Chapter 21: The West Mountain Army
After the old bachelor and the servants of the two prime ministers finished delivering the grain, it was almost curfew, and the old bachelor had to stay in the grove of the Weishui River for a night to feed the mosquitoes, but as an excellent spy officer, this is all pediatrics, and when the city gate was opened, under the eyes of all the people, the old bachelor entered the city with a bag of ashes, and the old bachelor sent a message to Li Yong through secret channels to report the progress of the situation, and began to look for intelligence points and spread out the intelligence network as soon as possible. Li Yong came to a military camp in the back mountain after receiving the message from the old bachelor, the sentry at the door gave Li Yong a military salute and then let him go, Li Yong walked into the modern military camp that he personally transformed, listening to the familiar shouts and running sounds of one, two, three, and four, and felt that he had returned to the time when he was in the army before, and a team of soldiers ran past him with their bare shoulders and brazen muscles neatly shouting slogans, and Li Yong was satisfied with his modern training.
"Report to the chief, a platoon is training in a queue, please instruct."
Li Yong saluted back to the officer who saluted him, straightened his waist and said.
"Tell me about it."
"Bang!" With a bang, everyone stood straight with their legs raised and chested up, waiting for Li Yong to speak, Li Yong looked at these soldiers in front of him with satisfaction, these soldiers will be the guarantee of their lives in the future.
"Take a break."
"Wow!" Everyone was once again making a breathing motion in unison.
"Very good, you all fled your hometown because of the locust plague, and now join my Xishan Army, although we are still very difficult now, we can't pay you wages for the time being, and the team is also very weak, and you don't even have armor and weapons, but I can assure you that you will be the future of Xishan, I want you to always remember that you are from the people, that is, the people's soldiers, whether you become an officer or a retired soldier in the future, you must remember that you are the Xishan Army."
"Bang!" With a bang, the hundredth person stood up neatly and roared loudly.
"Fight to the death and never retreat, defend your home and defend the country!"
As soon as they roared, they also mobilized the rest of the teams that were doing other training, and the entire military camp was shouting in a neat way to fight to the death and not retreat, to protect the family and defend the country, and it was shouted three times before stopping, although there were only three hundred people, but the momentum was not lost to the first guard at all, Li Yong nodded with satisfaction.
"Platoon leader, keep training."
"Yes!"
Li Yong left the training ground and went to a two-story house in the distance, although he still can't get out the cement, but there are still conditions for building a two-story house, and the soldiers' dormitory on the other side is also a bungalow built of bricks, Li Yong sits in the room with the commander's sign written, if others cross over and see it, they will definitely scold him for being shameless, three hundred people are not enough for the establishment of a battalion, he is embarrassed to call himself the commander, this is what Li Yong comforted himself and said, there will be faces, there will be anything, and seeing it is just an illusion.
"Report!"
"Enter."
Li Yong looked at Xue Rengui, who was wearing a camouflage uniform, and saluted himself, Li Yong also returned the salute and asked him to sit down, Li Yong has long been unaccustomed to sitting on a stool, let alone kneeling, if anyone has athlete's foot, it will not be smoked to death, so he asked the carpenter workshop to make all kinds of modern chairs according to him, what Taishi chairs, small benches, dinner tables, benches, etc., the entire Xishan including Changle Township has been using these new things, I think it is particularly easy to use, it is very comfortable to sit up, and the orders of Xishan Woodhouse are too busy to do.
"Rengui, now the number of Xishan Army can not be increased, our current food can only sustain so many people, you are now a battalion commander, although you are only a battalion, but in the future you will definitely be a regiment commander, a brigade commander, or even a division commander."
Li Yong painted a big cake for Xue Rengui, but he believed that the famous general in history in front of him would definitely have no problem leading his new army.
"Commander, Rengui doesn't want to be a division commander, he just wants to defend his family and the country with the Xishan Army under the leadership of the commander."
"Rengui, you have to remember, a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, you have to progress, and you can't lag behind in thinking."
"Yes!"
Xue Rengui stood up and saluted Li Yong, Li Yong was also speechless to this upright man, Li Yong asked him to sit down again and continued.
"The political ideology of the troops must continue, and the military commander should always remind the soldiers to keep in mind that they should sweat a little more in training and shed a drop of blood in wartime, and that they should do a good job in psychological counseling for the soldiers and organize more activities for the soldiers to participate in, so that the soldiers can have a greater sense of belonging."
"Understood, and, Commander, there is a serious shortage of armor and weapons in the army right now, and many fighters are waiting in line."
"In terms of armor and weapons, you don't need to use yourself, but according to my original arrangement, the main thing is to practice discipline and enhance physical fitness, and the food of the soldiers must be guaranteed, and you must not be sloppy."
"Understood."
"After a while, you pick thirty people from the guard platoon, and when the time comes, follow me to Chang'an, and keep it strictly secret before the task is issued."
"Yes."
