In the Beiyang Military Academy, following the order of the flag officer, bursts of gunfire sounded one after another in the infantry school field, and the artillery roared, and a group of newly recruited flag troops led the following teams forward by the flag officers of each team.

"There is no safety line in the battle, you have to remember the number of marching steps, in the formation of battles, the number of steps is the most important, you must keep in mind how far these distances are, this is related to whether you can survive the battle."

"The general wants me to train you in three months to be an excellent bird gun shooter, in this era, the bird gun is already the mainstay of the army, in the Xuanfu Wutang Wanli two years of the infantry drill code, sixty percent of the infantry is used for the bird gun, you should be like a puppet for the flag officer."

"Don't despise any tactical move, every action is summarized and decided by the old generals of Zhishi who have been fighting horses for half their lives in the martial arts, and every rigid action can save your life on the battlefield."

"I know that many of you have joined the army for that five-year salary, but there are six assessments in these three months, which will determine whether you can stay in the army or not, and whether you can increase your monthly salary after the March drill."

The flag officers on the infantry school field each gave lectures to the newly recruited flag soldiers in different ways, and began to drill, some of them were Chen Mu's outstanding performance and repeated combat exploits, and now they are serving as small flags and general flags in the army, and take on the mission of restraining recruits.

Some of these low-level officers were also filled by cadets who had graduated with second-class grades from the Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and on the one hand, they restrained the recruits, and on the other hand, they continued to learn from the first-class cadets.

In a short period of time, they will serve as the Beiyang Military Guard's health instructors, comprehensively teaching the recruits under their command, and when the recruit training is over in March, they will reorganize and lead the banner army according to their major military department, and in this process, they will not only train the recruits, but also train the second class as a new instructor in the same year.

"Finally...... Normalized. ”

Chen Muli was on the second floor of the Yamen of the Military Government, watching the bursts of newly recruited flag troops on the school field under the leadership of hundreds of instructors into combat training, and his heart swelled with deep relief and pride, and he heard Juniper next to him sigh with emotion: "Shuai Ye, you are too fast, you will directly touch the recruits on the first day, but there was no such training before." ”

In the instructor manual formulated by the military government, the general process of training subjects is stipulated, and after many instructors jointly discuss and finally decide before the arrival of new recruits, less than 40% of the spare time is left for instructors to practice on their own.

The recruits were led by each team of hundreds of households to go to the military uniform warehouse to receive the new uniforms, which was a few months ago Chen Mu instructed Yang Fan to come to repay the favor in Tianjin's quilt factory, he also set up a weaving factory nearby, but for the time being, the cloth was purchased by Caoyun, they were only processing.

The uniforms are not new-style military uniforms, but a set of single clothes made to facilitate movement, all of which are stain-resistant dark blue.

The bedding for the recruits was placed in the barracks before they were recruited.

Changing into military uniforms, followed by the lecture of the hundred households, the warehouse side drove a carriage to issue guns to each department, and the long wooden box contained a brand-new flintlock bird gun, each small flag led a pole to be used in the practice of shooting, and the flag army each received a training wooden pole with the same shape and weight as the bird gun.

The training wooden gun is exquisitely made, the mouth of the gun is also hollowed out, with a wooden medicine pot, and pulling the trigger will also make the wooden dragon head rod gently knock down, the difference with the real gun is only that there is no flint, and the wooden gun cannot withstand the pressure of gunpowder explosion.

"Why waste time, they are rushing to the silver to join the army, you can turn around and leave now, it is not easy to hook people into a flag army, this year and month to give a higher military salary than the Beijing army, Beiyang is not short of people."

Chen Mu shook his head, when everything is standardized, it means that the steps that can be omitted in the cognition at this stage are omitted, and more time is left for the necessary steps that are more refined, and the training is no longer mysterious, and it has become a consensus close to the formula.

"Then the marshal, this is to let them all be in the army? They all trained the birds, and whoever fought well could not be a cavalryman, right? ”

Juniper has trained cavalry, and he is limited to the identity of the captain of the family soldiers, so he cannot participate in the instructor's military meeting, and even the details of his knowledge are heard from his brother who is an instructor.

"Army? They have to go through basic training, and now it seems that there are nine major items in the drill code, they can understand orders, can roughly march with the team, and have a rough understanding of artillery, rockets, mines and other weapons, the key is to let them develop the habit of obeying orders, and the purpose of recruit training is very sloppy - that is, after the end of training, send birds and guns directly to the battlefield in formation, and they can also be used. ”

"But this is not the army, after the basic training, they reorganized the military department, and after three months of training, it is really the Beiyang Army - it is still experimenting, just like the first phase of the martial arts is stronger than the first phase, the first batch of military government flag guards is a process of finding experience, and the flag army behind is more formal."

"Times have changed, a cavalry, infantry, artillery, engineer, and baggage soldier must first be a qualified bird gunner, even if they may always use a spear after the formation, they must know how to use the bird gun."

Chen Mu laughed as he spoke, and said: "I haven't tried an infantry with only gunners, this kind of bold change has to determine the direction in the actual battle in the Great East, and the training before this is for this purpose." ”

Juniper frowned and asked, "What purpose?" ”

"Even if there are only infantry, artillery, and cavalry in the whole army, they will win not because of the bird's guns in the whole army, but because of high morale, strict discipline, and good training.

Patches of gunpowder smoke rose from the school yard in the distance, and the instructors of 100 households had already taken the recruits to start shooting training; the Beiyang military training code stipulated that in the three months, they should use real guns to complete the steps of charging, loading, shooting, and cleaning up three times a day, and in normal training, they would use fine soil and lead instead of gunpowder.

It's just a broken step that doesn't play a sealing role when the lead used by recruits melts - it can't be taken out of the real block.

"By the way, what does Commander Wei of the Shandong Capital Division mean, asking for leave to come to Beiyang to see the training of recruits?" Chen Mu turned his head and swept his gaze to the letter on the table, and asked Juniper, "How did he find your letter?" ”

Jun Song nodded and said: "Commander Wei's name is Wei Rushu, his father has assisted in the defense of Wanquan, this time he recruited troops in Beizhi, and he spent the night elsewhere, I heard that Chen Shuai recruited troops for training, and wanted to come to apprentice. Juniper respectfully replied: "Shandong also intends to follow the example of the marshal, and draw the elite army Han Li from each guard to form a new army, so he asked his subordinates to send a letter." ”

"Reply, if you want to come, come quickly!"