"Turn left!"

"Walk where you are!"

"One-two-one!"

"Pay attention to the sound of the drums, it should land on your left foot, and if you are wrong, you will change it immediately!"

On the barracks and school grounds, the queue training of the new army was in full swing, and listening to the passionate drumbeat, the soldiers could quickly know whether their pace was correct, and those who were wrong could be replaced in time.

When the loud trumpet sounded, the leading officer shouted loudly and ordered to walk in unison, and all the soldiers immediately moved forward in orderly steps.

Field training is a subject that Li Weiguo stresses must be carried out every day, and in his opinion, an army that can fight must first be able to run.

Why? Just look at how the Eighth Route Army defeated **.

In the era when there were no automobiles and airplanes, if the infantry wanted to carry out strategic and tactical maneuvers, they could only rely on their own feet, and often when the enemy and us launched tactical or strategic maneuvers, whichever side could take advantage of the advantageous terrain by attacking first, and which side could jump out of the other side's encirclement could disrupt the opponent's deployment, and then look for fighters to win, all of which depended on the long-distance marching ability of a pair of feet.

Therefore, Li Weiguo attached great importance to the troops' ability to march and attack long distances, and he required the recruits to carry out a 10-kilometer rapid march every day, a 50-kilometer rapid march every three days, and a 100-kilometer rapid march every 10 days, so as to temper the soldiers' foot skills.

Of course, in order to be able to completely win the loyalty of these soldiers, Li Weiguo also insisted on accompanying the soldiers to train together every day, in addition to enhancing the harmonious relationship with the soldiers and gaining their love, but also to strengthen the exercise of their own body, after all, this small body is in the growth period, strengthening the exercise will help grow a big and tall man, but also make the body healthier, and at the same time, in order to face the future troubled situation, it is also necessary to improve their own skills.

For ordinary soldiers, they don't know Li Weiguo's careful thinking, in their eyes, a dignified county magistrate to train with them, this is their glory, so no one dares to complain about hardship and tiredness during training, especially seeing that Li Weiguo is young and can keep up with their rhythm, this is to slap them in the face of Chiguoguo, but anyone who has some blood will use the strength of milk, and resolutely cannot be surpassed by Li Weiguo, otherwise it will be too embarrassing.

Li Weiguo was happy when he saw the soldiers training hard with their screams, and this was what he wanted.

After several rapid marches, Li Weiguo also noticed that the cloth shoes worn by the soldiers were easily broken, the soles of their feet were worn out, and their legs were congested and their marching speed was greatly reduced.

For thousands of years in China, because cold weapons only need to have strength, there is no shortage of people, so the treatment of soldiers is as cheap as a dog, and it is good to have a pair of cloth shoes to wear. For modern warfare, soldiers are very valuable resources, especially in the era of line musket battles, a good musketeer needs to be trained for many years, so light losses are not allowed. The cloth shoes were obviously outdated, which would affect the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, so the armies of the great powers changed into leather boots, so Li Weiguo also decided to replace his soldiers with military leather boots.

Originally, Li Weiguo planned to buy a batch of military shoes from the British ** side, but he soon found that the British army's military shoe size and foot shape were not suitable for Chinese to wear.

There was no way, Li Weiguo had to recall the style of military leather boots in the 21st century, find a few best shoemakers, and finally make a pair of military leather boots after a few days of hard work.

Li Weiguo found someone to try it on, and then carried out a series of improvements, and finally finalized it, ordered people to purchase raw materials, and hired more than 100 shoemakers to work overtime day and night to catch up with the system, and strive to replace it for the soldiers.

These soldiers were all from poor backgrounds, when did they wear leather boots? That's all for the rich. However, when they learned that Li Weiguo personally made military boots and leather boots for them, they were all very happy, and they applauded one after another, and they were even more determined to follow Li Weiguo and go to the soup for him.

There is no way, people in this era are easy to be moved, especially the simple people, who are good to them, they are good to whomever they are.

In addition to making new military boots for the soldiers, Li Weiguo also found that his new army uniform was ugly, and the 1,000 county soldiers wore the Qing army's number uniform, with a soldier written on it, and when they joined and changed into a prisoner character, it was no different from the prison uniforms of later generations, and it looked too awkward.

Now that the new military boots have been made, Li Weiguo is fortunate to have changed his army into a unified modern military uniform.

Li Weiguo found someone to make a set of camouflage uniforms, but he soon found that the current dyeing equipment and technology in Chongming County did not meet the requirements, and the camouflage uniforms faded and became beggar's clothes after wearing water.

