The sky is not yet dawn, and the early morning wind is cool and fresh, blowing on the face and making people feel refreshed.

Xu Ping got up, Xiuxiu waited for washing, put on her shirt, and walked out of the door.

Tan Hu, who was outside the door, saw Xu Ping coming out and hurriedly saluted: "It's so early for the official." ”

"Morning." Xu Ping replied, walked into the courtyard, looked up at the sky, and looked at the white belly of the fish that had just been exposed in the east for a while.

"It looks like it's going to be a good day."

After saying this, Xu Ping took a slow walk in the yard and exercised his muscles. The way the ancients exercised was more subtle, not as unrestrained as Xu Ping in his previous life, running and riding, how to toss and how to come. In this era, people with a bit of wealth and status are wearing coats and robes, who do you practice a muscular pimple to see? Not to mention poor families, who work every day, eat roughly, and are full of fine meat, it is not easy to grow fat. The generals who go to the battlefield to fight don't need a body of tendon meat, and no matter how fierce the brave generals are, they also have a small belly, and the term general belly is not unique to later generations. In fact, because the generals fought on horseback, it was normal to have a small belly.

While walking slowly, Xu Ping lifted his breath and tightened his body muscles, tightened his muscles, and moved his whole body.

After walking a few laps, his forehead was slightly sweating, and Xu Ping stopped.

By this time the sky was already dark, and everything around was outlined.

Tan Hu saw Xu Ping stop, stepped forward and said, "Official, today is indeed a good weather, there is only a breeze, there are no clouds in the sky, you see there is still mist here." But now it's hot and the weather is better. The sun is even more difficult to endure, and it is not as comfortable as a little rain. ”

"You have a point, besides, the rice is growing in the field now. There is also no shortage of water. Speaking of this, Xu Ping paused for a while, and then told Tan Hu, "It's not easy to have a sunny day in the rainy season, you order to go down and teach the township soldiers in the school military field today." When the time comes, if the time is not over, the military law will act! ”

Tan Hu was stunned when he heard this. Officials are going to toss people, it's not easy to have a sunny day, and it's terrible to have a sunny day in Yongzhou this season. It doesn't take long for you to get a layer of skin off when you stand in the sun.

But when Xu Ping said it, he had to do it, and in response, Tan Hu turned around and went.

Zhang Rong and Gao Daquan brought the two commanding township soldiers, and formally speaking, they should be teaching the township soldiers. Farming when you're busy. When I am free, I teach and read once in spring and autumn. However, that was a rule handed down from ancient times in this era, and Xu Ping didn't pay attention to it at all.

Here in Xu Ping, the two commanding township soldiers with the number are basically equivalent to the regular army, and the establishment has been maintained, even if they are also engaged in the work of sugar cane, they also participate in the form of a collective, which is equivalent to the engineering soldiers in his previous life. It is the township soldiers who are made up of other strong men in the sugar service that are to be taught regularly, and those township soldiers are to be taught once in three months. Xu Ping also teaches here every quarter. Anyway, every time a strong man participates in the township soldiers, he always has to take a turn to teach and read. Sucrose is collective labor. The organizational form can also withstand Xu Ping's toss.

As for the teaching and reading of the banners, the two commanders with the number are on standing, and the others are placed in the cane sugar storehouse itself, which can meet the needs of the army of 5,000 people. Of course, this is only a backup, and the actual number of cane sugar soldiers on duty is only 3,000. No matter how many people there are, they will not be in the church, but will have to go out and find a place.

Nowadays, the sugar cane business has more and more functions of the local yamen, in addition to various functional departments, it has also built a military treasury, a minister treasury, a war warehouse, and even a Changping warehouse. Each of these warehouses means that the functions of the sugar cane business are one point more complete, and the functions it undertakes are also one point.

Last year, even the sugar cane company built its own yard to produce the necessary weapons. The Zuoyuan is the arsenal of the Great Song Dynasty, which is available in the slightly important state capital army, and the swords, guns, bows and crossbows are all produced here. In the capital, there is the largest metropolitan temple, which produces thousands of armor and horse swords every year.

As soon as Xu Ping's institute was built, it was much stronger than that in Yongzhou, even better than the capital courtyard in Beijing, but the scale and variety were not so complete, and the technology was far more than that. Xu Ping's profession in his previous life was to do this, he used to play sickles and hoes, and now he is fighting with swords, guns and halberds.

Sometimes Xu Ping also felt that it was a bit too much for him to make such a big battle, and he was worried about making people in the court gossip. However, according to Han Zong, in fact, the states and counties located on the border, especially in Hebei, are like this in many places. Yongzhou is adjacent to Dali and Jiaozhi, and there is Guangyuan Prefecture in the territory to make trouble, so it is nothing to put up this kind of battle, and it is normal.

Han Zongzhong entered the rank before with Enyin, and worked as a petty official in Hebei as a candidate, so what he said must be reasonable. Xu Ping put his mind at ease and let go of the organization of the cane sugar business to prepare for the war.

As for the teaching and reading that Tan Hu informed today, it was not that Xu Ping had the intention to toss people, he had always regarded the teaching and reading as a drill. The lineup on the training field is of course important, but the organization and recruitment of the matter and the disbandment and aftermath of the incident should also not be sloppy. The purpose of organizing the township soldiers is to recruit them to come, to fight when they come, and to disperse after the fight, if it is just to put on a show, then why bother.

