: Training

The next morning, as Zhen Youcai expected, Monk Zhang, Cheng Zhuang and other twelve leaders came to join the army with more than 800 horse thieves. In the afternoon of that day, Wang Pu brought more than 200 servants, more than 800 horse thieves, and three thousand veterans selected by Tang Sheng left the camp in the north of the city and entered Leigong Mountain to set up the camp.

In the next month, Leigong Mountain will become the camp of this army, where Wang Pu will conduct quasi-modern military training for them! These more than 4,000 people are carefully selected veterans of a hundred battles, or killing horse thieves, riding and shooting, infantry fighting, chaos fighting, and melee battles, no longer need Wang Pu to teach them. What Wang Pu wants to teach them is the three-stage shooting of modern muskets and the throwing of the Dragon King cannon with a handle!

These two firearms are powerful tools to deal with Mongolian cavalry.

Whether the four thousand soldiers can use these two firearms skillfully will directly affect the success or failure of the surprise attack naturalization, which is different from the surprise attack Shengjing. This surprise attack naturalization is not for survival, nor for the plunder of cattle, sheep and animals, nor for the old castrated man Zhang Zian. Wang Pu only has one purpose, which is to train troops!

Wang Pu's purpose was to build these more than 4,000 people into a brand new army through the surprise attack and naturalization battle, a army that belonged entirely to him. From the day this army returned to the Ming Dynasty, they were only loyal to Wang Pu, not the Ming Dynasty!

Wang Pu knew what he was doing.

He would never go back to Beijing. Although there was a title of admiral in Beijing waiting for him, and although there was a dignified Ming princess waiting to marry him, he knew that if he really returned to Beijing, he would be subject to everything. Not to mention the noble and arrogant emperor, the countless important officials and honorary relatives in Beijing could make him tired of dealing with it.

Although the title of the admiral of the Beijing camp is quite high, it is just an empty title. The eunuchs around Emperor Chongzhen are the ones who are actually in charge of the Beijing camp!

Wang Pu didn't want to go back to Beijing, but Emperor Chongzhen would never let him stay in Datong!

what to do?

There is no other way, Wang Pu can only seize the time to train an elite soldier, and he is absolutely loyal to his own goblins! As long as he has an elite soldier that belongs entirely to him, Emperor Chongzhen will have no choice but to do anything to him!

In real history, the six generals including Wang Pu and Wu Sangui took the lead in escaping, which led to the defeat of Songshan. Emperor Chongzhen dealt with other generals but did not deal with Wu Sangui. Why? The reason is very simple, because the Wu family is a powerful man in western Liaoning, Wu Sangui holds an elite servant army, and his uncle Zu Dashou still guards Jinzhou City. Emperor Chongzhen could only rely on Wu Sangui to support the crisis outside the pass, so he had no choice but to deal with Wu Sangui.

By the same token, as long as Wang Pu holds an elite military force, he will find an excuse to stay in Datong and not return to the capital. Emperor Chongzhen will have no choice but to do anything to him! In fact, at this time, the rule of the Ming Dynasty in Jiangbei had fallen apart, and it was already common for the military generals in various towns not to obey the imperial edicts.

Three days later, Leigong Mountain Camp.

On the school grounds located in the decay of the mountain, flags were flying, swords and guns were standing in a neat array!

On the parade stage, Wang Pu stood in heavy armor in the wind. Behind Wang Pu, Zhen Youcai, Big Bearded Man, Scarface, Tang Sheng, and Monk Zhang, Zhen Youcai was just named Joining the Army, Tang Sheng and Monk Zhang, and Monk Zhang, two original Thousand Houses, each commanded a team of thousands of people!

There is a 100-man team under the Thousand-man team, and the general manager is appointed.

There are ten-man teams under the Hundreds, and the ones are set up.

Flags are flying, and the north wind is howling.

Wang Pu's eyes flashed over the soldiers under the parade and shouted: "Brothers, please listen. I don't care what you did before, whether you are a horse-drawn cart or hoe the fields. It doesn't matter if it's a thief who kills and robs the fields. What I want to say today is: From today on, everyone will be brothers!"

