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Nanyuan in the suburbs of Beijing, drying eagle Taidong.

This once glorious royal hunting enclosure has lost its former glory, and is withering in the westerly wind because it has been rarely used for decades. The dilapidated fences and barren pastures make it extremely difficult to compare with the magnificent scenery of Kang Yongqian's three dynasties and thousands of horsemen hunting, and replace them with countless laments and sorrows.

And not far from this dilapidated paddock, a brand-new military camp has risen in just a few months, nearly 10,000 troops are stationed here, although the architectural pattern of the Chinese-style western-style building is incompatible with the paddock on the side, but on the roof of the barracks building, it is still the familiar Yellow Dragon Flag.

Under Ye Kai's arrangement, this temporary station, which once belonged to the sixth town of the Beiyang Army, will become the base camp of the Praetorian Guard for a long time in the future.

In addition, there is an unknown reason why he chose this place, more than 20 years later, it was on this same land that the 29th Army of the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Division was surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese army, and tens of thousands of loyal soldiers were buried here, which undoubtedly has a special and profound significance for him.

At this moment, standing in the conference hall of the barracks are Zaitao and Yu Lang, ministers in charge of Praetorian Guard training, Ye Kai, minister of training and the first assistant commander of the Praetorian Guard, Jiang Yanxing, the second assistant commander, Ha Hanzhang, the general staff officer, and all the senior generals of the Praetorian Guard, including the quartermaster, military law, ordnance, and military medical auxiliary departments of the training department.

Today, the purpose of their presence here is to make a final discussion on the upcoming military training, and the focus is on the "Military Training Regulations" drafted by Ye Kai.

According to the plan of the "Training Regulations", the first phase of the Praetorian Guard has two infantry associations, an artillery, a horse corps, a baggage battalion, and an engineering battalion, and these personnel will be partially drawn from the first and second towns of the Beiyang Army, and more will be recruited from the vicinity of Gyeonggi, requiring that they are under the age of 25, have no dark diseases, and have no bad criminal records.

The reason why Ye Kai asked for this is to focus on the future, the future war will rely more and more on the effectiveness of weapons and equipment, and what the Praetorian Guard needs is not a group of reckless men who can only wield knives and guns, but a group of elite soldiers who can skillfully operate modern weapons, which also requires users to have a higher cultural quality.

All soldiers of the Praetorian Guard will all use standard German-made equipment, including Mauser rifles and 105mm German-made marine artillery, and it is worth mentioning that there is also a special machine gun battalion in each infantry association, equipped with the most advanced Makqin machine gun at that time.

In addition to personnel and equipment, the "Training Regulations" stipulates the new military uniforms, military flags, of course, these are completely different from the Beiyang Army, the new military uniforms will be based on the German uniform, and the obvious Chinese style is attached in some places, the cockade is made of copper regimental eagle emblem, in terms of epaulettes, it has also made a detailed and different design from other troops, and there is also the problem of cutting braids, Ye Kai has considered it for a long time and still did not write it into it, although in many new armies, including the Beiyang Army, Cutting braids is already a very common thing, and the superiors also turn a blind eye, but after all, the Praetorian Guard is a royal army that Zaifeng personally ordered to form, at least in terms of appearance, too outrageous changes are not allowed, but in the future, Ye Kai still intends to implement it slowly and gradually.

In particular, it is worth mentioning that the Praetorian Guard adopted the military rank system for the first time, which is the first time in the entire history of China, but compared with the copying of foreign countries in later generations, the name of the military rank this time is obviously a combination of Chinese and Western, the top class is the general, the general, followed by the orthodox, the deputy capital, the unification level of the association, and then the third class is the main staff leader, deputy staff leader, and assistant staff leader, and the fourth class is the main military academy, deputy military academy, and the joint military academy. In addition, the ranks of non-commissioned officers are also divided, which are sergeant, sergeant, and corporal. Ordinary soldiers are also divided into three types: regular soldiers, first-class soldiers, and second-class soldiers, and this series of detailed regulations can be said to have a rough prototype of the modern military rank system.

Standing on the pyramid of modern military training, this set of regulations is undoubtedly much more scientific than the training plans of other new armies in the same period, and if they can be implemented smoothly, one year later, what will be displayed in front of the world will be a steel division completely armed with modern ideas.

