The soldier must have been!

For the Hu brothers, they came at the right time. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info just in time for another expansion of the rebel army - 50,000 troops in one year, which means that each county of the three provinces will be able to allocate more than 100 places. Although not every county can recruit enough soldiers, for the Hu brothers, they all coincided with their meeting to test the soldiers.

If they had been a month earlier, the possibility of testing the army would be almost zero - because the number of recruits was limited, and although the Righteous Army was to some extent China's first modernized army, to some extent, it was not a modern army, for example, he had not yet established a retirement system, and of course the reason why he did not establish a retirement system was because the number of veterans was limited, in this case, it was naturally impossible to retire veterans, and on the other hand, the limited strength of troops made it not easy to become a soldier. Sometimes it seems difficult, sometimes it looks easy, like now.

The expansion of the army made all this seem extremely simple, and after the quota of tens of thousands of recruits was distributed to various places, almost everyone who was willing to join the army could get the opportunity to serve in the army, of course, there was a premise that their conditions could meet the requirements of the army.

For these recruits, the assembly from the county seat to the provincial capital is the first test they face - they have to walk more than 70 miles a day, and in a week, they need to march nearly 500 miles to reach the provincial capital, of course, the actual distance is not so far, but the sergeant who leads the troops will deliberately take a long detour to lead them on the first long-distance march, at least 10% of this march will be eliminated.

Only 90% of these people can enter the recruit training camp in the provincial capital, and they are trained in the barracks in the north of the city, and they are trained by sergeants who have been on the battlefield, and these sergeants will train these recruits in the roughest and harshest way with the exception, and they also have a hard target that 15% of the recruits must be eliminated, which means that one in every four recruits must be eliminated in the end. The indicators are rigid, even merciless, and because of this, their training is also brutal, because only the most rigorous training can eliminate these people.

Every morning, these recruits from all over Hunan Province just opened their eyes to a five-kilometer cross-country run, each of whom needed to carry a backpack weighing up to 20 kilograms, and then stood in a military posture, one stop was a day, the military posture, the queue, the seemingly extremely boring training, but it was the basis for shattering their civilian style and turning it into a soldier.

The captain in charge of recruit training clearly warned every recruit in his first speech that after three months of recruit training, only those who are qualified to stay are qualified army soldiers of the Han Righteous Army. As for those who are not qualified, there is only one way to go - that is, to be eliminated! And clearly tell them that 15% of them will be eliminated.

This means that if they don't want to be eliminated, they have to train harder to ensure that they can stay in the army. Since then, the sun rises on the wide playground every day until the sun sets, and almost for a moment the rough commands and shouts of the sergeants resound, and of course, the "poof, poof" sound of the military sticks hitting the recruits, and naturally there will inevitably be the thrilling screams of the beaten.

In the first ten days, almost all of them were trained to walk crookedly, and they couldn't even squat down to relieve their stool. However, in order not to be kicked out of the barracks, to be able to eat this bowl of rare military rations, and to earn so much foreign money that they can't even think of, no matter how hard it is, they can only willingly grit their teeth and get through!

Otherwise, there is only one option that awaits them - elimination.

What's even worse is that in addition to the harsh requirements on the training ground, those sergeants also formulated a lot of rules that made these young people, most of whom were from the countryside of Hunan, feel strange and even difficult to adapt to. Now this barracks is both heaven and hell in the eyes of these people. The barracks provided them with living conditions that were so good that most people could not even imagine -- there was enough rice, and they could eat meat every day, even the small landlords in the countryside did not necessarily eat as well as they did, but in just half a month, the right side of these young people was full of red light, and the abundant food made their bodies even stronger than before.

But on the other hand, the rules of current affairs in the barracks are unbearable.

For example, such trivial things as spitting are also clearly written into the internal regulations, spitting, violators are punished with five military sticks; Fifty copper dollars, or half a silver dollar, were fined as recruits, and as recruits, they were paid only three dollars a month, or three hundred copper dollars. If he spits out a mouthful of phlegm every few days, not only will he have to suffer dozens of military sticks, but his monthly salary will also be lost.

