When Zhao Yan rushed to the river, he immediately saw the turbine he drew on the drawings. This is a very low-level turbine, with a head of about ten meters.

Blacksmith Zhou was taking people to count the drill bits, and a stick of incense was inserted, which had already burned to the tail.

"The boss is here, the boss is here." Several craftsmen reminded. Zhou Blacksmith just nodded and still counted the drill bits attentively.

Zhao Yan nodded with a smile, ran into the crowd, watching Blacksmith Zhou counting. After a while, a stick of incense was finally burned. Blacksmith Zhou shouted: "One stick of incense is 1365 turns!"

"Our boss, the turbine has been built. One stick of incense is 1,365 turns, which is much faster than using awls." Zhou Blacksmith said to Zhao Yan happily with a touch of sweat from his forehead. This first month, Zhou Blacksmith never passed by for many years. He brought people to him every day and finally got the turbine out.

"Not bad." Zhao Yan nodded with satisfaction, "Everyone goes to the accounting room to get ten taels of silver."

"Teacher." The craftsmen around him thanked happily. It was comfortable to do things at the Zhao family. The treatment given by the boss was much better than that outside.

Some craftsmen remembered the days when they were craftsmen in the government office, and then they couldn't help but shed tears for their current life.

Since the turbine was built, it was necessary to apply the turbine to actual production. Zhao Yan drew a steel drill bit and asked Blacksmith Zhou to lead someone to build it and install it on the turbine.

Muskets and artillery will be produced in a short time. Zhao Yan was in a good mood. After staying in the Military Weapons Bureau for a long time, Zhao Yan began to reorganize the army.

First, Zhao Yong was appointed as the battalion commander of the first battalion, Wang Wenyue was appointed as the battalion commander of the second battalion, and Lin Yi was appointed as the battalion commander of the cavalry battalion.

The infantry battalion has 750 people in each battalion, of which 500 are spearmen and 250 are musketeers. The tactic adopted is that the spearmen are divided into two horizontal lines, each horizontal line is arranged in five rows, with 50 people in each row. Musketeers are arranged on both sides of the two horizontal lines, and at the intersection between the horizontal lines, that is, at three entrances.

When facing the enemy, musketeers lined up in three groups and fired one after another. After firing, they retreated to the back row to load the bullets. One row was on the back, one row knelt on the ground, and one row stood and shot at the enemy.

After the enemy approaches, the musketeers quickly retreat from the three ports, move closer together, and engage in close combat with the enemy. The musketeers behind should draw out their melee weapons and assist the phalanx in combat.

The cavalry battalion plans to recruit 300 people. During combat, the cavalry is arranged on the wings of the phalanx to support it. When the enemy formation is in chaos, it can attack to create chaos for the enemy and cooperate with infantry to defeat the enemy. If the enemy is defeated, the cavalry is responsible for pursuing and capturing the enemy. At the same time, the cavalry can also be used to attack the enemy's weak links and sneak attack important strategic locations in the local area.

Under the infantry battalion, there are 3 companies with 250 people in each company, with 5 platoons under the company, with 50 people in each platoon, with 2 squads under the platoon, with 25 people in each squad. Each company is equipped with 5 reconnaissance cavalry and the battalion is equipped with 20 reconnaissance cavalry.

Due to the lack of troops at present, only 3 companies can be temporarily set up, and the depth of the square array is only 5 rows.

The number of spearmen in the standard battalion should reach 1,500, forming three horizontal teams, each with 10 platoons of spearmen. Such depth is safe enough when facing cavalry. The number of musketeers should reach 600, and 150 people are distributed at four intersections of the three horizontal teams, with 25 people in a row, divided into 3 rows and 6 rows to bombard the enemy in sequence.

This has not counted the number of artillery soldiers. If you add artillery, the number of soldiers in a battalion should reach 2,500. Adding to some other auxiliary troops, the number may reach 3,000.

In terms of logistics, soldiers brought rations for 5 days, each battalion brought 10 days of food, and the regiment brought 3 months of food, and established a layered supply system.

Of course, this is just a plan. The army has not been established yet.

However, recruitment is already underway, with half of the spearmen being selected from the garrison, while musketeers being selected from the unrest refugees.

In terms of cavalry, young and strong people who could ride horses were recruited, and Lin Yi was trained. The cavalry battalion tentatively set a total of 300 people, mainly because there were not enough horses.

As for the thirty servants who were eliminated before, they were assigned to each village as deputy group training. After the scale of the village was expanded, they would become regular.

Zhao Yan adopted two production systems, one was the military farming system, and the other was the Baojia system that was popular in the current era.

