Chapter Thirty-Four Business Briefing of Yingzhou (6)
Gao Mingbo, a native of the Marine, has been in the army for one month. During this month, he has spent an unforgettable life as a recruit.
First of all, I had a five-day study career, and I read the "Pingzhou Army Front Camp Soldiers Passing Regulations". Under the compulsory requirements of the officers, most soldiers barely remembered this regulation, and the best of them could even recite the regulations completely, such as Gao Mingbo.
What made him feel extremely strange was that the regulations had a lot of regulations on the behavior of soldiers, which were meticulous. When they saw Shangguan, they should pay attention to what taboos should be paid attention to when they were with their brothers, and even how to wear clothes and fold quilts. There were many funds for the regulations, and those who failed the recitation exam would face punishment from officers, including strange ways such as push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, endurance running, etc. This made most recruits very uncomfortable.
The training career that followed made Gao Mingbo feel extremely missed by these five days of endorsement. In comparison, these five days were so relaxed and leisurely.
Five days later, formal training began. Every morning, I woke up hurriedly amid the wooden whistle of the emergency gathering, dressed in a hurry, ran around the barracks under the leadership of the officers for half an hour, and then lined up to sing at the entrance of the cafeteria. Because these large wooden houses, called "Cafeterias", were limited, each team must sing to distinguish the order of dining in a singing manner, and was supervised by Instructor Jiang. Which team has the loudest singing voice, which team will enter the cafeteria first. Sometimes they sing until the chest is pressed against the back, and they are allowed to enter when they are hungry and their eyes are black.
The meal was sufficient, but the meal time was extremely strict. After the incense was lit less than two inches, everyone was allowed to start a meal. When the incense burned out, they had to leave their seats. Because the time was too short, Gao Mingbo was not full during the three meals a day a few days ago. Later, he couldn't help it. After the officer announced that he had to stop eating and stand up, he secretly grabbed a bread from the big basin and stuffed it into his arms.
This scene was discovered by the officer at the Star. He dragged him out of the queue on the spot and stood in front of the canteen with a few new recruits who were also committing crimes. After that, every time a group of soldiers who had been dining, the Star would announce in public that the reason why they were punished to stand. Gao Mingbo stood in the canteen that morning and was in shame, and wanted to find a crack in the ground to get in under the gaze of countless eyes. Since then, his eating speed has increased significantly, and he has no regard for the habit of slow chewing and swallowing that the rich families have developed when they were young. Like other brothers, he stuffed everything that could be stuffed into his mouth like a wolf or a tiger.
In the first few days, everyone had some conflicts with each other, such as Han and Khitans, Khitans and Mohe people, Khitans and Xi people, Xi people and Mohe people, and the Xi people and the Mohe people were more or less disliked. Gao Mingbo was beaten by a short but very solid Khitan because of a quarrel. The Khitans even called him a Martial Pig, but then the Khitans were locked up in a dark wooden house that was only half a person tall and were not released until three days later. The reason for the punishment was so serious was said to be because of "ethnic discrimination". Since then, few people dared to use the other's tribe again for their arguments.
A lot of training was spent on military posture and demarcation training that were all in the morning and afternoon. It was monotonous, boring, boring and hard. After many days, Gao Mingbo was already numb. He repeatedly clasped and loosened his feet in the officer's "stand attentively" and "restlessly", and turned back and forth in the commands of "turn left", "turn right", and "turn back", and kept lifting his feet and resting in the commands of "step in line", "going forward", and "running". By the last few days, his actions had formed a conditioned reflex, and he was arbitrarily fiddled like a marionette, and the officers who were leading the orders were the commands. He even suspected that his hands and feet did not belong to him, they belonged to those commands, and he did actions that he did not realize with the commands.
The military posture and demarcation training lasted for twenty-five days. Every day before going to bed, Gao Mingbo felt his legs as heavy as stones and his whole body was sore. He had no time to think about other things. As soon as his head touched the bed, he would fall asleep immediately. Then he heard the harsh wooden whistle in a daze, and continued to get up in fear to welcome the next day.
Every night is the time when Gao Mingbo hopes most. This is the time for the recruits to conduct cultural courses. The place where the recruits are studying is the large wooden house where each team of recruits lives, and the person who teaches their training team officer Liu Jinhou. In Gao Mingbo's eyes, Liu Jinhou's literacy level is a mess, and there are probably only a few hundred words that can be written and identified. Of course, this is enough, because the teaching content is very simple. In addition to further explaining and analyzing the "Regulations on the Passage of Soldiers in the Front Camp of Pingzhou", only simple military terms are taught, including how to identify the meaning of various flags, how to distinguish the size of the official rank, how to understand simple military newspapers, etc. Gao Mingbo will see these things at a glance, and when other recruits have no choice but to learn hard, he can easily understand them. Every time he answers one by one under the question of the training team officer Liu Jinhou, he answers one by one, winning many envious and admirable eyes.
