Chapter 7
After Zhao Wenbin finished speaking, he did not guide her slowly like before. Instead, he sat at the side and lit a cigarette for himself. From the 10th onwards, their training was to wake up at 5:30 in the morning and start their morning exercises.
They had breakfast at seven o'clock, morning training began at eight o'clock, and ended at 11:30 o'clock. They had lunch at twelve o'clock sharp, and training began at two o'clock sharp in the afternoon. Until 5:10 pm.
For this stage of training, the morning exercise consisted of running, marching, and formation training. The training in the morning was for stabbing, and the afternoon was for shooting. After so many days of training, the formation still had some shape, and they walked in a decent manner.
Zhao Wenbin knew that when they could truly walk in unison, it would show that they really had a tacit understanding between them.
"Li Ergou!"
Zhao Wenbin waved at a soldier after watching for a while.
"Here!"
Li Ergou, who was shooting, immediately jogged over and shouted.
This Li Ergou was Zhao Wenbin's Class One's class monitor. He was also one of the few people who had performed the best recently.
"Stop training for a while. Come out with me!"
Zhao Wenbin stood up and said softly.
"Yes, sir!"
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The Great Eastern Ravine was a place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack. The valley in their camp was surrounded by tall mountains. These two tall mountains did not lead directly to the valley, so they had to go around them.
And there was only one way to go up these two mountains. It was like an oval-shaped pot.
Zhao Wenbin and Li Ergou stood at the mouth of the pot, which could be said to be the only way into the valley.
"Do you know about the horse bandits in Jidong County?”
Zhao Wenbin narrowed his eyes and asked after looking at the surrounding terrain.
"I know. I heard that those horse bandits are very cruel. They often plundered everywhere, but they also had a principle, which was not to rob the people. It seemed that they were locals and it was not good for them to attack the commoners.
It was just that they were ruthless to the merchants and landlords who came and went. Many merchants had been robbed by them.”
Li Ergou knew a thing or two about the horse bandits in the neighboring county.
"We've been targeted by these bandits. In recent days, some horse bandits have come to our place to scout. How do you think we should defeat these bandits?”
Zhao Wenbin looked at Li Ergou and asked with a smile.
"What? This…"
Li Ergou looked troubled. He had only been learning for a few days. Now that Zhao Wenbin had asked him this question, he suddenly felt a little at a loss.
Zhao Wenbin saw the troubled look on his face and could not help but pat his shoulder."Go back and pass down the order. After dinner tonight, everyone will come here to build a camp. From today onwards, I will teach you how to build a base.
At the same time, I will also teach you officers how to fight. Go!"
"Yes, sir!"
Li Ergou turned around and jogged back. Zhao Wenbin stood there and looked at the surrounding terrain."I'll use you horse bandits to conduct a practical lesson!”
Zhao Wenbin did not care about the horse bandits. What he really cared about was the training of these 283 people. In Zhao Wenbin's heart, he wanted to train these 283 people into officers.
In terms of recruiting soldiers, he could actually do so. Speaking of money, did he lack money? Was China lacking people?
He didn't lack manpower, money, or weapons, so why didn't he recruit soldiers? It was to train his own officers. As long as he had enough officers, he could immediately expand the army. If these two hundred people were two hundred officers, he could immediately expand the army to a few thousand people.
Zhao Wenbin knew very well why the German army in history only had 100,000 people before, but it could quickly expand by millions?
This was because they were training these 100,000 soldiers as officers. With these 100,000 backbone soldiers, they could quickly expand the army to millions.
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Jidong County, Ma Family Village
"Head Shopkeeper, our brother who went to step on the plates is back. The people in the Great Eastern Groove were very rich. It was said that each of the people who went in had a settlement allowance of 50 yuan. Moreover, he had to pay ten yuan a month.
Moreover, he often went around to buy chickens, ducks, fish, pigs, beef, and mutton to improve his diet. Those people eat better than us. They must have a lot of money in that small valley. And there are gunshots coming out every day. I estimate that there are no less than 200 guns inside.
If we rob them, not only can we get a lot of money, but we can also get more than 200 guns. At that time, we can recruit soldiers and buy horses.”
A young man who looked a little thin but had a shriveled expression said to a man whose face was full of pockmarks.
The person with pockmarks on his face was naturally the Ma Clan Stronghold's chief shopkeeper, Ma Lian, who was also the chief.
When he heard his subordinate say this, there was an unconcealable greed in his eyes.
"Damn it! So rich! Gather the brothers, let's set off and retrieve our things!”
Horse Face stood up and said excitedly.
"Alright! Head Shopkeeper, I'll go and gather the brothers immediately!”
Then, the horse-faced man led his 100-odd men and rushed toward the Great Eastern Groove.
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The moonlight in the middle of August looked so bright and charming. At the mouth of the Great East Ravine, more than 280 people had already built a small circular fortification under Zhao Wenbin's command. Zhao Wenbin was still instructing the soldiers to build the position as he spoke.
For these soldiers who had carried hoes for half their lives, they were not familiar with war. Digging trenches and carrying hoes were their unique skills!
It lasted until around 10 p. m. before it finally ended. At this time, many ring-shaped fortifications had been formed. When Zhao Wenbin saw this scene, a smile appeared on his face.
"From tonight onwards, we will be on duty. Outside the camp, inside the camp, and inside the valley, there had to be people on duty. Each shift was a two-man team. They rotated every four hours.
Li Ergou, your squad will be in charge of today's sentry post. If there is any enemy movement, fire a warning shot immediately. Do you understand?"
Zhao Wenbin looked at Li Ergou and said.
"Yes, sir!"
Zhao Wenbin nodded and went back to rest. As for the others, those who needed to sleep slept, those who needed to bathe bathed, and those who needed to be in charge of the sentry posts were in charge of the sentry posts.
The next morning, Old Man Li rushed over while they were training.
"Young master, those bandits are here. They are less than five li away from us.”
Old Man Li said hurriedly.
"Why are you panicking?"
From the corner of Zhao Wenbin's eye, he saw that some soldiers were panicking when they heard that the horse bandits had arrived. His expression darkened as he spoke in a deep voice.
"Everyone, follow me and enter the formation!”
Zhao Wenbin waved his hand and brought these new recruits who had just been trained for more than ten days into the simple defensive position that was built last night.
"Remember what I taught you last night. Set up all the light and heavy machine guns. You've fired so many bullets these past few days. Today would be a practical training. Treat those horse bandits as targets, remember them all. If anyone cowered, don't blame my bullets for not recognizing you!”
Zhao Wenbin changed his previous appearance and looked at the soldiers with a fierce expression as he shouted sternly.
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