Chapter 119 The military system is beginning to form
In addition to remaking the ammunition for the fire blunderbuss, Chen Mu also asked Xiahou to teach his blacksmith skills to the young men in the village.
In ancient times, especially the trade of craftsmen, almost all craftsmen have been passed down from their ancestors. Each craftsman has a household registration, which is like a brand. If one person is a craftsman, his descendants must be craftsmen for generations.
Fortunately, the status of craftsmen in the Longxia Dynasty was not lowly. On the contrary, in the eyes of ordinary people, learning a craft was easier than digging in the ground.
Especially blacksmithing, a popular job required by the people, is even more coveted by many farmers.
The cooking skills passed down from ancestors are very precious, but with Chen Mu here, Xiahou will naturally no longer worry about money in the future, so he took a dozen or twenty young people into the dragon kiln very freely.
To this end, Chen Mu's goal is very clear. He wants to build Lihe Village into a comprehensive logistics base.
The young, old, women and children in the village were responsible for printing books, while these middle-aged men were responsible for making the armor and equipment for Chen Mu's forces and grinding black powder.
Among the 400 people in Sichuan Gate, there are still many who are not equipped with the sharp Tang Hengdao.
Moreover, there will be more and more minions in Sichuan Sect in the future, which will require a huge logistics support.
In addition to Tang Hengdao, Chen Mu also planned to equip each of his men with a suit of light chain-link armor and an iron vest made of small steel rings.
Reduce casualties.
What's the problem even if there are only four hundred men? Once the individual combat effectiveness of his men reaches its peak, four hundred men can still become a sharp axe, sweeping everything invincible.
A group of people were holding stone hammers and grinding saltpeter outside the dragon kiln, while twenty other men were shirtless and learning to blacksmith with Xia Hou inside the dragon kiln.
When Chen Mu came to see them, they all greeted them with respect.
"Brother Mu is here?"
"Xiaomu has made a difference. Now the people in our village are getting better and better because of you."
"Hehe, I just said that Brother Mu is descended from the stars."
Nowadays, Chen Mu is no longer the lazy, self-admired, foolish lunatic. If the people in the village want to live a better life, they all have to look at themselves.
It can be seen that the current Longxia Dynasty is also different from the past.
Just some time ago, news came from the imperial court that stunned all the people.
The Longxia court sent the two kings captured by Han Xin'er back to the grassland safely, but before leaving, the two kings asked for one thing. This time, 70,000 Tatars were killed, which was a huge loss. In order to prevent the Tatars from being too violent
He hated Longxia Kingdom and demanded compensation of 10 million taels of silver.
The entire army was beaten and wiped out, and yet they still had the nerve to pay compensation. When I first heard it, I thought it was extremely ridiculous, but later on, it became even more ridiculous.
The court readily agreed and heard that the two kings brought dozens of carriages out of Chang'an City that day.
This dynasty is too weak, at least the current situation is hopeless.
It can be seen that the Fourth Army went to guard the border with a total of 100,000 people. In order to drive away these invaders, only a few thousand people survived, and more than 90,000 people died in the battle.
Instead of giving any compensation to the families of these soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country, they paid a large sum of compensation to the invaders.
Take the last sentence seriously, I would rather give it to foreign enemies than domestic slaves. Now that the national treasury has no money, it can be seen that these tens of millions are all plundered from the people by increasing taxes.
Ten million taels of silver is a lot of money. The Chinese New Year is about to come, but for the people, this year is not going to be easy.
If he had known this, Chen Mu might as well have stayed with Yelang and enjoyed watching the flowers and snow.
After chatting with these villagers for a few words, they headed towards the Chuanmen training ground.
After the missionary training of dozens of Shu troops in the past few days, when we look at the competition between these gangsters, it is not difficult to find that their attacks are much more methodical than before, and their attacks are brutal and can kill people directly.
What's more, there were more than a dozen thick and bulky men. After some advice from the Shu soldiers, the fight became even more fierce. Almost no one could resist it just by collision.
Chen Mu thought inexplicably, aren't these just a bunch of horseless cavalry?
The more Chen Mu thought about it, the more he realized that these strong men could play a more important role.
In addition to the sword battalion and the divine machine battalion, Chen Mu is planning to add one more unit - the heavy armor battalion.
This heavy armored battalion is specially responsible for charging, breaking up the enemy's formation, and clearing the way for the sword battalion behind.
It is necessary to build a heavy armor for them that is armed to the teeth, and equipped with a spear, they will definitely be an extremely powerful charge force.
You can imagine how powerful these three arms are when they work together. The Shenji Battalion first clears out the elites in the front, then the Heavy Armor Battalion breaks up the enemy formation, and finally the Sword Battalion charges to clear the battlefield.
The more Chen Mu thought about it, the more excited he became. After talking to Jing Tang'er, he began to select this group of people among the four hundred people.
"No wonder Brother Chen was able to defeat that group of barbarians on the grassland. Once such a group of rabble came into your hands, they instantly became elite soldiers. I admire you."
At some point, Zhang Bowen came behind Chen Mu.
Hearing this, Chen Mu gave a bitter smile: "Thank you for the compliment, but to be honest, with just these four hundred people, I think it's still a long shot to defeat the five gangs including the Black Dragon Gang."
Zhang Bowen sat down on the ground, waved his hands and said: "Haha, don't worry, Brother Chen should be very sure."
Upon hearing this, Chen Mu suddenly became interested: "How can you be so sure?"
Zhang Bowen took off the wine bottle, took a sip, and then said: "What really troubles Brother Chen is mainly the Black Dragon Gang, right?"
Chen Mu nodded. The four gangs in Beicheng only had a thousand people in total. With the 400 elite soldiers and generals under his command, it would not be difficult to take them down. But we knew that behind them, there was a powerful force like the Black Dragon Gang.
"Brother Chen, don't worry. As long as you can quickly take down the four gangs, the Black Dragon Gang will not stop you."
"How to say?"
Zhang Bowen smiled: "The Black Dragon Gang helped those four gangs before by inserting people there secretly and did not dare to use the banner of the Black Dragon Gang. I think they care about their reputation. Such a big gang will get involved in the struggles of smaller gangs.
What's the big deal? So, we must be quick when the time comes, so fast that the Black Dragon Gang won't have time to send anyone, and then they will come out of nowhere, at least they won't embarrass us then."
Upon hearing these words, Chen Mu suddenly understood. Generally speaking, as long as he can do a quick word, that is, a blitzkrieg, he will win.
Chen Mu knew that he had already seen this matter very clearly in his mind, and immediately asked about the detailed implementation rules.
"To prevent the four factions from joining forces, send two groups of troops to capture two factions first. The last two groups of troops will gather together and quickly defeat the remaining two factions. But Brother Chen... once you do this, the other three major gangs will really pay attention to you.
This is a rising star.”
Chen Mu smiled faintly, not thinking that this was such a scary thing, and then asked: "Mr. Zhang, you should have already thought about how I can control the secret passage in Ba County in the future, right?"