Chapter 113: Volunteer Battalion
The first issue of the seven posters, which printed and distributed 10,000 copies, was sold out in a short period of time, although ten cents could only recover the cost, but this hot market made Xingyefang extremely excited, and immediately rushed to work overnight and printed another 100,000 copies. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
This time, it was not only bought in Nanjing, but also Zhenjiang Mansion along the river, Yangzhou Mansion on the other side of the river, Changzhou, Suzhou and Songjiang in the downstream, and even transported to Jiaxing, Huzhou, Hangzhou and other places in Zhejiang, covering the most prosperous and wealthy areas in the south of the Yangtze River.
Although the content of the poster has been praised and depreciated, it is undeniable that this new way of information dissemination has been welcomed and loved by all walks of life as soon as it was launched, and it has brought a new wind to the land of Jiangnan.
Many people were annoyed that they didn't buy a copy of the seven posters, but the release of the second issue of the seven posters ten days later dispelled people's doubts, and since then buying seven posters every ten days has become a thing that the people of Jiangnan are looking forward to.
However, Chang Wei, who is the founder of the Seven Posters, has not been idle, the documents for buying horses have been approved by the imperial court, and the three Chang Wei brothers have sent letters to Qin Shizi, and Wang Chen has also contacted the Guanzhong Sword League.
Buying a horse was a big deal, and Chang Wei sent the Nine Sons of the Big Dipper to negotiate with the Sword Alliance and Qin Shizi in person. Chang Wei himself entered the volunteer camp in Zhenjiang.
Chang Wei first asked people to set up several training venues by the river outside the camp, and they got acquainted with each other smoothly, and let the craftsmen create a batch of unique equipment.
After doing all this, Chang Wei began to formally train the troops, today is the third day of training, and the five thousand new members of the headquarters will gather before dawn, and Chang Wei's training is an hour ahead of the original.
The assembly took a quarter of an hour, almost the same as a few days ago, although the phalanx lined up was decent, but some of the soldiers did not bring weapons, some did not wear armor, and carried them in their hands, and some stared at them in a daze, looking like they had not woken up.
Chang Wei didn't say much, asked everyone to tidy up their armor, and led the team to the newly opened training ground to start running in a circle, after running ten laps has been more than twenty miles, many people are tired and fell to the ground, after standing in line, Chang Wei spoke.
"In the past few days, everyone has been familiar with my training methods, since you have entered the volunteer battalion, you must listen to my military orders, today is the third day, and it is also the last day for you as ordinary people, tomorrow you will act in accordance with military law, gather again, you can't quickly line up within half an hour, and those who are neat and tidy will be heavily punished with ten military sticks!"
Subsequently, Chang Wei and his subordinates trained together, and on the second day, there were still five people who could not meet the requirements, so the ten army sticks went down, the skin was opened, the flesh was opened, and they were shaved out of the ranks and arrived at the baggage camp.
Yin An is the second son of a family in Yinjiazhuang, Fengyang Prefecture, this year's seventeen, forty-year-old father died of wind and cold the year before last, fortunately his brother has grown up, although the family farm work is hard, but the family fifty acres of land, plus fishing and driving boats to run transportation, can earn fifty taels a year, much better than the average life.
Eating and drinking can keep up, so Yin An has been strong since he was a child, he likes to practice some fists and feet, sword and gun kung fu, so he joined a small local sect in Fengyang, and often practiced martial arts with the masters, and lived a very fast life.
After the eldest brother Yin Ping got married at the beginning of the year, he inherited most of the family's land according to the clan rules, and Yin An only divided ten acres of land and a few houses, which is not to blame the eldest brother, this is the rule since ancient times.
But Yin An has gained insight with those people who are mixed with the rivers and lakes, and he is unwilling to be an ordinary person for the rest of his life, but he is old and has missed a good time to practice martial arts, so he can only live one day at a time.
At the beginning of July, the **** of the Notre Dame Sect was in turmoil, I heard that a lot of people were killed, the neighboring village was slaughtered, the whole family of the uncle was killed, and the little cousin was only thirteen years old, and was hung up and strangled to death at the entrance of the village by several thieves.
The bodies of more than a dozen women were hanging from the entrance to the village, while the men were beheaded and pinned to sharpened wooden sticks. At that time, Yin An also went to see it, and the old mother saw the corpse of her uncle's family and cried to death.
Fortunately, Yinjiazhuang has a large population, there are earthen walls rammed, Our Lady is in chaos, the patriarch organizes young and strong people to form a village Yong, Yin An is strong and strong, skilled in knives and guns, bold and ruthless, and has become a small leader of the township Yong and killed five or six thieves.
A small group of thieves did not dare to attack, and Yinjiazhuang was spared, but the nearby villages that did not have a village suffered a catastrophe.
Fearful to the most of the month, the imperial court Heavenly Army Shenji Battalion came, killing the thieves dead and wounded, Dingyuan, Fengyang two battles defeated 100,000 thieves, the Huai River killed in the first battle of the blood flowed into a river, Huai Shui did not flow, most of the thieves were cut off by the official army as military merits, surrendered all as slaves.
Of course, the people don't know, and even if they say it, they don't believe it.
Yin An really knew that he was bold enough to see what happened to those thieves who killed a thousand knives? He secretly followed behind the army, and saw that where the army passed, grain, cattle and sheep, gold and silver, and cloth were all transported away, and then set fire to the stronghold.
Yin An didn't feel any cruelty, but he was happy in his heart, which could be regarded as avenging his uncle's family.
Then Yin An moved the idea of joining the Shenji Battalion, but people didn't accept people at all, but Yin An, the guard who accepted people, didn't look down on them.
With a move in his mind, he simply followed him to Nanjing, and after wandering around for a while, he heard that Lord Chang Wei, the right admiral of the Shenji Battalion who exterminated the Holy Mother Sect, was going to recruit troops to form a volunteer battalion, and it was a musket battalion that was exactly the same as the elite army of the Shenji Battalion.
Yin An immediately rushed to Zhenjiang, he was strong and strong, he could kill people in martial arts, and he could read a few words, he was left behind after signing up, and his mother did not stop him when he wrote home, after all, it was Chang who avenged the hard-working sister's family. The elder brother instigated himself, and was able to get all the land and house, which was a real benefit.
In the new barracks, Yin An was called out and asked for details about his home. There were even soldiers who came to the house to investigate carefully, and the elder brother thought that he had committed a crime, so he hurriedly sent a message to inquire.
Later, he and more than 300 people were incorporated into a battalion, and after officially becoming a member of the volunteer battalion, Yin An found that the food here was unbelievably good, and there was meat to eat.
On weekdays, it is also snow-white steamed buns and crystal rice.
Yin An, a heartless and lungless prodigal who feeds the whole family without hunger and wanders outside, eats the best, but it is also meat once every three days, and he usually eats corn tortillas and sorghum rice, and ordinary vegetables, which is much stronger than ordinary people.
Not to mention those poor families who don't know how to run production and have no land, they are only willing to eat meat once in three or two months.
The military uniforms are also new, and I heard that there are cotton clothes and hair in winter. If that's all there is to it, then it's heaven.
The training of the volunteer battalion is called ruthless, and the leaders of the training are the people who raise people and show off talents! Hey, people and show talents also come to serve as soldiers? These are old men who can be officials, this thing is really evil!
Everyone said that this was a strange thing that was unique to Daming.