Please ask me to be the emperor

Hold your head high, hold your chest high, draw in your abdomen and raise your hips, put your feet together, and place your hands on your sides. Although it was not very standard, Zhang, who had gone through military training, made a template for standing postures and then asked the newly recruited "Mao Hulu" to stand according to this standard for half an hour.

Sure enough, not long after he stood up, the naughty and restless children were either scratching their heads or winking.

Zhang Shun didn't tolerate them and asked Zhang Sanbai to punish them. Zhang Sanbai was already very strong, so he simply grabbed one person with each hand, picked out thirty or forty people in a row, and beat them in turn, until the others became honest.

After the people who were dealt with were obedient, they showed good resilience and endurance. More than half of these children and teenagers were able to persist for half an hour.

Zhang Shun couldn't help being very surprised, and specifically asked the boy who was the first to complete the order to eat first. The others who could not complete the order could only wait until these people finished eating before they could start eating.

This has greatly encouraged these children and teenagers to win. If they wait until the afternoon to train, they will be able to persevere to the end.

So Zhang Shun struck while the iron was hot and quickly trained them to walk. These exercises seem simple and can be mastered once taught. But these people are used to being lax in the past. How can they change their long-standing habits in a moment? Once he relaxed a little, his steps became chaotic again.

Zhang Shun had no choice but to tie a stone to their right foot so that they could not lift it, and then practice lifting it. When you are familiar with raising your feet, you can start practicing walking, retracting your feet and turning around. When these are all practiced, Zhang will combine them into one and directly practice the formation.

Of course, these individual exercises are good, but once they are combined into training, they are messy. However, Zhang Shun was not in the mood to reprimand these "wild kids" at this time.

It turned out that after days of training, the rebel army's food supply was decreasing day by day. Coupled with the food consumed in the previous land reclamation, Li Baihu had also consumed 60 to 70% of the food he had purchased many times. Zhang Shenyan and Lady Hong had to warn Zhang Shun quickly so that he could make preparations.

Resources are the core of all problems, especially in agricultural societies where materials are scarce and productivity is backward.

Agricultural social production has its own rules. Planting in spring, harvesting in autumn, cultivating in summer and hiding in winter. Only one or two seasons can be cultivated throughout the year to provide enough food for a year. If there is a slight change in it, it may be a rhythm that will kill people.

After working hard all day long, I can't save much extra food in a year. Surplus grain is the fundamental guarantee for labor and training in an agricultural society.

Because whether it is labor or training, it is a lot of physical activity, which will seriously increase the rate of food consumption. Now, Zhang encountered this problem by the way.

Fortunately, Zhang Shun still had gold and silver in his hands, so he called Li Baihu over and said, "How is the price of food outside now? Our rebels currently have about 20,000 taels of silver and a thousand taels of gold. I wonder how much food and grass can be purchased?"

After hearing this, Li Baihu calculated for a long time and then said: "Food is sent thousands of miles away. Even if it is transported by water, there will be a lot of losses. My lord previously promised to buy local grain at half a price higher than the market price. I will try my best to buy it."

"If there are any shortcomings, I want to abandon Nanzhili and go to Huguang. As the saying goes: If Huguang is ripe, the world has enough. The food here is better than that in eastern Henan, Nanzhili and other places. The price is low, the quality is high, and it is easy to transport. .”

"According to my estimation, the amount of grain purchased should be between 17,000 to 20,000 dan."

Zhang Shun was surprised when he heard this, and then he was overjoyed. He originally knew that he had enough money to buy ten thousand shi of food, but now he had an extra seven to eight thousand to ten thousand shi, which greatly eased his food shortage.

It turns out that the price of food in Huguang is slightly lower, and the rebels are planning to buy food in Lu's, so there is less loss in the process, so they can get so much food.

Zhang Shun felt at ease. After arranging for Li Baihu to buy grain, he was thinking about the training of "Mao Gourd" and hurried to the camp to check the progress of the training.

Three months of such high-intensity and repetitive training carved these habits and movements into the bones of these teenagers.

When Chen Changzhen, Zhang Shenyan and others saw this team again, they saw Zhang Shun giving an order and they lined up neatly, marching in the same steps and following the formation.

It may be a square formation, a vertical formation, or a horizontal formation, all neat and uniform, like arms and fingers, just like one person.

They were deeply shocked, and even Zhang Shenyan couldn't help but sigh: "I heard that the Qi family's army had strict military discipline in the past, but I didn't believe it. Now that I see the soldiers trained by my lord, even the footsteps sound like a man walking, I know that there are mountains beyond the mountains and there is a sky beyond the sky." . If our rebel army has tens of thousands of such powerful soldiers, the world is so vast, how can we stop them?"

Zhang Shun shook his head when he heard this and said with a smile: "Ordinary soldiers have been trained for three months since they were recruited and have been declared ready to fight. I, a soldier, have been trained for these three months, but I have only practiced some basics. Formation, bows and arrows, and golden drums The banner has not been practiced at all, so how can it be praised?"

"What's more, this land of the Lu family is famous for its production of soldiers. The Ming Dynasty often recruited soldiers and then trained them briefly before using them as elite soldiers. If I had completed the training now, I would probably have to spend six months and three times more food and grass. , if we continue to be unable to fight, won’t I, King Shun, lose my fame in vain?”

After the results were displayed, Zhang Shun summoned Ma Yingniang and said, "Only in this way can these soldiers practice their tactics. Use the tactics you learned from Ma Fengyi to your heart's content!"

Ma Yingniang was already eager to give it a try. After hearing this, she quickly said: "The chieftain's method of warfare is to use twenty-five people per flag and set up a flag leader of twenty-six people. Each flag is arranged in a cone formation, with one, three, five, seven, Nine people are in formation, with the flag chief at the back. Twenty-five flags form a division, and each flag is also arranged in a cone formation according to numbers one, three, five, seven, and nine, with the division chief at the back."

"These chieftain soldiers are all wearing heavy armor and holding bows and arrows and hook spears. They use bows and arrows from far away and hook spears at close range. Because of their fierce fighting methods, ordinary battle formations are often easily torn apart and defeated with one blow. Even if the battle is unfavorable. , can also defend itself. Because its conical formation is different from the square formation, there is no flaw anywhere except the rear of the formation. Even if the rear of the formation is attacked, the director only needs to command the rear team to change to the front team to defend. "

Zhang Shun roughly deduced it in his mind and couldn't help but be surprised. This ordinary cone-shaped formation was turned into a flower by Shizhu Tusi. Fortunately, the more than 600 "hairy gourds" have already been trained proficiently by himself and others, so it is easy to change any lineup.

Afterwards, Zhang Shun asked Governor Zhang to distribute the armor and hook guns that had been completed to these "hair gourds" for use. As for bows and arrows, due to the complex manufacturing process and long production cycle, they still use their own bows and arrows.

At this point, the training of the new army was coming to an end. Zhang Shun simply entrusted all this to Xiao Qinhu, Zhang Sanbai and Ma Yingniang, and asked them to continue training according to the formations and tactics of the chieftain soldiers. I will pay attention to Governor Zhang's weapon manufacturing.

Thank you to fan "Lonely Sprite" for your multiple tips, thank you for your support! The author of the second update is working hard to update, but due to time constraints, it may not be updated in time, please forgive me.