Chapter 60 (1/2)
This competition is not absolutely fair. The youth army and the junior reserve service are still the biggest winners, especially the adjutants. Without exception, they are all from these two groups.
Because one of the necessary conditions for being an adjutant at all levels is to be able to read and write at the most basic level. This level alone will keep 99% of the mountain people hunters and army slaves out of the door, and the literacy rate of the eternal night army is frightening to death.
Only a small number of people have joined the ranks of grass-roots officers by virtue of their bravery. However, the highest rank is a hundred people's guards. If they go up, they don't simply need bravery. The score of military literacy is getting heavier and heavier. This is their fatal weakness, which they can't compare with the youth army.
Even the centurion guard had only two men. Archier, who was born as a Bastille army slave, was of average stature, but he was as powerful as the broken skull soldiers with the blood of kentana barbarians in terms of strength. Wearing three layers of armour, he was still walking fast, and his courage was greater than that of ordinary military slaves. He dared to try new things and was a good choice for infantry.
The other is Arnold, a hunter from Andes mountain people. He is a good eagle with good training, good archery skills and hunting experience. Unexpectedly, he was selected not for the sentinel team, but for the engineering team.
Sean personally ordered to do what he was best at - training eagles, not one or two, but hundreds of large-scale training of Andes eagles.
Sean noticed the Hawks early on, and they domesticated several of them themselves.
Domestication of hawks is not a rare thing among Andes mountain people. They have a wide perspective that the hounds do not have. With a well-trained hawk, they can find their prey or enemies first, which is easier to seize the opportunity.
Andean Eagles belong to small and medium-sized eagles, which are not expensive to feed. The only drawback is that this kind of eagles are arrogant and difficult to domesticate.
Sean's focus is not only on the use of reconnaissance, but also on the characteristics of love for home and ultra long distance travel. In this regard, it has amazing similarities with pigeons. If it can be used in information transmission, it will directly lead to the change of the army's combat mode.
I have tried several times before, but all ended in failure. Due to the limitation of human, material and financial resources, the number of domesticated eagles is too small to see the effect, and there is no excellent and patient Eagle trainer.
Arnold's appearance once again let Sean see the hope, although he and this middle-aged man only had a few face-to-face, the other side still left a very deep impression on him.
The whole person is dead and lifeless, as if the whole world is no longer worthy of his nostalgia. The absolute patients with severe psychological trauma can only glow with brilliance when talking about the eagle.
Obviously, the Mountain Eagle occupies a very important position in his life. If the Mountain Eagle is handed over to such a person, it may bring no small surprise, or it may enable Arnold to walk out of the pain of his wife and son's death.
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Dodo!
There was a knock on the door.
”Come in, please.” Shaun did not lift his head, two weeks after the selection of officers for the eternal night Corps.
This is the busiest two weeks since Shawn came to the world. Apart from the most basic training, he devoted himself to the formation of the eternal night Corps.
To set up an army corps, especially a brand-new one, is by no means a matter of gathering up the number of officers at the grass-roots level.
Organizing training, rationing equipment, making military regulations, setting military rates, food standards, and grain supply allocation are not major events, but when more than 6000 people are involved, eating, drinking and Lasa are all major events.
As a critical moment in the transition from the grassroots team to the regular army, Sean naturally could not relax. He had to participate in everything and work out the most suitable set of things for them.
After this set of things comes out, we can set up new legions, whether they are permanent legions or night groups, just change their names, change people, and apply them directly.
The outline of these things has basically come out, and it can only be refined and perfected. This is not a day's work, but it needs to be explored.
Now Sean is drafting a plan for the development of the Yongye army in the next three to five years. If it is said that the former things are related to the combat effectiveness of the Yongye army, what is now related to the height that the Yongye army can reach in the future, so we have to be cautious.
”What's the matter? In such a hurry? ” Don't look. Sean also knows who it is. At this time point, there are only a few people who disturb him. Their feet are as light as cats. Only Ralph, who is dedicated to the spy chief, is hard to hear.
This time, Ralph's choice has a great bearing on his life goal. Instead of joining the eternal night army, he led his chosen 20 or so people to form an independent department called Hawkeye, whose positioning is the collection, transmission, collation and summary of information.
Although the sentinels of the Yongye army are responsible for investigating and transmitting information, they belong to one of the Corps branches and act with the regiment's actions.
Hawkeye is a pure intelligence organization. It is responsible for collecting much more information than sentinels. It is not only about military affairs, but also about people's livelihood, culture, resources, local information, etc., which will be the scope of their collection.Influenced by previous films and TV works, Sean is wary of this kind of intelligence organization. The royal guards, the East and West Factory, and the military unification of the Chinese Communist Party are examples. They are easy to use, but if they are given too much power, they may become a disaster.
Therefore, at the beginning of its establishment, when it was just a small department, it was given many restrictions. It only gave them the power of intelligence collection and part of supervision, but not the power of decision-making and law enforcement.