Chapter 355 is a farewell

This army, in the final assessment, for various reasons, eliminated more than a dozen teenagers, after Wang Dong's intercession, Lin Xiao introduced them to Lian Chengbi, and asked him to see if he could find an errand in the yamen everywhere, even if it was to do some logistics work.

These little flowers are all orphans, and if they are not taken in, it is difficult for them to gain a foothold in Guangzhou alone.

……

"Give you half a day, everything is ready, and we will start tomorrow morning."

Looking at the busy training posture of the soldiers on the field, Lin Xiao nodded with satisfaction and said to Wang Dong who came to greet him.

"Yes!"

Wang Dong stood up and saluted and answered loudly, his voice revealing irrepressible excitement.

"How's your sapper battalion doing? Take me to see it. ”

Lin Xiao raised his hand and saluted back, turned his head to Duan Zhenghong and said.

The cavalry and artillery have not yet been trained, so Zhang Chenfeng and Duan Zhenghong have to stay, he came today, mainly to see the training of the engineer battalion, no matter how far he has practiced, he will take it away.

"I'll take you there for training outside today."

Duan Zhenghong raised his hand and pointed to the side of the guide, and said confidently.

At the beginning, out of a large number of enlisted craftsmen, after some selection, only more than 300 young and strong young men were recruited into the army, and a new army was born.

The real sappers are going to the front.

Not only do they often need to march with high intensity, but they even have to build roads and bridges in the rain of artillery fire and bullets, and they also need to have the ability to quickly crush the opponent when encountering small groups of enemies, so the training intensity of these recruits is not low at all.

They participate in basic cohort training every morning, military training in the afternoon, and only then professional training.

According to Duan Zhenghong, a few days ago, the engineer battalion had just completed the exercise of building a bridge quickly, and it took them only one day to build a simple wooden bridge over a river 20 zhang wide.

Lin Xiao followed Duan Zhenghong to a small river and watched their training with great interest.

These young warriors were busy, and when they saluted Lin Xiao, the queue was not very neat, so Lin Xiao hurriedly returned the salute and ordered them to continue training.

Although the scene is a bit chaotic, it seems that these craftsmen-born sappers are very skilled in their work.

At the moment, they were practicing rapid paving, and on a muddy path by the river, the sappers each had a steel shovel in their hands, first used sand and gravel to lay the bottom of the bottom, and then took the pre-made wooden planks from the horse-drawn cart next to them and laid them neatly on the gravel.

There are also mortise and tenon joints between the planks, which makes the road surface quite strong.

In just a few moments, a dirt road of tens of feet can accommodate the passage of heavy wagons.

Lin Xiao nodded and secretly approved.

It is indeed very difficult for these soldiers to find a way to train on their own without the guidance of professionals, and they have done such a good job.

However, for the engineering troops, a systematic training program is still required.

"It's time to write a training syllabus."

Lin Xiao thought to himself.

The content of engineer training is the basic course of Lin Xiao when he studied at the military academy in later generations, although he only learned some scratches, but in this era, it is enough.

"Tell me to go down and follow me tomorrow,"

Lin Xiao said with a smile, "Go to Hong Kong and train with work, Li Hanzhi is in urgent need of manpower." ”

"Understood!"

Duan Zhenghong answered, and then asked hesitantly, "Then ...... me?"

"What, the cannon company was handed over to me, don't you worry?"

Lin Xiao turned his head and said.

"No, it's not ......"

Duan Zhenghong grimaced bitterly and replied.

"What are you anxious about? Didn't you say that your first task now is to train me well in heavy artillery?"

Lin Xiao glared and pouted, "How big is Taiwan...... In the future, in the vast prairie, it will be the place where your Duan cannon will be proud. ”

"Okay......"

Duan Zhenghong sighed lightly and grinned, "However, captain, the medical soldiers of the army are becoming more and more scarce. ”

"yes, I noticed that too,"

Lin Xiao narrowed his eyes and said, "It seems that we have to ask Dr. Yu to hold a few more training classes." ”

Indeed, Lin Xiao has also discovered this loophole, and with the expansion of the army, the training of medical soldiers has not kept up in time.

Although most of the newly expanded troops have retained the tradition of inviting Langzhong in the Ming army, in troubled times, all Langzhong are treasures, and often more than a dozen villages can find a Langzhong.

Even if they can invite Langzhong, the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine determine that their methods are far less effective than Western medicine in the treatment of trauma.

Especially after entering the era of hot weapons, those wounded soldiers often have warheads and shrapnel left in their wounds, but most of those high-priced Langzhong do not even dare to do debridement and shrapnel surgery, and still stay in the external application of plasters and the internal administration of decoction, often even the infection of the wound can not be stopped.

The existing medical staff have only mastered simple battlefield first-aid methods such as bandaging and stopping bleeding, and the real treatment must be carried out in the field hospital in the rear.

There are still a lot of Western medicines such as antibiotics in the warehouses on Baisha Island, but the only one who really knows how to use these medicines is Dr. Yu.

"Doctor Yu, it's time to ask him to start a class and train a group of military doctors."

Lin Xiao said secretly.

In his plan, after the recovery of Nanjing, he planned to open an officer training hall, and it seemed that in the future, it would be necessary to add a military medical specialty to this training hall.

……

Early the next morning, Lin Xiao and his entourage came to the Pearl River Wharf.

On the wharf, Zhang Chenfeng, Duan Zhenghong and others waited early to see them off, and even Lord Chengbi came with a group of officials from the Governor's Yamen to see them off.

The imperial court's edict finally arrived, and Lian Chengbi was officially appointed as the governor of Liangguang, and he no longer had to act in the name of the missionary office.

The "Qinzhou" brought by Zhang Chenfeng was quietly moored near the wharf, and next to it were two Franc machine pirate ships that had been captured by Duan Zhenghong because they were employed by Shang Kexi.

The original Franc sailors on these two ships were all Chandler's men, and now, after they were captured, the ships had already been replaced by sailors from Chen Qice's sailors' battalion.

Unlike when Temasek first captured the Unicorn, with these experienced sailors, it is not difficult to operate such a Western gunboat.

Therefore, the reason why Lin Xiao attaches great importance to Chen Qice is because in his eyes, the most valuable thing about Chen Qice's sailor team is not his more than 300 sea ships, but the thousands of sailors under his command.

The Navy is different from the Army, an Army soldier generally only needs three months of intensive training to go into battle, but an experienced sailor can not be trained in just a few months.

Seeing the crowd of send-offs, Lin Xiao couldn't avoid vulgarity, so he said goodbye to Lian Chengbi and others in turn, and had a separate conversation with Gong Tieniu who stayed behind, and Yin Yin asked for it.

At the sound of an order, the whole army boarded the ship, and the junior battalion and the engineer battalion took the lead in boarding the pirate ship, and finally, Lin Xiao took more than 100 special combat personnel to board his flagship "Qinzhou" in a small boat.

In the eyes of everyone at the wharf, three big ships slowly shored the shore and went down the Pearl River.

Looking back at Guangzhou City, the corners of Lin Xiao's eyes were a little moist.

After this farewell, I don't know when I will be able to return to this beautiful southern Yangcheng and have a tempting refreshment.

(End of chapter)