Chapter 23: Righteousness and Bravery
ps: Ask for collection, ask for support o(╥_╥)o......
In the afternoon, a shrill suona suddenly sounded in the camp camp on the west side of Zhifu Island, followed by a series of sharp military whistles and rapid footsteps.
About a thousand volunteers, dressed in warm cotton clothes, wearing a ** hat that everyone in later generations would be familiar with, carrying knives and guns, rushed out of the dormitories one after another, and then quickly stood in line in a light snow. In the whole process, except for the sound of footsteps and the slight clash of knives and guns, not a single soldier made a sound, and stood upright with their guns on their backs, letting the sea breeze blow the fine snow on their faces.
Zhang Kui, who has already become a team officer, stands at the top of the queue with his head held high.
After Zheng Sen's return, his position was hit a lot. The hundred and ten wounded soldiers who followed Zheng Sen back to Zhifu Island, one of them counted as one, and they were all his strong competitors.
It's just that Zheng Sen remembered his past achievements, and when he reorganized the troops according to the new army structure given by Zheng Zhilong, he still didn't treat him badly.
At present, there are only 2,000 brave men on the entire Zhifu Island, divided into eight teams, which will be divided into five or three or two for training, and will form a combat battalion and a reserve in the future. The former was to follow Zheng Sen north, and the latter was to suppress the entire Zhifu Island after the former left.
Zhang Kui's side is his biggest competitor in Xiying-Wang Dalei, who has recovered, he was born in Jizhen, and he never thought that people would be able to run when they are middle-aged.
When he was left unattended in a dark house at Jinmen, he thought he was going to die. In desperation, he followed his accomplices and defected to the eldest prince of Zheng. But I don't want to come to work immediately, the days in Zhifu Island are more comfortable than those in Jizhen, whether it is food, drink, housing, or even salary, it is better than Jizhen not too much.
What's more, with his outstanding martial arts skills and ten years of experience on the battlefield, he actually became a team officer. He had with him two hundred and fifty brethren.
The treatment of everyone is higher than that of the officials and gentlemen, except for the armament.
And in the Ming army, the people who can support 250 family members are just guerrillas and generals with family foundation as support.
Of course, Zheng Dagongzi's training is far stronger than that of Jizhen.
That's not a small exercise in three days, but a big exercise in five days. It's a daily exercise, a daily drill show, wind and snow unhindered!
Looking sideways at his team, in the distance, several people dressed in the same clothes were striding over, and the one in the middle was Zheng Sen Zheng Dagongzi.
And in a place where his line of sight couldn't reach it at all, Zeng Ying and Shen Tingyang were looking intently at the four teams in front of them.
From the sound of the military horn to the gathering of thousands of brave warriors, the short time, the neatness of the team, and the spirit of the brave were shaken by the two of them.
"A good strong man, a good strong man, this Fu pacesetter can't be compared!" Zeng Ying's face was full of smiles.
Shen Tingyang also clapped his hands and praised: "The order is forbidden, and the spirit is refreshed, and it is really an elite soldier." ”
praised it, and said to Zeng Ying: "After the official heard that the son of the Zheng family returned from Jinmen, he devoted himself to fighting and going north with his father in the coming year, and was determined to avenge his hatred. I thought it was a joke. Now I was shocked at first sight. Relying on the dozens of wounded soldiers brought back in his hands, he trained a strong team in a few months, Tianzhong Wizard, Tianzhong Wizard! ”
The news that Zheng Zhilong was ordered to go north had already reached Denglai, otherwise, there would have been an extra strong army in this place of Zhifu Island, do you think Zeng Ying can still sit still?
It is one thing for the Zheng family to have countless troops in Fujian, but it is another thing to have an elite army in Denglai, which is a stone's throw away from Beijing and Tianjin.
Zheng Sen naturally knew that he was being watched by Zeng Ying and Shen Tingyang now, but he also intended to show his skills to the two, and the password was loud:
"Stand upright!"
"Look to the right."
"Look ahead!"
……
The whole team ran five laps around the school field to warm up. This is a scene of Zhifu Island, and it is also one of the most stringent requirements of the new army.
Physical strength and endurance must be trained.
Then there was this afternoon's drill, training military postures, drill queues, training military exercises, and ...... of military exercises, footsteps, shouts and killings, passwords, and even shouting and scolding filled the entire playground, even the snow drops rolled in the cold wind, and the heat on the school field would melt.
"Ready!" In a corner of the playground, Zhang Kui shouted loudly. The shotgunners of the two platoons were all standing at a 65-degree angle to the right.
Seven or eight pounds of Lu Mi Gong in the hands of the shotgunners as if there was nothing, they ate well and dressed warmly, and they have been training for several months, if they still can't hold a seven or eight pound Lu Mi Gong steadily, it is a joke.
Zheng Zhilong did not give them all the turtledove guns, but only one-third, and the rest were all Lu Mi guns.
Compared with the larger-caliber turtledove, the caliber of the Lumi gun is much smaller, and the lethality is naturally insufficient. If it is mixed with shoddy and inferior powder, it may deliberately reduce the amount of powder because of the fear of exploding, and the projectile whose diameter does not match the wall of the barrel bore is not very consistent, it may not be able to penetrate the armor of the Tartar.
