Long-distance training was a plan that Xu Zi had already had in advance, and this time it was finally implemented.

In the past few months, Xu Zixian only went to the military camp to train with the new martial soldiers every few days, and had dinner with the outstanding ones among the new recruits. He also persisted in this habit.

Overall, the recruits also trained according to the training outline. Ge Da’s battalion added gun pitching training. Xu Zixian felt that it was good and it was popularized in various battalions.

So far, the shortest number of recruits in the camp has been in the shortest number of months. The Sixth Battalion of the Water Camp is now stationed in Penghu, responsible for Penghu's defense.

Twelve battalions of more than 6,000 people and one cavalry battalion were responsible for the defense of the East Vanguard.

Many arrow towers and defense military forts were built along the coastal areas, with a total of more than a hundred, which was also a heavy burden.

Every day, people patrol the seawall and dock ports to avoid being attacked by pirates.

In Qin Dongyang, when Jin Baoyi, Ge Dage Er, Li Xingwu and others asked about Xu Zixian's plan for a large-scale training, Xu Zixian's plan was to start a large-scale training first.

When the Nan'an Prefecture Army was still practicing in the Nan'an regiment, it also went to the wild to train.

Long-distance load-bearing and weapons training is a training subject that is almost practical.

To be fully armed and carrying a heavy burden, you must also have a baggage burden. This is a comprehensive test of the generals' unified dispatch, logistics support, military morale, physical fitness, queue, and officers' ability to restrain soldiers.

When Nan'anla practiced, he marched for forty miles in the wilderness and rarely spent the night outside.

The main reason is that the strong enemies are around him, and Xu Zixian didn't want to make the entire Fujian Road attract attention.

Now on Dongfan Island, there is enough room for training for Dalian, so there is no need to worry about disturbing other forces. A training for officers and soldiers can achieve the expected goals and can also shock the natives along the way.

In short, no matter what others say or think, Xu Zi first has been considering normalizing training after the battle in Dengzhou.

In the Great Wei Dynasty, the effect of training is greater than that of later generations. In fact, later generations pay more attention to the tempering of people's spirit. However, in this time and space, there are loud horses everywhere, wars everywhere, road conditions, sanitation and epidemic prevention, camping and eating, from safety to hygiene to food and accommodation, nothing is worry-free.

The generals of the Wei Dynasty led their troops to fight, with an average of fifteen to twenty miles a day, and walking thirty miles a day is a highway. If you exceed this speed, you can only describe it as a miracle.

Even if it is a pure horse team, it cannot speed up. The reason is simple. Horses can walk fast, but they lose weight very well when long-distance marching, so they must be taken care of by someone and have to bring a lot of essential materials to follow. Otherwise, they will lose weight after 10 days and a half months of leeing grass, and they will not be used for war horses.

The Jurchens and the Mongols fought, and they teased each other thousands of miles on the grassland. They fought for more than half a year and did not need to walk so long. They had to stop and rest their horsepower. They had to find a way to feed the horse feed and replenish the meat. Otherwise, they would have to cross the battle first without waiting for the other person to fight.

Such easy things in later generations such as marching, camping, emergency gathering and preparing for war are actually extremely rare and strongest military qualities in this era.

Since that's the case, let's practice to death!

Now the Nan'an Prefecture Army has eighteen battalions, six naval battalions, eleven infantry battalions, and one cavalry battalion.

There may be a separate crossbow battalion, which is one of the other major events that Xu Zixian has paid attention to recently.

Only with strong armor and powerful soldiers can one be invincible. The spirit, physical fitness, tenacity of personality and will, as well as battlefield experience, can be solved through training and actual combat.

As for the heavy armor, elite weapons, more powerful crossbows and artillery, Xu Zi first needs to solve the problem with money and technology.

The military rank system is an innovation and improvement under the government system.

On the battlefield, if chaos occurs, the officers in the headquarters will die in battle, and the soldiers may panic and lose command. This is the most dangerous situation.

Xu Zixian used the preferential treatment system to determine the role of veterans, and also wanted to make veterans play a role in stabilizing the battlefield.

But officers still have an irreplaceable role. Three armies and eighteen battalions, calculated by the lowest-level Dutou and Deputy Dutou, the number of officers is already very large.

