Many of the achievements made by modern human beings are beyond people's imagination. It is precisely because it is beyond people's imagination that many unbelievable things have happened in history.

From 5 a.m. to 12 p.m. in 1860, a classic battle between the modern army and the feudal army took place in Bali Bridge, Tianjin, known as the Battle of Bali Bridge.

On the two sides of the battle, on one side is the Qing court led by the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion soldiers, mixed with hot and cold weapons, including old-style smoothbore guns, bird guns, as well as bows and arrows, spears, machetes, including the Qing court's proud Eight Banners cavalry, a total of more than 30,000 people.

On the other side, there were the Anglo-French forces, which used new smoothbore guns and field guns, totaling 8,000 men.

For this war, the memoirs of many officers of the Anglo-French army have enthusiastically described their opponents, such as "fearless death", "they proved that the armies of East Asia are brave", "they attacked again and again under artillery fire", "the riders seemed to be reborn from ashes", and so on......

In short, this war was one of the few decent wars fought by the Qing Dynasty, their army ran without seeing the whites, and they did not face the guns and artillery at a loss, with their backs to the capital, they fought to the death.

As a result of the war, more than half of the 30,000 troops led by Monk Greenchen suffered casualties, while the Anglo-French army suffered 3 killed and 17 wounded, and the British lost 2 killed and 29 wounded.

This battle loss ratio was written in the history textbook of Xu Wenshan's previous life, and for a long time, he couldn't imagine how this battle could be fought like this, just like Seng Lingqin, he didn't expect that his 30,000 troops were even worse than tofu.

Later, Xu Wenshan finally figured it out: the development of civilization is a process of accumulation, not that modern people are smarter than ancient people, but that modern people have accumulated more civilization power.

The modern army does not rely on guns to crush the feudal army, but relies on every detail from top to bottom to be too strong over the feudal system, so as to cause the result of crushing.

The 50 people Xu Wenshan has collected so far are far from being an army, and can only be regarded as a militia team, but he is confident that in the future, this army will be used as a seed and eventually cultivated into a strong army.

He was now unable to make new thermal weapons, because he could not get gunpowder, there was no saltpeter around the area, and the process of preparing steel was not mature.

But he still has the confidence to build this army into an army that sweeps across the continent, because he has a military mind that has condensed thousands of years of war history.

On the second day, Xu Wenshan asked these people to assemble at the Xiyuan shooting range.

The 50 people who were selected came to Xiyuan early in the morning to gather, only to find that Xu Wenshan was waiting for them here early.

"From today onwards, you are soldiers. I have the honour to inform you that you will henceforth live in the newly built barracks and eat the same meals as I did. You don't need to farm, you don't need to hunt, you only need to complete the drill task, and you can get 50 wen every month. ”

Hearing this, the soldiers almost cheered, and they all clenched their fists excitedly. The accommodation is free, the food is in charge of the landlord's young master, and there is money to take, which is like going to heaven.

"However, from now on, you are not villagers, you are not Chen Guoguo, and you are not even people in the ordinary sense. You are soldiers, you will observe extremely strict discipline, and if you violate discipline, in peacetime, you will be severely punished, and in wartime, you will be directly beheaded! If anyone is not satisfied and regrets it, they can leave right now! ”

Xu Wenshan paused for a minute. No one left, and the expressions on their faces were determined.

Because they are more afraid of starving to death than they are of dying on the battlefield.

Xu Wenshan secretly showed a satisfied smile, this environment is an environment that can give birth to a strong army.

However, he immediately put away his smile and said, "From now on, I will be your supreme leader, and you will carry out all my orders to the letter." I will issue countless decrees, and you must memorize them with your brains, because even if you break one, I will make it unforgettable for you. ”

Xu Wenshan divided 50 people into three classes according to the dormitory, and elected three class leaders.

seems to be destined in the dark, Lei Laohu, Wu Yi, and Li Dazhuang have become the leaders of the three squads.

The first thing Xu Wenshan did was to cultivate their collective consciousness.

The training on the first day began immediately, and the content was the same as the military training, standing upright, resting, standing upright, resting, turning left and right, and not even walking in unison.

These basic military postures have tormented many high school and college students for several months. The military training that students fantasize about in their minds is crawling forward under the barbed wire with guns in their hands, but in fact they turn left and right, which looks very stupid.

Actually, it's not stupid at all. These basic military postures date back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

In modern musketeers duels, they are all fighting in the way of "lining up to shoot", in the battle, it is difficult to maintain the formation, imagine: you stand well, the companion next to you "wow" to the ground, the other "bang" brain bursts, the brain is splashed on your face, in this case, normal people are afraid to turn their heads and run.

The basic military posture is to let the soldiers form a kind of inertia, a kind of inertia of obedience to discipline, no matter how the sky falls apart, you have to stand here, stand dead, and you can't move a single step.

Only when we stand in a military posture can we be qualified to hold a gun and talk about the future.

Wu Yi is very depressed now, Xu Wenshan took them to train all morning, and he didn't figure out what this young master wanted to do, and he didn't understand what this turn left and right was for.

Because he thinks it's simple, too simple, so simple that it's a little boring.

But in the afternoon, when Xu Wenshan asked the squad leader to be in charge of training, he realized that the stupidity of the soldiers in his squad was simply unbearable.

They can't even turn left or right, and every time they shout a slogan, they turn crookedly, and some of them have to ponder in place for a long time to understand which way to turn.

Wu Yi made a report and reported the situation to Xu Wenshan. Xu Wenshan couldn't smile bitterly, because the three classes were more or less in this situation.

This kind of thing was quite common in ancient times. Not to mention in ancient times, it is even common in modern times. It is said that when Zeng Guofan trained the Hunan army, many soldiers did not know why they turned left and right, so he asked the soldiers to wear shoes on one foot and no shoes on the other, so as to distinguish between left and right.

Naturally, he didn't have to train in this way, so he asked them to raise their hands to hold chopsticks and tell them that the one who holds the chopsticks is the right hand, and the one who does not hold the chopsticks is the left hand. For those left-handed, special training is given.

At the end of the day, the 50 soldiers had finally learned to turn left and right.