Chapter 253 The Eve of the War (Repair)
At this time, the strange hit rate of the musket can always create many myths.
Even in the Si Shang army, there are some strange military superstitions, such as the horse's hoof nails that are often used as talismans.
All countries are no exception. Sometimes, all their partners may die, and the people behind them make up for one wave after another, but they are not dead, so they will wonder if there is any reason here.
The veteran's words touched the new recruits a lot, and when I thought about it, it seemed that the truth was true.
Because the State of Qi was usurped Jiang Qi, which was different from the re-establishment of the violent revolution of the Mohist country. Tian Qi also needed to use the old principles, so he developed the theory of the Five Virtues, which made the easily understood theory of the Five Virtues widely circulated in the army.
When the recruits thought, this is not the case. If there is water inside the drowning, it can overcome the fire of the musket; and yellow is the color of fire, it can overcome the gold, which may be effective.
Several people couldn't help but feel nervous, thinking that it would be useless to pee at this time. What if it doesn't turn so yellow before the war starts tomorrow?
After thinking about it, I was lucky that I still had a partner and my heart was finally settled.
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There was a loud singing voice in the camp of the Mo family vanguard seven miles away.
At this time, the army that dares to sing when camping at night, at least don’t worry that a little sound at night will cause the camp to roar.
Around a bonfire in the 9th Company of the 3rd Brigade of the Eighth Division, a pot of boiling water was not boiling yet. Several soldiers pinched their bamboo cups and waited anxiously for the water to boil.
The cup contained sugar rationed before the war and tea cakes rationed to the company, and the soldiers' committee members were busy chatting.
The soldiers of the Eighth Division mainly come from villages and communities that have been run by Sishang for a long time, and half of them are re-recruited retired veterans, so the task of literacy in the army is not very necessary, and most of the soldiers have met the simplest standard of literacy recognition.
As forwards, their dinner was not very good compared to usual, and they were pickled lard and dried cakes.
It was a little cold at night, so it was very comfortable to drink some rationed tea.
Around the bonfire, a veteran who was re-suming service was reading a book called "Sui Xing and Surveying and Mapping" under the light of fire.
This is not a very professional book, but it is not a very popular textbook, but a slightly in-depth book.
The book was written by two people, both of which were dukes, one was called Gande and the other was called Shujunzi.
Although Si Shang was to disgust the emperor and to popularize those high-ranking titles, even though there were marquis everywhere, the meaning of the title itself had been changed, it was just a title of honor, and the number of dukes was still very small.
Dukes are generally awarded "great contributions to the world" in some matters, and are more of an honorary title.
There were many people in the Sutra University, and there were many people in the army who made great achievements, but they were mainly among scouts and light cavalry.
This book "Search on the Sui Stars and Surveying and Mapping" mainly talks about some relatively simple things compared to the contents of the research in the Sui University, such as triangular mapping, latitude and longitude, planet retrograde.
This requires a certain mathematical foundation to understand. The veteran who is reading is only 23 years old this year. It is said that he is a veteran but he has completed his service before. This is a special recruitment under the Juzi Order.
He was relished in watching it, and he didn't realize that the half of the lard-swept dry cake he had baked on the fire was already a little mushy.
The friend next to him whispered to his comrades beside him and said, "Do you believe it or not, I don't know if I put the grass ashes on it now?"
There are surnames and names on Si, and most of the ancestors are not nobles, and most of them are surnames drawn by lots, but Sima Qiong is not.
After making jokes, the partner smiled and grabbed a handful of wood ash from the ground, sprinkled it gently on the dry cake, took down the already a little battered dry cake, patted Sima Qiong on the shoulder and said, "Hey, it's battered, eat it quickly."
Sima Qiong said thank you a little, smiled with a cracked mouth, took the cake and nibbled it, without noticing the dust on it.
The military force brushes their teeth every day. Although they use a simple bristle toothbrush, a simple tooth powder mixed with salt, lime and soap, the teeth in the Si Shang military are generally very good. At least this burnt and crispy cake can be bitten.
The friends next to him were all laughing, Sima Qiong closed the book blankly and carefully placed it in her backpack, not knowing what was going on.
His father was a down-and-out soldier. He came to Sishang early in the year, but did not join the Mo people, but became a businessman in Sishang.
Speaking of their family's history of making a fortune, it is actually very immoral and unlucky. His father had worked with others in the South China Sea in the early years.
After making a fortune, he jointly operated a horse farm in Huaishui. He caught up with the expansion of the army a few years ago and made a lot of money and invested money in some trade chambers in the South China Sea.
The chamber of commerce that invested money took advantage of some unsound regulatory laws in Si Shang to create a big scam, saying that it was a gold mine found overseas in the South China Sea, causing the stocks of the chamber of commerce to soar.
His father thought he wanted to make a fortune, but he saw that the money he invested was increasing every day, but who would have thought that things would be exposed and the price would plummet.
