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"Wu Sangui has already won Yunnan, Guizhou and Hunan at this moment, and Sichuan will soon fall into his hands, he originally had an army of 150,000, and the military strength of these three provinces was instantly expanded to 400,000. Even if there is only one-fifth of the elite among them, that is 80,000 elite soldiers. On the imperial side, the imperial court lost all parts south of the Yangtze River, but it still had 600,000 strong troops. On the other hand, we are now less than 100,000 people in the full battle, and this still counts the 20,000 or so people who recently surrendered in Guangdong! ”

"It's to recruit troops, and our troops are really stretched thin. Think about Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu back then, he also took the route of elite soldiers, and the tens of thousands of soldiers under his command were all elite and invincible, but in the end he was still defeated by Liu Bang. Don't look at most of Liu Bang's subordinates are just ordinary soldiers, in Xiang Yu's eyes, they are a group of rabble, but there are many people, five or six hundred thousand beat you less than less than 100,000, as a result" Geng Jingzhong nodded and said.

"Actually, I wanted to continue recruiting soldiers two years ago, but in order not to attract the attention of the imperial court, I just forgot it. However, in the past few years, we have not been unprepared, as long as the governor of Fujian raises his arms, not to mention 100,000, 70,000 or 80,000 people can still be recruited! Moreover, we have deliberately guided the people to train basic skills over the years, and recruited them into the barracks, and it doesn't take too long to train! You should have reminded me of this matter a long time ago, if it had been implemented earlier, I am afraid that the recruitment of troops would have ended! ”

What Geng Jingzhong said was referring to the activities he had carried out in Fujian over the years, and the Mawei Army had stopped recruiting people, but the escort team had always had to recruit people. Although the number of recruits is extremely limited. But due to the high standards of admission. There are still many people who do simple training under the guidance of the convoy. For example, the standard for recruiting people in the escort team is to pass the 10,000-meter long-distance run for three quarters of an hour, lift 120 pounds to be qualified, and pass the military posture for half an hour. Not only are these items exercised in the escort team and young people who are interested in joining the escort team, but they are also exercising every day in the 200 future schools in Fujian. It's just that the schoolchildren are young, and the content of the exercise is relatively light.

However, in the past six years, the students of the Future Academy have graduated four times, although the first two graduates are teenagers who are about to become adults. But then it's all the younger schoolchildren. Now, these graduated schoolchildren have also grown up, if some of them are recruited into the army, a little training can become a good grassroots junior officer, after all, they receive education far better than the ordinary people, you know, even if the future school has been opened for more than six years, but the Fujian people are still illiterate and the vast majority.

"The Metropolitan Governor forgives the sins, and his subordinates are derelict in their duties!" Li Guangdi listened to Geng Jingzhong's words and immediately bowed down to plead guilty.

"Forget it. It's not your fault, so many burdens are on your shoulders. Then there is still energy to take care of recruitment. However, you can also relax in the future, I have transferred Geng Hou back, and in the future, all the work of intelligence can be completely handed over to him to do, and I think he can be your right-hand man! Geng Jingzhong talked about Ah Hou, and a smile appeared on his face. Geng Hou grew up with him, and if you really want to talk about it, in addition to his relatives at home, Ah Hou is really the person he trusts the most, and there is no one.

"The Metropolitan Governor's words are wrong, not the right arm of his subordinates, but the right arm of the Metropolitan Governor, and the subordinates congratulate the Metropolitan Governor on adding another cadre to his side! General Geng Hou is back, and his subordinates can really relax! Li Guangdi did not have the slightest sense of being divided, and although intelligence was important, it was not his best field. On the contrary, Geng Hou has a unique talent in this area, since Geng Jingzhong selected him to the capital, Geng Hou has done the intelligence work in the north without leakage, in recent years, in addition to the capital, the north Zhili, Shandong several places have Geng Hou sent to the figure, not to mention the tentacles throughout the northern provinces and counties, but several major areas are involved.

"How can you be easy if you want to! Although this part of the work makes Ah Hou stand up, but you are the chief of the general staff, and the affairs of the whole army still need you as a counselor, and you will only be busier in the future, where will you have time to be free! Hey, to be honest, Brother Li, I'm really tired! Saying that, Geng Jingzhong's name for Li Guangdi changed again.

Li Guangdi saw Geng Jingzhong's expression and knew that Geng Jingzhong was revealing his true feelings, so he immediately assured: "My subordinates must do their best and do their best!" ”

"Alright, we don't need to come to these nonsense. Let's talk about how to recruit soldiers! Geng Jingzhong waved his hand and said.

Li Guangdi pondered for a moment, and then said, "Governor, in fact, this matter is also simple. In recent years, the people of Fujian have long been very yearning for our Mawei Army, not to mention the salary of our Mawei Army, that is, the preferential treatment policy for military families has captured the hearts of all ordinary people. In addition, our horsetail army rewards and punishments are clear and never deduct military salaries, and a living example is placed in front of the people, as long as we erect the banner of recruitment, all the recruitment sites will be full. ”

"Also, our recruitment in Fujian can be carried out at the same time as the reorganization of the army in Guangdong. The 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Mawei Army still have three battalions left in Guangdong, so that they will not be in a hurry to return to Fujian for the time being, and they will be reorganized and trained on the spot in Guangdong. There are more than 23,000 soldiers and prisoners, and less than eighty percent of the soldiers are available, and their task is to eliminate the old, weak, sick and disabled, leaving the elite. But even so, the remaining Cantonese soldiers also gave them back the reserve army that they were only counted as. Our soldiers serve as instructors and take them to a new military training, and only when they are all qualified can they be counted as official members of our Mawei Army. In that case, I estimate that about three months will be about the same! ”

