Late Qing Dynasty Executioner

Chapter 88 Division of Arms
"One, two, one, two, one, stop!"

With continuous training, the soldiers' running pace became more and more orderly, and the morale of the entire team improved a lot. Only three short days had passed, and now no one would laugh at this team anymore.

There were still old people and children watching the training on the side of the threshing ground, but their eyes had changed from joking at the beginning to solemnity. The children would occasionally follow the team to do the movements of turning, marching and running.

Today is the day for dividing the troops into different types of soldiers. Chen Gu selected eight hundred soldiers, plus Yun Hua's one hundred and fifty men. It is naturally impossible for a team of nearly a thousand people to be composed entirely of front-line soldiers.

What Chen Gu needed was an elite force, not a human wave tactic.

Chen Gu took out the E-letter vision test chart he had prepared in advance and stood on the platform. He sprinkled a line of lime two meters away from the platform and shouted loudly: "Now, you all come forward one by one from left to right, look at the sign in my hand, and tell me the direction in which the character I am pointing opens, Yunhua."

"Here!" Yunhua was the first to run to the front.

"Tell me, which direction does this letter open in?" Chen Gu asked, pointing to the largest letter on the eye chart.

"Go back to Shaoshantou and turn left!" Yunhua answered loudly.

"Very good, next time just say up, down, left and right. There are too many people, so we need to speed up." Chen Gu reminded.

After some consideration, Chen Gu directly eliminated the last fifty people and asked them to leave the army and go home to farm. Of course, they could also learn to be craftsmen.

The fifty people with the best eyesight were trained as snipers. Unfortunately, Chen Gu did not have that many rifles and bullets, so he could only use the shotguns he had stolen from Addis to let them practice their shooting skills.

Dai Changjiang immediately wrote down Yunhua's name and recorded Yunhua's eyesight next to it.

"on!"

With Yunhua as an example, vision testing for others went much more smoothly.

"Record: Yunhua, vision 1.8." Chen Gu said to Dai Changjiang who was in charge of recording next to him.

The vision chart made by Chen Gu was not standard, and could not detect the specific vision of the person being tested, but it was sufficient for use. After all, Chen Gu did not need the specific vision of these people, he only needed to pick out the group of people with the best vision.

"right!"

For several days in a row, Chen Gu was busy with the division of arms. In addition to snipers, there was also a reinforced company of special forces from Yunhua, two battalions of infantry, and two companies of logistics soldiers.

After all the tests were completed, Yunhua's vision ranked 302nd.

As the stick in Chen's hand continued to move down, Yunhua's brows became more and more furrowed, and finally he made a mistake in the row 1.8.

"Down!"

"Left!"

Of the remaining nine hundred people, the two hundred and fifty at the bottom of the rankings were also eliminated by Chen Jue. Although these people could stay in the army, they could only do logistics, such as cooks, engineers, and so on.

"Left!"

"Yes!" Yunhua replied.

Among them, the logistics soldiers are divided into cooks, engineers, medical soldiers, etc. It's a pity that Lao Piao is unwilling to go back to Dengyun Mountain to recruit people, otherwise it would be easier for Chen Gu to form a medical army.

Now we can only teach medical soldiers some simple bandaging and hemostasis techniques.

Because they didn't have rifles, the infantry of the two battalions practiced military posture and physical fitness. As for Yunhua's reinforced company special forces, in addition to basic military posture and physical training, Chen Gu assigned them the task of hunting in the mountains to improve their combat qualities in actual combat.

Anyway, Fobao is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and as it is the border between Guizhou and Sichuan, the mountains are almost old forests with plenty of prey.

In addition to the broadsword and red tassel spear, Chen Gu also gave Yunhua half of the rifles made by Wu Hua in the past few days, and the remaining half was given to the snipers.

The fifty snipers and Yunhua's 150 reinforced company will be the first to be equipped with rifles. Their priority will even be higher than that of the platoon leaders. After all, they are the front-line combatants, and the opportunities for the platoon leaders to go to the front line will only become fewer and fewer in the future.

Of course, bullets must be used sparingly. There are not many bullets available now, so we have to rush to make rifles first.

Various workshops for Buddhist treasures are being built, soldiers are taking shape day by day, and everything is slowly getting back on track.

News from outside kept coming back that Na Yancheng had taken over as the prefect of Chongqing, and his two sons Rong Zhao and Rong An had also taken over as the magistrates of Jiangjin County and Hejiang County respectively.

After Addis had been missing for more than two months and local authorities had repeatedly searched for him but still had no news, the imperial court finally determined that Addis was dead and that the Tong'an warship had been hijacked.

Emperor Jiaqing issued an edict to reprimand the Governor of Sichuan, Feimo Lebao, and appointed Wumite Delentang, the commander-in-chief of the Bordered Yellow Banner, who had just wiped out the White Lotus Sect and captured the leader of the sect, Ran Tianyuan, as the imperial commissioner to go to Chongqing to investigate the case of Addis' disappearance.

Looking at the various intelligence in his hands, Chen Gu couldn't help but sigh: "The storm is coming!"

"Master, no matter what happens, we still have to eat!" Wu Qing'er served the rice and placed it in front of Chen Gu. Seeing that Chen Gu looked worried, she persuaded him.

Chen Gu couldn't help but smile bitterly, picked up the bowl and said, "Indeed, no matter what, we still have to eat. Eating is the most important thing in the world. Let's eat!"

"Young Master, Bian Shichun is here!" Lao Piao's loud voice came from outside.

Chen Gu thought for a moment and said to Qin Ling, "Go and bring Bian Shichun in, and prepare an extra set of bowls and chopsticks!"

Wu Qing'er went to prepare the dishes and chopsticks, and soon Bian Shichun came in led by Qin Ling.

Bian Shichun looked around the small courtyard as he walked, and finally looked at Qin Ling and Wu Qing'er. After sitting down, he joked, "Haha, you really know how to enjoy yourself. You're actually playing the game of keeping a beautiful woman in a golden house."

"Stop talking nonsense. Eat when you're hungry. If you have something to say, just say it. I have to go to work after I finish eating, so I don't have time to stroll with you!" Chen Gu said after swallowing the food in his mouth.

"It tastes good!" Bian Shichun took a sip of the soup and praised it. He then said, "I'm busy too. If I had nothing to do, who would be willing to come to you? Tell me, why is the rifle I made less than 30% of the power of your rifle?"

"Did you bring the real thing?" Chen Gu asked.

"Of course I brought it, but it was confiscated by your Yang Yuanfeng. Show it to me after dinner!" said Bian Shichun.

"Do you know Lao Piao?" Chen Gu asked in surprise.

Bian Shichun took a chopstick of twice-cooked pork, ate it, and drank a mouthful of soup, saying: "Isn't that nonsense? Dengyun Mountain is only three miles away from my ancestral home. When the Buddhist temple was built a hundred years ago, my family paid 80% of the money.

Yang Yuanfeng and I have known each other since childhood, when he was still called Little Monk Jingyun! "

"Oh, what's his master's way?" Chen Gu asked.

"You mean Master Mingxin?"

(End of this chapter)