Chapter 458: Horse Fights and Scarecrows
The second is a horse battle, this horse battle is not two people holding wooden knives to fight immediately, it is as easy to fall off the horse, Su Yuanchun and Madeley are soldiers, do not allow the danger of the competition, and the immediate battle is not a competition, who can run that, just see whose horse loses the meaning of the game, but with a hand-held war knife, riding a horse and jumping vertically, cutting the scarecrow on the stake next to him, erecting a scarecrow within a certain straight line distance, the two sides not only have to compare the speed, but also play the speed, under the premise of seeing who cuts the scarecrow more, which requires people to master the accuracy of the shot and physical agility in the galloping of the horse, the horse on horseback has the advantage of the nation, a game without suspense, without comparison, you can see the high and low
"When Master Li was young, I could jump on horseback directly without my hands, but now I can only watch young people play with flowers," Dutong Zhang Xuefei returned to his original demeanor, talked and laughed with a high expression, looked down on the soldiers of Li Ziying, and his horseback riding skills were far behind
"Lord Guardian is really a warrior of the Eight Banners, and he still has this ability, although the subordinate is young, he doesn't have the ability to jump on a war horse without his hands, he can't learn to be ashamed, ashamed" Li Guolou felt aggrieved in his heart, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners only had this subject, which was stronger than the Han people's village bravery, the sergeants, and the Han people's living environment was different, although many of the Eight Banners disciples lost their ability to fight bravely and became only able to move their mouths. Playing with birdcages and waste firewood, but there are still many children of the Eight Banners, who have been riding horses since childhood, and are proficient in equestrian skills, which go deep into the bone marrow, he also knows that Su Yuanchun rode a horse and wielded a knife, don't use too much force, and everything will be fine if he falls off the horse, as for winning the game, he expects that the opponent's war horse will be trampled, and the possibility is very small
Surrounded by thousands of people, Su Yuanchun and Madeley came to the horse farm to compete in equestrian competition, which is a military subject that the Qing army likes to see, soldiers do not like to watch artillery shooting, but love to watch equestrian performances, for Su Yuanchun and Madeley on the horse, that move was judged to be high and low, Madeley controlled the reins of the horse, quite chic, jumped on the saddle, the action was coherent, and Su Yuanchun first had to appease the war horse, carefully look at whether the eyes of the war horse were irradiated by the sun, so that the war horse was in danger of being frightened, and stepped on the war horse step by step in the standard way of teaching in the school
Yao Bin saw that there were so many big people around him watching the game, and he was full of energy, and he wanted to show the chief, with his eloquence, he got a chance to go to Lanzhou, boldly and carefully walked to the side of the war horse, and played the role of a referee, raised his eyebrows, and said: "Xiao Cavalry Officer, Su Yuanchun, I said that you can only start at the beginning, twenty straw men must all be cut until one is missed, and one turns back, and whoever runs to the finish line first will be the winner."
Zhang Xuefei, the commander of the capital, took the opportunity to sell to Li Guolou that he was not in a hurry to raise soldiers, and said: "Master Li can train to the western Xinjiang to raise soldiers, not to mention a hundred people."
Li Guolou is willing to make wedding dresses for others, this is not his protégé, he is silent, and said with a slight smile: "The supervision of the lord has a heavy official duty, and the emperor smashed his head like a mistake, and he didn't dare to talk to himself, and he brought so many alternate soldiers to Lanzhou to be impeached by the imperial history."
Zhang Xuefei also opened his mouth to give Li Guolou room for bargaining, and when he heard Li Guolou's refusal, he said: "Lord Li, then the scale is a little smaller, fifty people, Wutang has more Eight Banner disciples, so that the emperor can rest assured."
Li Guolou pulled the corners of his mouth, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Zhang Xuefei, he didn't have a good temper, and it was not pleasing to the eye, and the official handed a fold up to make people eat and hang the noodles, but seeing that the Jianrui Battalion was well equipped, the soldiers of the Eight Banners also had merit, and they couldn't be too stingy and dry: "The Lord Guardian is reluctant to lead a team of nurturing soldiers to train, and there are always people who can't stand the test."
