"Raise your gun!"

"Add bricks!"

On the training ground, a group of Shanghai soldiers wearing army green uniforms were training in gun posture.

I saw that under the scorching sun, these soldiers held their guns in a standing shooting posture, and a brick was hanging under their guns, and they were all gritting their teeth and persevering, sweating like rain.

However, their instructor did not just let them go, but once again added a brick to each of them.

"Add bricks!"

"I have to add it!"

"I really can't lift it!"

"Instructor, you always raise your noble hand, just let us go!"

……

"Less wordy! Sweat more in peacetime, bleed less in wartime, I'm saving your lives! "The instructor is iron-faced and selfless, and he is not sentimental at all.

The training of the soldiers is really too hard, and they are still new recruits, and they are so rigorously trained as soon as they join the army, it is no wonder that they are tired.

But there was no way around it, and every instructor received a notice from the General Staff that the war was coming and that it was necessary to double down on the training of recruits and prepare for the big war.

What kind of big war it is, every instructor knows it very well in their hearts, it goes without saying.

However, not every recruit is so obedient, and there are always so many walnuts and jujubes in the army who are not satisfied.

"I don't accept it, why train us so much, we are not here to pick bricks, we are here to be soldiers and shoot guns!" One of the more fucked recruits protested, which was immediately echoed by the other recruits.

The instructor sneered: "Why? Just because I'm your instructor! You must carry out my orders, or fuck me off!" ”

"Fuck off? Why fuck off? We came to join the army because of Li Weiguo and Li Da, and we came to follow Li Daren to fight foreign devils, why do you let us get out? ”

"That's right! We're here to fight foreign devils! ”

"That's it! We are all students, graduates of Danfu University, and we are called intellectuals. Why do you let us fuck off, you coarse! ”

Looking at the unconvinced looks of these recruits, the instructor was not angry in his heart, after all, the people in front of him were all seventeen or eighteen-year-old teenagers, and they were all student soldiers who graduated from Danfu University, and they all had excellent grades in school, and they all came to enlist with enthusiasm.

"Just because you still want to fight foreign devils?" The instructor sneered: "On the battlefield." You can't even lift a gun, and you still want to fight foreign devils? ”

"Who says we can't even lift a gun? You added three bricks to our guns so we couldn't lift them! ”

"That's it! Do you have what it takes to try it? If you can hang three bricks and hold on for an hour, we'll serve you! ”

"Haha, you're so funny, you didn't see him with an arm, how can you raise a gun!"

Listening to the ridicule of these student recruits, the instructor smiled and said, "A group of little dolls who don't know the height of the sky, I will let you see what a real soldier is today." ”

Between words. I saw the instructor pick up a rifle with one hand, put it into a shooting position, and then asked the soldier to add five bricks to him.

Astound!

One by one, the students and recruits looked at the instructor in amazement.

"How is that possible?"

"The instructor can really lift a rifle weighing dozens of pounds with one hand!"

"I'm blind, and he's added five bricks!"

"Pretend! It must be pretending! I see how many seconds he can last! ”

The student soldiers quickly began to talk, betting on how long the instructor would hold out.

A minute passed, and the instructor hung five bricks with a gun in one hand, not moving at all.

Ten minutes passed, and the instructor remained motionless.

An hour passed. The instructor was still standing straight, sweat pouring down his forehead. But it's still as steady as Mount Tai.

"Grass, the instructor is really an animal!"

"I'm drunk too! Is this still human? ”

Two hours later, when all the student soldiers looked at the instructor again, there was no contempt, but admiration.

At this moment, only the instructor was heard shouting: "On the real battlefield." You may kill an enemy with the first shot, but the enemy is not one person, there are thousands of them, and if you want to survive, kill one and continue to kill the second and third. You can only survive if you keep killing the enemy. A battle can take hours or even days, and during this time, you will most likely need to keep your shooting position at all times, and if your arms are too weak to lift your guns, congratulations, you will die before the enemy! ”

The instructor's words made the students and soldiers realize that if they lose their strength in their arms, they will not be able to hold a gun, and if they cannot hold a gun, they will be killed by the enemy.

After thinking about this truth, the student soldiers were suddenly full of shame.

