A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 80 Incentives

A few days later, Wang Dou, together with Lin Daofu and other military officers in the fort, asked the commander Feng Dachang to lead a group of scribes to compile a "Shunxiang Fort Infantry Manual", perfecting some training outlines, and copying out the original military discipline regulations together with other officials. A thick booklet of military regulations was written.

In the future, these manuals will be copied into several copies and distributed to each post commander, captain, and armor commander. Compared with soldiers, every officer must memorize these manuals. It is still limited to three months to complete the entire manual. You must memorize it by heart, when the time comes, if you draw your back and recite a wrong one, you will be an officer, and you will be served with the same army stick.

This caused everyone to complain, not to mention the soldiers, these officers were basically illiterate, and it was really hard for them to memorize the documents.

But Wang Dou has no room for negotiation on this point.Now firearms, artillery and other technical arms in the Ming army have been popularized, but the officers are generally illiterate and ignorant, lacking the ability to use the weapons and regulations in their hands, no matter how advanced weapons are placed in their hands, the result is twice the result with half the effort. Wang Dou does not allow this situation appeared in his own army.

To implement strict discipline and training in the army, memorizing various regulations is the first priority. In ancient times, how many officers had the opportunity or thought to read military books?Fighting all depends on personal experience and family inheritance, so in ancient times, good generals were especially valued, but in modern armies, officers must understand the rules and strictly follow the rules to fight and form a system. Even if they lose the battle, it will not hurt the fundamentals.

Wang Dou realized this, and it was his strict requirement, so every afternoon, when the officers of the Shun Township Army frowned and listened to Wang Dou and others explaining the regulations, no matter how dizzy they were, they still had to fight. Get up and listen.

On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month in the eighth year of Chongzhen, Wang Dou also organized a mixed formation training for the pikemen and firecrackers.

In the formation, the sentry is used as the combat unit, the pikemen are in the center, and the firecrackers are on both sides, forming several deep horizontal lines.In the Wangdou plan, in the future, the pikemen in the center will deploy one or two layers of firecrackers in front of them, or place some cannons, and the rest of the pikemen will be concentrated on the two wings. The latter golden cavalry is best at attacking from the two wings, which can effectively prevent them from attacking. Break through from the wings.

If there is artillery in front, it can greatly attack the opponent's frontal attack force. In the end, the pikemen will fight hand-to-hand with the Houjin army, and exchange the cheap pikemen of the other side for the lives of the opponent's experienced swordsmen and shields.

If there are heavy artillery, some can also be placed on the two wings to destroy the enemy's attack on the two wings.

In addition, a group of cavalry is needed to be deployed on the two wings or in the center of the army as a reconnaissance and post-war pursuit force.

After this mixed formation training, Wang Dou made a rule of joint training every half month.

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Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming soon, Wang Dou plans to implement in the army the martial arts ranking system that was originally implemented in Jingbian Fort.

Unlike the previous four grades of upper, middle, lower, and unqualified, this time Wang Dou intends to follow the example of Qi's army and implement the nine-grade system of skills in the army.

Three for the upper class, three for the middle class, and three for the lower class.

Each class has different treatment and rewards and punishments. The exam is held every two months, and the ups and downs are uncertain.

In addition to the top three, the remaining six are middle and low. Every person who is inferior or regressive in the test must be punished to prevent the sergeant from being lazy and not thinking about making progress.

Of course, in the top three, if there are those who regress, they will also be punished.

The current Shunxiang Army, because it is a mixed practice, has not yet drawn a level of treatment in the army. Their daily training, in addition to eating enough grains, they also eat two or two taels of meat.

After the level of skill is drawn, the sergeant with superior martial arts can eat four taels of meat every day, and he can avoid kneeling when facing the captain or captain of his team.In the future, their promotion, this technical ability, will also be used as an important criterion.

Of course, this will cost Wang Dou a lot of money and meat in the future.

Now there is no division of martial arts levels in the army, each sergeant gets two taels of meat every day, and eight sergeants get a catty of meat.At this time, the pigs only grew to 140 catties a year, and about [-] catties of meat were produced.These five or six hundred soldiers had to eat one of Wang Dou's pigs or sheep almost a day.

The pigs raised in Jingbian Fort don’t want to grow up until the middle of next year. Most of these pigs and sheep have to be purchased from outsiders. Although the price of local pigs and sheep in Baoan Prefecture has dropped rapidly, it is also a big deal for Wang Dou. A big expense.

There is also grain and rice. Five or six hundred sergeants can eat more than a stone of rice and noodles a day, which is not a small sum every day.

Although Wang Dou had a few thousand taels of silver in stock, he had to buy more than 300 shi of grain and rice from Zhoucheng, so he had to calculate and calculate carefully before spending.Maybe after the iron mine is opened next year, he can sell iron to make money, and then go out to suppress the bandits a few times, grab a few thousand taels of silver at a time, and return with thousands of shimimai, so that he can ease his own predicament.

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On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, something happened in the Shunxiangbao teaching ground that made Wang Dou think deeply.

A sergeant of Han Zhong Zuo sentry team A clashed with several sergeants of team B. Private fighting was strictly prohibited in Wang Dou's army, and no matter whether it was justified or not, he would be held accountable.In the end, Chi Dacheng, the governor, judged the severe punishment of all the [-] soldiers of these sergeants.

In the end, Wang Dou recruited these sergeants to come to question him, but things went beyond his expectation.

