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The implementation of the military rank system can be said to be a huge improvement in the Sea Wolf military system, which has enabled the Sea Wolf to officially embark on the road of establishing a regular army, laying the foundation for its future gradual growth into a fully regularized modern army.

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The promotion of military ranks will inevitably involve the improvement of military uniforms. In fact, Yu Xiaotian has already started to do this. He considers himself a Hader and likes the German military uniforms of World War II very much. He once wanted to give them to his own army.

Copycats produce military uniforms similar to this.

But the reality is cruel. After careful consideration, he found that he could not do this at present, because the only fabrics he could make large quantities of military uniforms for his men were Songjiang cloth and Indian cotton cloth, and the Indian canvas used for sails,

It is too thick and is not suitable for making clothes at all. It can only be used to make aprons and protective clothing against high temperature radiation for craftsmen.

The colors of these Songjiang cloths and Indian cottons are not uniform, and the fabrics are soft and floppy. Even if they are made according to the style of German uniforms, they will have no shape at all and they will not look good.

So he could only give up this unrealistic idea and make military uniforms for his men based on the current fabrics.

In the end, with his personal participation, a new type of military uniform was trial-produced by the garment workshop. This kind of military uniform simplifies production as much as possible, because he currently does not have a sewing machine, and all clothing production must be made by women, which is very inefficient.

Production can't keep up either.

Therefore, in order to change his men's clothes as soon as possible, he must simplify the clothes as much as possible and reduce the sewing process. This kind of clothes can be said to be simplified to the extreme. A hole is dug out in the middle of a piece of cloth, a collar is attached, and there are left two sides.

The position of the sleeves is directly sewn together, like a dough bag. After adding the sleeves, people only need to put it on their head, get inside the clothes, and put their arms into the sleeves.

Even the buttons are omitted, and two pockets are sewn on the front chest, which can hold some simple items. Because there is a belt underneath, even the pockets are omitted. The style is very different from the military uniforms and ordinary clothes of the Ming Dynasty today, but

One advantage is that it is very convenient to produce. It saves almost all the processes that can be saved. It is extremely simple. Another very important advantage is that it saves material. Almost no fabric is used and not much is left.

Scraps, almost pieces of fabric, can all be used.

The trousers are also extremely simple. They are just two pieces of cloth sewn together. The buttonholes are simply omitted because everyone's waist thickness is different. It is not easy to adjust the buttons. Some people wear them too loosely, and some people wear them too loosely.

It was too tight to put on, and there were not enough belts for them, so I simply sewed two cloth belts on both sides of the front waist of the pants. After putting on the pants, tighten the cloth strips and tie them up, and then the pants were put on.

It's quite convenient to put on and take off.

It's just that during emergency gatherings at night, some soldiers would tie the cloth strips into knots out of nervousness. When they wanted to pee or defecate, they couldn't untie them in a hurry, so some had to cut the cloth strips around their belts with a bayonet.

As for the problem of shoes, Yu Xiaotian has always been troubled. He does not have enough ability to provide everyone with shoes, let alone enough leather boots. The key is not a problem of financial resources, but a problem of labor.

, If you want to distribute cloth shoes to so many people, you need a very large shoe factory. It is unimaginable to sew cloth shoes purely by hand.

Another sea wolf's army has very intensive training and consumes a lot of shoes. Even if each of them is given a pair of cloth boots, they will be kicked to pieces within a few days, and there is no way to replenish them with enough cloth shoes.

Therefore, in the past two years, almost all of the shoes that Sea Wolf has distributed to the soldiers are straw sandals. Straw sandals are good, they are ventilated and breathable, and the raw materials are easy to obtain, such as corn leaves, tough hay, cattail grass, rags, etc.

With the right raw materials, soldiers can knit a few pairs of straw sandals by themselves in their free time, and they don't even need to have the uniform factory make them specially.

In summer, straw sandals have only one sole and are tied around the feet with a few straw straps or cloth strips. In winter, when it is cold, they are knitted into a full-covering shape and the soles are knitted thicker.

In this way, everyone can wear shoes, and only those at officer level will be issued some leather boots, which are the so-called fast boots in this era.

Straw sandals were still commonly used by many people even during the period of the Republic of China and the period just after liberation. Even the soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force who entered Myanmar to fight basically all had straw sandals made by the soldiers themselves.

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Therefore, among the sea wolves, if you want to distinguish the identities of ordinary soldiers and officers, sometimes you can almost figure out their identities just by looking at the shoes they wear, at least they are indistinguishable.

Whether they are soldiers or Sea Wolf officers, they are now accustomed to wearing leggings. This is also a must-have item in the military uniforms they are issued.

