Yang Mingli sat there honestly, his body covered with bandages, and was being used as a dummy by Guo Dajing, demonstrating to the medical team how to bandage various parts of the human body.
Triangular towel is a convenient and easy-to-use dressing material. It can also be used as a fixed splint, dressing and instead of a tourniquet.
Moreover, it is also suitable for fixing parts such as shoulders, chest, groin and buttocks that are difficult to bandage. It can protect wounds, reduce infection, compress and stop bleeding, fix fractures, and reduce pain.
Guo Dajing was not a professional, but the battlefield rescue skills he had learned were still very advanced technologies at the time.
After the one-eyed bandage, Yang Mingli became a one-eyed dragon, and a woman in the medical team chuckled. This made Yang Mingli a little embarrassed, but he had to force himself to calm down.
"You should practice more and strive to do it quickly and well." Guo Dajing stood up and said to the women in the medical team: "Delaying more time will mean that the wounded will bleed more and even aggravate the injury."
Fujino Hide glanced at the women she had summoned and saw a girl nodding vigorously. She also watched the demonstration very seriously.
Yao Xin has indeed learned it. Although it still needs a proficient process, she feels that she can definitely achieve what General Guo said fast and well.
Guo Dajing turned to Fujino Hide and said, "That's it for today. I still have to go to the workshop."
Fujino Hide nodded and ordered to the women: "You've all learned it, practice in pairs!"
Some people didn't learn it, but they didn't say anything. Anyway, during the practice process, you can still learn from your peers.
"Sir?" Yang Mingli looked at Guo Dajing. He didn't dare to take off the bandage without an order.
Guo Dajing pointed casually and said: "Yao Xin, go and untie him."
"Okay." Yao Xin didn't expect General Guo to still remember her name, so he agreed happily and walked up quickly with a smile, feeling very proud in his heart.
Guo Dajing turned around and walked out of the room. Fujino Hide walked out with him and asked as he walked: "I heard that you are going to lead an army to attack. I will take some doctors and nurses with you."
This tone? It seems that it has been decided.
Guo Dajing pondered for a moment and said: "There may not necessarily be a war. The main thing is to counterattack against Jianlu's arrangements."
Although Jianlu still gave up the strategy of coastal areas, they added many outposts. This not only made it more difficult for the Dongjiang Army's sentinels to sneak in for reconnaissance, but also provided early warning for the front-line defenders.
Obviously, the attack on Anshan Station shocked the Jianlu people, and they also increased their vigilance and tried their best to prevent the same thing from happening.
The Jianlu troops sent out were all elites, and most of them were mainly focused on catching people alive. During this period, the sentinels and spies of various departments of the Dongjiang Army were often lost. Guo Dajing wanted to go out personally. This was also the reason.
Guo Dajing was quite confident about sneaking in and pulling out the sentry, and he also wanted to take the opportunity to practice the skills he had personally trained in Ye Bugui.
Of course, there are hundreds of troops following behind, and the target is around Xiuyan. If you can find an opportunity, attack and consume the built captives, and achieve the purpose of using battle as training.
"There will always be wars, and there will inevitably be casualties." Fujino Hide stubbornly emphasized, "I only bring the four best, and I will not hold back."
Guo Dajing was still hesitating, and Fujino Masaru added, "You promised my father that you would take good care of me."
Tie you to the waistband?!
"Okay!" Guo Dajing agreed reluctantly.
Fujino Hide pursed his lips, thinking that this trick worked well, so he said meaningfully: "The autumn harvest is almost here!"
Autumn harvest comes earlier in the south than in the north. Lin Tiansheng should be harvesting grain and starting shipping, and Fujino Masaru will be able to return by boat almost as well.
Grain prices will drop after the autumn harvest. This is not entirely due to oversupply. Behind it is capital operation, or profit-seeking by profiteers.
The imperial court did not collect taxes in kind, and the people had no money in their hands, so they had to rely on selling grain. The profiteers took the opportunity to lower prices, so that even if the harvest was good, the people could not make much money.
This is very similar to "Collecting Three or Five Dou More" in later generations. The common people are always in a passive and helpless situation. After working hard for a year, their income is only food and clothing, and they can't even have enough food and clothing.
Of course, Guo Dajing can't think that far now. This is a problem with the Ming Dynasty's system, and he doesn't have the ability to change it yet.
In response to Fujino Hide's hint, Guo Dajing smiled and nodded. After this battle, it was time for him to gain a lot.
It is imperative to go to Shandong. When the autumn grain is harvested and put into the warehouse, it is when others cast their nets to catch fish and others till the fields to harvest grain. Thinking about it, it is very refreshing, even though it is quite tiring to move the grain.
