"Your Majesty, the steward of the War Bureau is not doing well, so the slave and maid will teach him a lesson." Wei Zhongxian said with a smile.

"No need."

Zhu Youxiao stood with his hands in his hands and said quietly: "There are equipment in the military battle bureau, and let Qi Aiqing select and send the Yongwei Battalion, if anyone asks, they will say that they mean me." ”

After Qi Jin thanked him, Wei Zhongxian smiled flatteringly, and said casually: "It's okay like this, it's okay like this..."

"Loyalty." Suddenly, Zhu Youxiao shouted.

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly took two steps forward, bent down and leaned over his ears.

"The slave is here."

"It's okay." Zhu Youxiao smiled, turned his head and said, "I don't want to come for nothing, let them continue to perform martial arts, I can see how the results are!" ”

Qi Jin's heart stirred, and he hugged his fists and said: "Obey the order!" ”

Immediately, he took a few steps forward and looked at the pacesetter on one side.

The pacesetter holding the flag nodded and waved the flag up and down, and to people's surprise, it didn't take long for the shouting and killing sound in the field to gradually quiet down.

"The emperor said just now that the soldiers who were injured during the drill will be given a bereavement pension of less than five taels of silver per person, depending on the severity of the injury, and the emperor also approved the reward I set!"

Qi Jin's words landed, and there was a sensation in the field, and the cavalry, infantry, and even the soldiers of the baggage battalion were excited.

They raised their swords and guns in their hands and shouted for joy: "The emperor is mighty! Da Ming is mighty! ”

Qi Jin put his hand up, and soon, the school field was quiet again, only to hear him shout loudly: "The emperor wants to see the results of the drill of our Yongwei Battalion, sons, the martial arts exercise begins!" ”

"Remotee, listen to me!"

"The musketeers are here!" Suddenly, a team officer with a sword strode out of the ranks, shouting with a roar.

Zhu Youxiao looked over and found that it was actually Zhou Yuji.

Immediately, Zhu Youxiao chuckled a few times, and it seemed that it was right not to forcibly promote them without giving an order before.

Huang Degong didn't have to be promoted by himself, people still chose Qi Jin's personal guards based on their ability, and Zhou Yuji was already leading the musket team.

As for Liu Yuanbin and Sun Yingyuan, although they haven't seen it yet, with their skills, they should already be grassroots officers.

At this time, Qi Jin took out the Qi family's war knife, pointed forward and said, "Those straw men on the other side are the Tartars who are rushing towards you, what should I do?" ”

Zhou Yuji didn't say a word, and shouted directly: "Take two hundred steps forward, let's go!" ”

At the sound of the order, the musketeers of about a thousand men marched forward in a neat pace, and then stopped after two hundred paces.

In a moment, the popping sound of fried beans rang out continuously.

"Bang bang bang-"

In the shooting range, the gunfire was loud, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and after a burst of roaring, the straw men with a layer of Jianyu cotton armor on their coats of more than 100 paces were already full of holes.

"The emperor is mighty! Da Ming is mighty! ”

Listening to the shouts in the school grounds, Zhu Youxiao became more and more calm, and turned his head to ask: "Qi Aiqing, the musket team still uses arquebuses, right?" ”

"Arquebus?" Qi Jin looked puzzled, and then suddenly realized and said, "Oh! The emperor is talking about shotguns! ”

According to Qi Jin, the 1,000 muskets in the Yongwei Battalion today are all arquebuses, and the firing is extremely cumbersome.

When shooting, you need to open the fire door cover, light the fire rope, aim in a crouching or standing position, and pull the trigger to fire.

Of course, in case of emergency, you can also ignite directly to the fire door without aiming and firing, but the accuracy will be very low.

The current Yongwei battalion has basically mastered a tactic called "three-stage strike" in order to achieve continuous and uninterrupted shooting on the battlefield.

Despite this, the arquebus still has a significant disadvantage compared to the rifle.

Arquebuses are perquebuses that are impregnated with potassium nitrate or other salt solutions and are continuously supplied with a source of ignition at a rate of 80 mm to 120 mm per hour.

