Tomorrow is 515, the anniversary of the starting point, and the day with the most benefits. In addition to the gift bag and school bag, this time's "515 Red Envelope Flip" must be seen, how can there be a reason not to grab the red envelope, set the alarm clock high~

Back in Niutunbao, Liu Fan first found Li Zheng to arrange the residence of the two girls, and then went to the barracks, found 10 squad leaders, asked about the training in the camp, and told them to continue training after making sure that nothing happened. accompanied Wang Yong to inspect the weapons and armor sent, and this time 400 spears, 100 shields, and 10 bird guns were transported. All of them are newly created by the War Bureau, and the quality is not bad, which Liu Fan is very satisfied with.

After inspecting the spear shield, looking at the neatly arranged 10 bird guns Liu Fan was interested, bird guns, also known as bird beak guns, is a kind of arquebus. It was introduced into China during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and compared with the original barrel-body firearms, it had the door, the star, the gun, and the machine, and began to be able to hold both hands at the same time and fire. It got its name because it can shoot down birds. Fan Jingwen of the Ming Dynasty wrote the "Shi Law" mentioned: "The back hand does not need to abandon the ignition, then do not shake, so there are eight or nine out of ten shots, that is, the birds in the forest, can be shot down, because it is named." It is also known as the bird's beak gun, because its ignition structure is like a bird's beak pecking water when ignition. The bird pipe is made of fine iron, which requires 10 catties of crude iron to make 1 catty, and only the pipe made of such fine iron can be strong and durable, and will not explode when shooting. When making, it is usually rolled into two iron pipes, one large and one small, with large and small ones, so that the two are tightly attached, and then drilled into a smooth and straight pipe with a steel drill. The drilling process is very precise, each person can only drill about 1 inch per day, and it takes about a month to drill into one. Due to the difficulty of production, coupled with the rampant corruption of corrupt officials, in order to reduce expenses often cut corners, resulting in the thinning of the overall management, soldiers often use because of the shoddy bird gun explosion caused by injury, so now the Ming soldiers would rather use the big knife and spear to fight with the enemy than use the bird gun, so advanced weapons have been somewhat close to the single rifle of the first World War in later generations, but because of such a ridiculous reason, can not be promoted, so that the advanced firearms of the Ming Dynasty lost to the use of cold weapons of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, I have to say that this is a sadness.

Picking up a bird gun, Liu Fan wanted to shoot a gun to test the performance, but after fiddling with it for a long time, he had no choice but to give up, first, Liu Fan had never seen a bird gun from later generations, let alone used it, and second, I heard that the bird gun was easy to blow up, in case it was blown up because of improper use, even if he didn't die, he would lose an arm and burn a leg or something, Chongzhen might not be reusing himself, and Liu Fan himself would become the stupidest traverser. So Liu Fan simply handed over the bird gun to Wang Yong beside him and asked him to test it. Fortunately, Wang Yong, as an elite bird of the Jinyi Guard, will still use it. Several people came to an open field, Wang Yong held a bird gun in one hand and a fire fold in the other hand to light it, only to hear a "bang", smoke came out of the mouth, several people hurriedly looked towards the big tree in the distance, only to see a lead projectile embedded in the tree not far away. Liu Fan carefully observed, this bird gun can only hit 100 meters, and to 100 meters is not very powerful, if others wear armor, it is estimated that it will only be 50 meters to penetrate, I heard that the cotton armor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is still specially made to deal with the bird gun, grass, no wonder the Ming army can not beat the Tartar. You need 50 meters to hurt someone, and how many seconds does it take for someone to ride a horse for a distance of 50 meters? It seems that it is a bit difficult to deal with the Manchus with a bird gun, and you will have to climb the technology tree in the future, and you have a long way to go if you want to really cause damage to the Manchus!

In the next few days, Liu Fan has been spending time in training, seeing the soldiers in formation, turning to the training Liu Fan still arranged for the soldiers to walk in unison and run training, as for the positive step Liu Fan did not plan to teach, first, most of the ancient soldiers wore armor and held spears and walked in a positive step, and 2 did not need it in the war.

