Chapter 11 Training

However, the physical fitness of the human beings in the desolate world is good, probably due to the fact that the aura of heaven and earth is relatively sufficient, as long as the ordinary civilians are adults, their strength is also more than 100 kilograms, and the strength of the slightly better physical fitness can reach about 200 catties, and some of the better talents can reach 500 catties.

Most of the newly recruited soldiers of the garrison are hunters or herb pickers who go into the mountains to hunt all the year round, and their physical fitness is very good.

Originally, the army should have its own series of martial arts cultivation techniques, but due to the severance of the inheritance, it is now rare to see martial arts exercises suitable for soldiers to cultivate.

The current martial arts exercises either have high requirements for cultivation, or they are very out of the way and not suitable for large-scale popularization.

Even if it is the Ye family's family heirloom exercises, the requirements for cultivation are not ordinarily high, Ye Qing has been practicing for more than ten years and has not yet started, if it weren't for Grandpa Ye and Father Ye's talents, they might not be able to succeed in cultivation.

There may be exercises in the armies of major families or dynasties that can be practiced by ordinary soldiers, but obviously Ye Qing does not have them in his hands.

In order to continue to strengthen the strength of the soldiers, Ye Qing increased the amount of weight until the soldiers clearly felt progress. For these young people who don't have a nightlife, it's not a big deal to wake up in the morning when the rooster crows, after all, they have been dancing with chickens for so many years.

However, many seemingly simple things often go wrong. In Ye Qing's opinion, the simplest four-sided rotation method, that is, left, right, and backward, is unclear to many people.

Later, Ye Qing noticed that this is not the earth, and the children on the earth have received physical education classes since they were young, and things like these are already the most common sense.

But this is in the desolate world.

So, Ye Qing had to use a stupid method, and before the exercise every day, he tied the right arm of each recruit with a strip of cloth to distinguish between the left and right.

In fact, there are many soldiers in the middle who are miserable, but Ye Qing separates the recruits and veterans from the training queue, the veterans are embarrassed to lose face at the moment of the recruits, and the recruits are also afraid of being looked down upon by the veterans, so no matter how hard they are, they persevered, I have to say that the comparison psychology of human beings is still very strong.

After such a period of training, every soldier feels that he has been reborn, and the troops are no longer as casual as before, and they begin to unconsciously become regular.

The purpose of training the martial arts, training the ears and eyes, and training the hands and feet has been initially achieved, and the next step is to train repeatedly to make it the instinct of the body. When you hear a command, your body can subconsciously make corresponding movements.

"Master Ling, how are the weapons prepared for the troops?"

As early as when he first started to transform the academy, Ye Qing gathered all the blacksmiths in the territory to start crafting weapons and armor.

However, due to the lack of experienced blacksmiths, they had to give priority to the creation of spears, and the armor could only be replaced by leather armor for the time being.

Fortunately, there are many hunters in Dongjiang Town, and the bows and arrows they make and make are quite good, and there are no longer any problems in making leather armor, and there are many fierce beasts in Dongjiang Town, so it is relatively easy to obtain leather armor, which saves a lot of trouble when purchasing.

"Returning to my lordship, we have forged three thousand spears, all of which are made according to the pattern and size shown by your lordship. Ling Zheng took a spear from the side and showed it to Ye Qing.

Ling Zheng is the oldest blacksmith in Dongjiang Town, and he is also the most skilled, and the blacksmiths in the territory are basically his apprentices.

The spear is adapted by Ye Qing according to the design of the Macedonian phalanx spear, the whole spear is nearly four meters long, the barrel is made of special hardwood, and the appearance is also wrapped with a layer of iron sheet, which is not easy for the enemy to cut it.

"Adults' weapons are really a killing weapon on the battlefield, but they are too iron-consuming, and they are relatively troublesome to make. Fortunately, we used the new methods of adults to get the project on time. ”

Although Ling Zheng was already the best blacksmith in the nearby territory, and he was also second to none within a radius of thousands of miles, due to the inheritance, he still adopted a relatively primitive method, and the work of a weapon that was in charge of one person from beginning to end was very inefficient.

So Ye Qing introduced the working method of the assembly line to them, and made precise provisions on the specifications of the forged weapons, so that the size and length of all weapons are the same, which not only improves the efficiency, but also facilitates the maintenance of weapons in the future, and reduces the difficulty of forging weapons by more than one layer.

"The construction of the knife should also be hurried, by the way, how did the drawings of the crossbow you were given last time study, and when will you be able to come up with the finished product?"

"My lord, we have found the best carpenter and archer in town, but so far we have only made samples of hand and crossbow, and the range is too short, even if it is a cow tendon as a bowstring, the effective range is only 100 paces, which is about the same as the range of ordinary archers. “

"In addition, it is more troublesome to install crossbow arrows, and when the hand and crossbow are installed and shoot one arrow, the archer can already shoot two or three arrows, and the battlefield is not very practical. “

The drawings of the bow and crossbow were provided by Ye Qing, and when he was training the soldiers, Ye Qing found that although the soldiers used a wide variety of weapons, there was no crossbow.

