Chapter 19: Military Posture
In the early winter afternoon, the cold wind seemed to be more powerful, whistling outside Chang'an City, and on the vast field of the Royal Horse Farm, the cold wind blew the withered grass on the ground, which had completely turned into gray-white grass blades floating in the wind. The horses were already tied to the stables, and the reckless field was empty and only the blue sky remained. The absence of lead-black clouds is a rare good weather, but the pace of cold winter makes it impossible for the sun hanging high in the sky to bring warmth. When the cold wind blows on the body, people can't help but shiver.
The sun shines on the earth, the slightly whitened sunlight makes people feel less cold in their hearts, standing upright, on a flat and endless grassland, a tower-like figure standing, a black armor on his body sets off his majestic body more burly. A dark but somewhat rugged cheek was sweating in the cold wind.
This person is Hong Li, who was punished by Li Kuan, he stood up not long ago and admitted that he refuted it below, and then he was punished by Li Kuan for standing for six hours, at the beginning, everyone felt that this punishment was very simple, and even everyone felt that this was Li Kuan because of Hong Li's strong combat effectiveness before, so he decided to release the water. But who knows that this qiē is actually far from being as simple as it seems, and the taste of it is only felt by Hong Li, who is sweating in the cold wind now. It turned out that standing for six hours was so hard, even more difficult than going to the battlefield to kill the enemy.
Because if one qiē wants to take the throne according to the requirements of Li Kuan, the king of Chu, it will be simply inhuman torture. Under everyone's suspicious gaze, Li Kuan began to carry out the so-called queue rectification. The soldiers who had been standing crookedly were all disrupted, and everyone was no longer surrounded by the people they knew. There are about 30,000 people on the left. No one can be known to everyone, so according to human nature. In the beginning, they all stood with the people they knew, but now that they do, everyone doesn't know the people around them.
Of course, such a thing as sorting out the team does not need Li Kuan to operate it personally, and Liu Wei, the new lieutenant of Xuanjiawei, who he asked for from Li Er, took over the job, in addition, there is also a big man with cheeks who is not inferior to Hong Li in stature, and some veterans of these soldiers know this guy, this is one of the generals under the command of Li Jiancheng, the former king of Xi, Xue Wanche. It's just that this person has disappeared a long time ago. Why is it now under the command of His Royal Highness the King of Chu, Li Kuan? Both of these are experts in training soldiers, so Li Kuan can let go of the general queue training.
After tidying up the ranks, all the soldiers of more than 3,000 people were arranged into small phalanxes, and then Li Kuan, who was standing on the platform, spoke, and everyone began the first lesson - standing in a military posture.
In the era of hot weapons, all soldiers had to receive such training, but the scale was uncertain, like some countries in Europe and the United States were more relaxed, and the American GIs stood up in a loose queue, don't look at those whites and blacks who are tall and tall. But the queue that stood up was simply miserable, and the Celestial Empire in later generations could be said to be proud of the world. And now these soldiers are standing in line according to the standard of the Celestial Empire army, and the standard Li Kuan has already been guided. Of course, in addition to Liu Wei and Xue Wanche, those guys who had followed him on the grassland before were also called. Anyway, it's not that I've been trained, and when I am a small instructor, I can satisfy the desire of these big-headed soldiers to be generals.
"The first thing I'm going to do today is to stand up! Hong Li, you stand alone on the side. Now talk about how to stand, the head must be straight. Keep your neck straight and your heels together. The soles of the feet are slightly parted to the sides and stand in a herringbone shape. Arms naturally droop, chest straight, subdued, buttocks lifted, legs clamped! A large number of points were said by Li Kuan, and then he stood aside and checked from time to time. Stretch out your hand and pull this, pull that, and kick them from time to time, kicking them at the knees, if you don't clamp the legs and tighten the thighs, the knee joints will definitely not stand firmly under this leg. Such a person would be called out of the queue and treated alone in a fenced-off area. As for what it was, I could imagine it from the terrible howls that came from time to time.
As for Hong Li, he is the focus of Li Kuan's sole care, so among the three thousand or so soldiers who have been trained, this guy's military posture is the most standard.
From the beginning of the morning sunrise, time passed little by little, no breakfast, no rest time, just standing, the faint sunlight of the morning sun pierced the sky, shining on the faces of these people, making them feel extremely dazzling, because they were all facing the east, facing the sun, and this empty grassland did not weaken the sunlight in any way. Everyone squinted their eyes in the sun, and felt that their eyes were sore, but no one dared to rub them, because one of them had been called out for rubbing his eyes, and was now howling there. So they can only endure it, and everyone is muttering in their hearts, this is fixing them!