In recent days, Liu Fan asked Li Zheng to find a house in the fort and arranged for Xiaozhu Xiaohe to live in it, which was finally a matter of concern, and then Liu Fan devoted himself to the training of soldiers, and lived in the barracks if he was fine, and occasionally returned home to accompany the two daughters.

Seven days later, Liu Fan looked at the soldiers below who had been reborn, his heart was full of joy, this is his biggest reliance on coming to this troubled world, this is the seed of his future dominance over the world, Liu Fan felt that it was time to distribute weapons to them! I didn't dare before, because I just started to train the soldiers, their minds were chaotic and not uniform, and they were all peasants who didn't understand the rules of the army, so they rashly distributed weapons, what if someone had bad intentions, even if they didn't have the habit of being greedy for cheap in ancient times, if they ran away with weapons, Liu Fan would have nowhere to find them. Now after a long period of training and educating the soldiers, the loyalty can be assured, and it is time to familiarize themselves with the weapon. Therefore, after finishing a day of training, Liu Fan announced that weapons would be distributed tomorrow.

In the early morning of the second day, in the school field, Liu Fan stood on the stage and said, "Today is a day worth remembering, because from today onwards you will be a qualified soldier!" You'll have your own weapons! In the days to come, it will be your other life, and I ask you to be at gun, and never lose your weapon at any time, because losing it means that you have lost your life! Can it be done? ”

"Yes!" There was a neat roar of soldiers from below!

"Good! Now start distributing weapons! Recite the name of the Taoist leader in the procession! The squad leaders are out! Liu Fan asked each squad leader to read the names of their teams!

"A small team starts first!" "Yes," replied Captain Niu Meng

"Li Xiaohu"

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Every soldier who recited the name of the Dao, Liu Fan would personally hand over the spear to him and say a few words of encouragement! Seeing Liu Fan so kind, every soldier who got a weapon was excited!

After distributing weapons, Liu Fan began to arrange weapon training, and the training of spears was only one style, and that was stinging. Individual prowess doesn't really play much of a role in large-scale battles, especially spear formations. Soldiers just need to line up, no matter how many enemies come, just stab forward! No extra moves are needed! Liu Fan's most ideal way to fight is to form a spear phalanx similar to the Swiss phalanx, which is said to be very powerful, and even cavalry and firearms troops dare not plunder its edge in Europe! The Swiss phalanx consisted of a company of about 300 men as the basic combat unit, of which about 250 spearmen were arranged in a 16 by 16 square, and the rest were halberders or crossbowmen. A typical Swiss column usually consists of two or three companies arranged horizontally, at least as deep as the breadth and width. The brave and unarmoured Swiss soldiers marched forward in a neat formation, and their spears attacked the opposing ranks in a bully manner, and their might and speed were rare among the infantry of the time, and their speed was only slightly slower than the armoured and therefore overly heavy cavalry with which they often fought, and any enemy who dared to stand in their way would be torn apart. Even the famous heavy cavalry in Europe was often defeated at their hands. In Liu Fan's opinion, it is too suitable for himself, now he only has 500 people, and he can form a larger phalanx, and Chongzhen did not give himself armor, not even the mandarin duck battle jacket. This is completely in line with the characteristics of the Swiss phalanx! No need to be unreasonable! Liu Fan, who decided on the method, began to train his soldiers according to the method of the Swiss phalanx!

In order to alleviate the tense mood of the soldiers, Liu Fan took out the more famous military songs of later generations, such as "unity is strength", "loyalty to the country", "men should be self-reliant", etc., to teach the soldiers to sing, and also organized the songs to increase the interest. In a few days, this effectively relieved the tense nerves of the soldiers, greatly improved the efficiency of training, and also increased the friendship and trust between the soldiers. It seems that some modern methods have been circulating for a long time and still have their own unique functions.

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