Chapter 520 is unsatisfactory

This time, although the number of these thieves who landed from Guazhou was small, they sat on tall and sturdy sea boats, which were strong and fierce.

Soon, they used Guazhou as a stronghold and captured several surrounding walled cities, and Ma Jinbao organized several counterattacks, however, each time they were outnumbered, not only failed to drive them back to the Yangtze River, but instead lost their troops and retreated in defeat.

Seeing that the thieves were about to come to the city, in desperation, Ma Jinbao had to shrink his forces and concentrate on Yangzhou City, not giving him a chance to break through.

He thought to himself, there are few thieves, as long as he no longer fights with them in the wild, and relies on the strong city to hold on and wait for help, he is still sure.

Naturally, in line with the idea of the three holes of the cunning rabbit, he was also prepared with both hands.

He sent his own standard "elite soldiers" to Nancheng to supervise the Cao soldiers to defend the Rujiang Gate, and asked Meng Tietou to lead the newly formed firearms battalion to guard the most important Shuixi Gate to ensure contact with Yizhen and Chuzhou......

The firearms battalion was a new army that had just been formed not long ago, and Wang Jijun was naturally taken by General Meng Shen, who appreciated him.

Before the battle, General Meng Shen was promoted to the line of fire, and he was promoted to the commander of the firearms battalion, and entrusted him with all the specific drills.

A few days after he was promoted, Meng Tietou called him and gave him two hundred taels of silver.

"What kind of money is this?"

Seeing so much silver, Wang Jijun asked in surprise.

"You deserve it."

General Meng Shen's face was calm and light.

"Isn't it just that the military salary has been paid......

Since recruiting into the army, Meng Tietou has not been in arrears for the first time, but it is not three taels per person, but two taels.

His reason was that the military salary of three taels of silver was only available when he went into battle, and he would be paid two taels if he did not fight on weekdays.

This alone can add nearly 600 taels of benefits every month.

Although Wang Jijun's own military salary is penniless, he is always very uncomfortable in his heart -- on the side of begging for the army, he says that what is good is how much is how much, and he never deducts a short.

"It's miscellaneous public expense,"

Meng Tietou said lightly, "It's also your benefit, just take it." ”

Although Meng Tietou has the realm of "public loyalty to the country", this does not prevent him from being corrupt and self-fertilizing.

He is a person who is not confused by the old age, and it is unknown whether he will be able to get other errands in the future, if he can't make some money on this errand, he will die and there will be no place to bury the coffin!

What's more, since he received this errand, he spent a lot of money on "entertainment" and "dotting" in all aspects, and if he didn't strip it from the heads of the big-headed soldiers, the "miscellaneous items at public expense" issued to him by Ma Jinbao would not be enough at all.

"Publicly-funded...... Didn't you already get it a few days ago? ”

Wang Jijun knew what was going on, and he was very disgusted.

Isn't this kind of money the "drinking soldiers' blood" mentioned in political education when he was begging for the army to join the army?

"You know what!"

Meng Tietou looked at his face, and he probably knew his thoughts, and couldn't help but secretly disdain, "You are also a military attache of the imperial court now, and you are no longer a pawn of the thief...... Since you are an official, you have entertainment, pomp and circumstance, and all kinds of expenses, how can you rely on your few salaries? ”

“……”

"Nowadays, our firearms battalion is a separate training and self-contained, in the future, you will serve in the army, superiors, colleagues, which one should not be careful?"

Seeing that Wang Jijun was about to speak, he waved his hand, "You listen to me......"

"This is the accumulation of disadvantages of officialdom, not to mention the meagre future of you and me, even Lord Hong, the Governor of Hong, does not dare to make a mistake, if not, let alone make meritorious contributions, it is difficult to save even your reputation and even your life......"

He sighed, and then said, "Once you have entered the officialdom, you must be with the light, and sometimes, you even have to stigmatize yourself, don't take it to heart!" ”

Wang Jijun didn't say anything more, and was about to withdraw after taking the money.

