These 6,000 soldiers, indeed, are as Lao 17 said, Zhu Cihong is well-deployed and well-trained.

Zhu Cihong's backbone at the beginning was actually only one hundred guards around Lao Seventeen, and five hundred soldiers brought out from the Beijing Division.

After Zhu Cihong's rectification in Linqing, and after a major war in Dongming. These 500 former recruits have quickly matured into veterans, and many of them have become qualified junior officers. And this alleviates the biggest difficulty that Zhu Cihong has always had in expanding the army: the shortage of officers.

Although Zhu Cihong has begun to speed up the writing of various training manuals and books, the military academy will soon be opened in the pro-guard unit. However, such a long-term plan cannot solve the urgent need of the shortage of officers.

Fortunately, after the victory of Dongming World War I, a large number of outstanding officer seeds were tempered through actual combat, stood out, and were able to quickly grow into barely usable grassroots officers.

At the same time, after the First World War of the Eastern Ming Dynasty, the Linqing camp was merged into Shandong Town, and both of them had completely fallen into the hands of Zhu Cihong. With the return of wounded soldiers one after another, although the total number of the Shandong Zhenjialinqing Battalion, which once had a total strength of 8,000 people, was reduced to 6,000, the rest were veterans who had gone through actual battles, and the real combat strength increased by a large margin.

With 500 backbones, there is a soldier who has been trained in the First World War of the Dongming Dynasty as the base. After Zhu Cihong's reorganization, a brand-new Shandong town with 6,000 troops came out.

In the end, in the hands of Zhu Cihong, there were already more than 200 personal guards, 300 town headquarters, 3,000 infantry soldiers, 1,000 artillery, 500 cavalry, and 1,000 auxiliary soldiers.

In just one month, a team that was once exhausted was endless. The new army, which has just been released, has a bit of a strong army. Among them, how is it not the result of Zhu Cihong's clever tricks?

Stable distribution of food and salary, new and beautiful military uniforms. Plenty of wine and meat, not to mention. Which officer and army will truly respect soldiers like Zhu Cihong?

Moreover, this respect is not false. Instead, they were piled up with military merit medals, honors, and countless amounts of money and grain.

For example, with such a time-consuming and laborious thing as a military hospital, which general is willing to do so?

As for the concept of honor, it is the first time that the old seventeen have heard it here in Zhu Cihong for decades. Also for the first time. I understand it here in Zhu Cihong, and I feel it more personally.

As a soldier in the hands of Zhu Cihong, he is a good man who really stands up to the sky.

Once such a belief is forged. The powerful power of these simple men is completely beyond the imagination of Lao Seventeen.

Of course, there are many more places that plague the improvement of the combat effectiveness of this army. For example, the shortage of officers that has always plagued Zhu Cihong. The shortage of not only junior officers, but also senior officers, is particularly worrying. Another example is the lack of literacy. The growth potential of the officers who have been trained through actual combat is varied. and the expansion of the army under the mud and sand that worries Zhu Cihong will have unexpected hidden dangers.

But Zhu Cihong obviously doesn't have more time to solve it slowly at the moment.

This battle. Zhu Cihong did not participate in it himself, but let go of Liu Sheng, Xu Yanqi and other generals to exercise experience.

Although, in Zhu Cihong's view, there were too many mistakes in the landing battle, such as inconsistent coordination among various departments, confusion in the transmission of military orders, loopholes in the combat of rushing for the beach, and a series of mistakes that were not big or small.

But Zhu Cihong did not interfere except to make up for it in the rear.

The battle has been fought so far. Everything is still under control.

There are too many omissions, it's just that Zhu Cihong's requirements are very high, and the intrusive army stationed at the Liuyuankou ferry is obviously not as strong as the enemy army in Zhu Cihong's request.

Facing the ship's artillery fire. The attack of guns and bullets on the ground, and the intrusive troops who had launched several charges to try to recapture the ferry still fell to the ground in pieces.

And although their attack has reached the third round, in Zhu Cihong's clairvoyant mirror, the array is still charging intensively. Even, although the gunboats in Liuquan had already fired three rounds, the artillery fire in the intruding army still could not hit the official gunboats on the Yellow River.

"Su Feng'er, can the soldiers stationed at the Liuyuankou ferry be ranked among the thieves?" Zhu Cihong looked at a woman wearing a plain white nurse's uniform on the side, and gave Su Feng'er the clairvoyant mirror with a smile.

This person is naturally a prisoner of the Red Lady who surrendered to the official army.

Otherwise, there would be no other family in the army that could have female soldiers.

After Su Feng'er took it, she pondered curiously, and soon, she squinted her eyes and observed: "My lord." The little woman saw that this soldier should be Liu Tuotian's soldier under Yuan Shizhong. Moreover, those who went up to fight were all homeless brave and brave, and there were no armored soldiers around Liu Tuotian. Such a soldier, if put under the command of King Chuang, I am afraid that he is not even a third rank. ”

"Oh?" Zhu Cihong curiously asked about Su Feng'er's situation in the army.

As for Su Feng'er, she also knows everything.

Li Zicheng's army is very distinctive. They recruited men between the ages of fifteen and forty as reservists, and only those who survived rigorous training became the main infantry, and those who excelled in combat and equally brutal training eventually became cavalry.

Qualified infantry will also receive armor according to the level of capture and bravery, both cotton and iron. The elite cavalry had three or four horses in turn. There is even a rumor that these horses are fed very specially, and the rogues will cut open people's bellies as a manger, put fodder inside and feed the horses with human blood. When the war horse is fed in this way arrives on the battlefield, when it sees the enemy, it raises its hooves and grinds its teeth to devour it, and its state is like a tiger or leopard seeing a sheep, and even the eyes of people are different from ordinary mules and horses.

Regarding such rumors, Zhu Cihong laughed and did not comment.

At the same time, according to the level of the cavalry himself, each main cavalry can be equipped with one to ten coerced civilians as auxiliaries, some leading horses and carrying things, and some serving food, each with a different division of labor. This means that their main force is hard-working, and they don't have to worry about anything other than combat training. It also belongs to the combat soldiers.

At the same time, Li Zicheng stipulated that when the army marched through the city, no one was allowed to live in a house, but must camp in a cloth tent. After camping, he took the test on the spot for the riding and archery drills of various departments of the school, and sometimes he himself participated in it. The troops rested shortly after sunset, and generally did not march at night, getting up at four o'clock every day to eat, and then marching in line to listen to orders. When facing the enemy, if the person in front looks back, the person behind can kill him to enforce military law. In addition, they also soaked the killer in oil and set it on the ground, which is the so-called "bunching the corpse for fire". Through such a series of serious military means, the Chuang army does have a combat power far beyond that of ordinary officers and soldiers.

At the same time, Zhu Cihong also learned about it very interestingly. The army is now more and more detached from the nature of thieves. (To be continued......)

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