"I see, I said how can Bard have such a beautiful dress, this is the uniform of the New Army, right?"

At this time, an aunt said enviously, and everyone noticed Bud's dress again.

Obviously, as Bard said, that piece of woolen clothing is worth a lot of money, and the emperor's conscription has always been sent to a few silver mar, so it is naturally impossible for them to distribute this kind of thing to the ordinary soldiers under their command.

"Wouldn't there be any danger in joining this new army?"

Hearing this explanation, Bard's mother finally felt a little relieved, but then asked her son worriedly.

"How can the army not be dangerous? But don't worry, Mom, even if I die, Boss Charlin will give you and Sarah a pension of 3 gold lundes."

Bard comforted his mother and said that such a thing as a pension is definitely groundbreaking in this world, and three gold lunds are not a small amount of money in any case.

It is also because of this that Bard, who has concerns, decisively chose to join the new army.

"This ...... Three Kingents?! Bard, are you telling the truth?"

Aunt Merry asked dumbfounded.

"Of course, this is written in our contract, and can we still believe Boss Xia Lin?"

"Bard, is there a shortage of people in the New Army? How can I join this new army? My son is about the same age as you, and now he can only work as a contractor at the dock, earning more than 20 copper pesas a day, so it is better to send him to the new army to be a soldier for Boss Xia Lin!"

An aunt suddenly asked excitedly.

"There should be a shortage of people, I heard that the new army seems to have more than 1,000 people, but to join the new army has to go through a test.

Specifically, it was a lap back and forth on a strange field, which seemed simple, but it required a fairly strong person to complete the test, and even I almost lost my legs at the end of the run.

However, we all wrote the application form according to the factory director and the workshop manager and then tested it, for example, I don't know what to do with Lale.

Maybe go to the recruitment office that Boss Xia Lin set up outside the industrial park this morning to sign up!"

Badra replied by tugging at the rucksack strap on his shoulder, the news that instantly made the hearts of the women around him float.

Although there are not many young people in the slums who can eat poor quality food and grow strong muscles like Bud, what Bard said is not necessarily accurate, and it only takes a little time to try, maybe one of his promising sons can pass the test?

Thinking of this, the women hurried to their homes one by one.

As the employees and employees of the industrial park who passed the test returned to their homes and repeated themselves in the slums, the news that the new army of the Xia Lin boss had begun to recruit soldiers spread rapidly.

The high salary of twenty silver mar a month, and the huge pension of three gold lundes, all gave these women the idea of sending their sons to the new army, and this is exactly what Xia Lin wanted to achieve.

On the first day, scattered figures began to appear near the recruiting office, and the next day, after the first person summoned up the courage to come up and ask if he could join the new army, and received a positive answer, the new army recruitment office suddenly ushered in a warm scene.

When the first to pass the test signed a contract of enlistment, received the well-made, well-styled uniforms and the first month's salary, the whole ghetto was alarmed by the new army conscription.

Countless people have rushed to the industrial park from nearly 100 blocks of the slums, and the streets of the fishtooth block are filled with people just for a chance to take the test.

When it was heard that the recruitment of the new army was only for young people over the age of 15 and under the age of 35, there were even many cases of people lying about their age.

However, as long as they can pass the rigorous 400-meter obstacle running test, Xia Lin doesn't care about it, anyway, as long as the recruits' physical fitness and intelligence level pass, older and younger ones will have no effect on the recruits.

Due to the number of people who signed up

After three days of recruitment, with the addition of workers from the industrial park, the new army successfully completed the recruitment of 2,000 people.

These people are all selected from the young and middle-aged population in the slums with relatively good physical fitness and outstanding intelligence, and they can already be regarded as a good source of soldiers.

At the simple lecture conference, Xia Lin once again explained the purpose of their army, which was to protect the satellite blue industrial park, defend the business alliance, and at the same time defend their own vital interests.

Immediately after the allocation of rooms in the wooden dormitory of six people, the training program for the new army soldiers was soon launched.

In Xia Lin's "New Army Infantry Drill Code", the training items that the new army needs to carry out are divided into four major parts, namely queue military posture training, physical training, military skills training and cultural knowledge learning.

