Guan Ning sighed again, with a sad look on his face and said:
"Eunuch Yuan, you are His Majesty's servant, so I won't hide it from you.
The sudden invasion of Tatars last year really caught us off guard.
Except for those of us from the old guard camp who came from the capital with the prince, most of them are new recruits recruited locally, although there are daily trainings.
But those who have never been on the battlefield and have never seen blood are still new recruits!
When they saw the Tatar army for the first time, I don’t know how many people were so panicked that they couldn’t even hold their weapons firmly. If it weren’t for veterans like us, we wouldn’t have been able to defeat the Tatars in the first battle. The Tatars killed them all.
Later, after fighting again and again, the new recruits saw the blood and transformed into veterans, and then elites. However, the cost of this process was that countless new soldiers died in the battle.
After the last battle, there were less than 500 people in our entire escort battalion still intact. All of them were elites, but more of them were wounded. The seriously injured were all dead, but the slightly injured and disabled were not counted. Its number.
Nowadays, our bodyguards are seriously short of manpower, so we have sent out the elites who have evolved from the bloody battle with the Tatars to guard the camp. This is to prevent those with evil intentions from seeing our true and false intentions, and we deliberately deter people from doing so, but it is also helpless without manpower!
As for things like guarding the city gate, we can only let some soldiers who are disabled but no longer seriously injured do it.
In this way, we can also find a way out for them. After all, they no longer have the ability to continue on the battlefield. "
After listening to Guan Ning's words, everyone fell silent. They knew that it would cost a lot to force the guard battalion, which was mostly composed of recruits, to repel the Tatars. However, they did not expect that it would be so heavy that they could only take The elite came out to guard the camp gate.
This is how scarce soldiers are already!
"Commander Guan, haven't your Yunzhou County already collected a large number of refugees from the Pass?
The shortage of soldiers in the army has not been filled yet? "
Guan Ning sighed again, which made Yuan Lijie panic. Why does this girl keep sighing?
Every time I sigh, there is no good news. What a bad luck!
"Eunuch Yuan, the training of a new soldier is not that simple. If you want to train a good soldier, then when you select the source of soldiers, you must choose the right young men, so that you can train a good soldier.
Secondly, every recruit consumes the most when entering the camp for recruit training. At this time, their physical fitness cannot keep up at all. In addition, this batch is selected from refugees, and their physical foundation is already poor. They are still malnourished, and it will take a while just to replenish their bodies. How can they be put to use so quickly?
Now they have just started training, and there is no way they can bear the pressure and situation the escort is facing now and the defense of Yunzhou City. "
With that said, Guan Ning walked out of the tent and motioned to Yuan Lijie and others to follow. Everyone hurriedly followed and left the tent one after another. Only Gu Tingyun carefully looked at the wounded soldiers in the camp before leaving the tent. They were all real wounded soldiers, and there was no disguise. Then they quickly followed the team and walked outside the tent.
Walking outside, the smell of the potion that had been lingering on the tip of my nose was much smaller. Even the wailing in the camp was not as clear as before, and the atmosphere was not as oppressive as in the camp.
Everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The atmosphere in the military tent just now really made them breathless.
"Commander Guan, where are we going?"
Yuan Lijie asked in confusion while following Guan Ning.
Guan Ning pointed forward and said, "Aren't you curious about the new recruits?
Not far ahead is the place where the new recruits train daily. They should be standing in military posture at this point. We can go and take a look. "
After saying that, Guan Ning strode forward, and Yuan Lijie and his party quickly followed.
After a while, everyone saw hundreds of thin recruits standing in a square not far ahead.
That's right, he was standing, but he was standing crookedly. From time to time, there would be veterans who were full of toughness, holding whips in their hands, and whipping the recruits who had wrong postures one by one.
Even so, there are only a few recruits who can do it right.
When Yuan Lijie saw this scene, he asked Guan Ning:
"Commander Guan, why is this? Why do you want the recruits to stand here stupidly one by one, and why are there any posture requirements? If they don't meet the standards, they will be beaten?
What is the use of this military posture? "
Faced with Yuan Lijie's doubts, Guan Ning explained: "At first, I didn't understand why the prince had to let these new recruits stand in military posture for a few days. I think it's better to teach them more about stabbing instead of being stupid. Stupidly just standing there.
But later on the battlefield, the general realized how important this military posture is! "
Guan Ning's eyes fell into memories.
Before, we didn’t quite understand the military posture. Later, when the Tatars’ large-scale cavalry rushed in and acted like uniformed soldiers under the orders of commanders at all levels, we finally understood how powerful that military posture was. important.
According to the prince, this is not only the basis for some military training, but also can greatly improve the willpower of the soldiers and temper their resilience, so that no matter what the situation, as long as the officer gives the order, they can not hesitate Follow orders and make corresponding actions to fight the enemy.
Over time, such a soldier will gradually form some kind of muscle memory. As long as he is given an order, his body will subconsciously obey the order before he can react.
Even if he panics again on the battlefield, under the subconscious control of his body, he will respond accurately to the officer's orders, which can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the army and reduce the difficulty of command.
Our guards, who are not as good as the Tatars in terms of hard power, rely on the willpower developed in standing in the military posture. Even if the recruits are extremely afraid, when the military order comes, they will still respond without hesitation. Only then can they finally Drive the Tatars back.
"hiss!"
Even though Yuan Lijie is not a soldier and has never been a soldier, he is shocked just by listening to it. How can a mere military training gesture have such a big effect?
But Gu Tingyun behind him had a real military background, and was a military attache who was transferred from the Forbidden Army to the Imperial City Division. He knew this must be true as soon as he heard it. Seeing those in front of him becoming more and more proficient and standard under the training of veterans. The new recruits.
Gu Tingyun knew that this was probably the reason why the escort was able to defend Yunzhou County. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain that the vassal escort, composed of only two thousand elite border troops and a large number of recruits, was able to defend the entire Yunzhou under the attack of the Tatars. The county can still drive the Tatars out!
Even if the damage is heavy, the gap in combat effectiveness between the armies is there. The escorts have no skills and they can't do it even if they die!
Thinking of this, Gu Tingyun's eyes were fixed on the movements of the veterans who were training new recruits in front of him, and he listened to their teachings.
He wanted to secretly learn this training method and try to train the subordinates of the Imperial City Division when he went back.
You must know that even though it is just a small military stance, it now involves military training methods.
Nowadays, the methods of military training are secrets that are passed down from generation to generation. It is an inheritance that is not passed down to outsiders in every general's family and cannot be learned by outsiders.
I didn’t expect that I would have the opportunity to learn it today, what a blessing!
I don’t know where King Yun got the method of training soldiers. He is really lucky.
Gu Tingyun did not believe that King Yun, who had almost no presence in Bianjing before, would create such a military training method. This must have been obtained accidentally by chance.
What luck!
Gu Tingyun was both envious and sighing!
(End of chapter)
