On the third day of November, Liujiayuan campus in the north of Chenzhou City

In the open space of the newly completed new school yard, the bustling crowd almost merged into a sea. The pen and fun pavilion www.biquge.info stand on the higher ground and look far away, and everywhere you look is the head of the black press, which is quite overwhelming. Look at the number, there are tens of thousands.

I saw that most of these people were young and middle-aged, dressed in tattered or patched coarse cloth clothes, and under the guidance of some officers and soldiers in bright armor, they stood in several loose phalanxes.

These are the recruits that Huguang Town has just recruited. Since the day before yesterday, more than a dozen teams sent out by Pang Yue to recruit troops have come back one after another, except for a few that have not completed the tasks assigned, the rest of the roads have gained a lot, and a total of more than 11,000 recruits have been recruited.

Among them, more than 5,000 are young and strong military households of various guards, and it is not difficult to recruit these people, after all, they are military households registered in the military department, so they naturally have to obey the recruitment of the commanders and envoys. In particular, the commanders of several guards near Chenzhou, after learning of Lu Dengyun's fate, were afraid of following in his footsteps, and very diligently assisted the officers who came to recruit troops to select qualified military households, and almost did not let Pang Yue spend money.

In order to recruit them, the officers did not know how much propaganda they had done, how much rhetoric they had to make, and how many beautiful prospects they had depicted.

Although they did not want to leave their hometowns, they heard from the people who came to recruit that once they enlisted in the army, their families could immediately get a subsidy of two taels of silver, and they could wear new clothes and eat rice and white noodles every day.

According to Pang Yue's prior arrangement, the recruits recruited this time first settled down near the Liujiayuan campus for half a month of adaptive training, and then according to their performance, they were divided into soldiers and auxiliaries, as well as cavalry, infantry and artillery in the soldiers, and heavy armor, light armor, firearms and so on in the infantry.

Since the barracks in the city had not been fully expanded, in order to settle the recruits, Pang Yue ordered most of the marching tents to be taken out and a dense barracks were set up near the Liujiayuan school yard for the recruits to live in.

The recruits who had just come to this strange place from their hometown, whether they were young people from military households or young people from civilian households, were full of curiosity about everything around them, and they felt even more fresh when they saw the training facilities on the school field that they had never seen before, and they pointed and whispered to those facilities.

Many of these 10,000 recruits are fellow villagers, and they are even related to each other, so although it is the first time to come to Chenzhou, there is not much sense of strangeness because there are many acquaintances around them. This kind of recruitment method equivalent to calling friends and companions is also advocated by Pang Yue, relatives and neighbors are in the army, which has many benefits for improving the cohesion of the army, and every person who dies on the battlefield in the future can almost cause a group of people to hate the same enemy. It was in this way that the later Zeng Guofan created a fierce armed force and became the main force in suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

When Pang Yue and the battalion officers appeared, the recruits who were still whispering just now immediately fell completely silent. The bright armor and faint murderous aura on the bodies of these generals and the soldiers behind them made these recruits, who were actually farmers, hardly dare to look directly, and they all stood cautiously in place with their hands down, staring at their feet and not daring to move.

Seeing the appearance of the recruits, Pang Yue couldn't help but smile, not because he found a sense of superiority in the awe of others, but because the kind of soldiers in front of him was exactly what he wanted. Such an honest young man who can hardly kick a fart with three feet, if he fights alone, he is probably not the opponent of those veteran oils in the rest of the official army, let alone those ferocious Jiannu, but he has one of the biggest advantages: these people have not been affected by unhealthy tendencies, have no bad work style, and will absolutely obey orders or even go against the grain, just like a blank sheet of paper, once they have been systematically and strictly trained, they can have a daunting discipline, and then burst out with strong combat effectiveness. …,

This is the case of the Qi family army in history, a group of honest farmers after a long period of systematic and rigorous training, with a strong overall combat effectiveness, the individual combat power far exceeds their Japanese and Mongolian Tatars to the ground looking for teeth and fleeing.

Pang Yue, who was very pleased, came to the recruits, and from time to time he said a few words to them, asking them their names, places of origin, etc., and this kind attitude also made these recruits surprised and greatly moved.

Zhang Yunli and the battalion officers of the eight battalions also followed behind Pang Yue, looking at these young men who were about to become their subordinates.

Of the eight battalion officers that Huguang Town now has, except for the battalion officers of Feihu, Gangfeng, and the trapped camp, which are still served by Shi Youliang, Lu Qiwu, and Cui Shoucheng, and the battalion officers of the broken army battalion who are transferred from the former Taishan battalion officer Shi Lang, the battalion officers of the other four battalions are all newly promoted.

Among them, the battalion officer of the Tiger Battalion is served by He Zhenting, the former deputy of the Flying Tiger Battalion. He Zhenting is in his thirties, a native of Shaanxi, as early as Huang Degong's subordinate, as early as Huang Degong's subordinate, when he was the deputy of the Flying Tiger Battalion Horse Team, brave in battle, similar to Shi Youliang's personality, the two worked together quite happily as partners. Later, He Zhenting, like Shi Youliang and others, followed Pang Yue all the way from Digang to Hangzhou, Fuzhou, and then to Ganzhou, which can be regarded as an old qualification.

