I formed the strongest swordsman group.

Chapter 790: The Musketeers are formed! All the generals are shocked! [4500]

Of course, the reason why Elodie can thrive in the "Tachibana Clan" - that is, the Qinjin clan and the Shinsengumi - is not entirely because of her special relationship with Qing Deng.

The philosophy that the "Jujia Group" has always adhered to is "no matter one's background", "the capable ones are promoted, the mediocre ones are given way, the mediocre ones are demoted, and the inferior ones are eliminated".

To put it simply - in the "Ju Family Group", lack of ability is the original sin!
From ordinary soldiers to the leadership, members come from all classes and industries.

There are farmers and wanderers; there are men and women.

At the beginning, when the Shinsengumi was just founded, Aoto promoted many of his close associates, allowing the "Shieikan faction" to control most of the senior positions in the Shinsengumi.

Although this is a very normal thing, it still makes some troublemakers, led by Serizawa Duck, very unhappy.

It was not until later that the "Shiweiguan faction" demonstrated their indisputable strength and gradually eliminated these "discordant voices".

If one only has a resounding name and a distinguished background but lacks extraordinary ability to support it, he will ultimately fail to convince the public.

Even if one appears to be submissive on the surface, one will inevitably have doubts in his heart, which is what the saying goes, "one says yes but one does not really obey."

In fact, Elodie faced such a dilemma when he first took office.

The surveyors in the finance office - especially the older ones who had worked there for a long time - all had a uniform smile on their faces when they saw this delicate, young girl from a Western country, but their mental activities were more "exciting" than each other!
At that time, not to mention the Kantais in the Finance Office, almost everyone in the Shinsengumi thought that Elodie was a useless "vase".

Lord Niou was really confused. If he wanted to "gild" this girl, why not just give her an unimportant job? Why give her such an important position? At that time, everyone thought so tacitly.

Elodie is no fool, she is well aware of the challenges she faces.

Faced with everyone's doubts and their strange looks, she felt frightened but ready to fight.

She knew very well in her heart that in such a situation, there was no need to waste any more words.

As long as she can achieve some results, she will be able to shut up those who question her!

By then, all the contempt and disdain for her will disappear!
If Yataro Iwasaki was holding back his anger and eager to prove himself, then Elodie was no less so.

In a sense, the blonde, blue-eyed Elodie is under much more pressure than Yataro Iwasaki.

After all, Iwasaki Yataro is a Japanese with black hair and black cheeks, and there is no racial conflict between them.

As the saying goes, "If the forest is big, there will be all kinds of birds."

The huge Shinsengumi brings together people from all walks of life and a variety of ideas.

There are those who respect the shogunate.

There are those who admire the imperial court.

There are also people who don't care about politics at all, have no political stance, and just want to have a job and make a living.

In a nutshell, there are quite a few supporters of the sonjo ideology within the Shinsengumi.

Although they were not as extreme as the crazy people in Choshu, they were disgusted and even hostile to Westerners from the bottom of their hearts.

However, no one can guarantee that one day a madman will suddenly come and attack Elodie.

Therefore, in order to protect Elodi, Qingdeng selected more than ten highly skilled and trustworthy soldiers to form an "Elodi Protection Team".

Doubt, hostility, outright malice... In such an environment, one can imagine the enormous pressure Elodie was under.

Fortunately, not only was she not crushed by the pressure, but she also quickly delivered fruitful results that amazed everyone and far exceeded Qing Deng's expectations!

Even someone who knows nothing about mathematics can see how profound Elodie's mathematical skills are. She is simply a genius!
As soon as she took office, she demonstrated her vigorous and efficient work.

She sorted out the chaotic and disordered "Otsu Account" at an astonishing speed, making it concise and refined, laying a solid foundation for the subsequent "Qinjin Fan Construction Plan".

When transport convoys carrying huge amounts of supplies arrived at Qinjinfan one after another, Elodie became almost the busiest person, no doubt about it!

Count the quantity of supplies and record them in the account - to be honest, this task is enough to make people dizzy just by listening to the text description.

Nearly two hundred carriages!
Rice, millet, fodder, salt... dozens of kinds of supplies in total!
The total weight is measured in "hundred thousand stones"!

Organize them and record them accurately in the account book?
On the day this mission was issued, the finance office of the Shinsengumi was suddenly filled with wailing.

Some people with hot tempers just spew out all the dirty words in Japanese into the sky.

As the boss of the finance department, at this critical moment when his subordinates were feeling negative emotions, Elodie stepped forward in time and perfectly fulfilled his duties as a "leader".

