Chapter 274: Three Strikes
Unknowingly, Li Weiguo has been in Tongxiang City for a few months. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In Tongxiang in June, the weather was a little hot and dry, but the training of the Tongxiang Army was still carried out in an orderly manner.
There is not much time left, and Li Weiguo must seize every minute and second to train his troops, and he will not dare to be biased in the slightest.
According to the history books, in mid-July, the Japanese will attack Tongxiang again, and this time Tongxiang is facing a catastrophe!
Old Zhang Tou'er is ingenious, and the brothers in the craftsman's workshop are also working overtime, no, now this brand-new 300 flintlock muskets have been sent to the school grounds.
The newly made 300 muskets were pitch black and shiny, and the muzzles of the black holes were deep and deep, which made people feel a little frightened.
"Master Li, old Zhang Tou'er is fortunate to live up to his life, and he led a group of brothers in the craftsman's workshop to make the three hundred flintlock muskets you need!"
The big men brought the musket and said to Li Weiguo.
Li Weiguo grabbed one, Wu Dayong and Jiang Jiang, who are good at weapons, also have one each, compare it, the barrel is straight, pull the trigger, and a spark rubs out, and the sound is crisp!
Green smoke slowly came out of the bolt, and connoisseurs could see that the musket was of the highest quality!
Due to the use of water grinders, the construction period of polishing the barrel has been greatly shortened, and today's craftsmen's workshops no longer take ten days and a half months to polish a barrel as before, but only less than two days to polish a good barrel, the rate is amazing!
The black powder from the powder shop was also carried in boxes and boxes.
As long as there is saltpeter, the gunpowder in the gunpowder workshop will be continuously made, and the black powder of these willow charcoal is quite strong, which is the top grade of black powder!
Sprinkle this gunpowder on the ground for a while, and the fire fold ignites, which burns up like a lot, whether it is in terms of combustion rate or burning intensity, it is quite high-grade!
In order to save the maximum time when firing the musket, Li Weiguo had already ordered the black powder to be made into granules.
Black powder is bonded with egg white, three coins as the amount, waiting for drying, it becomes a granular object, the most practical!
A little loose gunpowder is added to the bolt, and this granular black powder is stuffed into the barrel, and the three-coin lead specially made by the craftsman's workshop is stuffed, and the rod is tamped.
Li Weiguo concentrated and pulled the trigger.
Bang......
A tongue of fire erupted from the barrel, and a puff of white smoke came out of the bolt.
Fifty or sixty paces were on a target, and the lead fish rushed in without any discount.
"Hmm."
Li Weiguo nodded approvingly, and handed the musket to General Jiang: "Send this flintlock musket." ”
"This ......"
Jiang Jiang still can't seem to believe the meaning of Li Weiguo's words.
Could it be true that the three hundred soldiers and horses in Tongxiang were all armed with muskets?
When firearms were first applied to the military, because of their many unsatisfactory places, although the army of this era used firearms, many people still needed to hold cold weapons to fight.
This is true not only in China, but also in Europe, where firearms are prevalent.
Although the armies of Spain and the Netherlands have made the use of firearms very common, in fact, the equipment rate of firearms is only about half, and about half of the people in the army still need to fight with cold weapons.
Firearms are cumbersome to handle, and a traditional arquebus takes about three minutes to prepare for firing a shot of lead.
Although the flintlock musket can now shorten the time it takes to fire the lead to a minute, it is scary enough, and in a minute, the enemy's cavalry or infantry with fast legs and feet can already rush in front of you, where can you calmly load the next lead?
The power of the musket is amazing, but if the enemy's broadsword team rushes in front of you, the musket team will hardly be able to resist it!
And now Li Weiguo actually wants all the 300 soldiers and horses in Tongxiang to be equipped with muskets, isn't this crazy?
"My lord, this musket is not easy to use in the rain and night, and many times it can't even be fired normally, if the whole army is equipped with muskets, I'm afraid it's not appropriate!"
Jiang Jiang always said bitterly.
In the final analysis, Li Weiguo is just a child, and when a child has a hot head, he sometimes does something incomprehensible, and Jiang Jiang hurriedly dissuaded him.
If you can't use it in the rain or night, it's the arquebus!
At the moment, this flintlock musket in my hand can be used to a certain extent on this rainy day as well as on a dark night!
Li Weiguo smiled, and then spoke: "Naturally, there are still other types of troops in the army, but this musketeer will always be the absolute main force in my Tongxiang army!" ”
Li Weiguo insisted on this, and Jiang Jiang had no choice but to obey.
Li Weiguo waved his hand, and Wang Zhushu and the others took three hundred simple knives from the treasury.
Pu Dao was originally in the warehouse of Tongxiang, and now it can be used if it is polished again, and it also saves the effort of making it.
The three hundred simple knives have been re-polished, and all of them are shining with cold light, and under the sun, it is quite frightening.
Tongxiang 300 soldiers and horses, all armed with muskets and swords!
The soldiers of the three hundred guards, carrying a simple knife on their waists, holding a musket, under the light of the sun, are quite powerful and majestic.
