The division of men and women in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been repeatedly criticized in modern times, but in real history, it is the key to maintaining their combat effectiveness in the early stage.

When the Taiping army entered Wuchang, a literati who stood on the Qing side attacked the Taiping army in every way, but recognized that the separation of men and women was the only benefit of the Taiping army, and that women's chastity was maintained.

It's just that everything is too much and not the extremes of things will be reversed, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has made the separation of men and women to an extreme perversion, and even forbade normal husband and wife life, and even to the extent that the mother and son dare not talk to each other in Tianjing City, while the kings below the Heavenly King are recruiting concubines, and the final result is that soon after entering Tianjing City, the male and female camps have reached the point where they cannot be maintained.

Liu Chang's troops were not fanatical believers like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so Liu Chang's male and female camps were relatively simple, but the entire Panshi Village was divided into family areas, living areas, and barracks, and order became orderly.

The women were assigned to the women's corps, who were responsible for mending clothes and making military shoes, while the old men were assigned to the bald squad, where they were responsible for some of the lightest chores, the teenagers were assigned to the boy squad, those who knew how to make small trades were assigned to the battalions, and the old and weak, who had barely some fighting ability, were organized into the reserves.

In the main army, the Fenyong team can be said to be the last substitute team, and the reserve team is the backup of the Fenyong team, almost the backbone militia of another time and space, Liu Chang does not expect the reserve team to play any crucial role, so he hopes that he can at least play the role of a paper tiger in the old camp.

As for the weapons of the reserve team, they were equipped with more than 30 captured and requisitioned shotguns, and Liu Chang discovered why the shotguns, such an arquebus that was hundreds of years behind the times, were equipped in China until around 1900.

It's just that shotguns are too cheap and too easy to obtain! The cost of a shotgun is only four taels of silver, you must know that at this time, the most common bow and an arrow cost six taels of silver, and it is easy to make, the blacksmith master of the camp office said that he dared to build a shotgun for the inspection, but the shotgun created is not as good as the standard equipment of the green battalion.

Compared with the cold weapons that have to be tempered thousands of times, the training of shotguns is also very simple, and if you just pull it back and shoot a few rounds of medicine, you can say that you have mastered shotgun shooting.

It takes several years for an archer to be cultivated, and a shotgunner only needs a few hours of training, but Liu Chang's training for the reserve team surprised the veterans of the Brave Team: "Lord Check, this is the level of our substitutes?" You're too strong, aren't you?"

You must know that the training level of the Green Battalion in the late Qing Dynasty is very poor, and it may not kill a few bullets in a year, but Liu Chang doesn't treat the medicine as money at all, and the soldiers of the reserve team can shoot twenty bullets in one training, even the quasi-head guns in the Green Battalion may not have this level.

A veteran of the Yueqing Association said: "Check, our Vice General Yao only lets us take three or five rounds of medicine every year, unless we go to Wenzhen to read a few more shots, and we will buy more drugs at our own expense." ”

There is also a green battalion soldier guarding Wenzhou City next to him, who was captured in the Battle of Nanxi: "Our side is similar, at most more than 1,000 rounds of sub-medicine used up in a year, and Dusi reports tens of thousands of rounds every year, and the extra number of them makes those officials corrupt." ”

Another veteran of the Green Battalion suggested: "Check, the lead gunpowder we have prepared can't withstand such consumption!" ”

The reserve team fired twenty rounds at a time, the brave team fired thirty rounds at a time, and the dragon lance whistle Nanxi whistle was at the level of fifty rounds at a time, and the requirements were higher than the other, and the dragon lance whistle was simply the enemy rushing to the muzzle of the gun before starting to shoot, such strictness they had never heard of.

You must know that they were taught to open fire whenever they saw the enemy outcropping, and sometimes the enemy began to shoot from a distance of two or three miles, such as the dragon lance whistle, which required close shooting, and even the reserve troops were required to be within thirty paces before concentrating fire.

However, they also know that the plan of the Liu inspection point is not small, but the reserve of lead gunpowder really can't withstand such daily consumption!

Liu Chang gave them a reassurance: "It's okay, I'm already preparing to make my own medicine, after all, we control such a territory as Panshi Town, and there is still a way to get some materials, but if you have any good ideas, you can also inform me, I, Liu, have always been worthy of my brothers." ”

A green battalion soldier of Yueqing Association hesitated, but stood up: "The villain knows a method, which can multiply the power of the medicine by one or two percent." ”

"Is there really such a way?" The green battalion soldiers next to him all gathered around and asked, "Why haven't I heard of it!" ”

The Green Battalion soldier regarded this method as his family heirloom: "If it weren't for the Maven who met such a maven, I would not be willing to sacrifice such a secret technique." ”

Just after a little inquiry, Liu Chang found that he already knew this method, but he didn't expect it to be so deep - the famous granular gunpowder.

Granulated gunpowder is not a sophisticated technology, as early as the Ming Dynasty Chinese have mastered this technology, but this technology has been lost in China again and again, and has been invented by the Chinese again and again as a major technological innovation.

The most recent "re-invention" was invented by Chen Jieping, the commander of the Fujian Navy during the First Opium War in the Daoguang period, and was actually produced by Chen Jieping from the materials he obtained from captured Western pirates.

Chen Jieping's "re-invented" granular gunpowder, claimed to be as powerful as foreign medicine, but in fact it was only close to the best ratio of black powder, and it was also handmade, and there was a certain gap between the real Western gunpowder, but at least this "re-invention" was at least a great progress, but in the first Opium War for more than ten years, this "re-invention" was forgotten by the Qing Dynasty.

This green battalion soldier was involved in Fujian at that time, so he kept the manufacturing technology of this granular gunpowder in mind: "Check, at that time, Daoguang Ye clearly ordered the green battalion of all provinces to supervise the new gunpowder of Chen Zhentai, and they all said that the power was far better than the old medicine, but before they reached the Xianfeng Dynasty, they all used the old medicine again......

There is no need to deal with the foreign guns and cannons of the Westerners, the old black powder is enough to deal with the peasant uprising, but Liu Chang's insight is different from that of the Manchu Qing officials, urging: "This is very good, since you have dedicated this secret technique, the battalion is lacking an officer, you can be wronged for the time being." ”

This is the meaning of promotion and appointment, and the green battalion soldier is grateful: "Thank you for the inspection, thank you for the inspection, but this new gunpowder is different from the old medicine, which costs a lot of labor and requires a lot of equipment." ”

Liu Chang nodded: "How much money do you need, come to me to receive it, before the new medicine is made, you still need to make more old medicine." ”

"Thank you for the inspection!"

Although it is not a technological innovation achieved by himself, but with granular gunpowder, it can always improve a lot of combat effectiveness, Liu Chang couldn't help but be secretly proud, but heard someone come to report: "Check, Ye Niangzi is here." ”

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