Chapter 21: The Warlord's Way
Zhang Jiaming, a half-baked military strategist, has a little dabbling in modern military affairs, but you really want him to know what shooting essentials he has, pace training, physical training, it is not as fast as shooting him, but fortunately, although others do not understand military, he knows how to tap talents, anyway, the formation of a military organization will always not worry about no instructors on the scene, he is about to find two foreign instructors, and someone will send talents immediately, it is not someone else, it is Daddy Qin who has just walked out.
After a few words of greeting, Zhang Jiaming let his godfather go to the back room, it is now late autumn, the cool breeze in the mountains is pressing, put a lot of carbon, and the whole house becomes hot.
"Your old man is really old and strong, and he doesn't sleep so late." Zhang Jiaming said jokingly,
"I have a good grandson, who is very ambitious all day long, and since he gave me this leopard skin, he has disappeared, which makes me worry all day long."
"You're old, don't talk about that, I'm not good, look, isn't it, I'm strong!" Zhang Jiaming patted his chest, making a muffled sound of bumps, and he didn't cough.
"That's right, but there are some things I still have to point you in."
"You always tell me slowly, I don't sleep much at night anyway." Loaded a pot of tobacco for the old man, lit it for him, and smoked two Great China from under the table, which were copied from Wu Tianmiao's old nest!
"You see that I always forget things, no, I have forgotten to honor you when you are old." Daddy touched the cigarette box, and a smile crawled all over his face,
"Count your boy as having a conscience and knowing how to respect the elderly! Geng Sheng, come in and show you Brother Zhang. Outside agreed, a black man walked into the house, this person is about 78 meters tall, on par with Zhang Jiaming, and his face is also full of beard, at first glance, it really looks like half of Zhang Jiaming's appearance, the difference is that this man is a little thinner, and it can be regarded as strong, a pair of blazing eyes staring at Zhang Jiaming, as if calculating the gap between himself and Zhang Jiaming.
Zhang Jiaming was not polite, and the evil qi on his body suddenly surged out mercilessly, and a pair of even more fierce eyes faced this man!
The victory and defeat were separated in a few seconds, and the big man fell to his knees, sweating profusely, and did not dare to look at Zhang Jiaming again.
"Brother Zhang is on top, my name is Qin Gengsheng, I am the twenty-seventh generation descendant of the Qin family, my maternal grandfather Zongjia is from Hunan Province, and Zeng Guofan is my grandfather!" Hey, I didn't expect to meet a cousin of Zeng Guofan's bloodline here.
"Godgrandpa, are you old too?" The old man shook his head,
"Geng Sheng is also my grandson, but he is from the same surname, I heard that you want to strengthen the training of the militia, so I summoned him for you."
"Hey, yes, my seventh grandfather is the highest in the village, and we all admired him when we heard him say something about you! Those cannibals, we usually don't have time to hide, if it weren't for the seventh grandfather who taught us the Miao family's knife technique, our brothers would not have survived. Seeing this, Zhang Jiaming hurriedly put away the coercion, and it could be seen that this Qin Gengsheng was a practitioner, and those who could survive in the zombie group were all excellent means, just like the Deng brothers.
Helping up the strong man, Zhang Jiaming looked at him carefully,
"Miao family knife method? Why haven't I heard of it? ”
"Hey, the young boy, the Miao family's knife skills have always been only taught in the folk, in the past Tusi era, many nurses and villagers will have this set of knife techniques, not only the Miao family knife, but also the Miao family gun array, the Miao family 8 people battle formation, you don't know more things." The old man smiled and motioned for the two to sit down, looking at the two grandchildren's guys with a humble face willing to be a good baby, and the old man smiled on his face.
"You haven't heard of Miao Jiadao, but General Yuan Chonghuan have heard of it, right?"
"I've heard that Yuan Dutou killed Qing Taizu Nurhachi under Ningyuan City! He's a big hero, and I loved his story when I was a kid! Zhang Jiaming said anxiously, his face full of yearning and admiration.
"Then do you know what kind of soldiers Yuan Dutou's soldiers are?" The old man asked with a smile.
"Well, I really don't know." Zhang Jiaming shrunk his neck, searching in his mind, and could only shake his head.
"Ahem, Guangxi wolf soldiers are in the world, have you heard of it?"
