Section 3: Livelihoods and Formations
Many people have opinions on recruiting seven battalions of prostitutes to "join the army", except for a few people such as Song Jinguo, most of them do not understand Long Qian's decision, but the people of the sixth team are not easy to mention, and Lu Shan, Wang Mingyuan and other cronies are reluctant to mention it.
The team returned to the mountain to rest beautifully for two days, Long Qian did not grasp discipline and training, everyone was nervously sorting out the problems of life, the original storage of food materials and things seized from Maoyang Town classified and collected, especially grain and salt, that is the lifeblood of the cottage survival, the original old Song (Song Jinguo is responsible for the sorting and collection of materials) was also worried about the lack of salt, but did not expect Long Qian to unexpectedly get a few bags of refined salt from the Catholic Church in Pingyi Village, which solved the urgent need of the old Song Dynasty.
After two busy days, most of the materials were collected and collected, and the accommodation problem was arranged, except for the prisoners who temporarily lived in the open-air Dongzhai, and the rest of the people basically lived in the Guangming Temple. Ning Shijun also completed the work of registering everyone's personal information, and every soldier left behind was extremely cooperative with this work.
Long Qian officially handed over the logistics affairs of the whole mountain to Lao Song, and Lao Song also intended to take over this trivial and annoying matter, Lao Song was the busiest person in the whole mountain in the past two days, busy from morning to night, without stopping. Important supplies, such as food, have been counted, and the number of days that the cottage can support has been calculated. Lao Song's conclusion was that if he didn't want those prisoners, the food stored in the cottage and the food brought back this time would be enough to eat for more than seven months, but it would not work with the prisoners. The implication was that Long Qian was not so satisfied with the large group of captive soldiers that Long Qian had brought back. There is no problem with the clothes, the military uniforms brought back this time are enough for each person in the whole mountain to be divided into more than four bodies, not to mention hundreds of pieces of cloth. The other is weapons, Long Qian was very happy that Lao Song noticed the problem of weapons and ammunition and began to register, classify and count all kinds of guns, and also counted the ammunition. Compared with the original weapons and equipment of the eight teams, after the battle of Maoyang Town, it is a complete replacement of shotguns, and now there is more than one person in the whole mountain, but the guns are more miscellaneous, both imported and domestic, and the annoying thing is that the caliber is also different, fortunately, the official and military equipment is of a unified caliber, so that most of the rifle caliber of the cottage is 7.92mm, this caliber is estimated by Long Qian, there is no measuring instrument, with the naked eye, Long Qian can not see the difference between 7.62 and 7.92. Lao Song roughly counted the number of bullets, the total number was about 6,500 rounds, and he thought that the minions must have hidden some of them, which was something that could not be stopped unless they were thoroughly searched.
As for the bullets, Lao Song suggested that they should all be collected and not left in the hands of the minions. Of course, Long Qian agrees with this idea, in fact, in the era when Sun Dewang was in charge, the bullets in the cottage were also strictly managed. Long Qian agreed to collect bullets according to the squad, except for the officers and soldiers on duty, the rest of the people were not worthy of bullets, and if there was a task, they would receive it.
There was only one captured revolver in the whole mountain, and there were only five bullets, and Long Qian gave this exquisitely made pistol "award" to Lao Song. Lao Song couldn't close his mouth with a smile, and played with it but returned it to Long Qian, saying that you are the big boss, with such a pistol, and you are angry. Long Qian didn't ask for it, saying that he didn't like this kind of gadget, it was actually a toy, more than ten zhang away, it is estimated that he can't kill people, so you can keep it and play.
Old Song happily left the pistol.
In addition to ordnance, food and clothing are the most urgent problems, and now it seems that they can be basically maintained. The rest of the problems are not too important, such as the bedding, and the belongings of the cottage were either taken away by the brigade, and the ones left behind were burned in the fire. Fortunately, dozens of quilts were seized from Maoyang Town and brought back to the mountain, Long Qian let Lao Song use the number of injuries and illnesses, and the rest of the people had to suffer some sins. Fortunately, the harsh winter has passed, and the temperature is as warm as a day, but there is also a hope.
