On the basis of team training such as physical training and queue training every morning, a number of professional skills training is carried out to improve the combat skills of the soldiers.

As a traverser, coupled with more than half a year of experience, Yang Lin has seen a lot of things, and more importantly, he knows that the characteristics of each person are different, their training focuses are different, and they emphasize the division of labor in future operations.

According to the different combat methods, it is simply divided into special items such as shooting training, throwing (earth-shaking thunder) training, hand-to-hand combat training and fortification training.

Unlike modern ministries that only equipped with rifles, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, long-range weapons were very complicated, including bird guns, bows and arrows, and crossbow arrows.

Coming to the First Division to observe musket shooting, unlike Western armies, ancient Chinese musketeers paid attention to aimed shooting, and did not care much about the speed of fire.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, most of the bird guns were made by various handicraft workshops, rather than the official unified manufacturing, so the quality varied, some added a little more gunpowder, or the barrel residue was not cleaned up and exploded, this bird gun hurt others and hurt themselves, and many soldiers were unwilling to use it.

In order to force the soldiers to aim and shoot, since Qi Jiguang has forced the soldiers to obey the military order, and if the shooting is not accurate, or the board is not aimed at shooting.

Since his release from prison, Yang Lin has been discussing the crux of the problem with the craftsmen in the army, and according to Li Xueben, who has worked as a blacksmith, it is mainly caused by some craftsmen cutting corners.

China is an agricultural civilization, since ancient times, it has been suitable for all kinds of construction, all suitable for building all kinds of exquisite equipment, and even more so in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

According to the requirements of the Ministry of War, the steel used to make weapons needs to be forged many times, that is, 10 catties of iron should be forged into 2 catties of steel, but this is time-consuming and consumable, and the government purchase price is only 4 taels of silver, and the craftsman needs to pour money into it, so often there are no many times to forge.

It is not easy to build 10 catties of iron to 3 catties, and some are even built to 4 catties of iron, and then buy the handling personnel during the acceptance, so that there are countermeasures under the policy, and the shoddy ordnance is full of the army, and the soldiers dare not use it at all.

Collected more than 300 bird guns in the army for inspection, 100% of them did not pass, looking at the pile of potential killing weapons in front of him, Yang Lin sighed why the Ming army was defeated in successive battles, why the caliber of the Ming bird guns was so small, but there were frequent failures. (The Ming Dynasty Bird Iron Pill is 3 money and 15 grams, while the Western European Heavy Bird Iron Pill is close to more than 60 grams, which is powerful.) ）

The root of the disease was found, that is, the purchase price of Daming weapons was low, the price of a bird gun was only 4 taels of silver, and the craftsman needed to paste silver, and the cost of exquisite and practical bird guns was at least 4 taels of 5 taels of silver, plus the necessary profits, 6 taels of silver were needed.

It is the Ming weapons manufacturing workshop, the skills of each weapon building workshop are very different, to ensure quality, to reduce costs, the need for division of labor, the need for centralized large-scale production, centralized monitoring.

It is that the Ming weapon inspection method is backward, and in the past, gunpowder of the same measurement was often used, and it was enough to blow up the chamber. Repeated on the battlefield, the destructive power is far above the test level.

For example, in the process of testing the hardness of forged steel, and the construction of each riveted part is completed, it is necessary to carry out destructive tests, such as the application of two to three times the gunpowder.

After half a month of hard work, after figuring out the reason, it is now a matter of repairing the existing guns, reforging the barrels, knocking out half of the iron slag, and then beating other steel.

In the past half month, craftsmen and dozens of soldiers gathered around the blacksmith shop every day, flying sledgehammers, transforming three bird guns, loading half a catty of gunpowder, and continuously casting them without exploding.

With a firearm that doesn't explode, the rest is easy. Today, Yang Lin wants to bring a new concept, which is to ensure that the musketeer's loading action is standardized, that is, to ensure that the shooting speed is increased, and that to ensure how to accurately hit the target from a distance of 100 paces.

Everyone stood in detachments, Yang Lin took off the bird gun and quickly loaded the gunpowder and lead, loaded the piece of paper, tamped it and then loaded the gunpowder, and then aimed at the target 100 meters away and released the gun, so the third, although one hit the bull's-eye and the two guns were slightly offset, but the speed was much faster than in the past.

After the radiation was completed, Yang Lin stood in front of the queue again and said, "Brothers, to become a good musketeer, you must do three things, step by step, you can't learn to run without learning.

The first is to memorize the reloading formula, and at all times to ensure that the reloading action is standardized and accurate, and the gunpowder is in good condition, all of which must be assessed. In two fierce battles with the Turbulrs this year, I realized that even the best musketeers often lose their sights, forgetting this and forgetting that, resulting in no firing on the battlefield. To be a good musketeer, you need to make sure that you are properly reloaded at all times. ，

The second is shooting, three slow shots at a target of 100 paces, at least two accurate hits are required.

