Chapter 29 New Army
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The next day, taking advantage of the coolness of the early morning, Qin Hao took some rations and several guards and rode towards Honghui Village.
There was almost no flat road along the way. The horse's hooves easily collapsed when stepping on the muddy ground, and then the muddy water was collected, which made the rider feel bumpy.
However, in the paddy fields on both sides, the early rice was filling, and the heavy ears of grain swayed gently in the breeze, which was a beautiful pastoral painting. This was what Qin Hao had always wanted.
As soon as he arrived at the east end of Honghui Village, he heard the deafening training shouts of the soldiers in the west.
"Left, stab!"
"Kill!"
"Right, stab!"
"Kill!"
The two-meter-long bamboo spears in the hands of the soldiers stabbed in all directions according to the orders of the cavalry officers at all levels.
The blue spearhead flashed a metallic cold light under the subtropical sun!
"Each person must assassinate a thousand times in a row! Those who fail to do so will not be allowed to eat lunch!" Li Yi pointed at the straw man in front of him, who had been stabbed with holes, and scolded the new recruits fiercely.
When Qin Hao asked Zhuge Xuan to compile the Baojia system, ten households were divided into one Jia and one hundred households into one Bao. Jiazhang and Baozhang were first established in each village, and then elected by the households.
These elected grassroots civilian officials then served in the army according to the actual situation, with one person in one Jia and ten people in one Bao.
So there are more than 60 people serving in the army in front of us.
When appointing Li Yi as the training commander, Qin Hao was afraid that he had no experience, so he transferred 10 Shuntian death warriors as basic officers to him, so that he could get familiar with it as soon as possible and make achievements.
"Your Highness, according to the training plan you have formulated, the recruits will start training in bayonet techniques, and in the next ten days, they will start practicing formations." Li Yi, who was in charge of training the recruits, saw the person coming and immediately ran over to report today's training subjects to Qin Hao.
Qin Hao saw that he was sweating profusely and nodded.
Under the bright sunshine of Taiwan Island, these recruits have been training for half a decade.
Under Li Yi's command, from assembling and lining up, reporting numbers neatly, turning around in four directions, starting, running and other three steps, they were all done in a uniform manner, with great momentum and a few traces of military atmosphere.
This was all made by Qin Hao according to the training outline of the army in later generations.
The content was learned from a book called "Militia Military Training Manual". I was fascinated by military novels in college, so I bought the book to read, but I didn't expect to really use it.
The content is mainly to practice running and queues.
According to the plan, after breakfast, the period from lunch is mainly physical training.
Every morning, under the morning dew, carrying a bamboo basket full of stones weighing thirty kilograms, and running ten miles under Li Yi's scolding. Then, run back to face the sun.
After lunch, there is a one-hour lunch break. After lunch, there is afternoon training. The content is different from the morning. It mainly focuses on the coordination of the body, that is, lifting some heavy objects to exercise strength.
According to the book, weighted running is to exercise endurance, and stone locks and stone burdens are to exercise strength and promote body coordination.
For these young people, who are mainly farmers, it is simply unbearable.
These hardships are not comparable to farming. If there are no abrasions on the body and blisters on the feet during daily training, you can't say that you come to participate in training today.
The reason why Qin Hao set such a strict training is for future plans. According to the rewards for soldiers in the riding and cutting system, he will have to defeat many enemies and occupy the entire island. It will take at least 3 or 4 years, not to mention Daming, Annan, Japan and other places. When he has strength, it may be the prosperous era of Kangxi and Qianlong.
Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to train local soldiers, and as the number of people increases, new blood must be continuously added.
A few days ago, a new soldier was rubbing his painful leg in the straw hut, crying softly, saying that he would rather die of poverty and starvation at home than suffer this kind of suffering here.
The next day, this guy deserted and went home.
The result shocked everyone.
As soon as this guy got home, the Shuntian death warrior, who was the law enforcement officer, also chased him home. Without saying a word, he announced the fate of this family in a cold tone.
"Seize the land! Expel!"
The reason is simple, you did not fulfill your obligations.
When Qin Hao divided the land, he said that only those who obeyed and followed were qualified to live the peaceful life they wanted.
Since you gave up, don't blame me for being unjust. Qin Hao asked the village chief to choose another person to continue training.
Qin Hao thought that although the training was a little bit hard, he was definitely unique in terms of food.
Each person gets 5 jin of rice, 1 jin of grains, half a jin of fish and vegetables every day, and the unfinished food can be packed and taken home.
At the same time, as long as someone in the family is on the military register, the family can pay 20% less in annual tax as a military service subsidy.
The new recruits were dissatisfied and shouted why they had to suffer, while the officers were riding horses happily every day.
Wasn't this a reference to Qin Hao? Li Yi was so angry that he drew his sword and rushed up to chop off the guy's head.
Didn't he know that His Highness had just chopped off the head of the rebel not long ago!
The people fear power but not virtue!
Qin Hao sneered twice, but didn't get angry, and just asked him to come and see the next day.
The next day, Qin Hao ran 20 kilometers back and forth with a 50-jin bamboo basket on his back during morning training. After returning, he was just sweating, but not exhausted.
During the afternoon weightlifting, he lifted the heaviest stone block weighing more than 100 jin in the training ground with one hand, shocking all the recruits on the spot, and truly conquered everyone with his strength.
Then he stood on the training ground and said to all the recruits the famous saying that has been passed down through the ages in the imperial army: More sweat on the training ground, less blood on the battlefield!
So, amid the scolding and scolding of his father and mother, and the cold eyes of the neighbors.
The family took their simple luggage and looked at the rice fields that once belonged to them with regret, and left the green rice fields full of ears.
The beautiful days are about to begin, but these will never belong to them because of their son's desertion.
The power of example is infinite, and the power of negative example is even stronger.
On that day, countless parents and brothers came to the barracks and told their children about this scene. They told them that even if they broke their bones, they had to hold on for the whole family!
From that day on, the recruits gritted their teeth and insisted on their training.
However, after ten days, the body seemed to have adapted to this high-intensity activity. Touching their bulging muscles, everyone felt that it was worth it to be a soldier just for this tendon.
But don't think that after overcoming the difficulty of not being afraid of hardship, this team has trained to the state that Qin Hao saw today.
Another difficulty in training is these seemingly simple but often flawed commands.
Many people can't figure out the four-way turn that Qin Hao thinks is the simplest, that is, left, right, and back.
Even Li Yi, the commander of the new army, didn't understand it very well. He went to Qin Hao to study overtime for several nights in a row. His diligence was evident during that time.
Indeed, it is still the Ming Dynasty. The people are all focused on their own one acre and three points of land, carefully tending to it, hoping that it will produce a few more kilograms of grain next year to survive. How can they have time to read any books? It is normal not to understand these basic common sense.
So Qin Hao gave him an idea, tying straw on the arms of these recruits to distinguish the left and right. Two or three days later, when Li Yi reported the situation, it was much better, and he was basically able to carry out the drill according to the designated slogan.
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