Qiming 1158

Chapter 19 This is a brand new experience they have never had

On the first morning exercise, Su Yonglin was still kind.

Considering that the newly recruited peasant soldiers were undernourished, they started training from the easiest, lined up in a queue, and walked around the edge of the big training ground at a slightly faster pace.

The entire army from Su Yonglin and below all participated. Su Yonglin took the lead in controlling the speed and walked around the large playground together.

Tian Guizi led the team of military judges with long sticks to accompany the team. When they saw anyone who was trying to be lazy or left behind, he threatened them with a stick and told them to come back and keep up with the progress of the team.

After the founding of the army, all disciplinary powers in the army were reverted to the Military Justice Division. Tian Guizi, the Director of the Military Justice Division, had the power to enforce the law, and had the right to execute everyone from Su Yonglin down to the common soldiers.

If you really want to be lazy and play slippery and not listen to orders, you will be served by military law.

The leader from the front stared at the side. After half an hour, the peasant soldiers were basically out of breath, and the original elite thugs were in the best condition.

But in the end, they were peasants, they had some stamina, and they persevered, although the queue was somewhat messy.

At the end of the morning exercise, half an hour to wash and eat to solve the three urgent problems, the time is still enough.

The breakfast is also thick vegetable porridge, with enough salt and some chopped vegetable leaves. Although there is no meat or oil or water, the porridge is thick and sticky, and it tastes very hungry.

The peasant soldiers were also pleasantly surprised to find that Su Yonglin took them with them and actually gave them three meals a day. They used to eat two meals, but Su Yonglin gave them three meals.

Get up and give back the money.

Good man, good man!
This is the most intuitive first impression of many peasant soldiers.

But they soon discovered that their first impressions were biased.

The first thing they faced was queue training.

Infantry fighting depends entirely on the formation of the army, and the formation is the foundation of the formation.

And the queue is not only standing in a row and walking in a straight line, but also training to understand the orders of the officers, including but not limited to passwords and semaphores, drums and so on.

The ancient army did not have radio communication facilities, and the general commanded the operation and could not deliver the order to every lower-level officer in time, so the order must be conveyed through semaphores, drums or trumpets, and the officers and soldiers could execute the order.

What sound represents what order, whether it is an officer or a soldier, can only be understood and implemented after more rigorous training.

And once the training is completed, a well-trained rebel army that can successfully carry out the commander's orders is simply a dimensionality-reducing blow to the signing troops of the Shangjin people who rushed to the battlefield.

Many ancient armies [breaks at a touch] and [breaks a thousand miles] are manifestations of inadequate training in this regard, which has dealt a blow to the well-trained army's dimensionality reduction.

But in the same way, the golden country has a great career, the cost of trial and error is very low, and there are many opportunities for repeated attempts, and losing a battle is like scratching the itch.

Su Yonglin and the others are rebels, they are not as good as others, and they cannot afford to lose even once.

Therefore, it must be strict and strict, meticulous and meticulous!
Su Yonglin had no chance of failure, at least before the power grew, before the rebel army swept the entire Shandong, the consequences of a single failure would be unbearable for him.

He went into battle himself, holding the battle flag, the battle drum, and the horn in front of the big guys, telling them what these things were and what they were used for.

For example, what does it mean to beat a slow drum, and what does it mean to beat a fast drum.

After a little bit of explanation, a little bit of experimentation, Su Yonglin still saw some results, from the funny scene full of mistakes at the beginning to the scene that looked a little like an hour later.

Of course, compared to Su Yonglin's sense of accomplishment, the peasant soldiers were much more tired, and the workers and soldiers in the salt field were not much better.

It's a whole new experience they've never had before.

The same is true for the weapon training after that. Many people have only dealt with agricultural tools or salt-making tools since birth. No one has ever played with steel knives and long spears that can really kill people, and they look particularly heavy. heavy axe.

These things are very heavy, often heavier than ordinary farm implements and tools, and longer in length.

The peasant soldiers and the worker soldiers felt heavy when they held these weapons in their hands, and it was difficult to wield them, let alone fight.

"It may be heavy now, but it doesn't matter, practice more and you'll get used to it."

Su Yonglin said so, let the officers who are familiar with these weapons teach their comrades how to use these weapons.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the difficulty of obtaining swords and guns was not the same as that of obtaining bows and crossbows. There were only swords and guns but no bows and armors. The officers and soldiers did not take you seriously, but if you had armor and bows, that is Really going to rebel.

A long-range attack, a close-up defense, no matter how you look at it, it will be a rebellion.

So it was not difficult to get knives and guns from the time of Su Dingguang, but it was really difficult to get crossbows and armors, and the Song army itself was very strict about weapons such as the God Arm Bow and the Defensive Bow. The military sometimes does not pay in full.

The army is not enough, and it is even more difficult for outsiders to get it.

Su Yonglin only has more than 30 sets of divine arm bows in his hands, and only [-] sets of armor. Even if he wants to practice the powerful divine arm bows, he does not have sufficient conditions.

But the good thing is that it is not the Northwest, but Shandong, and further north is Hebei, and the terrain is relatively flat.

In places with relatively rugged terrain, such as the Great Northwest, when the Song army dealt with Xixia, the bow and crossbow were the main force. Most of the soldiers in the formation were bowmen.

However, the terrain in Shandong and Hebei is relatively flat. After the Yellow River was diverted, it was even more flat, especially suitable for cavalry operations.

When dealing with cavalry on such terrain, infantry formations required more pikemen and shield soldiers. When facing cavalry onslaught, the formation was more stable and not easily overwhelmed, while bowmen took a back seat.

