Under Feng Guozhang's introduction, Qin Chuan recognized the various units of the Huai Army one by one, and the names of the cattle made Qin Chuan stunned when he heard them. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Next to the salt regiment, a sentry soldier wearing a five-cloud coat is the Sheng army of Wei Rugui and Jia Qisheng as presidents.

Sheng Jun was originally Zhou Shengbo, Zhou Shengchuan brothers run a regimental training, and later joined the Huai Army to become Li Hongzhang's most powerful general, when the Huai Army was abolished, Sheng Jun not only was not abolished, on the contrary, Li Hongzhang was transferred to the Tianjin Station in Zhili to garrison, becoming the most fundamental force of the Huai Army. The Zhou brothers are very discerning, and the Beiyang Armed Forces Academy was the first to suggest to Li Hongzhang that Li Hongzhang should establish a military school in imitation of the West to train officers at all levels. After the death of the Zhou brothers, Wei Rugui and Jia Qisheng commanded the Sheng army. The Sheng army now has five battalions of horse teams stationed in the horse factory, which is led by Lu Benyuan, the chief soldier of Chongqing Town. The Sheng Army Infantry Brigade has 12 battalions, stationed at the Tianjin Station, and is divided by Zheng Caisheng and Sun Xianyin.

The adjacent Yi Army, which is led by the veteran Sichuan Governor Song Qing, is divided into Ma Yukun, the chief soldier of Taiyuan Town.

Yi Jun is also a regiment training start, and Sheng Jun is different, Yi Jun at the beginning of the period is not Li Hongzhang's Huai Army, Yi Jun was originally Henan Compensation Army, not only outstanding achievements in the war, but also with Zuo Zongtang participated in the Western Expedition to Xinjiang, Guangxu eight years to be assigned to Li Hongzhang's Huai Army, now stationed in Liaodong Lushun.

Then followed by Wu Yijun, Zhengding Training Army, Gubeikou Training Army, Beitang Defense Army of General Wu Yuren, Sui Army of Commander Dai Zongqian stationed in Weihai, Gong Army of Liu Chaopei stationed in Qingdao, Zhang Wenxuan Department of Liu Gongdao Protector, Xu Bangdao Department of Zhengding Town Commander of the Garrison Army Liangcheng, Ming Army of Liu Shengxiu Department stationed in Jinzhou, Qinqing Army of General Soldier Huang Shilin commanding Lushun, Songwu Army of General Soldier Zhang Yao garrisoning Yantai, Beiyang Naval Division of Ding Ruchang, and Luo Rongguang Department of Tianjin Town General Soldier stationed in Dagukou Fort.

Wu Yijun was formerly known as Li Hongzhang's sixth brother Li Zhaoqing, and was commanded by Nie Shicheng, the chief soldier of Taiyuan Town. Wu Yijun, Zhengding Training Army, and Gubeikou Training Army are collectively known as the Yulu Defense Army, which is led by Ye Zhichao, the commander of Zhili.

The predecessor of the Ming Army was the inscription battalion of Liu Mingchuan, a fierce general in Li Hongzhang's Huai army, and the latter part went to Taiwan, and the inscription battalion that stayed on the mainland was led by Liu Shengxiu, a nephew of the clan, after Liu Mingchuan resigned last year.

Other troops belonging to Beiyang include the Fengtian Shengzi Battalion Training Army under the command of Fengsheng A, the commander of the White Flag Protector Army, and the Fengtian Training Army under the command of Zuo Guigui, the general soldier of Gaozhou Town, Guangdong. Because the station of these two departments is in Mukden, if they come to Tianjin, it will be very far by land or sea, so they were not allowed to come this time.

What surprised Qin Chuan the most was that according to Feng Guozhang's introduction, Ye Zhichao, the commander of Zhili, actually attached great importance to the construction of the military academy, and he actually opened a military academy in Shanhaiguan.

There is also Nie Shicheng, the chief soldier of Taiyuan Town, who also opened the Kaiping Martial Arts School in Kaiping.

