The green battalion controlled by the governor of Liangguang had seven towns in Guangdong: the left wing, the right wing, Jieshi, Chaozhou, Gaozhou, Qiongzhou and Nanao, and each town had a general army. Among them, the right wing town is stationed in Shaozhou, but the middle and left camps of the town mark [1] are in Yingde County. Where the middle battalion is, the chief officer is there, that is to say, the garrison of this general soldier is in this Yingde County.

Talking about his head, he shrank in the room of the Flood Guard Office in Jinshandu, Li Shi picked up a piece of roasted wild boar, and the gluttonous worms in his stomach suddenly shouted, but Xiao Sheng's chopsticks on the opposite side always fell on the mountain treasures brought by Li Shi, and his eyes still swept the endless stream of pedestrians outside the office from time to time, not to examine anything, but more like a taste of another dish.

"Bai Zongrong [2], Daolong, is my old boss."

Xiao Sheng was also talking about the chief soldier.

Yesterday, I heard Cai Langzhong talk about the Yang family brothers, and Li Xian's vigilance against Zhong Shangwei was also a little stronger, and after calculation, in addition to doing things on the rent of fields and mines, Master Zhong should have no means to rectify Fengtian Village in Mingli, and he was afraid that he was secretly making ghosts.

Li Xian felt that he couldn't just count on the villagers, Lai Yipin was gone, and the guards of Jinshanxun on the mine also had a chance to envelop them. If there is more trouble, it will take a few hours to travel from Fengtian Village to Jinshandu, and there are still more than 30 flood soldiers under Xiao Sheng's men who are guarding here, which is a good reinforcement, and Xiao Sheng himself is also worth continuing to trap......

I had a heart of envelopment before, and Xiao Sheng seemed to be a little different to himself, so Li Shi came to Jinshandu with the mountain treasures sent by the villagers, as if he was visiting an old friend, and found Xiao Sheng with a big grin.

Even if the dynasty is changed, Li Xian's ability to see people still works, although this Xiao Sheng has some experience, the city government is not shallow, but the surname is not hypocritical and pretentious. Seeing that Li Shi brought Shanzhen, he didn't talk much, stopped the hunters who sold wild boar meat in the city, bought a few catties of meat, let the husband of the flood guard burn it, add some side dishes, and put a pot of rice wine, and the two of them were in his small yamen of the flood guard, and the copywriting was used as a dinner table to open the whole thing.

Li Sheng is seventeen years old, Xiao Sheng is thirty-three years old, the difference between the two is half a generation, but Li Shi's predecessor is to hook people to talk, plus he has seen through Xiao Sheng's details earlier, and then the shooting of Lai Yipin left too much impression on Xiao Sheng.

Without waiting for Xiao Sheng to ask, Li Xi first "confessed" that his "marksmanship" was read by reading, as for what book, Li Xi pretended to say that he read it when he was a teenager, and now he has forgotten it. Xiao Sheng sighed considerately, and no longer asked, when there was any inconvenience to say taboo. At this time, just after the "Nanshan Collection" case, the people were silent when they mentioned the book, and Li Shi first sent out a virtual or real "handle", which immediately narrowed the distance between the two.

A few glasses of wine warmed his stomach, and Xiao Sheng's conversation box was also opened, talking about his experience. He was a native of Tingzhou, Fujian, and was a battalion soldier who made up for his father's lack [3]. Since he was a child, his body was thin, he couldn't open his bow, and his sword dance was not round, so his father supervised him to practice shotgun in order to make up for his shortcomings. Relying on the familiar twisting of firearms, he gradually spread his reputation in the army, and was favored by Bai Daolong, and was transferred to the pro-army team as a shotgunner.

"In the thirty-eighth year, Lord Bai was transferred from the Fujian land route to the general of the battalion in the North Taiwan Road Battalion, and I also went to Taiwan.

"Forty-three years, Lord Bai was transferred to Guangxi, and I had something at home, so I couldn't follow it. When I returned to the camp after handling the family affairs, I found that my general shortage had been filled by others and reduced to an external commission. Then in the year school, because there was no white adult to protect him, even the foreign committee was lost. ”

"I simply ate the horse soldiers' salary, and started a business with a group of brothers, but the business was written, and the brotherhood was gone, and after a fight, I went back to my hometown and was in a mess for several years."

"After Lord Bai arrived in Guangdong, because of the lack of people under his hands, he thought of me again, so he fished me to Yingde, and took an extra foreign commission to help him guard this Jinshan Flood."

