uniform, no matter how bad the team is, it will have some momentum.
And uniform uniforms will increase the soldiers' sense of belonging.
So Chen Yue decided to make uniform military uniforms for the new recruits.
There are dozens of pieces of cotton cloth in the warehouse of the manor, enough to make a military uniform for each recruit.
He sent people to the shops in Xishan Town to buy a large amount of cotton, and then asked the women in the town to sew military uniforms for a set of fifty copper coins.
The style of the military uniforms was the mandarin duck war jackets worn by the servants.
Of course, because they are all dyed cyan cotton, the sewn war jackets are no longer red, but this can also accurately distinguish the difference between soldiers and officers.
Those wearing cyan military uniforms are all recruits who have just joined the army, and red war jackets The others are the original servants, all officers in the team.
With the concerted efforts of hundreds of women in the town, all the military uniforms were sewn two days later.
When the distribution was carried out and every recruit was on board, the team's momentum immediately changed.
Although they were untrained, they had a hint of a strong army.
Heavy snow has been falling for three days, but it is still falling, and the entire land, rivers and mountains are completely white.
In this season of snowflakes, everyone would choose to stay in the warm home of Maodong.
However, in Sicheng, the inspection department to the east of Xishan Town, which is the former Zhao family manor, shouts could be heard from time to time, floating over the entire Xishan Town. , all the townspeople knew that it was the inspector who was desperately drilling those poor guys
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