The trail for cross-country running has been drawn long ago, and everyone runs it frequently, so everyone is familiar with it. There is no need to give special guidance on the route. Zhu Mingxia wore sports shoes and only brought a pistol and even a command knife.
Unqualified, it was much easier than the soldiers wearing straw sandals and fully armed. Therefore, after running to the finish line, he had more physical energy than the soldiers, and he almost recovered after a short rest. He held a stopwatch and stopped the last arriving soldier from each company.
time.
The whole camp completed the five-kilometer cross-country route within the twenty-six minutes specified in the outline. Because this route is a regular five-kilometer cross-country route, Ma Niao Base has a rest stop at the end with a drinking station and toilet. It is also flat.
A large piece of land was used as a gathering place for the troops during the lectures.
The last one to reach the battle line was the 3rd company. After completing five kilometers within the stipulated time, they were fined one kilometer. After all the companies returned to the formation, all the soldiers were exhausted, but they still stood upright in the queue waiting for instructions. One
The tingxiong with its head held high did not show any drag due to fatigue, which made Zhu Mingxia very satisfied: In the past, these balls did not have this kind of fighting spirit. The more the soldiers are tempered, the more fighting spirit they have. Without fighting, they have to train repeatedly to always maintain the highest level.
A state of tension.
He adjusted his breathing, cleared his throat, and began to lecture.
"Comrades, your growth astounds me and makes me proud! In the past, you were just ordinary people who were enslaved and oppressed, and some were even slaves without personal freedom. You were oppressed by layers of officials.
, being plundered by ferocious thieves, unable to protect themselves or their families. Even in the best years, they can only live half-starved and half-fed. Every day, you live in fear. Today, you have become
Glorious warriors of the Senate, you fight to save your compatriots! You fight to save the world! Under the authority of the Senate and the leadership of the Executive Committee, you will free all oppressed people in the world from the corrupt imperial court.
.and rescue you from the hands of murderous bandits! You will let all the brothers and sisters in the world eat white rice and be able to stand up and be a good person. For this great goal, I will train you strictly and will be even stricter.
Train you. Only in this way can you defeat your opponents in the arduous wars in the future. If you fail, you will lose everything, the elderly will be slaughtered, children will become slaves, and women will become playthings, so you will never
can be defeated.
Some people say that being a soldier is just to earn a living, and you don’t have to work so hard. No! I want to tell you that being a soldier is not only a job, but also an honor and a responsibility. Your responsibility is to defend the Senate.
, save the suffering people. It is you who are engaged in such a glorious profession. Your families are extremely proud, and your ancestors are glorious! Life is important, but human dignity is more important. You can endure those who eat people without spitting them out?
Will the officials of Bones come back again? Can you accept pirates and bandits raping your family members in front of your eyes? Can you?"
"You, the third person in the first platoon and the first squad of the second company, tell me "Can you?" Zhu Mingxia pointed to a fellow soldier and said: "No!... The soldier shouted with all his strength.
"Then tell me, can you accept it?"
"No! No!" I don't know who shouted it first. Soon the whole battalion of soldiers shouted "No". Hundreds of people made loud noises. Zhu Mingxia raised his hand to signal for silence.
"I know that everyone will never accept it. But some people think: those officials, those bandits, those people who used to ride on everyone's heads to dominate and use your blood and sweat to fatten the rats in their own houses.
Not a day goes by that they don't think about coming back to plunder us. After the robbery failed, they come secretly. The case of Lai Da some time ago has been reported to the entire army, and the tragedy of the team going to the countryside was caused by these people colluding with bandits. They
They never give up and they never give up. Now they are spreading all kinds of rumors in an attempt to divide us. Comrades, think back to who defended Bopu in the most critical moment.
Holy ship? Who transported the wounded back to Lingao under Chengmai City. The army and navy are the right-hand arms of the Senate, and they share weal and woe. Any rumors about internal conflicts in the army are maliciously spread by the enemy. They are afraid of us, so
To divide us, we cannot be fooled by rumors, we should unite closely and respond to them with cannons and bullets in the near future..."
This is Zhu Mingxia's purpose of dragging the entire battalion out for cross-country travel. When a person is extremely tired, it is especially easy to be influenced by other people's thoughts. If a soldier is not tired, he will create fatigue. The conflict between the army and the navy can be argued among the elders, but it must not be
spread to the army.
Battalion Commander Zhu Quanxing, who had just led the 6th Battalion to return to re-establishment a few weeks ago, had reminded him that the conflicts among the elders may have spread to the army. Especially the New Body faction in the navy and army were intentionally or unintentionally promoting this.
Lan.
Zhu Quanxing was not a former soldier. He came to the army as an officer purely due to his fanatical enthusiasm. He was a member of the New Body Sect, but he was worried about the conflict between the army and the navy, so he specially reminded Zhu Mingxia.
