The Human Emperor (200-400)

C326: Drill Training!

"Siling is right, we should quickly pick our platoons first."

Bai Siling's words immediately brought everyone's attention back from Wang Chong and onto sixty mighty cavalrymen before them.

The trio drove their steeds forward excitedly and swiftly chose their own platoons.

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Traversing a humble hill, Wang Chong had the twenty cavalrymen arrange themselves in a specific formation and began his drill training.

The first thing one had to do after gaining command over a unit was to conduct drill training to understand the unique traits of the troops.

Only then could one assign the soldiers specific roles and missions based on their strengths. This was a norm in the military.

A true military commander would have the characteristics of every single one of his soldiers in his grasp. Only through this would he be able to bring out the greatest potential of his troops in an operation.

And that was exactly what Wang Chong was doing now.

Understanding the rationale behind his actions, the twenty soldiers felt even more respectful toward him.

"Who are the five-man squad leaders and ten-man squad leaders?" Wang Chong asked with a resounding voice while standing in front of the troops.

A slight wave rippled through the formation for an instant, and three cavalrymen swiftly stepped out.

"Reporting to the commander, I am a five-man squad leader!"

"Reporting to the commander, I am a ten-man squad leader!"

"Reporting to the commander, I am a ten-man squad leader!"

The three men raised their arms and declared their positions.

"There's only one five-man squad leader in this platoon?" Wang Chong frowned. Going by the norms, there should be four five-man squad leaders and two ten-man squad leaders in a twenty man platoon. The figures didn't tally.

"Reporting to the commander, we were only deployed into this platoon from our previous positions a few days ago," one of the ten-man squad leaders reported.

Those words left Wang Chong astonished. Judging from how synchronized their movements were, he thought that they had originated from the same team.

"Then where were you all from before? Report your previous positions one by one," Wang Chong commanded.

What followed left Wang Chong even more surprised. The twenty men had actually come from ten different platoons from five different armies.

Some of them had come from Beiting Protectorate Manor, some from Eastern Protectorate Manor, some from Western Protectorate Manor, as well as the garrison armies from other regions.

It seemed to be a last-minute decision that they were taken out from their previous positions to form this temporary team.

Are the armies of Great Tang so well-trained?, Wang Chong was astonished by the discovery.

He could still remember how awfully trained the armies of Great Tang were when he first came into contact with them in his previous life.

But from the looks of it, it seemed that even though an air of complacency was drifting both in the royal court and across the entire Great Tang, the strict military regime passed down over several centuries was still being enforced perfectly.

At the very least, probably before the catastrophe struck, Great Tang's military still seemed to uphold a high level of discipline.

The discovery of this fact relieved Wang Chong a little. It was fortunate that he had reincarnated into this timeline. If he could use these soldiers well, there would be a greater hope for Great Tang's survival.