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Lin Yuan said: "There is no need to go to the altar to worship the commander-in-chief, save the money. But we can spread the news. They expected that we would send troops after we ascended the altar to worship the commander-in-chief, so our defenses would be lax. We have an opportunity for campaign surprise."

Emperor Guangxu thought for a while and said, "Lin Aiqing has more ways to do it."

Lin Yuan said: "I came here this time to hope that the Holy Spirit will coordinate and solve the problem of weapons for the new recruits."

Emperor Guangxu said: "How do I coordinate?"

Lin Yuan said: "Your Majesty also knows that it is too late to buy weapons from foreign countries, we can only produce them ourselves, and the Anqing Nei Ordnance Institute and the Jiangnan General Manufacturing Bureau belong to different factions, and I can't command them. I hope that the holy decree will let them produce a batch of guns and artillery as soon as possible to supply the front line."

Emperor Guangxu said: "It's easy to handle, I just talk to Zhang Zhidong and the others."

Lin Yuan knew that Zhang Zhidong was a veteran of the Hunan Army and the founder of the Jiangnan General Manufacturing Bureau, so it was natural for him to speak.

Lin Yuan came out of the palace and thought to himself: "If you want to win a battle, weapons alone are not enough. War is a large system, and every detail in it may determine the outcome of a war. For example, in the late Ming Dynasty In the Battle of Saerhu, the cuffs of the military uniforms of the Ming army were tightly attached to the wrists. In the cold winter, many people's hands were frostbitten, which greatly reduced their combat effectiveness. However, the sleeves of the Qing army were very long, so soldiers You can put your hands in your sleeves, and it is not easy to get frostbite. This, to a certain extent, determines the progress of the battle."

Soldiers have the most say in what the war needs, so he came to the barracks where the army was training in the Northeast. This group of people had all escaped from the Northeast. As soon as Lin Yuan entered the barracks, he saw a few veterans on the empty playground. Sitting there cleaning his guns, the military uniforms of that era did not have marks such as seniority cards. The reason why Lin Yuan knew that they were veterans was mainly from their age.

Lin Yuan walked over, sat down beside them, and said, "How are the old brothers?"

In that era, there was a saying, "A good man should not be a soldier, and a good iron should not be nailed." In the hearts of people in that era, a good man should go to school to earn fame, or he can live his life by farming and serving as a soldier. Most of them are rascals, and even some criminals were dispatched to military camps, so the social status of soldiers is very low. When a few veterans saw that someone respected them so much, and saw that this person was dressed in extraordinary clothes, they immediately put down their work and looked at it together. Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan asked: "Have any of you fought against the little devil?"

As soon as these words came out, several veterans sighed one after another, and one of them said: "Don't mention it, the fight was a fight, and the loss was terrible. Otherwise, you don't need to stay in this corner."

Lin Yuan knew that the veteran spoke the Northeast dialect, "嗮旯" means a place, and "Maozuo" means hiding.

The other said: "Let's just be a cat. There is no way. Who told us that we can't beat the little devil. The place where our battalion was stationed, the way to deliver food to us from the back was cut off by the little devil. Brothers, a few days later." The water rice didn’t stick to your teeth, and when you’re hungry, grab two handfuls of snow and eat it.”

The "hungry eye" here is also a Northeast dialect, which describes being extremely hungry.

The veteran went on to say: "It's too troublesome to cook our meal. We have to make a stove and get water to cook it. The little devil's meal is good. One by one rice balls, the Mongolian cavalry's is even better. Mince the meat." It’s broken and stuffed into sheep’s intestines, cooked and then dried, and you can eat it out, and it’s not easy to spoil.”

Another veteran said disdainfully: "Aren't you just starving? What's the matter! It's embarrassing if we lose. That time the superiors asked us to garrison in a place called Xujia Village, saying that we were little devils." I want to fight, but no one knows where the Xujia Village is, but I can’t defy the military order and not leave. The captain said, let’s go and have a look. If you can meet the locals, ask them. Let’s go, let’s go. After half a day, we finally saw someone, it was our cavalry, they told us that Fengtian was lost, so we ran back in a daze."

Lin Yuan asked, "Don't you have a map?"

The veteran asked, "What is a map?"

Lin Yuan said, "It's just a picture, with place names or something on it."

Several veterans shook their heads one after another, Lin Yuan thought to himself: "If there is no map, this battle will be impossible!"

An old soldier said: "You guys are nothing, I'll tell you something, it's fun. We ran all the way back from Fengtian, and we met a group of patrolling soldiers in the corner of Jinzhou, all wearing our The military uniforms of the Qing Dynasty were babbling, and we couldn’t understand a single word. We thought they were the spies of the little devils, and we almost did it. Later, we found out that the group came from Hunan. Yes, so we can understand every word they say."

After chatting for a while, Lin Yuan got up to leave, and wrote down the problems mentioned by these veterans one by one. Food and maps seemed to be the key points to be solved.

Soon, Lin Yuan thought of a way. He wanted to contact the Beijing ship and use the map on the Beijing ship, but after thinking about it, this method would not work, because the map on the Beijing ship was based on the situation of China in the 21st century. In the past 100 years, although the topography will not change much, the changes in the villages are earth-shaking.

For users, it is more important to mark the village name and the map of the village situation, because the commander can obtain some supplementary information from it, which is especially important for this army with serious logistical support problems.

Lin Yuan couldn't help thinking of a way. He came to Zhang Hua and asked, "How is your chat with the president of the chamber of commerce going?"

Zhang Hua said, "It's not bad. The chairman agreed to get me a sum of money. What about you, what are your plans for the near future?"

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "I plan to draw a batch of large-scale maps for use by the grassroots troops on the front line."

Zhang Hua said: "It is a very complicated thing to draw a map, but now we have aerial photography technology and radar detection technology, and there are many ready-made maps on the Beijing ship. For example, the information of villages, cities, and buildings can be removed by technical means, and then new humanistic information can be added. The changes in the topography should not be too large, and a slight correction should not be a big problem.”

Lin Yuan said: "I think so too, but we are faced with a problem. We can't see the names of these villages from the sky."

Zhang Hua nodded and said, "This is the biggest problem we are facing. If the place names are not accurate, it will be no different if we have a map or not."

The two thought for a while, and Lin Yuan said: "I have a way. We take pictures from the air. In these pictures, many big cities are known to everyone. Then we ask the local people. According to the relationship between these villages and Knowing the relative positions of the big cities, we can know the names of these villages. It’s like putting together a puzzle, starting with a known piece, looking for it piece by piece, and finally piece together the whole picture.”

Zhang Hua nodded and smiled, "This is really the most magnificent jigsaw puzzle ever."

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