Chapter 366: Musketeers
Green Shrimp Creek is a small river at the southern end of Heilong Island, which originates from the mountains and flows into the sea from the west of Heilong Island, with a total length of no more than 100 miles, but the coastal basins are dense forests, the river is clear and rich in green shrimp, as the name is Green Shrimp Creek. [Ran^Text^Library] []. [774] [buy]. In the middle reaches of the shrimp stream, the stream becomes wide here, and the river surface can be dozens of wide, but the water is very shallow, that is, just up to the knee, the stream is clear and transparent, and you can clearly see the big fish in the river when you stand on the bank.
The training on the basics of fishing was said many days ago, and the bear did not have to repeat it, and gave the order: "Start fishing." ”
Nearly 500 people scattered along the river bank of several hundred meters, Chao Xiong took the lead, carrying a net more than half a meter wide in his hand, seeing that the fish was coming, he waved the net and caught the fish with a brush. Chao Xiong stretched out his hand and lifted the fish out of it, more than half a meter long, weighing more than ten catties, it can really be described as fat and big.
Of course, not everyone is as good as a bear, and most people miss a net, and it takes a second or third hit to catch the fish. But there are more fish than you can imagine, and schools of fish swim towards each other as if they were enchanted. In addition to copying nets, there are also large nets on the bottom of the river, more than ten meters and more than two meters wide. There were two people walking on the shore at each end, pulling the big net up the shore, and when the net was about to be raised, more than a dozen people cooperated, and these strong men who were fishing for the first time shouted excitedly: "Catch, catch, dozens of nets." ”
The calmer person will say, "You call an egg, you scared the fish away, you know no." ”
After fishing for a while, Chao Xiong was busy directing and inspecting the work, and 5,000 people were fishing, distributed in five large river basins nearby, and each of them was responsible for a section of the river in units of 500 people.
The bear rides to the Grizzly River, where the river goes up and there are many small waterfalls, and salmon often have to jump out of the water. Most people are busy fishing on the banks or in the river, and a small number of people put the fish they catch in baskets on the shore. It didn't take long to pile up hundreds of baskets, tens of thousands of catties of fish, maybe the taste of the fish was too big, and the grizzly bear fishing upstream didn't know when it came, and took advantage of the unpreparedness of people to take away a big fish. The strong men chased after the grizzly bear with a knife and drove the grizzly bear a few hundred meters before returning.
Although there are many fish in the rivers in this area, there are also many bears, so the big guys have to be extra careful when fishing.
The 4,000 people who go to the sea to catch crabs are relatively hard, almost 500 fishing boats, each boat has two large iron cages more than three meters long, the cages are bait, everyone works together to lower the iron cages into the sea dozens of meters deep, and then it will be very boring, after all, it is a small fishing boat, everyone can only chat and sleep on the boat to pass the time. After a few hours, the person in charge will blow the horn and shout, "Okay, let's close the cage." ”
Then everyone worked together to start collecting the cage, the cage was light when it was put down, and it sank when it was put away, the cold rope was so cold that the hands hurt, and slowly the iron cage came out of the water, and the huge red crabs crawled densely in the cage. Good guys, often a dozen or even dozens of crabs in a cage. Generally, a crab also costs seven or eight catties, or even more than a dozen catties.
In this way, a boat at the end of the day, two iron cages can catch thousands of catties, the cage is not idle when sleeping at night, the net is closed when it is dark, and then it goes down to the water, a torch is inserted in the bow, and the cage is guaranteed to be full the next day.
The huge crabs are delicious and nutritious, and the strong men from Shanxi are dumbfounded one by one, and now it seems that Ma Ling really didn't lie to them, and he did eat fish and crabs at once. After a few days, everyone wants to eat vegetables from their hometown again.
The crabs are also packed in large baskets, watered by the river, frozen into ice lumps overnight, and then transported to the ice cellar to be stacked, waiting for the big ship to transport back.
Anping Port can be described as busy, a harvest of joy. Hao Siwen has not been idle in the past few days, based on a hundred veterans, he recruited 900 newcomers from the strong men, and trained them into 1,000 musketeers. After five days of basic training, these recruits were tired enough, and they were obedient and obedient, and they didn't dare to do much.
Early that morning, the soldiers were shouted from their beds by the hasty assembly order, and they stood on the school field in disheveled clothes.
Hao Siwen said: "Do you know what kind of class we are?" ”
One soldier said: "Musketeers." ”
"It's not loud enough, I can't hear it, be louder." Hao Siwen roared.
"Musketeers." The soldiers shouted loudly.
Hao Siwen said: "Yes, musketeers. The musketeers are a brand new class, a very powerful class, and in front of us any light cavalry, heavy cavalry, archers, and pikemen are all scum. ”
The soldiers were silent, obviously not believing it, after all, who had ever seen the Vulcan spear, and since he became a soldier, he practiced with a wooden stick every day.
