Chapter 663: Recruit Registration (Part II)
With this kind of treatment in the new army, who wants to be a cook under such living conditions? Come directly to the new army to be a military household, that's really a fairy and don't change! It's just that their earnest hope that the biochemical warriors can't control it, and this kind of thing has to be said by Gao Yang.
Gao Yang had little interest in these people. To be a soldier is to be able to bear hardships and stand hard work, not afraid of life and death, what do you do to raise these cooks who steal in the kitchen all the year round, all of them have big heads and thick necks? Could it be that it is not possible to keep it for the generals to open a small stove?
However, Gao Yang did not close this door. He just told the cyborg soldiers to keep an eye on it, and those who stole and got cheap didn't need to be chased away, and they all had to be written down. After the completion of recruit training, select a group of innocent and decent cooks from those who have no vices and work hard to stay in the army. As for the others, they all let them come from and go back.
Gao Yang lacks nothing, he just lacks time. It's not just that the threat of aliens is gradually increasing in modern time and space. There is also the end of the Ming Dynasty, and there are countless people in the whole world crying their fate in this tragic era. This army must build up its combat strength as soon as possible to accomplish its mission.
Among the armies of the Ming Empire, those who can do it every five days are already first-class strong troops. The famous Qi Jiajun only did one exercise for three days. In this way, it is enough to dominate the world, defeat the Japanese pirates, not to mention, attack Mongolia in the north, and annihilate more than 100,000 Mongolian troops for hundreds of miles three times and capture their main generals! This is an extremely rare victory in hundreds of years.
And after the death of General Qi, the army he left behind also began to wither. Even so, the last 3,000 Qi family troops faced the fierce siege of more than 40,000 Manchu elites on the banks of the Hunhe River, and fought to the last man! Killed and injured nearly 10,000 elites of the Manchu Eight Banners! The crimson blood stains the muddy river red! Even years later, the Manchus still had lingering fears about the war.
This was also the only battle in which the Manchu Qing Dynasty had suffered more casualties than the number of enemies destroyed since Nurhachi raised his army. The heroic tenacity of the Zhejiang soldiers and the spirit of fighting to the death greatly shocked the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Huang Taiji said, "If half of the Ming Dynasty's military horses are as strong as the Qi family's army, then let's go back to Baishan and Heishui to hunt." ”
The army is poorly trained. No matter how bad the equipment is, the morale is low. That's really hopeless. It happened that at this time, the army of the Ming Empire occupied all these negative conditions.
The military household system set by Zhu Yuanzhang had completely collapsed by the time of the Chongzhen period. Those military families who have been in the army for generations have long become farming slaves of generals at all levels, and they are plowing the land for their respective generals every day with their backs to the loess. Not to mention fighting. These people don't even have enough to eat. Where is there any strength to train? The army is not trained, and when it goes to the battlefield, it really becomes a rabble.
The officials and generals of the Ming Dynasty have been in the past two hundred years. It has long been developed to a pinnacle of greed. They dare to be greedy for anything, and they are not afraid of killing heads at all, because everyone is doing it, and it just depends on whose luck is bad. Most of them can get out of the house and enjoy the service of their wives and concubines in the beautiful mansion of the good land. These scholars exchanged ten years of hard study for the glory and wealth of the second half of their lives, as well as the noble birth of their descendants. For them, it's worth it!
Due to all kinds of strange reasons, the Ming army did not have enough weapons, armor, horses, clothing, food, use, etc.! The same. The quality is also extremely poor. Musket blow-ups are trivial. The armor was made of wood, and they did it with paint.
Emperor Chongzhen did not sleep day and night, and Zen Jing did his best to raise materials and food to send to the front line. After that, it was divided up by officials and generals at all levels. The rest was spent on the sergeants, but the perennial defeat caused these things to fall into the hands of Jianyu almost untouched. In turn, it strengthened Jianyu's strength. From Nurhachi's thirteen pairs of armor, by this moment it is already more than 200,000 armor! Most of them were kindly aided by the Ming Empire. This kind of thing is really helpless.
No training, poor equipment. The result of such an army can only be a complete defeat, not to mention the loss of troops, and the loss of a large area of land. In order to absorb the tragedy of the two Song Dynasty coins, the Ming Dynasty has always been tough on the outside world, claiming that an inch of land cannot be lost. The Son of Heaven must guard the country! There is a Ming dynasty. There was no peace negotiation except for the combination of various factors that allowed the Portuguese to obtain the right of abode in Macau.
If you lose a battle for a long time and suffer heavy casualties, then the morale of the army will naturally be low. The Daming Emperor* team, which accounts for all three, naturally has no combat effectiveness.
