The post-disaster reconstruction work in Chongming County was progressing very smoothly. Without the counterattack of local tyrant forces such as Xiao Yang, there were only four major families left in the seven major families, and all of them defected to Li Weiguo, which made no force in the entire Chongming County area dared to go against Li Weiguo. Any decree issued by Li Weiguo was implemented without fail.

Especially among the people, Li Weiguo fought floods and disaster relief, and devoted himself to the people's practical actions to win the hearts of Chongming County and had a very high status in the hearts of the people. He promoted labor-for-relief, which allowed more than 100,000 affected people to settle down.

In addition, the 1,000 county soldiers and 3,000 disaster relief security teams recruited by Li Weiguo, such a powerful force, even Taicang Zhili Prefecture, the upper-level unit of Chongming County, did not have so many armed forces, making Chongming County like a connection, and Li Weiguo became the de facto local emperor here.

In the military camp, after the New Army's quarantine, the soldiers no longer had the psychological shadow of three corpses and their morale was high.

Li Weiguo personally supervised the training of the new army, and in addition to arranging various training subjects to increase the physical fitness of soldiers, he strengthened queue training.

He grouped ten people into one team, with one ten leader, which is the basic unit. Then the Century Team has one centurion and one thousand leader.

The queue training starts with the most basic ten-person team, and then starts with the 100-person team, then the 100-person team, and finally the 400-person team.

The reason why Li Weiguo puts queue training first is not only because queue training can strengthen the ability to accept obedience and acceptance of soldiers, but more importantly, it is to lay a solid foundation for more flexible command of this army on the battlefield in the future.

Li Weiguo knew very well that the basic military combat method of infantry in this era was line-array and formation gun platoon tactics. On the surface, this line-array and gun platoon tactics were very simple, which was to require soldiers to stand in one or several rows and take turns to fire guns.

In fact, this is not the case, it contains huge military knowledge.

You should know that the battlefield environment is very noisy, so with the sound of killing, gunshots, and the roar of artillery, the orders shouted by a commander can effectively spread within this situation. If we consider the tension of the soldiers, it would be very good that soldiers five or six meters away could hear the commander Qing.

The tactics of line-based gun placing are often hundreds of people or thousands of people in a queue to fight, and the horizontal length of the queue is hundreds of meters or even kilometers. For such a large-scale combat area, for the commander, he does not have a loudspeaker, radio and other equipment, to convey orders and command the troops' operations is a problem.

It was precisely because Li Weiguo realized this that he worked hard on queue training to enable the soldiers to master various queue commands and improve the effectiveness of battlefield command.

Of course, in terms of command operations, the European and American powers who have had hundreds of years of musket combat have already summarized a suitable command method, which is to use military bands to convey the commander's orders on the battlefield.

The larger the scale of the battle, the more military players are needed. Often, a force of a thousand people needs to be equipped with at least one hundred military players. This ratio has reached 10 to 1, or even higher.

This is also impossible. After all, the battlefield environment is too noisy. Not to mention the sound of shouting, guns and cannons, the enemy also has military musicians. Both sides are beating drums and drums, which is actually interfering with each other. It is a suppression tactic. If your military band has a small number of people and a small voice, it will be overwhelmed by the enemy's military music. Then your soldiers will not hear the commander's orders, and the result will be obvious.

Therefore, both sides of the war had to equip a large number of military and musicians to ensure the smooth progress of their own troops.

Military bands are just one of the important factors in battlefield command, and the more important thing lies in the soldiers, which are concentrated in the daily training of soldiers.

Since military bands are used to command the army on the battlefield, soldiers must be required to understand the various meanings and commands represented by their own military music.

This is actually the biggest and most difficult problem for an army. Because there is not enough time and enough training, soldiers on the battlefield basically cannot understand the meaning of military music, or even misunderstand it. The latter will directly lead to chaos in the entire army, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

In the middle of the 19th century, the training time for recruits in powerful countries such as Britain, France, and Germany was generally more than three years. That is to say, starting from recruit recruits and until they officially become regular troops, it took at least three years of training period for recruits. It is not difficult to see how difficult it is to train an army that can carry out line-based wars. Compared with the fact that it takes three months to become a regular army, the time ratio required is as high as 12:1. Even the German commander Moltke, after the French-Popular War, could not help but sigh that German soldiers trained hard for twenty years before they could defeat the French army.

