Chapter 18: Killing the Mighty Stick
After Gao Huaiyuan was carried back to the Xiangyang military camp, because of overwork and the lack of timely treatment of the wounds on his body, several wounds were somewhat inflamed, and after returning to the army, he immediately fell ill on the bed, and the high fever did not go away for several days, and the fever was almost confused.
Fortunately, his matter attracted the attention of Zhao Fang and other local officials, and Lang Zhong, a medical officer with excellent medical skills, was specially sent to treat him, and after a few days, his injuries were finally stabilized and he gradually recovered his senses.
Otherwise, Gao Huaiyuan will really be a little dangerous this time, even if he doesn't die, I'm afraid he will end up crippled if he doesn't make trouble.
And the wounded brothers under his command were also well cared for, and there were a large number of good medicines for them to use, so including the seriously wounded, there were basically no more deaths, even Fei Wenlong, who was shot in the back, after coming back, because the wound was treated in time after the injury, and the injury gradually stabilized, which is simply unimaginable in the ordinary army.
Because the status of the soldiers in the Song army is very low, after being injured on the battlefield, most of the people who can be treated by medical officers are only some high-ranking officers who have this qualification, and the general soldiers who are injured are simply rationed some wound medicine, and they can deal with it themselves or by their companions, so once they are seriously injured, they can only rely on their own resistance to carry it, and whether they can survive depends on luck, so in this era, it is a very dangerous thing to be injured on the battlefield.
And this time, if it weren't for the outstanding achievements of the Daye Township Barracks, if it weren't for Zhao Fang's attention to them and his desire to set them as a benchmark and send medical officers to take care of them, with their own medical methods, I am afraid that even if these 200 or so people returned to the barracks in Xiangyang, at least twenty or thirty would have died.
This time, in addition to Gao Huaiyuan's commendation, those under him also have their own rewards, the living people are listed from top to bottom, each person is rewarded at least fifty times, and those who died in the war can get at least one hundred pieces of bereavement, the weight of the reward is eye-catching, but this group of villagers are happy, with these money, if they go back, it will be enough to improve their family life a lot, and they will also have a lot of face in Daye County, in addition to being grateful for the above rewards, They are also very grateful to Gao Huaiyuan for bringing them to such a feat, even those who died in battle, after their families received these pensions, at least they would not end up with both people and money, so after receiving the award this time, the rest of them were greatly excited.
The news that Gao Huaiyuan was awarded the title of Bao Yilang only came to know after he regained his senses, at first he was very uninterested in this official position, lying on the bed with a belly slander, feeling that this official title was too small, only a nine-grade sesame official, this Zhao Fang was too stingy!
But later, after hearing about the official system in the Song Dynasty army, he knew that the reward he received this time was indeed not small, think about Lian Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, after joining the army, he had been mixed for a long time, and he was not even mixed with the official position of entering the product, so he was content.
You must know that Han Shizhong started from a small soldier, and began to supplement the deputy lieutenant of righteousness, this is a low-level military attache with no grade, to the Tibetan River, cut three levels, and transferred to the deputy lieutenant Yong, this is still no grade, after capturing Fang La, Han Shizhong transferred to Jielang, this is from the ninth grade, the rank is fifty-one, which is lower than Di Qing's right pandianzhi; Later, Shizhong accumulated merit and turned to Wu Jielang, this is already from the seventh grade, and the order is thirty-eight. Because Shizhong waved his strength to fight, he turned to the martial arts doctor, or from the seventh grade, but the order was thirty. Later, he was promoted to the Hebei Governor's Department to elect the commander of the front army. Re-merit moved to Zuowu Doctor and Guozhou Regiment Training Envoy, this is from the five-grade official position. Then he was promoted to the defense envoy of Jiazhou, from the fifth grade. It took a lot of battles before it came up step by step.
And Gao Huaiyuan thought that he only relied on these two battles to confer the title of Bao Yilang, with a rank of fifty, one level higher than Han Shizhong's award of Cheng Jielang, and his psychology was much more balanced.
What makes him even more happy is that he is an absolute exception here, because he is not a military member, and he can still be awarded a military position, which in the past, he didn't even dare to think about it, and it just met his idea of not wanting to join the army, so he accepted this appointment with joy.
Seeing that his Daye Township barracks had been disabled, and a group of people were wounded, so he led people to rest in the Xiangyang camp with peace of mind, but he didn't know how much because of his battle, how much it still affected the historical process, because in history, the Jin soldiers attacked the Great Song Dynasty this time, Wanyan Sai did not lead the army to attack Xiangyang, besieged Zaoyang County, and broke through the Han River, and went straight to Nanzhang County, and won a considerable victory in the early stage of the war. Gao Huaiyuan saved a large number of people in Nanzhang County, south of the Han River, by such a mistake, which changed some historical processes to some extent.
In this way, he led a group of people to rest in Xiangyang for more than a month, seeing that the time was almost November, the weather had cooled down, and the injuries of him and most of his subordinates had basically healed, and even Fei Wenlong's injuries had healed before him and returned to the team.
