The working-class army was not only good at construction, but also had excellent discipline. The Great Zhou Republic was already in the first industrial revolution, which was an era of large factories and large industries. What was needed was workers who could abide by labor discipline. Discipline was the foundation for the formation of an army.

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

With the advent of the era of large-scale production, technical workers with certain cultural knowledge have become the labor force most needed by industrial capitalists. Therefore, the country's education policy has been gradually adjusted, and a nine-year compulsory compulsory education system for all has been implemented twenty years ago.

Of course, before this, education was quite popular. The literacy rate in the Great Zhou Republic exceeded 50% 100 years ago, and before the implementation of compulsory education in nine years, 80% of Great Zhou adults were literate.

The twenty-year 9-year compulsory education further improved the education level of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Moreover, compulsory education does not only serve industrialization, but also serves the country's military.

Military sports, military training and the habit of obeying discipline and obeying command have been integrated into nine years of compulsory education.

Therefore, on September 18, 226, more than 50,000 Zhou Republican soldiers who appeared around Jiangdian Town showed extremely high discipline and obedience.

In addition, the physical fitness of these Republican soldiers is also the best in history - although the Great Zhou Republic is facing an overcrowding crisis, the working people can still eat meat, eggs, milk, and other working people.

Moreover, there are free student lunches in public schools, which are enough to ensure that students have sufficient nutrition during their growth.

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

But after all, they had never been on the real battlefield, and now they were harassed endlessly by the rocket launchers of the Western Song Dynasty. The atmosphere in the camp inevitably became tense and depressing.

Tonight, everyone in the Zhou army camp suffered from insomnia!

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When the officers and soldiers of the Great Zhou Republic Army suffered from insomnia, most of their opponents were already snoring.

The reason most of them is that there is an infantry division of the Eastern Song Dynasty in the coalition. The officers and soldiers of the Eastern Song Dynasty were also very good recruits, and they were about to fight, so of course they would be uneasy.

The nine infantry divisions and officers and soldiers of the Western Song Dynasty who appeared on the battlefield with them seemed very stable on the eve of the war.

Except for the officers and soldiers on duty, others, including General Zhao Liang, are now snoring.

Most of these people are veterans who have been on the battlefield, and they are either military or gun doctors. Perhaps it is more appropriate to call them the warrior class!

The Western Song Dynasty, which had been in a state of war for a long time and had also promoted the military household system and targeted soldiers, had formed a class of warriors and landlords who had joined the army for generations after more than 200 years of evolution.

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

Most of the peasants in the Western Song Dynasty were not qualified to join the army. Therefore, being a soldier in the Western Song Dynasty today was not only the obligation of a part of the people, but also honor and a symbol of identity. In this case, it is naturally easy to raise elite soldiers.

However, the number of warrior landlords is too small, so the Western Song Dynasty could only take the elite military route, and could not engage in the human-sea tactics like the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty.

On the battlefield of Jiangjia Town, the number of people is on the side of the two Song dynasties.

Therefore, the decisive battle on September 19, for the coalition forces of the two Song dynasties, not only must they win, but they must also win!

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The rockets roared and exploded intermittently in the middle of the night, while the Great Zhou Republic Army endured for half a night and did not dispatch one soldiers to drive away the rocket soldiers from the Western Song Dynasty.

In fact, General Zhao Liang did not ambush the night, and he had long been sure that the generals of the Zhou army dared not fight at night - the Western Song Dynasty was famous for his good at fighting night battles!

Half an hour before dawn, the armies on both sides began to raise fires and make food. The camps of the two armies were once again brightly lit!

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

The light infantry who acted as the advance team usually used rifled rifles. Now it is autumn, and the wheat fields around Jiangdian Town have matured. The well-growing wheat ears are large and large, which has well covered the activities of the light infantry.

Not long after, drums suddenly sounded in the Western Song army camp, and then there were military horns one after another. The quiet army seemed to wake up from the sleep in an instant, and the whistle and command sounded in one piece.

The moment of the decisive battle is coming soon!

Before the decisive battle, the Western Song army had a full meal as usual. If conditions permit, there would be meat supply.

Chen Youliang, a military soldier from the Hanyang Army on Jinghu North Road, and his fifth brother Chen Youren were enjoying the "last breakfast" with a few comrades. The staple food was white flour steamed buns, and each person could get a slice of cured meat.

The cured meat was stolen from the farmers in Zhou Kingdom, and the white flour used to make steamed buns was also stolen from the Zhou people...

