After a long time, especially after starting to build the training ground in Duduzhai Village, Liang Huada found that this gang of bandits was very different from what he imagined.

One is that the bandits have strict military orders and good discipline. This feeling was felt in Liang Huada's Demeng Mountain, a huge cottage, without a trace of noise and turmoil, and I couldn't see the bandits drinking and gambling, but they practiced every day.

The second is that the bandits have achieved the same level of officers and soldiers. The big leader of the bandits, the guy surnamed Long, often comes to Dongzhai, and when he catches up, he eats with the guards, which is nothing special. Liang Huada asked Du Sanli, don't you big bosses eat small stoves? Du Sanli's answer surprised him, Xiaozao has it, and only the injured and sick are allowed to eat. Our Captain Long never goes to Xiaozao, which is called the unity of officers and soldiers. Whatever is required of a soldier, the officer must do it first!

The third is that there are female soldiers among the bandits! At first, Liang Huada thought it was the wife of the bandit leaders, but when he saw some bandits laughing with women, he overturned his judgment and decided that it was a prostitute who was bought or robbed. Once, because a former baggage team named Tan Shishi fell from the roof and injured his leg because he fell from the roof of the house, he was sent to the so-called medical center for treatment, where he stayed for a few days, and when he came back, he told him about the women who acted as doctors and the respect that the bandits had for female soldiers, and Liang Huada knew that these bandits had really done not harassing women. This not only made Tan Shishi admire, but even Liang Huada felt that it was incredible.

The fourth is the management of his own group of prisoners of war. The process is one from confrontation to reconciliation. After the initial confrontation, the bandits' control over the captives became more and more relaxed, the beatings and scolding gradually disappeared, and they could be rewarded with extra food and rest for completing the task ahead of schedule. The captives were surprised to see that their food was identical to that of the bandits.

The last thing is that the bandits' extremely clever military training deterred the captives.

The captives were not always kept in Dongzhai, and they were soon used as coolies. First of all, the burned down Dongzhai was repaired for some bandits to live in and to house more than 100 prisoners, and then they began to work everywhere, the main place of work is the training ground of the Aggressive Village, the second is the project in front of the Guangming Temple, and the third is the shooting training ground in the north of the Dongzhai. Liang Huada and his unfortunate subordinates were mentally prepared for the bandits to use them as coolies, and after confirming that the bandits would not kill prisoners indiscriminately, they also accepted the fate of coolies.

Liang Huada went to the village after breakfast every day and returned to Dongzhai in the afternoon, he must pass through the Guangming Temple, and he could always see the queue training of the bandits wearing the uniforms of the new army on the square in front of the temple.

Liang Huada was trained by German instructors, and in his opinion, the troops he was once proud of were probably inferior to these bandits in the first section of the queue. Not only did Liang Huada feel this way, but the solemn expressions of the captives when they walked in front of the temple reflected the shock in their hearts.

Only those who have been rigorously trained in the queue know the joys and sorrows. The military is different from the obedience of civilians, and the spirit of teamwork and sacrifice has its origins in boring queue training.

It's really hard to imagine that bandits are still engaged in queue training.

After they built up the training ground of Duozhai and the shooting training ground on the northern slope of Dongzhai and carried out training in crossing obstacles, attacking and defending between squads and platoons, and firing with live ammunition, the bandits' training methods made him admire and fear.

Every day, Liang Huada and his men would see the bandits training. Although Liang Huada was an engineer, after all, he graduated from Yuan Shikai's new army camp school, and the bandits' ingenious training methods immediately attracted him. The queue drill in front of the Guangming Temple was the first step that surprised Liang Huada, he didn't expect that this gang of bandits could practice to this extent, the bandits standing in a phalanx put on the military uniforms captured in Maoyang Town, coupled with the horizontal and vertical phalanx and the deafening slogans, their momentum was definitely not weaker than the small station elite soldiers trained by Lord Yuan! And the strange training ground in the south of the aggressive village surprised Liang Huada even more, he immediately saw the subtlety of the training ground, this field can simulate attacks under various terrains, and the bandits' detachment attack also surprised Liang Huada. Also surprised was a platoon commander of an infantry team named Shi Dashou, who was also captured in Maoyang Town, and quietly told him that it was not unjust to lose to them, and that this training ground was more clever than those German instructors of Master Yuan. You see how well they organized their attack in the shed, in groups of three, with a good division of labor, there are really capable people among the bandits.

After the completion of the shooting range built in the north of Dongzhai, the live ammunition shooting of the bandits shocked Liang Huada even more.

Now Liang Huada and several officers in the prisoner of war camp have been given some freedom, and they can freely go back and forth to several projects in the cottage after asking for instructions from the guards; when the bandits shoot live ammunition, Liang Huada and others are not prohibited from stopping and watching, and the bandits' fixed target and mobile target shooting training and competitions have greatly surprised Liang Huada, Shi Dashou, and others.

Now the two captured New Army officers were stopping to watch a moving target design competition organized by the bandits, the target made of wooden shelves was a semi-humanoid chest target, covered with white paper, and several circles were drawn, and the soldiers behind the target wall ran irregularly with the chest target, and on this side of the target wall, the shooters who took turns on the field had to shoot five bullets within the specified time in three positions: standing, lying and kneeling. Among them, one shot is in the standing position, two shots are in the lying position and two shots are in the kneeling position.

