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Although it is early winter, the weather today is particularly warm. A few days of fierce northeast winds blew, and the sky was cloudless, blue and blue, transparent blue, and unfathomably blue. The sun slanted in the west, but it exuded a deep warmth.

In that warm winter day, when the last trace of warmth was swaying, in the Xiyuan school field, there was a resounding password in the sky, and a team of squares followed the password, stepping in line and practicing foreign exercises. After the Anglo-French army invaded the capital in the tenth year of Xianfeng and burned down the parade building of the Xiyuan schoolyard, there was no school parade here, and even the Xiyuan campus was also abandoned, that is, five months ago, Rong Lu, who was ordered to train the new army, chose Xiyuan as the barracks of the Eight Banners New Army.

Since then, this West Garden has been lively, and more than 12,000 young and strong bannermen selected from the Jingying bannermen have begun to practice here. Compared with the three taels that have been deducted from the flag salary, although the new army of the Eight Banners does not have monthly rice grain, it has a full 4 taels of silver, as for the rice grain of the banner...... It's all stopped.

In such a comparison, it is natural that the money and salary of the Eight Banners New Army are more generous and more realistic. For a time, the generous treatment of the new army only made the flagmen up and down the Beijing camp rush to join one after another, and even walked through the back door, although many people looked for the old master to hand notes and say hello. But when recruiting for the new army, it is still quite strict, and unlike the past peak spread, the recruited bannerman needs to carry a hundred catties of stone rollers to walk out of the middle of the ground in public, and there are thousands of pairs of eyes staring, even if there is a note handed by the master, and the greeting. And how?

And so it goes. Under strict selection. Instead, a group of elite young men were selected, and when those selected young and strong bannermen entered the West Garden, they were originally going to live as in the past, only to find that this place was different from the old foreign gun team that ate and drank together.

As for the bannermen who are accustomed to being pampered, even the reason why they joined the new army is only because they have the same kindness as in the past in the foreign rifle corps -- mixing food and salary, living on food and salary, and fighting a war. What does the court have to do with them? In the past, in the foreign gun team, these people were not only not interested in foreign exercises, but also not interested in foreign guns, not only could they not practice foreign exercises, but they were also too lazy to take foreign guns. Although the Eight Banners foreign gun team held the best foreign guns in the Qing Dynasty, and it had been expanded several times, the people who expanded in were probably only more enthusiastic about the increased salary.

The Eight Banners foreign guns team didn't even bother to touch the foreign guns, and the foreign guns were locked in the cabinet on weekdays, and they didn't see the light of day. Fortunately, the demeanor of the Lord of the Eight Banners. It's the same up and down, even if the superiors see the fame. There is no choice but to turn a blind eye. Even the imperial court didn't expect the Eight Banners to fight for a long time, and if there was something, it all relied on the Xianghuai army and the local defense army, but now the local government can't point to it, so it can only rely on itself.

This court that felt that it was forced to a dead end wanted to train the new army, and this new army could not be like the foreign gun team, not to give the flag man a food, not to give the flag man a favor, but to protect the head of the flag man and keep the country of Aixin Jueluo's family from being taken away by those ungrateful Han people. Naturally, they can't afford to mess around here.

It is not an easy thing to refer to those who are accustomed to pampering and pampering the banner people to practice foreign exercises and learn foreign guns, just as the imperial court did not give up on the Eight Banners earlier, and originally planned to train the Eight Banners New Army based on the Eight Banners Foreign Gun Teams in various places, but I didn't expect that the Eight Banners Foreign Gun Team, which had been established for more than 20 years, did not know how to put the guns, and had no choice but to disband them all, and select the young and strong Eight Banners to form the Eight Banners New Army.

When the foreign gun team was being trained, there were still local defense troops to point to, and now the imperial court, which has no guidance, can only focus on the Eight Banners New Army. In the end, all the pressure fell on Rong Lu, the minister of military training, and pointed to him to train the Eight Banners again.

How to train the bannermen who had lost their sharpness as early as the Holy Ancestor's meeting and could not reach the level into a new army? Train into an eight-flag powerhouse? For Rong Lu, it can not be said that it is a test, but his method is also simple, from the first day of the new army drill, Rong Lu sat on the remaining platform in Xiyuan, and there was a team of Gan Army foreign guns brought from Shaanxi standing beside him, staring at the Qiding drill under the stage.

Once you find that you are a little slack, you will be killed!

