Bi Maokang has been to the military camp and has seen what the Ming army looks like.

The feeling that the camp gave him was completely different.

The most obvious point is that the back camp is full of active atmosphere.

"How many days will your back camp be trained?"

Zuo Menggeng knew what he was asking.

"Every day, you must not slack off."

Bi Maokang was shocked.

"Train every day, how can soldiers bear it? Are you not afraid of trouble?"

Zuo Menggeng pointed to the heroic soldiers and asked, "Dongjiao Gong, look at these soldiers. They eat and wear warm clothes, and their military pay is paid on time. The family has no worries about food and clothing, and they know why they are fighting. Do you think they are still unwilling to train?"

Why can't the Ming army train every day?

First, the generals are lazy and greedy for enjoyment.

The generals are unwilling to endure hardships against the wind and snow, so how can they force the soldiers to do this?

Secondly, the food and clothing cost of Ming soldiers was very severely deducted, and even the soldiers in the early Ming Dynasty were seriously insufficient in nutrition.

If you practice every day in poor physical fitness, the soldiers will definitely not be able to bear it.

Even if he lacks capital, Zuo Menggeng never stings in military affairs. The soldiers in the back camp have three meals a day, and the meal costs are sufficient, so they are all well-off.

Third, the soldiers of the Ming army were not possessed by thoughts.

They joined the army just because they were military households and could not do anything else. Even those who recruited soldiers were just to serve in the army and fill their stomachs.

Since it is for yourself, how can you be willing to endure hardships and hone your skills?

Zuo Menggeng knew very well how great an army with thoughts was, so at the beginning of the founding of the army, everything else could be left behind, but only thought indoctrination was the first.

This is also the reason why the back camp can practice every day and its strength has improved by leaps and bounds.

Maybe others don’t know the meaning of doing this, but Zuo Menggeng knew very well that he only needed to give him a year and wait for the rear camp to be fully equipped, and it would be no problem to fight tens of thousands of troops with a count of 3,000 people.

Walking forward again, there was another open space and a hundred soldiers.

However, these people did not go in the queue, practiced guns, and even practiced assassination. Instead, they surrounded a large cart and were talking to the sky and rushing to the sky.

Bi Maokang looked curious and walked over.

Zuo Menggen introduced it to him.

"This is the logistics squadron of the Houbat General Rear Brigade, and now there are only these people. They are studying the issues of food and grass transportation and engineering installation."

This is how engineering men are. Once they hear something they don’t understand, they will definitely ask.

"Project erection?"

Zuo Menggeng used the words from this era to explain it.

"When the army is marching, the road conditions are very important, which greatly affects the speed of the march and the transportation of food and grass. Therefore, the younger generation established such a military branch in the back camp to perform their duties."

Hearing that all the food and grass transporters were going to form a single army instead of using civilians, Bi Maokang asked: "What are the benefits of this move?"

Zuo Menggeng explained it very carefully.

"Because they are specialized in their duties, what they need to do in daily life is to constantly study how to speed up transportation speed, reduce road consumption, and how to supply the entire army as quickly as possible. Once these are done, soldiers on the battlefield will not have to be hungry, don't care about other things, and focus on fighting. The supply of the army is guaranteed, so it is easier to win battles."

He also added.

"This move will not cost the people and cause money."

During wars in all dynasties, it was also the most miserable time for the people.

Not only did they have to abandon their work in the fields and abandon their crops, the court did not provide compensation. They even transported food and grass for the army, but also brought their own dry food.

If you are injured, you will not receive any pensions, and treating injuries is also a burden.

In every battle, these civilians did not suffer less damage than the front-line troops.

Of course, Bi Maokang knew what it means not to recruit civilians.

But with so many civil officials and generals in the court, who had ever thought of establishing a professional military branch for this?

The two walked closer and were discovered by the soldiers, but no one was panicked.

Bi Maokang noticed that when the soldiers greeted Zuo Menggeng, the smiles on their faces were all kind from the bottom of their hearts.

This is a general who loves soldiers as much as his son and is deeply loved by soldiers.

There is no doubt that such a general has a high prestige. On the battlefield, with a command, all soldiers will be willing to die generously for him.

Bi Maokang could already imagine the scene of Zuo Menggeng's flag waving, and thousands of troops traveling through fire and water, destroying the dead.

Zhang Yan is here too.

