Chapter 592 The "Red Army" of the Han Tribe
Seeing that the more than 4,000 soldiers below had already lined up and Ying Rui next to him had handed him a loudspeaker, Luo Chong came to the reviewing stand and began to speak.
"Soldiers of the Han Dynasty, I am very satisfied with your queue training just now. In this month, you have not only completed the construction of the barracks, but also have not fallen behind in these basic trainings. I am very pleased about this. Now, as the leader of the Han Tribe, I congratulate you on completing the first phase of training. You are now a real soldier."
Luo Chong's voice came out of the copper trumpet and spread to the entire parade ground. The new recruits lined up below were also very happy to hear the praise from the leader. Since the leader said that they were real soldiers, then the supplies should be distributed next. Sure enough, everyone immediately heard Luo Chong's voice continue to shout.
"But this is not the end, but only the beginning. Next, you will have to undergo more rigorous training. You must not only become a disciplined soldier, but also a soldier who can win battles.
I know that many of you can't wait to get those equipment. No problem, I can give it to you, but before that, each of you must undergo a strict assessment. In
addition, I want to warn you not to discriminate against any type of soldier. The soldiers of my Han tribe are not divided into high and low, whether you are a sword and shield soldier holding a shield and a sword, or a spearman, a halberd soldier, or a crossbowman, cavalry, there is no distinction between high and low.
Moreover, the equipment and weapons of these types of soldiers are not There is a huge difference. Every weapon I prepare for you is not bad.
Therefore, I hope to see the most real you in the next assessment. Don’t deliberately cheat in the assessment just because you want to be a certain type of soldier. That will not only harm yourself, but may also implicate your comrades and your brothers.
For example, many of you have seen those war horses that have just been delivered. There must be many people who want to be cavalrymen, but in fact you are not suitable. In this way, you will hinder your comrades in training, and in battle, because of your own lack of ability, your comrades will be distracted to protect you, or even lose their lives for you.
Don’t think I am scaring you. I also hope that you can do good for your comrades around you. Be responsible for your own life and your family. If you and your comrades lose their lives because of your own wrong choices, think about your wives at home and what kind of life they will have in the future. I hope you can all remember what I just said.
Well, that's all I want to say. In addition to supervising the selection and assessment today, I also want to reward everyone. I know that everyone has worked hard in training and building camps for the past month, and there is nothing delicious to eat. I'm sure many of you have seen pigs and sheep just now. Those are prepared for you. I will add a meat dish for you.
Next, I will tell you about the arrangements for this afternoon. Everyone, please don't move around for a while, so that you can enjoy the scenery. The troops were divided into teams, and their heights and leg lengths were measured under the leadership of their respective captains, and they all received new military uniforms.
Then they all boiled water to take a bath, washed themselves clean, and changed into new clothes tomorrow. After everyone had taken a bath, they could have a meal together.
Okay, now the captains will lead their team members to get their uniforms. "
After hearing the leader's words, everyone looked solemn at first, especially when Luo Chong said that there was no distinction between high and low in the military branches, and that the wrong choice of military branch would lead to death, many of them were startled. In the past, many people did have their own goals, and they all hoped to become the branch of the army they liked. Many people also made preparations in advance and wanted to conceal some of their own ability characteristics during the selection and assessment.
But now, after listening to the leader's words, they had to give up this plan.
The Han tribe is very large and has a large population, but it is nothing compared to modern times. The total population has not yet exceeded 100,000, so Luo Chong, the leader, still has great prestige in the tribe, especially among those young people, who regard Luo Chong, the young leader, as an idol to worship. From the age of ten to fifteen, in just five years, the Han tribe has developed from dozens of people to a behemoth with multiple cities and tens of thousands of people. Therefore, few people will question what Luo Chong said, because everyone knows that the leader is very smart and what he said is true.
However, there are all kinds of birds in the forest. Of course, some people don’t care about what Luo Chong said just now, and still plan to cheat during the assessment tomorrow, but they still don’t know the method of assessment, so they don’t have a target to start with, and can only improvise when the time comes.
