After withdrawing from Liangzhou, Liu Zhang spent most of his time on rectifying the ranks, boosting morale, and criticizing and self-criticizing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, in fact, many times, knowing oneself is more difficult than knowing one's other.

Because of their own faults and shortcomings, it is often easy to ignore or even fail to find out.

As a matter of fact, the root cause of the new army's stubborn disease lies in Liu Zhang's idea of building the army through non-contact confrontation, which mainly focuses on long-range weapon strikes, and the effectiveness of strikes against heavily armed enemy troops has declined, and it is difficult to completely suppress the current firepower of a rapidly approaching enemy, and it is basically helpless in hand-to-hand combat.

In addition, at present, the army's political work system has not yet been matched, so morale and combat effectiveness are not stable enough, and it is necessary to spend a lot of effort to rectify the aftermath after the war.

Liu Zhang did not intend to change his course or change the thinking of the New Army.

The only way to start is to improve the weapon.

Increases the weapon's ranged strike power.

Find a way to deal with the reloaded enemy.

Overcome melee combat puzzles.

Regarding how to improve the strike power of long-range weapons, Liu Zhang had actually thought about it for a long time, and he was originally going to spend several years to solve it, but he didn't expect the big war to come so soon. Speaking of which, Liu Zhang was impulsive. There are two options, one is to develop a firearm, or a musket, and the current Thor program is underway. But this is probably not a big deal in the short term, and even the samples haven't been made yet. The second is the continuous crossbow improvement plan of the Academy of Engineering, that is, the step/crossbow that Ma Jun Lane mentioned by Pang Long. Liu Zhang has already sent a letter to the Academy of Engineering Sciences, since it is to be changed, then change it to heavy equipment, to achieve the strike effect of heavy crossbow arrows such as bed crossbows, the key is to have strong penetration, and the other is the rate of fire.

Trampling/crossbows can solve a part of the threat of reloaded enemies.

Of course, Liu Zhang can't just rely on the step/crossbow. In order to deal with the heavily armed enemy, Liu Zhang sent a special letter to the Thor team, asking them to shift the focus of their recent research from muskets to grenades and mines. Grenade mines are technically difficult and easy to implement. For this reason, Liu Zhang specially redesigned a grenade sample and sent someone to send it to the Thor team. The new grenade combines the two characteristics of the later Tubalu grenade and the Western grenade, with an oval projectile body, which is the same as the Western grenade, and then adds a wooden handle like a grenade. The whole look is a bit like bowling. The wooden handle was added to reduce the technical difficulty of the grenade. The length of the wooden handle is the length of the lead. If there is no wooden handle, the lead will be coiled in the grenade, and it is not easy to control the ignition time after the string is ignited. Therefore, Liu Zhang used a stupid method and introduced the wooden handle of the grenade.

If this kind of grenade is successfully developed and has energy production, you don't have to be afraid of any tigers and leopards in the future, and you don't have to be too afraid of melee combat.

Of course, even with grenades, there will definitely be hand-to-hand combat.

Regarding hand-to-hand combat, Liu Zhang thought about it and finally thought of a way.

Liu Zhang designed a pair of gloves.

Half-cut gloves.

A half-cut leather glove that exposes the two joints of the fingers.

The front of the glove is soft leather, and the back is hard leather and inlaid with iron nails, like the nails on football sneakers.

This kind of half-cut glove can not only ensure the flexibility of the hand, but also ensure the powerful attack power of hand-to-hand combat.

The dexterity of the fingers must be ensured, because the new army is all crossbowmen, and it must not affect the dexterity of the hands.

This kind of boxing gloves, combined with the arm guards of the forearms that the new army already has, is equivalent to installing a mechanical arm for each soldier. It can be attacked and defended, and it has both offense and defense.

If you are punched, if you don't stun, you have to hit your face all over the place.

It is definitely the most proud work of Liu Zhang since he crossed over.

Although the technical difficulty is very low, it is indeed a big killer.

However, this kind of glove, to produce, requires a lot of labor.

There is no shortage of raw materials Liu Zhang, Hanzhong exchanges skins for grain, and now the skins are piled up.

The key is still manual.

Liu Zhang had to lament the low productivity of this period.

In the whole of Yizhou, only 20,000 or 30,000 troops were fed, and equipment production could not keep up.

Fortunately, there are more people who come to Hanzhong to escape the famine, and the weapons workshop can recruit more people to speed up production.

In addition to stepping on crossbows, grenades, and gloves, Liu Zhang also promised to equip the new army with repeater crossbows. With the repeater crossbow, the new army really has a certain ability to suppress firepower, otherwise it will always have to rely on the support of the flying army.

In addition to the preparation and improvement at the material level, Liu Zhang also did a lot of work at the spiritual level.

First of all, let the Dahan New News report on the heroic deeds of the Yizhou army going north to fight against the Xiongnu, of course, by the way, it also publicized that Pang Long picked up the little guy, Yizhou's own identification of the future Xiongnu Shan Yu Liu Bao.

Then it is to enrich the New Army with a large number of cultural and sports activities.

For example, football, wrestling, fighting, horse racing, chess, Go, and so on.

Another example is singing, theatrical performances, military-civilian gatherings, and so on.

Among them, the most popular is undoubtedly the theatrical performance, followed by football.

The art show, because there are many beauties to watch, and the show is very exciting, very good-looking, and it makes people forget to return.

The performances in the theater can be said to be full.

One of the scenes, "Weishui Han", was repeatedly performed in several military camps, and the soldiers never got tired of watching it.

A scene that was originally defeated and desperated, through the brilliant pen of Fa Zheng, Guoyuan and others, coupled with the passionate interpretation of the teachers and students of the music academy, it immediately became that the heroes regarded death as home, willing to shed their blood and threw their heads, the comradeship was deep, and the heroic spirit lasted forever, a hot-blooded blockbuster.

The performances of the music theater were also an instant hit, from the military camp to the people, and repertoire such as "Wei Shui Han" also began to be staged in Hanzhong City. For a time, tens of thousands of people competed for it, and it was difficult to find a vote. And the students of the music academy who played Ling Bao became even more popular, becoming the idols of countless girls, young women and aunts in Hanzhong. Ling Bud in the play did not die in the trench, but died on the bank of Weishui in order to cover the retreat of his comrades.

Liu Zhang originally thought that football would be a big hit, but he didn't expect that this kind of drama and drama similar to later generations, this kind of stage drama program, would be so popular.

Cai Yan also took the opportunity to set up a branch of the music academy in Hanzhong, and specially increased the performance major.

Also, at this time, there is no TV and movie Internet, no star concerts, no various reality shows, people's cultural life is extremely scarce, and a trick-style performer on the street can attract countless people to watch, not to mention this kind of professional climactic stage drama with a strong story.

Of course, football is also good and loved by soldiers. Moreover, it has gradually spread from the military camp to the people.

Through a great deal of work, both material and spiritual, Liu Zhang finally restored the morale of the new army.

The next step is to start preparing for and equipping the contingent of political work cadres in the military.

If you want to build a political work team, you must have a supporting political work ideology.

Pastors have Bibles, and political cadres have to have their own Bibles.

Just when Liu Zhang was racking his brains to piece together the ideas of political work, someone rushed from Chengdu to Hanzhong to see Liu Zhang. (To be continued.) )