At the foot of the Lion Rock, the Nanjing Yulin Guard Barracks was crowded with battle flags and crowds, and 32,000 newly recruited soldiers were distributed in units of 500 people on the wide playground.

All kinds of shouts and shouts came one after another, and a dozen or so cavalry teams to maintain order galloped back and forth in a circle, driving the new recruits who had no sense of direction back to the playground, and the fools running around like headless flies were everywhere among the chaotic teams, anxiously calling for friends to find a home, and from time to time they were whipped by the whips and scabbards of the officers who came, and the dust and smoke stirred up rose with the wind.

Wu Jingxian, the controller of Yulinwei and the eunuch of Nanjing, Xu Hongji, the left governor of the Five Armies and the commander of the Jiangnan Naval Division, Zhang Gongwei, the right governor of the Five Armies and the commander of the Jiangnan Land Division, and Zhao Zhilong, the commander of the Nanjing City Defense and the commander of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, gathered at the Zhengbei review platform to drink tea leisurely and talk about things.

The sons of Xu Hongji and others also gathered under the review stand on a rare occasion to evaluate the more than 30,000 recruits on the huge competition field and the generals and colonels of various armies who were galloping on horseback.

"General Zhu's carriage has arrived!"

With a loud report, everyone on the stage looked at the four-wheeled carriage that was coming quickly around the edge of the school field, and the sharp-eyed Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong quipped: "Why is the Qinglong Flag of Ziyangguan on the carriage of Daolin?" Could it be that this kid can't come in a Taoist robe today? ”

Everyone laughed, Wei Guogong Xu Hongji thought it was very possible, Longping Marquis Zhang Gongwei said that Linxian's nephew had always been steady and would not make mistakes, and Wu Jingxian also echoed, saying that his nephew would never make such a low-level mistake.

Zhao Zhilong, who likes to gamble money, immediately proposed to make a bet, but before the bet was negotiated, the four-wheeled carriage had stopped on the side of the high platform, and Zhu Daolin, who was wearing a four-grade military attache uniform, got out of the carriage and walked two steps quickly, jumped lightly onto the high platform, and came to everyone to salute respectfully.

"Dao Lin. You're never late, what's wrong today? Wu Jingxian took the lead in asking.

In order to take care of Xu Hongji's face, Zhu Daolin did not say anything about driving away more than 100 veterans, but briefly told everyone that the 33 Franc machine instructors could not stand the constraints of military law, so they had to send them away with travel expenses.

The crowd was in high spirits. They all asked if the people who left behind would they disobey the discipline? Zhu Daolin explained again for a while, so that everyone could put their minds at ease.

Zhang Gongwei saw that the time was almost up, and asked Zhu Daolin to pick 5,000 recruits first, and said with a smile that he would pick the rest and pack them away.

After Zhu Daolin thanked him, he turned to Wu Jingxian: "Uncle, my place is too small, more than 2,000 acres of land northeast of Ziyangguan are being built, and the valley at the foot of Lao Mountain was originally going to open up a shooting range, because more than 100 Franc machine stallions were bought back, so they could only be converted into horse farms." So the little nephew has nowhere to train...... Look, can you lend me the unused barracks to the south near the firearms factory for two years? ”

Wu Jingxian generously agreed: "Take it, since the imperial court transferred Yulin's right guard to Shandong to quell the rebellion last year, the southern camp has been vacated, there are generals' mansions in it, there are arsenals, and the barracks on three sides can station at least 15,000 officers and soldiers, you can find someone to repair it a little." If you dig a well, you can move in, and it will not be a problem to use it for ten or eight years. ”

Zhu Daolin happily turned to Zhang Gongwei: "Master Hou." Or you always pick it first, the younger generation is not very familiar with the Ming military system, I don't know how the Ming army selects soldiers, and the more than 30,000 people below have been carefully selected before, and there is no need for the younger generation to pick again. ”

"Didn't you ever serve in the military? Where did you become a soldier? Xu Hongji asked in surprise, and more than a dozen generals around him immediately looked at Zhu Daolin.

