"The first team has it!"

"Turn left!"

"Get into the firing position! March! ”

Outside Chongming County, at the shooting range of the new army, the recruits who had just been conscripted lined up and entered the firing position in turn under the command of the commander.

"Reload your ammo!"

Listening to the commander's command, the recruits took out the ammunition from the armed belt, erected the Enfield P1842 firing front-loading smoothbore gun in their hands, clamped it between their legs, and then poured the powder from the paper barrel into the chamber, tamped it with a strip, and then put a .557-inch lead bullet into the muzzle, and also tamped it with a strip.

Of course, although the P1842 musket looks like a standard equipment in its name, in fact, each musket is made by hand, although the specification is .557 inches caliber, but because the lathe accuracy of this era is not high, each barrel cannot guarantee its accuracy, some are greater than .557 inches, and some are smaller than this size. In this way, each musket must be equipped with an independent bullet maker, and the person who uses the musket needs to make the bullet himself, and cannot use the bullet made by others, otherwise it is easy to jam the bullet.

When the recruits had finished loading their guns and bullets, the commander gave the order again.

"Reload the Fire Cap!"

The fire cap is the key symbol of the firing musket, which is much better than the flintlock pistol, and the fire cap replaces the guiding gunpowder and flint device, which greatly improves the practicality of the battlefield and belongs to the revolutionary invention of the musket.

I saw the recruits move the hammer out of the way and carefully place the fire cap into the primer hole under the hammer.

It takes about half a minute to a minute for a recruit to complete the whole process from loading the propellant and warhead to installing the fire cap, and a good musketeer can complete it about three times in a minute, which is already the limit of the musket era.

In Li Weiguo's army, veterans are probably able to fire twice a minute, and there are also soldiers who can fire three times a minute, but the proportion is very small.

"Raise your gun!"

"Ready!"

"Shoot!"

As the commander gave the order, the group of recruits raised their guns, took aim, and then fired.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

As the soldiers pull the trigger with their fingers, the hammer strikes the primer to ignite the gunpowder, firing the buckshot in the chamber.

However, the muzzles of this row of muskets were spewing out clouds of white or black smoke, and some of them were even able to spew flames, all because of the fact that the propellant was reloaded with more or less guidance.

Thirty meters away, there was a dense crowd of humanoid targets.

These humanoid targets are very special, and they are very different from the shooting ranges that people later know. Many people who have shot targets in later generations know that there is generally only a row of convex ring targets with circles drawn on the shooting range, and they are far away from each other, and the target shooting distance is generally 100 meters.

The improvement of the shooting range was not a whim of Li Weiguo, but a deliberate choice made by him after studying the line tactics of the musket era.

In the Musket era, it was almost impossible for you to get a soldier to score how many rings. This is because they use smoothbore guns, when the projectile is discharged, it may be able to keep shooting in a straight line within twenty or thirty meters, once it exceeds thirty meters, the bullets will fly randomly, and the number of rings is only a patent for high-precision rifles, so Li Weiguo does not use a convex ring line target, but is close to the requirements of actual combat, and uses a humanoid target, as long as the target is qualified.

At the same time, there were a total of 500 humanoid targets on the shooting range, which were organized according to the standard of a battalion of the Qing army, and were arranged according to the formation of the two armies on the battlefield, which was close to the requirements of actual combat.

Li Weiguo's purpose in this arrangement was to let the soldiers see how many human-shaped targets they could hit, and on this basis, check the number of bullets on the target, divide it by three, and basically estimate the actual combat effectiveness of this group of recruits on the battlefield.

As for why it should be divided by two, it is actually very simple, if the target rate of any army in peacetime training is 100, it will be affected by various battlefield atmospheres (such as timidity) on the real battlefield, so that it cannot play at a normal level, which is why a small-scale battle, the two sides consume hundreds of thousands of bullets, but in the end it turns out that they did not kill a few people. According to normal analysis, a veteran can play 60% of his usual level, and a recruit can play 30% to pass.

Li Weiguo just wanted to know the actual combat effectiveness of his troops, so he carried out target shooting training in this way. In this way, he can assess what kind of enemy can be fought, and what kind of enemy should be temporarily avoided, otherwise he will find death.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

At this time, the first team finished shooting, the second team opened fire quickly, followed by the third team. There was a rotation between the three teams, and a total of three rounds were shot.

"Stop shooting!"

"Target!"

After a while, the target reporter finished counting.

"25 shots on target!"

Hearing this result, the recruits didn't know what was going on, and were still muttering in a whisper who had hit.

But their commander turned pale, and scolded, "What are you muttering about? Do you know what that means? That means you're all gone! Your enemies are five hundred, but you have killed only twenty-five. The enemy is only thirty meters away from you, and after three rounds of firing from you, they are rushing in front of you with bayonets. The remaining four hundred and seventy-five enemies, they will kill all two hundred of you with bayonets. ”

The recruits' faces turned white with fright, and they all showed heavy expressions.

"Tell you to lower the muzzle of your guns when you shoot, and see that your bullets are all hitting the sky, and you are here to shoot people, not birds! What are you still doing? A thousand push-ups per person! Let you not have a long memory! The commander scolded angrily, and then began to physically punish the soldiers.

This qiē was seen by Li Weiguo on the tower, and he found that whether it was a veteran or a new soldier, the shooting rate was not high.

At first, he didn't find the reason, so Li Weiguo experienced it himself, and soon he found that if he couldn't hold the gun when shooting, the muzzle of the gun would jump, and the bullet would easily fly into the sky.

