On the fifth day of the winter of the 11th year of the Guangxu period, the Beijing Military Preparation School, the Qing Army Officer School, officially opened. The school has five disciplines: stance, cavalry, artillery, engineering (including railways) and baggage mobilization. The learning content is mainly staff and command as the auxiliary, and the academic system is three years. There were only more than 200 students in the first batch. In addition to the noble children selected from the Jingji area, there were also young military officers recommended by the governors of various provinces and generals.

In the early morning, Duan Qirui was awakened from his sleep by a scattered sound. He rubbed his misty eyes and saw that the young man in the same barracks as him had already put on his clothes.

The Martial Arts School requires all students to eat and live in the military camp, and arranged a barracks and accommodation for each two people. The man who lives in the same room with Duan Qirui is named Yang Yong, who is less than 20 years old this year and comes from Vietnam. Because of his military merits, the emperor rewarded him with the opportunity to enter the Martial Arts School.

After lifting the curtains and looking at the still dark outside, Duan Qirui frowned, "What time is it now? Why are you doing so early?"

This was the first day after entering the school. Everyone was adapting to everything around them, including their roommates. Duan Qirui was naturally curious about what his classmate wanted to get up so early.

Yang Yong smiled honestly and said, "I'm sorry for affecting you. It's just six o'clock now, and breakfast will take two hours to come. You can sleep for a while. I'll go out to fuck, it won't affect you."

Duan Qirui had worked in the Huai Army, so he naturally had sex, but so early... and now he is in the martial arts school. I haven't heard that the school still has sex in the morning.

Hearing Duan Qirui’s question, Yang Yong explained: “Actually, our school also arranges exercises, but considering that not everyone can adapt to high-intensity training as soon as they come, the morning exercises will be scheduled to start a month later. I went to have fun with the training camp next to me, and their morning exercises started at 6:30 in the morning.”

The emperor appointed Liu Shaoqing, a general from Vietnam, as the assistant minister of the Beijing camp's training and training, to be responsible for the Shenji camp's training. This matter has been very popular in the capital recently, and Duan Qirui naturally knew it. At this time, he naturally understood after hearing what Yang Yong said.

After looking at Yang Yong who was already dressed in neatly, Duan Qirui thought about it, then lifted the quilt and got out of bed and started to put on clothes. "I can't sleep anyway, and I'm awake, so I'll go to the morning exercises with you. Oh, I forgot to ask, isn't it inconvenient, right?"

Yang Yong was stunned and then said, "There is nothing inconvenient. Morning exercises are nothing more than running, activities, and spiritual energy. We just need to follow the soldiers, and it will not affect them. But, Brother Duan, can you do it?"

Duan Qirui smiled and said, "Boy, do you dare to look down on me? Tell you, brother, I also came out of the military camp. What I rely on in the army is to fight and fight. Then I was chosen by Lord Li. Just running, can I still be difficult for me?"

While talking, he put on his clothes neatly, then waved his hand to Yang Yong and said, "Lead ahead."

After walking out of the room, Duan Qirui saw that there were still several people coming out of the room. Three of them saw Yang Yong greeting them and knew that they were from Vietnam with Yang Yong. Judging from their age, they were probably descendants of a general of the Black Flag Army. Duan Qirui, who came out with them, knew them all, and were all selected by the Huai Group, namely Wu Dingyuan, Kong Qingtang and Feng Guozhang. It seems that these three are the same as themselves. Because they were separated from people from Vietnam, they were influenced by them and prepared to participate in their morning exercises.

Several people met each other, and then the Huang Chengyong, who seemed to be a little older in the last year, said: "Let's go over quickly. It's time to blow the whistle in a few minutes. Less than ten minutes after the whistle sounds, the young master should punish us again. I can't afford to lose that person."

Yang Yong also said: "Then let's run a few steps, otherwise we will really let those recruits see that we are punished, so we don't want to look up and walk in the future."

Duan Qirui and the others naturally knew that the young man mentioned by these two people was Liu Shaoqing. When they were just selected to come to the capital, they had visited this young man, but things were easy to change. Now this young man is on the verge of the storm and is one of the most popular officials of the emperor. Seeing the two of them talking seriously, Duan Qirui's curiosity became more and more aroused, so he said, "Then run over, it's not too far, let's hurry up."

