"Rise the gun!"

"Add a brick!"

On the training ground, teams of Shanghai soldiers wearing military green uniforms were conducting gun posture training.⊙,

In the scorching sun, the soldiers stood and shot with guns. There were bricks hanging under their muzzles, and they were gritting their teeth and persevering, sweating profusely.

However, their instructor did not let them go, but added a brick to each of them again.

"Add a brick!"

"I need to add it!"

"I can't lift it anymore!"

"Instructor, you always give up your hands and let us go!"

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"Stop talking! Sweat more often in daily life and bleed less during wartime. I am saving your life!" The instructor was selfless and did not care about mercy at all.

The soldiers' training was so hard, and they were new recruits. As soon as they joined the army, it was no wonder they were tired.

But this is also impossible. Every instructor received a notice from the General Staff, implying that the war is coming and that the recruits must be trained twice as much as possible to prepare for the war.

Every instructor is very clear about what kind of battle it is, and it goes without saying.

However, not every recruit is so obedient. There are always three walnuts and two dates in the army who are dissatisfied with it.

"I don't accept it. Why do we train us like this? We are not here to pick bricks. We are here to join the army and shoot guns!" A fucked recruit protested and immediately received response from other recruits.

The instructor sneered: "Why? Just because I am your instructor! You must execute my orders, otherwise you will get out of here!"

"Get out? Why don't you get out? We are here to join the army for Master Li Weiguo. We are here to fight against foreign devils with Lord Li. Why do you tell us to get out?"

"That's right! We are here to fight foreigners!"

"That's right! We are all students, we graduated from Danfu University, and we are called intellectuals. Why do you, a rude man, let us get out of here!"

Seeing these recruits unconvinced, the instructor was not angry. After all, the ones in front of him were all 17 or 18 years old, and they were all student soldiers from Danfu University. They had excellent grades at school and were all recruited with passion.

"Just because you still want to fight foreign devils?" the instructor sneered: "After going to the battlefield, you can't even lift a gun, and you still want to fight foreign devils?"

"Who said we can't even lift the gun? We can't lift it because you added three bricks to our gun!"

"That's it! If you have the ability, you can try it? If you can hang three bricks and hold on for an hour, we will accept you!"

"Haha, you're so funny. You just had one arm before you saw him. Why did you raise your gun?"

Listening to the ridicule of these new students, the instructor laughed and said, "A group of little dolls who are ignorant of the world, I will let you see what a real soldier is today."

While speaking, the instructor picked up a rifle with one hand and made a shooting position, and then asked the soldiers to add five bricks to him.

shock!

The students and recruits were stunned and looked at the instructor.

"How is that possible?"

"The instructor can really lift a rifle weighing dozens of pounds with one hand!"

"I'm blind, he added five bricks!"

"Pretending! It must be a show-off! I think he can hold on for a few seconds!"

The student soldiers quickly started to talk and bet on how long the instructors could last.

A minute passed, and the instructor hung five bricks with a gun in his hand, not moving at all.

Ten minutes passed, but the instructor still didn't move.

An hour passed. The instructor was still standing straight, sweating like rain on his forehead, but he was still as stable as Mount Tai.

"The grass, the instructor is really a beast!"

"I'm drunk too! Is this still a human?"

Two hours later, when all the student soldiers looked at the instructor again, they no longer looked down upon them, and instead admired them.

At this moment, the instructor shouted loudly: "In the real battlefield, you may kill an enemy with the first shot, but the enemy is not alone. There are thousands of them. If you want to survive, you must continue to kill the second and third ones. Only by constantly killing the enemy can you survive. A battle often lasts for several hours or even a few days. During this period, you may need to maintain a shooting posture at all times. If your arms are powerless and cannot raise the gun, then congratulations, you will die before the enemy!"

The instructor said the students and soldiers woke up. It turned out that if the arm was powerless, they could not hold the gun. If they could not hold the gun, they would be killed by the enemy.

After understanding this truth, the student soldiers were immediately ashamed.

