As the night deepened, Yuan Shikai and Wang Bin were eating the same food as the soldiers in the barracks.

At this moment, Wang Bin remembered some things he had done in the afternoon.

After inspecting the arsenal, Yuan Shikai looked at the sky outside, and suddenly wanted to take a look at the daily training in the fifth town.

This Fifth Town has been an army for a long time now, but Yuan Shikai has never taken the time to inspect the soldiers of the Fifth Town, and now the soldiers of the Fifth Town only know the benefits of Wang Bin, and it is Wang Bin who gives them the opportunity to eat the imperial grain.

Especially at the time of the expansion of the fifth town, these soldiers not only came to serve as soldiers to eat the imperial grain, but also some people came to Wang Bin's reputation as Wang Qingtian on the boundary of Jinzhou.

Because the training intensity of the Fifth Town is much greater than that of other Beiyang New Army, in order to make the soldiers' nutrition proportional to the daily training consumption, Wang Bin specially asked people to build a breeding farm in the logistics department of the Fifth Town.

In normal times, ordinary people who know how to breed help the fifth town raise chickens, ducks, fish, pigs, and other domestic animals, and if the number of livestock in the farm is not enough, they will buy them from all over the place, so that the soldiers can eat a hot meat meal from time to time, and the soldiers' nutrition will not be kept up while maintaining training.

Therefore, it can be said that the physique and physical strength of the current soldiers in the fifth town are superior to many new armies in the country.

And the emergence of this farm has also greatly driven the enthusiasm of the people around Jinzhou to breed, led to the development of small farmers' economy, for a while the life of the people around Jinzhou is not known how much better than before, and as long as it is the logistics department of the fifth town of livestock, of course, the premise is that the livestock you sell are not sick and some other problems.

Wang Bin treats these soldiers well, and the soldiers will remember Wang Bin's goodness.

Moreover, the grassroots officers in this fifth town were all single-handedly drawn out by Wang Bin, not to mention that there is still this loyalty, especially in this era when there is no universal education, soldiers and officers remember Wang Bin's goodness, and they will naturally be loyal to Wang Bin.

Therefore, the current Fifth Town is only afraid that no one can control it except Wang Bin, let alone Yuan Shikai, these soldiers don't even know what Yuan Shikai looks like, let alone be loyal to Yuan Shikai.

After Wang Bin and Yuan Shikai arrived at the barracks, it happened that the two infantry battalions were conducting a simulated exercise, and after seeing this exercise, Yuan Shikai stopped and watched the offensive and defensive drills of the two sides.

It is common for the fifth town to conduct exercises, and Wang Bin has always believed that only by conducting more exercises in peacetime will the chances of surviving on the battlefield be improved when the time comes, so Wang Bin has always encouraged the battalions below to come to a drill when they are fine, and to conduct confrontation to accumulate more on-the-spot experience for themselves when they go to the battlefield in the future, so as not to panic when they get it.

Yuan Shikai looked from a distance and found that the soldiers on both sides were digging trenches near the hillside, and the other was preparing to attack.

Yuan Shikai also knew this method of building positions before the war, and the battle between the Japanese and the Russians now has this form: one side attacks, and the other side builds positions according to the terrain and relies on the positions for defense.

After a while, the side in charge of defense had already dug a trench and completed the construction of the position, and at this moment the side in charge of attacking also gave the order to attack.

Immediately, the infantry battalion responsible for the attack began to disperse, charging in front, and covering in the back according to such an alternation, especially when charging, Yuan Shikai found that the infantry battalion responsible for the attack, the distance between each soldier was relatively large, which gave rise to doubts, after all, Yuan Shikai had never seen such a large tactic of pulling the distance between soldiers.

Doubts are doubts, and if you read this, you will know why, so Yuan Shikai continued to read it.

After the soldiers in charge of the attack opened up the distance and charged, the defense of the defender also officially began, only to see that the crisp sound belonging to Makqin began to sound on the hillside, and the blank bullets continued to hit the attacking soldiers, and then began to continue to have soldiers "die" on the road of the charge.

Finally, after some of the soldiers had "died", they felt thirty or forty meters away from the defenders, and the charging soldiers took out a weapon from their waists and threw it forward.

Yuan Shikai saw this weapon clearly, it was a grenade, and the grenade used in this exercise was filled with a red dye, and once it was stained with dye, it would default to "death".

So after the attacker threw out grenades one by one, the soldiers in charge of the defense immediately fell, but the defending soldiers were not vegetarians, under the leadership of the pipe belt, one by one began to put the wooden bayonets in front of the muzzle and rushed out of the trench, and started a white-knuckle battle with the attacker.

In the end, the defenders won by a relatively narrow margin.

After watching the exercise, Yuan Shikai still looked a little unsatisfied, Wang Bin on the side saw that Yuan Shikai was still reminiscing about the exercise just now, and he didn't bother for a while, until after a while, Yuan Shikai said with some admiration: "Youde, if all the Beiyang armies could be like you to focus on how to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, how good it would be!" ”

After Yuan Shikai sighed, Wang Bin continued: "My lord smiled, the department just has nothing else to do every day, so I have to think about how to train the army every day, my lord is really a little flattered when he says this!" ”

"Okay, the officer will casually praise people when he speaks, and you are the only one in the army who can put all your thoughts on training, and this officer can see this clearly." After Yuan Shikai finished speaking, he said to Wang Bin.

In Yuan Shikai's opinion, Wang Bin is one of the few officers in Beiyang who has devoted all his energy to military training, but unfortunately Wang Bin didn't know that Yuan Shikai was thinking like this.

If you want to say why Wang Bin wants to put all his mind on training, the main reason is that Wang Bin himself is a traverser, and another point is that in this era, the army is directly linked to your personal strength, so for the sake of his own future, the current Wang Bin has to find ways to strengthen their combat effectiveness in the fifth town under his command.

In order to be able to have the ability to protect themselves in the changes in the next few years.

Just when Wang Bin and Yuan Shikai were still discussing some matters about the Fifth Town, Deng Jichun, who was suddenly in charge of supervising the payment of military salaries in peacetime, saw Wang Bin, so he immediately ran over and wanted Wang Bin to go to the military salary together, Wang Bin originally had this intention, but he didn't expect that when it came to this military salary, Yuan Shikai's interest was even higher than himself, and it seemed that Yuan Shikai also wanted to leave a reflection among the soldiers and officers in the Fifth Town through this military salary.