It was still dawn, and Zhou Tai and Zhou Gan came to the village sang group accompanied by Lin Bao. They brought the silver that Zhou Xian wanted. It was not eight hundred taels, but a total of one thousand taels of silver.

Zhou Xian briefly told Lin Bao about the situation last night, and asked Zhou Tai and Zhou Gan to stay in the military tent first. He ordered people to call Zhang Yuan and Li Kai, and allocate 600 taels of silver for Zhang Yuan, so that he could leave the city immediately; and took out 300 taels of silver and asked Li Kai to go to the craftsman to make five strong bows with one stone, thirty nine strong bows, and 20 eight tael bows!

As for the extra money, Li Kai made a Ming army flag with four corners, red-bottomed black characters, five triangle flags with different colors, and fifteen flags with the same color and shape but smaller size.

The Ming army had clear regulations, and only a group of more than a hundred households could use the four-corner military flag. Zhou Xian was not a hundred households, but the Township Warriors were owned by the Ming Dynasty, and the number of Township Warriors in the Five Banners was far exceeding the 100 households. Using the Ming army flag was not illegal.

In addition to different colors, the flags in the regular army are generally equipped with various animals and fonts to distinguish them from other teams.

At present, Zhou Xian doesn't want to do so much to avoid making things difficult for those farmers who don't know a lot. He told Li Kai that he should use five colors of red, yellow, white, blue, and black as the bottom of the flag, and write the five characters left, right, front, back, and middle to distinguish the five flags under his subordinates.

This was created by Zhou Xian in reference to the organization of the Five Army. Although it is not formal, it is easy to distinguish. After hearing this, Lin Bao also thought that this method was very good, so he proceeded completely according to what Zhou Xian said.

Zhou Xian returned to the military tent, and Zhou Tai was lying lazily on his bed and napping. Zhou Xian walked up and gently patted him up, asking Zhou Zhen's attitude towards this matter. After all, it was a thousand taels of silver, and Zhou Zhen's attitude determined the follow-up plan.

From Zhou Tai's words, Zhou Xian learned that Zhou Zhen didn't care much, and only asked Zhou Tai to bring a reminder of "Don't take cheap business as a living." Zhou Xian traveled through modern society and knew the importance of business to a nation and dynasty, so he naturally would not take Zhou Zhen's reminder seriously. He shook his head secretly, not to deny it.

But another news brought by Zhou Tai made Zhou Xian feel a little uncomfortable. Mr. Lin’s son was rescued by Zhou Zhen, but Mr. Lin resigned from his position as Mr. Lin.

Zhou Xian looked ugly and looked at Zhou Tai and said, "Xiao Tai, has the Master ever said why he wanted to resign from his position as Master?"

"He said he was old and weak and could not bear the heavy responsibility. Xiao Kun told me privately that the Master might feel that he owed us because the Zhou family saved his son. If we scold us severely in the school, we will no longer be able to maintain a normal mind. This is the main reason why he quit."

Zhou Xian sighed and thought to himself that this Master's temper is too stubborn! No matter which era, relying on each other and helping each other is the way to develop. But he felt a little more admiration for this strange Master in his heart, and he asked, "What about Master now? Will he continue to teach?"

"I'm still teaching, but I'm just going to the village school. Xiao Kun didn't come today because he was going to the village school to attend classes. From now on, he would stay in the village school all day long and learn swords. He even asked me to apologize to the master?"

Zhou Xian nodded and said, "Xiao Kun's ambition is already in school. It's just in time to prepare for the imperial examination three years later." He looked at Zhou Kun and Zhou Gan again, and asked with confusion on his face, "Why didn't you go to the village school?"

Zhou Tai touched his head embarrassedly and said, "Uncle, Xiaogan and I have always been ignorant of homework, so we no longer want to waste more time on it. Last night, we went to meet my father together. My father finally agreed that we both didn't have to go to a private school anymore and passed the martial arts examination to enter the officialdom. Today he asked us to come, let us follow you to practice in the village charity group."

Zhou Xian smiled and said, "It's still the eldest brother who can see clearly. You two may not be able to pass the provincial examination even if you pass the exam for 16 years. But everything in the army is left to the master. If you want to come in, he must agree first."

"The master has agreed. But he said that we will not be included in the village chariot group for now, but we will only train together."

Zhou Xian nodded, looked at the bright sky outside, and said to the two of them: "It's getting late, let's go to the schoolyard first!"

In the schoolyard, there were crowds of people, and Lin Bao was commanding the village heroes to line up.

The five flags of the Township Yong Group, the left and right flags are lined on the front sides, and the front flags are in the middle, but they are a distance behind the left and right flags. The three flags are lined up side by side, separated by a distance from each other.

This is a typical marching formation of the Qi family army. The left and right flags are generally used as front troops in the real battlefield, separated from the main troop. On the one hand, they are used as scouts to search all the way to prevent the enemy from ambushing in front. On the other hand, when the enemy is discovered, the soldiers of the front flag fight against the enemy head-on, while the left and right flags encircled the two wings and defeated the enemy at the fastest speed.

Each flag is an independent combat unit, with sword and shield soldiers standing in front to resist the enemy. Behind them, the gunmen pulled people, controlled people, and moved their hands to assassinate the enemy's troops. The gunmen changed gunpowder and fired in turn, killing the enemy at a long range. The small flag leader usually held the flag behind him. When he took action, it was usually the time when the entire small flag was about to be destroyed.

When encountering a strong enemy and a large-scale melee is fought, the small flag leader moves from the middle to the right of the front of the flag, and is linked with many small flags. He either chooses to attack or chooses to stick to each other and cooperates with each other to break the strong enemy. At this time, the flag in the hands of the small team leader determines the direction of attack and return to defense.

This is the initial formation of the Qi family army, which is the initial model of the Mandarin Duck Formation. Later, tactical arrays such as rocket cars, tiger squat cannon brigades and tricycle gun fire were added. The subsequent battle lines must have been more advanced and practical, but Lin Bao should have seen that the Township Brave Group had no firearms at all, so he made such arrangements.

Array is only the first step and the basis for implementing all tactics. Lin Bao is very strict with him and spends most of the day on it. When he encounters a queue that is impatient or makes mistakes, he scolds him angrily without any mercy.

Zhang Hu himself was brave and good at fighting, otherwise he would not have been beaten from beginning to end in the small circle without being eliminated. But he was impatient and was not good at governing soldiers. Among all the banners, he made the most mistakes. After being scolded by Lin Bao a few times, he actually dared to contradict Lin Bao and provoke Lin Bao.

Lin Bao asked him to leave the line and fight alone. Within three rounds, he was kicked to the ground by Lin Bao and did not get up for a long time. Finally, he was dragged down by the soldiers and was beaten to twenty military sticks. Zhang Hu was originally the overlord of the village chariot group, and his combat power was known to everyone. Seeing that he was easily knocked over to the ground, everyone was solemn and no one dared to be arrogant again.

In order to make Zhou Xian familiar with the battle formation as soon as possible, Lin Bao also placed it in the flag formation. Sometimes he was asked to command the flag leader, and sometimes he was trained in different positions as ordinary soldiers. Experience the role they played in each position and the responsibilities they should bear.
Chapter completed!