Time Travel to 1859: The Iron-Blooded Soldier King

Prince Gong Yizhen, standing by, replied, "Your Majesty, in my opinion, why not order the Monk King to come to the capital for a meeting, and have Liu Ye accompany him? That way, we can see if Liu Ye is truly a prodigy. As the saying goes, seeing is believing. If Liu Ye is truly talented and loyal, what harm would it do if we handed the Firearms Battalion over to him?"

Xianfeng's heart moved. Although he disliked his own brother and was often suspicious of this talented brother, these two sentences resonated with him. Since he was going to hand over such an important combat force as the Firearms Battalion to Liu Ye, how could it be possible if he didn't know him well? According to Senggelinqin's plan, it would be a large camp with a strength of 800 people. Such an important camp was usually led by a third-rank lieutenant commander. Now equipped with advanced Western equipment, it was even more necessary to keep it in the hands of reliable people.

Senggelinqin was recalled to understand the defense of the capital area. There was a high possibility that Britain and France would make a comeback, and they would never give up so easily. Secondly, he also wanted to get to know Liu Ye, and only by using both kindness and force to get him in his pocket could he feel at ease.

Xianfeng nodded and replied, "My brother's words are quite reasonable. Come, draft an imperial decree immediately, summoning Prince Senggelinqin of Khorchin to the capital immediately, and having Liu Ye, the military governor, accompany him to see the emperor!"

Tianjin.

A great victory made Senggelinqin particularly happy. The memorial requesting merit had been submitted. I believe that an imperial edict will come down in the next two days. As long as the edict comes, no matter what else, let Guo Ye take up the responsibility and immediately form a firearms battalion. This is the top priority!

As for Liu Ye, he has now received Senggelinqin's letter and can freely select soldiers from his own camps to form a new firearms battalion. Liu Ye has already started the selection. The entire Zhili now has the Eight Banners, the Green Camp, and Senggelinqin's Eight Mongolian Banners, with tens of thousands of soldiers. It is not an easy task to select 800 people.

What's more, Liu Ye also set a rule to recruit only 800 people, including 500 infantry, 300 cavalry, 500 new recruits, and 300 veterans. All soldiers must not be over 25 years old and must be literate. With such strict rules, it is really not easy to get the required number of people.

Even Senggelinqin was stunned when he saw Liu Ye's plan. These requirements were too high, weren't they? Everything else was easy, except for literacy. How could a common soldier know anything? It wasn't difficult to find 800 literate soldiers in the entire army, but the difficulty lay in the fact that they could only be selected from the soldiers. A large camp could only have eight posts, and each post had a captain and a captain, for a total of 16 people. Add to that a few positions in the camp, and there were only a little over 20 positions. With 20 literate people, the remaining 700 to 800 people had to be selected from the Qing army? Moreover, they had to be free of bad habits, under 25 years old, and physically strong. This was too difficult! Where could they find so many people?

Senggelinqin asked Liu Ye to relax his requirements, but Liu Ye shook his head and replied, "It must be done this way, so that we can train elite soldiers. Even if there are vacancies in the number of soldiers, we must not fill the vacancies with unqualified people!

Senggelinqin was so angry that he threw all the matters to Liu Ye. You can choose it yourself. If you can't choose it, it's none of my business. You little bastard, it's easy for you to talk without any pain!

Liu Ye was not polite. With a single order, he summoned the fifty men he had selected at Dagukou to the Firearms Battalion. He said to Senggelinqin, "Your Highness, I only have these fifty men now. After a month and a half, they have already met my standards. Marshal Yin had said we would give them three months to test the results of our training. Today, I can demonstrate it to Your Highness."

Senggelinqin was stunned and asked, "How do we show it?"

Liu Ye replied, "Among these fifty people, there are only a dozen veterans, and the rest are new recruits who have been in the army for more than half a year. Your Highness can arbitrarily select a whole garrison of soldiers from the army and let them compete..."

Upon hearing this, Senggelinqin laughed and said, "Liu Ye, you are just new recruits who have only been training for a month and a half. How can you challenge the veterans I trained?"

Liu Ye smiled slightly and said, "Whether it will work or not, we'll know if we try it."

Senggelinqin replied: "Well, since you have such confidence, I will fulfill your wish!"

Senggelinqin was not polite either. He shouted to He Qimou, the captain of the personal guard, "Qimou, immediately transfer a squadron of soldiers from your infantry battalion. Lead the ones you think are the most capable and fight Liu Ye!"

Liu Ye laughed and said, "Your Highness, you are not fighting me. Among these fifty people, there is their leader, Zhu Hai!"

Xiao Hai hurried over and said politely, "Boss, what can I do for you?"

"Did you hear what I just said to the prince? Gather the brothers immediately and prepare for an exercise. The prince wants to test your fighting ability!"

"twitter!"

Zhu Hai answered excitedly. He had been training with Brother Ye for quite some time. Now Chen Hai felt full of strength and energy. He had no place to vent it. He could only let his brothers train hard. He had been waiting for the next fight. The assault two days ago was just an appetizer. It was not satisfying.

Liu Ye asked, "Brother, the prince has sent a whole garrison of troops, one hundred men, twice as many as you have. Do you have confidence?"

"Hey, boss, do you have confidence? You'll know when you see me."

Zhu Hai was not polite and answered arrogantly.

Senggelinqin looked at Zhu Hai in surprise. It was obvious that the young man in front of him was still childish and younger than Guo Ye. How could he fight in a war? He would not wet his pants as soon as he entered the battlefield, right?

"Liu Ye, you're kidding, right? This little guy is their leader? Is he as big as you? Have you ever seen blood?"

Liu Ye smiled mysteriously and replied, "Your Highness, when we rushed to support the Southern Fort, he was the first to bear the brunt of the attack and charged into the foreign troops. That saber, wow, how many did he kill? Zhu Hai, how many foreign devils did you kill?"

"Not much, hehe, I took the lives of seven foreigners..."

hiss……

Senggelinqin gasped. This little fellow had actually taken the lives of seven foreigners! What about the others?

Senggelinqin looked at He Qimou and said, "Qimou, I heard it. These new recruits are not simple. Don't underestimate them. Prepare carefully. If you can't win..."

He Qimou was his trusted confidant, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to serve as the commander of the imperial guards. He quickly replied, "Don't worry, Your Highness. If a hundred of us can't take down fifty of them, Your Highness will take my head!"

After saying this, He Qimou turned and left the house, shouting, "First Battalion Infantry Battalion, assemble, fully armed!"