This morning, Feng Shi first went to class and then started practicing.
As for the content, it is not a variety of physical training, but a simple and pure obedience training and collaborative training, aimed at training their ability to execute orders and coordinate with other soldiers.
Mountain people are a group that is naturally unruly, especially teenagers. Compared with civilians outside the mountains, training is more difficult and they are more prone to various incidents.
Outside the mountains, many powerful men have tried to recruit mountain people into armies, but few have succeeded.
Mountain people are not only more expensive to train, they are also difficult to train to be obedient, and they are also prone to escape.
Especially when a sufficient number of mountain people gather together, even if these mountain people come from different villages, they can easily gather into small groups. Throughout the ages, there have been many cases of mutiny by the entire army composed of mountain people.
However, Feng Shi's group benefited from the long period of brainwashing with stories. In the morning, in the wooden house, the class was full of enthusiasm. Although the subsequent drills were boring, the veterans who led the team were also very strict.
The content was very unaccustomed to them who were accustomed to freedom, but emotionally, everyone was just depressed and had no idea of retreating.
As for the Ying Tian Army, new recruits are allowed to regret it in the first ten days. However, once they regret it, they cannot go home directly. Instead, they have to follow up and cultivate the land for the Ying Tian Army for a year.
If you regret it after ten days, you will be subject to military law.
Such rules are undoubtedly a great mercy in this era. After all, outside the mountains, throughout the ages, there has been only one way to deal with deserters, and that is, kill!
In this regard, Zhao Cheng wanted to use these innocent mountain people to create a powerful elite force. Now he was laying the foundation to screen out some unsteady mountain people, which was actually a good thing.
The training on this first day was particularly heavy. Except for an hour's rest at noon, the training finally stopped until nightfall.
But after Feng Shi and others had eaten and went to bed, the Taoist official who taught them in the morning came to their wooden house.
This wooden house is very large. After all, local materials are used. There is no shortage of wood and land. The house is not a big house. It is separated by wooden strips. There are exactly twenty people in a house, but these recruits are allowed to
, eat and live together to enhance tacit understanding.
After the Taoist official came over, he did not mention the day's drills or the subsequent training. Instead, he asked about everyone's physical condition and whether they were able to eat well. After that, he started chatting with everyone about their daily life and talked about the situation of his family.
, completely opened up the topic.
Each of the recruits, more or less, talked about the situation at home. When it came to this matter, most of the barriers between these recruits and the Taoist officials were eliminated at once.
Then, the Taoist official began to guide the topic unintentionally, asking the recruits to express their thoughts.
Some people say that they want to make a career and want a wife. The Taoist official will smile and say that there are countless women outside the mountains who are easy to have children. As long as they can make meritorious deeds, there is no problem in marrying as many as they want in the future.
Some people also said that they just wanted to eat enough, but there were too many brothers in the family, there was not enough food to eat, and there was not enough land to allocate. They also said that if the general had not distributed food, several of his brothers might have starved to death this winter.
The man was very calm when he said this, and the other people were also very calm, because this kind of thing is too common in the village.
There is indeed no tax in the mountains, and it seems that the mountains and forests are vast, so you can plant whatever you want.
But in fact, there are not many places where the mountain people can farm, and the area around the village is more difficult to manage if it is further away.
The power of nature is very powerful. When the climate is suitable, a piece of land can be covered with weeds in a few days.
Then there is the issue of beasts, insects and snakes.
Another point is that if the land is frequently planted and there is not enough fertilizer, it will become barren. The only way to increase the fertility is to leave it abandoned for a period of time.
Facing the wild beasts in the mountains, even for a capable hunter, it is very dangerous to encounter a ferocious beast.
Only around the village can you hunt alone. Going a little deeper, you have to form a hunting team in groups of three or five.
In addition, without enough fertilizer, even with intensive farming, the yield of food is very limited. Even in the mountains, it is normal for children to not have enough to eat once they have more.
Only Ying Tian's army, which are all tough soldiers and fearless of ferocious beasts, and with a large number of people, can burn wasteland on a large scale in the mountains.
As for having fewer children to reduce food consumption, the mortality rate of children in this era is high. If you have fewer children, your family's risk-taking capacity will be weaker. If you are not careful, your bloodline will be cut off.
Facing the recruits who said this, the Taoist officer first said that this is the kindness of the general. Outside the mountains, there is no such thing as winter supplement. In many families, people have to die in winter, either the elderly or children.
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There is only a general who is a hero from Huang Tian. He not only uses troops like a god, but also has a great heart of compassion. Three hundred kilograms of food is not much, but it is enough to put it in a family at a critical moment.
Time to survive.
Afterwards, the Taoist official said that if he could have met the general earlier, his old mother might not have starved to death that winter.
When it came to the general, among the new recruits, Feng Shi, who was already good at talking, became even more excited and began to talk directly. He said that the reason why he joined the army was to admire the general's wisdom and martial prowess...
The atmosphere of this long conversation was getting increasingly heated up to this point, and it wasn't until the night got a little darker that the conversation finally came to an end.
And this kind of thing did not happen in this one place, this batch of recruits all encountered similar things.
Originally, the new recruits had just entered the military camp, and the restricted life inevitably made them feel a little uncomfortable. However, after some small talk, the military camp suddenly seemed less unfamiliar and they felt much more at ease.
When the conversation was over, the Taoist officials did not go back to rest directly. Instead, they used charcoal to sketch on a piece of wood.
On this piece of wood, there was a table-like thing written in charcoal, with the names of the recruits on it.
The names were arranged in a row, and in the first row, there were words such as: pure kindness, unruly, vicious, indifferent, dull..., etc.
After one of the Taoist officials completed the sketch, he thought about it and wrote a sentence at the bottom of the form. Feng Shi expressed his admiration for the general several times. Please focus on observation.
After that, all these wood chips were handed over to one person and filed away. The next morning, the wood chips appeared on Zhao Cheng's desk.
Such a system was naturally formulated by Zhao Cheng. As of now, it is actually still very rough, and the most critical quality of Taoist officials is still mixed.
But compared to those powerful military training methods outside the mountains, Zhao Cheng's method is undoubtedly ahead of its time. It enhances the loyalty of the army from the most basic level.
In a short period of time, this system may not be effective, but as time goes by, the cohesion of such an army will become extremely powerful.
Even in the mid-term, some outstanding Taoist officials can disperse them to the land of China and let them organize small teams independently to destroy the enemy's rear area.
In modern times, some people used a similar system.
