The New Army became busier and busier, and later, except for an hour in the morning, almost all the rest of the time was spent making fish noodles.

The sun-dried fish noodles were encapsulated and piled up in one warehouse after another, and no less than two million catties of fish noodles were stored in two months, enough for the entire Xuanwei army to eat for four or five months.

After Yang Congyi returned to Changguo, he was naturally very happy to learn the news, Xuanwei Army's rations for four or five months cost a lot of money, and there were more places to spend money when returning to the Yi Supervision Office, so it was of course the best to save forty or fifty thousand yuan.

But the role of the new army is not to make fish noodles, first of all, they are a reserve army, a part of the Xuanwei army, and the military training that should be there must be training, and the military formation, march, and bow shooting are all indispensable.

At the beginning, the Xuanwei Army received more than 5,000 sets of equipment, 4,500 sets were distributed, and 700 sets remained, all of which were taken out and distributed to the new army.

The ordnance and equipment were insufficient, so they could only be trained in batches. The Forces nouvelles numbered nearly 3,500 men and were divided into five new battalions, one battalion a day for military training, one day of training and four days of work.

These new armies ran through the land, took farm tools, and let them carry spears and weapons, and they were at a loss, some like rolling pins, some like spatula, some like carrying burning sticks, and in different forms.

Yang Congyi looked at them and remembered the scene when he first picked up the spear, all of them were the same.

This kind of new army, which has no basic military ability, and let the teaching regiment teach the military formation, it is a waste of effort, and it must first teach the use of weapons. Yang Congyi has been learning guns for a few years, and his marksmanship practice is quite good, and it is just right for him to teach it himself.

In the huge training ground of the New Army, Yang Congyi stood on a nine-foot-high stone platform in front of him, and the 700 New Army was lined up in the middle of the field at a distance of nine feet from each other.

"Brothers, although we are the reserve army of the Xuanwei Army, we also have to practice weapons, bow shooting, marching, and all the things that the combat troops will know, we must know, because we are the reserve army. What is a Reserve? A reserve is a unit that is always ready to replace a fighting force. Let's think about it, when the combat troops can't withstand it, our reserve army will have to go up, can the reserve army's ability be worse than that of the combat troops? Of course not! The reserve must be the most powerful force in a force.

How to be the most powerful, first of all, we must have a strong fighting spirit. We are all a new army with nothing, there is nothing to fear, we must dare to fight, dare to defeat all enemies. Secondly, you must be good at fighting and be able to fight. This requires us to learn to use weapons, proficient in combat skills, we need to continue to practice and train, commonly used spatula, rolling pin, burning sticks, kitchen knives, sharp knives are also weapons, can also be trained, but the best weapons in battle are spears and bows and arrows.

Therefore, from today onwards, all of our reserve troops must also practice spears and bows and arrows like combat troops, and be ready to fight at all times. ”

After the lecture, he began to teach the most basic marksmanship, starting with holding a gun.

Yang Congyi stood with his gun and shouted: "Standing gun, the tip of the gun is facing up, and the foot is half a foot to the ground." All of them, standing guns! ”

Seven hundred people stood under the high platform, and naturally saw Yang Congyi's movements on the high platform in front of them clearly. Hearing the order, everyone in the audience adjusted their gun grips one after another and stood the tail of the gun on the ground.

Yang Congyi lifted the gun again, held it at his side, and said loudly: "Hold the gun, step forward with your left foot, lift the gun, hold the body of the gun with your left hand, hold the tail of the gun with your right hand, leave a palm distance at the end of the gun, rest your right hand on your waist, the tip of the gun forward, and the flat end in front of you, hold the gun!" ”

Seven hundred people watched Yang Congyi's movements on the high platform, and it was not difficult to lift the gun and hold it well.

In a short time, the people had already grasped their guns.

"Stand up!" Yang Congyi gave an order, and he also stood the gun at his side at the same time.

Everyone in the audience immediately set up their guns.

"Hold the gun!" Yang Congyi gave an order and picked up the gun again.

The 700 new troops were ordered to hold their guns again.

"Stand up!"

"Hold the gun!"

"Stand up!"

"Hold the gun!"

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The new army practiced "standing the gun" and "holding the gun" for two hours, until everyone was proficient in these two actions, Yang Congyi ordered, as the voice fell, the 700 people's movements were completed almost at the same time, and the training of these two actions was over.

"Hold the gun!" At the sound of an order, 700 men took their guns in hand.

Yang Congyi also held the gun, and suddenly stabbed forward, and said loudly at the same time: "Thorn, lean forward, at the same time stretch out your two arms forward, and stab the tip of the gun as far forward as possible." Stab! ”

The 700 new troops could hear it clearly and see it clearly, and immediately stabbed their guns out one after another, but the situation was miserable.

Most of them have stiff bodies, their hands and feet cannot be coordinated, and their sense of direction is also poor, some of the tips of their guns are pierced to the ground, some are pierced to the sky, some are biased to the right, some are biased to the left, and there are all kinds of things.

"Hold the gun!" Yang Congyi stabbed out after holding the gun, and then said: "Thorn, stab in the direction of the vest of the person in front of you." Stab! ”

In this way, all the sergeants of the new army had a goal, and the direction of this shot was unified.

"Hold the gun!" At the sound of an order, everyone withdrew their spears from their waists.

"Thorn!" At another command, the group stabbed their spears out of the front man's vest.

