Zhao Ping finished his own meal, and saw that the other companions had not finished eating, so he did not wait any longer, it was not that he did not have a collective concept, but that there were other soldiers waiting in line to eat, and he could not occupy his seat for a long time.

Walking out of the cafeteria, Zhao Ping recalled the road he had come from and walked towards the dormitory. Just walked out more than ten meters away, only to hear someone behind him: "Zhao Ping, Zhao Ping." ”

Zhao Ping was stunned, looking for a sound, it turned out to be two soldiers, they were not very old, the older was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and the younger one was estimated to be only fourteen or fifteen years old, and the appearance was five or six points similar, it should be a brother, but these two people did look very familiar, but Zhao Ping couldn't remember who it was for a while.

At this time, the older soldier said: "Zhao Ping, Yuan Shu is really you, do you remember us? I am He Xin, this is my younger brother He Ping, a person from Hejiawan Village, do you remember?"

Hearing their names, Zhao Ping immediately remembered that the two of them were brothers, both from Hejiawan Village, and that Zhao Weizhong was about to flee from Tianjin to Shanghai to join Li Hongzhang by boat, and the two brothers were hired to go to sea with the crew hired in Hejiawan Village. However, after sailing out of Bohai Bay, the ship was hit and sunk by a ship of unknown origin, but fortunately it was rescued by encountering the crosser, but most of the crew were still killed, and only the two brothers survived among the crew.

At that time, Zhao Ping was still a descendant of the Zhao family, and out of responsibility for Zhao Weizhong's safety, he also had some relations with He Xin and He Ping brothers on the ship, and talked a few words, so they were acquaintances, but later He Xin and He Ping brothers led the crossing army to land in Hejia Village, and they never met again. I didn't expect to meet again in the military camp of overseas Chinese, and it seems that the brothers are also in the army.

Although Zhao Ping and He Xin and He Ping brothers did not have a deep friendship, it was a happy thing to meet old acquaintances in the military camp, so Zhao Ping hurriedly grabbed a few steps and came to the front of the two brothers, and said, "Why are you?"

He Xin also said: "Yes, I didn't expect you to join the army, but you still joined the navy." ”

Zhao Ping nodded and said, "My uncle asked me to join the army, why did you two join the army." ”

It turned out that after the traverser landed in Hejiawan Village and defeated the attack of the Eight-Nation Alliance, some villagers expressed their willingness to join the traverser's army, but at that time, the traverser had not completely stabilized, and naturally there was no plan to recruit troops.

And after the traverser captured Tianjin, he was able to free up his hands to create his own army, Hejiawan Village is the place where the traverser first landed, and the traverser has a life-saving grace for the whole village, so the people of Hejiawan Village are politically reliable, so after the mobilization of the traverser, a total of 71 families in the village moved to Dagukou to settle, and there are only more than 100 households in the entire Hejiawan Village, it can be said that most of the villagers have followed the traverser, and there are 53 people who are willing to add the traverser's army.

The villagers of Hejiawan Village are basically fishermen and have considerable experience in going to sea, so all 53 of them were selected for the navy. Of course, fishermen only set up wooden boats, and go to sea is also in the offshore waters, but compared to others, it is still easier to get started, at least at sea will not get drowsy, and in addition, the understanding of tides, currents, wind and waves is stronger than the average person. It's just that the villagers in Hejiawan Village are basically illiterate and semi-literate, and they all need literacy education.

He Xin is seventeen years old this year, to the age of not being strong enough to join the army, after joining the navy, he soon went to serve on the ship, and now he serves as a lookout on the sea dragon torpedo boat, and He Ping is only fourteen years old, although not enough age to join the army, but first, their brothers are unwilling to separate, and secondly, these two brothers are also more popular with the soldiers, so he was finally included in the navy, of course, in the initial period of the army, the various systems are not complete, and this kind of drilling is not uncommon. In the old time and space, there were many eleven or twelve-year-old red imps.

However, although the navy accepted He Ping, it did not let him serve on the ship, but did some miscellaneous work in the shore-based logistics department, and at the same time received literacy education and cultural knowledge with other soldiers, and then officially assigned him a post after he reached the age of eighteen. Of course, in order to take care of the two brothers, a double room dormitory was specially arranged for their brothers.

This is also the welfare of the officers and men on the ship, because as long as the warship is still on duty, even when it is moored in the port, the crew also has to live on the ship, and only during the rest, overhaul, or maintenance period of the warship, the crew can live in the shore-based soldiers' dormitories, and in this era, the living environment on the warship can be much worse than the old times, and after they go to sea, the soldiers have to take turns to sleep in hammocks, so they are often arranged to be more comfortable dormitories on the shore, so that the ship's crew can get full rest on the shore.