"Uh, this, godgrandpa, I really don't know."
"You, you know that you're running around like a crazy monkey outside all day long, and you can't learn what you should learn." The old man is actually very satisfied with this godson who can fight tough battles and intimidate everyone, but in order to knock and knock him, he must be reminded of what to pay attention to.
At that time, more than a dozen brothers of the old grandfather of the Qin family had participated in the wolf soldier training of the Tusi, taking care of the family for the Tusi, dealing with bandits and rogues, and sometimes having to go hunting in the mountains. Later, when the twentieth generation came, the Qing soldiers came to attack, and the imperial court sent Yuan Dutou to Guangxi to recruit wolf soldiers, and my grandfather of the Qin family enlisted a total of 118 people! Killing the Qing Taizu Nurhachi, my ancestors of the Qin family also have a share of military exploits! In that battle, less than 30 of the 118 people of the Qin family came back! My Qin family has been in the army for generations, and there are countless soldiers who have served the country! The Japanese invaded the coastal area, Mrs. Washi led 6,000 wolf soldiers to fight, and the Qin family recruited more than 70 people, and went north with his wife to fight the Japanese, and after many victories, the number of people returning home was less than 10! Fakou invaded Guangxi, the guard Feng Zicai led the wolf soldiers to meet the attack, the Qin family fought more than 50 people, and only half of the population was returned, this is the victory of Zhennanguan! During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the whole Qin family had strong men who were conscripted into the army, and there was a saying: At that time, the whole country was losing, but my Guangxi wolf soldiers were winning! My old Qin family has almost shed blood for the country! When the old man talked about this, he couldn't stop crying.
Qin Gengsheng's face was flushed, obviously excited about the glory of his ancestors, but Zhang Jiaming was disdainful, and said that he had been fighting for a long time, and it was not how fierce the wolf soldiers were, but the name of the wolf soldiers was consistent with his own image.
"Dad, I've listened to the history of the wolf soldiers, but you've been talking about it for a long time, what the hell is it about?" Daddy shook his head and pointed at Gengsheng,
"I called him here just to help you train the army, Geng Sheng will know how to arrange troops, and he can help you train the militia!"
"But, godfather, we want to use modern weapons to fight zombies, not big knives and spears!"
"You go up there to find a gun, even if you find it, you little wolf cubs can bypass hundreds of thousands of zombies and transport them back?" This is really right, the arsenal in R County is 35 miles away from here in a straight line, if ordinary people walk, it will take at least a day, and it will be tiring enough to deal with zombies along the way, and when they clean up there, they have to rest enough to continue the next step.
"So, what does Daddy think?" Zhang Jiaming simply threw the question to the instructor and continued to be the audience.
"The training of those gringos has been suspended for the time being, tomorrow, let Geng Sheng drill for you, and in addition, the number of militia must be increased to 300 people! Then let Geng Sheng be eliminated, with an elimination rate of 50%, and wait for the militia to be trained, and then go into the mountains to collect grain after a week. After making a concluding speech, Dad left with his hands behind his back, leaving Geng Sheng and Zhang Jiaming to continue to communicate, until the second half of the night, the two said goodbye to each other and agreed on some basic matters for tomorrow's training.
Early the next morning, Zhang Jiaming was woken up by a fierce roar! Listening to that loud voice, needless to say, it is the newly appointed militia special training officer Qin Gengsheng!
The 300 elected militiamen who were hastily assembled were generally around 25 years old, and all of them were men.
In the last days, most of the people who were eliminated were the elderly, and the younger generation that survived became a new force. The militiamen who had been trained by American veteran Yakov were all promoted to squad leaders and began to fulfill the obligations of the old man to lead these recruits, but these guys have only received less than 2 days of training, and they are not much better!
The messy queue, 10 minutes have passed, Zhang Jiaming looked at these recruits with a headache, it seems that it is not easy to rely on them to fight.
"Salute to the Great Chief!" After a group of people raised their hands and saluted, Zhang Jiaming's head hurt even more, these guys haven't even received basic military training, at least they have received a month of emergency training in violent law enforcement agencies!
