"It's almost in range."

Feng Kaizhang smiled on his face, turned his head to look at Li Gong, and said with a smile: "Li Shuai, I really can't imagine that Cao Qing has any other way to save the situation." ”

Li Gong smiled back and said, "Wait and see." ”

"Huh? What else do you have to do with a killer feature? ”

Although it is a competition, the commanders of these towns in front of him are all old friends and old relations, and under the scale of tens of thousands of people, Zhu Cihong does not plan to engage in any big and small system, and make any different opinions.

What matters now is unity, close unity.

With only a few tens of thousands of people, the unity of the generals is more beneficial to the overall situation. In the future, when the spread is larger, it will never be possible for a group of close-knit generals to divide the army.

There is no way to do this.

Now Zhang Quanbin's musketeers are intact, basically no losses, and this time the battalion battle is set to have no artillery support on both sides, that is to say, although Zhang Quanbin does not have a large number of artillery suppressive firepower here to expand the results, but if Cao Qing wants to turn the tables, the only possible variable - artillery, has also been ruled out.

In the eyes of Feng Kaizhang and many people, the bottom is waiting for the results to be calculated.

In order to make all the town co-standard battalions pay attention to the exercise, the results of the drill will also be recorded, although it is not comparable to the real combat exploits, but if they win many battles in the exercise, the officers can also show their own level, and the promotion is close at hand.

Recently, Li Gong's Huben Town was officially the main town, plus Wei Yue's Xiaoqi Town, Feng Kaizhang's Yulin Town, and the three towns have been basically established.

Wei Yue's left association is Wang Yuan, and the right association is a general of the original Tianjin Fubiao, and the number of Li Gong and Feng Kaizhang's two towns is much smaller than that of Xiaoqi Town, but the first association and the two standards have not yet been appointed.

If Zhang Quanbin and Cao Qing can perform well through the drill, it will be a qualitative leap from the battalion officer to the standard commander.

When it comes to the standard system, it is to carry the silver star on the shoulder, and in the Pingyu army system, this is the threshold for officially entering the general level.

What guerrilla generals in the Ming Army, staff generals and adjutant generals and many other generals are only externally, internally from the shed commander to the team officer, the battalion commander, the battalion deputy gang commander, the standard commander, the deputy standard commander, and then to the co-commander, the general town, level by level, and these positions correspond to only those cards and stars on the shoulders.

The transition from Bronze to Silver is just the beginning, and the Venus set on the shoulders of the town is the ultimate goal of every soldier of the Pacification Army.

A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, of course Zhu Cihong won't say that, but he has always encouraged all the soldiers of the Pingyu Army.

In his place, there is no family of generals, and there is no son of a family who was born as a commander and can be a thousand general garrisons when he arrives in the camp. Here, there is only meritorious service and real progress with military merits.

When the Pingyu Army was first established, in addition to the more than 200 teams brought out from the East Palace, there were also people from Tianjin Fubiao, as well as outstanding officers selected by Liu Zeqing's embers and Huaiyang Town.

The total number of people is less than 500, and now it is a powerful military town that has brought out more than 40,000 people, and more than 60,000 people including all the long-term husbands.

All the officers started from the bottom, Wei Yue was just an unambitious commander a year ago, and the two battalion officers with the rank of general in front of him were just the most ordinary military attachés before that, with no serious grades and no good grades, and they didn't even have a bronze and wood number plate on their bodies.

In addition to these old people, there are also a lot of heroes in the Pingyu army, the land of Xu Huai was originally a place to produce strong soldiers, the Beifu soldiers of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the Xuzhou soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are all famous and strongest in the world, and at this time in the Ming Dynasty, the entire Jiangbei is still very strong in terms of people's customs, and it is not surprising that a group of officers or sergeants can lead soldiers, subdue people, and learn to enter the culture of these tens of thousands of people.

............ "Shield! ”

As the heavily armored pikemen approached within a hundred and fifty paces, there was a loud shout, followed by dozens of long shouts, and the heavy pikemen shouted in unison, and in the middle of the procession, the most angry man in each column immediately raised his shield more than a man high.

"Isn't it?"

Feng Kaizhang couldn't cry or laugh a little, turned his head to Li Gong and said: "A hundred steps away, as soon as the medicine comes out, the projectile is enough to hurt people, even if it doesn't break the armor, it can also be seriously injured." Within 100 to 50 steps, no amount of fine steel armor can stop the projectile, and the middle one will die, like an iron blow, the chest and abdomen will be tattered, and even the person will be discounted at the waist...... What do you do with a wooden shield? ”

Zhu Cihong also shook his head slightly, and the corners of his mouth also showed a smile.

These heavy armor soldiers are double armor, the lightest one is also thirty pounds of iron armor, well-built, but heavy at the same time and the vital points of the body are protected, and the outside is covered with a cloth cotton armor, the original iron armor is enough, and later because of the repeated losses on the fire, several battalions playing the Qing army side are very depressed, and then brainstorming, so it was decided to add another layer of cotton armor.

In this way, the lethality of guns and bullets has indeed been reduced a lot, and many of the Qing troops are indeed wearing double armor.

Especially the white-armored soldiers, these animals are almost all double-armoured.

But nothing helps!

