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Chapter 51 Don't Do the Stupid Reinventing the Wheel
After a few days of urgent conscription, Shen Fu and others also recruited more than 2000 recruits in the counties of Qizhou and Qishui.

Combined with the original veterans of the Huangzhou regiment's training center, we have a staff of 500 people.

It can only be said that if you have money and food, you can do things quickly. In this world of continuous famine, if you give some food to support your family, many strong poor people are willing to work hard.

The composition of the source of troops has also been simply sorted out and screened.

There are more than 600 recruits, dock workers account for more than 1000%, and more than [-] people.Another six or seven hundred were hunters in the Dabie Mountains, and the rest were farmers from good families.

The identity registration is filled in according to the occupation that each person declares when they register.In today's troubled times, I don't have the energy to check the accounts carefully. I can only do a rough screening, and let them prove their identities and provide guarantees together to prevent thieves from sneaking in.

Among the three types of military sources, farmers are the best to confirm, and they are guaranteed by their neighbors in the village, so it is difficult to fake them.

Dock workers and hunters are highly mobile and relatively difficult to check, but Shen Shuren has a good eye and told Shen Fu to check the results according to the assessment results, and found that they should be pretty close——

Among the two thousand and 600 people, there are about 800 people who can ensure that at least one of the three arrows hits the target.Among them, at least 600 people were able to hit the target with two arrows, and nearly 500 people hit the target with all three arrows.

The standard for the arrow butts used in the assessment is thirty steps away and one foot in diameter. There is no assessment of the bull's-eye, as long as it hits the target.With this archery skill, it is said that Orion can't run away.

In the same way, self-reported dock workers are mostly good at swimming, and the two items of water endurance are guaranteed.

As for the very small number of soldiers who self-reported to be dock workers but could not use water, and self-reported to be hunters but missed the target three times, Shen Shuren also asked Shen Fu to carefully screen them out, live alone, and then slowly check them calmly.There are only dozens of people in this part, which is easy to handle.

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After screening and rectifying the source of troops, it's time to assign troops and train them.

Before Shen Shuren came to Huangzhou, he also bought a copy of Qi Jiguang's "Ji Xiao's New Book" and read it carefully.

In addition, in his previous life, he studied history, military affairs, and international relations. He also dabbled in the history of the development of military training methods in the past dynasties, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign.

After reading it, Shen Shuren felt that Qi Jiguang's military training method is quite useful in some basic parts.As for the specific tactical training, it can only be said that it is more suitable for complex terrain and small-scale battles.

The mandarin duck formation is suitable for a group of more than a dozen people, and it can be divided into many small formations on complex terrain and cooperate flexibly.When Qi Jiguang fought Japanese pirates back then, he was mainly in the mountainous area of ​​southern Zhejiang. There were not many Japanese pirates, and they would not form a large formation.

If it was a large corps fighting on the Great Plains, a small and flexible formation like the Yuanyang formation would appear too loose on a macro level, so Qi Jiguang later went to the north to defend Jimen against the Tatars, and optimized the chariot formation.

Shen Shuren's reading will not be static, but specific analysis of specific issues.His current defense area, Huangzhou, is located on the edge of the Dabie Mountains, so mountain warfare with complex terrain must be indispensable, and the mandarin duck formation also has a certain place for it.

But Huangzhou also has a certain terrain of river valleys and plains. If there is a decisive battle with the bandits in the river valleys and plains in the future, the mandarin duck formation may be easily destroyed, so it is necessary to practice a dense battle formation with large corps.

When he had just finished reading "Ji Xiao's New Book", Shen Shuren also had the urge to imitate the chariot formation in his heart, but after thinking about it, Qi Jiguang's chariot formation was to fight against the cavalry. Where did the bandits in the southern mountainous area get the cavalry?The chariot formation is also inflexible in the valley and plain, and it is not convenient for marching and transferring.

Therefore, for the time being, let's go to the Spanish square first, and use pikemen and musketeers to cooperate.Whether or not we can engage in full musketeers in the future depends on how well the technology of firearms and bayonets develops.

At present, Shen Shuren has not established his own military weapon research and development system, and the tactics that require the cooperation of new equipment can only be postponed.

As for how to practice the Spanish phalanx, Shen Shuren will not think about it by himself - this is not a novelty that has not yet appeared. In Spain itself, as early as 1540, the early prototype of the Spanish phalanx appeared. It was used until about 1700.

Therefore, the Spanish phalanx has been around for 90 years and is very, very mature.Even Zheng Zhilong occasionally fought against the Spaniards in the Philippines in Nanyang, or when he was trading with the Spaniards, watching how the Spaniards paid off the natives, he had seen this thing.

The nature of a gentleman is not different, and he is good at things.

Since Shen Shuren has a good relationship with Zheng Chenggong, on the way to Huangzhou, he asked Zheng Chenggong to help him early, and paid a lot of money to hire a few capable Spanish mercenaries from Manila, and they must be able to speak Chinese.

Shen Shuren's last request seemed excessive, but it was not impossible to fulfill. Many Spanish and Dutch people who came to the East for adventure in the 17th century would study a little Chinese hard in order to be able to do business with Ming Dynasty.

Silk tea and porcelain from Daming are very attractive to Westerners. It is a seller’s market. Westerners are very happy to learn Chinese for money, and they are not shabby at all.

It has been three months since he has been farming in civil affairs here, and when it is time for military training, the Spanish instructors should be invited soon.

