Chapter 26 Changes (Part 2)
"Take three steps and one poke..."
"Hold your hands and push them with your hands..."
"Go over waist, over shoulder, over head..."
The loud shouts and roaring practices slowly woke Zhou Huaian from the comfort of his nap. He looked at the projection on the corona, and it seemed that it was time for afternoon tea again;
Xiaoqi, the follower who was responsible for running errands, had already brought afternoon refreshments from the kitchen, obviously steamed cakes that had been re-baked, with bacon slices that were also fried into oil, and a pot of salted tea soup made from fried soy flour, wheat paste, tangerine peel, old ginger and lotus leaves.
"Teacher..."
Then Xiaoqi, who looked much rosy in his face, took out a pack of things and carefully placed them on the wooden pallet.
"This is Shimi that Jiang Tou specially brought back from the city..."
"About forty or fifty kilograms are left in the kitchen, and it is said that it is for your daily use..."
"It's a reward for the instructions you wrote, and it's also a hard work of giving everyone some of the pens."
Zhou Huaian nodded, took the bag and looked at it carefully.
The so-called stone honey in this era is just the primitive sugar produced by the Indian law. It was one of the many spoils/soups brought back by Wang Xuance, a strange man from the early Tang Dynasty, after wiping the land of India and bringing back the overlord Aronatus of the Middle Heaven to prison for Taimiao.
It is also one of the few sweet sources of this era, and it is a luxury that only middle-aged and upper-class families can afford. After opening the paper bag, I saw a few pieces of gray stuff, which had a little more yellow crystal profile than the ordinary visible soil.
After a little taste, Zhou Huaian only felt that the ingredients and taste were similar to those of crude brown sugar, but obviously because the craftsmanship in this era was not good, the impurities left behind were also a lingering bitter taste. Therefore, it is estimated that it can only be used after processing such as water precipitation and filtration.
"Go to you to taste..."
Then he jumped out the smaller piece and handed it to Xiaoqidao
"It's a good time to try it for me as usual."
"How can this be...?"
He couldn't help but look a little ruthless and said,
"I said yes, that's OK..."
Zhou Huaian couldn't help but deliberately raised his face.
"As my errands, can't I afford that little bit of stone honey?"
Xiaoqi is obviously a young man after all, and he cannot escape the extremely rare temptation of sweets. In the end, he took it out with great gratitude, and I don’t know who to share it with him.
But no matter what, this means that he will be supplemented in another link after he will leave the plan; because by improving and improving the quality of food, he is processing and preparing portable rations that may be used in the future; and obtaining the right to use these stone honey is only part of it.
At present, he has designed three types of portable foods. One is the fried noodles made from soybeans, wheat and other grains in later generations. It is nothing more than a salty taste that is heavy on oil and salt. The other is a sugar fried rice cake with a higher sweetness. The other is a multi-layer sandwich dead noodles cake similar to the naan products in the northwest region and is not prone to mold.
In addition, there are some ointments and pills that are used for local materials, which are also tried privately, mainly as a response method for sudden emergencies and conditions such as headaches and fever on the road, and various external and internal treatments.
In this way, even after leaving this peasant army, what I left was enough to compensate and Yu Ze, and continue to be passed on and play a role.
As a human being, it really has sufficient potential to tap; I have gradually adapted to the lack of water, electricity and network. I have to go to the toilet and dance with the flying. I have to prepare hot water for half a day in advance when taking a bath..., and so on, the daily life that should have caused people to collapse and despair, but I have temporarily forgotten the concept of time flowing.
However, the changes he brought to the surrounding environment and people are also obvious. Although it only took a short period of time, most people are used to citing boiled water every day, eating large pot meals with enough heat, taking a bath in the river for two to three days, changing clothes and centrally disposing of excrement and garbage, and even collecting various herbs to eliminate and repel potential hidden dangers of mosquitoes.
Although some trivial details and compulsive habits have been added, under the implicit addition of increased efficiency and reduced loss, the investment in specific time and labor has been reduced and relaxed. As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. The same is true for their changing living habits and daily life.
After this period of time, the efforts to prepare for garbage picking and materials for going out were at least ensured that no one of the soldiers who entered the camp had a small vest or jacket uniformly dyed with wood ash, and spears, swords and bows and arrows marked with carbon gray were also marked as carbon gray. This was used as a means of mutual distinction and identification in daily life, so that the army had a regular tone.