It's like a joke.
But if it is granulated powder, quantitative charge, and qualified projectile, then what is the lethality of the Lumi gun?
Its predecessor was a tribute from the Ottomans to the Ming Dynasty, the enemies of the Ottomans were Europeans, if Lu Mi Gong really couldn't do anything against the Tin Monster, could it still be popular in the Ottoman army? The knight's plate armor in Europe was much stronger than the cotton armor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Now the Lumi gun is equipped with fixed ammunition and special bayonets, sleeve bayonets, and the tenon type is more useful, but it requires the use of springs. High-quality springs, it is said that the Chinese rifle rifle of the time required a lot of bayonets imported from Belgium.
Therefore, the tenon bayonet is still too far away from the current Zheng Jun.
The four-foot-and-five-inch Lu Mi gun, with the addition of a bayonet more than a foot long, was nearly six feet long, which was not as short as a spear, but it was not short.
Therefore, the shotgunners in the Volunteers do not need to be equipped with a waist knife.
"Pay attention, heel strength, center of gravity quickly move forward, push your feet hard, stride to launch leg strength, waist strength, arm strength, right hand lift the butt of the gun on the right chest side two inches, left arm outside the rotation quickly stretch forward, thrust!"
"Kill!" The voices of sixty people converged into one, and sixty shiny bayonets stabbed out, and the sound was indeed terrifying.
Zeng Ying and Shen Tingyang were not mediocre talents, and they quickly noticed the existence of bayonets.
"What is this?"
"Will the blade be placed in the mouth of the gun to hinder the shot?"
Zeng Ying asked one after another.
He and Shen Tingyang naturally had people around him, and Zheng Zhipeng could be said to be inseparable. Hearing this, he replied: "So that Zhongcheng knows that this thing was created by my eldest brother, and it is called a sleeve bayonet." It can be mounted on top of the Bird's Gun, which is superior to the Waist Knife and will not hinder the Bird's Gun from shooting. ”
Three-fifths of the volunteers on Zhifu Island were shotspearmen, except for two teams with Lumi guns, and one team with turtledoves with guns.
The latter is heavy, and when firing, it is especially necessary to use a fork and stick as a frame, but it is not possible to use a bayonet. However, the turtledove's foot gun is so powerful that ordinary shield cars cannot guard against it.
"Brilliant idea, wonderful strategy. Zheng Jun's move is also wonderful. ”
Shen Tingyang praised loudly, after having this thing, the shotgun and the burning stick could no longer be linked.
"It's wonderful." Zeng Ying is happy to be in shape.
Although he had never commanded an army, he had heard a lot about the performance of shotgunners on the battlefield, and whenever he was lured by the enemy, he would shoot first. Of course, this is due to the lack of timely training, but Zeng Ying seems that it is not because the shotgunners are afraid, because they have no bottom in their hearts. It will take time to reload after the bird is fired, otherwise, after the enemy is approaching, the bird gun will really be as good as a burning stick.
But now with bayonets, even if the guns have been fired, 'spears in hand' can be called to the shotgunners to show the enemy. And with this confidence, it can also make the shotgunners more accurate and stable.
In this way, the combination of cold weapons and bird guns has not been done by no one in the past 200 years of history of the Ming Dynasty. Zhao Shizhen made a bold attempt when he imitated Lu Miquan,...... There is a steel knife at the foot of the bed, which can be used as a horse sabre if the enemy is approaching.
But this is not practical. It is long gone.
And now Zheng Jun's move can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
At the end of the first month, Denglai is still a winter climate, dripping into ice and gas into frost. The large and small rivers are still frozen, after all, this is the season when the Sutai Canal can freeze three feet. But the volunteers in the school field are practicing enthusiastically.
With good food and warm clothing, high salaries, and high pensions, there is no reason why they should not work hard.
"Push the gun hard at the enemy with both arms. Use your left hand to get directions. At the same time, you should push the ball of your right foot and push your waist to make your body ...... forward."
Whether it is the Zheng Group or those veterans in Zhifu Island, some of them are good at using guns. With a good bayonet, Lu Mi summed up a set of assassination training in a short period of effort.
If the bird has a bayonet on it, there is only one thorn, which is much less tricky than a big gun.
"The left calf drives the thigh to kick forward a big step, when kicking, the sole of the foot should not be more than two punches from the ground, don't raise it high, you can't quickly change the force when you are high. When you stab an enemy, your left foot lands on the ground and your right foot slides forward naturally......"
"Naturally, be natural. Engrave the whole process into your bones. If you do it on purpose. Slowing you down in itself. ”
"Fast, ruthless, accurate. The thrust of the two arms, the thrust of the waist and the push of the right foot become one, and the ...... of the enemy is stabbed fiercely."
Zhang Kui said as he walked into the queue, checked the position of the volunteers' feet, leg shapes, and the angle of the gunshots after the assassination, and corrected them one by one until they were satisfied before leaving the queue.
His eyes drifted to the left front, and the eyes that he looked at at the same time as Wang Dalei met unexpectedly.
It was as if a burst of sword light appeared in the eyes of the two. Both of them want to be the first officer of the first battalion, how can they be harmonious?