Due to resource and manpower issues, the army can only operate so many artillery pieces at the same time. [Full text reading] Kung Shan Di Durian can continue to consider building more for defense. It shoots shotgun better than a rifle in the hands of poorly trained recruits. It has considerable power, shoots high, and is not too heavy (the cannon only weighs 25ogk. It can be dragged by a donkey or 3-4 people. It is suitable for defensive positions in camps and the Wenlan River.
The new army lined up outside Bairen City.
Ma Qianzhu stood in front of them wearing his 87-style training uniform. He held his chest high and raised his head with a proud look on his face, trying to look like a soldier in the movie.
These former good citizens of the Ming Dynasty have now joined the armed forces without hesitation for money and food rations. No one can tell their origins. They have neither the guilt of betraying the imperial court and being "outright traitors" nor the reason to rise up to make revolution. Passion truly embodies the glorious tradition of "serving as a soldier and eating food" of the traditional Chinese old army.
There are more than 600 shaved heads, and they seem a little uncomfortable with each other. The new military uniforms had not yet been made, so they wore cotton training uniforms handmade by the women of Bairen Commune. Naturally, it doesn't look powerful at all. Except for a 10-man team used for demonstration, which was equipped with standard muskets, everyone else used sticks tied with rocks of the same weight instead.
There was no way, the logistics were complaining, the pattern of the military uniforms was not produced, and the equipment was even worse. The military industry department manufactured a lot of guns, but the production of guns was very slow. Paper-wrapped fixed-loading ammunition also requires manpower - at least 100% of the new army of nineteenth-century firearms will not be seen for at least a month. It stands to reason that Xi Yazhou, as the future commander of the New Army's teaching battalion, should personally conduct the training, but he fell ill again and was probably lying down on the farm to recuperate. Compared with the Navy's Fengcheng Hotel, the Army chose Nanhai. As a working place, the farm has a good environment, sufficient food, and there are often some good things that are not available in the canteen that you can try. Most of the military team members are either on duty at the duty point or going around to check the defense situation of the migrant workers. Finally, Ma Qianzhu had no choice but to convene a new army training camp as acting chief of general staff to start training.
This is somewhat related to the differences at the last army-building meeting. Regarding the organization and personnel arrangements of the New Army, the Executive Committee and the Military Group had their first major disagreement. The Executive Committee hopes that a civilian will serve as the Chief of General Staff so that the Executive Committee can strengthen its control over military power - if it is difficult for the indigenous soldiers to trust them for the time being, the time traveler soldiers may not always be able to trust them. The military team hopes to be held by He Ming or Xi Yazhou. One of the two is the oldest, and the other is the core figure of the military group. Of course, these two people consciously declined the nomination - it is not an easy job to be the coordinator between the young faction of the Executive Committee and the Military Committee.
The young faction lacked the support of heavyweights in the Military Commission and lost the battle for Chief of General Staff. In the end, it was decided that Ma Qianxu, chairman of the Planning Commission, should serve as the acting chief of general staff - the establishment of the new army was full of waste and needed to be revitalized, and everything required coordination from various departments, so it was more convenient for a member of the Planning Commission to serve. This way both parties can accept it.
Ma Qianzhu didn’t know much about the troops in the 19th century, and he didn’t know how the troops were trained to line up and shoot the party. But at least he knew: no matter what era the elite army is, there are always some characteristics that remain unchanged-disciplined soldiers are the enemy's nightmare. Before starting the hot weapons unit training, physical fitness, queue and discipline training may last for a month. For these people of the Ming Dynasty who were just eating and waiting to die a few days ago, his only authority is a "chief". Ma Qianzhu's entire military experience consisted of three months of military training in college.
Fortunately, the military team still left him with a few veterans as instructors, and also transferred some militiamen from Yanchang Village - their formation training was completed under the personal training of Bei Wei and others, and it is currently at the highest level.
There is no secret to physical training, but the magic method of time-travel training: cross-country running. However, several veterans expressed their gratitude and said that this glorious task would be left to you, Chief of Staff Ma.
Ma Qianzhu knew that as the chief of general staff, he was still dissatisfied with the general public, and several soldiers deliberately wanted to see his joke.
If you have conditions, you have to go up, and if there are no conditions, you have to go up even if you create conditions! **'s words echoed in Ma Qianzhu's mind. In order to ensure the party's absolute leadership over the army, no, the executive committee over the army, he must persist and show this group of people - intellectuals are not easy to mess with.
With such an ambition, Ma Qianzhu confidently shouldered his blank musket, put on his back a backpack that was claimed to be full of ammunition but actually contained only stones, and announced: Everyone should stay in formation, bring their weapons, and go to the logistics department to get a pair of straw sandals. , 5 kilometers cross-country!