Seeing that no one objected, the few people ran to the other side of the wall.

It is said that it is separated by a wall, but if you want to enter through the camp gate, you still have to circle around. At the beginning, the eight people could still run together in a regular manner, but soon, the young people's mentality of competing for the first place made these people unconsciously start to compete and run faster and faster.

Duan Qirui had a bit of a foundation in national martial arts. In the Zhiying Army of the Huai Army, there were not many people who could compare with him. However, at this time he was surprised to find that the four small men from Vietnam were all running faster than him. Except for him who could barely keep up with their pace, the only remaining was Feng Guozhang, who was also from the Zhiying Army, followed closely behind him. As for Wu Dingyuan and Kong Qingtang, they had been gradually thrown away.

It was not far from the military school to Liu Shaoqing's army camp, but Duan Qirui felt a little breathless when he ran so quickly. Fortunately, when they arrived at the new military school ground, the whistle had not sounded, which made Duan Qirui somewhat grateful.

"It's okay to catch up."

Perhaps because of the reason why they were able to come together, the four Vietnamese boys were much closer to Duan Qirui, especially Yang Yong, who was originally in the same dormitory, so they naturally became closer, so they said, "We have been training for the new army for a while, and this morning exercise is a daily compulsory practice. At the beginning, the soldiers were not used to it, and many people couldn't get up, but now they have basically adapted. If Brother Duan is willing, they can come here to exercise together every day in the future."

Duan Qirui nodded and then said, "You said before that the school will arrange morning exercises in the future?"

Yang Yong said: "Yes, I heard from the young master that I might have sex with these new recruits in the future. After all, our current instructors are insufficient and we cannot do so alone."

As the two were talking, they saw Liu Shaoqing coming with two teams of personal soldiers not far away. On the other side, Wu Dingyuan and Kong Qingtang also followed up panting.

Because of his special status, Liu Shaoqing is not only a student of the Martial Arts School, but also a supervisor of tactical academic affairs. He also serves as the responsibilities of the Minister of the Beijing Camp Training Training Department, so he lives here alone. At this time, when he came to everyone, he saw Duan Qirui and others, he said strangely: "Are you guys?"

Duan Qirui knew that Liu Shaoqing's official title was much higher than that of him and others at this time, so he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, "Duan Qirui, I have met the supervisor. Bei Zhi and the brothers Yang Yong and Yang in the same room. I heard that the adults were training here, so I followed him, hoping to receive the adults' training with them. I hope he can fulfill his wish."

Liu Shaoqing had met Duan Qirui and others, so he said, "It's great, you are willing to make progress, and I am very relieved. However, this training is very difficult, I hope you are prepared."

Duan Qirui and others hurriedly said: "Be loyal to the emperor, and be humble, and are not afraid of hard work."

Liu Shaoqing nodded, then said to Huang Chengyong and others: "Then you will take them with you."

Huang Chengyong and the other four nodded immediately. Then, Liu Shaoqing took out his pocket watch and looked at it, "Time is up, let's get together!"

With Liu Shaoqing's order, dozens of personal soldiers behind him immediately ran to the barracks not far away. Soon, sharp whistles echoed over the camp.

Soon, Duan Qirui saw teams of soldiers running out of the barracks quickly. Some of them ran while tying buttons on their clothes, while others tied belts while running.

The soldiers who ran out naturally found the instructors to their team and quickly stood in a column. At the same time, several columns gradually formed four larger square formations. Duan Qirui silently calculated the time in his heart. Before half a stick of incense was reached, the entire team had already been sorted out.

Duan Qirui compared the team in front of him with his TJ-time Zhizi Battalion. Judging from the speed of the assembly, it was at least three times faster than Zhizi Battalion. The neatness of the soldiers' array and the neatness of their wear are even more incomparable to the Zhizi Battalion.

At this time, Huang Chengyong and the other four were already standing in front of the four square formations. Duan Qirui and others also chose to follow their roommates according to their personal dormitory. Duan Qirui was naturally followed by Yang Yong.

Seeing that the phalanx had gathered, Yang Yong shouted: "Report the number!"

With Yang Yong's order, a shout came from the square formation in front of him, "One, two, three, four...". Because there were too many people, the shouts seemed very messy, but Duan Qirui felt that the shouts were in order in chaos.