And in this month, the news from the front, Meng Zongzheng, Hu Zaixing, Chen Xiang three, divided their troops in the north of Xiangyang, and the Jin army fought fiercely several times, and finally tried to attack Xiangyang City The Jin soldiers repulsed, and the two armies have now begun to officially launch an offensive and defensive battle in Zaoyang County, which is the first large-scale victory they have obtained since the beginning of the war, and the Jin army's offensive posture has been also contained by the Song army, and it began to gradually turn into a stalemate stage.
And with the news of Meng Zongzheng's victory of the several route armies came back, the halo on Gao Huaiyuan's head was blocked by the light of Meng Zongzheng, Hu Zaixing and others, and Gao Huaiyuan finally got up from the merit book and continued to work.
On this day, Gao Huaiyuan received an order, ordering him to immediately set up a new Daye Township barracks, ready to set off at any time, and escort grain and materials for the army in Zaoyang.
Gao Huaiyuan let out a long sigh, ended his vacation time, and began to wander to the other township soldiers in the camp, busy with the transfer of manpower to form his baggage battalion.
This time to set up a baggage battalion, Gao Huaiyuan has actually made a plan, his baggage battalion must not be a rabble, can not only do things to transport materials, when necessary, must also be able to fight, must have the ability to protect themselves, can not put safety on other regular troops.
Moreover, 1,000 men is no longer a decimal, according to the establishment of the regular army, five are one battalion, and one battalion is only 500 men, but his baggage battalion can be expanded to the size of two battalions, which can be regarded as a reinforced battalion, so he has an abundant establishment for him to use.
Therefore, from the beginning of his selection, he strictly controlled, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled did not want to be one, all of them selected the stronger township soldiers among the township warriors in various places to enter his baggage camp, which made the escort team or county lieutenants of the township barracks in various places dissatisfied, but there was no way to take him, after all, Gao Huaiyuan was the commander of the baggage battalion personally appointed by Lord Zhao Fangzhao, although he was not an officer of the regular army, but he was also a head above him, and he had the above arrow in his hand, even if they were unwilling, they couldn't help it.
Therefore, Gao Huaiyuan was cheeky and led people to search all the local township barracks in the camp, and collected all the young and strong people in each battalion, so that he could make up the number of 1,000 people, and happily pulled back to his camp.
There are recruits, and the rest is the problem of officers, and this is not difficult for Gao Huaiyuan, originally his Crouching Tiger Village junior soldiers were trained in the direction of officers, and after two wars, these teenagers can be regarded as having seen the world, and it should not be a problem to be an officer, and it is very convenient for him to control.
And low-level officers don't have to worry, those Daye township soldiers have now become fierce pawns, it's no problem to be a low-level officer, Gao Huaiyuan is confident that after the last blood test, these Daye township soldiers are definitely not weaker than them even if they are compared to the elite soldiers of the regular army, compared with the soldiers who have seen blood and the soldiers who have not seen blood, one is at least five! So you can be a chief, a captain or something.
This group of recruits drawn from various battalions is almost the same as the township soldiers in Daye County he saw at the beginning, don't look at them have also been mixed with the army for so long, because no one has disciplined and trained them, so they are still all like hanging children, when they are brought to the garrison of the baggage camp, they are concentrated in the school field, and the team stands crookedly, unorthodox.
Gao Huaiyuan stood on the high platform, his whole body was draped with a mountain-shaped armor that he had just gotten, and his dragon scale sword hung from his waist, looking majestic, looking at the rabble below with a cold face, listening to them buzzing with a group of flies below, and did not speak for a long time.
And the veterans of the boys' team and Daye Township Barracks under him lined up neatly, standing in front of the queue of eight hundred recruits face to face, and they all didn't say a word, looking at these guys coldly, each with a wooden stick in their hands, and looked at these recruits on the other side with a malicious face.
At first, these recruits didn't take them seriously, and felt that no matter how they tossed, they were still village soldiers and couldn't become a regular army, so they didn't care about it as before, but when they gathered and stood in the open space for a long time, they didn't pay attention to them, but they all stared at themselves with bad intentions, so they realized that something didn't seem to be right, so the buzz began to quiet.
"What? Finished? Do not say? Is that enough? Gao Huaiyuan asked them coldly.
These people want to laugh but don't dare to laugh, they all know that Gao Huaiyuan is different from them, he is the official who led people to kill, and then look at the murderous group of Daye Xiangyong on the opposite side, they are obviously much more fierce than their own gang, so they didn't make a sound.
"Humph! Now that you're done, it's time for me to speak! Let me tell you, I don't care where you are from, what you used to do, now that you have been drawn into my baggage camp, you have to listen to Lao Tzu! This is the first and last time, here, as long as the assembly is completed, only I can speak, and there is no place for you to speak! It's all for Lao Tzu to remember!
If someone has a bad memory, you can also see, the stick in the hands of my veterans is not used for appearance, whether it hurts when hit on the body, you will soon know! ......" Gao Huaiyuan stood in front of the team and spoke loudly to these guys, with a somewhat tender face, and it was really a bit ridiculous to say such old-fashioned words.
