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At the end of August, Li Zhi drove all 12,000 tiger masters to the school to test the results of the training.

Today, Li Zhi has more than 10,000 soldiers, and he still divides these soldiers into four regiments, each with six battalions, that is, 3,000 people in each regiment.

After recruiting 4,000 recruits in February, Li Zhi organized the recruits into a separate recruit squad, which was convenient for the unified management of the recruit squad and basic training. Li Zhi also mixed the recruit squad and the veteran squad at the platoon level, which would help the veterans pass on their experience to the recruits and improve their combat effectiveness.

Recruits spent the day training in formation, shooting, and marching, and at night resting in the barracks. Veterans who have been on the battlefield have relatively easy training during the day, and they still have spare energy, so they go to the school set up by Li Zhi to learn literacy at night. By now, the veterans have learned a lot of words.

Eight thousand literate soldiers are an armed force that has never been seen before in this era.

Li Zhi was currently armed with 2,000 cavalry: these cavalry were composed of 1,500 veterans of the Xuanfeng Regiment and 500 veterans of other regiments who had been in the army for three years. These veterans have practiced fighting for three or four years, and their fighting skills are already very proficient, comparable to those of other Ming soldiers. Moreover, Li Zhi also equipped them with rifles and handcuffs, so that they could complete two shots before the hand-to-hand intersect, so that they could defeat enemies several times their size.

These cavalry were led by Xue Sanku, deputy commander of the Xuanfeng Regiment.

Li Zhi also armed two battalions of artillery in the Election Regiment. Seven of these artillerymen operated a six-pounder gun, and a thousand men were armed with a total of one hundred and forty guns. There were originally 500 veteran gunners in the Xuanfeng Battalion, and the new 500 artillerymen were all veterans who had experienced battles. After half a year of training, the new 500 artillerymen have become proficient in operating artillery.

A thousand artillery men were also armed with handcuffs. If the enemy rushes to the artillery, the artilleryman can kill the enemy with handcuffs. Artillery equipped with handcuffs is no longer afraid of the enemy's close combat, and morale is even higher.

These artillery pieces were led by Lu Hu, the second deputy commander of the Xuanfeng Regiment. Lu Hu was the first batch of family members recruited by Li Zhi, and he was a distant relative of Li Zhi's family. He was gradually promoted to an officer because of his old seniority, and because of his courage in combat, he governed the army strictly, and the troops under his command had strong combat effectiveness. Li Zhi eventually promoted it to deputy regimental commander and became a senior officer in charge of 1,000 artillery pieces.

On 23 August, half a year after the recruits entered the camp, the Huben division showed their general, Li Zhi, the results of their training on the school grounds.

The first was to enter in a procession, where the soldiers marched in unison and entered the school field from the west side of the school field as a company. When entering, the soldiers lined up in five columns, and when they reached the designated position, the team turned left and stopped at the front row of the school grounds. Twelve thousand soldiers entered in order, and not a single one of them fell off the chain by mistake.

This is followed by four regiments taking turns to demonstrate the changing formation. Three regiments walked out of the school yard, leaving one regiment to demonstrate on the school ground: as the command flag was unfurled in the middle of the school yard, the company commanders constantly adjusted their orders, so that the ranks of each company constantly changed their thickness - sometimes they became three columns, standing in a long line with other companies. Sometimes it becomes a five-row deep team, which forms a phalanx with other companies. Five rows of warriors stood on all four sides of the phalanx, and there were no flanks and rear to charge the enemy cavalry. Sometimes a five-row column or a four-row deep circle formation is formed, and in short, the formation is constantly changed according to the specific requirements of the battle.

Both recruits and veterans have been trained in queues for a long time and are very skilled when it comes to organizing formations.

Seeing that the soldiers were well-trained to discharge various formations, Li Zhi stood on the high platform in front of the school field and nodded.

Then show the salvo.

The 2,000 cavalry of the Selective Regiment simulated the enemy's charge, and rushed towards the troops performing a salvo on horseback, stepping on the barren ground with the sound of rolling horses' hooves like thunder. The soldiers of each regiment calmly completed the reloading maneuver in the face of the pressure of the cavalry.

Open the fire door, bite open the tail of the fixed gunpowder to fill the gunpowder, close the fire door, clean the chamber with a strip, bite open the head of the fixed gunpowder, fill the pellet gunpowder into the chamber, compact the granular gunpowder with the strip, load the conical bullet into the chamber, and press the bullet into the chamber with the strip.

After loading the bullets, the soldiers, on the orders of the platoon commander, moved the ranks and fired into the sky.

After shooting, the soldier immediately moved a step to the right, turned and walked to the back, and walked to the back of the line to reload again. And the soldiers of the second platoon quickly walked to the firing position and fired a salvo into the sky.

All four regiments successfully completed the salvo, and with the exception of one recruit, who was a little nervous and knocked down another recruit behind him as he shot back, no one else made a mistake with the nine thousand riflemen.

Li Zhi was very satisfied with the performance of the recruits and said, "Not bad, good practice!" ”

Zheng Kaicheng said with a smile: "These soldiers practice for six hours a day, and they have been practicing for half a year, even if they are fools, they are also proficient!" ”

Li Zhi smiled and nodded.

The next step is to check the target hit rate. Nine thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry drove to the shooting range, each firing three shots. After hitting the target for two hours, the final report was as follows: The target rate of the veterans on the 200-meter target against the humanoid target was 9 out of 9, and the target rate of the new recruits was 9 out of 9.

The soldiers' target hit rate was close to 100 percent, and even if they were a little nervous on the battlefield, they still had a 70 to 80 percent hit rate on a target of 200 meters. This kind of accuracy is enough to make the Tiger Benshi proud of other armies of this era.

Li Zhi's recruits shoot ten shots a day, and every three months they have to train a rifle until it is scrapped, and they need to be rebuilt. The veterans practice a little less, but they also have to scrap a rifle a year. It wasn't a rifle that burned, it burned silver. Which of the other troops of this era has such an intensity of training?

The strength of the Tiger Master is trained by one shot at a time.

Finally, there was the demonstration of artillery firing: one hundred and forty guns lined up at the artillery test range, firing at targets four hundred meters away. With the help of gun gauges, gun rulers and moment gauges, the artillerymen missed the target only a few meters in the first shot, and the second shot all hit a circular target area with a diameter of five meters.

The gunners also demonstrated high-speed shotgun firing -- when the enemy rushed closer, the gunners did not cool the barrels, nor pushed the gun carriages back into position, let alone use instruments such as guns to aim, but only seven people worked together to reload gunpowder as quickly as possible, and fired shotguns at the enemy clusters that rushed to the front. Standing behind the artillery, Li Zhi estimated that under such extremely fast firing conditions, a six-pounder gun could fire a round of shotgun in 17 or 8 seconds.

If the enemy's cavalry charged into formation, they could only charge 200 meters in seventeen or eight seconds. In other words, Li Zhi's artillery can give two shotgun strikes to the enemy's cavalry charging at extreme speed.

Shotguns are a dozen blockbusters, and it is very scary to be hit by two rounds of shotguns in one charge.

Li Zhi was very satisfied with the results of the training of the recruits and veterans, and said loudly: "The training is good. ”

The sound of the Chinese military drum sounded, symbolizing the encouragement of the division commander Li Zhi to the soldiers!

Twelve thousand soldiers, inspired, shouted: "Wan Sheng! (To be continued.) )