What the hell was used for throwing those heavy stone balls, Redfish didn't know, she just introduced the items to be tested step by step. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

While Wei He was still laughing at the pointlessness of this kind of competition, more than fifty people in Xia City had already started training on the training ground outside the city.

Most of the more than 50 people selected were sword and shield soldiers, and they were tall and long-handed, and extremely majestic. The stone balls in their hands were irregular, but they weighed about the same.

This is the new training content of these sword and shield soldiers after the fall, they are not used to it at first, and their arms are a little sore and swollen after a short time of practice, but there is a veteran's whip behind them, telling them that they only need to survive for ten years.

Someone also asked Chen Jian, and the questions asked were the same as those asked by Wei He.

"Ji Xia, whether it's archery, running, or even impact, these are all prepared for future wars. But throw the stone ball...... Uh, it's a grenade, what's the use of a grenade? ”

Chen Jian looked at the toilet outside the city and said with a smile: "You just practice, it will be useful in the future." ”

How far is the future, this sword and shield soldier is not clear, in his opinion, what Ji Xia said will always come true, and the only thing that has not been realized is the connection between the toilet and the roar of thunder and lightning, but he also said that it will be in the future.

He didn't connect these two things that would happen in the future, and after listening to Jian Chen's explanation, he waved his sour arms and continued to train.

These sword and shield soldiers were the fifty strongest in the entire city, and everyone who was chosen was proud that they were the first "new army" of the city.

The number of the new army was only one hundred and twenty, and all of them were selected, plus twenty or thirty more from the white horses who had not yet returned, and some more from those who had been taken away from the wolf's skin, the total number of the new army was about one hundred and sixteen.

They are not the same as the soldiers of the past, the soldiers only have more training than the auxiliary soldiers, and they still need to produce and labor in peacetime.

This group of new troops was completely out of production, training every day, completely detached from production and labor, all food and drink came out of the public property of the city, and they had to undergo harsh training regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

The new army of one hundred and sixty people was the limit of what Xia Cheng could bear, and counting some half-employed managers, the number of full-time and semi-full-time personnel in the entire Xia City was close to two hundred, and counting the population of slaves and wild people, the ratio of out-of-work had reached a terrible thirty to one.

The combat effectiveness of professional soldiers and compulsory conscripts is not the same, and Chen Jian knows this very well, but the 160 full-time soldiers need nearly 20,000 catties of food and 5,000 catties of meat every year to ensure the consumption of training and basic survival.

Fortunately, the city was forcibly transferred from the matriarchal commune to the primitive state, and the family is not yet the most basic unit, which can be allocated and distributed through the public property and tribe of the city, so it can maintain such a high proportion of people who are out of work.

These new armies are a new class created by Chen Jian, which can be regarded as military aristocrats in the city, of course, this class is still only in its embryonic form, and it is not aware of the problem of fighting for its own rights and interests and the distribution of spoils.

But with the growth of the conquest and the power of the new army, they will inevitably surround Chen Jian, and will not consider the interests of the original clan, but will regard these comrades who did not belong to the same clan as part of their own class, fight for their own interests, and even completely turn their backs on the interests of the clan.

When they became the strongest standing military force in the city, they began to wonder why the spoils of war were also distributed among the tribes. Why can't it be given to individuals? If I have enough slaves, can I survive without a clan?

Unlike the previous soldiers recruited by various tribes, these new armies only relied on the cities for their survival, so they would be the ones who were most enthusiastic about centralizing power and the disintegration of the clans, and they were also the basic support for Chen Jian's future plans.

In this era of change and turmoil, Chen Jian not only wants to grab the interests of the rest of the clan, but even gives up part of the interests of his own clan - not betrayal, but only forcing these people to change from the status of clan members to the identity of the city - giving up only the interests of the clan as a whole, not the interests of the people in the clan. When people realized that they were citizens of the city, the interests of the clan had nothing to do with these people, so Jian Chen didn't have to worry about being subjected to a huge backlash.

The new army hadn't thought much of it yet, but they were already feeling different from the rest of the city.

Their military camp was outside the city, and the newly built more than 30 rooms completely disrupted the boundaries between the tribes, and the five people lived in one small room, and the commander was elected to be fully responsible for the soldiers' training and life in peacetime, and even included eating and other things as much as possible.

Their food was also better than that of the rest of the city, mainly because they had much more meat and fat than the rest of the city.

It was strictly forbidden to leave the new barracks within 500 paces without receiving an order, and violators were to be whipped. Unlike the rest of the tribes, these new soldiers had two days off every ten days, and could go to the women in the city or exchange them for goods in the fang market with some daily necessities such as food and soap that were distributed every ten years.

