Piao Tianwen    Chapter 298  What did you understand

"What's going on?"

Something happened. Zhao Hengxing, who was in charge of training, quickly saluted Guo Jinzhang, and then ran to the machine gunners... At this time, the machine gunners had stopped shooting. After seeing the squad leader coming, they quickly ran towards the mound as ordered. Then, not long after, the two soldiers carried one and kept shouting, wearing camouflage military uniforms, but dragged a braid on their heads and walked out from behind the mound.

"Are you beaten?"

Looking at the man from afar, Ronglu's face looked a little bad. The guy was bleeding constantly, obviously injured... Thinking about the scene where the machine gunners kept firing around the mound just now, how was this training? It was obvious that they didn't take human lives seriously.

"Zhao Hengxing, what's going on?" Guo Jinzhang also frowned slightly. Although he had issued an order to strictly train these Qing Dynasty officers and said that those guys should understand what military discipline is, they are now injured in front of Ronglu and others... Although it is not a big deal, it will not have a good impact. After all, these guys are just Qing army, not from their Red Corps.

"Report to the commander, it's Li Lixun. This guy peeked from the side of the mound, and the bullets swept the thigh artery!" Zhao Hengxing ran over and replied.

"Send it to the infirmary quickly." Guo Jinzhang ordered.

"yes."

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"Shouyuan, Tong, Gelin, come here." It's embarrassing. Although he was dissatisfied with the training techniques of Zhao Hengxing and others, as the highest commander of the Qing army here, Ronglu was also very uncomfortable with his own people's performance. He could even be swept away after hiding behind the pile of soil... Although he didn't know what the thigh artery was, the blood flowing was probably a big blood vessel or something. This was too careless. However, Ronglu did not expect that when he heard his shout, the officers lined up not far away did not react at all, especially when Shouyuan, who had his name, Tong and Gelin stood at the center of the team, looking ahead, and didn't even look at him.

"It's outrageous!"

The former Nine Gate Admiral couldn't bear to his face. Those boys actually dared to ignore his existence? However, Ronglu also knew that there must be some reason. From the Qing Dynasty to Seattle, he had contact with Shouyuan and others on the boat. Although he didn't like these boys very much, he also knew that these three people were not the kind of bold and arbitrary guys. Now he heard his greetings but didn't move... He naturally turned his attention to Guo Jinzhang.

"Dongbao, call the son of the year, the Tong, and the neighbors." Guo Jinzhang ordered.

"Yes." Li Dongbao responded and turned around, "Shouyuan, tung, Ge Lin, run here!"

"yes!"

Far away, Shouyuan and the other three responded loudly, each leaving the line, then lined up in a column and ran over. Then, the three of them naturally lined up in front of Guo Jinzhang, Ronglu and others.

"this……"

Ding Ruchang couldn't stop his eyes from emitting light when he saw this situation. He came with these guys and also had some understanding of the tempers of Na Tong and Shou Yuan'er. It's okay that Ge Lin, Shou Yuan and Na Tong are both royal relatives. Although these two people cannot be considered completely dandy, they have a big temper. They are very dissatisfied with coming to the United States to receive training from a group of "grass-girls". They even agreed to let the "rustic buns" in Seattle see their manly abilities. But now, only two months ago, these two guys are so honest... How did this Red Corps train?

"What happened to Li Lixun just now?" Ronglu's mind was no slower than Ding Ruchang, and even faster. He was extremely surprised by the performance of Shouyuan and the other three. But unlike Ding Ruchang's only curiosity and appreciation, he was more wary of his heart. In just two months, the people carefully selected by the emperor and the empress dowager were trained so obediently by the Red Corps. Even his true boss dared not listen to the words of his true boss. If this continues...

"Report to Lord Rong," Shouyuan did not have as many thoughts as Rong Lu. Although they knew that their "negligence" towards Rong Lu might offend this boss, he had a special identity and was a relative of the royal family selected by Guangxu himself. He was not afraid of the other party's attack. At worst, he could go back and continue to be his Duke of the State. What's so great about it? However, Rong Lu did not get angry or something, just asked, and he had to answer honestly: "Lord Rong, Li Lixun just found several adults behind the mound, and wanted to take a look when the gunshots paused, but he was too careless, so..."

