The group of diners who specialize in pancake rolls with green onions finally stopped coming. Even if they dared to come, they wouldn't be able to get anything good to eat, because Liu Ziguang has arranged for security guards to be stationed in the store. As long as someone is found making trouble, the boy will notify the building immediately.
The several big men who came to the security room were all wearing extremely eye-catching red uniforms. At a glance, they knew that they were soldiers of Marshal Liu's death camp.
In fact, most people in Jinan know that Guihe Building is opened by Marshal Liu, who is admired by all the people. It is too late to come to support, so how can they come to cause trouble? The soldiers of the Xuzhou Army will not come to eat the Overlord meal, the iron factory and the iron buddies of the Xuzhou Army
The relationship goes back a long way, and Liu Ziguang is even called brother to General Xiao Wu, the most outstanding figure in their Xuzhou Army. Even Marshal Yuan is very considerate of Guihe Lou. I heard that he even wrote a couplet to Guihe Lou when he opened the business.
It was found that those indifferent guys yesterday were the model battalion of the new Shandong Army. This group of soldiers used to be stationed in ** County in Jiangbei, Nanjing. They were used to eating and drinking in the county, but they still wanted to do the same thing when they came to Shandong.
Let's do it again, occupy a few restaurants and inns...
As the tertiary industry, their leader is Mr. Shi Yanshi, the commander of the regiment. This man is only a fourth-grade military attache, and he is not worthy of being on the stage. However, his brother-in-law is indeed the well-established new commander-in-chief of the Xuzhou Army, Ruan Dacheng. Mr. Ruan
formal head
His title is the right minister of the Ministry of War, and he is responsible for patrolling Shandong and other places, managing camps and fields, and supervising military affairs. The brother-in-law thought that the title of brother-in-law was big enough, so he used the tricks he used in ** County to show off without even asking.
The men were
After breaking his leg, he realized that the other party was a quarrel. He brought the injured to the governor's brother-in-law to cry out, but was kicked out by Ruan Dacheng, who was very worried. He was already troubled by the handover, so he had no time to care about such trivial matters as his brother-in-law.
Shi Yan, the regimental training envoy, was actually an idle errand. There were many soldiers in Shandong, but the only one he could take charge of was his 100-person model battalion. This so-called model battalion was somewhat of a teaching team. After the Military Bei Dao Yamen was officially established,
Those landlords armed themselves, recruited bandits, and incorporated the Green Camp
The soldiers were all nominally subject to the orders of Bing Bei Dao, and the specific command was the responsibility of the regiment training envoy. In other words, theoretically Liu Ziguang and his troops were all subordinates of Shi Yan, but Mr. Shi had not yet figured out what he was doing when he arrived in Jinan.
No one gave him any advice, so he didn't know about it yet.
The chief secretaries, governors, and bureaucrats at all levels in prefectures and counties who came north one after another began to think about ways to make a fortune after they took office. However, they all regretfully found that all the valuable Manchu property was lost to the generals of the Xuzhou Army.
After the carving up, Zu Dashou became the commander-in-chief of Dezhou.
, Zhao led the army as Denglai general, Mangui was the Qingzhou general, He Kegang was in charge of Yanzhou, the leader of Jinan city defense was Wu Sangui, who had the best relationship with Liu Ziguang, and the leading deputy general of the camp in the north of the city had a good relationship with the iron factory.
Niu Yong, after all, the whole of Shandong is still under the Xuzhou Army
Under control, strictly speaking, they can no longer be called the Xuzhou Army. The guard structure of the Xuzhou Capital Command has been completely abolished. Under the current camp system, all generals are recruiting new recruits from Shandong in their own jurisdictions to expand the army.
own strength, the so-called mountain
Ruan Dacheng, the governor of the East, was simply unable to mobilize the soldiers that Yuan Chonghuan had trained for many years. He could at most command the yamen's servants and the model soldiers of the army. As soon as the decree came out, it was violated everywhere, taxing what should be levied, and recruiting troops where there should be. The entire Shandong Province
Completely under military control.