Bard was assigned to the first squad of the first platoon of the third company of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the New Army, referred to as the 1311 squad of the New Army, in this squad there were a total of 14 people, six of whom were assigned to a dormitory, and the provisional squad leader and deputy squad leader were assigned to a two-person dormitory.

They had just become acquainted with their future companions, and the next day, at the hurried whistle, they were kicked awake one by one to assemble. In the cold winter wind, the warm quilt is so unbearable that almost everyone is late.

looked at the ugly old Xia Lin on the high platform of the meeting place...... No, now it's Deputy Head Xia Lin, and Bard has a bad premonition in his heart.

"Except for the 121st Platoon of the 1st Battalion and the 133rd Platoon of the 3rd Battalion...... Except for the one who can go and wash up and have breakfast, everyone else will listen to me! You are now soldiers of the Forces nouvelles, and you must strictly abide by the discipline rules of the Forces nouvelles! This is the first violation, and I will not deduct your salary.

Now all of them, follow your chief around the playground three times to warm up, and then go to dinner! The last infantry squad to finish running out had nothing to eat in the morning!"

"Boss Xialin...... This ......."

The audience was suddenly full of complaints.

"Who is still shouting the title of 'Boss Xialin'? As I said, in the barracks, there are no bosses and employees! Only commanders and soldiers!

I've changed my mind, instructor! Drag out all the people who complained just now, deduct 50 copper pess salaries per person first, and then let them run ten laps, don't think about going back today if they can't finish the run!

I want warriors and soldiers who can strictly carry out orders, not soft eggs who cry like a girl!"

Hearing the complaints below, Xia Lin suddenly looked solemn and reprimanded loudly.

This time, the group of recruits finally realized that their life in the barracks would not seem to be as easy as they imagined. With a high salary of twenty silver mar and all kinds of preferential treatment, you have to shed enough sweat and blood for this salary.

More than 30 recruits who were not very lucky were left by the instructors to train alone, and the rest of the recruits, who had received simple training in advance and were now acting as instructors, nearly 2,000 people lined up slowly.

"All of them, let's go!"

With the command, they began to take steps and run on their respective training grounds.

There is abundant land near the R&D center, and in order to conduct recruit training, Xia Lin has six large playgrounds leveled, each of which has 10,000 square meters, enough to accommodate an infantry company of 400 people for training.

After the daily morning run, except for a few unlucky ones, it was breakfast time for the recruits.

In order to ensure the quality of the training, Xia Lin provided them with meat and vegetarian food according to the standard of three meals a day, 15 copper besses per meal, which quickly dissipated the complaints of these recruits.

Then there is the queue and military posture training under the cold wind of winter. The instructors suddenly began to be strict, although they did not carry out corporal punishment, but the action was not standard and it was a kick.

Under the threat of not being able to learn without lunch and dinner, all the recruits burst out with the strongest motivation and began to know how to recognize their own left and right, and learned to maintain a standard military posture.

But this kind of training made them a little confused in their hearts, after all, Xiang this

What is the use of turning left and right, walking in unison?

As night fell, the recruits, who had regained their energy after taking a pleasant hot bath for the first time in winter in a large bathhouse equipped with rudimentary boiler equipment, were told by their instructors to take a cultural knowledge test.

Many of the recruits can only fold their fingers to do arithmetic, and when they see those unfamiliar dipping pens and test papers, they seem novel and afraid, and only the recruits who have gone to the literacy class with regular employees of the industrial park can pick up the pen and answer some simple questions.

The files of these people are naturally marked as the seeds of squad and platoon-level officers who still have many vacancies for the time being.

At this stage, there will be some gaps in these recruits, and the literate recruits will be arranged to go to the officer class in the evening to learn various knowledge.

Soldiers who had no cultural foundation could only spend their evenings learning words and arithmetic under the guidance of literacy teachers using the "New Army Infantry Drill Codex" as a teaching material.

However, since most of the soldiers with a cultural foundation were selected by Xia Lin into the first artillery company, the gap between them would not be too obvious.