When night fell, the high-hanging electric lights were lit, and the soldiers wearing Yunsheng clothes and holding Mauser guns outside the gate of the Beiyang Minister walked back and forth, occasionally taking advantage of no one's effort, and hiding behind the tall stone lion on the side, smoking a paper cigarette, this paper cigarette is also such a post, will steal two puffs, more convenient than smoking a cigarette, that is, the official smells the smell of smoke, but just pretends not to see, this peacetime difference, isn't it all like this.

As the governor of Zhili and the minister of Beiyang, the affairs of the Zhili should be asked, and foreign affairs should be managed, Li Hongzhang did not have much idle work in the day, even if he was busy with business late at night, there were other things to worry about.

"I heard that Tang Ziran has been training troops over there in Dagu for a while?"

Putting down the Korean ginseng tea in his hand, Li Hongzhang asked casually,

Although Li Hongzhang was a civil official when he was young, he joined the army with Hanlin when he was in turmoil more than 30 years ago. He organized and trained the warriors in his hometown, and later joined forces with Gordon in England to defeat bandits in various places, thus laying his foundation.

In the decades that followed, he had a rich and colorful experience in the official world, starting with the Minister of International Trade of the Five Nations, and soon after serving as the Minister of International Trade of Nanyang. Later, he was appointed as the minister of the Qincha, and concurrently served as the minister of Beiyang trade, and also shouldered the responsibility of naval construction, as well as the handling of diplomatic matters, but when it comes to the root, it still starts from the army, but the foundation is still in the Huai army, if in the past few years is not to "Huai army as the priority", "rely on the Beiyang", afraid that under the deliberate suppression of the imperial court, it is not a business, afraid that it will also fall into an idle errand, and naturally develop the habit of valuing the army.

Now that Tang Ziran is training in Dagu as a famous soldier of the guards, in line with the importance of it, he is naturally curious about his training, especially a while ago, his practice of selecting the purpose in the battalion made Li Hongzhang extremely surprised, according to the statements of the battalions, it is not called training, it is to toss people.

Relying on tossing people so quickly that they can select dozens of elites, what is the use of training like this?

The arguments of others are also reasonable, but this does not prevent Li Hongzhang from appreciating it, this soldier is a general, if there are no two battalions of soldiers around the minister stationed in Korea, there is no bottom line in the place of North Korea, that is, Yuan Shikai, if there are no two battalions of Huai army to support, how can he be "the governor of the truth".

And Tang Ziran is good, he directly trained soldiers in the name of the minister's guard stationed in Korea, but the court acquiesced, after all, he is still in charge of training the new army stationed in Korea, as for Li Hongzhang, he also wants to see Tang Zihao, what kind of soldiers can be trained by this person who knows foreign.

"Quan Shuai, and a while ago, every morning at five o'clock, those recruits are like pigs driven by the officer, carrying ten foreign bricks, running along the seaside, and running ten miles with their eyes open, I heard that those recruits have to beat a pair of straw sandals every day before going to bed, otherwise, there will be no shoes to wear on the second day!"

While Zhou Fu said respectfully, there was a little contempt on his face, all of which looked disapproving.

"I don't know this Tang Ziran's ability to train soldiers, but looking at him tossing soldiers like this, maybe sooner or later he will have to send troops out of chaos! Adults need to prepare early! ”

The reason why he is so contemptuous is not because of anything else, but because he looks down on Tang Ziran's tossing of his guards, and he has no energy to train the soldiers all day long.

"Oh, got it!"

Li Hongzhang just didn't care and responded casually, one person has one person's statement, he once specifically asked the eliminated battalion commanders and generals, those people naturally have a lot of complaints about Tang Ziran's screening method, if the soldiers practice like that, they will not be in chaos, and they will also be trained to die in the camp. In Li Hongzhang's view, after such a tempering to extract the essence, the soldier's body is naturally far better than that of the unsharpened, and the combat power is naturally not comparable to others.

However, unlike the Huai Army, Tang Ziran improved the foreign exercises of his guards, not only using official dialect to exercise, but also giving passwords for walking and running. So in his opinion, as long as the officials in the battalion can be fair, chaos will not be born, after all, the monthly salary is there.

"This mess, I don't see it, Yushan, now, I'm curious, what kind of soldiers can he train with dozens of days of kung fu, look at these ten days, it's just ...... Well, the military posture, what is the use of this military posture for soldiers to march bravely to fight? ”

Li Hongzhang said with a smile, although the Huai army is heavy on foreign exercises, although they practice foot drills, they can pay attention to the queue of guns, but Tang Ziran did the opposite, but what he paid attention to was the military posture, but gave him the simplest "walking", which was something that Li Hongzhang looked down on.

"Yushan, the ammunition Ziran received from the Ordnance Bureau is still in the fort?"

At the same time that Zhou Fu praised him, as if he remembered something, Li Hongzhang asked again.

