Wendeng Camp No. 3 Tunbao, Zhou Shao'er and Chen Ying and several old brothers are watching the training of peasants and soldiers, No. 3 Tunbao was built on the military field of the original old Wendeng Camp, a total of 500 households, and a peasant battalion was established. There is only a thin wall of the tunpu here, and beyond the wall is their field, and there is a school yard.

Two hundred and fifty peasant soldiers lined up a phalanx and were advancing on the playground, there was no farm work in winter, and the peasant soldiers passed the monthly training and had five dollars of silver, which was a good way for them to improve their lives in winter, and many family members also went to the playground to watch the excitement, and many children watched the queue by the playground and shouted.

Zhong Laosi as a veteran of the seven years of the Apocalypse, affected by his mouth, has not been promoted, the battle of the four cities he is excellent, but after returning to Weihai, he still can't control his mouth, and complains to people everywhere Huang Yuan's tactics in Luanzhou, and was finally promoted to throw the general Huang Yuan into the peasant system, Weihai's peasant soldiers are really yàn team of leading officers, only he is a veteran of the seven years of the Apocalypse, Zhu Daichun has always been good to the old brothers, Zhong Laosi is experienced, after the training of the test team, Zhu Daichun is very high, The Central Military Department sent him to the Third Tunpu as an instructor. It is not far from the war barracks of Wendeng Camp, and Zhou Shao'er and others will come to him to drink as soon as they have a holiday.

The drums on the playground kept beating, nearly two hundred peasant soldiers were beaten in six rows, ninety-six spearmen in the middle, forty-eight firearms soldiers on each wing, they still had arquebuses in their hands, there were a few steps between the spears and the firearmsmen, Zhong Laosi was in the center of the queue, two drummers, two trumpeters and a standard-bearer stood beside him, behind him was a fifty-man firearms detachment, and the deputy instructor was five paces away in the center of the front of the queue, so that everyone could see his saber.

When Zhong Laosi simulated the flank cavalry detour, and their brigade was ordered to turn to the alert, they needed to carry out a fan-shaped movement, and the queue became a walking earthworm-like shape, and the peasants and soldiers were all in chaos, no matter how several instructors fought. Still did not complete the steering within the allotted time. The onlookers around were shouting and laughing, chattering and making a fuss, just like watching a big show.

Zhou Shao'er, they naturally knew that it was not easy to turn such a large queue. All of them had a headache for Zhong Laosi, and finally finished the training by playing all the way, and finally at the end of the march, the instructors began to check the arquebusier's arquebusiers next to each other. Anyone who put out the fire was punished with corporal punishment, and as a result, more than 80 people crawled on the ground and did push-ups.

Zhong Laosi scolded a peasant soldier, punished him for standing on the white flag, and beat him with a military stick. Only then did they come down angrily, and when they saw Zhou Shao'er, they didn't have a smiling face, but just said with a straight face, "Let's go." ”

Zhou Shao'er and the others followed Zhong Laosi to a tavern in Tunpu, this tavern was opposite the comprehensive store, the location was very good, and it was opened by a military family who fled from Laizhou. The craftsmanship is not bad.

The boss nodded and came over. Enthusiastically shouted "Zhong Jiaoxi", Zhong Laosi asked for wine and food, and the boss went to prepare the meal. Zhong Laosi is a well-known figure in the third tun, no one does not know him, and the fields of Wendeng camp are nominally distributed to each family, but they are actually rented for a long time. Households cannot be transferred privately. In some cases, the Wenden camp can take back the land. One of them is refusal to serve. So for these newly settled homeless people, the instructor is one of their parents.

Zhong Laosi didn't wait for the food to be served. Picked up the wine and drank a bowl first, and then he complained consistently, "You all saw it, this is a peasant soldier, Lao Tzu watched the training of the slender men and recruits from Tianjin in Weihai, which is better than this. He puffed out his eyes and said, "It's still this virtue." ”

Zhou Shao'er said curiously: "So many people have done wrong, why do you only punish that one soldier?" ”

Zhong Laosi sighed and said: "That person is the elder brother of Guandi Temple, Lao Tzu called him Guanda Temple, and he will not be punished to practice better, if he dies on the battlefield again, how will Lao Tzu explain to the Guandi Temple family in the future." ”

As soon as they heard that it was the elder brother of Guandi Temple, several other people asked with some surprise.

