After finishing the planning of the new city, Zhu Cihong began to check the training of the Yongwei Battalion, since the last time he went to the Yongwei Camp and asked Huang Degong to change his daily training, he rarely went to see it, and he didn't know how the training was.

During this period, the Yongwei Battalion has been patrolling the displaced areas and has not trained normally for seven or eight days. During the construction of the city, most people were busy building their homes, and there was no longer a need for the Brave Guard Battalion to patrol, and the Brave Guard Battalion began to resume its normal training schedule.

The training of the Yongwei Battalion is the same as that of the Donggong Guards, which is strictly in accordance with the "Training Drill Code" compiled by Zhu Cihong, which is written by Zhu Cihong according to the training of the army of later generations and combined with the training methods of the Qi family army, which can be regarded as a combination of ancient and modern.

The "Training Drill Code" is mainly for platoon training, physical training and tactical training. At the beginning of the parade training, some soldiers in the Yongwei Battalion couldn't tell the difference between left and right, and made a lot of jokes, but within a few days, they were basically decent.

At the same time as the formation training, the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion also need to practice standing skills and sun protection, that is, the whole battalion stands still in the sun for a long time.

During this period, no movement or speech is allowed, and if anyone violates, he will be punished with twenty sticks and will be punished for continuing to work overtime, and the time will gradually increase from one and a half hours on the first day.

At the beginning, at the end of April, it was not yet hot, and the soldiers stood outside feeling like they were basking in the sun, without any stress.

At the end of May, summer arrives, and the weather slowly gets hotter, especially for a few days, when the temperature once exceeded 30 degrees. The scorching sun at noon was shining on my body, and my skin felt hot after a long time.

At this time, the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion knew the power of this kind of training, and a few soldiers couldn't stand the heat and fainted, and were directly dragged down by the Donggong guards who were supervising on the side, washed off in cold water, and put them in a cool place.

Some of the soldiers who were born rich and wealthy and came in with a trust couldn't stand it, so they rushed out of the ranks, shouting that they couldn't stand it anymore, and they were troubled by these soldiers, and there was soon a commotion in the Yongwei camp.

Huang Degong didn't say a word, went up and kicked to the side, and shouted: "You few cowards of waste, how far is it for me to get out, I don't want waste in the Yongwei battalion, and who else admits it to get out of here!" ”

Huang Degong looked coldly at these soldiers who gave up voluntarily, and then looked at the whole battalion on the field. He had a very high prestige in the army, and wherever he looked, the commotion immediately disappeared, and the whole battalion continued to maintain a posture and stand on the field.

According to Zhu Cihong's request, Huang Degong did not punish these people, according to Zhu Cihong, these people have poor discipline and willpower, and it will be difficult for them to do anything in the future, and forcibly punishing them to stay in the Yongwei camp will only affect others.

In the days that followed in the physical training, hundreds of soldiers were kicked out of the Brave Guard Camp because they couldn't stand the training.

If it wasn't really unbearable, there would be no reason to leave, and the treatment of the Yongwei Battalion was the best in the entire Ming army. The most well-equipped, with a monthly salary of five taels of silver, the food is not only full, but also meat to eat every day.

And as the crown prince's direct pro-army, he will be from the dragon's work in the future, even if he is a small soldier now, he can mix up with his qualifications casually, and he will be able to mix up in the place or something, and no one wants to leave easily.

As a part of the Beijing camp, although the Yongwei battalion is composed of the most elite soldiers in the Beijing camp, there are also many people who are children of rich families and come in through connections. Most of these people live in chaos, where can they withstand this kind of hard training, this is also Zhu Cihong's purpose, to get rid of this kind of people.

The physical training of the Brave Guard Battalion is 5 kilometers of armed cross-country every day, 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 high-leg runs, and 100 weightlifting frog jumps.

These physical trainings are not too tiring and can be completed in an hour, but if you persist for a long time, your physical strength will be greatly enhanced.

After physical training, the rest of the time was spent on tactical training for each branch of the troops, with infantry training in musket shooting, cavalry training in equestrianism, and artillery training in artillery strikes.

