"Hum-huh-" A dull sound was accompanied by a long scream of breaking through the air, and then, a row of straw men one hundred and fifty steps away shook one after another, and one of them was actually connected to the wooden pole inserted into the ground and was brought up, and flew straight out of three or four steps before it snapped to the ground, four crossbow arrows that were slightly shorter than ordinary arrows, two of which were nailed to the straw man's body, all of which were submerged into the straw man's body except for the tail of the arrow, and the part that came out from behind was more than a foot, and one branch brought the straw man up, Another branch actually shot through the straw man and sank straight into the trunk of a large tree behind the straw man.

Li * and Xifeng Minda opened their mouths and looked at the straw man array that had been broken by the four crossbow arrows, and their eyes were full of horror, the power of a Fuyuan crossbow was so far.

In the face of this kind of weapon, the infantry armor currently equipped by the front battalion is almost the same as paper paste, except for the Mingguang armor that already has the rudimentary form of plate armor, Li * can't think of any armor in this era that can completely block the killing of this kind of crossbow arrow.

The arrowhead of this crossbow is not the most common diamond-shaped arrow, but a relatively wide reverse crescent, which, after initial polishing, has a sharp edge, and can inflict devastating damage on enemies with kinetic energy alone in high-speed flight.

It is said that the range of the Volvo crossbow can reach a distance of 300 paces, which means that an enemy within a range of 150 paces should not think about being able to stand up as long as it is hit like this.

Li * only felt a little tightness in his throat, he coughed lightly twice, and smiled bitterly, he still underestimated the creativity of the ancients, such a terrifying weapon has appeared in this era. Of course, in the face of high-speed moving enemies, the lethality of this weapon will be greatly reduced, and the long winding time is a fatal flaw, but even so, as long as it is used properly, the power of this weapon is definitely not negligible.

Looking at the surprised gaze of the fine seal Minda, Li * coughed lightly and asked, "You haven't seen this before?" ”

Xifeng Minda smiled bitterly: "I have been fighting with the army since I was eleven years old, and I have been here no less than twenty times in Yanzhou, and I have never seen such a sharp bow and arrow......"

He thought for a moment and said, "I heard some people in charge of the house say that the army in Lingzhou has a very sharp bow and arrow, and the interval between arrows is very long, but the power of the bow and arrow is very great, it should be this kind of thing......"

Then he said with a look of incredulity: "Since you have such sharp weapons, why haven't you seen them in a battle before?" ”

Li * picked up a crossbow arrow, looked at the rust on the edge of the back of the arrow, and said with a wry smile: "That's because the generals in Yanzhou have never seen this thing, and I don't know how long these treasures have been backlogged in the arsenal, twenty years?" Thirty years? It's normal that you haven't seen it, and I even guess that even the owner of this batch of weapons hasn't seen these things......"

Li * thinks that whether it is Gao Yunquan or Gao Shaoji, it is very likely that he has never entered the arsenal in his life, and the father and son are not interested in fighting at all, and basically belong to the level of military idiots.

"This weapon is not defenseless, it can be resisted by a heavy wooden shield, but it is still terrifying......" Seal Minda carefully looked at the crossbow arrow.

Li * smiled: "The winding time is too long, this time is enough for you to shoot ten arrows......"

"It's very powerful, but it's not easy to shoot at a moving target, there are only four of them, and they can shoot sixteen crossbow arrows at a time, which is lethal for a dense infantry formation, but not for cavalry running at high speeds...... "Hosopho Minda added.

Li * frowned and compared the four Fu Yuan crossbows, and sighed: "The sizes are all different, except for the length of the arrow shaft, the other parts are more or less different. ”

Fine Seal Minda looked up at Li * strangely, it is very normal for handmade crossbows to have this kind of difference, and Thin Seal Minda is not surprised by this, he is strange about Lee*'s attitude towards this matter.

That night, Lee* called a meeting with several carpenters and blacksmiths who had already set up their shops on the mountain. In the mutiny a few years ago, Li * "tied" all the blacksmiths in the city at one time, holding the big seal of Jiedu Mansion, and he wanted to create as many officials as he liked, coupled with generous treatment, the blacksmith shop in Yanzhou City was emptied at one time......

Li * took one of the crossbows he had obtained from the Yanzhou arsenal (except for the wooden crossbows), all of which had been tested to be the most powerful.

Before the meeting began, Lee* asked four carpenters, including the carpenter, to do something, and he gave each of them a piece of ash and asked them to cut a piece of wood one foot long and one inch long.

As a result, the four people intercepted a foot-long wooden stick that Li * was very satisfied, and the four wooden sticks were the same length together, which meant that the visual inspection level of the four carpenters was basically the same in the accuracy of the ruler, but the difference in one inch of wood was slightly significant, and finally after comparison, the carpenter surnamed Duan among the four people saw the wood segment by hand closest to one-tenth of the one-foot-long wooden stick, and Li * immediately made a decision, and Duan carpenter served as the draughtsman of the project.

