In Yu Dayou's opinion, even if the Huwei Army was first established, he did not recommend adding artillery, since Wang Tongneng had a deep discussion with the veteran, he found that the veteran was quite disgusted with firearms.

He believed that the quality of this firearm was not up to par, and it was easy to injure the soldiers when it was used, and after the troops had firearms, they lost their courage, and only thought about casting firearms from a distance, and before they rushed to the firing range, they scattered indiscriminately, and when the enemy rushed to him, the ammunition had been exhausted, and he had no courage, so he naturally did not dare to fight hand-to-hand.

If there were no firearms, at least the soldiers would have to go to hand-to-hand combat, and even the archers would have to shoot within range, and this concept is the difference of the times.

For a famous general who is nearly eighty years old, Wang Tong will not be stupid to explain the concept of the new era, after all, the Huwei Army is in charge by himself, and for this era, Yu Dayou said it is extremely accurate.

However, famous generals belong to famous generals, and old people are also old people, Yu Dayou probably holds the attitude of young people to try, and if they fail, they will have the opportunity to come again, since Wang Tong opened his mouth, he also promised to talk about it.

The city was almost calm, and it was a little late, so Wang Tong stayed in this new barracks at night, and when he returned to the city the next day, in the evening, Wang Tong got up and walked up to the watchtower on the south side of the camp.

Standing high and looking into the distance, in this position, you can already clearly see the Haihe River, late at night, the lights on both sides of the canal gradually go out, the lights flickering, but it seems darker, and the Haihe River is still brightly lit, and I don't know how many people are busy loading and unloading there.

There was nothing to say all night, and early in the morning of the second day, Wang Tong was about to return to the city, Li Hutou was now with him, and those people of the Tan family, some of them had to train in the recruit camp, and some had to keep an eye on them in the city.

Yesterday, he had just transferred troops into the city, and everything could not be said to be stable, so he left Tan Jiang, an old guard, with only Tan Bing and three Tan family members who did not often guard him, and looked at the people who were still in the camp, and he was about to return to the city.

When he was tidying up the horses, he saw that Ma Sanbiao also came over and led the mount, Wang Tong frowned, and said in a deep voice:

"Sanbiao, you still have an errand here, what are you going to do!"

Ma Sanbiao didn't reply yet, but Tan Bing smiled and explained in a low voice:

"Master, let Sanbiao follow us to the city gate, he will ride back by himself, and there must be a few skilled followers around the adults."

Ma Sanbiao also scratched his head and explained:

"Master Tan said that if he didn't follow, the place outside the city made me have to follow the adults, and if there was anything, I could help somewhat."

Wang Tong's skills and bow horses, the Tan family is certainly a trained elite, but Li Hutou and Ma Sanbiao are not inferior to them, Li Hutou is talented, and he is diligent and studious, making rapid progress, and now he is suffering in terms of strength, and Ma Sanbiao is tall and powerful, and he has a foundation in riding, and he has grown very well for more than a year, Tan Jiang said to Wang Tong in private, and now among the seventeen people in the Tan family, Ma Sanbiao can defeat at least ten one-on-one.

Wang Tong nodded and agreed, but he was not very comfortable in his heart, Tan Jiang was his housekeeper, and he naturally had his reasons to make such an arrangement, but the uncomfortable place was not here, but the arrangement itself showed that he was in danger.

Although the things done inside and outside the city are like Mount Tai pressing on the top, and they are pressed step by step, too many people's interests have been cut off step by step. There is no resistance in the open, and it is unknown whether it will do tricks and feet in the dark.

The feeling of being secretly stared at is not very good, Wang Tong rarely realized it in the past, but now it is clearly placed in front of him, and his heart is indeed uncomfortable.

The joints of the saddle bridle were tried with their hands, and they were sure that they were tied, Wang Tong was just about to turn over and get on the horse, but he remembered something, and raised his voice to greet and said:

"Bring a round shield!"

The weapons in the boot camp were complete, and someone immediately took a round shield for Wang Tong, the diameter of the round shield was slightly shorter than the arm, it was a wooden board inlaid with iron leaf structure, Wang Tong took it and hung it on the side of the saddle.

He looked at the other people, but found that everyone was already fully armed, no different from when they were fighting, Wang Tong shook his head and turned over on his horse.

The boot camp is about 500 steps away from the area where the shops, warehouses and warehouses are concentrated, and there are no buildings on the ground between these 500 steps.

Before the new barracks were set up here, they were full of potholes, rocks and weeds, but now they are much more tidy, and the labor of the new barracks is to clear the surroundings and build roads.

But even if it is neat and clean, there are no businessmen who want to build a house here, not that the prestige of Jinyiwei is scary, but this side is too far away from the wharf, and the merchants next to this vacant land are not in a good mood, the two warehouses are just maintained, and the two restaurants belong to the inferior shops that can be fed for two pennies, but the people on the wharf are also rarely patronized, but the business has been good recently, because they need their help to eat the food in the new barracks.

