On the southeast beach of the mountain, a group of shirtless men with flat-ended flintlock pistols hang from the front end of the barrel. With the scorching sun on his head, his feet on the hot sand, and a chief instructor in front of him, waiting for someone to make a mistake and blame him with a military stick.

Behind them, a group of more than 100 men, equally shirtless, carrying huge logs on their backs, shouted the earth-shattering trumpet, stepped barefoot over the hot sand, and trotted all the way over.

A little further past was the shooting range, where a group of white-clad men dressed in gray with sweat and cement dust were holding muskets and practicing three-stage shooting with Shi Yang's command and the command of the pennant. The continuous sound of gunfire, the thick smoke of gunpowder, and the crackling wooden targets made a deserted island in the South China Sea very lively.

Isn't such a big movement afraid of alarming the Yuan army's patrol ships?

At this time, it was the middle of May, more than three months had passed since the Battle of Yushan, and the Yuan army's maritime search had almost stopped. Therefore, Zhao Liecai was relieved to boldly turn a desert island into a large military camp.

Not far away on the hillside, Ma Nanchun, who had just received a shipload of supplies from Xiangshan, happened to meet Jiang Fenglie, who had received urgent information, and the two talked while walking, looking up from time to time to look at the lively scene in front of them. Even though they were worried about the situation in Xingchao, thousands of miles away, the corners of their mouths couldn't help but hook up a smile.

It was the former white-clothed guard who practiced the three-stage shooting, and now the white-clothed team of the Dragon Sparrow Army. The aiming exercise was carried out by the sea team in the original Yushan squad and the first part of the Yuan Zhongshun Army, which had just arrived recently, with a total of more than 50 people, just forming a team, named the Zhongshun team. The nearly 100 men who carried out the two-by-two coordinated weight-bearing run were the survivors of the 500 volunteers raised by the original Majiazhuang, and the two teams were combined into one battalion. Because some of the volunteers had participated in the battle against the Mengyuan Baihu Bagen (attacking the Liang family with the Gushan team), and because of the expectation of this army marked by the Ma family, Ma Nanbao, the head of the Ma family, named it "Broken Camp".

In the battle of Ma Nanbao and Li De against Liang Qixin, because they were raided by the Meng Yuan army, these volunteers who had just trained for only two months, were strong but most of them had no combat experience, and some were captured and imprisoned in Liang's Zhuangyuan, and Zhao Hunt broke the village before he was rescued with Ma Nanbao. Some were scattered and fled back to their hometowns, some retreated and fled back to Majiazhuang, and many more were killed by the Meng Yuan army.

After Ma Nanbao was rescued, relying on his prestige in Xiangshan, he reconvened the Yisan volunteers, plus the captured and rescued Zhuang Ding in the original village, a total of 245 people. Those who were brave and courageous were selected to form two teams, led by Ma Nanchun, joined the Dragon Bird Army, and went to Gushan for training, which was the "Broken Camp".

At present, the main force of the Dragon Bird Army is basically composed of the original Zhongshun Army and the Ma Jiajun from Xiangshan, how can Jiang Fenglie and Ma Nanchun not be happy.

Jiang and Ma were happy, but Zhao Lie, who was the commander and chief instructor of the Dragon Bird Army, complained bitterly.

There are more than 200 people training at once, each with different progress, rotating training every day, covering all aspects, even if there is Shi Yang's assistance, it is enough. In addition to training the musket team, there is also a team of young gunners to focus on. Don't look at the junior team, there are only ten people, and the training difficulty is not much better than that of the 200-person musket team.

The training of musketeers is relatively mechanical, and the coordination and consistency of the team members are trained first; The second step is to practice the aiming and arm strength training of the end gun; The third step is the focus, practicing reloading ammunition; After the speed and stability of the reloading ammunition are passed, you can start firing live ammunition. As for the three-stage shooting or even the five-stage shooting, it is also similar to the crossbowmen training in the Song army, which does not require dexterity and dexterity, only mechanical repetition.

The youth team is completely different, this is the only rear-loading gun squad of the Dragon Bird Army, Zhao Lie's positioning of this squad is the "ghost" of guerrilla warfare and urban street fighting, and the training method is to be mobile and flexible, secretly operate, and take the road of special operations.

Zhao Lie studied urban special operations subjects when he was in the police academy, and also commanded drills such as rescuing hostages and capturing fugitives as a squad leader, but drills are not equal to actual combat, and there is a big difference between ancient and modern, and just formulating a training plan suitable for the junior team tore off a lot of his hair.

