Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 321 0316 [Training Elite Soldiers]

The three lands owned by Zhu's father and son have a special population age structure.

Take Daming Township as an example——

0 to 14 years old, accounting for 33.6%.

15 to 40 years old, accounting for 58.2%.

41 to 55 years old, accounting for 6.7%.

Over 56 years old, accounting for 1.5%.

Especially for the refugees brought back from Shaanxi, almost no old people were seen, and they died of hunger and disease in their hometowns.

The high proportion of children is mainly due to the high birth rate and survival rate of newborns under Zhu Guoxiang's management in recent years.

After the 90 archers trained by Zhu Ming were dismissed and returned home, more than [-] people came to Daming Village with their families.

Tong Ershun's elder brother is one of them.

His elder brother died of illness. Before he died, Tong Ershun was asked to bring his father, sister-in-law, nephew and younger brother to vote.

My father is not yet 50 years old and has gray hair. Now he is farming in Daming Village.

Tong Ershun married his sister-in-law and became the pillar of the family.

This year, the younger brother Sanshun is also 16 years old, and it is time to discuss the marriage.

But Tong Sanshun is very picky because he has studied in the village school.He can recognize hundreds of characters and can add, subtract, multiply and divide. He has been assigned to a warehouse as an apprentice in the cashier and wants to marry a woman with better conditions.

"Er Shun, come with me!"

"okay."

Tong Ershun ran out quickly. It was Jiang Yong, the elder brother of the neighbor.

When his elder brother was alive, he worked as an archer with Jiang Yong, and followed Zhu Dutou to suppress bandits.The relationship was pretty good, both families came to Daming Village, and Jiang Yong took care of Tong Ershun all the time.

The two of them didn't go very far, and met a few more villagers, and walked towards Heifeng Village together.

"Brother Jiang, what is this for?" Tong Ershun couldn't help asking.

Jiang Yong said: "The government's miscellaneous taxes are getting heavier and heavier, and there are thieves in all directions and towns. My husband asked Zhang Sange to practice more village courage."

"I can also be a village brave?" Tong Ershun was very excited.

Although Cun Yong does not receive military pay, the food during the drill is good, and the family can reduce some taxes.

If you reach the captain level or above, you can also be rewarded with land.

It is not a wasteland that has just been reclaimed, but a cultivated land that has been cultivated!
Villagers can apply to reclaim a lot of wasteland according to their own conditions.If five acres are reclaimed, after plowing, I can keep four acres, and the remaining one will be used as public land in the village.

These public lands are usually recruited for cultivation, and occasionally they are rewarded.

There is no shortage of tenants, because it is too laborious to open up wasteland, and the output was not high in the past few years.The new immigrants often open up wasteland and plant a small harvest, and at the same time cultivate the mature land to support their families.

The new immigrants who are too far away from the ripening fields are even picked up by boats during the busy farming season, and transported to the ripening fields several miles away.

Jiang Yong exhorted in a low voice, "I'm a veteran, and I can be promoted to captain this time. If you're honest, don't be a soldier. Come to my team and be a fire soldier."

"What is a fire soldier?" Tong Ershun asked.

Jiang Yong said: "Each team is equipped with a fire soldier. Usually, he has to carry iron pots and dry food. When fighting, he holds a knife in his hand and cuts off the ears of thieves. , After the battle, it will be handed over to the chief for distribution. If bandits rush into the team, the fire soldiers will have to fight with their knives. Don’t be afraid, usually they won’t rush in. Your brother and I are on good terms, so you won’t be in danger.”

Tong Ershun suddenly realized: "It's just to help the brothers."

"That's what it means." Jiang Yong nodded.

Everyone went all the way to Heifengzhai, Tong Ershun was here for the first time.

But when they heard the sound of rumbling horseshoes, the cavalry had already started training.

The horses in the village are not very good, most of them are rough horses bought from other places, and there are only more than 20 horses in total.

