As a martial artist and a general of the first-class army of the Ming Dynasty, Luo Siwei was naturally no problem in training ten thousand new recruits. Moreover, because he was the second best in the martial arts army, Qin Liangyu, the leader of the First Army of the Imperial Guard, also valued him very much, and even made an exception to let him participate in the compilation of "The Ming Dynasty Infantry Practice". Although the compilation of "The Ming Dynasty Infantry Practice" has not been completed, he is quite familiar with the content of the training. It is easy to train new recruits.

The first thing to do when training new recruits is to be organized. No matter what military organization the foreigners have, Luo Siwei directly reorganized the ten thousand new recruits according to the Ming Dynasty.

From the grassroots level, there are five people and one squadron leaders, one team of ten people, one small flag, fifty people and one flag, one general flag, one 100 people and one squadron, one 100 people and one squadron, one 100 people and one squadron, one 100 people and one squadron. As for the chief general, he is now, and it is naturally Schweila when fighting.

In order to facilitate management, he temporarily set the 100 musketeers of the Imperial Guards as the 100th General. Schvira originally appointed all ten officers as the 100th General, and two of them temporarily replaced the 100th General, who brought him the 2 100th General.

Because of the language barrier, Schvirat hired a Portuguese translator from the caravan of Zheng Zhilong, the king of Zhennan, to accompany Luo Siwei for training throughout the process. He also drew 200 people from his subordinates to serve as the general flag. Although these people did not speak Chinese, they could still understand the common words in the Ming Dynasty for so long, so that the management of grassroots soldiers would be more convenient.

After the training was completed, the training officially began. Unexpectedly, the 10,000 new recruits under Shi Weila complained at the beginning. They were so strict that they could not stand it.

If you have been a soldier, the reaction may be so strong, but Portugal has been annexed by Spain for decades, so there are definitely no regular army, and veterans have grown old. These are all real civilians, and most of them are poor. Otherwise, they would not be a private army of mercenary-based troops for money. For them, the training of the regular army of the Ming Empire is too strict.

For example, standing in a queue is a good idea. No matter which country's military trains, they think it's enough to stand straight, but the Ming officers are simply outrageously strict:

First of all, we require everyone to raise their heads, chests, and buttocks. Wouldn’t it be tiring to stand like this?

Then the thighs must be stretched straight and closed, and even the angles of the legs must be exactly the same. Are you wrong?

Finally, the opponent also has strict requirements. You must stretch your legs and clamp your arms, which is boring!

These new recruits started to complain when they started training, and many people were unwilling to cooperate. Fortunately, Schweila was watching from the side, seeing their attitude, and ran up and chatted: "You are a little professional ethics. I gave you money. The salary is 5 taels a month. Do you know how high it is? Those who train you are all soldiers of the first-class legion of the Ming Empire, the most elite troops of the great Ming Empire. Their salary is the same as you, and they are 5 taels a month! They can do it, why can't you do it?"

At this time, some ruffian civilians among the recruits shouted: "Impossible, how is it possible? There are so many strict requirements in a queue. Can they all do it? It is absolutely impossible!"

Shivera was so angry that she was about to use her trump card: deducting her salary, but Luo Siwei shouted directly: "Military soldiers, gather."

It turned out that the Portuguese translator around him was also a powerful character. Every time they finished speaking, he would just say Luo Siwei in Chinese and listen to it.

Hearing that they were not convinced, they thought that the soldiers under him could not stand in line as required. He directly ordered the musketeers to gather and stand there and let them see if everyone stood strictly as required.

As soon as their order was delivered, musket soldiers scattered among the ten thousand new recruits immediately ran over from all over the place, and in the blink of an eye, they formed a neat square formation in front of him.

When Luo Siwei got up to the musketeers, he immediately turned to the translator beside him and said, "Tell them that those who are not convinced can come up and see if they stand strictly as required."

The translator immediately chatted with Portuguese at the recruits. A few of them walked forward in dissatisfaction and looked carefully. After watching for a while, the people walked back dejectedly. They couldn't find any fault. The postures of the one hundred people were very standard, just the same as what they asked for.

Now no one is clamoring, and the queue training can continue. Of course, the training of recruits is not as simple as standing in a queue. Then they are marching forward. Now these recruits can't stand it anymore. Just walk and require everyone to swing their hands and feet at the same time. That's fine, there are strict requirements on the angle of swinging hands and feet. Are they sick or sick?

Luo Siwei still had the old method, and asked a team of 100 musketeers to walk back and forth a few times. As expected, the angles were consistent and uniform. The recruits had no choice but to do it. In fact, these actions were not difficult, but the requirements were relatively strict. It was not that these recruits could not do it, but that they were used to being free and casual and did not want to be merciless like a puppet.

This queue and marching forward are the most basic things, and there is no difficulty. The recruits looked a little after practicing for a few days. The next step was to train gun operations. The recruits held brand new 24-type flintlock rifles, and they all smiled happily. Good things, looking at the work, they were edges and corners, and they were just like artworks. The reason why these people were willing to make money as mercenaries is one aspect, mainly with guns, which is safer. If they were asked to fight with the natives face to face with swords, no one would dare to come.

