Chapter 39 Military System
After saying that, Ma Cheng walked to the front of the team and shouted, "Everyone run with me!" After saying that, he took the lead in starting running.
Ma Cheng had never been a soldier before, but he had participated in military training for college students. The five-kilometer cross-country running every morning really cost Ma Cheng half his life. In the past, Ma Cheng always found various opportunities to escape from the five-kilometer cross-country, but now it is different. Ma Cheng knew that if he wanted to gain the support of soldiers, he had to set an example, so today, Ma Cheng had to persevere in the ten-mile running around today.
Everyone started running under the leadership of Ma Cheng, which was similar to Ma Cheng’s estimate. Many people could still hold on in the first lap, but they couldn’t do it in the second lap, and a large number of people began to fall behind. Ma Cheng was also very tired, but Ma Cheng had good physical fitness. After all, he ate much better than those farmers. Although he was so tired that he was as breathing as a cow, he still persisted.
What made Ma Cheng look at Gu Xiying with admiration, but he didn't expect that a big girl could run away. However, Gu Xiying was also very tired, and her face was flushed and very adorable.
Running to the finish line, Ma Cheng's legs were straight to vote, as if it was not his own, but Ma Cheng still insisted on standing there, watching the follow-up team running to the finish line one after another.
In the end, fifteen people were left, and they couldn't run anymore. Ma Cheng asked someone to carry them over and declare that these guys had no breakfast.
It was already dawn at this time. When Ma Cheng was running with his men just now, it was a lot of noise. This was the schoolyard of the Governor's Office. Someone had already reported the news to the Central Military Officer Zhang Guozhu.
Zhang Guozhu stood on the side of the school field with interest and watched Ma Cheng lead people to run. He did not expect that Ma Cheng, the second-generation second-generation ancestor, could still have the perseverance.
After Ma Cheng finished running, Zhang Guozhu came to Ma Cheng and said, "Second Young Master, Master Yue told Xiaguan yesterday that the situation was told to Xiaguan. Now Xiaguan has brought one hundred military uniforms."
Ma Cheng looked at Zhang Guozhu with more than a dozen large cars behind him, and there was some food in addition to military uniforms. Ma Cheng was happy to see these, so that he could save his already insufficient funds.
"Uncle Zhang, thank you!" Zhang Guozhu's family and the Ma family have been intimate for generations, so Ma Cheng called him "Uncle".
Zhang Guozhu looked at the soldiers found by Ma Cheng and said with a smile: "Nephew, you want to play with uncles and don't object, but what are you doing? Military soldiers need to practice formation swords and guns. What's the point of running with them? Will you run faster for the sake of the future?"
Zhang Guozhu's slap in the face made Ma Cheng very reluctant to come to Taiwan. Ma Cheng cursed in his heart: What do you old guy know? My skills in leading troops are six hundred years ahead of you!
Although Ma Cheng was dissatisfied, he said, "What Uncle Zhang taught me is that my nephew has learned a new set of training methods. When he is trained, please ask Uncle Zhang for advice!"
Zhang Guozhu simply regarded Ma Cheng as the second-generation ancestor of Wu Nao. He shook his head and stayed in the general's uniform, and then took the people back home.
At this time, Gu Changwei and his men had already prepared the breakfast. The meal was very simple, but it was steamed buns and porridge. The pickles were radishes and cabbages pickled with salt. After training in the morning, everyone was hungry. After Ma Cheng's permission, they immediately ate them voraciously, except for the fifteen unlucky guys who didn't stick to it.
Although the meal is very simple, Ma Cheng's breakfast was very sweet because he was hungry, and he felt that it was better than the crab roe soup buns made by the chefs in the mansion.
According to Ma Cheng's plan, we will be armed off-road five kilometers in the morning, and learn the queue and stand military posture in the morning, and learn cultural lessons in the afternoon. But now that the military shipment is coming, the learning queue can only be dragged back.
After breakfast, Ma Cheng asked the hundred people to take off all his torn clothes and then ignite the fire. The next step was to bathe and change clothes for the hundred people.
After half an hour, I finally sent my clothes. As a model soldier in the Governor's Office, the equipment was pretty good. In addition to the mandarin duck battle robe outside, the size clothes, trousers, hats and cloth shoes inside were all equipped.
These hundred farmers did not expect to send new clothes to join the army, and they were very happy to hold their own clothes.
After they changed their new military uniforms, their military appearance changed when they stood in front of Ma Cheng again. In the past, these guys were just a bunch of farmers, but now they have changed into new military uniforms, and they have washed their heads and faces and are not covered in dust. Although they are still farmers in their bones, they finally look good on the surface.
These guys were in a good mood when they changed into new military uniforms, and they were laughing and joking. When Ma Cheng saw this, he asked Xu Dahu to organize his team. With ten small flags of military orders, he immediately picked up a stick to let these guys know what discipline is. Soon, under the stick, the guys finally calmed down.
Ma Cheng stood on the newly built high platform and looked at the soldiers and said, "From now on, you have become formal soldiers. If you are soldiers, you must abide by the military orders of the military camp. In the afternoon, I will take you to learn the 17 bans and 54 kills in the army. Now I will teach you the most important things in the army, the queue!"
