Chapter 40: The Unclothed Army
At the beginning of a new day in everyone's excited mood, Pei Yuanshao led his soldiers to the camp in Canglongling early in the morning to transport the grain and grass left yesterday. There are two warehouses in the new Jinniu Mountain, of which the warehouses for grain and grass and other materials are located in the middle of the east and west barracks, and the warehouses for weapons and armor are between the checkpoint where the workshop was built and the barracks of Wang Qing's department, and as for the iron ore, it is directly expanded in the cave behind the original Jinniu Mountain, where Zeng Yu tried to build the iron-smelting furnace.
Zeng Yu asked the soldiers to clean up the mansion in the morning, and then sent the soldiers to notify all the people above the rank of the commander to come over for a meeting, and at present, Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao, Wang Qing, Sun Hao, and Gu De. The matter in their hands was handed over to Qin Fen and others first, and Zeng Yu needed to arrange the specific details of the cottage in the past few days before it was convenient to go down the mountain.
Soon, Zhou Cang and Sun Hao came over as soon as possible, as for Pei Yuanshao and Wang Qing, they were both in the school field and the Houshan mine respectively, so they were a little slower, and waited for about a quarter of an hour before appearing in the new meeting hall.
Zeng Yu sat at the top, and the five people sat on the left and right. Zeng Yu was the first to speak, "Now that the cottage has entered a new process, I think we need to have a good name, and it is a bit inappropriate to call it a cottage all the time, which will make the soldiers think that we are pure bandits." ”
"Big brother's proposal is good, if you have a military name, in the long run, the soldiers will subtly feel that they are no longer in the grass, and it is easier to produce cohesion." Sun Hao added in due course.
"Lord, everything is up to you, we had no choice before, so we established a mountain in Woniu Mountain." Zhou Cang explained.
"Zhou Cang, I'm not saying that you are bandits, I want us to completely forget the bad past and turn a new page here." Zeng Yu heard Zhou Cang's explanation and knew that he felt a little uncomfortable after hearing about the bandit, so he comforted.
"Big brother, what should we call it?" Wang Qing naturally has no opinion on this proposal, he also wants to have a majestic legion name, so that it will be more imposing to go out and raise a banner in the future.
"I thought about it for a while, and I planned to name the cottage the Clothless Army. Taken from the poem "No Clothes", I hope that all soldiers and comrades-in-arms can go to the battlefield together, and they can unite as one and hate the same enemy, so that they can be invincible and invincible. Zeng Yu proposed, he had liked this poem very much before, and every time he read it, he could imagine that as soon as all the soldiers heard the order, they would pack up their armor and prepare to unite to defeat the enemy in war. Especially this month, when he stayed with the soldiers, he felt more deeply and understood the sincere comradeship.
"Do you say you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son! How can you say that you have no clothes? With the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear halberd. Work with the son! How can you say that you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my armor soldiers. Walk with the son! ”
Wang Qing read this poem for a while, and said to Zeng Yu: "Big brother, this is really a good name, we are called the Clothless Army, and the soldiers can remember it better, and I suggest that everyone learn this poem, it will definitely have unexpected effects." ”
When others heard it, they thought it was good. Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao originally felt that Zeng Yu's name was very strange, but after Wang Qing's impassioned reading, they soon felt the kind of mutual support and common hatred between comrades-in-arms described in the poem.
"Okay, from today on, there will be only the unclothed army, there will be no Woniu Cottage, and there will be no Taurus Village, everything will start again, let us work together for a better future." Zeng Yu clapped his head and said, in this way, he decided that the future would be across the land of China, and the unclothed soldiers and civilians whose prestige would spread all over the world.
"I'll swear to follow my eldest brother (lord)." Wang Qing and the other four also clasped their fists and said.
"Next, the Clothless Army is now mainly a combat unit, that is, the thousand soldiers led by Ziwu. Ziwu, I hope you can train them according to the training methods of the Great Qin Ruishi that you know, in the past, the Great Qin fought against the Six Kingdoms. In addition to the twenty-first level military merit lord famous field house system, it mainly relies on the strong combat effectiveness of the Great Qin Ruishi, and I hope it can be reproduced in your hands. ”
Zeng Yu said to Wang Qing that since the death of the second chamber of the Great Qin Empire, many things in the past Great Qin have either been lost or fallen into private hands. For example, Li Hu's iron-making and iron-striking were inherited from the Shaofu of the Qin Empire, and many of these skills were passed down from generation to generation as their own inheritance. As for some of the more core things, such as the training methods of the Qin Dynasty, Meng Tian, the general of the Qin Dynasty, committed suicide by Hu Hai by forging an edict, and the other generals were either killed or fled, and Zhang Han was a general with such a status who surrendered, so although the Han Empire inherited part of the Qin Empire's system, many things were completely lost.
"Lord, I do know the training methods of the Ruis, but all the Rui are wearing heavy armor, holding spears or other long weapons, in addition to bows and arrows as long-range strikes, now we are not complete, even if we train according to the way, we can't beat the combat effectiveness of the Great Qin Ruishi." Wang Qing replied that he actually wanted to reproduce the Great Qin Ruishi in his own hands, but after learning about the current number of weapons and armor of the Clothless Army, he gave up. Now he mainly trains the physical strength of soldiers according to the routine and the customary orders are prohibited, although he is not a Great Qin Ruishi, but after his training, it is still much better than the ordinary rabble cottages.
