3rd Assault Infantry Brigade, on the training ground.

"Zhao Laosan. Rise. A captain shouted the company commander.

"Here." Zhao Laosan stood up and shouted.

"You, up. the three in a row. Let them see the fighting skills of our seven companies. The company commander shouted loudly.

"Sir, this, this is not good." Zhao Laosan said with some hesitation. Zhao Laosan is a veteran oilman, and the reason why he can become a veteran oiler is not only because of his fighting skills, but also because of his combat experience, as well as the accumulation of various experiences, which are all important foundations for him to become a veteran oil.

Fighting, his fighting skills are the most powerful in his company. Originally, he was a private, but because of his fighting skills, he was suddenly promoted to a corporal and became the deputy squad leader of their squad. The entire company learned the fighting skills from him.

This is what Zhao Laosan is most proud of.

"What's bad, let you go, you will go, less nonsense, damn it, if you can't kill the other party, Lao Tzu will remove your deputy class." The captain and company commander said fiercely.

"No, sir, I did it. I can't do it. Zhao Laosan reluctantly picked up the wooden stick gun in his hand and went to the training ground, each company competed with each other, such as the third company and the seventh company, these are the two most powerful two companies, both companies are heroic companies, the whole company is one hundred and twenty-one people, seventy-two people were killed, and the rest have medals, including one person for each of the two companies of the first class, and the two companies have competed with each other since then.

"Kill." As soon as Zhao Laosan got on the training ground, a person on the opposite side rushed over and stabbed him with a spear wrapped in cloth. Although this can reduce casualties, however, the Red Turban Army lacks the necessary protective gear, and if the fight cannot be controlled, it is still easy to be injured, and breaking ribs is a common thing, and the 3rd Assault Brigade is quite fierce in this matter.

"Good boy, come here as soon as you come up." Zhao Laosan's spear also rushed out, and then with a slight pick, he opened the opponent's spear. Then one turned, and the spear swept the other party like a broom. Then the spear is pointed at the opponent's vital point.

"Okay." The soldiers of the 7th Infantry Company shouted loudly with joy. The advantage of Zhao Laosan's spear assassination technique is that he has a set of defensive skills.

Most of the spears of the Red Turban Army are directly rushed out, and they are a way of fighting with their lives. This way of fighting can easily cause large casualties. But it is better in momentum, when fighting with the officers and soldiers before, the officers and soldiers were very afraid of such a battle impact. Because the other party is looking for you desperately. If you also sprint, it may be one-on-one, and even if you are a martial arts master, you have to dodge in the face of such a situation.

But when encountering Zhao Laosan, this fighting style has no effect. When Zhao Laosan's spear saw the opponent's impact, he gently picked it up, and the threat of the opponent's sprint trajectory was gone. Then sweep again, the opponent's spear has not been withdrawn, it is knocked to the ground, and then when he turns around, he spends up returning the gun, the spear does not assassinate out, and it takes a lot of strength to assassinate it.

This is the disadvantage of desperate assassination, every time they are assassinated, they must use all their strength to achieve such a result, and as a result, they are knocked to the ground. Then the possibility of fighting was lost.

"Damn it. You're amazing. The soldier of the third company scolded.

Then hit again, and it turned out to be the same.

"Okay." The soldiers of the seventh company applauded one after another. They learned a lot of such skills at once. Zhao Laosan's limelight was very enjoyable for a while.

In the stands not far away, Ma Heng, his chief of staff, was observing the situation here, and the distance was not far, but Ma Heng still took the telescope to check it, and the popularity of telescopes began to increase, which was a great benefit to them.

"This soldier is very good, I think that if the training is the same, it can still be used in combat. Or maybe we promote such a way. Ma Heng looked at Zhao Laosan's fighting skills, and he found that in his fighting, in addition to attacking, there were also some simple tricks to use, although it still needed some experience to learn. For example, Zhao Laosan said, a slight pick, such a trick seems very simple, but it requires soldiers to have a strong psychological quality, the spear is not far from you, that is, about three feet away, this distance is very fast, that is, a blink of an eye, you need to accurately grasp such an opportunity, if you grasp it, you can pick the opponent's spear away, but if you can't grasp it, the situation will be very unfavorable to you, because as long as you blink of an eye, the spear will fly over at once, and then you will die.

