"Commander, the five battalions outside the city have been stationed for nearly three months, but what's wrong?"

Sent away Qin Ziqi, Yang Meng is ready to add a burden to Xu Ziwei again, although it is local, but half of the men and horses of the five battalions outside the capital city are from the southwest, as for the Zhilu militia, there should be no experience in stationing in the field for a long time in winter.

"There is no discomfort, but outside the five camps, there are a lot of warblers, businessmen and the like, the people and horses of the five major camps, now they are a very rich group of people, with money in their hands, in addition to training and working, there are many soldiers who go out to find a lively scene, this matter is not easy for us to ban!"

If there is a problem, it is a woman's problem, the people and horses of the five major camps, five taels of silver per month, the camp is in charge of food and housing, who has money in their hands, the merchants know best, and the outside of the five major camps today is as lively as a bazaar.

The sale of goods is good to say, there are more or less such situations in the garrison, but the problem of women is difficult for Xu Ziwei and others to solve, the men and horses of the five battalions are all young and strong, in addition to working every day, that is, training, eating well and sleeping well, even in addition to high-intensity training, many people still have excess energy.

"That's all? This woman is a problem, this thing is forbidden, let's start with women! However, the medical hall will send a group of gynecological holy hands! Getting sick is not a good thing.

Those who took the women around the barracks, check the origin of those women, if there are some unknown sources, dispose of those people, there are a lot of people in the drunken floating building now, if you can do this, let the drunken floating building take the head, right?

We can't help but advocate excellence, but forcing good people to become prostitutes and buying and selling human beings. It's a capital offense! Something. Free and voluntary. Which one dares to use strong, we don't have to be polite!

Isn't there frostbite in the barracks? ”

Men sleep with women, women sleep with men, and heaven is right! In Yang Meng's opinion, this is not a bad thing, but to do business, you must pay attention to the authenticity, you love me, and the patient and the forced thing must still be banned.

Yang Meng asked the purpose of this. I want to ask if there are any frostbitten people and horses in the barracks, after all, except for the Tibetan army and the Zhilu militia, the people and horses in the south of the Yangtze River and the people and horses in the southwest have not experienced the severe cold in the north, frostbite and typhoid fever, in the Crimean War, but a soldier's big killer!

Who would have thought that it led to a more difficult question, this woman's affairs can only be turned a blind eye. I don't know if I feint! This thing is forbidden endlessly, forcibly forbidden. I'm afraid it will also cause resentment among the soldiers below, and even if it is forcibly banned, I'm afraid that private transactions will become more and more intense.

"Frostbite? There should be some, right? But the major battalions did not reflect, I'm afraid it's not strict, right?

In addition, I work and train every day, and the five battalions are all young and strong, and the firepower is sufficient, so this shouldn't be a problem, right? ”

Government affairs are complicated, Xu Ziwei's energy is also limited, and military affairs are more tricky, and the staff group is not good at interfering too much in military affairs, the new army, without the orders of the third master, the orders of the staff group, and the generals of the new army are not very convincing, and government orders and military orders are not a systematic thing.

Moreover, some time ago, in addition to laying the foundation of the railway, the new army was training all day and all day, and the possibility of frostbite was extremely low when the new army was near the big camp, hot soup and hot water every day, and people and horses in constant motion.

"Oh...... There are new generals here in the staff group who coordinate two battalions, right? Let him come up and I'll ask! ”

There is no large number of frostbite, but it is related to the previous busyness, during this time, Yang Meng focused on the number of government affairs and the number of the Jingshi army, whether it was himself, or Xu Ziwei, Ding Taichen, Wei Huozi, or the logistics of the Yang family, he did not have enough mental strength to pay attention to the logistics of the five major battalions.

Now the people and horses of the five major militia groups are basically fixed, except for the 100,000 railway soldiers who were pulled away, the more than 100,000 Zhilu militia regiments that were supplemented in the later period, the Twist Army and the Kangba Jingqi also joined the 100,000 horse team of Seng Lingqin, and the combat strength of nearly 600,000 people in the left of the Beijing Division is basically fixed, and in the short term, Yang Meng has no intention of transferring new recruits.

