But the next few conditions are a bit excessive. First of all, he only wants young people under the age of 18, and none over the age of 18!
The second condition is that they must be literate and able to write. This is not bad, because all the current Yanyun recruits are literate.
The third condition is a musket shooting test, which makes many brothers quit. The fourth condition is that they must be able to read military maps...
Looking at the map? Isn’t this a matter for the officers?
You let us soldiers see the use of this thing!
If you want to know how to read and write, go to the university hall and find students from the military academy. If you want to shoot muskets, go to the musket camp. If you want to read military maps, go to the artillery wing guards of the Heavenly Army...
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It’s not you. What kind of army is Longxiang Guard with such high requirements?
It feels even more difficult than entering the Heavenly Army, but you are not the Heavenly Army, nor the navy, nor heavy cavalry, nor light cavalry, nor musketeers, nor artillery. In the final analysis, you are just infantry. There is nothing to show off.
May we ask you?
The recruitment standards of the Longxiang Guards are indeed higher than those of the Heavenly Army, because many brothers from the Heavenly Army came to join in the fun and wanted to prove what it means to be the best among the best, but unexpectedly they were all slapped in the face.
Because they failed the musket shooting test, they were also equipped with Yanyun County's most advanced repeating revolvers. However, Long Xiangwei's test was not a pistol, but a long gun, with a shooting distance of a hundred paces.
Moreover, it is also required that all ten shots in a row must hit the target, and none of them must miss the target...
These princes who frequently missed their targets were extremely embarrassed, and they all cursed when they left.
Many soldiers in the musketry battalion had acceptable marks in the shooting test, but they were either over their age, illiterate, or simply couldn't read a map, and they were all ruthlessly eliminated.
The Knight Riding Guard, the Flying Wing Guard, and even some brothers from the Yulin Guard as far away as Gao Juli came after hearing the news, wanting to challenge the strict standards of the Long Xiang Guard, but most of them failed... Everyone
He didn't think he was incompetent, but firmly believed that Lieutenant Li of Long Xiang Guard was a lunatic.
Because the famous lunatics in Yanyun County are all as picky as him.
But it was these madmen who created a new era in Yanyun County. Madman Lei created the most advanced guns and artillery. Madman Liu Fuhai created a hot air balloon that transcended the times. Madman Wu Xiuping created a telescope.
Bicycles, and cars...
So what do you want to invent and create, Lieutenant Li, the Four Mad Men? Are you invincible?
Although the recruitment standards of Longxiang Guard are extremely strict to the point of perversion, there are still more than 500 perverted guys who passed all the tests and officially became members of Longxiang Guard.
One of the boys almost reached full marks in all tests, which shocked Li Haibo because he had known this boy for a long time and had never seen that he had such great ability before...
Xiao Chen was very satisfied after listening to Li Haibo's report. It's okay to be stricter. Our main focus is an elite, and the principle is to rather lack than to overdo it!
Five hundred people is not a small number. There were not so many people when the Flying Wing Guards were established. Of course, we in Yanyun County did not have that many talents at that time...
Why did you choose the top pick? Who is so proud of me, the boss? Call him here, I will see him in person and give him a big reward!
Xiao Chen has always liked talents.
But when Li Haibo said the name of this talent, Xiao Chen thought he had heard it wrong, "Who? Xiao Ye? That silly boy can also shoot?"
As Xiao Ye's biological eldest brother, he didn't know that his younger brother was not only good at shooting, but also had the best marksmanship in Yanyun...
Xiao Ye has been literate for a long time, but he was forced to do so by Xiao Chen, who threatened that if you can't learn to read and write, I will dig out your good eyes, because being illiterate is the same as being blind.
What's the difference?
When your brother and I were your age, I could compose poems. Am I bragging to you?
As for how Xiao Ye can read a map?
That's because every time Xiao Chen, Wanyan, Xiaosheng, Dugulou, and Lin Yue were studying military affairs in Xiao Chen's White Tiger Hall, he would watch quietly from the side. After watching for a long time, he would naturally...
It is self-taught without a teacher.
It's a pity that such an outstanding talent Li Haibo can't take him under his command, because Xiao Ye went to participate in the selection just for fun, but he didn't really want to join the Longxiang army. Besides, Xiao Ye is the boss of the Xiaoqi Guards. Join you.
What's going on with Long Xiangwei?
Li Haibo is just a captain now, but Xiao Ye is a general. If he joins, then who will lead whom?
But although Li Haibo was only a captain, like the two young generals of the Xiaoqi Wei Fei Yiwei, he was not under the control of Zhuge Xiaosheng, the general of Yanyun's army, but was directly responsible to Xiao Chen.
He came to Xiao Chen to ask for money and equipment. I am responsible for your boss, and your boss must be responsible for me...
In fact, Xiao Chen originally wanted to hand over Long Xiangwei to Xiaosheng, but Xiaosheng refused.
Two reasons.
First, he really does not understand the mode of modern warfare. He cannot fully understand many of the tactical ideas proposed by Li Haibo. He cannot even understand what role Long Xiangwei will play on the Yanyun Army in the future and what kind of impact it will have.
Influence?
If you still don't understand these things, it's best not to get involved and let Li Haibo organize the troops first.
Second, he knew that the army Li Haibo was going to form would be extremely expensive and the formation process would be very troublesome.
Because Li Haibo once said that he wanted to build a 'mobile army', the vehicles were not traditional war horses, but cars that had just been invented by Yanyun County!
According to him, a force of 500 people requires at least 50 vehicles, and this is only the most basic configuration.
He also has very high requirements for weapons. He is very dissatisfied with the most advanced muskets currently produced by the Yanyun County Arsenal and hopes to make many improvements based on his suggestions.
In addition, Li Haibo also hopes that the arsenal can develop an easy-to-carry small-caliber light artillery as soon as possible. What is it called a mortar?
Zhuge Xiaosheng only knows about big cannons, not small cannons, but what he knows is that if Yanyun Arsenal receives the task of manufacturing mortars like Li Haibo said, the madman will definitely go crazy again!
As the marshal of Yanyun's army, Zhuge Xiaosheng had to deal with many things every day. He was so busy every day that he really had no energy to satisfy Li Haibo's whimsical requests. And Li Haibo was obviously a person who would never give up until he achieved his goal...
Also, the military expenditure of Li Haibo’s army will be extremely huge! Let’s not talk about anything else, how much money will it cost just for fifty cars?
Cars have just been invented and have not yet been mass-produced. Wu Xiuping said that even if they can be mass-produced in the future, the output will be quite limited, and the cost of each car will be at least 50,000 taels of silver!
Fifty cars are 2.5 million taels of silver...
How much money does the Yanyun Army's military expenditure total for a year?