Yang Fan was stationed at the top of the hillside, looking at the battlefield below.
At this time, there was a close encounter. Soldiers from both sides were fighting fiercely.
Along the way, the biggest exercise for the Jingying camp was hand-to-hand combat. They were fighting various types of Mongolians.
After they were reorganized and arrived at Nanyuan Barracks, they could eat freely for the first time in their lives.
After eating a full meal, wearing warm clothes, and rigorous training, their bodies were like blowing up balloons, and their muscles were rising rapidly.
Each and every one of them became stronger and stronger, no longer looking dark and thin like before.
Although their food is the cheapest cornmeal bought in Chongzhen.
It’s corn grits porridge in the morning, cornmeal cakes at noon, and corn pancakes in the evening. Although corn has only 85% of the calories of rice, it feels full and is rich in dietary fiber and vitamins.
This saves the cost of feeding them animal offal, because corn can cure night blindness.
Yang Fan is willing to give his soldiers the pig heads, pig waste, and pure fat meat sent from the beautiful country. He will not use his own money to subsidize the Beijing camp.
These are two different things.
After all, Yang Fan's soldiers were all his domestic slaves. Yang Fan naturally had the obligation to feed them. In this era, the master had the obligation to feed his domestic slaves. Otherwise, he would be accused of being a black-hearted master.
In the late Ming Dynasty, domestic slaves generally lived better than homesteaders and tenant farmers. They did not have to pay taxes, and they did not have to perform corvee labor. Not to mention the white people in the Yang family's land, they also had free medical services. They were as happy as gods.
Although the staple food in Jingying is corn and other coarse grains, it is enough.
This makes them crazy happy. For several lifetimes, they don’t have to look at the rice vat whenever they want to eat. This makes them extremely satisfied.
As for vegetables, there are only a limited number of types such as cabbage, radish, and dried kelp, because these are the cheapest. The vegetables we eat now are all grown in Qianshe and started to be planted this year. After all, vegetables cannot be transported from the mainland. They have long been rotten.
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If there is water in the Yellow River, dig channels and open up some wasteland. Cabbage and radish can grow easily. The yield is also high. The seeds are all modern and the yield is very high. The cabbage is large and solid, unlike the loose and heavy cabbage of this era.
It is seven or eight times different from modern varieties.
The kelp is shipped from Yangfan's seafood processing factory on the seaside.
The reason why it is used in large quantities is because it is very cheap.
Ten kilograms is only a penny. After soaking in water, it becomes a big pot.
No one eats these things along the coast, they are all used to feed pigs. Yang Fan directly feeds them to the livestock in Jingying.
These guys are so delicious. Many people, because there is no oil, water and non-staple food, can eat a pound of corn in one meal. Yang Fan was scared to see them.
Usually, kelp is cut into shreds, mixed with salt and vinegar, and eaten as porridge for breakfast. When improving the diet every three days, stew tofu with kelp.
After arriving on the grassland, when beef and mutton were in sufficient supply, kelp was used to stew the meat.
Cabbage and radish are basically boiled in water with some salt, and a large pot can’t hold more than two ounces of lard. Occasionally, kimchi and radish cubes are provided in the morning to supplement vitamins.
However, this level also makes them very satisfied.
The current officers and soldiers in the Beijing camp are very strong. They are young people to begin with. Before, their physical strength was not good because they could not eat. Now in the past six months, beef and mutton can be eaten freely, and their physical condition has been greatly improved.
Yang Fan was very pleased to see them bending their backs and thrusting their spears forward mechanically.
Finally, they were trained as elite infantry.
They usually train, and everyone has to assassinate the spear more than a thousand times a day.
My arms were so numb from training that I felt like I was going to vomit before it was over.
At this time, they followed the officer's whistle, one general flag, another general flag, thrust together, and retreated together. It almost formed a muscle memory, and they stabbed the enemy without thinking at all.
Their hands holding the guns were as steady as a horse. They were trained during training by hanging a pile of bricks on the gun and keeping silent. If anyone moved, the officer would hit him with a whip.
The stabbing was as fast as lightning. The Yarkand people felt their eyes blurred, and the big spear heads danced with gorgeous spear flowers. For a moment, they couldn't see clearly how many spear heads were stabbing. They didn't know which one was stabbing.
Which one is real and which one is a phantom.
This is the power of big guns.
The moon stick, the annual sword, and the lifelong spear. The big spear is the most difficult to master. But once you master it, it will be extremely difficult to deal with whether you are riding a horse or fighting on foot.
As soon as the two sides met, a large number of the Yarkand officers and soldiers on the opposite side holding round shields and scimitars were stabbed to death. Because they could not reach the spearmen of the Beijing Camp through the shields and barbed wire. The spearmen of the Beijing Camp could.
Assassinate them wantonly.
They angrily slashed at the chains and barbed wire, trying to break through these obstacles and rush in.
As long as they rush in, they have a way to reverse the unfavorable situation. They can get in between the two spears. Get close to the spearmen and chop them with scimitars. At close range, once the spearmen are close, it will be a one-sided massacre.
However, these things were floating without any force and could not stop cutting at all. They could not get in. But the opponent's spear was four to five meters long, and it was far away, so they pierced it directly.
The opponent's spear is as fast as lightning. As long as you hesitate for a moment, you will have been stabbed. Even the head of the opponent's spear has been retracted. There is a hole in the body that spurts blood before you can react. However, at this time, nothing happens.
It was too late, all I could see was blackness, and I fell to the ground with blood spurting out.
The speed and precision of Jingying are the result of hard training over the past year.
They used the general flag as a unit, and the small flags of different units, using cloth-wrapped gun shafts, and wearing plate armor to practice every day.
The penalty for the losing team is to practice and assassinate 300 times.
Since there is punishment, there is naturally a reward. The reward is that every ten days, the top five overall scorers will receive five silver dollars each.
This reward made the soldiers in the Beijing camp scream in excitement. This was five taels of silver, enough to buy an acre of land.
The Yarkand people tried to use small round shields to resist the spear thrusts. However, their shields were only one and a half feet in diameter and could only barely protect their torsos.
The spears fired by the Beijing camp either stabbed their heads and necks, or stabbed their thighs. Or while they were fighting, they turned sideways to expose their left and right ribs, and then stabbed them fiercely, killing them with one blow.
Aini saw that this was not going to work. Less than a quarter of an hour after the battle began, half of his five hundred dead soldiers were already dead and became corpses on the ground. He shouted loudly, "Climb over the shield."
As soon as Aini's order was issued, these dead soldiers also reacted. This unfavorable situation must be changed as soon as possible.
They immediately formed a group of three people, with two people carrying one person's thigh, trying to climb in from the 1.8-meter-high aluminum alloy shield.
