Chapter VI Preparations for Military Struggle

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With a loud suona from the flag drum officer, then the star officer shouted loudly in a thick voice: "It's lunch time!" That's the end of the morning drill! The teams disbanded in place and rested for a quarter of an hour. Listen to the sound of the trumpet and gather for dinner! ”

"Boys, you heard the pigs slaughtered in the kitchen, right?! For a few days in a row, I let go of three fat pigs in one go, which is enough for you to open your stomach open! The white rice is enough to eat, and the adults are afraid that you will get tired of eating, and there are all kinds of new fruits for you to eat! ”

Looking at the short and sturdy body of the star officer on the stage, everyone felt that he was as cute as the good wealth boy next to Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Under the sun of the dry season in Annam, these recruits have been training for thirty days. From the three major steps of assembling and lining up, neatly reporting the numbers, turning the method in all directions, starting, and running, Li Shouhan made requirements in accordance with the training outline of the PLA. And a training plan was developed.

During the period when the rooster crows all over the breakfast, it is called morning exercise. The main thing is to practice running, queues. After breakfast, the period from lunch to lunch is mainly to train various military techniques and physical training. For example: running with weights, horizontal bars, push-ups, sit-ups, etc. Lunch is followed by an hour's lunch break, followed by an afternoon of training, which is basically the same as in the morning. In addition to technical training, it is the exercise of physical fitness and physical coordination.

According to Li Shouhan, weight-bearing running is to exercise endurance, stone locks and stone burdens are to exercise the body, and pan bars are to exercise coordination. For these young people, who are mainly farmers, it is not a big deal to get up in the morning when the chickens crow, after all, they have been smelling the chickens and dancing for so many years, and the weight-bearing long-distance running in the morning is still alive, and there is a better breakfast waiting for them after the run.

However, many seemingly simple things often go wrong. A Li Shouhan thought that the simplest four-sided turning method, that is, to the left, to the right and backward, many people did not understand, which surprised him, and later realized that in the era in which he lived, children were receiving physical education classes from an early age, and these were already the most common sense things.

But this was during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.

So, Li Shouhan came up with a method, the captains of each team, before the drill every day, tied the left arm of each recruit with straw to distinguish between the left and right.

In the sun, these recruits stretched their limbs and arranged the leggings on their legs, and when they first started training, these poor children who were used to being poor were still a little pity, "So much, such a good cloth, tied to their legs like this?" It's better to send me home and let A-Niang make clothes for her younger siblings. ”

However, the subsequent high-intensity training let these people know the benefits of leggings, and every morning, under the dew, carrying a bamboo basket full of stones and 30 catties, under the scolding of the team manager, ran ten miles. Then, run back to the sun.

There was once a recruit in the grass hut rubbing his painful legs, while crying in a low voice, saying that even if he died of poverty and starvation at home, he would not suffer this crime here. The next day, the guy deserted home.

As a result, everyone was shocked. This guy has just arrived home, and the military judge has also chased him home. Without saying a word, he directly announced the decision of the general. "Take the field! Banish! ”

The reason is simple, you have not fulfilled your obligations, the obligations you have sworn to burn incense in front of the statue of Lord Mazu.

None of the neighbors of the same Baojia came out to intercede for the family, and everyone felt that there was nothing wrong with such an approach. Whether it's human favor or legal reason. So, in the scolding and scolding of his father and mother, under the eyes of the neighbors, the family took their simple luggage and looked at the rice field that once belonged to them, and the rice field was about to start harvesting. The good days are about to begin, but these will never belong to them because of this guy's desertion.

The power of example is endless, and the power of negative example is even stronger. On the same day, countless parents and brothers came to the barracks and told their children about this scene. explained, even if it is a broken bone, for the sake of the whole family, you have to hold on! From that day on, the recruits gritted their teeth and persevered in their training. However, after ten days, the body seems to have adapted to this high-intensity activity, touching the muscles on his body, everyone thinks that it is worth it to rush this tendon and flesh to come out and be this soldier.

In the distance, several ox carts pulled the freshly harvested paddy and walked slowly and leisurely from the fields to their respective villages. Behind them, countless people in the field were wielding their scythes and harvesting ripe rice.

"Lu Yunsheng, how much rice can your family harvest this time?" A recruit eagerly watched the rice piled high on the ox cart.

According to the land division order, the land cultivated by each family is completely owned by each family, and only one-tenth of the public grain is paid. If there are children in the family who serve in the army, half of the public rations can also be exempted. If you have military merits, you can also be exempted from a part of the public rations. If a child is disabled or killed by wounds on the battlefield, then this ration will be completely waived. As part of the pension. Until the children of the deceased are able to live independently or until the death of their parents.

For the sale of grain to foreign countries, a commercial tax of 5 percent is required, in the words of adults, that is, "worth 5 percent of 100 draws." But if you try to evade taxes, if you are caught, you will be fined more than 100 times, and it will be calculated according to the maximum amount you can sell. If someone reports tax evasion and it is implemented, then 40% of the fine goes to the whistleblower.

"My buffalo is not good, it is estimated to be more than 400 catties! When I have made military achievements, I can exempt half of the public food and let Daddy buy two better buffaloes. Lu Yunsheng held a straw stick in his mouth, looking forward to the scene when Daddy drove his buffalo to the field after making meritorious contributions.

