Long-distance training was a plan that Xu Zixian had for a long time, and this time it was finally implemented.

In recent months, Xu Zixian only went to the barracks every few days to train with the new soldiers and eat with the outstanding recruits, and this habit was also adhered to.

In general, the recruits are also trained according to the training syllabus, and Ge Da's battalion has added gun throwing training, Xu Zixian feels good, and it is also popularized in all battalions.

So far, the shortest time for new recruits to enter the camp has been three months, and the six battalions of the water battalion are now all stationed in Penghu and are responsible for the defense of Penghu.

Twelve battalions of more than 6,000 infantry battalions and one cavalry battalion were responsible for the defense of the Eastern Domain.

In the coastal area, many arrow towers and defensive forts were built, and the total number was more than 100, and this expenditure was also quite a heavy burden.

Every day there are people patrolling the seawall and the marina harbor to avoid sneak attacks by pirates.

When Qin Dongyang, Jin Baoyi, Ge Dageer, Li Xingwu and others asked Xu Zixian about his large-scale military training plan, Xu Zixian's plan was to have a large-scale training first.

When the Nan'an Army was still training in the Nan'an regiment, it also went to the field for training.

Long-distance training with heavy loads and weapons can be regarded as a kind of training subject that is close to actual combat.

Carrying heavy burdens is an all-round test of the unified dispatch of generals, logistical support, army morale, physical fitness, queues, and officers' ability to restrain soldiers.

When South Allah practiced, he marched at most forty miles in the wilderness and rarely spent the night outside.

The main thing is that it is surrounded by strong enemies, and the entire Fujian Road that Xu Zixian does not want to get is eye-catching.

Now on the Eastern Domain, there is enough space for a large training exercise, and there is no need to worry about alarming the rest of the forces, a large training to test the officers and soldiers can accomplish the desired goal, and it can also deter the natives along the way.

In short, no matter what others say or think, Xu Zixian has been thinking about normalizing the training after the battle in Dengzhou.

In the Great Wei Dynasty, the role of training is greater than that of later generations, and later generations actually pay more attention to the tempering of people's spirit, but in this time and space, there are ringing horses everywhere, beacon smoke everywhere, road conditions, health and epidemic prevention, camping and eating, from safety to hygiene to food and accommodation, there is no one thing that is worry-free.

The Great Wei generals led the troops to the expedition, an average of fifteen to twenty miles a day, and walking thirty miles was a high speed, and exceeding this speed can only be described as a miracle.

Even if it is a pure horse team, the speed is not fast, the reason is simple, the horse is fast, but the long-distance march is fat, so it must be taken care of, and a large amount of concentrate must be followed, otherwise all the way to graze, ten days and a half months will be thin and out of shape, when the war horse can not be used.

The Jurchen Khitans and the Mongols fought, teasing each other for thousands of miles on the grassland, and the battle lasted for more than half a year, not because they needed to go so long, because they had to stop fighting, they had to rest their horsepower, and they had to find a way to feed the horses and replenish the meat, otherwise they would cross first without waiting for others to fight.

In this way, marching, camping, and urgently assembling to prepare for war, which were very easy things for later generations of troops, are extremely rare in this era with the strongest military quality.

In that case, let's practice to the death!

At present, the Nan'an army has 18 battalions, 6 sailor battalions, 11 infantry battalions, and 1 cavalry battalion.

There may also be a separate ballista battalion, which is also one of the other major events that Xu Zixian has been focusing on recently.

The soldier's spirit and physical fitness, the tenacity of character and will, and battlefield experience can be solved through training and actual combat.

And heavy armor and elite weapons, more strong crossbows, heavy crossbows and artillery, this is what Xu Zi first has to solve with money and technology.

The military rank system is an innovation and improvement under the government military system.

On the battlefield, if there is chaos and an officer in the headquarters dies, the soldier may panic and lose command, which is the most dangerous situation.

Xu Zi first used the preferential care system to determine the role of veterans, and also wanted to ask veterans to play the role of stabilizing the battlefield.

However, officers still have an irreplaceable role, and the number of officers in the three corps and 18 battalions is already very large, counting the lowest-ranking heads and deputy heads.

