With the basic army structure in place, the rest will be more natural. At present, Gao Heng does not have suitable officers at hand. He himself will only be a sergeant in later generations, commanding a small group of troops to fight. He was suddenly asked to command 2,000 people. Gao Heng was also a little unprepared, but at this time, he forced It should also be applied to the scalp. The current military system is only temporary, and the establishment of integer units is to facilitate the understanding of civilians who have not received combat training.
Gao Heng had exactly a dozen brothers who were brought out from Zhennanguan. Except for Lu Tao, Wu Rong and Fan Yu, who were listed separately, the rest were appointed as company commanders in charge of 200 people. On the one hand, these brothers were extremely excited. They were just small soldiers in the Ming Dynasty. When they arrived here, they suddenly became the commander of two hundred people, more powerful than a hundred households. How could this not surprise them? They felt that following Gao Heng was the right person. .
However, on the other hand, they were worried. After all, commanding two hundred people to fight was no joke. They were just soldiers and had no experience in this area.
Seeing how everyone was at a loss, Gao Heng pursed his lips. Their abilities may not be qualified for this position, but at the moment, these are the only old people who followed him out, and he doesn't trust anyone else they can trust. Gao Heng did not have high requirements for them, as long as they obeyed his orders. Although he lacked experience in large-scale combat, Gao Heng believed in his own level. The systematic learning of later generations was not comparable to the level of the Ming Dynasty people.
The reason why Lu Tao, Fan Yu and Wu Rong were pulled out was because they had other appointments. Wu Rong had served in the artillery, so it was most appropriate for him to be in charge of the artillery.
Gao Heng always felt familiar with Lu Tao. It wasn't that he had known Lu Tao before, but Lu Tao's demeanor and movements and his skills on the battlefield made Gao Heng feel familiar. When he was in Southern Excalibur, there was a little man. The southern soldiers are like this, they are flexible and have good skills. Gao Heng has no doubt that if Lu Tao is in future generations, he will definitely be an elite member of the Southern Divine Sword. With such skill in this era, Gao Heng has already guessed the answer.
As for Fan Yu, it is really because he has no outstanding advantages, no boxing skills, and his personality is just like the crowd. In other words, he can be Gao Heng's follower, but if he is allowed to lead the army independently, he probably does not have this ability.
Immediately, Gao Heng divided the soldiers into groups, still in the same way, with those with muskets and bows and arrows coming out first, and then those with skills. After the screening, all the remaining people became spearmen.
When there are more people, the army becomes much more powerful. There are more than 200 people who can use fire guns, more than 100 archers, and more than 100 people who can fist and kick. The main reason is that everyone immigrated here, and many people learn some martial arts just for self-defense. If they are unfamiliar with the place, they have the ability to protect themselves if they encounter danger.
Not only that, upon closer inspection, there are dozens of people who know how to fire artillery. Of course, this skill means that they know the steps of firing the artillery and can operate the artillery, rather than being a master artilleryman who can't hit where they point. . They only know how to operate the cannon because they have used it in the village before or, like Wu Rong, they have done it in the army.
As a result, among the two thousand people, there are nearly 600 people with relatively special skills. Then the groups cannot be divided simply by age, but by skills. Gao Heng concentrated all the elites in the Pioneer Battalion, regardless of age, and selected them based on their skills. The Pioneer Battalion had a musket company, a mixed artillery and bow and arrow company, plus a sword and shield company, and the remaining four hundred people were also included. Relatively strong men drawn from the remaining people served as spearmen.
The rest were organized into a reserve camp. After the company commander is appointed, the next platoons and teams will be filled by people who volunteer or are recommended by everyone. In this way, the survival brigade will have a basic look for the time being.
Jing Zhao took the people who came back alive from Yuan County to pick up the equipment, and then distributed it to everyone in the camp.
Taking advantage of this moment, Gao Heng pulled Lu Tao aside and said: "Lu Tao, tell me the truth about your origins. I haven't asked you for so long. Isn't this going to start a war? Let's start a war." Whether you can survive or not is still unknown, so there is no need for you to hide it from me anymore. No matter what you committed in the Ming Dynasty, you are now a member of our army."
Lu Tao hesitated, not knowing how to speak.
Gao Heng said: "If I were asked to guess, I should tell you three words, Jin Yiwei."
