Chapter 129 Begin Troop Training
To train troops, it will inevitably have an impact on the labor force in the tribe. This is completely inevitable.
What Zhou Xu has to do now is to find a balance.
While achieving your own goals, minimize this impact.
Considering this point, Zhou Xu came up with a way, which was to recruit troops from several camps separately.
Under this premise, soldiers definitely need physical training every day.
In this aspect of training, just let the soldiers do manual labor for the logging team or construction team, or for the Agriculture Department.
This can, to a certain extent, reduce the impact on internal work efficiency after each department loses its manpower.
In addition to physical training, weapons training, tactical training, etc. can be practiced normally.
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu quickly called Zhou Chongshan and Li Ce to discuss the matter.
When the two of them heard it, they immediately became excited!
Although they also knew that the reason why the leader allowed them to be 'vagrants' in the camp was to allow them to preserve their condition and respond to possible battles at any time.
But being so idle always made them feel panicked and uncomfortable.
Now that Zhou Xu said this, they knew they had work to do.
Here at Black Moon Camp, the first batch of soldiers was recruited, and Zhou Xu only planned to recruit ten people.
There is no way, there are only 80 people in Black Moon Camp. If more people are recruited, the daily operation of the camp will be affected. This matter must be done step by step.
But it is precisely because there are so few recruits that Zhou Xu plans to carefully select these ten people and has extremely high requirements for them.
First of all, the ‘talent’ must be related to combat.
The second issue is the issue of arms. The normal situation must be to distinguish one arm from another.
But as mentioned before, Zhou Xu had very high requirements for the first batch of ten soldiers. He wanted to train these ten soldiers to be able to wield stone axes and spears in close combat, and to attack from a distance. An all-round military unit that can bend a bow and set an arrow, and can do both near and far!
And he already has the best example, that is Zhou Chongshan!
The talent of 'Weapon Master' makes Zhou Chongshan feel comfortable using both melee and long-range weapons.
In view of this situation, Zhou Xu has also talked to Zhou Chongshan and pointed out that he is good at using various weapons. This is his advantage and asked him not to stick to one weapon.
After a lot of effort, ten soldiers were quickly selected. Counting Zhou Chongshan and Li Ce, there were twelve people in total.
“From today on, you are the first soldiers of the tribe!”
"What is the duty of a soldier?"
"It is to obey orders and defend the homeland!"
As a contemporary graduate, although Zhou Xu has never been a soldier, he has participated in military training. Nowadays, he has learned the tricks of their instructors.
After the lecture, a trace of regret flashed in Zhou Xu’s eyes.
[According to the development of the plot, this time I have to give you a thorn in the side and let me clean it up! 】
It's a pity that in today's tribe, every tribe member respects him very much, and it can even be said that he is respected as a god.
In front of him, the thorns did not exist at all, and they were simply obedient.
According to Zhou Xu's arrangement, as long as there is a need for heavy hard work at the Black Moon Camp, 'physical training' will be immediately arranged for these ten soldiers to exercise their bodies through hard work.
When there is no hard work, then conduct battle formation and weapons training. Regarding the battle formation, Zhou Chongshan and Li Ce certainly did not have this concept, but Li Ce had actually done similar things.
That was because in order to avoid the harm that the slingers might cause to them, he evacuated the attack density.
In essence, this is undoubtedly a formation.
Judging from the two of them, Li Ce, who prefers wise generals, has basically surpassed Zhou Chongshan in his ability to command troops after he has grown up.
But Zhou Chongshan’s focus is different. He is a typical military commander.
Considering the current background of the times, in a primitive era dominated by small-scale armed conflicts, it goes without saying how important a military commander with strong individual combat power is.
He can directly determine the outcome of a battle.
Of course, when developing this kind of thing, we cannot just look at the present. As the scale of the war increases, the value of wise generals like Li Ce will become greater and greater.
Therefore, the cultivation of both sides cannot be left behind.
As a tribal leader, Zhou Xu cannot have time to train troops every day. Therefore, in addition to physical training, the work of battle formation training and weapons training naturally falls on Li Ce and Zhou Chongshan.
As for battle formation training, he first taught several battle formations he knew to Li Ce and Zhou Chongshan, and the training task mainly fell on Li Ce.
Because he obviously learns faster.
As for Zhou Chongshan, needless to say, he is responsible for weapons training.
In the tribe, Zhou Chongshan is the best user of weapons. In this matter, Zhou Xu has nothing to give him, so it is enough to let Zhou Chongshan give him some advice.
After arranging various military training tasks, Zhou Xu quickly returned to his daily life.
During this period, the glue research and development task previously assigned to Zhuang Mengdie was soon announced. After many tedious attempts, the glue as an adhesive was finally successfully developed.
In this way, Zhuang Mengdie can also use glue and start making bows and arrows.
Compared with the way he first thought of using the mortise and tenon structure to make the bow body, the convenience brought by this glue made Zhuang Mengdie feel incredible.
When all the materials that need to be processed are available.
Now she only needs to squeeze the polished materials together piece by piece, wait for the glue to dry, and after completing the bonding, she can complete a bamboo bow very easily with a little more manipulation.
Of course, the bamboo bow bonded with glue is not as durable as the bamboo bow she made with a mortise and tenon structure, and its strength is relatively limited.
After shooting the bow multiple times, the bonding area will become degummed and fall apart.
But even so, it cannot shake the value of this new bamboo bow.
Because the new bamboo bow has the ability to be mass-produced, unlike the combination bow Zhuang Mengdie made before, which does not have enough exquisite craftsmanship, who can make it now?
And it will take a lot of time, and it is impossible to meet the demand for mass production.
With this as a premise, in order to make the new bamboo bow have better durability and stability, Zhuang Mengdie pondered for a while.
It was then decided that after the bonding was completed, glue would be used to reinforce the bonded gap from the outside, and then glue would be applied to the animal skin rope to wrap around the bow body for secondary reinforcement.
However, even so, it failed to reach the level she wanted.
In this case, an idea flashed in Zhuang Mengdie's mind...
[Purely bonded with glue, which is not strong enough and easy to damage, but it is fully bonded with glue. Combining the structure is too time-consuming, so can I combine the two sides? 】
As this thought flashed through, Zhuang Mengdie's eyes lit up, and he already had an idea in his mind!
(End of this chapter)