Not to mention how long it will take Hong Chengchou to adapt to Lu Ruipeng by his side, let's talk about Emperor Chongzhen, who was far away in Beijing, and after learning that the thieves in northern Shaanxi finally jumped into Shanxi, he couldn't help but feel a little worried. After replying to Lu Ruipeng, he immediately summoned the secretary of the military department and the auxiliary ministers of the cabinet, discussed for a long time, and decided to start heavy defense along the Yellow River, suppress the bandits from south to north, and even if they could not annihilate these thieves, they must be driven out of the pass.

After finishing these things, Emperor Chongzhen unexpectedly set up the Beijing camp. However, this time, he did not put on the emperor's full set of honor guards. It's just that under the escort of eunuchs such as Gao Shiyue and Fang Zhenghua, two hundred Yu rode over.

At this time, military discipline training was being conducted on the school field in the Beijing camp that had been allocated separately for the new army. Even in ancient times, it was also used in a standing position. As soon as Qi Jiguang was transferred to the north and rectified the army, he asked the Qi family army he brought to stand in a military posture, and without an order to disband, the Qi family army was not afraid of wind and rain, and he insisted on using a standing posture to make the northern military men become obedient from then on.

Today's new army chief instructor Xi Mao Yuanyi is ordered to use Qi Jiguang's art of war to train soldiers, and the training on military discipline is to let them stand in a military posture, and they cannot move without orders, let alone disband. Boil the will of these veterans, sharpen the temper of these veterans, and practice the military discipline of these veterans.

Therefore, when Emperor Chongzhen arrived, what he saw was that there were more than 5,000 people on the school field, all of them motionless in the cold wind, standing still under the spring sun, like clay sculptures.

When Gao Shiyue saw it, he smiled and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty is still wise, and now these soldiers are afraid of losing points in the training assessment, so they will be overtaken by their peers and take the position of officer, and they are all training desperately one by one." The slave maid thinks that a strong army can be achieved! ”

Emperor Chongzhen listened, looked at him and smiled. In his heart, this idea also came. Otherwise, he would not have offered so many conditions and given generous treatment, wouldn't the purpose be to train a strong army as soon as possible!

The personal combat skills of these new soldiers, as well as the battlefield training, have already been experienced, and they have all seen blood. If we can enforce orders and prohibitions in military discipline, it will naturally be much faster than organizing and training the new army from scratch. According to the training plan arranged by himself and Mao Yuanyi, after the military discipline is completed, the battle formation drill will begin. As long as these two pieces are in place, they can be pulled out and hit a dozen!

Thinking so, he was watching, and Mao Yuanyi, who got the news, and Rong Mangui, the head of the Beijing camp, and others rushed over.

At this time, the Jingying couldn't do it, and it was impossible to learn the practices of the Xiliu Battalion, and it was all nonsense to dare to turn the emperor away without the order of the main general. The emperor is the supreme commander, the emperor is the sky, as long as the identity of the emperor is proven, who has the courage to refuse it, if there is really such an army, then when the time comes, will this army listen to the generals or the emperor? If the generals asked them to kill the king, would they do it too?

Therefore, what the Xiliu Camp did was simply looking for death! In the end, Zhou Yafu's fate is easy to understand. If Man Gui dares to learn from Zhou Yafu, then his fate will not be much better!

The movements of Mao Yuanyi, Man Gui and others finally alarmed those new soldiers. I don't know who knelt down first, and then all the new sergeants knelt down to greet the emperor.

Emperor Chongzhen ascended to the platform, glanced at the new soldiers below, and saw that each of them had sweat stains on their faces, and his heart was also satisfied, and he immediately said loudly: "I said that I would come to see you." Practice hard and don't let me down! ”

With that army, would the emperor expect it so much? No, only the Forces nouvelles. These new soldiers were so highly valued by the emperor that they were all very excited, and immediately responded loudly: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Cao Bianjiao in the new army is even more convinced in his heart that as long as he gets out of this new army, the future will definitely be great, and there will be hope for catching up with Wu Sangui!

Emperor Chongzhen on the stage just said something so simply, and then let them continue training, and he set up the Beijing Yamen. The main purpose of his visit this time was to find Man Gui.

I saw Emperor Chongzhen sitting in the position where Man Gui was originally sitting, looking at Man Gui standing below, and asked kindly: "Man Qing, I still have to ask you for some people!" ”

When Man Gui heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then immediately replied loudly: "Your Majesty wants someone, just a holy decree, there is no need to come in person." ”

"Hehe, I'm going to come and see the new army by the way." Emperor Chongzhen explained, and then said: "All the soldiers of the artillery battalion in the Beijing camp, as well as those who are more clever, Qing will help me select them. I want about five hundred people, so I'll pick six or seven hundred, and I'll wait here. ”

There is a saying in later generations that artillery is the god of war, and this sentence is widely circulated. For the power of artillery, it is also well known. Although there are no bombs made of yellow gunpowder now, an army, even if Emperor Chongzhen thinks that the new army is still dominated by cold weapons, also thinks that it must be accompanied by artillery. This time, he came here for the purpose of this.

When Man Gui received the order to pick people, Mao Yuanyi happily guessed: "Your Majesty, is this preparing to set up an artillery battalion?" ”

This kind of thing, of course, Emperor Chongzhen has mentioned it with the chief teacher of the new army. The initial idea was that this new army was equipped with a field artillery battalion, which belonged directly to the division.

In Emperor Chongzhen's mind, this new army was to be used to attack. Therefore, the configuration on the artillery is different from Qi Jiguang's car battalion or Mao Yuanyi's car battalion book.

In terms of the configuration of the artillery battalions of the new army, the Tiger squat cannon and the large and small Franco machine guns are the mainstay, which can keep up with the march of the troops in action, and the main thing in combat is to kill and kill scattered bombs. On average, five people are counted as one cannon, and five hundred people are one hundred cannons. For an army of more than 5,000 people, it should be about the same.

After receiving an affirmative reply from Emperor Chongzhen, Mao Yuanyi couldn't help but feel overjoyed. It seems that the emperor really did not break his promise, and personally controlled the logistics of the new army. At this moment, he had unprecedented confidence in whether the new army could become a strong army!

There is only one point, Mao Yuanyi regrets that the officers of this new army, the emperor has already stated in advance that all the officers are decided by the new army. Therefore, even he has no share.

Thinking of these things, Mao Yuanyi's rising emotions also dropped a lot. However, he is the chief teacher of the new army after all, and if he talks about it in the future, his name will also go down in history. Therefore, he even paid special attention when he accompanied Emperor Chongzhen to select the soldiers of the artillery battalion, and accompanied him until the emperor returned to the palace after the selection.