Half a month later, the second major expansion of the flag army finally began.

It is also because a large amount of military supplies needs to be accumulated during this period of time, and Min Yuanqi also needs to further spread his prestige.

With the glorious image of the flag army defeating the bandits, the generous treatment and military pay of the flag army, and sorting out the Yanchi and various workshops, and establishing a second-level security force in each hundred households. These matters made Min Yuanqi busy, but the new flag army's enlistment was the top priority after all... In fact, there was no delay for a day. After all, the number of people who were newly formed in the flag army must be determined based on the income of the salt pond, the amount of grain purchased, and the reserve of military weapons and horses.

Fortunately, at least at this stage, Min Yuanqi had a lot of financial resources, and the Zhu family, including Li Kecheng, were all strongly supported. In addition, Shen Yong's blacksmith workshop could already produce weapons such as Qi swords, shields, spears and other weapons in batches, so it was not so easy to train the newly enlisted flag army at empty-handed training, including war horses. The Zhu family brought a batch of war horses from Southern Zhili, including war horses purchased from the north, heading south along the seaside.

If everything goes well, Min Yuanqi's number of war horses will exceed 400 in less than ten days. In this way, it would be enough to set up the airs of two cavalry.

Due to the importance of cavalry, the best seedling this time is the affirmation of advanced cavalry.

Because of the ease of training and importance of gunners, the next level is the gutter.

Then choose some people with extraordinary courage and excellent martial arts skills as sword cards.

Both physical fitness and personal bravery are very ordinary, but they are still brave enough to become a spearman. The next ones are boring handles and fire soldiers.

If the fire soldiers are to serve on the battlefield, if the war is not good, they have to go forward to make up for the position. Of course, they are also considered to be a member of the war soldiers, but they are considered to be a lower-level war soldiers. Therefore, any fire soldiers with some ambition will seek to become a real war soldiers over time.

The young people who passed through the salt pond were large groups of young people. They all came from the surrounding hundreds of households and had already passed the primary election in the local area. The local village officials or officials issued a letter of guarantee, wrote their own names and figures, and the signing of the guarantor. Only then did they have the right to go through the numerous guards and rush to the military camp of the 300th household to accept the election.

Everyone is in a very happy mood.

The younger generations of this age, unless they are the children of nobles, officials, gentry or giant merchants, no one cannot endure hardships. Even the children of small merchants have learned mathematics and various business methods by their teenage years, including how to deal with customers.

This is not a hard time. When you reach an adult at the age of fifteen or sixteen, your family will tell you a wife and then feel at ease to create a person at home.

After one or two years, the wife has a good health. I’m sorry, the stupid guy goes out to do business. He doesn’t have to go home once every few years. This kind of hard work is not about not having enough food or being warm, but about a kind of mental hardship and pain.

This is probably the case in the world.

Whether it is a military household or a civilian household, young people or strong men in their seventeen or eighteen to thirty are not afraid of hardships. The more hard the flag army is, the more they are, the more stable the people's hearts are.

Deputy Qianhu Min can defeat bandits, behead thousands of levels, and the banner army becomes stronger, which means that Yundiguan is safer and safer. Isn’t this a good thing?

The training of the flag army also means the image of the flag army raising it.

Fully armed, everyone wore a Fan Yang hat and a red military robe. How many villages and households were passed by hundreds of miles back and forth, all of them were strong and powerful young men wearing a single-colored robe and running back and forth in full spirit, attracting so many praises and envious eyes?

Originally, the poor flag army was a lower class that everyone looked down upon in the local area, and ordinary households were unlikely to marry military households, but now households within a radius of dozens of miles have changed their attitudes, all thinking about marrying their daughter to the 300th household.

If you get married to a flag army, as long as the deputy Min Qianhu is here, the promised salary is paid and even killed by accident, you will be able to feed and have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life. Can the poor people expect more?

"I saw the gate."

"What is the gate of the earth? It's the camp gate."

"How many horses, I saw each other for the first time in twenty-two years."

"It's the first time I've seen such a mighty flag army."

Although some young and strong men had helped in Yanchi, they couldn't help but feel excited when they approached the military camp and thought that they might become a member of the flag army.

"It's strange..." A young man from the flag army touched his head and said, "We were originally the flag army, and my brother was Yu Ding. Now he is coming to join the army again, which feels strange."

"That's right."

"I heard that I have reported my merits to the emperor. It would be great if the court allowed our Deputy Qianhu to be the garrison officer."

"Yes, that's great. We are just serious soldiers."

"What's the reputation of a camp soldier? A thief passes like a comb, and a soldier passes like a comb, but he is not as good as a flag army."

"That's the soldiers from other battalions. Our Yuntiguan battalions will not have such a bad reputation."

“Reasonable, reasonable.”

"That's also the matter between the court and the high officials. Who knows what will happen?"