The barracks not only controlled everyone's mouths, but also did not let go of the ** below--the barracks were even a little too exquisite, and even the toilets for the soldiers to lasa were built cleaner than the halls of many large families -- the regulations stipulated that the toilet should be flushed with water after urinating, and the offenders should be dealt with the same as the spitting. In many cases, the punishment given to them by the chief was to clean the toilet with a brush, and to brush the porcelain toilet so that it could reflect the shadow of people, even cleaner than their basins.

The vast majority of these recruits are the children of farmers and fishermen, and they are accustomed to spitting, shitting and peeing everywhere. Generations of ancestors have come over like this, and they don't still live like this, jumping around, but when they get to the barracks, they will definitely not work.

Is it because of such harsh conditions that you can't get along with them?

It's not that you can't get along with them, there are rules for the ranks!

In collective life, the large-scale spread of infectious diseases can only be avoided by paying attention to the details of life. For example, keep the dormitory, canteen, and playground clean, change socks and underwear frequently, wash your face and teeth every morning when you get up, and dress neatly. This is a lesson learned from the past - in the early days of the establishment of the rebel army, the requirements for internal affairs were very ordinary, there were hardly too many requirements, but this brought about a parade of diseases, especially in the summer, and even caused nearly thirty percent of the soldiers in a camp to be infected with the disease and lose the battle, and it is precisely because of this that the harsh internal affairs regulations were formulated and implemented, and in the month of implementation, the disease was reduced by more than 70%, and this result naturally strengthened the determination of the rebels to continue to implement strict internal affairs regulations.

However, this strict internal affairs order has always been the biggest test for new recruits. When the recruits first entered the camp, the violators were like carp crossing the river, and the sergeants, who were the platoon leaders of the training squad, were naturally merciless, and they were severely punished according to the regulations.

In less than half a month, he was stripped of his pants in public and beaten eight times, and his military salary was not enough for one month, and the next month's salary was not enough to be punished, and the next month's was also punished in advance. , pee, and spit, and lost a lot of silver, and their hearts hurt so much that they almost plunged into the river behind the barracks, which can be said to be the thought of every recruit, but it is precisely because of this that they will have a long memory, and take the initiative to change their underwear every two days and take a shower every two days. Sometimes a person's memory really needs to be punished to improve, otherwise all the internal regulations will only be written on paper. It is this kind of punishment that they understand the importance of rules and understand what discipline means to soldiers.

And that's exactly what the boot camp is trying to teach them, but for these recruits who have been deducted from their salaries for a month, their desire to plunge headlong into the river doesn't take long to come true - one of the recruits' training is swimming, which is a compulsory subject in recruit training.

And no one would ask them if they could swim at all, and they were pulled straight to a nearby lake. They were tied with a rope in a wooden boat like ospreys catching fish, and suddenly they were pushed from the boat into the river, choking until they couldn't breathe, and then they were pushed into the water again, and their military uniforms were frozen into ice. Then push it down and pull it up, push it down and pull it up again, and slowly those who can't swim will learn to swim.

However, it is not a good thing to "swim" like this in the cold winter, they have learned swimming lessons, and they are basically frozen enough.

"Ah......h Damn, I'm freezing to death......"

Nested in the quilt, Hu Yuanshan, like everyone else, although there was a stove in the house, he still couldn't stop trembling, and his snot kept flowing out.

"Damn, what kind of crime did I suffer to fly to be this broken soldier, how good it is to be a guy in the city, even if I go to someone's house to carry long-term labor, it is better than this......"

As soon as Hu Yuanshan complained like this, Wang Dahe next to him immediately smirked.

"It's good to be a soldier, it's good to be a soldier, if you knew that being a soldier not only has a military salary, but also can eat as much as you want. I've been a soldier a long time ago, so why would I wait until now......"