"Ryo-sama?"

After staring at the "Training Regulations" in his hand for a long time, Yu Lang suddenly had some questions, frowned and said, "Is this too strict." ”

Seeing Ye Kai leaning his head over, Yu Lang pointed to a military regulation on the charter and narrated to him: "Anyone who escapes in the army, for whatever reason, if it is verified, he will be handed over to the military court for execution, and his minister will be punished with fifty canes and a fine of three months." ”

"And these two," Yu Lang turned to the previous page, and continued: "Whoever takes bribes privately in the army, for whatever reason, will be expelled from the army if it is found to be guilty, and handed over to the imperial court to be held responsible, and his minister will be given thirty rods and fined for one month." ”

"If there is a person in the army who is negligent in training, for whatever reason, if it is found to be twenty lashes, he will be deducted from his salary for half a month."

After Yu Lang finished speaking, he raised his head and said to everyone present: "Your Excellency, think about it and discuss it, are these too unkind?" ”

For Yu Lang's question, many people nodded secretly, if the military regulations are too strict, what if it provokes a mutiny, these things have not happened, on the Korean battlefield, there are soldiers who question the commander's decision and mutiny, which indirectly led to the defeat of a major battle.

Ye Kai saw all this, and sneered almost immediately in his heart, there are no rules, and it is said to be a war machine to maintain the country and resist foreign enemies, any small part missing may lead to the failure of the entire machine, and one person's escape will affect the thinking of a group of people, for those soldiers who escaped, his approach can be called concise and clear, and he directly rewarded a bullet.

Zaitao was also embarrassed and twisted his chin, he had read this charter earlier, and a lot of the content had been approved by him, but now some people raised objections, which undoubtedly put him in a dilemma, and in desperation, he had to stop expressing his position for the time being, looking at Ye Kai, waiting for his explanation.

"Longbele, there are soldiers in the Beiyang Army who rape people's girls, do you know how Yuan Shikai did it?" Ye Kai did not back down, and wiped his neck almost ruthlessly: "I cut off my head directly on the spot." ”

Hearing that many people took a breath, Ye Kai chuckled lightly and said to everyone: "Let me ask you, Yuan Shikai is so harsh, why does the Beiyang Army still listen to him Yuan Dashuai?" ”

"That's because although the military regulations are strict, they are strict and trustworthy, from the generals to the soldiers, they treat everyone equally, so how can the army be strong?" Seeing that everyone was looking at each other, Ye Kai did not pause, and continued, "Military regulations are not about being strict, but about whether it is feasible, if it is feasible, you should have no worries and follow it." ”

Ye Kai's rhetoric was aggressive, so that Yu Lang had no power to refute, how could he, a rusty brain that still belonged to the old-fashioned army in the last century, keep up with the rhythm of modern military development? On this issue, Ye Kai does not allow others to ignore it.

"Although Lord Liang says this, the military regulations of the Beiyang Army don't seem to be so strict, right?" After thinking about it for a long time, Yu Lang finally came up with a reason to refute, but under Ye Kai's language offensive, it was not tenable at all.

"The most ordinary soldier of the Praetorian Guard will receive seventeen taels of silver per month, how much does the new army from all over the country get? How much did the Beiyang Army take? The seven-rank officials in the capital are nothing more than that. ”

Ye Kai was full of joy and eloquent, and a group of people were speechless, and at the end of his words, he didn't forget to talk about his feelings: "The regent ordered you and me to train the army, but do you want to train another Beiyang army?" Another rebellious minister and thief like Yuan Shikai? Let this Forbidden City not be at peace again? ”

No matter who heard this, they were deeply infected, or if it didn't sound good, they were deeply bewitched, everyone agreed with Ye Kai's statement after thinking for a while, and finally Yu Lang no longer insisted, and nodded slowly, after seeing this, Zaitao finally breathed a sigh of relief and said.

"Just follow this charter, slow down the army, tomorrow the school will order troops, the regent will be in person, you better prepare early."

"Yes!"

Everyone spoke in unison, and Ye Kai also retreated, indeed, there are still many things to prepare for this night, and there is no time to be lazy.