After Du Wenhao accepted the Sanya a few days ago, he made a major adjustment to the high-level military generals, and almost all of them were replaced by his own people. However, the middle and lower-ranking officers almost remained unchanged. This Guo Ce is also the original general, Du Wenhao heard what he said, he knew that he was tired, he originally just randomly selected the nearest garrison outside the city to inspect, and wanted to learn about the garrison outside the city, but he didn't expect to encounter problems at the first stop.

Du Wenhao said coldly: "You have time to drink, but the official doesn't have time to accompany you." Give you a moment to immediately gather all the officers and men of the headquarters on the training ground. The sergeant is a moment late, and he will beat you with ten sticks, and you can weigh it yourself. Judge the time, keep track of me! ”

The military lawyer agreed, holding a colander and began to keep the time.

This garrison has only one commander (battalion), according to the establishment, the strength of one commander is 500 people, the barracks is not large, and the time for an emergency assembly (about fifteen minutes) is enough.

The commander made Guo Ce frightened when he heard this, and hurriedly gave up his hands and ordered the soldiers around him to beat drums and gather.

The drums were beating, and the time for a cup of tea was approaching, but less than twenty or thirty people came. Guo Ce was stunned, picked up the leather whip and ran to the barracks, roaring as he ran: "Hurry up!" Fuck fast! All the inspectors came to inspect it! It's too late, Lao Tzu wants your life! ”

As soon as he roared, dozens of soldiers came out of the barracks one after another, all of them were disheveled, and some of them were arguing about the win or loss just now, obviously gambling. There were even some soldiers who were still asleep in the barracks and did not hear them, until the leather whip was whipped, and then they got up dimly.

By the time all the soldiers had arrived, three quarters had passed.

Du Wenhao asked Guo Ce coldly: "How many people are you commanding?" ”

Guo Ce cringed and said, "Return to the general, five hundred." ”

"Five hundred?" Du Wenhao glanced at the soldiers in the field, "Are there five hundred people here?" Tell me the number! ”

The soldiers counted one by one, and the number came up with was only two hundred and twenty-six, less than half.

Du Wenhao said angrily: "What about the rest? Where did it go? ”

Guo Ce said in a panic: "This ......, out, out!" ”

"Nonsense, if you don't go out, will you go to heaven and earth? The officer asked them where they had gone? Don't tell me you don't know! ”

Guo Ce wiped the cold sweat on his forehead: "Most of the ...... went back to Yi, and a small part was in the county wine shop and ...... and the gambling house......"

Du Wenhao already knew that the army was engaged in for-profit activities, and at that time he only knew that the Xiang army did this, but he didn't expect the forbidden army to do the same, and he also used more than half of the men and horses, and even opened a gambling house. I was so angry that I asked, "Does the court allow you to do this?" ”

The imperial court naturally forbade the army to do business, but in the face of a huge gap in military spending, it had to turn a blind eye to the army's business. So Guo Ce wasn't very nervous, everyone was doing it anyway.

He laughed and said, "General, the court is not allowed, it's just, hehe, the brothers also have to eat." ”

Du Wenhao knew that this was not the problem of this battalion, but the problem of the entire army, and he didn't want to delve into this matter now, he wanted to beat the commander and envoy first, but it still depends on the situation of his military drill, so he said coldly: "You are two quarters of an hour overtime, and the twenty military sticks are remembered for the time being, and this officer wants to see your military exercise." If you play well, the official will exempt you from the military stick, and if you don't play well, the new and old accounts will be counted together! ”

Guo Ce hurriedly agreed, and accompanied Du Wenhao and other officers to the high platform of the exercise ground, Du Wenhao was seated in the chair, and the rest of the generals stood sideways behind him.

Guo Ce stood on the side of the high platform and waved the command flag in his hand: "First capital, out of the ranks!" Get on target! - Prepare with a crossbow——! Put! ”

Originally, there were 100 soldiers, but more than half of them went out to do business. Therefore, there were less than fifty crossbowmen standing on the hundred-step target. They are all armed with stirrup crossbows.

Fifty arrows flew out, and he heard the chaotic thump, and Du Wenhao looked at it, almost not sitting on the ground from the stool. - I saw a row of humanoid grass stacks on the target, and only a dozen arrows were inserted! Most of them missed the target and shot on top of the earthen wall with a thick meadow hanging behind them! There were also a few who couldn't even open their crossbows, couldn't get on their arrows, and stood there with their heads bowed.

Guo Ce saw Du Wenhao's reaction out of the corner of his eye, not only was he even more nervous, but he said sharply: "Give me some spirit!" Kick the crossbow and get on the arrow! Ready to ——, release! ”

This time, perhaps because they were all nervous, they missed the target more.

"Kick the crossbow on the arrow......"

When Guo Ce continued to shout. Du Wenhao suddenly shouted: "Okay! Switch to the next team! ”

Guo Ce hurriedly agreed, and changed to a team, this team is also crossbowmen, and the results are about the same as the previous team, and the next two teams are archers. Although the speed of the bow is faster than that of the crossbow, the accuracy is not as good as the crossbow, so the results are even less ideal. There were also a small number of soldiers who were unable to draw their crossbows.

The last team was the gunners, armed with repulsive rifles, which were used to prevent the enemy cavalry from charging, and practiced the art of stabbing.