Everyone knows that Wang Dahe's family is poor, because when he first came, he wore a torn cotton jacket, which was even so torn that people would think that he had been picked up from a mass grave. Even so, he was the tallest of the recruits, and he ate a lot of food, and he could eat five or six bowls of rice while others ate two or three bowls at a meal. Because of his strength as an ox and his infinite strength, he was attracted to the attention of his commander as soon as he came, and as soon as the first month of training ended, he was named the leader of the recruit squad, which naturally aroused the envy of others, after all, there were 50 copper dollars more in this month.

Moreover, this squad leader will also be beneficial to him in the future - if he will be promoted to private class half a year earlier than the others, this will be a huge disparity. And this kind of difference between being one step ahead of others will always exist in the future troops, one step behind, one step behind, one step behind, but this is something that others can't envy, not everyone has his body.

When he was young, for Wang Dahe, what he was most worried about all day long was how to fill his stomach, he never filled it, even if he was carrying a long job for Caidong's family, Caidong would not necessarily let him be full.

That is, when he was in the army, he really ate with his belly open, and he was able to eat enough every day, and naturally attached great importance to this military ration, even more than the military salary. Therefore, among all of them, he usually pays the most attention to the rules for fear of being removed, and has never violated the rules of the battalion once, so to speak, among these recruits, the possibility of him being eliminated is almost zero.

"Eat, eat, squad leader Wang, you know that if you eat, sooner or later you will have to die to death, and you will have to die when the time comes."

"You know what, it's a blessing to be able to eat! Being able to eat is better than anything else! I've only seen people starve to death, but I've never seen a few people die. ”

Wang Dahe said without feeling angry.

"Squad Leader Wang, since it is a blessing to be able to eat, then we will go to the city tomorrow to spend a ......."

Hu Yuanshan on the side immediately took over and said. Tomorrow is the weekend, the foreigner's Sunday, the military camp is also on holiday, although not everyone can go out, but Hu Yuanliang, Yuanshan brothers, and Wang Dahe, who did not go out last week, still went out of the camp, saying that they were eating, drinking and having fun, but in fact, for the three people who have not yet received military salaries, they naturally have no capital to eat, drink and have fun, they just want to see what this provincial city looks like.

For them, the provincial capital is the largest big city they have ever seen, and the bustle outside the city alone far exceeds that of the small county town in their hometown. Passing through the gates of the Black Hole, it was as if they had entered a moving picture screen. On both sides of the road, the wine shops and Qinglou smoke houses stand side by side, and the flags are fluttering. On the trampled bluestone pavement, there is an endless stream of horse-drawn carts with dung bags hanging under the wheels, donkey carts "creaking", men with braids on their heads, and women wearing gorgeous Hanfu. But all this is just a matter of seeing for these recruits.

After walking around the city, the three people with empty pockets came to the Xiangjiang River again, although the air was cold, it looked like they wanted snow. But the three of them still looked excited.

Compared with the city, the banks of the Xiangjiang River seem to be more lively, on the Xiangjiang River several steamships moored at the wharf, outside the city and the Xiangjiang River, a large house towers, in the middle of the big house there are several large chimneys, that is the silk reeling, spinning factory, they have heard that there are many women there - the workers in the factory are almost all women. And in the distance of the factory, there is also a railway station under construction, which is not visible from standing here.

A swarthy ancient city wall, separated from two close worlds, outside the city is already a train steamer, telegraph machines, the city is still the ancient and antique streets and alleys of the provincial city that have been unchanged for thousands of years. However, for the three of them, there doesn't seem to be so much exclamation.

"The female workers in the factory can earn four yuan a month, and the apprentices in the factory are only three yuan, and our monthly salary is equal to two people!"

"When you are a soldier for a year, you will be promoted to a senior soldier, and then you will be promoted to a corporal, and then you will be promoted to a corporal, and a sergeant will be added two pieces, and if you go to a sergeant, it will be ten oceans a month."

