"Report to His Royal Highness the Prince, the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Town of the Qing Army have been paraded, please instruct!" The handsome and dignified Situ Jun ran a few steps, stood up beautifully facing the viewing platform, and shouted with full of energy.

"Hmm, who is he?" In fact, it has been introduced, but the elderly Yixuan did not remember it.

"Lord Wang, he is Situ Jun, the deputy chief of staff of the fifth town. He is a cadet who graduated from the Military Academy in Berlin, Germany. Long Qian, who was standing behind Yixuan, replied.

"It's an old fool." Tie Liang scolded secretly.

"Okay, let's get started." Yi Liang waved his hand, trying to make his movements stronger. But in the eyes of others, it is weak and powerless, like a life-saving posture.

Long Qian didn't speak, just raised his right hand and slashed at Lu hard!

Situ Jun raised his hand and saluted, "Play music!" Please review the troops, adults! ”

The band, which had been low for a while, suddenly quieted down, and the music played suddenly, which shocked the audience, especially Xu Xue! This is another song that has never been heard before, if it was played with excitement and excitement just now, the current song is dominated by excitement!

Yi Qian will not step down from the stage to review again, Long Qian said to Tie Liang, "Lord Murca, please." ”

"What's this?" Tie Liang stood up and couldn't help but ask.

"It's a military parade." Ning Shijun, who was standing behind him, replied.

Tie Liang took a group of staff officers and got off the review stand again, this was a predetermined procedure, not to toss him. Accompanied by Long Qian, Ning Shijun and Situ Jun, they walked along the straight runway of the school field in the parade song.

Three German officers were not qualified to inspect the troops, and they remained on the stage. They are invited guests.

Tie Liang walked through the phalanx with a complicated mood. Whenever he walked in front of a phalanx. The eyes of the soldiers in the front row and the officers leading the group turned their heads slowly as he walked along, until he walked past the phalanx, and the officers and men returned to a state of silence looking ahead. To tell the truth, he was overpowered by the military appearance of the Fifth Town. From the nails-like soldiers in front of them, it seems that we can see the shadow of the Japanese Army—arrogant, unsightly, but extremely disciplined.

How did he do it? It is certain that the elite soldiers of the third town that Yuan Shikai is proud of will never have this level.

Long Qian, who was walking behind Tie Liang's side, looked at the short and stocky Beiyang officer beside him with his spare eyes. Yesterday I already knew his name - Wu Luzhen, a name that exists in memory, it must be the revolutionary party, and now he is the superintendent of the training team of the Military Academy Department of the Military Training Department. But I don't know how it ended. And the tall officer on the other side. is also a famous person, who was once praised by Sun Wen as a cattle man with the general merits of Li Xia Chao and Fu Jiezi for recovering Outer Mongolia, and is now the military secretary of Duan Qirui, the commander of the third town at the same level as himself. Is he here to spy on the Fifth Town? The rest of the Beiyang Army is unknown, at least not a little in his broken memory.

Long Qian didn't even know what to do. Duan Yongqing, the staff officer of the Military Orders Department who followed him, was his own person. He is a spy sent by Jiang Yun to break into the Beiyang system!

Duan Yongqing, who graduated from the first phase of Baoding Martial Arts Academy, desperately suppressed the passion churning in his chest. The majestic and majestic teams in front of him are their comrades-in-arms. Be one of them! It's been more than two years, and it's been more than two years since he was selected into the intelligence department for training and left the Mengshan Army, and countless times he has returned to this army he loves and swears allegiance to in his dreams! Now it's finally back. But he's a different identity! Duan Yongqing, who deliberately pressed the general's hat very low, was a little worried about being recognized by his former comrades-in-arms. After receiving his information, Jiang Yun, who was as meticulous as a hair, eliminated all his former comrades-in-arms from the same class, platoon and company from the troops under review, causing those officers and men to suffer great grievances for unknown reasons.

