Chapter 153: Recruitment and Armament
Liu Tai's conscription order was issued, and the county where the government soldiers were transferred began to recruit soldiers.
The counties controlled by Liu Tai, except for the two counties in the north of Jizhou, were not transferred to the soldiers because they were on the front line.
In addition, the remaining three counties in the south of Jizhou, Taishan County, and the six counties of Qingzhou successively received orders to recruit government soldiers.
The conscription of each county is basically divided according to population density, such as Taishan County and Linzi County, the number of conscription has reached 3,000 people, but the most remote Donglai County or Changguang County is about 800 people.
No matter where it is, at least the local people are quite enthusiastic about signing up for the army, and some people are eliminated because they are not heavy enough and too short, and they even kneel on the ground and cry, as if they have lost a lot of wealth.
There is no way, since ancient times, the poor have been rich and martial, and the level of training a qualified warrior is actually higher than that of cultivating a scholar.
Because a qualified warrior is to fight for wealth and prosperity with his life, and if he loses, he has nothing.
As for the readers, the real cost is actually in the popularization of education, and the more sluggish the public education, the more precious the readers.
But when education is universalized to every citizen, then when the scholar grows up, he will only become a qualified labor force.
Of course, the operational efficiency of the whole society will be greatly enhanced by the complete improvement of the quality of the population.
In any case, Liu Tai knew that the soldiers recruited by the Fanfu military system must be unstable now.
In the first year, I tried not to instruct them, but to familiarize them with military life under the government military system.
When to go home to cultivate the fields, when to participate in the training of the army, and to deal with the assessment of the government soldiers, and when you need to transfer the government soldiers in the future, you can directly select the outstanding talents among the government soldiers.
Of course, in this process, compared with physical training, ideological transformation is even more indispensable, military historians will teach the "Book of Han" to the soldiers who want to make progress, and the soldiers need to be familiar with the "Book of Han" if they want to take a step forward.
After all, Liu Tai attaches the most importance to ideological command, even if Liu Tai, who originally became a government soldier because of the field, he didn't mind.
Liu Tai, who has experienced modern society, has even seen such a strange species as colonists, not to mention the soldiers who only want dozens of acres of fields.
However, in the end, the army is a whole, and it must unify its thinking and discipline, so if they want to complete the leap of official soldiers from the government soldiers, they must be literate and must complete the national awakening.
And beside these government soldiers, in addition to the soldiers themselves, there are also a group of special government soldier seeds.
The age of these soldiers was less than ten years old, and they conscientiously studied the "Book of Han" according to the courses arranged by the military historians.
And all of them were orphans of fallen soldiers, and Liu Tai picked them up and took them to the nearest government military camp to teach.
For every soldier who died, Liu Tai would ask people to verify it carefully, because if any soldier who died in battle was gone, then his military field would be recovered, and if he had children, the eldest son would inherit his position and join the government soldiers for training.
If his wife had just given birth to a child and was too young, Juntian would still be kept in the boy's name and handed over to his wife to take care of.
The local government and veterans will take care of them, such as renting farming equipment, or helping out when the farm is busy.
When the child reaches the age of 6, Liu Tai will directly pick up a child into the military camp, and be arranged to live in the military camp from an early age, set up a special class to cultivate the child, and only at the end of each year, he is allowed to go home for a month to reunite with his relatives.
Until they successfully reached the age of 15, they were considered to be adults, and at this time they officially became government soldiers.
This kind of child, at the beginning, will be physically trained and taught to read and write, but over time, various military skills and knowledge, as well as "Hanshu", "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", "Qi Min Yaoshu" and so on will also be taught to them.
The most important thing is that only by cultivating from a young age can we really establish the values that Liu Tai needs.
Of course, the biggest role of these children now is to directly show in front of these soldiers who may have become government soldiers because of the military field.
Even if you die in battle, Liu Tai will not ignore your descendants, on the contrary, if you die fighting for the revival of the Han Dynasty, then your descendants will definitely be taken care of by Liu Tai with the highest treatment.
This kind of truth is not said with their mouths, these soldiers will believe it, and if they really say it, the soldiers are afraid that they will suspect that Liu Tai is going to let them die.
After all, life is such a precious thing, if there is no more, then there is nothing.
