Qiming 1158

Chapter 17 Su Yonglin's Army

Su Yonglin didn't know how Zhao Kaishan and others were going to fight.

It seems that their training is a bit simple and perfunctory - simple training arrays, simple dancing with knives and guns, telling soldiers to obey orders, etc. There is no particularly hard training.

Moreover, it is still a busy period of farming, and Zhao Kaishan is still arranging for farmers to cultivate in spring.

This is no problem, spring ploughing is just as important.

But you don't have to treat training as optional, right?

Su Yonglin couldn't be so perfunctory.

He was going to fight face-to-face with the Jin people in the countryside, not to mention the possibility of a surprise attack.

The field battle is all about the array and their stability, and the formation must be practiced.

He couldn't expect those peasant soldiers who didn't know a single big character to know what an army formation was, and know how to cooperate with their comrades when they entered the battlefield.

So he and Zhao Kaishan applied for food, saying that they would give his [-] combat troops three meals a day.

This makes Zhao Kaishan a little strange.

"Usually it's only two meals, why do you want them to eat three meals? Don't you have to? You won't be hungry if you eat two meals, at most, give them more food for each meal."

"Training is the same as fighting a war. It is also very expensive. If you don't eat, you won't be able to practice. If you don't practice, you won't be able to produce elite soldiers. Brother, my original subordinates were trained three times a day. I have experience, you believe me. , I will definitely train an elite soldier out.

And brother, I want to fight a lot of golden people in the countryside. If I encounter someone who is prepared and can’t attack, I can only fight hard. At that time, it depends on my strength, and you don’t want me to defeat the battle. Bar? "

Su Yonglin smiled brightly.

Seeing Su Yonglin's smiling face, Zhao Kaishan was very depressed.

But he also thought that if Su Yonglin could really train an elite soldier, he would have more confidence in dealing with the golden man.

Moreover, people came all the way to help them rebel, and they didn't agree to this request, and it didn't make sense.

After all, he is not a person who is short of food. The food in his family is piled up like a mountain. When he was short of food in the famine years, he also hoarded Juqi to make a lot of money. In any case, he can't use the excuse of lack of food to prevaricate.

Forget it, let's eat more elite soldiers. How much more food can we eat if there are 1000 people anyway?
So Zhao Kaishan agreed to Su Yonglin's request, and asked Su Yonglin to fight for the treatment of two thin meals in the morning and evening and one dry meal at noon for his 1000 people. Food is enough after all.

Su Yonglin was very happy, thanked Zhao Kaishan, and then said that he also wanted to apply for some oil and meat.

Seeing Su Yonglin's progress, Zhao Kaishan's face suddenly collapsed.

"My dear brother, it's almost enough to have enough food? Since ancient times, when soldiers have eaten food, how can they give them meat? I can't afford it! We don't have that much meat for them here!"

"If you don't eat meat, you don't have the strength. If you come across the golden cavalry, you won't be able to carry the big axe or chop the cavalry. This is not good, brother, we are rebels, and if we accidentally lose everything, we can't Cherish small profits and ignore the overall situation.”

"This……"

"Brother! What you pay now is to earn back thousands of times in the future, whether it's doing business or rebelling, isn't that the case? If you don't want to invest, where will you gain?"

Su Yonglin stared at Zhao Kaishan seriously with his big eyes.

Zhao Kaishan looked at Su Yonglin's earnest eyes and couldn't say anything to refuse.

After thinking about it, I felt that what Su Yonglin said was not unreasonable, and he could only promise to give Su Yonglin some oil and meat—but it was absolutely impossible.

Eating meat is the kind of treatment only the Zhao family's own direct family members have. Even the nursing team who act as thugs are not so good, let alone a thousand soldiers.

The amount is not much, and it is enough to eat one meal in five days.

Even so, it's pretty good, because Su Yonglin didn't think he could get it at first, he just persuaded him and tried a little, and he didn't feel it was a pity if he didn't.

Su Yonglin's mood suddenly became very good.

The less is less, and there is something to eat after all. A big local tyrant like Zhao Kaishan doesn’t know how rich storage he has. He will definitely not expose his family’s wealth easily.
In this way, Su Yonglin has the confidence to train a relatively elite army.

Yes, relatively elite.

In just a few days, it is not bad to be able to get a preliminary appearance. If you want to become an elite soldier, you will think too much.

