Chapter 16: Training ()

From the second day, Wu Shaoting began training under his command. He considered that these soldiers did not exercise a lot all year round, and it was impossible to drive the ducks on the shelves in a short period of time. Therefore, he planned to gradually increase the training intensity. He only performed five to eight miles per day in the first week, and trained military postures and military salutes at other times.

Many people think that military ritual training is just a sign of vain, because it is impossible to salute the other party when you see an enemy on the battlefield! Wu Shaoting also had this idea in the early days of joining the army in the 21st century, but later he gradually realized that military rituals are actually an important part of the army.

The camp training of the Qi family army in the Ming Dynasty had the saying that "the military status must be followed by the beginning of military etiquette." Therefore, the Qi family army almost became a model king of the Ming Dynasty at that time. Later, Zeng Guofan organized the Huai Army and also paid great attention to military etiquette. The reason is very simple. Military etiquette is to sharpen the character of soldiers and shape the spirit of the army, and at the same time cultivate the habit of subordinates of soldiers obeying superiors.

In the first three days, Wu Shaoting taught all the soldiers the movement and static instructions, military posture standards, etc. of the 21st century army, and required them to act in accordance with these instructions and standards in the future.

Every morning before dawn, the soldiers on the back of the mail would line up to run on the field of the university. In the first few days, all the soldiers had back pain, their limbs were swollen, and their military postures were standing in the scorching sun for several hours, and they complained. Even when they returned to the barracks to rest in the evening, they even discussed privately that at most they would not have the money, so everyone would withdraw from the training camp together.

But when Wu Shaoting came to gather the next morning, no one was willing to stand up and take the lead, and the matter was left to nothing.

After a week, the bodies of the sentry soldiers finally adapted. They didn’t have to be sore and not hurt, but they seemed more energetic every day. Anyway, they had nothing to do when they were resting. Instead of wasting time, it would be better to participate in training camps and earn one more money! Therefore, everyone’s morale became more and more.

Starting from the second week, Wu Shaoting gradually increased his training efforts, and added one mile to his morning exercises every day. In addition to routinely reviewing movement instructions and standing for three hours of military postures, he also added some combat posture training.

On that day, when the routine standing posture was about to end, Wu Shaoting walked to the front of the team, and sweat tangled on his face into many beads. Every time he stood in the military posture, in addition to necessary inspections, he basically held his chest and abdomen like the soldiers. On the one hand, he let the soldiers know that they were side by side with them, and on the other hand, he played a model role.

He wiped the sweat from his head with his sleeve and shouted: "Li Wenqi, Chen Qun, leave the line."

The two of them took a step forward, then leaned against their feet at the same time, and said in unison: "Come."

Wu Shaoting showed a satisfied look on his face, and then said, "You two go and bring out the weapons of the entire sentry."

Li Wenqi and Chen Qun were stunned for a moment. They could hardly help asking the same question: Will the two of them move the weapons of the full whistle? However, these few days of training have made them well aware of the point of "obeying orders". Finally, they swallowed this question, turned around and trot towards the barracks.

The weapons of the sentry soldiers were placed in their respective barracks, which made Li Wenqi and Chen Qun secretly complain. They had to get weapons next to each barracks, and because there were too many weapons, they had to run back and forth several times.

Half an hour later, the two of them finally moved all the weapons of the mail to the school grounds.

Li Wenqi is old and has been exhausted for several times, and he seems a little out of breath. However, he still held his chest and maintained his military posture, reporting to Wu Shaoting: "Report to the Lord, the back whistle... all the weapons of the back whistle... have been collected. Please check!"

Chen Qun was also very tired, but he was in his prime and his situation was much better than Li Wenqi.

Wu Shaoting looked at the two men who were still like Tumen a week ago, and now they already had a certain degree of military temperament. He nodded slightly and said, "Very good, I just deliberately gave you two a small test, and you two didn't disappoint me. Wang Lifa, remember, Li Wenqi and Chen Qun each gave two extra coins this month."

The soldiers were secretly envious, but after all, Li Wenqi and Chen Qun were team officials, but they had been busy with these rough tasks for a long time, so it was appropriate to get some silver rewards. However, Wang Lifa and Wang Yun were quite unwilling to accept it and decided that Wu Shaoting's orders would be implemented seriously in the future, and they would rush to execute them.

Li Wenqi and Chen Qun were so moved that they almost burst into tears. After coming here for a week, they finally saw the silver reward.

Wu Shaoting looked at the expressions of everyone and showed a proud smile. Training these local soldiers must be like training pets. Although this interest relationship is not reliable, it can at least establish an atmosphere of clear rewards and punishments. What's more, things always have to be done step by step. He adjusted his posture and ordered: "Everyone should take a break, and I will teach you some reasonable fighting postures next."

The soldiers all took a rest posture, and finally they could rest on their upper bodies.

There were only eleven rifles in the back whistle, and the models were not uniform. Except for the eight Hanyang-made 1894 styles, the two Manchester guns that were made from were still flawed. In the end, the bird gun was not enough for the bird gun. As for the other weapons, they were cold weapons, red tassel guns, machetes, and Pu Dao. Originally, most of the cold weapons were rusted. After Wu Shaoting scolded them, the soldiers polished them with whetstones overnight.
Chapter completed!