Baoler and Aqi Duolan, two Han-Mongolian mixed-race children, lived a comfortable life after becoming Huang Yi's concubines, and they served Huang Yi with all their heart.
They selected more than 300 women who could ride horses to participate in the training.
Within a few days, more than a dozen women couldn't bear the pain of practicing horse riding and shooting and retreated.
The military law in the base area is relatively strict for men, emphasizing that doing revolution is not about treating guests to dinner and coming and leaving whenever they want.
Militiamen who dare to be passive in military training will be punished. Auxiliary soldiers and regular soldiers who are absent from training without excuse will be directly punished as deserters and beheaded!
However, the female militia is relatively loose and basically adopts the principle of voluntariness.
Not only do they not force people to back down because they can't bear the hardship, but they also take the initiative to persuade people to quit because they are too stupid and cannot learn no matter how hard they teach.
The final result was that half of them were eliminated, and the remaining one hundred and sixty were all between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five, and they all looked strong.
One hundred and sixty female cavalrymen were like a gust of wind when they galloped past. They looked pretty good and they should have some combat effectiveness.
But who knows! It cannot be confirmed without actual combat testing.
Both Aqi Duolan and Bao Leer hoped to accompany Huang Yi on the expedition, but unfortunately Huang Yi firmly disagreed and would not let go no matter how much they begged.
The task given to them is to patrol the territory every day and set up a screening post to detect bandits.
The base areas include Wang Baishan, Zhang Shi, Qi Dashan, Lan Jinkui, etc. Civil affairs are not a problem, only military affairs are not very good.
Therefore, Huang Yi also left Huang Dazhi and Huang Daquan to take charge of defense and guide the auxiliary troops and militia to participate in training.
The two of them definitely wanted to follow Huang Yi to fight and were unwilling to stay behind, but they both knew that soldiers must obey orders and obey orders, and they did not dare to object.
Huang Yi told them that maybe by the end of the year, all the auxiliary soldiers would have to be converted into regular soldiers. If their riding skills were not good enough, they would be a drag on the main force.
The two men understood immediately, and both stood at attention and saluted, loudly stating that during the period when the large army went out to fight, the auxiliary troops must be trained according to the requirements of the regular soldiers, and the militiamen should be trained according to the requirements of the auxiliary soldiers.
Is it because the requirements are too strict and everything will be reversed?
Probably not. The base area is under military control, and military matters come first.
Moreover, the current slogan in the base area is that being a soldier is the most glorious. As long as you become a regular soldier, you can get one or two and a half coins of silver and five measures of wheat on time every month.
The treatment of cavalry soldiers is even higher than that of mounted infantrymen, and they receive two taels of snowflakes, silver and five measures of wheat every month.
Artillery received the same treatment as cavalry.
By becoming a regular soldier, not only the whole family will be respected, but also military family members will be given priority for good jobs in the base area.
When promoting civilian officials, it is also possible to select children from the military.
However, the regular soldiers are selected from the auxiliary soldiers, and the auxiliary soldiers are selected from the militia.
Therefore, even though the militiamen can only receive a food subsidy of three buckets of grains for a month to participate in the training, young and middle-aged people with no special skills in the base area still actively sign up.
The reason is very simple. Those with special skills are craftsmen, and their starting salary is exactly the same as that of regular soldiers.
Moreover, craftsmen are treated equally well in the base area, euphemistically called the working class, a class group that can lead everything.
Whether the army can win the war depends on how much clothing, steel, gunpowder, and how many muskets and artillery the working class can contribute.
Women in the base area not only spin wool and knit sweaters, but also weave wool felt and wool cloth.
This autumn, a coat with an outer layer of woolen fabric and an inner layer of cotton fabric, and an inner layer of duck down or cotton can equip all regular and auxiliary soldiers.
There is no cotton grown in the base area, and the land is not suitable for growing cotton. The Li family business sells it from within the pass.
Today's base city, oh no, the base city has a name - Xinghe City.
There was no need for Huang Yi to argue with Governor Xuanda and his future father-in-law over something as innocuous as naming.
Not only did he approve the naming of Geng Ruqi, but he also sent Wang Baishan to Xuanfu on official business, presented a gold monocular telescope that he personally participated in making to express his gratitude, and asked Governor Xuanda to write the three characters "Xinghe City".
Geng Ruqi was very happy to learn that Huang Yi was going to carve his words on the four gates of Xinghe City, so he actually took a bath and changed clothes before doing so.
In total, only ten eight-power monocular telescopes were made, and only one was made of pure gold, which was a gift to Governor Xuanda.
The other two were made of silver and were given to Geng Zhanghua and Geng Zhangguang respectively.
The seven reserved for military use were all made of brass, and one was given to Hu Xiaochuan, who was the first to follow Huang Yi.
One was given to Bi Daxi, who often participated in setting ambushes to capture enemy sentries.
One was given to Li Wanquan, the chief instructor of the artillery and the commander-in-chief of the town. The remaining four were not distributed and were kept by Bao Zhide, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Army Guard.
These four monocular telescopes can only be obtained through registration.
There is no way, the telescopes are too important and the quantity is too small, so they can only be given priority to officers performing tasks.
Huang Yi did not bring three fixed telescopes with him when he went on the expedition. These telescopes were placed in the fortress and were used to observe familiar locations more efficiently.
The four gate towers in the southeast, northwest and northwest of Xinghe City have been completed.
Under normal circumstances, two fixed telescopes are installed on the watchtower on the highest floor of the city gate building to observe the northwest, due north, and northeast.
There is also one deployed at Beishankou, thirty miles away from Xinghe City. A watchtower-style beacon tower has been built here, and a hundred auxiliary troops are stationed in rotation all year round.
Being able to send auxiliary soldiers to garrison the Beishan Beacon Tower means that they can be converted into regular soldiers in as little as three months and as long as six months.
Therefore, the auxiliary soldiers are eager to get this mission and actively sign up to accept the selection.
Huang Yi's soldiers, even the auxiliary soldiers, were all cavalry or mounted infantry. Their garrison was not about hiding in watchtowers and watching the stars every day.
They are constantly patrolling in units of two small flags and twenty cavalry.
With fixed telescopes, it was possible to establish dozens of observation points marked by quicklime that the cavalry had explored.
The telescope is a magical tool in everyone's mind. The governor is responsible for using the telescope for observation as well as for its safekeeping and maintenance.
When a critical moment came, it was also up to the governor to decide whether to smash the telescope so that it would not be captured by the enemy.
With the reference object in hand, the governor only needs to use a telescope to observe the eye-catching marks several times a day to determine whether he encounters a cavalry surprise attack.
It's very simple. How can a circle drawn on the ground with quicklime stand up to the trampling of dozens and hundreds of war horses? The disappearance of the circle is enough to prove that an enemy horse has passed through.
This is because our own cavalry carefully circumvents the circle. If they cannot circumvent it, they will repair the circle after trampling on them.
Anyway, practice has proved that the mounted fixed telescope can not only observe whether there are large groups of cavalry within seventy or eighty miles outside the mountain, but can also communicate with Xinghe City using semaphores.
As long as it is not foggy, snowy or rainy, Beishankou and Chengmen Tower can be contacted day or night.
In fact, if a fire is lit in the dark night, even if it is thirty miles away, a telescope with a distance of 32 times can still clearly see the semaphore.