It is perfectly deserved to pay such a "price" to protect a spy who has penetrated the core department of a potential adversary.

Duan Yongqing didn't know what to do, and among the cadets who graduated from the first phase with him, there was also a comrade-in-arms of his own, and now he was assigned to the sixth town as a platoon commander. And he, because of his excellent grades, was selected by Liu Yongqing into the Military Orders Department as a staff officer.

Walking through the artillery square, Murcha. Tie Liang had a smile on his face for the first time, but in Long Qian's opinion, he was completely smiling, "A good soldier trained by the dragon commander!" It took a lot of effort to equip the Fifth Town. ”

"This is the duty of the lower officials." Long Qian replied lightly.

Ning Shijun understood Tie Liang's subtext, he was asking about the source of the cannon.

Finally completed the review, and Tie Liang and his entourage returned to the review stand accompanied by Long Qian.

"Sing the military song!" The parade commander Situ Jun shouted with all his might.

The music changed again, and after the majestic prelude, thousands of men on the school field raised their voices:

Onward, forward, forward!

Our team to the sun.

Treading on the land of the Qing Dynasty,

Burdened with the hopes of the imperial court,

We are an invincible force.

We are the soldiers of the people,

We are the arms of the nation,

From fearless,

Never give in,

Heroic battles,

Until the enemy is destroyed,

Bright red military flags fluttered high.

Listen! The wind is howling,

Listen! How loud the song of the march was.

The brethren marched to the decisive battlefield,

The brethren marched to the frontier of the motherland.

Forward, forward,

Our team to the sun.

Towards the vast wilderness,

Towards the high hills!

Under the command of Ning Shijun, all the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Town, including Long Qian on the solemn viewing platform, sang loudly the military song they loved so much.

Not to mention the lyrics, as far as the tune is concerned, this is a masterpiece that has been tempered thousands of times, condensing the unyielding iron-blooded soul.

All the guests at the review stand and viewing platform were shocked by the majestic and passionate military songs. Next to Xu Shuzheng, the German Army Major Kurt. Meier subconsciously puffed up his chest, this march style song was obviously written specifically for the army, although he couldn't hear the Chinese sung clearly, Major Meier's Chinese level was a simple life and military term, but it was full of confidence. The indomitable momentum is evident in the song.

Major Meyer and his two companions straightened up and saluted the standard German military salute to the troops on the school grounds!

Germans are born soldiers, but also born musicians. Major Meyer of the Qingdao garrison said in German, "A real army." An army with a military soul. Xu Shuzheng couldn't understand Meyer's words, but he roughly guessed what this arrogant German meant.

Tie Liang chewed on the lyrics and noticed a few words that he was not used to: the people, the country, the motherland...... But I can't fault anything, the land of the Qing Dynasty, the hope of the imperial court. Is there anything wrong with that?

Xu Xue was completely conquered by this song. She never thought of it. I followed my father to see the excitement, and I heard three incomparably beautiful pieces of music in a row! Especially this military song, it is simply going to make people's blood boil! She never thought that the military song would have such a moving charm! He turned his head to say something to his father, but was surprised to find out. My father didn't know when he got up. Tears were streaming down his face! An emotion that had never been felt before broke her. I couldn't help but cry down.

The military song ends.

"Split start!" Situ Jun issued a new order.

The music was changed back to a slightly cheerful parade song. Amid the sound of military music, the easternmost phalanx of the troops under review began to move and turned to the straight road in front of the review stand. In front of him, a flag-bearer was holding a bright red military flag, followed by an officer with a pistol at his waist, and behind him were soldiers with bayonets and rifles, forming a horizontal formation of four people, walking in unison.

There was a burst of admiration from the viewing platform, "It's so neat......" "Look at the words embroidered on their military flags...... The front team of the 1st Battalion of the 17th Standard...... Oh, my cousin is in this camp......"