There are a total of 2,800 troops under Liu Ziguang's command. More than half of these troops are used to protect the iron factory's mineral properties in various parts of Shandong. Following Liu Ziguang are a thousand iron guards and three soldiers who have followed him through the Battle of Jinan.
Veteran of Baixiao Death Camp,
These people lived in the former barracks of the Qing army in Duandian, west of the city. In addition to training every day, they also trained.
This kind of training is completely different from the previous training. In the past, it was all about formation drills or sword and gun sparring, and then it was about lifting stone locks and shooting targets. Now it has become daily long-distance running and high jumping. The high jumping platform is a training method invented by Liu Ziguang.
Mainly to train future paratroopers, the soldiers wore joint black canvas military uniforms and high-top thick-soled cowhide boots. They climbed up to a ten-foot-high platform one by one, jumped into the sand pit below in the posture prescribed by the instructor, held their heads, and curled up.
The legs rolled on the spot and were covered in sand one by one.
After practicing the high jump, they started practicing high-altitude rappelling. A hot-air balloon hung high in the sky. The soldiers climbed from the ladder to the hanging basket under the balloon, and then dropped from the sky holding the rope. This was done for future airborne operations.
For training, the flight altitude and speed of airships and balloons are very low, so parachutes are not needed for the time being, and rope descent can meet tactical needs.
The soldiers all wore fingerless black leather gloves and wicker crash helmets. The soldiers who descended from the hot air balloon for the first time complained with grinning teeth that the gloves were getting hot. It seems that a set of hand-held decelerators should be designed.
Equipment.
The training of powered parafoils is not so popular. The selected soldiers are all soldiers with excellent eyesight and strong coordination ability. They first learn how to control the steering of the parafoil through the joystick on land, and then exercise by pedaling hard
Leg strength. After becoming familiar with all this, they glided down the steep slope north of Qianfo Mountain, stepped on the pedals with both feet to drive the propeller, and controlled the parafoils with both hands to soar up and down in the sky. Of course, this kind of dangerous training would not be possible.
It was all smooth sailing, but three or four people fell to death and were injured.
Seeing the loss of his brothers who were not killed by the enemy's sword during the training, Liu Ziguang was very sad but still insisted on carrying out this training. In this era of steam engines, only by mastering advanced military technology can one be invincible.
The Qing army was repeatedly defeated by the Ming Dynasty's advanced weapons such as steam crossbows, gas bombs, armored chariots, and hot-air balloon airships. This is evidenced by the fact that although the Three Hundred Death Battalion was an elite force, its number was too small after all, and it could only be used on a regular battlefield.
It would be too wasteful to use them as ordinary cannon fodder, so Liu Ziguang meant to train them into airborne troops and later use them as elite troops for beheading operations.
The two armored vehicles used by the Ming army had been tortured by the rugged Shandong land and rough driving soldiers. Frequent internal combustion engine failures and mechanical fatigue of the axles were all problems that were difficult for technicians to solve. They had no choice but to be reduced to
As a low-level training prop, the stocky man who was selected as a combat vehicle soldier neatly got in and out of the hatch of the combat vehicle and became familiar with various control systems and weapon systems, laying the foundation for using similar weapons in the future.
The military camp in Duandian not only houses Liu Ziguang's soldiers, but also some technicians from the iron factory. They come to Jinan City Wall to assemble steam repeating crossbows. The business of the iron factory always expands with the advancement of the army, which is similar to the relationship with the Xuzhou Army.
The close relationship between the two is inseparable. With the addition of a large number of labor forces and the support of Yanzhou's high-quality coal, the business of the iron factory is becoming more and more prosperous, and the return of funds has greatly accelerated, so much so that the wealthy people have taken up a large proportion of the railway construction plan from Xuzhou to Jinan.