…It is said that two Zhu’s cannot be written in one stroke.
These disturbances must be nipped in the bud. The Senate's army must not become the Japanese army and navy that are just a joke. Zhu Mingxia felt that although he could not control other troops, his own troops must set the right direction.
The size of the army is getting larger and larger, but Zhu Mingxia feels that the army's ideological education is still not enough. Especially in the past year, from war preparations, counter-encirclement and suppression campaigns to public security wars, the army has been exhausted. There is not much time to spend on the ideological work of the army. Wei Aiwen used to often
He has been assigned to a company, but in the past six months he has basically had no company to disband. Of course, it is also a fact that there are almost no troops here at Ma Niao. He writes various documents and holds meetings at the General Staff every day. He is a bit alienated from grassroots work. When the stall is big, it is easy to slack off.
Zhu Mingxia was full of worries, but his face was not gloomy at all. After the soldiers shouted three times: "For the Senate and the people," he took the lead in singing "The Fubo Army Soldiers Listen to the Words of the Senate Most", and the whole battalion returned to their horses.
Fort station.
Returning to the station, as usual, the team was organized and reviewed, and then the "whole battalion was disbanded". Each company was led by the company commander to take a bath. The living conditions in Majiao Fort were excellent, and each battalion had a large shower room and boiler room, regardless of winter or summer.
Everyone can take a hot bath and be hygienic is the minimum condition to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army. The Senate has never been stingy with spending money in this regard.
Zhu Mingxia took off his military uniform and was thinking of going to the bathroom attached to his dormitory to take a shower and change clothes before going to each company to check on the conditions of the soldiers. The messenger from Majiaobao headquarters came: Fu Sansi asked him to come to the headquarters immediately.
Take a trip.
"Let's go now." Zhu Mingxia quickly wiped his face, put on the clean uniform shirt that the orderly brought him, and went to the headquarters.
The commander of Maziao Fort was concurrently served by Fu Sansi. The weather was getting hotter, and he had been training on the playground for another day. He was only wearing a coarse natural-colored military undershirt. When he saw Zhu Mingxia coming in, he first handed over a copy
The order was handed to him.
He took it and saw that the content of the order was to instruct Majiaobao to form a "Northward Detachment" based on Zhu Mingxia's 4th Infantry Battalion.
"It's finally time to do it!" Zhu Mingxia became excited - although this was something that was expected.
"Yes, you are the detachment leader this time." Fu Sansi said.
In addition to the infantry battalion, the army's northward detachment also strengthened a detachment of the special reconnaissance team, an artillery company, an engineering company and several logistics support teams. The total detachment has 1,500 people. Zhu Mingxia will serve as the detachment leader, and another one will be prepared in the detachment.
Equipped with a chief of staff and a logistics director to form a complete independent combat organization.
"Everything else is easy to say," Fu Sansi said. "The 4th Battalion has always maintained a state of combat readiness. You have treated these guys hard enough, and their military and political qualities are beyond praise. The other artillery, engineering and logistics units are all ready-made."
.It’s just that the horse problem is not easy to solve.”
An artillery company has a theoretical establishment of 110 horses. If the logistics and engineering detachments want to be equipped with a certain amount of horses for pulling carts, an additional 100 horses will be needed. The existing number of horses in the army is far from meeting the needs.
If we use the old method of replacing animals and losing soldiers, relying on people to pull carts and push, then the number of the entire detachment will be far more than 1,500 people, and at least 1,000 people will have to be incorporated into the migrant workers team. And considering the chaotic situation in Dengzhou
, I’m afraid it’s unreliable to recruit manpower on the spot.
The Dutch promised to sell horses from Japan, but in this time and space where sailing speed is based on months, it is unreliable to expect the Dutch to deliver horses in time.
Fu Sansi scratched his head: "How about I propose to the General Staff that we take down Jeju Island first and seize the Li Dynasty's official, horse and equipment troops on the island."
"Isn't this possible? Even a horse pulling a cart needs several days of training, let alone pulling a cannon." Zhu Mingxia learned a lot about the organization and operations of the army at that time while chatting with the people who lined up to shoot the party members.
Fu Sansi said: "It depends on whether I have to buy a donkey-like Yunnan horse."
This is the most likely way to replenish a sufficient number of horses in the short term. The former Director Hong and the current Minister Hong have always had a soft spot for Yunnan horses, so everyone among the veteran officers of the Fubo Army knows this.
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Zhu Mingxia had no opinion on this. He had no idea whether the Yunnan horse was suitable or not.
It is his principle not to talk about things he doesn't understand.
"Never mind this for now," Fu Sansi shook his head and said, "First take a look at the new quilt sample that Thorpe sent."
On the conference table at the headquarters, there were piles of samples of new quilts and logistics items needed by the northbound detachment that Thorpe had sent, asking Fu Sansi to organize the soldiers to try them out first to see if there was anything that needed improvement!