"It's his brother, as soon as Lao Tzu came back, he went to the quartermaster department to check the pension records and found their home, but it happened to be in the third tun, I bought some things and went to see them once. There was an old lady in the family, an elder brother, a younger sister, and a younger brother, and when he was selected as a peasant soldier, his brother had to come, thinking about earning the five cents of silver a month. ”

Chen Ying looked at Zhou Shao'er with some embarrassment and said, "Captain Qi, shouldn't we also go to see their house." ”

Before Zhou Shao'er could speak, Zhong Laosi slapped him on the head with a palm and scolded: "You dog day Zhou Shao'er is now the captain of the killer flag, don't you look down on the Guandi Temple." How long has it been since you came back, and you used to eat less cakes stolen from Guandi Temple? ”

Zhou Shao'er hurriedly responded with a smiling face, saying that he would go shopping after eating.

Liu Yue, the original knife and stick player, asked: "How can that turn be so easy to practice, we haven't practiced it so hard at the beginning." ”

Zhong Laosi had a lawsuit, "If you want to talk about training peasants and soldiers, your personal skills are much less than ours, but they are things like stabs, horse rejections, and top swords and shields, but the formation is the most important, we don't practice this turn, that is, we used to have a small formation, and this gun formation depends on the formation." It turned out that Lao Tzu didn't like this spear array, and then went to the front to take a look, it's really not easy to break, densely packed with spear heads, I don't know where to rush, if it is placed in place, we really can't take it, but when it moves, it's easy to mess up, let alone turn, and now it seems that it's useless for the time being. However, the training team set high requirements, requiring the musketeers to cover up to thirty paces during the march, fighting as they walked, and then charging with spears. Zhong Laosi slapped the table and scolded, "Our original firearms team did not cover to thirty paces, shooting while walking, how high is this, while maintaining the formation and loading, how long does this gang of farmers have to practice, I want Lao Tzu to say, these spearmen are placed there, let the musketeers fight, or they don't fight when they leave, and when they reach forty or fifty steps, they all shoot a salvo, and they will beat the opposite side in one round, and the spearmen will go up a few more spurts to end, which is much simpler." It's a pity that no one listened to Lao Tzu. ”

Zhou Shao'er snorted lightly, Zhong Laosi complained every day, he was not welcome anywhere, and it was strange to listen to him.

After Zhong Laosi complained, he was in a better mood, turned his eyes to look at the others, and saw that Chen Ying seemed to have lost a lot of weight. asked Chen Ying first: "Chen Ying, you haven't been here a few times, what kind of official are you now, such a big shelf." ”

"Captain Killer."

Zhong Laosi slapped the table again and said, "How can you also be the captain of the flag." What do people who do nuclear power eat? ”

Zhou Shao'er said in a low voice: "I don't complain about the people who don't complain about the nuclear skills, I was originally going to raise the flag as the captain, but last time Pu Zhuang chose Chen Ying to go to the special service team, but I didn't go to Guò training." was sent to the Chinese army by Li Donghua for a paper assessment, and was returned to the original department for demotion. ”

Zhong Laosi hurried over and asked in a low voice: "I've been listening to this thing for a long time, and I've heard that all levels are two levels higher than the average team, what the hell are you doing, why can't even you Chen Ying pass the training?" ”

Chen Ying said angrily: "The instructor said that you are not allowed to say it." It is confidential, otherwise it will be punished as leaking. ”

Zhong Laosi immediately replied: "It's just confidential, my level has arrived." He pointed to the men, "You are not allowed to speak." The others immediately agreed.

