Chapter 107: Consultation

After talking about these two most important points, Clifford said a few more decent words, and then announced the adjournment of the meeting, and let everyone go to separate training. These two sentences are what he has thought about for a long time, and they are summarized according to Qi Jiguang's training experience, the first sentence has two meanings, the first means to raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use soldiers for a while, you take the money now, and you will have to sell your life in the future, and the second meaning is more obscure, that is, you are taking the money of this earl, and you will have to work for this earl in the future, this sentence belongs to the political category, and the purpose is to let these officers and soldiers under his command all establish a kind of political correctness - to work for Count Clifford.

The meaning of the second sentence is simple, the army only has political correctness is not enough, and it must also have craftsmanship, and the meaning of the second sentence is equivalent to persuasion, that is, to persuade his subordinates to practice martial arts diligently and not to be lazy.

Of course, Collie also knew that even if these people were honest, most of them had dealt with the government a lot, and they could turn a deaf ear to such words.

However, Clifford will not worry, he has developed a whole system to ensure that his subordinates remember these words, and the specific measures are to rectify the person, and whoever does not meet the standards will be rectified, until you cry and shout that your mother swears to remember.

Since it was a recruit training, Clifford could not leave after training, this was the first army he had mastered, and he had to be particularly dedicated to their training, so he stood there and watched his officers train these soldiers.

The first thing to train is the standing queue, and Clifford knows that standing in the queue does not determine the combat effectiveness of the army all the time, but if an army can't even stand in the minimum queue, what can they expect to do?

The queue is the embodiment of military appearance, and military appearance can boost morale.

The specific tactics do not need to be taught by Clifford, and these people under his command will naturally do it.

"It's all there, turn left!" Andrew, the captain of the first team, shouted loudly, his voice was thick and his eyes were attentive, and he was clearly full of ambition and wanted to make a career.

The hundred soldiers of the first team all turned to the left in unison, and as a result, one buddy may have been too nervous and turned to the right directly.

At this moment, the captain of the first team, Andrew, has lost all face, and Earl Clifford is still watching from above? Walked directly to the soldier who turned the wrong way, went up with a whip, and scolded: "Do you remember?!" Next time, if you're making a mistake, I'll skin you! ”

"Yes, Captain! I remembered! The soldier was whipped, and without the slightest complaint, straightened his chest and shouted. This is the reason why Collie is looking for honest people, if you are looking for those cunning, maybe you will just get up with the instructor on the spot, and it is good to say that when it is time to fight, he releases water at a critical moment, then this team is likely to be pitted by him.

After the queue is practiced, it is to practice the order, and the army must always give strict orders, advance and retreat together, otherwise it will not be the army, but a group of hooligans fighting. The training of the order also follows the rules set by Clifford, if you don't remember the order for a long time, and remember the wrong order, you will be whipped up, and you will not be allowed to heal your wounds after the beating, and you must continue to practice.

Clifford didn't think it was cruel, he thought it was the greatest mercy to the army, sweating more in peacetime, shedding less blood in wartime, and only when training in peacetime was strict military discipline, in battle, the army would make fewer mistakes and pay fewer casualties.

After practicing the order, it is to practice martial arts, the instructors are the captains of each team, they are all martial arts masters with family roots, definitely not those fancy ones on the market, what is taught are the fighting moves used, although it doesn't look good, but it definitely has a strong attack power.

In order to achieve the most ideal training effect, Ke Lifu formulated a detailed method of examination, imitating Qi Jiguang to divide the soldiers into nine grades, people of the same level to fight, win the reward silver upgrade, lose the whip and downgrade, in order to ensure that the intensity of the fight can be close to the actual combat, each fight must see blood to stop, otherwise the two people will be whipped together.

Under such cruel training and assessment methods, Clifford believes that he can train an elite soldier, of course, the training of troops can not be successful overnight, Clifford stipulates that the troops must train every day, whether it is windy or rainy, or the scorching sun, they cannot stop for a day, because on the battlefield, the enemy will not fight with you.

In order to maintain flesh-and-blood ties with the army, and in order to boost the morale of the soldiers, as long as he is not too busy to take a break, he will come here every day to patrol, even if it is windy and rainy, the soldiers are drenched in the rain, and he will follow the rain, so as to boost morale and buy people's hearts by the way. He didn't feel hard, seeing so many people training for him and sweating for his great cause of recovering the country, his heart was called a cool, watching them train here is a kind of enjoyment in the final analysis.

His efforts were well rewarded, and seeing that the Earl worked so hard, he did not hesitate to surrender his status, and mingled with us soldiers every day, and these newly recruited honest men wept with gratitude, and everyone practiced more diligently.

On this day, the battalion commander of the Chaoen City Patrol Battalion von Bock found Clifford and said with a worried face: "Brother, you have been training in the past few days, Governor Taylor has sent me a document again, asking me to immediately exterminate the DuPont bandits, you say, with my thousand men and the five hundred recruits you newly recruited, can you beat Dupont?" With that, he slammed the paperwork Taylor had given him on the table, and then drank a glass of wine in a bad mood.

After a few days of communication, Collie Fu has become very familiar with this bandit-born battalion commander, and he is not impressed by his casual behavior, he picked up the document and glanced at it roughly, which is nothing more than Taylor's clichΓ©, saying that the DuPont bandits have been scourging the three counties in the north for many years, and they have long made people angry, and the two of you are responsible for exterminating the bandits, and you must work together, be conscientious, and do not be lazy and slippery, etc.

Collie put the document on the table, poured himself a glass of wine, and tasted it carefully: "Brother, were you, Joseph and Dupont considered the triumvirate on the road back then?" ”

Von Bock didn't know why he was suddenly asking this, but he still answered him patiently, and said: "DuPont is the oldest, and he is the leading brother known to everyone in the Tao, Joseph is worse than him, and I am the youngest, and in their eyes, I belong to the junior generation." ”

Clifford drank another glass of wine, still chatting with him casually: "Brother, how have you been doing since Zhao'an?" ”