For a long time before this, they almost wore whatever they had, and at most they tied a piece of cloth on their shoulders to recognize people. As for the leaders above the team, it was much simpler. They all had corresponding hats, hats or helmets, and directly dyed their hats and hats to colors representing different ranks, from the team's deputy's clear gray, the team's blue gray, and the team's main blue gray, and the head's indigo.
In fact, because I was forced to join this group,
He has always been very careful to avoid direct intervention and interference. He has been constantly reflecting and highlighting his presence in the fields of logistics and common affairs, in order to prevent unnecessary vigilance and suspicion; and passively demanding the compilation of these simple passwords and slogans, even if only a small part of them is a very gratifying breakthrough...
From these mud legs that are not clear and expressive, they can only talk about the queues that are directly used to move. Therefore, they can only use more intuitive and easy-to-hand (right hand) and idle hand (left hand) to indicate and confirm the most basic direction. Then, after they have a concept, they will teach the four directions and centers of the east, west, south and north according to the sun, and then divide them into four rough attack/poke representation areas based on the head, shoulders, waist, and legs of the human body... and so on.
This kind of observation and practice process is also a rare experience and supplement, reference and reference for Zhou Huaian; in the era he lived in, even the most primitive African black uncle was left with only the hunting methods of darting, the bow and arrows before blowing, and there was no chance to see the tragic scene of the human walls made of spears poking each other against each other.
In a sense, the spear soldiers from ancient times to the present are undoubtedly the best ones to get started. Theoretically, as long as the individual stands in his hands and has the courage to stab out in the general direction, so in ancient history, there are as many cannon fodder as this level, and almost every routine is filled with every battlefield record;
But it is also the most difficult to train well or to be excellent in the company. Because it depends on a long pole to make many precise and neat tactical changes, it must be able to coordinate with the left and right, and has high requirements and tests for the soldiers' physical fitness, skills and coordinated proficiency. In the end, the few who were famous for using spears and spears were famous in history. For example, the white pole soldiers who dared to compete with the Jurchen brigade in the field in the late Ming Dynasty.
As for the more decent sword player, it is another kind of military that is equally broad-minded. It can be said that it is full of various cold weapons and military sequences from antique police with both offense and defense. However, for the Nufeng Camp, these sword player of the road are the backbone and core combat power in a sense. Therefore, after fighting through the journey, they have some ready-made experience and relatively stable cooperation. From this point of view, Zhou Huaian has not been able to indirectly intervene and change the opponent.
In addition, there are shooters and cavalry. As the personal guard and the most core elite, the latter is not the one he can get involved in and out of his position; but the shooter team can still think of some suggestions, such as making some suggestions in the name of helping to maintain and maintain equipment; after all, it is not easy to make and obtain a decent bow and arrow in this era;
Whether it is the bow arms that support strength or the strings that guarantee lethality and range, they are guaranteed by extremely willful plant materials and animal horns, tendons and glues, and the final molding cycle and time limit are in units of several months and throughout the year. But by the same token, these materials rich in fiber and organic matter can easily receive environmental and climate influences such as wind, sun and rain, becoming soft, moldy, or dry and cracked and losing their elasticity.
Therefore, most of the shooting teams with less than 200 people are new and old hunting bows made of bamboo, only a small number of them are large and straight hardwood bows used by the army, and the horn bows used by cavalry on horseback; as for crossbows, they are basically invisible. There are only two types of arrows - bamboo poles and wooden poles. The arrows are from various sources, and what is used leads to a large difference. They are even polished into different shapes according to their personal style after secondary processing.
Therefore, his first rationalization suggestion was to unify the styles of arrows and shafts for unified recycling and reconstruction, and thus simple molds and weighing standards were built.
Then, prepare a protective plate made of straw and bamboo for each archer's chest, which is the most primitive vegetation and wood plate breastplate; except that it is not fire-proof, the specific protective force can still be unsatisfactory, blocking the arrow set up fifty steps away from the other party.
And opposite the new pawns' queue, which was clumsy in making the stabbing action, were some unlucky guys wearing these experimental straws and bamboo armors; as the tail of the crane for every camp inspection and sanitation assessment, the punishment they had to accept was to wear these thick and stuffy "armors";
Chapter completed!