There was no accident, the day after the soldiers and horses moved to Changping, the military department came to confer the official positions of Deng Zilong, Hu Liangpeng, Juyongguan Staff General and Guerrilla General respectively.

Chen Mu met with Shangguan on the same day, Yang Siwei, the chief military officer of Changzhen, who was stationed in the southern camp of Changping with 6,000 carts and 6,000 horses in his hands.

"It's nothing better than saying, the chief asked you to come to Changzhen to train soldiers, and Yang will definitely work with you, but you have to let Yang see your ability first."

"If you casually come to a straw bale from the south and want to train Changzhen soldiers, even if Yang agrees, the commander of the three guards will not agree."

Yang Siwei is slightly older than Bai Yuanjie, Liaoyang generation of Liaoyang in Liaodong was born in the general, is a famous general in the northern Xinjiang, in the early years to three urge the north to strengthen the army and get the name, and later in Liaodong with Li Chengliang fought several times in the north, all of which won a complete victory, Longqing was transferred to Changzhen in the second year, and Qi Jiguang guarded the long border together.

Chen Mu had nothing to say, the 500 Banner Army formed a formation in the West Small Camp of Changping Prefecture.

Yang Siwei wanted to take a look at it on the platform, but when he saw Chen Mu's flag army, he froze and asked, "This is your flag army?" ”

What kind of people are these in front of him?

There were only 500 people, not a single horse army, 90 mules and horses in front of the formation, 30 platoons and 30 artillery pieces that Yang Siwei did not understand, including artillery, 500 banner soldiers were dressed in bulging bags, and there must be armor in their purple cloth jackets, if the huge number of artillery was not enough to deter people, it was the weapons in their hands.

Spears, the phalanx is full of spears, except for a row of long cards set up on the front of the formation, there are at least 200 zhang five spears and 200 eight-foot short spears inside, so that the entire military array looks like a big hedgehog, and there are no boring handles, long knives and other long-handled weapons at all.

Yang Siwei glanced at Chen Mu, squinted his eyes and looked at the military formation again, and then walked off the stage.

The formation was too compact, Yang Siwei couldn't see clearly what these flag soldiers were carrying, and when he got closer, each flag soldier was carrying tent cloth, felt blankets and small leather bags behind them, these things were exactly the same unified system, the same as the ones carried by Chen Mu's own soldiers, with kettles and other utensils hanging on them.

Yang Siwei thought that only Chen Mu was followed by those few family members at first, but now he didn't expect that the whole army had them.

The most is the bird gun, Chen Mu's gun is short, unlike the five-foot gun that Qi Jiajun or Yang Siwei saw anywhere, the gun of these banner armies is only four feet long, and it is hung on the right shoulder with a canvas belt, and there are at least three hundred guns in the five hundred flag army, and some of the guns are only equipped with waist knives, and the rest have an eight-foot short spear in addition to the waist knife.

Yang Siwei casually tapped on the chest of a banner soldier, and as he expected, he was wearing iron armor inside.

To tell the truth, if you want to say how strong these flag armies are, Yang Siwei can feel that the formation of these flag armies is very strong, and they are all veterans of battles, these things can be seen at a glance by veterans of the battlefield, and how strong they are, it is not possible to see at a glance.

Yang Siwei only had one feeling, he looked back at Chen Mu, who was following with kind eyebrows - this Nanyang guy is really rich!

Military uniforms, armor, and weapons are all uniformly manufactured, and their cost is more obvious than the sophistication of their owners, and for Yang Siwei, he is not a military formation composed of five hundred people in front of him, but a living silver mountain.

"Mr. Chen, you have to tell Yang the truth."

Yang Siwei pulled Chen Mu aside and asked, "This banner army, the things on his body must have fifteen taels of silver, right?" ”

Chen Mu didn't expect Yang Siwei to react like this, and he was stunned for a moment before he calculated it in his heart before saying, "Back to the general soldier, it's almost." ”

If you talk about the selling price, it's really about the same.

"You are in Guangdong, and the flag army of Nanyangwei is like this?"

Yang Siwei asked very eagerly.

"Not yet, the subordinates don't dare to deceive, last Qiuyue just took over as the commander of the Nanyang Guard, this is all the training of the flag army when he was in Xiangshan Qianhu, the remaining four are newly recruited, although careful training but not experienced the war, the combat power is different."

"Didn't I ask you about the war, the Nanyang Guardian Banner Army all wore armor and carried spears on their backs?"

"Oh, the chief soldier is asking this, no, they are all newly recruited flag troops, and the armor and armament have not yet been made when Chen comes north, and the complete equipment should wait until the beginning of next year."

Yang Siwei's eyes were big, Chen Mu widened his eyes after speaking, gasped fiercely, shook his head for a long time, and then asked, "Yanqing Sanwei, can it be like this?" ”

"Changping has iron, the armament is good, the iron is loaded on the ship and let Cao transport it to Nanyangwei, Nanyangwei will send guns, knives, and armor over, if there is no iron, rice grain will be exchanged for silver and transported over, and the price of iron will be exchanged for things, and the quality is cheaper than outside, and these foreign things are very easy to say."

Chen Mu said that these were very light, and said: "The key is to train the flag army, this matter is not the unity of the three guard officers, and Chen alone cannot do it." ”

Yang Siwei looked at Chen Mu like a poor man looking at a big family, "General Chen doesn't know that as far as you say 'easy to say', nine out of ten military attaches in the world can worry to death about this?" ”

Chen Mu felt that he wanted to be an arms dealer more and more, he pursed his lips very innocently, and said, "Who, which guard officer is worried, looking for me." ”

Although Chen Mu said it brightly, he felt more and more that this thing could not be done like this anymore, in the past, in the south, there was an exchange between the guards of Guangdong, which was allowed by the law, and the Ministry of War asked him to recruit troops and transport artillery to the border towns this time, which is already a bit of a law that neither violates nor allows, if the business is done to the general's family Ding Buqu another day - that is to show the wings of the white crane on the edge of breaking the law.

A good three-grade master cannot embark on the road of breaking the law and committing crimes.

"Okay, look at your flag army, Yang is also relieved, the three guards of Yanqing are trained by you, and the normal defense of Changzhen is garrisoned by the second battalion of my subordinates, you and I are not affiliated with each other, but Yang will definitely help you if there is something, and it will depend on your ability later."

The relationship between the general army and the deputy general soldier is not a direct leadership subordinate relationship, and the general army is correct in wartime, and the commander of his troops and horses meets the enemy; The deputy commander-in-chief is strange, and he is also the commander of his troops and horses to meet the enemy. Of course, in terms of status, the general soldier is higher than the deputy chief soldier, which goes without saying.

Chen Mu's training skills aside, it is not a means of training to lead the guards, even people like Qi Jiguang can't eat in the guards, there is only one reason, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, if the new recruits are regarded as zero, then the guards are negative, it is difficult to go from zero to one, and it is even more difficult to go from negative to zero.

The key to relying on is to make money in a good way, so that the guards can take care of food and clothing first, otherwise they will not be able to become full-time sergeants like recruits.

In Yang Siwei's opinion, as long as Chen Mu can use his gold hand to make Yanqing Sanwei worry about food and clothing, even if the war is a straw bag, he is willing to hold it high, not to mention - Guangdong Chen Mu's military exploits are not lower than him Yang Siwei!