Chapter 255: Security Army
"Anyway, the clothing consumption during the training stage is very large. Using a simple version first is in line with the purpose of building an army economically. [No pop-up novel network]" Dai Xie, a representative of the Planning Academy, asked Fu Sansi's question at a meeting of the General Administration of Military Affairs. Answered as above.
Fu Sansi has no special feelings for the Japanese, but now the Japanese are his soldiers. If the soldiers are to go out and work hard, they must have at least a sense of honor and food and clothing - at least they cannot dress like beggars like the National Government.
The stingy Yan Laoxi's reincarnation of the Planning Institute is even more concerned about how to save more fabric. The military uniforms issued to the training camps even retained only one trouser pocket on the shorts. The security army's leggings were also simplified into natural canvas strips. Unlike the Fubo army, they were one-piece and could be tightened quickly with a rope. In the future, immigrants in Jeju Island will be mainly identified by the color of their leggings. Those wearing white leggings are the security forces, and those wearing gray leggings are the fubo army.
Japanese soldiers naturally had no problem with wearing pants, except for the fact that they often got slapped for forgetting to fasten their civilized buttons.
The tops of the security forces are of a new style: Australian employers commonly call them "Soviet-style pullovers." Zichuan naturally has no way of knowing what this "Soviet-style" is. He vaguely feels that he heard a Chinese businessman who understood literary and ink mention it during the Mid-Autumn Festival. I have seen similar names, and Fubo officers and soldiers also have similar views on this. Later, many street-stall military literature magazines falsely stated that the origin of this uniform came from Suzhou.
In fact, the joint logistics headquarters launched this uniform just because the garment factory has been too busy this year. The machinery factory has not developed a button-stitching machine and a buttonhole machine. Sewing buttons and opening buttonholes is too time-consuming. Changing the uniform to a pullover style can reduce the original 5 to 2.
Although it cut corners, the trial version it launched was very popular. Even the Fubo Army welcomed this change: after the second counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Fubo Army increased the intensity of training. Emergency gatherings and long-distance training became commonplace. Soldiers usually only unbuttoned two or three buttons and took them off before going to bed at night. So that when the whistle blows in the middle of the night, I can put it on and leave.
However, this kind of pullover was not widely equipped in the end. The resistance to the pullover among the veteran officers of the Army was so great that Thorpe, the deputy director of the Joint Logistics Headquarters who presided over the uniform improvement work, was called "unrepentant". Huang Er”. Thorp was puzzled by this and kept complaining - in fact, it was the US military that he admired most. Due to the strong backlash and other shortcomings of the pullover uniform, the Joint Logistics Headquarters finally decided to only give it the number "Type 1631 National Army Regular Uniform" and equip it to the National Army and the Security Army. Winter uniform is to replace shorts with long pants.
The National Army uniform only retains one lower right pocket, because the armed belt needs to be hung on the left shoulder, so there is no need to retain the left pocket. The officer uniform does not have two upper pockets, and only has a left arm pocket for holding pens.
The first-generation uniforms of the Fubo Army were indigo. The veterans carried their guns and practiced several times. They all complained that dark clothes were too hot, so the Army quickly changed to gray. The Navy retained the old blue uniforms as winter clothing. In addition, summer clothes are also based on white - which is actually the true color of cotton.
Since gray military uniforms still use plant-based dyes, the color adhesion is not high, and the troops quickly faded when training under the scorching sun. Since the Special United Chemical Company produced a small amount of picric acid, Lianqin headquarters used it to experimentally dye a batch of khaki yellow cotton: the dye mainly comes from traditional turmeric, plus a small amount of homemade picric acid.
However, there is too little picric acid, and the supply of turmeric is not sufficient. There was not enough cloth to dye, so the cloth was given to the security forces to make military uniforms. A khaki yellow pullover uniform, white canvas leggings and a bamboo hat made of rattan and oiled paper - this is the standard image of the security army. Needless to say, it is a bit wretched, especially when the height of the soldiers is basically under 1.55 meters.
Every day when the Japanese Education Team of the Security Army trains in the camp, it always attracts onlookers from passing veterans and naturalized citizens. Not only because of their image, the Japanese soldiers in Haiyou called "board" three times before starting training every day, so everyone nicknamed their camp "board camp".
Zichuan Xiuji and more than 300 Japanese mercenaries have been imprisoned in the training camp of the Ministry of Education since they arrived in Lingao. In order to prevent these mercenaries who have never known moral integrity from causing trouble, the Directorate of Education has also stepped up vigilance, especially the deployment of a security company that has received riot control training. However, the orders and prohibitions imposed by these mercenaries were beyond the expectations of the Director of Education.
