jdhmnovel Chapter 389 Signing up for the Army
Chapter 389 Signing up for the Army
Lin Chuyi adopted the same strict training method for the guards and soldiers in the barracks.
According to her carefully designed training plan, the soldiers not only had to carry heavy equipment for long-distance running, but also had to practice basic skills such as boxing, shooting, and swordsmanship.
In addition, the soldiers also need to undergo equestrian training and simulated combat exercises. These training programs are numerous and extremely challenging, making the soldiers live in dire straits every day.
Not everyone can withstand such arduous training. Some people can't stand it after just a few days and start to back out, hoping to use money to exempt themselves from military service and then leave the barracks.
Faced with this situation, Lin Chuyi did not try to persuade him to stay and quickly agreed to use money to pay for his military service.
Once someone successfully set a precedent, others in the barracks began to follow suit.
Seeing this, Lin Chuyi simply gave all the soldiers a chance to make their own choices.
She gave them half a month to consider. If they chose to leave, they had to pay enough deduction money, take off their military uniforms and leave the barracks within this half month.
If you still decide to stay after half a month, there is no turning back. No matter how hard the training is, you must persevere.
As the stipulated deadline came to an end, the number of soldiers in the three states who chose to leave actually accounted for one-third of the total number.
Lin Chuyi seemed very calm about this result, as he had expected it.
After all, everyone has different tolerance and ambitions. Some are willing to contribute to the country and the people, while others prefer to pursue a comfortable life. This is human nature, and Lin Chuyi understands and respects this.
After the headcount was completed, Lin Chuyi immediately issued an order, asking relevant personnel to post notices widely in various counties, prefectural capitals and other places within the fiefdom to publicly recruit new soldiers.
The notice clearly stated that anyone who meets the age requirements, is in good health, and is willing to sign up for the army can go to the registration points set up in various places to register and apply. Once approved, they can officially become a member of the city defense army.
Once the notice was released, it immediately attracted the attention and response of many people. The reason why they signed up so enthusiastically was actually very simple.
Since Her Royal Highness arrived at the fiefdom, the series of policies and measures she has implemented have all been sincerely formulated to benefit the people. They have personally felt the care and kindness of Her Royal Highness the Princess towards them.
Many people have families or relatives who have received literacy education at the junior college founded by Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal.
However, among those who were sent to school, some were gifted and highly comprehensible, and were born to be scholars, while some seemed to lack the reading string, and their ability to accept and understand knowledge was relatively weak.
In class, what the teacher taught was easy for other students to understand and recite, but they were still confused and seemed to understand it vaguely.
After a long and difficult semester, the registration time for the second semester finally arrived. At this time, some people were unwilling to return to college to continue their studies.
They firmly believed that they were not cut out for studying and that instead of suffering in college by listening to incomprehensible knowledge that seemed like a mystery, it would be more practical for them to stay at home and help their families with work.
Although they may not be smart and flexible, they have strong bodies and plenty of physical strength. Whether they go to the county town to find work and earn wages, or stay at home to take care of farm affairs, they can create income for the family, while also avoiding wasting the family's money and reducing the family's financial burden. In their opinion, this is the wise choice.
Faced with the insistence of these children, their families were helpless and finally had to obey their wishes and agreed to let them drop out of school and go home. In this way, these people became dropouts who left school early.
At first, their relatives, friends and neighbors kept complaining to them, expressing their regret for giving up such a great opportunity. However, they just smiled and continued to do their work.
After all, they knew that their abilities were limited and that they were not cut out for study. Their academic performance in the academy was far inferior to that of their classmates, and if they really had to take the job recruitment exam in the future, they would definitely fail. Since they had already foreseen this outcome, why waste several years of their time in vain?
Although they do think so in their hearts, every time when the night is quiet, they have never had a trace of regret or remorse in their hearts. However, since they have made a decision, they will never look back, and they don't want to become the laughing stock of others.
Just as they were concentrating on their work, they learned through various channels that Her Royal Highness the Princess was personally in charge of the fiefdom's city defense army and was publicly recruiting new soldiers.
In an instant, the originally silent heart was stirred again and became unusually active. They had a strong intuition that this was their chance, and if they missed it, they would regret it for the rest of their lives.
They soon told their families about their desire to join the army.
Some of these families have seen their family conditions significantly improved due to the various policies implemented by Lin Chuyi. These people believe from the bottom of their hearts that Her Royal Highness the Princess is an excellent person, and the army she personally manages will naturally not be bad.
Considering that their children were not good at studying, going to the military camp might be a good choice, so they readily agreed to their children's request.
However, there are some families who have sent their family members to serve in the military before and are well aware of all the dirty things that happen in the military camps, so they are not willing to let their children get involved.
But the children had made up their minds, and the parents had no choice but to use their connections and give gifts to inquire about the current situation in the barracks from the former garrison soldiers who had recently retired from the army by paying off their military service.
Although these people have left the military camp, they still know what they can say and what they need to keep secret. So they only reveal to the visitor the reasons why they chose to quit.
It turned out that the reason these people retired early was simply because their family's financial conditions had improved and they had extra money to pay for the military service. In addition, they could not endure the hard training life in the barracks, so they wanted to return home as soon as possible and apply for junior college in order to find a stable and reliable job.
Those parents who came to inquire about the news all breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and later relaxed their attitude towards their children, saying that they would allow them to go to the military camp to join the army.
As a result, wave after wave of young people with enthusiasm flocked to the conscription registration site and lined up to sign up.
After successfully passing the family review, those who voluntarily sign up to join the army will be taken to a gathering place and then undergo a comprehensive and detailed physical examination by a military doctor.
After two rounds of rigorous and detailed inspections and screenings, those who were eliminated because their family review did not meet the standards or their health conditions did not meet the requirements for joining the army have been eliminated. The remaining number of people who successfully passed the screening not only filled the original vacancies, but also added more than 2,000 people.
After Lin Chuyi learned the news, he did not select and eliminate personnel from these new recruits again as he did before. Instead, he incorporated them all into the city defense army, and the extra 2,000 or so vacancies were for elimination.
New soldiers and veterans are trained together, and a training performance test is held at the end of each month. The content of the test is quite comprehensive, covering six major sections: theory test, practical test, physical test, speed test, team competition and actual combat exercise.
After each exam, each person’s comprehensive score will be calculated based on the different proportions of each score, and the candidates will be ranked according to this score.
Soldiers ranked in the top 50 can enjoy a series of attractive benefits such as extra meals and increased vacation time. The higher the ranking, the richer the rewards.
However, the situation is not so optimistic for the soldiers who are ranked in the bottom 100. They will be included in the list of soldiers scheduled for elimination.
If their overall scores are within the bottom 100 for three consecutive months, they will be completely eliminated, disqualified from defending the city, and leave the barracks completely until the extra 2,000 places are all eliminated.
In this way, the enthusiasm of all the soldiers defending the city was aroused, and they no longer dared to slack off in training.
The soldiers who had performed outstandingly in previous training were determined to win the reward for the top 50, and the soldiers who were originally mediocre were also aroused and wanted to give it a try.