In June, the sun is on fire. In the school field in the inner city of Guangzhou, a group of people dressed as officials stood on the edge of the school field, watching a large number of soldiers of the Eight Banners in the black pressure to practice in formation. In the past, the Guangzhou Eight Banners, which relied on casually comparing guns and cannons, all played around for a while, but now all of them have played with foreign guns! All Remington mid-needle breech guns!

More than 20 foreigners issued orders in the school yard. However, the military system of the Eight Banners has not changed in any way. It is still every 300 soldiers of the Eight Banners gathered together, with the old-style leader as a military unit. However, the number of 300 people is really high in modern military affairs, and it is not enough. When a company-level unit is used, the number of people is too large and too wasteful. As a battalion-level unit, there are too few people to be used!

Could it be that this group of Eight Banner Masters went to the battlefield, and they really had to break apart and piece together one leader after another to use the dispatch?

There was a heroic man in his mid-thirties beside him, tall and powerful. was looking at the Eight Banners soldiers in front of him with disdain, and said contemptuously when he heard this: "No matter how sharp the guns are, they must be held in the hands of elite soldiers, otherwise they are useless." ”

The middle-aged man didn't care about the cold water poured on him in his prime, and laughed and said, "This is natural." The Eight Banners are the foundation of the country, and today is in turmoil, and the children of the Eight Banners should serve bravely and protect the country at the edge of the town. And there is no reason to retreat. "And since these Eight Banners disciples have fought bravely. If you dare to fight, you will naturally be a fine soldier.

Another old man next to the middle-aged man also said: "My Eight Banners are the foundation of the Qing Dynasty. Having been nurtured by the imperial court for more than 200 years, how can you not be loyal? The heart is firm. Shi will be brave. This Western weapon, Taixi's method of warfare, will cause hundreds of casualties and shake morale. The only courage to fight. How competent are the children of the Eight Banners!? and a foreign professor, Western French training, years of hard training, elite soldiers. ”

The old man who spoke was the general Changshan of Guangzhou, and the middle-aged man was Ruilin, the governor of Liangguang, and the object of their speech was Liu Xian, the governor of Taiwan.

It has been since the first batch of guns were delivered in May. It's been more than a month. Guangzhou Eight Banners have a new look, Ruilin and Changshan jointly played in Beijing, calling Liu Xian a famous general, knowing the soldiers and fighting well, inspecting the school and the army, and will definitely make up for the shortage. Please ask Liu Xian to go to Guangzhou to review the new army.

It is said that it is 'checking and filling in the gaps', but in fact, it is even more 'showing off its might'. Tens of thousands of Eight Banners New Army has been training for a month, and Ruilin and Changshan want to take out their long faces, and Ruilin has also opened the first modern military academy in Lingnan in Guangzhou. Guangzhou Martial Arts School. Although the faculty members are not yet in place, the recruitment of students is already in full swing.

"How many days is this training?"

Huo Guangcheng looked down on the soft-footed shrimp in front of him even more than Liu Xian, and blinded the more than 20 British officers.

"It's a day now, and every exercise is a whole hour! The sergeant is so lean. The Guangzhou Eight Banners New Army will become a strong force. ”

Liu Xian only nodded slightly at this time. The modern army is no better than the cold weapon army, and a daily exercise is the foundation. "One a day, Guangzhou Eight Banners has really cheered up a lot."

Night. Liu Xian hosted a banquet at his stay in Guangzhou, where he was staying on the land route of Guangdong, Liu Songshan.

Liu Songshan was born in the Hunan Army and was a subordinate of Wang Zhen. After Wang Zhen's death, his 5,000 people were taken as the foundation by Zuo Zongtang. pulled out the current Chu army. Therefore, Liu Songshan and Zuo Zongtang have a deep relationship, when Zeng Guofan died, the Hunan army was divided, that is, there were Zeng Guoquan, Liu Changyou and other independent mountain bosses, and there were also many important generals who were divided into Huaichu. Liu Songshan is one of the latter, and he is a deed of Zuo Zongtang in Guangdong after he was able to level Lingnan.

Liu Songshan is 43 years old this year, in the prime of life, and is in good health. In the history of the original plane, it has been five years since he died. During Zuo Zongtang's westward expedition to Ganshan, he was wounded and died. But now Liu Songshan, who is in good health, seems to be able to live at least seventy or eighty.

Liu Songshan did not die, and his nephew Liu Jintang naturally did not show his head. Now 32-year-old Liu Jintang is still only a general rank. is very friendly to Liu Xian, or some little admiration, but I don't know that a considerable part of Liu Xianam's outstanding feats should have belonged to him.

"Brother Shouqing, I'm ...... It's hanging! ”

Pushing the glass on the wine table, Liu Songshan and Liu Xian were very speculative. The words unconsciously turned to the Eight Banners New Army, and Liu Xian put down his wine glass with a worried look, saying so.

"Hanging?" Liu Songshan was stunned. "Why is Liu Hou so alarmist? It's all every day, I don't know how much stronger it was than I did at the beginning, and the Eight Banners can cheer up like this, which is the blessing of the country? What's the danger? ”

"Brother Shouqing is pretending to be confused. Why did the imperial court compile the Eight Banners? Isn't it that I, the Han military attachés, have become bigger and stronger, making the princes of the court feel uneasy?

