Chapter 26: Training Day
To leave the dock, you must leave the dock as fast as possible, otherwise it will become a burning chibi.
All the sailors on the Qing warships that were not ignited were busy, the anchor chains were retracted, the sails were raised, and even some small warships simply rowed, in short, they had to disperse as fast as possible to prevent the spread of the fire.
Wang Jie stood on a Dafu ship, constantly urging his soldiers, and soon the sails of the warship puffed up and began to move forward slowly.
"Hurry, hurry!"
The chief soldier shouted anxiously.
Little did he know that a twine was being pulled under the water, with an anchor hook attached to a rock at one end and a grenade tab at the other.
As the ship moved, the hemp rope was tightened almost instantly, and at the same time, the pull ring of the grenade was pulled out at once, and only a few seconds later, sixty grams of antimony NTI explosives were detonated, and a section of wooden keel more than a meter long in the underwater fire was directly torn into countless pieces by the force of the explosion, and even a large area of the surrounding hull was completely blown up.
The same force of the underwater explosion also threw the ship upwards fiercely, and the general soldier Wang on the deck who was caught off guard screamed and fell, and before he could get up, the warship sank down suddenly.
"It's leaking!"
Then one of the generals shouted in horror at the hatch.
As soon as these words were shouted, another battleship a few meters away on the right also jumped strangely, and in the dull explosion, the stirred sea water suddenly rose upwards from both sides.
Then the third, the fourth, the fifth......
Wang Jie, who got up from the deck, looked stupidly at the warships on the dock beating one after another, and then shouts such as "leaking water, going to sink" kept ringing out.
And the ship under his feet had already begun to sink, and the grenade not only blew off its keel, but also opened a large hole in the water with a diameter of nearly two meters, and under the heavy pressure of the hull, the sea poured in like a fountain, and the frightened sailors were desperately fleeing to the shore.
"Is this really inexplicable?"
Wang Zongbing said with a wry smile as he stood on the deck.
It was inexplicable that on such an ordinary morning, in less than a quarter of an hour, this huge fleet had lost more than a third of its warships, and that the attackers were only a small sampan and two men.
"Lord Zhentai, do you want to continue the pursuit?"
An adjutant general, Shi Li, asked.
Although more than a third of the ships were lost, it also meant that nearly two-thirds of the ships were in action.
Chase a hair! Yang Feng must be behind a small island outside! Anyway, General Wang is also a veteran on the battlefield, so he doesn't even understand this basic knowledge, just send two ships out to chase it, or quickly clean up the devastated dock! Besides, Lord Wu said before leaving, it is strictly forbidden to go out to fight with Yang Feng, although it is a shame to be kicked out of the hall, but at this time I have to endure it.
However, he is purely a villain's heart, Yang Dashuai is not rare to engage in any ambush, there is just a warship outside to meet the two people, when the two pursuing Qing warships are killed, everyone has already driven away, it is not that Yang Feng does not want to take the opportunity to take the Fujian Navy Division, but he is not enough to divide the troops, once he divides the troops by Huang Jiugong and the Yangtze River Sailor in Ningbo, what should I do?
At this time, the Yangtze River Naval Division had also gone south, but because it was only a small part of the weak, there were only more than 30 warships, so they also hid on the Qiantang River.
But even so, this battle can still be said to have hit the Fujian Navy Division hard, the Qing army that did not dare to fight, this time it was even more afraid to fight, the two sides continued to maintain the previous strategic situation, the powerful Qing army land troops can indeed easily crush the thousands of Ming troops on Zhoushan Island, but because the Navy Division was beaten to the point that there was no ability to fight back, I had to look at the sea and sigh. Similarly, the Ming army, which was weak in the army, was unable to continue to develop on land, and it was not even possible to do such a job as bombarding Hangzhou, and more than 50,000 troops from all over Fujian and Zhejiang gathered in this area, and it would be a bit exaggerated to engage in a risky sneak attack.
Yang Dashuai, who was temporarily idle, finally began to arrest his army.
These days, with the addition of the local people who joined the army in Zhoushan and those who came from other places, the total strength of his land battalion was finally expanded to 1,500 people, and after a little screening, 1,000 people were selected to first reorganize a field army according to the modern establishment, and the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled were organized into a garrison army, which was specially responsible for the guard of the batteries in Zhoushan, and the field army organized two infantry battalions and an artillery company, and the infantry battalion of course had to play with a platoon of guns, and the new guns were not yet available, so they had to make do with the captured Qing army muskets.
These muskets are basically arquebuses, and there are a small number of flintlock pistols, which should be said to be a certain gap compared to Europe, which has almost been replaced by flintlock pistols at this time.
