On the same day, Cai Yuan and others selected about 300 captives from among the captives to return to the baggage camp, most of these people were the leaders and backbones of the bandits, many of whom had more than ten years of experience in rebellion, and had quite rich experience in marching and fighting. Although Cai Yuan didn't trust these people very much, at the moment he only had more than 3,000 newly recruited recruits, and the old brothers he brought were only twenty, so he could only rely on these captive leaders to help him pull up the team for the time being.

In the Chinese army camp in the baggage camp, Cai Yuan lectured to these newly recruited captive officers.

"The organization of our baggage battalion was personally set up by the guerrillas, with vans as the basic unit, each van was equipped with eight mules, and each van was equipped with two teams of soldiers, one team of regular soldiers and one team of odd soldiers, each team of ten people. Although we are auxiliary soldiers, and our biggest task is to transport grain and grass and baggage, Lord Liu also hopes that we will not only be logistics soldiers, but also become an auxiliary army that can assist in the war. Therefore, our baggage battalion is also equipped with a lot of equipment, and it is not even weak. ”

At the beginning of the fight, Liu Jun didn't expect that the baggage battalion was just a civilian battalion.

In Liu Jun's vision, the tactical task of baggage is very simple, and in peacetime, a certain base of grain and grass reserves must be fully prepared, and they must wait to follow the actions of friendly forces at any time, or support the military supplies of friendly forces nearby.

In wartime, it serves as a supply base for the barracks, and can defend itself against enemy attacks. Therefore, the baggage battalion must have the ability to prepare for action at any time, and it must also have good mobility to carry a large amount of grain and grass at one time, and it must also have a specific and strong self-defense force.

Because of this, from the very beginning of the establishment of the Nine-headed Bird's baggage camp, it was destined not to play the role of soy sauce.

The baggage battalion takes the car as the most basic unit, the car is a van car improved by using a civilian carriage, each car carries about 12 stones, this kind of car has a van plate, the van plate has a certain ability to protect and defend, but it is far inferior to the chariot of the chariot battalion.

per van. There are two teams of soldiers, one team of regular soldiers and one team of surprise soldiers.

Qi Duyan sat there and listened to Cai Yuan's continued introduction, "There are ten people in our regular team, including Che Zheng and the head of the regular team, as well as eight mules and a helmsman. Six of the mule soldiers also served as gunners, and every three of them operated one 100-pound franc cannon, and our baggage wagons were loaded with two franc cannons each. The remaining two mules were in charge of the mule head and also served as the big stick driver, and the helmsman was in charge of the cart. There are 10 members of the regular team, who are in charge of the affairs in the car. Don't go out of the car to fight. ”

Qi Duyan was a little incredulous, "A baggage battalion, each baggage truck actually needs to be equipped with two Franc machine guns?" That's an exaggeration, isn't it? ”

At this time, Cai Yuan continued, "Each car is equipped with another surprise team, and the strange team is equivalent to the guard team of the van. The odd soldier team has a total of one team, and eight other firecrackers, of which four firecrackers are each equipped with a Qi family knife, two firecrackers are equipped with rattan waist knives, and the other two firecrackers are also boring palladium. The last fireman, who is in charge of cooking. The Odd Soldier Team is responsible for guarding the baggage vehicles, and generally does not go out to fight. Their duty was to assist in the defense of the vans with the regular troops. ”

"The establishment of our baggage battalion is one flag for each vehicle. The car is also the flag general. Five cars for a game, four rounds of 20 cars for a division, four divisions and 80 cars for a division. Two 160 vehicles are a battalion, and the whole battalion has 160 vans. 1,280 mules, 3,200 soldiers, and a number of officers. In addition, there are 32 100-pound Franc machine guns. Wyvern 1,280 rods"

Qi Duyan looked at Cai Yuan like a fairy, not believing it at all. It's just a baggage battalion, and there are actually 320 Franc machines and 1,280 flying dragon guns? Is this a fucking baggage camp? How powerful and luxurious is the equipment of the barracks?

Unexpectedly, Cai Yuan continued, "At present, our vans, mules, Franc cannons and flying dragon guns are all in place, and the soldiers have been training for some days, but on the whole, we still lack training, and we don't have an overall tacit understanding, especially the lack of officers. Now that you are all officers at all levels of our baggage battalion, I hope that in the coming days, you will seize the time to put your team together. ”

"In ten days we will set out for the camp, so the task of our baggage camp is also very heavy, and now our first task now is to prepare the food and grass for the road. Our baggage battalion must make comprehensive preparations, and when we set off, each car must be loaded with three stones of rice, three stones of coal fried, and six stones of black buckets. In addition, it was necessary to bring two teams of 20 people per cart, eight mules and their own food, grass, drinking water and other related materials, as well as ammunition. ”

"Before we set off, we had to put all the rice, black beans, and coal in sacks and put them in storage, so that we could get on the bus and set off at any time."

The large grain was the food for the soldiers, the coal was the fuel for cooking rice and beans during the march, and the black beans were the food for the mules and horses.

The grain and fuel carried by the entire baggage battalion can supply nearly 9,000 people in the combat barracks, the baggage battalion, and the training battalion for a month.

"In addition, there is another task, we have to make a batch of rice, the amount of which is the amount of all the soldiers of the third battalion of the army's war auxiliary education for ten days."

Rice is a kind of dry food that is portable and easy to eat during war.

