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Chapter 514 New Army Training
(This chapter involves some recruit training, pensions, benefits, etc., you can skip it if you don’t like it)
In the whole world, because of the upcoming Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty, the situation gradually began to turmoil.

In the whole incident, Hu Biao was like the eye of the storm.

There are also Xu Feng, Cang Guan, Feng Rui, Huang Yizhi, Lang Qing, A Li, Lao Hei, Corn, Old Snake, Yu Hanfeng, Singer, Warrior, Er Fatty, War Elephant, Big Fish, Windmill, Gust of Wind, The imperial concubine and other survivors.

Their performance is far calmer than what the outside world imagined.

Or to put it another way, in addition to Hu Biao, the three members of the intelligence system, and the head of the business department, the imperial concubine, they should pay more or less attention to the external situation.

Everyone else in the team simply doesn't have extra time to care about other things under the current situation.

Just the work assigned to them in the huge Northern Expedition plan already involved all their personal energies.

However, thanks to their efforts, the whole plan has been advanced in an orderly manner, and some pretty good results have been achieved...

Time: The eighth day of November in the first year of Maode.

Location: Seven or eight miles away from the east gate of Kaifeng City, on a shooting range open to the outside world for the New Army.

A man dressed up as the company commander of the Song Dynasty Xinjun shouted a long command: "Get ready, aim, fire~"

Under this series of orders, a total of 45 soldiers of the new army immediately took up the brown Beth muskets in their hands.

First, he aimed at a position 30 meters away from his eyes, knelt down and formed a row of targets, and pulled the triggers with his fingertips one after another.

Suddenly, at the moment when a burst of choking white smoke rose, a thunderous gunshot also sounded.

It's a pity that in the next second, a huge burst of laughter rang out from the mouths of a group of women and idlers on the left and right sides.

The company commander looked at it and almost died of anger.

Because in such a round of firing at close range, it was difficult to even miss it, but the result was that he didn't want to see people.

Only nine targets were knocked to the ground, and although the remaining 21 people were almost scared to death, nothing happened.

God knows, there are so many other bullets under this firing, where did they go?
In fact, it wasn't just the new company commander who was furious at such a result on the spot, even the big fish who was silently watching such a scene from the side.

Also in a great embarrassment, he wanted to cover his face with his hands.

Even if he didn't cover his face, with a very speechless emotion in his mouth, he cursed: "These bastards just need to practice to death~"

In fact, there is a scene like this, it is quite normal to be serious about it.

When the members of the team were still in Zhuxian Town, they reached a unified consensus on how to deal with the prisoners captured in this battle.

Those with blood debts were shot, and their heads were used to form a part of Jingguan, which was used to deter enemies from all directions.

Those who have no blood debts are sent to do coolies, and use enough sweat to make up for the sins they have committed.

Based on such a concept, among the total of more than 15 captives, there are now 17081 seriously injured, who are already dead.

The remaining 10,000+ people are in the process of reporting each other.

Because the whistleblower can slightly reduce their guilt, at least they can have a meal of wine and meat as a reward before they die; a total of 40311 people were caught out and faced the end of being executed.

In such a process, because of Jurchen's blood and debts.

Basically, among the 100 Jurchen captives, there are often only five or six who can be exempted from being executed. Generally speaking, few of the Jurchens captured this time can survive.

However, in the actual operation of handling these prisoners, there have been some slight changes.

Of course, such a change does not mean that those captives with blood debts will be lucky enough to survive, it is just that they can live longer.

The reason is very simple. When Hu Biao and the others were expanding the size of the new army, they suddenly thought of something:
Based on their principle of recruiting recruits, they don't want to be cunning. Try to recruit some peasants who have never seen the world in the countryside. It is best to be honest and honest with a family and a family.

Such a principle has the advantage that it can be ordered and prohibited in future battles.

However, there are also shortcomings. These honest people need long-term training to become a qualified fighter on the battlefield, and they are used to the blood on the battlefield.

Therefore, given the current limited time, even recruit training has been reduced from the original three months to only one month.

Why not use those recruits to execute these prisoners who are destined to be executed?
Let these people play a little role before they die.

To know!Whether a soldier has seen blood on his hands makes a fundamental difference on the battlefield.

As a result, a total of 40311 prisoners with blood debts in their hands were able to eat cornbread and porridge for a period of time in the prisoner-of-war camp.

When it came time for the recruits, they were gradually recruited from all over the place.

After a few more days of preliminary queue and musket training, the scene of different recruits being pulled here to serve as executioners began to appear every day.

As for the process, there are still many idle men and women around?

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is quite a normal thing.

It needs to be explained that these people are all foreigners who came to Kaifeng City from other areas in the recent period.

The original natives of Kaifeng City are now basically busy with various jobs in factories.

Even the women are busy sewing uniforms and boots for the new army, so where is the time to join in the fun.