"Is this Li Lixun quite brave?" Guo Jinzhang asked.

"Report, Li Lixun is not very brave." Shouyuan had never seen Guo Jinzhang, but after two months of military training, he knew very well what the two stars on Guo Jinzhang's shoulders meant... It seemed that only one person in the entire Red Corps was qualified to carry such two stars. Although the other party was unimaginable young, if you think about the things mentioned by the instructors, he unconsciously put Guo Jinzhang in a higher position than Ronglu.

"If you are not brave enough, you dare to stretch your head in the rain of bullets? He is not afraid that it will not hit his thigh, but instead explode his head?" Guo Jinzhang asked again.

"This... I don't know if I report to the chief." Shouyuan thought for a while and replied.

"Know what you know, but don't know what you don't know. It's not bad, it's different from the Qing officers I imagined." Guo Jinzhang nodded at him, then turned to Li Dongbao, "How is Li Lixun doing in his usual training?"

"Medium!" Li Dongbao replied, "but this man has a little anxious temper. He is one of the best times in the training group."

"General Guo, I want to talk to Shou Yuan'er and the others, look..." Ronglu glanced at Guo Jinzhang and said.

"Whatever." Guo Jinzhang nodded, "Dongbao, arrange a conference room for Lord Rong and the others."

"yes!"

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"Mr. Rong, I don't want to be trained anymore. You should send a telegram to the court and let us go back."

In a conference room at the base, the members of the Qing officer training group finally put down their disguise in front of Guo Jinzhang, Li Dongbao and others, and they sat down one by one, and squeezed in front of Ronglu and the other two. Na Tong and others even howled directly, asking Ronglu to pick them up quickly.

"What's going on? You... weren't it good just now? Li Lixun was a little unlucky." Yuan Shikai was very puzzled by everyone's performance. On the way from the shooting range to the conference room, the officers of the training regiment came over in neat columns. The military posture made him feel so hot that he felt unfair about Guo Jinzhang's arrangement... Isn't Ronglu just a little closer to the Queen Mother of the West? Why did he let him lead such an army? What's wrong with Yuan Shikai? But he didn't expect that these guys who performed well in his eyes wanted to be deserters as soon as they came close to the door.

"What's good? Lord Yuan, there is not a single good guy in these Red Corps guys. What kind of training do they do? It's just a life-threatening thing." Na Tong shouted loudly.

"Why did they kill you? Aren't you all good?" Liu Yongfu asked coldly.

"Of course you don't know." Another officer named Anping looked at him and said disdainful tone, "You General Liu was picked up from the beginning, and you were served with delicious food and drinks, but what about us? I got caught and fined by the police when I left the dock... I won't talk about this for now. I finally found the base, but before I could catch my breath, I was thrown into the playground and ran around by Li Dongbao... Lord Rong, you don't know, that's not an individual."

"Why aren't you human?" Ding Ruchang asked in confusion as he didn't have many contacts with Li Dongbao. That kid is not a big deal except for bragging. Moreover, what people said doesn't seem to be bragging either.

"Ding Junmen, you were picked up by the wharf we arrived in the morning. We arrived here when it was dark. But then Li Dongbao didn't care about these things at all. As soon as he entered the door, he asked us to run around the playground with a bow on his back. Thirty circles, more than twenty miles away, you said this..."

"This is their sensation!" Liu Yongfu smiled disdainfully, "But, you can't do it only twenty miles?"

"You can't do it." An Ping glared at him, "This marching and fighting depends on riding and shooting skills, so how can you practice running? I'm not a deserter!"

