Chapter 55: Training
85_85536 As William started to think about this, three hundred and fifty-two peasants in more than a dozen villages and manors around Chersk Castle, who were obliged to serve in the military, were killed. Their traditions, habits, spirits, bodies, and poor willpower began to be squeezed by the demonic Instructor William.
From this winter, the winter of 1684 in the Gregorian calendar, December 22, for more than a month, these temporarily recruited peasants and soldiers spent a hellish time.
During this period, all those involved in the training suffered from various mental illnesses, some of which would not resolve for the rest of their lives. Even decades later, when these peasant soldiers are old and full of children and grandchildren, they are still attacked by nightmares hidden in the deepest part of their subconscious in their sleep. Then he got up sweating profusely. I can't sleep anymore.
Yes, more than a month is not too long in a human life. But this also has to be divided into types, if it is like the state of special training where William is, then for these peasant soldiers, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the phrase living like a year.
"Alright! Stand up straight! Everybody look ahead! Don't move, don't tremble!"
This was the first day of William's training, standing in a military position. One of the most basic skills of soldiers in this era.
"Raise your head, raise your chest, tuck your abdomen, lift your hips, put your hands together, your arms hang down naturally, your legs together, and your feet apart in a figure-of-eight!"
After pulling a random peasant soldier over to make a show, William began to train the other man with his characteristic ash stick. After saying a word, it is a stick that is neither light nor heavy, and then that part of the other party will achieve William's desired goal in pain. In less than five seconds, a peasant soldier who had never received any military training was trained by him to look like a suitable soldier.
"Remember the pain! Don't let up! Do you understand?!" shouted William to the peasant soldier who was about to cry.
"Lord Knight, I, I—" Hearing William ask, the peasant soldier immediately reflexively smiled uneasily. At the same time, he subconsciously held his hands, and then lowered his waist.
And after seeing this action, William naturally felt unhappy:
"Call me sir! Also, keep your military posture and don't move!"
So another stick was struck.
After several months of systematic training, as well as intense combat training with Charlotine, William's strength is now infinitely close to that of a regular knight. As for strength, the understanding of vindictive spirit has also reached a certain level. He went down with a stick, and the hit was just right. It can make the other party feel a pain in the heart. But it doesn't really hurt the other person.
After this stick, the peasant soldier immediately stood like a reflex in the same way that William had just crackled and beaten him.
"Well, that's good. William nodded, and then yelled at the others, "Do you see this man?
After not getting the answer you expected. William waved his stick again without hesitation and struck one of the peasant soldiers closest to him: "Answer yes, sir. And do as I say!"
The peasant soldiers who were beaten trembled with fright. But he was stunned and didn't do what William said.
"I say, do as I say!"
"Ah, that, yes, Lord Knight—"
"- Call me sir!"
...... That's it, although William's soldiers were not too open-minded. However, under the big stick education fueled by the seedlings, the training work was carried out very quickly. After a moment of confusion, the peasants began to stand as William had commanded.
The entire phalanx totaled three hundred people, and William skipped them one by one. When you see someone wrong, you can beat it with a stick without saying a word.
He has already achieved a small success in cultivating his fighting spirit for a while. So whether it's speed, reaction or observation, it's very smart. One person staring at three hundred people can also stare them without temper.
More than two hours passed in this way, during which many peasants and soldiers complained of being tired. Of course, William's answer was still to fight. So the peasants and soldiers tried to cheat and play tricks again. There's nothing else to say, just keep fighting. After that's done. The peasants did not dare to scream or move. But standing down for two hours, no one has ever experienced this. Consciously or unconsciously, there is still a deformation of movement. That's not to say, you still have to fight.
That's it, two hours down. Each peasant soldier had to be beaten at least two or three times. There are more than a dozen of them. It can be said that it is miserable.
"Alright. ”
It wasn't until William opened his pocket watch and saw that the time was up that he said this.
After William said this, the peasants and soldiers screamed and began to move their arms and legs, and some of them couldn't do it, and even sat on the ground and couldn't get up.