Those who signed up for the first exam were all young and strong. Thanks to the persistence of Min Yuanqi's perseverance in promoting the court residence and explaining the general trend to the people and military households around him, including the most basic internal information of military and political operations. These young people with relatively high acceptance levels at least have all the knowledge of the operation of the court and the general trend in front of him.

If they were let go a few months ago and told them to say it, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to say one, two, three, four, five.

The battalion system, except for the general's main camp to the surprise camp of the deputy generals and generals, has its own garrisons, and no one can leave the trust without permission, unless the court has clear instructions.

Only the guerrilla general's escort camp has no fixed defense ground and is a mobile camp that can be dispatched at any time.

Under the guerrillas, they led the soldiers of a certain battalion to guard the garrisons of a certain place, such as the Tongshan Camp stationed in Tongshan, the Suining Camp stationed in Suining, etc.

Under the garrison were the fort guards of a large military officer, with three or five hundred soldiers under his command, guarding a certain area of ​​defense, and there were several small military forts and fire road piers underneath.

Such a multi-in-one form the Ming Dynasty's defense system.

There are a large number of generals, deputy generals and guerrillas on the nine sides. There are garrison officials and fort guards below. The fort guards must be at least a commander, and the garrison officials are at least a commander. As for guerrilla generals, most of them will be given the position of military officers in the capital. The deputy generals and generals will usually be given the position of governors or generals of the magistrates.

Yuntiguan is not only an inner town, but also a remote place near the sea, so there are no garrison officials or fort guards. When preparing for the Japanese, there was a general here to guard five small military forts.

Now Min Yuanqi is here, if he is on the pretext of robbery, he may still be appointed as a garrison officer.

After all, everyone understands that with Min Yuanqi's current strength and financial resources, coupled with his reputation and military merits, it is a foregone conclusion that he or she is a commander or a magistrate. It is natural to serve as a battalion guard.

Of course, this is just a discussion and conjecture, but it also represents a considerable number of people's hearts and opinions.

At least for the strong men of the flag army and civilian households in front of them, they hope that Min Yuanqi can be promoted.

Although they are not as good as the trained flag soldiers who came in, they all became flag captains or team officials. At the very least, this time they can become team deputys, and they are still far behind them.

The closest to the military camp, the clearer the situation in the camp is seen. A large number of flag troops are fully armed in training, shouting and shouting the sound of gold and iron clashing of weapons and the sound of muskets incessantly...

What makes people shine the most is that the large spear flags of the teams are in a formation and moving forward, with two spears. They stand up high and move forward like a wall, then lift the spear diagonally, and then stab them forward together...

The momentum that was moving forward, the frost and cold light at the tip of the gun was shining, and the power of the front thorns was even a hundred steps away, which made people frightened and extremely frightened.

The spear array in front of you is composed of four spear flag teams, practicing the gun array every day, and then practicing with the sword and card hand gunners.

Sometimes it is broken up and formed a mandarin duck array, or it is a three-material formation with cavalry, and also a circular formation for defense.

Sometimes it is also a sharp array used to practice assaults with the knife and card.

Min Yuanqi believed that no matter which array it is, the array is determined based on the terrain, the number of enemies, and the combat tasks it undertakes. Tactical changes must be determined based on the actual situation. No array can completely conquer the world. Even a very skilled Yuanyang array, if you take it to the grassland and fight with the Mongolian cavalry, you will definitely suffer a loss.

The training of the flag army was based on Min Yuanqi's considerations, and the training was quite stable and solid.

Of course, those nine palaces and eight trigrams of arrays look fancy, but in fact, Min Yuanqi will never let the soldiers under his command waste that meaningless time.

More than a thousand people had gathered at the gate of the camp, and these were all strong men who reported the preliminary election according to the prescribed time.

Looking at the scene in the camp, they were already dazzled and shaking their hearts.

Not only that, the spearmen quickly retreated and reorganized the array, and then the sword player lined up on both wings and in front of the array, forming a huge horizontal formation and rushing forward together.

A large formation was also gathered opposite the horizontal formation. At this time, dozens of archers gathered on one side and dozens of gunners were on the other side.

As the military order was issued, the flag was waving, and the archer on one side began to shoot into the sky.

The gunners on the other side also began to fire, with white smoke and flames rising one after another, and the loud noise made the primaries' faces pale.

Muskets roared and arrows fell like rain. How could this be a training? It was clearly a real battlefield?

Under the long-range attacks of both sides, the military formations on both sides remained quite intact, then contacted each other, and simulated attacks with wooden poles and knives. The people outside the camp were already watching the scene with fierce and frightened. When they saw such a real simulated battle, many people were stunned, even pale and did not dare to take a closer look.

At this level of training, it is inevitable that some participants will be injured.

Although it was a round arrow, several flag soldiers were shot in the eyes or throat and were lifted out of the army.

A large number of flag soldiers were beaten with purple or covered in blood, but they were not allowed to withdraw and could only stay in the formation honestly and continue to follow orders.
Chapter completed!