Liu Ziguang gave his future father-in-law full support for his actions, but he was more concerned about his own interests. He heard the news from Zu Dashou from Dengzhou
It is said that a medium-sized fire oil deposit was discovered in the local area. People usually use the fire oil underground to cook in pots. It seems that the burial depth is very shallow and the mining is not difficult. The soldiers have no economic sense and always think that the best fields and
The shops in the city were valuable, and he didn't care at all about the news. Only Liu Ziguang suddenly remembered that this might be the later Shengli Oil Field, and quickly sent people to Dengzhou on Pegasus, and used 10,000 taels of silver to steal the fire from Zu Dashou.
The oil exploration rights were bought, and all parts of Shandong were in need of development. It was a vacuum zone that the imperial power had not yet penetrated. Taking advantage of these soldiers to take power, Liu Ziguang quickly purchased many industries, and gradually established a base with Jinan as the core.
A small prototype.
Finally having some time to rest and reorganize the troops, Liu Ziguang made some adjustments to the troops. The original organization of teams, flags, divisions, sentries, and battalions, as well as the official titles of flag commander, sentry officer, general commander, and Qianhu, were really
It is awkward to speak and unpleasant to the eyes. Now it is reorganized according to the new form of squad, platoon, company, battalion, and regiment. The original squad leader was the squad leader, the original flag general was the platoon leader, and so on. The former Wang Dahaiqianhu was in
Bearing heavy weight in battle
After being injured and returned to his hometown to recuperate, Li Yan also became a professional military advisor and was no longer responsible for military administrative work. A thousand Iron Guard troops who followed Liu Ziguang through life and death have been completely subdued, and even the military uniforms have been replaced by uniforms similar to those of the death camp.
The Red Shirts have been separated from the Iron Guard. One thousand people are organized into three battalions. Together with the death battalions, they are called the Red Shirt Corps. A staff department, a logistics department, an equipment department, etc. have been established at the corps level.
mechanism.
In order to reflect the special status of the Death Battalion, there are still some differences in uniforms from the other three battalions. For example, the uniforms of the Death Battalion are blood red, while the uniforms of ordinary red shirts are rust red mixed with some black. There are also the Death Battalions of slaves.
Every soldier has a gold-plated badge on his chest, engraved with a hammer and a pickaxe, to commemorate the hardships everyone spent together in the iron factory.
Difficult years. All soldiers who participated in the Battle of Yanzhou and the Battle of Jinan were issued corresponding badges for encouragement and commemoration. This was also a clever idea thought up by military counselor Li Yan. The function of the commemorative badge is equivalent to the disabled military certificate for later generations, and they can enjoy various benefits.
There are many kinds of preferential treatment, such as enjoying 50% discount on dining at Guihe Building, and free tickets back to Xuzhou when the railway is opened in the future.
According to Liu Ziguang's requirement that "official ranks should be clearly marked on uniforms and armor," Ma Huateng, a junior officer in the equipment department, designed a military rank system that uses the sun, moon and stars to show the rank. The squad leader has a star,
The platoon leader has two stars, the company commander has three stars, and the battalion commander has
It is a crescent moon. The military division officer, chief quartermaster and chief equipment officer are two crescent moons. Only Liu Ziguang has a small sun. The advantage of this military rank system is that it is very scalable. For example, they all have the same battalion commander and a moon.
, and can also be attached with different numbers of stars to distinguish seniority. But the day
The same number of moons and stars cannot exceed three, which means that the largest military rank can be represented by three days, three months and three stars. Even if the army expands to millions in the future, it can continue to be used. Military rank signs are embroidered on small cloth strips and are usually decorated on
On the shoulders, hanging on the chest during war, it is clear at a glance that the superiority and inferiority are judged.
The effect was so good that Liu Ziguang greatly praised Ma Huateng and asked the jeweler to create a badge in the shape of a cute little animal to be awarded to Ma Huateng alone. The pony was flattered, but he couldn't understand that the general awarded him this badge called a penguin.
