"Take three steps and one poke."

"Hold it with your hands and push it with your hands."

"Over the waist, over the shoulders, over the head."

The loud shouts and roaring drills slowly woke Zhou Huai'an from the comfort of a nap, he looked at the projection on the corona, well, it looks like it's time for afternoon tea again;

Xiao Qi, the attendant in charge of running errands, had already brought afternoon refreshments from the kitchen, steamed noodles that had obviously been re-baked, slices of bacon that had also been fried into oil, and a pot of salty tea soup made from fried bean flour and wheat paste, tangerine peel, old ginger and lotus leaves.

"Boss."

Then because the building near the water got the moon first, Xiao Qi, who looked much ruddy, took out a bag of things and carefully placed them on the wooden pallet.

"This is the stone honey that the head specially brought back from the city."

"About forty or fifty catties are left in the room, saying that they are for your daily use."

"It's a reward for the orders you wrote, and for the hard work of ghostwriting for everyone."

Zhou Huai'an nodded, picked up the bag and looked at it carefully.

The so-called stone honey in this era is just the original cane sugar derived from the Tianzhu method, which is one of the many trophies/souvenirs brought back by Wang Xuance, a strange man of the early Tang Dynasty, after he swept through the land of Tianzhu with troops and brought back the overlord of Tianzhu to offer prisoners to the Taimiao.

It can be regarded as one of the few sources of sweetness in this era, and it is a luxury that only middle- and upper-class people can afford. After opening the paper bag, I saw a few gray things, and there were a little more yellowish crystal outlines than the usual earthy ones.

After tasting it a little, Zhou Huai'an only felt that the ingredients and taste were similar to the crude brown sugar, but obviously because the process of this era was not in order, there were many impurities left behind, and there was a lingering bitter taste. Therefore, it is estimated that it can only be used after processing such as chemical water precipitation filtration.

"I'll give you a taste."

Then he jumped out of the smaller piece and handed it to Xiao Qidao

"It's good to try it for me as usual."

"How can this be..."

He couldn't help but look a little shocked and shirked

"I said yes, I can."

Zhou Huai'an couldn't help but deliberately put on a straight face.

"As my errand, can't I afford to use that little stone honey?"

And Xiao Qi is obviously the nature of a young man after all, and he can't shirk the temptation of this incomparably rare sweet, so he finally took it out with a thousand thanks, and he didn't know who to share it with.

But in any case, it means that he will be supplemented by another link in the future; For by the excuse and reason of improving and improving the quality of the foodstuffs, he was processing and concocting portable rations that might be used on the road in the future; And obtaining the right to use these stone honey is only part of it.

At present, he has designed three kinds of portable rations, one is the fried noodles made of soybeans and wheat and other grains in later generations, which is nothing more than a salty taste that prefers heavy oil and salt, one is a sugar fried rice cake with higher sweetness, and the other is a multi-layer sandwich dead dough cake similar to naan products in the northwest region that is not easy to mold.

In addition, there are some ointments and pills made from local materials, which are also being tried in private, mainly as a response to sudden emergencies and conditions such as headache and brain fever on the road, and various external and internal administrations.

In this way, even after he left this peasant army, what he left behind was enough to continue to pass on and play a role as compensation and remnants.

To say that as a human habitual and adaptable, there is really plenty of potential to be tapped; I have slowly adapted to this no water, no electricity, no network, I have to be careful to fall into the pit and dance with Xiang when I go to the toilet, and I have prepared half a day's hot water in advance for a bath. . . , and so on, it should have made people collapse and despair in their daily lives, and temporarily forgot the concept of time flow.

Although it was only for a short period of time, most people were accustomed to using boiling water every day, eating a large pot of rice with enough heat, taking a bath in the river once every two to three days, changing clothes and disposing of excrement and garbage in a centralized manner,。。 and even collect a variety of herbs to eliminate and repel mosquitoes.

Although some trivial details and compulsive habits are added, under the implicit addition of increasing efficiency and reducing loss, the amount of specific time and labor input is reduced and relaxed. As the so-called from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, it is the same for their changed living habits and daily life.

And after this period of hard work in picking up garbage and preparing for going out, at least it was ensured that none of the soldiers who entered the camp in advance had a small vest or gown dyed with plant ash, on which were also marked with squirts, knives, and bows and arrows dipped in carbon gray; As a means of mutual differentiation and identification in daily life, so that it has a unified tone as a preliminary army.