While speaking, Xiao Sheng drank again and again, judging from the experience of the reporter who was Li Xian's predecessor, this guy is a typical frustrated person, the so-called Luther...... And the reason why Bai Daolong took a fancy to him was probably because he felt that he was such a desperate old subordinate, it should be easier to grasp.

"That's right, Lord Bai has a lot of business in Yingde, so let me guard Jinshanxun, and also take care of this area for him, when necessary...... Hey. ”

Xiao Sheng was also very self-aware, he hiccuped, laughed lowly, and before he finished speaking, Li Xi heard the meaning, what to do when necessary? Be a scapegoat.

"It's really strange, I usually drink to this point, I shouldn't have so many faint words......"

Xiao Sheng woke up, and Li Shi also smiled, in his previous life, he was Li Tianwang, and the basic skill of speech is of course very solid. The reporter's words are different from what is sold, and the people facing him are more vigilant. But it is precisely because of this vigilance that more loopholes have been left, and with these loopholes, he can clearly grasp the scope of the other party's inner privacy.

It was in the casual conversation just now that Li Shi had vaguely touched Xiao Sheng's true experience, and his relationship with Bai Daolong should have been very close earlier. In the Qing Dynasty, the green battalion military system was "the military is indigenous, and the generals are all promoted", the soldiers are all locals, and the officers cannot stay in the same place for a long time, and the soldiers cannot follow the officers to be transferred, unless they are accompanied by their families.

This Xiao Sheng made up for the boss in Taiwan, so there was no way to follow Bai Daolong. After losing a hand, in addition to the reason why he was only good at shotguns, most of it was also related to his once unruly surname. Later, the so-called "business" should also be smuggling or something.

Roughly understood the other party's taboos, Li Shi's words were as warm as a spring breeze, and he walked all the way with Xiao Sheng's words, just walked to the current errand of Xun Shou, because he was too sensitive, Xiao Sheng only showed a little bit of his tone and became alert, this self-control, among the people Li Shi had come into contact with in his previous life, was already top-notch.

"Let's talk about you, your kid has been confined in the village since he was a child, and he won't change color at all when he kills people, where can he be so bold, just like a veteran who has been on the battlefield? Honestly, have you ever killed someone before? ”

Xiao Sheng pressed the topic back, this question is really difficult for Li Shi to answer.

Whether it was in his previous life or in this life, he really never killed anyone, Lai Yipin was the first, but why was he able to kill without blinking, his heartbeat did not speed up, he didn't vomit on the spot, and he didn't have any nightmares after that?

There are two reasons, one is that although he has never killed anyone, the dead people he has seen are estimated to be no less than Xiao Sheng. Most of the dead people Xiao Sheng saw were killed by sword soldiers, but he had seen all kinds of dead people. Explosions, car accidents, falls, drowning, etc., are all strange, and the appearance of death is even more bizarre, even if it is replaced by Xiao Sheng, I am afraid that I will be shocked by some of these scenes and cannot eat.

Picking up another slice of wild boar, looking at the red and white veins of fat and muscle, Li Xian thought to himself, this is the same as the corpse with a scalpel blade in a medical school murder case he reported, oh, I really miss the fat cow hot pot......

"If I had been stabbed to death with a knife, I would have been afraid."

chewed the slices of meat, Li Shi used the second reason to prevaricate Xiao Sheng, just like the gentleman who was far away from cooking, shooting people with muskets from afar, and stabbing people with knives in front of them, the visual stimulation was not at the same level at all.

"That's right! That's the benefit of shotguns! Even women and children, with a gun in hand, can kill people without blinking! ”

Xiao Sheng slapped the table with a bang, Li Xian flew chopsticks, grabbed a piece of jumping boar, and the secret boat entered the port.

"This shotgun is indeed a sharp weapon, but the person holding the shotgun is not used, and it can only be eaten by the enemy on the battlefield, and it is not as reliable as a knife and gun, and it is not as good as a riding and shooting, such as ...... The defeat of Liaodong in the former Ming Dynasty. ”

Li Xi began to rub the topic in a certain direction, he came to make friends with Xiao Sheng, how to close the distance by talking? Then you have to talk deeply, and it's better to get into taboos. And to do this, you have to have skills in clichés, and Li Shi is "borrowing the way to cut down the enemy". The battle of Liaodong at the end of the Ming Dynasty was sensitive or not, it all depends on what to talk about, and it is not too taboo to only talk about the military, after all, the Tartars have won many victories and are full of self-confidence.

