"Stand upright!"

"Take a break!"

"Turn left——, turn back, turn right!"

"Walk in unison, one-two-one, one-two-one,——"

"One, two, three, four!"

"Stand!"

In the midst of the rumbling artillery fire, there were slogans from outside the door.

Newly transferred from Xiluo City, the soldiers of Shen Zengjia's battalion, under the training of the teaching team members who were transferred from Liu Mingyang's regiment, shouted not very neatly and trained the military posture formation.

"Haha-"

Listening to Li Jingfang's humorous words, the generals in the room all laughed and said loudly: "Let's all go out for a walk and practice our courage!" ”

Outside the House of the Military Chamber, there were originally the ruins of several houses that had been flattened by Japanese high-explosive bombs, but they were later cleaned up by the Anti-Japanese Army and turned into a small playground.

The former Gubeikou training of the third infantry regiment, one battalion and three companies is undergoing queue training, and the brand-new Western-style military uniforms, high-waisted military boots, and calfskin armed belts are simply blinding the eyes of the generals.

It's just such a simple group change-up, and after half a morning of basic training.

This old-fashioned army has begun to radiate a kind of vitality that makes the generals feel strange and frightened, and it has begun to show a trace of slaughter and coldness.

"Boom-"

One after another, the cannonballs continued to smash into the three cities, hitting the ground, walls, and city bricks.

There was a bang, and the smashed masonry cracked, and the rubble splashed.

However, this iron solid projectile basically can't produce the terrifying second blow of the flowering bullet.

Unless it is occasionally smashed, or catapulted into the unlucky ghost who has lost his luck to the home, it will hardly cause any real damage to the Qing army and the fortifications built in the three cities.

"Smack!"

A soldier from the Dingwu Army, afraid of the cannonballs whistling at the top of his head, couldn't help but be a little flustered in the movements under his feet, and suddenly messed up the formation around him.

Xiao Sanbao, a veteran of the Anti-Japanese Army who was in charge of training, ran over angrily, whipped it up, and hit the soldier.

"You're still a baby who eats Nai, and you don't have bones in your feet? Don't hide, the more you dodge the bombs, the more you blow up eggless ghosts like you! ”

Xiao Sanbao yelled and scolded: "Lao Tzu doesn't know a single word, and he doesn't know how to speak, but Lao Tzu understands everything; Being an anti-Japanese army is a glorious thing for a lifetime, and it is also glorious for a glorious family! If you are afraid of death, you can get out of the eggs as soon as possible, and our anti-Japanese army only needs to be a good man, and we will not take in soft eggs with soft bones! ”

"One-two-one, one-two-one, walk for me!"

"One-two-one, one-two-one,——" The soldiers in the square team all shouted at the top of their voices.

"Don't hide!"

"Stand firm, go right!"

In the three cities outside the Guanwai, where the Japanese army was in the blind spot, all the troops were training in turn under the continuous artillery fire.

The cooking soldiers distributed throughout the three cities, with the company as the unit, were steaming rice and sweet potatoes, boiling mutton soup in a large pot, patting garlic, green onions and ginger to make kimchi, fragrant and sour and spicy smell, and the soldiers in the greedy training swallowed their saliva.

"This army ——, obedient, it's only been half a day, and the spirit is completely different!"

Xia Qingyun's eyes were a little straight as he looked at these Kitaguchi training, and his mouth couldn't help but be surprised.

"Rigorous training, generous treatment and pensions, abundant food; Heroic and expensive military uniforms make soldiers confident, singing military songs enhances cohesion, stressing military discipline makes soldiers have a criterion in their hearts, and reading "The Scream" makes soldiers rational and dare to die; High, indeed high! ”

He Minggao, the commander of the left army of the Jiangnan soldiers, couldn't help but praise him repeatedly.

He Minggao, the prefect of Laizhou, was both civil and military, and this time he was forced by Liu Kun to lead the army from Li Bingheng, the governor of Ludong, but he was trapped and died in the three cities outside the Guan, and he had already held back the anger in his heart, and he was extremely dissatisfied with Liu Kunyi, who was trapped in his predicament.

And now, as soon as Liu Kun was killed by quitting smoking, he directly became the shopkeeper, completely ignoring the two thousand Jiangnan soldiers and the civil and military officials who entered the three cities outside the border with him, and let them live or die.

The Jiangnan soldiers, who were marginalized by the anti-Japanese army, only had half a catty of white rice and some radish and cabbage a day, compared with the food of the anti-Japanese army, everyone was already complaining.

These soldiers were originally delicate soldiers with fine skin and tender meat from the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, so can they be in the wind and snow at this pass?

Before, the soldiers and generals were hiding in the house in the main city of Shanhaiguan, where the hot kang was burning, and everyone ate meat, drank soup, slept, gambled and bragged, except for going to the pit, they didn't go out of the house at all.

So it's quite bearable.

This was driven out of the main city of Shanhaiguan in embarrassment, and was divided into the simple southern breastwork of the inner city to garrison, sleeping in a marching tent with pine branches, covered with a thin and cold-resistant quilt, these Jiangnan soldiers were all passive and slacking off.

Not to mention training, it is a routine sentry on weekdays, which is all delay.

He Minggao, who was in a bad mood, caught a few Jiangnan soldiers who left their posts without permission and ran back to sleep last night, and was furious and wanted to be heavily punished to warn the rest of the soldiers.

As a result, the soldiers and sentinels below were in trouble, and several battalion officers of the Left Army were also standing aside, watching He Minggao, an outsider's joke, and in the end, He Minggao had to be persuaded by Yi Shunding, and the humiliation could not be resolved.

He Minggao, who was in a depressed mood, went to find an old acquaintance who was also stripped of his military power, Yao Liangcai, a general of the Sheng Army, and prepared to be a difficult brother.

came and saw Yao Liangcai's happy face, only to know that he didn't know what he was thinking at all.

Then, He Minggao was dragged to the Military Council by a group of generals from the Military Council to observe, and after listening to it, he sighed in his heart, looking at these soldiers with a new face, he couldn't help but think about it.

"It seems that the two thousand Jiangnan soldiers have become outcasts!"

He Minggao thought about the location of the south chest wall, and couldn't help but shudder, feeling that he had to get close to He Changying's henchman, Li Zhongtang's son, and Li Jingfang, the second-rank Jiangsu Cunji Dao.

"Whew-"

Suddenly, a cold north wind blew by, causing the flags on the city walls to rattle.

"The wind has changed?"

He Changying raised her head and looked up, feeling this sudden cold wind, blowing on her face, as if it was a row of thin knives cutting through the face.

"Looks like it's going to snow? Okay, freeze to death these grandchildren who are staying in the wilderness! ”

Xu Bangdao looked at the boundless desert clouds that were blown by the cold wind and slowly moved from the northwest, and said happily: "It's really a lot of snow at the beginning of spring!" ”

"It's a lot of snow at the beginning of spring!"

The generals laughed in congratulations.

On February 8, Bohai Haikou, north of Tongji Island, south of Daqin Island, and north of the Bohai Strait.

Early morning.

The marksmen, cardinals, and adventure ships of the British Empire's Far East Fleet, as well as the Ghisreal ships that had arrived from Yantai Port, were quietly lined up in the waters of the main route of the Bohai Sea, patiently waiting for the arrival of their prey.

Because some time ago, the Japanese navy brutally blocked the Bohai Sea and captured and sank a large number of Qing Dynasty ships.