Ten miles east of Chenzhou City, Yuezhou camp station

"Boom! Boom! ......As soon as the sky dawned, the heavy and powerful drum beat resounded throughout the barracks. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhao Liangdong jumped up from the Chase bunk, put on his military uniform, shoes and leggings with his hands and feet, picked up Fan Yangli, who was placed at the head of the bed, and rushed out while wearing it. Without exception, today he is the first in Bensh again.

The size of the barracks is huge, but the pattern is not complicated. Each soldier lived in a bungalow, and between every two rows of bungalows was a long alley. Many of these alleys divide the camp into neat squares.

When Zhao Liangdong ran to the door and stood still, the barracks was already boiling, but there were still no people in the alley, only a supervisor with a white feather on his helmet stood at each end of the alley, blowing a whistle hanging on his chest to urge.

According to the regulations, the soldiers would first line up in the alley in front of the barracks and then go to the school grounds for morning exercises.

The whistle of "toot-" and "toot-" came and went. In the early morning mist, Zhao Liangdong narrowed his eyes slightly, looking back on his experience in the past two or three months.

In the Jingzhou War at the end of last year, more than 20,000 Qing troops under the pseudo-Zhishun Wang Shang Kexi were annihilated, and Zhao Liangdong's original Shaanxi-Gansu Green Battalion was among them.

Originally, Zhao Liangdong, who was a garrison at Tongguan, had no physiology after being captured. But maybe it was the endless road, just before his head was cut off, he happened to meet Pang Yue, and miraculously picked up a life by relying on his eloquence. Later, after surviving the fifty military sticks, he was incorporated into the newly formed Yuezhou Battalion and became a recruit.

The Yuezhou battalion was organized in the same way as the main battalion of the land in Huguang Town, and was mainly formed from the 2,000 remnants of Wang Guangtai. After the remnants of these 2,000 were dispersed and reorganized, some of the backbone of other battalions were transferred and a large number of recruits were added, and now they have reached full strength, totaling more than 4,300 people. And Zhao Liangdong, who used to be guarded in the official residence, is an inconspicuous member of these 4,300 people.

From the garrison to the small soldiers, this gap is not small, but Zhao Liangdong knows that it is a blessing to be able to pick up a life, so he can't think about anything else. After joining Huguang Town and Yuezhou Camp, the new atmosphere he felt was really refreshing to him.

Although the Yuezhou battalion is not the old main battalion of Huguang Town, there are not many differences in the establishment and charter, and Zhao Liangdong can personally feel the vitality and unprecedented new atmosphere of Huguang Town here.

In Huguang Town, there is no need to say that the battalion is advanced in terms of military establishment and training methods. The lives of officers and enlisted men are also extremely secure.

Regardless of officers and soldiers, as long as they are a member of Huguang Town, they can be allocated land in the guard post where the military registration is located. Take Zhao Liangdong himself as an example, his current military registration is in the newly established Yuezhou Wei Command Mission, where he has been allocated 30 acres of land.

But he is now a soldier in the war barracks, so naturally he can't go to farming in person like ordinary military households. In this case, there are two options: if you have a family, you can hand it over to your family to cultivate, and if you don't have a family, you can entrust the land to the newly established "Soldier Farming Cooperative" of the Wei Command and Envoy Division, and you can receive monthly income according to the area of the land. When you retire from active duty in the future and return to the guard where you are registered, you will get the land back.

This "Soldiers' Farming Cooperative" not only provides assistance to the officers and soldiers of the barracks who have no families, but also provides assistance to the families of officers and soldiers whose families do not have enough labor, and can greatly solve the worries of the soldiers in the barracks who are on the front line.

Although Zhao Liangdong is a newcomer to Huguang Town, he has not really reaped much benefit from this system, but he is literate, hyphenated, and knowledgeable, and he has to applaud the formulators of this system after experiencing it himself.

The battalion and guard system were originally two different systems in the Ming army, and there was little connection between the two, and when the battalion system was in full swing, the guard system had tended to disappear.

And now in Huguang, these two systems, which originally had little to do with each other, have been skillfully integrated. The various guard posts, which were already on the verge of extinction, have become a powerful backing for the battalion system, which can continuously provide food and grass and high-quality reserve soldiers to the war battalion. And the officers and soldiers of the barracks no longer have to worry about their livelihood after being disarmed and returned to the field.

With the guarantee of this system, the soldiers can feel at ease when they think about it.

In addition, what Zhao Liangdong strongly agrees with is the selection and promotion system of Huguang Town. In Huguang Town, the principle of the capable is emphasized, and there is a perfect selection and assessment institution and system. As long as you have real skills, you are not afraid of being buried. Therefore, the internal competition is fierce but also absolutely fair.

also take Zhao Liangdong himself. When he was first incorporated into the Yuezhou battalion, he was just an ordinary soldier, but with the excellent quality reflected in the daily training later, coupled with his literacy and hyphenation, he was promoted to captain last month, and his salary increased a little.

Wu Chang, a small role that is not even touched by the side of the "official", Zhao Liangdong in the past will never take it seriously. But now that he has been promoted to captain, he has an inexplicable gratification. After all, this is earned by his own efforts, and more importantly, this fair environment where efforts are immediately rewarded also gave him hope again.

