Colin has been extremely busy these days, as he only has ten days, and after ten days he will lose his translator.

He has now recruited three hundred local soldiers, and has taken strict measures to prevent desertion, and with the arrival of Xie Qinggao, the training of these people has also entered the right track.

But this state can only last for ten days, so Colin needs to solve the problem within those ten days. He began to have Xie Qinggao teach English to local soldiers. Xie Qinggao is a native of the Chaoshan area, and his language is similar to Fujian, and he is indeed very talented in languages, he can speak Hakka and Hokkien, so there is no obstacle to communicating with these locals.

But even if these soldiers have the same language talent as Colin and Xie Qinggao, ten days will definitely not allow him to learn English, so Colin's method is to adopt a simplified method, that is, to use short military terms to solve problems as much as possible, and let Xie Qinggao teach these people to understand a few simple military terms.

While this can seriously affect a soldier's ability to execute complex military orders, it is still possible to perform simple operations with a large force.

As for letting Colin learn Chinese, this is not an option, first, because the arrogant Colin thinks he is superior, and second, he thinks that Chinese Chinese is too complicated, a low-level primitive language, and not worth learning at all.

But the Chinese are very smart, in just a few days, with mercenary demonstrations, everyone understands the role of simple military terms, knows how to walk in unison, runs and other military skills, and can also line up in a neat queue under the simple orders of the officer, looking presentable.

At this time, Zhou Lang sent someone to invite him to discuss with him the training of those Chinese hired by Zhou Lang from Nanyang, Colin had no reason to object, manpower was very important, he worked hard to leave three hundred local soldiers, Zhou Lang has more than sixty people here, it is a manpower that cannot be ignored.

However, Colin proposed to let these people be directly integrated into his team, and his reason was that unified training and management would allow for better combat effectiveness.

Zhou Langman didn't care: "You're right. However, I suggest that they train in the city, on the one hand, it can also strengthen the defense force in our city, and on the other hand, I hope to participate in the training and gain some military experience. Now I don't want to stay out for long. ”

Colin thought for a moment, then agreed.

He sent twenty mercenaries in the city to train Zhou Lang and those Nanyang Chinese soldiers nearby, these twenty people were Xie Qinggao's boat, and after being transferred to the left battalion, they were left in the city, and the mercenaries who had been following Colin were all transferred out of the left battalion to supplement the defense outside the city. But both Zhou Lang and Colin were very sure that these twenty people only listened to Colin's orders, because they were also leased to Britain by the Hessian government because of the diplomatic agreement between the Archduke of Hesse and the British.

The training site is in the square outside the Confucius Temple in the west of the city, opposite the Lotus Pond. There are certain regulations on the construction of the Temple of Literature, that is, there must be a semi-circular pool in front of the temple, which is called Pan Pond. Confucianism is very particular about etiquette, this Pan Chi system is formed from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, according to the ancient rites, the Son of Heaven Taixue has a school palace in the center, called Biyong, surrounded by water, and the princes must descend a level, can only be Pan Water in the south, so the school palace established by the princes can only be called Pan Palace.

Confucius was canonized by the emperors of the past dynasties, and he was as expensive as King Wenxuan, so the Temple of Literature and the Temple of Confucius that worshiped Confucius were qualified to build Pan Pond, and Pan Pond must also be built as a symbol. There is generally a stone bridge on the Pan Pond, and during the imperial examination, students cross the bridge to worship Confucius, which is called entering the Pan.

The pan pond of the general Confucian temple is often excavated artificially, and only a few Confucian temples will use natural rivers and lakes as the pan pond, and the pattern is more imposing. For example, the Confucius Temple in Nanjing, Panchi is the Qinhuai River. When the Confucian Temple of Zuoying was built, it happened to use the lotus pond as a pan pond, which saved the trouble of excavation and appeared more imposing.

It's just that the training in front of the Confucian Temple was only carried out for one day, and it couldn't be carried out, because Zhou Lang chose a lot of books, although he didn't leave his life, but he regarded himself as a scholar, and most of the content was to persuade Zhou Lang not to use troops in front of the saint, and advised him not to collide with the saint, and some of the letters were very difficult to hear, full of reprimands and abuse.

Zhou Lang was as good as a stream, and immediately changed places and moved to the front of the temple. It is a temple, there is often a large open space in front of the temple, it is convenient to sacrifice during the festival period, and it is convenient to have a market in the ordinary period, so there must be a market in the temple, which is called the temple market.

I chose to train in the Temple of Literature before, it was indeed negligent, I didn't expect this to cause the disgust of the scholars, but Zhou Lang didn't want to provoke the elite forces in this area, you must know that the big landlords in the nearby countryside are undoubtedly this class, and they have now organized the young people in the village, although the purpose is to protect themselves, but if they are given a chance to unite, it will also be troublesome.

After arriving at Guan Temple, no one has an opinion, after all, Master Guan is a martial god, and Guan Miao is often more secular than the Temple of Literature, so the taboo here is much smaller.

