After half an hour of drills, the smoke of gunpowder has not completely dissipated, making the school parade hall white, and the pungent smell of gunsmoke has become the greatest enjoyment of soldiers.

Zhang Liandeng was obviously a little excited, an abnormal red appeared on his face, and he said excitedly: "Go on, let me see the strength of your Hanyang battalion." ”

Ning Zhongyuan put on his armor and waved towards the shotgun Qian Zong in the school review room, without saying a word, only the armor leaves on his body made a sound of collision.

Seeing the gesture, Mr. Shotgun Qian hurriedly pushed out the six seemingly old sub-mother cannons, with a hint of nervousness on his face.

Seeing this, Chen Li sneered: "This entire Huguang, it's the same thing to review and review, it's all like that, General Ben is really worried!" ”

Zhang Liandeng was a little surprised and asked, "Why did General Chen say this?" I see that the soldiers of the Hanyang battalion are still doing their best, and if the soldiers of the green battalion of the Qing Dynasty can do this, it will be a blessing for the imperial court! ”

Chen Li hurriedly said: "Tell the governor, the last general has come all the way, and many of the green camp drills he has seen are perfunctory, especially in the artillery drills, he does not dare to discharge the cannon according to the prescribed amount of gunpowder, and often only three or four percent of the cannon is fired, but it is weak and weak when it hits the sky, and it is not much different from a large firework, I don't know if the Hanyang camp is the same today." ”

Zhang Liandeng's face was a little gloomy, and he secretly scolded Chen Li in his heart for not knowing the overall situation, if the green battalion that came all the way was so unusable, how could he give an account to the governor? How to make a mission to the saint?

Thinking of this, Zhang Liandeng thought about it as a trivial matter, and said: "Everyone has also seen the drill of the Hanyang battalion before, and it must be extremely outstanding, since this is the case, this Hanyang battalion will naturally not make any mistakes in the artillery." General Chen, let's take a look first. ”

But this Chen Li didn't understand it, and he wanted to nail Ning Zhongyuan to death, regardless of it: "Lord Governor, if you leave it alone again and again, what will happen in the future?" The last general is also loyal to the country, please think twice. ”

What he said was an itch of hatred from everyone, your General Chen is loyal to the country, and our group of people are wine bags and rice bags? So they looked at Ning Zhongyuan together, hoping that he could reject it fiercely.

Unexpectedly, Ning Zhongyuan did not refute, but followed Chen Li's words and said: "Lord Governor, what General Chen said is also polite, the last general is willing to accept the inspection and continue the follow-up assessment, but..."

Zhang Liandeng was a little at a loss, seeing Ning Zhongyuan say this, he thought that he had a bottom in his heart, and couldn't help but smile, and said: "General Ning has something to say, as long as he doesn't violate this big festival, the old man has nothing to do." ”

This is also quite meaningful, what is the big festival? That is, loyal to the court, loyal to the Qing Dynasty, loyal to him Zhang, and the rest are not subsections.

Ning Zhongyuan smiled and said: "The humble post is favored by the adults, and now I have to lead the Hanyang battalion, in order to live up to the hard work of the adults, the humble duties supervise the soldiers to practice day and night, and dare not have the slightest slack. ”

Zhang Liandeng stroked his beard and smiled, and said: "General Ning's words are okay, but the old man thought of a note, and during the artillery drill, pull out all the artillery under the marks of the generals, and after the nuclear inspection is completed, whose artillery is the sharpest and the farthest, I will ask the governor for a reward!" And report to the court for merit! After speaking, he turned his head to look at Chen Li again, "This naturally includes the Fubiao camp, Lord Chen, don't let the old man down!" ”

As soon as these words came out, it made the generals feel worried, and they couldn't help but scold Chen Li in their hearts, they didn't have any ill feelings towards Ning Zhongyuan, after all, this shot hit the first bird, who made this Chen Li talk a lot.

Chen Li knew that with the previous part, Fubiao's participation in the review had become ironclad, but he didn't panic, this was because Chen Li had been by Zhang Liandeng's side for a long time, and knew that this old man had the best face, if you gave him face, he would return three points, but if you want to let him lose face, it will be endless.

With this consideration, Chen Li made preparations early, and went to Liangguang to collect a few sub-mother cannons for the camp, and these cannons were also temporarily borrowed, and after the review was completed, they had to be returned to others. As for the original few sub-mother cannons in the Fubiao camp, they have now been turned into silver tickets and stuffed into the pockets of Chen Li's concubines.

After a drum was spoken, all the generals ordered the soldiers to pull out the sub-cannons in their own camps, but this time they were all strange, old and new.

"I would like to inform the governor that each battalion has a total of twenty-four cannons, and my Fubiao battalion has eight guns. After the gunpowder bullets were checked, the drill began. Chen Li said.

Zhang Xiandeng naturally knew what Chen Li meant, but after all, this was just a trivial matter, so he turned his mind back to the topic, waved his hand, and said, "Let's start." ”

"Put the medicine, seventy percent!"

Mr. Qian, who was in charge of directing the artillery test, shouted loudly, and after that, some soldiers went to the artillery places to check the gunpowder shells. As the inspection of the battalions began, substandard gunpowder was constantly removed, and then replaced with gunpowder and pills that were 70% standard, and then looked at the gunners who had been replaced, and all of them showed a look of despair on their faces.

But the soldiers didn't care at all, and if anyone slowed down, they were punched and kicked, and then violently replaced with gunpowder.

The so-called seventy percent standard, in fact, does not meet the standard, but now in the current green battalion, it is already considered a leader, you must know that even in some border defense areas, the gunpowder used in the sub-mother cannon is only fifty percent, so it will not explode.

Chen Li naturally didn't care about the thoughts of these soldiers, after all, he was a sub-mother cannon collected from Liangguang, and the quality was much higher than that of the mainland, and although this seventy percent of gunpowder was risky, he was not too worried.

The generals' faces were gloomy, but they didn't dare to say more, after all, no matter how they said this, it was not a matter on the table, and this governor Zhang was born as a literati, so he naturally would not understand the difficulties of these Qiu Ba.

The soldiers retreated after changing the gunpowder, but the gunners next to the cannons knelt on the ground one by one, and some even grabbed the ground with their heads, and some foamed at the mouth.

Originally, these sub-mother cannons of extremely poor quality were fired, and how many of them were not blown up in which year? What's more, it used to be forty percent medicine and five percent medicine, but now it is a full seventy percent, and it's hell if you don't blow up. However, there are exceptions, Ning Zhongyuan's Hanyang camp and Chen Li's Fubiao camp are safe and sound, just waiting for the order.

Seeing the gunners behaving like this, Zhang Liandeng's face on the stage darkened, and when he looked at the generals, he all lowered his head.