After taking Chen Wen's manuscript paper, Yu Guowang read it carefully page by page, but the more he read it, the more confused he became.

Chen Wen's manuscript paper contains a formation composition, a detailed explanation of the weapon style and the mode of exercise, but certain modifications have been made based on some characteristics of these old-style troops. But what puzzled Yu Guowang was that this seemingly simple formation seemed to be very different from the army of this era in its use.

After reading it, Yu Guowang did not seek answers from Chen Wen, but read the manuscript several times before looking for answers from Chen Wen to answer questions that he still couldn't understand.

"General Chen, why is this bird gun..."

Yu Guowang's problems one after another, while Chen Wen simply used a pen and ink to deduce Yu Guowang's confusion one by one.

It was late at night that Chen Wencai, who had already yawned, completely eliminated Yu Guowang's confusion. However, Yu Guowang, who had always had the habit of going to bed early, was still energetic and even excited. He stood up suddenly and bowed to Chen Wen.

"I thank General Chen for his great kindness here. In the future, if General Chen needs it, I will definitely do it for General Chen even if he sells it."

"You are the last general of the game." As he said that, Chen Wen quickly stood up and helped him. "Is this formation useful? It depends on the results of the actual exercise."

Yu Guowang's reaction was very unexpected, but Chen Wen didn't know that this formation, which had many shortcomings in his eyes, must be the unique skills of the Chen family in Yu Guowang's eyes. Otherwise, how could it be so unreasonable but secretly conform to the method of military strategy? Especially when Chen Wen's ancestor was also a personal general of the central army of Li Wenzhong, the founding general of the founding general of the Emperor Ming Dynasty, Li Wenzhong, this thing is probably Li Wenzhong's idea back then, which made Yu Guowang feel even more sincerely happy and admired.

In the next few days, due to the uncertainty of the effect and the special requirements of this formation for the existing weapons of Yu Guowang, Chen Wen only selected a small army directly under Yu Guowang for the exercise. Due to the improvement of weapons and the differences in combat methods, this exercise unit seemed very uncomfortable from the beginning. However, under Chen Wen's reputation and Yu Guowang's strong suppression, these officers and soldiers had to follow Chen Wen's instructions to train the formation.

As time goes by, these officers and soldiers gradually adapted to this new rhythm, and the advantages of the entire formation gradually emerged. The improvement in performance also led these soldiers to practice the formation more attentively, and thus achieve the standards required by Chen Wen.

Until the last day, at Chen Wen's request, this model army held a simulated competition with a relatively elite old-style army of Yu Guowang's troops, but the result was an almost crushing victory, which even reminded Chen Wen of the competition on Dalan Mountain.

Looking at Yu Guowang who was already ecstatic and the officers and soldiers who were full of admiration, Chen Wen couldn't help but laugh in his heart while being modest.

"A competition in which bird guns cannot be shot in real-fire, the advantage of this copycat formation is only one inch long and one inch stronger, it is really unfair to win. As for how much of the effect it can really achieve, it depends on the performance of these officers and soldiers on the battlefield."

With a compliment and admiration and passionate gaze, Chen Wen left Yu Guowang's old camp the next day and returned to the temporary camp of Dalanshan old camp to expand his Nantang camp. Of course, with him, he left with the three hundred bird guns and more than a dozen cars of gunpowder. It felt like he was not like this when he attacked the local tyrants. It was really good for good people to be rewarded.

The 350 bird guns were fifty more than Yu Guowang had agreed before, and the amount of gunpowder was much higher. I think it was a kind of kindness from others. It was hard to be so kind but I would be shameless.

Back at the old camp station, Chen Wen immediately summoned the officers to announce a new round of military expansion plans.

At the end of July of the fourth year of Yongli, when the Nantangying Army was formed, there were five posts of the Yuanyang Formation Killer Team, five teams of the Central Military Firearms Team and two teams of the Central Military Cavalry Team, and 342 people in the entire army.

By the end of August of the fourth year of Yongli, with the victory of the school competition, Nantangying ushered in its first expansion. By the beginning of September, the Yuanyang Formation Killer Team had already had eight squads, ten squads of central armed weapons teams and four squads of central cavalry teams. In addition, a 20-man central army engineer team was established, and strong support was given to the entire army in the battle behind the Simingshan Palace.

After the war behind Simingshan Palace, Chen Wen only added the soldiers participating in the temporary auxiliary troops and a small number of warriors who were determined to participate in Nantang Camp into the camp, and this was just a necessary completion because of the casualties in the previous battle.