At that time, when the heads of those dozens of people were chopped, there was also a group of flag soldiers who followed and coaxed, and as a result, the foreign gun team brought by Rong Lu from Shaanxi was a row of foreign guns in the air, and then pulled out dozens of people who took the lead in coaxing, and after they were taken to the platform to cut off dozens of heads, this can be regarded as calming the commotion in the army.

That is, from that day on, as many as eighty-six heads were hung in cages and hung on wooden poles, although I don't know how many flies and insects were attracted in the summer, but the flagmen in this battalion practiced foreign exercises in a regular manner, and there was no longer the old foreign gun team eating and drinking. Some are just sweating on the training ground.

In the past, those adults, who dared to provoke their Uncle Qi, but now who doesn't know that this Rong Lu is the "Living Yama King", not to mention anything else, even if you are hard enough to backing the mountain, someone will give you a head, but that is also after his head was cut off by his Rong Lu, not to mention that Rong Lu cut off dozens of heads to spread to the palace, the Queen Mother even issued an order to applaud it, to the "living Yama King", what do you say in private, if you had known this, you should have cut off 800 heads to remind the flag people, now cut off 8,000 Wan'er, It's better than letting the Han people cut off the heads of men, women, and children in the future.

Well, the truth is this, the flagmen who have no place to cry and make noise, seeing that the court is ruthlessly forcing them to a dead end, they have already entered the fire pit, so they have to throw away the uncle's style and practice in the camp in a proper manner.

"Horn!"

When the loud slap sound came into his ears, Le Erming's eyes looked to the side, only to see Fu Liuxia being pumped by the instructor.

"Horn, horn...... Yaga! ”

There were two loud slaps, accompanied by a Japanese-style national scolding, which revealed the identity of the instructor - the instructor was Japanese, to be precise, a former Japanese officer.

Even before Japan's surrender, many low-ranking Japanese officers and non-commissioned officers fled Japan by boat, and some of them found work in the Eight Banners New Army. No matter how bad it is, you can also use the form of written talk to communicate. And they have undergone rigorous modern military training. Of course, the more important point is that the cheapest Western instructors need a salary of at least 200 taels a month, and the best Japanese instructors who graduated from the non-commissioned officer school only need more than 100 taels, and if it is an ordinary sergeant, a dozen taels a month is enough to hire.

It is precisely because of the cheapness of Japanese soldiers that it has become the first choice for instructors of the new army in various parts of the country, and it is also the same in the New Army of the Eight Banners, and the embarrassment of financial resources makes it more inclined to use oriental instructors. At the beginning, there were only more than a dozen Oriental instructors in the Eight Banners New Army, but as the situation in the East became more and more unfavorable to Japan, more and more Japanese escaped from the East, and naturally there were more and more Oriental instructors in the army. Especially after the surrender of Japan, after the disbandment of the Japanese army, many dismissed Oriental officers came to the Great Qing Kingdom and relied on what they had learned in the old days to make a living. In the past, only the battalion had Oriental instructors, and they were sent from the training department, but now not only do each battalion have resident Oriental instructors, but even each team has Oriental instructors.

And that's from then on. On this training ground, you can always hear the stiff reprimand mixed with Japanese, which is nothing to Lermin and the others. After all, in the past, the foreign gun team also used the words of foreigners to give passwords, but the most difficult thing for them to adapt to was that those Japanese instructors did not like to slap people's mouths.

This is the biggest difference between the Japanese and the Chinese, they are so good at slapping their mouths. But whenever the Japanese are unhappy in their hearts, they will slap each other's mouths. Not only slap other people's mouths, but also slap your own.

And the Chinese generally do not spank the face and spank. There is an old saying in China that "hitting someone doesn't slap you in the face". Chinese love face and want face. However, these Oriental instructors obviously do not take into account the difference in "customs and habits", and for these former Japanese officers who received the imperial court salary, they are more willing to be appreciated by the Qing State through their serious work, and can engage in this job for a long time, so as to live in the Qing State for a long time.

"Horn...... Yaga! Yours, don't work seriously, don't admire as a soldier! Trumpet! ”

In that loud slap, Le Erming dared to have a trace of slackness, and immediately devoted himself to the training with full energy, for fear that the instructor would find him, and like everyone else, he had also mixed the mouth of the Oriental instructor, his face was swollen like a steamed bun, and his face was red and hot.

It hurt for a long time!

