"Three horizontal and two vertical, horizontal and vertical, one thick and one thin, thick and slender, this is the sixteen-character mantra of the backpack, to remember in the mind, you can't say anything wrong in your dreams! No matter how big and heavy the backpack is, three horizontal and two vertical, three horizontal and two vertical, you can carry it up, two back ropes, one for the backpack and one for the shoulder, the thick strap on the shoulder, and the thin strap on the bag. It's simple, but it's not easy to practice well......"

Li Wenge walked slowly in the queue of soldiers sitting cross-legged, and tirelessly elaborated on the precautions for carrying a backpack.

The craftsmanship of this era could not make individual soldiers carry equipment, and each of the 1,000 infantry could be equipped with a canvas with a relatively consistent length, width and size, which had already tossed Gao Shaoyuan, who had just taken over the state affairs, not very well. This kind of canvas is generally used on the sails of sailing ships, it is strong and heavy, and can be used as a quilt cover at night when unfolded. Because it is strong, it is not easy to fold, and it takes a lot of effort to tie this canvas well.

Among the 1,000 infantry, there are more than 400 veterans of the Folded Family, and more than 100 veterans of the Eighth Route Army, and the remaining more than 300 people are all supplementary soldiers selected from the Gyeongju state soldiers. However, Li Wenge had to do this, his army was expanding too fast, and the recruits trained by the new barracks on Fenglin Mountain had all been added to the two main regiments of Yan'an and Fushi in the last round of reorganization, and now he could only use these Gyeongju miscellaneous soldiers to supplement the troops.

This is a temporary army, but the proportion of veterans in the army is surprisingly high, whether it is a veteran of the family or a veteran of the Eighth Route Army. They are all out-and-out battle-hardened soldiers, and in addition, they are out-and-out recruits.

The time for the Zhejia soldiers to fight side by side with these Yanzhou soldiers is not short, but what really makes the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route recognized by these battlefield veterans is the battle of ten trees. In that skirmish, the two hundred Yanzhou infantry faced the frontal attack of the enemy cavalry, the courage of not retreating, and the flexible use of combat tactics such as small unit formations, which made the Zhejia army greatly moved. In the opinion of these veterans with rich combat experience. Being able to face the charge of the enemy cavalry without turning around and running away is already a rare good soldier in this era. However, the offensive spirit and swift response shown by the commanders and commanders of the Eighth Route Army from head to toe made the two battalion officers of the Folded Family feel ashamed - they thought that they might not be slower than these Yanzhou soldiers in making the same judgment in the face of the same situation, but it was impossible to complete it in such a short moment from the time they gave the order to the time the order was executed. In the eyes of the two of them, Dehuang and Dekan. The command level of these Yanzhou Shiwu officers was almost about the same as his own. It's a horrible thing.

On the battlefield, the military level of the grass-roots officer corps plays a crucial role in the reaction speed of the troops at critical moments, and it is common sense in war that there is a group of grass-roots non-commissioned officers with extremely high quality, and when the battle is imminent, it can play the role of double or even several times its own strength. If the entire Eighth Route Army is composed of such grassroots backbones, then the real strength of the Eighth Route Army will be more than twice as strong as it is at present.

Of course, they wouldn't know that there was only one unit like the Yan'an Regiment's Left Battalion Jiadu in the entire Eighth Route Army. Eight out of an infantry capital are officers who have been trained in the Liutao Pavilion, and Li Wenge is no matter how extravagant. Nor is it enough to equip the entire army with such an establishment.

He sent troops to Gyeongju this time, bringing with him twenty lieutenant officers trained by Liutaoguan, and one of them died ten trees in battle, which made his heart ache greatly.

He actually brought so many officers and cadets here for other purposes.