Qi Min wants to use the art volume 9 "Rice" chapter 86 as the Su Rice Method; Rice a stone, take the one who has no grain, clean and cooked, slurry water, let the water dry, wash off the dust, and steam and expose it, after ten times can get two buckets. For each meal, take a large combination, soak it in cooked water first, wait until it is wet, and then cook it, one person can eat it for 50 days.

In fact, this kind of rice is also a kind of blister rice, first take the shell of a stone of rice, wash and cook it with washing, and then put it in the water until it is exposed to the sun, and the exposed and dried rice is once again the same operation for a total of ten times, and after doing ten times, only two buckets of reconstituted rice are obtained.

When you want to eat, take a large batch of processed dry food rice and soak it in water, and then cook it when it is soft and ready to eat. Two buckets of rice made from one stone of rice can be enough for a soldier to eat for fifty days. The biggest advantage of this kind of soaked rice is that it can greatly reduce the logistical pressure. You can eat two buckets for 50 days, and you can eat 25 days with one bucket on your back. As long as you carry four liters, you can eat for ten days.

In this way, in addition to the baggage battalion carrying rice, the soldiers themselves could carry four liters of rice on their backs in case of emergency.

From Macheng to Xiangyang, the distance is about 800 miles.

If you march forty miles a day, you have to walk so far for twenty days.

Although Xiong Wencan was in a hurry, Liu Jun still planned to go slowly, taking advantage of this time, he could make a surprise attack on the road to strengthen the team. After all, it's all recruits. If it weren't for the urging from above to be so tight that he couldn't afford to offend, Liu Jun really didn't want to go to Xiangyang at this time.

Ten days of preparation at home and twenty days on the road, which is almost a month of preparation.

At the end of the meeting, Zhang Gouyu called Qi Duyan over and took ten taels of silver from him.

"What is this?"

"An family silver, you are a hundred generals, so it is ten taels, sign here, I don't deduct any of your money." Gou Yu said with a smile.

Qi Duyan was very surprised. Holding those two silver ingots, he was speechless for a long time. He didn't expect that as soon as he joined the nine-headed bird, he would actually have money to take.

"I'm a single person now, and the whole family is not hungry when one person feeds me, and it's useless to ask for silver."

"What is this, whether you are alone or a group of people, anyway, this Anjiayin is the practice of our nine-headed bird. It's true that you are a bachelor now, and you can find another daughter-in-law later. There's still a long way to go. With our general, there may be a day when he will be crowned a wife and a son in the future. ”

Qi Duyan accepted the silver, "The nine-headed bird is really rich, and Lord Liu is indeed generous enough." ”

"It's not a question of having money or not being generous. In fact, these coins were not given by the imperial court, and almost all of them were raised by Lord Liu himself outside. Adults often say that if you can't even solve the worries of the soldiers, you won't even give you the money you desperately have. How can the brothers fight and kill the enemy? ”

"General Liu is indeed different from ordinary court generals, I also served as a soldier in the frontier and ate food back then. But he has never met a Shangguan who does not deduct, nor has he met a general like General Liu who went to raise money and distribute it to the soldiers. Based on this alone, the Nine-headed Bird is indeed much stronger than most of the imperial court soldiers. Qi Duyan said with emotion, if he had this treatment when he was in the border army, then his daughter-in-law would not have sold her skin and meat for a little rice.

The past is unbearable, and Qi Duyan can't help but be silent.

"Lao Qi, you are now the former boss of our previous bureau, and in the future, all the five flags and one hundred brothers will be handed over to you. It's all new recruits, and it's up to you to bring them up. ”

"Don't worry, with such good treatment, such good equipment, and then drill, no civilian army can be defeated." In fact, up to now, although it has been more than ten years since the rebels revolted in various places, none of them has been able to defeat the official army head-on. Although he has also defeated the official army many times, most of them swim to fight, relying on avoiding reality and making up for nothing, and even setting up ambushes to encircle.

In a head-on battle, the rebel army can't defeat the official army, even if it is a new army like the baggage battalion now, it can be completely crushed with that equipment. As long as you are careful, there is no reason why you can't fight back against those rabble people's armies.

In the artillery casting workshop of Hutou Fort, Liu Jun watched the final grinding and assembly of the Franc cannons and put them into wooden boxes, and nodded with great satisfaction.

Chief craftsman Zhao Shun reported the results with a smile beside him, "Up to now, the three workshops of our artillery workshop have been working in three shifts day and night, and all kinds of artillery have been leaving the factory in a steady stream. At present, the production of Tiger Squat Cannon is the highest, with 20 units completed every day, and 10 Shell Destroyers and Franc Machines each leave the factory every day. ”

"It's very good, we have invested so much money and manpower in before and after, and the investment is quite large. At present, this output is very good, but we can't relax yet, in addition to our own artillery orders to be equipped, we still have a lot of external orders, and we have to hurry up. Speaking of this, Liu Jun said solemnly, "But one thing must be remembered, output is important, but quality must be ranked first." If there is a quality problem with a cannon on the battlefield, I will inevitably investigate it one by one and never spare it. ”

"Please rest assured, quality is life, we will always take this sentence as the slogan of our workshop, and resolutely implement it."

Liu Jun nodded, "These days, we are stepping up to make a batch of grenades, especially lightweight palm grenades, we need to make a special batch of grenades, we will go on the expedition in a few days, but most of the soldiers are still recruits, get some palm mines to equip them, and give them some combat effectiveness." ”

"Yes, sir." (To be continued......)