Riding skills are also relatively bad, sentry is enough, and chasing routs is not bad, but frontal combat is not good enough.

Zhang Guangdao himself rode a fine horse, the daughter of Cornucopia and another mare.The mare is also a real war horse, has given birth to two litters, and is now pregnant again, and the veterinarian is taking care of her.

When the gathering was almost complete, Zhang Guangdao finally started to organize the team.

5 people form a team, and the rattan or long card player serves as the team leader.

A team of 12 consists of a captain, a fireman, and two soldiers.

49 people are a post, which consists of the post chief and four teams of soldiers.

A capital of 100 people is composed of the capital, the deputy capital and the two guards.

The five capitals form one battalion, with a total of more than 500 people.

The battalion officer is called the commander, and also equipped with flag bearers, trumpeters, doctors, carpenters, tailors, etc. (the firearms unit will also be added in the future).

Zhu Guoxiang asked Daming Township to expand the army to 800 people, and Zhang Guangdao directly expanded the army to nearly 1100 people, forming two full-scale battalions and a cavalry team.

There are only more than 5000 people in Daming Township, and one out of five will seriously affect production.

Excluding the elderly, women, and children, most of the young and strong were conscripted, regardless of Zhu Guoxiang's statement that the only son in the family should not be conscripted.

Fortunately, they are all training during the slack season, and only a few workshops and shops are left to maintain the operation of Daming Township.

Shi Yuangong, Deng Chun and others were in charge of investigating various news in Chuanxia, ​​and they had already returned during the Chinese New Year.

Shi Yuangong served as the clerk.

Deng Chun served as the commander of the first battalion, and Xu Ning served as the deputy commander.

Sun Lan served as the commander of the second battalion, and Hua Rong served as the deputy commander.

Sun Lan is a veteran who followed Zhu Ming to suppress the bandits. He brought his family to vote four years ago. He performed extremely well in smuggling and was highly promoted by Zhang Guangdao.Moreover, this person can read a few big characters.

Xu Ning and Hua Rong are military officers in Tokyo, and their martial arts are quite outstanding.

But they were outsiders and underqualified.Being able to be the second-in-command was considered a special promotion, and Zhu Guoxiang spoke behind his back.

As for Yang Zhi, Lin Chong and others, they all went to Jintan Village in Yangzhou and Tiemao Village in Jinzhou, and they will form their own troops separately.

Tong Ershun received a knife, a pair of armor, and a helmet in the army.

The armor is half-body leather armor, which only covers the vital parts, and the helmet is also an ordinary rattan helmet.

Tong Ershun suddenly didn't want to be a fire soldier. He wanted to be a soldier because he looked more majestic.

Soldiers are all wearing rattan armor, battle skirts made of rattan, extending to the knees.The rattan helmet was also different, a piece of cloth fell down, and an iron piece was hung on the piece of cloth to protect the neck.

Tong Ershun looked at Jiang Yong and found that Brother Jiang had become a warrior.

Brother Jiang has a spear in his hand, and a bow and arrow on his back. After putting on the armor, he looks majestic.

For several days in a row, Tong Ershun was confused.

Except for one hour of physical training every day, the rest of the time is spent familiarizing with orders.

As a fire soldier, he only needs to recognize Jiang Yong's pennant.

But Jiang Yong and other team leaders, when identifying higher-level flags, the soldiers should also be familiar with them.Soldiers are not required to memorize but the basic concepts must be there.

There are also various orders with sounds: gongs, drums, horns, and whistles.

There are three kinds of horns, horn horn, trumpet, and Polo.

Polo is a musical instrument made of conch, and it can also be made of other materials. This is what "Big Blowing Conch" refers to.

All kinds of flags, all kinds of musical instruments, not to mention the small soldiers like Tong Ershun, even the captains like Jiang Yong can hardly adapt.

The training camp continued until the sixth day, and finally everyone did not make mistakes.

But only this time, someone made a mistake again in the retraining.