This kind of psychological quality can only be formed after a lot of actual combat. It is not easy to cultivate, because this method of warfare can easily cause one's own casualties.

Too early, the required strength, and the opponent's change of tactics will appear, too late, too late. Because your life is given to the other person. There are still certain difficulties in learning.

"Sir, you can write such a trick in the infantry drill code, so that all soldiers can learn it, and the combat effectiveness of our brigade can be improved a lot." So said the chief of staff.

"I think so too, but this soldier seems to be from the official army prisoner of war, and there are some shadows of the official army's learning in his spear tactics, and he should have figured out some methods by himself in the later stage." Ma Heng said.

Judging from his current learning method, it seems that there is still some difficulty, after all, this kind of tactic is not something that anyone can learn. This also requires some experience and a variety of learning potentials to complete. Ma Heng said.

"Hmm. But this tactic is very important for us. Chief of Staff Zhang Li said.

"Well, let him give it a try, if he can teach a platoon, I will let him be the platoon leader of course, now is the time to employ people, we should break many, many rules, only in this way, can we give the other party some opportunities to complete a larger study time." Ma Heng thought about it and said.

"Hmm. Sir, there are a few more things. The chief of staff took out a piece of paper from his cloth bag.

"This is a new order issued by the War Department, let us organize a group of 200 troops to learn the relevant training of operating muskets." Chief of Staff Zhang Li said.

"Oh. The musket still came down. It seems that the combat effectiveness of our brigade is still very high. Ma Heng said.

"No, sir, according to my inquiry, other brigades have also received relevant orders. It seems that the commander wanted to equip the various units with a large number of muskets at once. Chief of Staff Zhang Li said.

"Oh. Is the production of the arsenal really that big? Ma Heng looked at the command in his hand very strangely. For a while, Ma Heng didn't know what his chief thought. Perhaps only their own superiors could understand such a thing.

Inside the Lijiazhuang Operations Department.

Shang Wu and Jia Xu were discussing such a thing.

"The problem with raw materials is not too big. Because of the high prices we offer, many merchants buy what we need from far away, and they can make a lot of money as soon as they sell their hands. For now, sulfur, pig iron, copper, these are not lacking. But in the long run, this is not good for us, because it will cost more money, and we will have a lot more difficulty in this area. Jia Xu said worriedly.

"Well, it's still money. If the arsenal wants to expand, it also needs funds, but the finance can't come up with so much money at present, so it can only build an empty shelf, and we need to invest in it ourselves, so that more factories can be built, it is also very difficult, they lack enough funds, expand the scale, and it is still very difficult for a while. Shang Wu said.

"I think we should think of other ways to solve this problem." Jia Xu said.

"Or we can solve this problem with paper money." Jia Xu said tentatively. Paper money is a new thing for him. Perhaps in such a situation, such a situation can be driven.

"I think it's not the right time to see the current situation, because we should see a situation that requires us to pay attention to a lot of things, and it's a burden for us, because this kind of banknote can only be used in the base areas. Out of the base area, it is a piece of waste paper, it is difficult to circulate, and we can't use such things to pay for credit, which is still not good. Shang Wu shook his head and said.

At present, it is difficult to issue banknotes in this way, I am afraid that it is difficult for many reasons, first of all, the credibility of banknotes is far from enough, although the Red Turban Army has a certain degree of creditworthiness, but only in a certain range, a certain area. With paper money, those factory owners do not agree in the first place, which is a kind of robbery. It's hard to do that way.

"Other ways are also difficult to carry out, after all, the funding gap is still very large, factories need to buy raw materials, the price of raw materials is still very high, to expand the scale, but also need manpower, to rescue these things, it is still relatively difficult, unless our government insists on doing this, otherwise, our production will be difficult." Jia Xu said with difficulty.

"In addition to these, there are some things that we need to pay attention to, and that is that each brigade has a musket team, so that their difficulty will increase a lot, are we not in such a situation, reduce the number of musket teams, after all, production is still difficult." Jia Xu suggested.

"Nope. If we can't do that, we can solve it by other means, but we must not reduce the production of the arsenal, because once production there comes to a standstill, our base area will be in danger. Shang Wu said.