Traveler Major League

Chapter 129 Military Academy

Proceeding along the flat ground that has been trampled into a path by the river, the speed of the caravan suddenly increased a bit. Autumn has arrived, and the vegetation by the river is showing a withered and yellow scene. Even the water flow has become much thinner, but these are still It couldn't affect the warm atmosphere in the caravan. The long trek didn't make them depressed. On the contrary, because they won the battle and took the prisoners, everyone marched energetically, especially when they were approaching the base.

They arrived at the bastion base in the afternoon, and when they were two miles away, the defense troops to greet them had already lined up and waited in line. The captured new red-haired man was taken away by the reception personnel of the naturalization camp, and the goods were taken away by the warehouse staff. After inspection and acceptance, everyone else went back to the barracks to rest.

After setting up the team, Company Commander Zhao hurried to the military academy to report. The staff who had just been connected with him had notified him of the training arrangements. When he arrived, he was able to attend the afternoon class, so he didn't have time to rest. After two mouthfuls of dry food, they came. Right now, the development of the People's Army is in full swing, and everyone is busy running around like a hard-working scalper.

The so-called military academy is very simple, just a few brick and tile houses built on the top of the triangular fort attached to the bastion. Because there is no plate glass, all the windows around are opened, and the windows are pasted with window paper. This is the nearest paper factory. of new products.

The basic principle of papermaking is very simple. Paper is composed of short fibers and binder materials (pulp or other materials), which provide certain mechanical properties and pore structure after being combined.

In theory, as long as fibrous tissues with a certain aspect ratio are bonded together, paper can be formed.

Therefore, wood pulp, straw pulp, cane pulp, cotton pulp, bamboo pulp, reed pulp, etc. can all be used as raw materials for papermaking, and the properties of the paper produced are also different.

Because of the lack of bamboo, the people's clubs used mixed materials, mainly wood pulp, and a few people opened a paper mill. The steps are also simple:
(1) Cut the wood into 1-meter-long strips, add lime, and soak them in a pool for about 14 days.

(2) Clean it up.

(3) Beat (using hydraulic power) to a pulp.

(4) Cook the wood pulp and plant ash (alkali) together for 10 hours (remove the pectin and lignin sticking between the fibers, so that the fibers can be dispersed and become pulp. The cooking time varies greatly with different raw materials. difference).

(5) After removing impurities from the wood pulp with running water, add water and stir evenly to form a slurry.

(6) Use a wooden curtain to swing the material in the wooden tank to become paper.

(7) Press the paper on the wooden board to squeeze out the water, stick it on the wall heated by firewood inside, let it dry, and then it can become practical paper.

The six desks are placed in the middle of the classroom, and Company Commander Zhao has already found an empty desk in the middle when he was still outside the window. This is exactly his position. There are two rows of benches along the walls around the classroom, and the benches are full of people. These are soldiers on vacation, they can come to listen to the lectures as auditors, because it is the course taught by Liu Ze, so there are a lot of people.

"Report, Zhao Deshui came to report." Company Commander Zhao stood at the door and saluted.

"Come in, you came just in time, sit there." Liu Ze pointed to the only vacant desk and said, standing on the podium, he held the new version of the infantry drill code that smelled like ink in his hand, full of pride in his heart.

All of this was developed from scratch, and the books printed by movable type printing are spread out in front of him. This type of movable type printing is basically a problem of thinking. After he solved the design and manufacturing process of rifles and artillery, The printing problem that has plagued thousands of years was solved in two days.

There are only three main difficulties in movable type printing:
(1) Casting type: first use copper and iron to make type molds, and then use low-melting lead, antimony, and tin to cast type, typesetting and printing with typesetting, after typesetting, there is no need to disassemble the plate, and the whole set can be preserved. For batch printing, this is the case. The cost will be very low, very suitable for commercial use.

(2) Ink: Use soot black (literally, smoke from burning oil or pine wood), linseed oil (oil crops can be fried or steamed at high temperature, and then physically squeezed), rosin ( Cut the knife edge on the pine tree, put the turpentine that flows out directly into the boiler to boil, and then filter layer by layer to get it), alcohol (previous video has a preparation method) to prepare ink for lead printing, if conditions permit In some cases, paraffin, glycerin, etc. can be added.

(3) Printing tools: It is even simpler, using a screw rod for embossing to improve printing quality and efficiency.

Looking at the crowded students in the classroom, and seeing the pairs of knowledge-seeking eyes looking towards him, Liu Ze cleared his throat and prepared to start today's class.

"Congratulations to you six, but don't be so busy being happy. This means that you will take on heavier responsibilities and become company-level military chief officers. Our team implements a dual-chief officer responsibility system. Recently, people often ask the company Who is the leader here? I'll tell you now."

"It is important to know that the company commander and instructor are the military and political heads of the company at the same level. There is no question of who has power. Only the division of labor according to responsibilities, cooperation with each other, and division of labor are responsible for the company's military and political work. As the company commander, you must take care of it The military should focus on training. Practice has proved that no matter in the past or now, if the company commanders and instructors fight for power and care about personal rights, the construction of the company will never be successful. You must keep this in mind.”

"As military chiefs, you have the right to make decisions in battle, and you have to take responsibility. If you determine the battle plan, the entire company must obey the order, including the instructor. If you have any questions, the instructor You can use the power of the secretary to deprive you of command power, the political instructor has the right to make decisions, and you have the right to make decisions in the military. Do you understand this?"

When the six company commanders sitting in the middle heard the question, they all stood up and said, "Understood!"

"In the future, our military training will be completely changed. As a regular army of the People's Army, we will no longer need swords and shields, pikemen and javelins, let alone archers, because we have this—— Single-shot rifle!" Liu Ze said, and took out a firecracker from the wooden box on the desk case. For loading, a thunderbolt flash cap is placed at the bottom of the fixed bomb. The principle is to hit the cap with a needle, and the cap will ignite and detonate the black powder to push the lead projectile to launch.

The total length is 130 cm, the barrel length is 79 cm, and the caliber reaches 11 mm. Due to the lack of rubber, leather can only be used as a sealing ring, and the air tightness is not good, so the effective range is only 300 meters, but this is the range of accurate shooting. It is already a cross-age weapon. With the addition of a triangular bayonet, the total length reaches 1.7 meters. The soldiers hold it up like a short spear.

Although he knew that fixed bullets with metal casings were the future direction of development, Liu Ze really had no patience to wait for the development of copper-cased bullets. Copper-cased bullets were more difficult than making guns, and bullets made of oiled paper and flax had already been produced. It is enough to crush all opponents. The important thing is that it is easy to manufacture and can be mass-produced. Even red-haired women can form an artificial assembly line.

The casting experiment of the artillery was also successful. It only takes a while to produce and store enough weapons and ammunition, and soon the military strength of the People's Army will not have any shortcomings.

With a gunshot, a hole was opened in the wooden target 20 meters away, the bolt was pulled, and the small iron rod on the side of the gun body was used to slightly clean up the remnants inside the gun chamber. He took out a bullet from the gun and reloaded it, pushed the bolt on, aimed, and there was another "snap" shot, and the cloth armor hanging on the wooden target shattered.

The surrounding officers and soldiers clapped their hands and cheered. The shooting and reloading speed was too fast, and it only took less than ten seconds to reload.

Liu Ze raised his rifle and shouted at the excited crowd: "Da Ming, we are coming!"

(End of this chapter)