Volume 1 The Battle of Luchuan Chapter 58 Chronicle of the Expansion of Mang Castle (I)
But at the moment, Auma naturally doesn't know the truth. In fact, only An Bai completely understood Jiang Yu's plan, he and Ah Tian, and even the other members of the intelligence department were only in charge of part of the plan, and vaguely guessed the whole thing.
In this case, no one wants to leak or dares to leak it. Jiang Yugang's deep thoughts and the ruthlessness and decisiveness of the killing game were enough to make them all afraid.
For Aouma, Jiang Yugang still has more use. Aumma's identity as the first warrior of Nansangzhai was once made, and Jiang Yugang must squeeze out his value as much as possible, and this unit selected from the militia of Nansangzhai villagers, which was completely composed of Luchuan locals, decided to be led by Awuma.
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"Baihu, what do you mean, let me be the general flag?" Auma was shocked, and there was some instinctive panic after being reused: "You see, I have brought a dozen brothers to help the village master fight some small battles before, and I really don't have this kind of ability." ”
Jiang Yugang shook his head: "It's not that you want to be the general flag———— the general flag is only in charge of fifty people, I want you to be in charge of one hundred people, this is not comparable to the general flag." ”
"This... Isn't this a hundred? Aumma's mouth grew, and then he felt inappropriate: "Baihu, don't be angry, I didn't react for a while... Right now, we have almost a thousand people here, and you are no longer comparable to ordinary hundreds. ”
"Of course I don't care about this, you don't know my Ming military attache system, these hundred households are not based on the number of people, but a kind of official position, when it comes to the appointment of a hundred households, whether it is fifty or five hundred people under you, you are a hundred households", Jiang Yu waved his hand: "It's just that the vast majority of people will not have more than a hundred subordinates." ”
Auma scratched his head: "This is an official... It's quite troublesome, I haven't read the book, so I really don't understand. ”
"You don't need to understand, you are from Nansangzhai, and now you are my subordinate, just follow my rules." Jiang Yu said disregardedly.
"Yes, Baihu is the benefactor of me and my fellow villagers, killed the Luchuan army, and helped us rebuild the village, I will listen to you." Auma smiled and nodded.
In fact, this is also the state of most of the villagers in Nansangzhai, these people who have not seen how many people are sinister, relying on heaven to appreciate food, living in the rich Luchuan people are very simple, and they help them fight, solve the Luchuan army that bullied them, and after the village was destroyed, Jiang Yugang, who took them in and helped to rebuild the cottage, regarded it as the biggest reliance.
"I have created a new kind of organization called a 'company', and one company is in charge of three 'platoons', and one platoon is the same as the previous general flag, which is 50 people, and one 'company' can manage up to 150 people," Jiang Yugang said. Here, he directly borrowed the modern military system: "And you, I now want you to be a company commander and manage one company under you." ”
"Now, you manage a hundred people, and then someone joins the team, as long as there are no more than one hundred and fifty people, it will be your subordinates." Jiang Yugang added.
"One hundred and fifty!" Aouma's eyes widened. This time, he was really moved, in the past, under the old village master, no matter what you say, he was just a martial artist, but with Jiang Yugang, he had the opportunity to be the leader of so many people.
Jiang Yuyan smiled lightly: "You can be this company commander because the people in Nansangzhai trust you, so I will choose you———— you don't want to live up to their expectations." ”
"Baihu, I swear with my life that I will never let down Baihu and the villagers." Aummah immediately made a vow.
"Okay," Jiang Yu patted him on the shoulder: "Go and see your soldiers." ”
"Bing?" Auma wondered.
"In the back mountains." Jiang Yu said recklessly: "The training ground that has just been built. ”
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In order to cope with the increasing number of soldiers, Jiang Yu ordered Zhang Dake to assign some construction craftsmen to participate in the construction of the training ground. The location of the training ground is in the wide open space that can be crossed from the Manggu Mountain to the Ming army's Manggu Mountain camp from the original Manggu Mountain, and the current Manggu Castle leads to the mountain slit, almost with a space of nearly 200 meters in length and width.
After all kinds of trees, weeds and gravel were removed, and the newly laid floor tiles were newly laid, which can be regarded as a neat and refreshing small square. On weekdays, the Ming army trained here, and the new army, which relied on the militia of Nansangzhai, also arranged time to take turns using this training ground with the Ming army.
Now, in order not to cause a gap between the Ming army and the new army, Jiang Yugang called the original Ming army the first company, and the new army composed of the Nansangzhai militia as the second company. The original Li Zongqi and Wang Zongqi were the main and deputy company commanders, while the company commander of the second company was Awuma, and the deputy company commander Jiang Yugang was assigned to Yu Shi.
Originally, in the design of the Ministry of Intelligence, intelligence officers also had the duties of staff officers, and could be directly transferred to the military establishment and participate in the management of the army.
For the second company composed of the militia of Nansangzhai, it is most suitable for someone like Yu Shi, who is not only a capable henchman who has been working and fighting with Jiang Yugang for a long time, but also has been trusted by the villagers because of his long-term work in Nansangzhai, to be the deputy company commander.
"I am the deputy company commander Yu Shi, the company commander of Awuma, and the second company of Daming Mang Ancient Mountain has been assembled here." Yu Shi stood in front of all the soldiers of the second company in a neat military posture and gave a standard military salute to Aouma.
