The night on the mountain is very quiet, there are only trees and no grass in the courtyard, and even the sound of insects is heard.

The house is brightly lit, the Taoist temple lighting point is not the wax lamp, but the pine resin, the pine resin is mixed with borneol, sandalwood and other synthetic spices, the cool and quiet fragrance is in the room, so that the heart is quiet but keep the mind clear, it is the incense that the Taoist temple and the Buddhist temple like to use, calm the mind and can clear the heart.

Shen Qingyi's heart was not peaceful.

Xiao Cong and the Lord of Immeasurable Guan played chess in the abbot's ashram, and by the way discussed the details of the cooperation between Daomen and Xiao in Hexi Road, Shen Qingyi wrote a letter in the house.

When she looked up and wrote "Ah Yan", she paused, and couldn't put down the pen for a long time.

How do you write this letter to her?

Shen Qingyi sighed in his heart, lowered his eyelashes, and watched as the ink dripped down and landed on the light green calender letterhead. Her heart was disturbed, and she casually drew a black shrimp on the small ball of ink, and the two shrimp feet in front of her clamped two slender head whiskers, as if tangled...... She stared at it darkly, then put down her pen to rub the letter.

When he raised his hand, he paused, and a dim light flashed in his quiet eyes.

Her long eyelashes drooped, and after a while, she drew a sail shadow on the right side of the shrimp.

The wolf wrote: "I went to the Daomen, and I expect to return in a year." This is mentioned by the Taiqing Sect, which is beneficial to the Xiao family, and it is also beneficial to me. Your fourth brother doesn't agree with me going, but this matter is related to the interests of the Xiao family, and it is not up to him to decide. He has done his duty as a husband. Your fourth brother is in a difficult situation, within one or two years, you need to have an heir, Wei Wuniang should marry into the Xiao Mansion at the end of the year or early next year, I have no objection to this matter, you know, don't beak it. Although it is sudden to go to the Daomen, but when it comes, it will be safe. Let me meet Master Sun in the dark, this may be the will of heaven. ……”

The words are clear and steep, thin and straight, and the folds are hidden, such as bending iron and breaking gold.

"I'm going here, but I'm worried about you." The pen power is a little sluggish.

She hesitated for a moment, then picked up her pen and brushed it out.

After hesitating again and again, he finally put pen to paper: "This trip should be safe, don't worry." The word "don't read" has been lingering in my heart for a long time, but it has not fallen on paper.

***

In the recruit camp tent of the Jingzhou camp, Xiao Yan was discussing the training of recruits with Xiao Ji and Mu Fu at this time, and he didn't know Shen Qingyi's thoughts about the hundred turns that were born because of her.

It has been half a month since she entered the boot camp, and she has been observing the training of recruits for half a month. After finding out the recruits of the whole regiment from the beginning of entering the camp, coupled with the training observation of the past half month, and adding content to the recruit file one after another, Xiao Yan knew the strengths and weaknesses of each of the 200 recruits in the first regiment.

She began to think about where the recruits would go after their training.

Generally speaking, after three months of training, recruits will be assigned to the veteran battalion with no personnel, and only then will they be trained in the formation and further skill training. Those who serve as officers in the new barracks, after being assigned to the veteran barracks, will definitely be demoted, and the regimental commander and brigade commander are generally the team leader and fire commander, and it is impossible for you to be the brigade commander and regiment commander of the veteran barracks, and the veterans will not serve.

It stands to reason that Xiao Yan and they will also have to go through this process, after being assigned to the veteran barracks, as long as they have the ability and a hard enough background, the children of this kind of family can be promoted quickly, at least they are also brigade commanders.

However, there is a better opportunity in front of Xiao Yan at present.

This opportunity is the formation of two new battalions of the Jingnan Army.

"You say, this time to recruit new soldiers, will you directly form two new battalions?" She asked the two partners.