Soon, the number of each square formation was reported. One of the columns on the left side of the front line in front of Yang Yong stood up and said, "Report! The first team of the White Tiger Camp has been assembled, and fourteen people should be there, and fourteen people are actually there, and it is finished!"

This person had just finished speaking, and then the second column of the second column also came out and said: "Report! The second team of the White Tiger Camp has been assembled, and fourteen people should be there, and fourteen people should be there, and it is finished!" Then there were the third team, the fourth team, and the fifth team...

Such a compact and powerful report made Duan Qirui feel that "the famous generals of ancient times are nothing more than this."

As each team finished reporting, Yang Yong sternly said: "Everyone has it, and it scattered in one arm!"

As Yang Yong finished speaking, the soldiers in front of him suddenly moved. They saw that they quickly adjusted their feet, and only took a few breaths. While keeping the formation basically neat, the interval between people had been opened.

"There is a warm-up exercise below. Everyone, stand up and prepare!"

‘Hula…’

With Yang Yong's order, the soldier in front of him stepped forward neatly, then leaned forward and leaned down, supported his upper body with his hands, and then his legs were gathered together behind him.

Seeing that everyone was ready, Yang Yong immediately said, "Listen to my command! One..."

Duan Qirui had never seen such a move, but as he watched the soldiers in front of him do it in a stern manner under Yang Yong's leadership, he quickly lay down and did it as if he was like this. Fortunately, the move was not complicated, he just bent his arms to sink his body, while keeping his body straight, and then stretched his arms to support his body. Soon, Duan Qirui mastered the key points and did more than a dozen together.

However, this was just the beginning. After doing fifty, even Duan Qirui had some foundation, he felt his arms began to become sore and weak.

Yang Yong's order continued. Duan Qirui didn't know if this was the demonstration prepared by Liu Shaoqing for the four of him, but he didn't plan to admit defeat just like this, so he gritted his teeth and persevered until he made one hundred. Yang Yong finally shouted: "It's over! Stand up!"

Duan Qirui's arms were sore and weak at this time. He struggled with the last one last night and quickly stood up. On the other side, the others were just breathing slightly.

"Okay, let's relax and move your wrists...anks...and knees..."

As Yang Yong said, the soldiers twisted the joints of their bodies one after another, and the warm-up exercise was only completed after three minutes.

"Please note! Take the teams one, two and three as the ranks, form three columns, run... and walk!"

Yang Yong had introduced before that the core of morning exercises is running, and now it is the real beginning.

Several teams started running under the leadership of the team leader. Yang Yong took this opportunity to come to Duan Qirui and said, "How is it? You followed me just now?"

Duan Qirui smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Yang, are you like this every day?"

Yang Yong knew what he meant and smiled and said, "It's like this every day. But it's not too difficult to stand up. It's just that Brother Duan, you're the first time you did it, so you're a little uncomfortable. After a few days, you'll get used to it. I promise that if you don't let you do two or three hundred a day in half a year, you'll feel uncomfortable."

Duan Qirui didn't care much about Yang Yong's joke, he was concerned about the role of this action.

At this time, the fifteen squads of Yang Yong's phalanx had already run in three columns. Yang Yong immediately said, "Let's run too, let's explain to you while running."

Duan Qirui nodded and started running as Yang Yong followed the inside of the team.

"Brother Duan also came out of the army, right?"

Duan Qirui nodded, "I come from the Zhijian camp of Huai Army."

Yang Yong smiled and continued, "Then Brother Duan should know that the most important thing for soldiers is physical strength. Only with good physical strength can they march and fight and go to battle and kill the enemy."

Duan Qirui said: "This is natural. What the soldiers want is a good body. But I know about running, but you were lying on the ground just now..."

"It's a lie down and stand up. This is actually used to train the muscles of the upper limbs, that is, to train the strength of both arms. It's the same as the folk martial arts practitioners who play stone locks. However, there are many people in the army and there are not so many stone locks, so it's changed to this one."

Duan Qirui suddenly realized that no wonder he felt his arms were sore after finishing. It was indeed a special method for exercise. "This method is good. You can exercise without any equipment, and it seems that you can contact us anytime and anywhere."

Yang Yong nodded and said, "That's right, it's just convenient, so the young master vigorously promoted it. In fact, we also have some equipment here. Look at the horizontal bars and parallel bars over there, which are basically used to exercise the muscles of both arms."