The day after Shen Chen's Northern Expedition arrived in Gyeongju on horseback, Li Wenge sent a messenger to Pegasus, the camp of the Zhejia family in Yanzhou. Just a few days ago. The same messenger brought a reply letter from Zhi Cong Ruan to him and a handwritten letter to Zhi Yuqing and other generals of the Zhi family.

In these letters, it is written the same content, that the whole family should unconditionally obey Li Wenge's orders. In-situ reorganization. Lin Lei

In these few days, more than 400 Zhejia soldiers were reorganized into five full-fledged infantry capitals after being supplemented with some officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, and were organized into the left battalion of the Yanchuan Independent Regiment, which was commanded by Zhe Dehuang, Zhe Dekan as deputy commander, and Di Huaiwei as the battalion supervisor and commander of the army; With the original Yan'an Regiment Jiadu and the few remaining veterans of the Wudu Regiment and the Yanzhou soldiers brought by Li Hu as the backbone, plus hundreds of selected Gyeongju miscellaneous soldiers, Li Wenge established the right battalion of the Yanchuan Independent Regiment, with Jinghai as the battalion commander, Li Huer as the deputy commander and commander of the army, and Lu Lu, the former deputy supervisor of the right battalion of the Yan'an Regiment, as the battalion supervisor.

The Yanchuan Independent Regiment was incorporated into a cavalry brigade, under the jurisdiction of three cavalry capitals, a total of 300 Yanzhou cavalry, the command of the brigade was temporarily suspended, and the cavalry capital was temporarily inspected by Zhang Guizhi.

The commander of the Yanchuan regiment was served by Zhi Yuqing, the supervising army was inspected by Lu Lan, and the marquis of Yu was inspected by Jinghai.

As the first step in trying to establish a joint command system with the Zhejia Army, Li Wenge dispatched a group of veterans such as Di Huaiwei to the Zhejia Army as supervisors and officers of the Marquis of Yu.

The fourth regiment of the Eighth Route Army was born.

However, the degree of coordination of this coalition force is not high at present, after all, it is a mixed formation of several troops, and there is still a long way to go before it can give full play to its combat strength in actual combat.

As a miracle soldier in the future, the first task of the Yanchuan regiment is not to be able to fight, but to be able to walk.

It is easy to say that these two words can walk, but when it comes to doing it, even those veterans who have been receiving Li Wenge's new training methods for more than a year have found that they still have a lot of new things to learn.

The two most basic of these are backpacking and leggings.

A backpack was packed with his own armor and dry food, and weighed more than forty pounds - this still refers to the lighter infantry armor, not including the heavy armor such as the fine scale armor and the bird hammer armor. If you carry these objects in your hands, your arms will be sore when you walk less than ten miles, not to mention fighting. Even a wooden gun may not be able to hold it. Only by tying these into backpacks and carrying them on their backs will it be possible for the troops to carry these heavy guys on long marches.

But it's not easy to wrap these neatly in canvas and put them on your back.

For the army of this era, which has never had the habit of wearing a backpack, it is not easy to learn to organize and pack a backpack in half an hour to complete the preparation for the march.

The same is true of leggings, and the infantry of this era were puzzled by this strange marching measure. Even the veterans were somewhat resistant, which forced Li Wenge to lead by example. He took off his cowhide boots and wore kudzu shoes instead, and put a layer of leggings on his calves.

At this time, Li Wenge would infinitely miss his grandfather who was still in another time and space, if it weren't for his nurturing and training since childhood. Even if you are from the future, you may not know how to tie leggings. After all, this thing has been completely abandoned in the 21st century army.

But in an era when human soldiers could only rely on two legs for long-distance maneuvers, leggings were too useful for long-range raids that were mainly mountain-based marches. It can not only prevent the lower leg from being bitten by mosquitoes, insects, locusts, etc., but also avoid some thorny plants in the mountains to the soldier's calf caused by pulling and scratching, and walking with leggings for a long time will effectively avoid calf soreness and swelling when carrying out mountain climbing and marching, and avoid ground swelling pain caused by blood veins.

