Chapter 18 Expansion

In the Xingtian Army camp in the south of Zezhou, there is a dragon and tiger training scene everywhere. Now in order to ensure that the autumn harvest here is not disturbed by the Zezhou government, Xiao Tianjian put the third battalions of Li Shuanzhu and the fourth battalions of Liu Bao here. Two other months ago, he also had reached the age of the Lianhuazhai Youth Camp. The 17-year-old 300 young soldiers were also transferred here, enhancing the troop allocation here.

Although the two battalions and the youth camp are only about 3,000 people, for the officers and soldiers in Zezhou, they are already invincible opponents. In the whole Zezhou area, most areas have been continuously encroached by the Xingtian Army in the past few months, leaving only the area around Zezhou City for less than 20 miles. Controlled by the government, it has basically made Zezhou a lonely city, so Xiao Tianjian is right that Zezhou is not a matter of whether to fight or not, but whether they can fight or not. As for those officers and soldiers in Zezhou City now, they are already panicked and dare not come out to stroke the tiger beard of the Tianjun.

After Xiao Tianjian left Yangcheng County, he came to the Zezhou battalion to check the training of the soldiers and horses of the two battalions in the past six months.

Nowadays, the Xingtian army's troops have long been out of the original category of the peasant army. After the material situation gradually became abundant, Xiao Tianjian allocated a large number of cloths and made new military uniforms for the Xingtian Army's troops. Now the Xingtian Army's troops are not only equipped with armor, but also Everyone has put on new military uniforms, and their spiritual outlook has changed a lot, and they are all full of energy.

And the long-term cultivation of military discipline made the soldiers completely wash away the old breath on their bodies. Between their hands and feet, they all reflected the quality of the soldiers, which made Xiao Tianjian quite satisfied.

After Xiao Tianjian entered the camp, both officers and soldiers stopped to salute Xiao Tianjian, and Xiao Tianjian also maintained an upright posture. Along the way, he continued to give standard military salutes to these soldiers, making the whole barracks look very solemn.

Li Shuanzhu, Zhao Erlu, Liu Bao and other campers learned the news. When they came to greet him, Xiao Tianjian had already entered the camp. Several people immediately saluted Xiao Tianjian and welcomed Xiao Tianjian into the camp.

Among them, there is a young officer who is very eye-catching. He is only about seventeen or eight years old. Although he looks a little childish, he is slightly taller than ordinary people and very strong. When he sees Xiao Tianjian, his eyes are a little shining and his face is excited. This person is not beside him. It is Liu Yaoben, who is regarded as the adopted son by Xiao Tianjian.

This guy is now seventeen years old. In ancient times, after a man grew to fifteen years old, he was called the year of dancing elephants, dance, martial arts, that is to say, he can pick up the war and go to the battlefield.

In the past two years, Xiao Tianjian has specially selectively received a considerable number of orphans from the outside, about 14 or 15 years old. After more than this year of growth, and a group of orphans such as Liu Yaoben, who were the earliest to receive, many orphans in the youth camp have reached the age of 16 years old, which is already As long as they became adults, when they dealt with Xu Dingguo, Zuo Guangxian and other road officers and soldiers after the New Year, they clamored for entry into the war camp and became serious soldiers of the Xingtian Army, instead of staying in the youth camp.

After careful consideration, Xiao Tianjian finally agreed to let the first batch of teenagers who had reached the age of 17 separate the youth camp and choose 300 people to form a separate army. For the time being, they were called the teaching camp. The head of this teaching camp, Xiao Tianjian did not choose anyone else. After that, Liu Yaoben was appointed as a battalion general. Three hundred young men under his command were divided into three sentries. There were no sentrymen, and the sentry generals and team generals were also from the young battalion.

Although these teenagers are young, they are Xiao Tianjian's heart. After they were selected into the youth camp, they have all received a good education. Everyone can read a lot. Although they are not familiar with poetry and books, they can basically be divorced from illiteracy, and at the same time, they have all accepted it for at least a year. With rigorous military training, I have systematically learned some basic tactics.

To put it bluntly, Xiao Tianjian trained their gang as low-level officers. The youth camp is actually a junior non-commissioned officer school, preparing for the next expansion of Xing Tianjun in advance.

