The early morning sun had just appeared in the sky, and the school field of the Hamiwei military camp was already in full swing, and groups of Ming soldiers were practicing various firearm movements under the command of the generals, sweating like rain and extremely focused.

Although the cold winter has not passed, Hou Gongji is wearing a thin single coat, in the middle of the school field, wielding a spear, practicing a simple set of marksmanship over and over again.

This set of marksmanship does not have any fancy tricks, just block, take, and tie the three basic actions together, at a glance, although the moves are simple, Hou Gongji is extremely powerful, especially when the gun is pierced out, "poof, puff" only see the cold mang, and the shadow of the gun can't be seen clearly!

After practicing for about half an hour, he finally stopped the movement in his hand and raised his breath to collect the gun.

Soon, two guards came from a distance, one handed a wet towel, and the other took the spear in his hand.

Hou Gong wiped the beads of sweat on his face very simply, threw the towel into the hands of the guards, and walked towards the middle of the soldiers who were training, and two guards followed him, one carrying a revolving rifle, and the other carrying the latest sniper rifle!

General Hou came to inspect, but he didn't dare to be sloppy, the soldiers in the school field were more focused, and the shouts of killing seemed to be much louder.

Hou Gongji watched the movements of the soldiers as he walked, one after another, row after row, but whenever there was a movement near him that was not standard, he would step forward and straighten them one by one, at this time, the generals who commanded the drill would also stop very cooperatively, until he stepped back and left, and then continued to give the next order.

He roughly turned around, half an hour passed, the drill was nearing the end, many teams began to gather to close the team, Hou Gongji still stood straight in the school field, silently watching every movement of his soldiers.

"Chirp", there was a sudden hawk cry in the sky, and Hou Gongji immediately fled away.

Judging from his rich experience, the straight-line distance should be less than five hundred paces, and he quickly stretched out his hand backwards and said loudly, "Sniper rifle." “

The guards in the back hurriedly unloaded the sniper rifle on their shoulders and handed it to him.

Hou Gongji took the sniper rifle, raised it quickly, and aimed at the eagle in the air, his movements were extremely fast.

With a "snap", a wisp of gunpowder smoke rose, and a ball of flying feathers burst out of the air, and the eagle screamed and flew away crookedly.

Hou Gongji shook his head and handed the sniper rifle back to the guards.

This shot is very accurate at a stationary target, but once the target is moving, it is difficult to hit, he just aimed at the lower abdomen of the eagle, but only hit the tail feathers of the eagle, it seems that he will have to practice more in the future.

Although he didn't shoot down the eagle with this shot, the soldiers he saw all showed reverent eyes, if the distance was close, the eagle could be far away, the most important thing, it was flying, looking at it from a distance, fluttering and flickering, so that a shot could hit the feathers flying, doesn't it mean that within a mile, even the cavalry is a shot!

Hou Gongji can be said to be the pride of the Qin army, he himself is a native of Yulin, the birthplace of the Qin army, and his father is also the commander of the First Army of the Expeditionary Force, Hou Shilu!

The Hou family is also a famous Jiangmen in Yulin Town, originally, with his background, he can completely accumulate ancestral shade to reach today's position, and even climb higher.

However, he didn't, he practiced marksmanship hard, was familiar with military books, Chongzheng participated in the Jiaxu Branch Martial Arts Ceremony for seven years, and won the second place in the first class in one fell swoop, and then transferred to the army, and slowly rose to the position of the fourth rank of the general with military merits, without relying on the shadow of his ancestors.

He is also an extremely diligent person, not only his own diligent study and hard training, but also very strict requirements for his subordinate soldiers, every morning drill is thunder that cannot be moved, from time to time to pull to the wilderness to practice field formation, it can be said that when there is no war, it is harder than fighting!

Of course, the soldiers of the Qin army did not have any complaints, because he led by example, he was absolutely the first soldier in the battle, and he worked harder than his soldiers in the drill, and even after the drill was over, he had to inspect the sentry posts everywhere, and after the inspection of the sentry posts, he also went back to study the military books and battle formations, and there was almost no rest from day to night.

After all the soldiers on the school field were gone, he walked to the city wall as usual and began to inspect the defense of the city wall.

In fact, there has been no war in this Hamiwei, at least in the past three or four years, he has not even seen the shadow of the enemy, and in the surroundings of Hamiwei, he also arranged secret sentinels, and even hid the secret agents of the Jinyi Guard in the various departments of the Watts, Kazakhstan, Yuejibei, Yarkand, Burha, and Er'e, so to speak, any disturbance in the entire Western Regions cannot be hidden from the eyes of the Ming army.

However, last month, the Tile Spur Department suddenly gathered 100,000 cavalry, and the news soon spread to Hamiwei, and Hou Gongji immediately reported to Sun Chuanting by telegram, and the cavalry of the Qin army was even ready to set off to support, but as a result, the cavalry of the Tile Spur Department went in the direction of the Kazakh Khanate in the north.

Then, the Jinyi Wei secret agents came with news one after another.

The Kazakh Khanate also gathered 100,000 cavalry, and the two sides met in the Uss steppe, but there was no fight;

Then, Tsarist Russia also came with nearly 200,000 troops, and the three sides did not go to war, as if they were plotting something.

During that time, Sun Chuanting even issued an emergency mobilization order, ordering all Qin troops and garrisons to be ready for battle.

As a result, Tsarist Russia left, the Kazakh Khanate retreated, and the cavalry of the Vaspur ran back as if nothing had happened!

However, immediately afterward, the Jinyi Guard secret agent came with news that the Tile Spur Department was practicing musket shooting, and there were still a lot of muskets.

At this time, Sun Chuanting couldn't sit still, he even went to Hamiwei to inspect the defense, and applied for 100,000 grenades and 100,000 mines from the Ministry of War, and even wanted to apply for a batch of artillery, but after seeing Hamiwei's situation, he still gave up.

The Qin army is a first-class legion, the number of artillery is full of 1,000, Hamiwei has gathered half of the Qin army's artillery, that is, 500 guns, Hamiwei's city wall is less than two miles long and wide, almost every ten steps There is a cannon, to be more dense, there is not enough place to stand people, and it is useless to apply for more artillery.

Of course, if they don't gather a large army to come in the direction of Hamiwei, Sun Chuanting will not dare to report to the military department.

However, when Sun Chuanting left, he left a sentence: "Always be vigilant." “

Therefore, Hou Gongji's inspection of the sentry during this period of time was very serious, if anyone was lazy during the standing guard and was discovered by him, it would definitely be a board, even if he was inattentive, he would run over and yell at him!