Chapter 712: Ironclad Ship

"I'm glad to see how quickly everyone is recovering! It turns out that you are all slaves, do you know why this legion still has a name that makes you so ashamed? Slave Legion! It is to let you know that you were slaves and are slaves, but in the future, you will never be slaves again, and your children will never be slaves again, and the name of this slave army is your honor! He recorded how you redeemed yourselves from being slaves. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoNow you tell me, do you still want to be slaves in the future? ”

"I don't want to! Don't want to! If you don't look at these ragged people, just listening to the voice, you will feel that this is a majestic army.

"Excellent! Here, as long as you serve for two years, you are a free professional soldier, if you make meritorious service, you will be immediately pardoned and become a free man, there are endless opportunities here, who dares to say that you are not the next general? Li Yang agitated loudly.

The eyes of the slaves in the audience lit up, the slaves who dared to escape and had the ability to escape were all strong among the slaves, and their hearts had not yet been polished, and now Li Yang drew a big cake in front of them, how could they not show a look of longing.

"This is your future chief officer, Wang Hu." After Li Yang finished speaking, he pushed Wang Hu to the front of the stage.

Li Yang's choice of Wang Hu as the chief officer is also considered, whether it is in terms of loyalty or ability, Wang Hu is one of Li Yang's right and left men in the army, and his original old unit has been formed, and the original deputy commander named Wang Tieniu has been promoted without affecting the combat effectiveness of the troops.

This army of slaves was to be expanded to two thousand men in the early stage, and it will be even larger in the future, and it will be a large composition of the future army and the largest source of free soldiers in the future, so such a force must be firmly in their own hands. At the same time, leading such an army is also a hone of Wang Hu's ability, after all, he is still more than clever and brave enough, this slave army will be used as a stormtrooper in the future, which is very helpful for honing his blood.

Wang Hu didn't say too much when he stood on the stage, and they couldn't understand the big truths he said, so he simply said two words: "In the future, everyone will be brothers in the army, life and death depend on each other, and they will be loyal to the island owner." ”

Suddenly, everyone in the audience shouted in unison: "Life and death depend on each other, loyal to the island owner!" ”

Then it was the formation of various battalions, companies, platoons, and squads, and the chief officers who were transferred from all levels entered the crowd one after another, and you rowed a wave, and I rowed a wave, anyway, I don't know anyone now, and there is nothing to grab, and soon the team was divided, and each battalion was pulled to get to know and lecture, and then the company was lined up. The day went by.

On the second day, the military uniform was delivered, and the slave corps was not equipped with cuirasses for the time being, but replaced them with leather armor, also considering that the charge needed to be lightweight, and the weapons were mainly equipped with swords, shields and short spears. Yesterday, although everyone's morale was also very high and their morale was good, there was a sense of despair no matter how they looked at it, and now that the unified new military uniforms were on their bodies, they immediately showed a different kind of majestic and mighty atmosphere.

These slaves are different from civilian soldiers, they have always been oppressed, and now once they have weapons in their hands, their eyes actually exude a dangerous devouring light, especially some of the soldiers who have blood on their hands during the run, and the momentum on their bodies can be compared to that of hundreds of soldiers.

Wang Hu looked at this group of his new subordinates with satisfaction, he felt good, the slaves had obeyed orders, and now they had added some rebelliousness to this taming, and each had the potential to become good soldiers.

However, although slaves were easy to obey orders, discipline was essential, and training began in basic formations step by step.

In fact, it's easy to talk about the training of the queue or something, but it takes a lot of effort to train weapons, after all, many of these people have been slaves for a long time, and they have little contact with the use of weapons, and they all start from scratch.

Wang Hu himself grew up step by step from a novice back then, and naturally knew the truth that practice makes perfect, the sword and shield hand was chopping again and again, and the short spear hand was stabbing again and again. People always have to have a comparison to know that happiness is not easy to come by, the current slave army is the best portrayal, although now the slave soldiers have no salary, but the food standard is not bad at all, and Wang Hu also promised that the soldiers will get a chance to go out once a month, which further stimulates the enthusiasm of the soldiers.

In the past, I didn't have enough to eat and had to engage in heavy physical labor every day, but now I not only eat enough, but what I do every day is also to train my own fighting skills, which is tantamount to saving my life in disguise. In just a few days, the military judge Wu Yong came to the barracks several times and asked the soldiers if they had enough to eat, and whether anyone had insulted and scolded them, so that these honest slave soldiers were grateful, except for the family members who remembered it for a long time, how long had they not enjoyed this kind of care.

Everything was going in a better and better direction throughout the slave barracks.

Early in the morning of this day, Li Yang rushed to the village port, if nothing else, because the new ironclad battleship was about to be launched.

Li Yang is full of confidence that this is this epoch-making warship, although the tonnage is small, but everyone knows that the development of the ship to the end, far from relying on the size of the ship to win the battle, firepower, armor, and mobility are all indispensable. In this era, people's main concept of ship warfare is rockets, bed crossbows, and jumping gang white-knuckle warfare, and Li Yang has far surpassed them in the general direction and forward-looking direction of development.

This new battleship is made of steel, and uses a printed steam engine as power, although there are sails, but it can not rely on this to travel quickly, this ship is not only shallow draft, fast speed, and equipped with ten guns on the side side, can effectively concentrate firepower, can be regarded as the flagship of the fleet in the future, its tonnage is also much more than those wooden warships, displacement of 250 tons.

When I came to the port, I saw that the lively villagers had surrounded a lot, Li Yang could no longer travel with two or three people and swaggered out, a team of escorts was a must, and the surrounding villagers saw that a group of cavalry was hula, and there was no doubt that it must be the owner of the island, Lord Li Yang.

Everyone rushed up, those who had never seen Li Yang wanted to see what Li Yang looked like, those who had seen Li Yang wanted to say hello, and the villagers of the original fishing village now felt embarrassed to go to Li Yang and wanted to take this opportunity to go forward to chat, so that Li Yang had to dismount and walk towards the dock under the heavy and strict protection of the guards.

Zheng Chong, the leader of the craftsmen, had already received the news that Li Yang had arrived, and the horse team that saw Li Yang also hurried up to greet him, guiding everyone to the dock.