"The body is good. Seeing this scene, William nodded secretly - these peasant soldiers were all young and middle-aged laborers. Every year, I do farm work. That's all heavy body labor. Therefore, these people's physiques are much better than they seem...... Or maybe they're more able to bring out their physical strength, or rather, they're more able to endure.
Next, there is the afternoon, and in the afternoon, in addition to standing in military posture, it is the basic queue training. Walking in unison, as well as turning left, turning right, and so on.
Of course, this is much more difficult than standing in a military posture. But it's not hard to say. As long as the stick is in place, there are no truly stupid people. According to William, this is for them to "remember instinctively from the depths of their hearts." ”
In this way, the illiteracy that has plagued countless traversers is that they can't distinguish between left and right, and a little difficulty that is difficult to train is solved. After that, what kind of queue to walk in unison or something, all of them were solved. This made William can't help but sigh:
"Although people always say that they are cheating, cheating, screaming, remembering, eating, and not remembering. But it seems that these soldiers under my command still have a bit of a memory. ”
After that, the second day, the third day, the fourth day...... As time passed, in the screams of the soldiers, in the shouts and curses of William. The training of these 300 peasant soldiers in the queue is finally on the right track. It's barely reached the level of a college freshman when he just started military training.
"After giving the recruits an initial understanding of the importance of discipline, the next step is to make them understand that they should obey orders. Let them give up their ability to think. Let them be like machines, like cogs, and they will move forward because of an officer's command. Do anything, even on the battlefield full of artillery fire, braving the rain of bullets and stepping on the drum. ”
William thought to himself—he remembered the military knowledge he remembered—and it was just as easy to make these men stop thinking and become machines that only knew how to obey orders. Yes, it's simple. Train, train. Retraining.
Ask these guys to carve the concept of obedience to orders deep in their bones. Conditioned reflexes are formed. They need to hear their own voice and do what they are commanded without any hesitation - and the only way to do this is through intense training.
Also, it's a slightly more difficult training.
Soldiers have to do things they don't think they could have done – push them beyond their limits. Forcing them to do this impossible.
"So, train up, you pigs!" said William, asking the blacksmith in the town below the castle to make himself a white iron horn. It's pretty powerful to use—at least for the eardrums of the peasants.
In the midst of William's shouting and swearing. The peasants leveled their spears and stabbed to the front right, to the front right. Except for the right forward stab, there is nothing else.
"Look at the target—keep on target! Hit the red dot every time!" William continued to shout. By the way, he kicked the ass of a somewhat distracted peasant soldier.
His so-called red dot is naturally the bull's-eye. The position is in the heart of the person - and the "right stab" is the most basic tactical move of the pikeman. Take a step forward with your left foot and turn to the right, while your right foot is backwards in a lunge while you work together with both hands to stab the gun out.
This stabbing action is also very useful for shield-wielding enemies - of course, it requires accurate judgment on the part of the gunner - and when the sword and shield hand attack, their shield will tilt slightly due to the movement of the sword, revealing the vital heart. And that's the perfect time to stab -- of course, of course, of course, that's just the ideal state.
And then again, William couldn't have built 300 humanoid targets in such a short period of time. Therefore, he frantically drew these targets, these red hearts, on the back of the soldiers' hearts.
In this way, he only had to get targets for the peasants in the first platoon - of course, of course, these extra-long guns were all removed from the guns. In addition to this, William also put a cushion on the back of the soldiers' hearts.
That's it, in the morning the queue is trained, and at noon the gun is stabbed. In the afternoon, combine the two and train in a dense gun formation. Under William's training, the peasants did become more and more obedient. And the reaction is getting faster and faster. There are some who are adaptable and have formed a conditioned reflex to William's orders - although not very strong - for example, when William took out his knife and slashed at the other party, while ordering the other party to say "Don't hide!", the peasants and soldiers still did not look good......
"I won't really cut you! Stand up straight!!And even if I did, I wouldn't hack you to death!! I told you to stand up straight!!"
However, presumably, it will not be long before these "pacesetters" will be able to achieve William's expected goal.......