There is no way, Li Weiguo can only wait for the dyeing agent he imported from abroad to arrive and then try it, so he temporarily gave up the camouflage uniform, and instead recalled the style of the modern military uniform to design a set of military uniforms, the fabric refers to the current British army, the French army military uniform of the general cloth, but the color requirements are different from all domestic and foreign military uniforms, the British army is red and white, the French army is black and white, the Qing army is more chaotic is all colors except green, so Li Weiguo will use green as the color of the military uniform, This also echoes the future development direction of military uniform colors.

As for the military cap, Li Weiguo did not hesitate to choose the standard big cap of modern soldiers, because he was handsome with a big cap, especially stylish, and looked more military. On the other hand, the bow hat of the British army, the toilet hat of the French army, the pot cap of the Qing army, etc., in addition to being complained about, is really ugly to death.

However, on the issue of the cockade, Li Weiguo couldn't think of what pattern to use to make the cockade look better, and it happened that Wu Yong arrived, and he directly engraved a plum on the cockade, so that every soldier would be subconsciously engraved with the mark of a Li family's disciples, which could better reflect the belonging of the Li family army and increase cohesion.

Li Weiguo thought about it, he was just starting out now, but he couldn't let go of any means that could strengthen the control of the army, so he adopted Wu Yong's Jianyi.

At the same time, Li Weiguo also understood in his heart that anyone with a little brain understood what it meant to engrave the Li character on the cockade, and Wu Yong's ability to offer this strategy was equivalent to being loyal to him.

The military uniforms, military hats, military shoes, and cockades were all done, and Li Weiguo ordered someone to try to make a few sets for Zhang Xiaoliu and other henchmen and guards to change into.

"Sure enough, people rely on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, and Commander Zhang changed into this new military uniform, which looks much more powerful and adds a bit of momentum!" Wu Yong said with a smile, he knew that Zhang Xiaoliu was the most trusted person around Li Weiguo, so he would also compliment him.

Zhang Xiaoliu was very excited, he followed his young master Li Weiguo to Chongming County for less than half a year, and he jumped from the humble status of the Li family's slave to the commander of the imperial court, and the joy of soaring was naturally indescribable.

Now wearing this heroic new military uniform, Zhang Xiaoliu suddenly felt that he had changed his shotgun and changed his appearance from now on.

As an official of the imperial court, Li Weiguo naturally did not dare to wear this new-style military uniform lightly, so after seeing Zhang Xiaoliu change into the military uniform he designed himself, Li Weiguo was also very curious to circle around Zhang Xiaoliu and look at it over and over again.

"Young master, the military uniform you designed is really comfortable to wear, much better than the horse coat we used to wear, let's just say that this button is much more convenient to wear."

Listening to Zhang Xiaoliu's words, Li Weiguo also nodded happily, but he always felt that something was wrong, and it looked awkward to see Zhang Xiaoliu wearing this military uniform.

"By the way, it's braids!"

Li Weiguo finally found out the problem, the people of the Qing Dynasty kept braids, but usually only those with status would expose their long braids, because only these rich people had the time to wash their hair and comb their braids every day, and ordinary people at the bottom would generally coil up their braids and wrap them in black cloth, because the braids were easy to get dirty when they worked every day, and it saved a lot of effort to wrap the braids.

Usually, Zhang Xiaoliu and others are also from Baotou, and the same is true for those soldiers of the New Army, who wrap their heads with black cloth.

Now that Zhang Xiaoliu is wearing a military uniform, in order to wear a big cap, he naturally has to remove his head, and his braids are exposed.

"This braid is easy to get dirty, breeding diseases and insects, which is not conducive to hygiene and beauty, but also affects health, I want to remove him, Wu Yong, do you have any way?"

Li Weiguo wanted to cut off his braids, which was a big crime of killing his head, Wu Yong was shocked when he heard it, and Zhang Xiaoliu and several personal guards also changed color.

"My lord, never!"

"Young master, I can't help it!"

Looking at Wu Yong, Zhang Xiaoliu and others, Li Weiguo said with a smile: "I'm just saying it casually, if you have a way, just say it, if you can't do it, forget it." ”

Hearing Li Weiguo say this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Wu Yong said with a smile: "The hygiene problem mentioned by the adults is indeed reasonable, otherwise the people don't have to wrap their braids." However, the imperial court strictly ordered that if you don't keep your head and don't keep your hair, you don't have your hair and you don't keep your head, unless you are a monk, it is a capital crime not to wear braids! ”

"Wait!" Li Weiguo suddenly stopped Wu Yong and asked, "What did you just say?" Unless it's a monk? ”