At first these people were not accustomed to this life, but harsh enforcers would get them used to it with whips. Jian Chen will not come forward to stop them, but he will go to the places where these people live to visit them after they have been beaten, and sometimes if someone is sick, he must report it to him, and he will bring them with a prepared sick number and a meal.

Try to make the soldiers here aware of the problem: it is the laws of the army that punish them, not a certain person, and on the contrary, Chen Jian, as a military leader, will also shush and make them realize the difference.

There are also special people in charge of the daily training, and they have to get up early in the morning to sing a war song of the hand of the son, and then the captain goes to get breakfast.

The biggest difference between the daily meals and the people in the city is that there are a lot more boiled beans and fish, and Chen Jian tries to ensure their protein needs.

A different kind of food, a different way of living, this is what seems to be different from the previous soldiers for the time being.

At first, these people only trained running endurance and walking in line, and they didn't even have weapons issued, and the various tests in the previous selection seemed to be useless at all.

Most of these people were already familiar with the queue and discipline, and after a few days of training, they gradually got a little tired of it, constantly asking how they were going to fight in the future.

A few days later, fifty sword and shield soldiers were selected to begin new training, and the rest were still lined up there.

In addition to the previous training, the new training method of the sword and shield soldier is the new stone ball throwing item.

Since Jian Chen named it a grenade, of course, the purpose was the same, and in the future, what they threw would definitely not be stone balls, but explosive clay pots and gunpowder.

When Jian Chen said that he wanted to use the toilet to let the people see the power of thunder and lightning, it was the idea of gunpowder. The materials needed for gunpowder are very simple, saltpeter charcoal and sulfur, the production capacity of the charcoal tribe is enough, saltpeter Chen Jian also has a plan, sulfur has not been found before, but it turns out that the place where the various tribes meet is an extinct volcano, there should be a sulfur mine there, maybe it is just hidden in the city where people can't find it and sleep.

But a few days ago, some people who had returned from Yancun had brought Chen Jian a few very strange stones, and they all knew the habit of asking for those strange stones, and the reward had changed from the original clay pot to the wheat flour it is today.

The people knew that bronze was smelted from stone, so they knew how important stone was to the city, and the stronger the city, the better it would be, so even without those rewards, they would still bring back all kinds of stones that they occasionally saw.

The stone brought back this time is strange to the person, pale yellow in color, and when lit, it will emit some pungent smell, which is very unpleasant.

Whether it smells bad or not has nothing to do with the people who picked up the stones, they heard that the blue water near the copper mine will die if they drink it, but it does not affect the fact that someone exchanged the stone for the reward in the first place.

When the yellowish stone, which was easily broken into powder, was handed over to Jian Chen, Jian readily rewarded them, everyone had it, and asked them where they had found it.

This stone is sulfur, and it is natural sulfur with good purity.

The corners of the latrine that had been immersed for a year began to appear as the weather became colder, and although the efficiency of this was very low, Chen Jian had already figured out how to expand the scale and speed up.

As a result, the three materials for making black powder are ready, as for whether it will lead history to an unknowable situation, Chen Jian has not considered this problem at all, if he is afraid of the east and the west, the best way is to stay as he is and squat in the mountains to hunt, besides, this world has no history, no one knows what will happen in the future.

The ratio of gunpowder Chen Jian didn't know, but he could write the chemical formula, so he could deduce the theoretical optimal ratio of black powder, so he didn't rush to configure gunpowder, but began the reform of the military system, and first selected fifty people who would be responsible for throwing black powder bombs in the future.

It's autumn now, the nitrate pond hasn't been covered yet, everything is on paper, and even if it is built, it will not be possible to mass-produce saltpeter until next summer, when the temperature is high enough, so Chen Jian has to train a new batch of troops within a year to ensure that gunpowder can be transformed into combat effectiveness when it is produced.

The ignition and thunder of pottery and gunpowder will not be powerful, because the hardness of pottery is too low, the cost of stone carving is too high, and the cost of bronze is even more heavenly.

But there will definitely be frightening noises and pyrotechnics, which will inevitably cause a certain amount of chaos, and a large firecracker can also injure people if you are lucky, not to mention a bomb with a sufficient amount of gunpowder in the plan.

Chaos is the army's worst enemy, and the task of these sword and shield soldiers in the future is to create chaos in the enemy's neat military formation, so as to tear a gap.

Not only them, but the one hundred and sixty new troops planned were all offensive and shock-opening, and those defensive engagements were carried out by the armies of the various clans. (To be continued.) )