These young and strong men have been trained many times in the loading, shooting, and retreating, and some are not much worse than those veterans in terms of rate of fire.

At the same time, musketeers are not very strict about physical fitness. As long as they can ride horses and pass the marches, they can enter. During training, physical fitness is also one of the regular training events. In addition, when young and strong people participate in training, they can also get some pork to eat from time to time. In addition, the holidays are better, and they are also supplementing the feeding of egg, milk and meat. Judging from their complexion, the young and strong people in the garrison are no longer the same as when they first came to Denglai to settle down.

With sufficient protein intake, working in the field and participating in training from time to time, many young and strong bodies are so strong that they have a captivating momentum.

After the troops were in place, all of them were directly incorporated into the combat camp, and the new soldiers recruited another 3,000 people to meet the navy's military requirements.

In addition, in February, an infantry and cavalry battalion drawn by Yingzhou and Handan had arrived in Denglai, and Zhao Yan immediately formed the Liaodong Legion.

The Liaodong Legion consists of two cavalry battalions of three thousand people, two infantry battalions of six thousand people, and a two thousand people Denglai Artillery Battalion.

The total force reached 20,000.

The battalions were also rushing to train these recruits as soon as possible. The generals of each division were much more concerned about training than before, almost reaching an abnormal level.

Even ordinary recruits could feel a tense atmosphere in the army, as if they were grinding their guns in the face of battle, and even the cultural class was stopped.

All of them are practicing, including marching, reconnaissance, forcing, camping, fighting, chasing, cleaning the battlefield, etc., and conducting a full regiment exercise every fifteen days. Zhao Yan often participates in training with his soldiers and presides over a full regiment exercise every fifteen days.

When the soldiers saw the general training with them, they could only suppress their complaints and gritted their teeth and persevere.

Although it is a little bitter, the salary has been greatly improved. There is enough meat every day, there are stewed chicken every day, and some herbs to replenish energy.

In order to deal with the invasion of Jiannu in June, Zhao Yan invested a lot of money and wanted to slaughter the Qing Dynasty, so that the scale of the front-line troops was expanded.

The components of the Denglai Legion were all mobile troops. The second-line troops were enough to fight against the Qing Dynasty to siege cities and plunder land, but to fight with the Qing Dynasty, you must have enough speed.

Therefore, the artillery battalion, which was mainly used for attacking, was not incorporated into the Denglai Legion. The cannons in the artillery battalion were twice as heavy as grenade cards, and could only be played on the battlefield in Liaodong and had no effect in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to prepare for the war, the horses on the Zhangjiakou horse market suddenly became in short supply. The horse market in Zhangjiakou can be said to be the main source of horses in Denglai.

Zhangjiakou is one of the most active areas of Shanxi merchants. They trade with the Qing Dynasty to the east and Mongolian trade to the west. Some Shanxi merchants even trade in the north of the desert.

Since the business has bought nearly 5,000 qualified war horses from Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou, and more than 30,000 horses used for transportation have been purchased.

After the horses began to be in short supply, Shanxi merchants began to focus on buying horses from the Qing Dynasty. Mongolians did not control the horse trade very strictly, and they could not control the noble leaders of various Mongolian tribes.

This year, the budget for buying horses increased, which even attacked Zhangjiakou's horse trade. Many Mongolian nobles specially drove horses to Zhangjiakou to trade with the merchants. Shanxi merchants collected Roman horses everywhere in the grassland and Liaodong, and then rushed to Zhangjiakou.
Chapter completed!