On the day when the military posture and parade training ended, Gao Mingbo and the newly recruited brothers completed various parades under the reviewing stand. Gao Mingbo, who was in it, was deeply shocked by the scene of his participation! The horizontal and vertical team resounded through the shouts of the audience, the thunderous taps, and the unanimous pace made him feel deeply proud and proud. When a team of neatly shaped queues passed by the reviewing stand and saluted the senior officers on the stage, Gao Mingbo suddenly felt an indescribable excitement from his heart. He felt like he was thrown into a torrent of forward movement, and wanted to clear and level all obstacles blocking ahead!
Next was the last five days of training, mainly familiar with the use of swords, shields, wooden guns and bows. Under the patient teaching of several instructors, Gao Mingbo learned basic killing tricks. These tricks were different from the gun and stick martial arts he had previously encountered in the family. Compared with those fancy martial arts, these tricks were simpler and crude, but in Gao Mingbo's eyes, they were more fierce and insidious, and were more suitable for cooperation, and they could show their power when fighting in teams.
After the training of the recruits, in the afternoon of the same day, Li Chengzhong, who was promoted to Liucheng Army and the captain of Yan County, was appointed as the guerrilla general, inspected the military camp surrounded by Instructor Jiang, Deputy Instructor Jieli, Zhang Xingzhong, Zhou Madao and other senior officers.
In the eyes of the recruits, the tall general was majestic and brave, but he kindly held the hands of the soldiers beside him, or patted the soldiers' chests and shoulders, and asked some questions about life and food. Sometimes the general would joke with the recruits, telling one or two dirty jokes, which made everyone laugh. Gao Mingbo was also extremely honored to be punched by General Li in the chest. Compared with those strict instructors, Gao Mingbo felt that the general had a kind and kindness in his majesty, which made him feel warm.
That night, General Li rewarded the recruits and held a grand bonfire dinner in the military camp. The dinner was full of food and plenty of wine. Dozens of sheep were killed, and there were also large pieces of pickled pork. Gao Mingbo was a man of the Marais. The method of making this meat came from his hometown. Looking at the shiny black meat in his hand, Gao Mingbo remembered his childhood.
In addition to eating and drinking, each team performed a program at the dinner, most of which were songs from home in various places, and the team where Gao Mingbo was located performed a sword dance. This dance was taught by a brother from a Wei family in the team. Gao Mingbo and his friends practiced for five days before they danced in a good manner. When the dance was over, General Li stood up and cheered loudly and applauded vigorously, which made Gao Mingbo and his brothers feel very happy and glorious. Gao Mingbo didn't know how much wine he drank that night, and he even had three bowls of wine with the Khitan recruits who had beaten him. The two had previously dissipated in these three bowls of wine, hugging each other's shoulders and calling each other brothers.
After the training of the recruits, the recruits were assigned to the ground. They sat on the ground under the reviewing stand, listening carefully to the roll call of Instructor Jiang on the reviewing stand. Beside them were the marching packages that had been long been made, and they were their own felt blankets and supplies. The army was named "Yingzhou Army", with five battalions, three infantry battalions, one cavalry battalion and one central battalion. The dispatching of battalion heads is the major event that every recruit expected. The brothers had long quietly inquired about the achievements and situation of the commanders of each battalion. As far as Gao Mingbo's original intention was concerned, he really hoped to be assigned to the front battalion, because the front battalion was the head of Commander Zhong. It is said that Commander Zhong's troops have always been the fist troops in the army, and they must be the main force in every battle and undertake the most difficult tasks. Although it is very dangerous, their military achievements are outstanding and their promotion is very fast. Many new recruits are looking forward to fighting under Commander Zhong.
Gao Mingbo sat in the audience for a long time. After hearing the assignment, the brothers around him gathered at the designated location. Only he and the remaining seven or eight brothers had not yet read the names. After the assigned brothers gathered, they would go to the newly built military camp. This military camp that everyone had trained for more than a month would be used as a training camp for the second batch of recruits. I heard that the second batch of recruits had begun to recruit and would soon enter the training camp.
Gao Mingbo was stunned by the voice of Chief Instructor Jiang's "Above, it's the list of the back camps". None of the five camps had their own names. Did they fail their training? He was a little nervous and looked at the other recruits sitting in the school grounds. The brothers stared at each other in confusion.
While confused and uneasy, I suddenly heard Instructor Jiang sing aloud: "Gao Mingbo!"
Gao Mingbo breathed a sigh of relief, stood up in a standard posture, and responded loudly: "Come!"
He heard the instructor Jiang pause again and said, "Bring your clothes immediately and report to Yuhousi!"