Kong Er finished his lunch in a few minutes and licked the lunch box clean.
Kong Er fully agreed with His Majesty's generous efforts to raise these soldiers. Once they are strong and disciplined, they will become elite soldiers.
After putting away the tableware, Kong Er took out a military book, which Zhu Zaiming combined with the militia training manual and modified the language and slogans. It is called "The Training Minutes of the Royal Standing Division of the Ming Dynasty", and the name is very long.
Kong Er used to call it "Xiao Huang Shu" directly.
With just one glance, Kong Er felt that His Majesty had referred to the military manual compiled by the British, but the content was more detailed and organized.
Perhaps we should remove the dross, take the essence, and adapt measures to local conditions.
Thinking this, Kong Er took a deep breath and blew the whistle on his chest.
"Everyone assemble!"
Boom, the soldiers who heard the whistle jumped up as if on conditioned reflex, and formed a small square formation in company units in front of Kong Er.
In the front of the square, Zhu Xianxue raised his head and chest, put his hands together and pressed against the seams of his trousers, and looked forward.
Kong Er recognized him as the uncle of Emperor Zhu Zaiming of the Ming Dynasty, His Highness Prince Zhu Xianxue of Snow.
Not long after he was given the title of prince, Zhu Zaiming was thrust into the army, saying that it would bring good luck.
Kong Er didn't know the story of Prince Snow, otherwise Gao Di would have cried in front of Zhu Zaiming.
"Look left and right! Take a break! Stand at attention! Count!"
"1, 2, 3..."
"Take a break and stand at attention! In the afternoon we will practice the stop-and-turn method."
The so-called stop-and-turn method refers to "turn left, turn right."
Anyone who knows a little bit about it will know that this is the most confusing project in recruit training.
In feudal society, knowledge was monopolized by wealthy families, and the illiteracy rate among ordinary people was very high.
Even in their daily lives, they know how much change they get when buying and selling things, and which direction is left or right.
However, when they actually arrived at the training ground, everyone was confused.
The key point is that they have not been exposed to systematic cultural education, and it is difficult to train smoothly just relying on examples and experiences in life.
One solution is to conduct night classes to systematically teach some commonly used words so that they can have a concept of various things.
But before you learn the culture well, you can only practice it over and over again.
As for following the Beiyang Army, asking the soldiers to take off one shoe, and then changing the command from left to right to "turn with shoes" and "turn with bare feet" is somewhat suspicious of taking off their pants and farting.
What confused the soldiers was the cognitive problem of unfamiliar orders, not the problem of indiscriminate left and right in the real sense.
For cognition, one can only keep repeating, deepening the impression, and forcibly regaining the soldiers' basic logical abilities.
"To the left!"
Kong Eryi gave the order.
Most of the soldiers made the correct movements, and some soldiers turned in the opposite direction and looked at each other with their comrades.
Some people simply froze in place, not knowing what to do.
Kong Er had no choice but to ask the officers of each company to correct them one by one.
The whole afternoon was spent in chaos, and the training effect was not very satisfactory.
It's dinner time again.
Kong Er raised his hand and looked at the fluorescent mechanical watch on his hand. It was exactly 6 o'clock.
"Stand at attention, take a break, stand at attention!"
"Count!"
"Get dressed."
As soon as the order was given, and after arranging the team and counting the number of people, Kong Er made a beautiful turn, then trotted up to Zhu Zaiming, stretched out his right hand in salute.
"Your Majesty, today's training is over, and no one in the entire regiment of 1,500 is absent. Please let me know if you want to eat!"
"Eat!" Zhu Zaiming returned the greeting.
"yes!"
Kong Er turned around again and jogged back to stand in front of the team.
"Take a break! There's still half an hour before dinner starts. Let's sing a song before the meal, so you won't be hungry when you eat! Zhu Xianxue is out!"
Zhu Xianxue was stunned for a moment, but soon remembered the soldier regulations and Zhu Zaiming's instructions. He immediately took a step forward, put his legs together and replied loudly: "Here we are!"
Kong Er was still a little nervous about ordering His Majesty's uncle in front of the Emperor.
However, after seeing Zhu Zaiming's calm gaze from the corner of his eye, he calmed down and shouted: "You will sing the lead in the first song!"
Zhu Xianxue recalled the lyrics carefully, then cleared his throat and started singing.
Thanks to his rich and clear voice, his singing is sonorous and powerful.
1,500 hungry soldiers began to sing in the church field.
"The sun in the west is about to set,
The Australian sea is quiet,
Play my beloved Tu Pipa,
Sing that moving song.
…
The sun in the west is about to set,
The end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is coming,
…”
This episode from "Railway Guerrilla", after simple modifications, its simple and catchy melody and emotionally straightforward lyrics quickly touched the hearts of the soldiers present.
Therefore, Zhu Zaiming shamelessly changed it to "Homesick Song of the Ming Army".
Along with the singing, an invisible cohesion began to form, and the scene of the setting sun made homesickness arise spontaneously.
go home?
go home……
go home!
…
Under the bright gas lamp, the soldiers who had finished dinner were learning cultural knowledge.
The few scholars in the Ming Dynasty signed up to teach literacy in the military camps for the sake of shiny silver coins.
Zhu Zaiming entered a tent.
The new military camp is still under construction. All soldiers, including officers, can only live in tents at this stage, which is considered a training subject.
Zhu Zaiming purchased a Mosin Nagant rifle from the system mall. This was the first time this Soviet Army's standard rifle appeared in the world during World War I.
Rotating bolt action, five-round magazine, smokeless powder, effective range of 400 meters... No matter which feature it is, it is unique in this era.
The price of the system is 20 silver coins each, which seems not expensive, but to arm a regiment of 1,500 people and a navy of 1,000, at least 3,000 systems must be prepared, of which 500 are spare.
Including 120 rounds of basic ammunition per person, a regiment requires 100,000 silver coins.
One division costs 2 million silver coins, which is an astronomical figure.
This was just a rifle. Taking into account armored vehicles and artillery, Zhu Zaiming felt that the Ming Dynasty's 20 million silver coins were simply not enough.
This also strengthened Zhu Zaiming's determination to research while equipping.
He gritted his teeth and purchased 5,000 Mosin-Nagant rifles with 2 million rounds of ammunition.
There are 30 water-cooled Maxim heavy machine guns and 500,000 rounds of ammunition.
24 60mm mortars and 2,400 rounds of artillery shells.
There are 12 75mm French field guns, commonly known as "Miss 75", with 1,200 rounds.
4 240mm siege guns with 400 rounds of artillery shells.
When waiting for payment, Zhu Zaiming looked at the good guy, totaling 1 million silver coins.
Then, Zhu Zaiming shamelessly changed the names of these weapons.
After all, it appears for the first time in this world, and the name of it is no longer up to the future inventor.
The Mosin-Nagant rifle was renamed the Type 1799 rifle.
The Maxim heavy machine gun was renamed Type 1799 heavy machine gun.
As for the other artillery pieces, they might as well be named after the year, which is simple and easy to remember.
…
The next month, after Zhu Zaiming handed over the political affairs to Chen Xian, the Minister of Household Affairs, he stayed in the military camp and could not leave.
From time to time, I bought some new gadgets and gave the soldiers extra food.
The training of soldiers is gradually getting on the right track as their cultural level improves.
