He was not training the Foreign Legion at all, and the four major training camps were all formed by drawing veteran officers and non-commissioned officers from the teaching teams of the cavalry brigade and the marine brigade. The training targets included recruited young people, Mamluk who had been captured at that time and had not yet completed their labor reform, blacks who volunteered to participate, and some military households who moved from Daming.

"When they entered the camp, they have all signed the certificate of life and death, and received the money of the An family, if they dare to chew any tongue, it is the matter of the father-in-law of Xing'an." Yu Qian looked at Xing'an and said, and even accentuated his tone, "Although it is hot, my father-in-law must not faint." This Egypt is an internal affair of another country. Those who dare to criticize such as Jin should be punished by themselves; As for the rest, you and I are not good at interfering in the internal affairs of other countries. ”

Xing'an couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard it, and he could only nod yes.

In fact, Xing'an knows the reason for training the dead, one is counting on Yu Qian to give the recruits in the training camp, such as Ding Yi's meat, eggs, fish, and so on? ! How can it be? Yu Qian has no money to post, and he himself has a clean sleeve. And looking for Ding Yi to apply, it is the funding of two foreign teachers, and there is so much.

The other is that Yu Qian is desperately shortening the time of each subject.

For example, in the original recruit training, Ding must have completed the training in two months. Yu Qian directly shortened it to half.

Recruit training includes many common subjects, and the final training is the achievement of most soldiers, who have reached the level of passing or above.

Shrinking 5% of the water is half the time, that is, the soldier has less time to rest, and those with poor talent can only practice hard, so there is a vicious circle, and there is almost no time to rest - as for not practicing hard and not up to standard? The Foreign Legion also openly does not allow corporal punishment of soldiers. But I'm sorry, someone else ran five kilometers. If you can't finish running here, it's no wonder you don't have anything to eat when you go back; Others can meet the target. Those who do not meet the standards are tied to the waist with a rope, and the other end of the rope is tied to the saddle, dragged and run, if they can't keep up or fall, then they will be dragged by the galloping horse for five kilometers.

There were also those who did not stand straight in obstacle running and equipment training at that time, and fell to their deaths; In the queue training, there is no distinction between the left and right, and he is punished for standing in a military posture. After standing unconscious, I woke up and then continued to stand, and I was alive and dead...... Why else is there so many people dying in every battalion every day?

Xing'an came over, just to persuade Yu Qian to slow down, don't be so anxious about training, nutrition has not kept up, and medical care has not kept up, is it at least according to the normal progress of the drill code? But Yu Qian couldn't listen at all. also sprayed Xing'an's face, but he couldn't, so he had to go back to Cairo.

Ding Yi didn't know that his teacher was preparing for his defeat.

Because Yu Qian has a good faith in Ding Yi's military qualities. He was very worried that it would affect Ding Yi's judgment, so he didn't give Ding Yi any dissuasion in this regard. At this time, Ding was deliberating with Wen Fatzi about the strategy of the entire battle: "I estimate tomorrow, the day after tomorrow at the latest." The Ottomans would not have resisted. ”

"Actually, if it weren't for the young master's order, let the battalion mortar platoon open fire today. According to the fat man, the Ottomans will be pressed on all fronts. Wen Fatty's fat face was smiling. Today he took the cavalry battalion out to slash and kill, but he was happy, "In fact, if you get closer, the fat man thinks it doesn't matter, and when he throws a grenade, he will also teach them to retreat." ”

"As a soldier, of course, you must dare to see blood with bayonets, but there are no unnecessary casualties, and you must try your best to avoid them." Ding Yi denied Wen Fatzi's statement, he motioned to Liu Ji to pull up the deadly wick higher, and then carried the fortification map on the wall, "If the Ottoman cavalry is allowed to enter this area, the machine gun fire points in the flank position will have to be exposed, otherwise, with only the firepower of thirteen companies, a hundred rifles and grenades, it will be difficult to suppress the charging formation of thousands of cavalry." ”

If a thousand horsemen come on a walk, then of course they can be slowly named with rifles.

But the Ottoman cavalry's Arabian horses, with a sprint speed of 80 kilometers, the rifle actually couldn't fire a few rounds, especially as Ding Yi said: "Once the other side is allowed to cross the barbed wire area, then the 13th Company has a great possibility and will be forced to engage in white-knuckle combat, in this case, artillery cover is necessary." I don't want to see you make the same mistake again, and it would be a disgrace to the commander to sacrifice the lives of soldiers to achieve tactical goals as an army equipped with rifles. ”

"Yes, young master." Wen Fatzi lowered his head, and was separated by Ding Yi like this, and he felt his mistake.

If it weren't for Ding Yi's quick decision, the guard regiment's record of almost zero casualties might have been broken today.

