The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 153 Recruitment and Armament

Liu Tai's conscription order was issued, and the counties where the government soldiers were transferred began to recruit soldiers.

The counties controlled by Liu Tai, except for the two counties in the northern part of Jizhou, were on the front line, so no soldiers were deployed to fight.

In addition, the remaining three counties in southern Jizhou, Taishan County, and six counties in Qingzhou successively received orders to recruit soldiers.

The recruitment of each county is basically based on population density. For example, Taishan County and Linzi County have recruited 3000 people, but the most remote Donglai County or Changguang County only have about 800 people.

No matter where it is, at least the local people are very enthusiastic about signing up to join the army. Some people were eliminated due to reasons such as being too heavy, too short, too tall, and even knelt on the ground and cried loudly, as if they had lost a lot of wealth.

There is no way. Since ancient times, the poor were poor in literature and rich in military affairs. The standard of cultivating a qualified warrior is actually higher than cultivating a scholar.

Because qualified warriors risk their lives to fight for wealth, and if they lose, they will have nothing.

As for scholars, the real cost lies in the popularization of education. The more stagnant public education is, the more valuable scholars will be.

But if education is spread to every common person, those who are educated will only become qualified laborers when they grow up.

Of course, the operational efficiency of the entire society will be greatly enhanced with a complete improvement in the quality of the population.

No matter what, Liu Tai knew that the soldiers recruited by Fanfu Military System must be mentally unstable now.

In this first year, I tried my best not to instruct them, but to let them get familiar with military life under the military system.

When to go home to cultivate the fields, when to participate in army training, and when to deal with the assessment of the soldiers. When you need to recruit the soldiers in the future, you can directly select the outstanding talents among the soldiers.

Of course, in this process, compared with physical training, ideological transformation is indispensable. Military historians will teach the "Book of Han" to the soldiers who want to make progress. If the soldiers want to take a step forward, they need to be familiar with the "Book of Han". 》.

After all, Liu Tai attaches great importance to ideological leadership, and he doesn't mind even if the original soldiers were Liu Tai who became government soldiers because of their farm work.

Liu Tai, who has experienced modern society, has even seen strange species like colonizers, not to mention the soldiers who only want dozens of acres of land.

But after all, the army is a whole, and it must unify its thoughts and disciplines. Therefore, if they want to complete the leap from official soldiers to formal soldiers, they must be literate and complete national awakening.

And beside these soldiers, in addition to the soldiers themselves, there are also a group of special seeds of soldiers.

This batch of government soldiers were all under ten years old, and each of them studied the "Book of Han" seriously according to the courses arranged by the military historians.

All of them were orphans of fallen soldiers, and Liu Tai took them to the nearby Fubing military camp for teaching.

For every soldier who died, Liu Tai would have people check it carefully, because if the soldier who died in battle has no descendants, his military field will be recovered. If he has children, the eldest son will inherit his position and join the army. Go to the army to train.

If his wife has just given birth to a child and is too young, the military field will still be retained in the boy's name and left to his wife to take care of.

The local government and veterans will take care of them, such as renting farming equipment or helping out during busy farming periods. Military families are given priority.

When the child reaches the age of 6, Liu Tai will directly send a child to the military camp. He will be arranged to live in the military camp since he was a child, and a special class will be set up to cultivate the child. Only at the end of each year, he is allowed to go home for a month to reunite with his relatives. .

It is not until they successfully reach the age of 15 that they officially become adults, at which time they will officially become Fu soldiers.

This kind of children will initially receive physical training and be taught reading and literacy. However, as time goes by, various military skills and knowledge, as well as "Han Shu", "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", "Qi Min Ya Shu", etc. Courses will also be taught to them.

The most important thing is that only by cultivating him from an early age can he truly establish the values ​​Liu Tai needs.

Of course, the biggest role of these children now is to appear directly in front of these soldiers who may have become soldiers because of military fields.

Even if you die in battle, Liu Tai will not ignore your descendants. On the contrary, if you die in battle for the revival of the Han Dynasty, then your descendants will definitely be cared for by Liu Tai with the highest treatment.

This kind of thing is really not just said with words, these soldiers will believe it, and if they really say it, the soldiers will probably suspect that Liu Tai wants them to die.

