Chapter Eighty-Three: Fierce Soldiers
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Outside Fanjiabao, the sound of passwords was practiced at this time, and groups of recruits were being ordered by their superiors, constantly doing various queues or assassination actions, and from time to time there would be earth-shattering shouts of killing.
Of course, there is also the roar of the officers' angry scolding, as well as the screams of some uncompetitive guys being pressed to the ground and beaten, in short, after repeated bittersweet discussions, coupled with the abundant and sufficient food supply, the enthusiasm of these more than 200 recruits for training has also been mobilized, and one by one they are very hard to follow their squad leaders and platoon leaders to learn various queues and killing actions.
At the same time, in order to improve the training enthusiasm of these guys, Xiao Tianjian also introduced reward and punishment measures, everyone gathered outside the fort every afternoon, and then conducted a brief drill, and practiced the subjects of the day one by one, so as to test the effect of the drills of each team.
If the results of the drill do not meet the requirements, they will be punished for doing fifty push-ups on the spot or frog jumping around the field, and at the same time, they will have to deduct part of their food for the night, at least there is no meat to eat, and they don't even have to think about broth.
For those who have good training results, they will be rewarded with extra meals that night, and the meat and broth deducted from the poorly trained squad will be rewarded to these well-trained squad members, so as to distinguish the training results.
He even put out a few red flags and black flags, and anyone who had good training results on the first day could play a red flag in their ranks the next day, and those who had poor training results could naturally only carry black flags.
As a result, as soon as this kind of reward and punishment measures were introduced, there was a strong response, people are not ordinary animals, people have a sense of shame, no one wants to be at the bottom, let people see their jokes, not to mention that the training results are directly linked to their food, who doesn't want to eat more good things!
As a result, these guys immediately set off an upsurge of large-scale military training, and the personnel of all squads and platoons were competing with each other openly and covertly; if you practice assassination 1,000 times today, I will practice 1,200 times, and if you practice 1,200 times, I will practice 1,500 times...... In short, no one wants to be at the bottom, not only to be corporal punishment, not to mention the delicious food, the next day the whole team carried the black flag out for exercise, so that the training effect was much better, the original plan was to complete the training subjects in three days, and the result was often one day, it can basically meet the requirements, such rewards and punishments for training, played a multiplier effect with half the effort, so that Xiao Tianjian looked at it and smiled secretly.
For the command when the battle is about to be made, Xiao Tianjian has also improved, in the past, he was personally shouting passwords, to direct the actions of his subordinates, but after these two actual combat tests, Xiao Tianjian found that there was a big problem in doing so, he couldn't keep shouting passwords, such a battle, he always shouted so that his throat smoked and didn't speak, and often had to interrupt the password and issue new orders, which was easy to make his subordinates confused and confused.
And in the past, there were dozens of people under him, and he could deal with it by shouting passwords, but now there are more and more people under him, if he still uses the previous method, I am afraid that after a battle, it may not be enough for him to shout his throat, so it is no longer enough to support him to command the battle by shouting passwords.
This matter is very important, and its importance even exceeds all things, so Xiao Tianjian also attaches great importance to this matter when he is busy with other things, so he began to think about how to replace the single shouting command with other things to solve the problem of effectively commanding his subordinates.
Originally, he also wanted to get the bagpipes and snare drums used by the modern armies of the West, but where to get bagpipes in this place, which are unique to the West! Even if there is, who will use it! Xiao Tianjian thought of the common military horns in the army in later generations, but there is no place to make this thing now, and no one will use it, so the choice is only what can be found!
In ancient times, when commanding operations in war, the army was basically commanded by things such as flags, horns, and war drums, but now Xiao Tianjian can only use flags and ready-made waist drums and suona.
Regarding the issue of flags, Xiao Tianjian had actually considered it for a long time, he couldn't keep letting people call them Xiao Pole! Even if the pole has to have a name, at least people can quickly remember their name, the problem of this banner will involve his future development, so Xiao Tianjian has been thinking about this matter, not only he has considered this matter, but even some of his subordinates have already thought of this problem, and asked Xiao Tianjian to propose that Xiao Tianjian give them a resounding name to boost their morale.
