Chapter 456 Recruit Camp

Author: Uncle Long Legs

Chapter 456 Recruit Camp

(Before the next phase of the mission arrives, there will be about ten chapters of content transition.

The author plans to use an indigenous perspective to write about the changes around him, as well as the various preparations of the team, which may be a bit boring, so you can skip it if you don’t want to read it)

The time is March 5, the first year of Maode.

The location is fifteen miles northeast of Kaifeng City, in a recruit training camp for the New Army of the Song Dynasty.

With his head raised, his chest raised, his abdomen drawn in, his waist straight, and his eyes looking forward, Hou San, a member of the New Army of the Song Dynasty, stood in a standard PLA military posture.

About one meter in front of Ren, there was a recruit camp instructor in his mid-twenties.

While raising his voice, the roaring sound continued to reach his ears, while he endured a large amount of saliva, which kept splashing on his face:

"Stand at attention, take a break, and speak.

I have heard you all clearly. Mr. Hu and all the chief instructors in the army feel sorry for the hard training you have put in over the past half month, and have specially allowed you to take a day off.

After eating the morning meal in the camp today, you only need to register with me, and you can go straight out of the camp and go home.

But please remember one thing, the drumming will begin in the camp tomorrow morning. Anyone who fails to return to the camp in time after the three rounds of drumming will be treated as a deserter.

You must be very aware of what happens to deserters, have you heard it?"

Yes, that's right! Hou San, a native of Kaifeng City, told him the document that registered his name after he successfully registered in Kaifeng Mansion that day.

With Hou San's good figure and strength, there must be no problem in joining the New Army. He can just wait for the news at home with peace of mind.

Sure enough, one morning three days later, someone from the street office came.

A big red flower was brought to him, and together with dozens of men in the surrounding alleys, they were first sent to the outside of the city to gather in a lively manner amidst the beating of gongs and drums.

After finally gathering a large number of recruits, they were all dragged into this recruit training camp.

The first three days were fine. Everyone just felled trees, dug soil, and hastily built a simple new military camp.

After building the new barracks, they began formal training.

It can be said that for half a month before, Hou San was left in the camp to be trained, and he never saw his beautiful new wife.

Even so, after hearing such great good news, Hou San and others all cheered on the spot.

Instinctively, he still maintains a good military posture, which is like standing as still as a pine tree.

Damn it! Don’t dare to move.

Because in the past half month, after receiving countless military sticks, something called discipline has now penetrated deeply into their bones.

Or to put it another way, for today's Hou San and others, they are no longer afraid of the legendary Jin Man.

Because the fear in his heart for the recruit instructors has exceeded everything else.

As long as he is not scolded by the instructor, beaten with a stick, or kicked violently with the soles of his feet, he can do anything; even if he holds the legendary explosive bag and rushes towards the Jin soldiers' heavy cavalry, he can do anything.

OK.

Finally, in the following time, about 130 recruits from their recruit company shouted "I heard it" with the energy of their Dantian.

The instructor nodded with satisfaction and said a natural sound: "Let's go to the cafeteria~"

At this moment, the unlucky ones like Hou San dared to cheer loudly.

But after cheering, they gathered together in squad units, and under the leadership of the squad leader, the "ten-man general", they walked in a single file formation toward the dining hall.

The recruits in other classes also look like this.

If you look down from a high altitude, you can see tens of thousands of people in a huge recruit camp, looking so orderly at the moment...

For Hou San and other Kaifeng natives, the new army organized by their Grandpa Hu naturally has a completely new look.

After careful calculation, there are many differences from the imperial guards before the Song Dynasty.

Not to mention the Forbidden Army, they did not know that it had been a random drill for several days; the new army they belonged to had many differences just in terms of organization.

Fortunately, it's not too complicated overall. Hou San figured out the ropes on the first day he joined the army.

The New Army consists of ten people in a squad, with one squad leader, who is equivalent to the ten generals in the original Song Dynasty Forbidden Army; and one deputy squad leader, who is equivalent to the corps commander in the Forbidden Army.

The four squads were organized into a platoon, and the positions of chief and deputy platoon leader were newly created.

The three platoons add up to form a company, with a total of about 130 people. The company commander is not much different from the former captain of the Song Dynasty Forbidden Army.

The four battalions together have a total of about 550 people, and they are organized into one battalion.

The commander is called the battalion commander, which is actually the battalion commander in the Forbidden Army.

