While Chu Ge was busy battling wits and courage with the emperor in the capital, Zhao Haiping had just finished a day of training.

Previously, Zhao Haiping relied on his skillful riding skills and excellent horseback skills to obtain the qualification for special assassination without any doubt, and was assigned to the Pingding Army.

The Pingding Army was stationed in Pingding County, in front of a pass in the Taihang Mountains. It was the place where Taizu of the Qi Dynasty temporarily stationed when he attacked Taiyuan City. It can also be regarded as the only way from the capital of the Qi Dynasty to Taiyuan City.

Zhao Haiping originally thought that as a military soldier, he would soon have a hearty battle with the Jin soldiers, but it turned out that he was wrong.

After arriving at the military camp, he first experienced a boring training life for a period of time.

At this time, soldier training did not have any special scientific theory to guide it. It was nothing more than practicing some specific postures uniformly and repeatedly on the school field, or there were other training plans based on different abilities.

For example, for cavalry, horseback kung fu and mounted archery are naturally essential.

It's just that the quality of the soldiers at this time is really worrying, so this kind of training cannot be too complicated. For most ordinary soldiers, they can hold a long gun and barely make a few thrusts after picking it up.

The action is already very good.

This is not an exaggeration, because the spears in ancient military formations were really long, two or three meters long. Even if the body of such a spear is made of wood, it would be difficult to just hold the end and lift it flat.

A pretty fertile thing.

After all, the usage of the spear is based on the principle of leverage. With the left hand as the fulcrum, the right hand only needs to move a small distance. The tip of the spear can cover the enemy's head, chest and whole body. However, the problem caused by this is that the strength of the hand must be sufficient.

powerful.

Therefore, this kind of training is still quite difficult for ordinary soldiers.

After all, Zhao Haiping has already practiced martial arts in other historical slices, and the body he obtained is also tall and strong, with quite good qualities, so this kind of training is useless to him. As a relatively high-level grassroots officer,

He can quickly lead and guide some soldiers in training, or he and other officers can have separate venues to conduct some training projects of their own choice.

What was more difficult for Zhao Haiping to accept were the conditions in the military camp.

Zhao Haiping has played grassroots soldiers before. For example, in the dungeon "The Marquis Is Not My Will", he played a soldier under General Deng.

At that time, he thought that the treatment of soldiers in the middle and late Dasheng Dynasty was already quite poor, but now he discovered that the treatment of soldiers under General Deng was already pretty good.

The living conditions were good and they were provided with sufficient food and salary. This should be one of the important reasons why the soldiers led by General Deng were able to win every battle.

Although the Qi Dynasty was still in the early stages of the dynasty, the consequences of redundant troops had been fully exposed.

Since the founding of the Qi Dynasty, the imperial court has adopted the method of recruiting troops.

The recruitment system is certainly an improvement compared to the collapsed government army system, but the problem is that the advantage of recruitment is that it can conditionally select soldiers suitable for fighting, and give them sufficient motivation to fight through sufficient food and salary, and then through

Professional training allows them to obtain combat effectiveness far beyond that of conscripts.

But the problem is that the Qi Dynasty's military recruitment system and the serious military recruitment system are not the same thing.

The Qi Dynasty's military recruitment system basically did not screen the recruitment of soldiers too much, but regarded it as a means of maintaining stability.

Emperor Taizu of the Qi Dynasty once said a famous saying: The only way to benefit generations is to raise soldiers. If there is an unlucky year and a hungry year, there will be rebellion against the people but no rebel soldiers; if there is misfortune and a happy age, there will be rebel soldiers but no rebel soldiers.

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In other words, as long as there is a disaster, the imperial court will recruit troops to prevent the emergence of chaos.

The soldiers recruited in this way may not necessarily have a strong willingness to fight. They are simply unable to survive in a major disaster. Soldiering is just a temporary means of survival. Secondly, they may not have sufficient physical fitness and combat skills.

They are all poor people who have been working in agriculture for generations, and they are not up to standard in all aspects.

Moreover, a large number of recruitments will lead to a reduction in the food and salary allocated to each soldier, especially for those soldiers who are actually not very good at fighting. Only a small amount of money will be given to them, which is not enough for them to live.

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If we take into account the layers of exploitation by officers at all levels, it is not surprising that these soldiers fled on a large scale.

That's why there's such a shameless practice of tattooing people's faces to prevent them from escaping.

In the past, Zhao Haiping had also learned about some issues regarding the treatment of soldiers in the Qi Dynasty and had read some misleading statements.

For example, it is said that after the Qi Dynasty recruits soldiers, they will be given a settlement allowance, and the whole family will move into the military camp. The soldiers can go home to eat every day, and their colleagues will live next to them.

In this way, the couple and their children do not have to suffer the pain of being separated in two places, which is a very humane approach.

But after living in the Pingding military camp, Zhao Haiping discovered that this was all a lie!

When Zhao Haiping first saw the housing in the military camp, he was shocked.

Can this also be called a house?