Japanese people are not naturally disciplined, but these Japanese fans pay more attention to three meals of rice and fish a day. Japan has long been under the pressure of overpopulation: in the 17th century, Japan already had a population of nearly 100 million, and it had long experienced the dilemma of tight survival resources. The mountainous island country has more people and less land, and the shogunate and the daimyo are extremely harsh in their exploitation: six public officials and four citizens are the norm, and five public officials and five citizens are benevolent governance. This makes the life of Japanese farmers extremely difficult. They cannot eat the rice they grow all year round, and they can barely survive on miscellaneous grains and still don't have enough to eat. Even in modern Japanese rural areas during the Meiji and Taisho era, extreme poverty still tortured ordinary people. As described in "Axin", hiring a maid for a year's work for only one bag of rice is still the most tragic phenomenon. In some remote and barren mountainous villages, the custom of abandoning the elderly even continues to be retained. In some areas, in addition to the fact that the eldest son who has the right to inherit can get married and have children, the second son and Sanlang who do not have the right to inherit can only stay at home like slaves and work for their elder brothers in exchange for a bowl of rice, unless they go out to find food and work by themselves. , are not allowed to get married and form a family.
In the 17th century, a large number of Japanese flowed out to Southeast Asia. In addition to religious persecution of Catholics, solving the problem of food was also an important reason.
Now they had plenty of food, enough rice and dried fish. The first time they opened the tinplate bucket for food delivered to them from the training camp and saw it full of rice, dried fish and bean paste and kelp soup, every Japanese was moved to tears. Zichuan held the cross tightly, looked up at the sky, and thanked the Virgin for sending him to a good place.
Cong Ping Qiusheng brought these people to Hainan Island. "One person who violates discipline and everyone will be punished" is the slogan they must shout before eating every day.
In addition to being punished for those caught, according to the order of Ping Yuanlaoden, everyone must self-examine and report to each other whether they have any disciplinary behavior or thoughts today before starting a meal, and then they can shout "open a bag and the horse will die" or something like that. If someone is exposed and verified to be true, they will have to starve. Fish and rice will be rewarded to the whistleblower, and toilets, dormitories, and playgrounds must be cleaned depending on the circumstances.
"**Is there any weakness?"
"The mind has no unfaithful thoughts!"
"Do you always remember to be grateful!"
"Have you tried your best in training?"
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So every day before dinner, the scene of the entire board camp lining up, stepping forward and roaring in unison facing the sun became a scene in the training camp. So much so that Fu Sansi had to issue an order to prohibit others from pointing and watching nearby.
The military training of the "board camp" is rough and brutal. In order to show their competence, the corporals always use body language to fully educate them.
Snapped! Snapped!
"Baga! Sanjilang, you are a red deer! Can't you remember that you step with your left foot first? I slapped your hand so hard it was swollen and you still don't have a long memory! Do 50 push-ups, right now! Do you hear me? If you still can't do it, I'll ask you to wash it. Worship the toilet!”
Murasaki Hideji roared like this almost all the time and gave orders to his subordinates, using all the sufferings he had suffered and seen to make his subordinates fear him more than death. Then he immediately took a look at the education sergeant assigned to him by his employer - he was monitoring the training of each class not far away, hoping to get even a blank nod. The other corporals did the same thing. However, as a former samurai and professional mercenary, I have to say that the Japanese soldiers brought out by Zichuan have the best training results in the entire security army, and are also most likely to become the first Japanese platoon leader of the security army.
The basic content of the security army training camp is formation, fighting and shooting training. The performance of Japanese mercenaries is much better than that of Li and Miao soldiers. After all, most of them were originally mercenaries. Although they may not have received formation training, they have experienced troop formations and formations, and they have certain combat experience. Comparatively able to understand and adapt to training content.
The combat training of the onboard battalion retains the Japanese sword skills familiar to many mercenaries. As a former samurai, Zichuan has the best swordsmanship among all mercenaries. Therefore, he also serves as a swordsman coach and teaches mercenaries Japanese swordsmanship - among all Japanese mercenaries, his swordsmanship is the best. the best.
As for the knives they used, the Senate didn't bother - these mercenaries came from Siam with one each, and some even had two or three, and most of them were better knives. To them, this is a guy who eats. He can be so poor that he has no pants to wear, and he can't lose his knife.
Because Zichuan's performance was very outstanding, Fu Sansi had already included Zichuan Xiuji in the first batch of people promoted to sergeant and acting platoon leader profession.
Shooting training uses muskets. Japanese mercenaries are all proficient in using matchlock guns. There was a debate in the Senate about whether to equip the security forces with firearms. Some elders believe that the security forces are "not reliable enough" and should only be equipped with cold weapons. For example, Japanese mercenaries can just give them tachi and spears and let them go to "pig war". As for the Li and Miao mercenaries, machetes and crossbows are enough.
However, most senators, especially those in the army, believed that this was a waste. Without firearms, the security army's advantage over the natives was greatly reduced. Casualties and losses in battle will also increase significantly. Although the Security Army is positioned as a consumable, everyone also hopes that it can be used for a long time and is not a one-time use.
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