Chapter 129: Training Begins
Training soldiers will inevitably affect the labor force in the tribe, which is completely unavoidable.
What Zhou Xu has to do now is to find a balance.
While achieving your goals, minimize the impact.
Considering this point, Zhou Xu came up with a solution, which was to let several camps recruit soldiers separately.
Under this premise, soldiers definitely need to conduct physical training every day.
For this part of training, the soldiers will simply be asked to help the logging team, the construction team, or the agricultural department by doing physical work.
This will, to a certain extent, reduce the impact on internal work efficiency after departments lose staff.
In addition to physical training, things like weapons training and tactical training can just be practiced normally.
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu quickly called Zhou Chongshan and Li Ce to discuss this matter.
The two of them were immediately excited when they heard this! Although they also knew that the reason why the leader let them be "vagrants" in the camp was to keep them in good condition and be ready to deal with any possible battles.
But being idle all the time made them feel uneasy and uncomfortable.
Now that Zhou Xu said this, they knew they had work to do.
At the Black Moon Camp, Zhou Xu only planned to recruit ten people for the first batch of soldiers.
There is no other way. There are only more than 80 people in the Black Moon Camp. If we recruit more people, the daily operation of the camp will be affected. We have to do this step by step.
But precisely because the number of recruits is small, Zhou Xu plans to carefully select these ten people and has extremely high requirements for them.
First of all, the "talent" part must be related to combat.
The second issue is the type of troops. Under normal circumstances, they must be distinguished one by one.
But as mentioned before, Zhou Xu had extremely high requirements for this first batch of ten soldiers. He wanted to train these ten soldiers to be all-round soldiers who could wield stone axes and stab spears in close combat, be able to draw bows and draw arrows for long-range attacks, and be able to attack both near and far!
And he already has a best example, that is Zhou Chongshan!
The talent of 'Weapon Master' allows Zhou Chongshan to be at ease with both melee and ranged weapons.
In response to this situation, Zhou Xu had already talked to Zhou Chongshan, pointing out that he was good at using a variety of different weapons, which was his advantage, and asked him not to stick to just one weapon.
After some effort, ten soldiers were quickly selected, including Zhou Chongshan and Li Ce, a total of twelve people.
"From today on, you are the first batch of soldiers of the tribe!"
"What is a soldier's duty?"
"It's obeying orders and defending our homeland!"
As a contemporary graduate, although Zhou Xu has never been a soldier, he has participated in military training, and now he has learned their instructors' skills very well.
After the lecture, a hint of regret flashed across Zhou Xu's eyes.
[According to the plot, a troublemaker should appear at this time and I should take care of him! ]
Unfortunately, in today's tribe, every member of the tribe reveres him, and can even be said to respect him like a god.
In front of him, there are no troublemakers at all, and everyone is so obedient.
According to Zhou Xu's arrangement, as long as there is a need for heavy hard labor at the Black Moon Camp, these ten soldiers will be immediately given "physical training" to strengthen their physical fitness by doing hard labor.
And when there is no hard labor, they will carry out battle formation and weapons training.
When it comes to battle formations, Zhou Chongshan and Li Ce definitely have no idea about this concept, but Li Ce has actually done something similar.
That is, in order to avoid the possible harm caused by the slingers, he dispersed the density of the attack.
In essence, this is undoubtedly also a formation.
Judging from their panels, Li Ce, who is more of a wise general, has a much better ability to command troops than Zhou Chongshan after growing up.
But Zhou Chongshan’s focus is different, he is a typical military general.
Considering the current historical context, in the primitive era dominated by small-scale armed conflicts, it goes without saying how important a military general with strong individual combat power is.
He can directly determine the outcome of a battle.
Of course, when it comes to development, we cannot just look at the present. As the scale of the war increases, the value of wise generals like Li Ce will become greater and greater.
Therefore, the training of both sides cannot be neglected.
As the leader of the tribe, Zhou Xu could not have time to train his troops every day. Therefore, in addition to physical training, the work of battle formation training and weapons training naturally fell on Li Ce and Zhou Chongshan.
As for battle formation training, he first taught Li Ce and Zhou Chongshan several battle formations that he knew, while the training task mainly fell on Li Ce.
Because he obviously learns faster.
As for Zhou Chongshan, needless to say, he is responsible for weapons training.
In the tribe, Zhou Chongshan is the best at using weapons. Zhou Xu has nothing to advise him on this matter, so it would be better for him to let Zhou Chongshan give him some advice.
After arranging various training tasks, Zhou Xu quickly returned to his daily life.
During this period, the glue research and development task previously assigned to Zhuang Mengdie soon received news. After many tedious attempts, the glue used as an adhesive was finally successfully developed.
In this way, Zhuang Mengdie can also use glue and start making bows and arrows.
Compared with his original idea of using mortise and tenon structure to make the bow body, the convenience brought by this glue made Zhuang Mengdie feel incredible.
When all the materials required for processing are ready.
Now she only needs to squeeze and glue the polished materials together piece by piece, wait for the glue to dry, and after the bonding is completed, she can easily complete a bamboo bow with a little more operation.
Of course, the bamboo bow glued together is not as durable as the bamboo bow she made with mortise and tenon structure, and its strength is relatively limited.
After shooting arrows many times, the glue will begin to debond and break.
But even so, it cannot shake the value of this new bamboo bow.
Because the new bamboo bow has the ability to be mass-produced, unlike the combination bow that Zhuang Mengdie made before, who can make it now without sufficient craftsmanship? And it takes a lot of time and cannot meet the needs of mass production at all.
With this as a premise, Zhuang Mengdie pondered for a while in order to make the new bamboo bow more durable and stable.
It was decided that after the bonding was completed, the bonding gap should be reinforced from the outside with glue, and then glue should be applied to the animal skin rope and wrapped around the bow body for secondary reinforcement.
However, even so, it did not achieve the level she wanted.
In this situation, Zhuang Mengdie suddenly had an idea...
[If I glue it together, it’s not strong enough and it’s easy to damage, but if I use a combination structure, it’s too time-consuming. So can I just combine the two sides? ]
As this thought flashed through his mind, Zhuang Mengdie's eyes lit up and he already had an idea in his mind!
(End of this chapter)
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