In the past, the main force of the Muling Army was divided into six infantry teams, an archer team, a cavalry team and a reconnaissance team, with a total strength of 1,696 people.
There are now six infantry teams, each with a strength of 200 people. The archer team has been expanded to two teams, each with 180 people, including 120 longbowmen and 60 shortbowmen.
The cavalry team was expanded to 180 people, and the reconnaissance team was expanded to 120 people. The captains of each team were still served by the original generals. However, the captain of the cavalry team was no longer held concurrently by Tang Zhen, but by Yang Wucheng. At the same time,
He also served as a marksmanship instructor for the soldiers. The additional musketry team had a total of 450 people, including 50 gunners. Luo Yuanbin served as the captain and instructor.
After this reorganization, the main force of the Muling Army totaled 2,310 people, basically all young men between the ages of 18 and 35. There were 287 young men between the ages of 14 and 18.
people, organized into three teams.
A total of 327 households were relocated from Jisu Village to Mulinguan, with a total of 1,087 people, including 623 men and 464 women. There were 400 adult men.
Thirty-eight people, including 241 young men between 18 and 35 years old, 207 middle-aged men between 35 and 45 years old. Those between 14 and 18 years old
There are ninety-five young people.
Because the regiment soldiers in Jiwu Village had a relatively good foundation after being trained by Yang Wucheng, twice as many adult men were transferred to the cavalry team. Shang Yi organized the remaining adult men into two teams, and the teenagers into a youth team.
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As a result, the total strength of Mulingguan reached more than 3,000 people, and their strength was very impressive.
After the team was reorganized, Shang Yi immediately ordered the entire army to begin training.
In fact, from the time when the militia was originally formed to the time it was upgraded to become the Muling Army, the soldiers have been undergoing rigorous training in accordance with Shang Yi's requirements. The focus of this training is on the soldiers who have just joined the Muling Army in Jiwu Village.
.First of all, of course, we start with queue training.
Unlike most generals of this era, Shang Yi's first guiding ideology in building an army was the caring habit of soldiers to respect discipline and obey orders, rather than the soldiers' personal combat abilities. Under this guiding ideology, the soldiers of the Muling Army
An individual's combat effectiveness may not be strong, but as a team, the overall combat capability cannot be underestimated. Queue training is the best way to strengthen soldiers' respect for discipline and obedience.
However, the recruits from Jiwu Village were obviously very uncomfortable with this boring and extremely laborious training. In addition, most of them were farmers. At the beginning, they were just like the original soldiers.
Don't hesitate.
Now there is no need for Shang Yi to do things like training the team himself. The former veterans of the Muling Army are responsible for them. These veterans naturally have also inherited Shang Yi's training method of beating and scolding. Once the recruits make the wrong move, they will immediately
The veterans scolded him like crazy, "I don't know how to do such a simple thing. I just do whatever I want to eat." "I can't remember it even after practicing for a few days. It's like this. I'm going to die on the battlefield."
He cursed and hit him with a stick.
As a result, after a few days, almost all of the new recruits had several blood marks on their bodies. However, although Shang Yi did not prohibit them from beating the soldiers, he did not allow them to train their veterans to hit hard, let alone hit vital parts. Basically, they were not allowed to hit the soldiers.
The stick was struck at the thickest part of the body, so although many recruits were beaten, none of them suffered any injuries.
But despite this, because most of the recruits have just been transformed from farmers, they have suffered this kind of torture in the past, and they have complained endlessly. Many people feel that it is too much, so some people start to be clever, make wrong ideas, and be lazy. , wasting time, etc.
However, Shang Yi was very strict in supervising training. Once he found someone who was lazy, dilly-dallying, or unable to complete the training, he would not be polite and would immediately drag him out to fight with military sticks. In the first period of time, recruits were dragged out almost every day. Go out and get beaten.
However, Shang Yi also knew the principle of hardness and softness in Xiangji. As the saying goes, after a slap, he should give a sweet mango to eat. A big stick also needs a carrot to match. Therefore, after beating the soldiers, he would immediately ask the military doctor to come He gave them medicine to reduce swelling, and visited the soldiers in person every day, which made the doctors in the city wonder, if Mr. Qian really felt sorry for these soldiers, why did he beat them again?
And although the training is a bit tough, the soldiers' meals are not ambiguous at all. Needless to say, veterans, even recruits, each meal is a large bowl of white rice, plus two black-faced wild vegetable pancakes, which is fine every other day. After eating two ounces of meat, from time to time they would also eat a white flour pancake or something to spice things up. Many recruits could not eat such meals even at home in the past.
At the same time, Shang Yi also knew that the ideological education of soldiers must not be relaxed, so he also arranged for some older veterans to chat with the recruits during their breaks and do their ideological work.
When the new recruits feel that the training is tiring and the training is hard, the veterans will tell them: "Is this called tired or hard? When we formed the militia with Mr. Shang, then what is called tired and hard? One stop under the bright sun. For an hour, I couldn't move at all. Even when I wanted to poop, I had to hold back. I had to queue for more than ten miles every day, and I couldn't make a mistake. After training, I just lay down on the ground and couldn't move. I don’t want to move anymore. In a few days, my whole body will be peeled off. You are now in a state of blessing."