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After sorting out the formation of the troops, Shen Shuren instructed his subordinates, Qianhu Shen Fu, and the two county magistrates who are gradually becoming confidantes:
"In the past few days, let the soldiers practice basic endurance, formation and military discipline. Don't do any heavy physical events, and specific technical and tactical drills. We will wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival is over and the equipment and instructors are gradually in place.

In Zhaozhi County, it is up to you to watch over the food and logistics of the soldiers. You must feed the soldiers. Make sure that there is a meal of stewed tofu with leafy vegetables every day, and you can give some chicken and fish every five days.

Chicken and fish, you ask my family's steward to dispatch, give priority to slaughtering those that are old and will not reproduce.If it is not enough, then it is better to get ordinary crucian carp and carp, and not to move the tilapia that can do it. "

Shen Fu immediately accepted the order, and asked some more details: "Are there any specific requirements for endurance training?"

Shen Shuren thought for a while, and took care of him carefully: "Just climb the mountain to practice endurance. It doesn't have to be fast. You have to teach them to divide into small groups and march at an average speed for long distances. No one will be left behind.

If something goes wrong in the first few days, it is necessary to organize soldiers to discuss with each other, let the runners sum up their experience quickly, and teach the slow runners and poor endurance how to adjust their breathing and distribute their physical strength.

The battle of the army is not based on individual bravery, but on the neatness of the team.It is a great victory to be able to march for thirty to fifty miles in the mountains without falling behind or breaking up the formation.

Those who practice arm strength with bows and stone locks should stop for the time being. The government does not have so much meat for them to replenish their bodies and recover. Blindly strengthening their physical strength will only be counterproductive. "

Shen Shuren was also a person who had lost weight in his previous life, and he had a good understanding of modern sports physiology theory.

For anaerobic power burst training, if you don't have sufficient protein supplements, your muscles will only get smaller as you train.Nowadays, the government is still too poor to start a large-scale supply chain of meat, and can't do these flowery tasks that get twice the result with half the effort.

What's more, the dock workers have been carrying big bags for so many years, and they have trained enough. It is more important to make up for other shortcomings after entering the army.That's why Shen Shu didn't force soldiers to do push-ups every day like many time-travel novels.

Even for aerobic exercise, Shen Shuren is very careful.He knows the so-called "fat-burning heart rate" and "how long to continue exercising to fully burn fat".

But at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the common people had become so thin, and now no one needs to lose weight, and things with high fat burning efficiency cannot be done casually.Therefore, the exercise rhythm arrangement should also be arranged in a way that is "most conducive to improving the potential of cardiopulmonary function, but not easy to burn fat".

To put it bluntly, Shen Shuren wanted to exercise the soldiers' heart endurance and lung capacity, while minimizing fat burning.Pure fat burning that does not help to improve lung capacity should be completely removed.

After receiving the order, Shen Fu asked the soldiers to go back to practice lung capacity and queue discipline, and temporarily maintain the training with minimal consumption.

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After Shen Fu went to arrange unified military discipline training, Shen Shuren took the statistical documents recording the composition of these soldiers' abilities and sorted them out carefully.

He also decided to make the best use of people, so he discussed with Zhao Yunfan, who had some experience in defending the soil, to divide the soldiers into arms.

"Zhaozhi County, this is the first time I lead troops. Let's see if there is anything wrong with this division. There are 800 people here who can ensure that the archery hits the target. Then we will take this part out in the future and use them as archers and firearms training. Among the original more than 800 veterans, we can also select those who have a basic level of archery and join them together, so that the old can lead the new.

The remaining [-] recruits had no archery foundation, so they were trained as spearmen first.Those with good water quality can also practice swords and shields, which are suitable for both land and water battles. "

Zhao Yunfan does have some military experience.Before Shen Shuren came, he had experienced two small-scale defenses of the city. The first time was three years ago when Yuan Jixian was in power, and the other time was last year when Liu Xiyao had just come back.

Zhao Yunfan was holding on to Qizhou, and the thieves lacked the power to attack the city. After surrounding him for a while, he saw that he had no openings, so he didn't wear it down for a long time, and retreated directly.

Hearing the commander's arrangement at this moment, he was also a little apprehensive: "My lord's troop allocation is also very suitable for the defense, and after the veterans of the Rogue Division are exhausted, they can cooperate with appropriate waterways to counterattack.

However, are there more firearms soldiers?Your Excellency has been in office for several months, but I have not seen you open a workshop to make firecrackers and refine gunpowder.Could it be that the adults still distribute the firecrackers of their servants to these regiments to train recruits?

With all due respect, the former magistrate Yan was a little bit overjoyed in this regard, and thought about recruiting more firearms, but in the end he couldn't stand the people of Huangzhou running out of money and couldn't implement it.In the end, Liu Xiyao broke the city and killed him... Please forgive me, my lord, these words may not be auspicious, but what I said really happened. "

Shen Shuren: "Firearms are not something you need to worry about at the moment, and I didn't ask my subordinates to be equipped with any shocking and unprecedented magical weapons, as long as ordinary bird guns and turtledove guns are enough. You have to keep your eyes open and keep an eye on them. Look at the whole world, don't just look at the three-acre land in Huangzhou.

Weapons that can be made anywhere can be bought directly with money, and only those things that no one else has have to be made by themselves.My family has already received a letter. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, there will be a fleet of ordnance arriving. "

(End of this chapter)