Chapter 583 Armaments and Invitation (Please vote and subscribe)
The newcomer Tiehanhan didn't understand why so many people were keen on the title. After all, he was not very familiar with the Han tribe. The reason he signed up for the army was that he was not used to digging for food in the fields every day.
And there were many people who joined the army for the same reason as him. The farming and breeding life in the Han tribe was very good and very stable, but those deep-rooted hunting skills had almost become their instincts. Now that there was such an opportunity to toss around, there was no reason to give up. Besides, being a soldier also got a salary, and it was not like not making money, so why not do it.
In addition, there were the old people who wanted to get a title for military merit. These people had joined the Han tribe for two or three years and knew very well that if they only relied on honest farming, they would rarely have the opportunity to get a title. The Han tribe was very powerful, and there were not many enemies who dared to go against the Han tribe, so they also knew very well that this opportunity was rare.
There is another kind of people, the few who have seen the Han tribe army. They envy the armor and equipment of those soldiers very much. They are wearing armor and holding steel swords and large shields, or riding two horses and wearing majestic masks to gallop on the grassland. How can they not be fascinated.
No matter what the purpose of these people's military service is, they still came, following their leaders, step by step towards the military camp where they will live and train in the future.
Thousands of people arrived at the camp in just one day, but found that there were only tents, a lot of wood and various construction tools. It looked like a large construction site, not a military camp.
"Could it be that we have been deceived? This time the recruitment is not for fighting, but for recruiting construction workers?"
The four thousand recruits were stunned, but they did not dare to say anything. After all, they had just arrived, and the leader also came this time. The leader of the Han tribe is very trustworthy and should not deceive them.
Just as the recruits were full of doubts and stood there at a loss, a violent drumbeat suddenly sounded in the empty camp, startling the recruits who were discussing in a low voice. Then they were attracted to the direction of the drumbeat and saw their leader standing on a temporary high platform with two people wearing black cowhide armor and looking at them.
Luo Chong took a loudspeaker made of copper skin in his hand and shouted to the people below.
"Soldiers, don't doubt it. This is where you will live and train in the future. Don't think there is nothing here now, but in the future, this will be the base of the strongest army of the Han tribe.
I know what you are thinking. You must be thinking, didn't the leader ask us to fight for the Han tribe? Are we going out to fight the enemy? Then what about our armor and swords? What about our bows and arrows and chariots? These will be there, but definitely not now.
Who can hold a shield and a sword, who can wear armor and hold a spear, who can ride a horse and draw a bow, these are not something you can decide by yourself, but must be tested and selected.
Now, follow the arrangement of the armored officer, and divide every 25 people into groups. Team, each team will receive two tents. I will give you one month to build the camp. Not only must you build it, but you must also practice the skills that the officers will teach you.
After one month, I will come here to assess you in person. Those who perform well can be promoted to officers on the spot, wear better armor, and get more wages. Okay, now the armored instructors will start to divide into teams. "
After Luo Chong's speech, the new recruits knew what was going on. It turned out that armor and weapons were not issued casually. In other words, they did not have the right to choose their military branch. What kind of armor they would wear in the future, what kind of weapons they would hold, whether they would drive the eleventh army or ride horses, would have to go through assessments and selections to determine, but the leader did not say what the specific criteria for the selection were.
"What should I do? If I know the standards in advance, I can prepare in advance. This way, I will have a better chance of choosing the type of soldiers I like. It seems that I can only ask those veterans in red robes and black armor when I am free. These people are not from the same type of soldiers. They must have been selected at the beginning."
Many people have this idea, but now they have no chance. They know what their current task is, which is to build barracks. It is only halfway through autumn and the weather is not too cold. But if the house is not built within a month or two, they will live in tents in winter. I am afraid they will all freeze to death.
The recruits were quickly divided into teams according to the number of people. An instructor in armor led 25 recruits, and every 13 people lived in a tent. After they settled their things, the instructors began to organize the soldiers to work.
Some people, led by the instructors, went to the mountains to cut wood to build camps and lookouts. Some did not go out in the camp, but did some work such as digging toilets, digging wells, and ramming adobe houses.