Now the coalition forces of the two Song dynasties have penetrated more than 350 miles into the Zhou Dynasty, and seven or eight days have passed since the invasion began.

The military rations I carried had long been exhausted, and the supplies were all relied on the war zone to collect.

The meaning of collecting may not be to rob, but the key is to rely on who will go to the quest. If the officers and soldiers of the Eastern Song Dynasty came out, they would definitely give money.

However, the officers and soldiers of the Western Song Dynasty were not so kind-hearted. They were polite to grab some food and drink. Those who were rude to have to grab money. Those who were even more vicious would even kill and set fire!

There is a lot of meat robbed back by the officers and soldiers of the Western Song Dynasty! The food richness in the rural areas in the Great Zhou Dynasty was much beyond the expectations of the officers and soldiers of the Western Song Dynasty. Even the most ordinary rich peasants (there seems to be no middle-aged peasants and poor peasants in the Great Zhou Dynasty), there are also a large amount of cured meat, livestock and poultry in their homes.

Meat seems to be part of their daily diet!

However, Chen Youliang, Chen Youren and others cannot let go of eating meat, mainly because their stomachs cannot stand it... Children from ordinary military families, such as them, can eat meat every year.

So poor?

Of course I am poor!

Now it is not the early years of the founding of the Western Song Dynasty. It is impossible for ordinary military households in Jingchu to have 100 acres of land. If you can have twenty or thirty acres of land, you will be considered wealthy.

The main reason for this is of course that the Hundred Years of the Mongolian and Song dynasties consumed the financial resources of the Western Song military households and gun doctors - a thousand miles of expedition without gaining anything, which was enough to bankrupt a landlord's house!

In addition, the large number of wealthy military households are also one of the reasons why ordinary military households lose their land.

Because the expenses of the Western Expedition could not be compensated, many ordinary military households had to mortgage their land to wealthy military households, and they became tenants of wealthy military households.

The Western Song Dynasty court could issue a decree to declare that the land transaction between military households and ordinary landlords was invalid, but there was no way to deal with wealthy military households in the same way. Therefore, they had to admit that the transaction was effective and watched the land become more and more concentrated.

However, because military households are superior to others, there is also a possibility of rising, and the service cost has decreased due to the arrival of the smoothbore rifle era, the Western Song Dynasty still had soldiers available after more than 200 years of founding the Western Song Dynasty. Of course, the Western Song Dynasty implemented the target shooting and seizing soldiers more than 200 years ago also ensured that there were still soldiers available now.

Although there are still soldiers available, the soldiers are poorer and more dangerous than each generation!

A group of poor people who dream of making a name for themselves but never have a chance, everyone has a gun, this is not right!

A group of poor military households and poor gun doctors silently finished eating steamed buns and bacon. Soon after, the captains of each team blew the whistle of assemblage. The soldiers stood up one after another and arranged in the squad. After the lineup, the captains of each team began to check the soldiers' equipment and dry food.

The equipment is very simple, a flintlock rifle, a sleeve bayonet, a bullet bag, a gunpowder pot, a lead bullet box, a water-filled gourd, etc.

Flintlock rifles and sleeve bayonets are usually provided by soldiers, but the caliber of the flintlock rifle has unified regulations to uniformly distribute lead bullets.

Lead bullets and gunpowder were provided by the court. Soldiers would make their own paper shell bullets to facilitate loading. The homemade paper shell bullets were inserted on the bullet belt, and at least 24 rounds should be prepared according to regulations.

In addition to these ordinary equipment, some soldiers will carry several hand cannons, namely hand grenades.

They are called "hand artillery", but they are actually grenades in another time and space, and are the backbone elites among line infantry.

An infantry battalion of the Western Song Army was usually composed of two musketeers, a gunman team and a hand artillery team.

Because the two brothers Chen Youliang and Chen Youren were born, they were both chosen as artillery soldiers.

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Major Zhu Xinglong, who was born in Zhongli County, Haozhou, United States of the Eastern Song Dynasty, was checking the artillery reserve position at this time. He was the battalion commander of the Artillery Battalion of the Third Division of the Eastern Song Army. The artillery battalion led by him would be responsible for the observation and aiming of all artillery soldiers.

There were as many as 9 Western Song artillery battalions participating in today's battle, but none of them could compare with the Eastern Song artillery battalions commanded by Zhu Xinglong.

The quality of the cannon is not good, the quality of the ammunition is also not good, and the level of the artillery is also far inferior. Even the pulling of the cannon is not strong enough.

