Therefore, when the original version of the "Military Song of the Beiyang Army" of "Three Records and Eight Notes" was sung in unison by more than a dozen instructors, Wang Yongan was immediately shocked, almost full of faces, too familiar, too familiar...... The original lyrics are:

The imperial court wanted to protect the overall situation of peace, and the commander followed the order to practice new exercises. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The first is determined to repay the king's kindness, and the second is to rely on the officials to teach.

The third march does not harass the people, and our salaries and silver are all people's fat.

Fourth, conduct and reputation should be hobbies, and fifth, the army must not quarrel.

Fang Jin's Chinese civil and martial arts school is no more rude than a stupid man in the market.

Among the battalions, the gun team is the most important, and the aim of the card is neither low nor high.

When the artillery team is discharged, it is necessary to look at the cannon table, and the medicine must be marked according to the degree.

The division of labor of light artillery does not worry about narrow roads, and heavy artillery vehicles do not feel tired.

The team must keep their horses well and check the farriers so as not to hurt them in the slightest.

Detectives on the verge of the enemy first occupy the enemy's danger, and our army fights fiercely and quickly outflanks from the side.

The first team of the project must be dexterous, and build bridges when the land barrier meets the water.

Everything in the baggage team is calculated, and there is no need to be anxious about the lack of food, clothing, and ammunition.

(I believe that many readers saw this lyrics, not reading it, but singing it...... ）

I have to admit that Zhang Zhidong wrote military discipline and military operation points in the lyrics in the simplest language and the most direct way, so that the soldiers always remember their duties and military points when singing, compared with the "Three Records and Eight Notes", the "Beiyang Army Military Song" is more cultural - but its biggest shortcoming is that it is not easy to remember, among the 1,800 recruits, there are very few literate people, let alone poetry and haiku...... A kind of torture.

In addition to the "Military Song of the Beiyang Army", the Beiyang Army also teaches soldiers to arrange troops, attack and defend, and guard each other's "Song of the Soldiers"; the "March Song" that educates soldiers in the aspects of marching distress, building fortifications, and ordering and prohibiting; "The Detective Song", which teaches Scouting Attention; With loyalty, filial piety, ethics, utilitarianism, and retribution, and emphasizing the military and civilian family, emphasizing the country's "Soldier Song" for a thousand days, and using soldiers for a while, there are more than a dozen songs.

Wang Yongan originally thought that he would have to put more effort into it, but it seems that he was thinking too much, Yuan Shikai and a kind of staff officers have long recognized the role and importance of military songs, and Wang Yongan only needs to add some simple and catchy songs.

After the first month of cohort training in the boot camp, the focus of the second month of training changed to physical training, and Wang Yongan also asked to join the physical training, and he took over from a sick recruit and became one of the 2,000 recruits.

This recruit is ordinary and not ordinary, and the two principal and deputy instructors in charge of him dare not relax, and they can't train him too hard, which is really embarrassing. However, after a few days of training together, everyone gradually became friendly to this adjutant Wang and the deputy chief instructor of the recruit battalion.

Wang Yongan was never lazy about the training subjects he had arranged, nor did he complain -- he was embarrassed to complain -- at this time, most of the recruits in the army from Henan and Lu provinces were far better than him in physical fitness, especially the tall Lu people, which fully proved the correctness of Yuan Shikai's use of soldiers to recruit only peasants from Lu Province when he established the Beiyang New Army.

Even in the late Qing Dynasty, when there were natural and man-made disasters from time to time, the average height of soldiers recruited from Lu Province was 1.7 meters, and Wang Yongan remembered that the average height of the National Revolutionary Army during World War II was only 1.62 meters, the average height of the US military during the same period was 1.73 meters, and Germany was the country with the highest average height of soldiers during the same period, which was only 1.75 meters. Standing among the recruits with Wang Yongan's height of 1.73 meters, half of the recruits are taller than him, which makes him a little less confident.

Thinking about the original traverser, he is considered to stand out in Japan, but compared with the young man in Lu Province, why has it become an average......

It is precisely because of Wang Yongan's personal participation in the training that in the subsequent series of training arrangements, Wang Yongan truly experienced the importance of scientific training, which is not comparable to later generations, but far surpasses many of today's armies, and is not even inferior to the main force of the six towns of Beiyang.

Among them, the most painful thing for the recruits is the log training "invented" by Wang Yongan, which not only trains the soldiers' physical fitness, but also trains their writing ability, a seven-meter-long thick log is run by a group of ten people gathered above their heads, or a group of recruits holding logs to do sit-ups, or a group of recruits carrying logs to do squats......

The recruits wailed and shouted, and even Fang Xianwu said to Wang Yongan in private: "This...... Jingyun, how did you come up with this log training, but it tortured the recruits too badly. ”

"How can it be said that the recruits were tortured miserably?" Wang Yongan said disapprovingly, in fact, after a day of training, he was already tired to death, but he didn't need to study cultural classes at night, so he had time to discuss the training arrangements for recruits with Fang Xianwu. Wang Yongan said with a wicked smile: "After the training of recruits is over, the log training should be extended to the whole army, so that the veterans and recruits will suffer together, which can be regarded as the correct way to train soldiers." ”

"Huh? You make the veterans ...... too"

Wang Yongan said seriously: "If you don't let them suffer together, how can you make veterans and recruits trust each other in the shortest time?" Only brothers can believe in each other, rely on each other, and become close comrades-in-arms only if they have endured hardships together. Comrades-in-arms, comrades-in-arms, if they don't suffer together, what kind of comrades-in-arms are they? Fox friends, dog friends, wine and meat friends are easy to make, but friends who suffer together can only be made at the training ground. Instructors can't be good people, and if instructors are good people, they are harming the soldiers and themselves. ”

Fang Xianwu nodded and said, "You're absolutely right, the log training will continue tomorrow, at least ten log squats and fifteen log sit-ups every day." ”

The next day, the soldiers continued to wail and shout for log training, and several soldiers were so tired that they couldn't get up, shouting: "Deputy Chief Instructor, you are also training with us, why bother to embarrass yourself?" ”

Wang Yongan said loudly: "Brothers, let's take a rest, wait a while and continue training, if we really can't, we don't have to force ourselves to finish it immediately, so as not to hurt ourselves." Then he stood up and continued to say loudly: "Brothers, sweat more in peacetime, and shed less blood in wartime!" If you want to survive on the battlefield, you must train yourselves to the most demanding demands at all times. I can say to you that once the war starts, once the war is in time, you recruits are the most likely to die and the most likely to be injured. If you want not to get hurt, if you want not to die, you can only train yourself now and torture yourself. ”