After these Eight Banners New Army was formed, what did the Imperial Court Gon Gong Gong Guild think? It must be a cutting of the domain!

To put it mildly, now the country of this court is all protected by us. The days of the support of the army and the power of the army in hand are used to it, and the court wants to really cut my soldiers and horses, which is really reluctant. How many people are Bao Chao today? A lack of pay forced a thunderous army to disperse.

I, Liu Xian, don't dare to think about supporting the army, saying that I am alone, but without the power of the army, I can be arrested as soon as I serve in the army, and life and death, honor and disgrace are in the hands of others, and An Ke can rest assured?

What's more, can these Eight Banners really fight? Brother Shouqing, do you believe it? ”。

Liu Xian was whining, complaining after drinking a little wine, but people's eyes were shining, and they were not drunk. Liu Songshan was in a mess in his heart, what did Liu Yuandu mean by this? Officialdom is the most taboo to talk about it in a shallow way, and he and this are the first time they have met Liu Houye. What is he going to do when he says such a 'great rebellion' in front of himself?

At this moment, Liu Songshan was sitting on pins and needles, thinking about pulling his legs and leaving, and even forgot his initial plans.

He came to Liu Xian to drink, in addition to having a friendship with Liu Xian, the more important thing was to ask him, what is the identity of the 'Wei Changjun' who fought in Lanfang? The Huai army has come with news, a certain person who has been out of the army for several years and can't return home and settled in Anhui is gone.

Even Liu Jintang's forehead on the side was bright. Liu Xian said that this was too scary.

"The imperial court cut our military power, abandoned the Han Dynasty and was full, and the children of the Eight Banners were the humerus of the country, and as soon as the foreign war came, the Gengshen Revolution [1860] was about to be repeated."

Liu Xian showed complete contempt for the Eight Banners. took a sip of wine and continued to 'make a big fuss', as if he didn't see Liu Songshan's ugly face at all, and the look of wanting to block himself. "To tell the truth, if these Eight Banners disciples carry cages and birds, and play in excellent games, this Great Qing Dynasty may be able to last for the next few years, but once they have to cheer up. Hehe...... Brother Shouqing, it's not me who cursed the Qing Dynasty, this country is really hanging! ”

Liu Hou ......, Liu Hou laughed. The Eight Banners are the foundation of the dynasty and the foundation of the dynasty...... Among the children of the Eight Banners, there are still some brave men. ”

"A brave man? This is not a question of whether it is strong or not, whether it is brave or not, but the corruption of the military system of the Eight Banners. Until now, he still guards the old method of Niu Lu, how can he train useful soldiers? There is no distinction between the military and the people, if you go out, you will be a soldier, and if you enter, you will be a citizen, which was feasible back then, but not now.

Today's military pays attention to a 'profession', and soldiers are professional soldiers.

And what about the Eight Banners? It's a soldier who doesn't look like a soldier, a citizen doesn't look like a people, and a military camp doesn't look like a military camp. That's a bunch of old soldiers who drag their families with their mouths, where do they have the heart to really fight! Day training is nothing more than making the past more professional and hardworking. ”

"Brother Shouqing, you are an honest person, but you are too honest. You can't just look at the face of everything, you have to see the other side of the story.

That's all there is to become an official, and the bannermen pretend to cheer up, and the Han people have fewer opportunities. There are so many official hats in the world, and the banner people are multiplying day by day, lacking money and no official work, and they have been shouting for hundreds of years...... We Han people laugh at the flag and are rotten, they only know how to have fun, and they refuse to cheer up. But if they really cheer up, will eighty percent of the governors in the world be Han Chinese? Will all the commanders and commanders be Han Chinese?

My Liu Xian's plate is small, but the bones are hard, and the court wants to cut the domain, and it won't be able to cut my head for a while. But what about the Hunan army? Zeng Hou is gone, who can overpower the world? Could it be that Brother Shouqing really thinks that the flag man cheers up, and what he cheers up is only force? ”

Liu Songshan's inner restlessness was gone. Liu Xianam's words sounded reasonable, and the more he tasted, the more reasonable. Ghost people who believe in the flag will only try to do martial arts, and ghosts believe in martial arts and have nothing to do with civilian officials. If the military is not about civilian officials, how did the three families of Xianghuai and Chu prosper? How did Duolonga get the top of the current military department book?

What Liu Xian said is not false at all. The flag man will cheer up, and the official hat under the sky will be redivided.

……

Thousands of miles away in Bangkok.

Six Chinese warships docked in the harbor, drenched in rain, and the sea could not be seen. The only thing that can shine in the whole harbor is the lighthouse next to it.

Deng Shichang was writing his diary under an oil lamp.

The months-long voyage was drawing to a close, and he already had a thick copy of his diary. Here is a record of the tension of the confrontation at sea, Surabaya, Palembang, Semarang, Batavia, Manila and other places, the cheers of the Nanyang Chinese, but also his own excitement, anger and blood......

Deng Shichang once again strengthened his belief. Sailors and warships are the best way to protect the country. In addition, there was news that the shipmaster and sailor were spreading in private, saying that the imperial court was preparing to train the Beiyang sailors, and that outstanding officers should be selected to go to Britain to learn how to operate ships, guns, fish, and so on.

Deng Shichang had an obsession in his heart, he must be in it, go to Britain to learn the world's most advanced and strict naval tactics and drills...... (To be continued......)