Chapter 440: Autumn Offensive

Sixty percent of the men and horses of the warrior battalion and the four guard battalions used arquebuses, that is, the bird guns that had been eliminated by the "Red Banner Army" to equip the Weisuo Army, and 1,000 of them were produced by the Huang family.

Of course, Fang Zhenghua and Li Ruolian knew that the armor and weapons of the "Red Banner Army" were trustworthy, and most of the existing armor of the soldiers in the Beijing camp looked bright, but in fact, they were all good goods, and their defensive power was not worth mentioning.

Therefore, they all bought some of the "Red Banner Army" standard armor, but their silver was too small, and the armor and weapons of the "Red Banner Army" were too expensive, so they could only ensure that one or two percent of the troops with outstanding combat skills had equipment similar to that of the "Red Banner Army".

This year, despite the drought, the harvest was in the middle of the pack thanks to the role of irrigation canals and wells.

On average, one mu of wheat field can make more than nine buckets of wheat, and the average yield per mu can reach one stone and two buckets when the year is good.

At the emergency moment of seedling protection, all the war horses and horses in the army participated in drought resistance and seedling protection, and even a small half of the regular soldiers who were out of production participated in half a month, and everyone in the factory except for the technical workers participated in the labor in the fields.

No one does not understand, everyone has experienced the taste of hunger, everyone knows the importance of food, knows how many people will starve if there is no harvest, and everyone spares no effort when they can afford to keep their crops.

Comparatively speaking, the drought in the western Liaoning corridor outside Shanhaiguan is much smaller, because the rivers that flow into the sea to the east are abundant and have a drop in water, which can completely drive waterwheels to lift water to irrigate farmland, saving a lot of manpower and animal power.

During the harvest season, there was joy everywhere, and every household in the Weisu Army in the western Liaoning Corridor had more than ten or twenty stones of wheat to sell, and if the grain borrowed for life was discarded, the surplus of more than ten stone was not a problem.

This year, the grain purchase price of the "Red Flag Army" has already dropped, and every stone of wheat is given eight yuan of silver, which means that every household can have more than 10 taels of silver.

People who run well will raise some chickens and ducks, grow some peanuts, melons and fruits, and sell them to the army to earn a lot of silver to supplement their families.

There is no doubt that this year will have a prosperous New Year, too many guards are ready to add a new padded jacket to their children or even themselves, and those who are in better economic conditions have now considered whether to buy a duck down jacket, which is said to be light and warm, and looks good.

During the Xiaoice River period, it was relatively cold, and Huang Han spared no effort to develop the duck industry, not only increasing the variety of the food chain, but also obtaining more protein, and also having a huge benefit, that is, being able to produce eiderdown duvets and eiderdown clothing.

This year, the tun households that raise ducks have made good profits, and the number of ducks will double next year? Having a large number of chickens, ducks and geese eating insects in the fields, groves, and wastelands can also better reduce the possibility of locust outbreaks.

It is expected that next year, the mandarin duck jackets filled with duck down as winter clothes will be guaranteed to be issued to every regular soldier, and the "Red Banner Army" will be strengthened in the winter to fight deep into the north to keep warm, because the attrition of frostbite will drop significantly.

has not worried about development funds, the head of the family Huang Han has a sense of crisis, never fancy the silver, and has to find a way to drive other capital to use 15,000 taels.

This is not self-talk, now there are more and more families who come to Tiger's Den City to do business, and the Gao family has invested no less than 100,000 taels of silver, and the vast majority of merchants have earned silver by operating in Tiger's Den City.

With the money-making effect, new businessmen have come one after another, and the increasingly prosperous Tiger's Den City is abundantly funded, and the industrial upgrading of the "Red Flag Army" system is in continuous progress.

Tiger Den City Vehicle Factory carried out the wheel revolution, but unfortunately there is no rubber, the pneumatic tires of later generations can not be made, but the tinned iron wheels made of steel are covered with cowhide and hemp wool, cork and other fillers, the elastic effect is not as good as rubber tires, but the hidden danger of being punctured and leaking is eliminated.

The first batch of new steel wheels were of course equipped with the army, and the wooden wheelbarrow was well received after replacing the steel wheels, and the soldiers responded to the cart with a much easier time, and the load capacity was also increased by 20%.

In the current road conditions, the wheelbarrow with lightweight, low cost and high practical value is still the first choice for the military.

The four-wheeled carriages that are already in production can only adapt to smooth roads, and only on such roads can they reflect the advantages of fast speed and large cargo capacity, and if they take rugged mountain roads, they are not as efficient as wheelbarrows.

Due to the particularity of the wheelbarrow, it has a prominent position in the "Red Banner Army", and all the auxiliaries and regular soldiers will push the wheelbarrow and carry out maintenance.

In order to raise the enthusiasm of the soldiers to learn to push carts and repair cars, the propaganda team and the town officials jointly held a competition in the army, and there were more than a dozen projects, including pushing wheelbarrows for 5 miles, 10 miles, 20 miles, 40 miles, and 80 miles.

There is also a competition to find the hidden dangers of the unicycle in the shortest time and successfully eliminate it, who can change the wheel hub of ten unicycles at the fastest speed, who can disassemble and assemble ten unicycles at the fastest speed, and so on.

The soldiers who have won the championship honor get the greatest benefit, and their military rank can be promoted three times in a row, which means that a labor service can directly cross the two levels of guard army and student soldier to become a regular soldier. An ordinary regular soldier wins the championship and directly crosses the private and the first class to become a sergeant.

The top 10 winners will also be rewarded with a promotion of one or two ranks.

In the "Red Banner Army", the military rank is directly linked to income, which is not only an honor, but also a real treatment.

The victory of the Huaihai Battle in later generations was that the common people in front of the branch retreated with wheelbarrows, and the road conditions at this time were not as good as during the Liberation War.

However, the quality of the wheelbarrow was even better than it was at that time, and by the time of the Liberation War, the Han people were so poor that many people had no pants to wear, and the wheelbarrow remained at the level of wooden wheels hundreds of years ago.

The fundamental reason for China's backwardness is that this large country was colonized by the barbaric and ignorant Manchu Qing for more than 200 years.

Huang Han was eating steel rice before he crossed, and when he came to Daming, he naturally spared no effort to increase the temperature of the steelmaking furnace, so that the quality of steel broke through the bottleneck caused by the insufficient furnace temperature and could not reach the full liquid state.

After the wheel revolution, a large number of unicycles used steel wheels, solid tires with cowhide, flax, cork and other fillings, making unicycles more light and durable.

In the future, the infantry of the "Red Banner Army" could completely go deep into the grassland to fight in the field, and this unit had surpassed the 5,000 strong troops led by the Han general Li Ling that reached the standard of rangers.

One of the infantry had a wheelbarrow, and the weight of the stalk was 500 pounds.

The scout has a clairvoyant mirror to observe the enemy's situation, and finds that when the enemy cavalry raids, the wheelbarrow can quickly form a formation, even if the wheelbarrow formation is not very strong, the light cavalry will suffer huge casualties when they collide with horses.

Moreover, it takes a lot of courage to hit the tip of the bright gun, the effect of the impact depends on the speed of the horse, and the musketeers in the line behind the wheelbarrow are not here to see the excitement, and the platoon of guns will make the enemy cry and cry for his mother.

The "Red Banner Army" took the initiative to enter the prairie to launch an offensive in the autumn of this year, and the Fran machine guns of the artillery team of the army took the lead in communicating with the people on horseback.