Fortunately, his father did not borrow money at that time, but he just invested some of the money he earned, so he would not have hanged himself.
Since then, his father, who dared to think and do things, changed from a rampant crab to a turtle that was ruthless, went back to run the horse farm and bought a house in Pengcheng.
Sima Qiong loved to look at the stars when he was a child, but it was not easy to get into the exam in places like Pengcheng. There were too many capable people, and in order to be as fair as possible to the poor, he only had one chance to take the exam.
He failed to get into the school and learn astronomical arithmetics, but he was enough to enter some other schools, especially teachers who had to stay in the village for several years.
But his family was rich, so he naturally refused to go. It was not that Mozhe had no forced internal mobilization, so he did not go to continue to go to school, but went to serve at the age step by step.
The military system in Si Shang is a conscript system with semi-recruitment troops, so there is no need for the rich to pay taxes and exempt them from serving.
If merchants have legal protection of rights and interests in Si Shang, they must have the identity of Si Shang and their obligations are equal, so their descendants must also serve in accordance with regulations.
The Mohist family has been doing well over the years, but they are not short of the amount of exemption money, and the collection cost is too high.
After Sima Qiong served for a long time, he returned home. The horse farm at home had already been operated. He had gone through the process of working before and reached the process of only investing capital to hire people to work. His life was very comfortable.
Every day I read books and go to the school to listen at your own expense, but my family can also take on the responsibility.
After the war against Chu, the Si Shang People's Law Conference voted to pass a comprehensive mobilization mobilization order. All veterans who have been retired within five years must go to the armed forces departments in various places to report, and re-enter the army and start transferring from reserves to active service training.
The group of people who were not handsome in the Supervision and Inspection Department severely cracked down on a group of people who tried to escape service before the war, or those who wanted to use their relationship to serve in the logistics department. The Mohist leaders took the lead in sending their offspring to the front line army. The Supervision and Inspection Department had excellent methods, and there were many people in the Supervision and Inspection Department who suffered extremely hard. They were extremely dissatisfied with some new contradictions that were gradually increasing in Si Shang, and they were extremely strict in investigating them.
Sima Qiong was not found out and re-served. He just respected the rules. If the voting failed at the National Law Conference, then the general mobilization naturally did not need to be carried out. Since it was passed, he could only obey.
The Eighth Division re-summoned a lot of veterans, and there are actually many people like him who like reading books. Many of them are still very high-level, but they are not considered top-notch people who can enter the ranks.
The war will begin tomorrow. Sima Qiong, like most of the soldiers of the Eighth Division, did not have much fear or fear. The atmosphere in the army is like this. Moreover, this time the giants personally led the army. Some previous stories have become confidence like myths, and they are full of confidence.
The members of the Soldiers Committee had previously conveyed the purpose of this battle, which was to quickly break through the Qi people's blockade and buy time for the coalition forces of the surround the princes.
Unlike the Qi army, the soldiers in the Si Shang army need to know what they are doing. Even if it is clearly a task of dying, they will never allow deception.
The bottom-up grassroots construction and the Mozhe organization that benefit the world's ambitions have enabled the Si Shangjun to do it as if they had arm and each finger knew what the brain was going to do.
This is not a military secret. It has reached this point, so it has nothing to do with the secret.
Sima Qiong, who was teased by his friends and didn't know that he had just eaten a lot of wood ash, looked at his smirks and asked, "What have you done?"
Several people laughed but didn't answer. Someone said, "Sima Qiong, if you have books in your backpack, there are not many other than the stars? We want to hear about Solusan's trip to the west back then, but you don't have them?"
Sima Qiong scratched his head and said, "I only like stars. I don't have that book. Haven't you read the Stone of the Seventh Company? He has also seen the Yat that Solusan turned over. His father was from the Confucian Confucian school of Le Zheng back then, and he was involved in the comparison of genres. If you want to hear the story, go and find him to listen to it."
Someone from the same company sighed: "It's a pity that you said you have learned so much of the nine-digit geometry."
Sima Qiongqi said: "What a pity?"
The partner in the company smiled and said, "You are rich, different from us. Your father can let you spend money to live in Pengcheng, but you learn how to calculate it without using it."
"If I had learned how to learn how to look at the stars and watch the stars well, I would have gone to the South China Sea trade chambers to do things. There was a shortage of people who could look at the stars and understand the stars and understand the stars. If they did well, and were fortunately not dead on the sea, they would have made a fortune."
"Hey, you said, is it considered a sycam like this? You don't have to produce, but you have money to spend?"
Sima Qiong smiled awkwardly, not knowing how to answer, but his partner was just joking. After laughing, he sighed: "When the war is over and the war is retired, I guess there is no need to fight. When my son grows up, the world will be stable. That's fine."
"Yeah yeah."
Chapter completed!