Under the current rudimentary conditions, Li* knew that it was basically a delusion for him to carry out a thorough standardized manufacturing, and he could only formulate a relative level of standardization at this stage, and Li* demanded that all wooden or iron products made in the future should be based on the visual dimensions of Duan carpenters.

The standardization of modern society is based on non-deformable crystals, and under Lee*'s current conditions, it can only be temporarily based on a person's eye.

Lee* asked the craftsmen to begin dismantling the samples of the weapons from now on, studying the shape and function of each part, tracing its size and dimensions with ink lines on a wooden board, and then carving out the model with a knife.

After the structural study of the crossbow machine's parts is almost complete, Lee* will ask the craftsmen to start reproducing the parts, of course, each part will be visually audited by the carpenter, and the parts that are very different from the original model will be discarded as scrap.

Lee* knew nothing about carpentry work or blacksmithing, and he simply hoped that the weapons equipped by the troops in the future would be as standardized as possible, so that their manufacturing costs and manufacturing cycles would be greatly reduced.

This is a very long-term project, and Lee* did not expect to achieve results in a short period of time.

At the same time, Li* began to adjust some of the standards of military training, and among the more than 200 soldiers, he found a typical short man named Cao Qing, who was selected from the training queue and repeatedly ordered him to practice walking in unison in an open field.

This big brother Cao Qing was very depressed, because he felt a bit like a monkey being played, but Commander Li obviously didn't take into account his feelings, and watched him walk around thoughtfully.

After that, Commander Li did an even more incredible thing, he drew two straight lines, and drew a vertical line between the two straight lines, and ordered Cao Qing to walk back and forth along this vertical line, after Cao Qing walked back and forth a few times, the conductor gradually drew the landing point of each step of Cao Qing on the vertical line, and the distance between the landing point and the landing point was roughly similar.

Based on this distance, the soldiers who practiced marching in the queue the next day found a strange thing, the playground was painted with white lines one by one, and the instructors shouted the number to start the queue training, unlike yesterday, this time each soldier's steps were neither big nor small, just the distance between the two white lines. The instructors checked on one side with sticks, and if their feet did not land on the white line during the march, they were immediately hit with sticks.

Officers at all levels expressed their incomprehension about Lee*'s strange training method.

To this end, Lee* convened a meeting of officers and explained to all the officers his main purpose in doing so, saying: "War is a delicate job, and whoever counts more delicately will win." When marching in a large group, the soldiers will always distinguish between fast and slow due to physical strength and height problems. Therefore, a truly fast march is not a race all the way, but a constant speed for all soldiers in the marching column, which is the key to ensuring the speed of long-distance marches. Therefore, it is necessary to choose a stride length that the vast majority of soldiers can easily accept as a benchmark. I chose Cao Qing because he has the shortest legs, and most soldiers should be able to easily follow his steps. ”

Lee* told his officers that only by training this stride length as a regular walking habit for soldiers could it be useful on long marches. And to achieve this goal, it takes a long and boring queue training, so that the soldiers can walk such a long distance with no more than one step.

Although the officers did not understand it, they resolutely carried out Lee*'s order, and the soldiers were told to walk with their chests held high and not to look at the road under their feet, and anyone whose foot did not fall on the line would be drawn with a stick. Over time, the soldiers complained about this kind of platoon training.

Lee* had no time to pay attention to the soldiers' complaints, and there were a few "very important things" that almost kept him busy.

The rapid expansion of the army is a good thing, but it has also brought a lot of troubles, first of all, the original practice of cooking food in the villagers' homes can no longer adapt to the size of the army today, and it often takes half an hour for a large group of people to line up to receive food when the meal is served every day.

In Li*'s time, the troops basically ate in the canteen as a company, and the cooking squad put the prepared meals on the table in turn, and then the troops opened the canteen, sat down at the table in the squad unit, and started at the same time at the same time, so that the soldiers of the whole company could basically eat hot meals at the same time, and the meal time was also compressed.

At present, the number of troops in Lee*'s hands has reached or even exceeded the number of a company, but he is not yet in a position to open a canteen that can serve the soldiers of the whole battalion at the same time. It takes half a day for the staple food to be eaten by the officers and men of the whole battalion from the pots and stoves in the villagers' homes, and the weather is cold and the temperature is low. Woniu Village is too small, and now so many soldiers and homeless people have poured out at once, it is indeed a bit uncontrollable.

Li* studied this issue with Zhou Zhengyu for a long time, and finally expanded the scope of the discussion, bringing Wei Xun and Liu Heng and others in for discussion.

Eventually, the focus was on the newly contained homeless people, who consumed food every day but had nothing to do. Lee* is currently expanding his troops too fast, and he doesn't want to recruit any new recruits for the time being, so this group of people is just used to do some chores.

