Although the winter in the Hetao area is as cold as in Liaodong, the temperature is also extremely low. Hundreds of thousands of homeless people's camps have been built along the river, and the detachment is being used as a unit to carry out intense winter training.

The Far Eastern Company sent a large number of employees as grassroots cadres and political cadres of various displaced detachments. The Hetao base area also transferred a large number of backbone cadres from various units of the Northwest Field Army to serve as instructors for the displaced people.

The Hetao base area attaches great importance to this winter training, and the standard of training is also very high. Li Ming and all the staff in the base area took part in the work, and as a cultural teacher for the literacy eradication work for the displaced people, Ma Qing personally organized a large number of political work cadres to carry out rich and diverse political and ideological education for the displaced people participating in the winter training.

Li Ming set strict requirements for the winter training instructors of all units, and they must set strict requirements during the winter training period. It is also necessary to select a group of seedlings with outstanding training results from among the displaced people and prisoners of the border army in the winter training, and let them join the Northwest Field Army at the end of the winter training.

At present, the newly formed field group army of the Northwest Field Army is still only a shelf unit, and each unit only retains the backbone of cadres and noncommissioned officers, and there are basically no soldiers. The original plan was to gradually complete the formation in five years, but in fact, the main reason was that the Far Eastern Company was in a difficult time at that time.

Now that the Military Commission has launched the Indian Campaign, which has completely solved the crisis of lack of food and other materials, Gao Jianguo immediately sent a telegram to the Northwest Field Army, demanding that the formation of a field army be quickly started. The Central Military Commission will give strong support to the Northwest Field Army.

The Northwest Field Army belongs to the cavalry assault group, and even the infantry will have one war horse in hand, and two new field cavalry divisions will be formed, which will require a large number of soldiers who can skillfully master horseback riding. This year, a large-scale winter training was organized in the Hetao base area, which included a large number of prisoners of the border army and military households in Ningxia Town, and there were not a few of them who were good at riding.

Moreover, the northwest region has been a place of elite soldiers since ancient times. A large number of good seedlings can also be selected among the vast number of Shanxi and Shaanxi refugees. Therefore, this year's winter training in the Hetao area is extremely strict, and the amount of training is also very large. If you can't even survive winter training, then you don't want such soldiers.

Zhao Lianhe and a group of displaced people were standing in the queue in a standard military posture, wearing cotton hats, military coats, and a pair of warm cotton rubber shoes on their feet. Everyone was panting heavily. White mist is spewed.

Just finished several sets of physical training, exhausting them from torment. Although they were wearing thick cotton clothes, many of them were already soaked under their coats.

More than two months have passed since the intense winter training, and a group of prisoners and homeless people of the border army who participated in the winter training have been tossed to death by the instructors of the Far Eastern Army. In the morning, I was picked up before dawn, ran ten miles in the ice and snow, and then the morning and afternoon training was extremely intensive, and there was basically no time to rest.

The intensity of such training is much higher than in other parts of the Far East. Moreover, the training instructors are all from various units of the Northwest Field Army. Although their training is more formal, they are also more demanding than the average militia instructor.

Zhao Lianhe did two sets of push-ups, one set of duck steps, one group of frog jumps and two sets of switchback runs one after another, and these sets of physical energy were tossed down, and he was so tired that his legs were shaking. Although he has been mixed in the border army for many years, even he can't stand the amount of training in the past two months.

In the past, when the border army had the largest amount of training, it was only one exercise every five days, and in winter, it was basically a big sleep in the barracks. But it's windy and snowy here. You have to train for a day in the snow and wind.

But Zhao Lianhe and many border army prisoners still gritted their teeth and struggled. According to the instructor. After the end of this winter training, the Far Eastern Army began to recruit soldiers, but the recruitment of new recruits was based on the assessment results of the winter training. The results of the winter training assessment determine the qualifications for the admission of recruits, and this threshold is not low.

The reason why the prisoners of the border army wanted to be selected was because of the high salary of the Far Eastern Army, and they mainly entered the Far Eastern Army. The wives and children of the family will become military dependents, and the annual food tax will be a large part less than others. And there is usually medical insurance, and those who celebrate the New Year and holidays can get subsidies.

No matter where the military families of the Far Eastern Army are, no one dares to treat them slowly, and if anyone dares to bully the military families. will directly face the wrath of hundreds of thousands of Far Eastern troops. The garrison in the area where the military family is located will directly intervene and take charge of the bullied military family. Therefore, the social status of military dependents is extremely high, and the grassroots leading cadres in various localities are very concerned about the families of military dependents.

These border soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have never heard of such a thing. The status of the Ming army is extremely low, not to mention ordinary soldiers, even if the head of the army and the general meet a civilian official, they can't raise their heads. On weekdays, the salary is already low, and he is often deducted by greed, and the food is even more shabby, and it is not an exaggeration to say that pig food is not an exaggeration.

Looking at the military salary of the Far Eastern Army, not only do you not have to deduct it, if the salary is directly doubled during wartime or during the performance of major tasks, and there are such and such subsidies, you can survive to a certain level and become a senior non-commissioned officer or a low-level officer, your family will basically not have to work, and you can directly receive grain and rice every month, which is enough to maintain the family.

Not to mention the food, according to the instructors of the Far Eastern Army, three meals a day of white flour and white rice, and a few pieces of meat at noon. During the New Year's holidays or war, eat big fish and meat every day until you vomit.

After Zhao Lianhe and a group of northwest border troops heard this, Harazi flowed down. Paralyzed, eating meat until vomiting, this is too fucking gluttonous. During their winter training for more than two months, they had three meals a day of coarse flour cakes and corn stubble porridge, and they could also divide a few salted radish. With this food standard, Zhao Lianhe almost bit off his tongue when he ate it.

Therefore, a group of border army prisoners and military households in Ningxia Town are all gritting their teeth and persevering, and they will be selected by the Far East Army no matter what. As long as he becomes a member of the Far Eastern Army, his wife and children at home can also enjoy happiness.

But it's not easy to be selected, and those turtle homeless people are now training desperately every day as if they were beaten with chicken blood. These guys fled all the way, they all crawled out of the pile of dead people, and they survived by eating the flesh of the dead, and the displaced people who could survive in such a year were not simple people.

There are also those Han slaves who were caught by the Tartars and brought to the grassland, who can survive the harsh conditions of the grassland, and they are all ruthless. The Mongol Tatars were very cruel to the Han slaves, getting up early and working greedily at night, fearing that they would run away and not let the Han slaves be fed.

These Han slaves who used to be on the grassland didn't take the amount of training in winter training as a thing at all, and they were even more ruthless to themselves when they trained. As long as they are fed, these guys will not be tired from running from morning to night. (To be continued.) )

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