In contrast, the formation of that marine brigade is much more troublesome, and the requirements for the quality of officers and men of the marine corps are much higher than those of the garrison; not to mention anything else, first of all, it must be able to know the water and not get seasick; in Shandong, the northern province, these two requirements can not be satisfied.

If there is enough time to train troops, even if it is a complete landlubber, it can always be trained, but the problem is that Li Hui will use it quickly to form the Marine Corps, and it will be sent to the battlefield after a year or even half a year.

In addition, the Marines must also have great courage and courage, because the casualty rate of beach-rushing operations is often frighteningly high, and they must have brains, after all, they cooperate with high-tech arms such as the Navy.

As for combat skills and tactical literacy, the requirements of the Marine Corps are only higher than those of the Army, and under the combined effect of these factors, the time required for training is naturally too long for Li Hui to bear.

"Can it be faster, this speed is too slow, I am now expanding at full speed, it is impossible to spend a lot of money to raise an army just for the distant future!" , Li Hui frowned immediately after listening to the report of Tan Tiancheng, the commander of the Marine Brigade, and kept knocking his fingers on the desk, racking his brains to think of a way.

Regarding the training items that must be completed listed by Tan Tiancheng, Li Hui pondered the countermeasures, "The Marine Corps is an ace unit, and the combat effectiveness naturally cannot be weak, but our opponent is very weak, and we still have the advantage of weapons and equipment, we should be able to send them to the battlefield earlier, and then directly use the war to train troops, is this okay?" ”

Tan Tiancheng shook his head and said, "If the enemy is only a Qing army, it doesn't matter if the requirements for combat skills and tactical literacy are lower, but the courage must not be bad, otherwise even if there are good weapons and equipment, they will only be handed away." And if the guns are pointed at the enemy but they can't get down and can't kill people, it's also useless. ”

As a full-level biochemical soldier, although Tan Tiancheng also has a chronic disease of lack of creativity, his IQ is still quite outstanding, and he pointed out the lower limit that recruits must reach on the battlefield, at least they must be able to fight with the wind, right?

If, like many Qing troops in the First Sino-Japanese War, they scattered and fled without even seeing the shadow of the enemy, no matter how much they strengthened the hardware, it would be in vain.

Knowing the water and not getting seasick is a necessary ability for marines, otherwise it is better to use the army directly, so why spend so much money to train a marine?

These words are very reasonable, Li Hui can only nod yes, just when he was helplessly ready to abandon the original plan and reduce the size of the Marine Corps to save expenses, the few sentences mentioned by Tan Tiancheng suddenly strangely connected in his mind, Li Hui suddenly realized that this seems to be a portrayal of a certain profession!

Fishermen, especially those along the coast of China in this era, must first know how to water, and then it is impossible to get seasick, and although the warship will be very bumpy when it enters the open ocean, it will not be more turbulent than when the small wooden boat goes out to sea, so that two requirements are met at once.

And in terms of courage, fishermen have never been lacking, and who dares to go to sea in a small wooden boat, which one is not bold? And the long-term freedom from the jurisdiction of the government made the ancient Chinese fishermen generally a little lawless, fighting and injuring people was commonplace, and it was not one or two who killed people.

Even in the 21st century, Chinese fishermen still inherited the fierceness of their predecessors, not to mention the news that foreign military police often killed and injured Chinese fishermen, but many of them actually dared to use knives against foreign military and police with guns and cannons, and even killed many of them, which is enough to show the fierceness of this group of people. And if we read the news in reverse, we will come to a very proud conclusion that foreign fishermen are no match for Chinese fishermen if they do not have the backing of military and police guns (I will not talk about the armed fishing boats before the 80s)

However, it is precisely because of lawlessness that fishermen have never been considered a good source of soldiers, because the most important thing for a soldier is to obey orders, and a soldier without organization and discipline is not a qualified soldier even if he can fight.

Therefore, Li Hui felt that he still had to consult the opinions of experts, "This, can fishermen be trained into qualified soldiers?" ”

"Of course, organizational discipline can be trained, as long as there are a sufficient number of qualified instructors, and there is enough authority and enough time, not to mention Chinese fishermen, even if it is black, I can train into an iron army." , Tan Tiancheng's answer made Li Hui happy, but it turned into disappointment in an instant

Li Hui thought of recruiting fishermen as soldiers because the training time required by the Marine Corps was too long, but Tan Tiancheng replied that it would take longer, so why did he bother?

However, Tan Tiancheng's next words made Li Hui hopeful, "It takes a long time for fishermen to complete the full training, and it takes at least five years in peacetime, not counting cultural education." However, if you only want to train to be able to fight with the wind, it is much easier, six months is enough, if you use machine guns to supervise the combat team, then three months is enough, in fact, the fishermen are fierce and cunning, and they are also hard-working, if the final training can be completed, the quality of the soldiers is higher than that trained by the miners, even if it is not an exaggeration to call it the best source of soldiers; It's just that the training is too difficult, and the time required to complete the training is too long, so it can be said that it can be said to be the worst source of soldiers."

"Okay, then it's up to you!" , After listening to Tan Tiancheng's explanation, Li Hui quickly made a decision, although it sounds very inhumane, but the troubled times are not the time to talk about humanity, only by unifying the whole country as soon as possible is the greatest humanity! Li Hui has been hard-hearted since he was a child, and when he was in college, he was even arranged to deal with those redundant experimental animals, and killed at least hundreds of them with his own hands, and was nicknamed "animal killer" by his classmates because of this, so that there would be no unnecessary kindness of women!

The only thing Li Hui was worried about now was that too harsh military discipline would make it difficult to recruit soldiers, but he soon found that he was simply worried

After the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, the livelihood of fishermen along the coast of Shandong was generally greatly affected, and many of them were on the verge of bankruptcy because they could not go to sea for a long time, and there were not a few who owed a lot of debts