As a semi-feudal agricultural country, it was not easy for the Western Song Dynasty to maintain a group of quite excellent cavalry and infantry. If you want to maintain an artillery that can be compared with the Eastern Song Dynasty artillery, it would be a dream!

The Eastern Song Dynasty was a country after the Industrial Revolution. Their artillery was a product of industrialization, and there was a generation difference from the artillery in the Western Song Dynasty.

After seeing the rough things owned by the Western Song artillery, Zhu Xinglong's brows never spread out.

Although the artillery battalions in the Western Song Dynasty had a 6-jin long artillery team, a 6-jin howitzer team, a 4-jin mountain artillery team, an engineer team, and a rocket launcher platoon.

But their 6-pound long cannons, 6-pound howitzers, and 4-pound mountain cannons are all made of bronze. They are very bulky and look like antiques. They can only be seen in museums in the Eastern Song Dynasty. Zhu Xinglong's generation, and his father Zhu Shizhen, have never seen bronze cannons in the army...

The shells and launching drugs used by the artillery soldiers in the Western Song Dynasty were even worse.

The surface of the solid bullet is rough and generally cast small - it is easy to be stuffed into the barrel.

The flowering bullet looks even worse. It is said that nine out of ten shots will not bloom if they are shot out... Why are you going to do if you can't bloom?

As for the shotgun, it is not installed in a cylindrical metal shell, but a bunch of small lead bullets wrapped in linen. This old shotgun has a very short range, and it is almost done if it takes a hundred steps. It is impossible to have a range of more than 200 steps. The distance of a hundred steps is within the range of the enemy's rifled gun! What's the use of such a shotgun? The gunners are killed by people!

As for the shrapnel... the artillery officers of the Western Song Dynasty could only say: What is this?

What Zhu Xinglong couldn't stand was the gunpowder from the Western Song Dynasty. It was so black smoke rolling when it hit. If there was no wind on the battlefield, the gunner's vision would be blocked after a while. The purity of this gunpowder was not enough and could not generate enough thrust. In addition, the bronze gun bore was not smooth enough, and the gap between the shells was too large, which made the air leak when it hit. Therefore, the range of various artillery artillery in the Western Song Dynasty was much worse than that of similar artillery in the Eastern Song Dynasty and Great Zhou Dynasty.

This situation gave Zhu Xinglong a headache!

However, General Zhao Liang had a solution, which was to concentrate on using artillery. He concentrated 180 cannons from 10 artillery battalions in the main breakthrough direction, and used violent artillery bombardment to support the impact of infantry and cavalry.

At the same time, the task of watching artillery soldiers was also handed over to Zhu Xinglong's Third Artillery Battalion of the Eastern Song Army.

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At this time, it was dim.

The sound of horns and drums comes one after another.

Gray and blue torrents surged out from the camps of the Song Dynasty coalition forces. Thousands of soldiers, led by officers, formed a dense marching formation and drove directly from various camps to the battlefield. In front, there were already "gun doctors" who arrived in advance, planted military flags in the wheat fields and wilderness, indicating the direction of the advance of each battalion and team.

At the same time, some other "gun doctors" touched the front of the Zhou army front near Jiangjia Town under the cover of wheat fields and grass, and used their rifled rifles to keep firing, harassing the Zhou Republic Army who were also in the array.

The rangers of the Western Song Dynasty had also reached the edge of the battlefield and were in contact with the Rangers of the Republic's Army. Most of the latter came from the Bashang Grassland or the Korqin Grassland. They were extremely excellent cavalry and had Tianjin horses carefully cultivated from generation to generation. And each cavalry was equipped with two rifled rifles that could be fired on horseback. Although the reloading of rifled rifles is inconvenient, the advantages of range and accuracy can still make these Zhou Dynasty rangers very deadly.

Just as the gunfire sounded one after another, General Zhao Liang was dressed neatly and walked out of his central army tent. This famous Western Song general, who was gray-haired, firm in appearance, and murderous intent in his eyes, would go to the battlefield for the 61st time today.

His opponent was Wuyuan Town, who had first entered the battlefield.

If he could defeat the 50,000 troops in Wuyuan Town outside Jiangjia Town, he would be able to defeat another 50,000 troops in the direction of Yancheng in one or two days.

Then, he was able to lead his troops to the Kaifeng Prefecture, the former capital of the Song Dynasty, where there was a secret weapon that could force the Great Zhou Republic to seek peace!
Chapter completed!