The selection of ordinary recruits is only until the fourth entry into the yard. Those who can pass the fourth level will be arranged to enter the recruit camp for five days for intensive training. During this period and in subsequent recruit training, if the training program is not completed or there are any violations of discipline, they will be eliminated and will not be tolerated.

Holding the admission documents that had been changed, when the number of admissions was enough, Zhang Yida and his fellow soldiers went to the barracks west of the city under the leadership of a small officer. There, they were about to start training from the training of recruits and train hard to step into this Ming army, which was already quite famous in Zhejiang.

However, although these first batch of admitted candidates have been taken to the military camp and some people who cannot be admitted turn around and leave, the size of the crowd in the open space inside and outside the Qi house is getting bigger and bigger, and there is no sign of reduction.

This place is Yiwu, and the martial arts style is far superior to other prefectures in Zhejiang. It is said that only the group of enlisted soldiers who have just completed the screening are few who know how to do martial arts. As the saying goes in Zhejiang folk saying "Lanxi's port, Xiaoshan's head feeding, Yiwu's fist". Chen Wen has not felt whether the first two are like this. It is just that the last sentence seems to be definitely not a false reputation.

Although under normal circumstances, this ratio should gradually decrease in the following selection, the number of enlisted soldiers with martial arts far exceeds that of Chen Wen's previous recruitment, so that the third yard used to test martial arts and strength at this moment has become the most lively place in the entire Qi house.

Putting aside those who are skilled in martial arts, there are very few people who need to be selected. Even so, Chen Wen is still very busy. After the recruitment, he needs to collect and arrange targeted items with the officials of the old camp after the recruitment, training, and the weapons and equipment that are equipped with him and other materials to assist in marching, combat, camping and other matters.

The first day of the recruitment work was not over until the night ended. However, even with the identification process that Chen Wen had figured out, there were still many enlisted soldiers who had not yet entered Qi's house for selection.

The efforts of the past few days have received a certain reward at this moment. The enthusiasm of the people of Yiwu County to join the army is much higher than that of Dongyang County. Seeing this, Chen Wen had to extend the recruitment work and announced that the recruitment work would continue in the next two days. Only then did he calm these people who were determined to join the army.

The three-day conscription ended soon. Chen Wen was monitoring the number of recruits every day, but never interfered. Until the third day was completely over, Nantangying had recruited more than 4,000 people in Yiwu County. Although it was still impossible to compare with Qi Jiguang's appeal at that time, if this number was added to Chen Wen's old camp troops in Tiantai Mountain and the two thousand new recruits recruited in Dongyang County, an army of more than 7,000 combat soldiers would be in control.

These new recruits, together with the more than 2,000 people recruited in Dongyang County, will screen some of them in the next training, but although the remaining troops are enough to face Ma Jinbao's full-strength attack, this number of troops still scared Sun Yu who arrived after arranging the affairs of Dongyang County.

At its peak, the Ming army in Dalan Mountain did not have more than 4,000 soldiers. The current army, which was twice as high as before, was a huge burden for the Ming army, which had only two counties. It was even so great that it could not last until next year without obtaining warehouses in the two places and a large number of gentry donations.

However, Chen Wen was not worried about this. In his plan, as long as he persisted until the left-behind troops of the old camp arrived and the new recruits completed training, he could take advantage of the opportunity when the Qing army had empty troops in several prefectures in southwest Zhejiang to carry out a large-scale strategic operation.

After Chen Wen took over one or two mansions, coupled with Wang Jiang's administrative ability, it should be more than enough to raise the army of more than 7,000 people.

Now, all you need to do is to complete the training as soon as possible and wait for the old camp to come and meet, it’s that simple!

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On September 14, the fifth year of Yongli, the first day after the recruits entered the camp and began preliminary training, the temporary old camp of the Ming army in Dalan Mountain, Tiantai Mountain, also completed the overall mobilization and preliminary preparation work a few days after the news arrived, and set off from Tiantai Mountain. It was prepared to enter Dongyang County through Xinchang and Sheng County.

A few days ago, due to the chaos in Taizhou, the Shaoxing Green Camp also strengthened its defenses for Sheng County and Xinchang. After a period of sneaking out of the Qing army occupied the area, the messenger sent by Chen Wen finally arrived at the temporary old camp on Tiantai Mountain safely.

After receiving the news that Chen Wen had completely defeated the Qing army left behind in Jinhua Prefecture, the old battalion immediately turned into a sea of ​​joy. Even Ye Shirong, the deputy general of the rear battalion who had already established a battalion, came to congratulate him in person.

But after the celebration was over, according to the successful news of the plan previously formulated by Chen Wen and Wang Jiang, the old camp would set off from Tiantai Mountain and head to Dongyang County to meet Chen Wen with Chen Wen under the command of Wu Dengke, the deputy general who was responsible for left-behind defense through cavalry training during this period.