Xue Rengui stood up and saluted Li Yong and turned around to leave Li Yong's office, Li Yong sat down for a while and left the barracks to go to the research institute in the mountains and forests, the research institute hidden in the dense forest is the elite selected by Li Yong from among the craftsmen, this research institute develops Li Yong's secret weapon, covering an area of more than 100 acres surrounded by towering Go, from the outside you can see the situation inside, there is a watchtower around the wall, and there are two Xishan Army soldiers standing on each watchtower, you can easily find the situation outside and inside, There are also invisible sentry posts in the woods, the entire research institute is not patrolled by heavily armed soldiers, the entire research institute is a heavily guarded military base, the Xishan army stationed here is not under the management of the Xishan Military Department, but directly under the control of Li Yong, this special garrison of two hundred people in addition to the personnel of the research institute and Li Yong knows, no one knows this team, this garrison is wearing new armor, and the helmet also wears a mask, as long as it is pulled from the helmet during the battle, the entire face will be covered and only two eyes remain, As long as they are not shot in the eye, this armor is almost invulnerable, and the Tang knife they wear on their waists is also forged by the latest technology, not only hard but also extremely sharp, after experiments, the new Tang knife can not be cut or pierced on the new armor, but it is cut on the hardest Mingguang armor worn by the active Tang army, that one knife and two sections, let alone stab, so this garrison of two hundred people is hanging and beating against the active Tang army of thousands of people.
"Captain!"
The gate guard saluted Li Yong and asked the two soldiers to open the small door of the gate, the door of the institute is usually not open, unless there are a large number of materials in and out, usually all personnel are in and out of the small door, although these soldiers and researchers can not go out, but Li Yong stipulates that they can take turns to go home to rest for four days every month, but every time they go back, they must have a fake note signed by the person responsible above to go back, Li Yong walked into the gate of the institute, looked at the scattered various research department rooms, and the people inside were busy and busy, There are also many departments are arguing loudly, Li Yong in order to improve the level of these researchers, spent several days and nights to write simple and applicable books, for him a high-achieving student with a double doctorate in science and engineering, it is still very easy to write these simple textbooks, under the indoctrination of these advanced concept textbooks, the iron ore in the towering blast furnace in the cave in the distance is melted into molten iron under the high temperature of coal, and the river on the side is stored as the power of hydraulic forging, and the Tang knife that was previously refined has become a thing of the pastLater, under the innovation of these experienced craftsmen, of course, it was inspired by the books written by Li Yong, adding carbon and other materials to forge the weapons and armor used in the garrison, plus hydraulic forging can leave a lot of labor, as well as the assembly line operation proposed by Li Yong, which further improves the quality of the entire forging process and also improves the output and speed. The most important thing is that all the steps are separated, so that even if someone leaks the secret, the entire forging process cannot be leaked, plus the steelmaking formula is rigidly controlled by Li Yong, without this steelmaking formula, everything is wild.
"Young Master, three hundred sets of Xishan armor and three hundred Xishan sabers will be completed in ten days."
"A hundred new repeaters will be completed in another five days."
"The gunpowder you mentioned has been developed, but the musket you mentioned has not made any progress."
The heads of each research department reported to Li Yong the situation and progress of each department, and Li Yong also answered one by one and gave instructions on the next step.
"Xishan armor and saber each add 900 sets, even the crossbow also adds 400 sets, the supporting crossbow arrows must also ensure that the standard is met, the number can be done as much as possible, the development of muskets continues to intensify, must be used as quickly as possible, the application of gunpowder must be used in a safe place, it is strictly forbidden to use it in the scope of the research institute, I will let people open up a place for you to test over there, the ship department continues to focus on theory, as soon as possible to draw ships that can go out to the sea, there is so much for the Ministry of Military Industry, get busy."
Everyone in the Military Research Institute got up and left gorgeously, and they didn't even say hello to Li Yong, and Li Yong was not angry, because he understood these people who wanted to conduct scientific research too well, because he was one of them, and they only had research and results in their eyes.
"The development of the perfume has been completed, the research and development of lipstick and blush is underway, we have already found the way, and it will be successfully developed in a few days."
"The research and development of cement is not ideal, and we have tried many formulas but we have not been able to achieve the expected results."
"There is no clue about the progress of glass, and we are still trying other formulations to achieve results as soon as possible."
"The agriculture side has arranged for personnel to go to Champa to find Champa rice, but there is no news yet, and we have also arranged for people to find other vegetable and fruit seeds."
"We have refined some common medicines for colds and fevers, and we have been able to make some ready-to-use medicines, but there is still no progress in the vaccine against smallpox and cholera."
Li Yong can write detailed science and engineering knowledge, but those chemical knowledge is not his strength, I remember that it took a lot of effort to make soap by himself, and he only made up some chemical things that he remembered and threw them to the Ministry of Civil Affairs irresponsibly, fortunately, those researchers of the Ministry of Civil Affairs are smart, otherwise Li Yong would have been unable to see these treasures that were recruited at the beginning, and they may have been poisoned by those chemical agents, Li Yong is very jealous of those who cross with gold fingers, what do you want, There is also a feeling that Li Yong doesn't want to complain about those who simply make cement perfume glass, maybe don't make it simple, and become responsible when he comes to himself.
"Your civil ministry continues to develop and research, and I will arrange people to study the perfume researched, I hope everyone will not be discouraged, as long as we work hard, there will be hope."
These people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs were even more bullish than those from the Ministry of Military Industry, and they didn't wait for Li Yong to shout slogans and draw pies, so they stood up and left in a hurry, leaving Li Yong alone in the messy conference room.
"Damn, who's the leader? Forget it, I'll bear with it. ”
Li Yong walked around the research institute and discussed and exchanged ideas with some researchers, then left the mountain and returned to his small courtyard, where he saw Gundam spinning around like a headless fly.
"Yo, what is our tall manager doing? Hemorrhoids or constipation? ”