Wang Pu Hongliang's voice rolled and stirred in the depressions, and lasted for a long time.

The eight hundred horse thieves and the three thousand officials did not react much, but the eyes of the two hundred clans suddenly became hot. They had followed Wang Pu to Liaodong, and had witnessed the bearded man taking fifty brothers to die. They also experienced in the capital that Wang Pu went to rob the law to save the bearded man! They also knew that Wang Pu used the only gold medal to save Xiao Qi and others. They knew the meaning of the word "brother" that Wang Pu said!

Wang Pu took a deep breath of air conditioning. He then said, "I want to say: You are not only my Wang Pu's soldiers, but you are also my Wang Pu's brothers. I, Wang Pu, are also brothers from each of you!"

"What are brothers? When the enemy's arrows come, the person who is willing to use his own body to block the arrows is brothers!"

"What is a brother? When a person's death can bring more lives, the person who chooses to die without hesitation is a brother!"

"What are brothers? Brothers are fighting side by side on the battlefield, trust each other, and leave their backs to their companions without reservation, and aim the sword in their hands at the enemy forever! You must believe that brothers are always behind you. Even if you die in battle, he will never take a step back!"

When Wang Pu said this, Scarface took a step forward and shouted sternly: "In the capital, more than 20 of us brothers followed the general to rob the court. The court wanted to kill us. It was the general who saved us with the only gold medal of land to avoid death! But he himself was sent to the heavenly prison and almost killed."

"And he!" Scarface turned around and pointed at the bearded man and shouted, "In order to make more brothers survive, he would rather take fifty brothers to lead Jiannu's brigade of cavalry. If it weren't for his great fortune, he would have died in Liaodong long ago! Big beard, untie your armor and let the brothers see the scars that Jiannu left on you!"

The bearded man took two steps forward to remove his armor and untied his battle robe. His muscular upper body was exposed naked in the bitter cold wind, but the muscle lumps on the grave were covered with crisscrossing knife wounds and arrow sores. The scene can only be described as the four words "terrible".

"Did you see it?" Wang Pu pointed to the bearded man's body and shouted sternly, "Most of these scars are left behind by that battle. From today on, he will be all of you brothers. If necessary, he will die for all of you without hesitation!"

The eyes of the eight hundred horse thieves began to become enthusiastic. Although they were thieves who killed people without blinking, they advocated loyalty. People like Wang Pu and the bearded man who chose to die without hesitation in order to save more brothers are the people they respect the most.

Wang Pu's eyes turned to the three thousand veterans, their expressions were still cold.

"I know what you are thinking!" Wang Pu shouted loudly, "Everyone can say beautiful words, but it will be completely different on the battlefield! The Battle of Sarhu, the Battle of Fushun, the Battle of Iron, the Battle of Liaoshen, the Battle of Dalinghe, the Battle of Jinzhou, and the Battle of Songshan not long ago. Too many soldiers left their brothers and fled, and too many generals left their troops to escape. This is a shame. A huge shame!"

The indifference on the veterans' faces began to dissipate, and unspeakable grief and anger began to appear in their eyes!

These three thousand veterans were all veterans who crawled out of the dead. They were actually full of passion, but in years of war and endless defeat, their once hot hearts gradually became cold. They began to become cold, no longer trusting the generals, or even their own robes.

They have a strong body, strong will, and extraordinary killing skills. They are veterans who have experienced many battles, but on the battlefield, they only want to do one thing, that is, escape! Because they know that on the battlefield, you can only rely on yourself, you will understand that you will abandon you at any time, and your companions will fall off you at any time. If you want to survive, you can only rely on yourself!

No one will die for them, no one will fight against Jiannu for them, they are just humble soldiers.

Facing the sad and angry eyes of the three thousand veterans, Wang Pu slapped his chest and shouted: "I dare not say anything else, but I will never leave my brothers on the battlefield. As long as I still have a breath, I will definitely take you to fight until the last moment!"

