Song Yi

Chapter 428
After Du Wenhao accepted the Sanya, he made a big adjustment to the high-level military generals, and almost all of them were replaced by his own people.However, the middle and lower ranks of officers almost remained unchanged.This Guo Ce was also the former general. Du Wenhao knew something tricky when he heard what he said. Originally, he just randomly chose the nearest garrison outside the city to inspect, and wanted to know the situation of the garrison outside the city. He didn't expect the first stop. Then there is a problem.

Du Wenhao said coldly: "You have time to drink, but I don't have time to accompany you. I will give you a moment, and immediately gather all the soldiers in the headquarters to the training field. If the sergeant is a moment late, he will hit you with ten army sticks, and you will decide for yourself Go ahead. Lawyer, mark the time for me!"

The military attorney agreed, and began to count the time with a clepsydra in his hand.

The garrison has only one command (battalion). According to the establishment, the strength of the first command is 500 people. The barracks are not large, and a moment (about 15 minutes) of emergency assembly is enough time.

Commander Guo Ce was terrified when he heard this, and hurriedly bowed his hands and ordered the soldiers around him to beat drums and assemble.

The drums were beating, and it was almost time for a cup of tea, but less than twenty or thirty people came in twos and threes.Guo Ce was so angry that he picked up his whip and ran towards the barracks, roaring as he ran, "Get up! Damn it, hurry up! The inspectors are here to inspect! I'm going to kill you if you're late!"

After he roared, dozens of soldiers came out of the barracks one after another, all of them were disheveled, and some of them were still arguing about winning or losing just now, obviously they were gambling.Some soldiers were still sleeping soundly in the barracks and did not get up until the leather whip was whipped on their upper bodies.

When all the soldiers arrived, three quarters passed.

Du Wenhao asked Guo Ce coldly: "How many people do you command?"

Guo Ce timidly said: "Report to the general, 500 people."

"500 people?" Du Wenhao glanced at all the soldiers in the field, "Are there 500 people here? Tell me the count!"

The soldiers counted one by one, and the number they got was only 220, which was less than half.

Du Wenhao said angrily: "What about the rest? Where did they go?"

Guo Ce panicked: "This..., get out, get out!"

"Nonsense, if you don't go out, will you go to heaven and enter the earth? I am asking where they went? Don't tell me that you don't know!"

Guo Ce wiped the cold sweat off his forehead: "Most... have gone back to Yiyi, and a small part of them are watching games in wine shops and... and gambling houses in the county..."

Du Wenhao already knew that the army was engaged in profit-making activities. At that time, he only knew that the Xiang army was doing this, but he didn't expect the imperial army to do the same. They also used more than half of their troops and even set up gambling houses.He was so angry that he asked, "Is the imperial court allowing you to do this?"

Of course, the imperial court explicitly prohibited the military from doing business. However, in the face of a huge military expenditure gap, they had to turn a blind eye to the military's business.So Guo Ce is not very nervous, everyone is doing it anyway.

He said with a smile: "General, the imperial court does not allow it, but hey, the brothers also have to eat."

Du Wenhao knew that this was not a problem with this battalion, but a problem with the entire army. He didn't want to get into this matter yet. He wanted to beat the commander with a baton first, but it still depends on how he leads the troops in the drill. He said coldly: "You are two quarters of an hour overtime, and the twenty military sticks are temporarily remembered. I will watch your troops perform. If the performance is good, I will release your military stick. If the performance is not good, the old and new accounts will be settled together. !"

Guo Ce hastily agreed, and accompanied Du Wenhao and other officers to the high platform of the training ground. Du Wenhao sat in the top chair, and the rest of the officers stood sideways behind him.

Guo Ce stood on the side of the high platform, waving the command flag in his hand: "The first capital, come out! Go to the target position! ——Hold the crossbow and prepare——! Let it go!"

Originally, there were 100 troops in Yidu, but more than half of them went out to do business.Therefore, there are less than 50 crossbowmen standing on the hundred-step target.They all hold jumping stirrup crossbows.

Fifty arrows flew out, and there was a mess of thumping sounds. Du Wenhao looked like that, and almost sat down on the ground from the stool. ——I saw only a dozen arrows inserted into a row of human-shaped haystack targets!More than half of them missed the target and hit the earth wall with a thick meadow behind it!There were a few who couldn't even open the crossbow, couldn't load the arrow, and stood there holding the crossbow with their heads down.

Seeing Du Wenhao's reaction out of the corner of Guo Ce's eyes, he was not only nervous, he said sharply: "Give me some energy! Put the arrow on the crossbow! Get ready——let it go!"

This time, perhaps because they were very nervous, they missed more targets.

"Crossbow and arrow..."

When Guo Ce continued to shout.Du Wenhao suddenly shouted: "Okay! Change to the next team!"

Guo Ce hastily agreed, and a new team came up. This team was also crossbowmen, with similar results to the previous team, and the next two teams were archers.Although the speed of shooting arrows from the bow is faster than that of the crossbow, its accuracy is not as good as that of the crossbow, so the results are even less satisfactory. Most of the shots miss the target.There are also a small number of soldiers who cannot pull the crossbow.