"Besides, I strictly supervise your training for your own good! Although it is a bit harder now, but once you have practiced your skills, you will understand the benefits of training when you go to the battlefield. If you want to survive on the battlefield, You have to rely on daily hard training. At that time, you might still blame the instructors for not being strict enough with you?"
"What? There's no point in practicing walking? Do you want to practice spears and swords? Hahaha! Young man! You don't understand this. This is not called walking, what is called that? Oh! This is called queue training, but it's important. What? Master Shang trained us like this at the beginning. What was the result? Think about it carefully, ever since we Master Shang established the spears and swords of the militia, we have been invincible. What a Green Wolf Peak! Kill! Hugou! There are also the King of Kaishi, the King of Xingshi, and these messy bandits. Didn’t they suffer great losses at the hands of our Muling Army?"
"Don't you see? Even veterans like us still have to practice formation every day? So don't think that this formation training is useless. It will be very useful if you practice it well?"
"Of course you need to practice spears and broadswords, but there is always a sequence for everything. Practice the formation first. Then the adults will naturally teach you how to practice spears and broadswords. How do you say that? I haven't learned how to walk yet, so I just thought If you want to run away, what can you do?"
"I have to say that your life is really good now. Although you are a little tired and miserable from training, you don't have to worry about food and drink! You can eat every meal, and you still have meat to eat every other day. Even your family members
Can you have enough to eat? Even at home, we don’t have such a good life! Not to mention that we have to worry about when the thieves will come, and we are always on tenterhooks every day!”
"What? Leave Muling Pass? Huh! Young man, it's easy to say. If you leave Muling Pass, you can go there to find such a good person as our Lord Shang! Besides, now the Tatars have come to Shandong with their wars.
, you are guaranteed to die as soon as you leave the customs. And even after you leave Muling Pass, where can you go? Who else will be so kind to you except our Lord Shang? If you don't train well, can you be worthy of Lord Shang? You are right.
Do you eat these meals every day?”
After the ideological work of the veterans, the recruits' emotions gradually stabilized, their motivation for training also greatly increased, and they became more serious about the hardships.
In addition to training new recruits, Shang Yi also did not relax at all for the veterans. Of course, the focus of the training of veterans is no longer the formation, but the actual combat ability. Every day, Shang Yi will take the veterans out for training
, conduct actual combat drills such as ambush, charge, formation, horse resistance, retreat, arrow formation, encounter, river crossing, search, camp, night battle, etc. It is specialized in training combat techniques and drills in mountain jungles.
Because Muling Pass is surrounded by several large mountains such as Yishan Mountain, Yishan Mountain, and Jiwu Mountain, with dense jungles and complicated mountain roads, which are not conducive to the Qing cavalry and heavy armored infantry, it is a good place for ambushes.
area.
Shang Yi was a special forces soldier, and he was an expert in mountain and jungle warfare. It can even be said that in this era, there is no one better in mountain and jungle tactics. Moreover, he accepted the teachings of Tsuji's modern military theory, and at the same time, he also had a deep understanding of the Republic's policies in those days.
Guerrilla tactics and mobile tactics are highly respected. I fully understand the principle of putting myself first and firmly seizing the initiative on the battlefield. Therefore, although there are relevant cities that can be defended, we must not blindly passively retreat and defend them, but insist on combining positional warfare and mobile warfare.
Combination, defense and offense, both offense and defense.
It is under this guiding ideology that if the area around Muling Pass can be moved and effectively used, it will not only cause great trouble to the Qing Army, but may also have a surprising victory effect. Therefore, Shang Yi is training
While using tactics in the mountains and jungles, the soldiers also sent people to survey the mountain roads and draw detailed mountain maps to understand where they could hide, where they could reserve, where they could use troops, where they could ambush, where they were dead ends, where they could survive, etc.
Wait until you know what to expect.
At this time, the missionary Arconia played a great role. After arriving at Mulingguan with Shang Yi, due to the current unstable world situation, the foreign monk temporarily gave up the idea of going north to Beijing and stayed in
Mulingguanli. At the same time, he also used his medical skills to act as a doctor in Mulingguanli. During this period, he also treated many people. Chinese farmers have some respect for monks and know medical skills.
As a monk, he was even more respected. In addition, Akonia was kind and not rigid. Although he was a foreign monk, he quickly became familiar with the residents.
Akonia also took the opportunity to preach among the residents. Although Shang Yi planned to restrict Akonia's behavior, at this extraordinary moment, the help of a religious figure was also helpful to stabilize the residents' emotions. And history has proved that
, Chinese farmers would not be fooled by God so easily, so they did not stop Akonia.
At the same time, Aconia could not help but be proficient in Western painting techniques, and also knew how to draw maps, so he also helped Shang Yi survey the terrain, measure the dimensions, and draw a detailed map of the Mulinguan area with a radius of dozens of miles.