I want to be emperor

Chapter 28
In this recruitment, Huang Sangou was not an exception. In fact, many people who came to recruit soldiers were in a similar situation to him, and the family really couldn't help it.

However, the ones who came were all bachelors who had nothing to worry about. Those young and strong who had married wives and had children and needed to serve their parents did not apply.

After all, they have married wives and had children. There are old and young children here. If he, as the pillar of the family, goes to enlist as a soldier, he will still have something to eat, but his parents, wife and daughter will probably starve to death.

When Luo Zhixue recruited soldiers, they didn't pay the soldiers more than their daily meals. There was no way for them to support their families.

Therefore, don't expect to be able to support the family by going to Sanshui Village as a bandit soldier. At most, he just feeds himself. As for the family, don't count on it.

Luo Zhixue and the others stayed in Huangjia Village for a long time, and finally recruited fifteen young adults.

Then Luo Zhixue and the others went to the next village to continue recruiting. After visiting several villages in a row, they finally recruited 60 people.

Of the sixty new recruits, half were allocated to the supply battalion.

Luo Zhixue was very excited and looking forward to the addition of No. 30 people under his command. Although the No. 30 people were still young and strong, they still needed hard training to get them into battle.

But, no matter what, this is his own soldier.

This is different from the prisoners of war managed by him before.

Now there are more than 60 prisoners of war in Sanshui Village. Luo Zhixue has always been responsible for the management of these prisoners of war. In the early stage, he mainly built various facilities such as barracks and walls. They all worked in the fields.

These prisoners of war seem to be quite a number, but Luo Zhixue has no way to select people from them to train and form an army. It's not that Luo Zhixue doesn't want to, in fact, he has long thought about directly selecting people from these prisoners of war to expand the supply camp. What about the scale?

But Sun Chengli refused!

Sun Jiancheng was very repulsive to these prisoners of war who were born as thieves, not only looking down on them, but even showing a trace of hostility.

Sun Chengli was determined not to let any thieves appear in his army.

And Luo Zhixue is still Sun Jiancheng's subordinate now, so naturally he can't confront Sun Jiancheng on this kind of matter, so Luo Zhixue didn't even have the idea of ​​persuading Sun Jiancheng, but faithfully carried out Sun Jiancheng's order: treat these prisoners of war simply as labor use.

As for the future, we will talk about it later.

So in the past, Luo Zhixue seemed to be in charge of many people, but they were all prisoners of war. In fact, his real subordinates were only four personal soldiers.

Sometimes when manpower was needed to do things, Luo Zhixue went directly to Sun Chengcheng's pro-army to second manpower.

Now, with the No. 30 recruits, he finally has more subordinates. Not to mention whether these people will be able to fight in the future, but anyway, when doing many things, he doesn't need to ask the relatives to borrow people.

For the arrangement of the No. 30 recruits, Luo Zhixue had already had a plan in mind, and he could just follow Sun Jianli's original camp formation.

It is directly compiled into three Shi, and there are two teams under the Shi, and there are five people in the Wu.

The equipment is also simple, just use the inventory as a backup, including those newly forged weapons that have been repaired after arriving in Sanshui Village.

Equipped with traditional cold weapons such as spears, waist knives, shields, bows and arrows.

As for the armor, don't count on it. The people in Sanshui Village don't have much armor at all. Among the more than 60 cavalry, half of them don't have any armor.

It was impossible for Luo Zhixue to take out the armor of the four elite cavalrymen including An Yongduo, and distribute it to the infantry of the supply battalion.

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 battalion is positioned as light infantry equipped with cold weapons. Sun Chengli and the others are familiar with various organization and training methods. There is no need for Luo Zhi to learn many details.

And there was nothing to worry about in the selection of the chief. Among the four personal soldiers under Luo Zhixue, Ding Chuwu, Ma Dapao, and Zhao Hongshu each held the post of chief.

As for the rest of An Yongduo, they continued to follow Luo Zhixue as a personal soldier, mainly because Luo Zhixue felt that this person was easy to use, and having him by his side made it easier for him to deal with everything.

However, Luo Zhixue also told Ernst in private that their supply battalion will continue to expand, and when the second batch of newcomers arrives, they will select some elite soldiers from the supply battalion as personal soldiers. By Ernst Young.

In this regard, Ernst & Young is naturally very happy.

Compared with the ordinary super long and so on, the position of captain of the personal army is naturally more attractive.

After finalizing the three chief candidates, the supply battalion had begun to take shape, so Luo Zhixue also started formal training.

