The cool autumn breeze blows slowly, and the columns of smoke are swept with the wind, like the smoke rising from the countryside!

However, as the smoke of gunpowder rose, bursts of explosions were heard from time to time, like autumn thunder rushing by, and they were heard far away in the field.

The rumbling cannon was mixed with shouts and crackling gunfire!

Looking down from the sky, I saw two armies wearing different colors of military uniforms on the field gradually approaching, and thousands of green battalions and flag soldiers wearing 'soldier' uniforms on the left wing of the Qing army rushed forward quickly with swords and arquebuses, as if rushing to the opposite side like a wave.

But this wave has not yet been able to rush to the beach, it is quickly dissipated in the sound of rifles of the Chinese army!

Looking at the Qing army on the opposite side, which had collapsed before rushing into a distance of 100 meters, Xu Peng'an, who was in charge of the left-wing operation, showed a sneer: "I dare to take the initiative to rush up with these goods!" ”

Monk Greenqin looked at the Green Battalion Eight Banners that quickly retreated like a falling tide on the left flank, although he had expected this, but when he really saw that these old Green Battalion troops were vulnerable in front of the Chinese army, he still showed a deep sense of disappointment.

In the past, Seng Lingqin had constantly heard that the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion had rotted to the bones, and once they fought against the new army, they were completely unbearable.

Before, Seng Lingqin didn't have too intuitive feelings about this, because when he fought with the Taiping Army and the Twist Army, in addition to the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry, the main force was still these Green Battalion and Eight Banner Soldiers, although the combat effectiveness was weaker, but it could still fight a dozen or so.

As for the new army, countless people say that the new army is very powerful. However, Monk Lingqin had never seen a large-scale battle of the New Army, so he was also skeptical about how strong the New Army could be.

Today, however, I just watched the green battalion of the left flank attacking the Chinese army's military formation. Before he could enter the distance of 100 meters, he was completely defeated, and it was the first time he really felt how big the gap between the new army and the old army was.

It seems that this battle still has to rely on those training troops!

At this time, the various units of the Qing army had already begun to act, and they were the same as the Chinese army opposite, holding the foreign guns in their hands one by one and gradually approaching, which was different from the messy old army of the Green Battalion and the Eight Banners. The formation of these training troops was complete, and although the training soldiers were hit by the shelling of the Chinese army from time to time during the march, they were soon supplemented by soldiers in the back row. The formation was not chaotic at all.

Looking at the neat and satisfactory training of the army in front of him, Monk Greenqin nodded with a look of relief!

And several of the staff members beside him spoke one after another, and one of them said: "This Gyeonggi training army and Zhili training army are worthy of being the elite divisions of the imperial court, just by looking at this mighty formation, you can know that you have not disappointed the expectations of your adults!" ”

Another said, "Not bad." Now the imperial court is among the many new armies. This Gyeonggi training army and Zhili training army are first-class new troops! ”

If Li Hongzhang hears this, he will definitely spit on him, among the many new armies in China, everyone is recognized as the first in the Chinese army, and he Li Hongzhang's Jianghuai New Army is second.

In terms of armament and training, the Jianghuai New Army is better than the Gyeonggi training army!

When Li Hongzhang was training the Jianghuai New Army. The Qing court had not yet torn its face with Western countries, and was able to import a large number of foreign guns and cannons. As a result, the rifles equipped in the Jianghuai New Army are all imported smoothbore foreign guns, and most of the artillery is mainly imported foreign artillery, and it also has flowering shells and large-caliber mortar guns.

In terms of training, the early training of the Jianghuai New Army was conducted by hiring foreign instructors!

Although Li Hongzhang was defeated in Yangzhou at the beginning, when they broke through from Yangzhou, they beat the Ninth Defense Division that intercepted them with heavy casualties and successfully broke through.

As for the training of the army in various provinces, the training situation in Shanxi, Henan, Anhui and other provinces is too poor, and it is said that it is a training army, but there are not many smoothbore firing guns, and many training soldiers are still holding arquebuses!

Gyeonggi Training Army and Zhili Training Army, although these two training armies belong to two armies, but they are directly subordinate troops of the imperial court, training and armament are relatively unified, part of their equipment is originally for the 'Eight Banners New Army' to purchase foreign guns, and later the Eight Banners New Army mud can not support the wall, the Qing court simply transferred the weapons of the Eight Banners New Army to the training army directly under the imperial court, but this part of the directly imported weapons is also limited.

The weapons directly under the imperial court are mainly flintlock pistols produced by the Tianjin Machinery Bureau!

Although the Qing court has realized that the arquebus is backward in the times, at the beginning they also wanted to imitate the fire cap pistol, but for the Qing court, which did not even have a few machines and could only rely on handicraft production, the technical difficulty of the fire cap pistol was too high to be mass-produced, and the Qing court obviously could not wait a few years to import enough new equipment to complete the technical preparation of the fire cap pistol before mass production of rifles, so the Tianjin Machinery Bureau and the Hubei Machinery Bureau could produce whatever they could, and even produced arquebuses at the beginning. Later it was the flintlock pistol that was produced.

