On the playground of the Yulin Bay barracks, representatives of the five infantry regiments, cavalry regiments, and heavy artillery regiments of the independent division, as well as the navy, marines, and independent battalions of the military academy, were neatly lined up in several phalanxes. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 On the info rostrum, behind Wei Yang and Zhang Guodong stood several soldiers holding flags of various colors, and the flag awarding ceremony of the Yulin Army was underway.

"Major General Jiang Beiming, the supreme military commander of the Yulin Army!" Wei Yang shouted.

"Here." Jiang Beiming walked quickly onto the rostrum.

Zhang Guodong took the military flag from the soldiers behind him and handed it to Wei Yang, who stretched out the flag in front of Jiang Beiming: "On behalf of the Military Commission, I awarded you the military flag of the Yulin Army, and I hope you can love this flag as much as you love life, which is the pride of all the Yulin Army." ”

"Yes, Chairman Wei." Jiang Beiming took the military flag and unfurled it in the wind, "swear to defend the military flag and defend the honor of the Yulin Army." ”

"Major General Han Wantao, Minister of the Army of the Yulin Army!"

"Here." Han Wantao also stepped onto the stage to take over the military flag.

"On behalf of the Military Commission, I awarded you the military flag of the Yulin Army, and I hope that one day this military flag will fly in the east of the world."

"Yes, Chairman Wei." Han Wantao replied loudly, "The place where the military flag flutters is the place where the Yulin Army wins." ”

"Brigadier General Zeng Guangxian, Minister of the Admiralty of the Yulin Army!"

"Here."

"On behalf of the Military Commission, I award you the naval flag of the Yulin Army, hoping that it can fly over the vast four oceans."

"Yes, Chairman Wei. Our warships will fly this bright flag and march forward. ”

"Brigadier General Li Fuqiang, commander of the new army of Annan of the Yulin Army!"

"Colonel He Chaoyong, Chief of Staff of the Independent Division of the Yulin Army!"

"Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Hai, Commander of the Marine Corps of the Yulin Army!"

"Colonel Lin Zhaolong, commander of the First Step Corps of the Independent Division of the Yulin Army!"

"Lieutenant Colonel Andrias, commander of the cavalry regiment of the independent division of the Yulin Army!"

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Military flags fluttered in the wind on the rostrum.

"The sword dance is long and the north wind is cold, and one person and one sword make waves. The wind and thunder are broken, the sky is still there, and the pride of the nine heavens is broken. I don't know who led the singing of the Yulin Army in the audience, and the loud singing resounded in the sky.

After the flag-awarding ceremony, the Military Council made a decision, and ten days later, Andreas led a battalion of cavalry to follow Ye Zhan's 4th Infantry Regiment to attack Yulin Fort. At the same time, Jiang Beiming and Xu Lang also followed Wang Zhaoxing back to Shandong.

Han Wantao, Zeng Guangxian, Zhang Guodong, and Wei Yang came to Shen Daxing's Military Research Institute together.

"Daxing, how are the guns going, when will the Pearl be activated?"

"Leaders, sit, sit." Shen Daxing smiled while letting go of his seat, "Can't you come to visit us, it's okay to express some condolences, it's a matter of guns when you come." ”

"You Shen Daxing still want condolences?" Han Wantao said with a smile, "How many flintlock pistols are there now, if it is enough to equip my Fifth Regiment, I can consider consoling you." ”

"If the Pearl can move, I can consider it." Zeng Guangxian also said, "What you want to eat, you can choose the place, and I will pay for the silver." ”

"My Minister Zeng, don't you order anything else but to eat?" Shen Daxing picked up the teapot and began to pour tea, "No kidding." More than 1,200 flintlock muskets have been produced now, and the establishment of the fifth regiment is 1,000 people. The 24-pounder gun and the 32-pounder gun are about the same, and it should be installed in another 10 days or so. ”

"yes, that's great." Han Wantao and Zeng Guangxian were very excited.

"Shen Daxing." Wei Yang asked, "How many steam engines have you made now, and what else can you do besides making guns with machines?" ”

"Wei Yang, you are now the chairman of the Military Commission, this question should be asked by Lu Lao." Shen Daxing didn't answer, but asked Han Wantao, "How are you going to train the Fifth Regiment, open training or secret training?" ”

"Secret training." Han Wantao replied, "I'm going to pull the Fifth Regiment out to find a small island with no one to train secretly, and after the training, I will directly drive out of Yulin Fort and not return to Yulin Bay." How many bullets can you provide, though? ”

"There are not a lot of bullets, less than 40,000 rounds in total, and more than 30 rounds for a gun."

"Why is it so little, even if you shoot 5 rounds a day, it will be done in less than a week."

"There's no way around it." Shen Daxing explained, "Since we have made flintlock pistols, we have to strive for unified standards, and the parts and bullets of firearms are required to be universal. The caliber and parts of these more than 1,000 flintlock guns were checked one by one, and those with too large deviations were polished and corrected by hand. Although the method of stamping and pouring is also used for Mini bullets, there is still a big deviation, and we do not have the hand to polish them one by one, and all the unqualified ones are returned to the furnace, so the output of bullets is not high. ”

Han Wantao shook his shoulders helplessly to express his understanding, and Wei Yang asked, "How is the development of the flowering bomb?" ”

"The most primitive flowering bomb has been made." Shen Daxing introduced, "According to Lu Lao's recollections, "Qing Huidian? "Armament" records the scene of Weiyuan's cannon firing flowering shells: 'When using, first load gunpowder into the medicine room, add wood and soil in between, and then put the cannonball into the breech, fill the bullet with gunpowder, and then separate a layer of wet soil, and finally seal the muzzle with wax. When firing, the fuse on the shell is first lit from the muzzle, and then the fuse on the fire door is quickly ignited. When Kangxi pacified Geerdan, he used flowering bombs against his camel array. We produced the flowering bombs according to this method, but the results were not very good. And now there are only 2 guns dedicated to this kind of shells, with a range of only 1,000 meters, and you can also take them to Yulinbao to try the effect of actual combat. ”

"How's the rate of fire?" Han Wantao asked again.

Shen Daxing said with a smile: "Skilled artillery, one shot in 2 to 3 minutes." ”

"Let's do it first." Zhang Guodong said, "Let's take it to Yulinbao to try it first, and then make improvements according to the actual combat situation." ”

Xu Lang was holding a meeting of all staff officers in the conference room of the General Staff Headquarters.

"Staff Officer Gao and I are about to go to Shandong, and while I am away, all the work of the General Staff will be presided over by Colonel Leng Tianbing, deputy chief of the General Staff."

"Yes, sir." All the staff officers replied neatly.

"I'm often absent anyway, you're all used to it." Xu Lang smiled and looked at Henglu Keiji and Li Wenqing, who had been promoted to major, "Henglu Jun and Major Li, in addition to the work of the General Staff, you also have to assist the deputy chief of staff in the next step of recruitment and reorganization. I will send people to Yulin Bay one after another, and all the suitable people who will be sent back will be conscripted into the army. ”

"Chief of the General Staff." Leng Tianbing asked, "The matter of conscription is not the work of the General Staff Department, why should we be responsible?" ”

"The people who can be responsible are gone." Xu Lang counted with his fingers, "Li Fuqiang has returned to Annan, Liu Jun and Fan Qiuming have gone to Singapore, and the rest have gone to the north." Zeng Guangxian is still busy with the affairs of the navy and Taiwan, you can't let Wei Yang be in charge of recruitment, he can't even tell the difference between the regiment commander and the battalion commander. ”