After listening to the brothers' speeches, Zhao Ping also told their brothers about his experience in the army, and also asked some about the army. Although the People's Army has been in the army for less than two months, the brothers He Xin and He Ping are the first batch of naval soldiers of the People's Army, and they can be called seniors in front of Zhao Ping.

The three of them talked for more than half an hour, He Xin was an official soldier after all, and he was still serving on the warship at this time, so he had to go back to the ship to report, and He Ping also had to go back to work, so the three of them parted ways and said goodbye, and each went back to their respective camps to rest.

After lunch, it should be a time for cultural study, which is taught by special instructors, and the veterans go to their respective classrooms to receive education, while the recruits stay in the dormitories, and the two instructors, Xing Kuanyu and Wang Huming, explain to them the rules and regulations in the barracks and the discipline and duties of the People's Army.

The discipline of the People's Army basically follows the "three major disciplines and eight points of attention" of the People's Liberation Army in the old time and space. In fact, at this time, all the new armies of the Qing court paid more attention to military discipline, especially Yuan Shikai's training at a small station, and the military discipline formulated was quite strict, not much worse than the military discipline of the People's Liberation Army in the old time and space. However, the difference between the People's Army and the army of this era is that it does not impose military discipline and then use coercion and punishment to make the soldiers respect it.

Although the People's Army will also use coercion and punishment, it is first necessary to clearly explain to the soldiers the reasons and reasons for formulating these military disciplines, and at the same time emphasize the purpose of the people's army building that the people's army is for the people and must never be the enemy of the people. Finally, he taught them to sing the song of "Three Disciplines and Eight Attentions".

Although the recruits have some feelings, they don't have too many ideas, because according to the instructor, they are indeed from the people, and the People's Army is an army that defends the people, so naturally they can't bully the people, and they didn't expect that military discipline can be sung as a song, and the difficulty of the song is not great, and soon all the recruits have learned it, so they think it's quite interesting.

But Zhao Ping's feeling is different from that of other recruits, and although Zhao Ping is a member of Zhao Weizhong's family, if you divide it by class, he obviously does not belong to the category of the people. In addition, Zhao Ping had some contact with the army of this era, and the military discipline of the Beiyang Naval Division was also quite strict, but the first thing to emphasize was to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty and the imperial court, and it was quite good that the army could not disturb the people, and it was never said that the army came from the people, so it was necessary to protect the people as the purpose of the people's army. Although the military discipline of the People's Army also includes the defense of national sovereignty and territory, the word "Daqing" is not mentioned. made Zhao Ping feel a little uncomfortable.

This is not to say how loyal Zhao Ping was to the Qing court, but after all, Zhao Ping was a person who had a deep relationship with the Qing court, and was accustomed to putting himself in the position of the Qing court to think about problems. Therefore, Zhao Ping also realized once again that overseas Chinese were indeed very different from the Qing court.

After saying this, more than an hour and a half passed, and it was almost 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the soldiers who had received cultural education returned to their dormitories and began their afternoon training.

In general, military training is conducted in the morning for physical fitness training, while in the afternoon it is usually for military skills training. Although the navy is not an army, the chance of going directly to the battlefield is not large, but it also has to carry out some basic military skills training, such as disassembling and assembling firearms, shooting, bomb throwing, climbing and cross-country, fighting, swimming, rowing, etc., after all, the last batch of soldiers only came for five days, in fact, they still belong to the new recruits. Therefore, he has not received training in live ammunition shooting and martial arts, mainly climbing, cross-country, swimming, etc.

These projects have been done during the tryout, and recruits can also participate. So all the soldiers in a dormitory came to the training ground, and the first batch of soldiers came for formal training, and Zhao Ping's group of recruits also followed to experience formal naval training.

Although Zhao Ping's batch of recruits have participated in the trial training, but the intensity of the trial training can not be compared with the formal training, although the training volume of this batch of recruits is lower than the normal training amount, but it is also larger than the amount of trial training, and when the last few projects, more than half of the soldiers have practiced lying down, and the rest of the people who can stand up to it are also gritting their teeth and not insisting on it, and the last batch of soldiers has been trained for five days after all, and the training volume is slowly increasing, and it is adapted to the current training intensity, so after the training is over, there is not much reaction。

Of course, this kind of training arrangement is also intentional by the two instructors, because the trial files of each soldier have been transferred to the army, so the amount of training of these recruits, the two instructors have a good idea, but they intend to increase the amount of training of recruits, one is to give these recruits a dismount, let them know that formal training and trial training are completely different; the other is to understand the will and limit of the recruits, after all, the increase in training is not large, and those who can persevere are either those with good physical fitness. Either the will is strong, these are things to pay attention to in previous training.

At half past five in the afternoon, when the day's training was over, the soldiers had cleaned up the training ground, and then they returned to the dormitory to rest, bathe, and eat dinner, and then it was time to study in the evening.