Chapter 29: A Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire
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Li Zixiao, who stayed in the cottage, must not be idle, after having a practical combat experience, Li Zixiao has become much more familiar with training, and has corrected some rules that are unnecessary in actual combat.
Anyway, now that he has enough food in his hands, everyone in the cottage can be fed, and they don't need to do anything every day, just keep training to make them form stronger combat effectiveness.
These people are the first batch of Li Zixiao's subordinates, and they are the core team of Li Zixiao's team in the future.
In the future, there may be a lot of newcomers in the cottage, but they will be the backbone of the cottage at that time, train them well, and then they will set an example for the new ones.
Three meals a day are full, so that these men's physique can be improved, and their bodies will become stronger, so that physical training can be guaranteed.
According to the training outline formulated by Li Zixiao himself, in addition to the five-kilometer cross-country twice a day in the morning and evening, the rest is the drill of the queue.
The only thing Li Zixiao emphasized to them was discipline, and they must obey his orders and military discipline under all circumstances.
Anyone who dares to disobey orders and violate military discipline will not be merciless to his subordinates, as long as he is wrong, he will have a stick in his hand at the least, and a special person will play the board at the worst.
It is also these people who stay in the cottage, they are beaten every day to cry and cry their mothers, and they are envious of the dozen brothers who were brought to the county by Zhou Dazhu in their hearts.
Under the deterrence of Li Zixiao's stick, the effect of the training was very significant, and the natural memory of these guys was good if they were beaten too much, and soon the gang lined up faster and neater, and completely forbade the order.
Physical fitness, after the formation training, the most important thing is the spearman stabbing technique, Li Zixiao taught them the stabbing action is very simple, it is the same as the bayonet stabbing of later soldiers, straight to the point.
Li Zixiao never expected that this group of people could become a dozen or ten soldiers, what he wanted to cultivate was teamwork, and only by using the strength of the group could they make up for their lack of individual ability.
In order for this group of scattered peasants to unite and cooperate in the battle, they relied on strict discipline, so in the training, Li Zixiao instilled in them the awareness of obeying orders and abiding by military discipline.
The vast majority of these people used to be mostly peasants, and although they had no problem in enduring hardships and standing hard work, they were much worse in terms of discipline.
A group of people who have no discipline and no sense of obedience to orders are gathered in a group, and at most they are a rabble.
In battle, as long as a few people retreat from the battle, then it will affect everyone, and as a result, one person escapes, and all the men and horses are scattered together, which is a very terrible thing in wartime.
Since ancient times, there has been no shortage of military masters in China, but how to run the army is mastered by a small number of people in various generals' families, and few outsiders can learn the tricks.
Especially in the era of the late Ming Dynasty, the stars withered, and there were very few generals who really knew how to control and control the troops.
At the same time, the military system at the end of the Ming Dynasty became increasingly decaying, and the guard system gradually collapsed.
With the knowledge known by later generations, Li Zixiao was also involved in the decline of military power in the late Ming Dynasty.
Knowing that the court in the late Ming Dynasty had rotted from the root from top to bottom, it was good to be greedy for ink, and it had become a practice to deduct food and salary from top to bottom.
When the household department allocates wages and salaries to the subordinates, the household officials first take two or three percent into their own pockets, and then distribute the effective ones to the local officials, who then draw two or three percent, and the rest can be distributed to the generals, and the generals will receive less than fifty percent of the salaries.
Those generals want to support their families, where does the money and food come from, of course, they are deducted from the money and grain allocated by the imperial court, and then two or three percent are deducted, and they are put in their own pockets, and finally when they are really distributed to the hands of the soldiers, ten percent of them go to ninety percent.
Those poor big-headed soldiers, charging in the most dangerous places, but they can't even get one-third of the money and food every month, even so, such a meager little salary, will not be paid on time, often for months and half a year without food, in the late Ming Dynasty army is too common.
The soldiers can't eat enough and don't have enough clothing, they can't feed their wives and children, and they can't even get a meager pension after death.
It was precisely because Li Zixiao was desperate for the decay of the imperial court in the late Ming Dynasty that he dismissed his plan to surrender to the official from the beginning.
In Li Zixiao's view, the decaying century-old tree of the Ming Dynasty has rotted to the roots, and Chongzhen is also a good emperor, but he almost died of exhaustion in the end, it's not the same that he didn't save the Ming Dynasty!
Li Zixiao admired a certain founding ancestor in later generations very much, and instead of tinkering with this broken building in the Ming Dynasty, it was better to push him and build a new one next to him.
Although Li Zixiao is not a soldier, the various information accepted by later generations is much more profound than that of people in this era, plus he is a military fan, and when he grows up, he likes to wander around various military websites, so he still has some understanding of military aspects.
In his opinion, as the commander of the army, he must first let his subordinates form a habit of obeying the command in all actions, and only an army that truly implements orders and prohibitions can it be possible to become a strong army, otherwise, everything is not to be discussed.