After leaving the medical training camp, Guo Dajing first went to a gunpowder workshop in a remote location to inspect the production and manufacturing of granulated black powder.
For a long time, people have been using powdered gunpowder. Powdered black powder has many shortcomings, such as inconvenient transportation, uneven burning rate, easy to get damp, etc.
For example, when using a musket charge, filling it too tightly will prevent complete combustion due to lack of oxygen, and filling it too loose will also reduce the power of the gunpowder.
To ensure that the loading is neither too loose nor too tight, the requirements of the musketeers are increased and the intensity of training is increased.
Granulated gunpowder solves these problems. Even after bumpy transportation, although the large and small particles will still stratify, it will not affect the quality and use of the gunpowder.
Secondly, the moisture absorption of granulated gunpowder is also much less than that of powdered gunpowder, because the ratio of surface area to volume of granular gunpowder is smaller and it absorbs less moisture from the air.
Finally, because the granular gunpowder is in the form of granules, they do not fit tightly together even when pressed.
The gaps left between the particles allow oxygen to assist the combustion of gunpowder, making the burning rate more uniform and improving the efficiency of gunpowder combustion, so its power is greatly increased.
Guo Dajing has conducted experiments and found that the power of granulated black powder is at least twice that of powdered black powder. In other words, with the same amount of powder, the lethality is greatly increased.
The increase in the power of gunpowder means the reduction of gunpowder consumption. Especially for muskets, the saving of gunpowder and the reduction of costs are particularly significant.
Although the Chinese people had learned to granulate gunpowder in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it was not popularized in the military industry. Guo Dajing did not need to delve into the specific reasons.
Corn and potatoes appeared in the Ming Dynasty, so it is not that they were not popularized. According to the speed of information dissemination in ancient times and the general literacy rate of people, there is nothing surprising.
Because of this, Guo Dajing did not need to invite pharmacists from the West. He could just use the method in "The Western God Machine", plus purification, and his own most accurate gunpowder formula to produce granulated gunpowder.
In the granulation of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty, alcohol was added when mixing the gunpowder, then wet-milled and dried in the sun, and then the agglomerated gunpowder was made into granules using wooden troughs and round-eye sieves.
After more than two months of production and manufacturing, all Guanglu Island's musketeers have been used, and the explosives have basically been replaced.
But the gunpowder workshop is still busy. Guo Dajing has replaced all the gunpowder and mines in Lushun Fort and transported them to the island for reprocessing and loading.
The workers are both male and female, each performing their own duties. There is already a shadow of assembly line operation, which greatly improves efficiency.
After inspecting the gunpowder workshop, Guo Dajing was still very satisfied. Although it was all done manually, mechanization was not possible under current conditions.
Of course, there is still room for improvement in the gunpowder granulation process, which is the next step - refining.
Arriving at the cafeteria about two miles away from the gunpowder workshop, Guo Dajing took out dozens of kilograms of horse meat when no one was prepared and gave it to the master chef to make broth as a reward and reward for the stewards and workers.
Again, as a military householder, people are not afraid of hard work. As long as they have enough food and clothing, they are willing to work hard and not be lazy.
This standard was not difficult for Guo Dajing to meet. Even though he was cheating, he still sacrificed his physical strength and even risked his life to obtain food and supplies.
Guo Dajing came to the carpentry workshop again, which was a branch of the original large workshop. It was Guo Dajing's management model that was carefully divided according to the type of manufacturing and the skills of the craftsmen.
Not long after entering the workshop, Guo Dajing heard a somewhat shrill voice, which turned out to be the eunuch Zhao Guang.
After giving Zhao Guang and others a warning, Guo Dajing did not continue to find trouble and torture them, but he also did not give them too special preferential treatment. He received the same standard treatment as the officers in the military camp, with the occasional piece of meat for improvement.
Zhao Guang and others also learned the lesson. They pretended to be grandsons first and waited until Guo Dajing became careless. Then they found an opportunity to report to the court and severely punish Guo Dajing.
They also knew that it would be difficult to achieve their goals simply by relying on Guo Dajing to humiliate them. Not only would the court not necessarily believe him, but the crime would not be serious enough.
If the punishment for Guo Dajing is very small and Guo Dajing is still the chief officer stationed on the island, they will be in trouble.
What's more, Dongjiang Town is different from other military towns. It is more independent, and they still know this.
"You can't do this kind of work. Who did you carpenters learn this craft from?" Zhao Guang reprimanded several craftsmen without noticing that Guo Dajing came quietly.
The scolding was not enough. Zhao Guang also took action. He walked around in front of the basically completed equipment, fingering left and right, and found out that the tenon and tenon joints were wrong, and the position of the wedge was wrong.
