While training was intensified, Yang Fan's engineers also began further construction of the Nanyuan Military Camp.
Because winter is coming, the camp needs to carry out related construction.
In the Nanyuan Military Camp, a new water tower was installed with a steam engine to pump water. The water tower is twenty-five meters high. This tallest building in Nanyuan also serves as a watchtower for the military camp.
Yang Fan installed an obsolete forest fire telescope on it that the Erluzi had collected. In this way, the surrounding area of more than ten miles can be monitored at any time.
With the water tower in place, the military camp began to install running water.
Subsequently, a new boiler room was built and heating equipment began to be installed.
With a boiler, you can start providing hot water.
Hot water is very important. One is to ensure that the officers and soldiers take a bath. After all, after such heavy training, they sweat a lot and need to take a bath. Otherwise, it is easy for the clothes to get spoiled. Military appearance and discipline will not be maintained.
Yang Fan could not tolerate a dirty army. Such soldiers have no sense of honor.
At the same time, it is also ensured that they do not drink raw water to prevent illness. Each household was given two large insulated stainless steel barrels. Each household is assigned special soldiers to take turns to open the water every day. Use a trolley to push it back to fetch hot water. All soldiers within a hundred households must drink boiled water. The kettle must also be filled with cold boiled water.
The winters these years have been very cold, and it is impossible not to light a fire in the house. The officers and soldiers cannot train properly if they are frozen.
Yang Fan installed briquette stoves in every room in the barracks. The windows in the military camp were all sealed with paper. A quilt curtain was hung on the door.
These officers and soldiers have never been so cared for by their superiors for generations, and everyone has an expression of gratitude on their faces. They turned gratitude into strength and devoted themselves wholeheartedly to training.
Unknowingly, these soldiers in the Beijing camp had new changes in their whole beings. Clean shaven, neatly dressed. I walk with my head held high, and I no longer look decadent and slovenly.
Work and rest at the same time every day, wash up, and drink boiled water. Take a shower on time, eat, train, and run on time. They seem to have forgotten the lazy days when they were unshaven, leaning against the wall in rags, basking in the sun, and catching lice.
After a month, they gradually got used to their new life. And then winter finally came.
The winters in these years are getting colder every year. Suddenly a cold wave came along with the north wind and the temperature dropped overnight.
They got up before dawn in the morning. At this time, everyone had white mist spraying from their mouths.
Yang Fan knew that he had to prepare winter clothes for them now.
If His Majesty still follows the original plan, let them attack Tumut and the Ordos people. It is necessary to set off in winter and march long distance to Guihua City. Winter on the prairie is no joke. Adequate cold protection measures must be taken.
The reason why Yang Fan does not object to sending troops in winter is. This is because nomadic people are difficult to find. They are nomadic in the summer and are very scattered and difficult to find.
However, it is different in winter. They must find a winter camp and then get together to spend the winter. To avoid spreading out and freezing to death. At this time, the places they can hide are limited, so they have to find one accurately.
Therefore, March is the best time to start the war. At this time, after a hard winter. Whether they are humans or cattle, horses, alpacas and other livestock, they are all at their weakest. Those who didn't make it through were frozen to death, or were too thin or starved to death.
Those who survived were as skinny as a stick, so there was no need to look for them everywhere at this time. Very trouble-free. Taking advantage of their weakness and gathering together to annihilate them is the best time.
However, the guarantee for achieving all this is sufficient cold protection materials, otherwise, one's own army may freeze to death on the grassland.
Yang Fan felt that it was time to talk to His Majesty about winter clothes. In the past month, he has advanced a lot of supplies. The remaining emperor has to pay. It was impossible for him to continue to advance the payment. Before, I was mainly thinking about not causing any trouble.
Besides, it is worth spending some money to buy the military morale of the Beijing camp. This money will not be wasted.
After Yang Fan's memorial was submitted, Chongzhen happily decided to summon Yang Fan and Zhang Shize, and at the same time let a thousand soldiers enter the Guande Hall at the rear of Jingshan for a military parade, so that all the civil and military officials in the dynasty could see how wise his decision was. The current Beijing camp is a real army.
At the same time, Chongzhen decided to observe the training results of these people on the spot. At the same time, we also inspected the cold-proof materials that Yang Fan planned to provide. If it is really necessary, we will approve the purchase with money. After all, only by solving the Tumut and Ordos people can we completely stabilize the Great Wall.
Yang Fan and Zhang Shize were supervising the training, and Chongzhen's decree came.
Zhao Yang Fan and Zhang Shize led a thousand soldiers from the Beijing camp, each wearing full equipment, into the imperial city. He lined up in front of the Guande Hall at the rear campus of Jingshan and inspected them personally. At the same time, let civil and military officials observe.
The weather has become cold. Because this Qianhu soldier went to observe the emperor. Yang Fan had distributed the cotton-padded clothes in advance.
He was wearing cotton-padded clothes underneath, and his training clothes looked too bulky. There is also a modern 1980s-style cotton army coat on the outside. Wearing a hat and a woolen knitted collar, only a pair of eyes were exposed.
If you are wearing armor, put it on over your cotton-padded clothes. This can keep you warm, and at the same time, it also has a certain buffer when facing the enemy's heavy weapons. Avoid blunt trauma and bruising.
Yang Fan took the 500 cavalry and Zhang Shize took the 500 infantry and entered the imperial city from Dong'an Gate. Arrive in front of the Guande Hall in the back school grounds of Jingshan.
The third-rank and above officials in Beijing at this time include all the cabinet ministers. The nobles in Beijing and military attachés of third rank and above were all waiting for this reporting performance on the Dan steps.
The front of Guande Hall is relatively spacious, with civilian officials on the left and military attachés on the right. In the middle is Chongzhen's throne, with his back against a screen. Looking at the darkness, it was so lively.
As soon as this Beijing battalion, which had been reorganized and trained, appeared, there was an exclamation of surprise on the platform.
These people didn't look like soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. They were all arrogant, with their chins raised and serious expressions on their faces. The team of thousands of people was silent, as silent as a mountain.
They lined up in a neat queue, marched in uniform steps, and made a resonant sound of booming and booming. Enter Wuyingdian Square.
This time Chongzhen launched a surprise attack, which caused a lot of discussion among civil servants and nobles, and there were many opponents. Although they couldn't come up with any decent reasons, it was true that their money was gone. One by one, all kinds of absurd reasons were used to object.
From ancestral etiquette, to the defense and security of the capital, and even the celestial phenomena are connected. Chongzhen couldn't help but sneer. This time, after the Beijing camp was completely reorganized by him, the civil servants were all lost. They were all so angry that they started talking nonsense.
Today, Chongzhen just wants them to see what you have done to the Beijing camp. Now I am taking back the Beijing camp, eliminating the weak and keeping the strong, and reorganizing the appearance after training.
Let's see who among you dares to say that I am not the one who took back the capital camp.