Especially for the Army, because the training intensity of Sea Wolf is high and a lot of maneuver training and running and marching training are required every day, wearing leggings will be of great benefit, so the soldiers are also issued with two canvas leggings.

In addition to preventing congestion and edema of the lower limbs, this thing can also prevent the lower legs from being scratched by shrubs, branches or thorns when the troops are marching in the mountains, forests or fields. Sometimes it can also be used as a temporary bandage and tourniquet when necessary on the battlefield.

, it can also be connected and used as a rope when necessary, or to tie up a stretcher, which is a great benefit.

As for the navy, the demand for leggings and shoes is not very high. In this era, coastal fishermen are almost all used to going barefoot, and they almost never wear shoes on the boat. The demand for leggings is not high, just to prevent them from being caught in the sea.

When moving on the ship, you want to avoid trousers hanging on something or tripping people, so they are also issued with leggings, but the length is much shorter than those in the army, and it is easy to tie up. You only need to tie them up above the ankles.

As for helmets, Sea Wolf soldiers can only distribute rattan helmets in large quantities. Such rattan helmets have low protection capabilities and can only prevent head injuries from falling rocks. They have very low anti-arrow and bulletproof effects. Only a few officers can wear them.

Some iron helmets are worn during combat.

Now, as Sea Wolf's economic strength has increased, its material reserves have increased, and the number of craftsmen has increased. Yu Xiaotian has set up an iron yard, allowing craftsmen with average skills to make some iron sheets for soldiers, and install them on the front of helmets.

The helmet adds some defensive capabilities.

The style of the rattan helmet has been continuously adjusted, and now it is temporarily shaped into a shape with a brim, which is somewhat similar to the plastic helmets equipped by the Vietnamese Imp Army in later generations.

Although the Sea Wolf soldiers so armed looked much neater with uniform uniforms, in Yu Xiaotian's eyes, they were still a bit too miserable to look at. They looked like a nondescript patrol for later generations, but this was what he could do at the moment.

The best.

The first batch of experimental products of the new clothing were first distributed to the Spanish prisoners for trial use. They were not used to this kind of pullover tops, but after wearing them for a period of time, these mercenaries became accustomed to such tops.

I still expressed my satisfaction, because this kind of clothes is very convenient to wear. I just grab the pullover and put it on, which saves the process of buttoning.

For those who have never seen military uniforms of later generations, this kind of clothing is still very clean and tidy when worn, and it is not ugly. It is also convenient for soldiers to wear. However, not many people are opposed to it. They just think that this kind of military uniform looks better.

It's just weird, but once I get used to it, I don't find it unacceptable.

So finally this new military uniform was finalized by Yu Xiaotian, and he was ready to start promoting the equipment in the next step.

This new type of military uniform has reduced its tailoring requirements to a minimum, but even so, Yu Xiaotian still asked the tailor to make some paper patterns for this type of clothing according to the number and size, and let people cut them according to the pattern.

Although there are one or two hundred women working in the current garment workshop, if you want to make new clothes for all the Sea Wolf tribesmen in a short period of time, even if it is just a new set of clothes, it will take a year, and it may not be possible.

In order to speed up the production of clothing, Yu Xiaotian asked the council to distribute the fabrics for new clothes to some immigrant women in the form of processed materials, so that they could help Hailang make some new clothes during their free time at home.

After the military uniforms are delivered and accepted, you can get some small money to help support your family.

This approach is very popular among immigrants, especially these women. Because they have to help men farm and take care of children, they cannot work in Sea Wolf's garment workshop or sailing industry, but they can still

Squeeze out some time, and now there is such a good thing that can allow them to make a little money, of course they are happy to do it.

In addition, although there are not many pieces of cloth left after cutting this kind of clothes, you can still save some. These pieces of cloth are also very rare. The larger ones can be pieced together into a hundred-year-old coat for children, but the small pieces cannot be pieced together.

The cloth ends of clothes can be twisted into cloth ropes and can also be used to make straw sandals. Any straw sandals made from strips of cloth can greatly improve the durability of the sandals. In short, in this era, no bit of fabric will be wasted, and all of them can be used.

be fully utilized.

In addition to clothes, other equipment issues for soldiers are also involved, such as the issue of bedding for soldiers, because the temperature in the Taiwan Strait and along the coast of Fujian is still higher than in the north. Although the winter here is also very cold due to the Little Ice Age,

After all, dripping water will not turn into ice at night, but even so, without a bedding at night, people will still feel the chill to the bone. Therefore, this kind of thing cannot be omitted, but it is also very difficult to completely solve it.