"But no, Tang Ziran didn't take the guns for training, and all the ammunition was left in the fort, all of them were a pair, and if he didn't take a good road, he wouldn't use foreign guns, but I heard that he sent someone to make hundreds of wooden guns wrapped with foreign iron nearby, and I don't know what they were used for! He also sent a leathersmith and a blacksmith to make armor, could it be that he Tang Ziran didn't want to use a gun? ”

Listening to the mockery in Zhou Fu's words, Li Hongzhang shook his head and sighed.

"Yushan, let him make a fuss first! This Tang Ziran, ah......"

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I don't know if it's because of the cold on the beach, Tang Haoran, who was lying in the tent, couldn't help but sneez, and continued to draw the essentials of the "stabbing technique" with the oil lamp, and occasionally, he would close his eyes and recall the three defenses and one stab in the "Bayi-style version of the assassination model" that he had seen on the Internet in the past.

If you want to compare the shooting training of the guards, now Tang Haoran attaches more importance to assassination training, and the reason is simple, among the "five skills" of the infantry, that is, shooting, bomb throwing, assassination, blasting and civil engineering, the one that really trains the soul of a soldier is assassination.

In later generations, all boys who were slightly fond of military affairs knew that in the Chinese army, there was such a slogan in a certain characteristic era: Bayonets are red.

Perhaps in a special period, the Chinese people are superstitious about bayonets like the Japanese army, but no one can deny that the tempering of the soul of the soldier by the spear technique is just like Tang Haoran's practice of paying attention to the military posture, and the reason why the practice of the military posture is paid attention to is because of the experience of military training - "pulling out the military posture", which is the first lesson of the soldiers. It is this subtle influence that makes it slowly achieve the ban on it.

Whether it is the change in appearance and behavior brought about by military posture, the habit of prohibiting with signals, or the courage to dare to see red with a bayonet, it is precisely what the Chinese army lacks in this era.

Half a month ago, Tang Haoran had witnessed the scene of the first battalion of the Huai Army stationed in the Dagu Fort, and watched the Huai Army of that battalion marching in formation, and the soldiers in the marching army column all had a stern and serious expression. Each of them carried a foreign gun on his shoulder, a one-color eight-shot Mauser, and a cowhide harness at his waist.

It stands to reason that it should be extremely powerful, but in Tang Haoran's eyes, it is like a citizen parade on the street, because there is no unified posture and standard, so the soldiers carry guns as if they are carrying shovels, in addition to the weapons they carry, they also carry a fan each. It can be carried in a variety of ways, some are inserted in the pocket, some are inserted into the neckline, and some are simply wrapped in braids at the back of the head.

As for the so-called foreign exercises, it is just a line of guns with the password, and then shoot casually, and even do not aim at all, it is completely a straggler, in short, if according to Tang Haoran's understanding of the army, at this time it can be called the elite division of the "Qing Dynasty", and then regarded by the Manchu Qing Dynasty as the "imperial pillar" of the "central army" in the name of the local army, there is no qualified soldier at all, and naturally there is no qualified army.

That is, looking at the appearance of the Huai Army's troops moving to defense, Tang Haoran finally understood why during the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army defeated the Manchu army with the consumption of 8 rifle bullets per capita, and even charged with bayonets again and again, that is, the Qing army collapsed, so that the capture was hundreds of times its consumption.

It is precisely in view of this that Tang Haoran hopes that through the training of military posture and assassination, and then temper the soul of the soldiers, inculcate the idea of daring to "see red with a bayonet", and establish the courage of the army, but this spear technique is very troublesome, which will even the Japanese army in later generations who are good at fighting stabbing also practice French spear art, as for the famous Japanese style "stabbing spear technique" until after the First Sino-Japanese War, Tong guò will combine the summary of the war with the old Japanese spear skills to develop the "gun sword technique".

Fortunately, when I was studying, because of my hobby, I read the "August 1 version of the militia assassination, bomb throwing, blasting, and earthwork teaching model" on the Internet, and now I have recalled it one by one by memory, and what I need to do now is to copy it into a book, and then compile it into "New Army Infantry Teaching Model".

"Mountain vs. Thorn...... (1) Stab up and down, when preparing to use the gun, the distance between the two feet is wider than the shoulder, and when the slope is large, it can be formed into a "figure eight" shape, and the center of gravity of the body is slightly backward......"

Recalling the contents of the teachings, writing them down on paper one by one, Tang Haoran drew a simple picture with a pencil, and it took several hours to write out the "assassination model" with his memories, and carefully checked it, but at this time, there was a piercing copper whistle outside the tent, and when the piercing whistle sounded in the seaside wasteland at midnight, the instructor's roar also sounded,

"Hurry, hurry, don't fucking act like a little foot bitch, quick, quick,"

In the whistle and roar, Tang Haoran walked out of the tent, only to see thousands of recruits who had just woken up from their sleep under the supervision of the instructors, rushing out of the tent and lining up on the beach.

"Forty days to go!"

Looking at the recruits running in line on the beach, Tang Haoran, who felt a little relieved in his heart, muttered silently, there were only forty days left......

(Recently, I have been riddled with trivial matters, and I am afraid that there is only one shift every day, so please be considerate.) ）