Chapter XXIII: Recruits
"He's a leader, I know him, his name is Big Grasshopper!" When Li Zhi was still hesitating, a small boss who had just been picked out had already jumped out to report Cao Meng.
"Are you the leader?" Li Zhi himself didn't know why he would ask such a sentence.
"I want to be an officer and soldier, I don't want to be a bandit!" Cao Meng answered the question, but he said it very sincerely.
"Do you know him?" Guo Xing'a slipped behind Li Zhi at some point, and suddenly asked, which frightened Li Zhi.
"Go back to your lordship, the slave knows him." Li Zhi was very entangled, of course he remembered that Cao Meng was the leader, and he was also his leader, Cao Meng beat him viciously, but Cao Meng also gave him three cakes. Guo Xing'a is now the reborn parents of their brothers, and he is also the one who can make their brothers' heads fall to the ground with one sentence, Li Zhi doesn't know how to choose, what to say.
"Is he the leader?" Goxinga still had a warm smile on his face.
"His name is Cao Meng, not Big Grasshopper, the leader when I was a minion for the thief was Big Grasshopper, not him! The grasshopper beat me up for picking up his leftover bones, not him! The grasshopper is dead! Li Zhi still wrote down more of Cao Meng's benefits, and he gave his younger brother a life.
"Really?" Goxinga blinked.
"Slaves don't dare to deceive adults!" Li Zhi clenched his fists fiercely.
"My lord, it's true, he's my fellow countryman. His name is Cao Meng, not a big grasshopper. Wu Xiuming, who was checking the body of the selected person on the side, also hurriedly ran over to testify to his fellow countrymen.
"Oh!" Goxinga nodded and walked away.
Li Zhi searched for a while and caught out two small leaders who were hiding in the crowd, and then called it a day and went back to give orders to Guoxing'a. When passing by Cao Meng's side, he whispered; "My brother's life, pay you back!"
"Thank you! The grasshopper is dead! Cao Meng replied quietly.
Li Zhi looked at Cao Meng and nodded, and silently walked towards Guoxing.
"You know him!" Without waiting for Li Zhi to salute closely, Guo Xing'a asked mysteriously.
"He's my former leader." Looking at Guo Xing's smiling face, Li Zhi blurted out,
"He takes good care of you!" Goxinga was curious.
"He almost killed me, but he gave me three cakes, otherwise my brother wouldn't be alive today, he's a good man!" Li Zhi waited for Guo Xing'a's choice. The new man deceived his master, and Gohinga could kill him at any time.
"I gave you a lot of bread! Don't lie to me in the future! Guo Xing'a patted Li Zhi on the shoulder.
"Master Xie, the slave will be your slave for the rest of your life!" Li Zhi simply knelt on the ground, his eyes full of tears.
Guo Xing'a didn't think there was anything wrong with what Li Zhi did, and he didn't care about one or two fish that slipped through the net, but he couldn't stand Li Zhi's excessive touch. Seeing that the team of the winners had almost been cleaned up, he wandered over and watched the various departments pick people.
Fuquan represented the first batch of guards to go down, and selected some younger, smarter people to go. The cavalry company wanted all banner men, so it was selected from the second company and the assault team. Then it was the turn of Hatan and Duosan, and they also wanted to poach people from Erlian. However, Goxinga was worried that the proportion of infantry recruits was too high, so he directly vetoed it. Hatan searched around and didn't find the strong man with thick arms and thighs in his mind, and under the repeated persuasion of Duosan, he chose a batch of tall skeletons. The rest of the people don't have to be chosen, Changlu selected twenty good shooters from the second company, and the rest of the people naturally formed an infantry battalion with the second company with not many people left.
The people who were selected to the cavalry company, assault company, and reconnaissance platoon all laughed at the brothers who stayed behind to mix with the Han soldiers. But when it came time to assign manpower positions, I found that because there were not many flag men left, the squad leaders who stayed behind became platoon leaders, and the flag soldiers also became squad leaders. Because there are too few remaining flag people, even Li Zhi, Cao Meng and other captives who have shown a few faces have become squad leaders. Fortunately, the banner people still look down on the captive soldiers for the time being, otherwise it would be another storm for the position of the platoon leader of this squad.
"Brother Fengsheng! It's not a light burden! Guo Xing'a himself couldn't figure out why he was a little gloating when he spoke.
"Your Excellency?" Fengsheng's busy feet didn't touch the ground, and he didn't react to Guoxing's meaning.
"Mu Daxia's side are all old men, you are all newcomers! Can you bring a sample in a month? Guo Xing'a thought about it left and right, and felt that there were not many people who could help Fengsheng'a.
"Don't worry, my lord, I'll pick up these minions in a month!" Fengsheng didn't think there was anything, and the flagmen practiced for a month, and they just had to do it again.
"It's up to you!" With the soldiers, Guo Xing'a felt a lot more stable.
Saishana and several other staff officers looked at Guo Xing'a, who was giggling on the side, and they were not happy at all. A total of 386 people were selected from the captives in this expansion, and the 300 house slaves became 400 house slaves. Although this thing is enough to drink a pot, but it can still be put away, and the worst thing is that there are more recruits than the original banner people of the leader! Although Guo Xing'a eliminated all the people who had been small leaders, he temporarily eliminated the bane that could organize trouble. But after all, these recruits were captured from the bandits, and if something happened they would be fatal.
