Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 96 Determining the Number of the First Battalion of the First Army

The 60 people with the best cultural, physical and technical qualities selected from the 1 people carried out the first batch of training in full swing.

Next, the 60 soldiers who will form the [-] newly trained soldiers of the First, Second, and Third Guards Armies will continue to be selected from the next [-] people.

People who can read and write, who used to be the main soldiers of the army (not **), and those who have martial arts and riding skills are all selected.

According to statistics, most of the remaining 60 people are the children of farmers, there are also handicraft workers or refugees, but most of them are local people in Huaian, Huaiyang and other places, and the farthest is Huguang and Jiangxi.

The main battlefield in the future will undoubtedly be in the Huaiyang area, and the first, second and third armies of the Guards who are in debt to defend the south of the Yangtze River are mainly Huaiyang children, which will naturally make the army occupy a favorable geographical position and a harmonious situation. As a local, he is naturally familiar with the geographical environment of this area, and he can also adapt to the mixed north-south climate here and has the determination to defend his homeland.

Li Banghua, Li Mingrui, and Lu Zhenfei are currently responsible for the screening of these 60 people.

The basic combat officers and veterans drawn from Shandong and Fengyang became the specific executors.

The 60 people were temporarily organized into ten brigades, and each brigade became ten small teams, each with 6000 people.

In each team, those with defective hands and feet, those with incomplete vision, poor hearing, or color blindness have to be eliminated, followed by the weak, those who cannot run for a mile, and those who are not tall.

In this way, it will be reduced to 40 people, and then there will be a basic intelligence test, which can distinguish between left and right and if the reaction is not slow enough to follow the number reported by the person in front and then report down to pass.

In the end, in order to select the best, the planners also chose more methods, such as testing weightlifting ability, and even continuing to increase the long-distance running requirements, so as to screen out people with excellent perseverance and physical strength.

Not only that, but through various tests, try to select some honest people who obey the rules, even if the rules are very low-level, and the cost of breaking the rules is very low.

In about half a month, the [-] soldiers who will be included as the main force of Ming Dynasty were finally determined.

On the other hand, Zhou Yuji and Liu Fangliang have basically made the recruits of the Talents Battalion and the Warriors Battalion complete the most basic sorting and various basic training.

It's just that the division of arms and the training of special skills for each arm have not been carried out.

In a way.

The Talents Battalion and the Bravery Battalion are actually officer training, with classes at night and basic individual training during the day.

Zhu Youjian's arrangement is to cultivate a group of advanced military officers in the upcoming 10-person training.

This can make up for the lack of instructors, so that 10 people can implement orders and prohibitions in a short period of time, and have basic individual skills and skills of various arms.

Just like the promise Zhu Youjian made before.

Now, half a month later, there will be a contest between the Talent Camp and the Warrior Camp to determine who has the number of the First Battalion of the Ming First Army.

The so-called martial arts competition is actually just to compare whose movements are more standardized, the pace is more consistent, and who is more able to obey orders and prohibitions, rather than really fighting or even shooting.

Zhu Youjian's first requirement for these recruits is obedience, and he also wants to emphasize that obedience comes first.

One hundred thousand of the second batch of recruits who were selected to receive the next batch of training sat cross-legged around the school grounds as required.

Accompanied by Li Banghua, Ma Shiying and others, Zhu Youjian sat on the platform in the middle of the north side of the school grounds.

Below him, the two battalions of Zhou Yuji and Liu Fangliang were standing in front of Zhu Youjian in a horizontal line of twenty square formations.

Seeing that these people were able to achieve a neat and mighty military posture after just half a month, Zhu Youjian was very pleased and happy.

And the hundreds of thousands of recruits who watched the training effect of the first batch of soldiers below were also full of envy, and spontaneously imagined that they would stand so straight in front of the emperor in the future.

"Hello, all generals!"

Zhu Youjian stood up and waved his hand.

"Long live my emperor!"

The tens of thousands of trained officers and soldiers in the audience replied in unison, and the neatly male voices were majestic and powerful.

"You officers and soldiers have worked hard!"

Zhu Youjian shouted again, after all, he is the supreme emperor of Jiuding, even in this empty school field, he can make a group of civil and military ministers and officers and soldiers feel the majesty of the emperor.

"Be loyal to Daming!"

More than [-] trained recruits replied again, as if at this moment, the heat of the air began to rise, and the cold wind in early November stopped abruptly.

Zhou Yuji and Liu Fangliang brought their respective battalions shouted hoarsely, stood at attention, walked at right step, and marched on the school field with their own teams.

"The completion is not bad. Tell Zhou Yuji and Liu Fangliang that whoever occupies Tieshan Temple first before the Tieshan Temple's sunset bell rings will win!"

Frankly speaking, Zhu Youjian couldn't see who had the best training effect between the scholar camp and the strong man camp.

Therefore, he can only temporarily add a task to judge the winner or loser by means of a virtual war. After all, he has made a promise and cannot keep his word.

Zhu Youjian knew that Zhou Yuji's military talents were both offensive and defensive. On the offensive side, he had at least severely damaged the Qing army and created a record of winning more with less; In the original history, the place that resisted Li Zicheng's invasion of the capital was the Ningwu Pass that Zhou Yuji was in charge of.

As for Liu Fangliang, he was able to become a general of the Chuangjun right battalion system from a commoner, and he led the army in Henan alone, and divided his troops to take the capital. It can also be seen that this person's military ability should not be bad.

Let these two people compete with each other now, and Zhu Youjian will know who is better at defending and who is better at attacking.

Tieshan Temple, as the name suggests, is just a temple on an iron mountain in Huai'an Prefecture.

Zhu Youjian randomly thought of a place name near Huai'an Fucheng based on the map of Huai'an Prefecture.

Therefore, the first thing Zhou Yuji and Liu Fangliang had to do was to find out the specific location of this Tieshan Temple.

In the end, the scholar camp was the first to arrive at the Tieshan Temple. After all, they had higher intelligence and could clearly remember the exact location of a temple.

However, the scholars who lacked defensive experience did not defend Tieshan Temple, and Liu Fangliang, who was used to sports warfare, was not as good at defending as Zhou Yuji. As a result, Tieshan Temple was taken away by the Warriors Camp after only one night in the hands of the Talents Camp.

On the second day, there was a lot of fighting around Tieshan Temple. Under the leadership of Liu Fangliang, the Xiucai Battalion unremittingly launched round after round of attacks on the Warrior Battalion guarding Tieshan Temple.

Because they didn't use real knives, guns and live ammunition, the Xiucai Battalion shamelessly kept attacking in various ways.

During this period, Tieshan Temple also changed owners several times.
But in the end, because there are more veterans in the Warriors' Battalion, and Zhou Yuji's own city guard is better than Liu Fangliang.

Therefore, when the Tieshan Temple's evening bell rang, the people from the Xiucai Camp did not take away the Tieshan Temple from the Warriors' Camp, except for their fists, feet and sticks.

Zhu Youjian fulfilled his promise and asked Zhou Yuji to concurrently lead the First Battalion of the First Army of the Ming Dynasty Guards.

However, Zhu Youjian also issued a decree to commend the scholar battalion, ordered Liu Fangliang to also lead the first battalion of the Second Army of the Ming Dynasty Guards, and gave him extra favors, such as a general and a commander of the guard.

Because all the recruits of the two battalions were to become officers immediately and participate in the next batch of training, Zhou Yuji and Liu Fangliang were appointed as the chief generals of the two battalions.

In the future, the leaders of these two battalions will naturally be replaced by others, and they will be half a level higher than the other battalions, so they will be the trump cards of the Ming Guards.

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