Near evening, two kerosene lamps were lit in front of the military yamen, and Chen Mu's work was not finished.

As the first phase of the Banner Guard Army of the Oriental Army came to an end, the second phase of recruitment was also completed, and more than 5,000 people were also recruited to form the First Guard.

The naturalization of the newly recruited soldiers was quickly completed in the Beiyang Military Government, which had enough personnel, and was re-transcribed and compiled into a book for archiving, but there were still many urgent matters that had not been agreed upon.

Several training thousand households instructors sat around the long table, Juniper's brother Du Tong was present, he had earlier entered the Xuanfu Lecture Hall with a garrison, worked hard for two years, and after graduation, he served as a small hundred households in Beiyang, and now he was promoted to deputy thousand households because of his meritorious service in military training, and served as the chief officer of military training in the next two phases of recruitment exercises.

The other two thousand households are surnamed Hei, one is Hei Xiao, a native of Xuanfu, who was taken away by the North captives in his early years, and later served in the army as a general in Xuanfu and made many military exploits and entered the Xuanfu Martial Arts Hall.

The other is called the Black Cloud Dragon, not the Black Cloud Dragon who was defeated and captured in Liangxiang during the period of Emperor Chongzhen in another time and space, that Black Cloud Dragon is the son of Hei Xiao above, and he has not yet been born at this time.

This black cloud dragon is the son of Hei Chun, the deputy chief soldier of Liaoyang in Liaodong, the ancestor is a native of Jianzhou, once served as a general in Loukou, northwest of Shanxi, and was dismissed for embezzlement of 300 taels.

"Infantry, whether it is a spearman or a bird's gunner, according to Chen Shuai's training method, June is enough to form an army, but artillery and cavalry are not good."

Du Tong said that the head of the military training is the way, and arched his hand to Chen Mugong, who was sitting on the opposite side, and said: "Although there are people who lead the art to join the army, there are always those who are good at riding and those who know how to count, but their riding skills are different from the riding skills to be practiced in Beiyang, and their ability to count is also different from the geometry that Chen Shuai wants to learn from artillery, which has no precedent in the past." ”

"Even in the martial arts hall, the cavalry department has never taught these horse riding skills, even if the artillery scientists have a martial arts background, they don't have to learn the arithmetic of artillery to go anywhere, in March, they can ride horses well, but they can't reach the second grade of the assessment; It is also difficult to hit the target if the cannon is released. ”

After that, Du Tong hugged his fists across the long table again and said, "Can Chen Shuai have a grace period to wait for the recruitment assessment to pass?" ”

Chen Mu didn't speak, he listened and recorded in his notes, over the years he has developed such a habit, no matter what problems he encounters, he will write them down first, and in the process of recording, he can often come up with a solution, even if there is no way, it is not easy to forget.

Now this habit has been brought to all parts of the world, and many generals have been infected through the lecture hall, and the junior officers often like this atmosphere very much, even if this alone, these generals who used to have a much higher official rank than the hundred households are now much better in the military government.

Of course, the most important thing is that the Beiyang General School is much better than other places in terms of power and status, and it is also a key factor.

After the record was finished, Chen Mu raised his head to Du Tong, and then turned to the other training thousands of households and asked, "What else, continue." ”

Hei Xiao didn't speak, he used to be called a great general in Northern Xinjiang because of his bravery, but he had an introverted temperament, and he didn't talk about it and do more on weekdays, not a flamboyant character.

Heiyunlong is just the opposite of him, he is very arrogant and has a good relationship, when he first arrived in Beiyang, he went to Chen Mu's house to give gifts, and the gift was returned, but he was forced to pass a set of his Laozi Heichun when he was alive and Li Chengliang and Yang Siwei were brothers, so he was an uncle and nephew, and now Chen Mu and Li Chengliang and Yang Siwei are brothers, so although he is three years older than Chen Mu, Chen Mu is the uncle's generation theory has wrapped Chen Mu around.

Originally, Chen Mu felt that this was already pulling the relationship to the top, but later after inquiring, he found out that this Heiyunlong was already a friend of his own generation, in fact, he was born in the south, and his closest brothers were all along the coast of Fujian and Guangzhou, so it was not good to pull the relationship, otherwise the real strength of the people was to climb relatives.

There are more than 400 students in the first phase of the Xuanfu Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and each family has a cadre of the general banner, and the farthest nine turns can pull relatives.

This climbing kung fu is no less than Yuan Shu is everyone's father.

Usually Chen Mu doesn't like to see such a relationship, but Hei Yunlong's record before entering the school and his grades at graduation are as good as his ability to climb relatives, and it is this passive skill of 'enhancing team cohesion' that makes Chen Mu not know whether it is good or bad.

"Cousin is right! Chen Shuai, the little nephew has two ways. ”

Hei Yunlong first responded to Du Tong's sentence, turned his head to Chen Mu and said: "First, extend the training time of cavalry and artillery to one year, so as to ensure that the training subjects remain unchanged in the case of four percent of the first, fifty percent of the second, and at the same time, the engineering training subjects can be incorporated into the daily training of the infantry, the simpler the better." ”

"The more complex the army, the more difficult it is to transport the baggage, and if you do not go to sea, if you march to America or even Europa, all branches of the army may become infantry if they are not replenished at one time, and the infantry may also be separated from the baggage and sappers, and be forced to serve as baggage and engineers."

Chen Mu, who was taking notes at the desk, glanced up at Hei Yunlong, nodded with some surprise, and said, "What about the second one?" ”

"Second, after six months of drills, although the cavalry artillery cannot meet the standard, the basic skills of the military science have been learned, and the rest will be learned on the battlefield."

Other training soldiers were just about to speak, Hei Yunlong's eyes widened and said: "We are not careless about human life, we have led soldiers before entering the school, the Beiyang Army has been training for six months, it is much stronger than the flag army of the Mixed Life Guard, and then there are generals who have graduated from the martial arts hall to lead, it is much stronger than the flag army that learns a three-talent formation and fights with a sword!" ”

To tell the truth, Heiyunlong said everything into Chen Mu's heart, and he knew Chen Mu's mind clearly.

Beiyang Yamen has Beiyang and Oriental Second Army Guards, which gives Chen Mu a lot of room for operation, this batch of recruits is neither the battalion soldiers recruited by the Qi family, nor the reserve soldiers recruited by the Banner Army during the war, but the natural reserve soldiers, let them get used to obeying the training of different generals when they train the troops, which is a small purpose of Chen Mu - the recruitment after the second phase of Beiyang will be the reserve soldiers of America.

As long as the generals and colonels of each ministry are still alive and have not been eliminated by the formation, these reservists can immediately replenish their combat strength with a single gun.

"Nine months, in the future, the duration of each phase of military training will be nine months, and all training officers should ensure that the recruits are recruited into two percent of the first grade, six percent of the second grade, and each additional one percent of the second-class rank, and the monthly salary of the training officers in the month in which the recruits are trained will be increased by one percent, and one more will be the first grade, and the monthly salary of the training officers in the current month will be increased by two percent."

Chen Mu put down his pen, glanced at several training officers and said: "If you are unqualified, you will be reduced by one percent, and your monthly salary will be reduced by two percent." ”

"The total training period is one year, and the last three months are naval warfare."