Chapter 71 Recruit (2)
"Remember those who are on the same team with you now, the next time you are asked to line up, you will not have half a stick of incense time!" Gu Wei looked around the group of recruits and said in a serious tone: "The next step is It’s time for your punishment!”
The timid recruits did not wait for the imaginary punishment with a military stick. They were just required to keep doing a strange movement called "push-ups" by the ancient commander. At least half of the people could no longer hold themselves up after completing less than twenty push-ups. Those who could really struggle to complete the fifty push-ups required by Gu Wei were simply rare.
However, it didn't end there after fifty strokes. The recruits were asked by Gu Wei to run in a circle around the area he designated in a column of ten people. The Military and Police Department has not yet had time to build the playground and track here, so Gu Wei only roughly estimated a circle of about four to five hundred meters in length for the recruits to run. At the beginning of the second lap, some people gradually fell behind. In the third lap, they were already falling to the ground. Gu Wei sighed in anxiety and had to terminate the punishment early. Through this simple physical fitness test, Gu Wei found that the physiques of these recruits were really uneven, and they would probably need some time to recuperate before they could undergo heavy exercise training.
"There is no other way. I can't eat hot tofu after all! I can only start from the basic formation..." Gu Wei was forced to give up his original training plan of physical fitness and basic tactics due to reality. This was not because he was too hasty, but because the Military and Police Department required him to train this group of people as soon as possible - at least first, he had to train a group of auxiliary police officers who could help maintain law and order.
At present, the Military and Police Department is encountering many difficulties in maintaining public security. The main reason is that different ethnic groups, language barriers, and lack of understanding often make problems that are not serious in the first place complicated in the process of handling, and Li people and people The Miao people often believe that the Chuan people will stand on the standpoint of the Han people and cannot be fair when dealing with issues. A mixed law enforcement team of three ethnic groups can obviously play a certain role in alleviating this conflict that has not yet broken out. At least, their law enforcement targets will not have as much resistance due to different ethnic groups as now.
However, before eliminating ethnic barriers, the ancient guards must first eliminate the personal consciousness of the recruits through training and let them understand the importance of obedience and discipline. Queue training is an effective training method to achieve this goal. Although there was a lot of criticism about formation training in later generations, some people even thought that troops who marched in formation all day long were not doing their job properly, and practicing these skills was useless on the battlefield. People who say this often have not experienced military life and do not realize that queue training can directly and effectively erase personal consciousness and mentally make soldiers quickly accustomed to obeying orders, strictly observing discipline, and valuing the team. These qualities It is the foundation of a qualified soldier. Only an army that enforces orders and prohibitions can have combat effectiveness. As for lone heroes like Governor Shi and Uncle Shi, they only exist in movies. In reality, such funny guys who dare to stand up and fire their guns in the middle of a firefight should die too quickly.
Although queue drills can effectively hone the quality of soldiers, it is indeed a very boring thing. After just over an hour, Gu Wei felt that his voice was gradually becoming hoarse, and he had to temporarily hand over the command task. Gave it to my colleagues in the Military and Police Department.
"These new recruits are so bad, leading them for an hour is more tiring than leading them for a day in the past!" Gu Wei complained in his mind involuntarily while gulping down cold water.
As soon as the recruit training started, there was a large-scale indiscriminate phenomenon in the queue. Gu Wei yelled at the top of his voice for a long time but did not get particularly good results. In the end, a clever man made a move and tied a cloth band on the left leg of all the recruits as a mark, which solved this problem that had troubled Gu Wei for a long time.
By the noon break, most of the recruits were already so tired that they could not stand up straight. For them, they had never thought that eating food as a soldier was much more tiring than clearing wasteland and farming. They just kept obeying all morning. Orders to turn left, turn right, and walk around. At first glance, this kind of training does not seem to consume much physical energy, but it requires sufficient concentration for a long time, because once the team turns in the wrong direction, the entire team will be punished for it. This is no joke. These people have never had an experience like this before. After half a day of training, their mental and physical fatigue is quite serious.
