It was dawn, the Xibian Gate that had been closed all night was opened again, and people began to enter and exit Beijing through the city gate one after another, and it was obvious that the number of people entering the city was far more than those going out of the city, and many people still brought their families to drive ox carts with a large number of luggage and items, which was a large family in villages and towns outside Beijing who took refuge in the city, and the news that the Qing soldiers went south spread very quickly.

After stopping overnight in the Chenjia Coal Yard, the coal cart was dragged by the porters and went to Xibianmen, but this time the officers and soldiers guarding the city did not stop it again, nor did they check it again, and let the coal cart pass through the urn city and go to the city. All the coal wagons will go to Chen's coal yard, where they have been stored. This is an agreement reached between Chen Yue and the coal merchants.

At this moment, Chen Yue did not appear at the city gate, but led the family members to start a ten-kilometer long-distance running drill in the morning. After more than half a month of training, the family members have adapted to this intensity of training, and there are very few people who have fallen behind in running, and Yang Zhengping has been driving the empty carriage back to the camp alone for several days.

The three small flag officers are very conscientious, whether it is running or training in queue combat skills, they do their best to encourage their brothers and not leave anyone behind. Chen Yue saw more than once that during the break, Chen Ping, Chen Mo, and Chen Yan pulled their backward subordinates to take the trouble to demonstrate and explain the essentials of the action.

In view of the fact that everyone could adapt to this kind of march, Chen Yue canceled the rule that the last person was not allowed to eat breakfast, and only rewarded Xiao Qi who completed the run first, and the reward was still an egg per person.

The high-intensity training and abundant food have significantly improved the physical fitness of the teenagers, and they are no longer the pitiful appearance of yellow muscles when they first came. Now that his physical fitness has improved, Chen Yue has also quietly raised the weight of ten kilometers of training to ten kilograms, and the family members have to carry their own weapons on the march in addition to the sandbags with a total weight of ten catties tied to their legs. Of course, Chen Yue himself led by example, in addition to the sandbag on his leg and the ash gun he carried on his shoulder, he also carried his own set of chain mail, with a total weight of more than 30 catties.

In the past half a month, in addition to the two bird guns that Chen Jianghe has been making without sleep, through private orders, Lao Zhang, a craftsman in Beijing, and others have secretly made ten bird guns for Chen Yue, and now the number of bird guns has reached eighteen, of which eleven are equipped in Chen Ping's small flag, and the other is behind Chen Yue's back, carrying it together with the chain mail.

Three small flags, one flag is equipped with a bird gun, and the other two small flags are all equipped with spears, attacking from a distance and fighting in close combat, and the troops are relatively complete. In order to improve his defensive strength, Chen Yue asked someone to get dozens of square shields from the treasury of the Beijing camp, and each spearman sent one side and carried it behind their backs. It must be true that the Qing soldiers went south this time, the war is not far off, and Chen Yue is also doing his best to arm his family team, and the silver spent on weapons has already been hundreds of taels.

In order to become a qualified firecracker, strict training is required, and it takes at least two or three months to form combat effectiveness. Unlike the guns of this era, the guns of this era were extremely cumbersome in that they were reloaded.

Chen Yue's family is a private soldier, and is not an official Ming officer and soldier, and although most of the Ming army is not willing to use this weapon, it is still a controlled weapon, and the private soldier is generally not allowed to equip, and it is impossible to train the fire gun shooting in the coal yard outside the city wall, if it causes a riot among the soldiers and civilians in the city, it is mistakenly thought that the Qing soldiers are killed, and Chen Yue's sin is not small with the sensitivity of the imperial court. So there was no choice but to pull away from the Beijing city wall to practice shooting.

This time, the team did not march southwest in the direction of Gongbei City, but went all the way to the west, jogging ten kilometers to reach a bend of the Yongding River, and then stopped.

The Yongding River flows from the northwest to the southeast, and here turns a small bay, in which there used to be five or six houses, and it was a small village, but now the village is obviously deserted, and it is the time of breakfast, but there is not a trace of cooking smoke over the village.

After the team arrived at Hewan, Chen Yue ordered to rest on the spot and prepare for breakfast, and the carriage driven by Yang Zhengping was loaded with a lot of provisions, including dry food, dried meat, iron pots, and salt.

Chen Yue sent Chen Mo Xiaoqi to search the village and its surroundings to see if there were any suspicious people waiting nearby. Chen Yan Xiaoqi was responsible for moving the things off the carriage, and then picking up firewood to make a fire for cooking. Chen Ping Xiaoqi took off the firearm behind his back and began to wipe the weapon that he was familiar with. This long-distance training is for the purpose of training the firecrackers, and they do not need to participate in specific tasks.

Chen Mo came back with people, reported that there were no suspicious people around the village, and found a few tables and chairs left over from several houses, just so that everyone could eat for a while.

The dry wood burned violently, the red flames licked the iron pot above, the rice porridge in the iron pot was already boiling, and several family members put very minced meat jerky and salt in it, and the rich aroma permeated the entire fishing bay. On the table I found were two large dustpan cakes, both of which had been purchased from the city yesterday.

Among the three small flags, Chen Ping and Chen Mo took out their own wooden bowls, lined up to scoop a large bowl of rice porridge from the iron pot, and then squatted in the courtyard with two cooking cakes and began to chew. And Chen Yan Xiaoqi was sent outside to guard everyone, and it was their turn after everyone had eaten. Since there has been an enemy situation, Chen Yue does not dare to relax on the safety of the team, whether it is marching or camping, he will send special guards to be responsible for everyone's safety.

After breakfast, the bird gun training officially began, Chen Ping Xiaoqi's family lined up by the Yongding River, each holding their own bird gun in their hands, and began to train ammunition loading under Chen Yue's professor.

Chen Yue actually didn't play with muskets in this era, but in later generations, as a policeman, he played with pistols, rifles, submachine guns, and the principle of firing this thing is basically the same, but the ammunition loading in this year is much more troublesome.

I don't want to be a gun in later generations, the ammunition is one, and the bullet has a propellant inside, and the ammunition is completely separated in these years, which causes great trouble for loading.

The guns were front-loading arquebuses, which required gunpowder to be poured into the muzzle, then crushed to death with an iron rod that was stabbed through the muzzle, and then loaded with projectiles into the muzzle. The projectile is a round ball made of lead, and because it is spherical, the initial velocity of the projectile is very slow, and the range is also short, and the effective range is only thirty or forty meters. Because there is no rifling in the chamber of the gun, the accuracy is very poor, many times even the enemy ten meters away can not be hit, there is no way, this year the musketeers used the tactics of lining up to shoot, that is, to use a dense rain of bullets to make up for the lack of accuracy.

After the gunpowder projectile is loaded, the ignited fire rope is fixed on the fire rope clamp, the trigger is pulled when it is excited, the powder pot lid is opened, the fire rope ignites the gunpowder in the powder pot, and the projectile is launched. After firing, it is not finished, it is necessary to quickly clean the ignition hole and the chamber, generally wipe the gunpowder residue in the chamber with an iron strip wrapped in a damp cloth, and prepare for the next loading of gunpowder.

Chen Yue specially consulted the gunners in the army for advice, and Zhou Wen, the little flag officer who worked in the coal yard, was born as a gunner, and he personally demonstrated the entire launch process to Chen Yue.