The training was carried out normally, but Zhou Lang found it a little boring, most of the content of the training, he had experienced it, and it was not much different from the military training he received in middle school and college, that is to say, in addition to weapon training, Zhou Lang would also train these steps.

If he had known that this was the case, he would have been able to train these sixty people himself, and it would be easy for an instructor to bring a class in later generations.

Zhou Lang even had some doubts about whether these mercenaries were hinted at by Colin and had reservations. So he took the opportunity to touch the bottom of these mercenaries.

The mercenary officer was a captain named Fischer. This is a very common German surname, which is said to mean fisherman. But Fischer's profession has long been out of line with that of fishermen, and his family has been a military for generations, starting with his grandfather. According to Fischer, the militarization of Hesse was so severe that half of the young people even served as soldiers, resulting in a large amount of land abandonment.

Zhou Lang thought that this would have a serious impact on the economy of Hesse, and then economic problems led to social problems, causing serious public resentment, and then there were frequent revolutions, but he thought too much, Fischer was very supportive of the military actions of the Duke of Hesse, in his mouth, the militarization of Hesse not only did not bring economic embarrassment to the people of Hesse and the government, but made the life of the Hessians more prosperous, and the government even had enough finance to reduce taxes in large quantities.

Zhou Lang maintained a high degree of skepticism about this, believing that Fischer was probably only a vested interest in this policy, and the lives of the majority of ordinary people would definitely be affected. What Zhou Lang didn't know was that the Western military scholar Peter Taylor's "History of the Hesse-Kassel Military System and Rural Transformation in the 18th Century" recorded that in 1793, soldiers accounted for 34.3% of the young people aged 15-25 in Hesse, which did cause serious land desolation, but because of the rental of soldiers to neighboring countries and regions, Hesse's financial income was extremely rich, and the Grand Duke of Hesse was able to operate well under the condition of long-term parliamentary constraints, relying on the income of these mercenaries. After the American Civil War, Britain gave Hesse a one-time subsidy of more than 20 million pounds according to the agreement, and it is obvious that this kind of business is very profitable.

For military training, Zhou Lang also learned from Fischer that the current Western military training system is basically from Prussia, and in the Seven Years' War, Frederick the Great's outstanding performance made European countries generally recognize Prussia's military training methods and introduce them one after another. The military system of Prussia benefited from the military system of the French period of Louis XIV, and the French learned from the Dutch, and the military reform of the Dutch military strategist Morris was improved by summarizing the Spanish phalanx.

It can be said that the Europeans, through fierce competition, have been forced to imitate each other and introduce each other's best experience for nearly two hundred years, and as a result, the military of the rest of the world has far surpassed. Zhang Zhidong, a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty, saw this very thoroughly, he said, "There are many small European countries, such as a group of tigers waiting for each other, each thinking of devouring, uneven power in the enemy, can not exist on its own, so the government of education and prosperity, the skills of measuring the sky and the earth, and the skills of benefiting the people, the new law of the sunrise, imitate each other, and compete for victory." ”

Fischer was born in a military family and was well educated, and he explained these sources clearly, which dispelled Zhou Lang's doubts and believed that the current military training subjects were the most normal training process, and the other party did not deliberately conceal them.

Originally, Zhou Lang thought that these professional officers who had really been on the battlefield would have some special training methods, such as the special forces training that appeared in movies and television.

After accepting the status quo, Zhou Lang also followed the training honestly, his purpose was not really to master these specific military skills, mainly to learn how to train soldiers, not to be trained, and also to establish a relationship with soldiers, let them see themselves every day, and strengthen the concept of who is their real employer, otherwise he recruited these people to abduct these mercenaries and ran away, it would really be like crying without tears.

The first purpose has not been completed for the time being, the training is a very systematic work, Fischer is very meticulous and conscientious, and it takes a long time to complete the basic training; The second purpose has already begun to be achieved, the soldiers found that their employer is really a very good person, as long as they complain about the hard training twice, etc., Zhou Lang will easily announce an additional meal, as long as they can buy meat such as chickens and ducks, they will be satisfied.

In fact, as a manager, Zhou Lang is a very generous person, unless the employee violates serious principles during working hours, he generally does not interfere, just like these soldiers after training, hoping to fool the boss to invite guests, he is very generous, but if they do not train well, Zhou Lang is very firm to support Fischer to punish them, and even help Fischer personally carry out these punishments, generally whipping and beating sticks. The European armies of this era were full of corporal punishment, which was also the result of the spread of Prussian military training throughout Europe. It was not until the advent of Napoleon, who was adamantly opposed to the use of the term for soldiers, and who supported the use of honor to govern and discipline soldiers, that the European army was brought into the modern era.

After a few days of training, Zhou Lang touched some doorways, he did not teach the soldiers English passwords like Colin, but directly translated these military passwords, such as "walk in unison" and "run and walk" military passwords, which appeared in Chinese vocabulary for the first time.

On the ninth day of training, normal training had to be suspended, because Colin came to see Zhou Lang, and he asked for the sixty soldiers under Zhou Lang to be handed over to him on the grounds that he was going to launch a military operation.

Colin intends to attack the Qing army north of Guishan!