The army of the working class is not only good at construction, but also excellent in discipline.The Great Zhou Republic is already in the midst of the first industrial revolution, an era of great factories and great industries, and all that is needed is workers who can observe labor discipline.Discipline is the foundation of an army.

In addition to good discipline, the working class of the Great Zhou Republic now has a relatively high literacy rate.

With the advent of the era of mass production, skilled workers with a certain cultural knowledge became the most needed labor force for industrial capitalists.As a result, the country's education policy has been gradually adjusted, and compulsory nine-year compulsory education for all has been implemented since 20 years ago.

Before that, of course, education was pretty popular.The literacy rate in the Great Week Republic had exceeded 50 per cent 100 years earlier, and 80 per cent of the adults were literate before nine years of compulsory education.

Twenty years of nine years of compulsory education has further improved the education level of the people in the week, and compulsory education not only serves industrialization, but also serves the country's military.

The habits of military sports, military training and obedience to discipline and command have been integrated into nine years of compulsory education.

Therefore, on September 18, 226, more than 50,000 Zhou IRA soldiers who appeared around the town of Jiangdian showed great discipline and obedience.

In addition, the physical fitness of these IRA fighters is also the best ever - although the Great Zhou Republic is facing a surplus crisis, the working people who are still eating meat and egg milk.

And there are free student lunches in public schools, enough to ensure that students grow up with adequate nutrition.

Therefore, the soldiers of the Great Zhou Republican Army are generally tall and strong and physically strong.They all look like good soldiers!

But after all, they have not been on the real battlefield, and now they are endlessly harassed by the rocket launchers of the Western Song, and the atmosphere in the camp will inevitably become tense and oppressive.

Tonight, everyone in the camp is losing sleep!

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When the officers and soldiers of the Great Zhou IRA lost their sleep, most of their opponents had already snored.

Most of them, because there was also an Eastern Song infantry division among the coalition.The officers and soldiers of the East Song Dynasty, like the officers and soldiers of Zhou, are very good recruits, and the war is imminent, of course, they will be nervous.

The officers and soldiers of the nine infantry divisions and a cavalry division who appeared with them in the Western Song on the battlefield appeared very stable on the eve of the war.

In addition to the officers and soldiers on duty, others, including Marshal Zhao Liang, are now snoring.

Most of these people are veterans who have been on the battlefield, and are not from the military or from the gun doctor - perhaps it is more appropriate to call them the samurai class!

Long in a state of war, and the implementation of the military family system and the shooting of the West Song, after more than 200 years of evolution, has formed a generation of samurai landlord class.

Now the backbone of the Western Song Army is basically born from this class!

Most of the Western Song farmers are not qualified to rise from the army.Therefore, when the soldiers in the present Song of the West and Song, it is not only the obligation of a part of the people, but also the honor and the symbol of status.In this case, it is naturally easy to raise elite soldiers.

However, the number of samurai landlords is relatively small, so the Western Song can only take the route of elite soldiers, and cannot engage in sea tactics like the big week and the East Song.

In the battleground of Jiangjia Town, the advantage of the number is on the side of the two Song forces.

Therefore, the decisive battle on September 19th, for the two Songs and Songs, not only must win, but also must win!

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The roar and explosion of the rocket rang intermittently in the middle of the night, and the IRA endured half a night, and the rocket soldiers who did not send a soldier to drive away from the West Song.

In fact, Zhao Liang will not be at all in the night, he had already even allowed the generals of the Zhou army to dare not fight at night - the West Song is famous for fighting the night war!

Half an hour before dawn, the armies of both sides began to raise fire to make food.The camp of the two armies, once again the lights are on!

At the same time, the advance teams of both sides began to set out and headed for positions that they needed to occupy.

The advance team is usually light infantry using rifles.It is autumn, and the wheat fields around the town of Jiangdian have matured.The long-term good wheat ears are a large and large one, which is a good cover for the activities of the light infantry.

Soon after, a drum was suddenly sounded in the Western Song barracks, and then it was the military number that was in the past, and the quiet army seemed to wake up from its slumber in an instant, and the whistle and password sounded.

The time for battle is coming soon!

The Western Song army had a full meal as usual before the decisive battle.If conditions permit, there will also be a meat supply.

