Every morning, the Zhao family would blew a loud wake-up call, and a group of servants would run out of the barracks with their tired bodies, and then perform a half-hour morning jog.

Then after breakfast, he started to lift the stone lock and practice gun technique. Each person had a long spear and stabbed the straw man hard. After one hour, he began to stand in place like a wooden man, turning left and right with the command. If anyone did something wrong, he would be beaten by the Zhao family's young master.

I kept repeating until noon and continued to stand after lunch. After standing for an hour in the afternoon, everyone held a spear and had a few stones on their backs and started running wildly in the wild. At least that's how Zhang Buyun saw it.

In the evening, a group of exhausted servants began to camp under the command of the Zhao family's son, and at night they formed a circle and listened to what the Zhao family's son was saying.

Zhang Buyun could not get close to him, and he didn't know what he was talking about. However, based on his observation, the Zhao family's actions were a little abnormal.

The Zhao family seemed to want to train a elite soldier. Although Zhang Buyun didn't know much about military affairs, he could clearly discover the changes in the servants.

At first, the servants stood still a little bit. In less than half a month, the servants could walk around neatly, and they also had a momentum of moving forward when the spear was stabbed out.

Zhang Buyun, who could no longer hold on, decided to stay and observe for a while, because the conditions offered by the Zhao family were really tempting. The literati could get one stone of food and one tael of silver in a month.

Zhang Buyun wanted to escape and then waited for the scientific examination next year, but when he saw the treatment offered by the Zhao family, he was moved and swayed between walking or not.

So I decided to observe it for a while and said.

When he saw Zhao Yan training troops, he was careful and observed from a distance. He was quite confused. What did Zhao Yan do?

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After Zhao Yan put the plan to train the new army on the desk, he began the devilish training of his opponent's servants.

Every morning, I run for half an hour in the morning, and then after dinner, I ask the servants to lift a hundred stone locks. In the training of the cold weapon army, lifting a stone lock is an important part.

Especially for spearmen, they have high requirements for waist strength, so they must be called the stone lifting lock. After lifting the stone lock, it is time to practice the gun technique.

Two hours of gun technique, and then start training to stand.

Although the training and teaming are cumbersome, the progress is pretty good. After more than ten days, the servants under his charge can basically tell which is left and right.

The problems encountered by the British when training Indian soldiers did not appear on Zhao Yan. Perhaps the British shouted in English, which led to the fact that after practicing for more than half a year, the Indian soldiers could not even distinguish between the left and right.

In the afternoon, there is still a battle and a heavy-bearing off-roading trip. The distance between off-roading is raised every day, and in the evening, training camping is carried out.

At night, it is Zhao Yan's time to instill faith, tactics, vision and experience in the servants.

Zhao Yan asked his servants to live in the camp every day, and he lived with them himself.

Even if there are houses to live in Zhaojia Village, Zhao Yan would not allow them to live in. Because living in the house would make soldiers lose their vigilance and would easily be attacked by others.

The Zhao family's servant was so cruel that he complained, but he only insisted that there was no escape incident.

Military law stipulates that deserters will be beheaded. And they ran away, and their family is still in the Zhao family! Where can they run?

In addition, as long as you become a member of the new army, you will receive a monthly salary of 5 taels. You should know that the head soldiers of Denglai only receive 1.5 taels per month, and they often cannot get it.

In addition, Zhao Yan said that he would share the joys and sorrows with them every time. What else can they do? Practice it!

The Zhao family's servants have a relatively high personal quality. They originally practiced each one. They even had to deal with tens of thousands of thieves last time, and they had seen blood at hand. They naturally felt more comfortable when practicing. Under Zhao Yan's stick education, the progress in taking sides was very fast.

After half a month of training, I was already very good, but I still made mistakes occasionally when it comes to the team.

The team training is almost the same, and it is time to start training the formation.

Zhao Yanxin already had the appearance of this future army. He came from later generations and was originally a soldier. He also studied the history of ancient wars while working in the institute.

Therefore, Zhao Yan planned to train an army mainly composed of spearmen. The formation of spearmen is definitely a solid line of defense that the cavalry cannot cross.

The spearmen are specifically responsible for restraining the cavalry. If the cavalry hit the square formation composed of the spearmen, it is a demand for death, but in advance, the square formation must be thick enough.

Most of the Qing Dynasty's troops were cavalry, so spearmen were indispensable. The white-rod soldiers led by Qin Liangyu of Sichuan had achieved certain results in the battle against the Qing Dynasty.

But it is not possible to have pike soldiers alone, and they also need long-range killing troops and cavalry. Long-range killing troops are very necessary because the pike soldiers are relatively rigid in the phalanx. If the opponent's cavalry fights by cavalry, the pike soldiers will not be able to counterattack at all.

Cavalry is even more important. The result of infantry fighting cavalry is that they cannot be chased and they cannot be defeated. Even if they are combined with spearmen and long-range killing and wounding troops, it is impossible to completely eliminate the Qing Dynasty. The role of cavalry is to reconnaissance, raids, pursuit and capture the enemy, etc.

In terms of cavalry, there are currently no conditions, mainly because there are no horses.

In terms of long-range killing troops, Zhao Yanxin has two choices, one is musket, which naturally needs to be said. Muskets have become the mainstream weapon in the West in this century, and the troops of the Ming court also used firearms in large quantities.

The second type is longbow. Even in the 18th century, the surname of the longbow is still not inferior to that of muskets, and longbows are easy to make. But the only disadvantage is that it takes a long time to train a qualified longbower, and to organize a legion mainly composed of longbowers, it requires a large number of population support for practicing archery. The British nation can only organize a longbower unit of tens of thousands of people to practice arrows.

The reason why the Longbow did not show its strength in Western battles was mainly because the British had been expelled from the European continent. In addition, more and more Western soldiers in this era were wearing plate armor with abnormal defense, and the power of the Longbow was weakened to a certain extent.

At the same time, Westerners in this era were not willing to spend a lot of money to build a regular army, so they chose to recruit farmers and use cheap muskets to fight. You should know that Europeans have one characteristic when fighting, and the purpose of fighting is no different from that of bandits, mainly to demand ransom for capturing the enemy. Longbow soldiers do not have the ability to capture the enemy in melee battles, and often shoot the nobles to death.

For various reasons, longbows did not appear in war on a large scale in Europe.

If it is a well-trained longbow army, the power it exerts on the battlefield is definitely more powerful than that of the musket troops, because the muskets of this era can only be regarded as primary firearms, and their power is not as powerful as the longbows.

After considering it for a while, Zhao Yan decided to form a unit composed of spearmen, musketeers as the main one, cavalry and longbowmen as the auxiliary one.

Muskets and longbows were mixed, and it was also due to the equipment of the Qing Dynasty. There were two types of armor in the Qing Dynasty, one was the armor of the Ming court, and the other was cotton armor.

Armored defense arrows, weapons, cotton armored defense firearms, and keep warm.

The Qing Dynasty often asked cavalry to wear several layers of cotton armor to attack the Ming army. It was difficult for the Ming army's firearms to achieve satisfactory results when blocked by cotton armor.

But if a primary body armor, such as cotton armor, faces a bow and arrow, it is like a paper paste.

There is still a long way to go to build such a war machine. However, the gears of the spearmen have been initially built. After half a month of training, Zhao Yan selected three people from the servants as the sergeant commanders.

They are Zhao Yong, Lin Yi and Wang Wenyue. These three people performed the best, and each of them was assigned to thirty servants. It is time to expand the enrollment, and the newly recruited soldiers will be trained by the three of them.

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