Mu Fu's hand to wipe the knife suddenly stopped, and he looked up at Xiao Ji.

If you want to talk about inside information, it must be that Xiao Ba knows a lot, otherwise he would be blind to have a military master's mother in the background.

Xiao Ji touched his chin and said, "A new battalion is added, it stands to reason that this is the case." "It is impossible to break up the veterans and mix them with the new soldiers, which can certainly strengthen the combat effectiveness of the new barracks, but at the same time reduce the combat effectiveness of the broken up veteran barracks -- a wise commander would not do this, and would rather have a new new barracks wear and tear on the battlefield than drag down the old and new battalions, because the lives of veterans are more expensive than those of new recruits.

Xiao Ji said this, and said with a smile: "I heard that before Captain Xu was transferred to the recruit battalion, he was the deputy battalion leader of the Zhanfeng battalion. ”

The deputy battalion owner of the Frontguard Battalion to train recruits?

The three of them looked at each other, and their eyes lit up.

"It looks like it's true!" Mu Fu slapped his thigh, and the knife was no longer wiped, and he said excitedly, "So, we won't be scattered." "If the camp is built with new soldiers, it means that they will not be assigned to the veteran barracks at most to be a fire chief, with his current position, as long as the soldiers are not bad, he will officially build the camp in the future. The point is the brigade commander - Mu Fu, the little wolf, can't help but ripple.

"It may not be that it won't be dispersed," Xiao Ji couldn't see him proud, and poured cold water on him, "If the battalion is built with new recruits, our first regiment will be elite soldiers, and the best in the whole battalion will be concentrated in the first regiment, what about the other regiments?" The battlefield is all gone, and only we are left? Xu Duwei is not a fool like you. Look at it, after three months of training, when the battalion is officially organized, there will definitely be six regiments mixed. We are one regiment today, maybe three regiments in three months. ”

When Mu Fu heard this, he wilted.

Xiao Yan said, "Isn't it good? Do you just want to be a brigade commander? I thought that in the future, one regiment would fight in the front, and there would be two or three regiments on the left and right to cooperate. ”

When Mu Fu heard this, his head brushed up.

Xiao Ji smiled and brightened the lights in the tent, "Of course, we are good partners. ”

Xiao Yan said: "What we have to do now is how to train the soldiers we want in these three months." -- Historically, in wars, recruits have suffered the greatest losses on the battlefield, and no matter whether they have been trained for three months or three years, the loss rate of recruits on the battlefield is still much greater than that of veterans. She looked at Xiao Ji, "Starling should know the numbers in this regard." ”

Xiao Ji nodded, his father Huan Yi is the long history of the Jingnan Army, in charge of the army's staff officers, literary and historical military registration, casualty pensions, etc., of course, the battle losses of the recruits are counted, and the teaching of his son in military affairs is often based on these figures. He replied, "It's usually four to fifty percent." "Four or five out of ten people will die," I heard my father say, there was once a battalion of the Jingnan Army that was completely disabled, and the replenishment was all new recruits, and after three years of training, the whole battalion only survived 600 and less than 700 people in a battle. ”

The normal strength of a battalion is 1,250 people, and only more than 600 people survived, and the survival rate was only a little more than 50 percent.

It's been three years of training!

Xiao Yan and Mu Fu's faces were very strict.

Xiao Jidao: "My aunt said that no matter whether a recruit is trained for three months or three years, it is ...... when he goes to the battlefield" He stopped and threw a look, which meant "You know".

Recruits go to the battlefield and are attrition.

Xiao Yan recalled his first experience of killing people, and said: "The real difference between training and the battlefield is that the battlefield will see blood, and the soldiers know that they will kill or be killed. Most of the recruits on the battlefield die not because their combat skills are not up to par, but because they are shocked at the first sight of blood. In the real bloody field, soldiers who have not seen blood are often weak-minded, and this momentary hesitation may cost them their lives. ”

Therefore, the difference between a veteran and a recruit is not only the factors of combat experience, combat skills, and combat discipline, but more importantly, the veteran has seen blood, and his hands will not be soft when wielding a knife and gun, and he will never hesitate to kill people.

