15 New Army
Walking out of the logistics department, Wang Jue raised his head and looked at the sky in the distance, the sunlight pierced his eyes, making him involuntarily squint his eyes. He stretched, and then stepped into his carriage.
Sitting in the carriage, he leaned against the bumpy carriage wall, closed his eyes and muttered: "Ge Tianzhang...... This old man is not easy to deal with...... That's another reason why I'm starting from scratch...... It's so rotten that it has to be broken. β
"Let's go back to Tangshan, Wenger's engine should have some eyebrows, right?" Following Wang Jue's instructions, the carriage turned onto another road at the next intersection, and slowly moved forward along the bustling street.
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In Tangshan, inside the training base of the new army of the Ming Dynasty, an officer handed a rifle to Fan Ming, who was standing there with his hands behind his back. After three months of training, although Fan Ming is still a little thin, he has changed his weak appearance when he first entered the barracks, and his whole body shows a capable momentum.
He took the rifle, which didn't look brand new, as sacred as a battle flag. These days, in addition to the regular training content of standing in the military posture, running and climbing obstacles, he has also undergone a variety of special training that is different from other armies.
These training troops made Fan Ming feel that this army was different - there were instructors who specialized in imparting all kinds of mechanical knowledge, including transmission structure, how to open some complex hatches, and even how to ride a horse and how to maintain a straight sitting posture on the back of a bumpy horse.
What's even more exaggerated is that he and his comrades-in-arms also have to be trained how to disassemble the gun, the seemingly simple but not easy to disassemble the Ming 24G rifle, in just one minute, disassemble into parts, and then take two minutes to reassemble a bunch of parts back into a delicate rifle......
Immediately afterward, they will learn how to use the latest radio equipment, using gestures and flags to convey some battlefield messages...... Each soldier was required to be able to make tactical judgments such as roundabout attacks or rapid frontal advances in the appropriate circumstances, and those who failed were repeatedly trained and subjected to corporal punishment such as intensive training.
Now Fan Ming knows why everyone in this army is required to have a cultural foundation - these people are completely trained according to stricter training standards than officers in other armies. Although these people can't command a regiment or a battalion of soldiers to fight, they can be casually delegated to other armies of the Ming Dynasty, and commanding a company is definitely more than enough.
In recent days, during long-distance training, he has seen the strength of this unit: there are dozens of military horses in a battalion, and most of the ammunition and baggage materials have been maneuvered...... The marching speed of the entire army was one-third faster than that of other troops of the Ming Dynasty, and it was also more orderly.
Fan Ming couldn't help but recall too much, and the officer standing in front of Fan Ming had already pointed to a target that was almost invisible in the distance, and said the next request: "Start shooting!" Target in front of the target! β
Then a non-commissioned officer who followed this officer placed a whole box of bullets at Fan Ming's feet: "Today's shooting practice, shoot out the bullets under the feet of all of you, understand the recoil of the gun and the feeling of hitting the target at different distances, listen to the password below, and everyone is not allowed to act without permission!" β
As this command was shouted, the veterans standing behind Fan Ming and the other recruits stepped forward and stood behind the recruits they were responsible for. They are responsible for explaining the gun handling to the recruits, as well as describing the recoil to avoid problems such as nervousness or mishandling after the recruits have fired.
Standing on the high slope in the distance, Zhang Jianjun, the newly promoted regiment commander, held his hands behind his back and looked at the soldiers in the distance under his feet, who were conducting live-fire training: "If you want to build a strong army, you really need to spend money like running water." β
"I, Zhang Jianjun, originally thought that the battalion I led could be regarded as one of the strongest troops in the Ming Dynasty...... But now I know that compared with the new army built by General Wang, the army I led was a group of farmers with guns. The battalion commander who was transferred from the First Army was reluctant in the first few days, but now that he, the regiment commander, had met with the division commanders of other units, he had a trace of disdain on his face.
"One person runs out of 30 rounds a day...... This is really a big deal, those northern Liaobei border guards on the Jiliao front line, who are known as the most capable of fighting, can't shoot 30 bullets in a month, right? The staff officer standing beside Zhang Jianjun put down the binoculars in his hand and sighed: "If this really recruits 100,000 people, it will be 3 million rounds of ammunition a day...... It's all money. β
You haven't counted the expenses of these soldiers who see meat once a week, and eat dry food and rice every day! By the way, how many military uniforms have been broken in the past three months? How many pairs of shoes have you worn out? How much do war horses eat? And that's not counting the artillery...... The more I thought about it, the more I felt that this army should simply be called Pixiu who swallowed gold. Zhang Jianjun had no choice but to pat his head and whispered: "My God." β
If Zhang Jianjun had known that the cost of the new army he lamented here was only a small part, perhaps he would have dropped his jaw to the ground. Wang Jue has hoarded a large amount of steel and machinery and equipment in several factories in Hebei and Tangshan, and is making final preparations for the mass production of new weapons, and the money consumed by this new weapon may be several times or even dozens of times more than what the previous army consumed.
The war will consume more things than before, gasoline and ammunition, steel and experienced soldiers...... These things must be prepared before the war comes, so that when the war breaks out in the future, they can be taken out in exchange for a great victory.
Of course, Wang Jue also knows that once these weapons appear on the battlefield, the war in this world will once again undergo earth-shaking changes, and the Ming Dynasty will rise in this change, and will compete for hegemony in this war!
Wang Jianjun didn't know what role he would play in this war, but he now felt that his opportunity had come, so he instinctively seized this opportunity and worked hard for his future.
"Phew!" Far below his feet, the first shots rang out on the training ground, and the soldiers skillfully began to pull the bolts of their guns to reload the bullets...... The coherent movements, even those veterans on the front line, have to sigh to themselves. After all, there was no such unit that required the soldiers to know the guns in their hands in as much detail as they knew the palms of their handsβ
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