dhibooks Chapter 44 Preparing for Battle Lu
Chapter 44 Preparing for Battle Lu
When Li Xinglan returned to the small courtyard, it was already the early morning of the second day, and the training that day ended with everyone paralyzed.
The doors and windows of Chen Chrome's room were closed, and it was completely dark.Li Xinglan stopped in front of his window and reached out to caress the old window edge, but in the end he didn't open the window.He just closed his eyes, and hazy blue light spots emerged from the surrounding air like fireflies.The blue light spots crossed the invisible gap in the air, passed through the darkness and silence, and surrounded Chen Chrome.It was as if the shore waves on a summer afternoon whispered softly in his ear, telling a happy bedtime story.
In Li Xinglan's mind, Chen Chrome's sleeping face appeared, with a teardrop hanging on his eyelashes, shining brightly.The boy's black hair fell limply on his forehead, rubbing against the pillow, his lips parted slightly.
He sighed, turned and went back to the room, opened the door and sat by the desk, lighting a copper bean.The fire suddenly became brighter, Li Xinglan shook his hand, and the copper beans fell down in response, and the lamp oil dripped down the desk to his feet, making a "bang-dang" sound, making the night even more bleak and desolate in late autumn.
He straightened the lamp, lit it, and lowered his head to wipe the stains on the desk.But from the pool of lamp oil on the ground, I saw half of a face covered with scars, which was vague and terrifying.
His hands stopped suddenly, and after an unknown amount of time, Li Xinglan wiped away the pool of lamp oil.
The room was very warm, and there was a burning stove in front of the desk, the charcoal fire was glowing red, and it was burning vigorously.Because the windows have been opened, there is no pungent smell in the room.
A small wooden box was placed on top of the case, Li Xinglan's hands trembled a little, and he opened the box, and the sweet milky smell came to his face.
Inside the box is a round pastry filled with cream, on which the Arabic numeral "27" is painted with orange-red apple jam, and a stick figure smiley face is drawn on it.
Li Xinglan carefully took out a small leather bag from his bosom, and poured out ivory fragments mixed with sand.
The candlelight was weak, and the ivory mask had been polished very smooth and bright. At this moment, hundreds of fragments and powder reflected the candlelight, as kind as a pack of broken stars.The candle flame flickered, and the reflections on the fragments flickered non-stop.
Li Xinglan stretched out his hand,
Carefully caressing this pile of fragments, feeling the process of Chen Chrome's meticulous carving and polishing, and the smell of incense mixed with a touch of blood, everything is so unreal.
His vision gradually blurred, he put one hand on the table, propped his forehead, lowered his head, his sitting posture was no longer upright as usual, showing a sense of despair.
The candlelight flickered on and off, making it impossible to see the expression on his face clearly.
The dim candlelight looked extremely warm. In the calm, Li Xinglan suddenly opened his eyes and punched the case hard. A loud "bang" almost shook everything on the case. jumped up.
He tried his best to calm down his breathing, directly put the cream cake into his mouth with his palm, chewed hard, and even gobbled it up.However, the cake was really a failure, the cake was dry and wrinkled, but he swallowed the whole cake in a very short time, retching while eating, like a person who almost died of starvation after eating and swallowing violently and almost wanting to eat. Stout freak.
After Li Xinglan finished eating the cake, his face was covered with cream, he grabbed a piece of black petal of "Datura", stuffed it into his mouth forcefully, and swallowed it directly.
Afterwards, the whole person twitched violently, "bang" struggled and fell face down on the desk, his head was smashing into the cake residue.
Hundreds of billions of blue gleams flew out of Li Xinglan's altar, coming like a mighty torrent, they gathered in the air, and finally condensed into a bright blue light cluster.
The light ball floated, drifted towards the pile of broken ivory, and attached to it.The blue light wandered around the edge of the fragments like lightning, and the fragments and powder flew out of the sand, stayed in the air, entangled with each other and turned crazily, as if they were looking for their original appearance.
After an unknown amount of time, there was a "click", the light disappeared, and a palm-sized ivory mask lay quietly on the table. The smooth ivory mask healed as before.
Li Xinglan took a deep breath, bounced up, the veins on his temples popped up, and he spurted out a mouthful of black blood.
Blood fell on the mask, staining the pure white mask red.
In the early morning of the next day, Li Xinglan used the bowstring as a thread to put on the mask, and the arc was exactly the same, completely covering his left side of the face.
The two of them seemed to have made an appointment, and no one mentioned it anymore.
But Chen Chrome vaguely felt that there seemed to be something between them that had quietly changed.
The days are back to how they were before, busy and happy.
After the accident last time, Li Xinglan no longer allowed Chen Chrome to play on the school field, and at the same time raised the intensity and difficulty of training to an inhuman level.
Sprinting, long-distance running, grasping, fighting, swordsmanship, marksmanship, bows and arrows, and crossbows are just daily warm-up exercises. Almost none of the soldiers is agile after training.In addition, there are banners, golden drums, chariots, battle formations, beacon fires, beacon fires, lock drop, and ladder drop. All the main training is aimed at actual combat.
In Li Xinglan's view, neither the individual quality of the soldiers nor the strength of the army as a whole can make fundamental changes in a short period of time, no matter how good the training content he arranges, even if all of them have gone through more than 2000 years of training. Save the wheat from the wheat.
To improve the combat strength of this unit, starting from the aspect of maneuverability is the most economical choice under the current conditions.
However, militiamen do not know how to obey and lack discipline, which is undoubtedly fatal in war.
The most urgent task is to make them obey the command, and then solve the problem of information transmission, and finally play the role of command.
Li Xinglan adopted devil-style high-pressure training not only because of previous accidents, but more importantly, to quickly make the militiamen learn to obey.It is too difficult for people to "go forward even if they die", but it can be achieved through training in obeying orders.