In addition, there will be a reserve army plan, a new battalion recruitment plan, a military industry department, a military intelligence department, a staff department, a logistics department, a military justice department, an ordnance custody department, and a military command system, a military and political department responsible for recruiting new recruits and pacifying retired and wounded veterans, and there will also be a special military training department.

Xu Zixian's consideration is that in the future, at least within ten years, he may have the ability to intervene in the mainland, even three or five years, or he may encounter many unexpected situations.

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"It's still a mile away from the perimeter guard." A military marquis trotted back, and after more than ten days of training, this scout, who had been in the field for a long time, looked much darker and thinner.

Xu Zixian nodded very calmly, and said to Qin Dongyang, Ge Cunzhong and the others beside him: "Order the soldiers to check their outfits and prepare to return to the camp." ”

"Yes, Prince."

The generals issued military orders to their subordinates, and all the soldiers of each battalion who participated in the training were in action.

"Everybody stand up!"

"Check that the backpack straps are tied and sturdy!"

"Check the slip pockets, the step bow, the god arm bow, the carrying."

"Check whether the quiver, light arrows, heavy arrows, and crossbow arrows are all suspended!"

"Check the kettle, lunch box, sewing kit, medical first aid kit!"

"Check the uniforms, boots."

The midday sun was good, and it was hot and stuffy, but the sea breeze blew, and people felt a burst of coolness, not as hot as burrowing in the bushes, and there seemed to be a lot fewer mosquitoes.

Gao Shilai stood at the head of the team, issued orders one after another, with his military order, the three officers below the squad urged their subordinates to carry out inspections, each soldier was face-to-face to help each other check the equipment, and reported after the inspection, and then the three heads reported to Gao Shilai respectively, and finally Gao Shilai reported to the battalion officer Zhang Huchen, and after the report was completed, each of them began to act.

The officers and men of the four battalions of the temporary group began to set out in batches, forming a long column of three people in a platoon, and after a long period of training, all of them had a great decline in physical fitness, but they were about to return to the camp and enter the residential area, and each soldier tried his best to make his demeanor as relaxed as possible.

The cavalry also abandoned their horses on foot this time, and Da La's training was not only for the infantry, but also for the cavalry.

The cavalry of the Wei and Jin dynasties were all heavily armoured, in addition to the main horse ridden by the knight when he was fighting, there were also auxiliary horses, auxiliary horses, a heavy cavalry with two or three horses, one or two from the cavalry is very normal.

At this time, the training of the soldiers of Nan'an Mansion paid attention to spirit and will, and the cavalry was obviously the same.

Even now the cavalry's equipment is the best, everyone is wearing cotton armor, everyone has a riding spear, throwing spear, bow and arrow, as well as knives, bones, short axes, throwing knives, because there are few people, they are the best pickers, they are constantly practicing horse fighting and sentry skills every day, wall impact is a big killer, but Xu Zixian still hopes that the cavalry can also master more advanced horse combat skills.

The column is spread out according to the flag team, and each flag captain has a flag bearer next to him to play the team flag, and each flag team has a certain distance between them.

There were squads of shield-armed soldiers flanking the line, armed with swords and signs, to guard against undeserved sneak attacks.

In the middle of the line were the chiefs, and the archers and crossbowmen were in front and behind.

Everyone was tired, but their spirits were very high.

The firefighters were at the end, there were fifty or sixty of them, and many of them carried large iron pots, which were heavy, and they needed to take turns to carry them, but they had to give up.

Compared with the soldiers' long swords and horizontal swords, as well as crossbow arrows, the iron pots of the firefighters are their weapons.

The Wei army's baggage logistics were generally handled by the box army, and the large-scale transportation of materials and grain and grass was carried out by requisitioning civilian carriages and strong men.

The best thing that has been handed down during the Taizu period is the four-wheeled cart, which makes the industry and commerce of the Great Wei extremely developed.

There are not many big vehicles in the Nan'an Prefecture Army now, mainly because there is no logistical pressure, but this time, the long-distance training has revealed the logistical pressure.

In fact, the rations carried by the soldiers could not last the end of a war, and were only enough to intersperse the attack, and if it was a real war, they would divide their troops to fight for food and grab food, and the logistics could not be so unprepared, and the morale of the army would be completely different.