Zhu Daolin could only flicker again: "The junior is a soldier in the overseas Tianshu Pavilion." The army over there is not the same as my Ming army, they have long eliminated broadswords and spears, all equipped with muskets and artillery, and the juniors have been mixed in their army for nearly three years, and they are familiar with the manipulation and training of firearms. That's why he dared to boast to Marquis Zhang that he had trained a firearms battalion of 5,000 people on his behalf. ”

Everyone was shocked, it was hard to imagine what kind of battle an army equipped with muskets and artillery was?

Although the shrewd Zhang Gongwei was equally puzzled, he had no doubt about Zhu Daolin's ability, and directly asked Zhu Daolin for advice: "In this case, Daolin, you say, what kind of soldier is suitable for manipulating firearms?" ”

Zhu Daolin told the truth: "Firearms operations are characterized by long-distance operations, and what is emphasized is the area covered by firepower...... It means how wide and deep a piece is. ”

"Firearms warfare is based on intensive musket fire and artillery strikes as the main means of combat, so in most cases, there is no need to fight the enemy in close combat, as long as the enemy is within range."

"Take the 300 flintlock muskets sold to us by the Francophile as an example, the effective range of this musket is about 150 meters, and the calculation of my Ming is about 92 steps...... This effective range is that the projectile can effectively kill and wound the enemy, in fact, beyond 92 to 150 steps, as long as the projectile hits the face or other unprotected position, it can also cause damage. ”

Zhu Daolin paused slightly and continued to introduce artillery: "In the future, war artillery will become more important, everyone understands the defensive strike method of artillery, and it is rarely used in the offensive, even if it is used, it is the kind of tiger squat cannon with one barrel and two legs, and the short-barreled copper cannon and the Franco machine mother cannon pulled by a few carriages are very different from the artillery we are about to equip with, and the combat mode is also completely different. ”

"OUR ARTILLERY IS A LIGHT CAST STEEL GUN EQUIPPED WITH A STEEL WHEEL GUN MOUNT AND CAN FOLLOW THE MOVEMENT OF THE INFANTRY, WITH CALIBERS OF 50MM, 80MM AND 125MM, ABOUT ONE AND A HALF INCHES, TWO AND A HALF INCHES AND FOUR INCHES, USING A NEW TYPE OF GRANULAR GUNPOWDER, IN ADDITION TO THE IRON BALL, THERE ARE ALSO SUBMUNITIONS OF UNIFORM SPECIFICATIONS, AND THERE IS ONE MORE CHAIN BULLET ON THE WARSHIP, THE DISTANCE OF THE STRIKE IS FARTHER, THE AREA OF THE STRIKE IS WIDER, AND THE POWER OF THE STRIKE IS GREATER."

"By the end of the year, when a new type of gunpowder is manufactured, we will improve it on the basis of several rockets in the DPRK and make a light rocket launcher from steel pipes to launch more powerful rockets...... This question is more complicated, and it will not be clear for a while, but after we equip the artillery, everyone will be able to understand it in a demonstration. ”

The appetites of all the generals were all hung up, and they couldn't help but gather around, and even Wu Jingxian moved the stool and tried to get as close to Zhu Daolin as possible, so as not to miss the key.

Zhu Daolin went on to say that the selection of soldiers was "Since long-distance combat is the mainstay, when selecting musketeers, it is necessary to take the criteria of well-proportioned figure, good physical strength, flexibility of movement, and balance ability. ”

"Speaking of the artillery that operates the artillery, the overseas Tianshu Pavilion has very high requirements for artillery, even the guys in the artillery must be able to write and calculate, because it is necessary to calculate the artillery distance, the angle of the shelling, the frequency of the shelling, the area of the shelling, etc., if you are illiterate, you are not a qualified artilleryman, and I can't do this at present......"

"Therefore, when selecting artillerymen, we can only try to select younger ones, forcibly pour the knowledge that artillerymen should master into their minds, keep training them, keep letting them conduct live-fire training, keep persecuting them, torture them, and be able to get up in the middle of the night and accurately fire according to the password, which is basically considered qualified."

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