According to the original plan, the training camp on the first day of the battalion was completed by Lieutenant Colonel Reedes himself, and the sergeant rationed to the North Aragon Security Regiment must report the entry into the battalion tomorrow, along with the battalion company commander of the regiment. Obviously, the secret document that Lieutenant Colonel Reedes suddenly received disrupted this step.

During the training of recruits, the troops of the Desai Division still strictly comply with the Regulations of 1791: by leading the new and training with the battalion, the newly recruited recruits were directly supplemented to the troops and organized into recruit battalions and companies; each recruit battalion was equipped with several experienced officers, and some sergeants and veterans were sent to each recruit company.

Because the soldiers of the North Aragon Security Regiment are veterans who have served for more than one year and have combat experience (the same is true for the Catalan Regiment), after being summoned to the army, these people are not prepared to treat new recruits and train for three months, but shorten the time. The first month, the battalion company was trained, the second month was set off for marching, and the battle began in the third month.

When the five non-commissioned officers were in place, Lieutenant Colonel Reedes handed over his training rights to them and clearly explained to the five instructors: It is necessary to let these soldiers from hunters understand military discipline and fear military laws within 3 days.

"Why is it 3 days?" Major Mardan asked Lieutenant Colonel Redes when he walked outside the training ground.

Lieutenant Colonel Redes knew the reason, but he smiled but did not answer, and just stretched out his index finger and stood up at his mouth, indicating that it was a military secret. Because the secret document in his arms stipulated the object of the content circulated, it did not include Major Mardan in front of him.

The Catalan regiment proved their loyalty to the Duke of Hruna during the battle at the Fraga Checkpoint; similarly, the North Aragon Security Regiment must also stand the test of credibility before going to the battlefield. Desai did not want a unit that was unfaithful to itself to become a "time bomb" in the battle, so in terms of division of responsibilities, Lieutenant Colonel Reedes and non-commissioned officers at all levels were only responsible for the strengthening of military discipline and skills of the recruits. As for the judgment of loyalty of the team, it was handed over to the joint appraisal of the Gendarmerie Command and the Military Intelligence Bureau.

Although he did not secretly communicate with his brother-in-law, Major Mardan, who was born in a small noble, also knew a little about the ideas of the superiors, but he was unwilling to make it clear that he was ready to prove himself with practical actions and his team had been separated from the past history, and then became a loyal defender of the Violet Flag (the symbol of Duke Hruna and the symbol of the future Catalan country).

After the two returned to the command post of the regiment headquarters, Lieutenant Colonel Reedes directly spread a stack of patterns on the conference table, fingered and penciled, and taught Major Mardan in detail the marching and combat queue knowledge of the test troops.

"…According to the Ordinance of 1791, the French infantry regiment was arranged in a classic hybrid formation. When the troops advanced forward, one of the regiment's battalions was deployed as cross-legged to provide strong firepower, and the other two battalions were deployed as columns, intended to take assault operations, with infantry companies deployed in 3 columns, which is the basic form of the French tactical formation, but now all changes in form.

...According to the new regulations, the rank of your regiment will follow the British army, with the company fighting in two rows instead of three rows, one behind the other, 65 cm apart... Behind them are lieutenants, non-commissioned officers, and divisional military police teams acting as the squadrons... After the battle begins, the captain roams both ends of the company and the commander follows closely... The two horizontal formations are only in combat formations, which are very inconvenient in military operations. Therefore, under normal circumstances, they must be converted into four columns to march.

...It is possible to quickly convert from the fourth column to the combat queue, and it must be able to quickly convert back. It is not difficult to convert from the combat queue to the fourth column, but it is much more difficult to convert from the fourth column to the combat queue. Whenever this kind of conversion, we who belong to the attacking side are often under the threat of dense firepower from the enemy, without chest walls, no fortresses, no hidden places, and thick smoke and fog everywhere, all around are deafening sounds of gunfire, and the bodies of comrades who are constantly falling down.

...This graphic is only your offensive formation against the defensive infantry, as well as your defensive formation against the offensive infantry, and the defensive formation against the offensive cavalry... If you include the terrain and the decomposition of the terrain, there are as many as 12 types of combat formations.

...So, you and your soldiers must keep in mind all kinds of combat formations. The key is to quickly complete formation transformation. The fundamental guarantee for this is the unforgettable military discipline and daily strict training!”

Looking at the more than 10 pages of different formation changes on the table, as well as the officers and soldiers' positions and decompositions marked on each drawing, Major Mardan felt that his head was about to explode.

As a nobleman of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty, Major Mardan also participated in training on queue conversion as an officer, but never so detailed and cumbersome. When he became the commander of the mountain guerrillas, his request for his subordinates was to allow them to load ammunition, aim and shoot, and simply maintain firearms.

Major Mardan suddenly thought of something and asked: "You just said that these are all imitations of the British army's ranks. How long did the British do and adapt to these?"

Lieutenant Colonel Reedes smiled slightly: "If you only talk about queue conversion, it will take about 3 months!"

"But my group has only less than 2 months left?"