In fact, Jiang Yugang has also read a lot of books that tell some stories about special forces, in which the elite soldiers are like brothers to each other and are not entangled in various military salutes. However, for the villagers of Nansangzhai who are basically illiterate and have not received education, it is still the most important thing to start with military salute and gradually form strict military discipline.
Jiang Yugang believes that people are not averse to strong management, such as the habit of using compulsory discipline in the army to form overall good rules, but they may be disgusted with some behaviors that cause harm to themselves and make them miserable.
In other words, strict military discipline did not lead to boredom and dissatisfaction among these illiterate soldiers in ancient times, but only the bad treatment would lead to the breeding of discontent. Therefore, Jiang Yugang directly improved their remuneration by giving priority to the supply of fresh meat to the soldiers of the second company and reducing the time that the soldiers participated in the reconstruction of Nansang Village.
Discipline is observed here, bullying is not allowed, fights are not allowed, etiquette is etiquette, discipline training and duty are exchanged for a good living environment. And these soldiers all joined voluntarily after being questioned by Jiang Yu's members of the Intelligence Department, and they took the initiative to choose to become soldiers of the second company, enjoying the status of upright soldiers in Mang Castle, which was much more advantageous than being a hunter or a thug in the village owner in the village.
Joining the Second Company has become an honorable thing among all the adult men in Nansang Village, they are the guardians of the newborn Mang Castle, and they are the people who bear honor. The soldiers were the only ones in the castle who had mastered violence, and this violence turned into a position of grace, which was a new life for all soldiers.
And none of the soldiers who have this kind of new life will do anything in the army to bully the weak or treat their subordinates harshly. Of course, the often blatant meetings for the election and discussion of soldiers are also a strict oversight of all new officers who take on managerial duties.
Of course, if it was in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, it would still be difficult to develop the duties of soldiers into a post of honor such as Mang Castle. In many localities, military discipline is lax, and the problem of desertion is even more than 50 percent, and the transit of officers and soldiers is no different from that of bandits.
It's just that the place of Manggu Castle is really special, whether it is the original Manggu Mountain Ming Army, or the villagers of Nansangzhai, and the Luchuan Army have reached the point of not dying, and the villagers of Nansangzhai have even lost their homes that have lived for many years.
Manggu Fort was rebuilt in the Ming army's Manggushan camp, and the villagers of Nansangzhai were tied to the Ming army's chariot along with some other Luchuan locals who had fled here. The powerful Luchuan army gathered in the vicinity was like a sharp sword hanging over their heads, threatening their survival at all times.
They are not people who live in a peaceful area, they have no choice in the face of battle, in order to survive, they must fight, choose to be deserters, that is, to use the lives of their wives and children to make their own escape, so the second company almost does not have to worry about deserters and the psychological problems of not daring to go to the battlefield. These psychological struggles have been thought about countless times by the villagers of Nansangzhai in countless days and nights after the invasion of the Luchuan soldiers.
In the danger of life and death, a soldier who has the power and can protect everyone is naturally held in the highest esteem. Not to mention these militia-born soldiers in Nansangzhai, they are protecting the people closest to them, and naturally they will not let their own force bully the weak.
Because once they do something bullying by force, it is likely that they will eventually hurt their relatives. These primitive cottages, where blood is thicker than water, rarely enter by outsiders, and this also creates a relatively simple relationship within them, and there is no complex relationship between them in some places where the flow of people is widespread.
These simple and close relationships, like the strongest chains, firmly controlled these former villagers who had just become soldiers, and no one dared to do anything wrong. And their sense of responsibility is even stronger because of this, and when they pick up the firecrackers distributed by the Alchemy Academy, it is like a boulder pressing down on their hearts, and the current and behind the great enemy of the Luchuan Army make them take out a firmer attitude than the Ming army to train.
When it comes to training, in fact, there is another common problem in the army, that is, the measurement of training, which is generally manifested as too lax training and too strict training, to put it bluntly, the training rhythm is out of balance, sometimes too relaxed, sometimes it can exhaust soldiers.
From these soldiers of the second company, Jiang Yugang also began to change the training metrics. As a traverser, he still knows more accurately when the real battle will take place, and that will not be until the beginning of summer, and before that, at most, there will only be some battles at the level of exterminating bandits and small troops, and the original 100 Ming troops of Manggu Mountain can take on the task.
Therefore, for the recruits of the second company of Nansangzhai who have done the most hunters and have been the main fighters of the village, Jiang Yugang does not need them to practice anything in a short period of time. As a modern man who produces in the age of technology, he is not superstitious about the role of human potential in warfare, and technology, organization, tactics and strategy are the things that can most affect victory or defeat.
Therefore, he does not approve of training these recruits to squeeze their physical potential too much, and everything pays attention to a step-by-step, slowing down pace to achieve the goal step by step.
In addition, many of these soldiers did not have a basic day's diet before joining the second company, and many of them had varying degrees of malnutrition, even if Jiang Yugang wanted to squeeze out the potential of the soldiers as much as possible and achieve results as soon as possible, it was impossible from a realistic point of view.
And this kind of relatively mild training and sufficient logistical support further beautified the image of the second company. Many villagers who were originally afraid of the barracks, worried about being bullied, or who couldn't bear the bad treatment, began to slowly beat the treatment of the second company.
In this way, after a month, the project of Manggu Castle was still just beginning to take shape, and a new army that had exceeded the original Manggu Mountain Ming Army had been established from scratch.