"To the left!"

"Step on the spot!"

“One, two, one!”

"Please listen to the drum beats, and you should land on your left foot. If you are wrong, you will change it immediately!"

On the military camp, the new army's queue training was in full swing. Listening to the excited drum beats, the soldiers could quickly know whether their pace was correct. If they were wrong, they could change it in time.

When the loud military horn sounded, the officers in the team shouted and ordered to walk in unison. All the soldiers immediately moved forward with neat steps.

Field training is a subject that Li Weiguo emphasized that he must conduct every day. In his opinion, an army that can fight must be able to run first.

Why? Just look at how the Eighth Route Army defeated the National Army.

In the era without cars and aircraft, infantry can only rely on their own feet if they want to perform strategic and tactical maneuvers. Often when both the enemy and us perform tactical or strategic maneuvers, which side can take advantage of the advantage if they can first capture the favorable terrain, which side can break out of the other side's encirclement can disrupt the other side's deployment, and then find fighter jets to win. This depends on the long-distance marching ability of one pair of feet.

Therefore, Li Weiguo attached great importance to the long-distance marching and raiding capabilities of the troops. He required the recruits to conduct a ten-kilometer marching once a day, a fifty-kilometer marching once a day, and a hundred-kilometer marching once a day, in order to temper the soldiers' kung fu.

Of course, in order to completely win the loyalty of these soldiers, Li Weiguo also insisted on accompanying the soldiers to train every day. In addition to enhancing the harmonious relationship with the soldiers and gaining their love, he also wanted to strengthen his body. After all, this small body is in a period of growth. Strengthening exercise will help grow taller and make the body healthier. At the same time, in order to face the chaos in the future, it is also necessary to improve one's own ability.

For ordinary soldiers, they don’t know Li Weiguo’s little thoughts. In their eyes, a county magistrate followed them to train, which is their honor. Therefore, no one dares to complain about hardship and fatigue during training. Especially when seeing Li Weiguo is young, he can keep up with their rhythm. This is slapping them in the face with a naked person. Anyone with some blood will use his energy to feed and must not be surpassed by Li Weiguo, otherwise it would be too embarrassing.

When Li Weiguo saw the soldiers crying hard training, he was happy that this was the effect he wanted.

After several marches, Li Weiguo also noticed that the cloth shoes worn by the soldiers were easily broken, their feet were worn out, and their legs were congested, resulting in a significant reduction in the speed of the march.

For thousands of years, China has only needed to have strength and no shortage of people, so the treatment of soldiers is as cheap as a dog, and it is good to wear cloth shoes. For modern wars, soldiers are a very precious resource, especially in the era of line musket battles. An excellent musket soldier needs to be trained for many years, so it is not allowed to be easily lost. Cloth shoes are obviously outdated and will affect the combat effectiveness of soldiers. Therefore, the armies of various powerful forces have changed into leather boots, so Li Weiguo also decided to change his soldiers with military leather boots.

Originally, Li Weiguo planned to buy a batch of military shoes from the British military, but soon he found that the size and foot shape of the British military's military shoes were not suitable for Chinese people to wear.

There was no choice but to recall the style of military leather boots in the 21st century. He found a few of the best shoemakers and spent a few days to finally make a pair of military leather boots.

Li Weiguo found someone to try it on, then made a series of improvements, and finally set it down, ordered people to purchase raw materials, hired more than 100 shoemakers to work overtime day and night to try to replace the soldiers as soon as possible.

These soldiers were all from poor people. When did they wear leather boots? They were all patents of rich people. However, when they learned that Li Weiguo personally made military boots for them, they were all very happy and cheered, and they followed Li Weiguo even more firmly and went through fire and water for him.

There is no way, people of this era are easily moved, especially the simple people, who will treat them well.

In addition to making new military boots for the soldiers, Li Weiguo also found that his new military uniform was ugly. The soldiers of a thousand county were wearing the Qing army's horn clothes, with the word "Soldier" written on it and the word "Prince" added, which was no different from the prison uniforms of later generations, and it looked too awkward.

Since new military boots have been made, it is fortunate that Li Weiguo has also replaced his army with a unified modern military uniform.

Li Weiguo asked someone to make a set of camouflage uniforms, but soon he found that the current dyeing equipment in Chongming County did not meet the requirements. After wearing the camouflage uniforms, they faded into beggar clothes.