From the very beginning, Gao Yang's new army was built according to the strongest standards of this era. The plan is to train every day. And it's a high-intensity training. He is not a fool, and he offers such good conditions for people to mess around. If that's the case, it's better to just do good deeds. If you take more and eat well, then you have to practice hard!
At the beginning, it was naturally the most basic infantry queue training, standing in a military posture. There's nothing quite like this for recruit training.
The two-hour standing posture made the recruits complain. But no one dared to back down. Before, there were people who couldn't support it and were pulled out to rest, and there were people to take care of them. I thought it was a good thing, but when someone wanted to follow suit and pretend not to reach the ground. The voices of the biochemical warriors made them all stop: "Those who fail to pass three times will be discharged!" Half of the settling-in allowance will be refunded. ”
He took the silver and ate the fat meat full of oil and water. Wear new clothes, shoes and socks. Use novelty objects that have never been used before. And that high military salary! At this time, the recruits no longer want to leave. There will never be such a good place in the world again. Everyone gritted their teeth and persevered.
In the evening, we had a good dinner, followed by evening class. The cyborg warriors serve as teachers. Recruits are taught to read and write, while also teaching basic battlefield knowledge. In this way, the training of recruits gradually got on the right track.
Gao Yang's armament plan for this army is to be trained and organized in full accordance with the standards of modern time and space. It's just that there aren't that many heavy weapons.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, firearms had become widely available. This space-time has relatively little repulsion for thermal weapons. After careful consideration and combined with the opinions of the origin, Gao Yang finally decided to equip this army with the famous Ferguson rear-loading gun.
The Ferguson rear-loading gun can be said to be the first practical rear-loading gun. This is a rifled rifle with an effective range of up to two hundred meters and a rate of fire of six rounds a minute. This was enough to dominate the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Once they were formed, there was no army that could compete with them.
The main reason for the choice of this gun was that its power was enough for this era. And it's not too far ahead, and the time-space rejection caused by it is not strong. In addition, production and maintenance are relatively simple.
The craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty have passed down their skills from generation to generation and are extremely exquisite. They are just constrained by a lot of inexplicable reasons that they can't show. If Gao Yang brings the finished product directly from the modern space-time, because it is a weapon, it will have a greater impact on the space-time channel. And if he just came with raw materials and processing equipment and drawings, the impact would be minimal. This is also why the Ferguson rear-loading gun was chosen. The power is large enough, the impact is small, and it can be mass-produced on the side of the Ming Dynasty.
As for why not choose something else with better performance, such as the Mauser 98K, which is famous all over the world. The main reason is that this time and space cannot be copied and produced on a large scale. After Gao Yang left, the things he left behind would be consumed sooner or later, what should I do at that time? Without logistical supplies, even the best firearms can only be used as sticks.
Those craftsmen who were like slaves were all exchanged for Gao Yang's name. A large-scale production area was opened up outside the city of Jingshi, and simple equipment and various raw materials brought by Gao Yang were used to mass-produce rear-loading flintlock pistols and paper-shell cartridges. This combination is already the best choice for this era.
For the army of the age of hot weapons, the god of war is an indispensable role. The Ming Dynasty itself attached great importance to the use of artillery. There are all kinds of artillery, such as the general's cannon, the Hongyi artillery, the tiger squat cannon, and so on. The numbers are also extremely terrifying. Of course, for the same reason as muskets, most of the artillery in the Ming Dynasty was used to defend the city, and the power in the real sense was not strong. The main role is focused on boosting morale.
Gao Yang also did not have the heart to completely redesign the artillery for them. He directly discarded the low-quality Ming artillery, and re-brought the production technology and raw materials to produce a new standardized and standardized infantry support artillery. He chose only one blueprint for artillery, the Napoleonic smoothbore gun, named after the French Emperor Napoleon III.
This famous front-loading gun was cast in bronze. Mobility, ferocity, and extremely simple and effective weapons to manufacture and use. This twelve-pounder infantry support gun can reach an astonishing two thousand meters at a maximum range and is extremely accurate. It can fire a variety of ammunition such as solid shells, blasting shells, shotguns, and grenade shotguns.
This type of artillery alone is enough for the use of the entire army. In the field, no army would be a match for a combination of flintlock pistols and Napoleonic cannons. As for siege warfare, with flintlock guns and artillery working together, what other city can resist?
Under the guidance of biochemical warriors, artisans and recruited homeless people use advanced equipment far beyond the state of contemporary science and technology to process high-quality raw materials into new products.
Compared with the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, which treats them as slaves, the conditions given by Gao Yang are much better. Gaoyang directly adopted the post responsibility system. All individual parts are marked and can be found by a single check of whoever produced them. If something happens, you will be held accountable, once you will deduct money, and the second time you will kick it out directly. (To be continued)