The refugees and prisoners were allocated to the villages for production, and the rent paid was higher. The Baojia system was aimed at villages where they owned the means of production and the land tax paid was lower.

Of course, Zhao Yan has no official status now, so it is naturally impossible to collect taxes from those villages.

Before the spring sowing, all the young and strong people in the thirty villages put down their work and participated in the first township competition under the leadership of the training group of the villages.

More than 3,000 township heroes rushed to Zhaojiabao with their weapons. Under Zhao Yan's appointment, the township hero competition began in full swing.

Almost all the people from the three forts came that day, and the number of people present was nearly 20,000.

Every young and strong person who participated in the competition was ready to go. Last time they lost the election in the recruitment, they had a full meal and worked diligently. Many young and strong people showed a sense of confidence.

Zhao Yan sat in the stands, with Zhao Quan, Zhao Yong, Lin Yi, Wang Wenyue and other core personnel sitting on both sides, including Tang Zhengze from the Ministry of Agriculture, Zhang Buyun from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Sanbao Jicheng and others.

Looking at the 30,000 young and strong men in neatly arranged thirty square formations, Zhao Yan said to Zhao Yong: "Let's start!"

"Yes." Zhao Yong stood up, walked to the front of the stands, raised the flag in his hand, and shouted: "The martial arts are beginning, Yitun Township Yong stepped forward."

Leading by the regiment training, a hundred township heroes walked forward with long spears. Zhao Yong waved the order flag and issued orders one by one. The township heroes in Natun responded to the orders.

"Haha! It seems that they have put in a lot of effort in the past few months." Zhao Quan looked at the pretty neat queue below and said with a smile.

Zhao Yan also smiled and nodded. Although the training progress of these local heroes in the queue cannot be said to be uniform, they are still okay. It is rare to be valuable to be able to reach this level of amateur training. If it takes longer, the standard level can be fully reached in the queue.

As the village warriors who were garrisoning came forward to undergo formation inspection, the whole drill began a few hours later.

"First row, think I'm the benchmark..."

"The second row, take me as the benchmark..."

"The tenth row, take me as the benchmark..."

With a command, three thousand township heroes led by their respective town leaders, each township braved the townships lined up in two rows, with 50 people and 5 towns combined into a horizontal line of 50 people and 10 rows.

30 villages formed a total of 6 horizontal teams. Under the leadership of each village leader, six horizontal teams were formed very quickly, and a long spear like a forest stood in the cold.

Zhang Buyun's expression couldn't help but feel cold. In the past, he saw those young and strong training in the garrison, but he didn't know much about military affairs and couldn't see any tricks. He just felt that those group trainings made people turn left and right every day.

But only after seeing the thirty village heroes who had just settled the land quickly formed six horizontal teams under the command of the regiment training, they realized their role.

Although he did not understand military affairs, he also knew how important the formation was on the battlefield. He was even more intimidated by the spectacular scene in front of him.

"Flat gun." Zhao Yong shouted.

"Flat gun."

"Flat gun."...

Amid the whistling sound, six township heroes in front of the two rows of horizontal lines flattened the spear, two spears one in front and one behind.

"kill!"

"Kill~!"

Amid the sound of killing, the spear stabbed forward.

"Everyone moves forward..."

The entire martial arts performance ended soon. Based on the previous performance of each treasury, the scores were scored under the discussion of Zhao Yan, Lin Yi and Wang Wenyue, and the results of each treasury were quickly determined.

Next is a personal skill competition for Xiang Yong.

The village heroes came forward with long spears and stabbed the target. A document stood beside them, recording the achievements of the country heroes.

After the gun technique assessment, it is the archery technique assessment.

But what made Zhao Yan frown was that many young and powerful people could not draw longbows, and only half could draw bows.

Although longbows are cheaper and simpler than composite bows in terms of cost and production, they are also stronger than composite bows in terms of shooting range and penetration, they are more labor-intensive than composite bows.

There are only two items for the longbow assessment, one is flat shooting, and the requirement is accurate. The one is projectile. The projectile is divided into levels one to nine, with a distance of thirty meters between each level. The real assessment is level two to nine. As long as the arrow can be accurately shot to a specified distance, it is considered qualified.

As a result, the longbowmen's performance was not very ideal, and most of them could not accurately hit the target, and they could not accurately shoot the arrows to a specified distance. Zhao Yan discovered that the longbowmen were not that easy to train.

The biggest advantage of a longbow soldiers is that they can hide behind the spearmen and shoot. Even when both sides engage in hand-to-hand combat, the longbow soldiers can still suppress the enemy from behind.

Musketeers naturally cannot have this ability. It turns out that bullets will not turn. Even if they do, they can only be done by non-humans.

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