Yang Fan was stationed at the top of the hillside, looking at the battlefield below.
At this time, there was a close fight. Soldiers on both sides were fighting fiercely.
Along the way, Jingying's biggest exercise has been hand-to-hand combat. They were fighting various types of Mongols.
After they were reorganized and arrived at Nanyuan Barracks, they could eat freely for the first time in their lives.
A full meal, warm clothes, and rigorous training. Their bodies were like blowing up balloons, muscles rising rapidly.
Each and every one of them became stronger and stronger at the sight, and no longer looked dark and thin like before.
Although their food is the cheapest cornmeal bought in Chongzhen.
It’s corn grits porridge in the morning, cornmeal cakes at noon, and corn pancakes in the evening. Although corn has only 85% of the calories of rice. But this stuff is very filling and rich in dietary fiber and vitamins.
This saves the expense of feeding them animal offal. Because corn can cure night blindness.
Yang Fan was willing to give his soldiers pig heads, pig offal, and pure fat meat sent from the beautiful country. He will not use his own money to subsidize the Beijing camp.
These are two different things.
After all, Yang Fan's soldiers were all his slaves. Yang Fan naturally has the responsibility to feed them. In this era, the master has the obligation to feed his domestic slaves. Otherwise, they will be accused of being a black-hearted master.
In the late Ming Dynasty, domestic slaves generally lived better than homesteaders and tenant farmers. They didn't have to pay taxes and they didn't have to do corvee labor. The Yang family's land, not to mention white people, also has free medical services. Just as happy as a god.
Although the staple food in Jingying is corn and other coarse grains, it is enough.
This makes them crazy. How many lifetimes have passed since I never had to look at the rice vat when eating. This gave them great satisfaction.
As for vegetables, there are only limited varieties such as cabbage, radish, and dried kelp, because these are the cheapest. The vegetables we eat now are all grown in front of us and started to be grown this year. After all, vegetables cannot be shipped from the mainland. It was already rotten.
There is water in the Yellow River. If you dig channels and open up some wasteland, cabbage and radish can grow easily. Yield is also high. The seeds are all modern and very high yielding. The cabbage is large and solid, unlike the loose cabbage of this era, and its weight is seven or eight times different from modern varieties.
The kelp is shipped from Yang Fan's seafood processing factory on the seaside.
The reason why it is used in large quantities is because it is very cheap.
Ten pounds is only a penny. After soaking in water, it becomes a big pot.
No one eats these along the coast, they are all used to feed pigs. Yang Fan directly used it to feed the animals in Jingying.
These guys are so delicious. Many people can eat a pound of corn in one meal because there is no oil, water and non-staple food. Yang Fan was scared when he saw it.
Usually, the kelp is cut into shreds, added with salt and vinegar and served cold. Eat it as porridge for breakfast. When improving your diet every three days, stew tofu with kelp.
After arriving on the grassland, when beef and mutton were in sufficient supply, kelp was used to stew meat.
Cabbage and radishes are basically boiled in water with a little salt, and you can't even put two ounces of lard in a big pot. Kimchi and radish cubes are occasionally served in the morning. Used to supplement vitamins.
However, this level also makes them very satisfied.
The current officers and soldiers in the Beijing camp are very strong. They are young people. My physical weakness before was caused by not being able to eat. In the past six months, I have been eating beef and mutton freely, and my physical condition has been greatly improved.
Yang Fan was very pleased to see them bending their backs and thrusting their spears forward mechanically.
Finally, they were trained as elite infantry.
They usually train, and everyone has to assassinate the spear more than a thousand times a day.
My arms are numb from training. Everyone has to vomit before it's over.
At this time, they followed the officer's whistle, one general flag, one general flag, thrust together, and retreated together. It almost formed a muscle memory and stabbed the enemy without thinking at all.
Their hands holding the guns were very steady. They were all practiced during training by holding a gun and hanging a pile of bricks while remaining silent. If anyone moved, the officer would come up and give him a whip.
The thrust is as fast as lightning. The Yarkand people felt that their eyes were filled with flowers, and the big spear heads danced with gorgeous spear flowers. For a moment, they couldn't see clearly how many spear heads were stabbing them. I don’t know which one is real and which one is a phantom.
This is the power of big guns.
The moon stick, the sword of the year, and the spear of a lifetime. Big guns are the hardest to practice well. But if you practice well, it will be extremely difficult to deal with whether on horseback or on foot.
As soon as the two sides met, a large number of Yarkand officers and soldiers holding round shields and scimitars on the opposite side were stabbed down. Because they were separated by shields and barbed wire, they could not reach the spearmen of the Beijing camp. The spearmen from the Beijing camp can assassinate them at will.
They angrily slashed at the chains and barbed wire, trying to break through these obstacles and rush in.
As long as they rush in, they have a way to reverse the unfavorable situation. They could slip in between the two spears. Get close to the spearman and slash with your machete. At close range, once the spearman is approached, it will be a one-sided massacre. m.
But these things were floating without any force and could not stop cutting. They can't get in. But the opponent's spear was four to five meters long, and it was pierced directly from a distance.
The opponent's spear is as fast as lightning. If you hesitate even a moment, you'll be stabbed. Even the head of the opponent's spear has been retracted. Only when there was a hole in his body spurting out blood did he react. However, it was too late at this time. All he could do was see blackness in front of his eyes, and he fell to the ground spitting blood.
The speed and precision of Jingying are the result of hard training over the past year.
They used the general flag as a unit and the small flags of different units. They used cloth-wrapped gun shafts and wore plate armor to practice every day.
The penalty for the losing team is to practice and assassinate 300 times.
Since there is punishment, there is naturally reward. The reward is that every ten days, the top five overall flags will receive five silver dollars.
This reward made the soldiers in the Beijing camp scream in excitement. This is five taels of silver, enough to buy an acre of land.
The Yarkands tried to defend themselves against spear thrusts with small bucklers. But their shields were only a foot and a half in diameter. He could only barely protect his torso.
The spears fired by the Beijing camp either stabbed their heads and necks, or stabbed their thighs. Or while they are fighting, you can turn sideways to expose your left and right ribs, and then stab them hard, killing them with one blow.
Aini thought this was not going to work. Half of his five hundred dead men were already dead less than a quarter of an hour after the battle started. Become a dead body on the ground. He shouted, "Climb over the shield."
As soon as Aini's order was given, these dead soldiers also reacted. This unfavorable situation must be changed as soon as possible.
They immediately formed a group of three people, and two people carried one person's thigh, trying to climb in from the 1.8-meter-high aluminum alloy shield.
Some people died, but not completely...
