In this recruitment, Huang Sangou was not alone. In fact, many of the people who came to apply to be soldiers were in a similar situation to him, and the family really couldn't open the door.
However, those who came were all singles with no worries. No one applied for the young men who were already married and had children and needed to serve their parents.
After all, they are already married and have children. There are elders and younger ones. As the backbone of the family, if he goes to enlist as a soldier, he himself will still have food to eat, but his parents, wife and daughter will probably starve to death.
Luo Zhixue and the others would not give the soldiers any money or food in addition to their daily meals when recruiting soldiers, so there was no way for them to support their families.
Therefore, don't expect to be able to support your family by going to Sanshui Village to be a bandit. At most, he can only feed himself. As for his family, don't expect it.
Luo Zhixue and the others stayed in Huangjiacun for a long time and finally recruited fifteen young men.
Luo Zhixue and the others then went to the next village to continue recruiting. After visiting several villages in a row, they finally recruited 60 people.
Half of the sixty new recruits were assigned to the supply camp.
Luo Zhixue was very excited and looking forward to the addition of number 30 people under his command. Although these number 30 people were still young and strong men, it would take arduous training for them to go into battle.
However, no matter what, these are his own soldiers.
This is different from the prisoners of war that he managed before.
There are now more than 60 prisoners of war in Sanshui Village. These prisoners of war have always been managed by Luo Zhixue. In the early stage, they mainly built various facilities such as barracks and village walls. After the repair of these infrastructures, most of these prisoners Most of the time I was working in the fields.
There seemed to be a lot of these prisoners of war, but Luo Zhixue was unable to select people from them to train and form an army. It wasn't that Luo Zhixue didn't want to. In fact, he had already thought about directly selecting people from these prisoners of war to expand the supply camp. What about scale.
But Sun Chengli wouldn’t let him!
Sun Chengli was very repulsive towards these prisoners of war who were born as thieves. He not only looked down upon them but also showed a hint of hostility.
Sun Chengli was determined not to allow any thieves to appear in his army.
And Luo Zhixue is still a subordinate of Sun Chengli, so naturally he cannot go against Sun Chengli on this matter. Therefore, Luo Zhixue did not even have the idea of persuading Sun Chengli, but faithfully carried out Sun Chengli's order: Treat these prisoners of war as mere prisoners of war. Labor use.
As for the future, let’s talk about it later.
So in the past, Luo Zhixue seemed to have many people under his control, but they were all prisoners of war. In fact, he only had four real subordinates.
Sometimes when he needed manpower to do something, Luo Zhixue would go directly to the pro-military army under Sun Chengli to borrow manpower.
Now, with the recruitment of recruit No. 30, he finally has more men. I don't know whether these people will be able to fight in the future, but at least he doesn't have to ask the pro-army to borrow people when doing many things.
Luo Zhixue had already known about the arrangements for recruit No. 30, so he could just use Sun Chengli's original camp and sentry structure.
It is directly organized into three teams, with two teams under the team, with five people in each team.
The equipment is also simple, just use the inventory as backup, including those weapons that were repaired and newly forged after arriving at Sanshui Village.
Comes with traditional cold weapons such as spears, waist knives, shields, bows and arrows.
As for armor, don't count on it. The people in Sanshui Village don't have much armor in total. Among the more than 60 cavalry, half of them don't have armor anymore.
It was impossible for Luo Zhixue to take out the armor of An Yongduo and four other elite cavalry and distribute them to these heavy infantrymen.
The organization and equipment are all ready-made, so Luo Zhixue doesn't need to worry too much, and there is no way to worry about it. After all, the scheduled supply camp is positioned as light infantry equipped with cold weapons. Sun Chengli and others are familiar with various organization and training methods. There is no need for Luo Zhixue to add details.
There is nothing to worry about when it comes to selecting the chief. Among the four soldiers under Luo Zhixue, Ding Chuwu, Ma Dapao, and Zhao Hongshu each hold the chief position.
As for the remaining An Yongduo, he continued to follow Luo Zhixue as a personal soldier. The main reason was that Luo Zhixue felt that this man was easy to use, and having him by his side would make it much easier for him to deal with everything.
However, privately Luo Zhixue also told An Yongduo that their supply camp will continue to expand. When the second batch of new recruits arrives, a number of elites will be selected from the supply camp to serve as the personal soldiers. At that time, the captain of the personal soldiers will be By Anyondo.
In this regard, Anyongduo is naturally very happy.
Compared with ordinary officers and the like, the position of captain of the Guards is naturally more attractive.
After finalizing the three chief candidates, the supply camp was beginning to take shape, so Luo Zhixue also began formal training.
