The food standard that the Marines should have was not enough. Zhou Changfeng submitted another application to the Navy Department of the Ministry of War, and was quickly approved - an additional food subsidy was allocated, with an additional three cents per person per day, raised to 0.22 yuan per day. .
"Isn't this not good? We are the only one in the group. We are so prominent... we are afraid of people being jealous." Yao Liangchuan expressed concern about this.
Even if the trees are beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy them?
Xie Wancheng replied nonchalantly: "Jealous? Let the jealous guy see our training standards. It's the only one. Who wants to try it?"
Zhou Changfeng is naturally not worried. There are very few people who are completely unreasonable. If anyone really questions it, just throw the training regulations in his face.
Due to the special nature of beach landing, officers and soldiers are likely to have to swim or wade ashore, which is extremely physically demanding. Therefore, in the temporary trial training order exclusively for this unit, Zhou Changfeng added additional physical training standards to the standard quantity.
Not to mention anything else, the two events of the 5,000-meter light swim and the 5,000-meter fully-armed 40-pound swim are enough to scare people and shut them up.
However, due to the freezing weather now, swimming training has not yet started and will have to wait until next spring.
However, even formation training and other regular physical training are enough to exhaust the soldiers. Now the most feared thing among the Marine Regiment is the sidecar motorcycle on which Zhou Changfeng is sitting.
When the familiar roaring sound comes, there is a high probability that something is not good. There are always words like "do it again" and "increase the amount".
Fortunately, we have ample funds to purchase ingredients. Otherwise, if we don’t take in enough protein and only rely on carbohydrates such as rice, steamed buns, and noodles, such high-intensity physical training will be too much for the body, which will greatly affect our health. healthy.
In addition, it is crucial that after careful consideration and weighing, Zhou Changfeng decided to implement transparent management of the unit's internal financial expenditures. Although this move surprised many officers at first, it was eventually implemented.
There are many difficulties in building an army from scratch, but there are also corresponding advantages. The advantage is that this unit is a blank sheet of paper, without long-term and difficult-to-eradicate chronic diseases and bad habits.
Just imagine if he were transferred to a unit that had long-standing shortcomings, no matter how vigorous and resolute Zhou Changfeng was, the final effect might not be very good, and he might even be ganged up on to exclude.
In terms of internal management and ethics, he is very cautious. He holds collective meetings of officers and soldiers every now and then and implements disclosure of financial expenditures. This is almost the end of it.
Going deeper, such as soldier committees, would be too risky and unlikely to be tolerated by today's Ming Dynasty.
Of course, we don't rule out the possibility that everyone will turn a blind eye, but obviously there is no need to be so "ostentatious".
November 28, 5:30 in the morning.
The cold northwest wind was whistling along with the damp and cold moisture from the Yangtze River. Before dawn, the Marine Regiment Station in Jiangxinzhou was already as busy as ever.
After many days, Zhou Changfeng specially asked all the officers and soldiers of the regiment to gather at the main campus today, and then announced an important matter.
"According to information from the Ministry of War, our code name has not yet been finalized. The military flag has been woven, but we are waiting to embroider it after the code name is confirmed."
"'Ningwu', 'Tengxiang', and 'Panlong', there are three options in total. Let's discuss each one today. According to the statistics, the one with more votes will be the codename of our group."
I don’t know where this habit of the Ming army came from, and there are different opinions. Anyway, each division and brigade of the army has its own code name.
Take the Third Mixed Brigade as an example. Its designation is the Third Mixed Brigade of the Guards, its number is A-1131 Unit, and its code name is Bao Tao.
But regiment-level units also have code names? This is something new for the first time, and it also confirms from the side that these two marine regiments will inevitably expand in the future.
It can be said that the soldiers are very novel. They can actually decide on the code name of this unit? This feeling of respect that they had not seen before made them very happy.
While the ballots were being distributed and counted, the officers gathered together and talked non-stop.
In response to this, Zhu Lizhuo looked calm and said proudly: "Let me just say it, no matter how strong the regiment is, it is still a regiment. It is still too difficult to work independently. If you don't say it, it still has to be a brigade, so Ah, expansion is inevitable.”
Xue Can thought for a while and said hesitantly: "But if we really expand it into a division brigade, we..."
Without fighting, how could promotion be so fast?
If it is really expanded into a division in the past two years, the division commander's military rank will be either brigadier general or major general, and the commander of each regiment will have to be at least a lieutenant colonel. It was obvious that not only Zhou Changfeng would not be able to reach it, but it would also be difficult for them to be promoted.
To be fair, everyone does have the idea of a "small group", and they all feel that Zhou Changfeng is doing a good job as the chief officer. If it were someone else, that would not necessarily be the case.
Later, as the vote count was completed, a staff officer reported that the winner with the most votes was "Panlong."
The two codenames "Ningwu" and "Tengxiang" sound good, but they are a bit general and always feel a bit nihilistic. In comparison, "Panlong" is more realistic and vivid.
The so-called Panlong is a dragon that lies dormant on the ground but has not ascended to heaven. It is also a dragon that controls water, but it is inferior to a dragon. At the same time, because of the meaning of the word, Panlong also means coiled on the ground.
Zhou Changfeng nodded and said: "The votes you cast will not be deceptive. Since soldiers generally like this, let's submit the application in this way."
In this way, starting from late November until the end of December, the 1st Marine Regiment was conducting basic training in full swing.
The amount of training was quite heavy, and even the carefully selected veterans were so tired that they cried for their fathers and mothers.
However, due to abundant funds and the fact that pigs, cattle, chickens, ducks, and fish in Gyeonggi are cheap and affordable, the food is impeccable. Looking at all the divisions and brigade of the Ming Dynasty, this is the only one; there are boats almost every day Or cargo ships depart from the dock and transport food and livestock fully loaded to Jiangxinzhou.
Therefore, when a group of officials from the Ministry of War, led by Yang Zhen, arrived at the Jiangxinzhou military camp, they were immediately surprised by the unusually positive atmosphere.
They came here specifically to confer flags. After a month of training, the 1st Marine Regiment can be considered an army.
At midnight, the warm winter sunshine shone on the earth. The entire regiment, numbering 4,107, lined up neatly on the campus. The military band played music and the entire army sang "The Sun and the Moon Shine Together".
This is a standard universal military song that can be used by all three armies regardless of branch of service.
In Zhou Changfeng's opinion, the few military songs currently used by the Ming army are not exciting and majestic enough. They sound more like reciting poems and eulogies. The same is true for the Ming Dynasty's national anthem "Tian Ming Di De".
This may be a common feature of monarchies around the world. For example, "God Save the Queen", "The King's Generation", and "Hymn" are mostly soft and have no sense of excitement and upliftment. They are often praising the monarch and relating to them. A republic is very different.
But what is interesting is that the Ming Dynasty also had a second national anthem called "Fuyao", which is more majestic and uplifting.
(End of chapter)