"Four hundred pounds! Obediently, your family can have tens of thousands of catties of rice in the warehouse this year! Tian Yinxi applauded and admired!

"Your family's fields are not less than mine, and your family's rice will not be less than mine!"

"It's all the same! It's all the same! Tian Yin smiled happily.

"Tian Jinxi, how are the weapons prepared for the recruits?"

Standing in the Taiping Cave on the mountain behind the garrison mansion, standing in front of the fence made of thick logs with his hands behind his back, Li Shouhan looked intently into the cave.

This Taiping Cave is a naturally formed karst cave, claimed to be more than 100 years, no one has ever found another cave entrance, the depth of the cave does not know how far away, the strange thing is that it is not damp or wet, a gust of wind blows from nowhere, so that the cave is warm and moist like spring all year round. In the past, this was the Li family's warehouse where grain, knives and guns were stored, but now, it is used by Li Shouhan to build weapons.

The blacksmith leader Tian Jinxi and Yang Tianshi saluted with their hands crossed, and then replied respectfully: "Lord Hui, since the furnace was opened ten days ago to build weapons, in ten days, we have built a total of 127 spearheads. All cast according to the dimensions of the pattern you show. Please take a look. ”

Fang Zheng Lingzheng of the smelter hurriedly took a spearhead from the work case on the side, "My lord, please look!" ”

The spearhead reflected the cold light of metal in the sunlight at the entrance of the cave, and the blue and faint evil was the lover. "According to the size you want, the blade is thirty-eight centimeters long, the length is one foot and two inches, and the back of the blade is a two-foot iron bottle, which is installed on the stone oak barrel, the size of the barrel is one zhang and four feet, and the total size from the tip of the spear to the tail of the spear is one zhang and eight feet."

Li Shouhan slowly slid his fingers over the blade of the spearhead, gently feeling the sharpness of the knife. The spearhead of this spear was a mixture of iron bottles after he had added an ordinary spearhead to an iron bottle according to the standard of spears in the Spanish phalanx he had seen on the Internet, and the iron-clad combat part in front was greatly lengthened, so that it was difficult for the enemy to cut the spear even with a thick-backed machete. According to the private discussion of several craftsmen, "Such a weapon of an adult is certainly a sharp weapon to kill the enemy, but the spearhead is too long and too defeated." ”

"Now in the school barracks, there are hundreds of sons and daughters training, you have only built one hundred and twenty-seven spears in ten days, is there not enough manpower, or is there not enough materials?" Li Shouhan's words made these people's hearts immediately go from midsummer to cold winter.

"Poof!" "Poof!" The two of them knelt on the ground one after another, "My lord, it's not that the small ones are deliberately slow, it's just that the spear that the adults ask for is very picky about the steel requirements, although there is a lot of pig iron in the house, but the pig iron becomes suitable steel, which has to be tempered thousands of times." The little ones are already working day and night. ”

"Adults treat the little people so well, how dare the little people slack off on errands?! If you are sluggish, Taishang Laojun will rain down thunder! ”

I see! Li Shouhan secretly screamed ashamed in his heart! He also made the bureaucratic mistake that ordinary leaders often make, and it seems that Taizu is right, "Without investigation and research, there is no right to speak." ”

"Ahem," he coughed softly, trying to make himself look less impatient. "Take me to see your stove."

In a branch cave in the Taiping Cave, Ling Zheng, Yang Tianshi and others placed the furnace for steelmaking here. This hole, there is a natural hole in the top of the hole, and there is wind blowing from nowhere, the ventilation effect is good, and there is a dark river flowing through the hole not far away, and it is also very convenient to get water.

The stove here is a table stove. The stove is built on a special stove and has a large space for heating and frying. The furnace is made of bricks, like a chicken coop, the bottom of the furnace is close to the ground level, the frying room is an irregular rectangular space, and a furnace mouth is set up in the front of the furnace, where the feeding, operation, and tapping of the steel are made, although Li Shouhan has not directly operated the steelmaking furnace, but, because of the reason he is the technical director, the type and process of the steelmaking furnace, whether it is advanced or backward, he can see it at a glance.

This kind of chicken coop stove is also a kind of deformation of the hearth.

"My lord, in such a furnace, we use iron bars to smelt and smelt for hundreds of times, and gradually twist into a ball, and every five catties can be refined into one catty." Yang Tianshi was afraid that Li Shouhan would be angry, so he introduced it to Li Shouhan in a low voice.

Li Shouhan sighed in admiration, "Thank you for your hard work." ”

Although he said this, looking at the pieces of pig iron piled up in the cave, he couldn't help but be a little worried, how could he turn these pig iron into three-edged armor-piercing cones in the hands of the soldiers? Turned into a long crossbow?

After pondering for a long time, Li Shouhan said: "It's still my mistake." Well, except for these 120 spears, the rest of the spearheads were made of wrought iron. In addition, you should not be responsible for making a whole spear by one person, but divide the spear making into several processes, some people are responsible for making wrought iron, some people are responsible for making spearheads, some people are responsible for making spear shafts, and some people are responsible for assembling, so that the efficiency will be much improved. ”

On the one hand, Li Shouhan self-examined and lowered the material standards of the spearhead, and on the other hand, he taught Tian Jinxi and Ling Zheng the standardized assembly line operations of later generations.