Chapter 195: Half a year later, the strong army begins

Since May, there has been no rain in Shandong and Hebei, and this situation has continued until August. In many fields where there is no fertile, there has been no harvest. No one knows when this situation will continue.

Unlike modern relief and disaster relief systems, when the backward agriculture in the Ming Dynasty encountered such a disaster, the only result of waiting for was collapse.

The conventional way to deal with this kind of thing is to allocate relief money, grain and rice to help the victims, and wait until it rains and the next batch of grain can be planted. At this time, the Jiajing Dynasty was still relatively full, and a large amount of grain and rice were allocated from other provinces that were not affected by the disaster.

The amount of grain and rice released for relief is not based on the seriousness of the disaster, but on the importance of the location. Hebei is an important place in the capital, so it naturally gets more, and Shandong naturally gets less. According to the "conventional" rules, some of these relief materials must be deducted by officials at all levels.

When it was handed to the victims, it was very good to have 60% left. In addition, the supplies were tilted towards Hebei, and the drop in the bucket refers to the situation of disaster relief supplies in Shandong. Maybe it was pitiful. At the end of September, it finally rained, but many of the people had no food left to maintain their food until the fields were restored.

According to the general rules, first a large number of refugees flocked to Henan, Jiangsu, which was basically not affected by disasters, and then according to tradition, the so-called thieves began to rise. The ground in Shandong, which had just come to peace, became chaotic again, and loud horse bandits from all over the country appeared one after another, and the thief censors stationed in Shandong were all busy and anxious.

Generally speaking, when there are natural disasters, civil servants and scholars always find a reason to explain how they offend the heavens, so the people are living in poverty. The power of the court sticks in the court case is still vivid in their minds. The so-called scholars who have always been very particular about speaking have wisely shifted their goals.

Now the court and the public began to vaguely attack King Heng of Shandong, King Jing of Shandong and officials from Shandong, saying that they had done something dirty or unvirtuous.

The situation in Dengzhou Prefecture is relatively better, because Jiang Feng, which has most of the land in Dengzhou, only collected symbolic land rent this year. It turned out that the stored grain in the prefecture city and the imperial court deducted a lot of relief, which was no different from previous years. Moreover, there were some grain merchants who poured in "inexplicably". In general, they were not short of food.

In such a safe and stable Dengzhou, it was particularly conspicuous among several prefectures in Shandong. Refugees from nearby flooded in. Jiang Feng, which was originally called Dengzhou tiger, is now nicknamed Jiang Dashanren, because many refugees were recruited by him to reclaim wasteland. Even though these refugees still had to pay their own food.

"Jiang Da Shanren" is now in the Shandong military and political system. Nowadays, being good people are fools and idiots. Almost all officials have taken advantage of the opportunity of low-priced land in the disaster year to buy a large number of land populations.

After it rained at the end of September, the prices of these cheap fields soared, and everyone got rich, and only Jiang Feng lost money. Everyone judged this way. Commander Jiang was still young. At this time, Xinshan didn't know how much money he had lost. Maybe he would be more honest after kowtowing this.

Jiang Dashanren and Dasha were in the military camp of Qianhu Station in Yantai Mountain. Looking at the training of soldiers below, the two thousand soldiers in Dengzhou Camp were divided into two teams, including 300 light cavalry. These people were selected from the soldiers from Weishan Island, equipped with javelins, sabers and spears.

However, the main force on the school ground was not these cavalrymen, but a square formation of 1,600 people. This is what Jason called the Franc infantry phalanx. In fact, this square formation has a very resounding name in modern times, called the Spanish infantry phalanx.

Before this tactic appeared, the infantry was still at a disadvantage when they encountered cavalry. The cavalry could use light cavalry to harass and heavy cavalry impact tactics to defeat the infantry. After the square formation mixed with the spear and spear appeared, everything changed. The effective range of the combing gun was greater than that of the bow and arrow, and the impact of the armored cavalry was resisted by the spear nearly five meters long spear. Therefore, in the nearly 100-year battlefield in Europe, there were competitions of square formations. Until the emergence of cannons.

Jason was wearing clothes that the Titins had never been incorporated into military citizenship before, and stood proudly on the ground floor of the school ground. He used to be just a lieutenant and managed more than 30 soldiers under his command. Now he has successfully trained more than a thousand powerful soldiers. As a soldier, he is full of pride and of course, he is also happy to get nearly one thousand taels of silver.

Every twenty people are one army, one is the commander. Among the twenty people, the commander stands on the far left, fifteen people in the middle, and there is a head of a cob, and two swordsmen on both sides of the fifteen. Of course, according to the Western saying, this is called the sword and shield soldiers.

