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The snow was all over the ground, reflecting crystal in the sun, in the snow, a few birds seemed to be foraging, suddenly, as if startled by something, the birds in the sky fluttered their wings and swept across the sky, just at the moment when the birds flew up, there was a sound of breaking the air in the air, and the next moment, the snow on the ground and the mud were suddenly exploded, and a piece of dirt that was blown off from under the snow brought out pieces of black dirt in that white. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The splashing snow did not stop because of this, but several pieces of snow in succession, like a drift on the water, looking at the splashed snow hundreds of meters away from the telescope, Zhu Yifeng nodded with satisfaction, compared to the training of other gunners, it was quite good.

Indeed, after all, for those sailors on the ship, whether they can operate the cannon or not is directly related to their lives - on the sea, there will always be all kinds of pirates, but no matter what kind of pirates, killing people and stealing goods is their business, for their own lives, the captains always seem to force the sailors on the ship to practice gunnery.

This is what the sailors of this era must master, and now, the sailors on the ship are training the gunners of the "Huangzhou Righteous Army" just like the captains trained them. Although the Pacific arrived in Huangzhou, it did not bring more artillery to Huangzhou - except for the eight guns on board, it only carried four 9-pounder guns that were originally used to buy roads.

However, despite this, Zhu Yifeng still used a 32-pounder gun to replace the 12-pounder guns on the ship, compared to the 32-pounder caron cannon, perhaps the 12-pounder cannon is less powerful, but its weight is relatively light, not only that, but even the four earthen cannons captured from the Jiang family Chu Yong are at most equal to four pounder, they are also left behind and installed on Western-style gun mounts.

"5 degree angle!"

As soon as the gun commander's voice fell, the gunner at the muzzle stuffed the gun ruler into the barrel, and the gunner, who was squatting next to the gun mount, immediately twisted the bolt under the gun tail and adjusted the height by lowering the height of the bolt.

As the tail of the gun was lowered, the lead sinker hanging from the wooden ruler with the muzzle of the gun moved slightly, and when it moved to a 5-degree angle, someone shouted.

"Five degrees of shooting!"

"Directions ahead!"

In the sound of the command, the gunners looked very serious, their movements were extremely stiff, and a few sailors on the side carried bamboo sticks, although they did not understand the language, but at this time, all they needed was to teach these gunners how to operate the guns by rote memorization.

Just as the position of the seven gunners and their respective tasks need to be memorized by the gunners, and even in order to train these gunners well, the foreign instructors deliberately sewed numbers on their clothes, of course, not Arabic numerals.

"Everyone, please note that when the gunner gives the order to "load", the first stands in front of the muzzle with the pass in hand, the sixth and seventh give the fused shell to the five, the fifth to the two, the second stuffs the shell into the muzzle, the first stabs the shell to the bottom of the chamber with the through bar, and the third must always block the fire door with his thumb when cleaning and loading, attention, the third hand, what should you pay attention to? ”

"A holster on the thumb prevents air from entering the chamber of the cannon and igniting the remaining gunpowder."

In the third trumpet's answer, Zhu Yifeng nodded with satisfaction,

“…… Then the gunner, with the assistance of No. 3, adjusted the angle of elevation and direction of the gun. ”

Military training is all about making them instinctive through constant repetition, and in the last ten days, these operating gunners have repeated the movements thousands of times, and although their movements now seem stiff, they have memorized them, and eventually, in the instructor's sticks and constant repetition, it all becomes their instinct.

Of course, not all gunners had cannons -- after all, there were only 22 guns of different calibers and sizes in the entire Huangzhou Rebel Army, but in order to train the gunners, according to Zhu Yifeng's instructions, they "manufactured" 60 cannons, to be precise, wooden gun mounts, and the gun carriage was a 12-pounder gun mount, but the cannon barrel was only a wooden wooden barrel, but it was enough for them to conduct simulated training.

