"First column, fire!! Reload!"

"Second column, fire!! Reload! ”

On the training ground, the non-commissioned officer in the queue roared, while pulling the drive lever with his hands and feet, accurately stretched the bristle brush hanging on the butt into the chamber and pounded it a few times, and then took out a spare round from the palm of the left hand holding the gun body and loaded it into the chamber.

After several battles, we found that in the process of column combat, the infantry did not shoot many times, and the opponent on the opposite side often collapsed under the intensive fire after firing three to five times in a row, and at the same time, considering the distance of the battle, the impact speed of the opponent, for the infantry in the mountain village at present, they still use the summer rifle made of paper cartridge shells, and firing three times is basically the limit, so how to quickly fire the first three shots has become a problem that soldiers and non-commissioned officers attach great importance to.

After many rounds of exploration and practice, we found that when the first round is loaded and fired, the left hand has a round in the palm of the hand, and the mouth has become the best solution to bite a shot with teeth, so that after the first shot, the second and third shooters can find the bullet at the fastest speed without lowering their heads and reaching out to the cartridge box to feel, which greatly accelerates the firing speed of the first three bullets. Of course, this method is not without drawbacks, in rainy days, it is easy to wet the ammunition by taking the last two rounds of ammunition out of the cowhide ammunition box that covers the raindrops too early, and if you do not fire for a long time, the bullet that bites the mouth will make the mouth very uncomfortable and easy to wet the saliva to launch the charge. However, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and there is a way to speed up the reloading of a single bullet, which may not only save your own life, but even save the lives of many more people......

"Second platoon, all fire!"

When the roar of the platoon commander next to him sounded again, Hou Si pulled the trigger on the target 100 meters away, and the platoon gun not only caused a large white smoke to suddenly come out of the firing queue, but also caused a batch of new holes to be pierced on the target body with more than a dozen bullets.

After the shooting, the platoon commander did not let everyone continue to shoot the third shot, because at the back of the team, a shrill whistle sounded, and the platoon commander Lu Qingming looked back at the rear, and on the command position of more than 100 meters behind, a flag bearer was waving two small red and yellow flags in his hand to issue a new command for the hand flag.

"Command 316, spread out in a protective left and right formation, and the artillery will extend its fire!"

Lu Qingming, who had already memorized nearly 100 numerical command phrases, immediately understood the new order of the command headquarters, and asked Hou Si to take a group of soldiers to disperse with him to make way for the artillery position.

Considering that in the future, their own army will be a multi-arm coordinated operation, and the exchange of battlefield information must not only be accurate but also timely, otherwise it will delay the fighters at the least, and may even cause such a tragic tragedy as accidental injury.

Considering the concise surname of information transmission, Deng Shifeng and Luo Dan and other officers compiled different orders such as attack, defense, retreat, outflanking, extension, and auxiliary into nearly 100 numerical groups, the first number at the beginning can clearly tell the general classification of information, and then the last two numbers determine the approximate meaning of the classification. This avoids the long message delivery time caused by lengthy flag slogans. (Note: At present, the merchant ship has eliminated the hand flag language, and only the navy in the army currently has the hand flag language, but its content is kept secret by various countries, so it is a rough guess here)

The front infantry gave way to the artillery in the rear to move the firing range, and under the loud shouting of Lao Ma, a veteran who had been promoted to the non-commissioned officer of the artillery platoon, the three front-loading guns were quickly pushed onto the gun position vacated by the infantry; Under the fire angle Zhu Yuan shouted by Huang Shicheng, the commander of the artillery platoon, he led a group of artillerymen to quickly twist the high and low poles on the gun carriage and fine-tune the gun body pointing.

"Reload!!"

Huang Shicheng, the platoon commander of the artillery platoon, personally aimed at a breech gun and shouted the order to reload, and the No. 3 gunner of each gun carried the company's shells from the No. 5 gunner to the gun, and the No. 2 gunner took the gun stick and stuffed the propellant behind the shell company into it.

This shell is similar to the paper bullet of the Summer rifle, the paper-wrapped propellant and the spherical shell are connected together by a thin string, but there is a layer of wood in between, which is convenient for fixing the shell and preventing the squeezing between the shell and the chamber from being caused by the scattering of gunpowder. This reloading method greatly increases the rate of fire, and can also prevent the flowering shells in front from exploding directly in the chamber through the middle plank; At the height of breech artillery in the mid-nineteenth century, this type of loading demonstrated its terrifying rate of fire and safety during the American Civil War.

After loading the shell and the cartridge, the No. 1 gunner, that is, the sighter, adjusted the final firing angle of the gun, and the No. 4 gunner, that is, the shooter, did not directly take the red-hot iron drill or the fire rope to prepare for ignition, he used an ordinary iron drill to reach in from the blast hole behind the gun body to poke the paper shell of the propellant pack, and then plug a fire pipe for ignition on the firing hole and connect it with the gun rope and run away two steps, under Huang Shicheng's order to fire, the three guns pulled the gun rope at the same time, The excited fire pipe unceremoniously ignited the propellant, and the nearly 3-kilogram iron ball accurately hit the area near the target hundreds of meters away, which was already a good result. (Note: The glass powder ignition device of the grenade can be handled, and the artillery fire pipe is naturally no longer a problem)

"Clearing!! Reload!! ”

Since the command gave the order of three rapid fires, Huang Shicheng roared and instructed the gunners to clear and reload their guns with their responsibilities after the first shell was fired, and the five gunners did their duty to maximize the rate of fire of the three breech guns.

After the three shells were fired, the command post in the rear issued a new order to the troops in front through the standard-bearer, and the artillerymen who received the order to transfer the position immediately removed the three guns that had just been dragged to the firing position from the combat state, and quickly moved forward with shoulder and hand drag, and the improved gun carriage reduced the overall weight of the entire front-loading gun, and the application of ball bearings also improved the dexterity of the artillery, and the five people easily advanced the guns that had been reduced to more than 100 kilograms to the new shelling position, behind them, It was the other platoon soldiers who were responsible for transporting the shells and loads, using trained wagons to follow the artillery forward. The infantry at the front, under the command of the new battle order, regrouped together, and under the command of the platoon commander and non-commissioned officers, they fought in formation and advanced forward to cover and advance......

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Judging from the performance of the infantry artillery at the front and commanders at all levels, although there were such and such small problems in the live-fire training, the flaws were not concealed, and the entire live-fire training was quite successful; not only did all parties coordinate in unison, but there was also no tragedy caused by the untimely transmission of information such as mutual accidental injury.

"Hey...... Shi Feng, when will these troops be pulled out? I can't wait to hear the good news......"

Since the strategy of fighting to the north has been decided, and then in order to test whether the troops have combat capability, this kind of live-fire training has become the final mock examination paper for the assessment of the troops...... It's still worth it!

"Don't worry, it won't be long yet......"

The smile on Deng Shifeng's face represented the best answer he had given to the training state of the troops at this moment, but there was another voice in his heart:

"The autumn harvest is the day we do it!!"

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