Guo Xing'a didn't use Saishan'a to complain this time, so he proposed a countermeasure. Recruits are only issued with clothes, but not weapons, and the guard squad and reconnaissance platoon are on alert throughout the training schedule. Guo Xing'a was also ruthless, and if the recruits violated the order, they did not need to ask for an order to be killed immediately. Until the end of the training camp, weapons will be issued and normal treatment will be restored.
Although Guoxing's plan is good, Saishana and others are still not at ease. The heart is separated from the belly! After the training camp, these people will be able to have the same heart as Zuo Ling? If after the gun is in hand, these people will provoke and make waves, then it will immediately cause trouble for Xiao Wall. With the same equipment and the same training, there are more than 100 recruits than veterans, isn't this looking for death!
"Rest assured, rest assured! I have a way, all the new instructors come to me tonight for training, and a month is enough! Ignoring the sad Seishan, Goxinga threw down a last sentence and left.
Guo Xing'a doesn't know much about political education, at most he has seen it on TV, but Guo Xing'a understands the principles of pyramid schemes and cults. Guo Xing'a, who studied psychology in college, often used a method when he knew about cults and pyramid schemes to fool the followers - intensive hypnosis. As the saying goes, a lie repeated a thousand times is the truth, and intensive hypnosis probably means that. A person shouts loudly a hundred times every morning that sugar is salty, and insists on it for a year, he may feel salty when he eats sugar, psychological hints! Of course, changing the properties of matter is a bit nonsense, but if it is aimed at a certain belief, it will be easy to achieve results. For example, if you don't like the chubby girl downstairs very much, but if you shout chubby chick I love you a hundred times every morning, noon and night, you will feel that chubby chick will become very cute after a month, and you will be able to fall in love with chubby chick in two months. Some people who have unrequited love or secret love, who have almost no contact with each other, can die or live even if they look at each other from a distance, in fact, this is the case.
By repeatedly emphasizing something, even the most outrageous thing, people will force themselves to believe it, unconsciously hypnotizing themselves. This is the case with pyramid schemes and cults, so there will be projects that shout slogans, and people who don't believe in it will be convinced after a few days of shouting. Coupled with Guo Xing'a's political education, supplemented by role model propaganda, he fooled a group of uninformed village bandits for a month, Guo Xing'a thought he was still relatively reliable.
These instructors are either unlucky people who didn't become the company commander, or they are the white-naked cronies around Guo Xing'a, and they all feel that it is Guo Xing'a's gift to be able to be an instructor at the same level as the company commander. With this psychology in it, Guo Xinga wants to brainwash the recruits, and these guys are definitely qualified accomplices.
The first step in the training of political cadres is also very simple, which is to take advantage of the gratitude of these instructors to themselves and fool them first. Of course, Guo Xing'a did not stupidly ask the instructors to shout slogans, but wrote down the slogans and the songs that were changed nonsense, and then taught them to recite and sing them. After walking the words and phrases that even Guo Xing'a himself blushed twice, the instructors had already read them aloud spontaneously without being inspired by Guo Xing'a. Guoxing Aben planned to let them carry it down overnight, and then take them on their backs every night to hypnotize them. I didn't expect that the personal charm was too great, and these flagmen who only knew allegiance to the leader of the Zuo Leader were very consciously entered the role in less than half a night.
Early the next morning, Xiande took the cavalry company and escorted the unsuccessful captives to the Jiangnan camp, and the captured grain and grass equipment and 800 heads were loaded into three large carts. The cattle that pulled the cart were snatched by Czanne's fingers, and even then there was only one ox, three donkeys, and two lame horses. I couldn't even pull the car, and I had to be pushed by a few captives to get going.
Xiande's submission was changed and changed, and in the end, except for more than 800 beheadings, it remained unchanged, and everything from the capture of the enemy to the capture was greatly reduced. If it weren't for Saishan'a and the miscellaneous team rushing to make the old bandit military flag overnight, Xiande would almost not want to repay the merits. This flag is fighting for face! Not only did it turn the fight against bandits into a great victory over the Taiping army, but also the appearance of the banner made people feel that it was a vicious battle. Saishana made the banner, first soaked it in water, roasted it with fire for half a night, polluted it again with the blood on the head, and finally shot it with his own hands. Now the flag is stained with blood and bullet holes, giving a look at what kind of battle it has endured.
Although the flag has a long face, Xiande still looks unhappy, because Guo Xing'a has a special explanation when he leaves. The way Guo Xing'a saw him off was not special, but the words were particularly ugly.
"Old, we have people, but there are not enough guns! If you go to report for merit this time, you must find Hejunmen and ask him to come back with a few hundred strokes! You are so old, and if you don't give it to the military gate, you just hug his thigh and cry, and the military gate will not embarrass you! ”
Guo Xing's parting message was so angry that the old man's beard was about to stand up. The advantage of being old is that you can hug your thighs and not be kicked in the face! You don't have to be shameless yourself, and you don't have to be shameless with Lao Tzu!
But this gun still has to find a way to get it, and the old man walked all the way to the Jiangnan camp like a pufferfish.