"Okay, is it embarrassing to you, Anping?" Shouyuan, who was standing beside him, suddenly became angry when he heard this. "It's been two months. What can you do if you are riding and shooting? Riding and shooting? I'll find you 100,000 cavalrymen. Look at how many times the machine guns are... I'll still ride and shoot? If you have the affair, go find a horse. I'll squat there with a rifle. Let's shoot. Let's shoot. I'll see if you're riding and shooting first, or I'll die first!"

"The kung archery skills have long been outdated, especially in the face of those machine guns that threaten endlessly, the charge of thousands of troops is even more dying..." Yuan Shikai glanced at everyone casually and smiled suddenly, "Mr. Shou saw it very accurately."

"Where's my fault? The Red Corps is on the edge of that river. Hundreds of machine guns have ruined 30,000 American soldiers. The entire battle is less than an hour... But the Qing Dynasty and the foreigners who have been fighting with each other for so many years, have killed half of the foreigners in this battle? No!... Let's look at the toughness they are facing the United States, Britain, and France, and we have to admit that we are not as good as others.

." Shouyuan stood up and snorted coldly at the group of officers, especially Na Tong and others: "Now, it is rare to have the opportunity to get along with others for training. It would be fine if you don't do well, but you still want to run away?... Look at it yourself, are they deliberately making things difficult for us? Any soldier who wakes up in the morning and doesn't eat, first runs with a gun and a bag... We're only running five miles now, and you just cry and call him mother, are you embarrassed to lose it?"

"Of course we are not as good as your Duke Shou. Are you the Duke of the Qing Dynasty or the emperor's personal title? After fighting with the Spanish, you will have to take charge of the Nine Gates and protect the capital. Maybe you can even earn the position of prince by then. But what are we? We are just here to serve as a soldier and eat, but don't want to eat, so we will lose our lives first!" An officer behind Tong curled his lips to Shouyuan without any hesitation, "Look at it yourself. Today, Li Lixun was covered with the blessings of the emperor and the empress dowager, so he was not swept to his head. But if he was a little bit off, the guy who was eating would be gone!"

"Why do they want you to do this kind of training?" Yuan Shikai asked.

"We're bad!" Shouyuan rolled his eyes, "When we first came, there was also the same pile of soil. We hid behind us, and they shot it. As a result, so many people were scared and half of them were scattered. Most of the three who were wet with their pants were so scared that they screamed... When they saw it, they told us that if we were like us, they would die if we went to the battlefield. We had to practice our courage first and calmly in the rain of bullets, so that we could command the army to deal with it calmly... Now this is just the beginning, saying that if we waited for Panama, we had to bombard us with guns..."

"These people are so willing to pay for their capital?" Yuan Shikai's face was slightly disdained. It would be fine if he didn't use bullets as money, but he would still have to use guns to bombard him... This is his future position? How many people would he offend? Then Guo Jinzhang also promised to let him be the leader of these hundreds of thousands of troops... m, wasn't he deliberately lying to play with him?

"That's it, do you feel that you can't stand it?" Rong Lu asked with a gloomy face. He was also sore in his teeth. He asked the soldiers to hide aside with bullets. It would be fine, but he had to use guns to bombard them... These people in Tangzhou are too expensive. But he couldn't help but have some longing. The soldiers trained in this way should be much stronger than the so-called soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, right? Just looking at Shouyuan, the performance of Tong at the shooting range just now did not change color. In addition, Xing Rufeng and Shan Rusong's performance was already very good, at least not worse than himself... He thought about the scene of Zhao Hengxing and others holding machine guns and firing at him constantly, and he couldn't help but feel chilled from his heart.

"If it's just like this, you'll get used to it a few more times. But those guys have many methods," Na Tong's face suddenly turned pale. "Mr. Rong, you don't know that as long as our people make a little mistake, they will throw us directly into the small dark room..."

"Little black room? What is that? Did they torture you?" Ding Ruchang saw Na Tong say the word "Little black room", the others, including Shouyuan, were actually a little disgusted and couldn't help frowning.

