(This chapter involves some recruit training, pensions, benefits, etc. If you don’t like it, you can skip it)
In the whole world, due to the Song Dynasty's Northern Expedition that was about to begin in the near future, the situation began to stir up.
As Hu Biao, who existed as the eye of the storm in the entire incident.
There are also Xu Feng, Cang Guan, Fengrui, Huang Yizhi, Lang Qing, Ali, Lao Hei, Corn, Lao Snake, Yu Han Feng, Singer, Martial Soldier, Er Pang, War Elephant, Big Fish, Windmill, Gust of Wind,
The imperial concubine and other survivors.
Their performance was far calmer than the outside world imagined.
Or to put it another way, in addition to Hu Biao and the three people from the intelligence system, as well as the concubine, the person in charge of the Commerce Department, they also paid more or less attention to the external situation.
Everyone else in the team has no extra time to care about other things under the current circumstances.
Just the work assigned to them in the huge Northern Expedition plan has already involved all their personal energy.
But thanks to their efforts, the entire 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 outside the east gate of Kaifeng City, at a shooting range of the New Army open to the public.
A man dressed as a company commander of the New Army of the Song Dynasty shouted a long command at the top of his lungs: "Ready, aim, fire~"
Under this series of orders, a total of forty-five new army soldiers immediately picked up the Brown Bess muskets in their hands.
First, they aimed at the target thirty meters away in front of them, kneeling in a row under the five-flowered belt, and pulled the trigger on their fingertips one after another.
Suddenly, a burst of choking white smoke rose into the sky, followed by a thunderous gunshot.
Unfortunately, in the next second, a huge burst of laughter rang out from the mouths of a group of women and idle men on the left and right sides.
The company commander almost got angry to death when he saw it.
Because in such a round of firing, it was considered a close range and it was difficult to even miss, but the result was that he didn't want to see anyone.
Only nine targets were knocked to the ground. Although the remaining twenty-one people were almost frightened to death, nothing happened at all.
God knows, there were so many other bullets under this burst of fire. Where did they fly?
In fact, it was not just the recruit company commander who was furious at such a result on the spot, but even Da Yu, who was silently watching this scene from a side position.
Also in great embarrassment, I wanted to cover my face with my hands.
Even though he didn't cover his face, he cursed with a very speechless emotion: "These bastards just don't have enough training to die~"
In fact, when a scene like this occurs, it is relatively normal to care about it seriously.
Back when everyone in the team was still in Zhuxian Town, they had reached a unified consensus on how to deal with the prisoners captured in this battle.
Those who had blood debts were shot, and their heads were used to form part of the Jingguan to frighten the enemies from all sides.
Those who have no blood debt are sent to do hard work, and they use enough sweat to make up for the sins they have committed.
Based on this concept, among the total of more than 150,000 prisoners, there are now 17,081 seriously injured people who are dead.
The remaining hundreds of thousands of people are reporting and exposing each other.
Because the whistleblower could be slightly less guilty, and at least be rewarded with a meal of wine and meat before death; a total of 40,311 people were caught out and faced the outcome of being executed.
In such a process, because the Jurchens suffered heavy blood debts.
Basically, among a hundred Jurchen captives, only five or six could be spared from execution. Generally speaking, very few of the Jurchen captives this time could survive.
However, there have been slight changes in the actual handling of these prisoners.
Of course, such a change does not mean that those prisoners with blood debts will be lucky enough to survive, but only that they can live a little longer.
The reason is very simple. When Hu Biao and others were expanding the size of the new army, they suddenly thought of something:
According to their principle of recruiting new soldiers, they don't want to be cunning and cunning. Try to recruit some people from the countryside who have never seen the world. It is best to be honest and honest people with families and families.
Such a principle has the advantage that it can be enforced and prohibited in future battles.
However, there are also disadvantages. These honest people need a long period of training to become qualified warriors on the battlefield and get used to the blood on the battlefield.
Therefore, given the current limited time, even recruit training has been compressed from the original three months to only one month.
Why not use those new soldiers to execute these prisoners who are destined to be executed?
Let these people play a role before they die.
You know! Whether a soldier has seen blood on his hands or not makes a fundamental difference on the battlefield.
As a result, a total of 40,311 prisoners with blood debts on their hands were able to eat miscellaneous grains, woudou and porridge for a period of time in the prisoner-of-war camp.
When new soldiers arrived, they were gradually recruited from all over the country.
After a few days of preliminary formation and musketry training, the scene began where different recruits were brought here to serve as executioners every day.
As for during this process, there were many idle men and women around?
In fact, to put it bluntly, it is quite normal.
It should be noted that these people are all outsiders who came to Kaifeng City from other areas in the recent period.
The original natives of Kaifeng City are now mostly busy with various jobs in factories.
Even the women were busy sewing uniforms and boots for the new army, so how could they have time to join in the fun?
