The team marched forward for a while, finding a wide spot and setting up camp. After Liu Pei arranged the sentry, Wu Yizhou had already arranged for the team members to make a fire, and the five fires were burning. A large copper pot was set up on each fire to boil water.

As a modern person, Liu Pei's pursuit of hygiene is strict. He didn't want his team to lose its combat effectiveness one day because of diarrhea. So on the day he formed his team, he asked everyone not to drink raw water. The water that everyone drinks is boiled, cooled, and then poured into the gourd.

Speaking of Hulu, Liu Pei felt that he should buy a batch of kettles from modern society, the gourd was too difficult to use, first of all, it was difficult to pour water into it, and it tasted strange after pouring hot water into it.

Liu Pei walked from fire to fire, patted this soldier on the shoulder, and bragged with another. The boys were very welcome to the arrival of the head of the house! Until a recruit took the liberty of asking him, "I wonder when the head of the family will send out the silver?" ”

The people around the fire laughed, and the two men beside him pressed him there and hammered him. When he was pulled up, Liu Pei pulled his face and said, "What's the matter, are you in a hurry to get the silver?" What do you want to do in such a hurry? Marry a daughter-in-law? Everyone laughed.

The young man said with a red face: "It's a hurry! When the eldest brother reached the age of discussing relatives, the female family asked for a dowry of 5 taels of silver. But the family has never been able to make it up! Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to come to the house. ”

Liu Pei nodded and said, "Don't worry, when we go back from Jinan City, we will give a silver reward as soon as we arrive at the camp." And there will be a day off that will give you time to get your money home. ”

The young man nodded excitedly when he heard this, saying that he must serve the head of the family to the death, Liu Pei patted him on the shoulder and went to the fire in the middle. Qi Qitao, Wu Yizhou, and those veterans were waiting for him there.

As soon as Liu Pei sat down, Qi Qitao handed him a biscuit and a piece of jerky. Liu Pei took the thing and asked, "How are your feet?" ”

Qi Qitao shook his head and bit the bit hard jerky, and said, "It's okay, it doesn't hurt much anymore." Just lie down for a few days. ”

Liu Pei nodded, took a bite of the cake, and said vaguely, "Then let's start." ”

This is the post-war summary meeting, and it is the rule set by Liu Peigang. Liu Pei thought carefully that neither he nor his subordinates had received training in battlefield command, and the only way was to learn to command battles in battle. Then a summary is necessary! Problems can be identified and corrected.

Liu Peixian said: "I'll talk about the first thing first. Who are the two people who ran away today? I didn't see it at the time. Is it counted? ”

Wu Yizhou said: "The inventory is out. It is the second son of the Zhou family in the neighboring village and the second son of the Zhao family. How to deal with it? ”

Liu Pei originally wanted to deal with it ruthlessly. But when I think that I am not a regular army at present, it is difficult to be heavy-handed. He said, "Go back and fire them." In the future, no one from their family will be allowed to join our team. Their families are not allowed to participate in our family's work. We don't accept their goods, and he likes to sell whoever he wants. In short, to keep their family out of our system. ”

Qi Qitao spat and said, "I can see it clearly, in this world right now, I want to eat fragrant food and drink spicy food." What does it depend on if you don't rely on fighting? Never mind. Don't talk about them. I'm talking about archers. O archers! We must be archers! Damn, I don't want to be shot anymore, it's so breathless! If we had archers, we would have shot a few rounds of arrows first, and maybe the opponent would have collapsed first. ”

One of the veterans said, "But I've heard my father say that archers are hard to make!" A good archer needs to practice for at least three or four years, and we have that long to hold! ”

The person beside him said, "Let the head of the family directly accept the archers as the housekeepers soon!" ”

Liu Pei shook his head and said, "Let's not get archers, let's get firearms!" ”

Wu Yizhou asked, "Is that thing easy to use?" I heard that people say that the firearm is slow to use, and it is always exploding! Everyone nodded their heads,

Liu Pei said: "The fire gun has an advantage that the bow and arrow do not have. It is inevitable that the bow and arrow will be replaced in the future! Everyone thinks that the best archer, he will not even be able to walk if he shoots twelve or three arrows at most, but a firecracker, as long as there is enough medicine, he can keep fighting! Plus, firecrackers are the easiest to train! A month is enough. As for saying that the fire gun is a quality problem, just use dim sum when making it. ”

In fact, during the Ming Dynasty, firearms did not lag behind the West. And even more than the West in some respects. For example, in the Chongzhen period, a large-scale killing weapon such as a mine was created. There is also a prototype of a grenade used to defend the city - a thousand enemies. It's just that in terms of artillery began to lag behind the West.

The reason for this is that the big smugglers in the south tried every means to hinder the development of the Ming Dynasty navy in order to monopolize the profits of the sea trade. I think about the time when the Ming Dynasty went to the West seven times. There was a lot of artillery on board! Boom, those pirates and the country of disobedience crying dad and mother! These people not only made up various reasons to hinder the development of the navy, but also bribed the cooperation of the imperial court, and at the same time tried every means to install their own people into the imperial court, fundamentally stifling the development of the Ming Dynasty navy. Liu Daxia, who burned the charts, is one of the representatives! If the Ming Dynasty had not been deceived by those maritime trade families in the south, and the navy had continued to develop, maybe the whole world would have nothing to do with those foreigners!

On the other hand, foreigners have been small and sparsely populated since ancient times, and they have been in a lot of wars. Under the stimulus of war, the development of armaments was relatively rapid. And they really couldn't afford to die at that time! If they were like China, who fought with hundreds of thousands of people at every turn, like Spain, which was more powerful at that time, Britain would have been finished a long time ago! If there are more Chinese, it is worthless, just grab a ding, stuff a war knife and you can fight! How much is a sword?

In fact, the Ming Dynasty paid considerable attention to the use of firearms. It's just that in the late Ming Dynasty, officials at all levels were very corrupt, resulting in the silver used to process weapons often being washed away to the point that only half of them were left! Moreover, in order to survive, the craftsmen who have never been paid have to deduct a little bit from this to eat. In this case, the weapons produced are naturally cutting corners, and no one dares to use them.

And the soldiers knew about the problem with firearms, so no one wanted to use them at all! Even picking out some firecrackers that don't blow up has one kind of problem. The most common problem was that the guns were not tightly sealed, and scorching gunpowder gases were often ejected when fired. So the soldiers twisted their faces far away when they shot, for fear of being sprayed in the face by hot air or blown up in their hands! If you don't aim at it, then only God knows where the projectile will go!

Moreover, most of the firearms in the army are kept by the eunuchs who supervise the army, and if they want to practice with firearms, they have to pay bribes! Naturally, there is no motivation to train. Coupled with improper storage, the effect can be imagined.

Liu Pei identified this problem and recorded it, and then everyone raised a lot of questions. After everyone discussed them one by one, Liu Pei also recorded all the solutions. After this discussion, I feel that everyone has made a lot of progress! It seems that it will stick to it in the future! At the same time, he also discovered a new problem, that is, he had to spend a lot of money on the armed forces. But this money should be spent, but I don't feel distressed!