In a war, individual shrewdness cannot dominate the direction of the war, and the organization of the army is the key factor in the direction of the war.

Even if these peasant soldiers who do not know a single big character have never killed an enemy with a steel knife in their hands, as long as they can mechanically make corresponding tactical actions to cooperate with their comrades, it is enough.

Battlefield experience always comes from actual combat.

Su Yonglin has experience in both land and water battles, but not against regular opponents, but against the same group of illicit salt dealers, which doesn't feel like any serious combat experience.

He didn't know whether he was considered a military genius, and he couldn't ask the God of War Yue Fei who could say "The magic of use is in one mind" to ask the god of war what war is. Know how much potential you have?

Fortunately, the first time he had to deal with a group of "eight-banners" who had abandoned their training.

Even if the pressure grows and the pressure increases in the future, it will not reach the level of Yue Fei who will fight against the golden army in his peak when he first debuts.

Because Jin Jun, like Song Jun, can't return to the top.

Jin, Song, Xixia, and Dali are actually all the same. In the endless confrontation, they have all entered a period of decline, and have long lost their sharpness of the year. No one can do anything about the other. Who is worse.

If I really want to say that the enemy, it may be the Mengwu tribes that have not really grown up yet.

Thinking of this, Su Yonglin felt a little relieved, and then formulated a strict training plan.

He planned to turn this 1000-man combat force into an [army] that could at least understand his own orders and execute them before the official uprising.

Soon, Su Yonglin announced a package of training plans for the entire army that he had formulated.

Since we want to form an army, the first thing to announce is the establishment.

Taking into account the actual combat needs, Su Yonglin basically referred to the general tactics formulated by Wang Anshi, and adopted a three-level system. In order to show the difference from the Song army, the army name was slightly changed.

The basic unit in the Song army was Huo, with ten people in one fire, while Su Yonglin set up a squad of ten people, who was at the head of the squad.

The Song Army used Wuhuo as a team, with 50 people in a team, and a captain commanded it. Su Yonglin changed the team into a platoon, with 50 people in a row, and set the leader.

In the Song Army, ten teams were used as a battalion, with 500 people under its jurisdiction, as the most basic combat unit. Su Yonglin did not change it here, and set up a battalion as the basic combat unit, with 500 people under its jurisdiction, and a battalion commander.

In the art of general warfare, a battalion is the basic combat unit, with several battalions as a general.

The whole army has different numbers of generals in different regions according to different theaters, and try not to disrupt the deployment between the top and bottom, so as to improve the problem that the Song army did not know the soldiers and the generals in the early days.

Su Yonglin only had 1000 men, and with two battalions, he couldn't even reach the minimum of 3000 men per general.

He was embarrassed to call himself a general, so he told Zhao Kaishan, so Zhao Kaishan called himself the great commander and appointed Su Yonglin as the commander to command the two battalions.

He let his cronies Su Jue and Su Haisheng serve as the commanders of the two battalions respectively.

The ten platoons below the battalion are named according to the heavenly stems, with A, B, C, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, and Gui as the platoon numbers, and the five classes below the platoon are simply named [-] .

Under such meticulous regulations, even a basic soldier can clearly define his own affiliation.

For example, a soldier belongs to the third squad of the T-shaped platoon in the White Tiger Camp, and it is clear at a glance whose subordinates are.

In addition, there were only thirty knights under the command of Su Yong as Su Yonglin's personal guards.

Under this stipulation, the entire army first conducts personnel registration.

Su Yonglin has no shortage of people who can read and write. Everyone goes to battle together, and the roster of the entire army will be completed soon.

Last name, first name, age, place of origin, how many people in the family, etc., as long as they can be recorded, they are all recorded, but if someone does not know how old they are, they can only be left blank.

After the roster was finalized, the arrangements for military positions were immediately promulgated.

Basically, the officers who served as officers were all from the Su family.

This is to make the army form combat effectiveness faster, and it is also to better control the army, killing two birds with one stone.

After the arrangement of the third-level officers was completed, the establishment of the army was actually completed. It only took two hours from the beginning of chaos to the present order.

The highly efficient habit of the Su family, a smuggled salt dealer group, is also very suitable for this kind of business - fighting and smuggling salt are all things that need to be pinned to the belt of the trousers.

