On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Liu Yi's six hundred soldiers were finally fully recruited. The military camp was filled with cold river wind, and all the standings were wearing mandarin duck battle jackets, felt hats, armor, and weapons in their hands.

Some of them were from Hui merchants’ martial arts courts, some were poor peasants, some were refugees with some strength, and some were students from martial arts schools. At this moment, they were all standing on the campus.

They stood in five rows of 120 people, and the team was crooked and seemed a little messy. Five people stood on the far left of the team.

Liu Yi stood on the platform with a helmet and armor, wearing a red cloak, and wearing a goose feather knife on his waist. He was wearing a pistol on his right. Liu Jin stood behind him, holding a big flag in his hand, and the background of the flag was red.

The sun and blue moon are painted in it. Liu Yi named it the sun and blue moon on the ground. The sun and moon symbolize the Ming Dynasty, and red symbolize all the soldiers. The meaning of the entire flag is that the soldiers swear to defend the Ming Dynasty to the death.

"Soldiers, today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It was originally the Lantern Festival and it was a lively day, but today we have something more important, that is, we officially formed an army today. Last winter, the soldiers and horses of Wuhu and Fanchang counties lost their troops and horses in Wuhu and Fanchang counties.

Almost all, my own troops also suffered heavy losses. Today I have recruited so many warriors. In recent years, there have been no peace. The turmoil of bandits and rebels in various parts of the Ming Dynasty are surging. Everyone, Liu Yi, the one I respect most in my life is Qi Jiguang and Qi Shuai, and he was named Hou Fei.

I wish the sea waves were flat

. I, Liu Yi, don’t expect any title of marquis and ministers. I just hope that everyone can live a peaceful life, not pick up the road and not close their doors at night, and don’t remind you to live a life of tranquility. I just hope that the world will be peaceful. But these must be achieved by the swords and guns in our hands.

There are Jianlu outside the pass and there are rebels inside the pass. These people don’t let us live a good life, and there are even more collusion between soldiers and bandits, and collusion between officials and barbarians. These people are obstacles to our way forward. If we encounter them, we will take them back.

They are determined to eliminate them.”

He paused at this point. "Since all the heroes follow me, Liu Yi, our goals are the same. We must do our best to make our family, our friends, and ourselves live a good life.

Live a peaceful life. Then we are like-minded people, so I call you comrades. The court asked me to be the chief of defense, and the emperor gave me this hand gun, which represents trust and honor."

"Soldiers, have you seen this big flag behind me? The sun is blue and the ground is red." He suddenly pointed to the big flag and said, "The red flag is our blood, and the sun and the moon are our Ming Dynasty,

We must use our blood to defend the Ming Dynasty. Today, on the banks of the Qingyi River, our six hundred warriors have officially formed an army, and the military name is called Qingyi Army. Comrades, please follow me, Liu Yi, to fight bravely to fight the enemy, protect our country, and the world.

Taiping!"

"The world is peaceful! The world is peaceful! The world is peaceful!" Six hundred people yelled together, and the mountains and rivers changed color. Especially among them, some children from Huizhou merchants who had heard Liu Yi's speech that year were even more excited and burst into tears, and they all wanted to follow him.

Liu Yi did a great career, but at this time he couldn't even do himself, and he raised his arms and shouted.

The roars of so many people alarmed Wang Song in the county government. He listened to the movements of the military camp here and thought to himself, "I didn't expect that Liu Yi would arouse the morale of these recruited new troops in one day, and he really brought the

It’s a good material for soldiers. It seems that Mr. Liu is indeed not an ordinary person, he is really a hero among human beings.”

After the Qingyi Army formed an army, Liu Yi slightly modified the military system and divided 120 people into one hundred households, called the company, with five companies as one battalion, and the first company was led by the Jin army of the Trial Hundred Houses.

