Lu Ming

Chapter 130 Temporary First Battalion

With new vassals, there will be new vassals.

On the playground in the middle of the Chikan military camp, in front of all 100 indigenous soldiers, Han Xiaobo announced an appointment in the big office with an electric loudspeaker: from now on, the local army "Temporary First Battalion" under the jurisdiction of the Tainan Suppression General will be established. , referred to as "temporary camp".

The soldiers of the first battalion are all composed of local aborigines. At present, the actual number is 100, and the vacancy is 200 to be filled.

The battalion commander of the first battalion was concurrently served by Wang Xiaohui, the chief of staff of Tainan Suppression, and the deputy battalion commander Gongda.

that's all.

None of the natives could understand Han Xiaobo's quick Mandarin, not even Gonda, who could already stutter and speak Chinese.But it doesn't matter, soon a few young natives in military uniform came over and began to explain to the tribe with difficulty.

Prior to this, the time-travelers had selected some "indigenous long-term followers" from the new appendages, and the teenagers were assigned to some departments that often had to deal with the indigenous people, basically they were followers of a certain time-traveler.In such an environment of being on duty around the clock, some smart teenagers quickly learned simple Mandarin everyday expressions, and the few assigned to the troops were no exception.

The next step is to arrange dormitories for the aborigines, take a bath, and a series of preludes to the recruits. During this process, 30 people always stood in the military posture on the playground. They were sweating like air in the noisy barracks, and everyone turned a blind eye. Very pitiful.

The 100 native soldiers were not settled until just before dinner.

After dinner it's time to change clothes.The main weapons of the First Battalion are still the javelins brought by the native soldiers, and this point is not going to be changed by the traversing crowd: the main battles will be done with firearms, and the new soldiers of the attached army will use whatever they carry.And the opponent is also a native who is not very threatening. For a certain force that is currently short of iron, the original javelin is enough.

This is the only way to attack, but you can still do something about defense: rattan armor.

Born in Yunnan Menghuo Folk Customs Garden in later generations, the Huangteng breastplate is made of Taiwan's local Huangteng through machine grinding, tung oil soaking, fumigation, machine weaving and other thirteen processes. At this moment, it emits a hard black oily luster , were awarded to the newly attached soldiers one by one.

This kind of rattan armor has a fine structure, staggered weaving, toughness, rain resistance, knife resistance, and gun stab resistance. It is an excellent armor for southern rainy and hot areas. The only weakness is that it is not fireproof.

After demonstrating the defense of rattan armor on the spot with native spear darts in the middle of the playground, the morale of the soldiers in the first battalion was extremely high-this kind of armor that can perish with the opponent's javelin is equivalent to an extra life between life and death. Indigenous warriors who have experience in headhunting after meeting with hostile tribes immediately understood the value of rattan armor, which does not need to be translated at all.

The lining of the rattan armor is made of homemade scraps, and soon some smart people who had traded with the Japanese proposed that the lining should be made of buckskin. Let me go, there are quite a lot of things?Wealthy soldiers like the U.S. soldiers pay for better accessories if they want better ones, not to mention the fact that the poor and white travel forces now count how many upgrades are needed, and send people back to the village to report. A pair of armour, including the installation fee, is two buckskin , hand it over to the nearest kiln area, and get the new style in two days
Well, the natives can be coaxed to hand over the buckskin happily without killing people and burning houses, which is barely a bit better than the Dutch.

The tumultuous day is finally over.Early the next morning, soldiers from the two divisions of the barracks began to line up on the playground.The soldiers of the first battalion hold spears, uniformly wear bamboo hats, rattan armor on the upper body, cropped trousers and straw sandals on the lower body.

The 30 army cadets were wrapped even more tightly: gauze hats, short gowns and gloves on the upper body, leggings on the lower body, cloth covers and straw sandals on the feet, and no part of the whole body was exposed.

Amidst the loud yelling of electric horns, the troops began to set off, and their destination was to come back in a circle.

A team that has not been trained and well-tuned, at least here, cannot be sent to the battlefield; even if it is as rough as a native warrior, it is as precious as it is right now, and there is a huge room for improvement. Human and material resources, this is very important.

The requirements for the so-called elite fighters are actually not high: if they can cooperate well with the main action with an AK in the wilderness of Tainan covered by primitive vegetation in the 17th century, and be good auxiliary soldiers, that's OK.

Start implementing this small goal today.

The first thing the soldiers of the first battalion have to learn is to march in formation.They must learn to maintain a single or double march, and start and stop at any time according to the password.The time-traveling people don't have high demands on them, they don't need a neatly paced military column, they just need them to understand the orders and learn to follow in line, just like the workers queuing up to eat in a big factory, a basic order is enough.

After the team set off, they headed east all the way to the island.The speed along the way is not fast, and at intervals there will be soldiers wearing Boonie hats, rifles, and short sticks passing through the soldiers to maintain order; the team often stops suddenly according to orders from the loudspeaker, and the indigenous soldiers During this process, with the greetings of short ebony sticks, he quickly learned how to walk and follow in formation, pause and rest.

30 cheery students followed at the end of the line—finally no need to stand in a military posture and walk in the line!The young men had chopping knives in their waists and smiles on their faces. They stepped on a neat pace, feeling the elasticity of the new tender weeds under their feet after the burnt land, and they were in a good mood like an outing.

The "rotten land" policy centered on the Chikan New District has been slowly expanding to the island.The weeds near the coast were either burned or cut off to make straw sandals, and the land they left was sprinkled with rush seeds.

The inland shrubs and woodlands are being treated in the same way; cobweb-like streams are being dredged layer by layer, simple wooden bridges are erected, and stagnant pools along the way are being filled.

Therefore, the actions of the large troops today are still very easy. The officers who want to train the formation did not add any difficult subjects today. The place to trek the stream.

The team walked around the "rotten land" with a radius of less than 5 kilometers. After walking for a long time, they ate a battlefield bamboo rice at noon: rice mixed with vegetables and diced fish was stuffed into the bamboo tube. There is one before departure, and at noon the troops light a fire on the spot, and the bamboo tubes can be eaten after heating.

This kind of mixed rice has already been cooked, so there is no need to add water temporarily, and it can be eaten after a little heating at the temperature of Tainan. It is convenient and quick. The disadvantage is that it is not easy to store, and it is best not to eat it overnight.

According to the requirements of the training subjects, half of the team eats hot food today, and the other half eats cold food directly. After eating, all the bamboo tubes are discarded, and then everyone refills their water bottles with purified water in several orange folding buckets.

Before returning to the camp in the afternoon, the large troops also deliberately walked out of the safe "rotten land" area, went to the bushes and the vegetation area full of broad-leaved plants, and returned to the camp before the evening.

(End of this chapter)