"Tell me, the best thing is the sergeant major, that is, a third-class sergeant major, a month is 24 oceans of military salary, if you are a first-class sergeant major, obediently, a month is 42 oceans! ……”

Although he has only been a soldier for a month, Hu Yuanshan has a clear understanding of the doorway in this barracks, he knows that when you leave the company, you will be a first-class soldier, and he also knows how to get promoted. Naturally, there are also expectations for the sergeant major, to be precise, for the sergeant's salary.

24 oceans a month, if you have a mother-in-law at home, you can get another 4 oceans housing subsidy a month. In a word, it can be said that it is full of "money", and this future is still a lifetime.

"If you retire in 20 years, you can get 5 percent of your military salary for a lifetime, and if you retire in 30 years, you can get 8 percent...... ...... in this life"

As long as you can help the soldiers for 30 years, you will not have to worry about food in this life, which is equivalent to taking the hardcore crops of the government.

"Return the sergeant major!"

Before he could continue to fantasize, he was interrupted by a sentence from the eldest brother.

"Just your spitting, all over the ground, and you still want to be a sergeant major, okay, don't dream, if you don't get out, it's an extrajudicial grace!"

"It's the distant mountains, your heart is far away, I haven't thought about these ......"

Sitting on the willow root, Wang Dahe said with a smile.

"Just thinking about it, taking advantage of the past few years to be a soldier? I will save up my military salary, and in the future, if I leave the camp, I will buy a house here......"

Wang Dahe pointed to Changsha City in the distance and said.

"When the time comes, my daughter-in-law will let her work in the silk factory outside Changsha City, and I will work in the machine factory, but I can earn ten ocean miles a month, no matter what, it is ......better than farming."

Yes, no matter what, it's better than farming, the same tiredness, and you may not be able to earn so much money. Not only can you not earn this money, but you may not even be able to eat enough. Although the factory is not like the army's nutrition, three meals a day are managed, but after all, people still care about one meal, as long as that meal can be full, even if it is two oceans less, it is better than farming in the countryside.

"What if you die in battle?"

This sentence is obviously not welcome, but when Hu Yuanshan asked this, Wang Dahe was stunned at first, indeed, he had never considered this problem. But that's nothing, he smirked.

"If you die in battle, it's not a bad thing, didn't you listen to the chief, this pension has risen again, a pension of 200 yuan. If he dies, this money should be given to our father and mother......"

The squad leader's answer made Hu Yuanshan stunned, he looked into the distance, and was speechless.

200 pieces of ocean!

He had never seen so much money in his life, and if he died on the battlefield, he could have so much money...... You should be filial to your father!

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200 yuan of bereavement pension, seems to be a lot, but in fact it is not much, taking the Hunan army as an example, the dead soldiers have a pension of 50 taels, 10 taels of buried silver, that is, 60 taels. According to the calculation of 1 to 1.4, the pension of the Hunan army is 84 yuan. The rebel army was almost 2.5 times larger than the Hunan army. But on the other hand, there is also a reward for the wounded soldiers of the Hunan army, which is divided into three classes, with 30 taels of silver for the first class wounded, 20 taels for the second class wounded, and 10 taels for the third class wounded. There is no reward for back injuries (so "everyone is injured after a few days of hard fighting", injuries are equal to silver for soldiers, not only for Siping, but also for officials, and it is better than eating empty salaries...... ）。

Moreover, compared with the rebel army, the Hunan army can plunder, and every time it fights, if it wins, there is an additional reward, and there is a reward for each battle. As for the military salary of 8 yuan for the first-class soldier of the Righteous Army, it corresponds to the salary of 4.5 taels of silver (6.3 yuan) of the Hunan Army, which seems to be 2.7 yuan higher on the surface, but compared with the Hunan Army, the Righteous Army has no promotion fee, no New Year's Festival reward, no injury reward, to some extent, the high salary of the Righteous Army is actually not high. It's just that on the surface it looks high, but in fact, it is not even as high as the Hunan army, but on the surface it is much higher than the Hunan army. And that's just on the surface. (To be continued.) )