The battalion officer of the Agni Battalion was served by Wang Juntao, the former commander of the artillery team directly under Ganzhou Town. Wang Juntao is a native of Beizhili, he is not yet 30 years old this year, but he has more than ten years of military experience, and his ancestors have served in the Jingshi Shenji Battalion for several generations, and he himself was once a hundred generals in the Jingshi Shenji Battalion. Later, Li Zicheng broke through the Beijing Division, the Shenji battalion was scattered, and Wang Juntao, who was lucky enough to escape, and his sergeants went south to join Huang Degong's army, and later became Pang Yue's subordinates. When the artillery team was formed in Ganzhou, Pang Yue saw that Wang Juntao had served in the Shenji Battalion and was proficient in various artillery operations, so he appointed him as the commander of the artillery team. Wang Juntao did not live up to Pang Yue's hopes, and relied on the only not advanced artillery in the artillery team to make a lot of achievements in the Battle of Ji'an and the Battle of Ganzhou. This time the artillery battalion was formed, Pang Yue changed his strength to dispel public opinion, promoted Wang Juntao to two levels, and served as the battalion officer of the fire battalion with the rank of guerrilla general. In this regard, Wang Juntao was naturally grateful, saying that he would definitely fulfill his duties and make new contributions.

The battalion officer of the Taishan battalion was Liu Renjun, the former deputy of the Taishan battalion. Liu Renjun is the same age as He Zhenting, a native of Shandong, with a cheerful personality, happy all day long, and very popular in the army. Liu Renjun, like He Zhenting and others, also began to follow Pang Yue from the time of Huang Degong, and succeeded as the deputy of the Taishan Battalion after Long Wenzhou, the first deputy battalion of the Taishan Battalion, was transferred to the iron factory as the director. In this expansion, Pang Yue saw that although Liu Renjun had a gentle personality, he was unambiguous in his actions, and he had experience in commanding auxiliary troops, so he appointed him as the commander of the Taishan battalion.

The battalion officer of the Huashan Battalion was served by Chen He, the former commander of the Taishan Battalion A Team. Chen He is a native of Taiyuan, Shanxi, a fellow villager of Pang Yue, twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and also belongs to the group of people who originally followed Pang Yue. His father and grandfather were both well-known plasterers in the area, and he himself had studied with him for a few years before joining the army, and his skills were good. When the compilation was expanded, Pang Yue took into account Chen He's cleverness and his family background, so he and Wang Juntao were also exceptionally promoted.

Unlike Shi Youliang, Lu Qiwu, Cui Shoucheng, and Shi Lang, who were already at the rank of general, the four newly promoted battalion officers were all filled with guerrilla ranks, and although their positions were the same, their official ranks were one level lower.

After meeting with the recruits and encouraging them, Pang Yue summoned the officers who had been sent to train the recruits before returning to the city, and explained some of the problems that they needed to pay attention to in the next half month, and that they should strictly follow the training plan issued by the General Staff Office, and that the recruits should not be slackened or excessively corporal punishment. In the face of Pang Yue's explanation, everyone made no promises. …,

After all the recruits arrived, a new round of military training in Huguang Town officially kicked off.

Now, the establishment of the eight battalions, the officers of each battalion, and even the officers at all levels such as the commander and general of each battalion have been determined, but considering the adaptation stage of the recruits in half a month, Pang Yue did not combine the recruits and veterans for the time being, and the four newly formed battalions were all empty shelves except for the Agni Battalion.

The more than 10,000 new recruits were brought by some officers and veterans to Liujiayuan in the north of the city for training, and the training subjects were mainly queues and some light physical training, mainly to let them begin to adapt to military life, so as to adapt to the more intense training subjects in the future. The recruits who had just changed into mandarin duck jackets were trained more seriously, and they were very obedient to the orders of the officers, although their movements were a little clumsy, and their shouts were not as murderous as those of the veterans, and their overall mental state seemed to be full of vitality. It's just that I don't know if they will be able to adapt to the training intensity of the new and veteran recruits in the future.

The original veterans were still trained in the Shiping Village school in the west of the city according to the original four-battalion establishment, and the training subjects were the same as usual, and the training intensity was greater than when they were in Ganzhou, and the requirements were stricter. This is also Pang Yue's special order, after all, the Qing army will move south again early next year, and then the Huguang Territory will be full of smoke, and the time is pressing, and only by spending more effort in the usual training can the newly formed Huguang Town form a combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

In the days that followed, the sound of shouts and the firing of various firearms on the school grounds in Shiping Village lasted almost from dawn to dark, attracting some people in the vicinity to quietly come and watch. At the same time, more and more officers and soldiers on the school grounds are being subjected to corporal punishment because of substandard training standards. The officers and men who were punished were ordered to take off their shirts and lie on the edge of the school yard by the supervising sergeant holding a leather whip or a military stick in accordance with the corresponding punishment regulations. For a time, the muffled sound of leather whips, sticks, and flesh in close contact echoed with the shouts of the officers and men in practice.

Even so, most of the officers and soldiers who were subjected to corporal punishment did not complain. After following Pang Yue for so long, they had already seen a lot of foresight of the commander-in-chief, and they rarely had doubts about his various orders, and most of them carried out them without saying a word, and even if they were punished, they only complained that their skills were not perfect, and some officers and soldiers who did not admit defeat were whipped and even did not stop for a moment and then endured the pain and threw themselves into the training, which was completely a desperate attitude.

In this regard, Pang Yue of course saw it in his eyes, and while he was pleased, he couldn't help but sigh: With such excellent officers and soldiers, why worry about not being able to strengthen the army?

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