"Cheer me up, don't think that you can be lazy before the New Year is over, you have to be a soldier, I don't know what a soldier is outside, but here I don't want to be a soldier or a soldier, I just need to be a stupid soldier who can endure hardships and is willing to work hard! I let you run, you run, I let you lie down, I let you jump, you jump, even if there is a sea of knives and fires in front of you, you have to jump down as fast as possible!! Even if some of you are not soldiers, you must remember that the bastards out there who want to seize your property, your fields and enslave your family will not be tolerated and treated favorably because you are not a soldier!! ”

In the temporary barracks in the mountain village, Luo Dan on the field is instilling what he has learned from Deng Shifeng to more than 100 trained personnel and soldiers, these people are following the non-commissioned officers and squad leaders to carry out basic training such as platoons and passwords, among them are those recruits who have been expanded and participated in the battle last time, there are also slave laborers who have performed well in the attack and have been incorporated into the village in advance, as well as ordinary civil security personnel, and the military training that has just begun in spring is completely forced out. The raid on the mountain village a few years ago exposed the weakness of insufficient training and the lack of grassroots officers, the future of the mountain village, and the safety of their own lives.

A few days ago, Deng Shifeng and Luo Dan they completed a series of activities in Liuzhou City, Deng Shifeng took a few people who went out this time to leave Liuzhou City by boat, and quickly avoided the trackers all the way back to the mountain village, although a few people came back with a lot of various fresh gadgets purchased from Liuzhou City, but everyone's face was always a little unhappy.

There is no way, from the direct purpose of entering Liuzhou City this time, not only did everyone fail to succeed in taking revenge on Liu Mazi, but also found a big backstage backer for the other party who was even more unfavorable to the development of the mountain village...... And the other party's **oss threat to the mountain village is more threatening to the development and security of the mountain village than the storm that Liu Mazi can set off, and now the two are hooking up together...... How can you look at the prospect of the mountain village with such a layer of gray haze......

Qin Er and Lao Sun Tou organized a village-wide meeting the night after Deng Shifeng and their return, at the meeting, Qin Er and Deng Shifeng focused on Liu Mazi's new and old background coveting the mountain village, and the mountain village got into more trouble, and the villagers did not blame Deng Shifeng, the great immortal, for not handling and solving the contradictions with the other party, and there was no voice to accuse Deng Shifeng of not cooperating with the smiling Li in a tough way. This is because these villagers are basically composed of fugitives, and they have no good impression of these big households, and even many people are as hateful as Luo Dan, and the truth told by Deng Shifeng is also very simple and easy to understand, a partner who can betray anyone can betray, and only pursue his own interests is not to be trusted! Cooperating with such a person will only lead the wolf into the house!

At the collective meeting, Deng Shifeng's incendiary words and easy-to-understand truths unified the villagers' thoughts and concepts, and taking advantage of the villagers' sense of disgust for these future opponents and their own sense of crisis, Deng Shifeng announced the latest military expansion plan.

On the basis of the current 20 infantry and 11 artillery units, the mountain village will be expanded to include 20 infantry and 10 artillery personnel to form a full-fledged reinforced platoon. The newly expanded soldiers were recruited from among the well-behaved slave laborers, as well as from the young and able-bodied of appropriate age. Although this has significantly increased the military strength of the mountain villages, the growth of military strength will inevitably affect the labor demand for industrial development, especially the transfer of more than a dozen hard-working and hard-working people from the slave labor side to the army, the transfer of these people has widened the labor gap in the mine a lot, although some prisoners have been captured to serve as free labor, but the additional care manpower is bound to increase the labor cost......

However, no matter how tight the human resources are, the development of military expansion must also enter a rapid stage, although the smiling Li was frightened by his fabulous long-range shooting ability, but after all, the other party is a heavyweight who will stomp his feet in the Liuzhou boundary. Based on the current understanding of Smiling Noodles Li's acting style, Smiley Li will definitely find an opportunity to retaliate back in a more ferocious way after such a big loss, and no one can guarantee how long this time will last, maybe a year and a half, maybe next month or even next week, the mountain village will face the attack of the other party; Under such circumstances, only by increasing the development of military forces can the minimum security needs of mountain villages be guaranteed.

In addition to expanding the professional military contingent of reinforced platoons and the intensive training of the civil security personnel during the Chinese New Year, in order to enhance their combat effectiveness, Deng Shifeng selected more than 30 middle-aged people with good physical fitness and young people who were not selected for the ranks of the civil guard, from among the hundreds of people of all ages, young and old, and organized these 30 people into the main combat unit of the civil guard, and raised the training volume of these people to the level of junior soldiers, so that these people could become an upgraded version of the militia -- militia!