It was miserable, and secretly evaluated in his heart, he had to be told before, 210 of these young people were Han people, 43 people were Zhuang people, and some of the others were Miao Yao and Dong people, most of them had weak personalities, but many of the ethnic minorities were more violent and there were no longer a few, all of them were recruited by Daddy Qin from the nearby mountains to join the base.
Overall, the training task is very difficult. The time is only one week, as long as they can figure out the queue and battle formation, they will basically be qualified, and then they will be trained by fighting, and they will be directly pulled to Tanjiazhai for practice!
The weapons distributed to these militiamen also made Zhang Jiaming refreshed, it seems that it is good to recognize this godfather, after overnight rush production, they made more than 300 bamboo long shields with bamboo village specialties --- bamboo, although a little simple, but it is also a basic protective measure, and each person was also given a simple unsharpened bamboo stick as a spear for practice.
What is it? Isn't it the ancient spear phalanx? Do you really want to make a hand-to-hand combat class to play melee combat with zombies?
Looking at the two foreign instructors with inquiring eyes, Yakov and Fred, who had just been temporarily relieved of their duties, looked helpless, shrugged their shoulders, and looked at the newly appointed militia instructor Qin Gengsheng where he was talking: "My name is Qin Gengsheng, in the future, I will be your head coach of regimental training, you may not know me, but that's okay!" Soon, I'll make you hate me to death! I'm going to smash the bones of you cowardly people into slag and crush them into powder! Finally, pinch it, pinch it, and we're all in the mud! Cast into the barracks and forged into steel! Listening to the guy's frothing speech, Zhang Jiaming's face couldn't help but become serious,
"Army Combat! By what? Military spirit and morale! What is the military heart? What is morale? It's okay, I'll tell you what morale is! The foundation of morale is discipline! So what is discipline? Geng Sheng glanced at the people below viciously, almost all of them had blank expressions, including Zhang Jiaming, with a demented face.
"That's discipline!" The head of the sect held up something, it was a nine-tailed cat whip made of mutated cowhide!
You're calling a soldier like a slave soldier! Zhang Jiaming broke out in a cold sweat!
"It's discipline too!" A flat and smooth stick was then lifted!
"And this, it's all discipline!" Zhang Jiaming saw clearly, it was an earthen double-barreled short gun!
At this moment, the crowd exploded, some people scolded one after another, saying that they would not do it, saying that these things were not done by civilized people, and several people shouted to leave, and the scene immediately became chaotic.
"Bang" Two gunshots rang out, Zhang Jiaming stood up, and coldly glanced at these militiamen, as long as the people who were stared at and saw all lowered their votes, they woke up, whose hands were they working for,
"How many days have you only had to eat? Just thinking about making trouble? Who just said you want to go? "No one dares to disobey this murderous fellow, especially those who have come from Grass Carp Island, and the horrific scene of yesterday still haunts me.
"Dare to say, dare not do? Ah, I think you're used to being an uncle! If you want to sit back and enjoy your success, and don't want to be a soldier, now leave the queue and join the farm work, and the fishing team on the other side of the dock! I don't force you, my team only needs tough guys who dare to fight! The crowd moved for a while, and about 100 people stood at the front of the line, and the rest walked to the corner of the makeshift training grounds.
"Very good, you all listen carefully to me, join the production team, that is, the logistics personnel, and the supply of all logistics personnel is only half of that of the regular militia!" There was another burst of surprise from the crowd, but it was much softer than before,
"This is not a kindergarten, and it is not a welfare home! If you want to live, give me serious exercises! All fighters who participated in the militia were recorded as military workers after each combat drill! 10 points for excellent performance, 2 points for average performance, and 0 points for poor performance! Three times in a row that underperformed! The drill captain directly punished him! As for the strength of the punishment, it will be promulgated by Qin Gengsheng's regiment. Although the number of people willing to work as soldiers is much less than expected yesterday, and the direct elimination rate of the first screening has reached 65%, Zhang Jiaming is still very satisfied with these candidates who are willing to join the army.
With the addition of the original militia, the total strength now reaches 127 people.
