Although the artillerymen of the Third Artillery Company, equipped with a new type of field artillery, were successful in their first live-fire exercise, and although the artillerymen of the Third Artillery Company were not able to control this kind of artillery to hit the approximate target within a range of 1,500 meters, as Zhou Li said, it was not easy to make the artillery hit the approximate target in such a short training time.

After watching the artillery drill, even Wu Guanlin, who is usually harsh on the tactical training of the troops, praised the current commander of the Third Artillery Company.

And Lin Ziran also said to Gao Gaocai: "You have worked hard these times, and you can train the Third Artillery Company well in such a short time, it's good!" ”

Gao Gao only heard this, and grinned brightly: "It's all brigade commander, you transferred more than thirty backbones from the other two artillery companies, otherwise the third artillery company would not have been able to train so fast!" ”

That said, but the bright and even a smug smile on this person's face undoubtedly betrayed him.

He deserves to be proud!

Although he was born in the Guang'an rebels, he was one of the first Guang'an rebels to surrender to Cheng, and he just came over as an artillery instructor to help train artillery.

The First Artillery Company and even the Second Artillery Company, the early training was all done by him, even if there were professional officers such as Wu Guanlin and Xu Zhongshu later, and there were also people who knew artillery among these officers, so Gao Gao Cai did not continue to be fully responsible for the training of artillery.

But the specific training is still doing it.

Some time ago, when preparing for the Third Artillery Company, the long-tested high-definition talent was finally reused by Lin Ziran, so that he was temporarily responsible for the preparation and preliminary training of the Third Artillery Company, and then Lin Ziran officially appointed him as the company commander of the Third Artillery Company, becoming the first person in many Guang'an rebels to serve as the chief officer of the company-level troops.

Among the many Guang'an rebels, don't look at Xu Zhongshu, he is already a military lord of the middle doctor, but if you want to talk about real power and future, he may not be as good as Gao Cai.

Because the current high-definition talent is already regarded by Lin Ziran as his own person, and Xu Zhongshu and several of them are from the Guang'an rebel army, it seems that the military lord is not low, and he also serves in staff officers, supervisors and other places, but they don't have a single soldier under them.

After serving as the Third Artillery Company, Gao Gao Cai was also ruthless, and when the artillery had not yet arrived, he took the artillery every day and trained with three borrowed five-pound guns.

The hard work paid off, after the preliminary preparations, and after the arrival of the new nine-pound field artillery, his artillery company quickly got started, and after a period of adaptive training, although it could not be done too well, it was barely available.

After all, many of the artillerymen of the Third Artillery Company are actually the backbone of the artillery directly transferred from the First Artillery Company and the Second Artillery Company, especially the members of the artillery crew, who are actually veterans who have served for several months, and the commanders of each artillery have also received professional training before.

It is precisely because of this that the Third Artillery Company was able to quickly form combat effectiveness.

The recruits who really added in were actually other auxiliaries and members of the second artillery crew.

In addition to the existing artillery crews of each artillery piece, the members of the Second Artillery Group were selected from other personnel of the artillery company, that is, the support forces.

These members of the second artillery team took advantage of the interval between the artillery training of the members of the main artillery crew, such as the morning and evening time slots, for artillery loading and firing training.

Lin Ziran did not do this in order to be able to directly supplement the artillery crew members on the battlefield, in fact, many accusations of the artillery crew members are interchangeable, in the regular army, even if there are only two people left in an artillery crew, they can continue to shell, and they did not collapse and flee in the early stage.

Lin Ziran's purpose is just to train more artillery crew members in the shortest possible time, anyway, it won't add too much extra cost to doing so, and it can also allow those support forces who usually have heartache to play a more role.

In order to maintain combat readiness, the artillery company needs to maintain combat readiness, which is 1670 people, and in addition to the members of the artillery crew and officers, there are more than 100 people who serve as support for transporters, grooms, and men.

With the exception of a few specialized trainings, these men were either idle or trained as ordinary infantry to protect artillery positions with guns in wartime.

As for Lin Ziran, dozens of people were selected to form the Second Artillery Group to receive artillery training.

The cost is low and the effect is significant.

At present, a considerable number of the members of the artillery crew of the Third Artillery Company are members of the second artillery group of the first and second companies that performed well some time ago.

With these people training, it is quite good to achieve this result in such a short period of time.

Lin Ziran continued to say to Gao Gaocai: "The Third Artillery Company will continue to train hard in the future, not only to improve the accuracy of training, but also to train the speed of artillery strikes!" ”

Lin Ziran said so, but he didn't expect to reach it in a short time.

The smoothbore guns of these years, how accurate they could be under the same artillery situation, relied heavily on the experience of the artillery, especially the gun commander.

Attention, it's about experience, not technology!

If you want to get an ultra-high-precision hit rate, you need an experienced gun commander, and this is what Lin Ziran lacks.

But in actual combat, there is no need to pursue ultra-high hitting accuracy, at least not in terms of the current artillery range.

Because the main enemy of artillery is a large-scale enemy, not one or two people, in the face of a large-scale enemy, it is nothing to find a few meters or even a dozen meters of error.

As for the rate of fire, it will take a long and arduous training of the entire artillery crew to be able to achieve a faster rate of fire, which also takes time.

Gao Gao Cai said: "Humble obedience!" ”

Lin Ziran continued: "Well, you are an expert in training artillery, and I won't say much about the specifics!" ”

Then he said to the crowd: "Go, go back!" ”

On the way, Wu Guanlin came to Lin Ziran's side and discussed with him how to modify the coordination of infantry and artillery, as before, Lin Ziran only listened to it most of the time.

So most of the time, Wu Guanlin himself was there talking!

Wu Guanlin: "This new artillery we got this time, the range has too great an advantage, some time ago in Sanyang Town, the Sixth Brigade has a nine-pound artillery, but the maximum range is only about 1,200 meters, and the accuracy of the hit is still very poor. ”

Wu Guanlin continued: "And our nine-kilogram artillery can obtain a firing range of 1,500 meters at an elevation angle of five degrees, and if the elevation angle is increased to 10 degrees to launch solid shells, it is enough to increase the firing range to about 1,900 meters. ”

"With these new artillery for fire support, the enemy can fire at a distance of 1,900 meters from the artillery position, and more importantly, if we put the artillery in front, then we can directly knock out the enemy's artillery through the range advantage, so that our infantry will not have to face the threat of enemy artillery bombardment, and can calmly use the range advantage of rifled guns to annihilate the enemy!"

Use a new type of artillery as an anti-artillery gun?

That's a good idea!