After the military confrontation between Zhu Hao and Luo Yunqu, except for the musket team, everyone participated in the busy daily training according to Zhu Hao's training plan. Zhao Yuansheng's performance in this confrontation was eye-catching, and everyone was quite convinced by this new staff officer's little brother, so Zhu Hao handed over all the training matters to Luo Yunqu and Zhao Yuansheng, and found time to work back and forth between the armory room and the musket team.

The armory room has been moved to the training base. As soon as he arrived at the armory room, he saw Bi Zhonglin frowning and thinking hard, Zhu Hao stepped forward and asked, "Old Bi, what problems can't be figured out, let's talk." ”

When Bi Zhonglin saw him coming, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked him to sit down, took out a paper shell and said: "Childe, please look, I have already made the paper shell bomb you said, with three layers of hemp paper as the shell, wrapped in oil paper on the outside, and it is not easy to break." ”

Zhu Hao took a paper shell bullet like a firecracker and pinched it, nodded and said, "Not bad, since the paper shell bullet has been made, what is there to worry about?" ”

"Hui Gongzi, that's the case, I'm thinking that although the bullet has been made, there are some problems with how to put it into the electric gun to fire, the inside of the electric gun does not match the bullet, and it is too troublesome to puncture the bottom shell when it is used."

Zhu Hao thought for a while when he heard this, and said with a smile: "What's so difficult about this, aren't you making an electric switch, change the structure inside slightly, and just put the bullet in it, I'll teach you another trick, it doesn't have to be so troublesome to puncture the bullet, just install a bolt on the gun body, the head is an iron tip, put the bullet into the barrel, pull the bolt, puncture the bottom shell, and then pull the bolt back to its original position, and then fire it?" ”

Bi Zhonglin heard the words while thinking about it, and then patted his thigh and shouted: "Yes, why didn't I think of it, haha, you are really a genius!" ”

Compared with later generations, the operation speed of the bolt after the bolt is still far from the same, but it greatly simplifies the firing procedure of the early flintlock pistol: open the chamber, fill the paper shell bullet, pull the bolt to pierce the bottom shell, and then pull the bolt back to its original position, ignite the shot, clean the chamber, and repeat, compared with the traditional bolt, the rate of fire is relatively slow, but it can effectively ensure the continuity of shooting.

Zhu Hao asked again: "How did you study the rifling I told you earlier?" ”

"I'm ashamed, although we have built a musket with spiral rifling, and the test shot has proved to be longer range and more powerful, but we have not found a better process, and it took ten days in the armory to lithography rifling this new musket, so it cannot be equipped on a large scale for the time being." Bi Zhonglin said with some shame.

"Well, I'm too impatient, you guys are slowly studying the rifling thing, and now the top priority is to improve the electric switch and create a paper shell. Also, you go find some dragon cannons, this thing is a good thing, if you can't find it, you can make your own. Get a few and I'll take a look. Zhu Hao was a little disappointed, but the current iron smelting and casting process is like this.

"Okay son, you don't need to buy the Dragon King Cannon, we can build it in the armory."

The Dragon King Cannon is the prototype of the grenade in later generations, although it is simple to make, but the current Dragon King Cannon has little explosive power, and it needs to be ignited with an open flame, it is difficult to control the explosion time, to put it bluntly, it is a large firecracker, so the military rarely uses it, and only later generations like Zhu Hao know the importance of grenades.

After arranging some things in the armory room, Zhu Hao came to the playground to train the musket team non-stop.

During this time, the musket team has been practicing the queue salvo and stabbing techniques, because the armory room has not yet finalized the musket, so Zhu Hao has not planned to produce bayonets, and can only rely on cold weapon infantry as an auxiliary force. But it is obviously necessary to practice the stabbing technique in advance. The armory room also eliminated all the bird guns and replaced them with the newly produced electric guns.

In addition to not firing live ammunition, the whole musket team, including the captain Xiao Maoce, was desperately following Zhu Hao's instructions to contact basic skills such as ammunition and shooting posture, Zhu Hao was quite satisfied with watching it on the side, clapped his hands and shouted: "The musket team is assembled!" ”

Soon one hundred and twenty people were assembled, Xiao Maoce saluted and said, "Report to the chief, the musket team has been assembled, all the personnel are here, please instruct!" ”

Zhu Hao smiled secretly in his heart, this was set up by him according to some rules of the people's soldiers in later generations, and it really looked like that.

"Stand upright! Brothers, starting today, we will start to line up to shoot live ammunition, don't be afraid of wasting ammunition, let's buy it again when the gunpowder is gone, and pick it up again when the projectile is gone, some of you have shot firearms before, now let him come out and demonstrate. ”

Xiao Maoce hurriedly ordered a person to come out of the ranks, this person is an old qualified firearms team, he used to be a member of the Ming army, he used firearms, and later because of the arrears of the imperial court, people starved to death at home, and he became a deserter with a cross heart, and several people in the musket team are like this, so they are familiar with firearms.