In order to quickly build the military camp, it was impossible to waste time burning bricks and building houses. They could only use local materials to build some adobe barracks. The barracks were not big, with only one room with a long kang inside. One small flag lived in one room, with a staff of 12 people, which was about the same number of people as the current tents. After the assessment in a month, they would reorganize and divide the current 25-man team according to the small flags. At that time , the houses would be almost habitable.
From this day on, strict military management began in the camp. At about six o'clock in the morning, the drum was beaten for 100 times. Those who did not put on their clothes and appeared in the parade ground within 100 drum beats would be punished in public. After two days of beating, there were no more new recruits who stayed in bed. They all got up and stood in line honestly.
After the assembly, they lined up and circled around the parade ground under the leadership of the instructors. This torturous behavior was affectionately called morning jogging by the instructors.
After the morning run, everyone was dismissed and asked to go back to wash and tidy up. Of course, there was nothing to tidy up. There was not even a quilt, so don't expect them to fold tofu. They could put the tableware in the designated position, clean the place inside the tent, and open the curtain for ventilation. This was already very good.
After cleaning the room, they began to line up for breakfast, and then began to work under the guidance of the instructor. After lunch and a short break, they had to practice queues, and continue to work in the afternoon. In the evening, they had to organize to learn military law. While learning military law, they also used military law to learn to recognize words. A group of people took branches and learned to write on the ground in front of them, five people a day, no more, no less.
Life in the military camp is boring. The recruits have gradually learned the rules here. No matter what they do, they are required to be neat, fast, and work in a team. Just like the morning wake-up drum, they must wear clothes and gather before the drum stops, otherwise they will be beaten.
After a week, the military camp finally looked like what Luo Chong wanted. A circle of high wooden fences was built, and there was a wooden watchtower at a distance. There were soldiers standing guard at the gate of the military camp. The public toilets and wells in the camp had been dug. Now all that was missing were barracks, warehouses, and animal sheds.
At the same time, in Hanyang City, Luo Chong was leading people in the metallurgical workshop to try out copper tube military trumpets. The military trumpet was actually the simplest musical instrument. To put it bluntly, it was a trumpet that was twisted in a circle. The sound was all blown by the mouth, and the tone was all determined by the vibration of the lips and the amount of exhaled air. There was no complicated scale adjustment device. It was just a thing that started with one tube and sounded all by the mouth.
The technology of rolling copper plates was very mature in the Han tribe. The production of military trumpets was nothing more than cutting thin copper plates into the required shape, and then the sheet metal workers either knocked or rolled them into the desired shape, and finally using bronze solder and soldering iron to weld the gaps, and then welding them together one by one. It was not difficult, but it was not easy either, especially the welding step.
The melting point of bronze, which has a copper-tin ratio of 1:1, is about 500 to 600 degrees. This alloy is made into thin strips. When using it, the soldering iron can be burned dark red to melt the soldering rod directly. It is very primitive, but easy to use and will not break. It takes some time to practice to master this technology.
The Han tribe did not have such things as sheet music, so Luo Chong could only teach people the skills of blowing the bugle. Modern bugles have dozens of different functions, and the complexity is rare. They can even be summarized into a language, similar to flag language. If it is a friendly army, you can use the bugle to report your number when you can't see the other side. However, that was a product during World War II. At that time, there was no communication tool such as a radio walkie-talkie, so the way of using bugles to transmit messages on the battlefield evolved.
However, in the highly information-based modern world, it is impossible to use this method, so the "bugle language" has gradually been lost. Even though Luo Chong was born in a military family, due to the age he was born in, he only remembered a few commonly used bugle calls, such as wake-up calls, lights-out calls, assembly calls, charge calls, dinner calls, and alert calls. He has never heard of the others, let alone memorized them.
Not only Luo Chong was busy, but other departments responsible for preparing supplies were also busy, collecting medicinal materials and sewing clothes. Each soldier had two pairs of single leather boots, a pair of woolen boots, two sets of white linen underwear, two sets of spring and autumn robes and pants, one set of cotton robes and pants, and a quilt.