And hesitation before killing is the general nature of recruits, and this hesitation will lead recruits to die.

Xiao Ji and Mu Fu both understand this truth.

But it's one thing to know the truth, but this kind of thing can't be solved. Xiao Jidao: "You can't kill people during training, right?" This method is useful, but what is trained is a group of inhuman soldiers, and he does not want to bring out such soldiers, and it is not in line with the morality of the soldiers.

Xiao Yan said: "Of course you can't kill people, but it's okay to see blood." ――How many sheep do we have to eat in a month? Let everyone go to the fire room to kill the sheep, not only to kill, but also to do all the skin and meat. At least you have to see blood, don't go to the battlefield before you even kill chickens, and even see blood fainting. ”

This can be had, even if killing people and killing sheep are two different things, but at least if you have killed a living and smelled blood, it can still play some role. Both partners nodded in agreement.

"Also, aren't there many animals in the Qinga Mountains? Adding hunting items to training can not only practice bow shooting, but also kill blood. It would be better if you hunted some fierce beasts such as lions, tigers and bears. ”

This can also be available, and the two nodded again.

Xiao Yan said again: "We haven't divided the troops yet, and it should be divided when the camp is officially organized in three months." I think that for new recruits, no matter what class they are in the future, they should practice their bows and crossbows now. In the future, when they go to the battlefield to line up, they will first put on the bow and crossbow, and then put on the sword and gun. Long-distance archery kills people is better psychologically than hand-to-hand combat, swords and guns. After this adaptation process, the new recruit becomes a veteran. In the future, the formation should be based on the type of troops. ”

Xiao Ji agreed first: "This method is good. In the future, when the recruits fight, they can be arranged in this way. ”

Mu Fu also felt that this was a solution.

After the three of them discussed the details, Xiao Yan took up the pen and wrote "Recruit Training and Construction".

The next morning, Xiao Yan submitted it to Xu Chongmo, the commander of the new barracks.

Xu Chongmo flipped through it, laughed twice, and walked away with his hands behind his back.

At the end of the next afternoon, the battalion commander gathered the recruits of the six regiments and announced the new training regulations on the colonel's field, and all the recruits added 100 times of stone locks and 400 times of two-handed push-ups in addition to the morning exercise of 14 miles of running at 2 o'clock (5:30 in the morning), which was to exercise arm strength, and only when the strength was strong, could they frequently draw the bow and shoot arrows, and reduce the afternoon weapons training by half an hour, increase the time for bow and crossbow training, and at the same time increase the training of killing sheep, "In the future, the mutton of the whole army will be handed over to you." Xu Chongmo said with a straight face.

The recruits all felt that their eyes were dark, the mutton of the whole army? How many heads does that have to be? If not eight thousand, there are five thousand! Whoa, they'd rather add an hour of crossbow training Woo woo!

Xu Chongmo was secretly happy in his heart, and waved his hand, "Disband!" "Gone.

After training like this for more than ten days, Xiao Yan handed Xu Chongmo another copy of the mentions, and two quarters of an hour before the exercise at six o'clock in the afternoon, he rejoined the clams from the initial physical training. Toad jumps, but clams. The distance traveled by the toad jump has been increased from one mile to ten miles.

