A vacant lot outside Wanghai Fort in July of the eighth year of Chongzhen

Pang Gang stood in the center of the school field, and in front of him stood one hundred and twenty men selected by Pang Gang, including Wang Zhi, Da Zhuang, Li Yuan and others, these men were all young and strong over eighteen years old and under thirty years old.

Although the current Wanghai Fort belongs to an authentic garrison, according to the rules, they are not needed to go into battle to kill the enemy, why should the Lord of the Hundred Households waste valuable strong labor to train the troops in one fell swoop many times? This is what many people in the fort think!

But others can think like this, Pang Gang can't think like this, he comes from later generations, but he knows that in the next few years, the Liukou led by Li Zicheng and the Manchu Eight Banners will set off a huge storm on the land of the Central Plains, this storm will burn the entire Central Plains, and will also determine the fate of the Chinese nation in the future. Now that we have come to this era, how boring it would be if we couldn't join this magnificent storm.

But although it was decided to train the soldiers, how can this soldier be trained? Who will practice? This problem has always bothered Pang Gang, and it is not uncommon to recall that there are no military training masters in the late Ming Dynasty, for example, Pang Gang knew that there were famous generals Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chengzong in the late Ming Dynasty who were all famous military training experts. But this is tantamount to nonsense, one of them is the governor of Huguang, and the other is the teacher of the current emperor of the Ming Dynasty, at this time, if Pang Gang wants to invite such a person to help him train his troops, haha, the weather is so good today!

There's no way, since no one has helped us train our huge 100 households, then he has to practice by himself. In order to train the troops, Pang Gang also specially found Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "The Actual Record of Military Training", two military books, in which Pang Gang most admired Qi Jiguang's sentence, "In a dignified formation, thousands of people line up to the front, the brave must not go first, and the cowardly must not lag behind; The cluster of guns poked, the cluster of guns poked, the knives slashed, and the indiscriminate killing returned him, but they all rushed in together, and it was difficult to change hands, how could they tolerate moving left and right? One person turns back, and the public is suspicious; If one person moves an inch, the public must also win the heart, how can they tolerate advancing or retreating? ”

What does this mean? The consciousness of this sentence means that when fighting, it relies on a dignified formation, and thousands of people march in formation, and no brave or timid person is allowed to retreat. No matter how many soldiers they have, they must obey the command like a person, and if they are trained in this way, the army can be said to be invincible in the world.

And Pang Gang's father, who participated in the self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam, also said that the most important thing in the army is discipline first, discipline second, and discipline third. It can be seen from this that whether it is ancient or modern, the most important thing for an army is discipline!

Now a total of 120 soldiers are standing in front of Pang Gang, led by Da Zhuang and Wang Zhi. Pang Gang's brows immediately furrowed after looking at the standing posture of more than a hundred soldiers. Some of these people were originally children of military households, and some were originally homeless, and of course they are all military households of Wanghai Fort now. Now they are standing in front of Pang Gang laughing and talking non-stop, one by one they are standing crookedly and crookedly, even the original children of military families.

Looking at them, Pang Gang sighed secretly in his heart, no wonder when the recruits in later generations joined the army, the recruits had to start training from the most basic queue, and that was still in the era of hot weapons. Replaced with the current strict queue and strict discipline in the era of cold weapons, it is even more important. An army that can maintain a tight formation at any time is a disciplined army of tigers and wolves, and vice versa.

"Everyone's on their feet! Now please ask the Lord of the Hundred Households to speak for us! You can't talk anymore! Wang Zhi, who was quite excited on the side, saw that Pang Gang's face was getting darker and darker, and quickly drank everyone and asked them to listen to Pang Gang's lecture.

Suppressing the anger in his heart, Pang Gang said loudly: "Everyone listen to me, today the official recruited everyone to come here to train the army." Some people may say that military training has nothing to do with us? We are just a soldier, fighting is a soldier's business, the person who said this is wrong, fighting is not only a soldier's business, it may fall on our heads at any time! Do you still remember the incident in Wangjiatun a few days ago? ”

Qingzhuang, who originally had people talking and laughing, began to change color slightly when he heard this, after all, the incident in Wangjiatun had just passed, and this battle was also a pain in the hearts of all the military households in Lingshanwei.

"Looks like everyone hasn't forgotten it." Pang Gang showed disdain: "Speaking of that battle, it's really embarrassing, more than 600 people were killed by hundreds of thieves and fled, and more than 2,000 people were captured, don't you feel ashamed of this official!" You said that if there are thieves in the future, what will we do to resist Wanghai Fort? Is it up to you runaways? ”

"My lord, we are not bad seeds!" At this time, a young man stood up and said loudly: "If the thief comes again, I will kill the thief if I fight for my life!" ”

Pang Gang sneered: "Who wouldn't be a fool? You've said pretty things, but I don't see anything about your performance that satisfies me, and now everyone is standing up for me, one by one, keeping an arm's length from left to right! Hurry up, from now on, no one is allowed to talk to each other, who dares to talk nonsense again, I know you, my stick doesn't know you! Now listen to my command, and all of you stand upright! ”

Under Pang Gang's strict order, the 120 Tun soldiers all stood motionless on the school ground, while Pang Gang walked around among them with a big wooden stick, and if anyone dared to move a little, he would immediately be hit by the big stick.

It was no joke that a wooden stick with the thick arm of a child hit a person's body, and the person who was hit could not move, but still had to stand there straight. After nearly half an hour, Pang Gang saw that the heat was almost over, which allowed the troops to move freely and have a meal.

Immediately, Pang Gang just started to train in formation, turning left and right, walking and running and other subjects together, and the Zhongtun army was first novel, and then it began to be a mess.

At the beginning, the queue training can be said to be even more miserable, the team of more than 100 people is not only crooked, but also unable to distinguish between the most basic left and right, this situation is not only the case for the young and strong military households below, but also for Da Zhuang and Wang Zhi.

Seeing such a situation, Pang Gang didn't have a very good method, and then Pang Gang had an idea, and thought of not knowing which book he had seen it from before, saying that he had encountered similar things when he was training the new army in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

After training like this, the situation is better, Pang Gang's temper towards military households in peacetime is excellent, but on the training ground, it seems to be a different person, if he sees someone who is not moving correctly or standing in line unsteadily, he will immediately be beaten with a stick.

But it's strange to say that the soldiers didn't complain after being beaten, and the training was more serious, and the efficiency was very good. When they saw the scene of the young men being beaten for making mistakes, they often laughed, and even the children scratched their faces and made fun of them. This made these young men train harder in addition to being ashamed!

In this way, after seven or eight days of training, when Pang Gang took them to start running, their steps were much neater than before.

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