The guns of the Pingyu Army are not those shoddy things used by the original Ming army, each gun uses more than 20 catties of fine iron, from the gun pipe to each accessory is carefully crafted by craftsmen, the weight standard of each gun is the same, and even the wooden cork at the mouth of the gun is the same.

With fixed gunpowder and standard bullets, the training degree of musketeers is extremely cumbersome and complicated, but a large number of qualified musketeers have also been successfully trained.

At the very least, it is unlikely that the Ming army's musketeers would practice their formations and marches with shells under the fire, and fire their guns under a hail of bullets...... Not to mention anything else, one or two out of every ten arrows of the archers of the Qing army during the training were real arrows, and even if there was armor and stomach protection, it was inevitable that there would be deaths and injuries caused by accidents during training.

After all, it is a training of tens of thousands of people, and the battalion phalanx training is only medium in scale and intensity, like the mobilization of several battalions, including the cavalry battalion and the artillery battalion, there are also regular training, and there are also equal numbers of casualties.

Of course, this is very inhumane, but the military has never been a humane place.

Putting on the double armor, it does increase the chance of survival between 100 and 50 steps, but it is only limited to this, the casualties are also very serious, and at fifty or sixty paces away, each gun is still enough to spurt blood from the mouth and nose of the person, and the entire internal organs are beaten like a mess of rotten meat.

It's not impossible to be unlucky and be beaten in two by a heavy fire gun of more than 20 catties!

Shuangjia is not a top matter, holding a wooden shield is a joke, a pure iron shield is the top thing, but a person can wear dozens of pounds of heavy armor, in his hand is a weapon of ten pounds, and in his hand he holds a fine iron shield at least thirty pounds away...... There may be such a person, and Wang Yuan can do it, but in the whole army, Wang is just such a madman.

In the face of ridicule and questions, Li Gong just smiled.

Seeing him like this, the people present were a little puzzled, and the people from the Military Administration Department who were supervising the scene also stepped forward together and began to inspect the shield.

Then there was a fire gun hand down, less than a hundred paces apart, the shield was erected, fire test firing, this time it was a real gun, after the shot, the people of the military and political department came forward to inspect.

Seeing that the training ground was busy, Feng Kaizhang and the others also looked solemn. At this time, Li Gong smiled and said: "Dongyu is not a fool, he can find out our bottom after a few fights, and he will change accordingly." You see, the people from the Military and Political Department spoke. ”

Sure enough, the people from the Military Administration Department who inspected the field were also full of smiles, and after the inspection, they waved small flags to signal that most of the heavily armored spearmen could continue to move forward.

In front of the entire pikeman's formation was an iron wall of shields, advancing like a wall, blocking most of the fire of the opposing musketeers, and if it continued like this, the rest would be white-knuckle combat.

In terms of the current battle losses of both sides, the main force of Cao Qing's battalion's pikemen is still there, and although the Zhang Quanbin battalion on the opposite side has suffered smaller losses, it is judged by the difference between the cold weapons of the Pingyu army and the Qing army, and this time Zhang Quanbin's battalion is likely to lose.

The two sides fought back and forth, even if it was a miserable victory, Cao Qingying, who represented the Qing army, never had a chance.

These two battalions are also the best existence in both camps, no matter which side they represent, they are almost all victorious, and now the two battalions are facing each other, and they have also played a textbook-like effect, not only all the Ming generals present are amazed, that is, they have always been above the top, with the full arrogance of the Taixi officers at that time, and they are also very admired by the Chinese colleagues in front of them.

But after all, Zhang Quanbin has better firearms here, and the artillery is much stronger than Cao Qing, so it has always been Cao Qing who lost and Zhang Quanbin won, and Zhang Quanbin was extremely advantageous at the beginning of today, but now the situation suddenly reversed, and everyone present changed color on their faces.

"Hell!"

Although Gordon's position is low, he is also qualified to observe such a drill, after all, he is a Spanish officer, and the phalanx in front of him is what he and his colleagues have worked hard to help him train, as soon as he sees that Zhang Quanbin, whom he admires very much, is also about to be defeated, and it is about the honor of his motherland, this colored officer immediately became anxious.

Spat first, Gordon yelled, "How can that damn shield hold the fire at bay? ”

"There's nothing strange about it." Li Gong was very wary of the Semu people, and his heart would be different if he was not of my race, but at this time he still replied coldly: "The raw cowhide is wrapped in cotton, iron nets, and silk. ”

"My God......" Gordon can only spread his hands to show his helplessness.

Whether it is a quilt or silk, a fire-blocking gun dozens of steps away is of course a sharp weapon, which can minimize the damage. At that time, the Qing army was attacking the city, and for the sake of fire weapons and bows and arrows, they would indeed think of such a method.

Zhu Cihong also smiled and nodded, no matter what the result of the drill was, the army in front of him, from top to bottom, was indeed growing rapidly.

At this time, victory or defeat no longer matters, this army has been formed, groping and growing on its own, and looking north, what is the old brother surnamed Li busy with at this time?

As for the Qing court, how will they deal with such a big movement on their side?

This scene is very lively, the prologue is opened, and the main drama can finally begin.

And with the army in front of him, he finally doesn't have to repeat the mistake of fleeing from Yanjing, but can intervene in it and sow the situation!

(To be continued)