After Lu Jiude's introduction, the Yongwei Battalion was fully established, with 3,600 infantry, 400 artillery, and 1,000 cavalry, a total of 5,000 people.

The infantry is equipped with a firearm, and the artillery is equipped with Hongyi cannons, Franc machine guns, tiger squat cannons, fire dragon out of the water, divine machine arrows, etc., and the equipment is quite sophisticated in the entire Ming army.

"The last general, Huang Degong, meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Chitose!"

Huang Degong finally discovered Zhu Cihong and his entourage, and under the introduction of Lu Jiude, he hurriedly came to pay homage.

"Xing!" Zhu Cihong aroused him and asked, "General Huang, how does the Yongwei Battalion practice every day now?" ”

Huang Degong replied: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the Yongwei Battalion conducts two exercises a day, one hour each, and practices infantry formation, guns, mounted archery, cannons and rattan techniques. ”

Zhu Cihong shook his head and said: "No, these exercises are not very useful, in the future, all the drill items of the Yongwei Battalion will be changed, and they will be replaced with armed five-kilometer cross-country, push-ups, sit-ups, army fighting skills, firearm shooting, and battle formations......"

When Huang Degong heard this, he immediately became anxious, and said loudly: "Prince, how can the drill project be changed......."

"Bold! Huang Degong, you dare to commit the following crimes! Liu Yuanbin pointed at Huang Degong and shouted, startling everyone.

Huang Degong is also blindfolded, don't I just make a little louder? You can't be a soldier like a girl, right? What kind of offense is this? Well??

Zhu Cihong saw Huang Degong in a daze, looked at him, and said calmly: "In the whole world, only His Majesty the Father and His Royal Highness the Queen Mother can call this palace the crown prince. ”

When Huang Degong heard this, he immediately fell to his knees in fright, and said: "The last general is ignorant, please punish ...... Your Highness."

Huang Degong felt bitter in his heart, he was a military general who hadn't read for a few years, how could he know these rules of the Heavenly Family.

Everyone was also worried, for fear that Zhu Cihong would behead this fierce general, after all, this is a big disrespectful crime, and it can be said to be a big one.

"Remember your ignorance, forgive your sins of disrespect, and then you will receive twenty sticks." Zhu Cihong still said calmly.

If the other party is a mediocre general, Zhu Cihong will try every means to get rid of the Yongwei battalion in order to firmly grasp it in his hands.

However, Huang Degong is brave and good at fighting, loyal to the country, and has a high evaluation in history, Zhu Cihong is reluctant to move him, just polishing his arrogance a little, so that he should not underestimate himself.

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your forgiveness......."

Huang Degong wiped the sweat from his forehead, feeling that he had walked away from the ghost gate, and he was not afraid of dying on the battlefield, he was afraid of death.

Zhu Cihong looked at Huang Degong and said, "Have you remembered these exercises I said?" ”

Huang Degong was frightened by the one just now, and suddenly didn't dare to say anything, after all, there were still twenty military sticks waiting to be suffered, he swallowed: "The last general remembers, but I don't know what push-ups and sit-ups are, and the fighting skills ......."

Not only Huang Degong, but even Lu Jiude and Liu Yuanbin also expressed their incomprehension of these unfamiliar words spoken by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

"Army fighting skills are the combat skills of killing enemies on the battlefield, as for push-ups, ......."

Zhu Cihong didn't know how to explain to him, as the crown prince, he couldn't lie on the ground in front of everyone to demonstrate, he shouted in a low voice: "Sun Yingyuan!" ”

"Here!" Behind Zhu Cihong, Sun Yingyuan, the general of the East Palace Guard, came out.

Zhu Cihong said: "From tomorrow, you will take the Donggong guards into the Yongwei Battalion, teach them how to train, and train with the Yongwei Battalion." ”

"Yes!" Sun Yingyuan gave a military salute.

Zhu Cihong had already planned well, and at the beginning he trained 500 Donggong guards with 50 Donggong guards, but now he naturally wants to use 500 Donggong guards to train 5,000 Yongwei battalions, so as to firmly control the Yongwei battalion in his hands.

In the past, traditional military training was suitable for cold-weapon combat, but Zhu Cihong's implementation of modern military training in the Yongwei Battalion was to make the training scientific and more suitable for firearms combat in the future.