At this time, the instructor shouted loudly and asked the soldier to prepare a 100-meter human-shaped target, while he quickly pulled the bolt and raised his gun to shoot.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

The instructor kept pulling the bolts, putting on bullets, shooting, and returning bullets. His movements were smooth and he could not tell at all that he was tired.

"Report the target!"

All five bullets were shot out in less than half a minute, and all hit the human-shaped target, and two bullets hit the head.

"The instructor is mighty!"

"The instructor is mighty!"

I don’t know who shouted, but all the students and recruits were excited and shouted loudly around the instructor.

"Instructor, you are so awesome. Teach us how to shoot!"

"Yes, teach us, let us all learn your marksmanship to kill more foreigners!"

The instructor was immediately amused and thought to himself: These heartless little guys are called donkeys, and their faces change faster than the sky.

When dealing with these student soldiers, the instructor only treats them as children in his eyes, so he is not angry.

"Since you want to learn, let's stand it for me!"

"Hold up all the guns!"

"Add five bricks each of them!"

The instructor struck while the iron was hot, and the student soldiers immediately complained, but when they thought of what the instructor said and the instructor reached out, they all felt itchy and wanted to become a master like the instructor, so even if they were added five bricks, they insisted on enduring it.

This scene was seen by Li Weiguo in the distance. He was taking senior Shanghai generals to inspect the training of recruits, so the group came to the recruit company where the instructor was located.

"The commander-in-chief is here!"

“There are all!”

"stand at attention!"

"salute!"

Li Weiguo returned to the military salute, came to the instructor, and said with a smile: "Instructor Wang Zhigang, you are doing a good job!"

"Commander-in-Chief, do you actually remember my name?" Wang Zhigang said with a look of surprise. He was extremely excited. He was just a small instructor of the recruit company. He could actually make the governor-in-chief of Liangjiang and the commander-in-chief of Shanghai Army Li Weiguo remember and call out his name. The excitement in his heart was no less than that of later rural primary school students who met the President of the State. It is not spoken.

Li Weiguo smiled and said, "Of course I remember you! Wang Zhigang, in the third year of the Yuhuatai Battle in Xianfeng, you bravely killed dozens of enemies and lost an arm for this. I personally awarded you the Warrior Medal."

Wang Zhigang said: "It happened many years ago. I still remember it!"

Li Weiguo laughed loudly and said loudly: "Every soldier who has made great contributions to the Shanghai army, I, Li Weiguo, will remember his name!"

This made all the Shanghai soldiers around him excited, especially those new students who heard it, and they immediately shouted that they would make contributions so that Li Weiguo could remember their names.

As soon as Li Weiguo was intrigued, he asked these student recruits: "Brothers, your instructor just now told you that hanging bricks under the gun is to train your arms. This is true, it is indeed one meaning. But there is another meaning. I call it muscle memory."

"Muscle memory?"

"What is muscle memory?"

"Mr. Li, tell us!"

"That's right, the commander-in-chief will tell us!"

Whether it is the generals accompanying Li Weiguo, the instructors such as Wang Zhigang, and the student recruits, they all urgently hope that Li Weiguo can teach them a lesson.

Li Weiguo smiled. This method of practicing shooting was originally taught to the Shanghai soldiers. He explained: "The so-called muscle memory is because the muscles of the human body have memory effects. After repeated the same movement many times, the muscles will form conditioned reflexes. Although this process is slow, once the muscle memory is obtained, it will not be easily forgotten within 20 years. For us soldiers, the benefits of muscle memory are huge. For example, once we practice the aiming posture of the gun, we will not forget it within 20 years. With standard movements, we can kill more Japanese people and save our lives when we go to the battlefield."

If it were the case before, Li Weiguo said the words of muscle memory. The officers and soldiers of the Shanghai Army would definitely not understand it, so at that time Li Weiguo directly told them to practice arm strength. Now it is different. The student soldiers in front of him are educated and able to understand it.

After listening to Li Weiguo's explanation, both the generals and the students and soldiers felt a sudden realization.

Especially the student soldiers, they were even more excited. They could kill more Japanese soldiers on the battlefield and save their lives. They were all inspiring to train their muscle memory.

