Gao Ligong nodded and didn't ask any more.

The carriage went all the way forward, and soon entered a branch road, and Wang Chengen saw many people driving the carriage standing beside the carriage and waiting. The wagons, loaded with high, bulging goods, wrapped in tarpaulins, stopped one after the other by the side road, as if waiting for the quartermaster in front to inspect the goods and release them in turn.

Wang Chengen understood that this was a vehicle for transporting military supplies to the troops, and he didn't pay much attention to it at first. But as he drove on, he found that the munitions waiting on the road seemed to have no end. Wang Chengen didn't know how many munitions he saw, but there were at least a few hundred.

"How... Why so much military money? ”

Gao Ligong looked at Wang Chengen's shocked face, and said: "Noble people, my Tiger Ben Army has recently strengthened logistics support and provided a much more material list than before. Our Tiger Ben soldiers now carry a Jinwang-style rifle with fifty rounds of ammunition and a scope on the front line. He carried a shotgun with twelve shotguns on his back. He wears two handcuffs on his waist and four bullets with handguns. In addition, each soldier had a steel helmet, a marching water bottle, and three pull-bolt grenades. ”

Hearing Gao Ligong's words, Wang Chengen was already secretly speechless.

Tsuo-style rifles, shotguns, grenades or handguns, any of these equipment was given to the soldiers of the Kyoto camp, and the soldiers of the Beijing camp were well-equipped elites. And here in Li Zhi, these weapons are all equipped with a single soldier, how strong is the combat effectiveness of this single soldier?

If you don't observe with your own eyes in the barracks of the Tiger Army, where can you understand the elite of the Tiger Army?

How terrible does Li Zhi's arsenal have to be to produce so many armed recruits?

Gao Ligong said: "Not only that, but we have also recently made two new sets of autumn clothes for the Tiger Army, and two sets of winter clothes for each person. Two pairs of rope cowhide boots, a pair of leather gloves for winter, a pair of knee pads and elbow pads, and a cowhide belt. One sleeping bag for each person on the march, one set of bedding for each person, and one for six people in a large tent. One sapper shovel for digging the trench, one bottle of flower water for mosquito repellent per person..."

"Relying on a large number of civilian steamships in one town and nine provinces, we can project our supplies at any landing site on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. As long as the battlefield is no more than 400 miles away from the coast, our logistics line will be 100 percent efficient. ”

"There are so many equipment that recruits need to be equipped with that there is such a long queue of quartermaster vehicles at the entrance of the barracks."

Wang Chengen didn't know what the so-called "Pacific Ocean" was, nor did he know what it was. But listening to Gao Ligong tell the long list of equipment, he was stunned. The equipment of this tiger army is too sophisticated, and the cost of such equipment is probably more than four times that of the equipment of the new recruits in Beijing.

With such logistical equipment, I am afraid that the morale of the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army is terrifyingly high, and their adaptability to the battlefield environment is also terrifyingly high.

The level of equipment of the Tiger Ben Army is no longer comparable to any army in this era. In this era, the logistics of many cold-weapon units were simply in a mess, and they even basically relied on plundering in the occupied areas for supply. The logistical equipment of the Tiger Ben Army has evolved to the level of the late nineteenth century, approaching the level of World War I.

Anyone who fights with such an elite force must be prepared for complete defeat.

Wang Chengen listened to Gao Ligong's introduction, and had the illusion that he was threatened, as if Gao Ligong was showing off his might.

He stopped talking and fell silent in the carriage.

The carriage traveled twenty miles, and finally entered the recruit barracks. There is a complete set of strict inspection procedures at the entrance of the barracks, and although Gao Ligong is the acting governor, he must personally show his waist card to the doorman before entering the camp.

As soon as he entered the barracks, Wang Chengzong was shocked by the hot training scene on the school field.

Nearly 10,000 strong men wore short-sleeved military uniforms and cowhide boots, and kept running laps on the huge school field. One by one, the soldiers had been in the army for a few months, and they had all developed muscles. The most terrifying thing is that except for the shouting of the platoon leader, no one on the campus of the University made a noise.

The Tiger Army's obedience to discipline has been deeply ingrained in the bone marrow.

"What do these soldiers eat? Why are they so strong? ”

Gao Ligong said with a smile: "Nobleman, our Tiger Army has three meals a day, with full white rice and fish and meat to eat. Since the popularization of trawl fishing technology, the fish meat in Tianjin has been very cheap. ”

Wang Chengen watched the soldiers running in circles for a while, his face was a little pale, and he entered the target area with Gao Ligong.

Guns crackled on the huge shooting range, where thousands of soldiers practiced their marksmanship.

Wang Chengen stood behind the shooting range and looked at it for a while, and said, "It seems that each soldier shoots twenty shots?" ”

Gao Ligong nodded and said: "That's right, Zhongguiren, each of our soldiers shoots twenty shots at a time, and once every two days. 300 training rounds a month and 1,500 rounds on the shooting range in five months. Before each soldier goes to battle, we make sure that the soldier's marksmanship is practiced to the level of nine out of ten. ”

Fifteen hundred shots?

Wang Chengen stood there, feeling more and more that the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army were murderous.

You must know that this barrel is the most easily worn out military assets, and it is not bullets that are fired at targets again and again, but silver. The soldiers of the Beijing camp could not even shoot a hundred targets before they went to battle.

Wang Chengen sneered and did not speak.

Gao Ligong looked at Wang Chengen's face, raised his head and said, "It's almost time, noble man, let's go see the prince." ”

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Li Zhi sat on the throne in the main hall of the Qi Palace, with a smile on his face.

When Wang Chengen saw Li Zhi again, he had to sigh at this man's green steps.

Once upon a time, Li Zhi was still a general that Wang Chengen had never looked at squarely, and at the end of the military generals who were rewarded in the Huangji Palace, he was almost squeezed out of the main hall. In most of Wang Chengen's memories, when he saw Li Zhi, Li Zhi was still a general, a general soldier, or an earl, and he had to respectfully befriend Wang Chengen.

However, in a blink of an eye, Li Zhi was already the king of Qi, and he was the largest in Daming except for the Son of Heaven.

With Li Zhi's current status, even Wang Chengen, a confidant of the Son of Heaven, had to kneel in front of Li Zhi. Wang Chengen walked to Li Zhi's throne and kowtowed respectfully.

Li Zhi raised his hand to signal Wang Cheng'en to excuse him, and said with a smile: "Don't come to the prince, why did you come to Tianjin this time?" ”

Wang Chengen looked at Li Zhi and said, "It's not a big deal. ”

Li Zhi smiled and asked, "Oh? ”

Wang Chengen sorted out the language.

He originally wanted to directly question Li Zhi why Li Zhi, as a vassal king, dared to interfere in court affairs.

But after taking a turn in the new barracks of the Tiger Army, Wang Chengen found that although he was a confidant of the Son of Heaven, he did not have the confidence to ask Li Zhi, who was indescribably strong. Seeing the 100,000 elite soldiers, Wang Chengen was a little wilted.

He arched his hand and said: "Wang Chengen just came to ask, His Royal Highness's letter said that he would abolish the imperial examination and take scholars by public morality, I don't know what to say?" ”