Rebirth of South America as King

The next day, at nine o'clock in the morning, the open space outside the mine was full of people.

明 The news that Li Mingyuan held an in-arms competition two days ago passed. Sixty thousand Chinese workers stayed in the desert mine and had nothing to do. They all came out to watch the competition.

"Lao Liu, I heard that the winner of the contest will be met by Shizi in person."

"More than that, I heard the company commander say that as long as he performs well in the competition, he can be an official."

"That 俺 also participates, 俺 I have strength, and it's no problem to play two or three, 俺 also wants to be an officer."

The eunuch's ideology is more serious at any time in China. After Li Mingyuan announced the news of relying on competition to select some officers, the soldiers under him performed enthusiastically and rushed to sign up.

Because there are too many applicants, Li Mingyuan divided the competition sites into fifteen and selected four items for shooting, combat, running, and weightlifting.

"Liu Pu, brothers are very enthusiastic" Li Mingyuan strolled in several places to watch the performance of the soldiers.

"Brothers all want to play for the son of the world." Liu Pu patted Li Mingyuan's horse ass.

明 Li Mingyuan smiled and ignored Liu Pu's flattery.

In order to encourage the enthusiasm of the soldiers to participate in the contest, Li Mingyuan not only took out a large amount of gold and silver seized as prizes, but also promised that the champion of each project was the battalion leader, and other soldiers who performed well would also become company commanders, platoon leaders, and squad leader.

As soon as I heard that I could be an official, the soldiers below were not calm anymore, and the champion could not be accepted. As long as he performed well, he was a company commander, and the platoon leader still had hope. So I felt that I had some skills that caused the soldiers to sign up for the competition.

"Liu Pu, how many people are signing up now?"

"A total of 5,000 people signed up."

"5,900 people, almost one tenth of the total number." Li Mingyuan said with some emotion.

"Of the 5,900 people, 800 are from four divisions conducting group simulation operations."

The Chinese army's competition is divided into two parts. One is a group competition mainly composed of four new divisions. Each army sends a part of the army and then conducts offensive and defensive tests in a simulated war environment.

And the remaining 5,100 people were selected for their individual expertise, testing the individual ability of the soldiers.

"There are not too many 5,100 people. After this contest, from the inside, one thousand people who have performed well will be selected as the grass-roots officers of the company platoon, just to fill the gap of the officers after the expansion."

Peru's counterattack is imminent. Li Mingyuan has no time to slowly promote officers. Although it is a bit arbitrary to select officers by military competition, it is also the most suitable method now.

"The Peruvians must deal with us by sending at least 30,000 people. Otherwise, they will send us equipment when they are short." The equipment is well understood. With the existing equipment, the Peruvian army under 30,000 will not be an opponent of the Chinese Independent Army.

"The gap in weapons and equipment is too large, otherwise I will directly take Baranga." Li Mingyuan regretted,

After the capture of Duraya, the Independent Army successively seized some weapons and equipment. Now there are more than 20,000 muskets, but most of them are backward muskets seized from the mine.

Because there were not enough muskets, about half of the soldiers still had cold weapons such as broad knives and spears. With these weapons more than defend the city, but it is impossible to attack the heavy guard Baranga.

Because Baranga is an important port city in Peru, there are hundreds of merchant ships calling at Baranga every day, so the Peruvian government has stationed a large number of troops in Baranga.

These troops are not used to supervise Chinese workers, but to guard against Chileans. Because in the eyes of Peruvians, although Chinese workers are hardworking and capable, they have a weak character, and they never expected them to launch an uprising.

明 Li Mingyuan wanted to attack Baranga, not only to seize supplies, but the main purpose was to obtain an estuary, and then trade through maritime channels and powers such as Prussia.

"Baranga is a nail behind Peru's entry into the Patipirka valley, and we can prepare for Peru with all our strength by winning it." Liu Pu nodded.

The two talked and walked, and soon came to the shooting arena.

"Zhou Daniu, the head of the humble police station, reported to the world." Li Mingyuan and Liu Pu were suddenly interrupted by a loud voice.

明 Li Mingyuan turned and looked around. It turned out to be Zhou Daniu during the first riot. At that time, Zhou Daniu led a hundred people to protect the Taiping Army. He did not participate in the task of attacking the hall.

I was also blamed for Zhou Daniu's bad luck. After the riot was successful, Li Mingyuan lacked a capable man, so he left Zhou Daniu to guard the old camp, so that he did not participate in the subsequent battles and did not gain military achievements.

"Daniel, how are you doing in the police?" Li Mingyuan asked with a smile.

"Shizi, you can change the army for Daniel, always guarding the old battalion, the ox's free hands are itchy." Zhou Daniel said.

"The Security Corps is responsible for the security work of the old camp. It has a great responsibility. How can you be dissatisfied when you make you the head of the Security Corps?"

"No, Shizi, the work of guards is important, but Lao Niu did not do this. When the riot broke out, you let the guards do the job. Lao Niu said nothing. But now the army is expanded and there is no shortage of staff. It wouldn't be too much for an old cow to change troops, "Zhou Damiu said impassively.

"Oh, let you be the head of the security team for a while, UU reading www.uukanshu.com. Let's transfer the duties of the security team to the newly formed second mixed brigade tomorrow."

The second mixed brigade is one of the two mixed brigades directly under the headquarters, and the other brigade is headed by Wang Dashan.

The number of mixed brigades is 6,000, which is half a level lower than the division.

Although the number of mixed brigades is not large, most of the soldiers are the Pacific Army with combat experience, plus the headquarters of the independent army, so the weapons and equipment are better than the four divisions.

"Yes, I'll go through the transfer formalities now." Zhou Damiu did not expect that Li Mingyuan would make himself the brigadier of the mixed brigade, and he couldn't wait to complete the transfer procedures immediately.

"Don't worry, since I promised you, I won't talk and talk, go, and accompany me to see the soldiers' shooting results." Li Mingyuan shouted at Zhou Da Niu who turned to leave.

"I'm not too happy about this?" Zhou Daniu said embarrassed.

"Daniu, you are responsible for the shooting test. You help me introduce the test situation." Li Mingyuan said.

"Shizi, there are 437 soldiers participating in the shooting registration. After two eliminations, there are still 25 people participating in the test."

"There are fewer people participating in the shooting competition," Liu Pu next said.

"Not many people participated in the shooting competition, but the level of registration came good, and there were five soldiers who had good marksmanship and could hit targets 150 meters away." Zhou Da Niu said.

"Oh, 150 meters hit the target, I want to see them." Li Mingyuan was interested.

During World War II, a sniper rifle was invented. With the aid of a sight, the sharpshooter can only hit a target of up to 200 meters at a maximum distance, and the accuracy will decrease. Fifty meters is still very powerful.