An open space outside Wanghai Fort in July of the eighth year of Chongzhen reign
Pang Gang stood in the center of the school ground. Standing in front of him were one hundred and twenty men selected by Pang Gang, including Wang Zhi, Da Zhuang, Li Yuan and others. These men were all in the age group.
We cannot say that all of them, who are over 18 and under 30 years old, are tough and tough, but at least they are already the most qualified soldiers in Wanghai Fort.
Although the current Wanghai Fort is an out-and-out garrison, and according to the rules, they are not required to go into battle to kill the enemy, why would a hundred households waste their precious labor on training troops many times in one fell swoop? This is the thought of many people in the fort.
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But others can think so, but Pang Gang cannot think so. He comes from later generations, but he knows what a huge storm the bandits headed by Li Zicheng and the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty will set off in the Central Plains in the next few years. This storm will destroy the entire
The whole land of the Central Plains is on fire, which will also determine the fate of the Chinese nation in the future. Now that we have come to this era, how boring it would be if we could not join in this magnificent storm.
But even though we have decided to train troops, how to train these soldiers? Who will train them? This question has always troubled Pang Gang. Looking back at the late Ming Dynasty, there were many masters in military training. For example, Pang Gang knew that there were famous generals in the late Ming Dynasty.
Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chengzong and others are all famous military training experts. But this is nonsense. One of them is the governor of Huguang and the other is the teacher of the current emperor of Ming Dynasty. If Pang Gang wants to invite such people to help him train troops...
...Hmm, haha....The weather is so nice today!
There is no way, since no one helps our hundreds of households to train troops, he has to train by himself. In order to train troops, Pang Gang also specially found two military books "New Book of Records" and "Records of Military Training" written by Qi Jiguang
In these two military books, what Pang Gang admired most was what Qi Jiguang said, "In a majestic formation, thousands of people line up to advance. The brave cannot go first, and the timid cannot follow; the spears are poking at each other, and the spears are poking at them."
, slashed at him with knives, and killed him indiscriminately, but they just rushed in together, and it was difficult to change hands, how could they tolerate jumping left and right? If one person turned around, the crowd was suspicious; if one person moved an inch, the crowd also wanted to seize the heart, how could it be tolerated?
Advance or retreat?”
What does this sentence mean? The meaning of this sentence is that when fighting, we rely on upright formations. Thousands of people line up to advance. No matter whether they are brave or timid, no one is allowed to retreat. No matter how many soldiers there are,
You must obey the command as if you were a human being. If you train like this, your army will be invincible.
Pang Gang's father, who participated in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, also said that the most important thing in the army is first, second, and third, discipline. From this, we can see that, whether in ancient or modern times,
,The most important thing for an army is discipline!
Now a total of 120 soldiers were standing in front of Pang Gang, led by Da Zhuang and Wang Zhi. Pang Gang frowned immediately after looking at the standing posture of more than 100 soldiers. Some of these people were originally
They are the children of military households, and some were originally refugees. Of course, they are all military households in Wanghai Fort now. Now they are standing in front of Pang Gang, laughing and talking non-stop. Each one of them is standing crookedly, swaying around, even
It turns out that the same goes for those children from military households.
Looking at them, Pang Gang sighed secretly in his heart. No wonder when new recruits joined the army in later generations, they had to start with the most basic formation training. That was still in the era of hot weapons. In the era of cold weapons, it was replaced by the current strict formation and strict training.
Discipline is even more important. An army that can maintain a strict formation at all times is a well-disciplined tiger and wolf army, and the opposite is a ragtag army.
"Everyone, stand up! Now please let the adults of the hundred families lecture us! We can't talk anymore!" Wang Zhi, who was still excited at the side, saw Pang Gang's face getting darker and darker, and quickly stopped everyone and let them
Listen to Pang Gang's lecture.
Forced to suppress the anger in his heart, Pang Gang said loudly: "Everyone, please listen to me. Today, I am recruiting everyone here just for troop training. Some people may say that troop training has nothing to do with us? We are just stationing troops, fighting is not
The person who said this about the soldiers is wrong. The war is not only about the soldiers, it may fall on us at any time! Do you still remember the incident in Wangjiatun a few days ago? "
Qingzhuang, who was still talking and laughing at first, started to change his color slightly when he heard this incident. After all, the incident in Wangjiatun had just happened not long ago, and this battle was also a pain in the hearts of all the military households in Lingshan Guard.
"It seems that everyone has not forgotten it." Pang Gang showed disdain: "It's really embarrassing to talk about that battle. More than 600 people were killed by hundreds of thieves and fled in defeat.
We have captured more than 2,000 people. Don’t you feel ashamed? I feel ashamed! What do you think we can do to resist if bandits come to Wanghai Fort in the future? Is it just you cowards who can only run away?"
"Sir, we are not cowards!" At this time, a young man stood up and said loudly: "If the traitors come again, I will risk my life to kill the traitors!"
Pang Gang sneered and said: "Who doesn't know how to talk? You said your beautiful words, but I didn't see anything about your performance that satisfied me. Now everyone is standing up for me, one by one, keeping the same posture on the left and right.
Arm's distance away! Come on, from now on no one is allowed to whisper to each other, who dares to talk nonsense again. I know you, but my stick does not know you! Now listen to my command and everyone stand at attention!"
Under Pang Gang's strict order, one hundred and twenty soldiers stood motionless on the school ground, while Pang Gang walked among them with a big wooden stick. If he saw anyone who dared to move a little, he would immediately
Just hit it with a big stick.
It's no joke to hit someone with a stick as thick as an arm. The person who was hit can't move, he still has to stand upright. After nearly half an hour, Pang Gang saw that the fire was almost done.
This allowed the garrison soldiers to move freely for just one meal.
Then Pang Gang started to train in formation, turning left and right, walking in unison, running and other subjects. The troops in the army were surprised at first, but then they began to become a mess.
At the beginning, the queue training could be said to be even more terrible. Not only did the team of more than a hundred people not speak correctly, but they could not even distinguish the most basic left and right. This situation was not only the same for the young and strong military households below, but also for the big soldiers.
Zhuang and Wang Zhi are no exception.
Seeing such a situation, Pang Gang didn't have a good idea. Later, Pang Gang had an idea and thought of what book he had read before. It said that it was encountered by the Beiyang government in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China when it was training the new army.
I had experienced a similar incident. Later, I don't know which officer came up with the idea and put a rope on the soldier's left arm to help the soldier distinguish left and right.
After training like this for several days, the situation got better. Pang Gang's temper towards military households was very good in normal times, but on the training ground, he seemed to be a different person. If he saw someone acting incorrectly or standing in line,
If he is unstable, he will be hit over the head with a stick immediately.
But strangely enough, the military households had no complaints after being beaten, and the training became more serious, and the efficiency was very good. While these young men were training, military households and children who had no work to do around them were also watching.
, when they see young adults being beaten for making mistakes, they often burst into laughter, and even children are shaving and making fun of them. This makes these young adults train even harder despite being ashamed!
In this way, after the team had trained for seven or eight days, when Pang Gang took them to start running, their steps were much neater than before.