His eyes turned to all the four thousand soldiers in the parade. Wang Pu shouted at the top of his lungs: "I want to tell you too. From now on, you will be my Wang Pu's soldiers. As long as you are my Wang Pu's soldiers, you will never be allowed to abandon your brothers on the battlefield, let alone give up hope and run away!"

The long-lost enthusiasm began to return to the eyes of the three thousand veterans. Wang Pu's words made them rekindle their desire to regain their dignity. As a soldier, no one wanted to defeat the war, and no one just wanted to escape, nor did they want to be a gray grandson with their tails. They also wanted to win the battle and also wanted to have their own dignity. They became like this now and were actually forced by the situation.

They can't help but have no choice but to be alone, and the power of a person is too small after all.

But now, everything is different.

Wang Pu was different from all the Ming generals they had met before. He dared to take more than a thousand people to attack Jiannu's nest. In order to save his soldiers, he dared to take people to rob the court of the capital. He could also take out the gold medal of death granted by the Emperor Longsheng to the death without hesitation... No matter what, this is a unique general!

They never thought about making great contributions or making a fortune. Their request was actually very simple. They just wanted to follow Wang Pu to make a soldier and kill a few Jiannu. When they return to their hometown, no one will point at their backbone and say--This is a deserter, that's enough!

Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

The eunuch Zhang Zi'an, the eunuch of Datong, sent him urgently with 600 miles to the capital. In the letter, Zhang Zi'an reported two things to Wang Chengen. The first thing was that Zhao Santai was greedy for military pay, which caused a mutiny in the border army in Datong Town. The second thing was that Wang Pu built firearms in the Sanjia Weapon Workshop.

Wang Chengen did not dare to neglect and immediately submitted the letter to Emperor Chongzhen's imperial front.

After reading the secret letter, Emperor Chongzhen asked Wang Chengen, "Where is Chengen, what do you think about this?"

Wang Chengen said: "What is the matter that Master Long Live?"

"Let's talk about Wang Pu first." Emperor Chongzhen said, "You said Wang Pu was rushing to build firearms in the three weapons workshops in Datong. What is he trying to do?"

Wang Chengen said: "Long live the matter, I am really hard to say."

"Say." Emperor Chongzhen said, "Say boldly."

Wang Chengen said: "Long live, this matter is small, but it is not big. At present, who does not have thousands of private soldiers in the nine-sided towns? The prince-in-law was originally the general of Datong Town, and the Wang family is the richest man in Shanxi. It is nothing strange to raise thousands of private soldiers to guard the house. I think this batch of firearms was built for these private soldiers."

Emperor Chongzhen frowned and said, "That's all?"

"I think that's all." Wang Chengen said, "The prince-in-law is a bit arrogant and domineering, but if he wants to rebel, he doesn't believe it if he beat me to death."

"Wang Cheng'en." Emperor Chongzhen pulled down his face and asked sinisterly, "How much benefit did Wang Pu give you?"

"Master, Long live the clarification." Wang Chengen shivered and knelt down and reported, "The prince-consort has indeed given me 100,000 taels of silver, but I have not taken the money to the official key store in full before I took it. I have reported this to you, Long live the matter. I am not saying this to the prince-consort. I am telling you the prince-consort. I am telling you the truth."

"Okay, get up." Emperor Chongzhen's expression quickly calmed down and said calmly, "You servant is quite a bit conscientious. You know that the national affairs are difficult and you know how to think about me, but those servants under your command will not think about me! Just say that Zhang Zi'an who was sent to Datong, is the only one who is greedy for ink and money? Is his butt really clean?"

Wang Chengen hurriedly kowtowed and said, "I have lost my attention, please make sure that I will make a clear decision."

"You are so kind!" Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "It's time for these servants under your command to take good care of them. Just say that Zhang Zi'an, the more than 10,000 soldiers of the Datong border army, let him solve all the wages that are owed to him."
Chapter completed!