Chapter 129: The Head of the Alliance
"Alright, sisters, give me a bowl of noodles, I'm dying of hunger."
Zhao Lin watched Pu Luhun leave with cold eyes, and when he turned his head to face his comrades in the medical team, he had already changed into a sunny face.
If she hadn't seen the viciousness she had just seen towards Tartar, her face would have been quite pleasing to the eye now, right?
However, everyone present saw Zhao Lin's violent appearance just now, so her change of face not only failed to make the girls feel relaxed, but stimulated everyone to take a step back.
"Heh, what are you afraid of?" Zhao Lin said with a smile: "That was a tartar just now, and I won't murder you." ”
"But ......, but Linlin, you were really scary like that just now......" Guoguo, who had the best relationship with Zhao Lin in the medical team, was about to cry.
"That's what wolf taming has to be." Zhao Lin smiled and said: "Only if you are more ruthless than a wolf, it will recognize you as its master." Guoguo, you can't do this, when you find another chance, I'll let you beat it too. ”
Tick Tick Tick!
Suddenly a loud brass horn sounded on the training ground.
Zhao Lin raised his head violently and shouted in surprise: "Assembly number? ”
"Assemble! Concentrate! ”
There was a hoarse roar of the instructors on the side of the school field, and the recruits who had just finished eating were looking for their team in a little panic, and a team of pacification soldiers led by Xu Da had appeared on the edge of the school field, and their figures made the soldiers even more flustered.
The pacification soldiers are a small unit specially selected by Xu Shiyang, whose task is to maintain military discipline, which is equivalent to the gendarmes of later generations.
Since the founding of the new army in December last year, more than 10 people have been executed by the suppression soldiers, and although they all deserve their crimes, the style of the suppression soldiers in killing people without mercy still frightens many people, and some people even call them "living Hades" because of this.
"This is the rallying number of the whole army! We have to assemble too! Zhao Lin shouted anxiously: "Sisters, go quickly!" ”
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Xu Shiyang stood on the high platform on the west side of the school field, looking at the New Army soldiers who were queuing up randomly below with a grim face, and behind him stood the commanders of the other six battalions, as well as the standard-bearer and the trumpeter who was blowing the assembly horn.
After a long while, the assembly number stopped, and Xu Shiyang stretched out the five fingers of his right hand and recycled them one by one.
Five, four, three, two, one!
If the formation is still not completed after the assembly has ceased for five breaths, all officers and men will be beaten with sticks.
Fortunately, after all, there have been more than 50 days of training, and with the stick education, even the illiterate soldiers in Wubao can meet the minimum standards.
Well, in Xu Shiyang's eyes, the speed and uniformity of the infantry battalions except the Dingyuan Battalion are roughly equivalent to the level of junior high school students in later generations when they first started military training.
"Congratulations to Saburo for training a strong army." Sun Li whispered a compliment behind him.
Everyone present had a little military knowledge and knew the importance of the speed of the formation in the war, and Xu Shiyang trained the rabble-like militia like this in only two months, which was quite unexpected in their opinion.
"It's not a strong army for the time being." Xu Shiyang replied in a low voice: "I have to let the sons and daughters see the blood." ”
After the basic training of the recruits was completed, he immediately wanted to put the new army into the battlefield, so that the soldiers could feel the tense atmosphere on the battlefield and evaluate the training performance of the soldiers with actual combat.
Of course, the target must be chosen well, and the new army must not suffer too many casualties, but must steadily win victories and increase the confidence of the soldiers in the new collective, and it is necessary to show the prestige of the new army, and it is best to obtain a large number of captures to make up for the consumption ...... of the more than 3,000 non-productive soldiers of the new army.
I don't want to eat anything, I want to take advantage of all the cheapness, and there is not much room for such a choice.
"All of them!"
Xu Shiyang held a wooden horn and shouted at the thousands of soldiers below:
"Stand upright!"
Boom la la .......
In Xu Shiyang's opinion, this voice is muddy and watery, and it is quite unfavorable. But the other battalion commanders behind him were about to laugh out loud with joy.
"If you don't train tomorrow, the whole army will rest for a day and get ready for the battle! The day after tomorrow! ”
After a pause, Xu Shiyang announced the first victim of the expansion of the new army:
"Target, Juzhou City!"
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Time back to January 20, Xu Muhe, as the head of the Xu family, convened a meeting of the heads of the Wubao Alliance in Juzhou and Rizhao counties for the first time in the first tun of the new Xu family.
In addition to the Xu family, the other five representatives of the family alliance arrived on the 30th day of the first month.
Unexpectedly, at the meeting, Xu Muhe reprimanded other families except the Wang family, and he first criticized the Ding family, the Bao family, and the Zhang family, for not moving their troops when the Tartars attacked, and did not send reinforcements to support the Xu family.
This is a betrayal of the covenant of the six families, especially the Zhang family. At the beginning, the Zhang family was in turmoil, and there was no covenant for the Xu family to rush to the aid of the starry night, but now the covenant has been signed for a year, and when it was the turn of the Zhang family to contribute, they shrunk!
The heads of the three families were speechless, after all, the Xu family was very right, and they had no way to refute it.
If the Ding, Bao, and Zhang families can send hundreds of troops like the Wang family, even if the battle is delayed, they will only reach the first tun of the Xu family, and they will not reach the battlefield at all, and they can be excused to some extent.
But if not even a single person is sent out, this matter really can't be said at all.
In the end, on the grounds of avoiding the recurrence of this matter, Xu Muhe proposed that the Xu family should be the leader to govern the entire alliance, and the original joint meeting of the heads of the family was weakened to only have the right to make suggestions and no decision-making power.
Everyone knows that this means that the Xu family will become the only overlord of Juzhou and Rizhao counties, the head of the alliance, but the situation is stronger than people, and the heads of each family can only agree.
Then, as the leader of the alliance, Xu Muhe punished the families for not sending troops to support.
The Wang family was exempted from punishment this time because of some soldiers.
The Ding family and the Bao family were each fined 100 stone of grain, 10 pigs and 3 stone of salt.
This number is not large, especially last year, the Xu family helped them block the raids of the Tartars, and at the same time, after the anti-bandit operation, they were no longer harassed by the bandits, so they ushered in a bumper harvest.
The Zhang family, who had benefited the most from the alliance but did not send troops, were punished even more, and they had to pay 200 stone of grain, 10 stone of salt, or other materials equivalent to this amount as fines.
After selling some of the captured pirate ships last year, the Zhang family deepened their relations with several large pirates in the south, so the economic conditions were relatively good, so they also readily agreed.
It's just that someone suddenly reacted, and until this time, Xu Muhe seemed to have been ignoring the Fan family ...... Juzhou, who also did not send troops.
Even Master Fan himself felt that something was wrong, the relationship between the Fan family and the Xu family was mediocre, it was impossible for everyone to be punished and let him go alone, right?
Of course not.
In the second stage of the meeting, Xu Muhe loudly announced that after the Xu family conquered the Tartar camp, they captured the envoy sent by the Fan family to contact the Tartars!
Therefore, the Fan family is a rebel who has taken refuge in the Tartars!
Hearing this, Master Fan was so frightened that he sat directly on the ground .......