"Anyway, the clothing consumption during the training stage is very large, so using a simple version first is in line with the purpose of building an army economically." Dai Xie, a representative of the Planning Academy, gave the following answer to the question raised by Fu Sansi at the meeting of the General Administration of Military Affairs.
Fu Sansi has no special feelings for the Japanese, but now the Japanese are his soldiers. If the soldiers are to go out and work hard, they must have a minimum sense of honor and food and clothing - at least they cannot dress like beggars like the National Government.
The planning institute, who is stingy like the reincarnation of Yan Laoxi, is even more concerned about how to save more fabrics. The military uniforms issued to the training camp even kept only one trouser pocket of the shorts, and the security army's leggings were also simplified into natural canvas strips.
Unlike the fubo army, which is one-piece, the wearing rope can be tightened quickly. In the future, immigrants in Jeju Island will mainly be identified by the color of the leggings. Those with white leggings are security forces, and those with gray leggings are fubo army.
Naturally, the Japanese soldiers had no problem with wearing pants, except that they often got slapped for forgetting to wear civilized buttons.
The tops of the security forces are of a new style: Australian employers commonly call them "Soviet style pullovers". Zichuan naturally has no way of knowing who this "Soviet style" is. He vaguely feels that he heard a proposal from a Chinese businessman who understood literary and ink during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
I have seen similar names, and the officers and soldiers of Fubo also had similar views on this. Later, many military literary magazines on street stalls falsely stated that the origin of this uniform came from Suzhou.
In fact, the joint logistics headquarters launched this uniform just because the garment factory has been too busy this year. The machinery factory has not developed a button stitching machine and a buttonhole machine. It takes too much time to sew buttons and open buttonholes. The uniform can be changed to a pullover style.
The original 5 deductions are reduced to 2.
Although it was cutting corners, the trial version was very popular. Even the Fubo Army welcomed this change: after the second counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Fubo Army increased the intensity of training, and emergency gatherings and long-distance training became commonplace. Soldiers would
Before going to bed, I usually only unbutton two or three buttons and take them off, so that I can put them on when the whistle blows in the middle of the night.
However, this kind of pullover was not widely equipped in the end. The resistance to the pullover among the veteran officers of the Army was so great that Thorpe, the deputy director of the Joint Logistics Headquarters who presided over the uniform improvement work, was called "unrepentant".
"Huang Russia". Thorp was puzzled by this and kept complaining - in fact, the one he admired most was the US military. Because the backlash was too strong and the pullover-style military uniform had other shortcomings, the Joint Logistics Headquarters finally decided to only
It was given the number "Type 1631 National Army Regular Uniform" and was equipped for the National Army and the Security Army. The winter uniform is to replace shorts with long trousers.
The National Army uniform only retains one lower right pocket, because the armed belt needs to be hung on the left shoulder, so there is no need to retain the left pocket. The officer uniform does not have two upper pockets, and only has a left arm pocket for holding pens.
The first-generation uniforms of the Fubo Army were indigo. The veterans carried their guns and practiced several times. They all complained that dark clothes were too hot, so the Army quickly changed to gray. The Navy retained the old blue uniforms as winter clothing.
In addition, summer clothes are also based on white - which is actually the true color of cotton.
Since the gray military uniforms still use plant-based dyes, the color adhesion is not high, and the troops quickly faded when training under the hot sun. Since the Special Joint Chemical Company produced a small amount of picric acid, the Joint Logistics Headquarters has used it on an experimental basis.
I dyed a batch of khaki yellow cotton: the dye mainly comes from traditional turmeric, plus a small amount of homemade picric acid.
However, there was too little picric acid, and the supply of turmeric was not sufficient. There was not enough cloth to dye, so the cloth was given to the security forces to make military uniforms. Khaki yellow pullover uniforms, white canvas leggings and rattan-pasted oil-paper hats.
——This is the standard image of the security army. Needless to say, it is a bit wretched, especially when the height of the soldiers is basically under 1.55 meters.
Every day when the Japanese Education Team of the Security Army trained in the camp, they always attracted onlookers from passing veterans and naturalized citizens. Not only because of their image, the Japanese soldiers in Haiyou called "board" three times before starting training every day, so everyone
They nicknamed their camp "Camp Board".
Murasaki Hideji and more than 300 Japanese mercenaries have been imprisoned in the training camp of the Ministry of Education since they arrived in Lingao. In order to prevent these mercenaries who never know what moral integrity is from causing any trouble, the Ministry of Education
The police have also stepped up vigilance, especially the deployment of security companies trained in riot control. However, the orders and prohibitions imposed by these mercenaries were beyond the expectations of the Superintendent of Education.
The Japanese are not naturally disciplined, but these Japanese fans pay more attention to three meals of rice and fish a day. Japan has long been under the pressure of overpopulation: in the 17th century, Japan already had a population of nearly 100 million, and it has long been tasted.
