I formed the strongest swordsman group

Of course, the reason why Elodie can thrive in the "Tachibana Group" - that is, the Qinjin clan and the Shinsengumi - is not entirely because of her special relationship with Qing Deng.

The philosophy that the "Tachibana Group" has always adhered to is "no matter your origin", "the capable are promoted, the average are given way, the mediocre are demoted, and the inferior are eliminated".

To put it simply - in the "Tachibana Group", lack of ability is the original sin!

From ordinary soldiers to the leadership, members come from all classes and industries.

There are farmers and ronin; there are men and women.

At the beginning, when the Shinsengumi was founded, Qing Deng promoted his confidants on a large scale, so that the "Shiweikan faction" controlled most of the senior positions in the Shinsengumi.

Although this is a very normal thing, it still made some troublemakers headed by Serizawa Kamo very unhappy.

It was not until later that the "Shiweikan faction" showed their indisputable strength that these "discordant voices" gradually disappeared.

If you only have a resounding name and a distinguished background, but no extraordinary ability to support it, you will not be able to convince the public.

Even if you appear to be submissive on the surface, you will not be able to stop murmuring in your heart, which is what the saying goes, "you say it but you don't obey it in your heart."

In fact, when Elodie first took office, she faced such a dilemma.

When the kantais in the finance department - especially those old people who have worked for a long time - saw this delicate, young girl from a Western country, their facial expressions were all uniformly smiling, but their psychological activities were more "exciting" than one another!

At that time, let alone the kantais in the finance department, almost everyone in the Shinsengumi thought that Elodie was a "vase" that looked good but was useless.

Lord Niou was really confused. If he wanted to "gild" this girl, why not just give her a casual job? Why give her such an important position - at that time, everyone thought so tacitly.

Elodie is not stupid, she is naturally very clear about the challenges she faces.

Facing the doubts of the crowd and their strange looks, she was terrified but ready to fight.

She knew very well in her heart that there was no need to waste words in such a situation.

As long as she could achieve some results, she would naturally shut up those who doubted her!

By then, all the contempt and disdain for her would disappear!

If Iwasaki Yataro was holding back his anger and eager to prove himself, then Elodie was no less.

From a certain perspective, Elodie, with her blond hair and blue eyes, was under much more pressure than Iwasaki Yataro.

Iwasaki Yataro was a Japanese with black hair and black moo, and there was no racial opposition.

There is a saying that "there are all kinds of birds in a big forest".

The huge Shinsengumi not only brought together people from all walks of life, but also mixed with various thoughts.

Some people respected the shogunate.

Some people admired the imperial court.

There are also people who don't care about politics, have no political stance, and just want a job and a living.

In a nutshell, there are many supporters of the Sonnō ideology in the Shinsengumi.

Although they are not as extreme as the lunatics in Choshu, they dislike and even hostile Westerners from the bottom of their hearts.

However, no one can guarantee that one day a lunatic will suddenly come and attack Elodie.

Therefore, in order to protect Elodie, Qing Deng selected more than ten highly skilled and trustworthy soldiers to form an "Elodie Protection Team".

Doubts, hostility, naked malice... In such an environment, it is conceivable how great the pressure Elodie is under.

Fortunately, not only did she not fall under this pressure, but she also quickly delivered fruitful results that amazed everyone and far exceeded Qing Deng's expectations!

Even people who know nothing about mathematics can see how profound Elodie's mathematical skills are. She is simply a genius!

As soon as she took office, she showed her vigorous efficiency.

She sorted out the chaotic "Otsu Account" at an astonishing speed, making it concise and refined, laying a solid foundation for the subsequent "Qinjin Fan Construction Plan".

When the transport convoys carrying huge amounts of materials arrived at Qinjin Fan one after another, Elodie became almost the busiest person, no one else!

Counting the number of materials and recording them in the account-to be honest, just listening to the text description of this task is enough to make people faint.

Nearly 200 carriages!

Rice, millet, fodder, salt... a total of dozens of materials!

The total weight is measured in "100,000 stones"!

Sort them out and accurately record them in the account book?

On the day this task was issued, the finance room of the Shinsengumi was suddenly shrouded in wailing.

Some people with temperament directly sprayed all the dirty words in Japanese to the sky.

As the boss of the finance department, Elodie stood up in time at this critical moment when her subordinates were feeling negative emotions, and perfectly fulfilled the responsibilities of a "leader".

She quickly entered the working state and dared to be the first.