On the sixth day of the fifth month, it is a rare good weather in this season. From the morning when the sun rose red, there was not a single cloud in the sky, and there was a white flower sun hanging in the blue sky, which made the earth extremely hot.

The contingent of township soldiers organized from the various settlements of the cane sugar department rushed along the main road to the school military field of the sugar company in Taiping County. Their organization had already made arrangements for the distribution of settlements, and after receiving orders, the people who lived where they were going to assemble were to form a team of ten men and rush together to the next assembly point, then to form a capital of 100 people, and finally to a fixed assembly point to form a command of 500 people. After forming a command, stand by on the spot, act according to the orders received, rush to the school military ground with the commander as a unit, and directly participate in the battle if there is a battle.

The team of 3,000 men could be organized in half a day and set off along the main road of the cane sugar business to the place where they needed to arrive. To meet this condition, a highly organized and well-developed road is indispensable.

Pedestrians on the road have long been accustomed to seeing this kind of scene, and when they see the procession coming, they will stand on the side of the road and watch the excitement for a while, and they will do whatever they want. I think that when Xu Ping organized the first time the township soldiers were taught, not only the people who came were disorderly, but also frightened the people in the whole place, thinking that something big had happened, and it took several days to settle down.

Now it has long been different, and this has become the normal part of life in the sugar industry.

The newcomer Li Ji looked at it and felt novel, he didn't have classes during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, and followed him to the school military ground, but was stopped by the sergeant guarding the door before he stopped stupidly.

As soon as the time came, a horn sounded, and the chaotic school ground suddenly fell silent.

The commanders and envoys came to Xu Ping to report the situation of the personnel, and there should be more than 3,000 people, but there is a shortage of more than 50 people. This is inevitable, and no matter how well-organized an army is, it is impossible to guarantee that there will be no shortage of personnel.

Xu Ping asked Han Zong, who was behind him, to record the situation of each commander, and after the teaching was completed, they would hand over the list of missing personnel and punish them according to the situation. If you don't arrive, you won't necessarily be punished, there are always unexpected things happening in life, and a one-size-fits-all cut is neither in line with human feelings nor conducive to the military's morale, for example, people's fathers are suddenly gone, and it is impossible to come to join the army at this time. Anyway, the ordinance is clearly written, as long as it complies with the rules, even if there are other things that are really unacceptable and there are no accidents, you can discuss it afterwards.

After reporting to the personnel, the commanders and envoys returned to the team, and then sounded the horn, and the teaching and reading officially began.

Originally, at this time, the commander should have said a few words to boost the morale of the army, Xu Ping was free of everything, no matter how nice he was, it would only make the sergeant disgusted. He didn't have the energy or the talent, and every time he came up with an ingenious statement, he simply didn't say it.

If you don't say it in peacetime, it will only work in wartime, and only then will someone really take it seriously.

Teaching and reading is first a formation drill, Xu Ping commanded in his mouth, and ordered his own soldiers to relay it to the flag soldiers, and the flag soldiers used the flag to order the formation changes of each team, forward and backward.

The battlefield orders the pro-soldiers and flag soldiers are the key roles, and the flags and tokens that indicate their identities are indispensable, and Xu Ping is the same here, they were all arranged by him personally before the teaching.

In this era, there were no telephones or radios, and although the distribution of the battlefield was far less than that of later generations when guns and cannons were used, they often stretched for miles, and no one could hear the shouting. Not to mention how far a person's voice can travel, just the sound of thousands of people panting can drown out a person's voice.

The command of the battlefield depends entirely on the banner system, which is also the reason why the imperial court included these things that cannot kill people in the military ban, and strictly prohibited them like mass killing weapons. Without this system, it is a rabble, and it is not difficult for the regular army to be ten at a time. The vast steppes may be less important, and the horseback peoples will run around and pull the battlefield bigger and bigger until it is out of the control of the chain of command. But here, the battle is the soul of the army, the direct expression of the commander's will, and the key means of organizing the stragglers into the army.

Since ancient times, the Chinese army has inherited this system, and by the time of Xu Ping, it was basically complete. But complete is complete, but not fine, often affecting the transmission of the manager's orders.

The five-color flag plus the green dragon and white tiger Xuanwu Vermilion Bird indicates the direction, the handsome flag and the roll of the general flag, standing upright or leaning forward means standing by or attacking, and the Yanqi is silent and retreating.

This is a way of fighting that he has long been accustomed to in this era, and Xu Ping does not dare to change it easily, otherwise it will cause chaos and cause great trouble. However, he was not satisfied with this rough command method, and after thinking about it, he added flag language to this system to supplement the monotonous shortcomings of the command method.

Xu Ping didn't understand the military flag language of his previous life, in fact, it was useless to understand it, the shape of the war was completely different, and the flag language needed to be used was completely different. Xu Ping's method is to slowly explore, and then combine everyone's wisdom to synthesize a set of flags applicable on the battlefield in this era.

However, up to now, this flag system is still imperfect and is still being supplemented and modified.

The sun in the sky slowly began to move overhead, and the sun shone on his body, burning and painful. Xu Ping himself did not wear a parasol, and stood under the handsome flag in a military uniform.

The horn sounded on the school barracks, and the steps of teaching the parade were completed.

Only a moment later, the soldier gasped for breath in place, and a thunderous drum sounded, and the curtain began on the big drama that followed. (To be continued.) )