After dark, when everything was quiet, with a weak candlelight, Li Ping and Song Baolai sat in the small courtyard halfway up the hill, enjoying the coolness leisurely while talking about private topics.

More than a dozen selected close soldiers and guards were standing guard from a distance outside the hospital.

The darkness of night, candlelight and silence all around allowed the tense nerves to finally relax.

Li Ping also told Song Baolai all about his thoughts on personnel matters.

He hoped that Song Baolai would not only serve as his deputy, but also serve as the battalion officer of the support battalion.

The support battalion is an organization that Li Ping plans to establish parallel to the army, not just a simple logistics department, in order to achieve a basic and complete separation of the military and civilians.

In this way, the army can focus on military affairs instead of combatants who can concentrate on production, which is very conducive to making both aspects as professional and simple as possible, especially for Li Ping to complete training and control of the core of the army as soon as possible.

All women, craftsmen, the elderly and the weak, as well as those young and strong who are not suitable to serve as soldiers, will be organized into support camps and basically separated from the army's living and training areas to ensure that they do not interfere with each other as much as possible.

From now on, Li Ping will only focus on the military and will not interfere too much with logistics support.

In order to show his attitude, Li Ping even handed over all the gold and silver treasures hidden in the house to Song Baolai.

Although the candlelight was very dim and the gold and silver were soft and not very shiny, seeing so much real gold and silver displayed so close before his eyes, Song Baolai's eyes were still filled with green light, and he couldn't help but get excited.

After happily touching and looking at each piece of gold and silver for a long time, Song Baolai hesitated about Li Ping asking him to be the support camp officer.

He was very unsure about having to manage as many as five or six hundred people at once. This was far more than the number of workers he had managed when he opened a small factory. He felt that the challenge was too great and he seemed unable to do it.

But Li Ping insisted, because there was no one more suitable than Song Baolai, and Li Ping also promised that the army would be his strong backing.

Finally, under Li Ping's repeated persuasion with emotion and reason, Song Baolai reluctantly agreed to give it a try.

With the matter settled, the two began to discuss the continued construction of the camp and personnel issues, and a deeper dialogue began without hesitation.

After an unknown amount of time, when they were thirsty and called back the warning soldiers in the distance, they were all yawning.

When he finally fell asleep, although he was very tired, Li Ping, who was full of things, was still tossing and turning, and Song Baolai, who was sleeping next to him and had always been carefree, was also tossing and turning in an unusual way.

The personnel issues, organizational structure issues and future production issues of the support battalion are more troublesome than military issues. Without in-depth thinking, it will be impossible to start.

Song Baolai's head is probably too big.

Before breakfast the next day, Li Ping started picking and choosing according to the planned plan.

In the end, he only selected more than 450 of the more than 500 qualified young men as soldiers. Some of the weak and sick ones were screened out. Even some of the veterans who had followed him all the way were eliminated.

Reluctantly eliminated.

Even so, not all of these 450 people were attracted by Li Ping. The only ones he could barely like were actually around 200 people. But he really couldn't let so many adult men go to work and have too few troops, so

I had to hold my nose and do this for now.

These more than 450 young men were organized by Li Ping into 3 sentries. Each sentry had 3 teams and a group of 6 to 10 people. Each team had 3 soldiers, and each team had 3 soldiers.

5 people per group.

This is a typical three-by-three command structure.

In order to facilitate command, make it easier for soldiers to clearly identify the battalion, and weaken the personal characteristics of grassroots leaders, Li Ping adopted a simple notation method of later generations:

Duan Qiang is the commander of the 1st sentry post, and has jurisdiction over teams 1, 2, and 3. Hu Zhongshan is the commander of the 2nd sentry post, and has jurisdiction over teams 4, 5, and 6. Ma Yong is the commander of the 3rd sentry post, and has jurisdiction over 7 teams.

, Team 8 and Team 9.

The counting of each whistle is directly from 1 to 10, but the numbers are not sequenced.

Li Ping does not plan to change the names of the various organic units in the camp yet. Although the establishment of the Ming army during this period was very confusing, with many names and names, he did not dare to make them too different.

Although the organization system and habitual names he was familiar with had already penetrated into his bones and often caused him to be confused unconsciously, he still chose to be cautious first. He was still unsure whether being too alternative would cause trouble.

The grouping and reorganization may seem simple, but the workload is not small at all, especially since Li Ping has not communicated with the three sentry commanders before, and has not let out any news.

Everything was very sudden. It took a lot of time just to announce the order and assemble the personnel in each department. Then Li Ping only considered the candidates to the highest level. The appointment of each corps commander had to be decided by each sentry commander.

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Digesting and absorbing so much personnel information and becoming familiar with their subordinates made all the leaders no longer interested in other matters, and the construction work had to be completely stopped in the morning.

Here Li Ping is busy organizing the troops, and over there Song Baolai is also busy making preliminary division of labor and organizing the support battalion. The situation on his side is more complicated, especially since he is still unfamiliar with most of the personnel.

In the afternoon, when the construction work finally started again, the benefits of a clear organization were immediately apparent. Although we were not very familiar with each other or even knew each other, the efficiency was doubled.

