Although the master of Shaoxing introduced by Prince Qing was very conscientious and monopolized almost all the affairs of the case, Wu Chenxuan was still busy coordinating the relations between various localities and the affairs of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce every day, and the affairs of the army were almost overcome. Fortunately, the preliminary work was done well, and with the input of the five veteran captains and Wu Ziyu, Lan Tianwei, Zhang Shaozeng, and others, the Left Association of the Wuyi New Army of the six-battalion system has become an army after half a year of intensive training. Wu Chenxuan, who came to the Lashan training ground today, saw an infantry battalion with obvious characteristics of the Japanese division, although the basic training may not be comparable to that of Britain, France, and Germany, but it is not inferior to Japan's horse-pulling division, this conclusion is not Wu Chenxuan's self-boasting, but the middle-aged instructor named Wu Shouben next to him said. As soon as the bearded man opened his mouth, he spoke in a somewhat strange Chinese dialect: "Your Excellency, the new army trains very hard, and the requirements for forming an army can be fully met, please check." ”

"Tsukamoto, you're doing a good job. Your family has already left Yokohama, and you will soon be able to meet them, but unfortunately your parents are reluctant to leave Hamada's hometown, and it is estimated that you will have to wait a little longer if you want to fulfill your filial piety. ”

"Your Excellency, I always keep in mind that I am Wu Shouben, the head of the recruit of the Wuyi New Army, and as for the name Tsukamoto, it has already returned to Kudansaka. Xiaguan is very grateful for taking back my family so that our husband and wife can be reunited, and I will definitely do my best for the lord and practice more elite. ”

"Good! You're right, you are Wu Shouben Wu Dajiao. Someone came, passed on my general's order, Wu Shouben was the head of the training method, and he was immediately promoted to the deputy head of the new army of the Wuyi New Army and the chief instructor of training, and he was rewarded with the rank of three-rank top and green battalion guerrilla, and a reward of 3,000 taels of silver. In addition, the other coaches in the new army were promoted to one rank, rewarded with 100 taels to 500 taels of silver, and given 10 acres of fertile land as their professional land. After all, most of the Japanese who joined the army in these years are hard-working tenant farmers or down-and-out samurai who have no cone, and they can have hundreds of taels of silver and ten acres of land, which is indeed something that they may not be able to get in the fifth division for half their lives. Speaking of which, these Japanese soldiers do not have the granite heads of later generations, the Japanese army is recruited according to the region, and all the people in a system are fellow villagers, and the advantage is that they understand each other and can take care of each other, but when they come to Wu Chenxuan, it becomes "a little breakthrough, and the whole line collapses", the 21st Wing is all from Hamada City, Hiroshima Prefecture, and the hardships of the Japanese life in the mountains are no less than that of the people of Shandong at this time, and there are many people in the narrow land, unless it is a high-level samurai or a big businessman, he may own dozens of acres of land. These Japanese soldiers knew that the best way to return to China was to forcibly retire, and then guard two or three points of thin fields for the old men to carry the work, if as the Qing general promised, as long as the family members reported the death in battle, not only can they receive military pensions, but also will not be implicated, it is not difficult to change their names and surnames in the Qing Dynasty to rely on the skill of carrying guns to mix bowls of rice, and if they do a good job, they can get a fief of several hundred stones, which is equivalent to the status of a family elder or a small name, marrying a wife and having children, and glorifying the ancestors.