And it just so happens that his subordinates are a bunch of guys who don't know what war is, and for Li Zixiao, this is easier to do.
These people are a blank slate for him, he can 'write' as he pleases, and these people obey him without any interference.
Li Zixiao's training is more like a kind of brainwashing, yes, it is brainwashing, instilling the idea of obeying orders and abiding by military discipline into the brains of this group of subordinates.
"Thorn!"
"Kill!"
With the issuance of Li Zixiao's password, the pikemen lined up in a row with spears in their hands, collectively roared angrily, and shot at the same time, the movements were uniform, the guns were very fast, and with full strength, there was no fancy at all, and they strived to be fast, steady, accurate, and ruthless.
Every day of this kind of thrust action, each of them has to do at least a thousand times, thousands of thrusts a day, and these people can quickly do a very good thrust action.
Although this kind of training is very hard and monotonous, but here you can eat enough every day, and this kind of training is really nothing to this group of poor peasants who once lived at the bottom of this era.
In order to improve the effect of assassination training, Li Zixiao also asked these guys to cut a lot of grass up and down the mountain, and tied more than a dozen straw men closely together, let them hold spears side by side, and kept practicing collective assassination actions towards the grass men.
"Listen, these people in front of you now are not straw men, but your enemies, they are the officers and soldiers who plague your families, and they are the landlords and old fortunes who oppress you.
Think of your relatives who were starved to death and froze to death, all of them stabbed me hard, and my movements were not allowed to be deformed, so that you could use your strength to feed! Give me a hard stab, practice your skills, Lao Tzu will take you to copy the homes of those landlords and old wealth.
Kill! Kill! Kill"
On the playground, Li Zixiao's hysterical roar kept ringing, which aroused the hatred in the hearts of these people, and a group of pikemen screamed and repeatedly stabbed at these straw men, as if these grass men were really their enemies.
"Stupid, how did I tell you. The spear that was stabbed out should be quickly retracted, otherwise the enemy will seize the gap and fight back. Collect the gun, and the speed of the gun must be fast, so as not to leave the opponent a chance to counterattack. Hurry, hurry, hurry. ”
Li Zixiao also had to constantly correct the movements of his subordinates, and when he saw that anyone was not doing well, he would use a bamboo pole to slap twice, and the person who was whipped bared his teeth twice.
"You two, let's just say what about the two of you, why can't you remember, when you advance the spur, the pace must be unified, don't practice the spur well, and you can't march in formation, how many times have you said it, it's wrong.
Wei Hong, push these two guys out, beat the five military sticks, let them have a long memory, and the others are also warned. ”
Li Zixiao roared hysterically at the two men in the pikemen.
So, the two people who were scolded by Li Zixiao immediately cried and mourned, and the two of them honestly lay on the ground, Wei Hong didn't say a word, he took the bamboo pole military stick made by Li Zixiao, and went up to hit the five military sticks on the buttocks of the two people, and the two of them grinned.
"Get up and join the ranks, the five military sticks can't kill you, it's just a warning to you, and the next time you commit another offense, the punishment will be doubled!"
Li Zixiao shouted scolding, and the two who were beaten immediately grabbed their guns and lined up, not even daring to rub their buttocks.
"The more sweat and beatings you get on the playground, the less blood you will bleed and the less you will be stabbed on the battlefield. If you want to continue to live a life where you are well fed, not starving, not freezing, and having the opportunity to marry a wife and have children in the future, now you will train me hard, and if you have done your training, I will take you down the mountain to fight the landlord. ”
"Long live the big boss!"
After listening to Li Zixiao's remarks, more than two dozen guys also very much wanted to keep their happy days now, so they immediately straightened their chests and inhaled together, pulling their necks and shouting loudly.
"Good. Then the training, the first row retreats, and the second row walks forward in unison. Stand, the gun is flat, stab! ”
"Kill" all day long, and the playground of the cottage has always resounded with deafening shouts of killing.
The rewards and punishments are clear, which is Li Zixiao's means to maintain discipline, especially after everyone saw that the last time they went down the mountain, Zhang Ergouzi and Quartz won the rich rewards of 20 taels and 30 taels respectively for their meritorious service, they were even more energetic.
One by one, they all hope to train well, and when they go to battle next time, they will also strive to make a meritorious achievement, and they will also be rewarded at that time.
You must know that thirty taels of silver, some people have never seen so much silver in their lives.
In the past, when they farmed for the landlords, the family could not save a few copper plates in a year, and it was a problem to eat.
And now, they see that as long as they make meritorious achievements in battle, the big bosses will give rewards, which is really a great temptation for these peasants, who do not see a few dollars all year round.
Time passed slowly in the boring training of the cottage, and Li Zixiao developed his group of subordinates more and more like an elite team.
A spark can start a prairie fire, but the world still doesn't know that in the reckless mountains in the east, there is such a Mars that is evolving and growing, and one day it will become a prairie fire.