C548 The Phoenix Nirvana of the Green Battalion (1/2)

The battlefield was like a large furnace. What was thrown in was ores, and what was refined was true gold. In the past, even though Ye Qiu had participated in a few missions to kill bandits at sea, as well as a harsh test of the survival on Snake Island, this was his first time experiencing a scene where tens of thousands of players were fighting.

Ye Qiu and Pang Chaoyun had been encouraging these Green Battalion s, and even Old Pang had begged them to endure for an hour. He knew that these Green Battalion s had never experienced this, and lacked even the necessary training.

To be able to motivate these group of snipers to such a state was already not an easy feat for a scattered Green Battalion. Even Ye Qiu had a weird thought surface in his head.

”Retreat, all of you retreat …” ”As soldiers who have never been trained, who don't even know what their country and nationality are, it's enough for you to fight to this extent. You can leave now, you really have exceeded your limits …”

Ye Qiu was shouting in his heart, but he couldn't say it out loud.

It was true that the Green Battalion was a powerful assistant of the Eight Flag Army during the founding of the Qing Dynasty, but as the mountains and rivers of the Qing Dynasty stabilized, even the elite Eight Flags Soldier began to relax, not to mention the Han Chinese as the main force.

In the past hundred years, the Green Battalion had practically become a synonym for trash. It was fine to expect them to extinguish the fire and patrol the place for law and order, but to expect them to fight a war, it was better to spend money to recruit troops.

How did the Xiang Army get up? How did Li Hongzhang's Huai Army come out? They would rather go to their hometown and spend money on temporary recruitment for training than bring this group of Green Battalion to fight.

If a soldier could not be bothered with basic training, then what was the difference between them and ordinary people?

In Ye Qiu's eyes, the new troops held the prime minister's high salary and used the world's best military goods. He had even trained them to death before. Don't look at how Ye Qiu and Pang Chaoyun were just new recruits with one year of age, they had also surrounded and killed pirates before this war.

It was precisely because of this that the new army was able to perform so well on the battlefield. They had faith in themselves, had Gun s in their hands, and even had true skills in their punches and kicks. Even if they were to be completely annihilated in today's battle at the Da Gu Kou's cannon emplacement, they would not take a step back.

In truth, they were just a group of people wearing military uniforms. They could only fire six Gun s a month and would only shoot two or three bullets at each time, so their lineup training was completely zero. Even an assassination training session might not happen half a year ago, not to mention a real killing training.

What was even worse was that from the Qing Dynasty to the top, no one felt that this situation was unreasonable. In their eyes, it was already enough for the cannons to be able to shoot down towards the sea, what kind of fighting technique was that? What assassination technique was he practicing? If you practice more, you will consume a lot of physical strength, and you will have to give soldiers a good meal. How much is a catty of pork? How much is a barrel of vegetable oil?

How can you not know how to live? If you have the time, why not be a little greedy? And bullets, how expensive was that? Just fire two rounds and listen for the sound. Do you still want to get a kick out of it?

Of course, if one was an official, he or she had to go off the record and train as much as he or she could. It was very clear how many pigs he or she ate, how many grains of rice he or she bought, and how many vegetables and oils he or she had to eat every day. In any case, the Green Battalion s all lived like heaven according to the bill, and the landowners did not have as much time as them.

How could such a soldier fight? How much stronger could such a soldier be compared to commoners? It was exactly because the New Army had completely seen through these Green Battalion, none of them held any hope for them.

Why did the snipers give up on long-range attacks and engage in hand-to-hand combat when the Man-Meng soldiers began to attack the city? Ye Qiu had obviously been hit hard on the butt, so why did he still go to the front to go to the bayonet? Why did Pang Chaoyun break his finger and swear an oath to the brothers of the Green Camp at such a critical moment?

It was because they knew too much about this army. If they didn't try to motivate them personally, this group of Sand Monsters wouldn't be able to fight.

The bloody battle at the Da Gu Kou's cannon emplacement was like a smelting furnace. The enemies were flames burning fiercely inside the furnace, and the Green Battalion s were handfuls of slag filled with impurities.

Every time the Green Battalion felt despair, they would use their own actions, their own blood, to encourage them and continue forward.

There would always be residue that would turn to dust within the furnace, and there would always be true gold precipitating down. Even the Green Battalion himself could not count just how many times he had experienced despair and hope in this war.

But what was strange was that this group of Green Battalion had survived through it all. When General Liu Lang led the black mercenary group to fire at the same time and charge upwards, the scene on the cannon emplacement made him want to cry.

The entire Da Gu Kou's cannon emplacement was filled with shouts and shouts, the cavalry forming a small assault formation as they charged into the crowd. The despairing Green Battalion s formed a formation of a hundred and eighty people to resist with all their might.

They may use Gun s, or bayonets, or long spears with sabers... They had even used their fists to stop the cavalrymen. This time, rather than saying that the Green Battalion's fighting capabilities were explosive, it would be better to say that they were so numb that they forgot to escape.

The scimitar, the spear, the warhorse, the spear … All sorts of weapons flew in front of the Green Battalion. New army, Green Camp, infantry, cavalry, foreign devils … There were even black soldiers as black as coal surrounding them.