Tianjin

On the school field of the Hydra mercenary training camp, at the end of the day's training, as soon as the instructor gave the order to disband, the mercenaries lined up and walked to the dormitory.

Julian walked in the column, only to feel smelly and tired, and wished he could go back to the dormitory immediately to take a hot shower. However, after staying in the training camp for a while, he has become completely accustomed to the harsh requirements of the Han army instructors in the camp. Even if it is disbanded, you have to line up in a neat column when you go back to the dormitory.

These instructors seem to like to line up very much, every morning, after washing, they have to line up at the door of the dormitory room, and then the squad leader takes them down the stairs, and when they get downstairs, they will be combined into a platoon, a team, a company, start the school field, and line up to listen to the lecture.

After the lecture, the queue ran long-distance and finished the most basic queue training. Even when eating, you have to line up neatly.

Julian had fought in the European theater and served as a mercenary, so he naturally knew that the queue was very helpful for the infantry to fight in a line of battle. But few troops were able to demand the queue to such a level as the Han army. If you don't get used to it slowly, no matter how tired your body is, no matter how hungry you are, everyone will honestly line up.

Julian walked neatly, and at the same time, he could follow the rhythm of the company commanders next to him and sing along. This is also a special feature of the Han army. Every day, on the way back to the dormitory and on the way to the cafeteria, I still have to sing. He sang Chinese songs, and at first, like most mercenaries, he couldn't speak Chinese at all and couldn't understand it, so he relied on rote memorization, and the songs he sang were also seriously out of tune.

But after months of training, every night they were asked to take a crash course in Chinese. Fortunately, they don't need to write calligraphy, they are given pencils and writing books, and they can write square words horizontally and vertically with pencils, which is much easier than brush words.

At first, they also used a brush, but they couldn't write at all.

The mercenary battalions basically have a Chinese name according to the rules. However, his name is directly transliterated to Julian, but the Han name is similar, so he simply used this name.

I've been here for three months, and I don't know if my sister Lina is okay in Beijing. The last time I received a letter from my sister was half a month ago, and now the two sisters and brothers have used Chinese characters for communication, and their sister and brother used to be illiterate, but now they can write letters in Chinese characters.

His sister's Chinese characters are obviously better than his, and she actually writes with a brush, he admires his sister immensely. It's amazing to be able to write with a brush. He estimated that his sister must have learned from that Guo Wende, and he could see that his sister was interested in this Guo Wende, but he felt that this matter was a little difficult, after all, that person was an official of the Hanlin Academy, and he could now almost understand the national conditions of the Han Dynasty, and knew that in the Han Empire, civil officials were more noble than military officials, and although the civil officials of the Hanlin Academy were not of high grade, they were very respected. Promising.

He actually thinks that his sister is a good match for Hans, who is their cousin, tall and handsome. Hans also seemed to be a little interested in his sister, but his sister didn't seem to have feelings for him.

"At sunset, the red glow flies in the western mountains, and the soldiers shoot the target and return to the camp."

"Return to the camp!"

"The red flower on the chest reflects the rainbow

Pleasant singing is flying all over the sky! ”

Julian sang the military song in an already pure lingua franca. All the way to the downstairs of the dormitory.

Just after singing a song, the column turned into a phalanx, and the company commander gave a few words of training as usual, and then disbanded.

The barracks dormitories are all one-story brick houses. This kind of house is relatively low, but it is cold in the north, and building one floor of the house is more resistant to heat dissipation than building two or three floors.

However, the dormitory looks a little unimpressive. But it's nice inside. The dormitory is rectangular in shape, with a two-meter passage in the middle, and a row of dormitory rooms on each side of the passage.

Each room lives in one class, and one class has ten people. The bed is a bunk, sleeping on a fire kang with a flue underneath, and there are people outside who specialize in burning the fire, so it is very warm when you sleep at night.

The establishment of the mercenaries is basically according to the Han army infantry, and there are some differences, the most basic establishment is a squad, a squad of ten people, a non-commissioned officer squad leader plus nine infantry.

The nine infantrymen were uniformly armed with flintlock rifles and a waist knife, while the non-commissioned officer squad leader was armed with a rifle waist knife and two handcuffs. The standard combat preparation is to carry one hundred rounds of ammunition per person, and two grenades.

Four squads are a platoon, plus the number of platoon members is fifty.

Three platoons plus the company headquarters totaled two hundred people. The company headquarters consisted of heralds, guards, medics, hygienists, cooks, grooms, and a mountain howitzer group.

These mercenaries are very well organized and well-equipped, and the imperial court has put a lot of thought into these mercenaries. Originally, the intention of the Ministry of War was to use these people to burn, kill, loot and cause damage in various coastal areas of Japan. However, in the end, Liu Jun decided to strengthen them and make them the advance stormtroopers.

However, these equipment will be credited to the mercenaries anyway, and they will be deducted from their loot at that time.

When the instructors of the training camp were training, they selected officers of all ranks from among the mercenaries here and awarded them the same ranks. However, their military rank is a mercenary rank, which cannot be used in conjunction with the Han army rank and reserve rank.

The mercenary squad leaders are basically sergeants, the platoon squad leader is a sergeant, the platoon leader is a sergeant, and the company commander is a fourth-class sergeant major.

Julian did well in training, and he worked hard at a young age, and was chosen by the coaches to be the squad leader.

In order to be able to better cooperate, his class is basically German, and they usually live together and train tacitly.

When we finally entered the dormitory, everyone felt much more relaxed.