"Thousand Seats, we follow your tips and are studying how to improve the big car."

He gave Zuo Menggeng and Bi Maokang to the cart and pointed it out to them.

"I went to ask the old carpenter and made a pin for the axle. Once the pin is unplugged, the two wheels can be removed."

A soldier gave a demonstration, and the wheels were removed very easily.

Bi Maokang was puzzled.

"The big truck is used to transport food and grass. Wouldn't it be useless to unload the wheels?"

Zhang Yan did not know Bi Maokang, but he did not dare to neglect Zuo Menggeng when he saw that he was respectful.

"This old man doesn't know anything. If you transport it on the road, of course you need wheels. But if you want to cross the river, you have to have a bridge. But bridges are not available at any time, so we have to find a way to build our own bridge. This big truck has been improved, and the board is larger and flatter. After unloading the wheels, throwing them into the water and you can use them as a raft."

Bi Maokang is from the south, so of course he has seen rafts. When he sees the length and width of the cart, he knows that he can carry people and cargo in the water.

"It's really a wonderful idea. If you encounter a river blocking the road, you don't have to stop moving forward."

Zhang Yan was very proud.

"It's not just that. Qianzu said that it's not enough to use it as a raft. After all, the army is moving back and forth by rafts. Not only is it slow, it's still very chaotic. So we all thought about it and installed such hooks on the side of each big truck. At that time, several, dozens of big trucks were pushed into the water together, and the hooks were connected together to form a pontoon bridge. People and materials could pass directly, just like marching on the road."

It seems that they remembered what Zuo Menggeng taught them, and they exerted their subjective initiative, and created new things.

When Zuo Menggeng first gave a lecture to the General Consulate Team, he said this.

"When you saw the canal, what did you think of as engineers?

"Of course, we should build several more pontoon bridges so that the army can pass quickly."

The soldiers remembered it firmly and had come up with a good idea.

Zuo Menggeng was very concerned and asked, "Have you tried it?"

Sure enough, there is still a problem.

Zhang Yan said: "We went to the river to try it, but we found that people were still able to walk on the pontoon bridge, but we couldn't transport supplies, and the pontoon bridge would sink."

Of course Zuo Menggeng knew why this was the case.

No matter how big a car is, how big can it be?

With the area of ​​the large car plate, ordinary people can still hold on it. But as long as it exceeds a certain weight, sinking is certain.

Zuo Menggeng could not think of a solution to this problem for a while, so he could only give some ideas.

"Look at it, can you make the shaft move with screws? When you want to build a pontoon bridge, the shaft can also be removed and stand in the water as a pillar?"

Nowadays, the shafts of large trucks are nailed to death. If they are changed to detachable, they can naturally increase their uses.

A soldier said, "The water is shallow and the water is not very useful if it is deep."

"This is just a temporary solution, and it is not realistic to build a floating bridge in a big river."

Even in later generations, it was difficult to build pontoon bridges on a river that was hundreds of meters wide.

He has another idea.

"You guys look back and think about whether you can make some skin bags? Usually they are folded and placed. When they want to make a floating bridge, they will blow air inside and tie it to both sides of the floating bridge."

People in Shaanxi can make sheepskin rafts, which can be used on the torrential Yellow River. Ordinary rivers are naturally unobstructed.

Although people in this era do not understand the principle of air buoyancy, they also know what Zuo Menggeng said.

Everyone kept it in mind and continued to discuss it.

Bi Maokang left with Zuo Menggeng, and was deeply touched as he watched the officers and soldiers gathered together.

"The generals and the school do not suppress their subordinates, and their subordinates speak freely. The appearance of your army is a strange thing in the world!"

Zuo Menggeng walked aside and chuckled when he heard this.

"Whether it is a general or a soldier, it is a whole on the battlefield. Only by uniting and exerting the greatest strength can we achieve victory. If the general treats soldiers as slaves, soldiers regard generals as enemies. I am afraid that they will lose their positions before they fight with the enemy. Our army aims to be equal to officers and soldiers. Except for different positions, everyone's status is the same."

True equality is impossible, but making soldiers feel respected and actively participate in military construction is definitely the only way to strengthen the army.

If Zuo Menggeng had said this before, Bi Maokang would have thought it was a fantasy. But now he has seen it, felt it, and felt it the most profound.
Chapter completed!