The establishment system of the spearmen and gunners of the Beiyang Army was much slower than Chen Mu imagined.

A group of warriors who are proficient in long guns and short guns gather in the Yamen of the Beiyang Military Government, their martial arts systems are a foregone conclusion, each has its own similarities and differences, and now it is not difficult for them to re-erect a set of concise, quick, and effective military array marksmanship, but it is difficult to systematize it rigidly.

Chen Mu asked for every action, from the guns and spears under the camp, the marching with spears, the formation of spears and spears, the formation of spears and spears, the battle of spears, and even in the pursuit, retreat, and supervision of the battle every action using spears and spears to refine and design exclusive movements.

Due to the different lengths of weapons, it also involves spurs, spears, spears, and lances, and there are many different uses of the weapon.

They have their own different understandings of gunnery, and they also have different habits that have been formed for a long time.

Since the Beiyang Yamen was built, the six departments of the imperial court sent officials to Beiyang also arrived one after another, and the Shangshu of each ministry had concurrently Beiyang posts, but they did not enter Tianjin, and most of them were transferred to the military government as the main affairs, and the most important thing was naturally the household department and the military department, and the household department came to govern the silver grain and deal with the military needs with the military department.

Most of these officials were dispatched from Nanjing, and the chief sent by the military department was very young, named Wang Yingjiao, who was a jinshi in the first year of Wanli, and when his official position expired, he was supposed to be transferred to the household department.

The head of the household department has strong experience, it is an acquaintance of Chen Mu who has communicated in the past, Ye Mengxiong, who has completed the period of filial piety, because I replied to the peace when I wrote against the peace, thinking that the enemy situation was unpredictable, and was once demoted to the county Cheng, which was regarded as a stroke to the end, Chen Mu also sent someone to give a gift to the degraded Ye Mengxiong - it is not a bad thing to accept the request of the mutual market, but it makes sense not to accept it.

Ye Mengxiong is not the kind of young man Wang Yingjiao, he is now forty-five, has experienced ups and downs, whether it is in local governance, supervising the warehouse and transferring salaries, there has never been a mistake in these years, the only time he was fined was when the local chief official wanted to count the mountains, rivers and rivers in the measurement of the land in order to curry favor with Zhang Juzheng, he did not agree and suffered.

Such an experienced imperial official was transferred to the Beiyang Military Government, which caused Chen Mu to be very happy, and he personally went to the Tianjin Canal to connect him to the military yamen.

Although the two of them have interacted with each other on the matter of my answer to the tribute, they have never met, Chen Mu is qualified to go to the court is Ye Mengxiong was demoted to a local county, and then he went to Nanyang, but in the end they are all Guangdong villagers, so the conversation on the road is polite, nothing special, until the boat stops in front of the school yard along the Wei River.

Outside the school field, a simple barrier wall is built, there are many flags, there are several cement bricks and wood mixed forts around the wooden fence, Nanyang transports a lot of cement, but the Beiyang military government has to use a lot of places, in order to catch up with the construction period, most of the cement is used in the barracks and yamen, the tall city wall that was originally scheduled to be a cement stone wall can only be built in this sloppy way for the time being.

If you want to complete Chen Mu's design of the Beiyang Military Mansion, it will not work without three years and five years.

Outside the three major school fields, the barracks are like towns, the military drums in the big camp are shaking the sky, more than 100 households lead the new soldiers to carry wooden guns on their shoulders and run quickly along the runway, and the rest have the fighting hand, exercise equipment, training charges, and spear-wielding and stabbing people, and naturally each team is indispensable to shoot with bird guns in a line on the school field 200 steps wide.

Gunpowder smoke rises.

Ye Mengxiong's whole person's expression and temperament have become different.

"What's wrong?"

Chen Mu turned around and saw that Ye Mengxiong's footsteps were fixed, his face was different, and he also fixed on the school field, watching him look at the flag army practicing in the distance with his eyes.

