After a good night's sleep, the soldiers of the Victory Army had basically recovered their physical strength.
After a comfortable breakfast, the soldiers were all refreshed and their faces were filled with vitality.
The joy of victory pushed them towards a more elite and combat-savvy path, and also prompted them to start possessing the glorious tradition of victory.
Completely different from those female real soldiers and officials.
Now that he was almost rested, Su Yonglin arranged for the work of cleaning up the river to continue, and at the same time arranged for the army to return in an orderly manner, and brought back all the prisoners of war in batches, continued to do ideological work, and mobilized them to join the Victory Army.
Su Yonglin planned to eat at least 80% of the more than 10,000 strong men. If he really didn't want to eat the rest, he would not force him. He would pay him travel expenses and allow him to go home, demonstrating his benevolence and righteousness.
Even if they don't join such an army, they will still remember it and remember that there was once such an army that neither looted nor killed good civilians.
Such an army is unique in this era, Su Yonglin can guarantee this.
Now that the Yue Family Army has ceased to exist, there is no military that can surpass his in terms of relationship with the people.
Because the military regulations and disciplines of this era are very different.
Su Dingguang collected many military books, so Su Yonglin read a lot of military books during the Southern Song Dynasty, but he found that none of them mentioned that the army should protect the people.
The only relevant thing is the slogan of the Yue Family Army that no longer exists.
In fact, almost all ancient armies, even if they have strict military discipline and strict orders and prohibitions, will still engage in large-scale looting and killing of good people during wartime and non-wartime.
What is even more sad is that most of the time the plundering behavior of the dynasty army is regarded as a potential benefit of the dynasty army, and the dynasty will not actually stop such behavior.
Because in ancient times, the so-called strict military discipline was based on obedience to superiors and orders, and did not include affinity with ordinary people.
There are almost no dynasties or generals who require their armies to be friendly to the people.
Throughout Chinese history, armies that were greedy, cruel, and disciplined were commonplace.
Brutal animality and strict military discipline are like two sides of the same coin. It is normal for an ancient army to exist at the same time.
Regardless of whether they are in the troubled times of dynasty changes, or in the peaceful era of bandit suppression and local wars that will never stop, the public will become the natural prey of the participating armies.
Whether it is the domestic army or the foreign army.
Local resources and the wealth of local people have become the focus of competition between the armies of both sides. In this case, the winner naturally has the right to enjoy the fruits of his victory.
Not to mention that under that strict system of layer upon layer oppression, it is also a routine for the commander to properly let the grassroots soldiers vent their dissatisfaction.
Of course, I couldn't donate what I had, so I had to ask the people near the battlefield to "donate" it.
The army commander will not restrain the army, and administrative bureaucrats certainly do not have the courage.
Therefore, no matter whether the war is won or lost, to the civilians on the battlefield, the armies of both sides are man-eating beasts. It does not matter the nationality of the two armies. The civilians have never had the consciousness of being their own people or "soldiers".
For Yue Fei, who realized the power of the people for the first time and therefore included in military regulations and disciplines the prohibition of plundering local people, his death may also have this level of reasons.
The Shengjie Army has included relevant content in its military regulations and disciplines since its founding.
The so-called strict military discipline of the Victory Army is not the same thing as the so-called strict military discipline of other armies of this era.
Because of this, Su Yonglin was confident that he could get those prisoners of war to join him willingly, rather than being forced to join.
With the military arrangements in place, Su Yonglin decided to stay here to continue to stabilize order, do the finishing work, and serve as the rear guard for the entire army.
Of course, you can't rest even at this time, there is still a lot of work to do.
The rules set by Su Yonglin.
After every battle, regardless of victory or defeat, as long as everyone is not dead and as long as we can fight again, we must hold a meeting to discuss the gains and losses of the battle, and record them as a record of the victorious army's journey. witness.
If it can really become a big thing in the future, this record must be kept intact and passed down, so that future generations will know how difficult it was for the Shengjie Army to create a new world along the way.
It's time for the meeting.
The gains from the war have almost been tallied before, so the next step is to reflect on what was not done well in this war and need to be improved.
The shortcomings of the cavalry, the lack of training, etc. are already commonplace and are things that everyone knows. However, these problems cannot be solved in a short time and require long-term investment, so they are emphasized again and again.
But some things seem a little special.
"Soldiers have raised many objections to the flying musket. They think that the flying musket is not that easy to use and sometimes very annoying. Therefore, many soldiers do not like to use the flying musket, and feel that it is not as enjoyable as a simple long gun. "
Lin Jingchun submitted the suggestions and opinions he received about soldiers' use of flying muskets.
Su Yonglin attaches great importance to this.
"Tell me."
"The main problem is gunpowder."
Lin Jingchun rubbed his temples and sighed: "Many soldiers have said that when using a flying fire gun, it is not difficult to ignite it, but whether it can spurt out enough flames after igniting depends on luck. Sometimes it is ignited, and it is just a risk." Smoke does not emit fire.
Sometimes it ignites and spits out fire, but just for a moment, it starts to smoke and loses fire. Some eruptions are not strong enough, and are far different from those in the hands of comrades.
Moreover, after the flying muskets erupted, the smoke was very thick. There was a cloud of smoke in front of the military formation, which greatly disturbed the soldiers' sight. The smell was also very pungent. Alang, I think what they said is reasonable. The two battles were not a big problem due to the terrain, but in another place If you use it again, it may not be that simple. "
Su Yonglin nodded.
These are indeed the problems with early gunpowder weapons. The pursuit of the powerful power of gunpowder will naturally be constrained by side effects. Only through continuous updates and improvements can we move forward, at least the general direction cannot be skewed.
"Have you got all those problematic flying guns?"
"They're all here."
"Take it and take a look."
"Here."
Lin Jingchun quickly had two cars of used flying guns brought over.
"This car did not spit out fire after it was ignited. The amount of fire sprayed out of this car was too small and the duration was too short."
Lin Jingchun cleverly separated the two types of flying guns with different problems, which was praised by Su Yonglin.
Then everyone began to study the problems of these two problems with the flying musket.
Su Yonglin picked up a flying fire gun that failed to spray fire and looked at it. He didn't see any problems. Then he removed the gunpowder barrel and poured out the gunpowder inside. At a glance, he discovered the problem.
"Of course it cannot be ignited."
Su Yonglin looked at the pile of "gunpowder" with a stern look on his face.
Gunpowder is a mixture of nitre, sulfur and charcoal in a certain proportion. The so-called mixing is reflected in the current specific product, which is simple stirring. After stirring, gunpowder is produced.
Such traditional gunpowder is physically and chemically unstable.
After such gunpowder is loaded into a cylinder, it will go through the bumps on the transportation road because the weights and densities of the ingredients are not the same, and they may even separate on their own. If the materials are separated, why fight?
This is the pile of gunpowder in front of Su Yonglin.
It seems that this pile of gunpowder has been severely separated. Even if it is mixed together, it cannot play the role of gunpowder.
Su Yonglin didn't know if the gunpowder craftsmen had thought about how to solve this problem, but since this problem still occurred, it meant that at least the Jin Kingdom did not take this problem seriously and try to solve it.
In addition, Su Yonglin also found two situations in other failed gunpowder barrels: too much powder that could not be ignited, and too little powder that caused the eruption time to be too short.
As a result, the three major problems with flying guns are powder separation, too much powder charge, and too little powder charge.
The problem is not simple.
