Chapter 43: Abundant Rewards! Visitors from Headquarters
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According to past experience, whenever the elite force reached the strength of another major organizational level, the rewards would be extremely generous, along with a special bonus.
This filled Li Yunlong with anticipation.
After this period of training and the recent battle, many of the recruits had reached the standard of elite soldiers. Their numbers had finally grown to regimental strength.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. Your elite force has reached 1,500 soldiers. You are rewarded with a regiment’s worth of weapons, ammunition, and supplies.]
[Ding! Congratulations. You have obtained the essential divine books for travelers through time: the Virtual Map.]
As the system distributed the rewards, Li Yunlong could not help being stunned by its sheer extravagance.
The regiment’s equipment was issued in the style of the Central Army’s regular units.
There were 1,100 rifles, 81 light machine guns, 18 heavy machine guns, six 20-millimeter autocannons, and twelve 82-millimeter mortars.
A full complement of ammunition and supplies was included as well.
The ammunition was especially abundant: a full 400,000 rounds of bullets and 2,000 shells.
The supplies included military boots, ammunition pouches, belts, canteens, and all the rest of the standard equipment for soldiers.
There were even corresponding medical supplies.
The abundance was astonishing!
Given the equipment level of the Eighth Route Army, these weapons and supplies were enough to outfit an entire reinforced regiment, with ammunition to spare.
It seemed the time had come to expand the force.
Otherwise, these weapons and supplies would never be put to full use.
Unfortunately, too few soldiers had yet reached the elite-force standard.
The essential divine books for travelers through time secretly delighted Li Yunlong.
He had originally intended to compile training manuals, medical manuals, military-industrial guides, and similar works suited to his own army.
He had never expected the system to reward him with them directly.
The essential divine books for travelers through time were the Barefoot Doctor’s Manual, the Militia Military Training Manual, and The Friend of Military-Civilian Dual-Purpose Talents.
The Barefoot Doctor’s Manual could turn a person with no medical knowledge or experience into a basically competent doctor in the shortest possible time. Calling it a miraculous crash-course textbook would not be an exaggeration.
It covered everything from solving the problem of snoring during sleep to assisting women in childbirth!
From the techniques of traditional Chinese acupuncture to the procedures of Western surgery!
From gathering folk medicinal herbs to the steps for synthesizing Western medicine...
There was nothing it failed to cover—only things one had never thought of.
Nearly every practical folk remedy was included in the book.
For example, if surgery became unavoidable, it explained how to perform local anesthesia, how to carry out the operation, and how to provide postoperative care.
It covered everything from the steps for cleaning surgical instruments to the details of tying twelve flashlights together and using them as a makeshift shadowless lamp.
The book also taught artificial respiration, the treatment of fractures and dislocations, methods for eliminating pests, and much more.
It did not merely teach people how to treat illnesses. It even explained how to find and gather medicinal herbs when no medicine was available, detailing where various Chinese medicinal plants grew throughout the country, how to cultivate them at home, what medicinal properties they possessed, what illnesses they could treat, what prescriptions were needed, how much of each ingredient to use, and how to store and manage the herbs.
In short, this book truly held nothing back.
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If its contents were put into practice, countless medical orderlies could be trained.
It truly deserved to be called a divine book!
The purpose of the Militia Military Training Manual was to build a passable armed force in the shortest possible time.
Step by step, it explained how to turn a group of people with no military experience into soldiers possessing considerable combat ability.
It covered everything from the most basic formation drills to protective measures against an atomic bomb.
From the daily routine of rising early and retiring late to the fundamentals of wilderness survival.
From the simplest formations to the tactics of advancing through enemy artillery fire during a large-scale battle.
It could be said to contain all the essential knowledge and key points required to train an infantryman.
This included the infantry’s “Five Basic Skills”:
marksmanship, bayonet fighting, grenade throwing, demolition, and field fortification.
The book presented all of them in their entirety.
The details of many exercises were laid out with remarkable clarity.
For example, it explained how to conceal oneself while marching, why one should avoid walking along ridgelines where the enemy could easily spot them, why patrols should avoid using the same route lest they be tracked, and how to estimate distance with the “jump-eye method” upon discovering a target.
As long as the steps were followed in training, a battlefield-ready unit could be produced within a few weeks.
This was precisely what Li Yunlong needed at present!
After all, new recruits were constantly joining the army, and they lacked proper guidance for developing combat strength.
This book would solve that problem.
Of course, it would need to be rewritten.
Otherwise, who would understand what an atomic bomb was?
That would be difficult to explain.
With this manual, the number of soldiers meeting the elite-force standard would surely increase dramatically before long.
The final book, The Friend of Military-Civilian Dual-Purpose Talents, was even more impressive.
Its primary purpose was to transform a soldier into a person capable of functioning in civilian society, teaching him a wide range of practical skills for everyday life.
Naturally, its main use was to cultivate the military abilities of officers and militiamen, along with the various skills needed to build a nation.
The book contained not only extensive military knowledge—such as shooting down aircraft, destroying tanks, and defending against atomic and chemical weapons—but also knowledge spanning agriculture, industry, civil engineering, household appliances, and many other fields.
In agriculture and industry, it offered detailed guidance on growing grain and vegetables, raising livestock, operating industrial machinery, constructing buildings, making furniture, and more.
Its lessons in daily life included photography, seal carving, cooking, accounting, and commercial and industrial management, helping readers become capable in both military and civilian fields.
Anyone who mastered the knowledge in this book could fairly be called a walking encyclopedia.
If someone learned the contents of all three books, they would have more than enough skills to make a living—and might even carve out a name for themselves.
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This was fantastic!
With these books, the strength of the army could be rapidly improved, bringing it closer to parity with the Japanese invaders.
The final reward was even more incredible.
It was practically a cheat-device.
Virtual Map: An area extending five kilometers in every direction from the Host is visible.
In other words, Li Yunlong had practically gained an omniscient, godlike view of the battlefield.
The range was a little small, however, covering an area only ten kilometers in diameter.
As Li Yunlong experimented with it, he discovered that different-colored dots appeared across the map. They represented the enemy in black, allied forces in blue, civilians in white, and his own army in red...
What an ability!
Used for marching and warfare, it was practically the power to predict everything with divine accuracy.
With this, he could beat the Japanese invaders until they were reduced to nothing.
Wonderful!
It truly lived up to being the special reward for reaching regimental strength!
Incredible!
Only after quite some time did Li Yunlong finally calm down.
He then handed the affairs of the regimental headquarters over to Liu Yuan and immediately began compiling the three divine books.
He started with the Militia Military Training Manual.
This manual was directly related to improving the army and was the one they needed most urgently at present.
Whenever Liu Yuan returned to headquarters and saw Li Yunlong constantly writing, he felt deeply puzzled, but he did not interfere.
Just as Li Yunlong finished the Militia Military Training Manual, a guard brought someone to the entrance of headquarters.
“Report!”
“Come in!” Li Yunlong replied without looking up.
Huzi stepped forward, saluted, and reported, “Commander, someone from headquarters has arrived.”
Only then did Li Yunlong lift his gaze from the manuscripts he had been arranging and look toward the newcomer.
Hmm?
Why had headquarters sent her?
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