Logistics, it should be put on the agenda, without the pressure of transporting recruits and weapons, the Grand Canal, which only transports grain and grass, can also free up a certain amount of transportation capacity to meet logistics needs.

Yang Meng, Xu Ziwei, Ding Taichen and others don't need to bother with the deployment of the new army, and the freed up energy should make up for the soft combat power of the five major militia groups.

"Subordinate Shatu, meet the third master!"

"Are you a Yunnan soldier?"

"Hmmm! The subordinates are from Daliang Mountain! ”

Among the new army in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Tibet, mountain people accounted for more than half, and based on the huge number, the number of mountain people and generals in Yang Meng's army was also quite large.

"Do you have all the cotton clothes for the new army? Are there many frostbitten people in the army? ”

"Back to the third master, the new army's winter clothes are sufficient, there is some frostbite on the hands and feet, and the military doctor has also prepared a lot of frostbite cream, frostbite will not reduce the combat effectiveness of the new army!"

"Hmmm! And what about the rest of the vigilantes? ”

After listening to Shatu's reply, Yang Meng nodded slightly, although the focus of the Yang family is now, in terms of fields and commerce, the logistics of the new army is not the focus of the Yang family, but the Yang family is also an incomparably large business group, and it should not be a big problem to get some cotton clothes.

"The rest of the militia groups are about the same, the Zhilu militia lives in the north all year round, and they are used to such cold."

"Oh...... Do the men and horses of the five battalions have cotton shoes? ”

"This ......"

"Yes is yes, no is no, what is the answer to this?"

"Nope! Most of the men and horses of the five battalions are wearing single shoes, some have soap boots, and the general generals wear riding boots! ”

Cloth shoes with a thousand layers of soles are not only the equipment of the new army, but also the equipment of most militia groups.

"Single shoes? Shatu, standing outside and freezing your feet? ”

"If you don't move, you can't stand, if you train to work. No frozen feet! ”

"Do the men and horses of the five battalions have hats?"

"In addition to the military caps that distinguish officers and soldiers. Most of them had eight-foot headwraps. ”

Whether it's the Forces nouvelles or the militias. Yang Meng used the establishment of the green camp of the Qing Dynasty, with a team of ten people and a team of directors; Eight teams are one sentry with a sentry officer; This is the basic system, and the next step is the formal establishment of the green camp, standard, association, camp, flood, according to the different conditions in various places, the scale of the standard cooperation camp flood is also different.

In Yang Meng's army. Three posts for a flood, set up a general; Sanxun is a battalion, set up a thousand generals, and garrison; The three battalions are an association, with capital divisions, guerrillas, and generals; The three associations are a standard, with a general army and a deputy general.

This kind of establishment is almost the same as that of the platoon battalion regiment, and Yang Meng didn't come up with his own things, they are all similar things, and there are times when he seeks innovation and change, and there is no benefit.

Soldiers in the army generally wear a headcloth, which is also for the convenience of fighting, after all, it is inconvenient to fight with a big braid, and it is also a weakness. Wrap the braid in a headcloth, which is sweat-proof for a while and against being beaten by the braids.

Even chiefs and whistle chiefs and above begin to distinguish status. It is generally distinguished by a warm hat, but this warm hat is just a variant of the tube hat, and the role of symbolizing identity is greater than practical.

"Got it! Shatu, you go down immediately, according to the size of each battalion's palms, soles of feet, and skulls, and divide them into three categories! Large, medium and small, take a look at which model has the largest number and hurry up! ”

The size of shoes and hats, Daqing has a standard, Yang Meng asked Shatu to go down to collect it, just to see which model is more when making shoes and hats.

"Third master, what is this amount of palm?"

"Make gloves! Count, when Shatu gets the size back, you will let the people in Zhiluyu and the northwest make gloves, shoes, socks, and hoods according to the number.

