"Ran away?" Wang Sirui said with a deep frown.

"It was the negligence of my subordinates, I originally thought it was foolproof, but I didn't expect Yuan Shikai to leave the team alone without knowing somewhere, and only after the ambush team finished fighting did I find that there was no Yuan Shikai's body." Ma Sanru stood in front of Wang Sirui and said with some guilt.

In any case, it was his mistakes that caused the current failure.

And when Wang Sirui gave this task, he injected a huge amount of energy, not only bribed Li Hongzhang's subordinates, but also sent a holy decree to the past.

Seeing that everything was already developing in the direction that Wang Sirui expected, but in the end, they found that this was a bamboo basket for water, and they didn't get anything, but they might have leaked themselves.

"This holy decree has been issued, and the news that Li Hongzhang is seriously ill has also been leaked to him, as long as he still has a little ambition, he will definitely enter Beijing. Let people guard the city gate, and once Yuan Shikai appears, arrest him immediately. Wang Sirui sighed helplessly in his heart and said.

"Yes, Captain." Ma Sanru responded, and then said: "The subordinates have ordered someone to replace the caravan that Yuan Shikai pretended to be, and asked the soldiers to search for suspicious people around. Just now, I also ordered my subordinates to be stationed at the gate of the city, once Yuan Shikai's traces are found, he will not be able to escape from the palm of our hands. ”

"Don't be so sure until it's done, and don't think everyone is so stupid." Wang Sirui was a little dissatisfied with Ma Sanru's attitude.

After discovering the mistake, he immediately chose other remedies, which Ma Sanru did very well, and Wang Sirui had nothing to criticize.

But about Ma Sanru's attitude after that, Wang Sirui frowned deeply.

He doesn't want the men he has cultivated to be all big guys who can swallow the whole world, what he needs is a real doer, even if it is bragging, then he has to wait until the task is completed to brag.

Of course, what Wang Sirui hates the most is bragging, even if it is bragging after the task is completed, Wang Sirui still hates it.

Because bragging will affect the judgment of the superiors, one bragging, maybe nothing, but one bragging after another, will only give the superiors a feeling that you are very elite and you are very powerful, and then you will be sent to a more dangerous place.

And bragging, after all, it is impossible to adjust the strength of the army itself, and once it reaches a more brutal environment, it will inevitably be directly beaten out by the enemy.

At that time, not only will the army lose thousands of people in vain, but it will also affect the overall strategic layout. This is the reason why Wang Sirui doesn't like to talk big.

For Yuan Shikai, since the first action has failed, Wang Sirui can only go with the flow.

On this vast territory of tens of millions of square meters, where did he go to find Yuan Shikai? Not to mention the current era of backward technology, even in the era of the future when there are eye eyes everywhere, it is still easy for a guy with a little training to be a little cautious so that the police can't find him.

"Yes, Commander, I see!" Ma Sanru immediately put away his contemptuous attitude and took this matter seriously.

"After you go back, summarize the reasons for the failure of this mission, recall what you didn't do well in the mission, and find a way to make up for these mistakes after summing it up, and finally report to me." Wang Sirui instructed Ma Sanru.

"Yes, Commander!" Ma Sanru answered again.

Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, Wang Sirui attaches great importance to Ma Sanru, but he also does not attach importance to Ma Sanru.

But only his own family knows better, Ma Sanru knows very well in his heart that Wang Sirui's energy on him is no less than that on other main forces, and even the attention to Ma Sanru's side far exceeds that of other main forces.

And Ma Sanru's troops are actually not a complete army, to be precise, he should be a semi-military force.

Two of the four battalions were trained as reconnaissance battalions, and they were fully militarized. The other two battalions, although also militarized, have reduced their training intensity.

In fact, the total number of the other two battalions has exceeded 2,000, but there are only more than 1,200 on paper.

However, what Ma Sanru didn't expect was that before the soldiers he sent to the city gate arrived at Yongding Gate, Yuan Shikai had already led two soldiers to enter the capital from Yongding Gate, and met the soldiers who had been sent to the capital to contact Li Hongzhang near Yongding Gate.

And the news learned from the mouth of this pro-soldier made Yuan Shikai regret it even more, regretting that he had entered the capital, and it was not easy to go out now.