She arranged the heavy tasks in an orderly manner, sitting in the account office, assigning work, and collecting statistics.

During this period, she showed another specialty of hers - excellent physical fitness.

Perhaps because she practiced martial arts and insisted on exercising since she was a child, her physical fitness is excellent.

Qing Deng once evaluated: In terms of physical fitness alone, Elodie is stronger than most of the Shinsengumi!

After the first convoy arrived, Elodie moved directly into the accounting office, where she ate, drank, and slept.

Her diligent attitude at work is the best annotation of idioms such as "diligent and unremitting", "not knowing how to eat and sleep".

"Working for more than ten hours in a row", "not even taking time to eat"... all these are normal.

Her diligent and hardworking appearance has a sense of "devoting all her energy to her work until her death"... To put it bluntly, her subordinates are scared when they see her! They are afraid that she will die of exhaustion!

Fortunately, her spirit is always good.

Her face is ruddy, her eyes are clear, her behavior is relaxed, and she doesn't seem to be exhausted at all.

The so-called "innate ox and horse holy body" is just like this.

Even the boss went to the "front line" without fear of hardship, and the surveyors in the finance office dared not say anything more no matter how much they complained.

The "king" has moved, how can the "soldiers" not move?

To a certain extent, Elodie's diligence and responsibility boosted the morale of the finance department.

In this way, under the leadership of Elodie, the finance department burst out with amazing energy!

Those piles of money and grain turned into a string of accurate numbers.

Those vast warehouses turned into thick account books.

Anyone with a little bit of brains knows what these numbers and account books mean.

To put it bluntly - they are the big data of Qinjin Fan!

How much money, grain, and weapons are stored in the warehouse... As long as you have these data, whether it is to carry out economic construction or to wage war against foreign countries, you can have a "bottom line" in your heart.

Regarding the importance of this "bottom line", you can refer to the famous "Sun Tzu's Art of War" - knowing the enemy and knowing yourself, you will never be in danger in a hundred battles!

After sorting out the "Dajin Account", Elodie proved himself again.

After witnessing this overwhelming result with his own eyes, even the picky people couldn't say a word.

Even the extremists who hated Westerners and regarded them as scourges had to agree with this fact-

Elody was indeed an outstanding person!

She was fully qualified for the position of "Head of the Finance Office"!

It is better to say that this position was tailor-made for her!

…

…

As the money and grain were gradually deposited, the "ultimate weapon" that Qing Deng had been thinking about-the M1861 rifle and the Parrot rifled cannon-finally arrived at Qinjin Domain!

Along with this batch of guns and cannons, there were also two young instructors who were ordered by Kinoshita Lin to teach gun and cannon tactics.

After seeing these two instructors, Qing Deng couldn't help showing an expression of surprise.

…

…

Qinjin Domain, Otsu, a wasteland somewhere in the suburbs-

Inoue Genzaburo took a deep breath, gathered enough strength, and then shouted:

"Forward!"

As soon as his shout fell, the scene suddenly rang with dull footsteps like thunder.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

100 soldiers lined up in two rows, marching forward at a fairly even pace.

They were special.

The reason for this was not because they had strange looks or wore strange clothes.

But because of the weapons in their hands.

They were not holding common swords, spears, or halberds, but rifles!

Nearly 5 feet (1.5 meters) long, dark brown gun body, "hunchback" hammer - it was the Springfield M1861 rifle!

The soldiers held the butt of the rifle with their left hands close to their legs and supported it with their right hands, so that the gun body naturally leaned against their right shoulders.

Aoto, Hijikata Toshizo, Kondo Isami, Souji, Nagakura Shinpachi, Serizawa Kamo... all the high-ranking members of the Shinsengumi were waiting on the sidelines.

Even Yamanami Keisuke, Sanako, and Fujido Heisuke, who had been busy with the "warehouse storage" in recent days, temporarily put down their work and came to watch this unique "martial arts performance".

This "martial arts performance" was commanded by Inoue Genzaburo.

The members of this musketeer team were all from the Sixth Division.

Therefore, it was a reasonable arrangement to send the captain of the Sixth Division to command.

At this moment, Inoue Genzaburo walked nervously on the side of the musketeer team, keeping the same pace and moving forward together.

In front of them, dozens of targets made of solid wood were arranged in a line and stood quietly.

In a short while, the slowly advancing musketeer team was only more than ten steps away from the target group.

Seeing this, Inoue Genzaburo hurriedly shouted:

"Stop!"

The footsteps stopped.

