Chapter 349: Steady Progress

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After Yang Jian sent the secret letter away, he took the guards to the big school field in the west of the city. This was originally a large field for the local people to dry grain, with a length and width of more than 300 meters, but it was not smaller than the camp in Mawei. A total of 3,600 soldiers surrendered in the seven counties of Guangxin Prefecture, and as in Guangdong, such people who were caught or received would not do anything to them, but would need to be selected and reorganized in a unified manner. For those soldiers, the Mawei Army's approach has always been to let him go as far as he can.

This time, after the selection of 3,600 people, there were only more than 1,700 people left, less than half. However, with the addition of the escort team that filled in the two hundred Shangrao caravans and the You family's guard Zhuang Ding, it just made up the number of two thousand. Two thousand people, then it is exactly divided into fifty training teams, and in groups of forty people, three artillery division fighters are assigned to be responsible for training. As for the content of the training, there are detailed implementation steps in the new army manual of the Mawei Army. This thing will be called the Infantry Army Drill Code in later generations, but at this moment, this part of the Mawei Army is obviously a more primitive and concise thing, but it is slightly better than the "New Book of Ji Xiao", which is more suitable for the current situation of the Mawei Army.

Yang Jian just arrived at the school field, but he did not enter immediately, but stood on the high platform at the far edge of the field to observe the training effect. The closest to them was the training ground of the 10th Group of the 55th Battalion of the Reserve Army. There are three training instructors, Wang Rhodium, He Qizheng, and Jia Duobao. Wang Rhodium Ji is the main one. The other two deputies. Now. Wang Xuanji was standing straight with his hands behind his back, scanning the soldiers of the reserve army who were staggering in front of him with a cold gaze, his nose was snorting and panting, and his face was disdainful.

"To be honest, you bastards, you all remember it for Lao Tzu today, your most comfortable day was yesterday, as long as you still have a breath. Then you have to give Lao Tzu a good practice! You yourselves look at the team you are standing on, is this a man who has come forward? Even a pig can't stand like this! In the old army, you all ate dry food all day, huh? And look at yourselves, haven't you eaten one by one? Damn, last night and this morning, who ate all those fat chickens and ducks? is still depressed, looking at it makes Lao Tzu angry! Now in order to punish you rotten dishes, let you have a longer memory, it's all there! Listen to me! Running five laps around the campus, if anyone is falling behind Lao Tzu. Don't blame our three brothers for serving with whips!

Jogging...... Walk! ”

A group of soldiers who had actually run five laps just now heard this order. Narrowly fell to the ground. It's only been four days of training, and they didn't run before, but now they run five or six kilometers all at once, and they have to run continuously, so how can people eat? But they have nothing to say, because their Instructor Wang, as well as the two auxiliary coaches on the left and right who have not spoken, but they have not run less than them, since the instructors have run like this, what else do they have to fart?

After arriving here, they learned that on the day of the end of the selection, what the commander of the artillery division said was not a lie, eating military rations in the Mawei Army was not an easy errand, and from the first day they entered the camp, these veterans of the Mawei Army took over their drills. The old, weak, sick and disabled in the army had been cleared out, and the soldiers with ruffian disrespect for orders had all been driven away, and then the hellish training began for their honest soldiers.

The hardships of the horsetail army's drills, until this time, they realized it firsthand. Previously, they had been seized under the strategy of the Mawei army, and they were still not convinced, but after a day, they had no more complaints. The soldiers of the Mawei Army began to exercise every day before dawn, and now it was their turn to be a reserve army. Every morning at five o'clock in the morning, these wolf-like instructors blew sharp bamboo whistles to pull them out of the hot bed, and began to run wildly around the school yard in the face of the biting cold wind.

However, even though it was a reserve army, the Mawei Army did not treat them badly, and in terms of food, it was the same as the regular soldiers of the Mawei Army. To tell the truth, these soldiers of the new army really haven't received such good treatment in the past, and in the past, even if they were mixed with food and clothing in the army, and if they wanted to eat meat, they didn't know how long they would have to wait. But now, the requirement in the army is that there must be meat every day. Although it is not for you to eat openly, it is already very happy to be able to eat a few large pieces of fat meat, plus a large chicken leg.

In the evening, the Mawei Army did not let them stop. It was also Geng Jingzhong who came up with a method later to let these new soldiers have a few more bittersweet reunions, in order to promote the feelings of the big guys, so that they could mingle with the instructors and quickly integrate into the large collective of the Mawei Army. So every night, a blazing bonfire was lit in the school field, and all the soldiers who were tired like dead dogs gathered around the bonfire, talking about their family history one by one, talking about their suffering, not to mention, the effect was really good, and some problems were reported after the instructors found out, and they were quickly solved, and they won the hearts of a large number of new troops.