However, the biggest difference between the flintlock pistol and the shotgun is the ignition success rate, the ignition rate of the flintlock pistol has increased, and the relative rate of fire has also increased in disguise, as for the range, and the power has not changed much.

These military training units use self-produced flintlock pistols, while the new Jianghuai military uses imported firing pistols, which shows the difference between the two.

In addition, there is also a certain gap in training, because the Qing court does not have the courage of Li Hongzhang, and dares to directly hire foreigners as instructors!

Whether it is actual combat performance, armament, or training, it is fair to say that the two training armies directly under the Qing court, namely the Gyeonggi Training Army and the Zhili Training Army, are slightly inferior to the Jianghuai New Army.

Hu Linyi's newly organized Shandong training army and the training of other provinces are more inferior.

As for the Hunan army, the original training army in Hubei has been defeated by the Taiping Army, and now Zeng Guofan is also training a new army in Hubei, but people don't call it training, they still call it 'Xiangyong'.

In order to train the new army, Zeng Guofan set up a Hunan Machinery Bureau in Hunan to imitate foreign guns and foreign cannons, which was founded a few months earlier than the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, but the output is not high.

In terms of military system, the current Hunan army is actually not much different from the new army, but Zeng Guofan has a soft spot for cold weapons, although his Hunan army is also equipped with a large number of guns and artillery, but it is also equipped with a large number of cold weapons, and it is mixed together, so it is more troublesome to say how many new troops there are in the Hunan army, because they do not distinguish between the new army and the old army, but mix together.

If you simply talk about the number of troops equipped with flintlock pistols and artillery, then these people should be tens of thousands!

After all, without so many people, the Hunan army would not be able to resist the Taiping army's offensive in Hunan.

Under the influence of Lin Zhe and the rise of Yu Shengjun, China has entered the era of pure firearms about ten years ahead of schedule, and in the original time and space, China will wait for the rise of Li Hongzhang's Huai Army before entering the era of pure firearms on a large scale, which is about 1860 to 1864.

Although the Hunan army before the Huai army also had guns and artillery, they also relied heavily on cold weapons such as swords and spears.

In the current time and space, history has completely changed, under the influence of Yu Shengjun, the Qing court has begun to use pure firearms on a large scale, and the guns used at the same time have also advanced from arquebuses to flintlock pistols.

As for the fire cap firing smoothbore gun, the technical level of the fire cap firing device is still too difficult for the Qing court, and the Tianjin Machinery Bureau and the Hunan Machinery Bureau of the handicraft workshop style do not even have many machines, and their production is nothing more than the concentration of a large number of craftsmen through manual production, and it is impossible to mass-produce primers at all, but the barrel is not a big problem, and the blacksmith can also make it by hand.

The Mini rifle was even more distant for the Qing court, and the Mini rifle needed not only a fire cap firing device, but also a rifling rifling rifle to make Mini bullets.

The above two have quite strict requirements for error, and it is okay to build one or two by hand, but if you want to mass production, the handicraft workshop is not at all, and only after the large-scale application of machinery and equipment can it be mass-produced.

The Mini rifle can also be regarded as a typical example of the centralized mass production of modern machinery and equipment!

However, despite the fact that the Qing court was unable to equip the training armies under its command with Mini rifles, or even imported to fire smoothbore guns to equip the new army, if the flintlock muskets were used, the training armies of the Qing court were still much higher than the old green battalion army.

Just look at their ability to maintain their formation in the face of continuous casualties and move forward steadily, these training troops are not comparable to those green battalions and eight banners in the past.

"With this heroic division in the imperial court, there is no suspense in this battle!" Another staff member said: "I heard that Master Guo Bei's training army is an elite division as soon as possible, and it is true when I see it today!" ”

Another person said: "Yes, now that the two armies are facing each other, the opposing army on the opposite side has already panicked to release the gun two hundred steps away, but the Gyeonggi training army can not panic, I am afraid that it will not be released until within eighty steps, and the rebel army gun will be released early, how can I resist the army of my court?" Looking at the determination of the rebel army is so low today, in the past, it was a lie to say that the rebel army's combat strength was superior, and it was nothing more than the general of the defeated army deliberately exaggerating in order to shirk his own responsibility! ”

Another person also said: "Yes, just in terms of the appearance of this army and the strength of patience, the rebel army on the opposite side is far inferior to my training army!" ”

When a large group of staff members were touting the training of the army, they probably wouldn't know what kind of surprised expression they had when Du Xing'a, who was in front of the commander of the Gyeonggi training army and the Zhili training army, looked at the Chinese army on the opposite side after firing a volley. (To be continued......)