This is not new to soldiers. Strict military laws are the characteristics of the medieval army. The "17 bans and 54 beheads" has a long history, and almost everything cannot be "beheaded". Even for a famous general like Qi Jiguang, who is well-controlled in the army, military orders are also
Very harsh.
However, strict military discipline and whether it can be enforced are two different things. Especially the Ming army they recruited in the Pearl River Delta area was considered a long-lasting peace force in the late Ming Dynasty, so it was inevitable that they would suffer from "laziness". Many people were actually
He was born in a garrison and had never been a camp soldier. He was said to be a soldier, but in fact he was a farmer.
This sonorous, powerful and murderous reading of the instructions immediately made many soldiers with mud-legged backgrounds tremble.
However, for someone like Yang Erdong who has been in the military for a long time, there is nothing special about this order. If there is any difference, it is that the Australian order is simpler and even gentler than the Ming Dynasty's military law. After all, the entire order is
Not to mention the word "kill". Every time military discipline is promoted in the army, a bloody "kill" or "kill" must be added. In order to leave a deep impression on the soldiers, such occasions usually also
A few unlucky guys should be beheaded on the spot and the bloody heads should be hung out for everyone to see.
After the training session, formal training began.
Most of the people in this National Army brigade have received about two weeks of training in Hong Kong. However, these two weeks of training also include physical examination, political education, physical exercise and basic discipline development. The actual time spent on training is not
Not much. Let alone fight, such an army is not worried about the money to defend the city. It is a little impatient.
Qian Duo immediately divided the National Army brigade into two parts. One part was soldiers who had received two weeks of training in Hong Kong. They had already initially received discipline development and formation training, so the training focused on tactical development, including firearms shooting.
, cold weapon fighting and battle formation changes.
As for those soldiers who were temporarily recruited before departure and those recruited locally in Wuzhou, they had to start from scratch.
The team was divided into two parts, and each rushed to the playground to start training. During the training, a squadron was used as a unit, and each squadron was equipped with ten instructors in a ratio of one to ten. The instructors were all superior soldiers and sergeants of the Fubo Army. Combat experience was not mentioned.
How rich you are, you have been in the army for at least two years, and you have been trained on all kinds of doctrines and formations so that you are very familiar with them.
Because Yang Erdong was recruited locally, he was naturally included in the "fully trained recruits" team.
The first part of the training was to queue up. Everyone should remember their position in the team and line up quickly when gathering. This was always too difficult: remember the people in front, behind, left and right, and you would be able to stand in a correct position soon. Then the instructor began to practice "standing at attention and facing forward".
After waiting for a few simple commands, no new instructions were issued. They just clasped their hands behind their backs, holding a three-foot-long white wood military stick, and a small team circled around as a unit. Some people poked their heads and scratched their itches.
He got a slap immediately.
"No one is allowed to move until they hear the new command!" the instructors showed their fierceness and shouted, waving their sticks. People who had served as soldiers for the pseudo-Ming Dynasty called this "killing stick" in order to teach this gang of gangsters.
obedient.
This station lasted for an hour. Everyone who dared to move during the period received a cane. Some were weak and bent over and vomited all over the floor while standing. They also received a cane when they turned around. Others stood for a long time. Unable to stand it any longer, he begged the instructor for mercy, but was beaten until he could not speak and ran away with his head in his arms. Then he was beaten with a stick and thrown back into the queue to hold on till death. Only those who fainted could be spared from being beaten - dragged to Pour a basin of cold water on one side of your pocket.
Yang Erdong was "well-informed" and knew from the sight of this posture that the Australians were "really here". He didn't even dare to take a peek and could only let the screams go in and out. Half an hour later, this scene The torture is finally over.
After a half-burning incense break, it was time to "stand at attention" again. The instructors assigned temporary squad leaders and non-commissioned officers, so that everyone could remember their faces, taught how to salute, and then announced while stretching their epaulettes. : In the future, when you see people with armbands, those who don’t salute will be given ten army sticks and punished by squatting for two hours. This time, they stood until dinner before being dismissed. The whole squadron with the worst performance had to continue to stand until the end of lunch, waiting for everyone to finish eating Only then can we eat.
Lunch was eaten on the playground. White rice and chowder paste were enough. The chowder paste was brought to the playground in buckets in big iron buckets. It was steaming hot and fragrant, but it didn't look very appetizing. Yang Erdong closed his eyes and took a bite: the taste was not bad, but it felt like there was something fishy in it - no one could taste it.
After lunch and a short rest, we started the afternoon training again. The afternoon training was queue training again - this is when the test really began: the instructors all spoke "Newspeak", while the soldiers each spoke their own dialect and had to speak If there is a common language among them, it is Guangzhou Mandarin.
Except for a few "well-informed" soldiers - such as Yang Erdong, who understands "Mandarin", so he can barely understand 60-70% of "Newspeak" - most soldiers just listen to "Newspeak". It’s almost the same in foreign languages.
