As soon as Gao Hongming arrived at the entrance of Xiaocao Village, he heard bursts of slogans, accompanied by shouts and curses from officers.
"One, two, one...one, two, one..."
"Turn left...turn right...look forward..."
"You bastard, you bitch...it's been three days now and you can't even tell right from left. All the pigs in my house are smarter than you. Why don't you die!"
Amid orders and curses, Gao Hongming arrived at the village school grounds.
On the school grounds, a soldier wearing a German 36-style military uniform, a steel helmet, and leather boots was training under the command of an officer. At first glance, it looked like that, but if you look closely, the actions of these soldiers were...
Uneven.
Gao Hongming saw with his own eyes that the officer shouted to turn right, but so many soldiers turned left for him. The sergeant was so angry that he rushed over and kicked the soldiers several times.
"Idiot...Idiot...I've told you this so many times, but you still can't tell the difference between left and right."
The beaten recruits did not dare to tell the difference, they just lowered their heads and remained silent.
Gao Hongming shook his head after seeing this. He didn't even understand the most basic formation. He didn't even think about completing the recruit training in just a few months.
A burst of footsteps sounded from behind, and Wu Chengfeng's voice sounded from behind: "Sir... you are back."
It turned out that when they saw Gao Hongming coming back, Wu Chengfeng and Xiao Zhankui hurried over.
"Old Wu!" Gao Hongming pointed at the new recruits and asked, "How many new recruits have you recruited these days when I'm not here?"
"Sir, as of yesterday, a total of 1,226 people have been recruited. And according to your request, they are all young people over the age of 18 and under 25. We don't want gangsters, drug addicts, and people with criminal records."
"But their training is too bad. Look, one or two people can't even stand in line. If this continues, when will they be able to practice well? I think they need to increase the intensity of training."
"Sir... we can't rush this."
Gao Hongming felt that his young master was a little impatient, "Think about it, these people are rural farmers who cannot read a single word. The reason why they joined our militia is to have enough to eat and get two oceans of salary every month."
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If our training intensity is too high, there will be non-combat casualties, morale will be affected, and deserters may even occur."
"Non-combat casualties?"
A sneer appeared at the corner of Gao Hongming's mouth.
"You sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in war. If you are afraid of injury and death, why should you be a soldier? Wouldn't it be better to go home to farm and raise your children? Or do you think I run a charity hall and have endless flowers to look for at home?
Can anyone help me with the flowers?”
Wu Chengfeng was speechless for a moment and wanted to refute but didn't know where to start.
Gao Hongming also realized that what he said might have gone too far, so he softened his tone and continued: "I also know that I may be a little impatient, but these are extraordinary times, and the little devils may attack us at any time. If we don't train these new recruits as soon as possible,
, when the Japanese really want to attack us, how can we use it? Just rely on the 200 remnant soldiers we have left now?"
Wu Chengfeng admitted that he had been persuaded. Soldiers are all straight-tempered and said simply: "Sir, I was wrong. What do you think we should do?"
"so……"
Gao Hongming thought for a while, pointed to a large piece of wasteland on the right and said: "Old Xiao, you immediately take people to level that piece of land today, erect barbed wire, dig a few trenches, and then set up two machine guns around it to form a
Crossfire, let all our soldiers go inside in a few days to practice their courage."
"hiss……"
Wu Chengfeng and Xiao Zhankui looked at each other and took a breath.
Live ammunition training is not a rare thing, but if recruits are trained under a hail of bullets, not only will the ammunition consumed increase significantly, but non-actual combat casualties will also be inevitable.
But at the same time, they have to admit that after such training, the soldiers can mature in the shortest time, and the situation of throwing down the gun and running back after hearing the sound of gunfire like the last time in Cangyunling will be minimized.
be avoided.
Xiao Zhankui said: "Well, I will ask the recruits to stop training tomorrow and start digging. More than a thousand people will take action together to ensure that the task is completed within three days."
"No..." Gao Hongming stretched out his index finger and shook it: "Half a day... I will only give you half a day, and it will not affect the training of new recruits. The training will start tomorrow."
"Half a day? Doesn't it affect recruit training?"
Xiao Zhankui was stunned, "Sir...how is this possible?"
"How is it impossible?"
Gao Hongming hated the iron and cursed: "Are you stupid? It's just digging a trench and erecting a barbed wire fence. Why do you have to let the soldiers of the militia do it?"
You don’t have to use your brain. Xiaocao Village has hundreds of ready-made laborers. If you call them all together, you don’t need to pay wages, and each person is given ten kilograms of grain. Wouldn’t the problem be solved?”
"Yeah...why didn't I think of that?"
Xiao Zhankui slapped his thigh and suddenly realized that it was the slack season, and most of the villagers in Xiaocao Village had no farm work to do.
As long as we summon them together and explain the situation clearly to them, why is everyone willing to do it?
Sure enough, when Xiao Zhankui summoned the villagers to explain the situation clearly, the villagers in Xiaocao Village immediately became excited.
Ten kilograms of grain, in this day and age, is enough to feed a family of five for several days.
They may not know how to talk about other things, but when it comes to digging the ground, none of them, who have been doing farm work for half their lives, are timid.
Under the temptation of food, the entire Xiaocao Village immediately became excited. The villagers called for friends, adults and children joined the battle. When it was almost dark, a training ground covering an area of more than ten acres was completed.
The reason why it is so fast is actually that the amount of work is not large. The villagers only need to level the land a little, then drive wooden piles, lay a layer of barbed wire on the wooden piles, and the training ground is ready.
Under the setting sun, Gao Hongming looked at the recruits standing on the hillside curiously pointing at the newly built training ground after a day of training, and showed a devilish smile.
"Rookies, enjoy your last peaceful days."
Gao Hongming walked down the hillside and asked Dabao behind him: "Have all the food we brought been given to the logistics?"
"Leave it all to them."
Dabao responded, and then said with some distress: "Master, do you really want to distribute all these canned meats?"
"Of course. If I don't feed it to my brothers, can I eat it alone? Or can you finish all these cans?"
Gao Hongming glared at him angrily and funny. When did this kid who knew how to eat start to feel sorry for the meat? The sun really came out from the west.