Instead of following the example of the 21st century in forming a cooking team, Li remembered the reform of the military system that Zhao Kuangyin had implemented a few years later.

Drawing on the creativity of Comrade Lao Zhao in advance, Li * divided the soldiers of the front battalion into two parts: the forbidden soldiers and the box soldiers, and the forbidden soldiers no longer recruited new recruits for the time being, and the front battalion set up an additional box soldier team in addition to the existing C team and three recruit teams, and this box soldier team recruited more than 40 homeless men to do labor, and divided it into two basic units, the cooking group and the labor service group, which were arranged and commanded by Zhou Zhengyu.

Compared with the forbidden soldiers, the newly formed box soldiers are not paid, but they can get two cakes and the same share of pickles for each meal, which is a grade higher than the refugees in the camp. Those who had been helping to level the site and repair their houses were now included in the van army, while those who had become tenants were not included.

After the formation of this logistical and baggage-heavy van troops, Li * and others reformed the unit's meal system in a timely manner. The five teams of the battalion had meals at different hours, and the third team, which was the old unit, was the first to eat, and the meal time was about two quarters of an hour, followed by the three new soldiers, and finally the box soldiers. In this way, all units can have a hot meal within an hour, and those who do not arrive at meal time can continue to train on the playground without having to wait in long lines to receive food.

In this way, the cooking team of the van corps can prepare the food of one squad at a time, and the hot food that comes out of the pot can be immediately served out to the troops who have reached meal time, and there is no need to wait in the big kitchen to get cold.

This incident made Li realize that his road to army building is still very long, and many ways and methods that have been mixed with the logistics planning of the modern army need to be introduced into this new contingent one after another, and only after such a rebirth and transformation can this unit possess some basic characteristics of the modern army.

After the problem of eating was solved, Li* immediately found that there were still N problems that began to be prominent due to the sudden increase in the number of people, and the two most obvious and direct problems were defecation and bathing.

Originally, there were only a few dozen people, and Lee* allowed the soldiers to go all over the mountains looking for a place to solve the problem of excretion on their own, but after having more than 200 people, the problem began to become acute.

If left untreated, more than 200 people would have a soak of a day each, which would be enough to turn the area around the barracks into a large thatched hut full of yellow and white things in a short period of time, and this trend has already begun in the refugee camps where there is no institutional norm. Reform of the toilet regime is imperative.

The labor team took on this task, and the soldiers, who had enough to eat and had enough strength, began to dig and build the first organic fertilizer distribution center on Fenglin Mountain outside the camp, and Li* did not want to waste this excrement, and the tenants could come here at any time to pick up fertilizer when the crops began to be cultivated in the spring of the next year, and the conditions were difficult to waste any resources.

The problem of bathing is also very acute, there are no conditions in the refugee camp, no requirements, but in order to avoid the spread of infectious diseases in the spring, Li* is ready to force these displaced people to get rid of the bad habit of not wanting to bathe.

In the battalion, Lee* demanded that all officers and men of the battalion take a hot bath at least once every ten days, and for this purpose several carpenters worked overtime to make ten large wooden barrels, and each team was staggered according to the Shiwu formation, and carried out bathing and disinfection activities according to their own dates.

There are too many people, and you can't do anything in a swarm, and the basic life matters such as eating,, and bathing need to be done one by one. Everything is not isolated, and the overall arrangement of time involves all aspects of daily training, mobilization, theoretical study, and cultural study, and only an extremely detailed schedule can coordinate all of this, which not only ensures that no time is wasted, but also ensures that each soldier does not miss a single study and training project.

Zhou Zhengyu was very nervous about making this plan, he had no culture, he held back for nearly ten days before he came up with a result that made Li * look full of stars, and a dozen pieces of hemp paper were painted with a lot of inexplicable circles dotted and forked, and no one knew what it was without explanation.

Zhou Zhengyu said with his hand, from lunch to dinner, Li * arrived and couldn't fully understand, and finally he jumped back to his house with his head in his hands and directly ordered Zhou Zhengyu to start the trial, and clearly said that if it is not suitable, Zhou Zhengyu can adjust it at any time.

To Li*'s surprise, although the overall plan seemed chaotic and incomprehensible, it was surprisingly effective in its implementation, and it took only four or five days for Zhou Zhengyu to get the veterans and recruits accustomed to this daily life training pattern according to orders and arrangements, and after a month of operation, Li* found that the plan was actually working quite well.

However, Li * didn't understand the schedule when he arrived, he only remembered his daily meal time and usual bath time, in addition, what means and methods Zhou Zhengyu used, and how everyone arranged, he didn't care, and gave Zhou Zhengyu full authority, which is called decentralization, but in fact, it is clearly lazy.

As the days passed, the weather gradually began to warm up, and a brand-new Zhangwu Army front battalion was gradually dressed up on Fenglin Mountain......

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