Relying on the repeated brainwashing of a group of guys in the Chamber of Commerce who can say the dead are alive, among the thousands of devil captives, it is said that a hundred and ten people have been surrendered, among which the highest rank is the deputy Tsukamoto Toshio Nakasa, this guy is not like an ordinary Japanese soldier, he knows the strength of the relationship network in the army, although Sato Osa is the culprit, but relying on the status of his father, who was a lieutenant general of the army cavalry, plus he took over military affairs after he was injured, if both of them are repatriated, It must be him, the unlucky lieutenant of the wing, who went to the military court or was simply ordered to be disemboweled, so this blind man eats dumplings - a guy who knows the number in his heart, he doesn't need us to persuade him to surrender at all, he directly wants to see me, the supreme commander, and after getting the favorable conditions I offer for the introduction of foreign teachers, this guy simply signed the deed of sale, which makes me always feel as if he is not a Japanese army, and I am like the imperial * army is absorbing the puppet * army. This guy also felt that it was difficult for him to win my trust, so he changed his name to Wu Shouben, and regarded himself as my retainer everywhere, and he mobilized a group of captain-level officers to surrender to Cheng, with his flag, many officers and soldiers also had an example of surrender, and before the screening, a total of one Shao Zuo, twelve lieutenants, forty-six military Cao, Cao Chang and seventy-one soldiers chose to stay, and all changed their names and surnames to join the Wuyi New Army, and more than half of the guys chose the surname Wu, hoping to become the retainer of His Excellency the Shandong Daimyo of the Qing Kingdom. As for the voluntary screening, as long as the list of prisoners of war and the list of those who died of wounded and sick in the prisoner of war camps were manipulated, it would not matter at all that there would be a lack of 100 children and 80 children. Those devils who returned to China after screening did not catch well, except for a few officers, basically they were dishonorably retired, there were more than a dozen devils in the countryside who were really mixed with their wives and families were broken and died, and then they actually went to the Shandong Chamber of Commerce in Hiroshima to ask for help, Wu Chenxuan also took in the spirit of revolution in no particular order, although there was no one hundred and ten mixed peasant women in front of the mountain spring a little field, but they also picked up a life, these guys later became the firm leader of the Wehrmacht. It seems that traitors are really not our local specialties.

Speaking of expanding the army, in addition to benefiting from the capture of these devil soldiers, the one who helped Wu Chenxuan the most was the old thief Rong who had been watching him unhappy. It turned out that although Rong Lu was dismissed, he stayed in the capital with his deep connections among the Manchu and Han magnates and the drill camp of the Empress Dowager of the West, with the name of a deputy minister of Beiyang. Good to die and hang up a Tianjin Wubei School inspector, this simply to Tianjin resident, in the north of the largest wharf as a free Gong, Tianjin Wubei Academy was originally a young military cadet, this rash change brought about by the discomfort has not passed, Rong Lu and Yuan Shikai face and heart disagreement rumors, acting Beiyang Yuan Daren stationed in Baoding Mansion, the Baoding martial arts hall doubled the size of the news synthetic, coupled with the instigation of the people, Tianjin Wubei School graduates feel that this year can enter the Beiyang system The road is afraid that it is not good to go, Supplemented to the green camps of military training in various places, all these years of learning will be in vain. Under the excitement of the crowd, there was a strike, Rong Lurong old thief was swallowing clouds and spitting fog at the little white shoes of Tianjin Wei, and was disturbed by the chief of affairs who rushed to report the news in a hurry, and almost lost his majesty, and mobilized the guards in anger, and solved the problem with a ghost head broadsword. Pitifully, in addition to the two ghosts who died on the spot, more than 30 students were canceled from school, and there happened to be a close relative of Wu Luzhen inside, so when all the officers and students were hesitant, Wu Luzhen and Wu Da Battalion Commander of the Wuyi New Army appeared with silver and a crown. Each of the more than 30 graduates received 300 taels of settling-in allowance, 200 taels of equipment and equipment, 100 taels of car and boat expenses, and 600 taels of snowflake silver to take out a pair of officers of the Wuyi New Army's six products, which directly made other students in school envious, jealous and hateful. Originally, Wu Chenxuan went for these more than 30 unlucky people, but he snatched one hundred and fifty graduates from Lao Yuan's hands to enter various subjects, it can be said that in addition to the second generation of the military who has a backer in the Beiyang system, basically this session is even commissioned by the Wuyi New Army. Later, Lao Yuan talked about this matter when he met, and made Wu Chenxuan apologize for his sins and invite wine back again, but what are the actual gains and losses, I am afraid that only the two heroes in the world have a rod and scale in their hearts.

