Lin Yuan said: "There is no need to go to the altar to worship the commander, save that money." However, we can get the word out of the news, they expect that we will send troops after the altar to pay homage to the commander, so the guard will be relaxed, and this is our chance to achieve the suddenness of the battle. ”

Emperor Guangxu thought for a while and said, "There are still many ways for Lin Aiqing." ”

Lin Yuan said: "I came this time to hope that the Holy Lord would coordinate and solve the problem of weapons for new recruits. ”

Emperor Guangxu said: "How do you want me to coordinate? ”

Lin Yuan said: "The Holy Lord also knows that it is too late to buy weapons from foreign countries now, and we can only produce them ourselves, and the Anqing Internal Ordnance Institute and the Jiangnan Manufacturing General Bureau, these large arsenals belong to different factions, and they are under the command, and I hope that the Holy Authority will order them to make a batch of guns and artillery as soon as possible to supply the front line." ”

Emperor Guangxu said: "This is easy to do, I just talk to Zhang Zhidong and them." ”

Lin Yuan knew that Zhang Zhidong was a veteran of the Hunan Army and the founder of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.

Lin Yuan came out of the palace and thought: "If you want to win the war, it is far from enough to have weapons, war is a big system, and every detail in it may determine the outcome of the war, such as the battle of Salhu at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the cuffs of the Ming army's military uniforms are close to the wrists, in the cold winter, many people's hands are frostbitten, resulting in a great reduction in combat effectiveness, and the sleeves of the Qing army are very long, so soldiers can put their hands in their sleeves and are not easy to frostbite, which affects the progress of the war to a certain extent." ”

What is needed for war, soldiers are the most vocal, so he came to the military camp of the Northeast to train the army, this group of people fled back from the Northeast, as soon as Lin Yuan entered the barracks, he saw the empty playground, several veterans sitting there to wipe their guns, there were no signs such as seniority cards on the military uniforms of that era, the reason why Lin Yuan knew that they were veterans was mainly from their age.

Lin Yuan walked over, sat down beside them, and said, "Hello old brothers." ”

In that era, there was a saying, called "a good man is not a soldier, a good iron is not a nail", in the hearts of people in that era, a good man should go to study to earn fame, or he should farm and live a life in his own right, the soldiers are all hooligans and scoundrels, and even criminals are assigned to the barracks, so the social status of the soldiers is very low, and several veterans saw that someone respected them so much, and saw that this person was dressed extraordinarily, they immediately put down the work in their hands and looked at Lin Yuan together.

Lin Yuan asked, "Have you ever fought with the little devils?" ”

As soon as these words came out, several veterans sighed one after another, and one said: "Don't mention it, it's a fight, and you lose a lot, or you don't have to be here to hang out here." ”

Lin Yuanzhi said that the veteran spoke the Northeast dialect, "旮旯" means place, and "cat" means hiding and hiding.

The other said: "Cats are cats, there is no way, who let us not beat the little devils, the place where our battalion is stationed, the way to transport food to us from behind has been cut off by the little devils, the brothers have not touched the teeth of water and rice for a few days, and when they are hungry, they will catch two handfuls of snow to eat." ”

The "hungry eyes" here is also a Northeast dialect, describing being hungry.

The veteran continued: "Our rice is too troublesome to make, we have to make a stove, and we have to get water to cook, the little devil's rice is good, one by one, the Mongolian cavalry's is better, the meat is chopped and stuffed into the sheep's intestines, and after it is cooked, it is dried in the sun, and it can be eaten when it is taken out, and it is not easy to spoil." ”

Another veteran said with disdain on his face: "Aren't you just a little hungry, what is there?" That time we were told to go to a place called Xujia Village to garrison, saying that the little devil was going to fight, but no one knew where the Xujia Village was, but we couldn't disobey the military order and not set off, the captain said, let's take a look, if you can meet the locals, ask them, we walked like this, walked for a long time and finally saw people, it was our cavalry, they told us that Fengtian was lost, we ran back in a daze. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Don't you have a map?" ”

The veteran asked, "What is a map?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "It's just a map, with the name of the place or something." ”

Several veterans shook their heads, and Lin Yuan thought to himself: "If you don't even have a map, you won't be able to fight this battle!" ”

One of the veterans said, "You guys are nothing, and I'll tell you something to have fun." We ran all the way back from Fengtian, and met a group of patrolling soldiers in Jinzhou, all wearing our Qing Dynasty military uniforms, but when they spoke, they couldn't understand a word, and we thought they were little devils' spies, and we almost did it, but later we learned that the gang of people in Ludao was from Hunan, so we could understand every word they said. ”

After chatting for a while, Lin Yuan got up and said goodbye, and wrote down the problems that these veterans said one by one, and food and maps seemed to be the key to be solved.

Soon, Lin Yuan thought of a way, he wanted to contact the Beijing ship, and take the map on the Beijing ship to use, but after thinking about it, this method would not work, because the map on the Beijing ship was drawn according to the situation of China in the 21st century, in the past hundred years, although the terrain and landform will not change much, but the changes in the village are earth-shaking.

For the user, a map with the name of the village and the condition of the village is more important, because the commander can get some information about supplementary provisions, which is especially important for an army with serious logistical problems.

Lin Yuan couldn't help but think of a way, he came to Zhang Hua and asked, "How did you talk to the president of the Chamber of Commerce?" ”

Zhang Hua said: "It's not bad, the president agreed to get me a sum of money, what about you, what are your plans for the near future?" ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "I plan to draw a batch of large-scale maps for the grassroots troops on the front line." ”

Zhang Hua said: "To say that drawing a map is a very complicated thing, but we now have aerial photography technology and radar detection technology, and there are many ready-made maps on the Beijing ship, and the humanities information on the map on the Beijing ship, such as the information of villages, cities, and buildings, is removed by technical means, and then the new humanities information is added, and the changes in the terrain and landform should not be too big, and it should not be a big problem to correct it slightly." ”

Lin Yuan said: "I think so too, but we are facing a problem, we can't tell what the names of these villages are from the sky." ”

Zhang Hua nodded and said, "This is the biggest problem we are facing, if the place name is not accurate, then our map is no different from not." ”

The two of them thought for a while, and Lin Yuan said: "I have a way, we take pictures from the air, on these photos, many big cities are known to everyone, and then we ask the locals, according to the relative location of these villages and the known big cities, we can know the names of these villages." It's like a jigsaw puzzle, starting with a piece of the known, looking for it piece by piece, and finally putting together the whole picture. ”

Zhang Hua nodded and smiled: "This is really the most magnificent jigsaw puzzle game ever." ”

Preview of the next issue: Will Lin Yuan's method work? How will Lin Yuan solve the problem of logistics and supply?

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