The room goes through the late Ming Dynasty, and the back door leads to North America at the beginni

Recruiting salt workers is only the simplest and least time-consuming step in preparing a sea salt plant.

Although Liu Sheng now has nearly 30,000 people under his command, none of them know how to make salt.

Therefore, when the 500 salt workers were selected, Liu Sheng had to personally train them based on the information, teaching them how to dry salt in the dry season and how to store fuel to cook salt in the rainy season.

At the same time, Liu Sheng also needs to control the recruitment, reorganization, and training of new recruits.

In addition to the 800 recruits selected and trained outside Queshan County and Liujiazhai, Liu Sheng recruited another 3000 recruits in the four major camps.

Liu Sheng originally wanted to focus on the civilian heroes from Huachu Camp and Hebian Camp, but after many selections, there were not many men in these two camps.

So in the end, among the 3000 recruits, only 400 were brave from the two original camps, and the remaining 2600 were selected from the new immigrants.

Although the civilian bravery was insufficient, it still played a role - most of them served as corps commanders and chiefs of the new recruits, and used their experience in morning training over the past few months to make the training of new recruits progress more quickly.

The recruitment, reorganization, and training of new soldiers in the standing army have formed a relatively mature process, so Liu Sheng does not have to do it himself, he just needs to control the key points.

But he had to personally participate in the construction of the Third Guards Battalion.

On the one hand, the personal guards are the troops directly under his jurisdiction, the core of his military power, and the sharp blade of the rebel army that he strives to build.

Secondly, only he knows how the Third Guards Battalion will be trained, and no one can help him do this.

Among them, the Xiaoqi camp was temporarily left aside by Liu Sheng. He only selected more than two hundred of the best mules and horses from all the mules and horses, and let the two sentinel cavalry practice hard on riding skills, riding shooting, and riding on the plain at the foot of Tianmu Mountain. Riding and cutting.

Incidentally, he is responsible for the message transmission between Queshan County and Tianmu Mountain.

The two places are more than a hundred miles apart, and it may take the messenger more than a day to walk. But if a rider delivers a message, one person and two people can reach the destination in more than three hours. Changing horses without changing people can make a round trip in half a day.

For the era of the late Ming Dynasty, although this speed is not as fast as homing pigeons, it is more reliable than homing pigeons.

However, Liu Sheng had the idea of ​​​​rubbing the wireless telegraph machine because of this.

The principle of this thing is very simple. The main structure is a high-frequency oscillator that can emit long, medium and short-wavelength radio waves.

In later generations, due to various electromagnetic interference, wireless telegraph machines must have enough power to resist interference and transmit effective information far enough.

But in the purely natural electromagnetic environment of the seventeenth century, the only things that could cause interference to radio waves were certain extreme weather and special terrain.

Therefore, a telegraph machine of less than 10 watts can communicate throughout Asia, and even globally.

When he thought he was a patient with apocalyptic fantasy, Liu Sheng naturally considered the collapse of the original communication system in the apocalypse, so he stocked up on some telegraph components.

After dismantling some unimportant electrical and electronic equipment in the villa, he estimated that he could make about a dozen telegraph machines.

After all, he was preparing for the end of the world, not for time travel.

In the end of the world, it is enough to have a few units to maintain communication with the outside world in the early stage, and you can search for relevant parts later if needed.

Who knew he had traveled to the end of the Ming Dynasty?

Having said that, even if the telegraph machine is ready, people still need to be selected and trained as telegraph operators, and a set of telegraph codes for translation will also need to be obtained.

It's not something that can be accomplished in a few days.

Closer to home.

Liu Sheng threw the Xiaoqi camp to the plains to train on his own, and he only arranged some simple and crude training programs in the Huben camp.

The Huben Battalion has currently been supplemented to 330 people, and is currently organized as a small team of 30 people.

There are one team of musketeers, three teams of pikemen, five teams of swordsmen, one team of artillery (using tiger squatting cannons), and one team of logistics troops.

Logistics soldiers are mainly military soldiers, medical soldiers and civilian personnel.

In addition to practicing basic combat skills, each team is also practicing cooperation and coordinated operations among the four types of arms.

It is mostly a simplified version of the Yuanyang Formation and can be used flexibly, with some later combat techniques incorporated into it.

The remaining Shengjie camp is Liu Sheng's main training target.

Starting from September 29th, Liu Sheng's main time and energy were spent on the formation and training of the Victory Battalion.

He first selected 800 people from the standing army, fishing and hunting groups, civilian warriors and new immigrants.

Then he told these people that 500 people would be eliminated within ten days, and in the end only 300 people would be able to join the Shengjie Camp and become Liu Sheng's personal guards.

Then special training was launched for these people.

Speaking of which, the level of military training during the Ming and Qing Dynasties was not as rough as some netizens thought in later generations.

A common saying is: one exercise every three to five days is considered the most diligent, one exercise every ten and a half months is considered average, and the most embarrassing thing is to recruit people to gather the number of people after hearing that the superiors want to inspect, and to pretend to be a temporary drill.

In fact, the drill and training of the feudal army were discussed separately.

Drill refers to huidiao, which mainly refers to the gathering of the entire battalion of soldiers and horses to practice battle formations.

Liancai refers to daily training - according to the rules, ancient soldiers had to complete certain training tasks in the camp every day, which meant taking three days of rest every day.

Of course, by the end of the dynasty, the army was corrupted, and the soldiers did not receive enough food and pay, and they were even forced to do private work by the generals, so the training in training was gone.

Even if I know how to do it, it is just to cope with the inspection from above.

For example, when Wang Yingtai recruited soldiers, only the servants could train them every day, and the soldiers could only train every other day.

The auxiliary soldiers train every ten days and are working all the time.

In the Shengjie Battalion established by Liu Sheng, the soldiers were paid three liang per month, and they could eat three meals a day. They also had meat for every meal - mainly fish, and occasionally turkey, hare, wolf and other animal meat.

Liu Sheng also knows how to provide them with balanced nutrition.

Under these conditions, the training Liu Sheng arranged for the 800 Shengjie Camp reserve soldiers was not devilish, but it was enough to shock other armies at this time.

For example, every day they would carry out an armed cross-country trip of ten miles (five kilometers) in the Tianmu Mountains, swim five miles in the Xinluo River, and swim one mile in a shallow river.

Every night, 50 pull-ups, 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, and 200 horse stance punches are trained.

There will also be emergency gatherings at night from time to time.

At the same time, during the day, there will be training on skills such as bare-handed combat, sword and shield attack, dagger assassination, and crossbow shooting.

The most important skill is to target the Big Water Bottle Village and conduct stealth, climbing and night attack training.

Zhang Guying was asked to command the standing army and civilian bravery of Dashui Pingzhai to conduct confrontation drills with them.

Not only is the training intensity high, it is also easy to get injured during training.

This kind of training method is cruel to these soldiers, who are mostly farmers!

A few days after the special training started, Shi Jincai, the commander of the Shengjie Battalion, couldn't stand it anymore - he and He Lianyue were both asked by Liu Sheng to train with the soldiers.

After training that day, he went to Liu Sheng and said: "Chief, this training is too harsh. Soldiers are injured and withdraw every day. There are even some soldiers who can't stand it and want to withdraw voluntarily."

Liu Sheng said coldly: "If you want to quit, let him quit. The Shengjie Camp will not leave people who can't bear this little hardship!"