"Don't look at your shotgun well, but this is still a mediocre opinion! The quality of the firearms of the Ming army was inferior and the use of them was not that the firearms themselves were really inferior to swords, guns and cavalry. ”

Li Xian deliberately belittled the shotgun, with the intention of luring Xiao Sheng to say more, just like the fishing debate on the Internet in later generations, he is a person who bubbles the jar, and Xiao Sheng's tone is also a little higher, obviously scratched to the itch.

"Firearms are not dead things like knives and guns, let's just say that this soldier used a three-eyed gun earlier, and then he had a shotgun, and now, Yangyi has used a self-fired musket, which is less than a hundred years old! In another hundred years, swords, guns, bows and crossbows will still look like this, but what will firearms look like, can you imagine? ”

When Xiao Sheng said this, Li Xian's eyebrows jumped, this guy does have some knowledge, he also knows the tap musket, that is, the flintlock pistol? Although as a shotgun commander, he naturally has to elevate his profession when he speaks, but he can look at problems from the perspective of "development", which is beyond the level of the vast majority of people in this era.

It's just that Xiao Sheng asked the wrong person this question, Li Xian didn't have to think about it, he had already seen it...... And the answer will disappoint Xiao Sheng, the entire eighteenth century is still the accumulation period of the development of muskets, and the situation after a hundred years is not much different from now, and the so-called "tap muskets" are still the mainstream.

Xiao Sheng didn't think about letting Li Xian answer, and continued to himself: "Swords, guns, bows and crossbows are inseparable from people's bravery. Assuming that they all have the heart to fight, they will use swords, guns, bows and crossbows, and at most three percent of them can fight, and to train these three percent of those who can fight into elite soldiers, no one will not be able to do it in one or two years. But the shotgun is not, there are as many shotguns as there are soldiers, with a little training, at most half a year, it is a large army, the level of combat power is mostly determined by this shotgun, if it is the elite of the shotgun, even if it is ...... Ahem......"

Speaking of this, Xiao Sheng raised his glass very hard, pressed his tongue with wine, and most of the words behind it were "Even if it is a strong team of Eight Banners, it is by no means an opponent." ”

Li Shi secretly gave a thumbs up, Xiao Sheng's words, he did see the significance of the musket at the strategic level, that is, the cost is low, and the key factor that determines the level of combat power is more in the weapon than in the person. It's just that his point of view ignores too many details, such as formation, rate of fire, how to solve melee hand-to-hand combat without bayonets, etc., so in Li Xian's view, the concept is a little advanced, and the thinking is a little extreme, this guy is really an anachronistic character.

[1: This should be common sense, but I will mention it slightly.] In the Qing Dynasty, the governors, governors, admirals and commanders all commanded the green battalion directly under them, called the pacesetter, which was the mobile combat readiness force of the green battalion. Respectively referred to as the superintendent, fubiao, promotion and town standard, in addition to the river governor and the governor of Caoyun also have river standards and Cao standards. In addition, the association under the town and the sub-patrol under the province are prepared for the road, that is, the Taoist platform with the rank of "military equipment", and their direct green battalion is sometimes called the co-standard and the road mark, but it is not the name of the economic system. 】

[2: In the Qing Dynasty, the admiral was called the military gate, the general soldier was the general Rong, the deputy general was the deputy Rong, and the general guerrilla was the general Guerrilla. Regarding the title of officials in the Qing Dynasty, pay attention to a lot, for example, only officials above the fourth grade can enjoy the title of "adult", and the prefect of the county cannot be called an adult according to the rules. But rules are rules, and there are many changes in the environment and people, so except for special places, the author will simplify them, otherwise they will always be broadcast in 123 places, which will affect emotions very much. 】

[3: The Qing Dynasty's green camp regulation was "entry and no exit", which was essentially a mixture of military households and recruitment, and was known as the "world military system". After being recruited as a soldier, he essentially became a military household, and his children would be designated as "Yu Ding". Yu Ding, who is over 16 years old, will be subsidized by the battalion with a monthly salary of five yuan, and in case of conscription, Yu Ding must follow the regular soldiers. If there is a shortage of personnel in the green camp, the vacancy will be filled from Yu Dingli. And those who are not yet sixteen years old are called "nurturing soldiers". 】