Emperor Chongzhen left Beijing for such a trip, it was not a waste of time, when he was in the palace, many things could not be sorted out.

For example, the status of this Baiye City mining camp is a bit not embarrassing.

In terms of their training methods, equipment level, and combat ability, they are on a par with the First Town of the Guards.

Because they were recruited, trained, and formed almost at the same time.

In this regard, they can be regarded as one of the new armies that Emperor Chongzhen ordered to train after he succeeded to the throne.

However, in terms of their affiliation, they do not belong to the sequence of the Guards.

At the same time, the left-behind contingent of the mine battalion, which now belongs directly to the Yamen of the Baiye City Engineering Department, does not belong to the sequence of the border army, nor does it belong to the sequence of the internal guard army, that is, the army of the inland capital guard, and of course, it is even less likely to belong to the sequence of the navy.

When the Governor's Office of the Five Armies was restructured and reorganized, Niu Juming, a staff member of the Ministry of War, proposed that it be included in the establishment sequence of the Reserve Army Governor's Office.

Such an arrangement of the imperial court made Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and the director of the Ministry of Industry of Bai Yecheng very satisfied.

Because the mine camp is incorporated into the sequence of any other governor's office, they will lose command of the mine camp in Baiye City.

Only when it was incorporated into the Governor's Office of the Reserve Army, the Ministry of Industry and the Baiyecheng Branch of the Ministry of Industry could continue to command this mining battalion team in the name of justice.

Because the team under the command of the Governor's Office of the Reserve Army can only be regarded as a semi-official and semi-civilian army, not a regular army of the imperial court.

However, in this way, the generals and officers of the Baiye City Mining Camp were secretly dissatisfied.

Because the training and equipment level of the Baiyecheng Mining Battalion is by no means comparable to the training of ordinary township warrior regiments, even if it is directly incorporated into the Guards sequence, it is also qualified.

However, Li Banghua, who single-handedly selected and trained the establishment of the Baiyecheng Mining Battalion, continued to supervise and suppress thieves in the northwest region, and did not care about the reorganization of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies at the end of the Beijing Division.

As for the ownership of the Baiye City Mining Camp, he was even more unable to speak.

In this way, the two battalions of the mine battalion left behind in Baiye City were full of 2,000 people, and after the establishment of the Reserve Army Governor's Office, they reluctantly became the local regimental training team of Baiye City.

Although the affiliation of this team to the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Industry of Baiye City did not change, its status as one of the new armies of the imperial court was lost.

After being included in the reserve army sequence, their equipment, treatment, and promotion of generals and officers were all affected, which was equivalent to completely becoming a civilian armed force directly under the Ministry of Industry.

This is a bit similar to the original Changping Battalion, and now with Wu Guojun, the chief soldier of the Changping Battalion, it has become a building construction team directly under the Ministry of War.

There was no chance of going into battle at all, and all the work I did all day and night was all civil construction tasks such as building bridges and paving roads, castle buildings, etc., and almost all of them assumed the responsibilities of the soldiers and civilians in the past.

Such a "fate" is not what Liu Mu, a martial artist who entered the mine camp with great ambitions, and Liu Mu's deputy Qiu Yue and others are happy to see!

Therefore, this time Emperor Chongzhen came to Baiye City, it was a rare opportunity for people like Liu Mu and Qiu Yue to show their faces, and for the two thousand mine battalion soldiers who stayed in the area of Baiye City, it was an opportunity to change their fate!

Now, all the people in the mining camp of Baiye City, from Song Yingsheng, Liu Mu, and Qiu Yue to the civil and military generals, are all in high spirits waiting for the emperor's arrival.

And this is precisely the reason why Emperor Chongzhen quickly noticed their team after entering this empty shooting range.

Their square, horizontal and vertical queue, under the gray sky, in the whirring wind, were like a hard and heavy rock, firmly nailed to the middle of the shooting range.

Their efforts were not in vain, because Emperor Chongzhen saw it.

Listening to the report of Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the team from a distance, and as soon as Bi Maokang's words ended, Emperor Chongzhen immediately turned his head and said to Sun Chengzong, the minister of military aircraft next to him:

"The mining camp team in the center of the shooting range, what does Sun Aiqing think?"

Sun Chengzong was also the first time to come back to this shooting range in Baiye City, but as soon as he entered the gate, he had already noticed the mining camp on the shooting range before he walked down the steps.

At this time, after listening to the emperor's question, Sun Chengzong nodded, bowed down and said, "Without a battle formation, it is really difficult to judge!" However, the old minister looks at his army as strict and neat, presumably well-trained, and his queue is not moving like a mountain, presumably the military discipline is senran!

"Now that the army is disciplined and well-trained, it is not far from becoming a strong army, maybe only one battle away!"

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he also nodded and said, "Let's take a look, see how they behave this time!" ”

Sun Chengzong is a cabinet veteran and minister of military aircraft, and of course he knows about the existence of the Baiyecheng Mining Battalion.