Zhang Xuefei smiled and said: "Then it is decided that a team of nurturing soldiers will be trained by Wutang, rest assured, my brother is not stingy, the silver should be spent by Jianrui, Master Li, don't hide it, and then give my brother two hundred Mauser guns from Tianjin, otherwise the Wing Elder will not be able to put the flintlock pistol there, and the flintlock gun will be outdated."
"Then wait for the next official to come back from Lanzhou," Li Guolou nodded slightly, imported military supplies, how many troops in his hand wanted to change clothes first, he didn't use the power in his hands to accept bribes, but he also needed to be careful to calculate, the Qing Empire's economic strategy army had more than 800,000 people, not including the current army and the abolition of the Eight Banners, the soldiers need to rearrange public positions for the Eight Banners, or give a certain amount of land, so as to win the hearts of the Manchus
The two sides agreed that Yao Bin would formulate the rules of the game, Su Yuanchun and Madley each held a war knife and straddled the horse, due to the knife forging technology and training loss, the two of them held the war knife heavier, than the actual combat knife is thicker, so the cavalry is required to have great strength, strong wrist flexibility, three hundred meters in a straight line, the first hundred meters is to let the horse battle charge have a certain speed, there are twenty straw men in front of them, this is the goal in their eyes
Madeley cut every scarecrow to the end, and the scarecrow slashed twice, and the first one to cross the finish line won the cheers of the spectators
Su Yuanchun was not so lucky, he missed a few scarecrows, and he had to turn the horse back and do another round of slashing and killing, and there was also Feng Yuandu, Su Yuanchun took the initiative to step forward and said with a smile: "Xiao Cavalry, you are skilled in horsemanship, I am ashamed of myself, it is better to lose, you won this game, but the final victory must belong to me."
"That's not necessarily, my marksmanship is accurate, and I can hit the sky and fly geese," Madeley was stubborn, and she had already given in her heart that she would not be able to use a Mauser gun, and she still had to use an old-fashioned flintlock pistol, and she had never seen it practice with a flintlock pistol for 15 steps, and it was still possible to be within 1 step of a sharpshooter
Yao Bin is worthy of being Xiao Xiucai, and he already knows that the ending is not good, and he is in a hurry, and he is wise: "The next competition will take a few days, and the horseman will not make the Mauser gun, so let him learn to use the Mauser gun, and it is unfair to use the flintlock pistol to compete with the Mauser."
"Xiao Xiucai is right, it's not fair, it's better than two days," all the nurturing soldiers followed and coaxed a game to make it yellow
Madeley let out a long breath and did not embarrass the Jianrui battalion, taking peace as the precious, with a draw, the collection was all happy, and in the sound of approval, he took a Mauser gun and carried the Mauser to the shooting range to practice shooting, and heard the instructor of the martial arts hall say "three points and one line", and he didn't understand what it meant to shoot, and there were so many things to pay attention to, who should he ask
Li Guolou looked at Yao Bin and nodded approvingly: "Lord Inspector, your son Langli Xiaoxiu has the potential to be a counselor, this kid can be taken out to hone and become a great tool."
"Well, Xiaoxiu just came over for a while," Zhang Xuefei, the commander of the capital, also praised Yao Bin, did he disgrace the Jianrui battalion, the future of this nurturing soldier is limitless, Zhang Xuefei praised Yao Bin a few words, and let Yao Bin carry a Mauser gun to shoot targets
Yao Bin, who is also a nurturing soldier, is much more shrewd and shamelessly asked: "Master Li, I heard an instructor say that there are three points and one line to shoot, I don't understand."
Li Guolou is joy beckoned to Cheng Kun next to him and ordered: "Officer Cheng sent a team of people to teach the sergeant of the Jianrui Battalion how to use the Mauser gun to disassemble and maintain, this is more important than being able to shoot."
Cheng Kun took the order and left, taking a group of Jianrui battalion sergeants to practice shooting, and soon after, there were bursts of gunfire from the shooting range
Li Guolou stopped in place, thought about it, pondered for a moment, thought of the possible scene in the future, and said: "Master Fan took the people to listen to the gunfire today, let them get used to the guns, declare the sky, and let them listen to the sound of the cannons."