For a long time before that, they wore almost anything, and at most tied a piece of cloth around their shoulders to recognize people. As for the leaders above the team, it is much simpler, they all have corresponding hats, hats or helmets, and directly dye their hats and helmets into colors that represent different ranks, from the gray of the team deputy, the blue and gray of the team to the indigo of the general's head.

In fact, because the time of being forced to join this group is still short,

He has always been careful not to directly interfere in and interfere in those affairs directly related to military affairs, but only in the field of logistics and general affairs, he constantly embodies and highlights his sense of existence, just to prevent unnecessary vigilance and suspicion; And passively asking to write these simple and easy-to-see passwords and regulations, even if it involves only a small part of it, is a rather gratifying breakthrough.

and these mud legs that are not clear from the left and right, and the expression is unclear, and what queue to play directly is the same as the duck; Therefore, they can only use the more intuitive smooth hand (right hand) and idle hand (left hand) to indicate and confirm the most basic direction, and then after they have a concept, they can teach the four directions and center of east, west, north and south according to the sun, and then according to the head, shoulders, waist, and legs of the human body, it is divided into four general attack/poke representation areas。。。。。 And so on.

This process of observation and practice is also a rare experience and supplement, reference and reference for Zhou Huai'an; In his time, even the most primitive African black uncle was left with only the hunting methods of pike darts, blowing fronts, and bows and arrows, and there was no chance to see the tragic scene of human walls poking each other with spears.

In a sense, the spear class from ancient times to the present is undoubtedly the best class of troops, theoretically as long as a person stands in place and holds it in his hand, and has the courage to stab it out in the general direction, so in ancient history, this level of cannon fodder is more or less, and almost commonplace is filled in every battlefield record;

But it is also the most difficult to train well or to be an excellent soldier, because it relies on a long pole to make many precise and neat tactical changes, and it must be able to coordinate with the left and right, which has high requirements and tests for the soldier's physical fitness, skill and proficiency in coordination. In the end, there are very few people in history who can become famous for their use of spear and spear troops. For example, in the late Ming Dynasty, he dared to fight with the Jurchen forces in the field.

As for the more presentable sword player, it is another type of military that is also a big road, which can be said to be a panacea with both offensive and defensive attributes, and is full of various cold weapon military sequences from the antique police; But for the Raging Wind Battalion, these big-way sword players are in a sense where the backbone and core combat power are. Therefore, after tearing up from this road, they have more or less ready-made experience and relatively stable cooperation, and from this point of view, there are not many other parties that Zhou Huai'an can indirectly intervene in and change.

In addition, there were archers and cavalry. The latter, as a personal guard and the most core elite, is not an object that he can touch and clumsy; However, the shooter team can still think of some ways, such as making some suggestive attempts in the name of helping to maintain and maintain the equipment; After all, it was not easy to make and obtain a decent bow and arrow in this era;

Whether it is the bow arm as a strength support, or the string as a guarantee of lethality and range, it is guaranteed by the horns, tendons and gums of plant materials and animals with great willfulness, and the period and time limit of the final formation are measured in months and whole years; But by the same token, these materials rich in fiber and organic matter are also susceptible to environmental and climatic influences such as wind, sun and rain, and become soft, moldy, or dry and cracked, and lose their elasticity.

Thus, most of the less than 200 men in the archery corps were old and new bows made of bamboo, and only a small part were infantry bows with large, straight hardwood bows, and a few angular bows used by cavalrymen on horseback; As for the crossbow or something, it's basically invisible. There are only two kinds of arrows - bamboo poles and wooden poles, arrowheads are a variety of sources and what is useful leads to large differences, and even after secondary processing, they are polished into different shapes according to personal style.

Therefore, his first rationalization proposal was to unify the design of arrows and shafts for uniform recycling and recycling, and from this he built simple molds and samples of weighing standards.

Then, prepare a guard made of straw and bamboo on the chest of each archer, which is considered the most primitive grass and wood cuirass; In addition to not being fireproof, the specific protection can still be unsatisfactory, blocking the arrow set up by the opponent fifty steps away.

And on the opposite side of the queue of new pawns, who were clumsily making stabbing motions, were some unlucky people who were clad in these experimental straw and bamboo armor; As the tail of the crane for every camp inspection and sanitation assessment, the punishment they have to accept is to put on these thick and stuffy "armor";

Then, as the target of the bamboo nail team and the pole team, they endured all kinds of Baotou long poles and bamboo tips to poke and prick in turn, until the protective gear of the whole body became tattered.