Including this team is now incorporated into the reserve army capital governor's mansion sequence, from the new army that the imperial court spent a lot of money to train at the beginning, it has been reduced to a civilian regimental training subordinate to the Ministry of Industry of Baiye City, he also knows.

It's just that I haven't seen this team before, and I don't think so, but now when I look at it like this, I know that this team is different.

However, right now, in front of Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, he can't say anything more, but he really heard the emperor's brainless words, and he naturally understood the meaning, and only felt that Emperor Chongzhen in front of him was indeed getting more and more urban.

Sun Chengzong was thinking about it, and he heard the emperor say to Bi Maokang and Sun Yuanhua: "Bi Aiqing, Sun Aiqing, the test launch and drill you arranged can begin!" ”

Bi Maokang and Sun Yuanhua listened to the emperor's words, and immediately bowed down to receive the order, and the two discussed a few words in a whisper, and then arranged for the entourage to pass the order.

Soon, Emperor Chongzhen stood on this review stand, and saw a brick and stone tower waving the flag from a distance.

Immediately afterwards, as the command orders of the general of the mine battalion were passed down continuously, the soldiers of the mine battalion, who had originally gathered in one place and were as immobile as a mountain, moved like a rabbit and acted quickly.

A squad of ten people quickly got up, turned, and then ran in a scattering pattern towards the target trench in the distance.

Another team of ten people immediately got up, turned, and after quickly aligning the whole team, each person took a few steps apart, facing the target in the distance.

After that, the third ten-man squad came out of the ranks, followed Shangguan's order, first received the new musket and ammunition bag for trial, and then quickly stepped forward and handed it over to the test gunners who had already stood in the position.

After making these preparations, the auxiliaries did not evacuate, but staggered and stepped forward, then turned and stood behind the test gunner.

And then there's the reload password.

Seeing this, Emperor Chongzhen looked sideways at Bi Maokang and Sun Yuanhua, and nodded at them.

Because he had understood that these seemingly useless stylized preparations were all aimed at ensuring the safety of him, the emperor, during the test firing of muskets at the shooting range.

Just when Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about these trivial arrangements in his heart, the order to "fire" had already sounded in the array in the distance under the review stage!

"Bang Bang ......"

The explosions of the flintlock muskets were heard one after another, and the white smoke formed by the firing of the muskets and the burning of gunpowder was immediately blown away by the wind.

Some white smoke was blown near the review stand, and the smell of gunpowder wafted through the air.

Emperor Chongzhen took a deep breath of air containing gunsmoke, then spit it out for a long time, turned his head and said to Cao Bianjiao, Zu Keyong, Hou Tianxi and others who were standing behind him:

"Go! A few of you go check all the targets, go see how many projectiles hit the target, and how many misses!

"By the way, also measure the distance between the musketeers of the mine camp and the target trench, and see how many steps are separated in between, and whether there is a long range of light arrows from the Dongyu Infantry Bow!"

These attendants and military attachés who had been in front of the emperor for a long time all knew what the emperor meant by this, so when they heard this, they immediately bowed down to receive the order and walked away quickly.

Although Cao Bianjiao, Zu Keyong, and Hou Tianxi are young, with an average of only their early twenties, they are all veterans of the battlefield.

Among them, Cao Bianjiao and Zu Keyong both served in the Liaodong Army and knew very well the range of the Dongyu infantry bow and light arrows.

The Foot Bow was larger and more powerful than its Riding Bow, and the Foot Bow often used heavy arrows and could reach a range of one hundred and forty or fifty paces.

According to the algorithm of later generations, the range of heavy arrows used in the Dongyu Infantry Bow can reach about 130 meters.

And if Dongyu's infantry bow uses light arrows, its range is even farther, up to about 180 meters.

The distance of one hundred and eighty meters is about one hundred and eighty steps for a tall person with long legs.

Compared with ordinary people of average height, the distance of 180 meters is 200 steps away.

The range that a bow and arrow can reach is of course a very amazing distance!

And this is why, although the Ming army in history has been equipped with a large number of firearms, it is still not the opponent of the Jurchen Eight Banners army of the Later Jin State.

Because the firearms of the Ming army at that time, whether it was an arquebus or a three-eyed gun, could not reach such an effective range at all.

The so-called magic spear, which was equipped with the largest number of weapons in the Ming army, had a maximum range of only 80 meters equivalent to that of later generations.

Calculating the range of Ming firearms, plus firearms such as arquebuses, three-eyed guns, and sharpshooters, they are relatively backward, troublesome to load, and the rate of fire is too slow.

Therefore, in the face of the Jurchen Eight Banners, most of the Ming troops equipped with various firearms were simply unable to fight.

On the contrary, like the stone pillar white pole soldiers and the Guangxi wolf soldiers, which are only equipped with special refrigeration weapons, Tusi private soldiers can exert a certain combat effectiveness when facing the Jurchens.