Chapter 100: [Golden Fist and Red Flag]

In addition to the garrison in Clark Town, each centurion in Sleeping Bear City was assigned a golden fist and red flag, and of course there was also a rooftop flag for the Chieftain's Hall.

Ma Shao climbed up to install the flag in the chief's hall himself. He first nailed a wooden flag stand on the roof, then inserted the flagpole and secured it with a rope.

When the north wind blows, the golden-red flags flutter in the wind.

Looking at the fluttering flag, Ma Shao couldn't help but smile and turned around and said, "What do you think?"

"It's so beautiful!" the little sparrow shouted happily, and most of the people watching on the ground were discussing this novel flag with smiles on their faces.

"This flag is so bright that you can probably see it from a long distance."

"I guess no one will mistake the Chieftain's Hall from now on."

"Can anyone else mistake the Chieftain's Hall?"

"Why not? They are all wooden houses. Yesterday, a Pawnee mistook my house for a chief's hall..."

People were talking.

On rainy days, I walked around the house, looking left and right: "Why do I feel like it's a little crooked?"

"Is it crooked?" Ma Shao was stunned. He first looked at the red flag, then at the base, and did not see any crookedness.

At least the flagpole is perpendicular to the roof, which is obvious.

He turned around and asked again: "Look, everyone, is this flag crooked?"

Everyone looked around and basically said it was not crooked: "It's not crooked!"

"This is just right, not biased at all."

"I think so."

"It was inserted by the Great Chief, how could it be crooked!"

Ma Shao then jumped down from the roof, clapped his hands, and then turned to look at the red flag.

As a result, when he looked at it now, he felt that the flag seemed a little crooked, and he couldn't help but frowned slightly.

Looking at his expression on a rainy day, she said, "I told you, this flag is a little crooked."

Ma Shao muttered, "This shouldn't be the case... The pole is straight, and the base is also straight, so why is it a little crooked when it's inserted?"

The two observed for a long time.

Finally, Ma Shao nodded in realization: "I understand, it's this house that's crooked!"

Although Mianxiong City is undergoing large-scale construction, the construction technology is not very good after all, so it is normal for the houses to have some deviations.

In fact, in Ma Shao's opinion, the current large-scale construction is basically for the people in the Housing Department to gain experience. After all, the Indians' construction technology is too poor.

It can even be said that there was almost no construction technology. After all, most Indian tribes in the Midwest, including the Apache, lived in tents.

The only people in the Housing Department who had extensive construction experience were some non-Apaches, mainly Navajos, and a few white people hired from Clark.

Since the house was crooked, Ma Shao didn't worry about it: "Let's leave it like this for now. In two years, we will rebuild a chief's hall with reinforced concrete."

"Reinforced concrete?" It was raining and I didn't understand.

Ma Shao realized that reinforced concrete did not exist yet, and that he might need to invent one when the time came: "I don't know if the building material I envisioned is feasible."

He thought about the history of reinforced concrete.

He was not sure about the exact time of the invention of reinforced concrete, but it should not be far from now, because Portland cement has become popular in Europe.

However, he did know that reinforced concrete was used on a large scale in construction only in the 20th century, especially after the invention of "prestressed reinforced concrete" - Ma Shao had come into contact with this knowledge when studying mechanics.

It took several decades from invention to large-scale application, and I'm afraid a lot of engineering and technical improvements must have been made during this period.

Ma Shao was naturally able to invent reinforced concrete, but he was a little unsure whether reinforced concrete could be applied to construction in a short period of time.

After all, he had only watched the construction process of reinforced concrete buildings a few times.

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After installing the golden fist and red flag in the chief's hall, Ma Shao gathered the Sleeping Bear Army and distributed the flags, a total of four.

Each of the three centurions will have one, and the squad leader with the best performance in recent assessment will also have one.

"The fourth flag belongs to the squad with the best performance in the last assessment." Ma Shao looked at a squad leader with an outstanding figure, "Sleepy guy."

"Here!" the sleepy man responded loudly.

Ma Shao handed him the flag and said, "This red flag with a golden fist belongs to you. Take it well."

While speaking, Ma Shao was still thinking about a question in his mind - who is the sleepy person?

He was now basically certain that in the original history, the Sleepy Man should have been a well-known character.

After all, this kid's performance was indeed extraordinary. He took the initiative to ask to join the army as soon as he stayed in Mianxiong City, and then became a sergeant in just a few months. He also got the best score in the first assessment. He can be described as showing his potential.

The Sleepy Man is not only a gifted warrior, he also learns text knowledge quickly and has an amazing talent for chess and cards, and has been a Yu-Gi-King.

As long as such a talented young man had not died young, it would be unlikely for him to remain unknown in history.

In fact, the sleepy man is obviously not an unknown person.

Ma Shao was almost certain that he had seen this name somewhere in his previous life, but he just couldn't remember where.

In all likelihood, the name "Sleepy Man" is not the name by which Sleepy Man is truly known; he is famous throughout the world under other names.

Moreover, Ma Shao knew almost nothing about Indians in his previous life, so he couldn't identify himself with the character - his impression of the "Sleepy Man" seemed to come from a scene in a game.

But no matter what, the sleepy man is undoubtedly a young talent.

Therefore, Ma Shao decided to train him well.

After handing the red flag to the sleepy man, Ma Shao patted him on the shoulder again and said, "I hope you can keep this red flag for another month."

"I'll keep it forever!" said the sleepy man confidently.

Ma Shao smiled and looked at the other soldiers: "The sleepy man said that he can always have this 'mobile red flag'. Do you believe it?"

"I don't accept it!" the soldiers shouted.

"If you don't accept it, you have to train harder!" Ma Shao paced a few steps and continued to shout, "Sweat more in peacetime, and bleed less in battle!"

After a pause, he continued, "Today, I will add some new training items for you. In these training items, you will use three people as the basic action unit and advance in a dispersed formation..."

As the power of guns and artillery continues to increase, line-up shooting or line tactics will gradually be eliminated, and skirmish lines will become the mainstream of warfare.

Ma Shao naturally had to make preparations early so that the soldiers of the Mian Xiong Army could understand the combat mode of the skirmish era in advance.

Once the Apache soldiers have mastered the skirmish line tactics, he can, when necessary, personally dig the grave for the line-up and shooting tactics, speeding up military history by twenty years or even more.

He had every right to do so, if he popularized the new rifles among the army and then attacked the whites recklessly. The whites would surely quickly imitate the new weapons and abandon the old tactics, and the era of skirmishers would officially begin.

Not only the skirmish line, but also trench warfare is about to enter the historical stage, so Ma Shao will also train some trench warfare tactics in advance, and even tactics belonging to the strongest light infantry such as the three-three system and forced penetration.