So, Yuan Shikai took three of his soldiers and hid in one of his properties in the capital, hoping to wait until his other soldiers arrived before making a decision.

In this way, Ma Sanru once again perfectly missed the opportunity to arrest Yuan Shikai.

At the same time, Wang Sirui led his guards to inspect the boot training camp in the south of the city.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the imperial court officially promulgated a new military reform plan, appointing Duanjun Wang Zaiyi to be fully responsible for military reform, appointing Wu Yang of the reform team, and Wang Shuqi, the squire of the military department, to cooperate in charge of specific matters.

Next to this military reform notice, there is another notice, which is a conscription notice.

However, because the capital has changed hands several times, and more than 17,000 soldiers were recruited only a few months ago, and the previous war has also caused a lot of population loss in the capital, so this recruitment is not going well.

Even if a high military salary was offered, under the strict conditions, Wang Sirui did not recruit too many soldiers.

From the sixteenth day of the first month to the present, that is, the twenty-first day of the first month, in five days, there are more than 20,000 young people who have signed up to join the army in the capital, but only less than 4,000 people have really passed the review, and the probability of passing is one-fifth.

Yesterday, these 4,000 people were uniformly placed in the recruit camp in the south of the city, where the elite squad leader of a company drawn from each regiment was responsible for training them, and the whole recruit period lasted for three months.

Three months later, this group of people will be assigned to the company, and they will have a nine-month joint training with the company, that is, this time next year, which is the best time for Wang Sirui to let them go to the battlefield.

Of course, things can't always go so smoothly, and Wang Sirui also set a minimum deadline for himself, that is, half a year, and they will be sent to the battlefield in six months at the earliest.

However, now Wang Sirui represents the imperial court, and no one in the entire country dares to blatantly go against the imperial court, so, theoretically, Wang Sirui still has enough time to run in the troops.

And the men who did not make it to the army were not too disappointed, because next to the recruitment point, there was the same recruitment point, but the salary there was much lower than that of the army.

The Qiao family and the Qiu family wanted to open a factory in the capital, so they needed a lot of manpower to build a new factory, and those young people who were eliminated by the army became the ideal labor force on their side.

The salary of fifty cents per person per day, regardless of one meal at noon, although it is not as good as the army, but it has one or two halves of silver a month, and it is enough to barely feed the family.

Of course, more importantly, they manage a meal at noon. Which one is not the prime of labor of every family? They saved one meal, which was enough for an elderly and weak person in the family to eat two or three meals.

Therefore, soon, the Qiao family and the Qiu family were also overcrowded, and in just two days, they withdrew the recruitment point.

Wang Sirui was very relieved to see that the instructors of an entire company were training these 4,000 recruits, and in just one day, these newly enlisted recruits had some appearance.

However, at present, the number of instructors is still somewhat insufficient, and at present, on average, each instructor needs to be responsible for twenty or thirty recruits, which also increases the amount of training for instructors and delays the speed of training.

"A hundred instructors from various units continue to be recruited, and at present, one instructor is responsible for too many recruits, which is not conducive to the training of recruits." Wang Sirui looked at the busy school field densely packed with recruits wearing all kinds of clothes, and said to Wang Shuqi with a slight frown.

"If that's the case, we have to immediately promote a new group of squad leaders to take over the positions after these instructors leave, but because we are expanding our army a little too fast, I am worried that the people below will not be able to take the new positions." Wang Shuqi hesitated.

At present, the instructors of this company have rich training experience, in other words, they are the instructors with the best training effect since the Han army has expanded the army, and this best does not only refer to what the trained recruits look like, but can remember more than others on the battlefield and live longer.

"Take out the top-ranked cadres in our reserve list, let them come here to sharpen their temperament, and you have to keep an eye on them and record their every move." Wang Sirui thought for a moment and continued.

Since it is impossible to transfer more squad and platoon leaders over, they can only do it from the reserve cadres.

Wang Shuqi also heard what Wang Sirui meant, if nothing else, these reserve cadres who were transferred would receive their promotion orders after leaving the new barracks.

Wang Shuqi did not object to this choice, but it would make him a little more troublesome, but this is nothing, at most it is a waste of a few more days. (To be continued.) )