Moreover, there will be a reserve army plan, a new battalion recruitment plan, a military industry department, a military intelligence department, a staff department, a logistics department, a military law department, and an ordnance custody department. There will also be a military order command system, which will be responsible for recruiting new recruits and appease retired, injured and killed veterans, and there will also be a special military training department.

Xu Zixian's consideration was that he might have the ability to intervene in the mainland within at least ten years, or even in three or five years, and he might encounter many emergencies. Only by mastering the map can he master everything. At least this piece of paper must be available.

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"It's still about a mile away from the outer security line." A military marquis trotted back and after ten days of training, the scout who had been in the wild for a long time seemed much darker and thinner.

Xu Zixian nodded calmly and said to Qin Dongyang, Ge Cunzhong and others beside him: "Let the soldiers check their clothes and prepare to return to the camp."

"Yes, lord."

The generals issued military orders to their subordinates, and all the soldiers involved in the training of each battalion took action.

"Everyone is in the eye!"

“Check if the backpack strap is tied and firm!”

"Check the bag insertion, step bow, divine arm bow, and carry."

"Check out whether the arrow bags, light arrows, heavy arrows, and crossbow arrows are all hung!"

"Check the kettle, lunch box, sewing kit, medical first aid kit!"

"Check military uniforms, boots."

The sun at noon is pretty good, and it makes people feel stuffy when sunbathing on people, but when the sea breeze blows, people feel a coolness. It is not as stuffy as it is in the bushes, and there seems to be much less mosquitoes.

Gao Shilai stood at the head of the team and issued orders one after another. With his military orders, the three team officials below the three urged their subordinates to conduct inspections. Each soldier helped the other party check the equipment face to face. After the inspection was completed, the three squads reported to Gao Shi. Finally, Gao Shilai reported to the battalion officer Zhang Huchen. After the report was completed, the subordinates began to take action.

The soldiers from the four battalions who were temporarily formed began to set off in batches, and each three people formed a long column in one row. After a long period of training, everyone's physical fitness decreased greatly, but they were about to return to the camp and enter the residential area, and each soldier made his expression as relaxed as possible.

This time the cavalry also abandoned their horses and walked on foot. The training is not only against infantry but also against cavalry.

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the cavalry were all heavy armored. In addition to the main horses that the knights rode during wars, there were also deputy horses, deputy cavalry, and a heavy cavalry paired with two to three horses, and one or two subordinate cavalry was normal.

At this time, the training of the Nan'an Prefecture soldiers focused on spirit and will, and it was obviously the same for the cavalry.

Even the cavalry equipment is the best now. Everyone is wearing cotton armor, and everyone has a rifle, appointing gun, bow and arrow, as well as sword cards, bones, short axes, and flying knives. Because there are few people, they are all the best choices. They are constantly practicing the skills of fighting and whistle detectives every day. Wall-type impact is a big killer, but Xu Zixian still hopes that the cavalry can also master more advanced horse combat skills.

The column is spread out according to the flag team. Each flag captain has a flag bearer holding the team flag, and each flag team has a certain spacing.

Some warriors holding shields were walking on both sides of the team. They were equipped with sword cards to guard against sneak attacks that should not have occurred.

Walking in the middle of the team are the long-slingers, with the archers and crossbowmen in front and behind the formation.

Everyone is exhausted, but their mental state is very excited.

The fire soldiers walked at the end, with fifty or sixty people, and many of them were carrying big iron pots. The iron pots were heavy, and they needed to take turns to carry them, but they were not allowed to give up.

Compared with the warriors' long swords, horizontal swords, and crossbows, the fire soldiers' iron pots are their weapons.

The Wei army's logistics logistics were generally handled by the Xiang army, and the large-scale transportation of materials and food was carried out by recruiting civilian carriages and tyrants.

The best thing passed down during the Taizu period was the four-wheeled cart, which made the industry and commerce of the Wei Dynasty extremely developed. In addition to the developed shipping, it also had a lot of power from the big cart.

The Nan'an Prefecture Army now has not many big cars, mainly because it has no logistical pressure yet, but this time, the logistical pressure was revealed.