Even in the Brave Guard Battalion, skilled marksmen can only shoot two to three shots per minute.

In the event of an emergency, the gunner needs to ignite the fire rope, so he cannot quickly enter the battle, and at the same time, the fire rope ignited in the dark night also reveals the gunman's location, which is very dangerous.

"The cavalry is out!"

Zhu Youxiao was still thinking about firearms, but his train of thought was suddenly interrupted by Qi Jin, so he looked sideways.

Zhu Youxiao, the team leader this time, also knew that it was Liu Yuanbin's thorn.

Liu Yuanbin took out the stainless steel saber equipped by the team officer, and rushed towards the straw man opposite.

"Kill the captives with this team!"

In the racetrack, the earth shook and the hooves sounded.

In the rising dust and smoke, more than a thousand cavalry shouted and rushed towards the straw man.

As the cavalry charged, they gradually divided into two groups, first facing the straw men and slashing indiscriminately, then making a detour and outflanking them on both sides, and another chopping and slashing.

After the second lap, Liu Yuanbin led the cavalry team back to their original positions, and after a short rest, he took out something similar to a mace hanging from his waist.

"Listen to the orders of this team, take a hundred steps and then release the gun, and the offender will be killed!"

Liu Yuanbin held the reins with one hand, grabbed the 'mace' tightly with the other, shouted, and rushed out in an instant.

The cavalry of the Yongwei battalion, in addition to a standard saber, each was equipped with a three-eyed gun.

This kind of firearm can be used when cavalry hedges or charging infantry, and even more amazingly, it can also be used as a melee blunt weapon to wield, which does a lot of damage.

At this time, the cavalry team led by Liu Yuanbin released three guns in a row at about a hundred paces, and most of the straw men on the opposite side were already scarred.

After the guns were released, the cavalrymen carried the three-eyed guns in their hands and rushed into the straw men, wielding them as real maces.

At this time, the Ming Nine-Border Military Town was already generally equipped with this kind of three-eyed firearm.

In actual combat, the blunt weapon of the three-eyed gun was used to deal with those hard-armored cavalry, and it was repeatedly effective.

"Boom, boom—"

In the test field, the roar was like thunder, shaking the sky and the earth.

The artillery of the Ming Dynasty was numerous and miscellaneous, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, according to the tradition of the Qi army, Qi Jin still chose to carry the Hudun cannon that was light and suitable for taking out field battles.

At this time, the popularity of artillery in the Yongwei Battalion was already quite high, and Qi Jin was a small team of fourteen people, responsible for carrying on weekdays and firing in wartime.

There were nearly 1,000 people in the firearms battalion, and nearly 70 Tiger pier guns were fired at the test artillery site at this time.

Why is the artillery penetration rate of the Brave Guard Battalion very high?

You must know that at present, most of the assessment of the Ming army carrying firearms in various health centers across the country is based on carrying three Hudun cannons for every 500 people.

Judging from the current degree of slack in the armament of the local guard station, it would be good to have one artillery that could really be brought out for field warfare, and a thousand Ming troops.

In comparison, the 14 people in the firearms battalion carried a tiger dun cannon, plus more than 1,000 arquebuses, and the popularity of this kind of firearm was already the first in the world.

Looking at the roaring and shouting of the martial arts arena, Zhu Youxiao was both happy and helpless.

Happily, such an army has more than 3,000 veterans of the Qi family army as the base, and judging from this observation of the troops, the combat effectiveness after going out will definitely not be weak.

Unfortunately, this is too expensive.

Every "bullet" fired by the musketeer, every shell fired during the test of the gun, was piled up alive with silver.

Although there are only more than 6,000 people in the Yongwei Battalion, it is already a bottomless pit of silver.

However, Zhu Youxiao will not be frightened, firearms need to be developed more often to popularize, and if he does not spend money ruthlessly, the army's combat effectiveness will not increase.

It's a big deal, it's a lot of money here, and it's a lot of money there.