Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 189 Training
Three months passed by.

Yang Chao never believed in authority. Although Lao Jin was a well-known member of the Qi family army and had followed Qi Jiguang's descendants on the battlefield, Yang Chao would not obey him unconditionally if he could not prove that his own method was right.

Yang Chao has been analyzing various statistics.

In the last competition, Yang Chao found that after Lao Jin's sorting, the level of soldiers who practiced assassination and archery improved, and the improvement rate was very large.

In the past, Yang Chao's soldiers trained strictly, such as assassination and archery, eight out of ten were excellent, six out of ten were good, four out of ten were fair, and three out of ten were poor. Most of Yang Chao's soldiers were It is good and peace, only one tenth can get excellent, now after being trained by Lao Jin for three months, he tested again, and found that excellent accounted for [-]%, good accounted for more than [-]%, average was [-]%, and the difference was less than [-]%. become.

More than [-]% of the soldiers have excellent martial arts skills, which can be called elite soldiers, only the battlefield experience is missing.

This level of martial arts, Lao Jin also admitted that it was almost the same as Qi's army, and then he began to practice formation.

The formation, of course, is the Mandarin Duck formation.

Yang Chao has also practiced before, but he has never been able to do it right, especially many of the banner drums, which gave Yang Chao a headache, and he couldn't do it at all, even Yang Chao had a headache, let alone these soldiers with almost blank educational backgrounds. .

Lao Jin was not in a hurry, he selected some soldiers with sharp eyes and ears, and then made a large number of flags.

Teaching them the flags of the Qi family army and the method of beating drums to convey news to them will naturally fail overnight, and even though Lao Jin has been in the army for many years, it is impossible for him to master all the skills of the general.

Lao Jin understands the flag signals in Qi's army, and he also understands the Jie drum and whistle, but he can't blow them, and the flags don't require much advanced skills, so Lao Jin can only teach the method of flag signals.

So they practice formation during the day and banners at night.

Another month has passed, the flag is not yet clear, but the formation has worked.

Lao Jin's mandarin duck formation has 12 people in the small formation and 100 people in the large formation.

When Yang Chao praised him, Lao Jin became more polite, saying that it was Yang Chao who practiced the basics well, especially the method of walking and turning. Without these, he would not be able to get the soldiers to stop him. This is Lao Jin's number one. This time affirms Yang Chao's practice method.

In addition to daily training, Yang Chao still did not give up sailing. Anyway, there is only one team each time, a total of 40 people, accounting for only one tenth, and the rotation is adopted. In fact, every soldier has a turn to sail once every ten days, so It doesn't affect training either.

So the business continued and expanded, because Yang Chao bought two more ships, a total of three large chasing boats, which can escort 12 merchant ships each time, with a team of 40 people, plus four veterans. There are only [-] boatmen.

As for the income, it has not increased much compared to before. It is probably because of saturation. There is always a limit to the cargo sailing across the strait. However, Yang Chao has already asked Zhang Dawei to lead people to prepare for a long-distance voyage. First, start from Nanjing to Guazhou on the north bank, and Zhenjiang on the south bank. It is equivalent to operating a safe route from Nanjing to Yangzhou, Suzhou and Hangzhou.

The one who cooperates with Zhang Dawei is the most elite Wang Pu. Wang Pu is currently the head of the banner, and he has three teams of elite soldiers under his jurisdiction. Taking into account the sea trade to the east, etc.

In addition, it is also planned to open up an upstream route to Jiujiang, so Zhao Kang will go there and take Jiujiang as the center to be in charge of the trade between the two lakes. However, the two lakes are currently at war, and many businessmen from Wuchang, Jiujiang and other places have fled to Nanjing. I often read the Di Bao, and learned that Zuo Liangyu's army was defeated by Li Zicheng in Henan and Zhang Xianzhong in Hubei. The army retreated to Jiujiang and plundered the people wantonly, so the Jiujiang merchants also fled to Nanjing.

Affected by this, Yang Chao gave up on the Jiujiang line for the time being, but the line to Zhenjiang and Guazhou has been done for more than a month, and the road has also come out. From the beginning, no one escorted him to transport, and now it is almost every time. There are ten boats at will, and the freight is several times higher than the river crossing fee. Each big boat charges 100 taels of insurance for each trip.

At noon, the camp was rehearsing the formation, and Yang Chao carefully followed Lao Jin to study.

Suddenly there was noise from the gate of the camp, Yang Chao frowned, but saw a group of people entering the camp, holding their heads high in their hands and shouting loudly.

"My lord, it's a good thing that Wang Pu beat the Jiang bandits to the [-]th level, and I'm lucky!"

Wang Pu returned to the camp, still boasting about his achievements.

This guy has made a lot of gains recently, because the journey to Zhenjiang and Guazhou is long and no one knows the name of Yang Chaoshui Army, so there are often some ignorant Jiang bandits who want to come to a catastrophe, but they are often defeated by Wang Pu and beheaded. Come back and ask for credit.

But this guy has been a little too flamboyant recently, especially what makes Yang Chao dissatisfied is that this guy doesn't accept Lao Jin at all, he refuses to talk about it in training, and often talks about the uselessness of mandarin ducks, saying that fighting is a rush of courage, The first level is here.

He is currently the officer who has won the most in the army. His words are quite popular in the barracks, and many soldiers believe them, so they don't pay much attention to the mandarin duck formation.

Yang Chao knew that the reason why Wang Pu was dissatisfied with Lao Jin was that at first Lao Jin thought that he had mediocre qualifications and was not suitable for practicing big guns. Dissatisfied.

A few days after Lao Jin started his military training, he talked frivolously and challenged Lao Jin pretending to be brave, but Lao Jin dealt with him badly. Wang Pu also admitted that he used a gun and Lao Jin was empty-handed, but he couldn't survive ten moves. Jin is empty-handed, he can't survive three moves, he is empty-handed and Lao Jin is also empty-handed, he can only survive one move, if Lao Jin uses a knife, he dare not make a move.

So in terms of force, he has long given up provocation, but after Lao Jin started training this month, he began to speak sarcasticly again, dismissing Lao Jin's mandarin duck formation, and even pulled out Yang Chao's endorsement, saying that Master Yang practiced the wall formation , [-] times stronger than Lao Jin's mandarin duck array.

Wang Pu is so confident in Yang Chao's wall formation that Yang Chao can only smile wryly. Yang Chao himself doesn't believe that the wall formation he randomly pulled out can counter Qi Jiguang's mandarin duck formation, so he can only believe that Wang Pu did it on purpose. , To provoke Lao Jin with his own life.

For this reason, Yang Chao reprimanded him in private, and even beat him up yesterday before sailing, but this kid refused to change after repeated admonitions, and made a lot of noise when he came back.

"Come here, disturb and cause trouble, pull down and hit thirty big boards!"

In fact, in terms of crime, Wang Pu was in the Xiaoju military camp and should be beheaded. Yang Chao couldn't behead him because of this incident, so he could only be convicted of a misdemeanor.

Wang Pu was suddenly depressed, and then he remembered that there was still such a thing as military law, and it was also because he was so excited to win again. He originally thought that with so many heads, he should be promoted to general manager, or at least be a hundred general manager, but he didn't expect If the official is not promoted, he will be punished first.

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