But now, these soldiers see that the children who died as soldiers are really taken care of by Liu Tai, and the military land that they have earned with their lives can be kept as long as they do not stop.
Nothing could be more convincing to these fighters.
At the same time, Liu Tai also wants to further influence this group of new government soldiers who have just entered the government camp through these children.
After all, their own army is not the army of the old era, we must talk about ideology and military discipline, and we must make them clear that the soldiers around them are their comrades-in-arms and their community of interests, don't beat and scold the soldiers casually,
After these martyrs, one by one, they looked young, trained hard in the barracks, and they were the ones who could influence them the most.
Of course, in order to ensure the smooth growth of these martyrs in the future, the military history sent by Liu Tai will record in detail the daily life of these martyrs in the military camp every day.
All incidents of violence in the military, especially those that follow the martyrs, must be investigated to the end.
All in all, Liu Tai used this way to make the soldiers feel free to go to the battlefield, because every soldier was the best supervisor of Liu Tai's policy.
At the same time, when he also selects government soldiers in this way, the government soldiers he cultivates are at least a soldier who is relatively good in terms of ideological consciousness and his own combat effectiveness.
With the recruitment going smoothly, Liu Tai entered his military camp and conducted an inspection inspection.
At this time, I saw that Yu Yao was training his subordinates, and this batch was selected from the government soldiers, and now they are still running-in.
To tell the truth, these soldiers selected from the government soldiers are all elite personally, but because they are from the government soldiers, they have a little bit of the looseness and lone wolf of the government soldiers, especially they are the best among the government soldiers, otherwise they will not be selected, and they will be even more arrogant.
At this time, it is necessary for this guy Yu Yao to sharpen these new recruits who have just become government soldiers from war soldiers.
Through large-scale training, to modify their temper, and let them know that it is not a skill to fight alone on the battlefield, and teamwork is the most important thing.
Yu Yao didn't expect Liu Tai to come over, and after ordering the soldiers to stand upright, he quickly ran over and saluted:
"I've seen the county prince, but today the county prince is here to perform martial arts on the school ground?"
"No!" When Liu Tai heard Yu Yao's words, he shook his head and said, "How is the training of this batch of recruits?" ”
"They have a very good foundation, and they have been training under me for two months, getting rid of the laziness of being a government soldier, strengthening their execution of the organization, and they will soon be able to form combat power.
When the time comes, if you see blood in another war, you should be no worse than a veteran! Yu Yao said confidently to Liu Tai.
"Two months?" Liu Tai nodded, and said to Yaodao, "I know, is there anything else missing from the military quartermaster?" ”
"Probably not, right?" Yu Yao pondered, "I don't have to talk about weapons or anything, but at least there are still spears, and arrows have accumulated a lot of savings last winter, and we can even make up a special archery corps."
In fact, there is only a lack of armor, but we don't have enough livestock on our side to make enough leather armor.
However, the food is getting better and better month by month, especially after the wheat harvest, fish balls and meatballs appear in our military rations.
Sometimes I think, is it okay to eat so well!? ”
"We revive the Han family and protect the country, just asking for better food, what is this!" Liu Tai waved his hand and said,
"Armor is not enough...... It's a big problem, but even if you forget about leather armor, let's just put on the scale armor or pierce the armor! ”
During the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, the army was equipped in batches, and it became the most equipped iron fish scale armor in the army after the iron armor.
Chain mail is also known as "ring lock armor" in ancient China, which is generally made of iron wire or iron ring buckle to form a garment, each ring and the other four rings are buckled, shaped like a net lock, the defense ability is quite good, at least in the face of arrows can be done without injury.
"Irony?" When Yu Yao heard Liu Tai's words, he couldn't help but say with joy, "County Prince, how long will it take to put it on the soldiers!" ”
"I'm afraid it's unlikely this year, but by next year, I should be able to equip all the soldiers!"
Liu Tai knew that the blast furnace was successfully smelted, and the steel output under his command had increased a lot.
But the quality of the iron forged in this way has always been a considerable problem, so Liu Tai can only make farm tools for the people.
If you want to improve the quality of iron, the most important thing is to accumulate and experiment little by little, such as flame temperature, configuration materials, ore purity, etc.
