After sending the little girl back to her room, Qin Yu ignored her and Li Dingguo and began to recruit people.

Thanks to the breaking of the county town, the elderly, weak, women and children outside the city also had a few full meals, and their faces were full of hope for the future.

In the rebel army, only by becoming the personal guards of each leader can we live in the city, and only the personal guards can eat every meal and enjoy the happiness of the family. The rest are cannon fodder.

If you want to become a personal guard, you must not only be tall and big, but also dare to fight and fight, so that you can be attracted by the leaders. Of course, if you know some martial arts and riding horses, you will definitely be the target of the leaders' competition.

Zhang Xianzhong had ten leaders under his command, two or three hundred confidants with strong strength, and only dozens of weak strength, even the Eight Kings themselves had more than five hundred personal guards.

Total total, the number of people will not exceed two thousand. Only these people will have real swords and guns, and a few will even have cotton armor and war horses.

The families of these people will be managed uniformly, called the Houying Camp. With Qin Yu’s firearms camp and the eight kings’ personal guard camp, there are a total of thirteen battalions.

Qin Yu planned to choose all 14 or 15-year-old boys, and they were orphans.

He is afraid that he will not be able to surrender and is difficult to manage. He cannot support his family, so it is just right for orphans.

After a while, the young men who came to sign up almost lined up to the Han River.

Qin Yu personally selected and tried his best to finally determine a hundred places, with the largest one not exceeding sixteen and the smallest one being fourteen.

These hundred people don’t want those who are too smart or those who are too stupid. Those who have eaten human flesh even stand aside.

"Brother Qin, is it wrong for you to recruit all these orphans?" Li Dingguo frowned at the skinny teenagers who were only skinny.

Casting cannons and operating firearms are all physical tasks. Can these guys really do it?

"Brother Dingguo, although they are thin now, as long as they have two full meals, they will be full of energy immediately. Moreover, it is too dangerous to have gunpowder cast cannons. They are younger and more obedient and easier to manage."

Qin Yu explained, thinking, I'll make a fucking cannon.

Of course, if there are enough copper and skilled craftsmen, he may not be able to do it. He just uses mud to make a mold and pour an iron pipe?

Seeing that he said this, Li Dingguo didn't say anything else. He was no more than two years older than Qin Yu and had often suffered losses before, so he understood his difficulties.

After taking the people back to the city, Qin Yu originally wanted to find a separate yard as a garrison, but found that the slightly suitable ones were occupied by the other battalions.

In the end, I had to temporarily join forces with Li Dingguo, and find an open space outside the city to build a camp.

Otherwise, if you always huddled with the people of Li Dingguo, you will inevitably not become his vassal in the future, and will also affect the loyalty of those young people to him.

Li Dingguo had two hundred confidant guards and were stationed in two yards. The last yard was distributed to Qin Yu, the yard that he rested last night.

This time, a large amount of iron, weapons and food were seized, and the battalions were expanding their confidants. Li Dingguo also recruited two thousand young and strong people, but these people were stationed outside the city.

Qin Yu's yard is not big. In addition to a bedroom on the front, there are four wing rooms on the left and right sides.

One of them is used to prepare gunpowder and stack firearms. The other three are still able to sleep if a hundred young people squeeze in.

In the courtyard.

One hundred young men in shabby clothes, standing together, looked a little crowded, and everyone's face was excited.

"From today on, you will be the people of my firearm camp. Let me introduce myself. My name is Qin Yu, you are your commander, your parents of food and clothing, and you are also the great benefactor who rescued you from the edge of death.

A person can do everything he wants to survive, but he must not be ungrateful, otherwise what is the difference between him and animals? I hope you remember this."

Qin Yu stood on a table, glanced at the teenagers and said with great righteousness, completely forgot that he still had the word "sham".

The teenagers all looked at Qin Yu with bright eyes.

"Mom, my little brother is so majestic, what he said makes sense."

"Mom, I know that he is a person who is grateful for his kindness. Wan'er, you must remember that he rescued us mother and daughter. You must not forget your kindness in the future, otherwise you will be a beast."

"But they are bad guys? Both their father and grandfather were killed..."

"Hey! The other thieves who killed your father and grandpa were the eight kings. I believe he had no choice but to join the thieves. You must distinguish between your enemies and your benefactors, do you know?"

"Um!"

The mother and daughter were lying behind the door and looking at the scene in the yard, the beautiful woman began to teach her daughter.

Qin Yu's speech outside was over. Seeing that a hundred young men were no longer as confused as before, he nodded with satisfaction.

"After eating, I will go to the front yard well to get water to clean my body, wash my clothes, and then come back to clean up the three rooms. Whoever dares to violate my orders in the future will be expelled from the firearm camp. Have you heard clearly?"

"Yes, leader!"

One hundred people replied loudly.

At this time, the rice in the pot next to it was almost cooked. One hundred people lined up, each of whom ate two large bowls before going to take a shower.

Qin Yu returned to the room and the mother and daughter immediately fell to the ground.

"Thank you, my husband, thank you, let me save Wan'er, hurry up, kowtow to my husband..."

"Thank you for your life-saving!"

"Okay, you don't have to call me a benefactor, just treat it as a slight. Mrs. Li, I can only protect you for the time being. I hope you have a clear idea in your heart." Qin Yu waved his hand.

"I understand that as long as the young master can protect Wan'er, I will never die at all." The beautiful woman nodded as if she was prepared.

"Mom, Wan'er, don't leave you." Li Wan'er threw herself into her mother's arms and started crying.

"Mrs. Li, wait a moment, I'll get a set of men's clothing for you. I'll wrap it there, too. It's so eye-catching. Don't leave the yard in the future. You also have to change men's clothing. You can work on the floor in the house tonight."

"Um!"

The beautiful woman nodded awkwardly.

After giving instructing, Qin Yu went to the side room next to check the firearms sent by Li Dingguo.

There are only one way to return to the furnace for more than a dozen bird guns, otherwise it will be a powerful tool for suicide and self-harm. However, the cannon next to it is rusty, but it should still be useful after tinkering with it.

It is called a cannon, but it is actually a bowl-mouth gun. The barrel is about the thickness of the bowl-mouth, and it is about one meter long, weighing three or four hundred kilograms. I don’t know which old antique it is.

However, the earlier the casting is, the better the quality, and the market conditions of the Ming Dynasty were there.

Hundreds of kilograms of sulfur, because it was used by the pharmacy, the purity is already very high and can be used directly.

Everyone knows the formula of gunpowder in the past life.
Chapter completed!