In order to quickly form an army, but also to implement his will in training, and even more so to plant the idea of loyalty among these recruits at the first time.
Luo Zhixue personally went to the field to train the new recruits, and came up with a training plan that he had painstakingly thought about for more than a month.
But after only three days of this training plan, Luo Zhixue had to give up.
It’s not that the training plan is not good. This training plan is based on the military training Luo Zhixue experienced in his previous life, plus some hearsay and many things he took for granted. It focuses on physical fitness and discipline training.
According to Luo Zhixue's idea, such a set of things would be enough to train infantry in modern times.
But...
What Luo Zhixue didn't expect was that the training plan he had put a lot of effort into was not suitable for the local environment...
To say that they are not accustomed to the local environment, it is not because Luo Zhixue has lost his mind and insists on letting these thirty recruits play in a queue to shoot or even go further to form a skirmish line.
In fact, according to Luo Zhixue's training plan, these trainings mainly focus on training traditional cold weapon combat, and do not involve firearms.
The personal technical and tactical aspects of these soldiers are directly responsible for the four soldiers under them.
The four soldiers under him were all from the frontier cavalry, and during this period they also consulted Lin Dongsheng, Wang Xiazi and others for advice.
Therefore, I can’t say how strong it is in training soldiers’ combat skills and formation coordination, but at least it can be done.
In fact, the entire training plan failed to continue after only one day, because there was a problem with physical training.
On the first day of training, seven or eight soldiers couldn't hold it any longer just during running and formation training. On the second day, one soldier was frothing at the mouth while running. ...almost died.
At first, Luo Zhixue thought it was just that the soldiers were not used to this kind of high-intensity training, and it would be fine as long as they got used to it.
But on the third day, the situation became more serious. He found that many soldiers were already swaying, looking weak and about to fall down at any time.
At that time, Luo Zhixue still couldn't understand that they would be like this?
But when he saw the food for dinner that day, he realized that the high-intensity physical training he had done was just wishful thinking...
These soldiers eat three meals a day, but breakfast is only porridge, and dry rice is provided for lunch and dinner, but the amount is limited, and there is no meat.
These people actually only eat a bowl of porridge, a few rice balls and some vegetables, pickles and the like every day.
Such a standard of food would be enough for ordinary people, and it could even be considered a full meal.
But it is far from enough for recruits who need high-intensity physical training.
When these recruits performed high-intensity physical training, they consumed a lot of energy, but they could not get enough supplements in their meals. As a result, a situation appeared that made Luo Zhixue frown: these recruits became weaker and weaker as they practiced!
Luo Zhixue has no doubt that if they continue to maintain high-intensity training, these people may end up worse than the prisoners of war in the prison camps.
Although the food in the prisoner-of-war camp was poor and they had to work hard every day, the energy consumed every day was still far less than that of the recruits who were undergoing high-intensity physical training all day long.
After realizing this problem, Luo Zhixue simply threw the original physical training plan into the corner.
Because there are only two ways to solve this problem. One is to provide soldiers with a higher standard of food supply to meet their training needs. However, this method is absolutely impossible to achieve with the current food reserves in Sanshui Village and the expected number of food sources. of.
The food in Sanshui Village is limited, and Sun Chengli is still counting on recruiting hundreds of people later. If the supply is opened, they will not even be able to survive this winter!
When the food supply cannot be increased, Luo Zhixue can only take the second method, which is to reduce the training intensity.
Only by reducing the intensity of training can these new recruits not become skin and bones after practice.
As the training intensity decreased, the situation improved.
Of course, even if the training intensity is reduced, the training intensity of the supply camp is still considered high-intensity compared to other armies of the same era, at least they train every day.
Many officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty train only once every three to five days. This is not because the generals are lazy and unwilling to train, but because if they train too hard, they can easily wear out the soldiers. If they don't want to wear out the soldiers, they must increase their food supply.
In these days, any problem involving food is difficult to solve.
The same is true for Luo Zhixue. While he reduced the training intensity of the new recruits in the supply camp, he also tried to find ways to obtain more food supplies.
Don't count on the grain reserves in the army. Those grains are rations for survival, and arrangements have already been made. The amount used every month is fixed.
Even Sun Chengli himself did not dare to use these stored grains without authorization, because once he did, he would not be able to obtain enough additional grain in a short period of time, and people would probably starve to death in winter and spring.
Although Luo Zhixue was in charge of the baggage, he could not directly use the large amount of stored grain.
If Sun Chengli knew this, it would be fatal.
For this reason, Luo Zhixue had to think of other ways, such as arranging the recruits in the supply camp to fish for fish and shrimp in the rivers, hunt from the mountains, pick wild fruits and vegetables, etc., to increase the food supply as much as possible.