Ever since Kaifeng City, the most prosperous city in the world, has become the city that everyone in the world is most looking forward to since it was no longer threatened by the golden men.

Every day, I don't know how many scholars, businessmen, craftsmen, and even some farmers came to such a huge city with the expectation of a better life in the future.

Their arrival also allowed Kaifeng City to quickly recover and become more and more beautiful.

And when these people came to Kaifeng City, the first places they wanted to visit were not the places like Daxiangguo Temple and Mashi Street in the past.

It became the shooting range outside the city where more than 1000 golden men were shot every day without talking.

There is also a further location, the "Great Song Yimin Monument", the martyrs' cemetery area next to it, and the Beijing Temple that is taking shape every day.

Even going to Donghuamen, the Invalids Academy full of disabled soldiers, compared with the now dilapidated Daxiangguo Temple, it is even more attractive.

Of course, such an approach by Hu Biao and the others also aroused the opposition of many old scholars.

In particular, it is said that a young child, led by his parents, was terrified after watching the shooting of prisoners of war and Beijing observation. It was not until he made incense and made a wish at Daxiangguo Temple that he got better.

So with a guy's joint name, he wrote a letter to Queen Maode and Hu Biao.

The content of the declaration is nothing more than the set of killing prisoners is ominous, and the dignified Song Dynasty must convince people with virtue.

It's a pity that some of these joint letters were sent to Hu Biao, and the situation was a little better; the goods were just burned without even looking at them.

The matter of shooting and piling up the Beijing Temple was not affected in the slightest.

Great, the next day in the "Da Song Times", Huang Yizhi published an article under the pseudonym "Huan Sheng" titled:
On the importance of flower blood, such an article.

Queen Maude put these things away, but not for reading; instead, it played a role similar to recording the names of these people in a small book.

There is no doubt that after Queen Maud really takes power, the fate of these guys will be more miserable...

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Alright, let's put the picture back on the shooting range.

Big Fish, who was originally in a good mood, the chief instructor of the new barracks, finally couldn't sit still after seeing the terrible results of the executions of the recruits.

After going straight over, the muskets were checked one by one.

After some inspections, Big Yu, the head coach of the boxing gym in the modern plane, a man with a strong body like a cow, almost got high blood pressure out of anger.

why?There are only 45 musketeers, but there are many strange problems.

Seven of them didn't even pull out the connection bar under the tension, they just pulled the trigger.

Not to mention the fact that it is strange to be able to hit the target in this way, if the cleaning stick is blown away on the battlefield, wouldn't the musket immediately become a fire stick?
There are three people, and they simply forgot to pour the primer into the gunpowder pool, so it is strange that it can start.

In addition, due to shaking hands, more than half of the gunpowder was sprinkled on the ground, resulting in a serious lack of bullet kinetic energy.

There is even a god-man who doesn't know what's in his head?Actually stuffed three lead bullets into the barrel, and then completely blocked the barrel.

Good guy!Fortunately, this thing didn't go off. If it did go off, wouldn't the gun barrel commander be blown up, affecting the recruits nearby?
Forcibly taking a deep breath, Big Yu calmed down a little from the feeling that his blood vessels were about to burst.

He picked up the musket whose barrel was blocked because it was stuffed with three lead bullets, and slapped the platoon leaders of the recruit company head-on and face-to-face.

While whipping, he cursed in his mouth:

"What the hell! Yours is a veteran of our Fifth Infantry Division. Even if I send a pig as an instructor, I can't teach such an outrageous situation.

Just do what you can, if you can't do it, go home and pick up your child, don't embarrass our old fifth teacher here. "

Fortunately, even though Big Yu was in a rage, he still had some measure in his heart.

It was just turning the barrel of the gun and shooting at the recruits' platoon leaders, instead of holding the musket upside down and using the hard jujube butt to greet them, that would really kill people.

But even so, the company platoon leaders of those recruits were pumped enough.

And after Big Yucai stopped, these company platoon leaders who had been whipped by the teacher, with great irritability in their hearts, began to greet a group of rookie recruits with sticks and soles in their hands.

Good guy!It can be said that this kind of brutal method, which is similar to the army of little devils, has formed a tradition in the army.

It is even foreseeable that such a tradition will still spread in Song Dynasty and the entire planet after many years.

Have no idea?When Hu Biao and the others were training the first batch of new troops, they could only do so in a hurry.

After the crisis of the Jin people's attack on the Song Dynasty is resolved, some civilized training methods should be provided, and the soldiers should never be beaten or scolded.

Results?For the current second batch of recruits, the training time is even more rushed.

What kind of civilized training method can only end directly without starting.

Fortunately, even in the face of such uncivilized training methods, there have been at least six cases of desertion in the huge recruit camp so far.

And after the deserters were dealt with seriously in public, there have been no new deserters in the past two days.