Bows and arrows have always been a major killing weapon on the battlefield, and archers, as an important setting in the army, played an indispensable role in the era of cold weapons.

The horses of the Flood World are much faster than the speed of the earth, and even the Mongolian cavalry with the best endurance on the earth can travel about 300 miles in a day when they change horses. But here, cavalry that does not need to change horses and travel five hundred miles a day abounds, and at a distance of a hundred paces, the cavalry arrives in an instant, and the average archer can basically only release the first arrow, and the enemy will appear beside him.

The crossbow can be said to be a variant of the bow and arrow, or it can be said to be an upgraded version of the bow and arrow, which has more power than the bow and arrow, and the operation of the crossbow is easy to use, and you can become a qualified crossbowman with simple training, instead of requiring a lot of time training like an archer.

Although some of Ye Qing's soldiers were born in Orion and were familiar with bows and arrows, they were a minority after all. In order to increase the army's long-range strike capabilities, crossbows had to be used instead of bows and arrows

"Haven't you ever thought of replacing it with the tendons of the fierce beast?" Ye Qing asked.

Although the skeleton of the crossbow and bow is important, one of the most important places is definitely the bowstring, and since the tendons of cattle, horses, sheep and other livestock are relatively easy to obtain on Earth, they are basically used to make bowstrings, and the range and power are very limited. But there are many powerful beasts here, and most of them should have tendons stronger than ox tendons.

"I've experimented with several kinds, but none of them work, we're experimenting with the tendons of some weaker beasts, and the best ones are about the same as cow tendons, but we can't reach the tendons of powerful beasts. “

"Keep looking, you can offer a high bounty to the hunters in the town, they should have the most suitable tendons to know what beasts. “

"As for the crossbow that the adults mentioned, I don't have a clue until now. “

"Don't rush the problem of repeating the crossbow first, you should focus on improving the range of the crossbow first, find the most suitable bowstring, and strive to make the range of the hand crossbow more than 500 paces. ”

"Also, Master Ling Zheng, you will continue to expand here, and the number of weapons and armor you will need will only increase in the future, so you must increase the output as soon as possible. If there are not enough people looking for it, there have been a lot of homeless people recently, and there should be people who know how to make craftsmen. ”

The role of crossbows in war cannot be ignored, whether it is a field battle or a city defense, a batch of crossbow arrows is enough to cause great damage to the enemy, and the most important thing is that crossbow arrows can be prepared in advance, and they can be released directly when needed, and they do not need to take too much effort.

In ancient times, the farming peoples of the Central Plains played a vital role in fighting against nomads who were good at riding and shooting.

For Ye Qing, who had just taken over the territory, due to the small size of the land and the poverty of the people, he could not feed too many troops, so he had to work training and equipment to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, and bows and crossbows accounted for a very important part of Ye Qing's weapon plan.

After explaining, Ye Qing returned to the barracks with the spear, and from today onwards, Ye Qing will start training the soldiers in simple military formation changes and the use of spears.

In the past, the garrison had all kinds of weapons in their hands, including hammers and axes, which were very unsuitable for legion combat, and they would even hurt their teammates. At present, the number of Ye Qing's army is still relatively small, and the big war is coming, so he has to train all the soldiers to be spearmen, which is the easiest type of army to train, and the power exerted with a certain military formation is not simple at all.

Time passed quietly in the busy training, and it has been almost two months in the blink of an eye, and the current garrison has a trace of a strong army, and the actions have begun to unconsciously follow a certain law, of course, the specific effect has to go through the test of the battlefield to know.

In terms of battle formation, due to the soldier's first contact, he was afraid of being greedy and not rotten, Ye Qing only taught a simple spear formation, which can be attacked and defended, with few changes, and is the most suitable for beginners

In terms of the school, most of the students of "Hundred Family Names" already know how to read and write, Ye Qing began to teach "Thousand Character Text" after all the students in the class mastered it, and it is also an important reading book for enlightenment literacy, of course, it has been adapted, after all, there are some things in it that are not suitable for the desolate world.

Fortunately, the "Thousand Character Essay" is fluent, majestic, ornate in rhetoric, and rich in content. Although the content in it may be somewhat inconsistent with this world, his edification work is indeed not negligible, and finally became a second-grade spiritual book.

However, it is still the same as "Disciple Rules", there is no attack power, and it can only be used to improve the literary atmosphere. However, the effect on improving the tone of culture is indeed significant.

In just a few months, Ye Qing's literary aura has filled the entire Wenhai, and a large part of it has turned red into orange, and it only takes one opportunity for him to be promoted to Xiucai.