After all, life is such a precious thing. If it is gone, there is nothing.

But now, these soldiers saw that the children sacrificed by the soldiers as soldiers were really taken care of by Liu Tai. The military land they had finally earned with their lives could be kept as long as they did not die.

For these warriors, there is really nothing more convincing than this.

At the same time, Liu Tai also wanted to use these children to further influence this group of new soldiers who had just entered the army camp.

After all, our army is not the army of the old era. We must respect ideology and military discipline. We must also let them know that the soldiers around them are their comrades and their community of interests. They must not beat or scold soldiers casually.
After these martyrs, all of them look young and train hard in the military camp, and are the people who can influence them the most.

Of course, in order to ensure the smooth growth of these martyrs in the future, the military history sent by Liu Tai will record in detail the daily life of these martyrs in the military camp every day.

Any violence that occurs in the military, especially violence against martyrs, must be investigated to the end.

All in all, Liu Tai used this method to allow the soldiers to have no worries on the battlefield, because every soldier is the best supervisor of Liu Tai's policies.

At the same time, through this method, when you choose the soldiers, the soldiers you train will be at least a warrior who is relatively outstanding in terms of ideological awareness and combat effectiveness.

As the recruitment matter went smoothly, Liu Tai entered his military camp to conduct inspections and inspections.

At this time, I saw Yu Yao training his soldiers. These batches were all selected from the government soldiers, and they are still getting used to it.

To be honest, these soldiers selected from the government soldiers are all elites personally, but because they are from the government soldiers, they are somewhat undisciplined and lone wolves. Especially they are all the best among the government soldiers. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been selected, which would make him even more arrogant.

At this time, it is necessary for this guy Yu Yao to sharpen these new soldiers who have just become soldiers from the war.

Through large-scale training, they can modify their tempers and make them understand that fighting alone on the battlefield is not a skill. Teamwork is the most important thing.

Yu Yao didn't expect Liu Tai to come over. After ordering the soldiers to stand at attention, he quickly ran over and saluted:
"I've seen the Duke. Did the Duke come to the school to perform martial arts today?"

"No!" Liu Tai shook his head after hearing Yu Yao's words, "How are the training of these new recruits?"

"They all have a good foundation. After two months of training under me, they got rid of the laziness they had when they were soldiers and strengthened their ability to execute the organization. They will soon be able to form combat capabilities.

When the time comes to fight another war and see blood, he should be no worse than a veteran! "Yu Yao said confidently to Liu Tai. "Two months? "Liu Tai nodded and asked about the medicine, "I understand. Is there anything else missing for military supplies? "

"It shouldn't be necessary, right?" Yu Yao thought, "Not to mention weapons, but at least there are still spears, and I accumulated a lot of arrows last winter, and I can even make a special one. Archery Corps.

Really speaking, there is only a shortage of armor, but we don’t have enough livestock here to make enough leather armor.

However, the food is getting better month by month, especially after the wheat harvest, fish balls, meatballs and other dishes appear in our military rations.

Sometimes I wonder, is it really okay to eat so well? ? "

"We are reviving the Han Dynasty and protecting the country. We just ask for better food. What's the point!" Liu Tai waved his hand and said,
"The armor is not enough... it is indeed a big problem, but forget about the leather armor, let's go straight to scale armor or pierced armor!"

During the Han Dynasty, it was equipped with the army in batches, and it became the most equipped iron fish scale armor in the army after the iron tie armor.

Chain armor, also known as "ring-lock armor" in ancient China, is generally made of iron wire or iron rings to form a garment-like shape. Each ring is interlocked with the other four rings, shaped like a net lock. It has excellent defensive capabilities, at least on the face of it. It can do no damage to arrows.

"Iron?" When Yu Yao heard Liu Tai's words, he couldn't help but said with joy, "My Lord, how long will it take for the soldiers to install it?"

"I'm afraid it won't be possible this year, but by next year, we should be able to equip all soldiers!"

Liu Tai knew that the blast furnace had successfully made iron, and his steel output had increased significantly.

However, the quality of the iron forged in this way has always been a big problem, leaving Liu Tai to make farm tools for the common people.