The corners of Xu Chongmo's mouth twitched, "Except for a few of you, the vast majority of them are impossible to complete, right?" ”

Xiao Yan said: "If people don't come to the end, how do you know that it's impossible?" Practicing martial arts is about sharpening one's will, and the same is true for recruits. A person's body is limited, but if you grit your teeth and persevere, it is possible to break through your body. She pointed to her head, "What matters here is a person's will." If you can't finish jumping, you won't be given food. If you want to eat, you have to finish jumping. ”

She stood there straight, her voice as firm as her gaze, "My subordinates have heard that an army with a strong will will not collapse even if more than half of the people are killed or wounded, and an army without a strong will will collapse if the number of casualties reaches two percent. -- The subordinates believe that the most important thing for a soldier is to have a tenacious character, so that he can build an iron army that will not be defeated in a hundred battles. ”

Xu Chongmo looked at her for a long time, and suddenly laughed, "Okay!" ”

In the early morning of the next day, the captains of each regiment announced that there would be an increase in clams in the afternoon. The toad jumped and marched for ten miles, and the camp suddenly wailed.

In the evening of the same day, only about forty recruits in the battalion had a hot dinner.

The recruits who were still jumping on the school field scolded while jumping: "Do you want anyone to live!" "There are also a lot of recruits who don't even have the strength to scold, jump it, if you can't finish the dance, you'll have to go hungry tonight! The recruits were going to cry.

Mu Fu shouted fiercely in the first group: "Hurry up and jump!" Break his legs without stopping! As he spoke, the horsewhip in his hand snapped in the air.

The recruits of the 1st Regiment and the 2nd Brigade all shuddered and burst into tears in their hearts.

Xiao Ji walked around with a bowl of fragrant mutton soup, and said with a smile: "Hurry up and jump!" If you're slow, there's no meat to eat. I can't even drink the soup if I can't finish it. ”

The recruits of the regiment and brigade burst into tears even more, they could see and smell but couldn't eat, this was too torturous, jump, in order to have meat to eat and soup to drink, fight! Woooooo

On the first day, half of the recruits jumped to the ground and did not finish the jump, and of course the night's meal was in the soup, and the lunch meal had long been consumed under the vigorous training of an afternoon, and many were so hungry that they did not sleep all night. The next day, the recruits had a rationed breakfast and were not allowed to eat more. Clam in the afternoon. When the toad jumped, many of the recruits who had been hungry last night gritted their teeth and persevered, some survived, and more did not, but they also improved more than a dozen feet compared to yesterday, and then another night of hunger and torture.

In this way, after more than ten days of torture, all the recruits of the first regiment passed the test, and a quarter of the recruits of the other five regiments survived.

Xiao Yan praised the recruits of the first regiment, and ordered the soldiers of the first regiment to watch the other regiments, whether they were showing off or laughing, encouraging and strengthening, it was good to have a stimulating effect. She said to the soldiers of the First Regiment: "Our First Regiment is the most prominent and the best, but it cannot stand alone. A branch of flower fragrance is not called incense, and a hundred trees and thousands of trees have bloomed, so it is called a fragrance in the garden. In the future, when we go to the battlefield, it is not our regiment that fights, and the left and right cooperation is not effective, and there are those who are dragging their feet behind, and we all have to die. In order for us all to survive, we have to let the other regiments keep up, at least not too far behind! ”

She had already established her prestige in the regiment, and the recruits shouted: "Yes, Captain!" ”

She waved her hand, "Disband!" The recruits walked away giggling and laughing, and they discussed in groups how to "encourage" the recruits of other regiments, and they smiled one by one: watching others suffer more than themselves, it tastes so good!

Mu Fu carried a horsewhip and went to watch the third regiment - this regiment has been regarded by him as the regiment he will take in the future, how can he do it if it is too bad!

Xiao Yan and Xiao Ji first went to the recruits' fire room to eat fire food at night, and only after walking a dozen steps, the battalion owner's personal soldiers came over and said that the captain had called them to the camp tent.

The two went to Xu Chongmo's camp with their own soldiers.

Xu Chongmo stood outside the camp tent and said to the two: "The prince came to patrol the army, and the general told you two to go to the Chinese military tent immediately." ”

Xiao Yan was overjoyed, the fourth brother is here?!

The author has something to say: I didn't understand, for the clams. Toad is a harmonious word~

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