Since Kaifeng City, the most prosperous city in the world, has become the most anticipated city by everyone in the world without the threat of the Jin people coming to kill it at any time.
Every day, countless scholars, businessmen, craftsmen, and even just farmers come to such a huge city with expectations for a better life in the future.
Their arrival also allowed Kaifeng City to quickly recover its vitality and become more and more beautiful.
After these people arrived in Kaifeng City, the first place they wanted to visit was no longer the previous places like Daxiangguo Temple and Mashi Street.
It has become a shooting range outside the city where more than a thousand golden men are shot every day even if they talk less.
Further away, there is the 'Monument to the Yimin of the Song Dynasty', the martyrs' cemetery area next to it, and the Beijing Tower that is taking shape every day.
Even if we go to the Invalides outside Donghua Gate, which is full of disabled soldiers, it is even more attractive than the Daxiangguo Temple, which is now more dilapidated.
Of course, Hu Biao's approach also aroused the opposition of many old scholars.
In particular, it is said that a young child, led by his parents, watched the shooting of prisoners of war. He was frightened after the viewing. It was not until he made some incense and made wishes at the Daxiangguo Temple that he got better.
So he signed a letter to Queen Maode and Hu Biao.
The content of the declaration is nothing more than that it is unlucky to kill prisoners, and that the great Song Dynasty must convince people with virtue.
It's a pity that the situation was slightly better when these joint petitions were sent to Hu Biao; this guy just didn't read them and had them burned clean.
The shootings and the piling up of Jingguan were not affected at all.
It’s amazing that in the Song Dynasty Times the next day, Huang Yizhi published an article under the pseudonym ‘Huan Sheng’ with the title:
An article like this on the importance of blood-seeking flowers.
Queen Maode put these things away carefully, but not for looking at them; instead, they had the same function as recording the names of these people in a small book.
There is no doubt that when Queen Maode truly takes power, the end of these guys will probably be more tragic...
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Okay, let's reset the screen back to the shooting range.
Da Yu, who was originally in a good mood, finally became unable to sit still after seeing the poor execution results of a group of recruits.
After walking straight past, the muskets were inspected one by one.
After some inspection, it was discovered that Da Yu, the head coach of a fighting gym in the modern world, was as strong as a cow and almost had high blood pressure.
Why? There are only forty-five musketeers, but there are many strange problems.
Seven of them were so nervous that they did not even pull out the connecting rod, but simply pulled the trigger.
Not to mention the fact that it is strange to be able to hit the target like this, if the gun was really blown away on the battlefield, wouldn't the musket immediately become a fire stick?
There were three people who simply forgot to pour the ignition powder into the gunpowder pool, so it was strange that it could start.
In addition, due to shaking hands, most of the gunpowder was spilled on the ground, resulting in a serious lack of kinetic energy of the bullet.
There was even a god who didn't know what was going on in his head. He actually stuffed three rounds of lead bullets into the barrel of the gun, and then completely blocked the barrel.
Good guy! Fortunately, this thing didn't start. If it really started, wouldn't the gun barrel be blown up, affecting the recruits nearby?
Taking a deep breath forcibly, Big Fish calmed down his emotions that were about to burst his blood vessels.
He picked up the musket whose barrel was blocked because it was stuffed with three rounds of lead bullets, and hit all the company and platoon leaders of the recruit company head-on.
While beating him, he cursed in his mouth:
"What the hell! Yours is still a veteran of our Fifth Infantry Division. Even if I send a pig as an instructor, I can't teach you such an outrageous situation.
If you can do it, do it. If you can't do it, go home and take care of your children. Don't embarrass our Fifth Division here."
Fortunately, even though Big Fish was furious, he still had some sense of measure in his heart.
He just turned the barrel of the gun and fired at the platoon leaders of the new recruit company, instead of holding the musket upside down and using the hard jujube butt to greet them. That would really kill them.
But even so, the company and platoon leaders of the new recruits were beaten hard.
After Da Yucai stopped, the company and platoon leaders who had been whipped by their teacher, with great anger in their hearts, began to wave the sticks and soles in their hands to the rookie recruits.
Good guy! It can be said that this rough method of fighting one level at a time, similar to that of a little devil army, has become a tradition in the army.
It is even foreseeable that such a tradition will still spread throughout the Song Dynasty and the entire planet many years later.
Is there no other way? When Hu Biao and the others were training the first batch of new troops, they thought they could only do this because they were in a hurry.
After the crisis of the Jin people's attack on the Song Dynasty is resolved, some civilized training methods should be implemented, and it is stipulated that soldiers must not be beaten or scolded.
The result? The training time for the current second batch of recruits is even more rushed.
What kind of civilized training methods can only end directly without starting.
Fortunately, even in the face of such uncivilized training methods, at least so far, there have only been six cases of desertion in the huge recruit camp.