"So what if you use torture?" Liu Yongfu rolled his eyes. In the war with the French, he was a member of Zuo Zongtang's faction. He was not in line with the Li Hongzhang faction, so he naturally looked down on Ding Ruchang, who was trusted by Li Hongzhang. "If you want to win a battle, you must be strict military discipline. Not to mention torture, you should be beheaded and sacrificed for the flag when necessary."

"Beheading? Humph!" Na Tong looked at him and snorted coldly, "If it beheading, it would be great. That's a small dark room! Lord Liu, ask yourself, who is not afraid of here?"

"Can they prepare for torture?" Yuan Shikai looked at Na Tong carefully. This guy was quite healthy. Apart from being a little darker and stronger than when he came, he had never seen him being tortured.

"A small black room, also known as confinement." Shouyuan breathed a sigh of relief, "When we first came, we always violated the rules, and people didn't beat or scold us, just locked us in a dark room and stayed by ourselves..."

"That's nothing." Ding Ruchang said strangely, "What are you afraid of?"

"Of course it was nothing at the beginning, but then it couldn't do it." Shouyuan narrowed his eyes slightly, and his body couldn't help but start to tremble: "You stayed alone in the house, you can't see the light, you can't see people, or you can't hear any sounds, you just feel empty... When I was locked up, I couldn't help talking and singing for less than half an hour, but I got annoyed after a while. Not long after, I started to think about it and cry, and then I started to walk around like a trapped beast in the cage. Then, I started to have hallucinations, and I almost died quickly, just thinking about dying... When they let me out, I was exhausted and almost couldn't get up, thinking that my life was over..."

"So powerful?" Yuan Shikai didn't believe it, but looking at the white faces of other trained officers around him, he suddenly felt that he had asked a lot.

"If you don't believe it, you can try it yourself." Sure enough, An Ping looked at him in a cold sweat and said gritting his teeth.

"That... forget it. I believe everyone's words." Yuan Shikai said with a smile. Everyone's faces made him feel a little nervous. But he still didn't understand. Isn't it just a sound or a light? It's really that scary? Isn't it like this when I go to bed at night? It actually makes the people of Tong and the others so scared that they want to return to the Qing Dynasty regardless of the instructions of Queen Mother Citizen and others?

"I know everyone is suffering." Shouyuan's words also affected Ronglu. Although like Yuan Shikai, he could not guess what was scary in the small dark room, but he could feel Shouyuan. Na Tong and others' fear... Those guys must have suffered a lot. However, no matter how hard they endured, they could not lose the task. Although he could use his power to throw all these guys back to the Qing Dynasty, these guys were found by thousands of choices. In the future, the pillars of the Qing Dynasty would throw them back. Not to mention whether their missions were smashed, the faces of the Empress Dowager and the Emperor would definitely not be able to let go of... Because so many people returned without failing, people would say that there was no one in the Qing Dynasty. How could he let this happen?

"It is a good thing to endure hardship! Those who have never ended hardship may have limited success... Everyone is a pillar of the court, with the heavy trust of the Queen Mother and the Emperor, and are both powerful people for a while. How could they retreat like this? Furthermore, this battle with the Western Barbarians is openly for the Citi Kingdom, but secretly, it is the battle of our Qing Dynasty's power... At this time, you are cowardly, aren't you afraid that people will point at your backbone and scold you for being heartless when you go back?"

"We are not afraid of fighting hard, but the people of Tangzhou don't treat us as human beings at all... I've been thrown into the small black room twice. Lord Rong, tell me, how can this make people feel at ease?" An Ping shouted.

"I will tell Guo Jinzhang about this matter and let him leave the training matter to ourselves..." Ronglu glanced at everyone, then suddenly pointed at Yuan Shikai, "Mr. Yuan Shikai, will be our training minister in the future... This is a matter that has been decided. He will definitely not deal with you like the people of Tangzhou, don't worry..."

"Mr. Yuan..."

Training Minister? Everyone was stunned for a moment, and suddenly they all focused their attention on Yuan Shikai. There was still a lot of pleasing in their eyes... And when they saw this scene, Yuan Shikai seemed to suddenly understand something.

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Chapter completed!