"Well, you haven't picked your own soldiers yet?"

Meng Tietou raised his head and asked, a few days ago, he urged him to choose more than a dozen personal soldiers.

"I've got a pro-soldier, and that's enough."

"You, you're really bookish!"

Meng Tietou sighed, and suddenly thought that the other party was not a scholar, "As soon as you go to the battlefield, even if you are a general who commands millions of elite soldiers, you must also have a few personal guards who can entrust life and death...... Otherwise, in times of crisis, you will be alone! ”

"Yes, I understand."

Wang Jijun bowed his head and replied, took the silver and went down.

Looking at his back, Meng Tietou shook his head secretly: "This person who has been trained by a thief is dead-eyed!" ”

Of the more than 500 soldiers in the firearms battalion, each of them was carefully selected by him according to the orders of the Admiral.

However, after a period of time, the effect of the exercise was not satisfactory......

Although this person is proficient in "military drills", and he can be regarded as the leader when it comes to the training of thieves, he is just an ordinary soldier over there, and now he is training 500 people alone, so he is naturally powerless, and he is chaotic for a few days.

Meng Tietou remembered the military books he had read, so he decided to change his strategy, first selected ten of the smartest among the five hundred people, and Wang Jijun personally taught them by words and deeds, starting with walking, lining up, and holding guns.

Then another 100 people were drawn out, and these 10 people were used to train the 100 people, Wang Jijun was on the side to guide and correct them at all times, and finally, these 100 people were to train the rest of the people.

This time, in just half a month, it has been "strictly organized" and "considerable", for which Meng Tietou is quite complacent.

However, according to Wang Jijun's vision, the level of training in front of him is not brilliant at all.

Compared with the Ming thief's side, let alone the capture army, even the teams of Mo Qianhu and Guo Ye are not comparable, at best, they are the level of the militia.

What he can teach is only the most basic queue drills, and when it comes to combat formations, it is only a few basic combat formations such as marching deployment, double horizontal formations, and hollow phalanxes, as for how to operate, in fact, he is not very clear.

The use of the firearm was also carried out according to the training he had received before, but unfortunately, the imitation flintlock rifle was not equipped with a bayonet, and Meng Tietou asked the blacksmith to try the imitation bayonet was not easy to use, so he finally had to give up the bayonet and train to shoot with all his might.

In the shooting training, Wang Jijun insisted that in order to meet the standard, each person must have at least 50 "air shots" and 30 live ammunition shots.

However, this made Meng Tietou secretly complain.

Because, the number of this kind of flintlock rifle is not enough, only 200 pieces, just this, or Ma Jinbao finally begged from Lord Hong, and each gun was only given 200 rounds of medicine, if this is really according to him, more than 500 people have practiced it, I am afraid that if it is not before the battle, the medicine will be exhausted.

However, seeing the performance of the flintlock rifle on the training ground, Meng Tietou still felt that it was worth the money.

Because there were not enough guns, Meng Tietou originally planned that the rest of the people would use the selected bird guns, but Wang Jijun thought that the performance of these two firearms was different and it was difficult to match each other, so he suggested that Meng Tietou use the method of the thief he had seen when he was trained there: equip a spear.

This spear is much easier to get than a flintlock rifle, and within a few days, Meng Tietou has made hundreds of half-new spears available.

Wang Jijun followed the training he had received there at the beginning, and mixed spearmen and musketeers for training.

This kind of joint training, on paper, is simple to say, but in fact it is not easy.

In particular, the formation of spearmen and musketeers can only be expanded and converted by elite professional troops, and Wang Jijun, an ordinary soldier, plus a self-taught general Meng who reads military books, naturally can't do it.

After Ma Jinbao learned about it, he called one of his subordinates, Mr. Qian, to assist in training.

(End of chapter)