The reason for this is that on the one hand, the soldiers they recruited are basically honest farmers, which played a considerable role.

Fearing the harsh military law and consequences, these people gritted their teeth and endured it.

On the other hand, the favorable treatment given to the recruits also played a key role.

Although only more than half a year has passed, Hu Biao's economic situation has improved a long time ago. It's not the kind of situation where they have to exchange their training uniforms for old clothes, and then modify them to make do with them.

For a group of recruits who are basically peasant men.

I can eat enough every day, and I have a meal of meat, eggs and meat dishes in two days.

They are sent out once a year in spring and autumn. Counting training uniforms and shirts, there are a total of six sets of clothes, shoes and socks. These are already excellent treatment.

More importantly, now every month, the new army already has a decent military salary.

Even new recruits who have just joined the army will have consistent military pay for a month.

Now that Kaifeng City has greatly reduced prices, you can now buy half a stone, that is, 46 catties of rice, or more than one stone of miscellaneous grains, one bolt of silk, three and a half bolts of linen, or one of them.

Such a military salary is already much better than their farming at home.

If he became a veteran, or even promoted to an officer, such a military salary would roll upwards.

Qiong Qiuba's statement has nothing to do with the new army anyway.

The most important point is that the court's compensation standards for the dead and seriously injured in the last battle in Zhuxian Town have been lowered, and a permanent rule has been formed.

Specifically: the court of the dead in battle will immediately pay a pension of [-] guanqian to their families.

If there are parents, widows, and children in the family, they can receive a living allowance from the street office every month; the amount may not be much, but it is enough to live on.

Until the parents died of old age, the widow remarried, and the children reached the age of 16.

Moreover, children can enjoy a series of preferential treatment and care when they enter school or enter higher education.

For severely injured and disabled people, in addition to receiving an objective retirement pay, they will also arrange as much as possible a job in the imperial court's factories, street offices, and yamen according to the different conditions of the disability, so that they can make a living from it.

In short, it is to use Hu Xianggong's words: As long as the Song Dynasty court is here, all the warriors who fought for the country will never have to worry about being injured or killed in battle.

Based on all the above, these recruits were able to persevere.

In the end, under some beatings, the recruit company commander with a bruised nose and swollen face shouted, facing the rearranged battle line, "Get the bayonet~"

After the order reached their ears, the recruits, who were also bruised and swollen, began to draw out the bayonets in the leather holsters around their waists, and put them on the barrels of their guns with a 'Kaka~'.

Then, the company commander yelled out again: "Let's go together~"

Under such an order, the recruits, who were also acting as military musicians, began to beat a burst of brisk drumbeats; allowing the recruits to step on the drumbeats and hold bright bayonets, and start moving forward.

Relying on the efforts of the company platoon leaders to maintain and advance the process, it can only be said that it is barely deformed.

As for what enters the wall, forget it.

This kind of advance did not stop until they came to the kneeling captives; a new order was issued from the mouth of the recruit company commander:
"Stop, stab~"

Therefore, under the continuous stabbing of sharp bayonets, those captives who had been lingering on the brink of death and waiting for a long time fell to the ground one by one with holes all over their bodies.

After being completely dead, on the face with a painful expression, there was even a frozen smile of relief that he was finally dead.

And in such a process, many of the rookie recruits who could hold back their vomit when firing their guns, vomited sporadically on the spot.

The women and idlers who saw such a scene let out loud laughter.

It's just that what these women and idlers don't know is that in the process of their jokes above, these rookies in front of them have now completed a fundamental transformation...

In the time that followed, these novices, who vomited profusely, were allowed to retreat after they lifted all the corpses on the ground into the carriage.

Then, another company of recruits entered the arena.

Big Fish roared: "Bring the next batch of captives up~"

Under such an order, another thirty captives were dragged up, and many of them became incontinent because of the fear in their hearts.

That is to say, their trousers were tied up with straw ropes in advance, so that the shooting range was not full of filth.

It's just that no one has the slightest sympathy for the ugliness of these people; when their hands are stained with blood, it is doomed.

Only those innocent people killed by them are eligible to forgive them.

As for the scene of such a group of recruits executing the captives, Big Fish stopped watching.

The situation of the entire new army training can be said to be complicated, and he has been staying here for so much time now.

However, in line with the idea that since he has come, before returning to the recruit camp, he rode a horse to the 'Da Song Yimin Monument' several miles away.

Because beside the towering monument, there are all the cemeteries of all the new soldiers who died in the battle of Zhuxian Town.

Among them, 1736 people under his command of the Fifth Infantry Division alone are buried here; their neat tombstones are lined up like a forest as if they were alive.

After receiving a jar of good wine from the guard.

While the big fish was pouring on some tombstones, he muttered in a low voice: "Brothers bless this Northern Expedition with success, and let that big Jin Kingdom become the dust of history forever..."

(End of this chapter)