When Lu Tao heard these three words, his whole body trembled involuntarily. Jin Yiwei, this distant but extremely familiar name, had an unforgettable feeling for Lu Tao. In the Ming Dynasty, everyone used to be afraid of the Jin Yiwei, but now after the fall of Wei Zhongxian, the power of the Jin Yiwei has been greatly weakened. In the eyes of Qingliu and Donglin officials, they are nothing more than street rats.
Gao Heng saw the change in Lu Tao's facial expression and knew that he must have guessed correctly. After a long while, Lu Tao sighed and said: "That's all, let's tell the truth to the general. Mr. Lu is from Jinyiwei and serves as a flag officer in Fusi, Nanzhen of Jinyiwei. The general should know what Fusi in Nanzhen does."
Gao Heng quickly recalled the knowledge in his mind. He had watched a movie called Xiuchundao. He remembered that the Jinyi Guards were divided into the North and South Town Fusi, and the North Town Fusi was responsible for the outside world. They were responsible for detectives in the traditional sense. It was Beizhen Fusi who was responsible for tasks such as assassination, sentry detection and so on. Nanzhen Fusi is in charge, which is equivalent to the internal supervision agency.
Lu Tao added: "Nanzhen Fusi looks nice, but is actually very difficult to do. My good friend who was once my friend worked as an errand in Beizhen Fusi and committed something. Nanzhen Fusi should go to arrest him. Unfortunately, he sent I was the one who went there. I couldn't bring myself to do anything, so I let him go and killed the two accompanying guards. Then I gave up my identity, went south all the way, and came to this place incognito. My name is not Lu Tao, I just use the customary name. After hearing this false name, I forgot my real name."
Gao Heng nodded. It turned out that Lu Tao had such a story. This guy was very skilled in martial arts. He looked like he was no ordinary person. If he was a Jinyiwei, everything would make sense.
He patted Lu Tao on the shoulder and said: "Now that the world is in chaos, you would rather be a peace dog than a member of the troubled world. I don't care what you did before, from today on, you are Lu Tao, the company commander of the survival brigade. It's just that your company commander is not a company commander of a regular army. Since you are from Nanzhen Fusi, you must have outstanding detective and sentry abilities. In the future, you will be the commander of the sentry company. Now I have no one at hand. I am waiting for someone. Once everything is ready, I’ll leave it to you, you will be the eyes and nose of the survival brigade.”
Lu Tao was moved in his heart. He thought that if he revealed the identity of Nanzhen Fusi, Gao Heng would look down upon him, because Jinyiwei's reputation was so bad that speaking out would only make people dislike him. However, Gao Heng didn't take it to heart at all, and even said... You have entrusted yourself with an important task. You must know that no matter which army you are in, as long as you serve as the leader of the leading reconnaissance force, you must be an elite. How can Lu Tao not be moved by Gao Heng's view of himself in such a high regard.
Lu Tao was about to kneel down on one knee, but Gao Heng grabbed him and said, "It doesn't have to be like this. The battle has not started yet. Let's deal with this battle first."
Lu Tao clasped his fists heavily and said: "Lu Tao thanks General Gao for his trust. I will certainly live up to this trust despite my humble position. Please allow me to select a few people among the young and strong. I will feed them and drink them well. After recovering their strength, I will go out of the city to investigate." I will definitely not let the Annan people raid Tuoxian County."
When Gao Heng and Lu Tao were talking, Jing Zhao had already brought hundreds of people to transport the equipment one after another. The equipment was just the armor and weapons left by the Annan people. Tuo County was full of soldiers from the four towns, and the soldiers from the four towns were even more powerful. The soldiers in the capital were much shabby, and many of them didn't even have decent leather armor. The laces on the back of some leather armors were broken, and they could only be hung on their bodies for fun. The iron armor is even missing armor leaves, and many of them are rusty and rotten. When touched with your hands, iron filings fall out.
Gao Heng looked at it and shook his head. No matter what, he could only make do with it for now. "Select equipment and give priority to the equipment of better quality to the vanguard camp. The same goes for weapons. This will be used as a temporary military camp. From tomorrow, the soldiers will go out of the city for training and return to the camp to live in the evening." Gao Heng ordered.
After a while, the aroma of food wafted over, and the old men and women carried the prepared food to the camp. There is a saying that food and grass go first before soldiers and horses are used. Food is the source and guarantee of soldiers' combat effectiveness. Therefore, before the young and strong men gathered, Gao Heng had already ordered some women and old people to go to the county government treasury to get food. Let's cook and let everyone fill their bellies.