In addition, when everyone heard that they could get new clothes today, they were also very happy, and there would be extra meals in the evening, and there were so many meats for them to enjoy, which made them even happier.
The captains below have already started to lead their teams to measure their heights. Because of the previous queue foundation, there was no chaos of rushing in. The new recruits also lined up to receive their uniforms. After all, today is a good day. No one wants to be pulled out and beaten with a military stick at this time. Besides, the selection and assessment will start tomorrow. Wouldn't it be bad luck to make trouble now?
There are several tables in front of the reviewing stand. There are bamboo poles with scales next to them to measure height and body width. There is also a wooden board with scales on the ground, which is used to measure foot length.
The soldiers stand next to the tables one by one, measure their height and foot length at the same time, and then receive military uniforms according to their registered identities on the roster.
Because of Luo Chong, the time traveler, the shoes and clothes of the Han tribe have long implemented a grading system of large and small sizes. Clothes are not obvious yet, but shoes, all sold on the market, have long been made according to the size. Other uniforms such as military uniforms, which are large quantities, have also been produced according to the size. However, the civilians still measure their own clothes at home, and basically make them themselves.
The soldiers happily received their new clothes and new leather boots without making any noise. After receiving them, they lined up on one side. After all the more than 20 people in the team had received them, they lined up to return to their barracks. According to the requirements, they had to boil water and take a bath together.
In order to change clothes uniformly this time, Luo Chong also brought a batch of soap and arsenic. Occasionally, taking a bath with arsenic can be used to kill parasites on the body surface, and there will be no poisoning reaction. It can keep the soldiers healthy and prevent infectious diseases in the barracks. After all, the barracks are a very densely populated environment, and prevention must be taken in advance. Fortunately, the barracks are also a place that is easy to manage. There are disciplines to restrain the behavior of soldiers. The wells and public toilets in the camp are also well planned. These facilities also greatly reduce the possibility of epidemics.
In ancient times, medical conditions were poor and the success rate of treating diseases was not high. Daily epidemic prevention could only be the main method. It is much better to love cleanliness than to take more medicine when you are sick. This is also the purpose that Luo Chong has always implemented.
There is a functional building called a bathhouse in the military camp. It looks like a large warehouse on the outside, but there is a large pit dug inside, which is then built with stones and bricks, and small pebbles are laid underneath.
Many large pots have been set up outside the bathhouse. After boiling hot water, some people bring it in and pour it into the bathtub. Some people also bring cold water from the well and pour it in to adjust the water temperature. There is also a military doctor brought by Luo Chong from Hanyang City who sprinkles arsenic in it and instructs the soldiers on how to use it safely. This thing is not always available in the barracks. Only when it is used, you need to apply for it, otherwise it is easy to cause poisoning accidents.
Those soldiers who have finished bathing or are waiting to bathe began to slaughter pigs and sheep to prepare food for the evening dinner. In addition to meat, the nearby Fumaguan County provided vegetables for the barracks.
These vegetables are free, but they have to be exchanged for manure. The soldiers in the barracks do not produce. They are professional soldiers who are completely off-duty and naturally do not farm. Therefore, the feces produced by the public toilets in the barracks every day are useless, but they cannot be thrown away. It happens to be next to Fumaguan County, so they just give it to them directly.
Growing vegetables consumes more fertilizer than growing grains. These feces are also precious resources. Of course, there is no reason to throw them away in vain. They are used to grow vegetables for the people and then supply them to the military camp. This can be regarded as a disguised self-sufficiency for these soldiers.
When everyone took a shower and started to eat dinner, Luo Chong had already set up a table. In addition to the main meal, Luo Chong ate barbecue. The chili peppers produced by the Han tribe and the cumin stolen from the Xin tribe were all grown on a large scale. Therefore, the Han tribe had no shortage of these things. The price was not expensive. Ordinary people could afford it because these things were originally grown in the auxiliary fields allocated to their families.
In the Han tribe's land distribution system, men were allocated grain fields to grow grain, and women were allocated auxiliary fields to grow mulberry, hemp, vegetables, and seasonings. There was no restriction, so each household would grow some seasonings, and even if they were not sold, they could still meet their own consumption.