Seeing that Zhang Guangdao was still practicing the flag order, Shi Yuangong couldn't help but said: "General Zhang, is it time to practice the army formation?"

Zhang Guangdao shook his head: "No rush."

Shi Yuangong was very surprised. Although he didn't know how to fight, he had seen Xiang troops from all over the place.Those Xiang troops who could recognize orders were regarded as elite, but Zhang Guangdao planned to follow orders and prohibit them.

At this moment, there is no formation at all on the school field.

Many soldiers stood crookedly in a small group.But as soon as the order came out, under the command of the officers, the messy soldiers were able to respond quickly.

After practicing for half a month, Zhang Guangdao began to train the formation.

One month later, the mandarin duck formation was combined with the order, and actions were taken according to the order.

In a blink of an eye, it was the busy farming season again. In order to ensure agricultural production, the soldiers of the two battalions had to rotate.

One battalion drilled for three days in a row, and the other battalion went home to do farm work, and so on.Neighbors must help each other, especially to help soldiers who are training to collect food.

Zhu Guoxiang patrolled the fields all day long, and the village chief, security chief, and armor chief reported to work at any time.

Taking Yijia as the unit, whichever field's grain is ripe first, the entire Jiajia farmer has to harvest that field first.The work points are calculated according to the number of people and the number of days. The number of acres in each family is different. With mutual help, there must be some people who have more work points. These people will give material rewards afterwards.

It is necessary to train soldiers and produce, Zhu Guoxiang can only do this, but he has tempered the organizational strength of the grassroots Baojia.

After the busy season, the practice is still rotated.

It is equal to each soldier, training for three days and resting for three days, during which he can do his own thing.

This kind of training intensity has surpassed that of the Forbidden Army.

Of course, according to the system, the training of the forbidden army is still very powerful.

After Wang Anshi's reform, the imperial army practiced twice a day, and had to train for ten days in winter to practice the big formation.When the enforcement was the strictest, the soldiers of the imperial army would rather go to war than stay in the school for training.

Even the common people in the Gyeonggi area, Wang Anshi also used Baojia as a unit to train the militia during the slack season.

In order to escape the military training, the common people even mutilated themselves one after another.Because of the officers' various deductions, the militiamen couldn't get enough to eat, and they had to bring their own dry food on the way back and forth, and they were even transferred to work for free by the officers.

Wang Anshi hadn't stepped down yet, this kind of practice couldn't hold up anymore, and the forbidden army retaliated and slacked off from top to bottom.

The soldiers in Daming Township were very active. Anyway, they didn't have much work to do during the slack season. During the training period, they had three meals a day, and it didn't cost money to eat every meal.

Even though the food was consumed very quickly, Zhu Guoxiang had to go to the next few villages to buy food.

After three consecutive months, Zhu Guoxiang ordered to practice every five days in the face of rapidly decreasing food reserves.

At the same time, the smuggling trade resumed, and a group of soldiers were selected to sell tea to Shaanxi with the peasants.

Until winter, when the people were completely idle, Zhang Guangdao ordered the whole army to train again.

"Dong dong dong dong!"

A thousand soldiers heard the drum and moved, and the commander issued orders to his soldiers according to the flag order of the Chinese army.

Each capital, outpost, and team passed messages layer by layer and made different military actions.It was a little stagnant at the beginning, but gradually became smoother, and it was truly prohibited.

Of course, this is just a drill, and it will definitely be deformed on the battlefield.

You have to go through several wars to play more perfectly, and you will always be just a recruit if you don't see blood.

But this was enough, Shi Yuangong looked at the army in front of him, although there were only a thousand or so men, it seemed to him that there were millions of troops.

A thousand elites are enough to sweep Lizhou Road.

Take down a county, and you can immediately storm the army.To lay down the road, you can have tens of thousands of troops.

Taking down the four roads in Chuanxia can pull up more than [-] troops.

Among the more than [-] troops, only [-] such elites need to be trained, which is enough to separate the entire Sichuan and see the world.

(End of this chapter)