The hardships of the reserve army have not yet been eaten, and every time after they have fallen asleep, sometimes in the second half of the night, these instructors with infinite energy will suddenly blow the bamboo whistle, drive them out of the barracks one by one, line up on the school field, make an emergency assembly at night, pull them out and run circles around the school field, and if there is not enough space, they will run circles around the ridges outside, and the distance they run is about the same anyway. When they got back to the barracks, it was almost dawn again.

At first, the soldiers of the reserve army really couldn't understand how these instructors of the Mawei Army seemed to have endless energy, how could they be so interested in tossing them? But they also muttered a few words in their hearts, and they had nothing to say. The instructors who were in charge of them had never been lazy, and as far as they ran, these instructors followed. One step is no less than they run. They all stood up straight during the exercises. Also in such weather, sweat like rain with them.

Soldiers are not afraid of hardship, after all, these people used to be basically tenants, peasants or themselves from military households, and they have never enjoyed happiness since childhood, they all grew up with hardships, although now they are soldiers of the Mawei Army, and boring training every day consumes a lot of physical energy, but such a good food. This little thing can still survive, not to mention that even their officers are doing these things like them, so they naturally have nothing to be dissatisfied with in their hearts. Fair, this is the first time they have experienced it here.

What the two thousand reserve troops didn't expect was that after arriving here for a large gathering of training, they unexpectedly found that the officers of the Mawei Army, no matter how big or small, ate the same things as them, and there was nothing special at all. Even the battalion commander of the current reserve army in the battalion carried a bowl every day. Eating and eating with them was unthinkable before. In the eyes of most reserve sergeants, the battalion commander is equivalent to a thousand households, such a senior official eats, lives and trains with them, what else do you have to say, and what else is not satisfied? If you are not satisfied with this, then you will not be able to find a satisfactory place when you travel all over the world!

The reserve soldiers felt uneasy in the first few days, and then the soldiers of the reserve army gradually adapted to this kind of life, although it was very hard to practice day and night, but compared to the previous idle days, these reserve soldiers felt a lot more fulfilled, and felt that this day was not as terrible as they thought, and some people practiced them, telling them what they should do and what they should not do, and gradually understood that being a soldier in the Mawei Army is not just about eating and waiting for death.

With these realizations, when they practiced again, these guys took the initiative a lot, and they no longer complained about the hardships and laziness they did at the beginning, so that the training effect was much better. Looking at the recruits who were panting like bellows running in front, Wang Rhodium Ji smiled slightly at the back of the team, he was just an ordinary soldier in the seventh battalion of the artillery division before. And he is not a gunner, but now he has become a leading instructor of the reserve army, managing four squads, which is equivalent to a promotion of two levels in a row, but he was not happy to come here to bring this group of unruly recruits at first, in his opinion, with forty people here, it is not as comfortable as when he was in the seventh battalion, just carry a gun, and may be sent out to fight at any time in the seventh battalion, so if there is a battle, there will be a reward to take, and he can also accumulate military merits, but here he can only watch a bunch of messy guys every day and sulk with them!

But after these days, Wang Rhodium Ji and many instructors who have similar ideas to him have gradually begun to like these guys, although these guys didn't have any rules at first, they couldn't even tell the difference between the left and right feet, but fortunately, these guys were very honest, and they didn't have too many ideas, let them do whatever they wanted, as long as they were fed every day, although it was very hard to train them, but these guys rarely complained, after getting acquainted with them, these days, The guys had improved a lot, the running distance had increased a lot, the queue had become much faster, and they had moved much faster, which reminded him of the days when he was in the boot camp when he first entered the Mawei Army.

Gradually polishing a group of guys who don't know anything into a decent soldier, this is also a good enjoyment for Wang Rhodium, at least it is quite a sense of achievement, he is not thinking about returning to the original battalion now, and gradually began to settle down, mixing with these guys, one day, he believes that through his hands, he will definitely be able to polish these people into real soldiers of the Mawei Army, and take them to make meritorious achievements.

"Can you bastards hurry up? Do you want to eat dinner at night? Damn, that elbow saved is just the right reward for the good warrior of the table. Work hard, and you remember to Lao Tzu, we are a gang, no one can be left behind, if you really can't run, pull each other, let's go back together! What is the purpose of our Ponytail Army? Wang Zhiji put away his thoughts and quickened his pace, although he kept scolding and urging these guys, but he was still satisfied.

"Don't abandon, don't give up!" Forty soldiers shouted.

"Good! One, two, three, come on! (To be continued......)