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"We have to prepare well for the next period of time, and the most important thing is the training of the team. There is one thing I have been thinking about, even if we can go to Taiwan at that time, but once the French army appears at sea, we are afraid that it will not be easy to find ships in a hurry! ”

Hua Liangfu touched his chin: "Do you want to buy a boat in advance?" That's a lot of silver! ”

"Silver is not a problem, the gold that came back two days ago is enough to buy a few steamships. Originally, I wanted to rent a few boats, but by then I don't think many boat owners would agree to go to sea. Buy a boat, I don't want a brand new one, I'll have to go to Zhenjiang again in a few days, and Hudson from Jardine Matheson will help with these problems. ”

"Your Excellency is leaving again?" Hua Liangfu was surprised, he just came back and was ready to travel away again before his ass was hot, and he was really the proprietor

Zhang Renjie waved his hand: "I'm not going to set off immediately, I'll have to wait a few more days." Recently I am going to do assault training for the team, and you have to participate in it, and if you don't practice your military skills, you will be sent to the death if you go to the south to fight the French. In particular, marksmanship should be practiced well, and the bullets in stock are estimated to be enough for a while, and it should not be a problem to support it for two months. Forget it, let Stuart go to Zhenjiang and find Hudson to bring another batch of bullets. Good marksmanship is fed by bullets, and this bit of silver is still not saved. ”

Hua Liangfu also knew that Zhang Renjie attached great importance to and loved the soldiers under his command, and always emphasized the idea that if you want to kill the enemy, you must first protect yourself. The shadow child nodded and asked, "Is there anything special you want me to do?" ”

Zhang Renjie nodded: "It's true, I will continue to lead the team to set off after a while, aren't there still two bandits in our Huai'an Mansion that have not been exterminated!" Take advantage of this time to get rid of the last two strands. ”

"Yancheng's Tianjiao and Taoyuan County's Meng Laohu? But these two places are different from Funing, they are not within our jurisdiction, and Lord Qian did not give adults this task! Hua Liangsuke's brows furrowed.

"What's this, are you still afraid that Lord Qian will trouble us?"

"It's not, but we send troops without authorization, and the officials of Yancheng County and Taoyuan County will definitely join the adults at the Bingbei Dao, won't the adults be thankless when the time comes?"

Zhang Renjie smiled indifferently: "In five months, no more than half a year at most, we will leave for the south, and even if the above asks for guilt, it won't affect me!" Taking advantage of this time, I want to do as much as I can for my hometown. I don't have time to crack down on the "Smoke" dealers for a long time, but these bandits, I must clean them up before leaving! In the end, the corners of his mouth went up, but his face was full of coldness.

"By the way, it's up to you to go back to Taoyuan County, the soldiers who went to Taoyuan to investigate have already reported to me, that Meng Laohu is actually a righteous bandit, he has never killed people for no reason, and he is engaged in the business of punishing rape and eliminating evil, robbing the rich and helping the poor. You bring some people over and talk to Meng Laohu, I want to take them in. As for the Tianqiao Jiao over there in Yancheng, I will deal with it personally, after all, this Tianqiao eats mainly sea flour rice, go back and count it, pick out eighty of the best water-based fighters in the team for me, and set off in a few days! ”

Hua Liangfu was stunned, Zhang Renjie's appetite is really big, and he has to eat two bandits at the same time in one go. And is this Meng Laohu a righteous bandit? But he is not easy to ask this question, for fear that Zhang Renjie will spray him again. "How many people do you think it's appropriate for me to take to Taoyuan?"

"No more, two classes, in fact, one class is enough!" Zhang Renjie said casually. "What, are you still worried that he will be unfavorable to you after finding Meng Laohu? Don't worry, our Renzi Battalion has a good reputation, and the soldiers are strong and strong, and he won't dare to touch a single hair of your three guts. If he really doesn't agree, forget it, keep them in Taoyuan, and those corrupt officials will be able to restrain a little in the future. ”

In the next three months, Zhang Renjie focused his work on the training of the Renzi Camp. He personally instructed the fighters of the special combat team, and from time to time he gave guidance to the reconnaissance squad and the guard squad. The rest of the time is spent on the cadets of the officer training course. The goods in his stomach must be ahead of this era, but the foundation of these students in front of him is too weak, Zhang Renjie must disassemble everything, chew it thinly and then feed it to the students in the training class.

In the short term, that is, before going to Taiwan to fight the French army, officers at all levels can improve as much as they want, and as long as they can digest half of what Zhang Renjie said every time, they will be regarded as qualified grassroots officers. Therefore, it would be more appropriate to call this course a crash course for the time being.

The third company led by Zhang Daniu has now also been transferred to Anton, training with the other two companies. The scene of more than 400 soldiers training in full swing every day can be regarded as shocking, especially when the team drives out of the city every afternoon to start gun training, which shocks the entire Andong County. The county seat of Anton is so big, and the sound of hundreds of people practicing guns in the city will make the people unbearable, so Zhang Renjie set the location outside the city. Fortunately, it was already a cold winter at this time, and there was a large open space outside the city.

However, the sound of hundreds of guns firing began to affect the surrounding people, but after only two or three days, the surrounding people became accustomed to it and stopped paying attention. The most shocking thing was the officials in the city and a few big families, they were knowledgeable, and they knew that the continuous gunfire was all white silver! They have also bought the price of rifle bullets, six taels of silver per thousand rounds, and there is a crackle outside the city every day, and hundreds of people are not allowed to shoot thousands of rounds of bullets in one afternoon? This is a few dozen taels of silver, take dozens of taels of silver every day to play in the water, this is too generous!

Previously, Zhang Renjie bought 500,000 rounds of rifle ammunition from Hudson, and the 30,000 rounds included in the gift were a total of 530,000 rounds, which sounds like a lot, but 50,000 rounds had already been consumed in the training period ago, and more than 3,000 rounds were also used to clear out the bandits, so there were only more than 470,000 rounds left in the stockpile. In the past three months, the soldiers of the Renzi Battalion have also intensified their gun training, firing 20 rounds of ammunition per person every day, consuming 13,000 rounds a day and 390,000 rounds of ammunition a month.

This is also fortunate that Zhang Renjie sent Stuart, a foreign doctor in the camp, to Zhenjiang and asked Hudson to chase 500 rifles of the same model and 500,000 rifle rounds in time, otherwise according to Zhang Renjie's training method, 470,000 rounds of ammunition will be consumed in less than a month and a half! These days, the carpenters and the printing bureau in the county have made money, and every day the division yamen will take hundreds of simple wooden frames from the carpenter master, and the printing bureau will work overtime every few days to print the standard target paper customized by Zhang Renjie.

In three months, the guns in the hands of each soldier were scrapped and replaced with new guns, and the marksmanship of all fighters has also made great progress, and it can even be said that it has improved by leaps and bounds. As far as the whole country is concerned, no army can fire more bullets per capita than the Renzi battalion, and 1,800 rounds per person are consumed in three months and 90 days.