Geng Jingzhong listened carefully and felt that Li Guangdi's construction was very feasible, so he responded: "It is indeed necessary to reorganize, although the Guangdong sergeants also have some elite soldiers, but most of the combat strength is not good, and it is optimistically estimated that in the end, it will be almost as good as half of the qualified remainers." Don't you know what kind of virtue those green battalion soldiers are, I'm afraid that when the time comes, they won't need us to pay severance pay, and they will take the initiative to run away! ”

As he spoke, Geng Jingzhong and Li Guangdi both had a disdainful sneer on their faces towards the Green Battalion soldiers. "Since it is a reorganization, then their original establishment will have to be completely dismantled. That. The 6,000 men of the 1st and 2nd Divisions who remained in Guangdong were also scattered. Part of it was returned to the 1st and 2nd Divisions. The rest will be formed into the Mawei Marine Army Reserve Division, which can be transformed into the Third Division of the Mawei Marine Army in the future. All the newly formed reserve troops will remain in Guangdong to begin emergency training, and they must restore their combat effectiveness within three months and reach their original level within six months. Geng Jingzhong said firmly.

Lee did not object, but felt that it was the right thing to do. "Although Guangdong is now under the command of our Mawei Army, my subordinates are still a little worried that Wu Sangui and Sun Yanling will attack Guangdong together while our foothold in Guangdong is not stable, so Math Alas is still preparing to suggest to the Metropolitan Governor to leave thousands of elite soldiers as a precaution, and now the reorganization work will be placed in Guangdong. So although the temporary establishment of a reserve division will reduce the combat power of our Mawei Army, there is no problem on the Guangdong side, and there is no need to worry about it anymore! ”

"In that case, let's do it! The silver that had just been shipped was going to come in handy, so I would first take a million large silver dollars for conscription, and recruit 30,000 people in the first batch, no matter how many soldiers there were for a while, there would not be so many soldiers to use as instructors. ”

Guangzhou Mansion in Guangdong, where Guangdong has the most soldiers, with 6,000 people, and more than one-third of the army under the command of King Shang Kexi of Pingnan is here. Although there are many descendants. But for the 2,000 horsetail troops who guarded them, they couldn't afford to resist at all.

This is also a welcome surrender that has only become like this in the last half a month. This made a part of the Guangzhou army very dissatisfied, they had not yet entered the war, and the above had already surrendered, which was really aggrieved. But now, they are glad that they were not sent into battle.

In the past half month, the Mawei Army has been conducting large-scale training outside Guangzhou every day, and these 6,000 soldiers are the best spectators, and the queue is neat and silent, watching carefully, although the mood is a little low at the beginning. The training program of the Mawei Army has been simplified here in Guangzhou, but the queue is still necessary, which makes the soldiers watching ashamed. Look at other people's military formations, they are murderous, but they are more than ten times stronger than their ten-day training.

The training of the formation is only the simplest, and then it is a weight-bearing cross-country long-distance run, which goes around the outer city of Guangzhou, which is also a full ten kilometers, which fully shows them what it means to be an elite soldier. Look at other people's physical fitness, let alone let you run around the city with weights, even if you don't run half a lap without weights, you won't be able to run, and you will be tired and become a dead dog if you can't run far. In this regard, the Mawei Army did quite interestingly, the Mawei Army ran with weights, let them follow empty-handed, just like that, after only a few days, they completely lost their temper, and the gap was too big!

What shocked the soldiers even more was that the weapons of the Mawei Army were different from theirs, and the equipment on their bodies was very uniform, a new flintlock musket produced by the Mawei Ordnance Workshop, a Dongying katana, backpacks, and military kettles, all the same from officers to soldiers. This, of course, refers to officers below the battalion level. When comparing the equipment of the Guangzhou army, they were still puzzled, many people knew the musket, but they didn't think the musket was anything remarkable. This thing is dangerous to use, it will hurt itself as soon as it explodes, and the range is short, the fire is slow, and the hit rate is low, it is not as good as a bow and arrow!

But the shooting training of the Mawei Army completely subverted their views, and none of the shortcomings of the old muskets could be found in the new muskets. A group of horsetail soldiers shot at the wooden targets used for training at intervals of two or three hundred paces, and after a few rounds, the wooden targets cracked and fell to the ground. In order to vividly teach these soldiers, the Mawei Army also deliberately brought 500 fat pigs, put on the armor originally worn by the Guangzhou soldiers, and then drove these hundreds of pigs to attack the Mawei Army's military formation.

The final result was not a surprise to the horsetail warriors at all, but it was really a shock to the Guangzhou soldiers. Five hundred fat pigs with two or even three layers of armor were all killed from a distance of 100 paces, leaving only small holes on their bodies that were still bleeding. A fat pig with his armor stripped of his armor was carried to the soldiers, causing them to swallow one by one.

At this time, in addition to being afraid of cold sweat, the soldiers were more greedy for muskets. In fact, they also thought about it, if they rushed into the city with the Mawei army and rushed out to fight with the Mawei army, whether the Mawei army could win or not was still between the two. But no one thought about these things, and at this moment, the eyes of most of the soldiers were only the shadow of the new musket in the hands of the horsetail army.

In order to give the final shock to those who had not seen the power of artillery, the artillery division specially showed them the power of the general's cannon. A hundred general cannons fired a salvo of 100 cannons, and the fire was still flowering, and it landed on the five Guangdong Navy Division warships that were already seriously damaged and had no repair value, and instantly sent these five warships into the Pearl River, and the only thing that can prove that there are five warships on the river is only those wooden planks floating on the river! (To be continued......)

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