The food carried by the soldiers actually cannot last for a war, and it is only enough for interspersed raids. If it is a real war, it will be necessary to divide the troops to harvest and grab grain. The logistics cannot be so unprepared, and the morale of the military will be completely different.

The fire soldiers could only carry iron pots, with some seasonings and fire-induced objects. It was hard for a skilled woman to cook without rice. Without the support of the baggage convoy, the army could forcefully march within a 100-mile radius or raid. If it exceeds 200-mile, it should be careful not to continue logistics.

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The shrubs, from forests, hills, and mountains, have walked dozens of miles and almost all have similar scenery.

This large island was discovered by China during the Wu period of the Three Kingdoms. It has been nearly a thousand years so far, but it has not been fully developed.

When in core areas such as Huaxi and Nan'anxi, there were constant factories and warehouses, roads were unobstructed, farmlands were connected, water trucks were towering into the clouds, farmyards were closely connected, and the brilliant and elegant courtyards, as well as government office buildings, and barracks, the overall feeling was shocking. Many people did not expect that the Dongfan would develop to such a level in a short period of time.

After walking dozens of miles, people gradually realized that the fields were silent and the traces of wild animals were vaguely visible. From this we know that the opened up was still a corner of the land, and it was too early to develop the entire island of Dongfan.

At this point, Chen Duzhu and others had some insights. It seems that the Nan'an Hou led a large army to expedition was probably not as simple as training the squad, but rather a survey of the entire island to shock the locals and make preliminary preparations for further development in the future.

In fact, Xu Zixian really had this intention.

This time I went north, I originally planned to go to Keelung, Taipei. The plain area of ​​Taiwan, except for the Tainan Plain, is the largest territory, with thousands of square kilometers. After the development is completed, with the current production technical conditions and industrial, commercial and trade, it can only accommodate up to one million people.

It's even less than one million, and it's good to be able to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people.

The plain areas in later generations were supported by industrialization, combined with commerce and service industries, which were enough to build more than ten cities with a population of hundreds of thousands, and accommodate millions of people.

At this time, if you teach oral land, you need five acres per person to barely fill your stomach, fifteen acres of food and clothing, and thirty acres of well-off life, and twenty acres of mulberry fields. Even if the water conservancy, fertilizer and agricultural technology in the Dongfan are above the ordinary level, a family of five can only have at least thirty acres of well-off life. If you want to live a wealthy life, plant cotton fields, mulberry fields, tea gardens, and grain fields, a family of five can only have a hundred acres of land.

If there are more than 10,000 households and 60,000 to 70,000 people, you will get one million acres of land. If there are twenty thousand households and more than 10,200,000 people, you will have two or three million acres of land.

Three hundred thousand to four hundred thousand people are almost the limit that Tainan Plain can bear at this stage.

It’s not that it can’t be afforded by one million to two million. By 1810, in the 15th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, Taiwan had a population of about two million, and it had a complete rule of prefectures and counties, with many towns and villages, which was almost the same as the situation in the mainland.

But that has been development for more than two hundred years. Gradually accommodating and developing are two different things from rapid development.

If early immigrants cannot be allowed to live a prosperous and stable life, people will be unable to accept it. This is one of the reasons why Xu Zixian went north this time.

If Tainan has nearly 300,000 to 400,000 people in five to ten years, it will have to head north.

This time, we have actually arrived in the Taichung area in later generations, namely the Taichung and Taipei Plain areas. Strictly speaking, Taichung has a basin terrain. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides, with sufficient light and suitable climate. It is not too hot in summer and not cold in winter. Unlike Tainan, the climate is relatively hotter and there is too much rain in winter.

This is a place that is more suitable for farming. In fact, in the decades after the destruction of Zheng in the Ming Dynasty, most immigrated to Taichung. The Qing Dynasty established a mansion and was first in Taichung. Before the Japanese occupation, Taichung also had the largest population.

Xu Zixian hopes that in a few years, when Tainan is about to develop, he will start to build roads and extend to Taichung and Taipei, and add immigration areas, industrial areas, commercial areas and ports there, so as to gradually develop Taichung and Taipei.

In this way, in more than ten years, five or six prefectures and counties may be established, and the number of immigrants reaches one million, the Dongfan will completely complete the development task, and there will be no need to worry about losing this treasure island.
Chapter completed!