The post-disaster reconstruction work in Chongming County is progressing very smoothly, without the opposition of Xiao Yang and other head snake forces, only four major families of the seven major families remain, and all of them have taken refuge in Li Weiguo's side, so that no force in the entire Chongming County dares to oppose Li Weiguo, and any decree issued by Li Weiguo has been implemented to the letter.

Especially among the people, Li Weiguo fought floods and provided disaster relief, and won the hearts of the people in Chongming County with his practical actions for the people wholeheartedly, and his status in the hearts of the people was extremely high.

Coupled with Li Weiguo's newly recruited 1,000 county soldiers and 3,000 disaster relief security teams, such a powerful force, even Taicang Zhili Prefecture, the higher-level unit of Chongming County, does not have so many armed forces, making Chongming County like an iron pass, and Li Weiguo has become the de facto emperor here.

In the barracks, after the new army's general quarantine, the soldiers no longer have the psychological shadow of the three corpses in their hearts, and their morale is high.

Li Weiguo personally supervised the training of the new army, and in addition to arranging various training subjects to increase the physical fitness of soldiers, he also strengthened the training of the troops.

He grouped ten people into a team, and set up ten chiefs, which was the basic unit. Then there is a centurion for the hundred-man team and a thousand-man team for the thousand-man team.

The queue training starts with the most basic ten-person team, and then the 100-person team performs after proficiency, then the 1,000-person team, and finally the 4,000-person general exercise.

The reason why Li Weiguo put platoon training in the first place is not only because platoon training can strengthen the obedience and acceptance ability of soldiers, but more importantly, it is to lay a good foundation for more flexible command of this army on the battlefield in the future.

Li Weiguo knew very well that the basic military combat method of the infantry in this era was the tactic of lining up and lining up the guns, and on the surface, this kind of line and column gun tactics was very simple, that is, the soldiers stood in one or several rows and took turns to release their guns.

In fact, it is not, and there is a huge amount of military knowledge in it.

You must know that the battlefield environment is very noisy, so with the sound of shouting and killing, gunfire, artillery roar, etc., the distance that an order shouted by a commander can be effectively transmitted under such circumstances is only a dozen meters away, and if you take into account the tension of the soldiers, in fact, it is very good that the soldiers five or six meters away can hear the orders of the commander.

The horizontal length of the line is several hundred meters or even several kilometers, and for such a large area of engagement, for the commander to have no loudspeakers, no radios, and other equipment, it is a problem to convey orders and command the operation of the troops.

Li Weiguo was aware of this precisely because he worked platoon training, so that the soldiers could master various platoon commands and improve the efficiency of battlefield command.

Of course, in terms of commanding operations, the European and American powers, which have a history of musket battles for hundreds of years, have already summed up a set of appropriate command methods, that is, using military bands to convey commanders' orders on the battlefield.

The larger the scale of the battle, the more military musicians need to be equipped, and often a thousand-strong army needs to be equipped with at least 100 military musicians, and this ratio has reached 10 to 1, or even higher.

This is also something that can't be helped, after all, the battlefield environment is too noisy, not to mention the sound of shouting and killing, gunfire, etc., the enemy also has military musicians, both sides are beating gongs and drums, in fact, they are also interfering with each other, it is a suppressive tactic, your military band has a small number of people and a small voice, and the result will be overshadowed by the enemy's military music, then your soldiers will not be able to hear the commander's orders, and the results are self-evident.

Therefore, both warring sides had to have a large number of military personnel to ensure that the command of their own troops proceeded smoothly.

The military band is only one of the important factors in battlefield command, and more importantly, it lies in the soldiers, which is reflected in the daily training of soldiers.

Since the military band is used to direct the army on the battlefield, the soldiers must be able to understand the various meanings and orders represented by their own military music.

In fact, this is the biggest and most difficult problem for an army to solve, because there is not enough time and sufficient training, and the soldiers on the battlefield basically cannot understand the meaning of military music, or even misunderstand it, and the latter will directly lead to the chaos of the entire army, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the training time of recruits in Britain, France, Germany and other great powers was generally more than three years, that is to say, from the beginning of recruit recruitment, until it officially became a regular army, it took at least three years of recruit training period, from which it is not difficult to see how difficult it is to train an army that can conduct line warfare, compared with the later generations who can become a regular army after three months of training, the ratio of time required is as high as 12:1, even the German commander Moltke after the Franco-Prussian War could not help but sigh that German soldiers trained hard for 20 years to be able to defeat the French army.