And after the deserters were dealt with seriously in public, there have been no new deserters in the past two days.
The reason why this is possible is that on the one hand, the soldiers they recruit are basically honest farmers, which plays a considerable role.
Fearing the harsh military laws and consequences, these people gritted their teeth and endured it.
On the other hand, the current generous treatment of recruits also plays a key role.
Although only half a year has passed, Hu Biao's financial situation has already improved. They are no longer in a situation where they have to exchange food for old clothes for training uniforms and then modify them for use.
For a group of recruits who are basically farm men.
You can eat enough every day, and have a meal of meat, eggs and meat dishes for two days.
They are sent once in spring and autumn each year. Including training uniforms and jerseys, there are a total of six sets of clothes, shoes and socks. These are already excellent benefits.
What's more important is that now every month, the new army has a decent military pay.
Even recruits who have just joined the army will have the same military pay for a month.
In Kaifeng City, prices have been greatly reduced. A typical amount of money can now buy half a stone, which is 46 kilograms of rice, or more than one stone of grains, a bolt of silk, three and a half bolts of linen, or any of them.
Such a military salary is already much better than what they earn from farming at home.
If you become a veteran, or even promoted to an officer, your military salary will skyrocket.
Qiongqiu Ba's statement has nothing to do with the New Army anyway.
The most important point is that the imperial court has lowered the pension standard for those who were killed or seriously injured in the last battle of Zhuxian Town, and it has formed a permanent rule.
Specifically: the court immediately pays a pension of fifty guan to the families of those who died in the war.
If there are parents, widows, and children in the family, they can receive a living allowance from the street office every month; it may not be a lot, but it is enough to live on.
Until the parents die of old age, the widow remarries, and the children reach adulthood at the age of sixteen.
Moreover, children can enjoy a series of preferential treatment and care when they enter school and enter higher education.
For severely injured and disabled people, in addition to receiving an objective retirement pension, they will also be given an errand as far as possible in factories, subdistrict offices, and yamen of the court, depending on the disability, so that they can make a living.
In short, to use the words of Xianggong Hu: As long as the Song Dynasty court is here, all the warriors who fight to the death for the country will never have to worry about being injured or killed in battle.
Based on the above, these recruits can persevere.
Finally, after a beating, the recruit company commander, who had a bruised nose and swollen face, faced the rearranged battle line and shouted: "Bayonets on~"
After the order reached their ears, the recruits, who were also bruised and swollen, began to pull out the bayonets from the holsters on their waists and put them on the barrels of their guns with a "click" sound.
Then, the company commander shouted again: "Let's go together~"
Under such an order, the military musicians, who were also recruits, began to beat a brisk drumbeat, allowing the recruits to step on the drums and start to advance toward the front with sharp bayonets in hand.
Relying on the efforts of the company and platoon leaders to maintain and advance the process, it can only be said that the deformation is barely serious.
As for what goes through the wall, forget it.
This pace of advancement continued until they reached the prisoners who were kneeling on the ground; then a new order came out of the mouth of the recruit company commander:
"Stop, stab~"
As a result, under the continuous stabbing of sharp bayonets, those prisoners who had been waiting on the edge of death for a long time fell to the ground one by one with holes all over their bodies.
After he was completely dead, his face with a painful expression even had a smile of relief that he was finally dead.
And during such a process, many of the rookie recruits who could have resisted vomiting when the volley fired their guns started to vomit on the spot.
The women and idle men who saw this scene burst into loud laughter.
But what these women and idle men don't know is that in the process of making jokes, the rookies in front of them have now completed a fundamental transformation...
In the following time, these newbies who were vomiting and vomiting carried all the corpses on the ground onto the carriage and were allowed to leave.
Then, another company of new recruits entered the scene at the same time.
The big fish yelled: "Bring up the next batch of prisoners~"
Under such an order, thirty more prisoners were dragged up. 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 covered with filth.
It's just that no one has the slightest sympathy for the ugliness of these people; when their hands are stained with blood, everything like this is doomed.
Only those innocent people they killed are qualified to forgive them.
As for the scene of a group of new soldiers executing prisoners, Da Yu stopped watching.
The entire training situation of the new army can be said to be complicated, and he now spends so much time staying here.
However, with the thought that it was time to come, before returning to the new barracks, he rode a horse to the 'Monument to the Yimin of the Song Dynasty' a few miles away.
Because next to the towering monument, there is a cemetery for all the new soldiers who died in the battle of Zhuxian Town.
Among them, 1,736 people under his command, the commander of the Fifth Infantry Division, are buried here; their neat tombstones are arranged like a forest as they were during their lifetime.
After taking a jar of good wine from the guard.
While pouring it on some tombstones like a big fish, he muttered in his mouth: "Brothers, please wish this Northern Expedition everything goes well, and let the Great Jin Kingdom become the dust of history forever..."