The team has now expanded to 32 members, with members ranging from the children of the Loyal Shun Army and the orphans of the volunteers who were killed and disabled in the battle against Liang Qixin, and are basically between the ages of 12 and 14. This age is the time to worship heroes, be easy to indoctrination, and be extremely malleable. Zhao Lieqin served as an instructor, got along day and night, and took the hardcore diehard Ding Xiaoqi as the escort team (captain), and Zhang Junbao and others as the backbone of the youth team. No matter where these teenagers come from or where they come from, if they are thrown into this "melting pot", they will have to be refined sooner or later.

With these more than 200 soldiers, Zhao Lie, the commander of the Dragon Sparrow Army, is finally not the commander of the light pole. There are people, but the most head-scratching problem also comes - insufficient equipment.

The reason why Zhao Hunt only equipped the white-clothed team, the Zhongshun team, and the broken battalion with flintlock pistols instead of rear-loading guns was that in addition to the necessity of building a musket team, the most important thing was that Zhao Hunt had a technical bottleneck in the process of manufacturing rear-loading guns, and he would not be able to make rear-loading guns for a while and a half.

There are punches, molds, materials, drawings – but even if everything is available, it doesn't mean that a gun can be built immediately. Building guns, especially rear-loading guns, requires technology.

Zhao Lie took matters into his own hands and worked hard for two days and two nights in a secret arsenal that only he knew, and the first problem he encountered was not to make guns but diesel generators. This thing really can't be used by connecting the switch under the power board, and there are many doorways in it.

It took Zhao Lie a long time, and it was not easy to figure out how to use it reluctantly, and then he encountered the obstacle of an electric punch. After the official start of manufacturing of this "roadblock", I found that the problems in front are really nothing, and the most difficult ones are in the back. Two days and two nights later, the result was five scrap guns, either stuck or a firing pin problem, or the spring was unevenly drawn, and the gusset plate was broken - Zhao Hunt made a gun for the first time, which ended in failure.

He was a good policeman, a brave warrior, a great commander, but not a qualified firearms engineer.

To solve this problem, we can only hope for Guo Dajiang and other best court craftsmen in the Great Song Dynasty. However, at present, all the craftsmen are working at full speed to make flintlock pistols all night, and they will not take care of this part for the time being until they are fully equipped with troops. If the craftsmen were forced to shift their efforts to tackling this area, it would inevitably affect the speed at which flintlock pistols could be manufactured. And at the moment, there is nothing more urgent than arming two hundred soldiers as soon as possible.

However, the hot training that had just started not long ago was stopped by an urgent military order from Jiang Fenglie.

"The line of the dynasty to Zhang envoy Xiang (Zhang Shijie then sealed the same level of the chapter, and left and right, called 'envoy Xiang'), Su Dianshuai commanded all the water, infantry and warships, attacked the Jiyang military city, and did not defeat it for several days. The Wanhu Mansion of Qiongzhou received the report and will send troop ships to make a detour from the sea to attack the court. Once the siege is closed, the dynasty will be in danger of being attacked by the enemy on its belly and back. Zhang ordered me to send a ship to Jiyang as soon as possible, and join forces to resist the Yuan Tartars. ”

Zhao Lie looked at the military order, smacked his lips and frowned, there are so many generals in the court, why can't they even take a small Jiyang military city, but they are suffering from the enemy?

Ma Nanchun also handed over a letter to Zhao Lie: "My brother also got the military report, and Li Heng's army will return to Guangzhou in the near future, in order to prevent the Yuan army from retaliating, my brother has dismissed the family servants, exhausted his family resources, purchased grain and grass military materials, recruited strong men, and soon went to Gushan, joined us and others, and sent troops to Qiongzhou." ”

Zhao Lie held the two letters, pondered for a while, and then looked up and said, "It seems that it is time to evacuate the mountain and land in Qiongzhou." ”

When Shi Yang and the others heard this, they were all excited, and they joined forces with the Xing Dynasty, we are also a dignified king, and we are no longer a grass army.

Jiang Fenglie reminded: "It is necessary to write a military report first, and submit it to the envoy, stating the departure date and the geometry of the warship, so that the arrangement of the dynasty can be made." ”

Zhao Lie nodded: "Let's bother Shi Yi to write." ”

Jiang Fenglie was obviously used to writing military orders and military newspapers, took the pen and paper handed by the white guard, waved it, looked up and asked Zhao Lie: "In addition to the title of military position, the payment also needs to be signed, in order to show respect, it is advisable to write the word Jun." Can there be words for all the controls? ”

"Words, ......" Zhao Lie stepped on the rocks under his feet, overlooked the sea, and thought of the label of the mountain in history as a symbol of the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty and a fragment of Chinese civilization. Zhao Hunt is not talented, so he should be the first person to stand up - my word, stand up! ”