It's just a shabby house made of very simple thatch and bamboo boards. When the wind blows, the air leaks everywhere, and when it rains, the roof leaks. It has neither cold protection nor heat insulation. In short, this thing is only slightly better than sleeping on the field.

So a little bit.

This point is actually recorded in historical materials.

The simple houses made of thatch and bamboo boards in the Qi Dynasty were already quite simple among all the houses for civilians, and the cost was still ten guan per room; while the construction standard of military camps was no more than four guan per room.

You can imagine what kind of living quality this will be like...

Moreover, having the whole family join the army seems to be some kind of welfare benefit at first glance, but after digging deeper, you will find that there is a big pit here.

On the one hand, the Qi Dynasty's approach was actually to prevent deserters.

After all, if a soldier is alone, he can run away if he wants to, and run directly home to find his wife and children. Under ancient conditions, it would be difficult to catch him back; but what if his wife and children are all in the military camp? Then what if the soldier returns?

If you want to run away, you have to take your family with you, as it is easier to be discovered.

Moreover, if a soldier ran away and left his wife and children behind, the officer would naturally sell the family members into slavery and pay compensation to the court.

On the other hand, using a dilapidated thatched house of less than four feet, I earned some cheap labor in vain.

Due to redundant troops and the common situation of officers withholding food and pay, the military salary received by the soldiers was greatly reduced. Moreover, the soldiers of the Qi Dynasty had to bear various expenses such as repairing equipment and buying leather straps and bow strings.

A soldier's military salary is simply not enough to support his family.

In this case, the soldiers had to find another way to make a living and make money by doing small businesses in the market.

This further caused the collapse of the entire morale. When all the soldiers were thinking about how to make money, how could they concentrate on training?

Among them, those who have made money are lucky to say that they can use the money to hire people to serve for them, while they can happily continue to do business. However, if they do not make money, it will further aggravate the embarrassing family situation.

Therefore, the wives and children of the soldiers had to join in, such as helping the soldiers wash their armor, collecting firewood nearby, etc.

Since the military camp was all thatched huts, open fires were not allowed at night, so the family had to make do with some cold food, and then continue to work until late at night.

In other words, when the wives and children of these soldiers came to the military camp, not only did they not come to enjoy leisure and happiness, but they became similar to auxiliary soldiers, taking on a lot of chores in the military camp.

If they were in the fields of their hometown, they might be able to find some farming or weaving work and save some money, but in the military camp, there was no such opportunity.

In short, during this period of time in the military camp, Zhao Haiping also felt quite frustrated and angry.

It’s so uncomfortable!

Is this the treatment that soldiers should enjoy?

How can such an army talk about combat effectiveness, and why should it fight against the Jin people who are like wolves and tigers?

But at this time, after all, he was just a new recruit who had just joined the army, and he was unable to change anything at all. He could only just hang around day by day.

After all, judging from the recent panic atmosphere in the military camp, the Jin soldiers may be coming soon.

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"Brother Zhao, come on, have another piece."

Zhao Haiping took a small piece of hard biscuit from the opponent's hand and soaked it in the millet soup. After it was completely soaked, he dipped it in a little sauce and put it in his mouth.

The cakes and millet soup were both cold because open flames were not allowed at night.

After all, military camps are full of cheap thatched houses. Once a fire breaks out, the consequences will be very serious. No one can bear such consequences.

As for these soldiers, they are used to this.

If you want to eat cold food, eat it cold, as long as you don't starve to death.

The tolerance of these lower-class people in ancient times to survival problems is beyond the imagination of modern people.

In the military camp, Zhao Haiping's name was Zhao Hai. And the soldier in front of him, who looked equally tall and strong, had the same special sting effect as Zhao Haiping, and was called Wang Fang.

Zhao Haiping was a lonely man and joined the army by himself, but Wang Fang was different, he had a wife and children.

His child is just seven years old this year.

According to Wang Fang, in fact, as early as more than ten days ago, his wife and children were still in the Pingding Army and living with him.

But as more and more news came about the Jin army's southern invasion, Wang Fang began to worry that Pingding County would soon turn into a battlefield. At this time, the official website opened a policy and allowed some people's wives and children to leave the military camp and return home, so Wang Fang also

Taking advantage of the situation, he allowed his wife and children to go back.

Compared with those soldiers at the bottom, soldiers with "special stabbing effect" like Zhao Haiping and Wang Fang are among the elite. Not only do they receive more daily military salary, but they also receive some preferential treatment in other aspects. Even if they have military

The situation where salary or other miscellaneous money is withheld is less than that of other ordinary soldiers.

Moreover, the Pingding Army is located in a remote place. Although the living conditions are very poor, it is easy to face war here, and the deduction of military salary will be more restrained.

So overall, the life of the two of them in the military camp was barely passable.

As for daily food, overall it is similar to that during the march.

The Qi Dynasty was an era of great development of food culture. People like Li Hongyun in the city could also go to restaurants to have a full meal and eat some stir-fried vegetables. But in the military camp, there were basically only various hard cakes and a very small amount of vegetables.

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To be continued...