Session 9: Temporary Training (Medium)
The little steward was insulted by Townsend, and he was so insulted that he was convinced. Since then, no similar person has come to trouble Townsend. The soldiers saw the might of the chief, and the commander beat people so ruthlessly!
After seeing Townsend's brutality, the guards who monitored the spearhead team also eased their attitude and were much kinder to the spearhead, who called someone a good officer?
But it is not easy to be a good officer, you must not only be able to fight, train, protect your subordinates, but even arrange food and lodging...... All in all, you have to have a long-term vision, you have to be bold, and you have to be capable!
For now, between hunting and fishing, Townsend decided to fish first. Because of the poor quality of the spearheads, it is not only safer and easier to control the field by the river, but also the fish harvested are relatively light, which is not easy for the spearheads to be compensated for the long-term lack of nutrients.
You can also train swimming and swimming by the way, how good.
Throwing a single hook, releasing row fishing, and pulling barrage nets, relying only on these normal means, Townsend has shown his subordinates the style of being extremely vicious and killing them all. But Ya Nei snorted coldly in his heart, this is it? I haven't let you watch the dam construction, cut off the flow, and turn over the stones!
He first let the soldiers drink the fish soup for three days, which is the kind of soup that is very thick and the fish are all boiled. From the fourth day onwards, the soldiers were allowed to see the whole small fish in the wild vegetable porridge - all the small fish that were born in the year, and the big fish were all dried and not allowed to move.
As for the taste, Townsend was not at all distracted, there was a guy named "Cook" in the spearhead, who always threw some flowers and plants into the pot, and finally cooked extremely delicious food. After going back and forth, Townsend also learned this hand.
They were well fed, they were well fed, and the Spearheads were content, and their obedience to Townsend changed to doing their best, so after a few days, the Spearheads were no longer a problem in terms of discipline.
With food as a base, Townsend began to undergo low-intensity training to adapt to his surname, and began to explain military common sense to them. For example, ask the spearheads to remember their directions, for example, ask them to remember simple gestures, and ask them to think about how much distance they should keep between the two spearheads when they are marching and scouting and not charging in a queue......
Especially the last point, not to mention that the top soldiers do not know this, and even the guards who monitor them do not know, it can be seen that the quality of the Andorran coalition army is really not very good.
"Actually, I don't know, but we can experiment. "The simple reason is that the spearheads don't make physical contact with the enemy, and we don't charge at large enemy forces, so the enemies we encounter are scattered, and the biggest threat is long-range weapons like bows and javelins," Townsend explained. Ask the guards to shoot a few arrows for us, and everything will fall into place. ”
The guards who were watching were very interested, and they fired ten arrows at the target at a distance of fifteen, thirty, and fifty meters, respectively. Townsend told the monkey to come forward, take a rope and circle the arrows on the very edge, and then said to them, "This is called the scattering of bows and arrows." ”
"We can see that the arrows that are shot generally do not fall on the aiming point, because there is wind, because there is vibration, so the arrows usually fall into a circle centered on the standard point, that is, in the circle enclosed by the monkey - this circle, which is a standard separation distance. ”
The soldiers were at a loss, and the guards were at a loss.
"Don't you understand? Let's put it this way, if we think of a man as a piece of cloth, and the monkey lies down! Well, now the monkey is a piece of cloth, and he occupies a tenth of the area of the dispersal circle, and one out of ten arrows can hit him -- the captain lies down!" Townsend demonstrated: "Now there are two pieces of cloth in the dispersion circle, and the enemy can shoot one with five arrows!"
"Understood!" the soldiers suddenly realized, and Townsend smiled bitterly in his heart. Because his explanation is not correct, but it is convenient to bluff people, and the effect seems to be very good.
The spearmen learned the principle of distance, which states that the enemy should never be allowed to cover two spearheads with the dispersion of one arrow, as the enemy's bow and arrow accuracy will be greatly reduced...... In fact, this is a lame translation of Townsend's memory of "you can't let the enemy knock down two of your own people with a single shot".
