Qingtianbei is located at the junction of Guangling and Yangyuan counties. It is a dangerous peak. Climbing enthusiasts in future generations who cannot climb Mount Everest will have some options to come to Qingtianbei.

The rogue army came to the foot of Qingtianbei Mountain and stationed here that day.

Qingtian is located at the junction of the two governments. Even if the government knows that there are bandits hiding here, no one is willing to take care of it. What's more, there is an army of thousands of bandits. The government's strength alone is no match. No government is willing to do such a thing.

In a thankless matter, the magistrate of Guangling County and the magistrate of Yangyuan County both pretended not to know that bandits were entrenched in the territory.

After traveling non-stop for more than half a month, and being pursued by the police and the army, both the people and the animals in the bandit army were already exhausted.

Liu Heng discussed with Li Shuheng, Zhao Yutu and other leaders, and finally the bandit army decided to stay at Qingshan Back to rest for a while.

In order to guard against the possibility of the government troops pursuing them further, Liu Heng sent out detective horses to find out about the group of government troops in Yangyuan County, and the remaining refugees began to undergo militarized training.

This training included almost all the bandits in the bandit army. Only a few older bandits who made fires to cook and take care of the animals did not participate in the training.

The content of the training was all the same as what the instructor taught Liu Heng during his military training. He only added the spear phalanx.

The addition of spear phalanx training was a training project jointly decided upon by Liu Heng, Li Shuheng and others after discussion.

Although the spear phalanx has shortcomings such as slow movement, not suitable for attacking, and insufficient armor and matchlocks, it can still deal with rural soldiers and bandits without any problem.

The perfect spear phalanx in Liu Heng's mind should have plate armor covering the whole body, and a sufficient number of matchlocks and artillery. If these three points were met, he would have the courage to confront the border troops in the wild.

He is also a soldier from the Liaodong Border Army. He knows very well what the situation of the Border Army is like. The only real power in the Border Army is the servants. The main camp soldiers are just a bunch of beggars who don't even have enough to eat, let alone fight.

Already.

There is no shortage of food in the camp for the time being, so Liu Heng mainly focuses on training.

In order to facilitate management and command, Liu Heng divided the army of more than a thousand bandits into small teams, squadrons and brigades.

The original team of thirty people was split into three teams, with one team leader and one deputy team leader, and each team had twelve people.

The three teams merged into one team, with a team leader and a deputy team leader, a total of thirty-eight people.

The three teams were merged into one squadron, with a squadron leader and a deputy squadron leader, totaling 116 people.

The three squadrons were merged into one brigade, with a brigade captain and a deputy brigade captain, totaling 350 people.

There are three such brigades in the entire refugee army. The three captains are Liu Heng, Li Shuheng and Chen Xunping.

The remaining refugees who were not selected into each brigade were unified into the newly established logistics department, with Li Shuheng and Zhao Yutu in charge.

All ninety-seven archers from the original archer battalion joined the first brigade, which was the brigade led by Liu Heng, making Liu Heng's brigade the largest in number, reaching 447 people.

In order to make it easier to record everyone's identity, Liu Heng arranged for Zhao Yutu to quickly make some wood chips, engraved with the holder's name and team, and wear them on each person as an identity token.

Tan Ma, who was sent out to inquire about the officers and soldiers, returned to the camp the next day and brought the news that the officers and soldiers had returned to Tiancheng Guard.

Without the potential threat from the army, Liu Heng increased the intensity of training.

At the same time, Liu Heng selected some clever refugees and gave them to Yang Yuan, who took them to Guangling and Lingqiu to inquire about the information. At the same time, he found a suitable place for the bandit army to camp. The most important thing was to find the meeting place.

The craftsman who makes firecrackers.

The refugee army was stationed in Qingtianbei for more than half a month. After some training, the refugees were completely transformed and looked like soldiers of later generations.

The basic training items were almost completed, and what was left was just accumulation over time. Liu Heng began to join in the training of the spear phalanx and the cooperation between the archers.

Without an arquebus, he had to use archers instead.

Archers are stronger than matchlock guns, at least better than matchlock guns of this era. It takes at least a few years to train an archer. Liu Heng knew that he did not have such a long time to train archers, so he could only focus on matchlock guns.

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This time Yang Yuan went to Guangling and Lingqiu to inquire about information. Among them, he was looking for craftsmen who could make matchlock guns. As for craftsmen who could make cannons, Liu Heng did not dare to think about it. Even if he found craftsmen who could make cannons, he would

There is not so much money to make cannons, but it is more realistic to make firecrackers.

Spear phalanx training was added to the refugee training, and the training intensity suddenly became much more intense. Many refugees began to suffer physically, and some refugees fell ill every day.

For this matter, Li Shuheng and Zhao Yutu, who were in charge of logistics, found Liu Heng together.

"It is impossible to reduce the training intensity." Liu Heng said, "We will not stay here in Qingtianbei forever. If we want to change the attrition situation of each major team, you must find ways to improve the food in the camp instead of complaining here."

Liu Heng knew that non-combat attrition in each brigade was entirely due to excessive training intensity and insufficient nutrition. As long as more protein was added, this situation would naturally improve.

Li Shuheng said: "Archers are sent to the mountains to hunt every day, but the prey they catch is not enough to feed so many people. The most they can make is soup, and everyone can drink a bowl, but it is of no use at all."

Liu Heng frowned and said: "There is a river not far from us. There must be fish in the river. If you can't eat meat, then eat fish. With such a long river, there will always be enough fish for the camp to eat for a while."

The river water in this era was not polluted, and as long as there were rivers and lakes, there was naturally no shortage of fish of all kinds.

Li Shuheng said: "The fish meat is fishy and bitter, and no one wants to eat it."

"How can it be fishy and bitter?" Liu Heng frowned and said, "Take me to see how you cook fish."

In order to supplement nutrition for the refugees in training, the back camp caught some fish, but because there were few people to eat, the quantity was not large.

Liu Heng walked up to the cook who was cooking the fish and saw that he was using a knife to scale the fish. After scraping, he threw it directly into the pot and boiled it in water.

"Is this how you cook your fish?" Liu Heng asked the cook in front of him.

When the cook saw Liu Heng, he hurriedly said: "Report to the master, the fish can be eaten after scraping off the scales and boiling it with water. The fish soup is still drinkable, but it is too fishy and the fish meat also has a bitter taste. Not many brothers in the camp are willing to do so."

eat."

"I wouldn't want to eat it if it were me." Liu Heng didn't bother to explain. He took out the fish that the cook had thrown into the water and said, "Before you cook the fish, you have to disembowel it and take out the intestines and gall."

As he spoke, he skillfully cut open the fish belly with a knife, and a bunch of intestines and a green thing escaped from it.

Liu Heng pointed at the green thing with his hand and said: "This is the gall of fish. If you don't take it out and cook it with the fish, it will naturally make the fish meat bitter. Do you have any dogwood? Bring some wild onions too."

Liu Heng cut the fish into several sections and threw them into the pot. At the same time, he also threw in the dogwood and chopped green onions.

"It's a pity that there is no garlic. Garlic can get rid of the fishy smell."

"Yes, there is garlic too." The cook turned around and brought back a head of garlic.

Liu Heng did not pick it up, but said directly: "Peel a few pieces and throw them into the pot to cook together with the fish. When it is cooked, taste it first. If there is no problem, you can eat it like this from now on."

After saying that, he left without looking back.

Li Shuheng and Zhao Yutu looked at each other in confusion. The fish in the pot was not cooked yet, and they didn't know whether it was edible. Only after tasting it could they decide whether to eat fish in the future.
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