"As I said earlier, discipline is the first guarantee of the morale of the team! So, I'm going to promulgate the five disciplines of battle! First: When the troops are marching, it is forbidden to make loud noises, and those who violate the order will be killed! Second: The troops receive the enemy, and those who dare to flee in fear of the enemy will be killed! Third: When the troops are fighting, those who do not listen to orders, those who contradict the commanders, kill! Fourth: When the troops encounter the enemy, if they give up their wounded teammates and do not save them, they will be killed! Fifth: When the troops are fighting, those who dare to raid privately, kill! As soon as the bloody five commandments were finished, even a group of recruits, including Zhang Jiaming, took a breath in unison, if they really wanted to do this, it was estimated that they would have to shoot a lot of people as soon as they went into battle.
"Now, let the Grand Chief speak." Qin Gengsheng stood aside and motioned for Zhang Jiaming to step forward. Coughing twice, Zhang Jiaming pondered for a moment and thought about the speech he had made in the middle of the night last night.
"I don't want to talk too much about other big things, you are all a bunch of lucky people, your relatives, friends, including many people you don't know have become walking dead! It's those zombies! If you think it's easy to eat and drink and wait for death, or marry a wife and give birth to a baby, then you've miscalculated! Let me tell you, under the rule of my Zhang Jiaming, no one can eat idle food! If you want to eat well, wear well, use it well, and marry a wife, you can make it realistic! However, you have to trade your life for it! I'm not afraid of the unruly one among you, and that's all I have to do now. From today onwards, all logistics personnel must be isolated from other women, and the original spouse will live in a special residential area in the center of the village, and those who do not have a spouse and are not militia are not allowed to go near the female residential area! Violators will be dealt with by military law! Zhang Jiaming was also ruthless, and discussed with Qin Gengsheng last night, now there are less than 200 women in the entire village, and it is impossible to allocate all of them to men, so only by adopting encouraging policies to force those men who want to marry wives to join the militia force, to put it simply, if they are not militiamen, they are not qualified to pursue women.
If you dare to step on that line, you will directly kill the chicken and show it to the monkey! The promulgation of this law was the most widespread, and it immediately made the superiority of the militia manifest, and the hundreds of new militiamen all smiled, and some even laughed at the old partners who chose to engage in logistics after they got up.
There are women and military merits, although they still don't understand what military merits can be exchanged for, at least they are much better than logistics personnel who only work and have no credit, and the food is also fully supplied!
If you complete all the training and make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, it will be equivalent to the military backbone under Zhang Jiaming!
If you can join Zhang Jiaming's guards, there will be more rewards! After thinking about all this clearly, the militia members all looked at Zhang Jiaming with admiration, and that expression was like just recognizing a godfather who could follow them!
After the lecture, the daily training began immediately, and those who regretted the choice because of a thought ran to the original team leader and asked to re-enlist, after some bitter pleading, plus various gambling curses and swearing, Zhang Jiaming selected more than 100 people, and the rest were mercilessly thrown into the production team.
I don't care if you have a wife or not, if you refuse to be a soldier, you will beat me as a single, isn't Lao Tzu also a bachelor now!
Zhang Jiaming thought hatefully, alas, poor my little daughter-in-law. The construction of the village was soon put on the agenda, in order to better manage the village community, Yakov was issued with the 77-style pistol by Zhang Jiaming, plus 15 bullets, so that he could form a security team in his free time, the number of 20 people, first selected from the militia, the veterans were very obedient, and immediately pulled up the people, their task now is to supervise the labor situation of those logistics personnel every day, all those who are idle and lazy, all hungry, and the next time they continue to deal with things so-so, they will be punished for running 20 laps of the training ground!
Double it next time! The means of punishment cannot be too violent now, because of the presence of Father Christopher, a few foreigners can organize a small persuasion team, cooperate with Yakov's security team to manage everything here, and everything is being prepared.
Zhang Jiaming has been observing the practice of these modern gunmen on the training ground for several days, including formations, marches, how to stab, and other training subjects, Qin Gengsheng taught very carefully, but Zhang Jiaming didn't learn those specific assassination actions, his speed is the biggest guarantee for killing the enemy!
The training still delayed a lot of time, two weeks later, at the end of November, the recruits completed the preliminary training, and the logistics also sorted out more than two hundred sets of solid bamboo shields and iron-headed spears in response.
After reorganizing the army, everyone prepared dry rations for three days, with more than 500 logistics troops, plus more than 100 temporarily processed rickshaws, the whole team marched towards the mountains.