This is the same as the infantry there trained with wooden guns, and although the "Pacific" now brought nearly 4,000 rifles, which, like artillery, were originally intended to be used to bribe the Taiping army if necessary, but now all of them have become the weapons of the Huangzhou rebels, that is, these weapons. So that Zhu Yifeng was able to calmly organize the 20,000-strong rebel army into six regiments.

Of course, not every individual of these six 3,000-strong infantry regiments has muskets, but it has a battalion that uses muskets completely, and as for the other two battalions, each battalion guarantees an infantry company that uses muskets, and each battalion has a four-gun artillery company, of course, the artillery is still on paper, and even the current sixth regiment has only two guns in total.

However, this kind of mixed organization of hot and cold weapons is the result of Zhu Yifeng's military training during this period of time -- this also means that the Huangzhou Volunteer Army has completely shaken off the battalion system of the old-style army in terms of establishment, and has been on par with the modern army in terms of establishment. Of course, his officers were still not very qualified, and many of the so-called officers had only a few days of simple training in the so-called "camp academy" - learning how to master the queue and use foreign guns.

"When I turn around, I will pull a few real instructors from abroad anyway!"

Thinking that those sailors could not help him train officers, Zhu Yifeng muttered to himself, but with the help of those foreign sailors, it was better than groping around so blindly! At least with their help, the current ranks of the rebels are becoming more and more like that.

As the sun slowly set toward the horizon, as the setting sun stained the sky red, on the snow that had begun to melt, a group of soldiers walked side by side to the rhythm of the command, which had been almost their only training for the past days and nights.

Dozens of squares of 20,000 soldiers marched on the snowy plains in unison or messy formations, each with one or two standard-bearers in the middle, sometimes adjusting the direction of action according to the change of orders, or changing from horizontal to column, sometimes to opposing cavalry.

Thinking of the Huai Army in another plane, it was with this kind of training that the Taiping Army and the Twist Army were defeated. Although they have this and that kind of shortcomings, they still seem to be a little similar to the current Huangzhou Righteous Army, after all, neither of them has qualified new-style officers, and both rely on a group of "foreign adventurers" to practice foreign exercises.

"Fortunately, everything is just beginning now, and when officers are hired from abroad in the future, a military academy will be set up at that time......."

When the time comes, who in this big China will be able to stop their own "Huangzhou Righteous Army".

"But this Huangzhou rebel army sounds too stingy, and when Wuchang is defeated, it's almost time to light up the flag......"

Thinking in his heart, Zhu Yifeng's gaze couldn't help but look in the direction of Wuchang.

As long as Wuchang is laid......

"Dashuai, the news from Wuchang says that Zhang Liangji, the governor of Huguang, has arrived in Wuchang with two thousand Xiangyong!"

At this moment, the news brought by Lin Zhiping made Zhu Yifeng's eyebrows raise slightly.

"Zhang Liangji has arrived? Two thousand Xiangyong? Isn't there more than 10,000 defenders in Wuchang? ”

At the beginning, Zhu Yifeng did not attach importance to intelligence collection work, but after experiencing Chu Yong's forced city, he immediately began to build an intelligence network, of course, now this intelligence network is still very primitive, but only sent a few people to Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang and other places to collect information on the Qing army.

"But no, Dashuai, if it drags on any longer, I'm afraid there will be a lot of dreams at night!"

Listening to Lin Zhiping's suggestion, Zhu Yifeng glanced at those soldiers who had only been trained for only one month, thought for a moment, and then said.

"Well, it's almost, Jiang Zhongyuan's head, let him hold on for so many days, it's already worthy of him! Over there, we can't let the person surnamed Yang wait! ”

"But, Marshal, there are more than 10,000 defenders in this Wuchang City, if you want to attack the city, I'm afraid you need to have a good strategy......"

Although it was Lin Zhiping who proposed the siege of the city first, he also knew that the method of using troops in the Art of War of Sun Tzu was to surround it with ten, attack it with five, and divide it by multiplication. Now there are 10,000 Qing troops in Wuchang.

"Strategy,"

After a pause, Zhu Yifeng said with a smile.

"This naturally requires a good strategy!"