The rest are freight yards and warehouses, piled up with some heavy goods that cannot be sold, and it doesn't cost much money to be so far away from the canal anyway.

As soon as the camp gate was closed, I saw that on the other side of the road in front of the camp gate, a few people walked by, Wang Tong never came to this camp, rarely saw any pedestrians, it was very deserted, and Wang Tong would not pay attention to anything if he wanted to put it in the past, but those things before leaving the camp had already made him wary.

Before the horses moved, Wang Tong had already reined in and asked in a low voice:

"It's very deserted here, why is there someone now!?"

Tan Bing looked over there and said with a smile:

"Those two restaurants are now going to make food for our camp, and they are about to get rich, so they have hired a lot of people, these are considered to be in accordance with the rules, and a few days ago, there were people who often came over to watch, and watched the soldiers practice, and they were all whipped back, which is much more honest."

Ma Sanbiao picked up the horse from behind and said in a rough voice:

"Xiaofang's rice shop, a bowl of yellow rice porridge in the morning, stewed pickles rolled in flatbread, delicious tight, not enough to eat in the camp this morning, wait to get a set to eat on the way, do you want it?"

If you want to say that this horse is straight-hearted, but it may not be, he also knows how to advance and retreat in the rules, but he said this to ease the atmosphere a little.

Hearing his words, everyone laughed, and Wang Tong also said with a smile:

"You are a big-bellied man, wait a minute, bring me a copy to Tan Bing, these recruits and laborers should not have a little deduction in their food, at least they must be full, even the official eats breakfast and feels that the soup is not watery, and it is conceivable to eat below, the money from the Jingshi side is not for us to save, it is necessary to spend it, and it is the intention to spend it where it should be spent."

After speaking, he shook the reins and rode forward, Da Ming's deduction of the soldiers up and down seems to have become a habit, even if these generals below are not greedy, but they are also used to saving money for Wang Tong, Cai Nan is always used to sorting out the accounts to ask, is it really necessary to pay a full amount of silver.

These habits and problems make Wang Tong tireless, recruiting troops to the army, just to let people sell your life to fight for you, and if you don't give enough money that should be given, who will work hard for you at that time.

After riding a few steps, Wang Tong raised his voice on the horse and said:

"Tan Bing, the next time the military camp will pay the salary, the official will come to pay it in person."

After walking a few hundred steps, I walked into the area of the store warehouse, walked through a freight yard, and turned right to the two restaurants, which happened to be on the way back.

There are a lot of granite piled up on the freight yard, it is said that five years ago, the Huaihe River was repaired and the dam lock was built, a large number of stone materials were needed, the Cao boat went north to transport grain and entrained goods, and the return trip was loaded with granite, and there were about five times the profit of unloading in the Huaihe River area, but the project was completed the year before last, and there was no need.

In this era, it takes a long time for the north-south news to be transmitted, and many granite stones are transported to the end of Tianjin but found that no one cares, and it is too labor-intensive to return to the ship, and there are not so many projects to sell on the spot.

These granite piles are placed in the open air, and no one takes care of them, this is something that no one steals, stacked layer upon layer, the granite piles are more than one person high, and the terrain is not too flat, walking in the freight yard, it is like walking in the hills and ravines, and the sight is obscured greatly.

Wang Tong subconsciously became nervous, this place is a good terrain for ambushes, everyone is awe-inspiring, and they all put their weapons in front of the saddle, and they are all on guard.

But the nervousness was white nervous, until the goods yard and turned to the street, it was nothing, looking at the deserted street, everyone was relieved.

"All plants and trees are soldiers", Wang Tong thought of this word, if he was always so nervous, he would be too sensitive, and Ma Sanbiao behind him said with a smile:

"The restaurant is over there, I'll go over there and let them do it first!!"

Ma Sanbiao had just run out from behind on horseback, but Wang Tong shouted, looked at the left and right of the street, and asked in a deep voice:

"Those two restaurants have to cook for so many people, they must have recruited a lot of helpers, and lunch should be busy now, why is it still so quiet here, there is not even a cooking smoke!"

This question, Ma Sanbiao also stopped the horse, and Wang Tong said:

"Anyway, it's not far away, you are shouting here, and you must be able to hear it."

"Xiao Fang, you fuck it, the big man is here, come out and kowtow and serve."

Ma Sanbiao's voice is very loud, after this shouting, I am afraid that the whole street can be heard, but the street is still silent, such a shout, even if the person who is called does not move, the people on the street will come out to probe their brains to see the excitement, not to mention that when they go out of the camp, they will see people walking.

The weather was a little hot, but the silence on the street made Wang Tong suddenly feel cold.

At this moment, there were suddenly sounds in several places on the street, and the bowstring sounded! Scream through the air!

(To be continued)