And none of these muskets had bayonets.
Fortunately, he was only training, and he was not prepared to really rely on this army to fight now, and he also asked Wallace to help order two thousand flintlock muskets, if his good things were valued by the East India Company after that guy returned, he would definitely bring these rifles to him when he came next time, so that he could be equipped with flintlock pistols and Vauban-style bayonets.
As for now, let's give them a few wooden guns to practice assassination, and one more person with a big knife, this is easy to solve.
In fact, at this time, there is not much gap between the artillery of the Qing army and Europe, basically it is a level, at this time, the European light artillery is also a water of bronze, especially the guns used by the Dinghai division were captured from the Zheng family that year, in fact, Yang Feng is impossible to buy better, the only thing that needs to be improved is the shells.
"I can tell you very clearly, I am going to kill a few people, so you better be obedient, you must do what I tell you to do, I let you go forward, even if there is a sea of fire in front of you, you can't take a step back."
Yang Feng carried his electric baton and said to the army soldiers on the training ground.
Looking at the electric baton in his hand, the field army composed of the rabble was terrified, this kind of thing has been interpreted by those few guys who have been electrified, and has formed a very terrifying impression in the hearts of the soldiers, it is obvious that once a mistake is made, it is possible to suffer all of a sudden.
Yang Feng looked at their expressions with satisfaction.
Of course, what is more satisfying to him is the image of this army, he has equipped the field army with a new military uniform, and the color of this military uniform is red, Daming is still Huode, what do you wear if you don't wear a red military uniform? What's more, many of his rabble have never seen much blood, and once they go to the battlefield, even if they are shot, they will have a little mental buffer.
The right round neck arrow sleeve short coat, embroidered with a variety of logos with threads, the sun and moon emblem of the Ming Dynasty on the left chest, because the military rank is not easy to determine, it has not been embroidered on the top yet, the design is embroidered with gold thread on both sides of the round neck, the handsome general is a five-level lieutenant, and there is no need to divide the colonel major for the time being, just a simple five-level. His own military uniform is embroidered, he is a marshal, five gold stars on one side, and the remaining level is minus one, but now the training is considered small soldiers, and they have no logo on their collars, only the Pixiu armband representing the army on their left arm.
As for the military hat yet, now one person has a big hat, in the environment of the south, the hat is more practical than anything else, and there is no armor, in fact, he is going to wear a cuirass in the future, but that has to wait for him to build a water press in the Keelung base, now make do with it,.
And the first project in which he now trains this army is also the most classic......
Take the right step.
Although this is very earthy, but this is a must, his training method is also very simple and rude, whoever goes wrong directly comes to an electric baton, he turned down the voltage, it must be that the electricity does not die, but the taste will definitely be unforgettable.
"Right leg!"
Yang Dashuai whistled and shouted.
The 120 soldiers of the specially selected training team formed a horizontal line in four rows and kicked out his right leg, and these people were trained by the commander himself, and after training, they would receive a star to become non-commissioned officers, and then they would be used as instructors to train others. As for the other soldiers, Monk Yinian and others are now responsible for training the broadsword, but fortunately, this teaching team is selected to be smarter after all, and they all know that they have done nothing wrong, but Yang Feng did not shout that they fell, so they had to keep kicking and waiting.
Yang Feng watched with satisfaction, and walked over with an electric baton full of evil taste, of course, he didn't turn on the switch, and knocked on the calves of some soldiers who did not move in an irregular manner, until those soldiers' legs trembled, and he did not give the order to put it down, and after a while, one of the soldiers finally couldn't help but put down his leg.
"You, did I give the order?"
Yang Feng immediately rushed over and roared like a treasure, unceremoniously it was an electric baton, the poor soldier was so shocked that he screamed and trembled, so frightened that a few others couldn't help it, and quickly gritted his teeth and insisted, although the soldier was electrocuted, but after the paralysis passed, he still had to raise his right leg and insist, otherwise he might have to lose his head, Yang Dashuai said, he was going to kill a few people.
"Left leg!"
Finally, when those soldiers were sweating and trembling all over, Yang Feng gave the order to change his legs.
At this time, there was a sudden laughter behind him.
"Huh?!"
As soon as Yang Feng turned around, the granddaughter of Huang Baijia and Xiao Rou didn't know when they appeared behind him, in fact, it wasn't just them, many idlers stood outside the training ground to watch him train soldiers, but they had already crossed the line.
And it was Xiao Rou who was smiling, and it was obvious that the appearance of those soldiers made her very happy.
"You guys, come here!"
Yang Feng shouted with a gloomy face.