Later, Li Weiguo found that when the P1842 musket was fired, the muzzle flame was very large, not only because the gunpowder was too much, but because the airtightness of the smoothbore gun itself was not enough, and the muzzle fire was inevitable. He found that after firing continuously, his eyes could not stand the violent flash of the muzzle flame and closed tightly, and he could not see the target in front of him clearly for a long time. At the same time, the airtightness of the bottom fire pit of the musket is not enough, and at the same time that the muzzle of the gun is spewing fire and smoke, the bottom fire pit will also smoke, and the air flow will hit the eyes, making the eyes very painful, so many soldiers close their eyes instantly, and the muzzle of the gun is unstable, and they naturally cannot hit the target.

How to solve this problem is directly related to the combat effectiveness of Li Jiajun. He knew that the musketeers of the great powers of various countries also came over like this, and they would close their eyes when they fired, but they were generally soldiers who had been trained for five or six years or more than ten years, and they had a lot of experience, and even if they closed their eyes, it would not affect their shooting. The soldiers of the Li family's army are not good, the veterans among them have been in the army for less than a year, and the new recruits are only a month, which obviously cannot be compared with the armies of the great powers.

Suddenly, Li Weiguo felt the light dazzling, so he put on the sunglasses that Ba Weisi gave him.

This immediately gave Li Weiguo inspiration, and he hurriedly tested musket shooting again, this time he wore sunglasses, whether it was the muzzle flame or the smoke emitted by the bolt's airtightness was not enough, they were blocked by the sunglasses, no longer stimulating the eyes, and there was no need to close the eyes anymore.

After discovering this secret, Li Weiguo suddenly thought that the American soldiers of later generations also wore sunglasses when they were fighting, even at night when the lights were blind, and they thought that the American soldiers were pretending to be cool, but in fact, sunglasses were the best way to protect their eyes from the flames of the gun.

As soon as he was connected in this way, Li Weiguo suddenly had a solution in his heart.

So Li Weiguo quickly sent people to Shanghai Ba Weisi optical store, at this time Ba Weisi had not yet set off, because the traffic was not developed in these years, not every day there were air tickets between China and Britain can be bought, the ship to Britain will only have a trip every once in a while, and must wait until all the cabins are full before departure, otherwise there are too few people, not enough money, the captain will not sail.

Although Barvis bought the ticket the next day, he still had to wait, so he couldn't leave.

It just so happened that Li Weiguo sent someone to get in touch with him and bought all the sunglasses in Ba Weisi's hand. These sunglasses were all polished by Ba Weisi himself, and he also had a lot of sunglasses glass, all of which were bought by Li Weiguo.

At the same time, Li Weiguo also sent people to other foreign concessions to contact sunglasses and glass merchants, purchased a large number of sunglasses glass materials from them, and then ordered people to polish them into sunglasses and distribute them to the soldiers.

With the use of Sunglasses for troops, soldiers no longer have to worry about the glare of the muzzle of the gun or the temporary blurring of their eyes when shooting, and they can focus on aiming at the enemy, and their accuracy is greatly improved.

Seeing the soldiers put on sunglasses and their shooting performance improved significantly, Li Weiguo's heart suddenly blossomed, and the thought that he would lead this army with sunglasses to the battlefield was really too exciting, and it was exciting to think about.

Just as Li Weiguo was stepping up the training of his army, the Taiping army captured Wuchang, and then the 500,000-strong army (wrapped in refugees) captured Jiujiang along the Yangtze River, with great momentum.

Soon, Lu Jianying, the governor of Liangjiang, sent an official letter, asking Li Weiguo to lead his regimental training to Anqing to block the Taiping army's eastward advance.

However, Li Weiguo deliberately shirked the need for training for the new army and did not move. After Lu Jianying's repeated urgings to no avail, it happened that Yi Xin, the foreman of the Military Aircraft Department, recommended Li Weiguo to Xianfeng as the Shanghai County Commander, and Xianfeng was allowed to play, and the Military Aircraft Department then issued an official document transferring Li Weiguo to the Shanghai County Commander, which happened to be in Lu Jianying's hands.

As long as there is anything about Li Weiguo, Lu Jianying has to ask about it, so he seized the official document and forced Li Weiguo to send troops.

At this time, Li Weiguo was staring at the Shanghai Little Knife Club, so he naturally wouldn't listen to Lu Jianying.

However, what Li Weiguo never expected was that Lu Jianying saw that Li Weiguo could not be mobilized, so he asked Liu Jianzhang to take his regimental training to reinforce Anqing.

Although Liu Jianzhang is also a sworn enemy of Lu Jianying, he does not have the courage of Li Weiguo, in the face of the orders of his superiors, Liu Jianzhang did not dare not listen, and immediately left Shanghai with Liu He and Liu He led the newly formed regiment to go to Anqing to defend against the enemy.

As soon as Liu Jianzhang left, Shanghai's troops were empty, and the knife would suddenly come alive.

Li Weiguo knew that as soon as Liu Jianzhang left, the Little Knife Society was afraid that it would soon rebel, so he also stepped up military training, and at the same time sent a note to the British, French, and American legations in Shanghai, asking them to supply arms to Li Weiguo in the capacity of Shanghai county commander.

Britain, France, the United States and other powers all knew that the Taiping Army was huge, and they hesitated for a while in terms of war or peace, so they attached importance to Li Weiguo's request and promised to ** arms and materials.

Therefore, on the one hand, Li Weiguo bought arms from the foreign powers, and on the other hand, stepped up the training of the army, sharpened his sword, and waited for the knife to rebel, so that even if Li Weiguo did not get the official document of the Shanghai county order, he could justifiably send troops to occupy Shanghai.

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