For firearms, Zhu Cihong also made a firearms storage system, and the guns and artillery had to be cleaned and maintained on time on weekdays. Zhu Cihong didn't know much about cavalry training, so he could only hand it over to Huang Degong and other generals to do it himself.

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Between the eastern part of the new city and the southern part of Tongzhou, there is a flat wilderness, and a Liangshui River meanders, and there is not a single resident within a radius of ten miles, which is a forbidden area, and the Yongwei Battalion is set up here outside the city of Beijing.

Zhu Cihong came to the camp of the Yongwei battalion surrounded by a group of guards, and several training grounds around the camp were training in full swing. There are cavalrymen training in equestrianism, artillerymen practicing attacking fixed targets, and musketeers doing shooting training.

"Bang, bang, bang........"

In the training ground of the musketeers, the sound of gunfire was loud and the smoke of gunfire was filled. I only heard a roar in the distance, and a three-inch thick wooden target that stood up a hundred paces away was pierced through a hole the size of a teacup.

Of the 3,600 infantry of the Yongwei Battalion, more than half of them are now equipped with Lu Mi guns, and a small half are equipped with flintlock pistols imitated by Sun Heding.

At present, the manufacturing plant under the War Bureau can only produce more than 1,000 flintlock pistols a month, and with the gradual increase in craftsmen, the output is also gradually increasing.

Lu Mi Gong can penetrate a layer of iron armor within 100 steps, and if you want to penetrate the Jiannu Eight Banners Army wearing triple thick armor, it is estimated that it will be at least between 70 and 80 steps. The effect is still very good, compared to the fifty steps of the bird's gun, it is much more advanced.

Not to mention the flintlock pistol, the performance is better than that of the Lumi gun, so Zhu Cihong asked the Military War Bureau to mainly produce flintlock pistols, which is also the main development direction of firearms in the future.

"Stop!"

With Huang Degong's order, the musketeers also stopped firing and came to report their results to him.

In three minutes, the fastest soldier fired eight, and at least five. And the soldier with a flintlock pistol fired a dozen times in three minutes.

This shooting exercise was timed by a self-striking bell brought by Zhu Cihong, which was presented to the Wanli Emperor by the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci, and was originally one large and one small, and the larger one had been damaged because it had been more than 30 years, leaving only this small chiming bell.

Zhu Cihong knew the development trend of the army in the future, so he attached great importance to the training of musketeers. The training plan for the musketeers was drawn up through consultation between Zhu Cihong, Huang Degong, and Sun Heding.

Zhu Cihong knew that the current flintlock pistol and Lu Mi gun were not rifled, resulting in limited accuracy. Therefore, Zhu Cihong does not pursue the soldier's hit rate, but only requires the soldier to reload and launch the speed, the faster the better.

Every day, the soldiers have to hold the empty fire gun, and constantly practice a series of actions such as clearing, filling, compacting, and igniting, until they can successfully complete this series of actions with their eyes closed. After you are familiar with this set of movements, you can start live-fire training.

Now Zhu Cihong is in charge of the military warfare bureau, and all firearms and ammunition are used closely by the Yongwei battalion. As a result, the training of the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion was much greater than that of any of the musket teams before the Ming Dynasty.

Under such repeated practice, the movements of the soldiers of the Brave Guard Battalion have become more and more proficient, and the shooting speed has increased from the initial three minutes to the current level.

Huang Degong was very satisfied with such an achievement, believing that even if it was placed in the entire Ming army, the results of the Yongwei Battalion could be regarded as outstanding.

Huang Degong was very proud, and even a little floating, he saw Zhu Cihong come to inspect, so he rushed to report that the current musketeers were extremely strong in combat, and his face was full of pride.

Zhu Cihong looked at him and didn't say anything, just asked him to prepare, two days later, the Yongwei Battalion held an all-army exercise, and he wanted to test it himself.

After hearing Zhu Cihong's instructions, Huang Degong immediately began to prepare.