In the past, Xiao Tianjian had few people, and this matter was not very urgent, but now that he has more and more people, this matter is a little urgent, a name is very important, a good name will make the people gathered together more cohesive, so that it can produce a sense of belonging and centripetal force, as long as the flag is still there, the team will not be easy to disperse, and people will feel that there is a backbone,
Don't really say it, the forest is big and naturally there are all kinds of birds, and there are really people who have worked as drummers under him, when weddings and funerals are married in this era, they often have to ask drummers to make it lively, and naturally there are such professions among the people, they either play suona, or play drums and gongs, but over the years, ordinary people have gone bankrupt one by one, and the problem of eating cannot be solved.
So the drummers were completely unemployed, and no one used this craft anymore, and ordinary people couldn't live, so they could only be homeless, and now Xiao Tianjian had several such drummers.
So Xiao Tianjian immediately gathered them together and turned out a few suona, waist drums and the like in Fanjiabao and handed them to practice.
As soon as these drummers saw these things, they all became interested, and they played one by one, making Fanjiabao as lively as a happy event for a while, attracting those who were practicing to look sideways one by one, and the originally serious drill suddenly became a little chaotic, provoking those squad and platoon leaders to scold their subordinates one by one, so that they could concentrate on drilling.
Xiao Tianjian also heard the performance of these drummers in a mess, so he quickly stopped.
"Stop blowing and knocking! I know you all have the skills, but I don't need you to be so pretentious, tell you, you just need to show me the simplest craft! The drum had to be beaten, the drum had to be beaten, the beats had to be so that the brothers could move forward with the beat, and everyone had to move with the beat, fast and slow!
As for the suona tunes, I don't listen to them, just make a few tunes, as simple as possible! I'm of great use! ……
That's all, you give me one by one! Xiao Tianjian stood in front of a few mocking guys and commanded them loudly.
So these people had to give up showing off their skills, and one by one they took out a few good tunes, as simple as possible, and played them for Xiao Tianjian to listen to.
The drummer thing is easy to say, the most indispensable thing in Shaanxi is the waist drum, as long as the drum beater can beat the drum rhythmically, so that the soldiers can step on the drum to advance.
And there are many tunes of suona, after Xiao Tianjian listened to it, he still listened to it dizzy, and finally he simply selected some of the tunes one by one, and then defined these tunes as: get up number, assembly number, emergency assembly number, lights out number, closing number, meal number, rest number, charge number, etc., what is the meaning of each suona tune temporarily fixed, which can be regarded as a temporary solution to this problem.
After deciding on this matter, Xiao Tianjian sent a drummer to each platoon to beat the drums to replace the officers' commands with drums and control the pace of their soldiers.
The suona hand is used as a trumpeter, staying by his side to listen to his orders, and then according to his instructions, he plays various tones to convey his orders.
And let all the subordinates listen to the suona hand repeatedly play various tones before resting at night, and learn to distinguish from these tones what is the command of the upper peak, so that they don't know what to do when they listen to the suona sound in the future.
In the past few days, under Xiao Tianjian's recruitment flag, Shi Ran and others spread the news far away, and every day they continuously brought back some young and strong homeless people they selected from the outside, and some homeless people who got the news went over on their own, because Xiao Tianjian was not sure where he would develop in the future, so at the moment he only recruited all the singles, and did not recruit people who dragged their families with their mouths, unless they were some skilled people, such as blacksmiths, carpenters, and leather smiths, they could be brought back with their families. The rest of the people are only those bachelors, and the youngest of these newly recruited refugees is fifteen or sixteen years old, and the oldest is not more than thirty years old, among the recruited refugees, the basic requirement is to be relatively healthy, and the current refugees who can survive to the present are basically relatively strong people, so as long as they are fed a few meals, they can immediately devote themselves to the training.
After a few days, he recruited more than 200 subordinates, and these people were immediately temporarily incorporated into the baggage team, so that the platoon commander and deputy platoon commander of the two baggage teams had nearly 300 subordinates at once, and the establishment of the last two companies was full, and the two busy baggage officers were as big as three at the head.
Xiao Tianjian also scratched his head a little about this situation, in a few days, his subordinates increased several times, the officers who could be used were not enough at all, the veterans he was reluctant to draw out of the ranks of the soldiers, these people are the backbone of the soldiers, draw out a veteran, the soldiers will have one less strength, so he can only pick the lame among the generals, and pick out a few less qualified soldiers among the soldiers, and throw them to the two platoon commanders for them to make do with, so that the training level of the soldiers is much higher than that of the soldiers. It's okay to temporarily act as a squad leader for a while.
At present, his strength has expanded to 220 soldiers, more than 300 soldiers, plus a small number of women and children, the number is close to 600, so he hurriedly stopped the plan to continue recruiting displaced people.