The soldiers in Nanyuan Barracks and Beijing Camp were very excited.
Ever since Uncle Dingyuan took over the capital camp, among other things, the food in the military camp has become so good.
Eat three meals a day. This makes them extremely happy.
There is always only lunch and dinner in Ming Dynasty. I don’t have the habit of having breakfast. Not to mention these soldiers. They have two meals of gruel a day. Every meal consists of moldy old grain porridge, which is good if it can be half full.
Now every day at five o'clock in the morning (the time when the military camp first adopted modern clocks), the wake-up call will be sounded.
The instructors responsible for training them, the veterans of the Jia Ding Regiment, would rush into the dormitory and yell at them to get up. Anyone who is slow to get dressed will definitely get a stick.
After getting up, first gather in the yard to stand in line. The instructors inspected the military appearance and discipline in turn. disheveled, buttoned wrongly, without socks, missing a shoe. All punished by fifty push-ups.
If you make a mistake three times, you will be given ten blows with the military stick.
After these few days of use, they have become accustomed to wearing camouflage uniforms. This new type of training uniform is very fast to put on. It won't work if you don't hurry, the military stick won't spare you.
After getting used to it, I found that these clothes were easier to wear than before. It's also easier to move. Whether you are riding a horse, walking or training, it is very convenient.
After sorting out your clothes, line up to wash up. There are a row of faucets with iron pipes in the yard, and underneath is a sink made of cement. Everyone lined up to wash up.
Everyone was given a towel, a piece of soap, and an enamel basin. A tube of toothpaste and a toothbrush in a plastic box.
They imitated the instructor and started brushing their teeth. Many people brushed their teeth for the first time and made a pool of blood foam. But after brushing my teeth, my mouth feels fresh. It feels so good.
After washing up, we lined up to go to the school grounds to get lunch.
Breakfast is cornmeal pancakes. Just corn porridge, pickles and fried cabbage slices. Yang Fan specifically instructed that breakfast should ensure adequate intake of vegetables and salt.
The cornmeal is fried golden brown on one side and tastes very sweet.
After breakfast, we started running. Coming back from running is a day of training. In the morning, they stood in line and practiced military postures and movements under various commands.
After eating at noon, they practiced spear assassination. Each person had to assassinate three hundred times. Qi Jiguang described the situation on the battlefield in "The New Book of Jixiao" and specifically said that martial arts masters are useless on the battlefield. Because both sides are fixed in the military formation and fight. There is no room for you to move around at all.
The real battlefield is, "The enemy came over with random shots, and we stabbed back with random spears. The enemy came with random swords, and we also slashed back with random swords."
As for which side can win, the comparison is based on the equipment, organizational capabilities, training level, fighting will, physical strength and endurance of the officers and soldiers of both sides.
Therefore, Yang Fan practiced their organizational skills and obedience skills through queues, allowing them to form muscle memory. Through a ten-kilometer long run every day, they exercise their team combat awareness, the physical strength and endurance of the officers and soldiers.
Each battalion is divided into five hundred-household teams. One hundred people per square, five people per row, a total of twenty rows. Each row is a team.
Now the corps leader and team leader, the small flag, the general flag, and the hundred households. They are all veterans and officers of the Servant Regiment. The purpose is to facilitate training.
The former soldiers in the Beijing camp, no matter what their position, were all soldiers, and they were retrained after returning to the army. As for how they will be reorganized after the training is completed, it depends on the emperor's wishes. Yang Fan only trains them here.
After a full breakfast, my whole body felt warm. In the cold wind of late autumn, I felt particularly energetic when I started running. Soon everyone was covered in sweat.
Nanyuan is so big that Emperor Qianlong once sent someone to measure the length of the wall. More than 120 miles long, one mile in the Qing Dynasty was 576 meters long. In this case, the circumference is almost twice that of Beijing City. Reached 70 kilometers.
Yang Fan originally wanted them to march and exercise every day and run around Nanyuan.
Later, I checked and found that the distance was too long. If you do this, people will be exhausted and paralyzed, and there will be nothing left to do. Later, I changed to running from the south of the military camp to the north gate and then back. A total of ten kilometers. Run once a day in the morning.
Carrying backpacks and luggage, carrying weapons. They carried thirty kilograms of weight and were fully armed, running in formation for ten kilometers.
Even if you don't let go and run just to maintain formation, this is still very tiring.
This design is mainly to let them practice the concept of marching as much as possible while maintaining the organization.
No matter how fast the speed is, the formation cannot be disrupted. If they all ran away, there would be no point. You can't fight even if you rush to the battlefield.
Every time I ran back, everyone felt exhausted and exhausted.
To stimulate their enthusiasm. Yang Fan specially provides a hundred braised pig heads every day. Taking a hundred households as a unit, the first ten households to come back will each receive ten braised pig heads.
That is to say, each gang has a pig head.
A raw pig head usually weighs about twenty kilograms. After removing the hair and bones, and cooking it in marinade, it can produce about twelve kilograms of meat. It is enough for eleven people including the gang and the instructor to have a good meal.
All of a sudden, these soldiers in the Beijing camp, who were relying on grains and gruel to survive, went completely crazy.
Everyone's eyes were blood red, and they were trembling with excitement as they looked at the braised pig heads piled together.
Every centurion ran like crazy. Just to eat pork head meat. The officers shouted angrily and maintained their formation. It doesn't count if someone falls behind or if the formation is scattered.
This is also to exercise their sense of teamwork. The formation can only be maintained if everyone is in their place. The slowest runner in a team of 100 will determine the speed of the entire team.
The officers' physical strength was much better than theirs. They were all Yang Fan's old servants and had been trained for a long time.
The officers taught them how to breathe and control their speed as they ran. Ten kilometers is a test of endurance, and you can't win it by running like crazy at the beginning.
Zhou Lizhi is the training officer of this hundred-man team. He comes from a family background and follows his master to participate in almost every battle.
As he ran, he yelled at his hundred soldiers.
"Listen to me, your toes must land first, not the entire sole of your foot, otherwise your feet will be easily injured."
He controls the speed of the entire team. The first 5 kilometers should be at a constant speed, make adjustments in the 6th to 9th kilometers, and then "sprint" in the 10th kilometers, you will definitely get good results.
The instructors in these trainings are also secretly competing for their ability to lead troops. Because the master has to look at these situations. This is also the basis for their promotion and reuse in the future.
Yang Fan always talks about data, and their daily performance is the basic condition for their promotion.
Yang Fan's standard is a ten-kilometer armed cross-country, with a passing time of eighty minutes.
For those who can pass the test, half a catty of braised pork and a tube of white rice will be enough to add a large spoonful of bright red braised pork soup that night.
If the top ten Centurions in the morning were to run back, they would be given pig heads at that time.
If you can't pass the exam, just eat corn and cabbage for one day. Of course, corn and cabbage are enough.
Who can bear this? They are all the same people, carrying a head on one shoulder. Who is worse than whom?
The passing rate is gradually improving.
Yang Fan is very satisfied with the current progress. Before the Spring Festival, these soldiers in the Beijing Camp will basically look like an army.
