The sun shines on the peach blossom set, the mountains and rivers reflect each other, constituting a Jiangnan early winter landscape painting.
Peach blossom set of hillside after a simple levelling of the broad ground, more than seven hundred uniformed men in the blazing sun sweating at attention, at ease, marching ……If you don’t know, you may think that you are dreaming back to the modern military training.
Zhu Pingan stood on the high slope and watched the training of the crowd down the slope, slightly squinting his eyes and nodding. Although their movements were still very substandard and their formation was still very untidy, they had improved a lot from the beginning.
Liu Mu, Liu Dazhou and the others were very good, almost natural born soldiers, after a few nights of their own training for them at the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Tidings and Prosecution Department’s Yamen, they had grasped the essentials of the movements, and when they did the movements of the queue, they were even more standardised than themselves, a person who had gone through junior high school military training, senior high school military training, university military training as well as watched N number of parade videos and military magazines in the modern era, and their training was all to the point.
Although it was Jiangnan, the winter was also very cold, but the more than seven hundred hans on the field were all sweating. After nearly an hour of intense training, it was hard not to sweat on their bodies.
Zhu Pingan could not be more satisfied with their performance.
“All stand still for me, when I shout ‘halt’, all of you give me nails like nails, riveted to the ground, motionless, not to be pushed down, not to be broken! Liu Laoqi, Zhang Tielock, and Luo Si ……All of them stand firm for me! If any one of the maggots like moving, give me out to run along the field for three laps! If you can’t finish, don’t stop to rest, or else, you’ll get a heavy beating of thirty lashes!”
One of the military training instructors, Liu Dazhou, was carrying a small arm-thick mahogany stick in his hand, patrolling in the one-two-three posts, and when he saw someone who was not standing straight and moving around, he went up and hit him with a heavy stick.
“I can’t figure it out, our lord is wise for a lifetime, how come he is confused for a moment. You say that we train this rubbish stand at attention, at ease, marching in step, what is the use, is it not possible to the enemy to stand dead?
“Stand to death? Oh, what are you talking about, it’s always the enemy who dies in battle, how can there be an enemy who dies standing up?”
“Standing to death is impossible, but I think laughing to death is still possible. Oh, you think ah, two armies against each other, we swish a ‘upright’ standing straight, motionless like a target, the enemy can not be happy? And this ‘marching in step’ of ours, it’s so awkward that the enemy will probably die of laughter when they see it!”
“I’ve never heard of other armies training in such things as standing at attention, resting at ease, and marching at attention! I’m not criticising you, I just think that you’re a scholar, so you’re definitely good at writing, but you’re probably a novice when it comes to military matters. ……”
“If the other troops see us training in this kind of stand at attention, at ease, marching in step, they will probably laugh their heads off.”
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Between training, from time to time, some people complained, quite dissatisfied with the formation training, this kind of training is cumbersome and boring, and they are all free-spirited mountain thieves and bandits origin, can not stand this kind of boring and tedious training.
“Let me see whose butt has no gate, farting around there, Luo Si, Liu Lao Qi, Wang Er Dog, Xia Tie Dan ……You few give me a line out you’re such big dogs guts, you dare to talk about your lord! Give me five laps around the training ground, running is not finished do not stop, which dare to stop, I knocked off his legs!”Liu Dazhou in the middle of the patrol, heard Luo Si and others non-consideration of training, can not help but be furious, will they one by one pulled out, first one person gave a stick, and then punished them around the training field to run ten laps.
“Five laps?!”Luo Si sniffed and couldn’t help but exclaim in shock.
“Now it’s ten laps!”Liu Dabao said in a cold voice.
“Isn’t it five laps? How did it become ten laps?!”When Luo Si heard this, he couldn’t help but protest.
“Fifteen laps!”Liu Dazhu spoke again.
“Fifteen ……”Luo Si’s exclamation of surprise was covered by Liu Laoshi’s slap to his mouth and came to an abrupt end, Liu Laoshi yanked Luo Si to move for a run while viciously cursing, “That’s enough you fucking Luo Si! Any more pushing and it’ll become twenty laps!”
In addition to the one, two, three posts that Liu Dazhou was in charge of, the other posts that Liu Mu, Liu Dazhun, and others were in charge of had similar situations, and there were many criticisms of the mountain bandits who had been used to being loose and encountered such irritating and tedious formation training.
Zhu Pingan also noticed a similar situation, where during the halftime break of the training, he gathered the crowd together.
“Gentlemen, good performance today, an extra meal of pork at noon!”Zhu Pingan stood on a high slope and applauded the crowd.
“Many thanks, my lord!”
The crowd underneath the field was instantly excited, washing away a little of the tedium and fatigue of training.
“I have noticed that there are quite a few people who are puzzled and confused about the formation training, feeling that it is a waste of time and futile, and they are coping with the training ……”Zhu Pingan swept his gaze over the crowd and said slowly.
Under Zhu Pingan’s gaze, Luo Si, Liu Laoshi and the others could not help but lower their heads sheepishly.
“This official is here to explain once, to this once, and never again!”Zhu Pingan said with a serious face.
All the people under the field immediately all focused their eyes on Zhu Pingan, in fact, not only Luo Si, Liu Lao Qi and others, almost everyone present did not know the significance of the formation training, did not know the reason for it, and had emotions in their hearts for the boring and tedious formation training, it was just that some said their opinions, and some did not say anything.
“A general’s duty is to obey orders! Formation training is your first and most important lesson. The purpose of this lesson is, firstly, to shape and train your majestic and upright image, coherent and neat movements. Do not think that the formation is useless, the war is not before you robbed the fat sheep, smashed kiln, swarming can be a success, the war is the two armies against each other, is thousands or even hundreds of thousands, millions of killing, whether it is offensive or defensive, formation is very important, which is to ensure that the victory of the war is the key to maintain the formation, in order to ensure the continuity of the attack, the defence of the continuity of the attack, if it is a mess of the formation, the attack and the defence will beProblems will arise, and a rout will only be a matter of time, if the army collapses, your lives will not be protected!”
“The second is to cultivate your fighting style of obedience to orders, hard work, perseverance, and continuous combat! This is also the most important purpose of this lesson. An army must have the qualities of obeying orders, following commands, and following orders to the letter before it can qualify as a true army, an army with combat power!”
“Speaking of which, this official will emphasise once more! All of you remember this firmly! A general’s duty is to obey orders! Regardless of whether it’s right or wrong for your superior officer’s orders! Whether you understand or not! As long as your orders don’t go against the law of the land! You must obey! Absolute obedience! Unconditional obedience!”
Zhu Pingan stood on the high slope, sweeping the crowd with a burning gaze and said to them with a serious face.
“Obey!”
The voices under the field were like thunder.