The second company was led by Tao Zong, the Tsing Hundred Houses, the third company was led by Wang Hao, the Tsing Hundred Houses, and the fourth company was led by Chen Bao, the Tsing Hundred Houses, and the second company was led by Chen Bao, the Tsing Hundred Houses, and the second company was led by Chen Bao, the Tsing Hundred Houses, and the second company was led by Wang Hao, the Tsing Hundred Houses, and the second company was led by Chen Bao

The fifth company was led by Wu Dongming, a hundred households, as the cavalry company. Liu Jin was the adjutant of the battalion.

Each company has two general flags under its jurisdiction. The general flag officers are from the 100 households who choose the company to be highly skilled in martial arts. Each twelve people are small flags. All the small flag officers are soldiers under Liu Yi's command. They have been promoted to the court.

Xiaoqi also got the badge and claimed his life. If it is insufficient, the test households will choose.

In this way, Liu Yi completed the reorganization of the entire army before the end of the first month of the year. There was still one year before the war in various places in Liu Daming, so he had to seize the time to improve the combat effectiveness of this new army.

On the other hand, the workshops in the Lugang area rose from the ground under the vigorous arrangement of Ruan Mansion and started production at the end of the month. Liu Yi had already met Song Yingxing and allocated a large amount of money and grain for him to experiment with new power equipment. Liu Yi

Name it the steam engine. The firearm craftsmen led by Lu Chao cooperated with local craftsmen in Taipingfu to use existing equipment to start making firearms and cotton armor. The sewing workshop recruited hundreds of sewing girls and began to sew military uniforms and boots.

The imperial court only allocated military uniforms every two years, and Nanzhili was even better once a year. How could it support high-intensity training? Therefore, Liu Yi asked the sewing workshop to step up sewing to ensure supply.

Ruan Mansion also used a lot of power to recruit vagrants and civilians to start mining, and gave other places double the wages to mine in Taiping Prefecture and several surrounding governments. Anyway, the surrounding governments and Ruan Mansion are very familiar with each other, and Ruan Mansion paid the protection fee.

Of course, the ore was mined with him. The production methods of nitrogen and black gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty were very mature, and Lu Chao and others understood these, so the production of gunpowder was not a problem.

Ruan Xing went to buy military horses all over the country, and even ran to Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. Liu Yi specially opened a horse farm in the plains from Wuhu to Fanchang, and stocked thousands of military horses worth 50,000 taels collected by Ruan Xing here.

, and several small private horse farms were also established to breed stallions from Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, so that more military horses can be produced in the future.

The number of muskets was not enough, and Lu Chao and the others were working overtime to produce. While changing clothes, the Qingyi Army used the fuse guns in the county arsenal for training. By June of the sixth year of the Tianqi period, the entire Qingyi Army had already been

All were replaced with cotton armor and six-petal bright helmets. Liu Yi himself also made Lu Chao and his military weapons make an exquisite black six-petal helmet for himself, with the flag guns on them standing high and decorated with red spikes.

A lot of things have happened in the past six months, and they have been spread to all parts of the Ming Dynasty through the Tangbao. In the first month of Ningyuan, the commander Yuan Chonghuan defeated Nurhaci. Nurhaci was seriously injured by artillery fire and was defeated back to Shenyang. He died soon after. A battle for power and profit occurred within the Later Jin Dynasty, which won the Ming Dynasty.

It took precious breathing time. In May, the Wanggongchang, Wanggongchang, Shuntian Prefecture, was killed and injured in history. In June, another flood occurred in Suzhou Prefecture, Changzhou, and some refugees were revived and suppressed.

But Liu Yi had no time to care about these things. Liu Yi just buried his head in training and vigorously promoted the thinking of sweating more in peacetime and bleeding less in wartime. He screamed in training the new army. Fortunately, the new army paid enough every day.

The meals are even better, and there are meat every day. Anyway, Liu Yi spent money like flowing water and turned into clothes, armor, weapons, food, grass and horses.
Chapter completed!