The recruitment process of the Beiyang Martial Arts Academy is slightly different from Lu Hong's imagination, it is obvious that among the two thousand students, it seems to be difficult to recruit subordinates who at least seem to him to be easy to manage, and after tossing in the academy for more than a day, there are a lot of people who come to line up for interviews, but there are not many people who really make Lu Hong look at them, and after counting, a total of 31 soldiers including Ouyang Hao have been recruited, and the difference is not small.

It seems that this concept of being a soldier and eating a salary and making a fortune as an official is definitely the mainstream of the mainstream, and my dream of hoping that a group of new young people can come by relying on the idea is obviously not realistic...... However, he still has such thirty or so subordinates, and there is still a shortage of manpower, he thought about it for a while, and he is not in a hurry to recruit for the time being, after all, it is important to do things in the future.

When he returned to Tianjin Wei, he reported the errand to Wang Renkan, this champion was obviously too lazy to meddle in this kind of thing, and directly appointed Lu Hong to be in charge of the Yong battalion, after all, these soldiers may not be of any use, ensuring safety along the way is the most important duty, and the handling of specific affairs, isn't there a group of staff!

That night, Lu Hong went to visit Zhang Peilun again with Huang Tifang's letter, who is now a behind-the-scenes figure in the Governor's Mansion of Zhili, but he obviously has a very good influence on Li Hongzhang.

Huang Tifang actually said in the letter that it is necessary to strengthen the influence of the North Korean royal family, after all, now Li Hongzhang is the biggest person who can influence North Korea, Zhang Peilun obviously understands Huang Tifang's meaning, it is obvious that the idea of these bigwigs in the court to avoid war with Yue Ben is very urgent, but with the second assassination, the things mentioned in this letter have obviously lost their original meaning......

"Lu Yunju, I'm afraid you don't know, today the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK Mutsu Munemitsu has already raised questions to the DPRK and asked the Korean royal family to explain the excesses of sending military personnel into the DPRK!" Zhang Peilun pondered for a long time after reading the letter before he said.

Lu Hong arched his hand, "Master Zhang, I naturally won't let go of this opportunity...... However, I think that the political axes are already preparing for war at the moment, and their excuses, the North Koreans have clearly provided them! A North Korean royal family, which has completely lost its national body, obviously needs to carry out more drastic reforms! ”

"You mean...... I might send troops immediately? Zhang Peilun frowned, his news is more than Lu Hong's, in fact, after learning about this bizarre assassination case, the DPRK Minister of International Trade Yuan Shikai has asked Keisuke Otori, the ambassador to the DPRK, to verify the situation in the country...... Of course, Keisuke Otori did not hesitate to reply to Prime Minister Ito's Sino-friendly proposal, but Li Hongzhang was obviously very worried about his own statement.

Lu Hong immediately denied Zhang Peilun's speculation, "Lord Zhang, these two consecutive assassinations happened suddenly, just like us, I must have never expected it...... Huang Gong asked me to visit you, and I also hope that you will try your best to remind Lord Zhongtang that you must plan early to prepare for war! ”

Zhang Peilun frowned and pondered for a moment, nodded at Lu Hong, obviously agreeing to this matter, he pointed to Huang Tifang's letter again, "Lu Hong, you are going to supervise military discipline, this is an errand that is easy to lose your head, since Huang Gong has entrusted me, remember to catch and release!" ”

There is a catch and a release...... Lu Hong immediately realized the meaning of this, but Lao Zhang was very immoral and disappeared, and he also served tea to the guests!

That night, Wang Renkan found Lu Hong and Yan Fu, and announced the decision he had just made, the itinerary of the inspector had been determined, first went south to Shanghai to supervise the Nanyang Naval Division under the jurisdiction of Liu Kun, the governor of Liangjiang, and then went south to supervise the Guangzhou Naval Division, and finally the Beiyang Naval Division.

Of course, reaching a consensus is obviously a good choice, and there are even incidental dividends, two days later, when leaving Tianjin Zizhulin Wharf, Lu Hong and his entourage boarded the large cargo ship "Chengyu" chartered by the sailor China Merchants Bureau, and Yang Shixiang represented Li Zhongtang to see off at the wharf.

Before leaving, Lu Hong hurriedly went to the telegraph office, and then went to the Tianjin Martial Arts Academy to bring all the men of the Yong Battalion, and Ouyang Hao obviously worked hard to perform his duties as a temporary sentinel, originally he was the leader of the current cadet squadron in the Martial Arts Academy, and now there is no pressure to only govern such thirty people.

However, after boarding the "Chengyu", he found that this Lu master was more demanding and strict than the German instructors in the academy in leading and training troops.

Lu Hong divided the thirty people into three squads, in addition to Ouyang Hao was designated as the captain, the captains and vice-presidents of the three squads were recommended by Ouyang Hao, which fully gave Ouyang Hao a sense of trust, and second, made full use of Ouyang Hao's advantages that he was more familiar with the situation than himself.

After that, Lu Hong immediately copied almost all the training subjects in accordance with the requirements of his special training in later generations, and he personally demonstrated it in the back cabin of the Chengyu cargo ship.

When Yin Chang was sent to this group of students, he was full of sycophants, and each of them was given a new fast rifle of the Jiangnan Bureau, for this type of rifle, Lu Hong was full of appreciation, this thing is a fine product in the imitation of the Jiangnan factory, even if it is not inferior to the Austro-Hungarian Manlixia 5 Lianzhu that was just imitated last year.

In terms of firearm shooting, he did not carry out too many reforms, after all, the rifle of this era is still in a sharp change area, the rate of fire is becoming a rapid development direction of firearms, and the fast rifle, although there are still flaws in the process, but in other aspects it is indeed very advanced.

Lu Hong's current training of this group of subordinates is mainly focused on military quality, and he has had an in-depth discussion with Ouyang Hao before, and found a serious deficiency in the military training of the Tianjin Martial Arts Academy...... Most of the recruits of Tianjin Wubei Academy come from the recommendation of the Huai Army, and they also recruit scholars who are willing to join the army.

Ouyang Hao is a scholar who writes from Rong, but after joining the army, he feels extremely helpless about the many [***] situations that he has encountered within the Huai Department training army...... Moreover, these armies [***] are all instructed by high-ranking officers in the army, which makes him even more unacceptable, but there is no way, he is not a fool, he naturally understands that if he opposes this force, there is no possibility of victory.

Therefore, when Lu Hong came to recruit people, he had great expectations, and some of the concepts of military training in later generations that he heard from Lu Hong did not subvert the operational concepts of German instructors, but they did make him understand the core of military training.

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