The queue looks simple, but it can train the soldiers' sense of obedience and organization. These two items are indeed indispensable for a qualified army. At the same time, the war in the Ming Dynasty had entered the hot weapons war. In the late Ming Dynasty, the number of firearm equipment in the Ming army had reached 60%. Some main forces, such as the Shenji Camp, were composed of all firearms, so the queue was the top priority for Ma Cheng's training.
Ma Cheng first separated the team according to the small flags, each with eleven people, with the head of the ranks being an officer, and then divided the ten small flags into two horizontal lines, each horizontal line being led by a general flag. According to Ma Cheng's idea, this one hundred households and two general flags will be the basic unit of the musket team in the future.
Of course, there are thousands of households above the hundred households, and one thousand household has ten hundred households under its jurisdiction, which is ten basic units and twenty rows of musketeers.
There are guerrillas above the thousand households. The official position of guerrillas was already an intermediate officer in the Ming Dynasty. In Ma Cheng's plan, guerrillas were also intermediate officers, equivalent to the commander of later generations. One guerrilla was responsible for three thousand households, that is, three large array musketeers, plus an independent artillery unit, a guerrilla 3,600 people should be able to withstand the same number of attacks by the Qing cavalry.
The guerrillas are the generals who go upwards. According to the benchmarks in later generations, they are the division commanders. The generals are responsible for three guerrillas, that is, 10,800 people, and the number of people in the direct troops should be around 12,000.
In the Ming Dynasty, there was also a deputy general, that is, the deputy general, but Ma Cheng canceled this position. Because 12,000 people had already been large, the general in the Ming Dynasty could lead a first battalion of 5,600 people, so the deputy general was cancelled, and the general was directly the general.
The general did not have a specific number of troops. In Ma Cheng's plan, the general was equivalent to the commander of the front army, and the specific number of troops was determined according to the specific circumstances. Therefore, the general was the largest combat unit in the new army organized by Ma Cheng.
However, these are all talks on paper now. Ma Cheng only has one hundred households and one hundred and eleven people. It is too early to think of those. (The military system of the Ming Dynasty is almost the same as the modern military system. After all, the full firearm troops appeared in the Ming Dynasty, so the author did not want to change the military system of the Ming Dynasty too much. After all, the military advisors and brigades appeared in the previous book, everyone thought it was a poison point.)
The team was already lined up, and Ma Cheng looked at the neat team, and the soldiers with a saggy chest and belly were very satisfied.
Seeing that everyone was ready, Ma Cheng shouted: "Everyone has it. Follow my command, one step, one step, two step, right foot, one step..."
Ma Cheng thought very well, but as soon as the password was out, everyone didn't know who to take the foot, and the whole team was in chaos for a moment.
Ma Cheng cursed as if he was like this: "Stop, stop! Are you all stupid? Don't you know what your feet are left and right?"
Xu Dahu, who is a hundred households, said weakly at this time: "Sir, we really don't know what we have to do."
After hearing what Xu Dahu said, Ma Cheng remembered that these people were not the new recruits with high school education in later generations, and they didn't recognize these characters. It was a joke to expect them to know that their left and right feet were just a joke.
Ma Cheng had no choice but to explain patiently: "Remember, the right hand is the right hand when eating, and the left hand is the same. Do you know the same thing about the feet?"
After Ma Cheng said that, he was afraid that they would not understand, so he said, "Now everyone will raise their hands holding chopsticks!"
More than a hundred people raised their right hands one after another, but Ma Cheng expected that two people raised their left hands.
Ma Cheng scolded angrily: "Are you deaf? I said the hand holding the chopsticks!"
The two unlucky guys said carefully: "Sir, we use this hand to hold chopsticks!"
After hearing what they said, Ma Cheng remembered that there was still a left-handed person. Ma Cheng couldn't say to the two of them: "You two raise your other hand!"
Ma Cheng looked at the team again and raised his right hand, then said loudly: "This is the right hand, and the right foot on one side of the right hand is the right foot. I shouted twice and stepped on the right foot, and I stepped on the left foot. Do you understand?"
There were a sparse word from the team. Ma Cheng was afraid that these guys would pretend to understand. To be on the safe side, Ma Cheng said again: "Okay, now I'm going to shout, everyone will follow me and step together!"
"One!" Ma Cheng finished shouting and looked at the feet everyone raised. There were a few mistakes and most of the others were right, not bad. Ma Cheng stepped forward to correct those few, and then shouted: "Two!"
In this way, Ma Cheng had been wasting all morning and finally taught more than 100 people to distinguish their legs. At noon, Ma Cheng saw that these guys could finally walk skillfully, and sighed and thought: I originally thought it was too simple, and I thought that as long as I gave myself 100,000 troops, I could train qualified soldiers soon. Now it seems that I think it is simple.
In fact, Ma Cheng doesn’t have to be discouraged. Not to mention that in the Ming Dynasty, even after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, there were a large number of new recruits who were not aware of the difference between the left and right. Until the eradication of illiteracy in the whole country, the training of new recruits did not require first training to be divided into left and right.
Chapter completed!