The musketeer team stood upright, and the originally very neat formation now became a little distorted.

Some people stood a little forward, some stood a little behind... The whole formation was a crooked "streamline".

Inoue Genzaburo did not order to reorganize the formation.

He turned his head to look at Qing Deng not far away.

Qing Deng nodded.

The next moment after receiving the order, Inoue Genzaburo suddenly drew the sword at his waist, raised it over his head, and pointed the tip of the sword to the sky:

"Raise your guns!

Click, click, click, click, click...

The gunmen raised their rifles in unison.

"Click", "click" the metal collision sounded.

"Aim!"

The gunmen put down their rifles, and the black muzzles pointed directly at the target group in front.

Inoue Genzaburo adjusted his breath.

The next moment, he raised the blade above his head and swung it down with force -

"put!!"

boom! boom! boom! boom! boom! boom! boom! boom!

The sound like exploding beans startled the birds in the distance.

The bullets flying out of the air left fleeting afterimages in mid-air.

Souji, Mai Kinoshita and others who were watching from the side subconsciously covered their ears.

After the gunshot, thick milky white smoke filled the entire place.

Even from a long distance away, Qingdeng and others could smell the pungent smell of gunpowder that made the roots of their tongues bitter.

"Reload!"

Genzaburo Inoue issued a new order.

The gunmen hurriedly lowered their rifles so that the butts were on the ground and the muzzles were facing upwards. Then they took off the ammunition bags from their waists, stuffed gunpowder and bullets into the barrels, and then took out the purge bars and pressed the bullets tightly. Reality.

This is a very complicated loading process.

If there is a mistake in one link, the reloading speed will be slowed down, or even bullets will not be fired.

The gunmen's "shooting" was okay, but their "loading" performance was...

Even if you use the term "high emotional intelligence", it can only be said to be lackluster!

Someone accidentally dropped the bullet.

Some people poured out their hands full of gunpowder.

Some people cannot put it back on after taking it off.

All kinds of problems...

It took nearly 2 minutes before the gunmen were ready to shoot again.

Genzaburo Inoue once again raised the sword in his hand.

"Raise the gun!"

Click, click, click, click, click...

"put!"

boom! boom! boom! boom! boom! boom! boom……

…

A total of three rounds of guns were fired, and this unique "martial arts performance" finally came to an end.

As soon as the "martial arts performance" was over, Qingden led the generals and strode towards Genzaburo Inoue.

"Uncle Yuan, everyone, thank you for your hard work!"

Faced with Aoden's condolences, Inoue Genzaburo was okay and just smiled reservedly.

In comparison, the reaction of the Gunners was much more exciting, each game was exciting.

They stared at Qingdeng closely, their eyes shining with admiration, admiration and envy.

To have close contact with the "Nioh"... this is already a great honor for them!

After a simple condolence, Qingdeng led everyone straight to the target group not far away.

Looking around, the target group is covered with bullet holes like a honeycomb. Roughly speaking, the number is approximately 3 or 40.

100 gunmen, 100 rifles, 3 volleys, a total of 300 bullets fired.

At a distance of about 10 meters, 300 bullets were fired, leaving only 3 or 40 bullet holes...

At first glance, this level of accuracy seems particularly shabby.

However, after counting the number of bullet holes on the target group, all the generals looked horrified!

Shannan Keisuke opened and closed his mouth several times, and after a while he muttered to himself:

"Is this...the most advanced iron cannon in the West...?"

Isamu Kondo pursed his lips and said nothing, as if in deep thought.

Nagakura Shinpachi, Saito Ichi, Serizawa Kamo and other others also looked thoughtful and solemn.

A few people - such as Harada Sanosuke and Toudo Heisuke - had extremely strange expressions on their faces, as if they were hesitant to speak.

At this moment, Hijikata Toshizo suddenly spoke up and expressed their feelings for them:

"Heh... Today is no longer... the era of swords."

"Although the level of the iron gunners is still very bad, the reloading speed is too slow, and the queue is also very irregular."

"But these are not big problems, just train harder."

"To be honest, I never thought that Western iron cannons could be so powerful."

"I finally understand why Tachibana insists on forming a firearms unit."

"When the 6th and 8th divisions are transformed into firearms units and further expand their troops, the total combat strength of our Shinsengumi will definitely be completely transformed!"

"By then... we swordsmen will really be useless!"

After saying that, he twitched the corners of his mouth and raised a self-deprecating smile, without caring about the mood of other people present.

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