At this time, Li Ping was not in a hurry to organize the training of the troops and left all the construction work to the support battalion. This was not entirely because most of the strong male laborers were included in the troops. Li Ping also had to consider how to train the troops.

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Many years of military career in another life gave Li Ping a deep-rooted view of what the army should be like, forming an understanding that is almost completely different from that of this era.

And this is a recognition that cannot be reversed at all. After all, this is all his work and half his life.

Li Ping naturally had his own ideas about military training.

It's just one person versus 450 people. This kind of training is simply impossible, unless he doesn't have unified standards and requirements, or he doesn't want to achieve the training goals he wants to achieve.

And this is impossible.

Li Ping decided to borrow a mature method from his time and space, which was the backbone training before recruit training. This was an effective method to unify the training and command standards of large units.

The construction work of the barracks in the past few days allowed him to take turns to take out the personnel above the rank for simple training. One person would work with dozens of people, which was almost the same as leading military training with students. The simple standards and requirements could still be passed on.

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The construction work of the hasty barracks was completed quickly, and it was not intended to be a long-term stay. It was possible to meet the simple food and accommodation requirements of thousands of people in a few days, and it could be gradually improved in the future.

Of course, a general cleaning is also essential at the end.

The next step is naturally the training of troops and the production of non-military personnel.

For five or six days in a row, Li Ping stayed with the troops every day, training together, eating together, and living together, completely ignoring other things because he really had no energy or mood.

The first few days of a large-scale recruit training are already the most tiring, let alone training a large group of illiterate people without any military knowledge or knowledge.

And most of Li Ping's leaders are also illiterate. The short training can only allow them to learn the skills hastily, and they can't even learn the skills in a nutshell. Can the troops be trained according to Li Ping's ideas?

Li Ping felt completely unsure.

Until now, he is still engaged in an arduous struggle on how to let the soldiers distinguish between left and right feet. His officers are not much better. They are also in a mess. The soldiers who plan to give this army a modern military form are still in an arduous struggle.

Li Ping's mouth was full of bitterness, and his head was full of worry.

You must know that in the past few days, except for physical training in the morning and evening, the training conducted by these more than 400 people was all formation training, but up to now, the formation of the troops still does not even have a shape.

A simple queue action may be easy for future generations who have experienced the explosion of information, but for people in this country where there are no movies, TV, or comics, most people cannot even read, and most people have never left home for more than 10 years.

But it is very difficult for people living ten miles away.

That's right, the main content of Li Ping's training is queue training, and the training he currently conducts for the troops is basically queue training.

The reason why queue training is used is not because Li Ping is possessed by magic, nor because Li Ping only knows these things, nor simply because he pursues neatness and good looks.

It is really because queue training is the most effective means to maintain a high degree of concentration and unity of the troops and maintain discipline. This is a summary of the experience of the modern army in his time and space for hundreds of years.

In that time and space, almost all modern military powers had high-standard queue requirements, even the United States, which many people thought had very sparse queue requirements, was no exception.

Why?

Because queue training is the most effective method for each soldier to develop the habit of obeying orders.

On the battlefield, being able to subconsciously obey orders often determines life or death in an instant, as well as the outcome of the battle. When orders are given, soldiers must habitually execute them instead of questioning and hesitating.

Queue training can achieve this effect most effectively.

When the changing commanders stand in front of the queue and chatter endlessly, repeating the few commands back and forth, no matter how many times they have done those seemingly simple and meaningless actions, and no matter whether the soldiers in the queue are familiar with walking,

The person who comes to the queue to command them does not matter whether the commander is the commander of their own unit. As long as the commander takes over the command and issues the order, everyone in the queue has no right to object, no right to choose, and can only unconditionally

Mechanical execution.

When a person subtly develops the habit of obeying orders from the queue, he often also develops the habit of obeying all orders from superiors. What the army needs is to resolutely execute orders.

As for uniformity, it is to force you to develop a sense of unity and high standards. It is not the core of queue training, but the key content of queue training, serving the core of resolutely obeying orders and ensuring the completion of orders.

The high efficiency of queue training in cultivating soldiers' obedience awareness, as well as its ease of operation and low cost, ultimately made it stand out among countless training projects in modern armies, and became the first choice method for training soldiers in the early stages of most military powers.

Queue training is never temporary, it will last throughout a soldier's entire career.

In China, any regular organized unit usually maintains a certain amount of queue training time every week. Battalions and regiments organize queue drills every year or even quarterly to continuously maintain and strengthen soldiers' sense of obedience and discipline.

consciousness.

Therefore, in Li Ping's time and space, the strength of an army can be roughly judged through its formation awareness and formation level. This is by no means a lie.

This is also the reason why Li Ping chose to do queue training first, which seems to have nothing to do with combat skills.

What he wants first is the absolute obedience of his subordinates, and he must ensure that they are restrained by force first.

It's just that Li Ping underestimated the difficulties he faced, and even more underestimated the time it would take for people who had never had a sense of discipline to establish a sense of discipline, because one of the signs of achieving the purpose of queue training is uniformity.

And this is obviously still early!
Chapter completed!