Lu Zhongqiu: "What is this?" ”

Shao Wei roared: "Report sir, it's my bird!" ”

"Soldier Shaowei, enter the ranks!"

"Yes, sir!"

……

In a few moments, thirty new muskets were fired.

The soldiers who can be the spear bearers are all active members of the training in the last half month. There are a hundred soldiers in the sixth team, one for three, and those who can be the spearmen have become real squad leaders.

Of course, with the speed of the factory's gun-making, it will be possible to get one gun per person in two months at most. However, seeing Shao Wei and the others holding a new musket in their hands, the others were still full of envy.

After reversing the gun, Lu Zhongqiu picked up the flintlock pistol in his hand and said loudly; "Alright, your birds have been sent down. But do you know what this big bird is made of and how it is used? ”

"Sir, don't know?" The crowd shouted at the same time.

"Nonsense, if you all know, what else do you want me to do?" Lu Zhongqiu pointed to the musket and said, "In general, a musket consists of three parts: the bolt machine, the handguard on the gun, and the barrel. Among them, the bolt part is the most important, and it must be oiled and maintained every day. The general paid a great deal of money to make it for a set of two taels of silver, which is worth more than your birds. ”

Hearing that this bolt was so valuable, some soldiers secretly stuck out their tongues.

"The bolt has four parts. striking iron, fixing and accelerating flints; the main spring, which provides power for the striking iron; buckle springs, steel bars struck by flints; The gunpowder pool, also known as the ignition pool, needs to place a small amount of gunpowder in it when the gun is fired. The sparks from the flint ignite the gunpowder in the pot, and then use the gunpowder to light the sub-powder in the chamber. Do you understand? ”

"I understand everything!" Everyone roared.

After saying this, Lu Zhongqiu began to explain to everyone how to maintain the bolt. He was originally a musketeer in the Ming Dynasty, and he was no stranger to the maintenance of bird guns.

In general, the maintenance of the bolt is nothing more than "anti-embroidery", and the parts of the flintlock pistol are mostly made of wrought iron and a small amount of steel. Ningxiang is located in the Jiangnan region, the climate is humid, and the maintenance of firearms cannot be sloppy.

The other parts are fine, but if the two springs rust and lose their elasticity, the gun will become scrap.

Therefore, firearms must be maintained every day. Maintenance is also simple, except that all parts must be wiped with a cotton cloth first, and then oiled. The key is to form systems and habits, and not to be sloppy.

After two months of training in the barracks, after the recruit period, the rules of the barracks have become deeply rooted in the marrow of everyone's bones and have become a subconscious behavior. Since the regulations stipulate that firearms must be maintained every day, everyone just does it.

After talking about how to maintain firearms, Lu Zhongqiu talked about the regulations on the use of firearms. For example, when walking with a gun, the gun must be carried on the shoulder, and the muzzle of the gun cannot be pointed at the comrade; For example, when resting during the march, all the guns of all people must be folded and racked together; When returning to the dormitory to sleep, the firearm must be placed upright on the gun rack according to the number. When I went out in the morning to get the guns, I had to come one by one according to the number, and I couldn't rush up and squeeze into a ball.

Violation of the law will be severely punished by military regulations.

Speaking of punishment, when Chen Tieshan was a military judge at the beginning, he still used the Ming Dynasty border army, once a soldier violated discipline, it was a whip and a military stick.

Soldiers are often beaten all over their bodies when they are tortured, and there have been cases where they have been beaten and discarded.

As a modern person, Sun Yuan is more disgusted with this matter, these soldiers have finally been trained by themselves, if they are beaten, it will be a pity. Besides, harsh punishment may not necessarily lead to good results. In modern society, it seems that there is no country that tortures soldiers, is it not the same as strict discipline?

As a result, the military eliminated the criminal law from the punishment of soldiers who violated military discipline and changed it to such things as running laps, standing upright, and push-ups, which had the same good effect.

Among them, the most frightening thing for the soldier who violated discipline was the whole team meeting, where the comrades were asked to point out the damage to the team's collective honor caused by his mistakes, and then admit their mistakes.

When this kind of criticism and self-criticism is simply touching the soul, it is not uncommon for soldiers who violate military discipline to be made weeping bitterly by such criticism, and at this time, they are even more willing to be severely beaten by military judges.

After the lecture on the regulations governing firearms, it was time to teach the soldiers the actual tactics of handling guns.

In general, because of the technical reasons of range and accuracy, the musket tactics of this era are, to put it bluntly, a large number of musketeers form a phalanx, listen to the orders of the officers, and shoot the ammunition in their hands at the enemy who rushes at the same time, forming a dense barrage in front of the formation.

As Cui Blacksmith said, the maximum range of the musket in the hands of the Ningxiang Army was only one hundred and twenty meters. Moreover, because the science and technology of this era are very backward, it is not possible to carve double lines in the gun officer. The biggest problem with a smoothbore gun is that after the lead is ejected, no one knows where it will fly.

There is a saying in the West to the effect that a musketeer may be able to fire at an enemy who is ten meters away from him. But as long as the enemy is twenty meters away from you, you can only rely on the blind. If the enemy is thirty meters away from you, you don't want to hit the enemy as accurately as you have the chance of hitting the moon.