Time is not in a hurry, and gradually everyone feels that something is more and more wrong with their bodies, and their whole bodies begin to heat up, and even in their shoulders and thighs, these parts begin to ache, and they realize that standing is also a laborious thing, and even compared to the kind of fatigue that is exercised, it is unbearable, because when practicing, although it is very tired, you can also do some movements to soothe it, but now it is fixed like this, and the feeling of not being able to do anything is really maddening. Many people feel unhappy on their bodies, either they can't scratch it here, or they are uncomfortable there, but more people are crying in the sun, everyone is sure in their hearts, this is not a beauty difference, His Royal Highness the King of Chu is rectifying them, but they dare not speak out, Li Kuan, the nominal supreme leader, did not get the love of his soldiers when he first gathered, and all he gained was full of resentment.
But Li Kuan doesn't care about these, because there are many such things in those military film and television dramas that he has almost forgotten, and he also experienced it once last year, although the people at that time were only one-tenth of this time, but now these people will still complain about those weird training? Everyone could feel that their combat effectiveness had improved a lot after such training. The cooperation with the robe around him is also becoming more and more tacit.
The sun rises higher and higher, and everyone dares to fight extremely tired. The body that had been tense began to shake slightly, because there was no breakfast. This made the stomachs of the soldiers, who had become accustomed to three meals a day, growl. But His Royal Highness the cold-faced King Chu didn't speak, and no one dared to relax, so he had to grit his teeth and persevere. Gradually, some people began to lose their physical strength, and they realized that this thing was actually so consumable, especially the armor on the body, from the first twenty or thirty catties, it gradually began to increase in weight, and after half an hour, it became twice as heavy, and now it is almost two hours down, and the armor on the body is probably three hundred catties in their feelings.
The soldiers began to feel nostalgic for their former leather armor. Cloth armor, when I first came here, I issued these black armors, and everyone was excited and inexplicable, because such a majestic armor is also a great face when worn on the body, and a good face is not only in the society that is filled with materialism in later generations, because there is a saying that 'people live a face, and trees live a skin'. The ancients also had a good face. Not everyone in the Tang Dynasty army can wear iron armor, only those super killers in the border army will go to the battlefield to fight at any time, as well as the Praetorian Guards guarding the imperial city and Li Er's personal guard Xuanjia Army are all iron armor. They are said to be the army guarding Gyeonggi, but in reality, they are not much different from the local government soldiers. It's just that they don't need to farm in their spare time, they just eat food as soldiers all the time.
It's a bit far. Because of the armor on their bodies, the physical consumption of these soldiers is very intense. And they got up too early in the morning, and they didn't eat a bite of breakfast, which made them feel tired, until the end of the hour, they occupied nearly three hours quietly, and finally someone couldn't hold on, and the first one to fall appeared, and when the armor that he had previously regarded as glory fell with his heavy body, the armor fell into the dust and made a 'bang' sound, causing a commotion in the phalanx where he was.
"Okay, don't move the rest of the people, those who dare to move are adding an hour!" With a faint shout, the Xuanjia Guard soldier as an instructor shouted in front of the queue, and then waved his hand, and the two guys who had been waiting on the side stepped forward and dragged the fallen person away.
"Fall, knock out!" When Li Kuan saw the soldier who was carried away, he whispered on the high platform, and then went to take care of the big black man again.
"Don't move, who moves to eliminate! If there are those who have fallen, go straight to the bedding and roll them home! Li Kuanyun's dantian qi stopped, making all the soldiers who were still insisting or preparing to pretend to fall down with a tense face, although they didn't know what they were doing, but no one wanted to be eliminated on the first day, so they quickly stood up one by one.
After standing for three hours, everyone's last body was almost exhausted, and a large group of people who were originally black and pressed seemed to be a lot sparse at this time, because many people couldn't help but move, and there were many people who couldn't hold on and fell, these people were directly dragged out and punished on the first day or sent back to Zuo Qianniuwei directly, these people will be pointed at by the people around them in the following years, unless they unload their armor and return to the field, and the horse is released to Nanshan. Otherwise, it would be a great shame in front of those robes.
Li Kuan looked at the people who were still holding on to the field, there were still about half of them left, which means that nearly 1,500 people were eliminated in these six hours, and an average of 250 people were dragged out every hour. This is only an average number, in fact, the vast majority of people are carried away in the last half hour because their bodies are exhausted. This is busy with the Xuanjia guards who were arranged to do logistics, the three hundred people who followed him into the grassland last year, and almost two hundred people came back, and this time he pulled them all, except for a few who were transferred to other armies, just like the guy who opened the gambling game before. Now it's all here: dozens of instructors, and the rest are medics. These people didn't use to lift for the rest of the hour, and they dragged the two fallen soldiers with one hand, running back and forth like dragging two sacks. Fortunately, these soldiers only need to rest well, drink some warm water, and if they need to be fed, they will be even busier. (To be continued......)