Of course, cotton is impossible to have. The quilts of the Han tribe are all made of linen as the quilt cover, and the quilt core is made of three layers of wool felt. Even the cotton clothes for the soldiers in winter are the same. In view of the shortage of materials and the high cost, each person has one quilt and one cotton coat. Anyway, no matter spring, summer, autumn or winter, you have to wear an undershirt, and you have to wear it when you sleep, so you just need to wash and change the undershirt frequently. The outer coat is not convenient to wash, so it doesn’t matter if you wash it less than twice.
In addition, there are also the steel helmets distributed this time. The outer shell of the steel helmet is directly stamped out of thin steel plates. There is nothing worth mentioning about this. What is necessary to mention is the lining of the steel helmet.
The steel helmet must have an inner lining, and it must also have the function of support and cushioning. If there is no inner lining, there are only two results if the steel helmet is buckled on the head.
The first type is like the Japanese Kwantung Army. When they were first issued steel helmets, there was no lining. As a result, when they arrived in the Soviet Union, the soldiers' scalps were frozen and stuck to the steel helmets in winter. When the helmets were taken off, the scalps were pulled off together. That's why there were Japanese soldiers with fart curtains under the helmets.
The second type is because there is no buffer layer. When the head is hit hard with such a helmet, it will cause the helmet to deform, and finally the head will be stuck in the helmet and can't be taken off, and even cause secondary damage.
These are the experiences summed up by the predecessors with blood. In the previous life, a rabbit crossed the river by feeling the eagle sauce, and Luo Chong, as a traverser who crossed the river by feeling another world, naturally would not repeat such mistakes.
Therefore, the first batch of universal steel helmets equipped by the Han tribe were all made of steel plates stamped into the outer shell, and the inside was woven into an inner helmet with rattan. It looked like the rattan workers' protective helmets in the 1960s and 1970s, and then the inner and outer layers were stuck together, and finally a layer of linen lining was sewn inside, with adjustment straps, and straps on both sides that can be tied to the lower jaw.
Needless to say, the benefits of doing so are that there is no need to worry about frostbite and adhesion because the head does not directly contact the helmet. If hit hard, there is an inner helmet as a buffer layer. The adjustment belt inside is very useful because no matter whether the head is big or small, the belt can be adjusted to adapt to the wearer's head, saving the trouble of making many different sizes of helmets. Therefore, it is called a universal
helmet. Another advantage of the universal helmet is that it has a snap groove for hanging masks in front and a circle of small holes for hanging neck guards around it to adapt to various types of soldiers. If they need to modify it, they can do it themselves.
One word, strong, two words, save money
. While the Han tribe was busy producing and developing military supplies, Youfu's fleet had already arrived at the docking point of Youjiang according to the original route. Of course, this place is still half a day away from Youjiang. Youfu had no choice but to send his nephew Youzhi to invite them.
The journey was smooth. You Zhi also found the residence of You Jiang clan according to the route in his memory. He met their wise leader Xuan again and invited You Fu to return to the Han tribe.
In the month since You Fu left, You Jiang clan has completed various matters for autumn harvest and winter storage, but their leader Jiang Xuan has not been idle. He has been thinking about whether to go to the Han tribe. This is a tribe with highly developed cultural and technological levels. It has a fatal attraction to Jiang Xuan, especially in terms of culture.
Technology can be studied slowly. As long as the tribesmen can have enough food, there is always time to study tools slowly. But how should culture develop? Although You Jiang clan has its own set of inheritance, Jiang Xuan is extremely confused about the future because he does not know the direction of the future. How should You Jiang clan develop? In modern terms, there is no clear national development strategy.
After thinking for a long time, Jiang Xuan decided to go to the Han tribe first. He can't work behind closed doors. Going to the Han tribe to broaden his horizons may open up some ideas.
So the matter was settled. Jiang Xuan arranged for the temporary management of the tribe, and took Yong and Lei, as well as ten guards, to board Youfu's sailboat and sailed upstream to the Han tribe in the northwest.
(End of this chapter)
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