Chapter 42: Become an Official!
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From the training of the first batch of veterans, Zhang Renjie has invested a lot of energy, and the training of the second batch of players will be much easier. The veteran players are already proficient in queue training, and it is not difficult to train the new players, Zhang Renjie has used the same methods for them on the new players, so that the old players have a sense of achievement.
Many new players were not convinced at first, but then they were cleaned up very badly, in fact, few were able to beat the old players, after all, these three months of intensive training were not given in vain. The veteran team members have grasped the matter of queue training, and Zhang Renjie has more time to devote to the construction of the troops.
Troop building is not just about training, but also basic camps, material support, troop establishment, rewards and punishments, and so on all belong to the scope of troop building.
This ideological education work also includes two parts, one is military ideological education, and the other is political ideological education. For the time being, military thinking can only be aimed at a small number of people, but political ideological work should be aimed at everyone. Since Zhang Renjie returned to Zhangjiazhuang two days ago, he began to preach to the team members once a day, the main content is one, they eat the Zhang family's food, then they have to obey the Zhang family's management, and other people's words can be regarded as fart. As for talking about advanced ideas with a group of big-headed soldiers who don't know a few words and don't know a few words, they are blind and they can't understand it.
Zhang Renjie has long known that he is poor and white, and he has been consciously training officers for a long time, and the previous focus on training three platoon commanders was the beginning. Since yesterday, he has formally set up a training course for officers, bringing together a group of people with the highest level of education to conduct surprise training. What he teaches now does not require them to understand it thoroughly, but it must be memorized. But picking left and right, talking one by one, it took a whole day to pick out thirty people, and three of them did not meet his selection criteria and were barely stuffed in.
Each team can't be full of combatants, and it also needs a few clerks, which is equivalent to a secretary who does copywriting. There must also be staff officers in the other team, but it's still too early to think about the staff officers. The team has never recruited a secretary, so he has no choice but to continue to dig the corner of his house and directly invite his two account gentlemen to help deal with the team's copywriting affairs.
The officer training course was newly established, with three platoon commanders and 10 squad leaders all listed, and 17 people were selected from among the literate veterans and new members. Among the nearly 500 Lianyong team, there are more than 130 literate people, of which 20 or 30 have studied in private schools for several years, and two are scholars who have studied for nearly ten years, but they have not even been admitted to Xiucai. In this regard, Zhang Renjie is already very satisfied. Now he is holding a regimental exercise, and those who are dedicated to studying will not want to come, after all, if they are mixed into this team, it means that they will join the army and fight in the future. In this era, many scholars would rather continue to study coarse grain steamed buns in order to pursue the imperial examination, rather than give up their pen and follow Rong.
These two scholars, who have no fame and have not even been admitted to Xiucai for more than ten years, one is called Zou Shida, 20 years old, and the other is He Kangnian, 22 years old. There is no way, the family is too poor to afford them to continue studying, and at the same time, they have also become families, and letting a woman support them has been very blind to the people of the same village, and they really can't stand the pressure, so they came to participate in the selection of the Zhang family group training. Originally, Zhang Renjie's selection criteria were to give priority to cultural people and physical fitness second.
When Zhang Renjie left, he told them that his physical fitness could be improved quickly through guò training, but this culture is not improved in one day, two days, a month or two months, and anyone who reads to join them must raise their hands to welcome them.
These 30 people officially became the earliest students of the officer training class, and Zhang Renjie had considerable expectations for them. The three platoon commanders have been leading the team for a while, and they have shortcomings and strengths, Zhang Renjie still has to continue to train vigorously, after all, he is a person on Zhuangzi and an absolute cronie. Others plan to let them train while studying, and then wait for the official formation of the team to become trainee officers in the next month. Future platoon commanders, company commanders, and battalion commanders all had to be selected from these people.
On the third day of Zhang Renjie's return, the goods of Jardine Matheson arrived in time, and the time was exactly half a month, and the time of this foreign devil was really accurate. Six hundred third-generation Martini-Henry rifles, and fifty Smith Wesson III revolvers. There were 50 boxes of ammunition, 530,000 rounds of rifle ammunition, and 20,000 rounds of pistol ammunition.
The old team members no longer need to train in the queue every day, and the old team members are divided into two groups in the morning and afternoon, and they take turns to teach the new army column training, and the idle group all goes to the shooting range to practice guns. For a while, for many days in a row, the sound of banging gunfire was heard all day around the two newly built shooting ranges. Whenever this time is also the time when the new army is most easily distracted, many of them want to touch the gun because the gun is too loud, but because of envy, of course, it is better to shoot twice!
But even more because of this, the recruits were unlucky, and once someone turned around and looked in the direction of the range, the instructor would give a merciless whip. Then they continued to be punished for running laps, and after several punishments in a row, the recruits learned to obey orders, and no one was disturbed by the old players on the side to practice guns.
"May I ask which one is Young Master Zhang?" Outside the training ground, two people were calling Zhang Renjie.
"Who am you?" It was already evening, and the training on the training ground was about to end. At this time, Zhang Renjie heard someone shouting, and immediately got down from the training ground, and asked the first person at the same time.
"Congratulations to Lord Zhang Dusi, my lord, your official photos and official uniforms have come down, right here, you are now the garrison of Andong County, Huai'an Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty, congratulations on your ascension!"
"You know me?!" Zhang Renjie said strangely, he really didn't have an impression of the person in front of him.
The man replied: "The little one is a small errand runner in the Anqing Donation Bureau, and the little one saw you on the day when Steward Gong sent you back to Huai'an." The chief steward is very concerned about your affairs, and after informing Ambassador Gong, he personally assigned the little Pegasus to go to the capital, and after the formalities were completed, the little one came to you non-stop, which was also the order of Ambassador Gong and the Grand Steward Gong! ”
"Thank you for this long journey, let's go to the village to rest first. Ten squad leaders! ”
"Here!"
"Take this brother to the canteen for dinner, I'll be there in a moment! Sue the great butler, bring fifty taels of silver to him! The latter sentence was whispered close to Zhang Qishi's ear, and no one else heard it.
After finishing speaking, Zhang Renjie also turned around and shouted at the training ground: "All of them are here!" Stand upright, take a break! That's the end of today's training, get ready to eat, wash up for an hour after eating, and then go on your own tasks! ”
At the end of the training, the team began to line up in a neat queue to go to the canteen, and after eating, they had to immediately line up to take a shower, and then quickly wash their clothes and dry them outside the barracks, and then rest for a while.
These two officials from Anqing were stunned by the scene in front of them, they have seen a lot of soldiers in the north and south, the Hunan army, the Huai army, the green battalion, the patrol battalion, the patrol inspection, etc., no team can be compared with the team in front of them, even if the number is small, it is enough to see its elite. What is called an order and a ban, this is it!
Zhang Qishi led the two of them to the dining hall to eat first, Zhang Renjie took the package in his hand, took out his official photo from it, and smiled: "I will be an official?!" This is equivalent to a regimental leader in later generations! ”