open sea

Chapter 598 Dream Bear
The spearman and musketeer of the Beiyang army established a system of spearmanship much slower than Chen Mu imagined.

A group of fighters who are proficient in long spears and short spears gathered in the Yamen of the Beiyang Military Government. Their martial arts systems are all a foregone conclusion, with different similarities and differences. Now it is not difficult for them to re-establish a set of simple, quick and effective military spear skills. Rigid systematization.

Chen Mu requires every action, from disembarking spears in the camp, carrying spears in the march, holding spears in formation, erecting spears in formation, using spears in battle, and even using spears in pursuit, retreat, and supervising battles. All the movements are refined and exclusive movements are designed.

Due to the different lengths of weapons, and involving blunderbuss, spears, spears, and lances, there are many different ways to use them immediately.

Those who can participate in the development of spear skills are not the strongest spear masters in the world. After all, they are all strong players. They all have their own different understandings of spear skills, and they also have different habits formed over a long period of time. There are many people who can brainstorm ideas, but there are many ideas There are too many, once the opinions differ, there will be disputes-when the disputes cannot be resolved with words, only practice remains.

Since the completion of the Beiyang Yamen, officials from the six ministries of the imperial court have also arrived in Beiyang one after another. There are ministers in each ministries who also serve in Beiyang, but they do not enter Tianjin. The Ministry used to govern the silver and grain, and deal with the military supplies with the Ministry of War.

Most of these officials were dispatched from Nanjing. The chief officer sent by the Ministry of War was very young. His name was Wang Yingjiao. Chen Mu.

The head of the household department has a lot of experience. He is an acquaintance of Chen Mu who had social relations in the past. At that time, Chen Mu even sent someone to give a gift to Ye Mengxiong who was demoted - it is not a bad thing to accept the request of Alda Mutual Market, but it also makes sense to not accept it.

Ye Mengxiong is not a young man like Wang Yingjiao, he is now in his forties, he has experienced ups and downs, and has never made a mistake in these years, whether he is in local administration, supervising warehouses and transferring salaries, the only time he was fined was because the local chief wanted to measure The land included mountains, rivers and rivers to please Zhang Juzheng, but he disagreed and was punished.

Such an experienced imperial official was transferred to the Beiyang Military Mansion, which aroused Chen Mu's great joy, and he went to the Tianjin Canal to bring him into the Military Mansion's Yamen.

Although the two of them had socialized on the matter of offering tribute to me, they had never met each other. Chen Mu was qualified to go to court because Ye Mengxiong was demoted to be a local county magistrate, and later he went down to Nanyang, but after all, they are all from Guangdong. , so the conversation on the road was very polite, nothing special, until the boat stopped along the Wei River in front of the school grounds.

A simple barrier wall was built outside the school grounds, and there were many flags, and several cement, brick and wood mixed forts were surrounded by wooden fences. Nanyang transported a lot of cement, but the Beiyang military government also needed a lot of places. Most of the cement was used in the barracks in order to meet the construction period. On the Yamen, the tall city wall originally planned to be a cement and stone wall can only be built in this sloppy way for the time being.

To complete Chen Mu's design for the Beiyang Military Mansion, it would take three to five years.

There are barracks lined up outside the three major schools like a town. In the camp, the drums of the army are loud, and more than ten hundred households lead the new soldiers to run quickly along the runway with wooden guns on their shoulders. For those who stab with spears, it is natural that each team will line up on the [-]-step wide school field and shoot with bird guns.

The guns let off smoke.

Ye Mengxiong's expression and temperament became different.

"what happened?"

Chen Mu turned his head and saw Ye Mengxiong stopped in his footsteps, with a strange expression on his face, and followed him on the school field, watching him staring at the banner troops practicing in the distance.

"I, Bo Jinghai laughed. Although I came from a liberal arts background, I always wanted to serve the battlefield, but I couldn't get what I wanted." Ye Mengxiong said, turning back and pointing to the saluting wooden box carried by the boy servant behind him, and said: "I have seen it in northern Xinjiang. The scene of captive cavalry galloping, I have also made some artillery, but it is not as good as General Zhenshuo, just for self-entertainment."

"To be transferred to Beiyang today is to fulfill my wish!"

"Ye Gong also has research on artillery?" Chen Mu was very surprised, and said: "When you enter the mansion, can you show Chen that Zhao Changji of the military mansion has made rocket vehicles, and Chen has also supervised the construction of artillery. Most of the most outstanding talents in the court are obsessed with official careers, but not many have spare energy to develop military weapons, and there is no place more suitable for you than Beiyang—we have our own military bureau!"

When it comes to the artillery designed by himself, Ye Mengxiong, who is over [-] years old, is still a little reserved, he hesitated and said: "The power, range, weight, and various parameters are not as good as Chen Shuai's General Zhenshuo..."

"Parameter, has Mr. Ye been to the Xuanfu Arms Bureau or the Nanyang Arms Bureau?"

As soon as he asked, Chen Mu realized that Ye Mengxiong had been in his hometown of Huizhou for a few years ago, and he should have gone to the Nanyang Military Bureau. He clapped his hands and laughed, "That's different. There are many senior generals in the naval lecture hall, and there is a special official title called 'research'. What they do is to improve military weapons, so that the current gun bore is one inch wider, and the gun length is three feet three times the diameter. , to make good things.”

Ye Mengxiong nodded and smiled kindly, thinking that it was Chen Mu who was comforting him, turned his head to look at the infantry academy field, stretched out his arms and said, "I heard that the newly recruited Beiyang Army has just been trained for less than a month, so it will be three years after training. Be an elite!"

"The official office of the Yamen is in front, and many officials' houses are around the official office, and behind it are warehouses for various utensils. On the left and right of the school yard, the stables on the lower floor are cavalry barracks. There are no cavalry at present, and the other side is an infantry barracks. At most two guards can be stationed. The most important thing is the rotation training of recruits and veterans, and in the future Dongyang will take a guard to go to sea."

Chen Mu shook his head slightly, introduced the surrounding furnishings to Ye Mengxiong, and then said: "Beiyang's training is not elite, except for the first batch of recruits, which may take a little longer. After they leave, they will recruit and sign another batch of preparations; another barracks will be vacant. It is for the rotation training of the flag army transferred from all over the country. Only the recruits are trained for three months and the veterans are trained for three months. Except for the gunners who are trained for June, all other soldiers are trained for bird guns in March, and infantry, cavalry, engineers, and luggage for March. Soldiers, artillery training, they are reserve soldiers."

"Reserves?"

"Yes, the military system of the guards is very good, so that the imperial court has enough soldiers, but it is slow to get rid of the disadvantages and enter the country. There are many places involved. "Chen Mu shook his head and laughed, "It's impossible for me to kill everyone who stands in my way wherever I go."

"There are no restrictions here, and the time is not too long. For example, a provincial capital will be transferred to [-] households for training in half a year. At least they will be sent back to the local area to issue weapons. They will be qualified sergeants, and then they will be led by the student flag officers who graduated from the local martial arts hall. It’s enough for each of them to practice, to be able to produce elite soldiers in two or three years if they are good, and to be able to fight in the end if they are bad.”

"However, this is just a little bit of Chen's idea. I don't care about those things for the time being. There are still many problems. For example, the recruiter has signed a contract, and there is a five-year limit before he can send his long hair and soul to the national tower. You can’t let the flag soldiers from all over the country shave their heads too? What if they want to shave their heads?”

"This kind of honor can't be done without the loyalty of overturning the rivers and seas to open up the territory for the great emperor."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)