There are twenty people in a row, a total of twenty rows and four hundred people. There are four platoons and one thousand six hundred. Among the four thousand households under Jiang Feng, only Luo Yi and Zhang Liang can adapt to this tactic. First, they both have received professional military training, and second, they are relatively young.

In addition to the official ranks of the court, Jiang Feng led the first team, Zhang Liang and Luo Yi led the first team each. The captain of the fourth team was unexpectedly Yang Shitou, but the fourth team was jointly managed by instructors Jason and Yang Shitou. One hundred Tiedding Jiang Feng did not ask Jason to train.

This was also recognized by Jason Hogan. In his opinion, it was incredible that such an army was good at in the Ming Dynasty, which was very good at in-person battles, firearms and riding skills. This small but extremely powerful army no longer needed to be trained with the recruits. Jason called the Tieds according to European rules "Dragon Cavalry", and at the beginning he read them in his native language.

Later, Jason and Lin Tong became more and more proficient in Chinese. After reading the Dragoon in Chinese, they were immediately told that this name was extremely taboo in the Ming Dynasty. The name of Tieding was already called "Iron Guard" by the Dengzhou Camp. Yang Day and Liu Shisan are now among the Iron Guards, and the same is true for more than a dozen hunters.

There are four drum-beating musicians in each team. When the Spanish phalanx moves back, the neatness of the queue is even stricter than Jiang Feng requires. Such drum beats must be controlled. This is simple. It is just a few times smaller than the size of the big drum that is cheering, and the drummer will make it a little more improved.

There were drums and commands from the squad leaders in the field. The four platoons changed their formations, or gathered together, or scattered into ten people in a row. The small platoons with hundreds of people were not inconsistent at all. Although the raiders could not shoot live ammunition at this time, they still followed the simulation on the battlefield and kept raising their guns, loading ammunition, changing the queue, and shooting forward.

The spear in the hand of the spearman is about three and a half meters long in modern length. The iron sleeve behind the spear tip is very long, close to two feet.

Standing on the earthen platform, Zhang Liang and Jason Hogan didn't say anything. He watched the soldiers below change their formations, advance and retreat, assassinate and shoot. Jiang Feng suddenly spoke:

"stop!"

Zhang Liang, who was next to him, took a step forward and shouted:

"stop!"

The drums were clamored three times at a certain rhythm. The dusty school ground suddenly became quiet. Everyone stood on the ground with weapons, standing there quietly. Only the horses under the crotch of the cavalry occasionally neighed. Jason turned around with a smile on his face. Although his Chinese pronunciation is still stiff and weird, his words are much fluent. He smiled and said:

"Mr. Jiang, I dare say that even in Spain, there is no way that there will be a stronger infantry than this unit. These are your genius queue training and strict military discipline."

Listening to this pleasing words, Jiang Feng smiled faintly. The queue exercises he learned in physical education class and military training collided with the infantry phalanx brought by Jason. The effect of this phalanx can only be maximized when the queue is neat and the military discipline is serious.

Jiang Feng's experience is one of the best ways to exert discipline and team consciousness. Secondly, in the past six months, Jiang Feng killed more than 50 soldiers who did not obey orders and violated military discipline, and all replaced them with strong refugees. The current Jiangjia Private Army, nominally called the two thousand people in Dengzhou Camp, is already an iron army that must be ordered.

"If you were given 200 taels of silver a month, would you like to send me down and help me train the troops?"

Ignoring the other party's flattery and pleasing favor, Jiang Feng asked an irrelevant question. Jason Hogan kept saying that he was going to return to the Netherlands to resist the tyranny of Spain, but such a Western officer who knew infantry tactics, musket applications, and had no official background was too precious to Jiang Feng, who was ambitious.

When he heard the number of 'two hundred taels of silver per month', Jason, who was becoming more and more familiar with the Ming Dynasty, naturally knew how much it was. The enthusiasm in his eyes flashed by. Compared to his hometown, he changed from a humble subordinate officer to a teacher who respected and treated well, and was increasingly reluctant to leave. However, he lowered his head seriously and answered:

"For my nation, I can't be greedy for money, I still have to go back."

Jiang Feng was a little disappointed, but Jason smiled and raised his head and said:

"If it is three hundred taels per month, I am willing to accumulate more strength for my nation!"

Without this greed, Westerners would not have the motivation to sail, would not discover America, would not provoke wars, but Jason's greed Jiang Peak is needed, he needs this instructor. He walked to Jason, smiled and patted his shoulder, and said:

"Three hundred taels a month, work with me for three years!"

Suddenly, a man dressed in a servant came in from the camp gate and ran to the Tutai panting. Jiang Feng recognized that this person was a servant in his mansion. The servant saluted first, and then hurriedly said:
Chapter completed!