The firefighters can only carry iron pots, with some condiments and fire-starters, it is difficult for the clever women to cook without rice, without the support of the baggage convoy, the army can be forced to march within a hundred miles, surprise attacks, can be done, more than 200 miles range, you must be careful of logistics.

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Shrubs, from forests, hills, and mountains, in the eyes of Chen Zuocai and the guests, walked dozens of miles almost all of them are similar scenery.

This large island, discovered from the time of Huaxia in the Three Kingdoms, has been nearly a thousand years so far, but it has never been fully developed.

In the core areas such as Huaxi and Nan'anxi, the factory warehouses are continuous, the roads are vertical and horizontal, the farmland is connected, the waterwheels are towering into the clouds, the farmhouse courtyards are closely connected, and the splendid atmosphere is not lost, the exquisite courtyards, as well as the government office complex, plus the barracks, the overall feeling is that it is a big surprise, and many people did not expect that the Eastern Domain would develop to such a point in a short period of time.

After walking out of dozens of miles, people gradually realized that the four fields were lonely, and the traces of wild beasts were faintly visible.

At this point, Chen Duzhu and others had a hidden understanding, it seems that Nan'an Hou led a large army expedition, I am afraid that it is not as simple as saying that training soldiers, but to conduct a survey of the whole island, deter the natives, and make preliminary preparations for further development in the future.

In fact, Xu Zixian really had this intention.

This time I went north, originally planned to go to the Keelung area of Taipei, Taiwan's plain area, except for the Tainan Plain is the largest territory, with thousands of square kilometers, after the development is completed, with the current production technology conditions plus industrial and commercial sea trade, it can only accommodate one million people at most.

Even less than a million, it is not bad to be able to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people.

It is not surprising that the plain area of later generations, supported by industrialization, plus commerce and service industries, was enough to build more than a dozen cities with a population of hundreds of thousands, accommodating millions of people.

At this time, with oral teaching of fields, five acres per capita can barely satisfy the stomach, fifteen acres can be fed, thirty acres can be well-off, and there must be twenty acres of mulberry fields, even if the water conservancy, fertilizer, and agricultural technology of the Eastern Domain are above the ordinary level, a family of five must have at least 30 acres to be well-off, and if you want to be rich, you can plant cotton fields, mulberry fields, tea gardens, plus grain fields, and a family of five has 100 acres of fields to be enough.

If there are more than 10,000 households and 670,000 people, they will get 1 million mu of land, and if there are 20,000 households, 100,000 or 200,000 people, they will have 2 or 3 million mu of land.

300,000 to 400,000 people is almost the limit that the Tainan Plain can bear at this stage.

By 1810, the 15th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, Taiwan's population was about 2 million, with complete prefectural and county rule, and a large number of towns and villages.

But that has been more than 200 years of development, and gradual accommodation and development are two different things from rapid development.

If the early immigrants could not be allowed to live a prosperous and stable life, it would be difficult for the people to attach, which is one of the reasons why Xu Zixian went north this time.

If, in five to 10 years, Tainan can accommodate almost 300,000 or 400,000 people, it will have to go north.

Strictly speaking, Taichung is a basin terrain, surrounded by mountains, sunshine, and the climate is suitable, not too hot in summer, not cold in winter, not like Tainan's climate is relatively hotter, and there is too much rain in winter.

This is a more suitable place for tuntian farming, in fact, in the decades after the destruction of Ming Zheng, many immigrants to Taichung, the Qing Dynasty set up a government, also in Taichung first, before the Japanese occupation, Taichung was also the largest.

Xu Zixian hoped that in a few years, when Tainan was almost developed, he would start to build roads to extend to Taichung and Taipei, where he would add resettlement areas, industrial areas, trade areas and ports, and gradually develop Taichung and Taipei.

In this way, after more than ten years, five or six prefectures and counties may be established, and the number of immigrants will reach one million, and the Eastern Domain will have completely completed the development task, and there will be no need to worry about losing this treasure island from now on.

Of course, if the development goes well, more than ten years later, Xu Zixian should have been involved in the struggle for hegemony on the mainland, and even pacified Donghu, which is also what he is looking forward to.