When the front team of the 1st Battalion of the 17th Standard walked to the review stand, another shocking scene appeared, and the officer leading the team shouted, "Look to the right!" While the officers raised their hands and saluted, the soldiers unloaded the rifles on their shoulders with brushes, clenched their hands tightly, and the spears were inclined to the ground at a forty-five degree angle. Except for the soldier who walked closest to the viewing platform, the heads of the rest of the soldiers were neatly turned to look at the viewing platform, but their footsteps and rifles in their hands were not in the slightest. Looking from the viewing platform, the hands of the soldiers wearing snow-white gloves holding guns always maintained a neat white line, and from the east-west and north-south directions, the queue of more than 100 people was always horizontal and vertical, like a moving mountain.

The officials and guests on the stage had never seen such a neat and beautiful procession. Including the German Major Meyer.

The gentry who watched the ceremony couldn't help but let out exclamations. They found that the military drill had such a masculine beauty, a beauty they had not appreciated, with a murderous and shocking force, which made the gentry who had always looked down on the military have a voice of admiration or surprise in their mouths, but they could not find a word to accurately describe their feelings.

Many spectators who suspected that the front team was a "vase" carefully trained by Long Qian immediately realized that they were very wrong. The left team of the first battalion, which followed the front team, "kicked" the viewing platform with a military appearance that was not inferior to the front team. This is the case for every battalion and team in the future, which greatly surprised Tie Liang, Wu Luzhen, Xu Shuzheng and other insiders. Except for the three German officers who had been raising their hands to salute, the officials on the stage were probably Wu Luzhen, who graduated from the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, the most proficient in military affairs. Wu Luzhen was surprised to find that even the Japanese Army, which is known as the strongest army in East Asia, did not have such a prosperous military appearance. Many laymen think that the army's parade drill is just a show, but Wu Luzhen knows that it will not be easy to train thousands of people to this point. Since the beginning of the parade, the thousands of troops in the audience have remained silent, which shows the strong discipline of the troops participating in the exercise in the fifth town, and discipline is precisely the most important weight for an army to defeat its opponents.

"Lord Wang, this is the rear team of the third battalion of the 18th standard, the department had fought hand-to-hand with the German army in Xigu, and suffered heavy sacrifices, but it blocked the German army from getting closer to the team and ensured the victory of the battle...... Now the passing team is the right team of the 19th Standard 2nd Battalion, and they have captured a Japanese military flag in Tianjin. Long Qian introduced to Yixuan in a low voice, and every team walked by, Long Qian introduced its number, among which the troops who made meritorious contributions in the Battle of Xigu, Long Qian would deliberately point out.

"Oh, ah," Yi Xuan kept oh oh, not knowing what the old man was thinking.

Xu Shuzheng, the word is Zheng, a native of Xiao County, Jiangsu. At that time, he was Duan Qirui's military secretary and was quite appreciated by Duan Qirui. He turned his head and said to Wu Luzhen, "No wonder Cao Kun has been repeatedly defeated by Long Zhentai. Even Wang Pingqing was taken prisoner, and he was really a vain man under his reputation. ”

"The third town is known as the first in Beiyang, and it can't reach this level at all." Wu Luzhen didn't save face for Xu Shuzheng at all.

The third town of Beiyang, which has become an army, is the pride of Duan Qirui. The joint exercise of the four towns of Beiyang (the first and fifth towns did not participate) that has ended won the first place. There was also a military parade that time, and the spirit of the soldiers could not be compared with the elite soldiers of the fifth town in front of them.

I really didn't expect that a little-known bandit would create such a strong army! Tie Liang is conceited and knows the soldiers, but he has long been conquered by the absolutely shocking drill of the Fifth Town. The division was still secondary, and the sophisticated equipment of the troops under review in the fifth town made him even more alarming. How many weapons did Long Qian buy from foreigners in recent years? Murcha. Tie Liang carefully looked at the weapons of the infantrymen, all of them were of the same style, they must be the Mauser 98 rifles that the German army was equipped with in active service!

