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Not to mention how long it would take for Hong Chengchou to adapt to Lu Ruipeng's presence, but Emperor Chongzhen, who was far away in the capital, couldn't help but feel a little worried after learning that the northern Shaanxi thieves finally broke into Shanxi. After replying to Lu Ruipeng, he immediately summoned the Minister of War and the cabinet ministers, discussed for a long time, and decided to deploy heavy troops along the Yellow River to suppress the bandits from south to north. Even if they could not annihilate these bandits, they would still be driven out of the customs. go.

After finishing these things, Emperor Chongzhen unexpectedly arrived at the Beijing camp. But this time, he did not put on the full array of imperial honors. It was just that two hundred people rode over under the protection of Gao Shiyue, Fang Zhenghua and other eunuchs.

At this time, military discipline training was being conducted on the school grounds set aside separately for the new army in the Beijing camp. Even in ancient times, standing postures were still used. When Qi Jiguang was just transferred to the north to reorganize the army, he asked the Qi Army to stand in a military posture. Without an order to disband, the Qi Army was not afraid of wind and rain and just used the standing posture to make the northern soldiers become obedient.

Today's new army chief instructor Mao Yuanyi is ordered to use Qi Jiguang's military tactics to train troops. The training on military discipline is to make them stand in a military posture and not move without orders, let alone disband. Strengthen 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 the school grounds, with more than 5,000 people, all standing motionless in the cold wind and under the spring sun, like clay sculptures.

When Gao Shiyue saw it, he smiled and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty is still wise. Now these bastards are afraid that they will lose points in the training assessment and be overtaken by their peers and lose the officer position, so they are training hard one by one. I think this, A strong army can be achieved!"

Emperor Chongzhen heard this, looked at him and smiled. In his mind, this idea also came from. Otherwise, he wouldn't have offered so many conditions and generous treatment. Isn't his purpose just to build a strong army as soon as possible?

These new army soldiers have already developed their personal combat skills and battlefield training, and they have all seen blood. If military discipline can be enforced, it will naturally be much faster than training a new army from scratch. According to the training plan arranged by himself and Mao Yuanyi, after practicing military discipline, battle formation drills will begin. As long as these two pieces are in place, you can pull it out and give it a beating!

He was thinking this, and while he was watching, Mao Yuanyi, the commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp, Mangui, and others rushed over immediately after receiving the news.

At this time, the Beijing camp could not do it, and it was impossible to learn what Xiliu camp did. It was nonsense to dare to shut out the emperor without the order of the commander-in-chief. The emperor is the supreme commander, and the emperor is heaven. As long as the identity of the emperor is proved, who has the guts to turn him away? If there really is such an army, then if a war breaks out, will this army listen to the generals or the emperor? of? If the general asked them to kill the king, would they do it?

Therefore, what Xiliuying did was simply seeking death! In the end, Zhou Yafu's fate is easy to understand. If Man Gui dares to imitate Zhou Yafu, his end will not be so good!

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

Emperor Chongzhen ascended the general commanding platform, glanced at the new soldiers below, and saw traces of sweat on each of their faces. He was also satisfied in his heart, and immediately said loudly: "I said, I will come to see you. Practice hard and don’t let me down!”

Which army would the emperor expect so much? No, just the new army. These new soldiers were so excited that the emperor valued them so much, and they immediately responded loudly: "Long live my emperor!"

Cao Bianjiao, who is in the new army, is even more convinced that as long as he gets ahead in this new army, he will definitely have a bright future in the future, and there is hope of catching up with Wu Sangui!

Emperor Chongzhen on the stage said simply, and then asked them to continue training while he took charge of the Beijing Ying Yamen. The main purpose of his visit this time was to find Man Gui.

Emperor Chongzhen was seen sitting where Man Gui originally sat, looking at Man Gui standing below, and asked kindly: "Man Qing, I still need some people from you!"

Upon hearing this, Man Gui was stunned for a moment, and then immediately echoed loudly: "Your Majesty only needs an imperial edict to ask for someone, there is no need to come in person."

"Haha, I also want to come and see the new army." Emperor Chongzhen explained, and then said: "You will help me select all the artillery battalion officers and soldiers in the Beijing camp, as well as the more clever soldiers. I want to There are about five hundred people, please choose six or seven hundred people, I will wait here."

There is a saying in later generations that artillery is the god of war. This saying is widely circulated. The power of artillery is also well known. Although there are no bombs made of yellow gunpowder today, an army, even Emperor Chongzhen's idea, is that the new army still mainly uses cold weapons, and he also thinks that it must be equipped with artillery. This was his purpose for coming here this time.

When Mangui took the order and went to pick people, Mao Yuanyi happily guessed: "Your Majesty, are you planning to set up an artillery battalion?"

Of course Emperor Chongzhen had mentioned this matter with Xi, the chief instructor of the New Army. The initial idea is that this new army is equipped with a field artillery battalion and is directly under the division.

In Emperor Chongzhen's mind, this new army was to be used for offense. Therefore, the configuration of the artillery is different from that mentioned in Qi Jiguang's chariot camp or Mao Yuanyi's chariot camp military book.

In terms of the configuration of the New Army's artillery battalion, the main ones are tiger crouching guns and large and small Fran machine guns. They can keep up with the marching troops in action. In combat, they mainly use shotguns to kill. On average, five people per cannon, five hundred people equals one hundred cannons. For an army of more than 5,000 people, it should be about the same.

Mao Yuanyi couldn't help but feel overjoyed after receiving Emperor Chongzhen's affirmative reply. It seems that the emperor really didn't break his promise at all, and was personally controlling all the logistical matters of the new army. At this moment, he had unprecedented confidence in whether the new army could become a strong army!

There was just one thing that Mao Yuanyi regretted. The emperor had already stated in advance that the officers of this new army would be selected by the new army themselves. Therefore, even he has no share.

Thinking of these things, Mao Yuanyi's high mood also dropped a lot. However, he is the chief coach of the New Army after all. If we talk about it in the future, his name will remain in history. For this reason, he even paid special attention when accompanying Emperor Chongzhen to select the soldiers for the artillery camp, and stayed with him until the emperor finished selecting and drove back to the palace.

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