The group arranged by Xie Fei needed to calcine iron tools every time, as if they were lucky enough to forge them.
In fact, this is also Liu Tai's most helpless place.
Because Liu Tai himself is not from an engineering background, he can't help at all in this regard.
The only thing I know is that this kind of thing is, to some extent, also materials science.
And materials science is to rely on life to try little by little, and Liu Tai also knows that this thing is purely a gamble on luck.
So you have to be patient enough to wait slowly.
They can experiment once a week, and they have the strong support of Liu Tai to keep trying.
In any case, the progress of the craftsmen is still a little slow, and the iron they are forging now has too many impurities, so they can only further forge the iron through the 100-steel technology, so as to purify the steel.
However, if you perform the 100 steelmaking technique, it will take too much time and require too much manual effort.
Therefore, although Liu Tai successfully calcined a large amount of pig iron through blast furnace ironmaking technology, there is still a long way to go to transform it into armor.
Of course, Liu Tai also thought about the forging method of accelerating the reaction of high-temperature molten iron with other substances through chemical reactions.
It can only be said that Liu Tai knows the theoretical knowledge, but when it is implemented in reality, what elements are replaced, what impurities are transformed, how can these be translated into popular translations for these blacksmiths? Liu Tai said that he really couldn't do it!
Even if I don't know the replacement materials required by the steel filling method, this returns to material science, and Liu Tai is angry to death.
Liu Tai had to admit that his knowledge from later generations could make the technology of this era overtake in some aspects.
However, the upper limit of the development of the times is still subject to energy and materials, these two things have not been solved, and even if the application level is solved, it will eventually be subject to materials and energy itself.
Of course, because the carbon ore produces a large amount of pig iron through Gaoling ironmaking, even if Liu Tai asks all the craftsmen to go all out to forge pig iron, I am afraid that by the end of the year, they will not be able to make enough steel.
Therefore, Liu Tai began to try to let the craftsmen use the hydraulic power to study the hammer that was constantly sagging, and borrow the mechanical force to hammer the hundred steels.
It would even be better if in some special waterfalls could be washed with water to increase the pressure, and the hydraulic forging could be carried out directly.
In addition, Liu Tai asked the craftsmen to try to use the upward steam of the water to form a mechanical force, which was transformed into a mechanical tool that was constantly beaten.
Liu Tai naturally knew that these craftsmen would soon come up with a way to convert water power into orderly mechanical energy.
After all, the use of water conservancy in the land of China has really reached an unbelievable level, as long as it is a master craftsman, this is an entry ability.
But on the other hand, the conversion of steam into mechanical kinetic energy, which they had never thought of, had not been accumulated by their predecessors at all.
In such a situation, even the most preliminary simple borrowing device will take about a year to ponder, and even many masters feel confused about how to use this force.
But Liu Tai doesn't care, Liu Tai needs them to study these things.
Whether it is ten years or twenty years, it is good to accumulate enough technology, at least before you die, to start to use the steam kinetic energy in production.
With the application of this kinetic energy on the production side, no matter how simple this technology is, even in order to let themselves eat a few more mouthfuls of food, the Chinese people will definitely strive to pass on this technology.
In Huaxia, if any technology wants to be promoted, it cannot rely on the top, but on the bottom.
It is not only the historical view that the masses of the people are the creators of materials, but more importantly, everything that the people do not feel the benefits will be eliminated, and on the contrary, what is created for the sake of the people to produce, the people will pass it on as much as possible.
Therefore, Liu Tai had to wait patiently.
As for the current water conservancy forging device, it is already being equipped, and by next year, it should be able to improve the efficiency of the conversion of pig iron into 100 steel, and then the main force of the whole army will be able to wear scale armor.
Again, the priority equipment must be the main force, like Yu Yao, who is still training, naturally has to be lined up in the back.
After Liu Tai finished reviewing these recruits, he began to see Zhou Ping, because among the generals under his command, Zhou Ping, compared with several other generals, at least his positive command ability is becoming more and more prominent!
"I've seen the county prince!" On the school grounds, Zhou Ping saw Liu Tai and hurriedly came over to salute Liu Tai.
Today, you don't have to wait
(End of chapter)