"I know this, you don't have to worry, the current production of weapons in the workshop is only five a day, and as for the armor, there is even only one set a day. But Li Hu assured me that after two months, he would be able to produce at least 200 weapons and more than 100 sets of armor a day. Now we have mines, as long as the production of the workshop is sufficient, at most half a year, we can meet the equipment of your soldiers. Zeng Yu asked Li Hu about the output of the workshop before, Li Hu introduced that now all the apprentices are very fast, and they will soon be able to build independently, and the output can be increased many times, he just said to Wang Qing that the daily output of weapons and armor is just a conservative statement, and if you step up your efforts, it will be even higher.
"That's fine, I'm going to start adjusting my training plan today. However, in this way, if the soldiers' food is still according to the previous standard of meat, the meat needs to be prepared by others. As I said before, Wang Qing would lead the soldiers into the mountains to hunt every day to exercise the soldiers' ability to fight together. But if you follow the training method of the sharps, there will be no time for hunting, and if there is no additional provision, then the soldiers will have to eat less.
"Zhou Cang, what do you think of this food?" Zeng Yu asked Zhou Cang, he was not particularly familiar with the neighborhood at the moment, so he needed to ask Zhou Cang.
"You can buy meat in the county, but if we rely on buying it for a long time, we can't afford it, and the cost will be very large." Zhou Cang said.
"What if we raise our own? Is there anyone who knows how to raise in the cottage? Sun Hao asked Zhou Cang.
"There are a lot of people who know how to raise, and everyone used to be ordinary people, and they have raised some." When Zhou Cang heard Sun Hao's question, he immediately replied, they are all northerners, many of them have sheep, and as for some poultry, a few people have raised them.
"Zhou Cang, you send someone to find a way to buy some pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks and other poultry, buy some big and small, and then open up a farm on the mountain, and select some older soldiers to breed." After Zeng Yu heard that most people would raise it, he asked Zhou Cang to make relevant arrangements.
"Yes! But the lord..."Zhou Cang replied again and again.
"What, is there any problem?"
"My lord, I can understand that you said that she herded sheep and raised chickens and ducks, but almost no one wants to eat this pig now, will there be a problem with the rations we bought as soldiers?"
It turns out that although there are pigs at this time, the growth cycle of pigs is too long, and they may not grow very much for a year. And the taste of pork is very fishy, many people don't like to eat, most people eat a lot of meat is mainly mutton, chickens and ducks are supplemented, as for beef, because of the lack of cattle, at this time it is forbidden to kill cattle privately, so eat very little.
"It turns out that you are worried about this problem, it's okay, you can buy it, I will tell you how to deal with it, it can make it grow faster, and it will not taste fishy." Zeng Yu said with a smile, he had specially understood these before, so he happened to know.
Zeng Yu then told how to raise pigs to grow faster, which are some simple ways that can be used now. One of the fishy smells, he told Zhou Cang, just castrate the boars when they were young, so that not only can they get rid of the fishy smell, but also better breeding.
"I didn't expect you to know about this aspect, my lord, it's really an eye-opener for me." Zhou Cang and others said.
"Yuan Shao, you now have five hundred reserve soldiers under your command, and after the three Wu brothers are selected and handed over to the three Wu brothers for training, there will be more than seven hundred people left, and these seven hundred will also be handed over to you at that time. For a short period of time, your main task is to mine ore, but there are certain dangers in ore mining, so remember not to rush it. These soldiers are our brothers, and any one of them who makes a mistake is a great loss for us. Zeng Yu said to Pei Yuanshao again.
"Lord Xie cares, I will definitely let the soldiers be careful and safe." Pei Yuanshao replied with a moved fist.
"Well, now you mainly mine near the ground, and you have more than a thousand people, and you spend half a day to mine every day, and wait for the other half day to wait for the trivial matters of the cottage to be dealt with, and you let the soldiers who are willing to participate start training them according to the training method I gave you."
Zeng Yu knew that not everyone of these reserve soldiers was willing to fight all their lives, and some of them might just want to eat a bite of food, so he asked Pei Yuanshao to lead only those soldiers who were willing to participate in the war to train. These people must also have better physical strength, and they will have more advantages in training, as for others, they need manpower in all aspects of the cottage, and they just do some miscellaneous things.
"Yes!"
"My lord, what about me?" Goode heard that Zeng Yu had arranged all the soldiers, and he was also anxious at this time.
"Bird, you come down the mountain with me. I plan to go down the mountain to Luoyang in a few days, donate a county order, I heard that the county order of Anping County has reached the age of Zhishi, if it goes well, then I will become the county commander of Anping, will train a private soldier, you are responsible for helping me train them. Zeng Yu knew what Gude was worried about and said to him.
"No, my subordinates will do their best to train an elite army for the lord." Goode also clasped his fists excitedly and saluted.
"Okay, some of the main things of the cottage are almost arranged, do you need anything to add?" Zeng Yu asked the five of them.
"I don't have anything to add for the time being." The five replied in unison.
"Okay, then you can inform me, the unclothed army needs your efforts!"
"No!"
Several people stood up and bowed with fists, and then walked out one after another, they needed to inform everyone below of some of today's arrangements.