Li Yunzhang bowed down first, and then told Li Hongzhang what the girl said just now, Li Hongzhang smiled and said: "What else do I say, it turned out to be a matter between two young people." Yunzhang, let the young people's affairs be handled by themselves. ”

Li Yunzhang said yes.

Li Hongzhang turned his head to look at Wang Bo, seemed to think for a while, and said, "Wang Bo, do you have something to do?" ”

Wang Bo shook his head and said, "No, I usually follow my master to learn medicine and lion dance, and there is nothing important." ”

Li Hongzhang said: "You go to a place with me, um......" He looked Wang Bo up and down, turned his head to an attaché behind him, and said, "You go to the school field first and prepare a set of military uniforms for him." ”

The attaché replied respectfully, looked at Wang Bo for a while, and quickly left.

Li Yunzhang said: "My lord, the lower officials will retire first. ”

Li Hongzhang nodded and said, "You are not in good health, go and rest first." ”

Li Yunzhang bowed and entered the Li Mansion on crutches.

Wang Bo was a little puzzled in his heart: "My brother still has so many courtesies, and I also pay attention to the officialdom at home, what kind of brother is this, it is like the relationship between two subordinate and subordinate officials, this kind of feudal etiquette is too much!" ”

Li Hongzhang asked the carriage containing the gift he had given to Wang Bo to be sent to the Guangdong Guild Hall first, and then took Wang Bo to leave the Li Mansion in a carriage.

There were only two people in the carriage, Li Hongzhang and Wang Bo, except for the sound of the carriage moving, the car was silent, Li Hongzhang sat quietly, closed his eyes and recuperated.

Wang Bo didn't know where Li Hongzhang was going to take him, but this was a good opportunity to get close to Li Hongzhang, and he naturally wouldn't let it go. Along the way, he didn't ask much or say a word, and let Li Hongzhang arrange it, which was completely a calm and calm approach.

After about half an hour, the carriage stopped, Li Hongzhang opened his eyes, first glanced at Wang Bo, the look of satisfaction in his eyes was very strong, and said slowly: "Do you want to know where I brought you here?" ”

Wang Bo said: "I will go wherever the adults take me, and I will follow the arrangements of the adults." ”

Li Hongzhang nodded and said, "Get off!" ”

Lifting the curtain of the carriage, Wang Bo couldn't help but be surprised, good guy, there were many Manchu officials standing outside the carriage, and even foreigners, he suppressed the surprise in his heart, and walked down the stairs placed on the side of the carriage to the ground.

As everyone knows, the shock in his heart is not comparable to the hearts of the officials who have been waiting outside the carriage for a long time as if they were being struck by thunder at this moment, and they are all guessing: "Who is this young man?" How could you sit in Nakado-sama's carriage? ”

After a while, Li Hongzhang also got out of the carriage, except for the few foreigners who bowed and saluted, the rest of the Manchu officials knelt down together: "Greetings!" ”

Li Hongzhang's face was expressionless, not angry and arrogant, and said lightly: "Get up!" ”

After he saw the attaché who had left first in front of the Li Mansion, he said to Wang Bo: "You go down with him first to change your clothes, and he will bring you over later." With that, he slowly walked away surrounded by officials.

Wang Boyou looked around, this is the suburbs, in the middle of nowhere, and he also saw several tall watchtowers in the distance.

His eyesight is excellent, although the distance is far away, he can see clearly, and there are Qing soldiers with guns standing on it, and he can't help but be stunned, and a sudden flash of inspiration: "Could this be the school field of the legendary autumn soldiers on the battlefield?" Before he could think about it, the attendant who had stayed behind had already stepped forward and respectfully asked him to change his clothes.

On the way, Wang Bo asked the attaché, and learned that this was a camp for tens of thousands of Huai troops in the hands of Li Hongzhang.

Because of the outbreak of the Sino-French War, Li Hongzhang not only strictly ordered all departments of the Huai Army to be martial law, but also hired dozens of German officers to serve as military instructors in China, in order to accelerate the military reform of the Huai Army. Therefore, this time I came to inspect the progress of his Huaijun in practicing foreign art of war.

Wang Bo followed the attaché into the barracks, and then saw a set of Qing military attache uniforms, wearing a top, seeing these things, he felt a little crying and laughing, out of the past few days to see, these Manchu official uniforms have only been seen in the real world TV movies, I didn't expect that I would also wear a day.

He thought to himself: "Okay, although I don't have a good impression of the Manchu Qing, but now the situation requires it, just wear it, and I have the right to act." ”

After changing his clothes, Wang Bo was taken to the corner of a review stand, in the center of the review stand Li Hongzhang, flanked by Manchu officials and German training officers, on the left side of the review stand in the distance lined up four phalanx, the formation looks neat, no one is talking to each other.

The whole school field is full of colorful flags, fluttering in the wind, hunting sounds, and looks quite imposing. The ground is also clean, weeds, gravel and other debris are not visible, and the surroundings appear quiet, solemn and rigorous.

A military attache stepped forward to ask whether to start the review, and Li Hongzhang said in a deep voice: "Let's start." The military attache stepped back quickly, and soon a soldier waved a flag to signal the parade to begin.

After a while, the phalanx in the distance moved, and a neat footstep came from afar.

At this time, Wang Bo had doubts in his heart: "Why is there no military band to play music?" Could it be that the Qing army at this time did not have military music? ”

Rows of soldiers gradually approached with steps, and when they passed the review stand, Wang Bo carefully observed these soldiers, all of them were holding their heads high, full of spirit, the phalanx was neat, and the pace was the same.

The officials on the review stand let out exclamations one after another, as if they were also shocked to see such a powerful military appearance.

Wang Bo thought to himself: "The military appearance looks neat, this is probably the elite of the Huai army." ”

First the infantry, then rows and rows of breech-loading steel cannons, but these guns looked quite small, Wang Bo counted them, and there were about 36 small steel cannons.

At the same time, he felt strange in his heart, and felt that the uniforms of these soldiers were so awkward, perhaps the modern army that was used to seeing military parades in the real world, and now he always felt out of place when he saw these soldiers in the Manchu Dynasty.

He thought to himself: "Most of the Manchu armies are vulnerable, and since the Hunan army of Zeng Guofan, this Huai army is claimed to be the only strong force at this time. It is said to be a strong army, but in the First Sino-Japanese War, the battle of the army and the navy in Korea, the army and navy all lost, and then the Eight-Nation Coalition only had a few people to fight the old lady Cixi to abandon Beijing and flee in panic, alas, it is not a useless army! ”

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt that there was nothing to see, and he thought of the excitement he felt at the beginning that he was lucky enough to witness the powerful and passionate picture of the autumn soldiers on the battlefield, and he couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.

Subsequently, the four phalanxes stood neatly in front of the review stand, and after Li Hongzhang made a series of official speeches, he asked the soldiers below to disband and return to the camp.

Originally, he just wanted to come over to see the progress of the army's training, but this step review was temporarily prepared by the generals below, and although he couldn't see any expression on his face at this time, his eyes were shining, and he seemed to be quite satisfied. (To be continued.) )