There were a total of five players on the field, Liang Huada and Shi Dashou unexpectedly saw the big boss Long Qian personally off the field, he was the third to appear, under the gaze of the subordinates who watched, he simply shot five bullets neatly, Shi Dashou noticed that Long Qian's shot was extremely fast, the target over there was a move, and the speed of movement was also very fast, clean and neat, with a kind of strong beauty that he had not seen.

The results were soon reported, and the meaning of the so-called "ring" Shi Dashou and Liang Huada knew it as early as the fixed target shooting competition of the Mengshan bandits, and Shi Dashou was amazed at its creativity, which was more concise and practical than the method taught by the German instructors in the camp school.

As a result, Long Qian scored first.

Listening to the cheers of the bandits, Shi Dashou suddenly said, "It's really unjust to lose to them." ”

Long Qian, who had finished participating in the competition, saw Liang Shi and the others, and he walked over and said with a smile, "How many shots will Platoon Leader Shi take?" Since he is an infantry platoon leader, he must have good marksmanship. ”

"Don't dare, your army's training methods are admirable, Shi is willing to bow to the wind and be convinced."

"Military training is a science, and science has its own laws. Resting on one's laurels and arrogance is the most important mentality, good methods are improved in learning from each other, Yuan Shikai's new army is indeed a strong force, to be honest, Long really wants to exchange training experience with Lord Yuan. ”

Liang Huada almost blurted out, "Why don't you abandon the dark and turn to the light?" If you surrender to the imperial court, we are willing to introduce you. ”

As soon as these words came out, they were immediately glared at by the two guards who followed Long Qian, and the gun in the hand of one of the guards was immediately pointed at Liang Huada.

Long Qian smiled, waved his hand to the guards, and sat on the ground very casually, "I've been thinking about talking to the two of you, let's sit down and talk." Team Officer Liang is quick to speak. Since you have become an officer in the New Army, you must have received the corresponding education, has Lord Yuan told you what to do as a soldier? ”

"This ......" Liang Huada couldn't think of a concise answer for a while, although the instructors also talked about other things besides military education, and the set of Feng Wife Yinzi didn't seem to be what the ringing horse leader in front of him wanted.

"Sancai, you come and tell him." Long Qian said to Li Sancai, the guard who was pointing a gun at Liang Huada just now.

"To be a soldier is to defend your family and country."

"Defend the family and defend the country...... Liang Huada and Shi Dashou chewed on the meaning of the four words.

"In the evening, you can come to the Temple of Light to listen to the current affairs class, if you want." Long Qian stood up, "If you don't want to, forget it." Soldiers can't just eat food, and such an army will not have truly invincible combat effectiveness. He dropped a word and left.

Liang Huada was dragged by Shi Dashou to the Guangming Temple to "listen to the class", because he received Long Qian's order, Du Sanli, the prisoner of war camp officer, approved the two of them to go out at night, but still sent a soldier with a gun to follow them. This evening was Long Qian's lecture on Sino-Japanese relations after the First Sino-Japanese War and Japan's policy toward China. There were about fifty or sixty people who listened to Long Qian's lectures, all of whom sat on the ground in the open space in front of the main hall of Guangming Temple, and there were more than a dozen torches made of pine resin burning around them, and a large wooden board was erected on the podium in front of the main hall, on which a map of China and Japan was drawn with a brush. Long Qian did not talk much about the process of the First Sino-Japanese War, but focused on the situation after the war, especially the policy changes caused by the humiliating defeat of the imperial court, military, political, some things Liang Huada and Shi Dashou are clear, including the new army that they are proud of is also a product of the First Sino-Japanese War, but they have never heard such a concise and clear explanation, and the original thought that the mysterious and unpredictable imperial court politics have become mysterious in Long Qian's mouth, which is mostly a matter of necessity. Long Qian's lecture lasted for more than half an hour, and he concluded that because of the geographical relationship, if Japan is not willing to defend the small island that is seriously lacking in resources, it will inevitably develop to the mainland, so there will be a conflict between China and Japan, if China keeps making concessions, it will be a local conflict, and if China does not retreat, it will be a full-scale war between the two countries. This war is inevitable and immutable between the two countries, until one country falls. Therefore, Japan is definitely China's mortal enemy! Please keep this in mind.

Long Qian also said that since China and Japan are not the only two countries on the earth, Japan's continental policy will inevitably lead to conflicts with other countries, and because Japan's continental policy is from Korea to Northeast China, it will inevitably come into conflict with Russia. In the next lecture, I will talk about the relationship between Russia, Japan, and Northeast China.

Long Qian seemed to see the two Liangshi standing in the back row looking very abrupt, and emphasized: As a soldier, you must understand your sacred mission of protecting your home and defending the country, and to fulfill this mission, you must understand the situation facing the country. Resisting foreign aggression is the most fundamental duty of a soldier, and it is a shame for every soldier that the motherland is bullied by foreign countries. If you don't have the concept of a country and a nation in your heart, and you don't have the concept of a soldier's own duty, then you are not a real soldier.

After the end, Shi Dashou asked Long Qian, when is the next talk? Long Qian said the night after tomorrow. Shi Dashou said that he would still come to listen, and Long Qian smiled, yes, you two are literate and knowledgeable, if you have different opinions about my class, you can put it forward for discussion at any time.

Shi Dashou said no, your training is very good, really good, I really didn't expect it.