Fan Dahui took the military order to bring a group of long-husbands to the shooting range, the time was urgent, and it took a few days to run the long-husbands and student soldiers together, so that the people could become qualified soldiers, and it was by no means the norm to do things, Li Guolou found another way to win people's hearts and recruit a group of unidentified refugees in order to grasp the military power, just to make these homeless people grateful and Dade absolutely obeyed his military orders
It's okay to listen to the gunshots, and the Changfu military camp has also heard it, and the sound of the cannons is not so simple, and the strong shaking of the mountain can make people's eardrums burst
On the shooting range, hundreds of Changfu stood not far behind the shooting sergeant, watching a row of sergeants lying on the ground shooting
"Bang bang" sound endlessly, a lot of long husbands covered their ears, that is, excited and impulsive, they really wanted to step forward to touch the Mauser gun, they had already prepared to be a soldier to eat the imperial food, as long as they grabbed the Mauser gun, they could change the fate of being a homeless person, a good future in front of them, the legend of Prussia's good gun is like this, the good guy weighs 46 kilograms, not heavy, this weight is not heavy, and the shoulders are more prestigious
I never thought that I could be a soldier as a homeless person, long live Li Guolou
The elders knew who their master was, and they were recruited into the Li Zi camp to work for Li Guolou, and when they saw the famous four sharpshooters, the small knife Wei Qun, the spear Wei Yun, the sharp sword, Arirang, and the arrow, Yang Cong shot at the target a hundred meters away in front of him
"Okay" Changfu Xu Yuguang took the lead in applauding, those two buck teeth grinned and had the bearing of a chief, and he was upset for Changfu, only letting Changfu shoot ten bullets, even if he graduated, how could this be enough, but he had touched the gun, and the people were not happy, the bullets were gone, and the master was too stingy, who didn't know that Li Guolou was rich
More than 6 long-term husbands came to the shooting range in batches to watch the sergeants practice shooting, today they did not have the opportunity to shoot, but it also made their blood boil, closer and closer to their dreams, and when they were pulled, they were also raising soldiers, and the silver was higher than those servants, and they could also look at people in the future
Hundreds of jealous servants, they have always looked down on those homeless people, they are not from a good social status, they are still high, they are still wives and children, and when they wander outside the hot kangtou, they miss their hometown, unlike the homeless people who are homeless all over the world, but this time the old service, the homeless people have the opportunity to become sergeants, and they don't, of course, some of the servants are too old and don't have the opportunity to be soldiers, eat the imperial food, and some have a skill, and the servants don't want to be soldiers
There are still some servicemen who meet the conditions for serving in the army, and they go to find food together, and Dahui shows his heart and asks for the opportunity to be a member of the "Li Zi Battalion".
Fan Dahui saw that there were about 3 more soldiers, who asked to be soldiers, that is, they were happy and worried, and it was not a good thing that there were too many people, and in the future, the "Li Zi Battalion" will also have 5 battalions, 4 infantry battalions, 4 people in the baggage battalion, 4 people in the artillery battalion, 4 artificial battalions, and 25 cavalry battalions stationed in Xiaozhan Town to cooperate with the teaching of Wutang, this "Li Zi Battalion" is actually a derivative of Wutang, and there is no reason to expand it, and these arms need to have cultural knowledge and technical content, not to be able to join if you are physically strong, how can you accept hundreds of servants, but excellent servants are also considered
"Don't argue, the official will accept a small part of you if he knows, and behave well, the official will tell the escort what to do now, why go to the barracks, the military order is like a mountain, there is no mercy to talk about," Fan Dahui finally sent hundreds of servants away, entangled and untangled, and wasted his spittle
Fan Dahui went to Li Guolou to report the situation in a soldier's trotting attitude, and the young master was born in a small landlord family, and the young master never thought of dealing with turtles, but the world is unpredictable, working for the country and the people, and managing the poor people's lives and wealth, not forgetting the people, but these people will really remember his benefits, he was not elected to the "Li Zi Battalion", and hundreds of servants will scold him for the rest of his life, he is carrying the black pot for Li Guolou