Zhu Cihong took the Lu Mi gun of a soldier in the Yongwei Battalion, and looked at it carefully for a while, it was the first time he had come into contact with such an old musket, compared to the rifles of later generations, it was simply old-fashioned, but this Lu Mi gun was the most advanced fire gun in the Ming army at present.

In the 26th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1598), the arquebus was improved by the firearms developer Zhao Shizhen in imitation of the arquebus paid tribute by the Turkish Rumi State (Sultanate of Rûm), which was more advanced than the bird gun (arquebus) and the three-eyed gun, mainly in the long range and great power.

The firing range can reach 100 paces, about 150 meters, and with the addition of a fire door device, it can be used in windy environments, which is a function that neither arquebuses nor three-eyed firearms do have, and the disadvantage is that it is heavier.

Zhu Cihong watched it for a long time, asked people to put gunpowder, and prepared to test fire once.

"Your Highness, by all means, this thing is easy to explode, it's too dangerous." Not only Lu Jiude and the others, but even Xu Sheng and Sun Yingyuan immediately stepped forward to stop them.

Zhu Cihong was also taken aback, and then remembered that although the development of Daming firearms is very good, almost everyone in Beijing can have a firearm, and the popularity rate in the local health centers is also extremely high, and it has local firearms manufacturing.

However, because of the quality, it is easy to blow up and injure soldiers, so that many soldiers are reluctant to use it, and the development of Daming firearms has been seriously hindered.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, soldiers would rather go into battle with knives than use firecrackers against the enemy, for fear that they would not be killed by the enemy, but would be injured and killed by the firecrackers in their hands.

"It's annoying that firearms are so powerful, but they are not as good as burning sticks!"

Zhu Cihong was faintly angry, if Da Ming develops firearms well, with strong firepower, how can there be anything to build slaves?

In the final analysis, it is still corruption in manufacturing and cutting corners, resulting in the quality of firearms and artillery, which makes soldiers afraid.

Zhu Cihong suddenly thought of a question again: "Why is there no problem with the quality of the firearms configured by my East Palace Guard?" ”

The Donggong guards also practice firearms every day, but why do they rarely explode the problem of explosions?

Lu Jiude wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "Your Highness's golden body is the future of the Ming Dynasty, and no matter how bastard the people of the War Bureau are, they will not let you put yourself in danger, so the firearms equipped for your guard are carefully crafted, and they are regularly inspected and replaced." ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, these people still have points, and at the same time, he also determined that Daming's firearms are not really a technical problem, but a manufacturing problem.

In fact, those hundreds of firecrackers can't be greedy for much silver, in case His Royal Highness the Crown Prince hits a few firecrackers on a whim one day, in case the firecrackers explode when they are beaten.......

It is estimated that even a dog will have to lose its head, so they naturally dare not gamble with their lives.

"Find a professional person, pick out all the good quality firearms in the Yongwei camp, and tell me the situation when it's done." Zhu Cihong ordered.

This can't be done, we must let the Yongwei battalion use qualified firearms and cold weapons to fight, even if the army is brave, after a few vicious battles, the people are almost fighting.

Now it's hard to find a good source of soldiers, even if you find it, you have to spend a lot of time practicing and fighting, Daming has not been a few years, can't wait, and can't afford to spend it.

If you use firearms, you will have many advantages, first of all, it is more powerful than a bow and arrow, and the range is longer than that of a bow and arrow.

A qualified firecracker, as long as he is not a fool, is enough for a month of training at most. Some people with fast brains and flexible hands and feet can go to the battlefield in only four or five days, and at the same time, the physical requirements of the firearm are not high, and teenagers can operate it.

Zhu Cihong is still a little dissatisfied with Lu Miquan, he wants to use the most advanced flintlock pistol of this era, but at present, it should only be available in Europe.

The flintlock pistol is a musket that uses the method of hitting the flint to ignite and fire, compared with the arquebus, there are too many advantages, such as faster rate of fire, smaller caliber, shorter body, lighter weight, less recoil, longer range, etc.

Especially in night battles, arquebuses burn the light and smell of the arquebus, which can easily expose the targets of the soldiers, and the flintlock pistol does not have this worry.

An official of the Ming Dynasty also invented the flintlock pistol during this period, and at the same time Shangshu asked for it to be popularized in the army, but it was not popularized because the imperial court had no money.

What's that official's name? Zhu Cihong couldn't think of his name for a while, but he should still be alive now, and he could only wait until he returned to the palace to find out this person by checking the previous files.