There was no way, Li Weiguo could only wait until the dye he imported from abroad arrived before trying it out. Therefore, he gave up the camouflage uniform for the time being and recalled the style of modern military uniforms to design a military uniform. The fabric was based on the common fabric of the current British and French military uniforms. The color requirements were different from the colors of all domestic and foreign military uniforms. The British army was red and white, the French army was black and white, and the Qing army was more chaotic, and there were all colors except green. So Li Weiguo used green as the color of the military uniform, which also echoed the future development direction of the military uniform color.

As for military caps, Li Weiguo chose the standard big blocks of modern soldiers without hesitation, because he was handsome and particularly stylish with a big block, and looked more military. On the other hand, the British bow caps, the French toilet caps, the Qing army's pot caps, etc. were really ugly except for being criticized.

However, when it comes to the issue of hat badge, Li Weiguo couldn't think of any pattern to make the hat badge better. Wu Yong happened to arrive and suggested that a plum be engraved directly on the hat badge, so that every soldier would be subconsciously engraved with a mark of the Li family's soldiers, which would better reflect the ownership of the Li family army and increase cohesion.

Li Weiguo thought about it, he was just starting out now, and he could not let go of any means of strengthening control over the army, so he adopted Wu Yong's suggestion.

At the same time, Li Weiguo also understood in his heart that anyone with a little brain understood what it means to engrave the word Li on the hat badge. Wu Yong was able to offer this strategy to be loyal to him.

The military uniforms, military caps, military shoes, and hat badges were all done. Li Weiguo ordered people to try out a few sets to replace them with Zhang Xiaoliu and other confidant guards.

"Sure enough, people rely on clothes and horses and saddles. Commander Zhang changed into this new military uniform and looked much more powerful, adding a little bit of momentum!" Wu Yong said with a smile. He knew that Zhang Xiaoliu was the person he trusted the most around Li Weiguo, so he would also give him a few compliments.

Zhang Xiaoliu was very excited. Less than half a year after he followed his young master Li Weiguo to Chongming County, he jumped from the low status of a slave in the Li family to become the commander of the court. His joy of ascension was naturally beyond words.

Now wearing this heroic new military uniform, Zhang Xiaoliu suddenly felt that he had changed his guns and cannons from now on.

As a court official, Li Weiguo naturally did not dare to wear this new military uniform easily. So after seeing Zhang Xiaoliu put on the military uniform he designed, Li Weiguo was also very curious about circling around Zhang Xiaoliu and looked over and over again.

"Young Master, the military uniform you designed is really comfortable to wear. It looks much better than the jacket we used to wear. Just say that the buttons are much more convenient to wear clothes."

Listening to Zhang Xiaoliu's words, Li Weiguo nodded happily, but he always felt something was wrong. It was awkward to watch Zhang Xiaoliu wear this military uniform.

"By the way, it's the braid!"

Li Weiguo finally discovered the problem. People in the Qing Dynasty kept braids, but only those with status would expose their long braids, because only these rich people had the time to wash their hair and comb their braids every day. Ordinary people in the lower class usually tied up their braids and wrapped them in black cloth, because braids were easy to get dirty every day, so wrapping them with braids saved a lot of effort.

Usually, Zhang Xiaoliu and others are from Baotou, and the same is true for those new soldiers, using black cloth to Baotou.

Now that Zhang Xiaoliu has put on a military uniform, he naturally has to remove the head of the bag in order to wear a big cap, and the braids are exposed.

"This braid is easy to get dirty and breeds diseases and insects, which is not conducive to hygiene and beauty, and affects health. I want to remove it. Wu Yong, do you have any solutions?"

Li Weiguo wanted to cut off his braids, but this was a serious crime. Wu Yong was shocked when he heard this. Zhang Xiaoliu and several personal guards also changed color.

"Sir, never!"

"Young Master, you can't do it!"

Looking at Wu Yong, Zhang Xiaoliu and others, Li Weiguo smiled and said, "I just said it casually. If you have a way, just say it, and if you can't do it, just forget it."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Li Weiguo say this.

Wu Yong smiled and said, "The hygiene issues that the adults mentioned are indeed reasonable, otherwise the people would not have to wrap their braids. However, the imperial court ordered that leaving their heads without leaving their hair without leaving their hair. Unless they were monks, not having their braids would be a death sentence!"
Chapter completed!