She quickly got into work mode and dared to be the first.

Sitting in the accounting office, assigning work, compiling statistics...she arranged the heavy tasks in an orderly manner.

During this period, she demonstrated another of her strengths - excellent physical fitness.

Perhaps because she has been practicing martial arts and exercising regularly since she was young, she has excellent physical fitness.

Qing Deng once evaluated: In terms of physical fitness alone, Elodie is stronger than most of the members of the Shinsengumi!
After the first convoy arrived, Elodi moved directly into the accounting office, where he ate, drank, and slept.

Her diligent attitude at work is the best explanation of the idioms such as "diligent and persevering" and "unconscious".

"Working for more than ten hours in a row", "not even having time to eat"...all these are the norm.

Her diligent and conscientious appearance seemed to convey the meaning of "devoting all her energy to the cause until her death"... To put it bluntly, her subordinates were frightened when they saw her! They were afraid that she would die of exhaustion!
Fortunately, her spirits are always good.

Her face was rosy, her eyes were clear, her demeanor was relaxed, and she didn't look tired at all.

The so-called "innate holy body of ox and horse" is nothing more than this.

Even the boss went to the "front line" in person without fear of hardship. No matter how much complaints the surveyors in the finance department had, they dared not say anything more.

If the “king” has moved, how can the “soldiers” not move?
To a certain extent, Elodie's diligence and responsibility boosted the morale of the finance department.

Just like that, under the leadership of Elodie, the Finance Office burst out with amazing energy!

Those mountains of money and grain turned into strings of accurate numbers.

Those vast warehouses were transformed into thick account books.

Anyone with a little bit of common sense knows what these numbers and account books mean.

To put it bluntly - they are Qin Jinfan’s big data!
How much money, grain, and weapons are stored in the warehouse... As long as you have this data, you will have a bottom line in your mind whether you are carrying out economic construction or launching a war against other countries.

As for the importance of this "bottom", you can refer to the famous "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu - Know yourself and your enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat!

After sorting out the "Otsu Account", Elodie once again proved herself.

After witnessing this overwhelming result, even the most picky people would be speechless.

Even the extremists who hate Westerners and regard them as a scourge and a monster have to admit this fact.

Elodie is truly an exceptional person!

She is fully qualified for the position of "Head of the Finance Department"!
It’s more like this: this position seems to be tailor-made for her!
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As money and grain were deposited into the warehouse one after another, the "ultimate weapon" that Qingdeng had been longing for - the M1861 rifle and the Parrot rifled cannon - finally arrived at Qinjin Fan!
Along with this batch of guns and artillery, there were also two young instructors who were ordered by Kinoshita Rin to teach gun and artillery tactics.

After seeing these two instructors, Qing Deng couldn't help but show an expression of inexplicable surprise.

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Qinjin Domain, Otsu, a wasteland somewhere in the suburbs——

Inoue Genzaburo took a deep breath, gathered his strength, and then shouted:

"go ahead!"

As soon as he finished shouting, the sound of dull footsteps like thunder was heard at the scene.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The 100 soldiers were arranged in two horizontal rows, marching forward at a fairly orderly pace, neither hurried nor slow.

They are special.

The reason for saying this is not because they have strange appearances or wear strange clothes.

It's because of the weapons in their hands.

What they held were not the common swords, spears, or halberds, but rifles!

Nearly 5 feet (1 meters) in length, with a dark brown gun body and a "hunchback" hammer - it is the Springfield M5 rifle!
The soldiers placed their left hands close to their legs and supported the butt of their rifles with their right hands, so that the guns naturally leaned against their right shoulders. Aoto, Hijikata Toshizo, Kondo Isami, Souji, Nagakura Shinpachi, Serizawa Kamo... all the high-ranking members of the Shinsengumi were waiting at the sidelines.

Even Yamanami Keisuke, Sanako and Fujido Heisuke, who had been busy with the "warehousing of materials" in recent days, temporarily put down their work and came to watch this unique "martial arts performance".

Inoue Genzaburo will be the on-site commander of this "martial arts performance".

The members of this musketeer team are all from the Sixth Squad.

Therefore, sending the captain of the Sixth Division to take command is a reasonable arrangement.

At this moment, Inoue Genzaburo was walking nervously on the side of the musketeers, maintaining the same pace and moving forward together.

Directly in front of them, dozens of targets made of solid wood were arranged in a line, standing quietly.

In a short while, the slowly advancing musketeers were only ten steps away from the target group.