There was a lot of discussion in the army, and "people's grievances" boiled over. They all thought that Li Xinglan was avenging his personal revenge.
Chen Chrome was also very puzzled, and secretly asked: "Are you not afraid that they will quit?"
Li Xinglan was very confident, and said: "I am indeed avenging my personal revenge, but they dare not run away. They don't have time to proceed step by step. The enemy never waits for you to be ready before attacking."
Chen Chrome asked again: "I really don't understand, why should they obey?"
Li Xinglan: "The social contract is the common will of a society. If you don't obey, you will be sanctioned. This is the underlying rule of Bianyang City."
Chen Chrome: "But not everyone agrees. If someone doesn't listen to you and you decide to punish him, then you must let other people do it to subdue him. However, everyone is a friend. Maybe you send Others do not agree with this punishment system. If this goes on indefinitely, everyone will disobey, then no one will be punished, isn't it better?"
Li Xinglan laughed: "Then Bianyang Lord's rule will be overthrown, the new regime will be born, the cards will be reshuffled, and new rules will be set. From the perspective of economics, crimes are generally believed to be caused by crimes. The income obtained is greater than the cost invested in crime, that is to say, if the opportunity cost of crime is low, more people will choose to commit crime..."
Chen Chrome was already dizzy halfway through hearing it, and murmured in his heart, "Don't you have a tongue knot?"
He then thought, maybe Li Xinglan thinks more than ordinary people, so he doesn't look like a soldier, because such a person is destined not to obey him easily.
Li Xinglan: "To put it simply, the cost of resistance is too high. Obedience, unity, and victory will result in land to be cultivated and food to eat; if resistance fails, not only will there be no land and no food, but everyone may die. People seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, think about it for yourself.”
Chen Chrome: "This is too cruel."
Li Xinglan: "Do you want to be an emperor yourself? Build a socialism."
"No, no, no, I can't even be a good student." Hearing the tone of that tone, Chen He was afraid that Li Xinglan would really make him an emperor if he was unhappy, and the great rivers and mountains of the motherland would probably be completely destroyed in his own hands. .
A few days later, it turned out that Li Xinglan was right.No one dared to challenge the authority, because in such an era, death is commonplace, and it is too difficult to survive.
The militiamen turned from anger to patience, from patience to silence, and finally died in silence.They choose to sacrifice their personal freedom and happiness in order to achieve the goal of surviving a city.
Translated into adult words, for the sake of the family, men lower their noble heads.
After solving the problem of obedience, what lies ahead is the problem of message transmission.
In the vast majority of modern warfare, command command is often adopted, that is, the commander commands all combat units vertically.The basis of this command method is that the commander's order can be effectively conveyed to every basic combat unit through information technology equipment.
But the cold weapon era is different. There is a lack of means of communication here. Once there is chaos on the battlefield, the soldiers will not be able to give orders without the command of the general, because they can't hear or see.Therefore, on weekdays, they constantly train fixed fighting routines and practice fixed battle formation changes repeatedly, in order to be able to command the entire team well with the simplest and most effective signals when they are in such a panic and it is difficult to receive orders from the commander in real time. .
But Li Xinglan didn't have time. He couldn't spend several years training for the militia. The Qin army's invasion would come soon, so he had to find a way to overcome this problem.
The combat goal of Bianyang City is very clear, just to defend the city.The steps to end the battle are also basically fixed, kill Jiang who is manipulating the Gu insects, reduce the threat of the zombies by one level, and finally eliminate the zombies.
Therefore, Li Xinglan decided to try to adopt the entrusted command method, with a team of hundreds of people, assigning the responsibilities of each unit, and then handing over the hundreds of generals to command their respective troops.
Of course, these hundreds of generals are not particularly outstanding, but when Li Xinglan selected them, they all went through a rough observation.The eight hundred generals are all very flexible and able to think for themselves, which is already rare at the moment.
After each training session, Li Xinglan convened all the managers, from corporal commanders to generals, more than forty people to teach in small classes, to catch up on the key knowledge of the small team's mobility to fight against zombies.
This brought them closer, so the team went from intensification of conflicts to precipitation of conflicts, and then to reunification, and the team got closer together.
The last problem is the way of information transmission.After all, the battlefield is ever-changing, and the generals are inexperienced, so they will inevitably lose the chain on the spot.At this time, the main commander must control the overall situation.
Searching your own knowledge reserves is far more reliable than coming up with one temporarily.
In the cafeteria, Li Xinglan and Chen Chrome had a brainstorming session.
Li Xinglan: "Flags and drums? The speed is low, the range is small, and it's very unreliable."
Chen Chrome: "Kung Ming Lantern?"
Li Xinglan: "There is too little information that can be transmitted, and there is no paper. Change decimal to binary? Can transmit more information."
Chen Chrome: "Stop messing around. I don't believe that everyone has a higher IQ than me. When I learned binary, I found it very difficult. Learning it now is too slow."
Li Xinglan: "You just don't pay attention, and they will die if they don't learn, how can they not learn?"
Chen Chrome put his head in his hands: "death! Well, write down the binary. In fact, I think using semaphores is also very good. It's just that you have obsessive-compulsive disorder and can't stand those uncertain things."
Li Xinglan: "Everything can be achieved with forewarning, and if not forewarned, it will fail. I have never believed in luck."
Chen Chrome: "Morse code?"
Li Xinglan: "You want the militiamen in 200 BC to learn a foreign language, so that the people of the country can win 2000 at the starting line?"
Chen Chrome was speechless: "So you can also tell jokes? Think about what else, kites? They will be shot down. Hot air balloons? It's harder to make than Kongming lanterns. Beacon fires? Too little information. Navy flag? Marathon? Postman? Dog ?”