Compared with the north, the winter in Anping is not cold. Although it is a small ice age where Taihu Lake is about to freeze and Fujian and Guangdong is about to snow, Quanzhou can maintain temperatures above zero during the day.

Sometimes, the sun is even more toxic at noon! It’s hot on your body.

But even so, in the cold sea breeze, the soldiers of the Iron Man Army were wearing dozens of kilograms of heavy armor, fully armed and motionless on the school ground, standing for one or two hours. They were also shocked by the long-slack Anping Shui Army!

Earlier, Zheng Zhilong was training troops, with only a hundred people, and only sixty people were left when the March ended. But now there are 1,500 people!

One thousand five hundred people stood in the school ground in full armor and remained motionless. The pressure this put on was obviously not comparable to that of the previous people. Moreover, those who were previously acquaintances in Anping City, while the current one thousand five hundred people were all taken from the Denglai refugees who moved south.

When ordinary people meet, they may not even be able to communicate.

Zheng Zhilong looked at the Iron Man Army standing upright in the school grounds and nodded with satisfaction. In the past few months, he took out a few days a month to visit the North of the senior official, and he had a lot of feelings for the current Iron Man Army.

Just like he made people choose children under ten years old to join the army in the newly established Boy Scouts camp in Anping City. Among them, the outstanding ones would also be sent to the middle and senior officers in the army to be the attendant officers. Just like the young trainee officers in Britain during the Great Voyage.

These teenagers are used to the situation and are familiar with the military. When they become adults (16), they will definitely be qualified officers.

"In the past, Qi Shaobao defeated the Japanese pirates and transferred the general of Jizhen to the north. Although the Jimen army was a powerful brigade on the nine sides of the Ming court, he was arrogant and looked down on the Southern Army, but he was strong and weak outside. The seventh battalion army was not accustomed to military affairs, had poor military discipline, and was lax in military preparations. Just like the current situation of our army.

Qi Shaobao dispatched 3,000 Zhejiang soldiers to the north to think that they were a model soldier. When the army arrived, it happened that it was raining heavily. Qi's army lined up in the suburbs, until dusk, and stood upright. The border troops were shocked and respected them all, and they began to know the military orders."

The so-called "Iron Man Army" established by Zheng Zhilong is actually a heavy armored infantry. In this era, armor had withdrawn from the mainstream of military equipment, but in the East, the corrupt administration of the Ming Dynasty dragged down the entire military system and completely gave up its mainstream position in the military.

Thinking about the Ming army's mandarin duck war jacket, it obviously changed from guarding against swords, guns, arrows to guarding firearms. However, after the Ming army's firearms developed for hundreds of years, they have become very bad now.

To deal with the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong did not have a reliable hand-to-hand combat soldier in his hands, that would not work! He was also unsure.

And how to rectify a hand-to-hand combat soldier that fought against the Qing Tartars?

Zheng Chenggong in history gave the answer - forming an elite heavy armored infantry.

The strong and brave men in the army were raised with great help and trained hard, so wouldn’t they be able to fight? That’s why the Zhenjiang victory was achieved, and thousands of elite Eight Banners and ten thousand Green Camp Han soldiers who were killed were killed and fled.

Although it was not entirely the contribution of the Iron Man Army, the Iron Man Army, as the main combat force of the Zheng Army, cannot be erased.

In Zheng Zhilong's eyes, that battle was actually a collision between heavy armored infantry and armored cavalry. When the two battles, as long as the infantry can stand up, the cavalry will have no possibility of breaking the formation. Looking at the white-rod soldiers in the battle of Hunhe, the so-called Eight Banners Brigade cannot even break through the simple-equipped white-rod soldiers, so it is even more impossible to break through the Iron Man Army.

Zheng Zhilong would never be satisfied with the 1,500 iron-armored soldiers. If there are time travelers who know the Beiyang Army, they can already understand the hierarchical system of the Iron Man Army Shed Cruise Battalion. Zheng Zhilong copied the Beiyang Army's system.

And there are bids above the camp, there are associations above the bids, and then there is a town.

It can be said that Zheng Zhilong put aside the military system of the Ming court and set up a new team.