Seeing this, Inoue Genzaburo hurriedly shouted:

"stop!"

The footsteps stopped.

The musketeers stood upright, and their originally neat formation now became somewhat distorted.

Some people stand a little forward, some stand a little behind...the overall shape is a crooked "streamline".

Inoue Genzaburo did not order the troops to reorganize their formation.

He turned his head and looked at Qing Deng not far away.

Qingden nodded.

The next moment after receiving the order, Inoue Genzaburo suddenly drew the sword from his waist, raised it above his head, and pointed the tip of the sword to the sky:
“Raise your guns!
Click, click, click, click, click...

The gunmen raised their rifles in unison.

The sound of metal colliding filled the air.

"aim!"

The gunmen held their rifles flat, with the black muzzles pointing straight at the targets in front of them.

Inoue Genzaburou regulated his breathing.

The next moment, he raised the blade above his head and swung it down with all his might—

"put!!"

boom! boom! boom! boom! boom! boom! boom! boom!
The sound of popping beans startled birds in the distance.

The bullet flying through the air left a fleeting afterimage in the air.

Souji, Mai Kinoshita and others who were watching subconsciously covered their ears.

After the gunshot, thick milky white smoke filled the entire venue.

Even from a long distance, Qing Deng and others could smell the pungent, bitter smell of gunpowder.

"Reload!"

Inoue Genzaburo issued new orders.

The gunmen hurriedly lowered their rifles so that the butts of the rifles rested on the ground and the muzzles pointed upwards, then took out the ammunition bags from their waists, stuffed gunpowder and bullets into the barrels, and then took out the cleaning rods to compact the bullets.

This is a very complicated loading process.

If any link goes wrong, the loading speed will be slowed down or even the bullet cannot be fired.

The gunners’ “shooting” was OK, but their “loading” was…

Even if we use the term "high emotional intelligence", it can only be said to be unremarkable!

Some people accidentally dropped their bullets.

Some people poured out their hands full of gunpowder.

Some people can't put the cleaning rod back after removing it.

Various problems...

It took nearly two minutes for the gunmen to prepare for another shot.

Inoue Genzaburo once again raised the sword in his hand.

"Raise the gun!"

Click, click, click, click, click...

"put!"

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang…

……

A total of three rounds of gunfire were fired, and this unique "martial arts performance" finally came to an end.

As soon as the "martial arts performance" was over, Qing Deng led the generals and strode towards Inoue Genzaburo with big strides.

"Uncle Yuan, everyone, thank you for your hard work!"

In response to Qing Deng's condolences, Inoue Genzaburo was quite calm and just smiled reservedly.

In comparison, the Gunners' reactions were much more excited, with each one more excited than the other.

They stared at Qing Deng, their eyes flashing with admiration, respect and envy.

To have close contact with "Nioh"... this is a great honor for them!
After a brief greeting, Qing Deng led everyone straight to the target group not far away.

Looking around, the targets were covered with dense bullet holes like a honeycomb. Roughly speaking, there were about 3 or 40 of them.

100 gunmen, 100 rifles, 3 volleys, a total of 300 bullets fired.

At a distance of about 10 meters, 300 bullets were fired, leaving only 3 or 40 bullet holes...

At first glance, this level of accuracy seems particularly shabby.

However, after counting the number of bullet holes on the targets, the generals all looked horrified!
Shannan Jingsuke opened and closed his mouth several times, and after a long while he muttered to himself:

"Is this... the most advanced iron cannon in the West...?"

Kondo Isami pursed his lips, said nothing, and looked thoughtful.

Nagakura Shinpachi, Saito Hajime, Serizawa Kamo and others also looked thoughtful and had serious expressions.

The facial expressions of a few individuals - such as Harada Sanosuke and Fujido Heisuke - became particularly strange, as if they wanted to say something but hesitated.

At this moment, Hijikata Toshizo suddenly spoke up and expressed their thoughts for them:

"Heh... this is no longer the age of swords."

"Although the level of the arquebusiers is still far from satisfactory, the reloading speed is too slow, and the marching of the formation is also very uneven."

"But these are not big problems, just practice hard."

"To be honest, I never imagined that Western cannons would be so powerful."

"I understand why Tachibana is so determined to form a firearms unit."

"Once the Sixth and Eighth Divisions are transformed into firearms units and further expanded, the overall combat power of our Shinsengumi will be completely transformed!"

"By then...we swordsmen will be completely useless!"

After saying this, he pulled the corners of his mouth and raised a self-deprecating smile, without caring about the feelings of other people at the scene at all.

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