Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 338 Winter Action
Discussions with Zhou Xu always opened her mind, which also made Zhuang Mengdie's admiration for their leader stronger.

In Zhuang Mengdie's opinion now, their leader's wisdom is comparable to that of the 'old gods'.

Of course, Zhou Xu didn't know that he was already on an equal footing with the 'Old God' here at Zhuang Mengdie. After clarifying some key points of the three-bow bed crossbow on the design drawing, the next research and development work obviously had to be handed over. It's up to Zhuang Mengdie, and there's basically no room for him to interfere.

Turning around and leaving the equipment department, the two of them really spent a lot of time discussing it.

When passing by the canteen, Zhou Xu had already heard the noise, and dinner had already started cooking there.

During this time before dinner, he didn't intend to be idle and just started wandering around Black Moon Village.

Although he had just been to Black Moon Village a few days ago, he was pressed for time at that time and he was racing against time. He basically didn't rest much. He got off his horse to catch his breath, and then hurriedly got on his horse and started on his way.

Therefore, the inspection work here has really not been done for a long time.

After a full circle, Black Moon Village is still the largest village among the villages under his command. After it was basically completed, the main work of the engineering team began to be transferred to other villages.

This has also led to the fact that Black Moon Village has not changed much after such a long time.

After dinner, Zhou Xu went to bed early. After a night's rest, early the next morning, he went to the recruit training camp outside Black Moon Village.

Regarding the training situation of the new recruits, Zhou Xu just took a look at it from a distance and did not bother to disturb them.

He turned around and found another recruit instructor who happened to be taking a break at the training camp, and asked about the training status of the recruits.

"How are these new recruits trained now?"

"Reporting to the leader, this batch of recruits are in good physical condition. Currently, all trainings can be basically completed smoothly."

After getting this answer, Zhou Xu nodded with satisfaction.

"Tell me, if I just let them go to the battlefield, will they be able to do it?"

As soon as Zhou Xu asked this question, the recruit instructor's body tensed unconsciously.

After a moment of hesitation, he spoke.

"It depends on which side you fight."

Zhou Xu listened and pointed in the direction.

"The primitive tribes beyond the mountains."

The recruit instructor was visibly relieved when he got this answer.

"That should work."

The recruit instructors here are basically veterans who have been injured and retired from the front line. They still have a good idea of ​​who they are fighting now.

If these new recruits were allowed to go to the grassland and fight those lizard people, they would most likely die.

But if the target were changed to primitive tribes deep in the mountains, the situation would be different.

It's not like they haven't fought against primitive tribes, even those like the Manshi tribe that directly occupied an entire mountaintop and dominated it.

The general warriors of primitive tribes are not as good as them in physical fitness. At the same time, they have no spare time for training. In all likelihood, their basic combat abilities are not as good as theirs, let alone their equipment.

These new recruits cannot defeat the lizardmen, but with the equipment, they should be more than enough to defeat a dozen primitive tribes.

Obviously, judging from the current situation, it is impossible for them to be idle this winter.

Last winter, considering that recruiting more people would increase the food burden on one's side, Zhou Xu waited until the beginning of spring before officially mobilizing troops.

But these are extraordinary times, so he has to use extraordinary means.

He will complete the annexation of the population and the training of soldiers in one go this winter to prepare for the fierce battle after the spring!

"Very good. Early tomorrow morning, equipment will be distributed to the new recruits, and then they will set off on ox carts and transfer them all to Tieshan Village!"

"Yes!" After Zhou Xu left, the recruit instructor announced the matter directly to the recruits.

After a period of time, strict military training caused the recruits to have great emotions after learning the news, but they did not become loud.

Some of them were nervous and some were excited.

There is no doubt that they all know that a war is about to begin!

During this period, Zhou Xu, who left the recruit training camp, did not return to Black Moon Village, but rode a horse to Salt Lake Village.

Compared with the distance from Prairie Village to Black Moon Village, the distance from Black Moon Village to Salt Lake Village is undoubtedly closer.

Compared with Black Moon Village, where the overall atmosphere is relatively quiet after the onset of winter, Salt Lake Village is still busy.

No way, the most important job here in Salt Lake Village is mining ore, and mining is a job regardless of season.

Especially for coal mines, demand will become higher after winter than in other seasons.

Therefore, the income of coal diggers in winter is often higher than in other seasons. For them, winter is considered the peak season.

After passing through the surrounding mines, Zhou Xu came directly to the interior of the village.

"Teacher Wang."

"leader."

Seeing Zhou Xu coming over, Wang Dong felt a little surprised and bowed to Zhou Xu unhurriedly.

"By the way, the flag you ordered before is already ready."

While talking, Wang Dong spread out the flag that he had finished making.

Due to the linen material used, the texture of this flag cannot be compared to words such as fineness, but it is still decently made.

Wang Dong probably made it for him by referring to the style of ancient flags. The fabric was dyed black with vegetable dyes, and then he used undyed linen to embroider a word on it, but the word looked a bit strange and didn't look like him. The impression of simplified or traditional Chinese characters.

"Could the word embroidered on the flag be Zhou?"

Although he couldn't understand it, it didn't stop him from guessing. Zhou Xu felt that his guess was pretty accurate.

And this was indeed the case. Wang Dong nodded quickly.

"That's right, it's 'zhou' in Xiaozhuan. I originally wanted to use simplified characters, but after I made it, I always felt that it didn't make sense. And I happened to know a little bit about Xiaozhuan, so I changed the character 'zhou' into Xiaozhuan. This Once I tried it, the effect was indeed much better.”

It is not difficult to tell from Wang Dong's tone that he is very satisfied with the flag he designed.

Zhou Xu also thought this flag was good, so he decided on it directly.

"When will the leader plan to hold the founding ceremony?"

Wang Dong can be said to be very interested in this kind of thing.

But Zhou Xu didn't care much.

"Are there any more ceremonies to be held? Can't I just issue an order and notify all places?"

"What the leader said is wrong. The point of the ceremony is to make the people feel the importance of this matter. The primitive people of this era did not understand this."

"So the more attention you show to the leader, the more the people will naturally pay more attention to the country of 'Great Zhou', and from this, people who want to defend 'Great Zhou' and share weal and woe with 'Great Zhou' will be born. A sense of belonging!”

Wang Dong's words sounded like the same thing, but it was undeniable that Zhou Xu felt that what he said made sense.

"Then let's do it before spring. I don't have that time now."

(End of this chapter)