"I'm wrong, not two months, only one month. In the military camps in the northern suburbs of Zaragoza, soldiers need to learn to pass on their internal affairs and obey military discipline. The time for queue training is mainly on the march from Zaragoza to Badajos Fortress."

"How is that possible?"

"So, I suggest that you and your officers must ask soldiers to use all their free time to study and train, including eating and sleeping, and even speaking in the night, you must recite the queue rules!"

...

The 1810 Desay Division Training and Operations Regulations mainly apply to two local garrison regiments, but the provisions on health and internal affairs in this "New Regulations" require all officers and soldiers to strictly abide by it.

If famine is the most terrible killer of civilians during wartime, injuries, especially various infectious diseases, are the main reasons for soldiers' non-combat reduction.

Time travelers clearly remember that in 1812, Napoleon's 500,000 troops were almost destroyed during his expedition to Russia. One of the root causes was that more than half of the soldiers' reduction came from drinking unclean water sources and allowed various diseases (including syphilis) to be transmitted by fleas, lice, and bed bugs. The above casualties were much greater than conventional battle casualties, as well as the hunger and cold encounters encountered during the later retreat.

The Desai Division conquers Portugal this time, also at the intersection of spring and summer when various infectious diseases occur frequently. Under the above considerations, Desai is unwilling to have a sudden infectious disease, causing a large number of non-combat attrition to soldiers. In addition to stipulating that the Engineer Corps is responsible for safe drinking water, every soldier must also pay strict attention to personal hygiene.

Although the upper class of Paris has become accustomed to bathing, it is still a respect for the saints to maintain physical dirt all year round in other countries, especially in Spain where traditional Catholicism is prevalent. In the short term, Desai cannot have traditional bad habits among the people, but he can ask the military camp to unconditionally implement new military regulations.

It doesn’t matter whether you understand it or not, just enforce it. After all, in the highly hierarchical military camp, there has never been any democratic style or consistent statements between officers and soldiers.

When the sergeants took over the training duties of the chief instructor, the first order was to let all the soldiers take off their clothes and jump naked into the unwarranted Ebro River to "take a bath" in full view of everyone.

Five non-commissioned officers wandered the shore, waved their horse whips, and shouted loudly at the soldiers who were reluctant to soak in the river: "Clowns, stick soapy water with brushes and brush each other. Use force to clean up all the old dirt you have kept for more than 20 years. Fleas, bed bugs and lice on everyone's body are not allowed to be brought into the military camp. Violators will run around the school ground for 20 laps and punish half a month of military salary!"

The collective bathing process of the entire regiment of soldiers lasted for 2 hours. During this period, several unlucky guys received a ticket from the instructors because of their poor body failure. When the non-commissioned officers felt satisfied, they allowed the tortured and weak soldiers to lie ashore one by one. At this time, the original clothes had been destroyed in a concentrated manner, but there were bags of wear-resistant and dirty gray training clothes on the meadow.

These soldiers with hot bodies and red skin rushed forward one after another, wanting to unpack and dress. What came from behind was the sergeant shouting: "Beautiful white butts, please warn everyone to cut my hands and toenails before dressing. Violators also ran around the school ground for 20 laps, and lunch was cancelled!"

...

Sitting in the clean, spacious and bright restaurant, Ortega Garset was enjoying his first lunch after entering the Zaragoza military camp. The food was quite hearty, at least in the eyes of the Private, with the staple food being black bread and mashed potatoes accompanied by fresh vegetables, as well as half a fish, a cooked egg, and a meat and vegetable soup. Among them, the staple food was not limited to the supply.

This is simply a wonderful recipe that only appears on Christmas. Garset has not been able to enjoy such a sumptuous lunch for three years. Although he doesn't like fish, he remembers the warning given by the non-commissioned officer before eating that all the food in front of him must be eaten within the specified time. Violators will also be punished for this month's military salary and a round-trip round around the school.

On the school ground a hundred meters away from the restaurant, under the supervision of the gendarmerie, dozens of soldiers who violated the rules panting around the runway to complete the instructor's punishment task. Two of them were his fellow townsmen and old comrades, Gonzalez Enrique and Julio Pablo.

It is now 12:25 noon, only 5 minutes before lunch ends. Ortega Garset thought in his mind that the two poor unlucky guys would definitely not have lunch. Throughout the afternoon, they would be hungry and endure the next round of inhuman torture by the instructors.

Ortega Garset looked at his comrades who were still fighting desperately on the playground. When he took back his perspective, he found that there was still a lot of black bread left on the food cabinet in a corner of the restaurant. So he had an idea, got up, walked quietly to the food cabinet, and looked around with a cautious expression. After no one noticed him, he reached out and quickly stuffed a few pieces of dry bread into his training suit.

The soldier thought no one noticed his small movements, but in fact, his every move was already visible to the two instructors.

"Look, that guy is the guy who the chief instructor asked me to pay attention to? He seems to behave properly, but he is very brave!"

"Well, what do you want to deal with?"

"He acquiesced to deliver the food, but afterwards, the punishment remains."

"Oh, weren't you going to promote him as a preparatory corporal just now?"
Chapter completed!