Chapter 42: Strengthening the Battalion

In the northwest corner of the range, 20 to 30 meters in front of Zhang Feng and others, there was a large pit several zhang in size, and more than a dozen scarecrows were erected in the pit. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

The use of grenades is not complicated, even if everyone has never seen this thing, but Zhang Feng explained this, everyone will basically use it.

In the envious eyes of everyone, Wang Chaoyong proudly picked up a grenade, unscrewed the lid, revealed the fire rope inside, took his own fire fold to light the fire rope, and saw the grenade sneering and snorting, Wang Chaoyong hurriedly threw the grenade out.

The grenade cut through the air in a beautiful arc, and landed accurately into the large pit twenty or thirty meters in front of them, and landed among the scarecrows.

Everyone's eyes followed the grenade and fell into a large pit not far away, and everyone was wondering why there was no reaction.

Suddenly, a loud bang rang out!

"Boom !!"

The sudden loud noise, many people were startled, the broken straw in the pit flew, and after the explosion, a puff of green smoke slowly rose.

Quiet, very quiet!

Except for the loud noise just now, the whole scene was quiet, everyone stared blankly at the big crater in the distance, everyone had never seen a grenade, obviously frightened.

After a few seconds, Wang Chaoyong said: "My good man, this movement is too big." ā€

"yes, it's scary!"

"I was stunned just now, there was such a loud noise, much louder than our muskets firing."

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When I came back to my senses, everyone was shocked by the loud noise just now, and Zhang Feng also smiled, as he expected, this grenade seemed to be powerful.

Zhang Feng waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's take a look at the effect." ā€

Everyone followed Zhang Feng into this big pit with a radius of several feet, and saw the scarecrows that were blown up one by one, and everyone looked incredulous.

The two or three scarecrows closest to the explosion site were blown to shreds, and a crater the size of a foot basin on the ground, and the scarecrows a little farther away were also damaged to varying degrees, and these scarecrows were either blown to pieces, or were smashed by the iron balls and shrapnel that came out of the explosion.

"My boy!"

Wang Chaoyong took a look here, looked there, and was amazed, but looking at Wang Chaoyong's demeanor, he was more happy.

Wang Chaoyong said: "Commander, this grenade is too powerful, and from now on, we have a big weapon." ā€

Zhang Feng was quite satisfied with this grenade, Zhang Feng said: "In the future, our soldiers, in addition to one musket, each of us will be equipped with four grenades. ā€

Wang Chaoyong said: "Yes, each person is equipped with a few grenades, we will use muskets when they are far away, and we will blow them up with grenades when they are close, and kill them." ā€

Zhang Feng nodded, but still did not forget to emphasize the discipline of secrecy, Zhang Feng said solemnly: "Whether it is a grenade or our flintlock musket, it is our secret weapon, everyone should pay attention to secrecy, don't go outside to talk nonsense, but also restrain your subordinates, whoever goes outside to talk nonsense, military law is engaged!" ā€

Seeing Zhang Feng say this, everyone immediately stood up and said in unison: "Yes!" Confidentiality must be strictly maintained. ā€

In fact, Zhang Feng is not very worried about leaking secrets, his soldiers are basically in the barracks, and they are under militarized management, outsiders can't come in, and everyone basically won't go out, and the communication with the outside world is basically isolated, and secrets are generally not leaked.

After trying the first grenade, Wang Chaoyong tried three more in one go, and saw that the grenades were reduced one by one, and the others stopped doing it, and everyone also wanted to have a good time, and finally, Zong Dechao, Liu Yiping, Wu Dingkun and others all tried one.

More than a dozen grenades, all of which exploded, and there was no phenomenon of dumb fire, indicating that Zhang Feng's grenade design was good, and the manufacturing quality of Zhao Zuolin and others was also very good.

With flintlock muskets and grenades, Zhang Feng was more confident in successfully eradicating the Blue Dragon Gang and was ready to do it in the near future.

………

The one-month training of the recruit company was successfully completed.

After a month of training, everyone has changed a lot, there is such a military appearance, and in addition to the queue training, everyone has more or less carried out shooting training, and they are no strangers to flintlock muskets, of course, after the training of recruits, everyone's shooting training will continue.

After the training of recruits, according to Zhang Feng's intentions, a military parade ceremony was held, and then it was reorganized, and the recruits and veterans were organized together.

In later generations, Zhang Feng was not only a technical expert, but also a military enthusiast, and a frequent visitor to a certain military forum.

Twelve people will be an infantry squad, ten soldiers, one squad leader and one deputy squad leader, and will be equipped with 12 flintlock muskets. The three infantry squads are an infantry platoon, and in addition to one platoon commander and one deputy platoon commander, there is also one communications corps and one medical officer, and the whole platoon is exactly 40 people.