"Hold the gun!"

"Thorn!"

"Hold the gun!"

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Then Yang Congyi took 700 people and began to practice stabbing non-stop, from the morning to the evening, before it ended.

The new army is all ordinary people who farm the land, not people who have no power to tie the chicken, and they have worked every day for two months, and their health is very good, but after a day of stabbing training, everyone's arms are sore, and when they finish the day's training and start eating, their arms are so sore that they can't even hold their jobs. However, because Yang Congyi ate and lived with the new army, the injured sergeants did not dare to complain, after all, the prison army was also like them, and they practiced for a whole day.

The next day, another battalion of new troops began the same training of the new army, and nothing changed.

On the third day, another battalion of new troops will be replaced for basic marksmanship training, and the entire content and process will remain unchanged.

On the fourth day, another battalion was changed to conduct the same basic marksmanship training.

On the fifth day, the same basic marksmanship was taught to the last battalion of 700 people, and the first round of marksmanship training was over.

From the sixth day, Yang Congyi taught the new army a new marksmanship.

Yang Congyi stood on the high platform, held the spear in his hand, and said loudly: "Hold the gun!" ”

At the sound of an order, a battalion of seven hundred men immediately held their guns.

"Teach you a new marksmanship today, dial. Press the tip of the gun down one foot, hold the tail of the gun with the right hand next to the waist, grab the body of the gun with the left hand and pull it to the left, and the tip of the gun deviates one foot to the left, which is called the left dial. ”

"Left!" After Yang Congyi finished explaining, he quickly decreed and completed the left dial at the same time.

Through the previous training, everyone has become familiar with the spear, and after receiving the order, they quickly pressed the tip of the spear down, and moved their left arm to complete the left dial.

But it was difficult for the people to grasp the degree of the left dial, and some of them used too much force, and even shot their spears horizontally.

Yang Congyi had to make a slight adjustment: "After the left dial, you must immediately return to the state of holding the gun." ”

After making a demonstration, he said loudly: "Hold the gun!" Dial left! ”

"Left!"

"Left!"

found that some people forgot to return to the state of holding the gun after the left dial, and Yang Congyi made them busy and at a loss for several consecutive "left dials". Rectify it a little, and then give the order to the left, and those people will be corrected. In this way, there will no longer be any "left-flicking" shooting the gun horizontally, and the efforts will be more appropriate.

"Left Dial" practiced for an hour.

"Hold the gun! The tip of the gun is pressed down one foot, the right hand holds the tail of the gun next to the waist, the left hand grabs the body of the gun and pushes it to the right, the tip of the gun is one foot to the right, and then quickly resumes the posture of holding the gun, which is called the right dial. ”

Yang Congyi immediately made a demonstration, and then said loudly: "Dial right!" ”

Since everyone has learned to dial left, and the right dial is only in a different direction, it is naturally easy to learn.

Practice the "right dial" for an hour, rest for a quarter of an hour, and then start a new session.

I only heard Yang Congyi stand on the high platform and say loudly: "We have learned two marksmanship, stabbing and dialing." If you practice these two marksmanship skills, you will be able to kill the enemy on the battlefield. Now let's use these two marksmanship together. I emphasize once that the stab is the same as the pluck, and when it is done, it will automatically return to the position of holding the gun. Now everyone listen to me. ”

Yang Congyi paused slightly, focused all his attention on the high platform, and then ordered: "Left!" Stab! ”

In the beginning, there was a half-breath interval between the two commands, and the Forces nouvelles acted incoherently, giving them time to react. With a short pause and interval, the new army completed two movements, which was not very difficult.

After that, Yang Congyi gradually increased his speed, reducing the time pause between the two commands, and the sergeants could slowly adapt to it, and gradually connected the two movements.

After an hour of continuity, the left pluck and stab are coherent, and then the practice of right plucking and stabbing begins. The training method is the same, first slow and then fast, and it can be used consistently for an hour.

This is all the marksmanship that Yang Congyi wants to teach the new army, and after practice, it is enough to go into battle against the enemy.

Over the next four days, the other four battalions of recruits were trained in the same marksmanship, and were able to use both plucks and stabs.

After ten days of practicing weapons, the new army has mastered the basic use of spears, and after that, there is no need for Yang Congyi to teach anything, as long as each battalion trains itself.

After that, every morning the whole army practiced marksmanship for an hour, and all those who did not have guns were replaced with wooden sticks, and everyone was considered to have weapons.

If the new army is given enough time to continue training in this way, once it goes to the battlefield and forms a formation, it will still have considerable lethality, after all, the main method of killing the enemy by the spearmen is stabbing attacks.

However, where would the new army have so much time to practice marksmanship, they had to make fish noodles, they had to practice bow shooting, they had to march, everything took time.

The same is true for marching and archery, which are carried out in separate battalions, organized by battalion commanders and veterans, and Yang Congyi no longer continues to participate.

During the ten days of teaching the New Army to practice marksmanship, Yang Congyi was the supervisor of the army, and he had been practicing with the New Army without missing a single shot, and his actions were seen by all the New Army. As a result, the new army admired Yang Congyi very much, and his favorability soared.

In the following half a month, although Yang Congyi rarely asked about the training of the New Army, he occasionally went to the camp of the New Army to have a look, ate with everyone, and trained together, and was immediately warmly welcomed by the New Army.