"I, Jing Haibo smiled, although I was born in liberal arts, I have always wanted to serve in the field, but I couldn't get what I wanted." Ye Mengxiong said and turned around and pointed to the wooden box carried by the boy behind him, and said: "In Northern Xinjiang, I have seen the scene of captives galloping through the sky, and I have also made some artillery, but it is not as good as General Zhenshuo, and I just entertained myself. ”

"Today's transfer to Beiyang is to get what you want!"

"Ye Gong also has research on artillery?" Chen Mu was amazed and said: "When you enter the mansion, can you let Chen take a look, Zhao Changji of the military government has made rocket cars, and Chen also supervises the manufacture of artillery, the most outstanding talents in the Yue Dynasty are more obsessed with their careers, and there are not many people who have spare energy to develop weapons, and there is no place more suitable for you than Beiyang - we have our own Weapons Bureau!" ”

When it comes to the artillery he designed himself, Ye Mengxiong, who is over forty years old, is still a little reserved, and he said: "General Zhenshuo, who is not as good as Chen Shuai in terms of power, range, weight, and various parameters......"

"Parameters, has Ye Gong been to the Xuanfu Ordnance Bureau or the Nanyang Ordnance Bureau?"

As soon as he asked, Chen Mu reacted, Ye Mengxiong had been in his hometown of Huizhou Mansion a few years ago, and it should have been the Nanyang Ordnance Bureau, clapping his hands and laughing: "That's different, General Zhenshuo's cannon is not made by a certain Chen, there are many generals in the Navy Martial Arts Hall recently, and there is also an official position called 'Research' over there, what they do is to improve the weapon, so that now the gun chamber is one inch wide, and the gun is three feet three times the diameter. ”

Ye Mengxiong nodded and smiled kindly, just thinking that Chen Mu was comforting him, turned his head to look at the infantry school, stretched out his arm and said: "I heard that the newly recruited Beiyang Army has just been trained for less than a month, so after three years of training, you can be an elite!" ”

"The Yamen official office is in front, and many official residences are around the official office, and behind it are the warehouses of all kinds of utensils. On the left and right of the school field, the lower stable is the cavalry barracks, there is no cavalry at the moment, and the other side is the infantry barracks, which can be stationed at most two guards, in order to train the recruits and veterans in rotation, and in the future, the East will take a guard to the sea. ”

Chen Mu shook his head slightly, introduced the surrounding furnishings to Ye Mengxiong, and then said: "Beiyang training is not elite, except for the first phase of recruits, it may take a little longer, and when they leave, they will recruit and sign another phase of preparation; In addition, the barracks of the first guard were transferred from all over the country for rotation training, and only the new recruits were trained in March and the veterans in March, of which except for the guns for the training in June, the other soldiers were all trained in March, infantry, cavalry, engineers, baggage soldiers, and artillery training, and they were reserve soldiers. ”

"Reservists?"

"Yes, the military system of the guard is very good, so that the imperial court has enough soldiers, but the elimination of ills is slow to enter the country, and there are many cases in various places, and I can't serve as the governor of various places, let alone ...... Even if the imperial court asked me to serve as the capital secretary, there would be no way to get rid of the ills. Chen Mu shook his head and smiled: "It's impossible for me to kill everyone who stands in the way wherever I go." ”

"There are no constraints here, and the time is not long, for example, in half a year, a provincial capital division will be transferred to transfer 500 troops to this intensive training, at least go back to the local area to issue military weapons to qualified sergeants, and then the local martial arts graduates will lead their own drills, and the good two or three years can produce elite soldiers, and the poor ones can fight in the end, and this is enough."

"But this is just a certain idea of Chen, I can't care about those things for the time being, there are still many problems, for example, this recruit has signed a contract, and there is a five-year limit, so that the soul of the long hair can be sent to the national tower, and you can't let the flag army from all over the country come over and shave your head, right? What do they want to shave? ”

"This kind of honor is not good if you don't have the loyalty to go over the river and the sea and step on the whole world and open up territory for the great tomorrow."