On the second day of the second day of February, today is also a holiday, but the training of the new army still does not stop for a moment; in the morning, all units ran around the school field in one breath for 10 laps, had breakfast, and conducted another hour of parade training.

After the parade ended, the departments took a short breath, followed by the most headache parade cross-country run.

The route that Xu Shiyang demarcated for the recruits is probably more than 3 kilometers and less than 4 kilometers, which is already a "moat" that is difficult for the new soldiers who have just been promoted from the militia at this stage.

Moreover, Xu Shiyang stipulated that when all units run cross-country, they must be fully armed, and they must march in formation, no matter which squadron, the subordinate soldiers fall behind more than 10%, and the whole team will be beaten with sticks.

Similarly, if the squadron does not arrive at the specified time, the last squadron will be responsible for the hygiene of the camp in addition to the sticks.

There was no corporal punishment in the new army, and there was no humiliating punishment, but it still hurt to pump the baton on the buttocks, and everyone was resting, and it was too embarrassing for you to sweep the floor.

As a result, all the squadrons were stimulated to fight for the lead, and with the support of adequate diet, some squadron leaders even ordered the stronger men in the team to run forward with the thinner soldiers, and then form a team when they were almost at their destination.

After the team arrived, there were one or two more confrontation drills between the infantry battalion and the infantry battalion - in fact, only the selected soldiers and sharp soldiers fought with wooden sticks wrapped in thick cloth, and the magic soldiers themselves went to the corner to contact the firearms to load.

The melee soldiers were shouting and drinking, and the fight was very lively, but Xu Shizhen's Shenji Soldier unit had to be calm, and the whole team was in a state of uprightness, silent.

This is so that the whole team can hear the captain's horn clearly.

"Drop!"

"Prepare"

Following the squad leader's command, Xu Shizhen took off the "musket" on his shoulder, and the muzzle of the gun was slightly tilted towards himself.

This so-called musket is actually a thick wooden stick cut into the shape of an arquebus stock, and then tied to a thin bamboo stick with a bamboo section open.

The training gun invented by Zhao Lin was popularized in the new barracks, and in addition to not being able to shoot live ammunition, it was not much different from a real musket, and even similar in weight.

"Drop!"

"Reload!"

Xu Shizhen began to load the barrel made of fine bamboo tube step by step - first fill two-thirds of the fine sand pre-installed in a small bamboo tube into the barrel, then put in a round lead bullet, press it twice with a strip, but not too tightly, so as not to cause the propellant to burn incompletely, and then pour the remaining fine sand in the bamboo tube into the medicine room at the back of the bamboo tube.

At this point, a gunpowder loading was completed, Xu Shizhen raised the body of the gun, the butt of the gun against his right shoulder, and closed one eye to make an aiming shape.

He was aiming at the old and weak who were standing about 30 paces in front of him, and during the reloading training of the Divine Soldiers, these third-class fellows had been using slingshots to catapult mud at them, interfering with their operations.

After all the personnel of the entire squadron have finished loading, the third horn sounds, and the soldiers reflexively simulate the sound of shooting with their mouths:

"Phew!"

Then put the gun down and return to a reloading position with the butt on the ground.

At this time, the third-class soldiers also stopped their annoying mud bomb attacks, but most of the Divine Soldiers had been mud-soaked into mud monkeys.

At the end of a loading training, two instructors assigned by the Dingyuan battalion checked the "muskets" in the hands of the soldiers one by one to see if they were really loaded as required.

And, of course, the unlucky ones who haven't finished reloading after the three horn sounds are over, and the fools who are deformed during the mud bomb attack.

An instructor walked up to Xu Shizhen, took his gun, the muzzle of the gun tilted downward, and poured out the filling inside little by little.

The other carefully observed the order of the poured items - first a round buckshot, then a pinch of fine sand, and the instructor estimated the weight of the fine sand, well, almost appropriate.

Finally, the "primer" in the medicine room is poured out and the inspection is completed.

"Private Xu Shizhen, qualified!" The instructor returned the training gun to Xu Shizhen and shouted: "Clear the chamber!" ”

Call.......

Xu Shizhen breathed a sigh of relief, he especially hated being beaten with a military stick, because it was undoubtedly a shame to be beaten on the ground, and the instructors especially liked to execute the women of the logistics team when they came to deliver food, and they were beaten in the laughter of those big girls and little daughters-in-law, which was really .......

Xu Shizhen has read books, and his nutritional conditions are much better than most of the Wubao people since he was a child, and he even killed people very early (personally executed people who tried to escape to the mountains), although he was not taken care of during training, and even always received attention, whether it was queue training or loading training, he was much stronger than the others in the same team - stronger than the squadron leader and squad leader.

As a result, Xu Shizhen usually suffered fewer batons than his comrades—just less.

Xu Shiyang has always emphasized the role of the collective, and the Shenji soldiers are even more of a branch of the army that will have no combat effectiveness if they do not form a close collective, so there are many joint punishments in the troops.

In a squad of 10 people, if more than 3 people are not qualified, the whole team will be punished together. The same goes for the squadron, if 3 squads are punished, the whole squadron will be beaten!

There are many other uncomfortable joint and several responsibilities, and some soldiers who have done a good job are often punished along with the backwards.

This regulation is not reasonable in the eyes of many people, but there is no way, military discipline is like this, don't play if you don't accept it.

"Private Shi Chongshan, unqualified! Ten Sticks! ”

Xu Shizhen's heart instantly lifted, and if there were two more unqualified, their team would be beaten collectively.

Fortunately, the unqualified voice did not sound again, and everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Then the breath was only half relaxed, and it turned into cold air and was inhaled again.

"The squad leader's password is unqualified!"

At the end of the queue, a devastating voice sounded, Xu Shizhen reacted at this time, and when the third horn sounded, he did not hear the squad leader's command to fire at the same time!

"It's bitter!" Xu Shizhen heard his teammates standing beside him sigh quietly: "I've been implicated!" ”

"All squad! Ten Sticks! ”

"Wait! I didn't mean to! ”

"Squad leader Zhang Youdi, I didn't shout a report, ten army sticks!"

"Uh......." Xu Shizhen's squad leader swallowed and foamed with difficulty, and then remembered the training discipline, he half-raised his right hand and shouted: "Report!" ”

"Speak." An instructor stood in front of Zhang Youdi with his hands behind his back, staring straight into his eyes, and the captain of the squad who looked at him felt furious in his heart.

The instructor in front of him is a sergeant-level veteran, who has participated in the night attack on Tatars last year, the suppression of bandits in Fulai Mountain, and the later pacification of the Japanese rebellion and the battle of 15 Tun, and it is rumored that more than 20 people have died at his hands!

"Well, I didn't mean it just now, a piece of mud got into my mouth......" Zhang Youdi explained tremblingly.

"You're just putting a lump of mud in your mouth, and you're going to kill the whole team?" The instructor yelled: "This is not a reason! Overrule! ”