Julian, like everyone else, began to open the closet and take out the clothes, and then took the basin and bucket, and hurried to the bathroom. I had to line up for a bath, and after a day of training, even though it was still the cold season of spring, I still sweated all over. The sweaty clothes stuck to the body made people extremely uncomfortable.

There is a special bathroom in the dormitory, which can provide hot water during the exercise every day, and there is also a special stove there, which burns coal, boils water here, and there are pipes there, so that the hot air can flow to the rooms in the dormitory and warm the kang.

There are mercenaries on duty standing at the door of the bathroom, and everyone is honestly lining up, and only one can go in for every one that comes out. Although the bathroom was large, it could not accommodate all the mercenaries in the entire dormitory building at the same time, so when the first batch was full, the rest of the dormitory could only enter one after another.

Rules are everywhere in the camp. Here, the Han instructors are the heavens, but their status is very transcendent. Usually responsible for management tasks, it is more of the mercenaries themselves, and the mercenaries take turns to serve as star officers, taking turns to be responsible for cleaning and so on.

"I heard that I will be able to play at the beginning of next month, damn it, I can finally end this training, and I will be **** stupid every day."

While waiting in line. Li Dabai, the squad leader in the dormitory next door, turned his head and complained to him. Li Dabai is a Swede, formerly known as Anderson, he originally wanted to name Li Bai, it is said that he heard the poems of this great ancient Chinese poet and admired it very much. As a result, when the name was reported, it was not allowed, and in the end, a big character could only be added in the middle, so he was called Li Dabai.

Li Dabai is a guy in his thirties and has a lot of energy. It is said that he used to be a fairly famous mercenary, and later owed a lot of gambling debts, and was chased by people with nowhere to hide, after hearing about the prosperity and wealth of the East. So he got on the ship to the East. This guy was new to the camp and used to be the acting platoon leader, but he gathered a crowd to gamble and was caught. I almost didn't get expelled, and in the end I was cleaned up and made an ordinary mercenary.

since. It's a lot more honest, and now I'm the squad leader.

Li Dabai is very eager to go to Japan to rob as soon as possible, no, it is a war. Although he fled to the East, the family was still in Sweden, and he found that the Han of the East was indeed very good, like heaven. He wanted to bring his family to Dongfang as soon as possible, but now that he was penniless and entered the training camp, although he also had a little allowance, he still owed a large amount of training and equipment costs.

He now hopes to grab a good grab from Japan, the country of silver, so that he can pay off the training fee and equipment fee as soon as possible, and then deduct the tax, and he can still have spare money to send to Sweden, so that his family can pay off his gambling debts, and then take a boat to the East.

Compared with Li Dabai, Julian is in much better condition. His family has now arrived in the Eastern Han. His sister has a very profitable restaurant in Beijing, and now she is also in partnership with Guo Wende, and has opened a fifth branch with a bank loan. His parents and younger siblings also worked in the group's shop, earning money that was unimaginable before.

In fact, Julian is not short of money, and if he asks for money, his sister will give it to him, and even help him arrange an easy job to earn money. However, Julian was still young, and he was not satisfied with just being rich, and he also hoped to earn fame, preferably a knighthood in the future, even if it was a lord.

There are many mercenaries who come to the training camp, some of them are to be able to get a big Han household registration, and some are to make money, like Julian, who went to the title as soon as he came, and there were very few. For most of the mercenaries, they have worked hard to come to the Han Dynasty, most of them are penniless, and they can't even speak a word of Chinese, and it is fundamental to gain a foothold in this rich and prosperous Eastern Empire first, and then take their parents, wives and children to enjoy the blessings.

After spending a few months in training camp, Julian felt like they were now unstoppable.

With his own strength and strength, coupled with the sophisticated equipment of the Han army, and the tactics taught by the instructors of the Han army, what would be the problem of fighting some of the dwarfs on the island east of the Han Dynasty?

He had already heard that a few years ago, when the Emperor of the Han Dynasty had not yet been proclaimed emperor, he easily forced the Japanese to surrender with only a fleet of tens of thousands of horses.

I heard that Japan is full of silver mountains, and there is more silver than in the New World of America.

Li Dabai, like Julian, was repeatedly instilled by the instructors with the idea that Japan is full of gold and silver, and that silver can be picked up everywhere.

"Julian, you say that if we can lay a silver mine, we will definitely be able to grab a lot of silver, right? Then we will be rich! ”

According to the agreement between the Dahan and them, the mercenaries were trained by the Dahan, and the Dahan provided equipment and supplies, and was responsible for sending them to Japan. As for the spoils captured by the mercenaries, the Han owns three components, and the remaining seventy percent is owned by the mercenaries.

Even if you still have to pay taxes to the Han, and you have to pay the training fees, equipment fees, and transportation fees to the Han, there will definitely be a lot.

If you can grab 100,000 catties of silver and deduct the share of 30% of the big man, you will have to have 70,000 catties. After deducting 20% of the tax, there are still 56,000 catties, and after deducting training, equipment, transportation, etc., even if half is left, there will be 28,000.

If the 100,000 catties of silver captured by a battalion are divided among about 1,000 people in four companies of a battalion, one person can still get 28 catties. If a company is defeated, 200 people will score, and that person will score more than 100 catties.

Converted into silver dollars, that's three or four thousand dollars.

Thinking of this, Li Dabai couldn't help but smirk.

In his mind, it shouldn't be a problem to grab a mine and grab a million taels of silver, and Japan is not known as the country of silver. (To be continued.) )