At this time, there were a few guys who didn't have long eyes, and they seemed to listen to Gao Huaiyuan's words and looked at his face a little funny, so they couldn't help muttering a few words to the people around them.
The result happened to fall in Gao Huaiyuan's eyes, so he immediately became furious and shouted: "Huang Yan listens to the order, take someone to find out those few people who talk a lot!" ”
As soon as the voice fell, Huang Yan immediately reached loudly: "The little one is here!" Follow me! ”
So a group of men who had been ready to follow him and burst into the crowd of the recruits, who had been staring at the dishonest fellows for a long time, and as soon as someone moved their mouths, they immediately stared at them, and then pounced, and two people grabbed one by one, and at once they caught dozens of people who were more than ten words from the crowd.
When these guys were pulled out, there were still people who struggled and screamed, "I didn't speak!" What are you doing with me? Let go, let go......"
Gao Huaiyuan looked at these guys who were pulled out, and said gloomily: "Don't you talk a lot? Then I'll let you call enough! Come on, press them, rip off their pants, give me twenty sticks each! I don't think you dare not take my words to heart! ”
As soon as these guys heard this, they stopped doing it, and some people wanted to jump and reason, but where would the people who were watching them give them a chance to reason, and if they caught the wrong thing, they would catch the wrong thing, and without saying a word, they kicked them on the crook of their legs, and kicked them to the ground, and some people pressed their heads and feet, and some people went up and picked up their pants, and those who dared to resist kicked them with their feet, and they didn't dare to resist until they dared to resist.
Looking down from above, it's really spectacular! Dozens of white flowers' buttocks were lined up, and the stick bearer stepped forward, picked up the stick, and beat them down on the dozens of white flowers' buttocks, and immediately a ghost-like howl sounded on the school field.
Regardless of whether they screamed or not, the sticks should still be beaten one by one, until after the twenty sticks were beaten, and then look at the dozens of white ass all turned into red butts, and each ass was soaked in blood, these guys were beaten so much that they screamed, and some people scolded.
"Yo and? There are still people who are not convinced! Dare to scold! Give me another twenty! Gao Huaiyuan pointed at the few guys who were scolding and shouted.
So this time those guys were unlucky, they were already swollen buttocks, and then they were beaten with twenty sticks, so that they had no strength to shout at the end, let alone scold, this time give them a guts, they don't dare to scold in the mouth, one or two butts hit the spot and bloomed, almost didn't turn their backs!
This is still the result of Gao Huaiyuan's special instructions, and the result should be lighter, otherwise if the forty military sticks are beaten, it will kill people.
Seeing that the execution was over, Hehe sneered a few times, and said to these guys who were lying on the ground and hummed: "Are there any of you who are still unconvinced?" Why don't we do it? ”
When the dozens of beaten guys heard this, their scalps were numb, and they quickly shook their heads and cried: "The little ones don't dare, the little ones don't dare anymore......"
Gao Huaiyuan nodded with satisfaction and said to them: "Then you guys get up, line up alone, run around the camp and then come back to stand in a military posture for an hour!" The rest of the people immediately formed a team, ran five laps around the camp, when they finished the run and when they rested, and they dared to stop in the middle of the run are your example! ”
As a result, a beautiful scenery appeared outside the newly established baggage camp, and hundreds of recruits were tired and stuck out their tongues like dogs, running wildly around the camp of a huge baggage camp.
Although the baggage battalion covers an area of not large, but a circle down is still enough to 1,500 meters, five laps down, that is, nearly eight kilometers, the first day to let this group of recruits * to a pull, but this group of boys to toss bitter, although each in the heart of the ancestors of Gao Huaiyuan eight generations greetings, but no one dared to scold, no one dared to stop, when running three laps, many people were tired, but still did not dare to stop, just stumbled and continued to run, one by one complained bitterly.
And those who were beaten in the courtyard, their buttocks were all opened, and one by one they limped around the camp with each other's legs, and when they returned to the camp, they were ordered to stand in a military posture with a brick on their heads, and whoever fell on the ground would be beaten, and everyone was even more miserable.
It wasn't until everyone completed the task as required and reassembled in the camp that Gao Huaiyuan comfortably put down his teacup and walked onto the high platform.
"All of them! Stand up straight! Seeing that these tired guys were standing staggering, Huang Yan yelled at them violently.
A group of frightened fellows, who were yelled at, immediately tried to stand up straight, and there was no sound in the audience except for panting.
"You all listened, don't think I'm deliberately tossing you, here, you should understand that there is no distinction between village soldiers and regular soldiers on the battlefield, and when you meet a golden soldier, you will still be cut down, and obeying orders is the first lesson you have to learn! In my place, although it is only a baggage battalion, in order to save your life on the battlefield, you must listen to me! Orders and prohibitions are the minimum requirements, if you dare to disobey the restraints, the military stick is the lightest punishment, and the worst is Lao Tzu cut off your heads! What I Gao said, do what I say! Those who want to mess around here don't have this dream, as long as you listen to me, the bounty will naturally be indispensable to you! Gao Huaiyuan yelled at the guys again, and the first day's drill ended with the waving of the killing stick.