Preliminary Training* (3)
The school field is located in the southeast of Xingyi Fort, about ten miles away from Xingyi Fort, it was originally an important place where Duan Xing was located in this hundred households to train, originally built in Hongwu 20 years, at the beginning there were often troops trained here, but then it was gradually abandoned, from the heyday of the killing sound of the year, the heyday of swords and guns, decayed to today's barren grass, inaccessible places. Thinking of the railing where the paint had long been mottled and the wood was somewhat rotten, Duan Xing couldn't help but let out a long sigh, thinking that he was not the same now, and there was no use? At the same time, he thought: from this day on, I will rebuild this place, and I can't let it go into ruin!
After Duan Xing sighed about his experience, Zhang Yi, who listened to the introduction next to him, said to himself: "In the past, the adults of the hundred households didn't care about this, and they wandered around the streets all day long. Since Emperor Yongle, no one has come to this place for more than a hundred years. When Duan Xing heard this, he didn't feel good in his heart, thinking that the deity of his body was this person before. While feeling guilty, I also felt a little unfair: Was I so bad before?
While Duan Xing was listening to Zhang Yi's report and thinking, the team stopped in front of a row of fences. Zhang Yi next to him reminded in a low voice: "Lord Baihu, the school has arrived." Duan Xing looked up when he heard this, only to see two painted doors in front of him, which seemed to have long been decayed, Duan Xing asked Zhang Yi to call the soldiers to line up, and he reached out to remove the lock on the door, and pushed open the two doors, and suddenly, a burst of dust came to his face. Duan Xing couldn't help frowning.
When all the soldiers saw the door of the school field open, they couldn't help but wonder in their hearts, they didn't know what Duan Xing was going to do, they stretched out their heads one by one and looked around, and when the soldiers lined up into the school field, Duan Xing thought: At this time, the military discipline is still poor, the soldiers are not like soldiers, they will not be like generals, they cannot be ordered to prohibit it, once they are in battle, they will be vulnerable, and even the whole army will be annihilated. Therefore, the matter of military discipline is a top priority at the moment, and Duan Xing understands that no matter in ancient or modern times, the basis of an army's combat effectiveness lies in military discipline, and only an army with strict military discipline can have cohesion and be invincible. At present, the non-commissioned officers and officers at all levels have been unaware of the lack of war for a long time, and the officers have filled their pockets by deducting military salaries, rations, and materials, so that the non-commissioned officers are not clothed and hungry. It also made the soldiers more detached from morality, greedy for life and afraid of death. When Duan Xing thought of this, he couldn't help but gasp. He felt the weight of the burden on his shoulders.
Since we want to clean up military discipline, let's start with queue training and daily life. Duan Xing thought about it, so he shouted to the soldiers: "All of them, stand up straight." From today onwards, everyone must learn to stand, stand like a soldier, no matter what you have done before, from today on, you must remember that you are a soldier, a soldier of the people! Now, I'm going to show you how! After speaking, Duan Xing raised his head with his chest straight, and at the same time stood straight with his feet slightly open.
When the soldiers saw Duan Xing's demonstration, they all felt very novel, and immediately surrounded Duan Xing, and some said, "My lord, you are really spiritual to stand like this!" Some said, "Yes, I want to stand like that." When Duan Xing heard this, he said to the soldiers: "Whoever of you wants to learn, come up, and Master Ben will teach him personally." Raise your hand if you're willing! As soon as Duan Xing's words came out, the soldiers responded one after another.
At this time, I saw Duan Xing's eyes glancing down, and said loudly to the soldiers: "Since you are all willing, then you have to practice hard, no matter who drops the chain in training, or is lazy, will be punished by the ten military sticks, and go to be the head of the fire army for a month, understand?" ”
"Got it!" All the soldiers shouted in unison.
"Then stand for me for half an hour as I stand, and for this half hour you are not allowed to move, to speak, or to slip away. Those who can persevere, this hundred households will be rewarded! After speaking, Duan Xing couldn't help but be a little worried in his heart: Will they be able to persevere? I couldn't help but regret a little in my heart, and just wanted to tell them to stop, but when I turned around, I saw that all the soldiers were really standing in two rows, standing motionless under the sun as they had taught before.
Duan Xing was happy in his heart, so he came to the soldiers to carefully check the standing posture, and from time to time to correct the soldiers' movements, if he saw which soldier was lazy or wrong, Duan Xing would raise the scabbard and hit the soldier on the back, while demonstrating and correcting the action, while encouraging the soldiers to persevere.
In this way, after months of hard training, Duan Xing's soldiers slowly showed the appearance of soldiers. In the past few months of queue training, Duan Xing and the soldiers looked a little darker and thinner than before, but they no longer wanted to be as loose and sloppy as before, and they looked much more energetic.
During a break from a practice, Duan Xing looked at the valley in front of him, and his heart suddenly moved: Isn't the terrain here suitable for mountain warfare? Suddenly, an idea popped up, why not send personnel to train a unit suitable for mountain combat? Looking at the sun gradually setting in the west, Duan Xing couldn't help but feel a trace of bitterness in his heart. When I came to this era, my parents died early, and I was helpless, leaving only some meager land and a group of military households, and I needed to solve my own food and clothing, and only by relying on my own strategy to gain a firm foothold and develop my own strength could I survive. Thinking of this, Duan Xing secretly made up his mind that he must be a qualified hundred-hundred-household, and now he must not only consider himself, but also consider the survival of the more than two hundred military households and their families under the jurisdiction of his own hundred-hundred, and gradually develop and grow!
Just as he was actively planning for training and development, in a bamboo building dozens of miles away, dozens of people in different clothes were talking to each other, muttering something in their mouths and with different expressions on their faces. I heard a majestic and deep voice on the side: "Chiefs, now our people have been oppressed and bullied by the Han people for generations, we can't just forget it. "What then?" Another voice sounded, and I saw a burly man with red patterns painted on his face on the left-hand side saying, "Patriarch Mu, now that the Han people have strong troops, how can we get into trouble?" Do you want to fight until the whole clan is destroyed? Hearing this, I only heard Mu Ming, the patriarch of the Mu family, say: "Everyone, we raised troops to drive away the officials of the Han people and make us the masters of this land. It is for our independence that we have gathered everyone today, so I hope that you can unite as one and drive the Han people out of here, which is the homeland that our ancestors passed on to me and all of you here, and I Mu Ming swear on behalf of the Mu family that I will drive the Han people out of here. With that, he looked around and said no more. This Mu Ming patriarch is the distant descendant of Mu Ying, the hero of Yunnan during the pacification of Taizu, and his prestige in the local area is extremely high. So they expressed their support for Mu Ming.
The situation cooled down for a while, and those leaders and patriarchs who didn't want to participate in it all sat there silently, and they all knew in their hearts that this decision was very difficult: if they didn't participate in this rebellion, they would be looked down upon by others, and they would not be able to gain a foothold here. But then again, I participated in this rebellion, and if it fails, what if I am wiped out by the Nine Clans and my family is destroyed? The crowd sat silently, no one making up their minds, not knowing what to do.