Chen Youren, a military soldier from Hanyang Army on Jinghu North Road, and his fifth brother, Chen Youren, are enjoying the “last breakfast” with several of his robes.The main food is white bread, and each person can get a piece of pickled meat.

The meat is stolen from the farmers of Zhou Guo, and the white face used to make the steamed buns is also stolen from the Zhou people.

Now the two Songs have penetrated more than 350 miles into the territory of Zhou Guo, and it has been seven or eight days since the beginning of the invasion.

The military food carried at that time had long been exhausted, and the supplies were collected in the war zone.

The meaning of collection is not necessarily to steal, it depends on who to recruit.If the soldiers of the East Song Dynasty are out of the horse, they will surely give money.

But the West Songs officers are not so kind.To steal something to eat and drink is polite, and you have to steal money.A little more vicious, and a murder to set fire to it!

The meat that was snatched back by the Western Song officers and soldiers is very much!The richness of food in the countryside in the Great Week greatly exceeded the expectations of the Western Song officers and soldiers, even the most ordinary kulaks (there seems to be no middle-class and poor farmers in the big week), and the family also stores a large amount of pickled meat, livestock and poultry.

Meat seems to be part of their daily diet!

However, Chen Youren and Chen Youren could not let go of meat, mainly because they could not bear it... The children of ordinary military families, such as their children, had a hard time eating meat once a year.

Is it so poor?

Poor of course!

Now it is not the first year of the founding of the West Song Dynasty, and ordinary military households in Jingchu can't have a hundred acres of farms.If you have 20 or 30 acres of land, it is rich.

The main reason for this is, of course, that the Hundred Years' War of the Mongolian-Song Dynasty consumed the financial resources of the Western Song army and the gun doctor - the expedition did not come to fruition, which was enough to bankrupt a landowner's house!

In addition, the large number of military households is also a cause of ordinary military households losing land.

Because the expenses of the Western expropriation could not be compensated, many ordinary military households had to mortgage the land to the rich military, and they became the feminists of the big military.

The Western Song Dynasty could issue a German decree to invalidate land transactions between military households and ordinary landowners and merchants, but they could not use the same method to deal with the luxury military households.So we have to admit that the transaction is effective and watch the land become more and more concentrated.

However, because the military family is superior, there is also a possibility of an increase, and due to the decline in service costs caused by the arrival of the era of smoothbore guns, so by the founding of the Western Song Dynasty more than 200 years ago, the Western Song Dynasty still had soldiers available.Of course, the target-beating strategy practiced by Western Song more than 200 years ago also ensured that there are still soldiers available today.

Although there are still soldiers available, when the soldiers are more than one generation, and it is more dangerous than one generation!

A group of poor people who dream of getting ahead, but always have no chance, everyone has a gun, this thing...

A group of poor soldiers and poor gun doctor silently finished the bacon, and soon after the team captains sounded the whistle of the assembly.The soldiers got up and lined up in shifts, and the queues were complete, and the captains of the teams began to check the soldiers' equipment and dry food.

The equipment is very simple, a flint gun, a sleeve bayonet, a bullet bag, a gunpowder pot, a lead box, a gourd containing water, and so on.

Flaming guns and sleeve bayonets are usually brought by soldiers, but the caliber of flanged guns has uniform regulations in order to uniformly distribute lead bullets.

Lead bombs and gunpowder were provided by the court.Soldiers will make paper hulled bombs to facilitate the loading.Homemade paper hulls are inserted in the bullet belt, according to the regulations to prepare at least 24 rounds.

In addition to these ordinary equipment, some soldiers will carry several handguns, that is, grenades.

They are called "hand artillery", in fact, is another time and space-throwing troleman, is the backbone of the line infantry elite.

An infantry battalion of the Western Song Army was usually composed of two muskets, a gun doctor's team and a hand artillery team.

Chen Youyi and Chen Youren were both elected as hand artillery because they were born and raised.

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Major Zhu Xinglong, who came from Zhongxuan County, U.S., East Song Dynasty, was inspecting the artillery reserve position at this time.The commander of the artillery battalion of the Third Division of the Eastern Song Army, the artillery battalion he led will be responsible for the observation and targeting of all artillery.

There were as many as nine Western Song artillery battalions participating in today's battle, but none could be compared to the Eastern Song artillery battalion commanded by Zhu Xinglong.