In addition to enhancing the defensive and combat capability of the militia personnel, the formation of the militia also plays a very important role in managing and training grassroots civil security personnel in wartime. In the first two days of the attack, the civil guards not only showed the shortcomings of insufficient training, but also showed the lack of suitable grass-roots management personnel; a bunch of people ran around for a long time without knowing what they should do; those who received guns did not know who to ask for bullets, and those who received ammunition did not know who to ask for them. Although this situation is somewhat different from the performance in the barracks, it is one reason after digging into the bottom of the problem - there is a lack of a large number of high-quality non-commissioned officers in the mountain villages!

The role of non-commissioned officers is very important, and all [***] teams in later generations attach great importance to the training and retention of grass-roots non-commissioned officers, not only these non-commissioned officers have rich experience in leading soldiers, but more importantly, these soldiers are the elder brothers and the most trustworthy people of the grass-roots soldiers in a sense, and an excellent non-commissioned officer must not only have excellent military skills, but also have a certain level of education and interpersonal relationship handling level. At present, there are only a limited number of qualified non-commissioned officers in the mountain villages, even if Deng Shifeng and artillery instructor Huang Shicheng are counted, there are only seven people, and these people are all the backbone of the army, so it is really impossible to transfer more manpower to the civil guard. In the spirit of using local materials, picking up tall ones from the short ones, and solving the problem of whether there is availability first, training suitable militia non-commissioned officers from among the militia has become a solution that is not a solution.

The military stimulus and expansion are bound to require industrial support, and although the current industrial conditions in the mountain villages have solved the problem of high-quality steel, the processing capacity of the mechanical processing plant is gradually improving, and even the purchase of a batch of livestock cubs and captured horses from manure last year are gradually expanding the output of manganese, but only the copper bullet shell that Deng Shifeng has been longing for has not been able to be put into use, which makes Deng Shifeng a little crazy.

Although the rate of fire of the summer rifle is fast enough, after a year of application, everyone has found that the humid environment of Guangxi can easily affect the effect of the ammunition of the paper cartridge case by moisture and even produce a dud phenomenon, especially in spring and early winter, the continuous drizzle can only make the loading need to be as careful as surgery, and play delicate work in the place where every second counts on the battlefield? …… It's not fast enough to die!!

Moreover, at present, the population of the mountain village is still insufficient, and the number of troops is also quite insufficient, if you want to increase the density of firepower without increasing the number, you can only start to find a way to increase the rate of fire, and the rate of fire of the summer rifle has been basically raised to the limit of the paper-wrapped bullet case, if you want to have a breakthrough in the development of the surname, you must start from the bullets. Deng Shifeng, who was forced to have no choice, only studied the use of steel to make the bullet case while studying the final attack of the stamped copper shell bomb.

The use of steel to make bullet shells is not uncommon in later generations, and China has to use copper-clad steel or even painted steel to make bullet cases because of the lack of copper. It's just that the extension of steel is much worse than that of copper, and it has to go through many times of annealing to reduce its hardness, which is bound to increase the difficulty of production and improve the production process; However, now the opponent facing the mountain village is really a bit strong, and in the absence of enough copper to ensure the supply, Deng Shifeng can only stubbornly carry out the research of steel bullet shells. Fortunately, in the second half of last year, we had a certain amount of research and technical reserves on the technology of stamping bullet shells, and we would not start from scratch with both eyes and a blind eye. As for the anti-corrosion coating paint on the surface of the steel bullet case...... Deng Shifeng said that these steel shell shells will only be used excessively, or they will not be stored too much, so as not to corrode and break the steel shells, be unusable, and even cause danger.

In addition to the research and breakthrough in the production technology of ammunition, there is another thing that Deng Shifeng must carry out in advance this year.

The study of the steam engine is also a power bottleneck that the mountain village is currently experiencing. At present, there are not many power options used in mountain villages, and those machine tools have nothing because of their own power, and the newly researched and produced mechanical equipment, such as mechanical saws in wood factories, drilling machines in machinery factories, and small punches, can only be driven by manpower, animal power or wind and water power; And the mountain village wind resources are not abundant, and the animal power is also insufficient. That's even more scarce...... Finally, take a look at the Pitang Weir that was just piled up last year...... This bit of water storage and drop makes people feel so unreliable......

Therefore, under the constraints of such objective conditions, Deng Shifeng thought about it and tried to find various alternative solutions to no avail, coupled with the current crisis in the mountain village...... Deng Shifeng had no choice but to get out of the way and find a way to conquer the most important equipment in the industrial revolution more than 100 years in advance.

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