This plan was booked in advance, but it still encountered considerable resistance when it was implemented.

During the plan, the old camp departed for Jinhua to eliminate the officials of the old camp, the school soldiers and their families, as well as the people of Simingshan who followed the Ming army south. These people were the weights Chen Wen and Wang Jiang planned to balance the local forces in Jinhua Prefecture, but these weights showed a considerable resistance to going south again.

Last year, Chen Wen covered the people's evacuation from Siming Mountain, which was the inevitable result of the Qing army's victory in the previous battle. At that time, the Siming Mountain people were not only afraid of the massacre of the Qing army, but also under the leadership of Chen Wen, and they embarked on a large number of them on the journey to Tiantai Mountain.

The good military discipline shown by the Nantangying Camp, who was responsible for escorting along the way, and the subsequent successive victory of defeating the pursuers and intercepting the enemy, also improved Chen Wen's reputation, thus establishing the dual-original leadership system of the Ming army in Dalanshan after Wang Yi was captured.

But whether it is Wang Jiang or Chen Wen, who is far away in Jinhua Prefecture, in the eyes of many people accompanying him, they cannot resist the temptation to return to their hometown of Siming Mountain. After all, they were born and grew up until they were forced to leave last year.

Long before Chen Wen left, the people had already secretly left the Ming army controlled by Dalan Mountain and returned to their hometown of Siming Mountain. Later, they found that the pressure from Lian Zhan and Lianjie began to weaken little by little with Chen Wen's pace of sending troops to Jinhua, and the calls for returning to Siming Mountain were even louder. Even some officials from the old battalion were trying to persuade Wang Jiang to return to Dalan Mountain to rebuild the Ming army armed forces that had once shut down from the eastern Zhejiang city.

However, whether it is Wu Dengke, the general who is responsible for left-behind defense, or Li Ruixin, who has always been known for his bravery, they do not have the prestige and oppression of Chen Wen. This also leads to the inability to achieve the expected results when they call on the people to advance and retreat with the old camp, or try to persuade Wang Jiang to implement coercive measures.

After Chen Wen left, almost every day, people left Tiantai Mountain and embarked on the road to return home. After the messenger arrived, with the issuance of mobilization orders, a larger-scale return home also began to be connected.

However, for Wu Dengke and Li Ruixin, who are accustomed to obeying military orders, since Chen Wen has expressed the role of these Simingshan people in Jinhua Mansion in the future, they will definitely try to complete Chen Wen's order.

The day after the news arrived, Wang Jiang also received the news that Yu Guowang had defeated outside Linhai County and fled back to Tiantai Mountain. In order to consider that one more person would be more powerful, Wang Jiang took people to Yu Guowang's old camp to persuade him to travel to Jinhua in order to enhance the strength of the Ming army there.

Realizing that Wang Jiang was taking the opportunity to persuade Yu Guowang to act. After discussing, Wu Dengke and Li Ruixin immediately issued compulsory measures. In addition to protecting the soldiers of the old battalion's transfer personnel, they also sent some troops to supervise the people's departure and head to Jinhua with the Ming army.

Out of fear of the combat effectiveness of Nantangying, the people of Simingshan who were originally preparing to return home had to pack up their homes and prepare to set off. However, during this period, more people chose to leave secretly.

However, this rude behavior that he didn't even say goodbye immediately triggered a rebound from Wu Dengke and Li Ruixin, causing them to send all their already limited troops to supervise the people on the road, and even took some compulsory measures, such as "helping" the people move...

A few days later, the preparations for the old camp were completely completed, and Wang Jiang successfully completed the persuasion of Yu Guowang. However, when he learned about Wu Dengke and Li Ruixin's self-decision, he still ordered them to set off first. He still needed to take advantage of the time waiting for Yu Guowang to persuade the Hou camp and the Jin Tang troops who had just lost the commander and Yu Guowang to go to join Chen Wen.

Wang Jiang knew very well that these people were unwilling to hand over the future to the unknown, and they were also very clear about their fear of dying in a foreign land. This also led to his always weak-heartedness being unable to obey the advice of Wu Dengke and Li Ruixin to issue compulsory orders. However, the self-defeating of these two generals under Chen Wen still made him feel a little angry and uneasy, especially at the moment when the news of Wang Yi's death came, and the recollection of Chen Wen's previous behavior of resisting the order, the degree of uneasiness became even deeper.

Feeling Wang Jiang's anger in his words, Wu Dengke and Li Ruixin did not dare to explicitly disobey the orders of the civil servants of the army after their persuasion were fruitless. They had to let a fellow villager of Wu Dengke, who had been the leader of the first killer of the armored whistle, Niu Ping'an, who was the leader of the armored whistle, temporarily added a garrison ranks to protect Wang Jiang, and they rushed to meet Chen Wen as planned.
Chapter completed!