So when Zhao Kaishan was worried about the shortage of crossbowmen before, Su Yonglin comforted him like this.

After serious consideration, Zhao Kaishan agreed with Su Yonglin's opinion, and decided to let nature take its course. After conquering the three states and obtaining the Golden Army's arsenal, he would naturally be able to obtain a large number of bows and crossbows.

The amount of training in the morning is huge, and the consumption is also very high. By noon, everyone is already hungry and their chests are on their backs.

During lunch, Su Yonglin asked them to line up to wash their hands by the small river not far from the training ground, wipe their faces, and then go to eat.

The meals given at noon are dry rice, dry rice and pickled vegetables, and some soups that seem to be clear and watery - it's good to have, at least there is rice, vegetables and soup.

For the old people of the Su family, this kind of food is nothing. When they were illicit salt dealers, they ate much better than these. Su Yonglin regarded them as human beings.

But for the peasant soldiers who just joined the army, this kind of food is not punctured by a needle, and more importantly, three meals a day.

Really three meals, every meal can be full.

If you knew that being a soldier was such a treatment, you would have expected the master to rebel, right?
After lunch, there is a one-hour lunch break.

According to the military regulations, it is necessary to go back to the dormitory to take a nap, to raise enough energy to prepare for the afternoon training. This is easy to accept.

Get up from a nap, stretch, and feel refreshed.

But what greeted the peasant soldiers was not the more arduous training they had imagined, but instead they all gathered in the big playground, sitting in a group in a class, and the class leader taught them to read.

There is usually not only one literate person in a class, but there are often six or seven soldiers who are both thugs and salt workers.

So a limited number of three or four peasant soldiers took a look—huh?How can you read?How many of us are illiterate?

Are there so many cultural people in the Song Dynasty in the south?

The peasants and soldiers were very depressed.

Therefore, in a class, there are usually six or seven people who work together, and two or three people teach one, with these honest peasants and soldiers to recognize word by word.

The old people of the Su family still remember how Su Yonglin taught them how to read and help them get rid of their ignorance.

They also remember Su Yonglin's words.

"Only if you know how to read and have culture can you be considered a real person. The superior people don't treat us as human beings, and of course they won't teach us to read, but it doesn't matter, we teach ourselves, and we must teach us all. Once you recognize the words and have culture, you will be an upright person."

The old people of the Su family told the peasant soldiers this sentence, the peasant soldiers look at me, I look at you, with surprised and puzzled faces.

But it doesn't matter, literacy is compulsory, you can't even recognize it or not. If you recognize more, you will be rewarded, and those who are lazy and slippery will be punished by military law.

When this regulation was announced, the peasant soldiers who were afraid of punishment immediately stared at the black words written on the white paper, and clumsily followed the old people of the Su family and read the pronunciation of the word again and again.

An hour passed, the literacy class was over, and a new round of queue training followed.

Su Yonglin regards formation training as his top priority. Not only the soldiers who obey orders, but also the soldiers who trumpet trumpets and wave flags should understand all of this, so that they can transmit accurate orders to front-line commanders on the battlefield.

All in all, all kinds of exercises.

The soldiers moved forward and back in rows and rows, and they were tossed so hard that the trumpets and drums sounded, and the messengers were exhausted. The whole training camp was very lively.

It was finally time for dinner, not to mention the peasants and soldiers, the old people of the Su family were also hungry, with their chests on their backs, gorging on their porridge bowls, and the sounds of sucking and sucking came one after another.

Of course, if you have enough food, if you say that three meals a day are three meals a day, it will definitely not deceive people.

There was an hour between dinner and a break after dinner. After dinner, the soldiers gathered together in twos and threes to chat and digest food, walk around, and discuss today's wonderful experience with each other.

After the free time is over, it is the last activity of the day.

It is said to enhance mutual understanding between comrades-in-arms and enhance everyone's feelings and trust, but after the peasant soldiers introduced themselves, they listened to the stories told by their squad leader and the old Su family when they were selling smuggled salt. fan.

For the first time, they knew that these bosses and comrades-in-arms all came from smuggling salt. They sold smuggled salt and made smuggled salt in the Southern Song Dynasty. They risked their lives to make money. It was a stressful life.

In a stressful and exciting life, they gained a lot of knowledge and saw many human tragedies.

So they told the peasants and soldiers about these human tragedies one by one.

It was the same as when Su Yonglin told them one tragic story after another.

There are too many stories like this. They happen all the time in this world. There is no need to fabricate them, or even to add artistic rhetoric. As long as they are told, the story itself can be shocking.

How did the common people, who were cows and horses, bear the cruel oppression to support those scholars and gentlemen who lived extravagantly?
What is it about the oppression and exploitation they are burdened with?
From the simple to the deep, starting with the most tragic story.

So on the first night, this kind of story made people in the entire military camp cry, and some people hugged their heads and cried.

It has to be said that all the people in this barracks, except Su Yonglin himself, all came from poor backgrounds, and are particularly prone to empathize with this kind of thing.

Although Su Yonglin came from an official family, after his grandfather Su Dingguang passed away, he did not take the imperial examinations to become an official.

He is a real person who has nothing but money, and if he is not careful, his property will be deprived, and his life will be difficult to save, and he is already their own.

Everyone is the same person, with the same experiences and emotions. Faced with the stories of these prostitutes who are still hungry and even die tragically, who can hold back their emotional burst?

The whole camp was crying.

Amidst the cries, the first day of training for the Su family's volunteer army was over.

(End of this chapter)