Does this guy really understand the gestures and pretend to understand? Could it be that he got the true inheritance from the Carpenter Emperor?
Guo Dajing simply stepped forward in no hurry, folded his arms, and listened there, watching Eunuch Zhao perform.
Placed in the field is a portable elastic ejection device, which can throw two kilograms of landmines fifty or sixty meters away. Guo Dajing specially requested the workshop to manufacture it and configure it for the mountain forest troops.
Not only is it portable, it can also be dismantled, and one horse can carry two. It can be assembled in more than 20 seconds after being taken down, and it can be pulled by manpower and can be operated by two people.
As fire support for the guerrillas in the mountains, Guo Dajing did not use the gunpowder projectile cannon for the time being. The first was to save gunpowder, the second was the lack of iron material, and the last was the complexity of the operation.
There is no need to be too advanced, simplicity and ease of use are the purpose and principle.
Due to the power of black powder, mines and grenades are larger in size and weight. Even a strong man can only throw them twenty or thirty meters by hand. This simple projectile makes up for the lack of distance.
"Master Zhao is proficient in woodcraft, and I am convinced by what he said." The boss of the carpentry workshop seemed to understand, and he stepped forward and bowed and said, "I will make it again now."
Zhao Guang was recognized, and his desire to show off was satisfied. He stroked his chest and said, "You are a great craftsman. You can understand this principle, and you have also learned a few tricks. Let me tell you, the Za family comes from a family of carpenters, and the craftsmanship is passed down from ancestors.
What else could be wrong?"
Guo Dajing can draw blueprints, but asking him to be a carpenter is definitely nonsense. Moreover, carpenters in that era really relied on craftsmanship, without nails, and relied entirely on mortise and tenon joints, which were very strong.
Seeing that Lao Dan's admiration didn't look like he was faking it, Guo Dajing didn't step forward to ask.
At this time, Zhao Guang also saw Guo Dajing. Guo Dajing responded with a kind smile, nodded, and turned around to go to the lounge next to him.
It was not long before Zhao Guang also walked in and greeted Guo Dajing politely.
"I didn't expect that Eunuch Zhao was proficient in carpentry and was able to help Long live in the palace?" Guo Dajing poured Zhao Guang a cup of tea and asked with a smile.
Zhao Guang shook his head quickly and said: "How can the Za family be so lucky? I just worked with my father for a few years, and I have learned 80% to 90% of the ancestral craftsmanship."
It turns out that he entered the palace halfway, and he obviously came from a poor family and was forced to have no choice. Who would send their child to the palace if they had no worries about food and clothing?
This kind of thing was not uncommon at the time, and Wei Zhongxian was an example.
He was a bad gambler who couldn't survive any longer, so he decided to stab himself, ran to the palace and became a powerful nine thousand years old man.
But eunuchs are eunuchs, and they are dependent on the imperial power. Without the emperor's support, they are nothing. No matter how powerful they are, killing them is just a matter of the emperor's word.
Guo Dajing didn't want to get to the bottom of it, so he changed the topic and asked: "In a few days, Guo will lead his troops to land for battle. Is Mr. Zhao willing to accompany the army to observe?"
Zhao Guang was the supervisor of the army. Although Guo Dajing would not be influenced by him, he asked politely and showed respect.
Zhao Guang had heard the news that Guo Dajing was going to lead his army to go to war, and various workshops were rushing to produce the necessary weapons and equipment! But Guo Dajing didn't say anything, and he couldn't ask questions, but he felt a little dissatisfied.
Seeing Zhao Guang's hesitation, Guo Dajing added: "On the battlefield, swords and guns are blind. For safety reasons, it would be better for Eunuch Zhao to stay on the island and take charge!"
Zhao Guang raised his eyebrows and said in a high-pitched voice: "The Zajia are supervisors of the army, but when there is a battle, they have to follow the army. As for danger, the Zajia are not people who are greedy for life and afraid of death."
Guo Dajing nodded and said, "Eunuch Zhao is not afraid of life and death and is loyal to the king. Guo admires him, I admire him!"
After a pause, he reminded: "In addition to the danger, marching and fighting are also very hard. Eunuch Zhao also has to consider whether his body can bear it."
"Zhajia is strong and healthy, there is no problem." Zhao Guang was a little unhappy, as if he was looking down on himself. Although his lower body was gone, his waist was not weak.
Guo Dajing smiled slightly, stood up and said: "That's it, Eunuch Zhao tells Jiang and Shen, please be ready to go out with the army!"
"Okay." Zhao Guang also stood up.
After the two exchanged greetings, Guo Dajing left first. After asking the craftsman, he felt relieved after knowing that Zhao Guang was not blindly giving advice.