Tetsu Liang remembered what happened in Japan last year. Although Japan introduced their new generation of standard rifles, the Type 30. Replaces the previous Murata Type 22. He also vigorously recommended their rifles to him who had inspected the Japanese military, hoping that Tie Liang, who was increasingly leading the affairs of the Manchu Army, would choose the Type 30 rifle as the standard equipment of the Beiyang Army. Tie Liang was noncommittal. However, when I visited the non-commissioned officer school, I met several cadets who were studying in Japan, and it is said that their grades were overwhelming the Japanese. aroused the jealousy of their Japanese classmates. The young men in their prime said. Definitely do not use Japanese weapons. Their stuff is far behind Europe. Not to mention the German Mauser 98, even the Russian Mosin Nagan is also better than the Japanese. So Tie Liang talked about Mauser 98, and the Japanese also admitted it. The Mauser 98 of the Germans was an excellent weapon, completely different from the previous commission of 1888. However, the Germans have not yet fully redressed and will definitely not sell them to China on a large scale......

After Tie Liang returned to China, he found Mauser 98 to see it in person. Now sure, Fifth Town is equipped with this well-known gun. How did they buy it? Is it just that today's parade troops are equipped or are they all equipped? And these cannons...... Tie Liang's eyes fell on the artillery team that was rumbling past the review stand, this is the cannon of the seven and five, before the purchase of the Krupp fifteen cannon, the most powerful artillery of the Beiyang army is the artillery of this caliber, and there are 12 of them here at once......

Another huge question mark looms over Murca. Tie Liang's heart: How much money does this cost! Where did they get all this money? Legend has it that Long Qian has an excellent cooperative relationship with the Germans, so would the Germans sell on credit? He couldn't help but glance at the German officers who had always maintained a solemn salute. Werner is a German instructor hired by Yuan Shikai, and he may not know the inside story, but the German major Meier in the Qingdao Concession should know. Meyer was invited to the test through Werner's connections. Rather ask, or let Major Werner ask.

Murcha. When Tie Liang met with the Empress Dowager a year later, he mentioned a phenomenon that worried the imperial court very much. That is, the place is getting bigger and bigger. From the two rivers to the two lakes, from Shandong to Zhili, whether it is military power or industrial and financial power, it is more and more in the hands of the local Han people. Among the six towns of Beiyang, only the first town, which was ready to be reorganized into the Praetorian Guard, was considered to be armed by the Manchus, and the rest fell into the hands of the Han Chinese. Yuan Shikai also suggested that the Hubei New Army be reorganized into the Eighth Town, and the Liangjiang New Army should be reorganized into the Ninth Town...... This suggestion was supported by the old fool Yixuan. If the number is issued, won't it add two more elite soldiers to the Han people?

This is true of military power, and it is also true of industry! The mess made by Li Hongzhang in Tianjin belonged to Yuan Shikai. Two major industrial groups, Huayuan and Zhongxing, have emerged in Shandong, which not only generate electricity, open mines and make steel, but also say that they can even build guns! The strength is more powerful than Tianjin. Hanyang Industry in Hubei and Jinling Manufacturing Bureau in Jiangning are all out of the control of the imperial court! What a terrible sight it would be when the Han Chinese generals who held military power received industrial support? I thought that the fifth town established by the Queen Mother was just beating the side drum among the six towns, but who knew that they had obtained such sophisticated equipment through their own channels? At that time, Tie Liang suggested using strong means to recover the military and financial power of the local area, but the Queen Mother was silent. He knew that the old queen mother was clear in her heart, and the Han people were unreliable, but the banner people couldn't count on it. But if this continues, the country is really dangerous!

The Queen Mother has always trusted Long Qian, but this guy has quietly made such a name for herself in Shandong! The passionate and loud military song seemed to have been echoing in his ears, making Tie Liang worried. (To be continued......)