The third is fast fire, to ensure that the reloading action is accurate, after the slow fire reaches the standard, it is a rapid reloading and rapid shooting, and five guns are shot at the eighty-step target in the half-column incense kung fu, at least to ensure that the three guns are accurately hit.

Ladies and gentlemen, do you have the confidence to grow from a qualified bird player to a good bird player? ”

Everyone applauded loudly when they heard it, not to mention anything else, just saying that the military salary is also worth everyone's hard training, and the monthly salary of the soldier is 8 yuan of silver, which is equivalent to two loads of grain in the peaceful years, and now although the price of grain has risen, you can also buy a load of rice.

The three-month assessment salary was increased to 4 cents of silver, and after that, if you want to improve your salary, you can only improve your personal skills, or go into battle to kill the enemy. (Check "Chongzhen Record" Guanning Soldiers and Horses Moon 1 tael 5 yuan, and Mao Wenlongpi Island Soldiers and Horses are only 1 tael of silver)

There are six kinds of skills in the army, including physical fitness, shooting, hand-to-hand combat, throwing and building fortifications, etc., and the monthly salary for each standard will be increased by 5 points of silver, and the excellent will be increased by 1 yuan of silver.

Take the bird handler alone, the standard has been set, the physical fitness and shooting skills are up to standard, and the daily salary has increased from 3 cents of silver to 4 cents of silver (30 days, the monthly salary has increased from 9 cents of silver to 1 tael of 2 pieces of silver. ）

Skill assessment, two out of three can hit a target 100 steps away, for the excellent bird gunner, there is a technical allowance of 5 points of silver per month.

If you shoot five shots in a row and hit three shots in a row in the half-pillar incense kung fu, the monthly technical allowance will reach 1 yuan of silver.

If a person is excellent in shooting, hand-to-hand combat, throwing, building fortifications, etc., and has not been punished for violating military discipline in this month, then he has a technical allowance of 4 pieces of silver.

In addition to the skill allowance, there is also a meritorious service allowance, if you kill the enemy on the battlefield and make meritorious service, in addition to the normal reward, you can increase 1 yuan of silver per month.

In contrast to these, the most exciting job promotion for the officers and men, the army has expanded very rapidly this year, and many meritorious soldiers have been promoted, and the promotion of posts has brought about an increase in military salaries.

(In the Ming Dynasty, the average skilled worker's salary was about 3-5 cents, and it was only between 9 and 1 tael and 5 cents a month, while in many remote villages, the wage was low, and 1 tael of silver per month was still quite attractive.)

In addition to the regular salary, everyone is more talked about the technical allowance and meritorious service rewards, in order to obtain the allowance and reward, the weekday training is harder, and the combat is more courageous.

Even so, compared with the Hunan army in the nineteenth century, the Xianglu was not high, and the Hunan army of the Zeng State Domain implemented double salaries, and the military salary per person was 3 taels of silver, but because of inflation, the purchasing power of 2 taels of silver in the late Ming Dynasty was equivalent to 3 taels of silver in the nineteenth century.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, 1 tael of silver could buy 1 quintal of rice in Suzhou, but in the middle of the 19th century, at least 1 tael of 5 taels of silver was needed. ）

After that, Yang Lin turned around and ran to the third division of the Dragon Frame, and saw everyone practicing boxing from a distance, and after watching it, he suddenly drew a few people up to test his kung fu.

Yang Lin was born as a scholar, and he also practiced boxing, and occasionally went out hunting, but his fist and foot kung fu was only slightly stronger than ordinary people.

In order to show his prestige, of course Yang Lin will not test, and often comes forward by his own soldiers.

These are all from a practicing family, ordinary three or five people are not a problem, whoever wins will be rewarded, who will continue to practice if he fails, everyone will be rewarded for the reward, plus the young people who will not accept anyone, and they will fight very hard.

In addition to infantry training, that is, cavalry training, although there are only a dozen war horses now, although there is only one cavalry squad, as their riding skills become more and more sophisticated, the requirements for the following are getting higher and higher.

It is required not to slow down in the face of obstacles, and it is required that the saddle cannot be held with one hand when the arrow is released, and more than half of these more than ten riders are from the family of practitioners, and it is quite difficult to do this.

After the training, they start to eat, just like in the morning, that is, the squadron (general flag) that behaves well eats first, and the poor performers not only eat last, but also help with housekeeping while others are resting.

After the training was completed during the day, there was no rest at night, that is, the training summary was carried out first, and then the training plan for the next day was proposed by each squad (flag) squadron (flag) bureau, and finally it was to learn to sing military songs.

I slept until I was dazed, and I also did some emergency gathering every once in a while, often ringing the bell in the middle of the night for emergency gathering, so that everyone was forced to get up from the heat.