And these boys from the youth camp are not old, but their military literacy is the best in the army. The education they receive is basically brainwashing education. In their eyes, Xiao Tianjian is their heaven. They simply worship Xiao Tianjian as a god, not to mention loyalty. It is.

So Xiao Tianjian has spent a lot of money on these teenagers. Whether it is food, accommodation or education, he has taken out the best resources at hand. Now he has finally begun to enter the first step of harvest.

And this independent battalion composed of teenagers is now considered a soldier. For the time being, it is directly under the jurisdiction of Xiao Tianjian, and no one will interfere in their management.

Although these 300 people are all teenagers, Li Shuanzhu, Liu Bao and other battalion generals did not dare to underestimate them. Some time ago, the young men in the battalion inspection and the teaching battalion twice tried their best to take the lead. Their discipline, fighting will and hard-working spirit greatly exceeded that of ordinary soldiers, so that no one dares to do anything else dare to Look at these young guys and secretly call them the tiger and wolf camp, which means that they are all a group of tigers and wolves, and they will become a tiger and wolf teacher in Xiao Tianjian's hands.

Today, Xiao Tianjian came to the Zezhou camp. As the head of the teaching camp, Liu Yaoben can naturally be on an equal footing with Liu Bao and others to see Xiao Tianjian.

"Don't get into the big account. Let's go straight to the school!" After seeing them, Xiao Tianjian just nodded slightly to Liu Yaoben, but without saying much, he directly took them to the school yard.

And the soldiers of the battalion were also practicing on the school field at this time. Xiao Tianjian did not give them time to prepare at all and went directly to the school to inspect their training results.

After a large amount of equipment such as bird knives, bayonet and Thunderbolt guns, the training of soldiers of the Xingtian Army is also changing. The personnel in the army who are good at using guns, through continuous attempts, have summed up a set of simple, effective and powerful stabbing tactics and began to promote them in the army.

Many soldiers on the school field are training with bayonet. Although bird solves the problem of firepower output, in this era and even for a long time in the future, short soldiers will not withdraw from large-scale wars. Many times, they still have to rely on bayonets to see red in the end. Therefore, Xiao Tianjian has always attached great importance to the training of plain-edged combat since the beginning of the establishment of the army.

The combination of bayonet and bird gun and a large amount of equipment in the Xingtian Army also make ordinary fireman have a relatively strong melee ability. Each fireman can be converted into a short spear soldier in an instant, with the ability to fight close to the enemy.

When Xiao Tianjian entered the school yard, many officers and soldiers here were also training for bayonet, and there were strong shouts everywhere in the school field.

There are some scarecrows all over the campus. Rows of firemen are rushing to these scarecrows in rows under the orders of the officers. They struggled to use various movements, holding the bayonet on the bird, and repeatedly thrust the bayonet into the body of the scarecrow.

In addition to stabbing training, Xing Tianjun also has quite sufficient ammunition at present. In the past, Xiao Tianjian was reluctant to take limited gunpowder and short-lived bird gunshots to let the firemans carry out a large number of live-fire shooting training, but now he can carry out this kind of training. On a shooting range in the east of the school yard, there are also rows. Under the orders of the officers, the fireman kept practicing loading and shooting, and the sound of the platoon gun kept ringing, and there were soldiers at the target, loudly reporting the shooting results of the fireman. The qualified person can return to the camp at night, and the unqualified person will be left behind. After an hour of repeated gun aiming training, he can Go back to camp for dinner.

Of course, in addition to the fireman, there are also some long spearmen and knife hand in the sentries of the Xingtian Army. In a short period of time, these two arms cannot be completely eliminated from the formation of the Xingtian Army, and these two arms are also carrying out rigorous training on the school field, and the long gunmen are more for queue training. Otherwise, after the long spear soldiers are left alone, the stupid long guns can only become the prey of the other party. More importantly, they are required to gather together and fight against the enemy with a dense gun array. This has never been forgotten in the training of the Xing Tianjun. They are the shields of the fireman, which can provide full protection for the fireman in war. .