"Old Song, I'm going to train my soldiers in the mountains for a while. During this time, the logistics will be handed over to you. One of them, use those captives, and don't let them eat for nothing, but work. In addition to building Dongzhai, I also have to build a training ground. But do not starve them, and feed them except those who do not carry out the commands. Secondly, you have to think of ways to make everyone's food well, not only to eat well, but also to eat well. There must be staple food, vegetables and meat, because I have to hurry up and train the army in my free time, and you have to use your brains in terms of food. ”
"Okay, I'll figure it out."
"I thought that after a while, after the wind had passed, I could go down the mountain and buy it. We have money in our hands, and we don't believe that we can't buy what we need. In the past, we were robbing and coercing, and in the future, we will buy and sell. However, you should not tell anyone about this, and I will inform you when the time comes. ”
"It's good."
After settling down the logistics, Long Qian began to think about other things. The most strange thing for him is that since returning to the mountain, no one has proposed the mountain to find the brigade! Long Qian figured out this problem that bothered him, these people are actually not very loyal to the cottage, they prefer to have a stable place to live, a bowl of food to eat, and do not want to live a dangerous life of wandering. Long Qian's return to Mengshan actually catered to the wishes of most of the soldiers.
In the evening, Long Qian was chatting with David in the ear room of the side hall where he lived, Wang Mingyuan and Lu Shan came together, David got up to avoid it, Long Qian made a gesture and did not let David leave.
"What does this thing do?" Wang Mingyuan picked up the binoculars and asked.
"Well, this is a baby, German." Long Qian glanced at David, "This is a must-have for a commander. In the future, strive for one for each team officer. Long Qian snatched the telescope from Wang Mingyuan's hand, "I don't need it now, I'll teach you how to use it in the future." Are you looking for me? ”
The two of them reflected two things, the first is that they can't rest any longer, and they want to find something for everyone. The second is the formation, and the people of the sixth team are a little talking and worried.
"It's Ye Yanbing and Feng Lun, right? What do other people have to worry about? Long Qian smiled, "They didn't raise the mountain to find Liu Dangjia?" ”
"Lao Feng has a little bit of that meaning, but the surname Ye is opposed." Wang Mingyuan said, "I heard from others, Ye Yanbing thinks you will have a whole consideration." ”
"He trusts me." Long Qian smiled, "Your idea is very right, very good. Tomorrow I will announce the formation in public, and the people of Team 6 will not move. So that they are relieved. Immediately after that, we will train our troops well, and as long as the officers and soldiers give us time, we will concentrate on training. You two, do you want to take the lead and know the way? ”
"Don't worry, Captain. We will never disgrace your people. The two responded in unison.
The next morning, Long Qian gathered all the people again in front of the Guangming Temple.
"Now I have an important decision to announce. That is the regrouping, no one knows when we will join the brigade, and in order to ensure the survival of our small force, it must be reorganized. Long Qian glanced at the team coldly, and sure enough, Ye Yanbing and Feng Lun showed nervous expressions on their faces.
"The formation is simple. The whole team will be reorganized into five squads plus an internal guard team, Lu Shan, the captain of a squad, and Ning Shijun as the deputy captain; Wang Mingyuan, the captain of the second team, and Cheng Erhu as the vice captain; Feng Guozhu, the captain of the third squad, Gu Xiaolin is the deputy captain; Ye Yanbing, the leader of the fourth squad, Feng Lun, the captain of the fifth squad. In addition, Song Jinguo is the captain of the internal guard, Jiang Yun is the deputy captain, and Sun Juan and other seven female soldiers are incorporated into the internal guard__For the soldiers, the original establishment remains the same, which squad was originally there, and which squad is still there, understand? ”
"Got it." A cheerful voice rang out below.
