Zhang Yuan led Zhou Xian to the city and told him about the various situations of the village heroes. At first, Zhou Xian was a little excited, but as he deepened his understanding, especially when he saw the sick look of the city and rural heroes, the sadness on his face became stronger and stronger.

Halfway through, Zhou Xian lost the desire to continue watching. He said to Zhang Yuan: "Master Zhang, let the soldiers continue to survive like this. Before the bandits arrived, they all fell ill. Let me think so! You divide all the township warriors into six divisions, each division is fifty, and take turns to the city to defend against the enemy. As for the others who are temporarily free, let them withdraw to the camp and wait."

Zhang Yuan hesitated and said, "Second Young Master, County Magistrate Pan's order is..."

Zhou Xian waved his hand and said, "We naturally have to respect the orders of County Magistrate Pan, but we have to consider the actual situation. At this moment, the weather is hot and I have to stay on the city wall for a long time. Who can stand it? The reason why County Magistrate Pan issued such an order is to prevent the soldiers from relaxing and being taken advantage of by the bandits. In my opinion, fifty full-hearted soldiers are always vigilant on the top, which is much better than the 300 sick soldiers who are sick. Moreover, the remaining rural warriors are stationed at the city. Once they hear the alarm above, they will immediately go to the city to defend, which will not delay a moment."

Zhang Yuan looked up at Zhou Xian, pondered for a while, then said, "Second Young Master, I'll listen to you, let's do it now. However, if County Magistrate Pan pursues the matter, you will have to take care of the villain at that time."

Zhou Xian smiled and said, "You are just following my orders. Even if County Magistrate Pan pursues me, you will pursue me. You can just push everything on me."

Zhang Yuan bowed his hand and turned around and left.

Lin Bao has not spoken since he went to the city. At this moment, he saw Zhang Yuan leave, and his tone was full of sarcasm: "Your twenty taels of silver is really a big use. I think at this time, even if you let him die, he will agree without hesitation."

Zhou Xian smiled awkwardly and said, "Master, don't watch me laugh at me, let's take care of something else! Listen to what Zhang Yuan said just now. There are only twenty small bows in the three hundred townsmans, the shield is wooden shield, and the armor is paper armor. If the bandits attack, do you think they can resist it?"

Lin Bao smiled faintly and said, "With such a high city wall, what are you afraid of? And in my opinion, it is enough to use the weapons in their hands to resist the bandits! What they lack is another and more important thing."

Zhou Xian said with a puzzled face: "Master, what is that?"

"Aura, courage, ambition, morale, these are the most important things in war, but none of these local heroes."

Looking at Zhou Xian with a bitter face, Lin Bao looked straight into his eyes and asked, "Xiao Xian, tell the master, you just wanted to control the soldiers. Or do you really want to one day govern thousands of troops as a general? If it is the former, the master will work with you to ensure that Ximen will not be lost. If it is the latter, you will follow me to study hard this time. See how to make a team of people from weak to strong, and what kind of talents are worthy of being called soldiers?"

Zhou Xian looked at Lin Bao who became serious in an instant, lowered his head and thought for a moment, "Master, just say it! I will definitely become a famous general in the future and let everything you teach be implemented."

Lin Bao nodded with satisfaction and said, "Among the village heroes, there is your servant. Go and find someone you can completely trust and ask him to find all the weapons used by the village heroes, every one of them."

Zhou Xian nodded quickly and said, "Li Kai is here, I'll let him do it."

Lin Bao nodded and continued, "Also, there are too many brave men in these three hundred villages. I am going to select 180 people from them and divide them into the Five General Banners."

Zhou Xian lowered his head and thought, and murmured: "Then count it, each general flag is 36 people. Master, should he divide these 36 people into three small flags, each small flag twelve people, and the most basic combat unit? Isn't this exactly the same as the division of the imperial army?"

Lin Bao smiled faintly and said, "You know very well. However, this division system does not belong to the court, but was first created by the Qi family army, and later it was slowly promoted in the army."

Zhou Xian nodded and said, "I remember that each small flag of the Qi family army is two people holding shields and waist knives, two people holding wolves, four people holding spears, and two piping palladium hands equipped with rockets. In addition, there is a musket soldier and a small flag leader holding flags and waist knives. Master, you are from Zhejiang, you can't just be the soldiers who summoned the Qi family army from Yiwu!"

"What are you fighting for? Are you talking about serious matters? Don't ask about my private matters again."

Zhou Xian didn't expect Lin Bao to react so much, so he couldn't help but stick out his tongue and made an action to Lin Bao that would be continued.

Lin Bao shook his head helplessly and continued, "You are right. The Qi family army is indeed organized. But here, there are not so many materials for making wolf mills, and there are no rockets and muskets for your use. So I plan to simplify them into four swords and shield soldiers, four spearmen, two archers, one piercing palladium hand and one small flag head with a long sword. The four swords and shield soldiers are for increased protection, and one piercing palladium hand is specially used to protect archers."

Zhou Xian said: "Master, close-range fight, how much role can the archer play? I'll see one is enough!"

Lin Bao lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and finally shook his head and said, "You can change the regular army in the future, but you don't need to treat these bandits at all. For the whole of these twelve people, the bandits have low combat power. Even if they break through the sword and shield soldiers, it will be difficult to break through the gun formation composed of four gunmen. Only after the two archers can they continue to snipe the enemy."

Zhou Xian pondered for a moment and understood what Lin Bao meant. Treating different enemies, it would change according to the situation. He suddenly discovered a very serious problem and looked at Lin Bao and said, "Master, this seems to be an offensive formation! We are now defending the city!"

Lin Bao waved his hand indifferently and said, "Observation is the best defense. Moreover, you think such a formation can only attack! Just imagine that the bandits climbed up, while a row of shields were erected by the city wall, and the spearmen behind kept stabbing them. Where can anyone easily attack the city? If the archers are gathered together to shoot at that time, even the most powerful bandits will feel fear in such a scene. Unfortunately, there is no musket, otherwise the effect will be better."

Zhou Xian pondered for a moment and laughed: "Master, I heard from Li Kai that Li had said before. There seemed to be more than twenty ammunition guns in the county soldiers. I can see if I can get a few at that time?"

Lin Bao sneered and said, "Do you want to pay for it again?"

"You can see this."
Chapter completed!