If you think about it carefully, it is no wonder that this situation occurs. Relying on military music to command the army is like dancing while listening to songs. Even if a person who has been studying dance for decades is placed in a tense atmosphere where the shouts of killing are shocking, guns and cannons are roaring, and the earth is shaking, there will be tension, and you will also listen to the song and take the wrong steps.

Therefore, Moltke said that German soldiers trained hard for twenty years to defeat the French army, which is not a joke, but a fact.

Since Li Weiguo knew the advantages and disadvantages of the line musket war, he naturally had to avoid it as much as possible.

For this reason, Li Weiguo made detailed considerations in this regard. Although he also prepared a military band, the military band was only responsible for conveying three orders, advancing, pausing and retreating. As for other military orders, Li Weiguo thought of flag language.

Two flags, one red and one green, are enough to express the commander's entire combat order, and this order does not require soldiers to understand it. As long as grassroots officers and grassroots messengers can understand it.

In this way, the commander's orders do not need to be directly transmitted to every soldier, but only to a grassroots commander, and then each grassroots commander conveys them to other soldiers in his unit. This also simplifies the way of conveying orders. Soldiers no longer need to spend a lot of time and energy to memorize the commands represented by various military music sounds, nor will they mislist the orders represented by military music, resulting in mistakes on the battlefield.

However, in order to make it easier for his soldiers to accurately distinguish the military music from other powerful armies, Li Weiguo thought of the drum and horn team at the sports meeting when he was in school.

"Dongdong!Dong!" (Big Huagu)

"Dongdong! Takda! Takda! Takda!" (snare drum)

"Dick tick!Dick tick!" (Martial pill)

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Once upon a time, when Li Weiguo heard the sound of drums and trumpets, his blood was boiling and his whole body was excited, as if he had suddenly returned to his student days.

Now he uses this set of drum and horns as the combat military music of the Li family army. When the soldiers hear the drum and horns, their steps will consciously walk along with the drum and horns, and their blood will instantly boil with the passionate horns, which will shock people.

Wu Yong, who came to the military camp to report to Li Weiguo, showed a strange expression when he saw this military band.

"Sir, it is a custom for the army since ancient times. I have seen some large flower drums in the green camps before. They are particularly large and can be carried by dozens of people. They beat drums on the battlefield to cheer for their power, which is quite powerful and boost morale."

Wu Yong paused and continued, "It's just that the flower drum of this military band is a bit special, much smaller than the normal big flower drum. It can be hung on the chest with just one force, and the sound emitted during the blow is even stronger than all the big flower drums I have ever seen, especially the small flower drums hanging directly on my waist behind. The sound seems to be even crisper, even more than the sound of the big flower drum. This is really incredible. There is such a strange thing in the world that the small flower drum is actually louder than the big flower drum."

Listening to Wu Yong's full of doubts, Li Weiguo immediately laughed and said, "These large and large flower drums have been improved by our county, so they are naturally different from the traditional flower drums."

It turned out that Li Weiguo saw that the traditional large flower drum was not only large in size, heavy in weight, inconvenient for transportation, nor was it convenient for military musicians to beat drums for a long time, so he thought of the scientifically improved snare drums in later generations.

So Li Weiguo ordered people to prepare materials and asked craftsmen to improve them, so that the snare drum cavity has two layers inside and outside, the inner layer is 10 layers thick maple wood, and the outer layer is very thick copper drum cavity. This makes this snare drum have the warm sound of maple wood and the bright sound of metal cavity.

At the same time, in order to make the sound of the snare drum louder, Li Weiguo thought of an "open" drum. The creativity of this snare drum was created in the 1970s and is now used by Li Weiguo. It simply discharges the air in the snare drum as soon as possible, so that the lower drum skin can make a louder sound. And because it is made of metal and wood, another unique feature of this snare drum is that it can make the sound more crisp.

In this way, in Li Weiguo's military band, whether it is the big flower drum or the small snare drum, the sounds are particularly loud and crisp. The spreading distance is long and the sound waves are strong, which is far louder than the traditional flower drum, and can make soldiers hear clearly in the noisy battlefield. At the same time, the sound of this classic drum music at later sports meets is also very different from the traditional Western military music, and the battlefield will not cause confusion to soldiers.
Chapter completed!