Long Qian's reorganization plan made Ye Yanbing and Feng Lun put their hearts in their stomachs. Since the beginning of the breakout, Long Qian obviously intended to protect the remnants of the sixth team. And the soldiers of the sixth team have been completely convinced by Long Qian in the past few days, even if Long Qian randomly organized them into the three squads of the eighth team, most of them would not object. But now Long Qian showed a kind of generosity, which made Ye and Feng deeply satisfied.
"You may not know what the internal guard team does," Long Qian paced in front of the queue, "There are many functions of the internal guard, oh, that is, there are many errands, and the main thing at the moment is to do a good job of everyone's logistics." Without good logistics, the five squads will not be able to fight. Get rid of Lao Song and Jiang Yun, and I will also draw some people to enrich the internal guard. Whoever is drawn next is not allowed to bargain, we are the army, not the people, and we must be forbidden. ”
Seeing that everyone's reaction was normal, Long Qian continued, "When it comes to fighting just now, don't forget, we are only temporarily safe, will the officers and soldiers go up the mountain again, I am not Yuan Shikai, nor Cao Kun, it doesn't matter." ”
The bottom laughed.
"The battle is definitely going to be fought. Therefore, all people, including those in the Internal Guard, must be vigilant, strengthen their drills, and be ready to fight at any time. However, only when the soldiers are well trained can they survive the future battles and strengthen themselves. The kind of people who think that we can sleep peacefully after the officers and soldiers are gone, their heads will soon move. I will draw up a training plan and personally organize you to train strictly, so that the people of the original eighth team will immediately know that the training below is much more difficult and severe than the training you have received before. The brothers of the original six teams also had to adapt to this change and catch up. Here I would like to emphasize that it is not allowed to divide any more teams into six or eight teams, at least not until they meet with the brigade. We are all a family, and we are all soldiers of the Mengshan Army. ”
"Please rest assured that we will never disobey the captain's orders." Ye Yanbing said loudly.
"Good, good. I believe that everyone is good! Long Qian nodded with satisfaction, "Mingyuan, your team is on duty today, and Louzi, Wuzhang Song, and Duduling will all be whistled." "Wuzhang Pine is a dangerous place in the east of Dongzhai, and Long Qian certainly doesn't dare to take it lightly about the sentry post.
"Obey." Wang Mingyuan clasped his fists and saluted.
"Brothers," Long Qian said coldly, "the first thing we have to do is to turn bandits into soldiers." Some of you may think that since ancient times, the family of soldiers and bandits has been just a family eating the money of the imperial court, and the family is desperate to occupy the mountains to rob and survive for the king. But I don't think that's the case, a soldier is a soldier, and a bandit is a bandit. Soldiers and bandits are never the same thing. Long Qian said with a straight face, "When I have time in the future, I will explain to you the difference between soldiers and bandits." What needs to be done now is to strictly enforce the four military regulations. If he can't adapt to my rules, the cottage is not something he can stay in! ”
Everyone thinks that the four military rules set by Long Qian, it is not a big deal to get rid of the prohibition of playing with women.
"In order to make our small unit look like a regular army, I decided to issue each of us two uniforms that we had captured from the officers." At the end, Long Qian smiled and threw out a decision that everyone liked to hear the most.
As soon as these words came out, the officers and men immediately burst into thunderous cheers. Many people have already signed the idea of that batch of military uniforms, the style is mighty, and the texture is excellent, especially the yellow leather boots, which is everyone's expectation. Before, everyone wore all kinds of clothes, leather, more sewn cotton, and half of the people's shoes were already in tatters.
"When will the uniforms be issued?" Lu Shan asked loudly.
"Now. Each team formed a team and went to Lao Song to change clothes. I'm going to go out in my new uniform tomorrow morning. Let me make it clear to you, the reason why the two military uniforms are issued is to ask everyone to have a change of washing, military uniforms, they must be kept tidy, and if they are dirty, they must wash themselves, and whoever is too dirty will go to the internal guard to cook for everyone! ”