The difference is that the knife players are now equipped with iron Thunderbolt guns, so they have another training task, that is, bomb throwing training. On the open ground of the school field, a large group of knife players are grabbing Thunderbolt bombs and throwing them repeatedly. After strict training, don't look at the present. People in this era are relatively short, but they can also throw Thunderbolt bombs 30 steps away.

Moreover, Xiao Tianjian also saw that soldiers were pulled out by the officers because of procrastination or unqualified movements. They used military sticks in public, and then rushed them back to the queue for training.

The rigorous training made each soldier exude a faint murderous spirit, which was exactly what Xiao Tianjian wanted. In this way, he finally created a real tiger and wolf division, so Xiao Tianjian stood on the edge of the school field with his back and finally nodded with satisfaction.

After seeing Xiao Tianjian nodding his head, the camp generals breathed a long sigh of relief, knowing that their generals did not disappoint Xiao Tianjian. Otherwise, they would be reprimanded by Xiao Tianjian this time.

Following Xiao Tianjian to work, these guys have been used to Xiao Tianjian's strictness. Although Xiao Tianjian talks and laughs with them in his spare time, but once he gets to the school, Xiao Tianjian seems to be a different person and becomes a little inhumane and strict, so that what these subordinates are most afraid of now is Xiao Tianjian rushed to check their training, and he didn't dare to slack off at all.

"Very good! It's not too much to describe our soldiers as dragons and tigers! You did a good job!" Xiao Tianjian turned around and said with satisfaction to the generals who followed him.

"It's still the strict requirements of the general! The inferiors dare not slack off at all!" The generals immediately straightened their chests and replied.

Xiao Tianjian turned his head and entered the big tent with several generals. He waved his hands and immediately saluted and withdrew from the big account. As soon as Li Shuanzhu and others's eyes lit up, they immediately came to Xiao Tianjian.

"General, is there another move? The brothers below have been making a little trouble these days, and they have been holding back for a long time! Where are we going this time? Li Shuanzhu rubbed his fists and asked Xiao Tianjian eagerly.

And Zhao Erlu and Liu Bao are also eager to stare at Xiao Tianjian and want to know some information in advance.

But after Xiao Tianjian glanced at them, he asked them with a smile, "What are you worried about? Do you feel uncomfortable resting like this?"

Li Shuanzhu was also straightforward and immediately shook his head and said, "Hey hey! It's good to rest, but the brothers are fully armed every morning and evening, and these guys can't stand it! What's more, there is no reward if there is no war. In the past few months, I've been in a hurry to jump up and down! Hey hey!"

Xiao Tianjian is very satisfied with the eagerness of his opponents' eagerness to fight. What he is worried about is that his subordinates have lost their belligerent temper for a long time without a war. But now it seems that his worry is superfluous. Xing Tianjun's practice of rewarding for pay has made the generals in the army more and more belligerent. If there is no war, there is no money to take it, so they would rather choose to fight than to fight like this.

So he turned around and sat down and said to a few guys, "You're right. We're going to move our muscles and bones!" Otherwise, you guys can't calm down! But now I can't tell you exactly where to go! When I come to Lianhuazhai for discussion in a few days, I will naturally tell you!

Today, I came here to see how you are training. Now it seems that you haven't been lazy in the past few months. This training is very good!

Since you also expect that we will have action, I will arrange one thing today. From now on, on, on the basis of the teaching camp, among the townships under our jurisdiction, we will choose the best township soldiers, add them to the teaching camp, complete it within ten days, and complete the supplementary equipment, and wait for your life at any time!"

After listening to this, Liu Yao almost jumped up excitedly and stood up with a red face and shouted, "Thank you, General! I'm obedient! Guarantee to complete the task in ten days!"

As soon as everyone heard this, they immediately realized that Xiao Tianjian was going to make a big move this time. Although the young children in the teaching camp were separated from the youth camp two months ago, after all, there were only 300 people, which could not play much role on the battlefield. At most, it was estimated that they could be used as a reserve team. That's right. As soon as Xiao Tianjian arrived here today, he ordered to select the best township soldiers from all over the area under the control of the Xingtian Army to join the army based on the teenagers in the teaching camp. It shows that Xiao Tianjian's action this time will certainly not be small, so he also raised his spirit.

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