Fang Nan handed over the matter to Hu Zhuang, and the formation of the first camp officially began. On this side, Chen Kang gathered couriers who met the conditions and introduced them to the first camp. On the other side, Hu Zhuang was looking for personnel from various departments of the People's Army to serve as officers in the first camp.

The First-Crossing Battalion is the Third Company and the main weapons and equipment are shields, axes, big swords, and officers above the deputy platoon leader are all served as the People's Army soldiers. Another platoon of the People's Army soldiers is the law enforcement team, which is mainly responsible for maintaining military discipline and ensuring the implementation of military orders. In this way, the number of people who first-Crossing Battalion will reach 392, requiring 324 coolies.

Because of the increasing number of bandits and bandit families, Hutou Village has been expanding in scale, even to a point where it is crowded. After all, Hutou Village was originally a village in the mountains, and there was not enough flat land to build a small town.

324 coolies were taken out to form the Xiandeng Camp, which basically had no impact on the weapons and equipment output of Hutouzhai.

When the People's Army wanted to select coolies to form the first camp spread among the coolies, it immediately caused a huge response.

From Chen Kang's words, the coolies could feel that the first camp was very extraordinary. As long as they joined the first camp, people who would need to work for three years could get rid of the coolies' identity. There was no obstacle to exit the first camp. If they could kill more enemies, they could also get rewards from money or land.

They used to be bandits, but now they are coolies. After getting rid of the coolies' identity, they are just ordinary people who don't even have a field.

From being wiped out by the People's Army to being a coolie in Hutou Village, they felt the strength of the People's Army during this period, and even the official army they could not fight against was likely to be no match for the People's Army.

Chen Kang said that the tactics of the People's Army are very simple. On the battlefield, the firearms troops first defeat the enemy with firearms from a distance, and then the cold weapon troops rushed up. The first to enter the camp belongs to the cold weapon troops. The enemy was defeated by the firearms troops. Going up to the camp first is simply harvesting the heads. There is no need to go up to the camp first to rush up to die.

As long as you kill more enemies in the camp first, even if you leave the camp first, you can still have a lot of land and money. Maybe you can be a small landlord and continue to eat meat and drink wine in the future.

Compared with the heavy work done every day, the coolies really want to join the First Ding Camp now and fight with the official army on the battlefield. However, not all coolies are qualified to join the First Ding Camp. Coolie with good performance can be given priority. Coolie with poor performance and violation of discipline should be refused.

But it is not absolute. If coolie, who performed poorly and violated discipline in the past, performs well in the future, can get an opportunity to be admitted in an extraordinary way.

For a time, the coolies worked harder to work because of the camp first, which increased the steel output of Hutouzhai by a small amount.

Just three days passed, and 324 coolies had been selected, all of whom volunteered to join the First Ding Camp. Four days passed, the First Ding Camp officers, the platoon's law enforcement team, and the "escort" teams from three companies all came to Hutouzhai.

In less than a day, the first camp was officially established. Next, the first camp was about to start training. Hutouzhai had no place to train the first camp. The first camp was divided into three parts and was "escorted" by the People's Army of the three companies to three People's Arms firearms stations for training. The training time left for the first camp was only one and a half months.

In addition, the weapons and equipment for entering the camp first do not need to be extra built. In recent years, Hutouzhai has not only built tiger-headed guns, tiger-headed cannons, spears, but also made some shields, big swords, axes, and equipment. It is no problem to enter the camp first.

The coolies don’t need to worry about their resistance when they get weapons and equipment. The coolies who enter the camp first have wives and children. Even if there are no more people who abandon their wives and children, there are people’s arms next to the camp first. The shield of the camp first can block the lead bullets fired from the fire guns equipped by the Ming army, but cannot block the lead bullets fired from the tiger-headed gun.

When first climbing the camp for training, ideological education is the focus. Of course, the ideological education of soldiers who climbing the camp is slightly different from the ideological education of other troops of the People's Army. The soldiers who climbing the camp should be guided to kill the enemy and make meritorious service and reduce the time and reward money and land for hard labor. The idea of ​​uniting the poor people all over the world to overthrow the Ming Dynasty cannot be depressed.

As the establishment of the camp was completed and the training began, the time to fall was getting closer and closer to the autumn harvest, and the time to raise the flag of the People's Army was getting closer and closer. The people active in the outside world also united more poor people, and the scale of the cold weapon troops expanded rapidly.

The development is rapid, but the problem follows. Some landlords have already felt something is wrong with the surrounding villages, and even found that some ordinary people in the village are using wooden sticks for training.

The landlords and large households were naturally very worried about the abnormal behavior of the poor people and sent someone to ask what these people were doing.

The common people told the landlords' mentors according to the instructor's teachings: "We often have bandits and bandits here to rob grain, but the government cannot control it. In order to protect the food, we can only form a village protection team to defend our homes and our food."

People from other villages can say: "We saw a village protection team formed in XX, and we also formed a village protection team to defend our homes and our food."

This is a very appropriate explanation. When the landlord heard this answer, he could not find any problem.

Some landlords can connect the abnormal behavior of mud legs with rebellion, but when they think about it carefully, they feel that it is not possible. How could farmers in the past rebellion be trained? It often comes up with an idea, gathering a large number of people, holding various farm tools, and launching an impact on the manors and even county towns of the landlords.

The peasants with a small population rebelled and could not even break the manors of the landlords. The peasants with a large population rebelled and could break the manors of the landlords, but were blocked by the city walls of the county town.

Nowadays, the situation of forming a village protection team to train together does not look like a peasant rebellion.

Most landlords who discovered the situation either did not care or thought they were suspicious, and gradually stopped paying attention to the village protection team, but a very small number of landlords investigated the village protection team.

"There was no village protection team before, why did the village protection team appear now? Investigate and investigate carefully for the master. If the mud legs dare to rebel, let the official army suppress them early!"

Some landlords sent their subordinates to investigate and test, while the People's Army soldiers would deal with each other as much as possible. If the landlord accidentally gets the exact news and finally attracts the official army to encircle and suppress it, the people in the entire village will bring food and quickly move to the mountains and forests. It doesn't take long for the People's Army to raise the flag and they can return to their homes.
Chapter completed!