The last team is the Gunners, holding carbine-rejecting guns to prevent the enemy cavalry from charging, and practicing stabbing skills.

This stabbing technique is a prescribed movement, similar to the military boxing of the modern army. There are relatively few movements, but it is more practical. The key to resisting the impact of cavalry is to be uniform. It is easy to be breached by enemy cavalry. Once it breaks through close to the body, the spearman becomes a living target for cavalry sabers.That would be quite dangerous.

However, Du Wenhao felt like crying after performing a set of stabbing techniques—not only was his movements messy, but a small part of them were even at a loss, as if he had forgotten how to use this set of marksmanship.

This is the imperial army stationed outside the capital!It is the core barrier of the defense of the capital, unexpectedly at this level, let alone elite, not much better than the yamen archers he saw in Dongda County!

Du Wenhao has been leading the soldiers for a while, and he also watched the infantry drill of Ban Zhiyu's former guards. At that time, he thought it was okay. underground.

Du Wenhao said in a deep voice: "Tell the crossbowmen to work one by one. I want to see how strong they can shoot the bow!"

"Yes!" Guo Ce hastily ordered the crossbowmen to go to the stage to line up and bring in the crossbows for testing. The crossbowmen pulled the crossbows to test the fighting strength of the bows.

After the test, [-]% of the bow and crossbowmen were able to shoot eight fights with two stones and four fights with two stones, reaching the middle level.Another [-]% had good grades, and of course, [-]% couldn't pull the worst seven-bow and two-stone-one-crossbow.

Du Wenhao was gratified that among the two hundred soldiers, [-]% of the soldiers had good basic physical fitness. As long as they trained strictly, they could still become good soldiers. It's lack of training.It is understandable that the army is busy with business all day long, so there is no time for military training.

Du Wenhao also wanted to see the comprehensive combat capability, and said again: "Beat the drums, line up for combined training!"

Guo Ce hastily agreed, waved the command flag, and the drums beat. The soldiers carried bows and crossbows, carried spears and flags, and began to scurry here and there, looking for their respective positions and forming a battle formation.After spending a cup of tea, the formation was still not in order, because a small number of soldiers didn't even know where they should stand.scurry around in the queue.

Du Wenhao walked to the stage with a livid face, without looking at Guo Ce, and said coldly: "This is the team you lead? How can you fight against the ground if you don't even know how to stand in combat formation?"

Guo Ce blushed and said in a low voice: "I'm dereliction of duty, please forgive me, the general, I will definitely train well in the future, and lead the team well..."

"Hmph! I'll give you a quarter of an hour now, go down and organize the team for me. Later, you have to charge, defend, shift camps, and change formations. I don't want to see such a mess of mobs again!"

"Yes!" Guo Ce jumped off the high platform holding the command flag, and ran to the front of the formation in a gust of wind, kicking and beating, and finally let the few soldiers who couldn't find their positions return to the team, and after finishing the team, he said loudly After repeating the following training requirements several times, and seeing that the time was up, I ran back to the stage, waved the command flag, and started to practice with drums.

It's a pity that there hasn't been any wars around the capital for hundreds of years, and the armaments are slack. His army has not had formal training for too long, so how can it be rectified in such a short time of a cup of tea.

There was a problem with the first movement. Originally, with the drumbeating signal and the waving of flags of different colors, it should have been the front row refusing to kneel down, and the back row jumping stirrup crossbowmen to fire their crossbows. I haven't trained for a long time, and I misheard the drumbeat, and it sounded like retreating to defend. When I pulled back the gun, the crossbowman in the back row was stepping on the crossbow with one foot, equipped with arrows, and saw him stabbing his thigh with the barrel of the gun , suddenly panicked, loosened his foot, the crossbow rebounded, and hit his face with a bang.

The soldier squatted on the ground covering his face with an ouch, and blood flowed from his fingers!
The surrounding soldiers suddenly panicked and gathered around.

Du Wenhao sternly said: "Soldiers are injured, of course there are military doctors to take care of them. This is a military exercise. There is no order, but the formation is disordered. How can such a team win the battle!"

The soldiers stopped immediately.

Du Wenhao shouted: "Military doctor! Lift me down! Military doctor?!—Where is the military doctor?! Where did the military doctor go?"

Guo Ce panicked and said: "Military doctor..., the military doctor went to the military medicine shop in the city for consultation..."

The army's business has spread to all aspects, and even pharmacies and medical clinics have intervened, which really made Du Wenhao dumbfounded.

He said loudly: "The drill is suspended, I will heal him!" After saying that, he jumped off the high platform.

All the officers and soldiers heard his voice, and they all knew that the new inspector of the Sanya capital was a dignified imperial doctor, and they were relieved to have him take care of them. When they saw him running over, they immediately returned to the queue.

Xu Huaqiang and other guards also came over, and Du Wenhao ordered the guards to help the injured soldier to sit on the bench beside the court, and asked him to remove his bloody hands, and found a finger-long laceration on his eyebrows and forehead. , deep to the bone, only an inch away from hurting the eye, what a blessing.Immediately tore off a piece of the skirt and kneaded it into a ball, pressed the wound, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to fetch it from the general doctor's outpatient box.

(End of this chapter)