At this time, the instructor shouted loudly and asked the soldier to prepare a 100-meter humanoid target, while he quickly pulled the bolt and raised the gun to shoot.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

I saw that the instructor continued to pull the bolt, load the bullet, shoot, and withdraw the bullet, and the movements were smooth, and there was no fatigue at all.

"Target!"

All five bullets were fired in less than half a minute, all of them hit the humanoid target, and two more bullets hit the head.

"The instructor is mighty!"

"The instructor is mighty!"

I don't know who shouted, but all the student recruits got excited and cheered loudly around the instructor.

"Instructor, you are so good, teach us to shoot!"

"Yes, you can teach us, let us all learn your marksmanship, so that we can kill more foreign devils!"

The instructor was immediately amused, and said in his heart: These heartless little guys, all of whom are called donkeys, change their faces faster than the sky.

Treat these student soldiers, the instructor only treats them as children in his eyes, so he doesn't get angry.

"Since you want to learn, you can stand up for Lao Tzu!"

"Hold up all the guns to Lao Tzu!"

"Add five bricks to each of them!"

The instructor struck while the iron was hot, and the student soldiers immediately complained, but thinking of what the instructor said and the instructor's outstretched hand, they all wanted to become a powerful master like the instructor, so even if five bricks were added, they insisted on enduring.

This scene was seen by Li Weiguo in the distance, who was leading the senior generals of the Shanghai Army to inspect the training of recruits, so the group came to the recruit company where the instructor was.

"The Commander-in-Chief has arrived!"

"All of them!"

"Stand upright!"

"Salute!"

Li Weiguo returned the military salute. Came to this instructor and said with a smile: "Instructor Wang Zhigang, you are doing a good job!" ”

"Commander-in-chief, you-you remember my name?" Wang Zhigang said with a surprised face, his heart was extremely excited, he was just a small recruit company instructor. The excitement in which Li Weiguo, the dignified governor of Liangjiang and commander-in-chief of the Shanghai Army, was able to remember and call out his name was no less than that of rural primary school students in later generations when they saw the president of the country.

Li Weiguo smiled: "Of course I remember you!" Wang Zhigang, in the three-year battle of Yuhuatai in Xianfeng, you bravely killed dozens of enemies, and lost an arm for this, and I personally awarded you the Warrior Medal. ”

Wang Zhigang said: "It happened many years ago, and adults still remember it!" ”

Li Weiguo laughed and said loudly: "Every soldier who has made great contributions to the Shanghai army. I, Li Weiguo, will remember his name! ”

These words made all the officers and soldiers in Shanghai who heard it around them suddenly boil, especially those student recruits, who immediately shouted that they would make meritorious contributions so that Li Weiguo would remember their names.

Li Weiguo was very interested, and asked these student recruits: "Brothers, just now your instructor told you that hanging bricks under the muzzle of the gun is to exercise the strength of your arms. But there is another meaning. I call it muscle memory. ”

"Muscle memory?"

"What is muscle memory?"

"Master Li, tell us about it!"

"Yes. Commander-in-Chief, tell us about it! ”

Whether it was the generals who accompanied Li Weiguo, the instructors such as Wang Zhigang, and the student recruits, they all eagerly hoped that Li Weiguo could teach them a lesson.

Li Weiguo smiled, this method of practicing shooting was originally taught by him to the officers and soldiers in Shanghai, so he explained: "The so-called muscle memory. It is because the muscles of the human body have a memory effect, and after the same action is repeated many times, the muscles will form a conditioned reflex. This process is slow, but once muscle memory is acquired, it will not be easily forgotten for twenty years. For our servicemen. The benefits of muscle memory are huge, for example, everyone's current posture of raising a gun and aiming, once practiced, will not be forgotten in the next twenty years, with standard movements, you can kill more devils on the battlefield and save a life. ”

If Li Weiguo had spoken muscle memory before, the officers and soldiers in Shanghai would definitely not understand, so at that time, Li Weiguo directly told them to practice arm strength. Now it's different, there are student soldiers in front of them, educated, and able to understand.

After listening to Li Weiguo's explanation, both the generals and the student soldiers all had a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

Especially the student soldiers, they are even more excited, they can go to the battlefield to kill more devils and save a life, and they are inspired to practice muscle memory.