Because of this, when Sun Yuan watched Hollywood Civil War movies in the United States in his previous life, he often saw the protagonists rushing to the front of the enemy so close that they could touch the enemy's Mimi, but after a row of guns, the protagonist was still unscathed.

It is precisely because the accuracy of muskets in these years is really unreliable, so, whether it is in the West or the East, the tactics of musketeers are, to put it bluntly, to weave a net of fire in front of the battle.

Fei Hong and other former border army officers are no strangers to this, and they also know what to do, how to organize formations, or three-stage setups, and they are all very familiar with it, and there is no difference from European contemporaries.

But the question arises again, if there is no problem in the tactics of war, why is the musketeer just an ornament after the battlefield, and it does not play any role at all?

Discipline, or discipline.

According to Sun Yuan's understanding, the discipline of the Ming army was so bad that before the enemy could enter the firing range, the soldiers opened fire in a disorderly manner. By the time he tried to refill the medicine, the enemy had already pounced on him.

Once the musketeers are charged into battle by the enemy, they are human swordsmen, and I am fish and meat. The only thing you can do to avoid being killed like a chicken is to throw away the musket that has turned into a burning stick in your hand, turn around, and run away.

Because of this, Sun Yuan conducted a two-month queue training for the soldiers, and formulated detailed military discipline and military returns. In order to make the word obedience penetrate into the bone marrow of the soldiers and become a subconscious behavior.

Now that the recruit period has passed, it is time for tactical training.

For this tactical training, Sun Yue also came up with a detailed outline: first of all, let the soldiers learn how to load ammunition. The speed of reloading is related to the pace of firepower delivery on the battlefield. As far as he had experimented, the new flintlock pistol was loaded, and even for a veteran, it was quite good to be able to shoot two shots a minute. If you are a novice, you may not be able to fire a shot in two or three minutes because of fear. The art of war is cloudy, and there are only three shots against the enemy. At such a speed, the consequences of encountering the enemy's cavalry are unimaginable.

To this end, Sun Yuan deliberately broke down the loading of ammunition into four movements, and asked the soldiers to practice it repeatedly until it became an instinct like a conditioned reflex.

Secondly, it is for soldiers to learn to load ammunition in anti-jamming conditions. There is still a difference between training on weekdays and actual combat, some people train well, but when they go to the battlefield, they can't do anything because they are afraid.

Finally, there is the formation training.

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Lu Zhongqiu shouted: "Everyone listen, sit down!" ”

Since the beginning of autumn, it has been rainy for more than ten days. The large campus has been trampled by thousands of people all day long, and has rotted into a vegetable garden.

"Whoa!" With a bang, a hundred soldiers of the sixth team sat down cross-legged at the same time, and there was a splash of dirt on Shao Wei's face.

Shao Wei hesitated slightly, but still sat down.

The cold water soaked into the pants from under the buttocks, and not only the buttocks, but also the birds were frozen so that they were about to retract into their stomachs.

Touching the gun in his hand, he suddenly remembered what Lu Zhongqiu said when he gave him a gun, "This is not a gun, it's your bird", and a smile appeared on his face. But seeing Lu Zhongqiu's sharp eyes, he immediately changed to a solemn expression.

It was already the end of September, and more than 1,000 muskets had been manufactured, and it was already possible to shoot one gun per person.

And he Shaowei was also promoted to a small banner because of his active and hard training in the past two months, with ten soldiers in hand. It's also a low-level officer of the Thousand Households.

"Musket reloading, in general, is divided into six steps!" On the field, Lu Zhongqiu stood in front of the soldiers with a musket and said loudly: "First of all, buckle the striking iron to a half-fired state." ”

"Buckle the strike iron to half firing!" The other soldiers roared at the same time.

"Second, take out the paper packet, bite the tail, and pour a part of the gunpowder into the medicine pool."

"Take out the paper packet, bite the tail, and pour part of the gunpowder into the medicine pool."

"Third, stuff the paper bag from the broken part like the barrel of a gun, and pull out the through."

"Stuff the paper bag from the broken part like the barrel of a gun, and pull out the whole strip."

"Fourth, compact the bullet and put it back into the strip."

"Compact the bullet and put it back in the bar."

"Fifth, buckle the strike iron to the full firing position."

……“

Sixth, shoot! ”

……

Every time Lu Zhongqiu shouted, the soldiers followed suit.

This has been the case every day for two months, and it is already a necessary lesson for the start of training.

Looking at the other teams in the field, they also sat in the mud, and at the same time straightened their necks and yelled.

This starts, and when the live firing begins, each soldier must follow the orders of the officers and complete each step when the shooting is fired. No one is allowed to move without an order. Otherwise, you will wait for three hundred push-ups, wait for the four laps to run, and wait for the night to be criticized by your comrades-in-arms!

……

"Shoot!"

"Bang!" A row of muskets rang out, and large clouds of white smoke filled the air.

The boundless cold autumn rain also seemed to be stained milky white by the smoke of gunpowder, and it was contaminated with the murderous aura of the medicine and the military camp.