Chapter 421: Army Building
Before that, he had even lived in the army for a while, and he had put down his body to eat and live with these soldiers, which won José the favor of many soldiers. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
After all, in the army of the Empire of Light, I have not heard of the commander of that army eating and living with the soldiers. After hundreds of years of development, the aristocratic politics of the Bright Empire has long formed a stable military system, and the military generals and officials at the upper level of the empire are all nobles without exception, and there are basically not many generals or high-ranking officials from civilian backgrounds.
Not to mention anything else, take the highest military institution of the empire, the military department of the empire, for example, among all the high-ranking officials who enter the military department, less than half of the officials are from civilian backgrounds. Therefore, the aristocratic politics of the Bright Empire is also extremely stable, and even the senior generals of the Northwest Army such as Heru and Longkedo are all from noble backgrounds, but they are from some slightly declining families.
This is just a means for Joseph to win people's hearts, but when it comes to training these recruits, he is also unceremonious. In order to enhance the martial arts of these new troops, he also specially selected many slave soldiers and officers who were proficient in martial arts from the barracks and taught them martial arts in the army.
This kind of move is also unique in the imperial army, even the central army recruited in the imperial capital of the empire, it is only this level of training, ordinary local garrisons at most coach some military formations and sword fighting, like Jose more serious training, naturally make these ordinary new troops feel pressure.
There is a large temperature difference between day and night in the northwest, and during the day, these recruits stand under the sun and practice, and every soldier is sweating every day. Even at night, sometimes in the middle of the night, Joseph would suddenly announce an emergency assembly, and those soldiers and officers who did not have time to assemble would be punished in front of all the soldiers. In the early days, these recruits were trained by Joseph, and after training during the day, there were not a few soldiers who hid in the bed and scolded Joseph at night.
Although these guys were very dissatisfied with José's high-intensity training, what convinced them a little was that although this Viscount of Sadland was ruthless to them, he was also ruthless to himself. For example, those soldiers who are not qualified in training, according to the rules set by Joseph, these guys are to stand on the school field for half a day.
But when it came time to punish these soldiers, the Viscount of Sadland even stood silently in the ranks of the punished soldiers, and followed them in the sun. Many soldiers in the barracks saw this scene, and the soldiers who were punished had even more complicated faces, but this guy stood on the high platform of the training ground with a sweaty face.
The slightly emaciated figure had been on the high platform, and José had been standing with the soldiers all morning. Then before lunch, the young Viscount Sadland looked at the recruits, and he said to all the soldiers on the training ground with a pale face: "In the Sadland army, the military rules are military rules, and no one is allowed to violate them. You are my subordinates, and if you make mistakes, then according to the decree of joint sitting, my lord should be punished to some extent.
I know that these days, many people are dissatisfied with my high-intensity exercises. But what I want to tell you is that you are not training hard for me, but so that you can kill the enemy in battle, not be beheaded by the enemy. So even if you resist again, I will continue to carry out this decree and drill methods, I don't need you to understand me, I just need you to carry it out, and when you guys come down alive from the battlefield, then think about whether my drill for you is correct!"
When Jose said these words, his face was covered with sweat, and he looked quite embarrassed, he was not a martial artist in the first place, although his physical fitness had improved a lot after the tempering of Jia Lan's fighting spirit, but a morning of exposure to the sun also made him a little difficult. But when he said this again, his eyes were full of calmness, and he scanned the faces of each soldier. Those faces are either young and immature, or have some vicissitudes of life, but those faces, more or less, are without exception a little moved and eager!
Under José's strong push, the remaining officers and generals did not dare to have any emotions to carry, and stepped up the training of these recruits, and the school field was in full swing every day. In addition to vigorously training these soldiers, Jose also devoted a lot of energy to those generals, and he had previously ordered that all battalion officers and generals above must learn to write. Over the course of a few months, these civilian-born fellows had learned to read some simple words, and a few of them were quite clever enough to even write their own names.
Although this achievement is not outstanding, considering that in the feudal era of the Bright Empire, where the education penetration rate was not even one percent, it is not easy to let these illiterate guys reach this level. After all, in the Bright Empire, those who can read and write are basically some aristocratic and rich families, and in a desolate place like the northwest, every household can farm and raise cattle, and it is good to barely live, where is there spare money and time to learn to write?
Therefore, in the Northwest Army, even many generals of the Northwest Army are illiterate, let alone those ordinary soldiers. Most of these officers were selected from the new army, and they were originally from civilian backgrounds, and they naturally could not read, but Joseph's requirements for generals were naturally much higher than those of soldiers, and literacy was a standard that must be met.
Although the combat effectiveness and cultural quality of the army do not have much to do with it, the generals are an exception, and the new army lacks experienced veterans and generals, so it can only increase its efforts from the theoretical aspect.
Soon, a so-called "military training course" was soon established in the new army of Sadrand, and the members of the training were mainly officers and generals of the new army, and the teachers of the training course were Yarook, Gould, and even Sophia. Joseph now has enough generals under his command, and these generals and staff members serve as teachers, and they can also teach these officers a lot of combat experience.
As for Sophia, although this girl is not very old, her brain is extremely smart, and she studied under Master Kant, the first wise man of the empire, whether it is military theory or various classic battles in history, this girl is quite clear, plus she has traveled in the northwest for two years, and she has seen and heard a lot. Although Sophia can't be allowed to lead the troops to fight, it is also a very good choice to let her train the officers of the new army.