I saw him kneeling on one knee, taking the gun, pressing it into the chamber of the gun, aiming at the flat end, igniting and firing, the whole action was done in one go, there was a burst of white smoke, and a target standing 100 meters away fell in response, and the target reporter had already taken the target.

The other infantry teams also came to watch when they saw that the live ammunition drill had started here, which was also approved by Zhu Hao in advance, just to let this group of people see the power of muskets.

When everyone looked at a cup-sized hole on the half-inch-thick wooden target, they all gasped, and Zhang Dacheng said: "I'll drop a good girl, if this thing hits a person, can there still be a whole corpse?" Even Luo Yunqu, who has always admired cold weapons, said with a look of surprise: "I just understood the young master's words, no matter how high your martial arts are, it is not easy to block the bow and arrow, but under this musket, there are nine lives gone." But it's too much of a hassle to launch, and I don't think anyone can launch a few times. ”

"Yes, Lao Luo is quite discerning, the biggest disadvantage of firearms is that the firing speed is slower than that of bows and arrows, if it encounters cavalry, the general commander will be in a hurry, and often will be overwhelmed after firing a few shots, but in my case it will not. Do you know why the cavalry was not afraid of the firearms of the Ming army? ”

Looking at the eyes of everyone seeking verification, Zhu Hao said: "That's because the Ming army's firearms are poorly managed, the soldiers' training is too poor, and they are all free scattering, and they can't form dense firepower suppression at all. Zhu Hao waved his hand, and Li Dong hurriedly went down to make arrangements.

"Eighty paces ahead I set up three hundred straw men in advance, a total of ten teams, thirty in each team, threaded by two ropes, one knight on each side to hold on, and then imitate the cavalry to charge forward, the musket team here is divided into three teams, each team of thirty-three people, according to what I said about the usual three shots, after each team of straw men is hit, the knights on both sides will leave the straw men and withdraw, and so on, look at the results of these three hundred cavalry against these hundred musketeers, do you understand?"

"Understood!" The crowd agreed.

"Listen to me, prepare, begin!"

With Zhu Hao's order, the ten teams of "cavalry" 100 meters away shouted and began to charge, and the musket team here was also in formation, and the first team of thirty-three people was ready to shoot.

"First team, prepare, shoot!" Xiao Maoce watched the other party start to charge, pulled out his sword and waved it, and gave the order to fire.

With the sound of gunfire, all the straw men charging in the first row were knocked down, and the two knights quickly turned their horses around and left the queue, revealing the second row of straw men.

"Second team, ready, shoot!" "Third team, ready, shoot!"

With Xiao Maoce's order, the three platoons of musketeers trained according to their usual shooting posture, kneeling in rows, loading ammunition, aiming, shooting, and then standing up and retreating to clean the chamber of the gun, and the second team stepped forward to repeat the previous action.

Under the theory that Zhu Hao should not pay attention to the results of the battle, these people no longer looked up to see if the enemy had fallen after firing, but mechanically listened to the order and completed a series of shooting actions.

In a few minutes, the three hundred "cavalry" who charged were all knocked down, and the last straw man only advanced half the distance, and naturally the ratio of "casualties" on both sides was also 300 to zero!

Luo Yunqu and the others widened their eyes for a long time and didn't come to their senses, even Xiao Maoce, the musket captain, didn't expect that the musket team under his command would be so powerful, only Zhu Hao knew the result, but he was also a little surprised, he thought that the three-stage shooting was a bit big, not as good as the five-stage insurance, but now it seems that the three-stage is still lethal.

"I'm a good girl, if there are so many 10,000 musket teams, it will be enough to sweep the world, big brother, we people are useless!" Zhang Dacheng took out his mantra again.

Luo Yunqu also thought it was true, he was deeply shocked by the scene just now, not only had deep doubts about the martial arts he had learned for more than ten years, but also understood Zhu Hao's painstaking efforts, and was even more in awe of Zhu Hao's mystery, how did this young master's head grow!

Zhu Hao saw everyone's expressions and knew that the theory of firearms had successfully occupied their minds, so he accepted it when he saw it, and said solemnly: "Everyone, you have all seen it, I said before that firearms will dominate the battlefield in the future if they are used properly." So are firearms invincible? Otherwise, today's drill is dead, because the other party is a straw man, if you face a real cavalry, will people take the initiative to send you to the door to let you kill, maybe the first time you were taken by surprise, but the second time, can you be so stupid? Moreover, the real cavalry charges with amazing momentum and can fire arrows, it is difficult for those who have not been in battle not to be affected, and there may be recruits who are scared to pee their pants, let alone shoot and kill the enemy, besides, we will use muskets, and others will learn to use them when they see the benefits, which will cancel out our advantages. Therefore, in the future, in addition to continuing to explore firearms tactics, we should pay more attention to the psychological training of musketeers, and in this regard, I will find ways to improve the training curriculum. After you go back, first, you must not relax your basic training, because you are still the main force in combat until you are fully equipped with muskets, second, you will begin to train the muskets in the queue firing posture, and if you don't have guns, you will use wooden sticks instead, and third, you will use your talents to think about how to perfect the musket tactics. Do you get it? ”

"Understood!"