Chen Ying drank a bowl of wine in discouragement before saying: "Then don't talk about it, a few people can get by with that thing, they sleep for more than an hour at most every day, and they are full of tricks every day, and everything they do is counted by thousands." Ten days in a row. Every day can be so tired that people vomit blood, which is nothing, grit your teeth and pass, the most hateful thing is to sit next to the dung heap when eating, or in a pit full of pig and sheep intestines and internal organs, which stinks. You eat halfway through. He also throws a piece of intestines around your neck. ”

Zhong Laosi grinned when he heard this, and several people around him also looked disgusted. They all scolded: "This is not an animal." ”

Chen Ying gritted her teeth and continued: "It's livestock, and they can toss hard. Some people are so tired that they can't move, and some instructors step on your head and scold, but it's not like we used to scold a little stupid or something, that is the eighteen generations of ancestors have been scolded, and some people can't stand being dismissed every day, and there are only more than 50 people left in the nearly 200 people, Lao Tzu held back his strength and survived the ten days. Several people around listened attentively, waiting for his next words.

"Then you have to be more relaxed, you can sleep for two or three hours a day, the things that are practiced every day begin to fight a little, two or three people cooperate with the drill, but the queue never practices, I am not afraid of these things, and said that it is ironclad, but suddenly one day, I got up in the morning and forcibly marched to the mountain, one person gave a rope, let me slide down the mountain, the cliff is afraid of ten zhang high, I, I don't know what's wrong, I was dizzy when I saw the cliff, and I had no strength in my hands and feet, but we are really not afraid of death, but I hate Li Donghua on the spot and said that I was passive training, and I was afraid of death. The result is not regarded as a dismissal, and the opinion written to the Central Military Department is negative training and lack of courage and perseverance, which is damn good. ”

The more Chen Ying spoke, the more angry he became, Zhong Laosi licked his lips and sighed: "It's also a shame that Li Donghua can come up with so many bad moves." ”

Everyone unanimously agreed that it was Li Donghua, Chen Ying said fiercely: "This is not all his bad moves, I heard those instructors say that there are still many old people after the election, and what kind of wild survival do you have to practice, a person is thrown deep in the mountains and old forests, there are swimming, horseback riding, all kinds of long and short weapons, poisons, wild herbs, house structure, urban structure, map, disguise, anyway, there are everything, and they are eliminated while practicing." ”

Zhong Laosi shook his head, "These are all gone, are they still soldiers, they are all heavenly soldiers and generals, then Lao Tzu still forget it, even this peasant soldier is more comfortable than the broken special service team, he doesn't want us, Lao Tzu is not willing to go to that place to suffer." ”

Zhou Shao'er thought that he could be selected, but after listening to it, he felt that he would definitely not be able to pass, so he asked Chen Ying: "Who are the people who were finally selected?" ”

"Anyway, when I left, there were only forty or so left, and it is estimated that this round is over, there are more than 20 former veterans, there are three in the Chinese Army Guard, and there are a few in the group in Shanxi, and there are a few new homeless, that martial arts are good, by the way, the horseman who helped catch the Tartars in Gu'an has also passed."

Zhong Laosi recalled before saying, "That Li Tao? ”

Several other people also remembered that this groom was used as a typical propaganda by the training team for a while, and everyone had the impression that they had been following Zhu Daichun's training team later.

"That's the name, at that time, the results were still one behind Lao Tzu, I don't want to say it." Chen Yingwu said indignantly-

On the official road, the governor's banner was slowly moving away, Chen Xin pretended to be in place, and behind him stood the officers of the Wendeng battalion, Song Wenxian and others, who had to wait until the convoy disappeared before turning around, in order to show that they were very reluctant to the leader.

Sun Yuanhua inspected the Wendeng barracks and a tunpu on this trip, and Chen Xin's military camp was very satisfying to the scene of slaughter and the mental outlook of the soldiers, and Chen Xin specially prepared a drill for him, setting up Putrajaya and simulated terrain on the colonel's field, and practicing a mountain attack and pursuit operation. The soldiers of the Wendeng battalion made different troop allocations in various terrains, and launched different battle formations, and the Tangma, Liangma, and reconnaissance teams conducted reconnaissance on the suspicious terrain. Meticulously simulated. Sun Yuanhua was full of praise for Chen Xin's soldiers, which deepened the image of a strong army in his heart. Sun Yuanhua did not attach much importance to Wendeng's water camp, and since the formation was still short, he did not inspect it. In addition, there is the cold weapon workshop in Wenden.