The three infantry platoons are an infantry company, and in addition to one chief and deputy company commander, there are several auxiliary units such as signal soldiers, service soldiers, and medical soldiers, as well as a cooking squad, with more than 150 people in the company.

The three infantry companies are an infantry battalion, and the battalion headquarters has a guard platoon, a cavalry communications squad, and so on, with more than 500 people in the battalion.

Zhang Feng has a total of more than 700 people, and more than 100 people form the regimental training headquarters, the headquarters includes a logistics department, in addition to the staff department, there is a guard platoon, service soldiers, etc., in addition, there is also an intelligence team, and Zhang Feng will also consider establishing a field hospital if possible.

Although the sparrow is small and has all kinds of organs, although there are only more than 700 people, the establishment is complete, not only has a headquarters, but also has a standard infantry battalion, and in the future, there will be a second infantry battalion and a third infantry battalion.

After the completion of the reorganization, Zhang Feng made a series of appointments, the commander was naturally Zhang Feng, Wang Chaoyong was the chief of staff and the commander of the first battalion, with the rank of major, and Zong Dechao, Liu Yiping, and Wu Dingkun were the deputy battalion commanders and commanders of the first, second, and third companies, with the rank of captain.

In addition to the reorganization, Zhang Feng issued a second round of recruitment plan, recruiting more than 1,200 people at one time, plus the current more than 700 people, and finally reaching the scale of 2,000 people.

More than 1,200 people will be organized into ten recruit companies for training, recruiting recruits, and subsequent recruit training will all be in charge of Wang Chaoyong and others.

………

As the captain of the intelligence team, Guan Peng is outstanding, and he is worthy of the title of "Spirit Fox", and Guan Peng has clearly investigated the "Flying Shuttle" leak incident.

Xiaoqingshan Barracks.

Guan Peng was reporting the results of the investigation to Zhang Feng, and Guan Peng said: "Commander, the textile factory established by the other party in the suburbs of Suzhou is at least twice the size of our Oriental Textile Factory, and they are completely modeled after our textile factory. ā€

"Xu Shunben sold a lot of his own industry, raised 30,000 taels of silver into shares, is one of the shareholders of this new textile factory, but not a major shareholder, the largest shareholder of this textile factory is Zhao Shuiquan, in addition, the Qinglong Gang also invested 100,000 taels of silver."

Zhao Shuiquan?

Zhang Feng naturally knew this person, and the last time at Zhong Kaidao's birthday banquet, the two had a lot of conflicts, and Zhao Shuiquan was slapped in the face by Zhang Feng with hatred.

"Interesting." Zhang Feng asked: "This Zhao Shuiquan has so much silver, he can be a major shareholder." ā€

Guan Peng said: "Zhao Shuiquan only paid tens of thousands of taels of silver, but relying on his own dead eunuch godfather, Zhao Shuiquan became the major shareholder of this new textile factory." ā€

Dongfang Textile Factory is famous in Songjiang Mansion, and many people know that Dongfang Textile Factory has made a lot of money, and there are many people who are red-eyed, and this Zhao Shuiquan is one of them.

Zhao Shuiquan has long begun to pay attention to the Oriental Textile Factory, and seeing that the textile factory is so profitable, Zhao Shuiquan has long planned to build a factory in Hangzhou.

Why choose Suzhou, undoubtedly because Suzhou has a huge market, larger than Songjiang Prefecture, in addition, Suzhou water transport is developed, there is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the cotton cloth produced can be easily transported to Hangzhou, Yangzhou and other places.

Construction of this new textile mill began more than a month ago, and now it is close to completion, and it is estimated that it will be completed in less than half a month, and then production will begin.

Of course, if you want to make a lot of money, it is not possible to rely on the current backward loom, there must be a shuttle, which is why there is a leak of the shuttle.

Guan Peng said: "Commander, I look at their construction progress, it is estimated that it will not take long to complete the construction, and their textile factory will be put into production." ā€

Zhang Feng sneered and said, "They want to produce smoothly? I think it's hard. ā€

Guan Peng looked at Zhang Feng in surprise, and thought in his heart, could it be that the commander has a way, although he doesn't understand why, but as a subordinate, Guan Peng knows that there are some things that should not be asked, so don't ask.

Guan Peng continued: "Boss, it was Xu Erbao who instructed people to steal our shuttle, which was also Xu Shunben's instruction, and in addition, the Xu family is selling their assets, and it seems that they are preparing to leave Songjiang Mansion to develop in Suzhou. ā€

Zhang Feng said slowly: "They want to leave Songjiang Mansion, I don't think it's so easy. ā€

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