In this way, the afternoon drill became a kind of cruel listening training. The instructors only gave orders in Newspeak, with some physical commands at most. Once they understood the mistakes, they would be "spiritually injected" with military sticks.
I couldn't understand the commands, and there were so many rules and regulations. Although there was a "Military Manual", most soldiers were illiterate and couldn't remember it at all. So they were beaten at every turn on the training ground, and they had to repeat their crimes loudly while being beaten - ―You have to read it in Newspeak, and you have to be beaten if you read it incorrectly. After being beaten a lot, everyone has summarized their experience. Generally speaking, anything that is not ordered to be done is not allowed to be done. Anyone who does this will be beaten with a military stick.
Return to the dormitory in the evening - the dormitory of the new training squadron is located in the "Third General Mansion". The empty hall is covered with hay to provide shelter from the wind and rain. It is considered a good accommodation for Qiu Ba who sleeps in the open all year round - all Their legs were so stiff that they could not bend back, and their bodies ached everywhere. One by one they could barely crawl to the grass bunks to rest.
"The beatings I received on this day were more than the beatings I received in twenty years combined..." Li Pudun slowly moved to sit on the straw mat and complained with a grin on his face. He was also a concubine from Wuzhou.
"Fortunately, this Australian gentleman used thin wooden sticks to beat people. If he had been an officer from the Ming Dynasty, he would have been beaten to death today..."
"Forget about the army stick, it can blow away all the meat!" A soldier said, "I saw it once in the early years. The pieces of meat as big as a palm flew to the flagpole, and the bones were exposed... It's too much
Crap."
"Being a soldier and eating food is not a chore anywhere! Who told us that we are not good at horoscopes!" Someone sighed, "My father died when I was fifteen, so I had to go out to serve as a soldier and eat food. I still don't know what's going on at home.
Is my mother okay..."
"How's it going? Your mother has found a new father for you..."
"Fuck your mother!" He was about to take action, but was immediately pulled away again.
"You haven't been beaten enough, are you going to kill someone?!" Yang Erdong advised, "What time is it now! The Australians really want you to mess around so that they can kill people and sacrifice the flag."
"Brother Erdong is right. We are all good people, so stop making fun of us."
"Australians are fierce, but they don't kill people randomly. They eat well! I don't know how many days this Australian food will last!"
"Isn't it easy to eat food? If you can't eat Australian food, then you can eat Ming Dynasty food..."
"Don't you dare to commit suicide!" an older veteran scolded, "You don't want to die!"
As we were talking, someone suddenly shouted outside: "You guys! Don't lie down and stretch your body, get up and burn your feet!"
"Ignore you, old man," Li Pudun muttered in a low voice, "This whole day's work is not over yet!"
"Forget it, he is under the eaves. We are eating Australian food now, so we have to obey his control." Others persuaded, and they got up from the grass bunk one by one and limped outside.
Standing outside is squadron leader Li Dong. He once served in the Fubo Army for two years, but was later found to have flat feet and was discharged from the army. This time he was re-recruited and joined the National Army as an officer. According to the newly trained squadron soldiers,
In their opinion, Captain Li was a bit too young, so he was "too tender". However, they had been "fucked hard" by Li Dong all day today, and no one dared to say that he was "too tender".
"After the training, all personnel must wash and wash their feet." He glanced at the scattered soldiers, "You! In pairs, go to the kitchen to get hot water. You, go to the supply office to get the wooden basin!"
Under the supervision of the officers and instructors, the entire new training squadron washed, heated their feet and then soaked them. Hotming the feet helped to eliminate fatigue, and soaking the feet helped with walking - the soldiers knew this, but on weekdays in the camp
It is difficult for Wu Zhong to have this condition: neither a wooden basin nor hot water is readily available. Sometimes, if you are unlucky, you can't even drink water, so how can you burn your feet!
The Australians were good. They not only cared about foot-scalding, but also provided the wooden basins for each person. When they were distributed, they asked the soldiers to carve their names on the basins. Yang Erdong thought that this was too extravagant. One basin for each person, and their National Army brigade alone
There were between three and four hundred people. It was obvious that this wooden basin was not produced locally. It was probably brought from Lingao by Australians.
No wonder the gentlemen say that Australians behave "extravagantly" and "trivially".
"After the words are engraved, they will be placed in your personal custody! The wooden basins are not allowed to be mixed or borrowed, otherwise they will be treated as violations if found! Loss and damage must be reported truthfully!"
After the instructions were given, the instructors did not leave, but supervised them personally. After everyone had tidied up their personal hygiene, they checked in person without any ambiguity.
Dinner was mixed vegetable porridge, which tasted the same as the mixed vegetable porridge at lunch, except that rice was added to cook it. After eating, everyone thought they could just relax, but unexpectedly Li Dong announced the start of "cultural study".
Next update: Volume 7 - Guangzhou Governance Chapter 54