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Chapter 593 Come on
On the Beiyang military school grounds, following the order of the flag officer, bursts of gunshots sounded in the infantry school ground one after another, and then the artillery rang out, and teams of newly recruited flag troops marched forward led by the flag officers of each team.

"There is no such safety line in battle. You must keep in mind the number of marching steps. In formation combat, the number of steps is the most important. You must keep in mind how far these distances are. This is related to whether you can survive the battle."

"The general asked me to use three months to train you to be excellent blunderbuss shooters. In today's era, bludgeoners are the mainstay of the army. In the Infantry Exercise Code of the Second Year of Wanli in the Xuanfu Lecture Hall, [-]% of the chapters on infantry are used. Yu Niao Gunner, you have to be used by the flag officer like puppets."

"Don't underestimate any tactical move. Every move is summed up and decided by those veteran generals who have spent half their lives in the martial arts hall. Every rigid move can save your life on the battlefield."

"I know that many of you joined the army for the five-year salary, but there will be six assessments and a general assessment in three months, which will determine whether you can stay in the army, and will also determine whether you Can you increase your monthly salary?"

The flag officers on the infantry school grounds trained the newly recruited flag troops in different ways, and began to practice. Some of them were servants under Chen Mu who had performed well and made many military exploits. duty of.

Some of these low-level officers are also filled by students who graduated from the martial arts hall with B-class results. On the one hand, they restrain the recruits, and on the other hand, they continue to learn from the A-class students.

The hundred households are uniformly held by graduates from the North-South Lecture Hall. In a short time, they will serve as the Beiyang Military Guard instructors to teach the recruits under their command comprehensively. When the recruits' training is over in March, they will reorganize according to their major military subjects In the process of leading the banner army, not only do you have to train new recruits, but you also have to train Yi to be a new instructor in the same year.

"Finally... normalized."

Standing on the second floor of the military government office, Chen Mu watched the newly recruited flag soldiers on the school grounds lead by hundreds of instructors into combat training. His heart was full of gratification and pride, and he heard Juniper beside him sigh: "Handsome you This is too fast, and the recruits are directly given guns on the first day, which was not the case in previous military training."

In the instructor's manual formulated by the military government, the general process of military training subjects is stipulated, and the final decision is made after many instructors discuss together before the recruits arrive, and less than [-]% of the free time is left for the instructors to practice on their own.

The recruits were led by hundreds of households in each team to go to the military uniform library to get the recruit uniforms. This is the quilt factory set up in Tianjin by Yang Fan, who was instructed by Chen Mu a few months ago, and he also set up a weaving factory nearby. , but for the time being, the fabrics are still purchased from water transport, and they are only processed.

The military uniform is not a new type of military uniform, but a set of upper and lower outerwear made for easy movement, all of which are dark blue that is resistant to dirt.

As for the bedding of the recruits, they were placed in the barracks before they were recruited.

Putting on the military uniform, and following the lectures of Baihu, the warehouse drove a carriage to fire guns for each department. There were brand-new flintlocks in long wooden boxes, each with a small flag collar, and they were practicing It is used when shooting, and each flag soldier receives a training wooden pole with the same shape and weight as the bird gun.

The training wooden guns are exquisite in workmanship, the muzzle is also hollowed out, with a wooden medicine pot, and when the trigger is pulled, the wooden faucet rod will be knocked down lightly. The only difference from the real guns is that there is no flint, and the wooden gun chamber cannot withstand the pressure of gunpowder explosion. That's all.

"Why waste time? They came to join the army for money. They can turn around and leave now. It's not easy to hook people into the banner army. In this year and month, the military pay is higher than that of the Beijing army. There is no shortage of people in Beiyang."

Chen Mu shook his head. When everything is standardized, it means that the steps that can be omitted in the current stage of cognition are omitted, and more time is left for more refined necessary steps. Military training is no longer mysterious, and it has become a consensus close to the formula.

"Then the commander-in-chief is going to let them all serve as the army? They have all gone to train the blunderbuss, so whoever is good at bludgeoning can't be the cavalry?"

Juniper had trained cavalry, and was restricted by his status as the captain of the family soldiers, so he could not participate in the instructors' military meeting. He even learned the details from his elder brother who was an instructor. He watched many instructors from hundreds of families train soldiers like this , I was very puzzled.

"Army? They have to go through basic training. There seem to be nine major items in the current drill code. They can understand orders, roughly march with the team, and have a rough understanding of various weapons such as artillery, rockets, and mines. The key is to let them develop obedience. The habit of ordering, the purpose of the recruit training is very sloppy - even after the training is over, the bird guns are issued and sent directly to the battlefield in formation, and they can be used."

"But it's not the army yet. After the basic training is over, they reorganize the military department, and after three months of targeted training, they can really count as the Beiyang Army. It's still an experiment, just like the first phase of the lecture hall is better than the first. The first phase A group of military guards and banner troops is a process of finding experience, and the latter banner troops will be more formal."

"The times have changed. A cavalry, infantry, artillery, engineer, and supply soldier must first be a qualified gunner. Even if they may continue to fight with spears after the formation, they must know how to use the gun."

Chen Mu laughed and said, "I haven't tried an infantry with only gunners and gunners. This kind of bold change needs to determine the direction in the actual combat in Dadongyang. Before that, the training was for this purpose."

Juniper frowned and asked, "What purpose?"

"Even if the whole army has only infantry, artillery, and cavalry, their victory is not because of the whole army, but because of high morale, strict discipline and good training. Supplies, only the regulations that restrain the soldiers themselves can determine the victory or defeat of the war."

In the distant school grounds, there were patches of gunpowder smoke, and the instructors of hundreds of households had started shooting training with the recruits. According to the Beiyang Military Training Code, it is stipulated that during these three months, real guns should be used every day to complete charging, loading, shooting, cleaning, etc. The steps are three times, and the normal training uses fine soil lead instead of gunpowder.

It's just that the lead used by recruits was melted into broken steps that didn't have a sealing effect-it couldn't be taken out if it was really blocked.

"By the way, what does Commander Wei of the Shandong Capital Division mean, asking for leave to come to Beiyang to watch recruit training?" Chen Mu turned his head and looked at the letter on the table, and asked Juniper, "How did he find you to send the letter?"

Juniper nodded and said: "Commander Wei's name is Wei Rushu, and his father once assisted in the defense of Wanquan. This time, he recruited soldiers in Beizhi and stayed at another place. He heard that Chen Shuai was recruiting troops for drills, so he wanted to come and pay homage to his teacher." : "Shandong also intends to follow the example of the commander-in-chief, and recruited elite troops from the various guards to form a new army, so I entrusted my subordinates to deliver the letter."

"Reply, if you want to come, come quickly!"

(End of this chapter)