In order to be able to form an army quickly, it is also to implement one's will during training, and it is also to plant the idea of ​​allegiance among these recruits in the first place.

Luo Zhixue went off to train the recruits himself, and brought out the training plan that he had painstakingly pondered 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 bad, this training plan Luo Zhixue is based on the military training he experienced in his previous life, combined with some hearsay and many things he took for granted, focusing on physical fitness and discipline training,
According to Luo Zhixue's thinking, if such a set of things is taken out, it is enough to train infantry in the modern era.

But...

What Luo Zhixue didn't expect was that the training plan he worked out with a lot of thought would be unacceptable...

Speaking of dissatisfaction with the environment, it is naturally not because Luo Zhixue's brain is broken, and he insists on letting these thirty recruits play in line to shoot or even go further into the skirmish line.

In fact, according to Luo Zhixue's training plan, the training mainly focuses on traditional cold weapon combat, and does not involve firearms.

The content of these soldiers' personal skills and tactics is directly responsible for the four soldiers under their hands.

The four soldiers under his command were all from the cavalry of the frontier army, and they also consulted Lin Dongsheng, Wang Xiazi and others a lot during this time.

Therefore, I dare not say how strong it is in training soldiers' combat skills and formation coordination, but at least they can be done.

In fact, the entire training program could not go on after only one day, because there was a problem in physical training.

When the soldiers were training on the first day, seven or eight of them could not hold on just when they were running and training in line. On the second day, a soldier was foaming at the mouth while training. ...almost died.

At first, Luo Zhixue thought it was just that the soldiers were not used to this kind of high-intensity training, as long as they got used to it, it would be fine.

But on the third day, the situation became more serious. He found that many soldiers had already lost their feet, looking weak and about to fall down at any time.

At that time, Luo Zhixue couldn't understand that they would do this?

But when he saw the food for dinner that day, he realized that the high-intensity physical training he created was just wishful thinking...

These soldiers eat three meals a day, but breakfast is just porridge, and there is dry rice for noon and dinner, but the amount is also limited, and there is no meat at the same time.

These people actually only eat a bowl of porridge a day, and then eat a few rice balls plus some green vegetables, pickles and the like.

If this standard of food is placed on ordinary people, it is enough to eat, and it can even be regarded as full.

But for recruits who need high-intensity physical training, it is far from enough.

These recruits consumed a lot of energy during high-intensity physical training, but they couldn't get enough supplements from the food, so there was a situation that made Luo Zhixue frown: These recruits became weaker and weaker as they trained!

Luo Zhixue had no doubts at all that if he continued to train intensively, these people would probably end up worse than those prisoners of war in the prisoner-of-war camp.

Although the food in the prisoner-of-war camp is poor, and they have to do heavy labor every day, the energy consumed every day is still far less than these recruits who are 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 ensure training needs, but this method is absolutely impossible to do with the current food reserves and estimated food sources in Sanshui Village of.

The food in Sanshui Village is limited, and Sun Jiancheng is still counting on recruiting hundreds of people in the future. If the supply is opened up, they won't even be able to survive this winter!

When the food supply cannot be increased, Luo Zhixue can only adopt the second method, which is to reduce the training intensity.

Only by reducing the training intensity can these recruits not be trained to be skinny and skinny.

This situation improved as the training intensity decreased.

Of course, even if the training intensity is reduced, the training intensity of the supply battalion is still high-intensity compared with other armies of the same era, at least they are training every day.

Many officers and soldiers of the Ming army only train every three to five days. This is not because the generals are lazy and unwilling to train, but because they practice too hard and can easily disable soldiers.

In these years, any problem involving food is difficult to solve.

The same is true for Luo Zhixue. While reducing the training intensity of the recruits in the supply battalion, he is also trying to get more food supplies.

Don't count on the food stored in the army. Those food are rations for subsistence, and arrangements have already been made, and there is a fixed amount of how much to use every month.

Even Sun Chengli himself did not dare to use the stored grain without authorization, because once he used it, he would not be able to obtain enough additional grain in a short period of time, and in winter and spring, people might starve to death.

Although Luo Zhixue was in charge of the luggage, he couldn't directly use a large amount of stored food.

If Sun Chengli found out about this, it would be fatal.

For this reason, Luo Zhixue had to think of other ways, such as arranging the recruits from the supply battalion to catch fish and shrimps in the river, hunt from the mountains, pick wild fruits and vegetables, etc., to increase the food supply as much as possible.

(End of this chapter)