Of the five infantry battalions of the Left Association of the Wuyi New Army, one artillery battalion is already considered to be an army. With more than 100 military cadets and a similar number of instructors who are not very fluent in Chinese, plus the squad leader and squad deputy in the original insurance regiment, there is finally a basic officer's shelf. The following is the stage of rapid recruitment and buying horses in various places, Lao Wei took the initiative to propose that he couldn't go on, Wu Chenxuan also understood that this person's oil and water were almost squeezed, being a team officer was quite qualified, and being a battalion officer was already pulling out his braids, and letting him go to training was to force him to die. So Wu Chenxuan took advantage of the situation to adjust the structure of the army.

The first battalion Xiao Mingfeng was stationed in Dongchang Mansion, the third battalion Du Zicheng was stationed in Wuding Mansion, the fourth battalion Wu Luzhen was stationed in Yanzhou Mansion, the artillery battalion He Laoba was stationed in Zhongxing Mine, the second battalion was handed over to Wu Ziyu and sent to Caozhou Mansion, and the fifth battalion was still stationed in the old battalion, each expanding its army in the garrison, and each battalion was expanded to the scale of three infantry battalions and a baggage battalion. As for the free instructors and cadets of the Tianjin armed forces, there was no intention of sprinkling sesame salt, and each battalion was given ten instructors and fifteen cadets before being dispatched, and on the whole, half of the instructors and cadets were given to five battalions and artillery battalions. The remaining half of the people will naturally not be idle, first let Zhang Shaozeng hang the title of a third-grade general, opened up another boundary in Lashan, and deducted one-third of the troops from He Laoba's hands, plus some of the young students recruited this year who have gone to school and can write and calculate formed a reserve battalion of 800 people, and after a month of recruit training, they began to familiarize themselves with the basic knowledge of artillery, and the workshop of the machine tool factory has long begun to secretly imitate the 1898 Krupp 70mm mountain gun, In 1896, the gun carriage and accessories of the Krupp 77mm field gun, after the design of Du Niang, the coaxial hydraulic retreat was added, and the bolt was improved, so that the rate of fire was nearly doubled compared with the original product, but it was still not as good as the 75 French miss in the First World War, but it was enough to dominate in the current Far East. As for the cannon barrel, I had to contact the Montague family and the arsenal in Manchester, purchased a batch of cannon barrel blanks, and handed them over to the Shandong Repair Institute that had been jointly operated to pull the rifling, as long as it could be used, anyway, this is just a transitional product. A month later, in the depths of Lashan, Zhang Shaozeng, a young man who had seen the world, looked like a pig, looking at the more than 80 mountain cannons and field cannons in this warehouse.

However, Wu Chenxuan's words directly made this Zhang Dagongzi petrified.

"I said Lao Zhang, these teaching aids are basically enough, right?"

"Teaching aids?" Zhang Shaozeng immediately tinkered with the few doors in front of him like a monkey, "It's obviously the original German goods that have just left the factory, I'm afraid that the whole Beiyang can't make up such a good cannon." This is a weapon of the country, how can it be called a teaching aid? "When it comes to artillery, Zhang Shaozeng's temper is good.

"Well, anyway, it's for teaching, you have lost all these cannons, and if you can teach me two thousand qualified artillerymen, you will complete the task."

"Huh? Playing wasted? Zhang Shaozeng, who couldn't hold the cannon barrel on the kang, pointed at the muzzle of the cannon with a sluggish face, and then pointed his nose. It's a loser. ”

"Well, the number one loser in Shandong is this official." Wu Chenxuan smiled evilly with a villainous face: "Now I've seen it." ”

"Well, the loser is so superb, the lower officials are obedient."

"Get out!"

"Huh."