However, Li Wenge himself admits that he is indeed very uncomfortable.

When I was a kid and tied my leggings. For the first few days, he felt his calf swelling all the time.

Therefore, these two simple reforms were not implemented very smoothly in the army, and the two masters of the Zhe family did not buy it very much, and Di Huaiwei and Jinghai and other officers of the Eighth Route Army also secretly slandered him, and Zhe Yuqing did not say anything. I was also a little unimpressed.

Only Li Hu resolutely supported all his decisions. He was the first to tie his leggings and the first to learn to tie a backpack. When I saw Lee Hu standing in the queue with leggings and training those Gyeongju miscellaneous soldiers very harshly. Li Wenge burst into tears, and the implementation of reforms in these years really requires a certain degree of personality cult......

The reason why he took such pains was because he knew that the mission that the regiment would take on in a month was an operation without the cooperation of the troops. Without silhouette and rear, the wounded soldiers will not be able to receive timely assistance and medical treatment, and after eating the dry food they have brought with them, if they are not able to fish and hunt on the spot, they can only starve.

It will be an extremely arduous journey

Although it is hard to think about the 25,000 Long March of the Red Army, but at the moment, this army is compared to the strong and perverted red iron stream that he knows, so how can the gap between the ground and the earth be smoothed out by a backpack and a pair of leggings?

Fortunately, the Red Army walked 25,000 miles, and it only needed to walk 500 miles.

It is 500 miles of lofty mountains.

After walking over, the Yanchuan Independent Regiment had to face a fortified city under heaven built by Helian Bobo five hundred years ago with countless earth, stones and blood, and these 1,300 people had to rely on their own strength to conquer the Tongwan City.

Until now, Li Wenge still believes that this is an impossible task.

As long as there are 500 defenders left in Tongwan City, the Yanchuan Independent Regiment, which does not have any heavy siege equipment, will not want to attack it.

What's more, there are nearly 18,000 people in Tongwan City, of which at least 6,000 are young and strong men, and at a critical moment, these people can become warriors guarding the city at any time.

After the Tang Dynasty, 50,000 troops returned under this fortified city, but they wanted to rely on 1,300 people to break through the city and write myths.

That's impossible.

In the age of cold weapons, it is absolutely impossible!

On April 28, the third year of Guangshun, three carriages entered the city of Gyeongju under the strict escort of dozens of soldiers wearing armor, and the supreme governor of Gyeongju, Gao Shaoyuan, personally led dozens of state soldiers to the gate of the city to greet them, and then, this team passed through the streets of the state city without stopping and entered the Thorn Mansion, where the two carriages were driven to the backyard, and the horses were unloaded, and then Li Huqin led a team of infantry to take over the defense, and the courtyard where the carriages were parked was strictly guarded by the inner and outer three layers, without the order of Li Wenge, Even Gao Shaoyuan was not allowed to enter.

And the first person to get off the carriage, who was greeted by Gao Shaoyuan respectfully into the Assassin's Mansion, turned out to be an authentic person wearing a yellow crown, a coat, and cloud shoes.

The man was about forty or fifty years old. His face is scorched, his description is obscene, but his two small eyes are very bright, if this dignity is to go to the street to do hexagrams, he is only afraid that the business will be cold, but looking at Gao Shaoyuan's attitude towards him, he seems to be a great person.

At the same time as the Taoist entered the house. The Eighth Route Army made Li Wenge, the general of the Right Xiaowei, rush back to the Assassin's Mansion from Pegasus, a training ground in the north of the city.

As soon as he entered the mansion, Li Wenge handed over the horses to his own soldiers. But he strode straight to the living room without stopping, the man was drinking tea in the living room, and Gao Shaoyuan personally accompanied him.

"Tu Nangong, I can look forward to you!" Li Wenge strode into the living room with a happy face.