After the establishment of the army, Su Yonglin issued a strict schedule of work and rest.

At the beginning of Mao Shi, the whole army got up, dressed and folded quilts, rectified the queue, and then collectively exercised their bodies for half an hour until the fourth quarter of Mao Shi.

Then give half an hour to wash, eat breakfast, solve the three urgent problems, and clean and tidy.

At the beginning of the hour, the assembly began, and the first one hour of queue practice was carried out.

At the beginning of this time, the formation practice ended, and the weapon practice began. It was another hour to practice spear assassination, shield lifting, and bow and crossbow shooting.

At noon, the training is over, and the entire army has an hour to eat lunch and take a lunch break.

In the near future, the whole army held a one-hour literacy course, and the literate Su family veteran led the peasant soldiers who had just become Su Yonglin's subordinates to learn to read together.

In Shen Shi, depending on the progress, we should strengthen the formation training at the beginning, when the formation training is decent, and then combine it with the weapons to practice the army formation for an hour.

During the Youshi, the whole army had dinner, solved the three urgent problems, rested for a while, and moved freely in the barracks.

At the time of Xu, the whole army gathered again according to the new organization for an hour or so of exchange activities. With a squad as the basic unit, the squad leader and the soldiers gathered to communicate and talk about anything, mainly to enhance mutual understanding.

At the beginning of Hai Shi, the whole army turned off the lights and went to sleep on time, waiting for the order to get up the next day.

So again and again.

Then, Su Yonglin issued the appropriate military decree that he had thought of at the moment, and ordered someone with a loud voice to read it out in public.

For example, there are some regulations such as salaries for being a soldier, rewards for training hard workers, heavy punishments for those who are lazy, rewards for those who are excellent in literacy efforts, and punishment for those who are lazy.

Among them, several important ones have been highlighted and explained.

First, the soldier's salaries are given publicly every month, directly from the quartermaster's side, and the money is paid in one hand and the record is recorded in the other hand.

Second, the cost of meals in the army is made public. How much money the Huotou Army spends every day to buy and eat should be made public, written on paper, and posted in a designated area for the soldiers of the whole army to know.

Third, there is no distinction between officers and soldiers in the army. The food is the same. The Firehead Army can eat whatever they can prepare, from Su Yonglin himself to the ordinary soldier.

Fourth, and a very critical one, officers are not allowed to abuse and corporally punish soldiers. Soldiers can be punished by military law if they make mistakes. However, if officers abuse or corporally punish soldiers, they will be dismissed immediately, and they must publicly report their criticisms in front of the entire army.

This is an iron law that must not be shaken.

In fact, these regulations had already been applied when Su Yonglin was in charge of the Sujia Private Salt Group.

The Su family's private salt group was managed militarily a long time ago. When Su Yonglin took over, the core group was like a well-organized and hierarchical army, and organizational ties were interests.

Su Yonglin added these rules that must be followed, and supplemented it with various political and ideological education. He was stunned to build this illicit salt dealer interest group that licked blood into the fire of rebellion, and transformed this organization from the inside out. .

Therefore, the original thugs are very used to the content of the military regulations and military law proposed by Su Yonglin, and there is nothing strange about it.

Although the salt workers didn't know, they trusted Su Yonglin and were willing to abide by it.

And those peasant soldiers who have recently joined in, blinked with bewildered eyes, not knowing what these regulations are all about.

It doesn't matter, Su Yonglin didn't expect them to accept and understand these rules from the very beginning. Following the old people of the Su family who are used to the rules, they don't have to worry about not being able to understand them.

"Since you follow me, you must abide by the rules. These rules are not only you, but I will also abide by them. You have made mistakes, and the military law is like a mountain.

Su Yonglin stood in front of the entire army with a knife on his face, and made his oath to the entire army.

After a series of events were announced, it was already evening, and the Huotou Army had already prepared the evening's dinner - thick vegetable porridge.

So Su Yonglin ordered the entire army to eat dinner in units of squads, one pot per squad.

The salt tube is enough, the porridge tube is full.

After dinner, it was free time. Su Yonglin asked each squad leader to bring their soldiers to their residence to sort out.

No way, just moved in, a lot of things have to be tidy up, it's really hard to sleep if you don't tidy up.

Su Yonglin called all the main responsible persons in the other troops to his side and assigned them tasks.

(End of this chapter)