The quality of the cannon is not good, the quality of the ammunition is also not good, the level of artillery is also very poor, even the pull of the gun is not strong enough.

As a semi-feudal agricultural country, it is not easy to maintain a group of quite good cavalry and infantry.If you want to maintain an artillery that can be compared with the artillery of the East Song Dynasty, it is a dream!

The East Song Dynasty was a country after the industrial revolution, and their artillery was a product of industrialization, and the artillery of the Western Song Dynasty was a generational difference.

After seeing the rough things possessed by the Western Song artillery, Zhu Xinglong's eyebrows did not expand.

Although the artillery battalion of Western Song was in the same preparation as the Eastern Song Dynasty, it had a 6-pound artillery team, a 6-pound howitzer team, a 4-pound mountain gun team, an engineering team, and a rocket platoon.

But their 6 pounds of long guns, 6 pounds of howitzers, 4 pounds of mountain guns are bronze cast, very bulky, looking like antiques.It can only be seen in the museum.Zhu Xinglong's generation, as well as his father Zhu Shizhen, these two generations of artillerymen have not seen bronze guns in the army.

The shells and firing drugs used by the Western Song artillery were even worse.

The surface of the solid bomb is rough, and it is generally small - so it is easy to tuck into the cannon.

And the flowering bomb looks more inferior, it is said that nine of the ten rounds will not bloom... will not bloom to do?

As for the shotgun, it is not contained in the cylinder-shaped metal bullet casing, but a pile of small lead bullets wrapped in linen.This old-lost shotgun has a very close range, and it is almost like a hundred steps, and it is impossible to have a range of more than 200 steps.And a hundred steps away are within the range of the enemy's rifle!What is the use of such a shot?The gunners were killed!

As for the durian shotgun... the artillery officers of Western Song can only say: What is this?

What makes Zhu Xinglong unbearable is the gunpowder of the West Song, which is rolling in black smoke, if there is no wind on the battlefield, the gunner's sight is covered for a while.The purity of this gunpowder is not enough to produce enough thrust, coupled with the bronze cannon chambering is not smooth enough, and the clearance between the shells is too large to hit the air.Therefore, the range of various artillery in the Western Song Dynasty is much worse than that of the artillery of the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Big Week.

This situation makes Judith a headache!

However, Zhao Liang will have a solution, that is, to focus on the use of artillery.The 180 cannons of the 10 artillery battalions were concentrated in the main breakthrough direction to fiercely shell the onslaught of infantry and cavalry.

At the same time, the task of artillery observation was also assigned to Zhu Xinglong's Third Artillery Battalion of the Eastern Song Army.

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At this time, the sky is light.

The drums, this one.

A strip of gray, blue torrent poured out from the camp of the two Songs and thousands of soldiers, led by officers, formed a dense army shape, directly from various camps to the battlefield.The "gun doctor" who had already arrived early in front planted a military flag in the wheat field and the wilderness, indicating the direction of the battalions.

At the same time, there are other "gunmen" who, under the cover of wheat fields and grasses, touched the front of the Zhou Jun Front near Jiangjia Town, and used their rifle guns to fire non-stop, harassing the Zhou IRA, who were also in the array.

The Western Song Rangers have also reached the edge of the battlefield and are in contact with the IRA.The latter mostly come from the dam grassland or the Korqin grassland, are extremely excellent cavalry, and also have a generation of carefully cultivated Tianjin horses.And each cavalry is equipped with two wire rifles that can be fired on horseback - although the loading of the rifle is very inconvenient, but the advantages of range and accuracy can still make the Rangers of these countries very deadly.

Just when the gunshots sounded, Zhao Liang would have been fully dressed and walked out of his own army account.The must-have white, be sembre-stained, and has a murderous Western Song name in his eyes, and today will go to the battlefield for the 61st time.

His opponent was the first time he had taken to the battlefield.

If he can defeat the 50,000 troops in Wuyuan Town outside Jiangjia Town, he can defeat the other 50,000 weeks in the direction of Yancheng in one to two days.

Then he can lead the department to the Dasong Dynasty to open the palace, where there is a secret weapon that can force the Republic of the Great Week to seek peace!

The moment to decide the fate of the three heroes of Huaxia is coming soon!