Isn't it just that he has changed from a garrison back to a nobody? If I was able to go from cloth to garrison in three years, why couldn't I regain everything I had lost through a few years of hard work? Zhao Liangdong slowly gained confidence in his heart.

As for the past, there was nothing to worry him about. His parents died early, and the rest of the family was already a stranger to him, otherwise he would not have voted for Duoduo without looking back. Since now that I can get lucky enough to pick up a life from before the ghost gate closes, and there is such a fair environment that can be used to win a good future, then what is there to worry about? Only if you have real skills, where can't you win fame and future?

The rumbling and noisy footsteps beside him pulled Zhao Liangdong back from his memories to reality.

The soldiers all ran out of the barracks one after another, lined up in the alley in front of the door, and the loud reports came and went, revealing a kind of vitality.

After all the formations are completed, they will be soaked to the school field in order according to the formation.

"One, two, one! One, two, one! One! Two! Three! Four! One, two, three, four! On the way, the soldiers, led by the officers and the commanders and commanders, shouted trumpets in a neat manner.

In Zhao Liangdong's view, this kind of slogan is also very distinctive, simple and clear, but shouting it is very uplifting.

"Expelling the Tartars! Defend the country! In the queue, Zhao Liangdong roared together with the robe next to him.

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The bureau to which Zhao Liangdong belonged was the reserve of the 1,000th Corps of the Yuezhou Battalion. However, this reserve team is not a place to relax and relax, and you only need to be "ready to play". Because more tasks need to be performed on the battlefield, such as containment, raiding, etc., the soldiers of the reserve unit need to have higher individual combat ability, and the training intensity in peacetime is greater.

According to the establishment, the headquarters of each thousand corps of the Yuezhou battalion has a reserve of one bureau under its command. This bureau also has two flag teams under its jurisdiction, each of which is composed of the Qi family's army mandarin duck formation, and the other flag team is the fire gunner. The total strength is more than 110 people.

Zhao Liangdong was in the flag team compiled by the Mandarin Duck Formation. This also happens to play to his own strengths, his previous military career has already made him accustomed to cold weapons, if he suddenly changes to a firecracker, he will not be able to adapt to it.

Although the Yuezhou battalion is a newly formed battalion, the training syllabus is no different from that of the old main battalions. At the beginning, this made the recruits, and even the veterans of the former Wang Guangtai Department, complain. But after gritting my teeth and persevering day by day, I slowly got used to it. And, almost all of them were amazed at the changes in themselves.

And Zhao Liangdong, who is determined to get ahead again, is undoubtedly the hardest working of all soldiers in public, and his serious attitude coupled with outstanding physical fitness also makes him always the most eye-catching one among the soldiers.

At this time, Zhao Liangdong didn't understand so many great truths about Huayi's distinction, and he couldn't even talk about how many Han people had a sense of honor. But the future and fame are undoubtedly the biggest driving force for him to move forward at present.

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The usual practice of the barracks in Huguang Town is to rest every six days, that is, to rest for six days of drills, and the exercise will end early in the afternoon of the sixth day, and the actual rest time is about one and a half days.

Today is the sixth day, so the afternoon ended early.

After the disbandment, Liu Yidao came over and found Zhao Liangdong: "Old Zhao, go to the city to watch the play in the afternoon?"

Liu Yidao is a native of Chenzhou, originally a butcher who killed pigs, and was bold by nature. He is not like some veterans of Huguang Town, because Zhao Liangdong's status is estranged, and he usually needs Zhao Liangdong, a capable person, to assist him in leading the troops, so the relationship between the two is good.

"Watching a play?"

"Yes. But this is not the kind of old drama that is sour and incomprehensible, but the kind of new drama that speaks in the vernacular, what is it called......" Liu Yidao scratched his head, and finally remembered, "Oh, by the way, it's called a drama!" Recently, this kind of new drama has been very popular, and I finally managed to get a ticket. ”

Drama is a new type of drama developed by the newly established drama club of the Huguang Metropolitan Division Yamen under the guidance of Pang Yue. Compared with the old dramas with exaggerated costumes and makeup and singing, the drama is closer to the real in terms of scenery and costumes, and it also gives up babbling singing and adopts the vernacular, so it is more easy to understand and has a sense of substitution, and it has been popular with the audience as soon as it was launched.

The performances of the drama club are usually open to the officers and soldiers of Huguang Town, as well as to the common people. Civilians need to buy a full ticket to enter, and officers and soldiers can enjoy a certain discount. Certain special days, such as those before or after the war, are open only to officers and enlisted men, and admission is free.

Zhao Liangdong has also heard of the popularity of this drama recently, and driven by curiosity, he has long intended to see it in person, not to mention that today's Liu Yidao's hospitality is even more difficult to refuse, so he nodded and smiled: "Brother Liu's hospitality, then I will be disrespectful." Also this ticket ...... money"

"Whew! Don't talk about this, if you can go, you will give me face! Liu Yidao waved his hand nonchalantly. (To be continued.) )