In addition to Wang Zhigang's recruit company, other recruit companies have also encountered similar incidents to some extent, and the student recruits are arrogant, and it is inevitable that there will be some small frictions. Most of the recruits did not dare to really work against the instructors, and they all accepted the training honestly, and a small number of student soldiers were relatively horizontal, and in the end they were all submissive to the instructors' aura and methods, so that the overall training of the recruits of the Shanghai Army was carried out as scheduled.

Standing on the high platform, looking at the recruits who were training hard and diligently on the huge training ground, Li Weiguo's heart was full of comfort.

However, at the thought that he would face the invasion of the British and French armies in a year, Li Weiguo's face became heavy.

You can always be one step ahead of the curve by using history, but once you change history, you have to bear the cost of changing history.

Since Europe reported back that the British and French coalition forces were preparing for a large-scale invasion of China, Li Weiguo knew the price of changing history, and he did not dare to be careless, so he began to expand his armaments.

In the past, Li Weiguo has always pursued the road of elite soldiers, never blindly expanding the army, and the main force of the Shanghai army in the eighth year of Xianfeng was only 100,000 people in eight towns, while Zeng Guofan's Hunan army has expanded to 300,000 people, and Li Hongzhang's Huai army has also reached 180,000 people.

Seeing that the British and French forces were about to invade on a large scale in another year, Li Weiguo only had 100,000 troops in his hands, and he had to deal with the British and French forces with all his might, he knew that Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang had not failed to rescue the imperial court from beginning to end, and allowed the British and French forces to invade Beijing and burn the Old Summer Palace. Even if Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang did not make a move, it cannot be ruled out that the Taiping army would not take advantage of the fire to loot.

The heart of defense is indispensable, so on the one hand, Li Weiguo continued to maintain a certain size of elite army, and at the same time, in order to guard against Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, and the Taiping army, Li Weiguo decided to expand the army on a large scale.

This is the third time that Li Weiguo has expanded the Shanghai army, and the scale of the Shanghai army has expanded from the original eight towns to 100,000 people, and then expanded to eight towns, with a total of more than 200,000 people in 16 towns.

In the past, most of the soldiers of the Shanghai army were illiterate, and it was very difficult to train, and the fighting quality of the soldiers was also poor, but now it is different, Li Weiguo has a population of tens of millions in Jiangnan Province and Zhejiang Province, and the military resources are sufficient, and the Shanghai army defeated the British, French, and American combined fleet, and more people with lofty ideals have come to join the army, including many people who read and practice martial arts, and Danfu University has entered the right track, and every year in addition to the graduation of normal students, the scale of night school has greatly improved the cultural level of Shanghai army officers, The advanced tactical theory has greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of the Shanghai army.

At the same time, Li Weiguo has been taking in hundreds of thousands of refugees, including 20,000 orphans who have completed their studies in orphanages and are suitable to join the army.

Of course, Li Weiguo did not plan to let these students who had gone to school join the army to fight so early, and he was also going to establish a professional military academy to train officers, but the imminent invasion of the British and French forces made Li Weiguo have to let these student soldiers join the army in advance, so as to improve the overall quality of the Shanghai army, enhance the combat effectiveness, and let the student soldiers grow up in the army in advance.

Although according to the training standards of the Shanghai Army, recruits can form combat effectiveness within three months of enlistment, Li Weiguo does not intend to let the newly recruited recruits from the Eight Towns go to the battlefield, and the main force against the Anglo-French coalition is still the current Eight Towns of the Shanghai Army.

Thinking that he now has more than 200,000 troops in his hands, Li Weiguo's heart suddenly became arrogant, and he felt a sense of excitement soaring into the sky.

At this time, an intelligence officer sent urgent information, and the head of the guard, Zhuang Jiuxia, immediately conveyed it to Li Weiguo.

"My lord, I just received the news that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was fighting in the nest, the Northern King Wei Changhui slaughtered Yang Xiuqing, killed Shi Dakai's family, forced Shi Dakai away, Hong Xiuquan unloaded the mill and killed the donkey, and slaughtered Wei Changhui, now the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has become a mess of porridge, my lord, what a chance, we can take the opportunity to attack and recapture Jinling and Jiangning Mansion!" (To be continued......)