Hao Siwen said: "The power of the Vulcan gun is huge, and it is a great honor for us to let me set up a musket battalion by the Chao Tuan Lian, and I will let you see the power of the Vulcan gun today." ”
Saying that, Hao Siwen asked the soldiers to erect a hundred human-shaped wooden plank targets one hundred and fifty meters away, and then called out the one hundred veterans individually. One Vulcan for every two people. When the Vulcan gun was finally finalized, some changes were made, the body of the gun became shorter, the barrel was 1.8 meters, plus the butt was 2 meters long, the weight of the gun was 12 catties, the caliber was 12 millimeters, and it fired a cylindrical pointed solid iron bullet. When using a gun for two people, the main shooter holds the gun, and the deputy holds the triangular bracket and ammunition, and when fighting, the first position is nailed to the ground with iron stakes, and several iron wires are pulled, these wires are blocked in front of the formation, and they cannot be seen at all if they are not close to the formation, although the wire is very thin, but it is very strong and can resist the charge of the cavalry. The deputy opened the triangular bracket, and the main shooter put the gun on the bracket and half-knelt on the ground to aim and shoot.
Hao Siwen said: "Aim at the enemy in front and prepare." ”
The shooter was in position, lit the arquebus, bam, bam. Although there were only fifty Vulcan spears, the sound was loud and the smoke was billowing out.
"Second round of launches." Hao Siwen ordered.
The deputy played a role at this time, quickly took the copper bar to empty the chamber, then loaded the gun powder and iron bullets, and then closed the butt, the two cooperated with each other, which can greatly reduce the loading time, and the two soldiers who are generally skilled can complete the above actions in fifteen seconds.
Once reloaded, shoot again.
After the two rounds of guns were fired, the new recruits were at a loss, what was this, why was it so loud, it was like a second kick.
Hao Siwen said: "All recruits, go to the humanoid target to watch." ”
I don't know if I don't see it, I was shocked when I saw it, a hundred human-shaped targets, all made of hardwood boards, were beaten into a hornet's nest by the Vulcan gun, and a finger-thick wooden board couldn't stop the iron bullet of the Vulcan gun at all.
After everyone finished reading it, they came back, and Hao Siwen asked, "Did you see it?"
"See." The soldiers replied.
"It's a distance of 100 meters, and it's completely possible to break through the armor. Let's take a look at the situation at a distance of 200 meters. ”
This time the humanoid target moved backwards a hundred meters, a total distance of two hundred meters, a distance where bows and arrows could not be powered, and only powerful crossbow arrows could reach this range.
The Vulcan spear was fired again, bang, after the gunshot, everyone went to see again, this time the power was relatively weaker, the iron bullet was stuck in the wooden board, and there were also individual penetrations. But the human body is definitely not as strong as a wooden board, so the power of the Vulcan gun is amazing.
Hao Siwen said: "Everyone has seen it, the power of the Vulcan gun is amazing, in the future, the infantry will be mainly musketeers, everyone train well, and in the future, they will all be officer-level figures, mix well, be a general, glorify their ancestors, and return to their hometown." ”
Everyone laughed when they heard this, and it was a very distant thing to come out to eat mixed rice and return to their hometown.
"Don't laugh, what I said is true, some time ago, in the battle with the Black Werewolf, the Battle of Black Dragon City, and other battles, thousands of soldiers obtained military merit fields, as much as dozens of acres, and as little as a few points. Tell me how much an acre of land on Black Dragon Island is worth? Hao Siwen said.
A soldier said: "The black soil here is no worse than that in Shandong, and the reclaimed land is good land for three or two years, and there are still 20 acres of land." ”
"It's not just a matter of money, the military merit field can be passed down forever, passed on forever, hard for a while, in exchange for a happy life for future generations, everyone says it's worth it or not, not to mention that as the saying goes, the moon stick year knife is a lifetime gun. It takes three months for ordinary infantry to produce results, and it takes a year for cavalry to have combat effectiveness, but our fire and qi soldiers are different, as long as you train according to what I said, you will have combat effectiveness in one month. Hao Siwen was very eloquent, and said that the soldiers were as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and their enthusiasm for training increased exponentially.
Musketeer training is not about shooting skills, but about platoon, following orders, mental fitness, and hand-to-hand combat ability. After training for more than half a month, the formation has achieved a small achievement, and it began to be equipped with wooden knives, and after training, it began to be equipped with Yanling knives, one Yanling knife per person, which is the same as that of infantry archers. The Yanling knife made by Liguo Iron and Steel Plant is definitely not an ornament, and several actual battles have shown that this knife is extremely lethal and can be used as an auxiliary weapon.
On this day, the recruit just got the Vulcan gun, and although there was no ammunition, the slender gun god was enough to make people happy. The patrol soldiers came to report a large herd of about 300 reindeer.
Hao Siwen said: "Are you sure it's a wild reindeer?" ”
"Sure, there are no tribes at all in the south, and there are wild beasts everywhere." The sentry said.
Hao Siwen said: "Assemble, follow me to deer hunting." ”
Wild reindeer are not afraid of people, because there are no people in this area at all, but they just keep a distance of more than 100 meters and graze leisurely there.
Hao Siwen calculated, it takes more than four months in a winter, and the fish is enough, but the meat is not enough. It was enough to hunt fifty or sixty deer, and immediately the Vulcan spear fired, bang, and fifty shots were fired, and more than thirty deer fell.
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