Jiang Xuan had been silently eating skewers beside Luo Chong, sighing that the Han tribe really knew how to eat, and at the same time, he did not forget to summarize what he saw and heard today.
He saw a lot of new things today, but he didn't understand many things. He wanted to ask, but when he thought of the conditions he promised Luo Chong before, he couldn't help but feel a toothache. There was no way, so he had to keep it to himself. Anyway, there were still a few days left, so he would wait and see.
The soldiers' meals were also very rich. Although they didn't have barbecue like the leader, they still had big pot dishes and broth. The staple food was rice and steamed buns, and the dishes included pork and cabbage stewed with vermicelli, or mutton and cabbage stewed in big pots.
The pigs and sheep were brought by Luo Chong. Vermicelli was taro flour, a specialty of Ruyang County. Taro was high-yielding and had a high starch content, but it was not easy to preserve, so Luo Chong promoted the vermicelli making method he knew in his previous life. Once it was launched, it was immediately loved by the people of Ruyang County.
After the taro is made into vermicelli, it is not only convenient for storage, but also can be used for cooking. It is no problem to use it as a staple food. Cook a bowl of vermicelli with some broth and eat it like noodles. However, due to the trouble of making it and the low yield, people still eat it as a dish.
This thing is not difficult to make, but it is time-consuming and labor-intensive. First, it must be ground into pulp with a stone mill, then soaked and precipitated to precipitate the starch, then steamed into rice noodles, and finally cut into thin strips with a guillotine. This is just one of the methods. You can make flat and wide noodles.
There are also those that are drawn with a mold and then steamed, which are the common cylindrical thin vermicelli. Another is the cabbage introduced from the Lu tribe. It is not like cabbage, and it is different from the cabbage that Luo Chong has seen, but it has now become the most important vegetable in the Han tribe.
Other offal was not wasted, some were used to cook, some were used to stew, nothing was wasted, but meat was not available every meal, so in order to supplement protein, the barracks often bought tofu from the market at Fumaguan Pass to cook, so as to ensure the nutrition of the soldiers.
The soldiers washed themselves and had a good meal. After they were all cleaned up, they lined up to receive a new quilt, and everyone was smiling. After
Luo Chong finished his meal, he also arranged for the bugler he brought with him to blow the bugle from today, so that the soldiers could get familiar with the sound of the bugle first, and then start training more buglers after the selection of the arms was completed and the organization was divided.
In addition to the bugle, there are some small gadgets, such as whistles made of copper, but these things have not been distributed yet. After the organization is divided, they will be distributed to the flag level.
The telescope cannot be made yet. The crystal ore that Youye brought back before is not enough for experiments, and it is impossible to mass produce glass. So we can only wait. After the coal mine is ready, we can find a way to mass produce it.
Time passed quickly. The night in the military camp was very quiet. The next morning, after the loud wake-up call, there was another wake-up drum. The soldiers in each barracks got up.
There was no special arrangement in the morning. As usual, all of them gathered at the parade ground for a morning run, then went back to wash, eat breakfast, and finally went back to tidy up their housework, and then gathered for training. The only difference from usual was that all the soldiers changed into uniform crimson military uniforms and cowhide military boots today.
Just this small change brought a huge effect. When Luo Chong took Jiang Xuan to the reviewing stand again in the morning to watch the soldiers running exercises, Luo Chong was very excited and satisfied, while Jiang Xuan next to him was deeply shocked.
Thousands of people all wore the same red military uniforms, lined up to run around the school field, and shouted slogans like one, two, three, four. The scene was like a red river appeared on the playground, and the ground was shaking with their neat footsteps.
Jiang Xuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart. With such a team, let alone going out to fight, it is estimated that as long as the team is pulled in front of the enemy, it can scare the enemy to death. Although it can't be called a sea of people, it can definitely be called a river of people.
Luo Chong smiled at the scene in front of him, wondering if these troops wearing red military uniforms can be called the "Red Army".
(End of this chapter)
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