There are two kinds of gloves, one is a cloth glove with a double layer of cotton, and the other is a cotton glove, both of which are divided into five fingers, which are used in the army, and the stitches should be denser.

Let's make cotton and cotton cloth, and the people in the northwest of Luyu will make efforts, according to the following prices, we must let the people who make gloves, shoes and hats earn enough food for the family in one day, and this matter will be done quickly, and the 600,000 troops who will equip the Beijing division within a month, the three eastern provinces, will be delayed some, and the gloves, cotton shoes, and hoods will be used as military funds in the future! ”

Okay! I don't do this serious errand, but I get shoes, hats and gloves, how useful is this thing in fighting a war? Looking at the third master who kept talking, Xu Ziwei was also a little confused.

"Third master, now that the military situation is important, do this...... She's going to be the end, right? ”

glanced at Xu Ziwei contemptuously, this live monkey is strategically good, but he has never experienced war after all, especially the jungle war in Southeast Asia, where guns and bullets are not the biggest killer, the biggest killer is the environment.

Such examples were found in the Crimean War, and the angle of looking at the problem was different, and Xu Ziwei ignored these small problems, but in the future, perhaps these small problems will take away the lives of soldiers and make many people disabled.

The Anglo-French coalition army in Zhangjiawan, Yang Meng is also monitored from time to time, the cold, so that Ergin's Anglo-French coalition army has almost no combat effectiveness, the shadow reaction, among the Anglo-French coalition army, there are many more people whose hands and feet have been cut off, this is the power of the cold, although the cold in the north of the Qing Dynasty is not as bad and extreme as the three eastern provinces or Mongolia, but there is a lack of cold clothing, and in the cold winter in the north for a few days in the wild, people will also freeze to death.

"You know! This war is not comparable to training, all day and all night in the field, this New Year's Festival can freeze people to death, no cotton shoes, hoods, gloves, you go out to squat for a night to try, you can't freeze your hands and feet!

In the Crimean War, the casualties of the British and French forces, the cold wave was a big weapon, in addition to gloves, hoods, cotton shoes, food, spirits, medicine, frostbite cream, pigs, cattle and sheep plate oil, you also have to order the merchants, prepare a large number.

Our men and horses can be killed, but we must not freeze to death, starve to death, or die of disease! ”

Fighting and dying in battle, no matter what, Yang Meng is also acceptable, war is cruel, it is not right not to die, but freezing to death, starvation, and death from disease are nested, only can be saved, Yang Meng would rather let these people die under the guns of the British and French forces.

"Oh...... This chief didn't dabble in it before, but in the past few days, when he was collecting sizes in Shatu, the chief studied more! ”

After listening to Yang Meng's statement, Xu Ziwei was still a little puzzled, although Xu Ziwei entered Yunnan after the defeat, but he had a good life before, he had not suffered much from hunger and cold, and he had only heard of it, but he had not really experienced it.

In his opinion, it's very good for this person to have food and clothing, what kind of gloves, cotton shoes, hoods and the like, more than him, he is not too much, he is not less, the refugees in Jiangnan, in winter, are not also barefoot and barefoot? I didn't see a few freeze to death!

"Let's go down and see! This is not a trivial matter, it must not be sloppy, after a month of this matter, it is not good to do it, Lao Tzu is going to kill people!

Let Li Mingfu from the Guangzhou shipyard take a few reliable people to Beijing, this war, there are still many things that need to be done in Xishan, Guangzhou, and Huang'e, and now that Master Ge is not here, let Li Mingfu take care of it more.

Inform Wei Huozi and ask his new army to prepare, Lao Tzu is going to see the drill of the new army! ”

War preparations, although Yang Meng said that he thought a lot, but many things are still incomplete, he is not a professional military professional, many things can only be thought of, war experience, especially the war experience of today's era, also needs to be accumulated, and if you really regard war as a chess game that can be controlled at will, it is not far from failure. (To be continued......)