It's easy to say, but he secretly spent a lot of effort to make the spearheads understand.
In this way, in the day of drinking small fish and wild vegetable porridge, Townsend translated the most superficial and important life-saving theories in a similar way, and instilled them in his subordinates like a duck.
"You don't have to understand, just do it!" Even later, he didn't bother to translate: "It's right to listen to the chief!"
So the spearmen began to smear their faces with mud and sap, put the jingling bits and pieces into pockets that would not shake, changed the packages to six-point piggybacks, covered the metal reflections on their swords, and secretly followed Townsend to make small crossbow arrows...... During this period, the relationship between the top soldiers and Townsend skyrocketed, and the erudite and correct image of the chief was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Ten days later, Townsend began to arrange for the hunt of wild beasts. Hunting is more complicated and dangerous than fishing.
Before he was captured as a soldier, Monkey was a hunter, and he was able to return to his old profession and teach Townsend a lot of much-needed knowledge in the wild. It was only at this time that Townsend realized that he had been able to survive successfully in the wild before, but there was actually an element of luck, because he was basically operating in the hunting area of the Blue Snow Fox, and many vicious beasts that could threaten the Blue Snow Fox had been eliminated......
In the monkey's description, the biggest prey in his life was the three-headed bloodtooth wolf, a hard bone that the strong men of the entire village gnawed down only when they went out en masse, and the size was larger than the lieutenant colonel's mount. But to really count it, the three-headed bloodtooth wolf is just an ordinary beast. Moreover, in the wilderness mountains and forests of this world, there are still many unknown creatures, and that is the most dangerous.
Hearing the monkey's words, Townsend didn't dare to run away rashly. The front and back intersections at the far end of the camp were guarded, and if he wanted to escape now, the route could only be in the wild, but his parents worked hard to give birth to him, not for him to run to feed the beasts one day.
Townsend was surprised, but he didn't know that he had surprised the monkey even more.
In the monkey's heart, the skill of hunting is a family heirloom, and many of its tricks can be hidden for a lifetime. Growing up so big, this bit of insight is a lesson that I have exchanged for blood and tears. But the chief, a young man, showed unusual spiciness, shrewdness and shrewdness when hunting, the most obvious example of which was his ability to arrange everything in order beforehand......
According to the commander, arranging traps and arranging the beginning and end not only saves time and effort, but also avoids most dangers. Basically, the monkey's task is only to judge the type of prey and the surname, and the rest is all done by the chief.
What are buried traps, hanging traps, fixed-point traps, elastic traps, what are the slotted dragnet traps, triangular compound traps, and linkage encirclement traps; what fresh meat bait, carrion bait, visceral bait, poisonous bait...... The soldiers are learning and pondering, these things are not only easy to hunt, but also can be used against people!
Set up a trap, and then run all over the mountain to drive the beasts into the hunting grounds.
In fact, in Townsend's view, this is a very tactical job, so he will ask the top soldiers to occupy the commanding heights, distinguish the upper and lower winds, and send out messages covertly and silently...... How to approach the beast, how to drive the beast, how to assess the danger, and even have a brainstorm discussion at the end of each day.
Any soldier who is not well prepared, panicked on the spot, and does not listen to the command will not only be punished for beating the board and standing guard, but the whole group will also be sitting...... In the eyes of the guards who were monitoring them, the spearhead team had nothing to do, and the twenty or so people were making a rabbit as if they were fighting, so what kind of review did they have to do at night? What kind of criticism and self-criticism were there? They were already crazy!
But the spearheads didn't think so, and they found that as long as they did what their superiors said, as long as they kept in mind what they were going to do, things would go well. Therefore, the authority of the chief and the collective centripetal force of the vanguard were cultivated by Townsend in this way.
Slowly, these unfamiliar things are turning into habits......