This stabbing technique is a prescribed action, similar to the military body fist of the modern army, the action is relatively small, but more practical, the rejection of the horse pistol to achieve the effect of resisting the impact of the cavalry, the key is to be uniform, otherwise the side of the pace is inconsistent, it is easy to be broken through by the enemy cavalry, once the breakthrough is close, the pikeman has become the live target of the cavalry saber. That's pretty dangerous.

However, after the performance of a set of stabbing techniques, Du Wenhao even had the heart to cry - not only were the movements chaotic, but a small number of them were even at a loss, and they seemed to have forgotten how this set of marksmanship was made.

This is the forbidden army stationed outside the capital! It is the core barrier of the capital's defense, and at this level, let alone any elite, it is not much stronger than the Yamen archers he saw in Dongda County!

Du Wenhao has been bringing soldiers for a while, and he has also seen the infantry drill of the guards in front of Banzhiyu, and he thought it was okay at the time, although there were off-target, but it was not so outrageous, and he didn't expect to be separated by a city wall, so one was in the sky and one was underground.

Du Wenhao said in a deep voice: "Tell the crossbowmen to start work one by one, and the official wants to see how powerful the bow they can fire!" ”

"Yes!" Guo Ce hurriedly ordered the crossbowmen to go to the stage to line up and move the crossbows for testing, and the crossbowmen pulled the bows and crossbows to test the fighting strength of the bows.

After the test, sixty percent of the crossbowmen can open eight buckets of bows, two stones and four buckets of crossbows, reaching a medium level. Another two percent have excellent results, and of course, there are also two percent that can't pull away the worst seven-bucket bows and two-stone one-bucket crossbows.

Du Wenhao was pleased to find that among the 200 or so soldiers, the basic physical quality of eighty percent of the soldiers is not bad, and as long as they are trained strictly, they can still be trained to become good soldiers; as for the archery that misses the target, the stabbing technique is unfamiliar, and the cooperation is not good, the main reason is obviously the lack of training. It is understandable that the army is busy with business all day long, and there is no time for military training.

Du Wenhao also wanted to see the comprehensive combat capability, and said: "Beat the drums, line up for synthetic training!" ”

Guo Ce hurriedly agreed, waved the order flag, the war drums sounded, and the soldiers carried bows and crossbows, carried spears and flags, and began to run around, looking for their respective positions and forming battle formations. It took a cup of tea, but the formation was still not lined up, because a small number of soldiers did not even know where they should stand. Scurrying through the queue.

Du Wenhao walked to the stage with a blushing face, didn't look at Guo Ce, and said coldly: "This is the team you led?" I can't even stand in a combat formation, how can I fight on the ground? ”

Guo Ce blushed and said in a low voice: "Dereliction of duty, please forgive the general, I will train well in the future, and lead the team well......"

"Humph! I'll give you a quarter of an hour now, and go down and put the line in order for me. In the back, you have to charge, defend, shift your camp, and change your formation. I don't want to see such a mess of rabble again! ”

"Yes!" Guo Ce jumped off the high platform with the command flag, ran to the front of the formation with a gust of wind, kicked and beaten, and finally let the few soldiers who could not find a place return to the team, put the team in order, and said loudly a few times about the training requirements behind, to see when the time was up, then ran back to the stage, waved the command flag, beat the drum and began to practice.

It's a pity that there has been no war around the capital for hundreds of years, the armament is slack, and his army has not had formal training for too long, so how can it be rectified in this short tea time.

The first action went wrong, originally with the war drum drum signal and the waving of different colors of flags, it should be the front row of refusal of the rifle kneeling, the back row of the stirrup crossbowman crossbowman, as a result, the front row of the rejection of the horse gunner for too long did not train, the drum beat was heard wrong, heard as a retreat defense, a backward retreat of the gun, his back row of crossbowmen is one foot on the crossbow, equipped with arrows, saw him stabbed a gun to his thigh, immediately panicked, a loose foot, the bow and crossbow rebounded, bang, is smashing in his face.

The soldier groaned, covered his face and squatted on the ground, blood flowing down his fingers!

The surrounding soldiers immediately panicked and gathered around.

Du Wenhao said sharply: "The soldiers are injured, naturally there are military doctors to take care of them, this is a military exercise, there is no order, but the formation is chaotic, how can such a team win the battle!" ”

The soldiers suddenly stopped.

Du Wenhao roared: "Military doctor! Carry people down for me! Military?! - What about the medics?! Where did the medics go? ”

Guo Ce said in a panic: "The military doctor ......, and the military doctor went to the military pharmacy in the city to sit in the hall for consultation......

The army's business has spread all over the world, and even the pharmacy and medical hall have interfered, which really makes Du Wenhao dumbfounded.

He shouted, "The drill is paused, I'll heal him!" With that, he jumped off the platform.

The officers and soldiers heard his voice, and they all knew that the new Sanyadu was a dignified imperial doctor, and with him taking care of him, they were naturally relieved, and when they saw him running over, they immediately returned to the queue.

Xu Huaqiang and other guards also followed, Du Wenhao instructed the guards to help the injured soldier to sit down on the bench on the sidelines, let him take away his bloody hands, and found that the long finger-long crack at the forehead of his eyebrow arch was deep to the bone, and it was only an inch away from hurting his eyes, which was really lucky. Immediately tear off a piece of clothing and crumple it into a ball, press on the wound, and at the same time tell the soldier to go and fetch it from the military doctor's out-of-office box.