If Feng Guozhang didn't say it, Qin Chuan really didn't expect that the generals in the Beiyang Army would be so civilized. Qin Chuan secretly felt sorry for Li Hongzhang in his heart, if the First Sino-Japanese War had retired twenty years later, the Beiyang Army would probably not have been defeated so shamelessly in the First Sino-Japanese Battle.

The school review stand is a rectangular earthen platform more than two meters high on the side of the school field, and a tall mat shed is set up on the platform with its back west and east, and the lanterns on the mat shed are dressed up in colorful colors, not like the school review platform of the army, but some like the wedding shed. On the reading table, there are three tables, all of which are covered with red silk, and there are plates of dried fruits on them.

In the middle of the two columns of troops under review, fifty meters in front of the parade platform, there was also a 75mm mountain gun, because of the distance inside, Qin Chuan couldn't see whether this mountain gun was Krupp's or France's Hatch Cash.

After introducing the general situation of the troops to Qin Chuan, and carefully explaining the procedures and rules of the review to Qin Chuan, seeing that the time was almost up, Feng Guozhang was busy running back again, preparing to greet Li Hongzhang and the generals from all walks of life.

Looking at Feng Guozhang's back, Qin Chuan was still thinking about whether it was possible to get this Feng Guozhang under his hands, but after thinking for a long time, he didn't come up with any way, and finally had to reluctantly turn his gaze to the teams in the school field.

The teams of the various troops who came early were a little scattered, only the student team of the Martial Arts Academy and Nie Shicheng's Yi army were in good shape, and the students and soldiers in the queue of these two teams did not talk to each other, they just stood quietly. Especially the students of the Martial Arts Academy, there is no instructor in front of the queue, and the military discipline is still strict. It can be seen that although the German instructors went to China, they still carried out the German army's military aircraft tradition as always.

As for the rest of the men, not to mention the scattered formation, many officers and soldiers even sat on the ground, and the officers leading the team sat on the horses that they got from nowhere, lazily snorting in the sun. The most chaotic queue belonged to the Sheng army on the side of the salt group, and in the Sheng army column, there were even more than a dozen soldiers lying lazily on the ground, and the sound of talking to each other was not concealed, and the sound of scolding and laughing was endless.

Only the two officers led by Sheng Jun attracted Qin Chuan's attention.

The two leading officers of the Sheng Army, looking at the official uniforms, one is the military general's costume from the second grade, and the other is the military general's costume from the third grade, and the officer from the second rank on the side of the salt regiment is of medium stature, with thick eyebrows and tiger eyes, dark skin, standing straight in front of the queue, looking at the momentum of a military general. It's just that this man has a cold face all the time, his eyes are half-closed, and he doesn't know what he is thinking when he stands there.

According to the level of this person, at this time, he should be standing in the Yamen, the governor of Li Hongzhang and the minister of trade and commerce of Beiyang, how could he come to this school to blow the wind, Qin Chuan turned his gaze to another officer in confusion.

The officer on the other side was slightly chubby, with a white and quiet face, and sat on the mazaar with a blurred eye. It gave the impression that if it weren't for the fluttering sound of the pennant fluttering up and down on his head, the officer would have fallen asleep a long time ago.

Qin Chuan turned around and looked at his salt group, these young men in the salt group, everyone was solemn with guns, full of energy, and the queue was even straighter.

Qin Chuan turned his head with satisfaction, and bored himself to study the military flags of various troops.

The military flags of these Beiyang departments are all made of brocade or red or blue, or green or white, and the five colors are extremely chaotic, but the shape is the same, they are all long triangle shapes, and a big circle is embroidered with colored threads in the middle, and the number of each department is embroidered inside. For example, Wei Rugui's Sheng Army, there is a Sheng character in the circle, Nie Shicheng's Yi Army, and the military flag circle is a Yi character. The only exception is the military flag of the Beiyang Naval Division, which is a rectangular green dragon flag with a yellow background.

Such a colorful military flag looks good, but it is difficult to stimulate the morale of the troops.

Just when Qin Chuan couldn't stop slandering these Huai Army flags in his heart, someone slapped him on the shoulder, and Qin Chuan retracted his thoughts.