The dilemma of tight survival resources. The mountainous island country has more people and less land, coupled with the extremely harsh exploitation by the shogunate and the daimyo: six public servants and four citizens are the norm, and five public servants and five citizens are benevolent government. This makes the life of Japanese farmers extremely difficult, all year round
If you can’t eat the rice you grow yourself, you can barely survive on miscellaneous grains and still don’t have enough to eat. Even in modern Japanese rural areas during the Meiji and Taisho era, extreme poverty still tortured ordinary people. As described in "Oshin",
Hiring a maid to work for a year for only one bag of rice is still the most tragic phenomenon. In some remote and barren mountainous villages, the custom of abandoning the elderly is even continued. In some areas, in addition to the eldest son with the right to inherit, he can get married and have children.
In addition, the second son who has no inheritance rights, unless Saburo goes out to find food and work, he can only stay at home like a slave and work for his brother in exchange for a bowl of food. He is not allowed to get married and form a family.
In the 17th century, a large number of Japanese people flowed out to Southeast Asia. In addition to the religious persecution of Catholics, solving the problem of food was also an important reason.
Now they have enough food, including enough rice and dried fish. For the first time, they opened the tinplate bucket sent by the training camp to contain the food. When they saw the rice, dried fish and bean paste kelp soup, every Japanese was excited.
Tears were shed with excitement. Zichuan held the cross tightly, looked up at the sky, and thanked the Virgin for sending him to a good place.
Cong Pingqiu Sheng brought these people to Hainan Island. "If one person breaks discipline, all will be punished" is the slogan they must shout before eating every day.
In addition to those who are caught being punished, according to the order of Ping Yuanlaoden, before the meal, everyone must self-examine and report to each other whether there are any disciplinary behaviors and thoughts today, and then they can shout "open a bag and the horse will die". If exposed,
If you come out to verify the truth, you will have to starve. Fish and rice will be rewarded to the whistleblower, and the toilets, dormitories, and playgrounds will be cleaned according to the circumstances.
"**Is there any weakness?"
“The mind has no unfaithful thoughts!”
"Do you always remember to be grateful!"
"Have you tried your best in training?"
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So every day before dinner, the scene of the entire onboard battalion lining up and shouting in unison facing the sun became a scene in the training camp. So much so that Fu Sansi had to issue an order prohibiting others from pointing and watching nearby.
The military training in the "board camp" is rough and brutal. In order to show their competence, the corporals always use body language to fully educate them.
Snap! Snap!
"Baga! Sanjilang, you are a red deer! Can't you remember that you step with your left foot first? If I slap your hand, it will become swollen and you won't remember it for a long time! Do 50 push-ups, right now! Do you hear me? If you still can't do it, I'll ask you to wash it.
Worship the toilet!”
Murasaki Hideji roared like this almost all the time and gave orders to his subordinates, using all the hardships he had suffered and seen to make his subordinates fear him more than death. Then he immediately took a look at the education sergeant assigned to him by his employer -
―He is monitoring the training of each class not far away, hoping to get even a blank nod. The other corporals do the same thing. However, as a former samurai and a professional mercenary, Zichuan has to say that he has brought out
The Japanese soldier has the best training performance in the entire security army, and is also the most likely to become the first Japanese platoon leader of the security army.
The basic content of the security army training camp is formation, fighting and shooting training. The performance of Japanese mercenaries is much better than that of Li and Miao soldiers. After all, most of them were originally mercenaries. Although they may not have received formation training, they can form formations.
They have all been through it, and they have some combat experience themselves, so they are relatively able to understand and adapt to the training content.
The combat training of the onboard battalion retains many Japanese-style swordsmanship familiar to mercenaries. As a former samurai, Zichuan has the best swordsmanship among all mercenaries, so he also serves as a swordsmanship coach, teaching the mercenaries the daily routine of swordsmanship.
Shiki Swordsmanship - His swordsmanship is the best among all Japanese mercenaries.
As for the knives they used, the Senate didn't bother - these mercenaries came from Siam with one each, and some even had two or three, and most of them were better knives. To them, this was
He is a guy who eats. He can be so poor that he has no pants to wear, but he can't lose his knife.
Because Zichuan's performance was very outstanding, Fu Sansi had already included Zichuan Xiuji in the first batch of people promoted to sergeant and acting platoon leader profession.
Shooting training uses muskets. Japanese mercenaries are all proficient in using matchlocks. There was a debate in the Senate about whether to equip the security forces with firearms. Some senators believed that the security forces were "not reliable enough" and should only be equipped with cold guns.
Weapons. For example, Japanese mercenaries can just give them tachi and spears and let them go to "Pig Tu". As for Li and Miao mercenaries, machetes and crossbows are enough.
However, most veterans, especially those in the army, think this is a waste. Without firearms, the security army's advantage over the natives will be greatly reduced. Casualties and losses in battle will also increase significantly. Although the security army is positioned as a consumable
, but everyone also hopes that it can be used for a longer period of time and is not a one-time use.