If you want to improve the quality of iron, you need to accumulate and experiment bit by bit, such as flame temperature, configuration materials, ore purity, etc.

The group arranged by Jie Fei needs to calcine iron every time and forge it as if they are lucky.

In fact, this is where Liu Tai is most helpless.

Because Liu Tai himself was not from an engineering background, he could not help at all in this regard.

The only thing I know is that this kind of thing can be regarded as materials science to a certain extent.

Materials science is all about trying little by little, and Liu Tai also knows that this is purely a gamble on luck.

So you must have enough patience to wait slowly.

They can experiment once a week, and they have Liu Tai's strong support to keep trying.

No matter what, the progress of the craftsmen is still a bit slow. The iron they forge now has too many impurities. They can only further forge the iron through hundreds of steel-making techniques to purify it into steel.

However, if the hundred steel-making techniques are implemented, it will take too much time and require too much manual power.

Therefore, although Liu Tai successfully calcined a large amount of pig iron through blast furnace ironmaking technology, there was still a long way to go before he could convert it into armor.

Of course, Liu Tai also thought about the steel forging method of accelerating the reaction between high-temperature molten iron and other substances through chemical reactions.

It can only be said that Liu Tai knows the theoretical knowledge, but in practice, what element replacements and what impurities are transformed, how can these be translated into popular terms for these blacksmiths?Liu Tai said that he really couldn’t do it!
Even if he didn't know the replacement materials required for the steel filling method, this was back to materials science, which made Liu Tai very angry.

Liu Tai had to admit that his knowledge from later generations could enable the technology of this era to overtake him in some aspects.

But the upper limit of the development of the times is still limited by energy and materials. If these two things are not solved, no matter how many solutions are solved at the application level, they will still be limited by materials and energy themselves.

Of course, because carbon ore is used to produce a large amount of pig iron through Gaoling Ironmaking, even if Liu Tai lets all the craftsmen work hard on pig iron forging, he is afraid that he will not be able to create enough Bailiang Steel by the end of the year.

So Liu Tai began to try to let craftsmen use water power to develop a hammer that keeps drooping, and use mechanical power to hammer and make steel.

It would even be better if hydraulic forging could be carried out directly at some special waterfalls to increase the pressure by hydraulic scouring.

In addition, Liu Tai asked the craftsmen to try to use the upward steam of water to form mechanical force and transform it into mechanical tools that continuously beat.

Liu Tai naturally knew that these craftsmen would soon figure out a way to convert hydraulic power into orderly mechanical energy.

After all, China's use of water conservancy has reached an incredible level, and it is only an entry-level ability for any master craftsman.

But the other one, converting steam into mechanical kinetic energy, was something they had never thought of and had no previous experience at all.

Under such circumstances, even the most basic simple force-borrowing device may take about a year to figure out. Even many master craftsmen feel confused about how to use this force.

But Liu Tai doesn't care, Liu Tai needs them to study these things.

It doesn't matter whether it's ten years or twenty years. If you accumulate enough technology, at least before you die, you can start to use steam kinetic energy in production.

With the application of this kind of kinetic energy in production, no matter how rudimentary the technology is, the Chinese people will definitely work hard to pass on this technology just to let themselves eat a few more mouthfuls of food.

In China, if you want to promote any technology, you cannot rely on the top, but must rely on the bottom.

Not only is the historical view that the people are the creators of material, but more importantly, anything that the common people do not feel the benefit will be eliminated. On the contrary, if something is created for the common people to produce, the common people will try their best to produce it. passed down.

Therefore, Liu Taiyou had to wait patiently.

As for the current water conservancy forging device, it is already being equipped. By next year, it should be able to improve the efficiency of converting pig iron into steel. By then, the main force of the entire army will be able to wear scale armor.

Again, the priority for equipment must be the main force. Soldiers like Yu Yao who are still training will naturally have to line up in the back row.

After the review of the new recruits was completed, Liu Tai went to see Zhou Ping, because among his generals, compared to several other generals, Zhou Ping's frontal command ability was at least more and more outstanding!

"I've met the Duke!" On the school grounds, Zhou Ping saw Liu Tai and hurriedly came over to salute Liu Tai.

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