Chapter 93: The first test
After nearly five days of screening and distribution, the reorganization of the Imperial Guards was declared completed.
Among them, Obai was naturally awarded the commander of the cavalry battalion, but the cavalry battalion had the least number, but it was the most powerful. If you investigate his household registration, you will find that many of the people in it were actually from Northern Zhili, Liaodong and even Longxi.
Fu Dahai also deservedly became the commander of the artillery battalion. This orphan of the Ming martyr who looked a little stupid and poorest, was a super academic master who could do it without showing off his airs.
At the same time, Johnson Chan also officially served as the commander of the artillery battalion, responsible for technical guidance.
Chang Yanling was the commander of the First Battalion of Infantry and also served as the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guards, assisting Lu Xiangsheng in managing the entire army. Of course, Zhu Youxiao did this with his intention to balance Lu Xiangsheng's military command. However, Chang Yanling was mainly responsible for commanding the three infantry battalions.
The commander of the other two infantry battalions was Lu Jiayu as the commander of the Second Infantry Battalion. Dong Yongwen, who was not very conspicuous at this time, was the commander of the Third Infantry Battalion.
The commander of the engineering battalion was Liu Jiayin.
The commander of the baggage battalion is Qin Botong. The baggage battalion has nearly 3,000 people, which is the largest battalion among the Imperial Guard battalions. However, the battle sequence is at the last, and it even only serves as the reserve army.
But now Qin Botong does not seem depressed because of this. He said directly when he spoke to all the officers and soldiers of the baggage battalion during the next special training:
"The real person does not show his appearance, and the baggage camp is the baggage camp. Without our baggage camp, what do they eat and what they use to fight with people. In addition, who says that our combat effectiveness is worse than them. From today on, all the officers and soldiers of the baggage camp will train for half an hour more than the other battalions, and practice for ten miles more. In short, we must compare him and let His Majesty see who is the real ace!"
"Do you have confidence?"
"have!"
Qin Botong was full of anger now, and he could only temporarily suppress his unhappiness through this loud shout.
However, different commanders and commanders are still in different training methods.
Chang Yanling reorganized the soldiers again, allowing soldiers with shooting talents to bring a relatively poor shooting level, and divided their infantry battalion into three teams. Each training session was a fixed first team first, then the second team, then the third team, and then the first team. In this way, when the front team was shooting, the second team was filled with gunpowder, and the third team rested to cool the barrel.
This is a good habit. When fighting in the future, the infantry battalion often does not collapse as long as the first echelon does not collapse, and there will be no riots in the two echelons behind it.
The other two infantry battalions are similar to the way they are always prolonged, so there is no need to repeat them.
Among the seven battalions of the entire army, the most novel thing when conducting special training is the training of the cavalry battalion.
Zhu Youxiao and Lu Xiangsheng did not interfere in the specific training of the cavalry. The purpose was to let Oboi train a cavalry that could compete with the Qing Dynasty. But what everyone did not expect was that when the special training of each battalion was in full swing, Oboi was calm. For ten days, he just took his soldiers to the hillside pasture near the training ground, telling them what grass horses like to eat and what grass they are good for eating, and even used beans in the cafeteria to tell the cavalry what beans they eat to gain weight.
After Sun Chuanting, the governor of Datong, brought more than 3,000 good horses bought from Mongolia, Obai still did not carry out cavalry training, but asked each cavalry to take two or three horses to the hillside to raise horses.
Even Oboi asked them to eat and sleep with the horses they raised, and they also had to clean the horses every day.
Some soldiers are now regretting not being touched by Oboi, otherwise they would be able to enter the cavalry camp without such hard training, just walking around with their horses every day.
"If you want to become a first-class cavalry, you are not afraid of death. You have to make your horse not afraid of death like you, and have the same feelings and emotions as you. Only when you arrive on the battlefield can the horse listen to you. Don't think that people outside the pass are naturally good at riding and shooting. If they had not lived on the back of a horse since childhood and lived with a horse since childhood, they would not be able to control a horse."
Oboi said patiently and touched his own red horse and said, "Anyway, you must treat the horse as your own wife."
The cavalrymen who were a little dissatisfied with Oboi, the Tartars who surrendered, felt it made sense after hearing this, and they all started to communicate with their horses through caressing.
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While the Imperial Guards conducted the final and most critical reorganization training, the first examination that Zhu Youxiao experienced after traveling through time was also announced.
Today is the time when the Grand Secretary of the Dongge and Minister of Rites Qian Qianyi and the Right Minister of Rites Li Mingrui report the results of the examination.
Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting on the dragon chaise, saw Qian Qianyi still walking a little crookedly, and guessed that he must have been unable to move due to his own injury and his injuries that had not fully recovered.
So, Zhu Youxiao ordered: "Li Mingrui helped Mr. Qiange, come and give him a seat."
Li Mingrui hurriedly held Qian Qianyi's hand, but Qian Qianyi did not refuse and nodded, and sat on Xiaojindun with the help of Wang Chengen: "Thank you Your Majesty to give the seat!"
"Your Majesty, this is the admission list for this examination. A total of 526 people were hired in this examination. Shi Kefa was the first to win the imperial examination." Although Qian Qianyi adhered to Zhu Youxiao's will to hire royalists or non-fushe scholars, he was still independent in the ranking of the examination, and Zhu Youxiao did not require anyone to be the first in the examination.
Zhu Youxiao, who saw Guan Shaoning on the list of the exam, couldn't help but smile. When he heard Qian Qianyi's first point in the exam was Shi Kefa, he was stunned: "Shi Kefa, did he take the exam too?"
"Yes, Your Majesty is a simple and unpretentious person, and he criticizes current ills. I think that Your Majesty is now determined to reform the ill-gotten policies, and it is precisely when he needs such a person to use him, so he nodded his first name."
Li Mingrui, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, replied.
"It's okay, the first one is the first one." Zhu Youxiao didn't expect that his arrival would change the fate of Shi Kefa. However, he would definitely not give him the opportunity to guard Yangzhou in the future, and even Bing could not let him lead him. Since he was the first in the imperial examination, he would directly enter Hanlin and study history for the rest of his life.
The admission list of the imperial examinations was very satisfied with Zhu Youxiao, and the ministers in the court who were not mainly Jiangnan Department. They also satisfied with the royalist party, the scholars from the north and Fujian, Huguang, southwest Fujian, and the scholars from the middle and lower classes or traditional gentry in southern Zhili and Zhejiang were very satisfied with them, because more admissions were more than in previous years, and no one dared to say anything.
However, the Fushe students representing the businessmen were very dissatisfied. They threatened that this imperial examination was far superior to other cultural clubs, but this time the imperial examination was defeated by Waterloo, with only more than ten people on the list.
Chapter completed!