Liu Ji has been in the army for a long time, but he can also touch the bypass: "If there are casualties among the soldiers of the guard regiment, then the people of Smyrna are strong, and I am afraid that they will be unstable." They are troublesome, but they are very troublesome. "There were not only two or three thousand soldiers of the Guards Regiment and a thousand regular soldiers armed with rifles, but also tens of thousands of young men in the fortifications.

Advocacy is doing well. But the reason why those people are interested in joining the Praetorian Guard and submitting their applications, Liu Ji is very clear that in addition to propaganda work, there is also a record of close to zero casualties in the guard regiment in addition to infiltrating assassinations. Those people are looking at it, the soldiers of the guard regiment, for so many days, such a disparity in strength, I haven't seen anyone seriously injured or killed!

Then they will inevitably feel that if they join the Praetorian Guard, they may have the same extremely low mortality rate as these soldiers! Although Liu Ji repeatedly mentioned in his preaching that there would be death and injury if there was blood on the battlefield. But people prefer to believe what they see. If this status quo is broken, it is difficult to guarantee that what will happen to those people.

Not only is it unstable, but more likely, they will directly sell Ding Yi and the guard regiment to the Ottomans!

Don't think they're honest, that's all the way, the guard regiment has been absolutely strong, so that they don't dare to have such thoughts.

Ding Yi was very pleased with Liu Ji's growth, nodded and said, "Yes, Youzhi has gained a lot recently." ”

"It was reported that the 14th Company had spotted a group of enemy troops attempting to infiltrate, killing forty-nine and taking seven prisoners." The communications soldier ran in and reported to Ding Yi. The Ottomans' assassination intentions never ceased, even if almost none of the troops sent out made it back alive. Although it was not as large as the thousands of men on the first night, there were several small forces that tried to invade each night, ranging from a few dozen to a dozen or so.

Liu Ji listened on the side, but he got up and asked, "Sir, after the interrogation, can you hand over these captives to the disciples?" The disciple thought that there were still some people who had never seen blood on the side of the main army, so it was better to use these captives to strengthen their courage! ”

"Nope." Ding Yi had no room for negotiation and rejected Liu Ji's request, "We are humans, not beasts. ”

Take a living person to test the courage of a new recruit? If there were only a few disciples around him at the moment, struggling between life and death, then Ding Yibao would definitely agree to do so. But now there are countless tigers under his command, and the inheritance of the army cannot be crooked, if this is going to be crooked, it is likely that this army will be destroyed.

The night passed quickly. And after daybreak, the Ottomans did not attack until noon, as they had done before.

At about ** o'clock in the morning, the Ottomans launched an offensive, and the Ottoman army on the east and west flanks, with 50,000 or 60,000 cavalry and nearly 100,000 infantry, launched an attack on Smyrna at the same time.

The smoke and dust in the sky, the dull sound of footsteps and horses' hooves, the hearts of the people who taught people almost cracked.

Many of the young men of Smyrna in the fortifications were once again covered with terror. This is not an offensive of thousands of horsemen in normal times, this overwhelming formation, the prestige of the crowd of people and horses, makes it difficult for people facing these shocks to keep calm. No matter how Liu Ji's propaganda team tried to drum back and forth in the trenches, beating gongs and drums, they couldn't make those people stop their trembling.

The sound of horses' hooves began to sharpen, and it was difficult to accurately convey the message from the sentry positions on the balloons, because the smoke and dust that rolled up obscured the entire vision, and it was difficult to see clearly even if they were high in the air. It was not until the Ottoman cavalry advanced to a distance of about a thousand meters from the defensive position that the artillery guard post raised the alarm.

In fact, before they raised the alarm, Ding Yi had already ordered: "All machine-gun fire, after the battalion mortars have fired, are allowed to fire; All battalion mortars, allowed to fire! ”

"Sir!" Liu Ji followed Ding Yi's side, and unconsciously his fist had been pinched to the point that his bones were white, "Heavy artillery!" Heavy artillery! ”

The shock of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops is difficult to describe in words, especially after these horses and horses marched, the billowing smoke and dust made them look like endless monsters coming out of the wind and sand! By this time, the Ottoman cavalry had rushed to a position five or six hundred meters away from the forward position, and the Arabian horses were sprinting extremely fast.

Ding Yi gently patted Liu Ji's shoulder: "What's the hurry?" The infantry is not as fast as the cavalry, so you have to wait for everyone to come before you can serve the food. ”

And as the Ottoman caliph Muhammad II, he was inexplicably excited, and he saw a smooth road, a smooth road to European domination: "When Poseidon is defeated, who will be next?" "Whoever stands in the way next, whether it's Hungary, Albania, Venice, Mehmed II feels that there will be no more obstacles.

"He should still have some artillery, but not too much, we will have casualties, just get through it!" Mehmed II gave a non-negotiable order to his generals, "Advance!" Advance! Ignore the casualties, and today I will enter Smyrna; Today, I'm going to see Poseidon roll back into his sea! (To be continued......)