In addition, it is said that in the future, there will be higher-level regiments, brigades, divisions, corps, etc.; however, they will not be organized until the completion of a total of three months of recruit training.

Now, the largest unit in the training camp is the battalion.

There are a total of 90 battalions of the new army with a total of 50,000 people. The number of the company where Hou San and others are located is the 3rd Battalion and 8th Company of the New Soldiers.

In short, when forming the new army, Hu Biao and others did not want to cause opposition from some of the old forces in the Song Dynasty.

The powerful Privy Council Hu was not afraid of this thing, but it was mainly because it was a bit troublesome and boring, so they tried their best to match the official names and unit names of the new army to those of the Forbidden Army of the Song Dynasty.

In fact, in essence, it is still the same as PLA.

It's normal when you think about it. After the Chinese people traveled through time and formed an army, of course they learned PLA...

After a short time, Hou San and others lined up and arrived at the canteen; to be more precise, it was actually some thatched huts with only roofs.

The new army was formed in such a hurry that they didn't even have time to make tables, chairs and benches. Hou San and the others could only sit in a circle with ten people on the spot as a squad.

Their food was placed on the ground in the middle.

After sitting down cross-legged, Hou San still felt a little emotional even though it was not the first time he had eaten like this.

The main reason is that it is still too rich.

On the ground in front of them, they saw a large pot filled with golden multi-grain cooking cakes, a large pot filled with millet porridge, a small pot filled with soy milk, and a few small pickles.

Of the above, except for soy milk, each person only has a small bowl.

As long as your stomach can handle the other pancakes and millet porridge, you can eat as much as you want, as long as they are not wasted.

The only problem is that these grains are said to have been dug out from the Hanjiacang in Luoyang City. They are old grains that were hoarded in the warehouses in the Tang Dynasty hundreds of years ago.

So much so that after eating it now, it has an indescribable stale taste like the boss.

But in this day and age, being able to have a full stomach is already a natural thing, and there are so many other things to say.

But when they started eating and drinking, Hou San only ate a total of five fist-sized multigrain pancakes and a large bowl of soup before putting down his chopsticks.

Including other colleagues in the class, they also look like this.

There is no way! The main reason is that when we first came to the recruit camp, everyone ate too much.

Hou Sanke clearly remembered that his first meal in the camp was eight multi-grain cooking cakes in one sitting, and he also drank three large bowls of millet porridge.

If the instructor hadn't stopped him from trying to continue eating and drinking because he was afraid that he would die from exhaustion, three or five more cakes would not be a problem.

But after eating and drinking like this for more than ten days, Hou San just couldn't eat anymore. After eating half of the food before each meal, he felt full.

Every time he thinks of this, Hou San feels very regretful...

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After having the morning meal, Hou San checked in with the instructor again and was finally able to leave the camp and go home.

When he thought of his newly married young lady, his heart felt unspeakably hot.

He immediately rushed back to the dormitory, took out two chickens under the bed and put them in his arms like treasures. Speaking of these two chickens, they really have some origins.

Every day, these new troops wake up to the sound of golden drums.

No matter whether the weather is windy or rainy, under the leadership of the instructor, I have to run ten miles carrying a piece of wood weighing about thirty kilograms before I can have breakfast.

In each recruit camp, the first class to complete the run will be rewarded with one chicken per person.

If you finish running a class at the end, you won't have to eat the morning meal that day.

In order to be able to eat a piece of chicken, what's more important is that we are all a group of gentlemen who cannot afford to lose face. Every morning during this 'cross-country with heavy load', everyone works very hard and the competition is very fierce.

So much so that in these days, Hou San and his class have only won twice, and won a total of two chickens.

However, what was different from others was that Hou San secretly exchanged the cooked chicken for raw chicken at the cooking class so that he could bring something for his wife when he went home.

When he thought of the young lady eating delicious chicken, Hou Sanna felt much happier than if he had eaten a good meal.

I just took two chickens with me and hurried to the entrance of the new barracks.

After seeing several people standing on one side of the gate with smiling faces.

Hou San immediately stood still. While raising his chest and retracting his abdomen, he raised the palm of his right hand and placed it diagonally next to his temple, performing a military salute unique to the New Army.

He didn’t forget it in his mouth, and roared loudly:

"I have met the four chief instructors, Lao Hei, Big Fish, Fengchao, and Chen Tang. Good morning, Chief Instructor~"
To be continued...