What’s the point of the little badge…
On this day, Liu Ziguang came back from participating in the ceremony to send Yuan Chonghuan to Beijing. He was reading the report sent by the equipment department in the military camp. He set up a small factory in Jinan and recruited a group of skilled carpenters, blacksmiths, and silversmiths to specialize in making
Some common weapons such as arrowheads and exquisite gadgets such as lighters were being given instructions when the soldiers came to report: "We have invited you from the Yamen of the Military Preparation Road."
After the last forced purchase incident, Shi Yan stayed honest for a while. After asking around, he finally found out the real details of Liu Ziguang. He had more money than him, better soldiers than him, his backing was no worse than him, and his martial arts skills were even better than his.
I don’t know how many times. Is this just the tone? Mr. Shi obviously doesn’t have such a big belly, sitting in the newly built Bingbei Road Yamen with a sad face.
Seeing that his master was depressed all day long, his little leader who had his leg broken came over on a crutch and offered advice: "Sir, do you remember that escort master from the escort agency who beat all the enemies?
Didn’t that guy later fall into the hands of our brothers? Doesn’t this guy just have a few tricks? Let’s use this trick to knock him down, and then charge him with plotting to assassinate the superior and behead him in public.”
Shi Yan immediately became energetic: "How could I have forgotten this matter? That's right! I can usually defeat ten or eight heroes, but they can't stop such a trick! My dignified fourth-grade regiment trainer killed a ninth-grade man.
I think it won’t cause too much trouble." It happened that Yuan Chong
Huan also went to Beijing. The biggest official in Shandong Province is his brother-in-law Ruan Dacheng. Even if those generals have a good relationship with Liu Ziguang, they may not offend the governor for him. After killing Liu Ziguang, they can also recruit his troops and seize his property. It's really
Kill two birds with one stone.
Having made up his mind, Shi Yan immediately drafted an official document and sent it to Liu Ziguang, asking him to come over as the training envoy of the Jinan regiment of the Shandong Army Preparation Road to discuss the matter of recruiting the regiment to train the people, but secretly ambush the swordsman in the hall.
Finally, prepare to clear up all the shame in one fell swoop.
Not long after, the doorman came to report: Boss Liu has arrived. Shi Yan hurriedly went out of the Yamen to greet him, and welcomed Liu Ziguang in with a smile on his face. He also said politely: "Master Liu, we really don't know each other before we fight. It was mine last time, wasn't it?"
, please also invite my brother Haihan."
Although Liu Ziguang didn't have any scheming, he could still see Shi Yan's hypocrisy. He didn't plan to come, but since he still had to resign from the position of chief official, he couldn't openly disobey orders, so he came anyway and didn't bring any guards.
The soldier entered the Bingbei Road Yamen alone.
Seeing that Liu Ziguang was alone, a smile flashed across the corner of Shi Yan's eyes and he greeted: "Master Liu, please take a seat quickly. Whoever is there, hurry up and serve some tea."
Following the greeting, a thin servant came up with a tea tray. He respectfully served a cup of tea to Shi Yan's table, and then walked slowly towards Liu Ziguang, his steps steady, and his skinny hands were full of veins. It seemed like this
The guy was a martial artist. But Liu Ziguang, who had experienced many battles, didn't care. All martial arts masters were scum in front of him. How could Shi Yan still dare to assassinate him blatantly?
The thin servant put the tea tray on the table next to Liu Ziguang's left hand, then held up the teacup and offered it to him: "Please have some tea, sir." Liu Ziguang was about to reach out his hand to take it, only to hear the man roar like thunder: "Watch the trick!
"
Liu Ziguang glared subconsciously, his pupils dilated, he raised his hands and struck forward, only to see that the teacup was shattered by him, and a choking white mist sprinkled on his face as the teacup broke apart. It was lime!