With Yang Yong's introduction, Duan Qirui noticed that there were some strange things standing in several places on the playground. He thought it was used to dry clothes, but he didn't expect it to be used for training troops.

"Brother Duan should know that the soldiers killed the enemy on the battlefield, whether they swung their swords or carried guns, they used the power of their arms. If the war was not going well, it might take more than ten days to fight a battle. If the soldiers were weak, then when the enemy came, wouldn't they stretched their necks to wait for death?"

Yang Yong’s words made sense, but Duan Qirui also thought of one thing. “Now they are all foreign guns and cannons. Soldiers only need to fire their guns from afar with rifles in war. How much meaning does this exercise have?”

"Haha..." Yang Yong laughed and said, "I don't know about this big brother. First of all, this foreign gun must be held with both hands, right? The arms are strong, and the gun is more stable, and the aim is more accurate and the shooting is accurate. Besides, who said that if you use a foreign gun, you don't need to fight? When we were in Tonkin, we would fight with the French face to face with the French. At the beginning, because we were weak and weak, we suffered a lot of losses. Many good brothers were killed by the foreign devils' bayonets. Later, the young master strengthened the training of the upper limbs of the army, and with the help of Master Huang Feihong, everyone learned some marksmanship, which led to the disadvantages. However, we Chinese are still not as physically as foreign devils. There is no way to do this, we can only win with more people."

The Black Flag Army fought in Vietnam with a sea of ​​corpses and blood, so Duan Qirui naturally knew that this was a real knowledge. He naturally couldn't make any comments, so he changed the topic.

"How long does it take for us to run every day?"

"This is not necessarily the case. Generally, morning exercises are about five laps around the playground, which is about 3,000 meters. It is required to run for twenty minutes."

Duan Qirui was not used to Yang Yong and the others talking in the Western clock, but he also knew that these twenty minutes were about a squid incense. "Wouldn't it be too tiring to run six miles in such a short time?"

Yang Yong said: "No, I'll get used to it slowly. This is the beginning, and the intensity of the training will gradually increase. Running three thousand meters like this requires completion in ten minutes is considered excellent. In addition, in the future, only morning exercises are like jogging three thousand meters, and the real training is to run five thousand meters, which is only twenty minutes. There is also 10,000 meters of running, 5 thousand meters of running and long-distance zipper, but that will happen half a year later."

With Yang Yong's introduction, Duan Qirui's heart was stirred up with storms. With such an intensity of training, no wonder the Black Flag Army could defeat the French in Vietnam. But with such a strong intensity of training, did the soldiers have no complaints? Can they persevere?

Regarding Duan Qirui's question, Yang Yong explained: "Physical training is expensive. If the soldiers have no complaints, they can eat it. For example, they must ensure that one egg, two taels of meat, rice, and white flour every day, and some grains will be added sooner or later. In short, the main esophagus is full. If you eat well, the soldiers will have the strength and the enthusiasm for training will be higher."

Duan Qirui didn't expect that the food in this training camp would be so good. You should know that even the landlords could not eat rice and white flour every day, let alone guaranteed two taels of meat every day. "How much money does this cost?"

Yang Yong said: "I don't know this. The one in charge of logistics is Wu Faxian, the iron rooster, but he naturally knows how to save money, so we don't have to worry about it. Besides, this is the capital after all, and these people will be the personal army of the emperor in the future, so it should be better to eat. By the way..." As he said that, he squeezed at Duan Qirui, "I heard that the food in our non-commissioned officer school is also the standard."

OK. Today is the first day of the opening of the Martial Arts School. Duan Qirui has not tasted the food in the school. However, Yang Yong and Liu Shaoqing have such an advantage of being close to the water. It is not surprising to know this.

The two of them ran and chatted, but soon Duan Qirui's anger could not keep up. He no longer dared to joke with Yang Yong, so he could only run with his head down. He finally managed to persevere in the three thousand meters.

After running a few laps, Duan Qirui, Kong Qingtang and others were all panting. On the other hand, Liu Shaoqing, Yang Yong and the soldiers were in high spirits and refreshed.

"After the morning exercise, each team will bring it back to organize the housework and prepare breakfast!"
Chapter completed!