They all thought that the hard days had finally come to an end, and they just practice aiming and shooting. Unexpectedly, the gun training was more stringent, so they opened the bolt, loaded the bullet, loaded the medicine room, and tightened the bolt, and then tightened the bolt. They practiced back and forth, and practiced one hundred times.

Open the bolt, load the bullet, load the medicine room, tighten the bolt, then turn the bolt again, take out the medicine room, take out the bullet, and close the bolt again; then open the bolt again, load the bullet..., practiced it back and forth a hundred times, another hundred times, another hundred times, still one hundred times, and it was no longer played.

Well, boring is a bit boring, but not very tired. For the sake of money, I endured it. After the training of queues and pedals, these recruits had a sense of obeying orders, so no one jumped out to complain about this bullet-loading training. Everyone gritted their teeth and practiced it a hundred times and a hundred times, and the more they practiced, the more they became more and more proficient.

Is this over? It's still early, and then I run forward with a gun, run for two hours, and then I get a bayonet, block, assassinate, and put a bayonet. This boring training has been practiced one hundred times and one hundred times.

Now the recruits are not doing it anymore. They are crazy. They run for half a day, and then practice assassination for a long time. Do you want to be exhausted? We are musketeers, not pikemen. What's the use of practicing these? ** After practicing tens of thousands of times, they have not shot a single shot. Are spearmen used for hand-to-hand combat? If you really need to practice hand-to-hand combat, you can practice some practical movements. This is just like a puppet, just go back and forth, which is useless!

This is not in the Ming Dynasty. Luo Siwei couldn't find ten thousand cavalry to rush over to let them see whether simple actions are useful to cavalry or complex routines are useful to cavalry. He thought about it and simply asked the translator to tell them that those who thought they could challenge his soldiers with two tricks, and they wouldn't have to practice if they won.

Those who were tall and big and muscular naturally thought they had a trick, so there were endless challenges, and they were in a tragedy. The soldiers of these Imperial Guards were all military families, and their ancestors were carefully selected from more than two million Ming troops. Whoever had no unique skills in his family was all the best way to kill the enemy on the battlefield, so it was naturally easy to deal with these civilians.

Therefore, the people who came up to challenge were basically knocked down as soon as they met, and there was no one who could get up and fight again. The Ming army used all the tricks to kill the enemy, and it was already considered to be merciless to kill them.

Now, these new recruits were completely convinced. It turned out that the Ming soldiers who trained them were all masters who were hidden. Seeing that they were all stiff and meticulous like marionettes, they thought they could not fight. They fought for a long time and became more ruthless.

Those who joined the army admired the strong. After this fight, all the new recruits not only did not have any resentment, but became obedient, and they did whatever they were told to do, without any complaints, and even after the training was over, many new recruits went to find the soldiers who trained their Imperial Guards to get close to them and wanted to learn some kung fu.

For a moment, this training camp not only set off a craze for learning kung fu, but also a craze for learning Chinese. If you don’t understand the language, you will go to others to ask for advice, so you can’t let others learn your language.

At the end, almost all the recruits learned some Chinese more or less, such as "collection", "step", "forward", etc., and they were kidding and practicing every day. If they didn't understand these few sentences, they were idiots. People not only understood daily terms such as "hello", "thank you", etc., but also said, don't you say you are embarrassed to talk to the instructor! Words such as "master", "kung fu" have also begun to be popular in the army, because the "kung fu" of "master" is really amazing.

After practicing these boring movements, I finally started to practice shooting. It was not just shooting. It was good to shoot a few shots a day. The main thing was to practice holding the gun, aiming, squatting, and standing up. It was impossible to teach the effect of stacking waves in a short time. Luo Siwei could only settle for the second best and teach them to shoot in segments, which was to stand in several rows and shoot continuously. This was much simpler than continuous shooting during the marching, and it would not take long to practice.

The gun training was not over yet, and the artillery training began. Luo Siwei specially selected two thousand recruits from the recruits to practice artillery shooting the most seriously. This artillery is not a joke. It may cause casualties if it makes a mistake. It is not a big deal if it accidentally lights the gunpowder barrel. It is basically impossible to kill anyone. If the gun barrel is accidentally blown up, the team that fired the artillery will suffer heavy casualties.

Therefore, the training of artillery is more stringent. Anyone who fails to meet the standards will be eliminated. Anyway, only one thousand people need to operate a hundred cannons, and the remaining one thousand people are used to eliminate them. This time, there is no dissatisfaction, they only admire them.

Because Luo Siwei asked a hundred artillery soldiers to practice the process of firing with ten cannons for them. The movements, from loading gunpowder, loading shells, and adjusting the firing distance..., everyone was meticulous and did not do anything bad, just like carved from a mold, the movements were neat and smooth, and they rose to the height of art.
Chapter completed!