If you think about it, it is no wonder that this situation has arisen, relying on military music to command the army is like listening to a song and dancing, even if a person who has learned dance for decades, if he is placed in the tense atmosphere of shouting and killing, guns and cannons can't stop roaring, and the earth shaking, there will be tension, and he will also hear the wrong song and take the wrong step.

Therefore, Moltke's statement that the German soldiers trained hard for twenty years to defeat the French army is not a joke, but a fact.

Since Li Weiguo knew the advantages and disadvantages of the line musket war, he naturally wanted to avoid it as much as possible.

For this reason, Li Weiguo made a detailed consideration in this regard, although he also prepared a military band, but this military band was only responsible for conveying three orders, forward, pause and retreat, as for other military orders, Li Weiguo thought of the flag.

The two flags, one red and one green, are enough to express all the commander's combat orders, and this order does not need to be understood by the soldiers, as long as the grassroots officers and grassroots heralds can understand it.

In this way, the commander's orders do not need to be transmitted directly to each soldier, but only to a grassroots commander, who then communicates them to the other soldiers in his unit. This also simplifies the way orders are communicated, so that soldiers no longer have to spend a lot of time and energy memorizing the orders represented by various military music sounds, and there will be no mistakes on the battlefield when they mishear the orders represented by military music.

However, in order to make it easier for his soldiers to accurately distinguish the military music from the armies of other powers, Li Weiguo thought of the drum and bugle corps at the sports meeting when he was in school.

"Knock knock! Boom! (Large hub)

"Knock knock! Click! Knock knock! Click! (snare drum)

"Tick tock, tick tock! Tick Tick Tick! (Bugle)

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Once upon a time, Li Weiguo's blood boiled and he was excited when he heard that kind of drum and trumpet, as if he had returned to his student days all of a sudden.

Now he takes this set of drums and trumpets as the combat military music of Li Jiajun, when the soldiers hear the drums and trumpets, the pace will consciously step on the drums and walk, and the blood all over the body will also follow the passionate trumpet sound and instantly boil, shocking people's hearts.

Wu Yong, who came to the barracks to report to Li Weiguo, showed a strange expression when he saw this military band.

"My lord, it is the practice of the army since ancient times to smell the drums and march into the army, and I have seen some big flower drums in the barracks of the green battalion soldiers before I was lowly served, which are particularly large, and they are often carried by dozens of people, beating drums and cheering on the battlefield, but it is also quite powerful and improves morale."

Wu Yong paused and continued: "It's just that I see that the drum of this military band is a little special, much smaller than the normal big hub, it can be hung on the chest by a single force, and the sound that comes out of the blow is even stronger than all the big drums I have seen, especially the small drum that hangs directly on the waist in the back, its sound seems to be more crisp, and even more than the sound of the big drum, this is really incredible, there is such a miracle in the world, the small drum is even louder than the sound of the big drum." ”

Listening to Wu Yong's doubts, Li Weiguo suddenly laughed and said: "These large and small hubs have been improved by the county himself, which is naturally different from the traditional hubs." ”

It turned out that Li Weiguo saw that the traditional big flower drum was not only large in size and heavy in weight, but also inconvenient for military musicians to beat the drum for a long time, so he thought of the scientifically improved snare drum in later generations.

So Li Weiguo ordered people to prepare materials and asked craftsmen to improve them, so that the snare drum cavity has two layers of inner and outer layers, the inner layer is 10 layers of thick maple, and the outer layer is a very thick copper drum cavity, so that this snare drum has the warm sound of maple wood at the same time, and has the bright sound of the metal cavity.

At the same time, in order to make the sound of the snare drum louder, Li Weiguo thought of an "open" drum cavity. This kind of snare drum idea was born in the 70s of the 20th century, and is now used by Li Weiguo, just by simply expelling the air in the drum cavity, you can make the lower drum skin make a bigger sound. And because it is made of a mixture of metal and wood, this snare drum has another peculiarity, that is, it can make the sound more crisp.

In this way, in Li Weiguo's military band, whether it is a big drum or a small snare drum, the sound is particularly loud and crisp, the transmission distance is long, the sound wave is strong, far louder than the traditional flower drum, and the soldiers can hear it clearly on the noisy battlefield. At the same time, the classic drum music in the later games is also very different from the traditional military music in the West, and it will not confuse the soldiers on the battlefield.

After listening to Li Weiguo's explanation, Wu Yong suddenly admired the five-body throw, and he found more and more that Li Weiguo's talent was far beyond imagination, and he was more determined to follow Li Weiguo's idea.