Cross-country travel of 5 kilometers is a one-way trip. In other words, you have to come back by yourself, but there is no limit. A month later, the whole team had to run back. He firmly believed that for a new army, orderly escape was much more important than orderly attack. Of course, large amounts of exercise require sufficient physical strength. Ma Qianzhu took advantage of his position as the head of the Planning Committee and asked the agricultural department to provide more dried meat and salted fish to supply the new army, so that the food supply would be sufficient.
After three days, Ma Qianzhu's feet had already been worn out, and he realized that if he wore socks for running again, he would soon have no socks to wear, so he quickly changed to foot wraps - he just hoped now The cocoon is about to grow.
During the break, he ordered everyone to lie down in a row, and he lay at the head of the line.
Many people wondered why they had to rest so neatly, but they reluctantly obeyed the order.
Former armored commander Bai Yu came over:
"Commissioner Ma, do you really want to do this?"
"Let's go!" Ma Qianzhu looked tragic as a revolutionary martyr going to the execution ground.
"This, I have to explain, I have been out of the army for a long time -"
"I trust you." Ma Qianzhu closed his eyes and lay down on his face to be beaten, looking like a dead pig not afraid of boiling water.
"Actually, Comrade Ma, you don't have to do this. We, pla, never do this, and American soldiers don't do this."
"You talk too much. I am the chief of general staff, obey orders!" Ma Qianxu looked very determined.
"Okay, I'm afraid of you." Bai Yu shrugged. I don't think this is a big deal. No wonder people say that intellectuals have many twists and turns and love to dig into books.
"I must declare, don't blame me if something happens." Bai Yu said, climbed on the tractor, started moving, and drove towards the crowd. No, I'm not here to bully anyone. It was just a little bit close to everyone's heads, and he was careful to block it.
The roaring steel monster's momentum as it creaked across the ground immediately made the people lying on the ground commotion. Someone rolled and crawled away.
"Everyone lie down!" He ordered loudly, "No one is allowed to move."
Even though he shouted loudly, the vibration of the creaking tracks that dropped dirt on his head when it ran over not far from his head was still scary enough. Sweating all over his body - Ma Qianzhu himself was not absolutely trusting of Bai Yu, but he had to make a move when the situation came to pass. How can I control this group of people if I don't show any courage?
When the shadow of the tractor turned back to the garage, he immediately ordered the person who had just stood up illegally to get out of the queue. They had to stand in the sun for an extra hour, and they had to carry their own muskets and all their equipment. Looking at their eyes, he was glad he hadn't started shooting training yet.
Ma Qianzhu's tractor training method spread everywhere within a few hours. Someone rudely nicknamed him Ma Dangwei. Du Wen was even more distressed and called him specifically to ask why Comrade Ma was doing it. Adopting Nazi and fascist training methods? He also kept saying "You disappoint me so much". According to Ding Ding's newspaper report, Ms. Du Wen even shed tears on the spot... When Ma Qianxu arrived the next day, she felt that she had become a figure in the tabloids.
Lace or not, Ma Qianzhu, who had already reached the point of no return, had no choice but to grit his teeth and persevere. Fortunately, the specific formation, design, military language, bomb-dropping and other training are still in charge of the former veterans. Otherwise, it would be really unsustainable to rely solely on a "Militia Training Manual".
The first few days of military training were the same as Ma Qianzhu's past university military training, with formation training conducted in class units. Although the direction of troop training reached by the military group is based on the tactical model of columns and horizontal formations at the company-battalion level in the 19th century, they have neither experience nor information on how European armies were trained in the 19th century. Therefore, basic queue training is still carried out in accordance with pla's instructions.
Thanks to the experience of queue training in Yanchang Village and the on-site demonstration by soldiers from Yanchang Village, the training was easier than expected. Ma Qianzhu insisted that everyone shout commands in Mandarin during training, without any translation.
"The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were also commanded in Mandarin. I don't think they have to use Sichuan dialect to command when the Sichuan soldiers come."
Naturally, the instructors use sticks to help the recruits understand the essence of Mandarin as quickly as possible, and the coaching field is filled with roars every day. These peasants, who were forced to join the army because of their livelihood, were woken up by loudspeakers at 5 o'clock in the morning and driven to the training ground. The deputy "chiefs" in charge of training were all fierce-looking and armed with sticks. No one could understand what they said, but he insisted that people understand what he said. Anyone who fails to respond to his commands or responds incorrectly will be caned. Gradually, these people who had never understood what left and right meant came to understand the meaning of the password. Then they were forced to learn to walk in a row of nine. Every time I take a step, how high do I have to lift my feet, how wide do I have to take my steps, how do I swing my arms...it's so awkward to walk like this. The officers and soldiers have also seen it before: apart from lining up and retreating in circles during drills on the school field, they have never seen anything like this.