The sergeant of Team A was named Wu Zhengchun, he was about 25 years old, and he was thin and not outstanding. According to the captain of his team, he was usually taciturn and not very gregarious.The three sergeants in Team B were named Shen Shiqi, Shi Datai, and Zeng Yiyi, but they were all tall and burly.Everyone has a face full of flesh, and they are not easy to mess with at first glance.

In particular, Wang Dou also heard a secret. Wu Zhengchun and Shen Shiqi were neighbors to each other, and they also fell in love with a woman at the same time. Inevitably difficult.

In the end, the woman fell into Shen Shiqi's arms, leaving only Wu Zhengchun weeping silently. After that, he was even more taciturn, shrinking back and forbearing when things happened.

Since childhood, Wu Zhengchun was bullied by Shen Shiqi and grew up. Coupled with his victory in this battle for women, he couldn't help but look down on Wu Zhengchun even more.Now that the Shun Township Army is training hard, Shen Shiqi always feels irritable and has nowhere to vent, so he takes pleasure in finding Wu Zhengchun's troubles from time to time.

Today, he, Shi Datai and Zeng Yiyi, who were good friends in the team, went to trouble Wu Zhengchun, and even started to fight, but Wu Zhengchun didn't dare to fight back, so he ran away with his head in his arms.However, while they were pushing and pulling, they were discovered by members of the Disciplinary Team, and made a fuss to Chi Dacheng, the town's governor. According to military discipline, each of them was punished with thirty military sticks.

At this time, Wu Zhengchun, Shen Shiqi, Shi Datai, and Zeng Jiuyi stood in front of Wang Dou.

Wu Zhengchun looked dejected. Although the three of Shen Shiqi touched their buttocks and grinned, they still held their heads high and looked at Wu Zhengchun with disdain.

Looking at Wu Zhengchun's appearance, Han Chao, Han Zhong and others beside Wang Dou also frowned. The strong are respected in the army, and a cowardly person like Wu Zhengchun will not be liked by anyone.

Wang Dou also looked angry. He hated cowardly people the most in his life. He sternly asked Wu Zhengchun, "Private fighting is strictly prohibited in the army, but since you are being bullied, why don't you dare to resist?"

Wu Zhengchun murmured, glanced at Wang Dou, then quickly lowered his head, unable to utter a complete sentence.

Wang Dou frowned, turned to Shen Shiqi next to him, and shouted: "They are all brothers in the army, why are you bullying him?"

Shen Shiqi coughed, and said: "My lord, the young one knows he was wrong, and Master Chi has punished the young one too."

Having said that, he touched his butt again. The Thirty Military Sticks were not so pleasant, and then he gave Wu Zhengchun a contemptuous look: "My lord, who made him useless? If you don't bully him, others will bully you too." Him. If one day he can convince the little one, so what if the little one kowtows to him a few times?"

Wang Dou shouted: "Private fighting is strictly prohibited in the army, you will never fight one day."

He pondered for a while, and said: "At the beginning of next year, our Shun Township Army will classify the skills of the sergeants. You have to compete, and you can wait until then."

He glanced at Wu Zhengchun coldly: "Wu Zhengchun, do you have the confidence to beat Sergeant Shen in the examination of sergeant skills next year?"

Shen Shiqi's eyes lit up, he glanced at Wu Zhengchun, and snorted disdainfully.Shi Datai and Zeng Yiyi beside him also looked at Wu Zhengchun with teasing eyes.

Wu Zhengchun was just dumbstruck.

Wang Dou shouted: "A mere woman makes you so depressed! Why does a man have to worry about not having a wife? If you are promising, so what if I introduce a wife to you?"

Wu Zhengchun burst into tears suddenly, this cry was really earth-shattering, it seemed that all the grievances and sufferings would be excreted in this cry.

He knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily to Wang Dou, and when he raised his head, his expression turned resolute, and he said: "My lord loves you, the little one will definitely overwhelm Sergeant Shen in the future skill test class, and you will be upright and upright." He beats."

Wang Dou said loudly: "Okay, this is my Wang Dou's soldier. A man, I just want to fight for my breath."

He said to Shen Shiqi: "If you can get good grades in the future exams, I, Wang Dou, will definitely treat you equally."

Shen Shiqi cupped his fists and saluted Wang Dou: "The villain must work hard to live up to the high expectations of the adults."

He is full of confidence and does not believe that he will lose to the person he has always looked down on in the future.

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After Wu Zhengchun and others went down, Han Chao, Han Zhong, Lin Daofu, Xu Lu and others were discussing which of these people would win the exam next year.It is generally not optimistic about Wu Zhengchun, this guy is too cowardly, people say that the country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change, how can you change it when you say it?
Only Wang Dou was contemplating. From what happened to Wu Zhengchun and others, he noticed a problem.During these times, the training of the Shun Township Army was difficult. Many sergeants were depressed and had nowhere to vent their emotions. Problems were bound to happen in the long run.It seems that I must set up some relevant psychological counselors to appease their hearts.

Also, Wang Dou has heard a lot these days, and many sergeants don't understand why the training is so hard. In their opinion, the Shunxiang Army is considered elite.And after they practice, what will they do in the future?Many sergeants are confused.

What are you fighting for?Why so hard?This is a question in the heart of the Shunxiang Army from officers to soldiers.

It's time for Wang Dou to answer them!
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