The man smiled faintly. It seems that he does not care about Li Wenge's honorific title and eagerness. Gao Shaoyuan stood up with amusement, turned around and exited the living room after confessing his guilt.

As soon as he came out, more than a dozen pro-soldiers immediately surrounded the front and back of the living room, and the officials of the Chinese case of the government were all driven far away, and they were not allowed to take a step close to the living room.

In the second hall of the huge earth, only Li Wenge and the Taoist priest remained.

"Tu Nangong, how is it?" Li Wenge's eyes were fixed on the Taoist priest, like a lion staring at its prey.

A wry smile appeared on the corner of the mouth of the Taoist priest he called "Tu Nan Gong", and he reached out and took out a small paper bag from his arms. handed it to the general, whose fists were clenched so nervously.

Li Wenge carefully held the paper bag in his hand, as if holding the ground was a priceless treasure, and trembled and opened it.

Inside the paper package was a small handful of gray-black powder particles, the smell was pungent, and Li Wenge sniffed lightly. But it was as if I smelled the sweetest smell in the world.

He reached out and gently picked it up. Then let the black powder particles slide freely between the fingers, and the eyes glow with a blazing light.

Two-flame nitrate. One sulfur, three charcoals, black gunpowder.

Since the establishment of Fenglin, Li Wenge began to test the production of some hot weapons, and for this purpose, a small courtyard was built in a less populated place in the Fenglin mountainous area as an experimental place for chemistry classes. Since the popularization of mathematical knowledge had just begun, a large number of scientific and technological research talents were very rare, and the scientific research force was weak, and if experimental research was carried out aimlessly, I am afraid that the progress would be extremely slow, so Li Wenge only set up two project topics for this chemistry class, that is, the preparation of black gunpowder and the separation of acidic substances.

Compared with these two projects, it is undoubtedly more difficult to separate acidic substances, after all, the research of black powder has a history of hundreds of years now, relatively mature, and more than 40 years ago in the war, there has even been a record of the use of black powder bags ignited by throwing car ejections, in this era, the formula of making gunpowder with two parts of flame nitrate, one part sulfur and three parts charcoal is no longer a profound knowledge, and most people who are more familiar with gunpowder are not unfamiliar with this formula.

Of course, compared with these researchers, Li Wenge's advantage is that he not only knows what it is, but also knows why it is, just like the Taoist priest in front of him, who was originally a figure with eyes above the top, and the only thing he was obsessed with in this life was originally the study of the astronomical calendar.

In the academic exchange and discussion with Li Wenge, the Ye family and his wife quickly mastered calculus, and the legendary immortal Chen Tuan Ancestor obtained a periodic table that could be regarded as a book of heaven if not explained......

It's a pity that Li Wenge's middle school kung fu is limited, one hundred and seven elements, he only remembers the first thirty-six.

In Chen Jun's view, this is already the study of heaven and man......

On the one hand, there is no safe and reliable advanced equipment and instruments, and on the other hand, no one has made a beneficial systematic exploration in the structure of matter.

For Chen Tuan, it is an open door, although this gate is only a gap, but he has a glimpse of the realm that he has not seen in decades of cultivation, in Chen Tuan's view, it must be the realm of great success that the Taoist masters of the past generations have been striving for.

For Li Wenge, it was extremely worry-free and labor-saving to have a senior chemical professional like Chen Tuan to preside over the research of gunpowder and acidic substances.

Chen Kuan's foundation in arithmetic is profound, which is incomparable to other Taoist priests......

Although Chen Tuan once thought that making gunpowder was a small way......

As long as these "trails" accumulate bit by bit, Li Wenge believes that in a few decades, hundreds of years, this oriental civilization will definitely realize the avenue.

However, at present, for Li Wenge, the more than 630 catties of gunpowder that Chen Tuan brought from Yanzhou this time can produce more than 2.1 million liters of gas in an explosion reaction, which should be enough to blow open the city gate of Xiazhou......