The soldiers stretched their necks one by one to look at the large wooden barrels being carried over. Many women were also skinny and skinny, but they still worked together to carry the barrels into the camp.
When it comes to food, it actually couldn't be more crude. Annan people generally eat rice, so what's in the wooden barrels is cooked rice. As for the vegetables, they're just some pickles and peppers.
Annan produces salt. Because of the hot weather, many foods are preserved with salt, so there are many pickled vegetables, as well as a very small amount of meat and fish pieces. As for chili, it is not unfamiliar to Annan people.
It is generally said in later generations that chili peppers were introduced from the Central Plains in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and some people say it was during Zheng He's voyages to the West. However, the time when chili peppers were introduced to Annan was much earlier than that of the Central Plains. Because of the geographical location of Annan, the Folangji people first came into contact with the Annan people. The chili peppers brought by the Folangji people were introduced in the early Ming Dynasty. Annan has a history of eating for hundreds of years by the end of the Ming Dynasty.
With such a meal, the soldiers no longer care about the taste. For a person who has not had a full meal for several months, the existing food is more delicious than delicacies from the mountains and seas.
As soon as the newly appointed company commanders said it was time to eat, the soldiers swarmed over. Fortunately, the veterans recruited by Youyuan County maintained order, otherwise the situation would have gotten out of control.
Gao Heng picked up a blunderbuss, fired it with a bang, climbed up and shouted: "Stop everyone, general!"
The noise gradually subsided, and everyone turned to stare in the direction of the general station. Gao Heng shouted: "From today on, you are no longer civilians, but soldiers. You are fighting for yourself, not for me, Gao Heng. Now, I will teach you the first lesson, which is the rules." !”
"Nothing can be accomplished without rules. If there are no military disciplines and rules in the army, it will be difficult to move forward!"
"Jing Zhao!"
"The humble position is here!"
"Select 20 people from veterans to serve as the military law team and strictly supervise military discipline. The first rule is that no matter what you do, you must line up in an orderly manner, you must line up to eat, and you must line up to receive weapons. In the future, when we have money, when military pay is issued You also have to line up, everyone has it, and there is no need to fight for it. Those who disobey orders and cause chaos will be punished with twenty strokes of the military stick, fifty strokes for repeated offenses, and beheaded for third offenses!" Gao Heng said as he glanced at the soldiers.
The soldiers were shocked. Gao Heng's appearance was no joke. Jing Zhao immediately clasped his fists and shouted: "I have the order!"
The company commanders quickly formed their teams. Although they had no experience in leading troops, they still knew the most basic ordering. Each company was a long snake, and they lined up to receive meals one by one in order. However, there were not enough bowls and chopsticks, but the women were smarter. , wrap rice in washed leaves and hand it to the soldiers, then stuff it with a spoonful of chili peppers and pickles, and it’s a meal.
In the camp, the soldiers were sitting on the ground, and there was a lot of chattering. Maybe they were very hungry. Many soldiers ate all the food in front of them like they were in a hurry. They wanted to ask for more, but when they saw the look in the eyes of the company commanders, they... He retracted his hand.
They had agreed beforehand to eat less and more meals. Each person could only have one meal at a time. If he wanted more, it would be gone. The soldiers could only look at the barrel, and then licked the leaves in their hands again. Some of them wanted to eat all the leaves.
For a whole day, the soldiers in the camp did nothing but eat, sleep and eat. Sleeping and eating are the easiest ways to help people recover their strength. For several months, they didn't even get a sound sleep. However, I lived a life of fear every day, always worrying about my own life.
After some soldiers woke up, they gathered together to chat before eating.
"Damn it, I haven't had this kind of life of eating, sleeping, and eating for a long time." A middle-aged soldier said.
A young soldier next to him answered: "But the general said that in a few days we will go to the battlefield to fight. I, I have never fought, what should I do?"
The middle-aged soldier said: "What should I do? Do you still want to be enslaved by the Annan people? Do you still want to live a precarious life and let your wife and children suffer together?"
The young soldier shook his head and said, "Of course not."
"That's it, just like the general said, if you don't want to be enslaved, you have to pick up guys and fight with them. I would rather die than live a hellish life. I don't have a big goal. Kill a stupid guy. If you have enough capital, you can make a profit by killing two men."