Lu Zhi is a prisoner, he is more interested in military discipline, he looked at the military discipline of Wendeng camp next to each other, and asked the eunuch to copy it all, Chen Xin naturally concealed the army's discipline. lest the things that have been worked hard to summarize fall into the hands of Kong Youde and others.

This time, Sun Yuanhua sent half a year's military salary, Chen Xin finally got the first military salary, and gave several officials some ceremonial money, these are the unspoken rules of military salary, but they are very regular on the books. In this way, including Wen Tiren, Cao Huachun, Liang Tingdong and the soldiers of the Beijing Division, nearly half of his annual military salary has to be used to make connections. Chen Xin's superiors are not too many, and the other generals of the Ming Dynasty are even more difficult, plus they themselves have to be a little greedy for ink. Therefore, if you don't eat empty pay, you can only starve to death. It is also reasonable that the army elephant is called Hanako.

Despite this, he had a good impression of Sun Yuanhua, although the things in the officialdom were still the same as everyone else, but he had a very high interest in the army and the weapon table, and he was also very enterprising in his words. On weekdays, everything else is about the posture of the officials, and when it comes to things like weapons and tactics. became an ordinary person, and often took the trouble to inquire with Chen Xin about some details. Before leaving, he also gave Chen Xin a manuscript of "The Divine Machine of Western Law" written by himself.

The convoy is turning a hill and will soon disappear from view. Chen Xin looked at the "Western Law Divine Machine" in his hand, and Song Wenxian said to him: "Lord Sun is not only good at reading books, but also proficient in these miscellaneous studies, and he can write a copy by himself, no wonder he can win the favor of the emperor." I think he also attaches great importance to the general, and with this Shangguan here, our Wendeng camp will have a better life in the future. ”

Chen Xin didn't hide anything in front of him, and said softly: "It's just that his temperament is milder, I don't know if I can suppress those Qiu Ba." ”

Song Wenxian said: "There has been nothing wrong with Dengzhou, those Qiu Ba can still turn the sky upside down, but Lord Sun wants to learn from adults to train soldiers, I don't see it easy, I saw in Dengzhou this time, these Dongjiang troops are quite angry in Dengzhou, Dengzhou big gentry are much more than Wendeng, even our Wendeng camp is like this, they can be imagined these Dongjiang soldiers, plus there are local households to resist them, it is even more difficult, so many Liao people in Dengzhou have fled to our Wendeng camp, and there are even many pacesetter battalion soldiers. ”

Chen Xin said with a smile: "Speaking of being angry, Mr. Song thinks how to get out of this breath about a few talents that day." ”

Song Wenxian arched his hand and said: "I'm afraid this breath is to hold back for a while, after all, Lord Sun has seen those talents that day, if the front foot just left, the back foot was killed, it would be more conspicuous, and Lord Sun's face would not be able to pass." ”

Chen Xin nodded, at this juncture, it is indeed not appropriate to do things like this, Song Wenxian then said softly: "But there is one person who can move, not only can kill chickens and monkeys, but the suspicion is not all in us." ”

Chen Xin laughed and said, "What Mr. Song said is the official of Wendeng County. ”

"Exactly, those showmen must have promised him to do this job-losing thing, and they will naturally not give it now, so ......"

Zhou Shifa has already heard and understood, the man left the county government that day, those Xiucai promised to give him 200 acres of land after the matter was completed, and hundreds of taels of silver, and now Xiucai bamboo basket to draw water, the officials will get nothing, he will go around every day to find those Xiucai noisy, threatening to go to the governor Yamen to complain.

Chen Xin decided: "That's fine, according to the intelligence, these showmen are going around in tandem again, inciting the surrounding local households and rich households, and preparing to make another big fuss, if they don't give a shock, they may not be able to toss something." ”

He turned his head and called Zhou Shifa, and whispered to him: "Kill that official, leave some clues to implicate those Xiucai, and then let out some wind and say that those Xiucai bought murder, you must sue the county government, ask the best litigator to help his family fight the lawsuit, and ask the county magistrate to ask Mr. Song to take care of it, the longer the case drags on, the better, see if they still have the spirit to make trouble." ”