In addition to Wang Zhigang's new recruit company, other new recruit companies have encountered similar incidents. The student recruits are arrogant and inevitably have some minor frictions. Most of the new recruits dare not really fight against the instructors, and they all received training honestly. A few of the student soldiers were more arrogant, and eventually they were obeyed by the instructor's aura and means, which made the overall training of the new recruits in the Shanghai army as scheduled.

Standing on the platform and looking at the new recruits who were working hard and diligently on the huge training ground, Li Weiguo felt relieved.

However, when Li Weiguo's face became heavy when he thought of facing the British and French troops in a year.

Using history can always lead one step ahead, but once history is changed, you have to bear the price of changing history.

Since Europe was sent back to the United Kingdom and France to organize coalition forces to prepare for a large-scale invasion of China, Li Weiguo knew the price of changing history. He did not dare to be careless, so he began to expand his army to prepare for war.

In the past, Li Weiguo had always pursued the path of elite troops and never blindly expanded his army. By the eighth year of Xianfeng, the main force of the Shanghai army was only 100,000 in eight towns, while Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army had expanded to 300,000, and Li Hongzhang's Huai Army also reached 180,000. They were constantly expanding their army and territories, which made Li Weiguo feel threatened.

Seeing that the British and French coalition forces were about to invade a large scale in another year, Li Weiguo had only 100,000 troops in his hands, and had to deal with the British and French coalition forces with all his strength. He knew that Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang had not gone to rescue the court from beginning to end, and allowed the British and French coalition forces to invade Beijing and burn the Old Summer Palace. This shows that once the British and French coalition forces come back again, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang will never help, and it is even very likely that Li Weiguo and Britain and France will fight to intervene in Liangjiang and seize Li Weiguo's territory. Even if Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang did not take action, it is not ruled out that the Taiping Army would not take advantage of the situation.

The intention of guarding others is necessary, so Li Weiguo continued to maintain a certain scale of elite troops, and at the same time, in order to prevent Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, and the Taiping Army, Li Weiguo decided to expand his army on a large scale.

This is the third time that Li Weiguo has expanded the Shanghai army. This time, the size of the Shanghai army has expanded from 100,000 people from the original eight towns to 8 towns, with a total of more than 200,000 people from 16 towns.

The third time the Shanghai Army expanded its military force, and its military source improved significantly compared with the previous two expansions. In the past, the Shanghai Army's military's military was mostly illiterate, it was very difficult to train, and the combat quality of soldiers was also poor, but now it is different. Li Weiguo has tens of millions of people in Jiangnan Province and Zhejiang Province, with sufficient military sources. The Shanghai Army defeated the British, French and American joint fleet, and more ambitious people came to join the army, including scholars and martial arts practitioners. Moreover, Danhui University has already been on track. Every year, in addition to normal students graduation, the scale of night school has greatly improved the cultural level of Shanghai Army officers, and advanced tactical theory has greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the Shanghai Army.

At the same time, Li Weiguo has been sheltering refugees, with hundreds of thousands of orphans, of which 20,000 orphans completed their studies in orphanages and were suitable for joining the army. They were grateful and enthusiastically signed up for joining the army, greatly improving the overall quality of the Shanghai Army's third expansion of the army.

Of course, Li Weiguo did not intend to let these students who had been to school join the army so early, and he was preparing to establish a professional military academy to train officers. However, the upcoming invasion of the British and French coalition forces forced Li Weiguo to join the army in advance to improve the overall quality of the Shanghai army, improve combat effectiveness, and allow the student soldiers to grow in the army in advance.

Although according to the training standards of the Shanghai Army, new recruits can form combat effectiveness in three months, Li Weiguo did not intend to let the newly recruited eight towns go to the battlefield. The main force against the British and French coalition forces is still the current eight towns of the Shanghai Army. The newly recruited eight towns are mainly used for defense, and the second-line B-League of the local garrison is used to defend against the Taiping Army. The Hunan Army and the Huai Army should be enough.

When Li Weiguo thought that he had now held more than 200,000 troops, he felt a sense of excitement in his heart.

At this time, an intelligence officer sent emergency information, and the guard chief Zhuang Jiuxia immediately conveyed it to Li Weiguo.
Chapter completed!