Chapter 35 Training

When Wang Maoru served as an assistant instructor in the model regiment and was promoted to major, Zhao Zengfu also returned from recruiting troops in Shandong, recruiting a total of 800 people, all of whom were Shandong Hans. Since the beginning of the Kangxi Dynasty, there have been many people in Shandong, and there are few people in the family. However, because of their good genes, all of them are tall and big, and they can be good soldiers.

When Yuan Shikai trained the new army of the six towns of Beiyang, except for the first town, which was recruited from the banner people and set up as a forbidden army, the other five towns were originally Shandong soldiers. Yuan Shikai also relied on these five towns to create the current foundation, and it can be said that Shandong soldiers helped Yuan Shikai create today.

According to Wang Maoru's plan, these 800 people and the people of the original company's security team will form a garrison of 900 people, of which 500 will become garrison members after training, and the remaining 300 people will serve as the reserve of the garrison and the people's husband.

And when assigning the thirty-six squad leaders and soldiers, Wang Maoru was also a little hesitant. After all, some of these men are strong, some must be thinner and weaker, and the officers are watching with their eyes, and no one wants to be divided into the weak one. Seeing Wang Maoru hesitating, at this time Li Delin Jian said: "Why don't we send a number to these people, one work and two copies, one is handed over to them, and the other is placed in the black box. ”

"That's a great idea." Wang Maoru thought about it and said with a smile, according to this method, no one would think it was unfair, so soon 800 people and 160 members of the escort team were disorganized and redivided, according to the number from 001 to 960, 36 officers came to draw lots, and a squad of 26 to 27 recruits was trained by lot. After the arrangements were made, the whole army began military training, and Wang Maoru sent Zhao Jiacheng to the War Department to ask for some guns for training. The people from the War Department told him that if he wanted a gun, he had to spend money, otherwise he would have to give you old army weapons such as long knives and waist knives.

Zhao Jiacheng got a secret order, spent 15,000 yuan, bought 900 rifles, all of which were singles in the former Qing Dynasty, and gave 100,000 rounds of matching bullets, which made everyone angry enough. This 15,000 oceans can buy 300 even if you buy German Mauser rifles, but the War Department gave 900 singles that have no rifles left, all of which are things that others don't want, and even the patrol battalions are made in Hanyang. Even bandits don't need this to fight alone, this kind of thing can only be used by hunters for hunting.

Wang Maoru smiled at the officers and said: "Don't underestimate this single, although they are all old things from forty years ago, but look at these recruits, give them the best guns, can they use them?" So, use this broken gun to train first, and when the practice is complete, let's change to a new gun. This stopped the officers from complaining.

When Xu Shuzheng, deputy minister of the Ministry of the Army, heard this, he laughed and said that the people of the Ordnance Bureau can really make money, and these singles were originally to be destroyed and sent to the Hubei Gun Factory, and a sum of money is needed to destroy and rebuild, but now it is given to Wang Maoru, but it has made a lot of money, it seems that this Wang Maoru is really suitable to be a boy with scattered wealth.

The training of recruits from the Army Garrison Battalion of the Ministry of Communications' Flying Corps has kept the villages around the airport busy, and nearly 1,000 people have eaten, drank, and slept in Lazar, and also made various small traders and hawkers see business opportunities. Wang Maoru doesn't embarrass his own people on eating, after all, in this era, eating enough is much more important than eating well. Shandong people like to eat pasta, Wang Maoru every day with the nearby farm to buy steamed buns, to spend twenty taels of silver, for the ocean is thirty-six, in addition to the staple food to eat, a lot of meat in the dish, but also let the recruits in the military training at the same time, for the first time in the New Year did not eat meat.

The training of the army was planned for three months, and all of them were handed over to the 36 squad leaders to manage, and Wang Maoru would come back from time to time to see the results of the military training. His plan was that in the first month, he would train soldiers in basic and regular rules, in the second month, he would practice tactical physique, practice live-ammunition training and confrontation, and in the third month, he would conduct actual combat training. Wang Maoru would find an opportunity to take them to suppress the bandits, carry out the official march of the peasants to soldiers, and three months later there would be a big contest.

The big competition is a two-way competition, on the one hand, it is a strong soldier, and on the other hand, it is a strong general.

The contest is divided into five events, the first is marching, the second is live shooting, the third is crossing obstacles, the fourth is a long-distance march, and the fifth is stabbing and assassinating. In the end, the first officer has the right to give priority to the selection of officers, and the last officer can only choose what others don't want, which is estimated to be the officer of the Minfu team. After the announcement of this method, the officers were stunned for a while, they had never heard of this kind of competition, Wang Maoru smiled and asked: "Who is afraid of everyone?" ”

The officers shouted together, "Mission accomplished." ”

Wang Maoru smiled and nodded, and let them go to training, but asked the people from the nearby farm to build the obstacle training ground first.

The farmers around the airport became busy because of the training of the flight team, which also attracted the attention of many businessmen in the city.

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