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Chapter 325

On the high platform of the large school field three miles north of Dushikoubao, Eunuch Li Guofu, the watchman, looked up at the high sun and felt dizzy for a while.

After a long time, he opened his mouth and said to Zhang Cheng: "The weather is so hot, but the sergeant keeps practicing, can you bear it?"

Zhang Cheng smiled and said to Li Guofu: "Elder-in-law, you have been training hard on weekdays, and when you are fighting for your life on the battlefield, you are more capable of killing the enemy. If you are usually loose, you may only be a deserter on the battlefield. .”

"Well, that's the truth, but our family is afraid that the sergeants will not be able to stand it if we practice like this."

"Oh, what my father-in-law said is very true. The last general also wanted to give the soldiers more meat every month to replenish their strength. However, the North Road is exhausted and there is a lot of waste to be done. Now it only takes ten days to eat. A meal of meat." Zhang Cheng said helplessly.

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In fact, even so, these sergeants are already very satisfied. Thinking about the days before they were recruited, let alone three meals of meat per month, some may not necessarily eat three meals of meat every year.

Although they are all strong laborers in various military households, they also consume rations on weekdays. Some people even eat more grains than those who work hard day and night to grow land.

Now, if you enlist in the army, you can receive Anjiayin or grain, which not only saves the rations for the family, but after three months, if you can still stay in the army, you will officially receive your military registration number plate, and you will still have food every month available.

Even if Zhang Cheng only pays half of the infantry and cavalry soldiers, including the officers, it is much better than nothing!

Back then, military households like them had to be sent to garrison in various important places on a monthly basis. Not only did they have no food and salary to receive, sometimes they even had to prepare their own clothes, armor and food, or they would suffer from hunger and cold. From time to time, he was bullied and scolded by the superiors.

If it is said that the training in this army camp is not much more difficult than when they worked hard at home farming, but they can eat enough and have more clothes to wear. From their point of view, this army has its own fun.

These new recruits who have never been on the battlefield and have never killed anyone who has seen blood do not know the cruelty of the battlefield at this moment. They have not enlisted in the army for less than three months.

Just because Zhang Cheng was eager to form an army, he divided them into battalions to practice first. If they didn't work hard or practice seriously, they might still be eliminated in the end.

Zhang Cheng did this to relieve the pressure on Wu Zhizhong, so that he could free himself up to go to Xiabei Road and Donglu to recruit thousands of strong and good people to expand the team.

As for food and salaries, it is definitely not enough, but you can't stop recruiting soldiers because you don't have money. First recruit soldiers, practice them, and then find a way to solve the problem of money and food, otherwise you may never be able to form an army.

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At this time, Zhang Cheng said to Li Guofu who was sitting next to him: "Grandfather, shall we ask the soldiers to line up and have a look, or should we just practice like this, and the general will walk with you at the end to see how they are practicing?"

Li Guofu seemed very interested, and he asked straightforwardly: "So, it won't affect the healing of Admiral Zhang's arrow wound."

"Haha, of course not. You can accompany others, but you can't accompany Eunuch Li."

"That's good, that's good!"

Li Guofu seemed to have noticed something, but he didn't need to say much. He just stood up and was about to walk around. Two young eunuchs who were accompanying him were about to come to help him. Li Guofu said angrily: "Take a rest, We can still move."

The two young eunuchs didn't know what to do for a while, Zhang Cheng also got up, he turned his head to Lin Fangping and said: "Fangping, you don't need to follow the guards in your own barracks, I will accompany my father-in-law to take a look around. You stay and accompany the two little father-in-laws to look around in this camp."

The two young eunuchs gave Zhang Cheng a hint of gratitude, but it was gone in a flash, and then regained their arrogance, waiting for Li Fangping to come over to greet them.

Relatively speaking, Zhang Cheng really likes the eunuch Li Guofu, and feels that this person is still somewhat popular. Although he still has the arrogant attitude of an eunuch in his speech and demeanor, he is much more than other eunuchs. A touch of sincerity, less affectation.

Zhang Cheng turned around and said to the generals of the Dushibu camp on the stage: "You go to your own business, I will accompany the supervisor to walk around in the camp, and I will send someone to summon you when necessary. Wait."

"Here!"

All the generals agreed in unison, turned around and lined up to retreat from the high platform, only the battalion officer Chen Zheng remained where he was, Zhang Cheng looked at him and said with a smile: "Chen Zheng, if you have nothing to do, you can go with me." Ben will walk with the Overseer."

Li Guofu walked on the school field with his head held high, Zhang Cheng and Chen Zheng followed behind him, it was already past noon, and it was the time when the sun was at its most vicious.

To the east of the school grounds are teams of sergeants practicing guns. When the battalion was first established, the firearms were still in stock everywhere. The Yunzhou craftsman camp has only just begun to operate. Although there are many craftsmen, However, there are many processes in the manufacture of firearms, and each of them cannot be ignored.

Now all the preparatory work has just been completed, and the division of labor has been clearly defined according to the skills that everyone has mastered, and the operation has just begun.

Zhang Chengyu didn't know much about the production process of muskets, and he didn't put forward any new requirements for improvement. He just stipulated that the bird guns should be the standard muskets of his troops. Unite.

After successfully making three bird guns, they were all sent to Dushi for test shooting. The effect was good, the weight was easy to use, and the accuracy was good. Now Yunzhou Jiangying is shooting the bird according to Zhang Cheng's requirements. The final precise division of labor is carried out in the making of guns.

But at this moment, for the firemen in the Dushi Infantry Battalion and the Chicheng Infantry Battalion, Zhang Cheng just selected all kinds of muskets that looked good in the inventory to practice.

However, in order to achieve a uniform effect, Zhang Cheng still stipulated that the same musket should be used in each round. For example, the round they are watching now is practicing fast guns.

"Elder-in-law, there are four bureaus under the first division of the Dushibu Battalion, two of which are the Killer Centuries, and the other two are the Bird Gun Firearms Centuries, and now this team is the Firearms Bureau.

However, at present, there are too few fine blunderbusses to equip the entire battalion of firemen. In the two firearms rounds, only one round uses blunderbusses, and the other round can only be replaced by fast guns. It is really embarrassing! "When Zhang Cheng said this, there was a sense of powerlessness in his tone.

Li Guofu saw that the sergeant was seriously practicing, and he was also excited. Hearing what Zhang Cheng said, he asked casually: "Our family heard that the Ministry of War has allocated hundreds of military craftsmen to you. Why don't you make it yourself?"

Zhang Cheng replied with a very embarrassed face: "Although there are military craftsmen, the production of bird guns is the most time-consuming and consumes more iron materials, especially fine iron. The stock in the North Road is also hard to cover the consumption. I guess It won't take long!"

(End of this chapter)