When Touron walked into Rand's assembly room, he was stunned by the sight of an area of nearly ten square meters, the floor was filled with gears and sealing rings soaked in grease, and he didn't even have a place to stay, so he had to stand outside the door and knock on the door frame.

"I'm sorry, I'm busy," Rand said as he looked up at Touron, his grease hands raised, his chin furrowed, "find a place to sit yourself." ”

Touron walked in against the wall, afraid that his steps would come across the neatly arranged parts.

It seemed that the lord was working on some kind of machine again, but this time it was much more complicated than ever, and Touron felt a headache just by looking at the more than two hundred different parts of different shapes, let alone assembling them together.

Compared to what the lord was doing, Touron felt that his job was easier.

At least he has a few more officials to do it, and the lord needs to do it all alone.

Although the craftsmen have been working hard to improve their skills, the lord's ideas are too far ahead.

"What are you ......," Touron remembered what Rand had told him about some kind of machine that could move itself, "and that's what you told me, agricultural locomotives?"

"No, these are just the engines of that locomotive, which are equivalent to the heart of the human body, providing a steady stream of power to the body. ”

Rand felt that it was necessary to develop agricultural locomotives, as the roads in the air ferry began to harden, then the previous mode of transportation would also change, and the loading rate of horses and human vehicles was too small, a fully loaded carriage needed two or even three horses to pull, and more if it was replaced by humans.

Seven or eight farmers can pull a horse-drawn cart slowly, and it takes at least one kilometer from the mine to the storage site, and the road is rough and potholes, and this short kilometer takes half a day to reach.

It's a waste of precious labor.

As a locomotive of steel machines, if it is successfully developed, then it can improve the work efficiency by dozens of times, first of all, it will not be tired, and it is strong, and only one person is needed to operate it to smoothly transport the ore to the designated place.

But this big guy is not so simple to complete, originally Rand thought that this kind of agricultural locomotive, which has been eliminated in that world, will not be very difficult to build, but when he started to do it, he found that things are not as simple as he thought.

The engine of the locomotive is the same as the principle of the fuel engine, which is to ignite the grease to cause the fuel to burn in the sealed space and burst air pressure, and then push the idler shaft to drive the cylinder barrel to make a suction and exhaust process.

But the problem is that it's easy to get the engine started, but to get it moving, you need something else.

Rand needed a device that could turn the engine and transfer it to the wheels through an iron shaft.

This kind of geared device was called a gearbox in the world of the past.

Considering that the range of use of agricultural locomotives is not as wide as that of automobiles, and the demand for vehicle speed is not high, Lante simply did not set a high-speed gear on the gearbox, and only used two types of forward gear gears and reverse gear gears.

Rand picked up a cloth and wiped his hands full of grease, after a long time of busyness, his whole body revealed exhaustion, he twisted his neck, feeling that he was really a little tired as a lord.

While other nobles flirt with beautiful little maids in the bed, they themselves are confronted with a bunch of cold machinery in the assembly room.

Secretly complained, and Rand put the unhappiness in his heart behind him.

"My lord, I already have a preliminary idea of what you want me to do in the army building," Touron pulled out a piece of parchment from his bosom, on which he drew a sketch in a pyramidal fashion, with the aristocratic figures on the spire representing the rand, and the bottom one representing the ordinary soldiers.

Although in the past winter, the soldiers of the Air Crossing Command have successfully fended off strong enemies from all sides with a variety of new weapons, this does not mean that their combat effectiveness is very strong.

In fact, if you compare the combat effectiveness of the soldiers under Rand's command with the regular soldiers under Ron, then Rand's soldiers can only barely be regarded as militia level.

But due to the tight schedule of winter, Rand did not change the army formation at that juncture.

However, now that the threat from the outside world has disappeared, it is imperative to resolve the size of the army and thoroughly reform the chaotic military discipline within the army.

A reliable and strong army cannot be produced without strict discipline and formation.

In the army of the air crossing collar, there are no formal military discipline regulations at all, and the management is relatively chaotic, and the military discipline is only some verbal disciplines, such as obeying orders, not escaping, not betraying, and so on, but these military disciplines are only circulated as jokes with the soldiers after tea and dinner, and in fact the binding force on the soldiers is extremely limited.

He must come up with a clear formal military discipline with clear rewards and punishments in order to improve the unhealthy practices in the army of the air commander.

Indulging the army can have great consequences, as soldiers with official formations are powerful and violent gangs, and in the absence of rules to restrain them, they are likely to engage in some greedy acts of looting, which will have a very bad negative impact on the rand as a lord.

"According to my conception, the army should be based on corps, brigades, regiments, battalions, and teams, as the basic composition framework, a team composed of 12 people, according to their respective duties, divided into the main attack, cover, and logistics personnel, ten teams for one battalion, ten battalions for a regiment, and so on. ”

"Considering that after all kinds of new weapons and equipment are put into the army, it is likely that some special arms will be separated, such as artillery teams, which are not managed according to ordinary establishments. ”

"Each team has its own number, a captain and a vice-captain, and the team members are required to obey the captain's orders unconditionally, and if there is a violation of military discipline, the captain is also punished in addition to the person concerned. ”

Rand nodded.

The Touron's plan was not much different from what Rand had originally conceived, the fine division was more suitable for management, and the penalty for the captain for making mistakes was added by Rand, and only by making every officer aware of the crisis would they manage the soldiers under their command more responsibly.

Rand wants to make all the officers realize that they enjoy not only privileges, but also more responsibilities than ordinary people.

Once the framework for the composition of the army was formulated, the rest of the matter did not need to be worried about by Rand.

With regard to the establishment of military discipline, Rand first proposed a clause.

"The army shall not disturb the population and shall not loot the local civilian population in the war zone. ”

Touron carefully recorded Rand's request on parchment.

Then it was the turn of the reward system, and for the soldiers who lived in danger every day, tangible benefits were the most important rewards they wanted to see, and in order to motivate them, Rand decided to give his land to those soldiers who had contributed to the war.

In this day and age, land is the most generous reward compared to some silver coins.

Once they have their own land, the soldiers will realize that they are no longer fighting to defend the interests of the nobles, but to protect their own interests.

In this way, they will devote several times their energy to fighting.

"And your plan, train a group of the strongest combat forces," Touron felt a list from his arms, "So far, the number of eligible people is less than thirty, which is only enough to form two brigades. ”

Well, you can't get your hopes up, the conditions of this era are too harsh, and it's a luxury for people to have enough to eat.

In this era, most of the families of soldiers who joined the army were relatively poor and did not receive adequate nutrition during the growth period, so it is understandable that their physical fitness was difficult to meet the standards.

To this end, Rand specially took out a part of the silver coins to improve the food supply of the army, and increased the daily training distance of the army from four kilometers to ten kilometers.

Although the soldiers complained, the effect was also significant.