No one from Anping City was surprised because this was too normal among the Ming army. The current situation in the Ming Dynasty was that several closely organized troops, such as the Guanning Army, the Qin Army, the Xuanda Power Brigade, the Zheng Family Navy, etc., were all organized according to the ideas of their respective commanders.

But the current Zheng Group's system is still chaotic. Zheng Zhilong has traveled through more than half a year, but there has not been a single result yet.

He had already let his subordinates do it.

Separation of military and business.

An elite force was "refined" from the more than 100,000 people under his command, whether it was the navy or the army.

In fact, that is to divide the cake. If you have more, I will have less. This process alone will be entangled until the beginning of winter. The Eight Banners Tartars are a large joint-stock company, and the Zheng Group is actually a small joint-stock company.

The separation of military and business has been unfolded in Zheng’s army, but the progress has not been great. It is easy to order, but things are difficult to do.

It’s okay to say that the latter’s status within the Zheng group was raised by Xiao Niang. That is, the team in Anping City still has some status. The others are all things that can be transferred to the sailors with a command.

But the navy was a little difficult.

When pirates started their business, too many people had indivisible connections with the navy. The sea also meant too much and too great benefits to them. But it cannot be denied that many people have bought land and built manors on land, and have the full capital to be rich and become masters.

Now that the military and business are separated, many people cannot give up the interests of joining the army, and are worried that guns and cannons are eyeless. Everyone knows that after the New Year, Zheng Longtou will lead the team north. He fights with the Eight Banners and the Frugal Tartars outside the Pass, who dares to say that he will not die?

It is hard to part with it, and it is suffering.

Zheng Zhilong was not too harsh, and directly put the time to the end of the year, giving them enough time to think about it. Now, there is only one month left.

When the water is clear, there will be no fish, and when the person is careful, there will be no disciples.

Zheng Zhilong was not the one who didn’t rub the sand in his eyes. Which cargo ship did not carry other people’s cargo?

After a trip to the sea trade, he naturally took the big head, and it was also rich from the bow of the boat to the sailor, just like a canal ship that transported grain to the court.

He is also the leader, and he is like this against his subordinates, and so is the case with other generals. Such a team can only cause evil if they can fight tough battles at critical moments.

So, this is a must.

Zheng Hongkui looked at the Iron Man Army in his eyes and was filled with relief. Although the army in front of him was still a good person in Zheng Zhilong's mouth, he could only set up a formation, and was still far from the elite soldiers on the battlefield who were truly in danger but not afraid of him. But this made him very happy.

Because such a "sticky gun tip" can stand on the school ground for two hours, how could this be a real "sticky gun tip"?

This is an elite soldier. No, these are already an elite soldier.

As long as you have experienced one or two battles and seen blood, who dares to say that you can't train such military forces?

"Qi Shaobao, it's indeed Qi Shaobao." He knew that the new army of the senior official was the one who acted in reference to Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Ji Xiao" and "Strange Soldiers".

Zheng Zhilong personally selected a hundred elite soldiers from the Anping defenders, but only sixty people persevered until the end. These people were the seeds of the new army. Whether it was good or bad, they were all trained by him with books and sticks in one hand. After practicing for a full three months, they were put away the senior officers. When the new army was trained, others would inevitably go to the senior officers every month.

The hard work spent on Master Lu is shared by everyone.

In this way, how could the bravery selected from it be comparable to Master Lu of the Zheng family in the past?

Looking at the defenders in Anping City, they were stunned and had been suppressed. And there was a military like this above the head. If you reorganize them, you will definitely get twice the result with half the effort!

It really didn’t waste Zheng Zhilongfei’s whole heart in Denglai!

Zheng Zhilong is also a little complacent now. At the beginning, he felt that relying solely on military rules and regulations, it would be difficult to make the Zheng group undergo a fundamental change.

Because the country is easy to change and its nature is difficult to change.

The Zheng group, which was born into a pirate, is contrary to discipline in its roots.

So, just like he was going to create a foundation overseas, Zheng Zhilong also decided to build a new army.

To capture the Central Plains and to realize his greater ambitions, what he needs is not an enhanced version of the original Zheng family's mainland division, but a new army, a real new army.

Although he knew nothing about training, he had taken physical education classes, but he had also been in military training, right? Did he follow the example? Then he studied Qi Jiguang's masterpiece, and combined with the "experience" in his mind, he first trained a team of instructors.
Chapter completed!