Chapter 55: Building Faith
Li Qingyuan ordered, the soldiers of the first battalion entered a state of excitement, the soldiers began to check the guns and prepare ammunition, while Li Qingyuan went to gather other troops, ready to let everyone come and watch the live firing together.
First of all, a large number of humanoid targets were placed at one end of the shooting range, which were made by carpenters in their spare time, because soldier training required a large amount of consumable targets, and the used targets could be recycled as firewood, so it was just a process added before the firewood.
More than 300 humanoids were placed 200 meters away from the first battalion, and other units also lined up one after another to come to the hillside where they had seen the guns last time.
After everyone was in place, Li Qingyuan nodded at Zhang Yi, and Zhang Yi immediately shouted: "The first battalion is assembled!" ”
The three hundred people immediately gathered, still three teams and six platoons, Zhang Yi shouted: "Form a firing queue, load and slow a round." ”
Immediately the three hundred men began to unload the guns nervously reloading, slow reloading was more time-consuming, but not all the soldiers who watched the performance knew this kind of slow bullet, and many of them felt that the speed of the first battalion was too slow, even inferior to themselves.
After all the soldiers finished loading, Zhang Yi shouted: "Everyone has it, step in unison...... Walk! ”
Now the soldiers of the first battalion are facing away from the target, so this sound of walking in unison makes the soldiers farther and farther away from the target, and after walking a hundred steps, Zhang Yi shouted: "Stand!" Look to the right, look forward! Get ready to shoot! ”
The first row of the first two rows in front was half-squatting, and the second row was lunge-holding guns, and Zhang Yi shouted after seeing that everyone was ready: "The first row and the second row are all ...... Put! ”
There was a burst of gunshots, and Zhang Yi then shouted: "The second and third rows come forward, ready to shoot, ready to ...... Put! ”
After the soldiers in the second row stepped forward to release the guns, Zhang Yi asked the third row to step forward and continue to release the guns, and after the three hundred people completed a round of shooting, they did not immediately carry out the next project, but waited there, Li Qingyuan took Wu Sanniang and the three of them to see the target and see the situation of the target.
The crow looked at the bullet holes on one-tenth of the humanoid target, and asked in a trembling voice, "How can this bird shoot so far, it's so powerful!" ”
Li Qingyuan said with a smile: "This is just the beginning, let's step back and let the other soldiers also take a look." ”
A few people retreated to the side, Li Qingyuan asked other soldiers who had not yet trained new guns to line up to see the effect, and introduced to the three of them: "Although this kind of power is powerful, the bullet loading speed is too slow, and it is not suitable for large-scale engagement, so under normal circumstances, it is loaded in advance, and a shot is put before the battle, and then it is changed to a quick bullet." ”
Meng Can and Wu Sanniang knew that this kind of gun was powerful, so they didn't speak, only Wu Sanniang was amazed, and asked curiously, "Are we going to use this kind of gun?" ”
Li Qingyuan said with a smile: "Yes, each team will be assigned this kind of gun to the two people with the best marksmanship, which is convenient for you to sneak attack and assassinate, and the others use a short gun, which will be demonstrated to you soon." ”
The crow's eyes lit up and he said, "And a demo?" When? ”
Li Qingyuan pointed to the first battalion: "They haven't finished the demonstration yet!" There's also a quick-fire demo right away, and then I'll show you the short guns. ”
The soldiers all shut up obediently after watching it, they have seen Li Qingyuan shoot, although this kind of one-tenth of the middle rank rate of three hundred meters away is not excellent, but in the war, you have not touched the shadow of others and you are killed by one-tenth first, what kind of new feelings will you have.
The soldiers returned to the hillside, and Zhang Yi commanded the first battalion to advance to a distance of two hundred paces, and Zhang Yi said in one breath: "What we need to do now is to quickly reload five rounds of rapid fire, and everyone will check the fast ammunition pack." ”
Everyone touched their fast bullets and then touched their paper bullet bags, and after confirming it, Zhang Yi shouted: "Five rapid fire starts, load!" ”
After twenty breaths, all the soldiers were reloaded, and Zhang Yi shouted: "The first row and the second row are ready...... Shoot! The third and fourth rows are ready to move forward...... Shooting, the fifth and sixth platoons advanced and prepared...... Shooting, the first and second platoons advance and prepare...... Shooting ......"
This cycle repeated, two rows at a time, the queue took turns to shoot, rotated to reload, until about 150 meters to complete all five rounds of shooting, a total of less than two minutes, this rate of fire is not the limit for the first battalion, but it is indeed a speed that can play a stable performance.
When the smoke cleared, everyone was stunned to see the first battalion standing there quietly, many old people who had experienced the Qing battle unconsciously remembered the huge pressure that the Qing court Shenji Battalion had given them, to be precise, this time the first battalion was more terrifying than the Shenji Battalion, with a longer range and faster rate of fire.
Li Qingyuan said with the three people who were in a state of shock: "Let's go, take you to see the shooting effect." ”
Under the leadership of Li Qingyuan, the three of them went to see the humanoid target, and when they arrived at the place, the three of them were so shocked by the shooting effect that they were speechless, only to see that there were at least two bullet holes on these humanoid targets, and the unlucky front row even had seven or eight bullets embedded in their bodies, which were really beaten into a sieve.
Li Qingyuan said happily: "How about it, this time you know that I am not hiding in the mountains and idle, right?" When all the soldiers have changed their clothes, these 5,000 soldiers will be your strong backing, even in the face of the encirclement and suppression of tens of thousands of Qing court officers and soldiers, we can also calmly defeat.
And as long as you are recruiting 5,000 recruits, and by next year, when our 10,000 recruits are trained, then we can once again raise the banner to avenge your father-in-law Wang Lun, seek justice for the Han people in the world, and return the world to a prosperous world! ”
Wu Sanniang looked at Li Qingyuan with adoring eyes, while Meng Can looked at the soldiers of the first battalion with complicated eyes, while the crow stared at the target for a while and the musket in the hands of the soldiers of the first battalion.
The crow bit her lip and said, "Can I reload all my sisters with this musket?" ”
Li Qingyuan smiled and said: "Don't worry, I have prepared a more suitable one for you, let's go, let the soldiers also take a look, so that they know what kind of weapons they will use, let's go and see the short-barreled firearms I prepared for you." ”
Li Qingyuan left with the three of them, and the rebel soldiers of the other battalions began to take turns to see the shooting effect, while the first battalion stood there to accept the admiration of the others, and the other soldiers also secretly gritted their teeth and swore that they would want the next batch of muskets with limited equipment.
The four of them went to the warehouse to get four short-barreled muskets and came to the shooting range again, this time to the training ground of the musket battalion, as the first unit equipped with a new type of musket, the marksmanship of the musket battalion is obviously a little better than that of the first battalion, but the discipline training is indeed not as strict as the musket battalion, so it is estimated that the musket battalion cannot beat the musket battalion in large-scale battles.
Of course, the purpose of the two armies is different, so the direction of training is also different, except for Li Qingyuan after Li Qingyuan tried it, he issued a few to some sharpshooters for them to try the effect, and there is any experience in improvement.