Chapter 105 29. Subconsciously Losing Loyalty

Xiao Pingtai brought two iron cannons and asked Chen San to demonstrate them to these people. After firing two shots, these people still looked confused and looked dazed.

Although they looked like they were watching and learning seriously, they were helpless and had little experience. It seemed too much to expect them to easily teach them how to operate and fire iron cannons.

Forget it, we are in a hurry to get it done, so let's eat. When they heard about eating, their eyes lit up immediately. Without being told, they were very conscious and immediately lined up in a line, and they were a little straighter than yesterday.

Xiao Pingtai had asked Pingliu and Aji to go home to get the wheat rice that their family had steamed in the morning. Pingliu carried a wooden basin and Aji carried a bucket with cold boiled water with a little salt added.

Seeing the food coming, Xiao Pingtai suddenly had a bad taste and asked these foot soldiers: "Who pays you? Who provides you with food? Who do you want to be loyal to?"

The group of people were stunned for a moment, and said in a disorderly and unimpressive manner, "It is the adults who pay us." "It is the adults who provide us with food." "We are all loyal to you, the adults." Xiao Pingtai was quite satisfied after hearing this, and thought you were sensible.

Then he gave them bowls and chopsticks, and asked them to eat the rice in order. Xiao Pingtai personally served them the rice. The bowls were not very big, but everyone's bowls were piled up. Everyone thanked them profusely when they took the rice, and then stood and started to scoop the rice into their mouths.

That is because Xiao Pingtai was quite humane and used husked wheat to cook the rice. Now when people hear rice, they subconsciously think that they are eating rice. After all, the definition of rice seems to have been occupied by rice. Other rice must be prefixed, such as pumpkin rice, sweet potato rice, etc. But it was not like this in the Warring States Period. Most of the time, rice refers to various steamed wheat and beans, and it may even be something cooked with tubers of unknown starchy plants. After all, white rice is too precious, and only high-level samurai like Kobayata can eat rice every meal. Of course, even Kobayata eats a mixed rice of 80% rice and 20% wheat, mainly to remind himself not to forget his roots.

So when you look at the Japanese eating now, dumplings, noodles, pizza, buns, and even rice, everything is a dish, only rice is considered rice, and only rice is considered a staple food. This is really because they are afraid of poverty. From two thousand years ago to the present, the whole society has always had a desire for rice. What a luxurious pursuit it is to be able to eat rice, and the yearning for rice is retained in the blood genes.

Of course, the foot soldiers in front of Kobayata, who were half-starved and displaced a few days ago, would not daydream about whether they could eat white rice. They were satisfied with just one bite of food, and they were full. Two large bowls per person were no problem. They ate with light salt water, without any meat or side dishes. They looked quite happy.

Looking at the people in front of him wolfing down their food, Xiao Pingtai seemed to feel that Aji's throat was moving. "Are you hungry again?" Aji was stunned for a moment, "No, no, I'm not hungry." He waved his hand quickly. Xiao Pingtai then realized that Aji seemed to be on the verge of surpassing him in height. It was right when he thought about it. Aji's fastest growth period was when he ate a lot every day at Xiao Pingtai's place. How could he not grow fast? Looking at him again, he was still staring at the wooden basin with rice.

"It's okay, get some more food when you're hungry." Aji felt a little embarrassed when he heard it, and scooped several spoonfuls with a spoon to eat, and patted his stomach with satisfaction, indicating that he was really full.

After finishing the meal, the mental outlook of the foot soldiers was a little different. At least the team lined up quickly, and each of them held their heads high and looked like a soldier. It is true that there is a big difference between being full and not being full. This group of people really didn't have a bite of breakfast at home. They all came here to wait for Xiao Pingtai's two meals. No wonder they looked listless in the morning. No one looked energetic.

Now that they have eaten, it seems that they are more focused. It seems that they are more attentive to the explanation. Xiao Pingtai asked Chen San to demonstrate the operation of the iron cannon twice, and then asked them to come up one by one to operate it themselves.

Looking at the stupidity of these people, Xiao Pingtai held his forehead with one hand, and said, "A child cannot be taught, and a rotten wood cannot be carved." They only learn to be like this after being full, these people who eat for free.

I can only comfort myself that although the result of the operation is full of loopholes, at least these people have learned a little bit. Take it slowly. In the first Middle East war, some Jewish militiamen mastered the maintenance and use of various firearms after three days of training. Xiao Pingtai estimated that although these people may not know a single word, they must learn slower than the Jews who have at least received secondary education, but they should be able to learn it in a month or so.

Moreover, a month was enough for him to get more than a dozen iron cannons, so that after three to five months of training, they could be deployed to fight.

Xiao Pingtai was too lazy to watch these people clumsily operate the iron cannons. He was very worried about the two iron cannons. After all, according to the way these people played, it was very likely that they would be scrapped in advance. They might panic and reload twice, and then ignite and fire. With a bang, both the gun and the person would be destroyed.

In addition, according to Hei Liu and Chen San, what is the early battle method (that is, the fixed loading of gunpowder), what is the segmented shooting (that is, the three-stage shooting that is regarded as a magical skill in idiot novels), what is the fishing bottle shooting (one said that it is to add strong archers to the iron cannon team to ensure the continuity of firepower. Another said that one of the soldiers with the best archery skills shoots, and the remaining three reload), although these things are not common, they have been used by many people for a long time.

Many daimyo in Kyushu, including the lord of the Goto region, now called Uku and later called Goto, have already mastered the use of tactics such as early combat. The Tanegashima clan is even more skilled in the use of three-stage round shooting, and even developed a method of stable firing on a bumpy ship (this statement is questionable, mainly manifested in the fact that when Shimazu Yoshihiro returned from Korea, he was attacked by the Chinese and Korean naval forces. The then head of the Tanegashima clan, Tanegashima Hisatoki, was able to fire continuously on the bumpy sea, which was quite capable). The daimyo in the western countries already have a set of skilled tactics for the new weapon, the iron cannon.

Preparing to use this thing to hit someone is probably like driving a cruiser to show off in front of an aircraft carrier. Everyone is using it, you are later than others, and you are not as skilled as them, but you dare to brag. Xiao Pingtai really admires these keyboard military strategists.

However, practicing tight formations and marching in step can be put on the agenda, after all, the era of queuing and shooting is coming. As for the idiotic beep, beep, beep, and beep, just fuck it.