These Oriental instructors are smacking people's mouths! If it was a Western instructor in the past, they would dare to coax, but now that Rong Lu's old son is there, who dares to be tough, come on, just smoke it, it should be the grandson's smoke!

Isn't it Sun Tzu's, these Oriental ghosts, even the country is gone, and they fled to the Qing Dynasty, that is, the court rewards them with a mouthful of food, but this slave bullies the master, this is really more and more alive, a group of dog slaves! The master should have let the dog bite him...... Comforting himself like this, Le Ermin once again threw himself into training with full spirit, as if to show himself in front of his minions.

"Oriental Oni ...... of Dog Day"

During the break from training, Fu Liu's small eyes stared viciously at Instructor Yamada, who was sitting in the shade of a tree, and said viciously.

"He begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother not to fight, to fight, Lao Tzu must fight this grandson's black gun!"

Fu Liu, who had a blue nose and swollen face, did not sigh, but the cruel words and the blood flowing from the corners of his mouth made people feel funny, in fact, the few blows he received were not a loss, after all, his gun was not well maintained.

"I said, Liuzi, you should be diligent in the future, what is the matter with wiping the gun every day before going to bed? Wouldn't it be enough to do it? You see I've got you pumped this time, look at this mouth......"

Because the two used to be neighbors, Lerming was very concerned about Fu Liu, and he kept persuading Fu Liu, this new army is different from the foreign gun team, but Fu Liu just doesn't listen, every five or six days, he will always suffer a long memory.

"Master Le, look at what you said, let's say it's the new army, but look at it, look at ......"

With a swollen face, Fu Liu shoved the foreign gun into Lermin's arms.

"What kind of bird broken gun is this!"

The rifle in his arms is not a broken gun, the barrel is dark and glows with a unique glow of roasted blue in the sun, and the walnut butt is also shiny, no one will doubt that it is a new gun, but it has become a broken gun in Fu Liu's mouth.

But this is indeed an old gun, to be precise, an old gun that was left in the warehouse and not issued, this gun was an eight-shot Mauser gun bought from Germany by the Beiyang Yamen during the war with France a few years ago, but the war ended before it was shipped, so it was stored in the warehouse of the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau. Later, half of them were asked to leave by the imperial court, saying that they were to be used by the Eight Banners Foreign Gun Team, but they have been kept in the warehouse, and a full 50,000 rifles have been put on hold for seven years.

When the imperial court was about to train the new army, it remembered those foreign guns that were not used much in the warehouse, but these foreign guns that pressed the bottom of the warehouse have now become the home of the new army. But this "old gun" and Fu Liu's eyes have become "broken guns" and unpopular evidence.

"Master Le, you don't know, I heard people say that the new army in Beiyang is the latest five-shot small-mouthed Mauser of one color, you say, let's use this broken gun for a fart!"

Fu Liu's complaint is not without a source, in the past, the "Great Qing Kingdom" had silver, and every time a soldier was trained, a batch of new family items would be purchased, if it was put aside, the new army of the Eight Banners was the "own son" of the imperial court after all, and new guns such as the five-shot Mauser would definitely be picked by them.

But today is different from the past, for the imperial court, which has no tax sources of its own, it is really difficult to raise the money for military training, and even together with what is said in this military camp, there is food money saved by the Queen Mother Lafayette and the emperor in the silver of military training.

In this case, naturally there is not much silver to buy foreign guns, not to mention that these eight Mauser is also a cutting-edge foreign gun, and the ones used in the place are all single-shot old Mauser, these tens of thousands of foreign guns are enough for the new army in the three towns, and it is really a pity to put them in the warehouse, on the one hand, there is no money, on the other hand, there are ready-made new guns, and naturally these eight Mauser will become the weapons of the New Army of the Eight Banners.

However, it is obvious that for these banner people who are accustomed to pampering and pampering, they will not be grateful to Dade for the so-called "the food money saved by the Queen Mother Lafayette and the emperor", but complain that the court does not treat them and gives them broken guns.

"You said, in the past days, our fathers had a flag salary of three taels a month, that is, there were so many buckets of rice grain that were deducted, but now it is good, this flag salary is less than two taels left, and even this rice grain has been deducted, and our hardcore crops have been deducted to this, and finally entered the new army, as an errand, look at this face......"

Pointing to his face, Furoku complained.

"Is this a treat for us?"

(This life is bitter, and now I am speechless and deeply understand what is the prosperous sea of the people's war, and the fire will always come out from time to time...... Ask for the comfort of the monthly pass! (To be continued.) )