However, after lunch was delivered, the morale of the group recovered slightly. In order to help these recruits regain their health as soon as possible, the executive committee spent a lot of money and formulated special recipes based on nutritional formulas to ensure that these recruits can have sufficient nutritional supply on the basis of sufficient calories intake every day. At present, the poultry raised on the farm is not ready for slaughter, so the meat mainly comes from seafood. In addition to a pot of rice, everyone also had a bowl full of fish, shrimp and crab, which made the young people of Li and Miao who rarely have the opportunity to eat seafood smile from ear to ear. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gu Wei also lectured these recruits again: "You all remember, what you are wearing and what you are eating are all given to you by someone! If you want to be fed and clothed in the future, just Give me a good practice! If you can't bear the hardship and want to run away, get out immediately after this meal. I don't want those kind of women who are afraid of hardship and fatigue!"
Perhaps the sumptuous lunch saved morale, or perhaps Gu Wei's vulgar lectures had an effect. The training effect in the afternoon was indeed significantly improved. By sunset, these new recruits had finally mastered the basics of walking in unison, standing still, and turning left and right, and the number of wrong turns was much less than before. After dinner, everyone was summoned together by the assembly order. What awaited them was the cultural class in the evening.
It is said to be a cultural class, but in fact the content of this class is not to teach them how to read and write, but just to teach nearly half of the minority recruits to speak Chinese. Gu Wei believes that the reason why the first day of training was so difficult was largely due to the language barrier. If everyone can be taught to speak Chinese as soon as possible, the training effect will definitely be significantly improved. The young Han Chinese among the recruits became sparring partners at this time, helping their Li and Miao teammates practice Chinese word by word.
In addition, organizing learning and singing military songs is also one of the most effective means of cultural indoctrination. The first song Gu Wei prepared for them was the "March of the Chinese People's Liberation Army" that has been sung in the army for decades. Just to avoid unnecessary trouble, some of the words were modified, such as a certain sentence The lyrics referring to the great leader were changed to "The flag of the Executive Committee is flying high", and the "comrades" in the lyrics were also changed to "comrades-in-arms". Although half of this group of recruits could not even speak Chinese well, this passionate and catchy military song obviously moved these young people who were in their prime of life. Regardless of whether they remembered the lyrics or not, they all followed it. The melody played from the loudspeaker roared with joy.
Gu Wei originally planned to show these recruits some movies and TV shows on ancient wars on a regular basis, so that these recruits who had never seen blood could have a general idea of what war is before going to the battlefield. However, the recruit training camp here is still in its infancy stage. It doesn't even have a complete training venue and station, let alone the availability of power generation equipment. Base No. 1 does have several diesel generators, but now that diesel has become a strategic reserve material, the Executive Committee will never agree to use diesel to generate electricity to show movies to these recruits. Gu Wei had to think about how to attract those guys from the Ministry of Energy to install a set of photovoltaic power generation equipment for the training camp.
After the one-and-a-half-hour cultural class, Gu Wei asked each team to hold its own training summary meeting for the day, and each team elected one person to be the captain. When they gather tomorrow, the team captain will stand at the front of each team. As the chief instructor, Gu Wei took turns to observe the summary and selection process of these teams. After such a day of training, the members of each team also have a preliminary understanding of each other. At this time, you can roughly tell who is more capable and who has obvious ambitions.
During this selection process, there were also some brave and fierce young people who chose the form of fighting to determine the outcome in order to become captains. Most of these thorns are mainly young people from the Li and Miao ethnic groups. Gu Wei does not stop them. At most, he acts as a referee to prevent them from going too far and damaging the harmony. In Gu Wei's view, soldiers should have this kind of aggressive style. If they don't even dare to fight, how can we expect them to pick up guns and go to the battlefield to kill people in the future? After watching several bare-knuckle fights, Gu Wei discovered a few guys with good skills, which was an unexpected gain.
This kind of basic training will last for ten to fifteen days, and then Gu Wei will divide these people into two groups based on their performance in training. A group of people, as auxiliary police forces in maintaining law and order, will be handed over to other colleagues in the Military and Police Department for basic police training, and will soon be put into actual use. The other group of people will stay here to receive more professional military training as future naturalized soldiers. Gu Wei believes that many of the first batch of naturalized civilian officers in the future should be among this group now.
After the election, Gu Wei ordered each team to go back to camp to rest. The current training camp has not built any barracks, and everyone, including Gu Wei, can only live in military tents. However, the recruits obviously had no complaints about such treatment. The fatigue accumulated throughout the whole day broke out completely the moment they lay down on the bed, and the snoring one after another could be clearly heard throughout the camp.
(End of chapter)