The soldiers who died were buried on Tiantai Mountain, and their names were recorded on the list of soldiers who died. In the future, they would have a stable base or regain Siming Mountain to set up a temple to celebrate them so that they could have blood and food in the underworld. Their families would also be properly cared for. Even if they had no relatives, Chen Wen planned to adopt an adopted son to inherit the surname in the future. They would not let their heroic deeds be forgotten by future generations.

This is what Chen Wen once emphasized when telling Yue Fei's story. Heroes must be remembered by future generations, because without their bloody battles, there would be no future for future generations. This is also one of the most correct truths that Chen Wen learned when he was in school.

More than 30 people were killed on the battlefield, and a few of them died of serious injuries. Most of the other wounded soldiers were only physically injured and soon returned to their respective camps. Chen Wen would not ignore the soldiers who were disabled and could not go to the battlefield like the army of this era. Instead, he took care of them first and then made arrangements after obtaining a stable base in the future.

There are still 616 people in Nantang Camp here. Chen Wenxin's plan to expand the army is to double the number of soldiers. This is also the limit that Wang Jiang and Chen Wen can bear if the goal of supporting until the end of the year is to support it. As for next year, if Comrade Zhu Yihai, the governor of Lu, who can no longer have a mocking face, is forced to leave Zhejiang before he is forced to leave Zhejiang, there will be nothing next year.

Due to the terrain of Zhejiang, and Chen Wen had no cavalry and no money to form a car artillery battalion and a baggage battalion, the infantry battalion is still in the 44 system, supplemented by three teams of central armaments, cavalry and engineers, as well as the newly formed central army artillery team and military medical team. As for the baggage, it should be handed over to the auxiliary soldiers for transportation.

While expanding, Chen Wen was preparing to change some of the teams of the Firearms Team, and at the same time, he drew out some of the first four posts of the Yuanyang Formation Killer Team to form a new combat unit called the First Form. This brand new combat unit was adapted from the infantry battalion when Qi Jiguang was guarding the border in the north. In fact, in history, a man has figured out a similar set of organization by studying Qi Jiguang's military books, and achieved excellent results. His name is Zeng Guofan.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, the Qing court was unable to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement because the Eight Banners Army and the Green Camp Army were unable to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, so they had to rely on local armed forces formed by the Han bureaucrats led by Zeng Guofan. The most important of these was Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army.

The Hunan Army imitated Qi Jiguang's infantry battalion organization, with 685 people, one battalion officer, four whistle officers, and five hundred brave men. Another 180 men of chief men were equipped with a battalion to transport supplies. Each battalion of the Hunan Army had four whistle, each with eight teams, half of firearms, and half of swords and spears. The organization of the same bureau as Qi Jiguang's infantry battalion in the north was roughly the same, except that the mandarin duck formation was no longer used, and the number of people in each team was reduced.

The reason why Chen Wen was like this was more because of the lack of long-range killing ability shown by Nantang Camp in the war against the Qing army during the war. Especially on the front battlefield, the Qing army's bow and arrow shooting, javelin projection, and artillery bombardment really caused quite a lot of trouble for Nantang Camp, which made him learn from his mistakes after the war and decided to make a round of innovation.

However, due to the initial formation of the new organization and the insufficient number of muskets, Chen Wen had to change some troops first, and then continue to be reorganized after the equipment situation improves and the organization has achieved results. As for other troops, they are still expanded according to the original organization.

In addition, the fire soldiers in the Yuanyang Formation Killer Team were not very effective in this battle. They generally had problems of not knowing whether to give priority to rescue teammates or to supplement the team to assist in combat. So Chen Wen had to give up the role of making them a temporary nurse and devote themselves to supplementary combat.

As for the issue of rescue, Chen Wenben planned to recruit a group of female nurses. After all, the angels in white normally refer to female nurses. Theoretically speaking, women have a more delicate mind and are more careful when taking care of the injured, which is also beneficial for the treatment of injuries.

However, in this era, women's identity in the military camps can only be military prostitutes who follow the army. After being advised by Wu Dengke, who is becoming more and more righteous, or who is more nerdy, the more he studied, he had to temporarily give up the idea of ​​being decoupled from the times and instead recruit a group of male protection work as a supplement to the military medical team led by Old Doctor Lu. It is better to think that it is better than nothing.

Since the people who escaped from Siming Mountain had no land as a means of production, poverty and hunger began to become problems that trouble them. As soon as the news of the expansion of Nantangying was released, these people immediately squeezed through the door. After strict review, it took only one or two days to complete the expansion, which was much faster than Chen Wen imagined.
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