It's for the new army of Tongxiang!
"Adult, the little one never thought that I could have such soldiers and horses in Tongxiang!"
After Li Weiguo's training, the Tongxiang soldiers and horses have already been completed, and at this time, it seems that the word perseverance is written on all faces! The three hundred soldiers went to the school field to brush together, and there was a feeling that some black clouds were pressing down on the city and wanted to destroy it.
If it weren't for the fact that this soldier and horse were trained by himself, I am afraid that someone would have to pee their pants on the viewing platform of the school at this time!
"This is a soldier with spirit!"
Wu Dayong was born in the Beijing army, and he has the most right to speak, at this time, the soldiers and horses in front of him have resolute eyes and dark complexions, and they look even more powerful against the backdrop of the weapons of oily water! Wu Dayong couldn't help but think of the years of the Song of the Horse, and couldn't help but sigh.
The real strong army is like fireflies in the dark night, standing in the crowd, making it difficult for you not to find out!
A gust of wind hit.
The blowing nail leaves gargled and the sergeant remained immovable, which added a bit of a solemn atmosphere to this school field!
A few people watching this couldn't help but boil their blood, and everyone was waiting for the new army of Tongxiang in front of them!
Li Weiguo was also quite encouraged, and after a while, he said: "Teach the sergeant how to practice flintlock muskets!" ”
Jiang made a promise, and then went down to teach the sergeant how to use the musket.
"This flintlock musket is not afraid of wind and rain, and it is not afraid of night! In the future, I have such an artifact in my Tongxiang army, and I will definitely be able to cut through thorns and thorns, and slay demons! ”
Taking advantage of the stall used by Jiang to teach the musket, Li Weiguo shouted.
"Mighty! Mighty! Mighty!! ”
The sound of shouting was higher and higher.
Wu Dayong is old in the army, and he can't hear this masculine voice, and he can't help but sigh: "God-given strong army!" ”
However, Jiang Jiang in the crowd was always taken aback: what else is so wonderful about this flintlock musket?
Take a closer look, but there is special news at the bolt department, and to protect this bolt from moisture, isn't it just as Lord Li said, not afraid of wind and rain?
This musket is fired by flint, and no longer uses a sneering and burning arquebus, but is it not afraid of the night?
While observing like this, Jiang Jiang's admiration for this Li Weiguo deepened!
In other words, this Master Li is just a little tanhua who has just finished the imperial examination, how can he be so proficient in all kinds of things?
Jiang returned to the review stand.
Sergeant Tongxiang already knew the method of this flintlock musket drill.
"Column three strikes!"
Li Weiguo ordered.
The three-stage strike was a widely used method in the early military period of muskets, especially in the arquebus period.
Because the loading speed of muskets is relatively slow, it is difficult for muskets in this era to form continuous firepower, so in actual combat, the method of three-stage fire is generally adopted.
Gun-wielding sergeants were lined up in three rows and fired in turns.
The second and third platoons are loaded with gunpowder when the first platoon is fired, and the first and third platoons are the same when the second platoon is fired......
In this way, the musketeers in the army can form a continuous fire strike, inflicting maximum damage on the enemy and horses!
At present, an important reason why many armies of the Ming army could not give full play to the maximum power of this musket was that they neglected training and lost the tactics of these three shots.
However, Li Weiguo in later generations will naturally not make this mistake, and the musket in Li Weiguo's hand is a flintlock musket!
It only takes about a minute for the flintlock musket to be reloaded! If this is a tactic that evokes these three strikes, then it will be worth it?
On the battlefield, just listen to the crackling sound.
The constant flow of muskets is like a rain of tinks that can inflict maximum damage on the enemy!
The musketeers are lined up in front of the target platform.
This target table is different from ordinary targets, the target is a foot thick! In order to be able to withstand the lead attack continuously.
The muskets were lined up in three teams.
One row of crouch shooting, two rows, three rows of standing shooting.
The team is swinging a knife, shooting in a row; Then the second row, the third row......
Boom Boom Boom ......
The continuous musket firing was like a gun, and the lead was endless, and there was hardly a second when the musket was "mouthful"!
There was a crackling sound, and the musket array at this time was surrounded by a burst of green smoke, Li Weiguo waved his hand, and the musketeer stopped shooting, and after a while, the annoying smoke slowly dissipated.
Looking at the target platform, good guy, where is there a complete place for the target platform with a target thickness of one foot now? It's full of guns!
If this is a change of words, the Japanese are standing there!
No one dared to imagine it......
Heaven is auspicious!
Now that Tongxiang has such soldiers and horses, why are you afraid of the Japanese robbers?
Even Wang Zhushu and others are full of confidence in the upcoming anti-Japanese battle, and now that I have such a divine weapon in my Tongxiang army, I want to kill the Japanese Kou is just to probe for things, where is it as hard as before?
Everyone on the school field is smiling, the adults have said before that they want to use Tongxiang people to guard Tongxiang, and now Tongxiang is a military formation, why are you afraid of that robber? (To be continued.) )