For two days and one night in a row, with only a few breaks in between, the four hundred teenagers felt that their fatigue had reached the limit, and even if there were any contradictions and dissatisfactions, they could no longer exert themselves in the fatigue and the pressure of dismounting.

Seeing that the state of these teenagers was really unable to carry out any effective and meaningful training at night, Xiao Xuan also surprised the teenagers to open a favor, after dinner and tidying up the housekeeping, he arranged for everyone to rest at about eight o'clock in the evening, and did not train beyond the limit. The barracks also rarely calmed down quickly after everyone went to bed, which also reminded Xiao Xuan of the days when he was in the barracks for on-the-spot military training when he graduated from junior high school. Although it is only a few days, it feels like a moon, especially the test brought by summer exercises, which is the most thought about all day and night is when to eat and when to sleep.

There is no doubt that the pressure of full training is the most important means to keep the military camp from all kinds of drawbacks, but when Xiao Xuan was making a training plan for the next year, he found a problem that he didn't seem to be aware of before and few people talked about: in addition to queue training, the time cost of many training is high.

For example, if a firearm or a gun is fired, even if the empty gun aiming and even various auxiliary training are perfect, the average is only one shot in three minutes, and 480 minutes in eight hours a day is 160 rounds of ammunition, and a month's full training in shooting will consume 4,800 rounds of ammunition. Although Xiao Xuan didn't know what the actual service life of firearms in this era was, he would never be higher than some modern rifles, even of inferior quality. Even if you spend the same amount of training on hanging bricks, it doesn't take up much time. The lifespan of the bow and arrow is even less likely to be higher than that of the strong gun

How to train in earthwork? According to what he once knew, a squad of men used a hoe to dig a modern perfect squad position with a width of more than 200 meters of battle line, with various shelters and covers, as long as it was not a place with too many stones, basically an average of forty or fifty hours of labor per person was enough. In the era of the Zeng Dynasty, it was only possible to build a complete fortification with simple earthen walls and moats in half a day, because of course, the ancient formations were more than an order of magnitude denser than those of modern times, and the fortifications were actually easier. If you train in this area for a few months, it is estimated that the entire Imperial Horse Supervision School Yard will not be able to become a large castle tower. As for the breakdown, of course, it faces the same problem.

This means that subjects such as shooting, earthwork, and blasting take up a certain amount of time, but they don't take too long. But stabbing in this day and age to discomfort is a great way to kill time. Especially the collective spear stabbing that is more in line with the times? Although some special equipment still needs to be consumed, at least the time cost is not very large? In addition, Xiao Xuan also thought of some training methods with lower costs: throwing, but in this era, he faced a problem of high or low. Xiao Xuan was not sure whether the tactics of the classical era, such as javelin throwing, were outdated in this era and how useful it was, while the grenadiers were designed to test the craftsmen of the late Ming Dynasty. Xiao Xuan has some ideas about the grenadiers and even the modern Ming and Qing Dynasty battle patterns or the needs of vehicle warfare, but he has no confidence in the craftsmen of the capital in this era. Do you want "rather people and other equipment than equipment and other people?" ”

After thinking about it for a long time, Xiao Xuan finally decided whether to train in a queue or consolidate it for a few days, and first learn effective collective spear fighting tactics. The biggest threat in front of him is obviously not the Jiannu outside the gate, but the inner court army not far away, in addition, the attack and blasting attack are also to be tentative and familiar, which may be very necessary for the battle in the palace. In this way, whether it is a bow and arrow, a grenadier or other things that take a long time to cost, you can only put it away first. Of course, even these kinds of training are obviously not an easy burden.

Seeing that the more than eighty officers and non-commissioned officers who had rested last night were not very tired, Xiao Xuan began to mobilize these men and began to use some wood from the Imperial Horse Prison to make some "training equipment", and also began to test some gunpowder burst attack methods. At the same time, in order to make those guns and lead bullets more suitable or more suitable, Xiao Xuan did not let those officers, non-commissioned officers, and even some craftsmen and helpers who came with him too idle.

For the next three days, the training arrangements were still highly intense, and while the queue training lasted at least five hours a day, the officers and men of the new battalion had to conduct basic training in the use of firearms and the essentials of aiming in the evening. In order to ensure that there will be no accidents and no serious consumption of the life of the firearm barrel in the shooting training with an average number of shots, the charge is also as much as possible in accordance with the standard of dealing with the unarmoured, and more shotguns that are not easy to jam and cause explosions are fired less live ammunition, which is carried out every night. Under the strict requirements, in a short period of three days, each officer and soldier conducted an average of more than 50 firing training sessions and a large amount of aiming and loading training. Only a few soldiers were briefly blinded by the flashes of the turtledove's firing at night.

Xiao Xuan had no way to let even some of the officers and soldiers learn to ride a reliable horse in a few days, but at least many of the horses in the Imperial Horse Prison who were quite reliable had gradually adapted to the sound of guns and cannons in the past few days of training.

Just when Xiao Xuan's newly formed new battalion training was on the right track, Wei Zhongxian, who had some hidden piles in the Imperial Horse Prison, also got relatively tangible news in the palace. Of course, Wei Zhongxian is not a person who knows soldiers, although the Inner Court Army has been formed for several years, but through various channels, it is also clear that most of these people are people with a little power in the palace, and they want these people to fight hard battles? It's good to be able to make up one or two percent of them.

However, it is precisely because of the many management and leadership experiences in the palace over the past few decades, as well as the gains and losses in the training of the inner court army, that I have seen that many people in the new emperor seem to be a little dismissive of the rigid method of military training, which may not be without miraculous results. After learning that the Imperial Horse Supervisor had selected some rare and sophisticated equipment to arm this new army, he felt a sense of crisis. The man was afraid that these hundreds of teenagers would become a minimum standard of battle-worthy army, which would obviously also change the balance of power between the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Inner Court Army, so Wei Zhongxian also felt that something should be done.

Tian Ergeng, who was in charge of the Inner Court Army, disagreed: "Grandpa Chang? The number of the new battalion in the Holy Heaven is only more than 500, and the army has only been formed for a few days, is it really so worthy of attention? ”

"A few days may not be enough, but if it is beyond more than a month, the officers and soldiers in the battalion are familiar with each other, even if it is not possible to go to the battlefield, for us, those young soldiers with excellent armaments will be a big trouble. You should know that the fledgling teenager recruits are different from the adult new army, so it's more or less tentative... ”