"Correct the elements, the elevation angle is 30 degrees, 20 to the east, 40 to the west...... Launch! ”

"Boom...... Boom ......"

Nearly 2,000 artillery men from the artillery battalion and three infantry battalions were training in artillery firing.

"It's hard to miss one out of ten." After Su Buheng checked the results, he shook his head there. The results of the training at the beginning were very unsatisfactory, and the hit rate was very low.

And this is still the hit rate of direct aiming, if the artillery observer commands the launch, the artillery below may be mistaken.

"Take your time!" Zhao Yan said expressionlessly. The artillery battalion was immediately asked to practice aiming and shooting first, and aiming and shooting mainly relied on experience in ranging and aiming, and it was possible to practice it slowly.

Then these artillerymen were taught every day, and Zhao Yan gave math lessons to those artillerymen who could read, teaching them to recognize Arabic numerals, as well as ballistics.

The other artillerymen were assigned to Zhao Yan's long-prepared education team to teach, first teaching them literacy and simple arithmetic.

Zhao Yan's Ministry of Education, which has been established since last year, has been compiling pinyin dictionaries, as well as vernacular textbooks. Among these people, there are some local celebrities, and some sour Confucians have objections to Zhao Yan's educational reform and directly kicked Zhao Yan out.

Anyway, if you don't do it, if you don't do it, some people will do it.

In fact, there are still many scholars in the Ming Dynasty, many people can't get into Xiucai, can't get into the exam, can't rely on Jinshi, and at the same time the family is poor, but it doesn't mean that the basic skills are not up to the mark.

Zhao Yan gave the treatment of five taels of silver per month and one stone of rice grain, and there are literati in the world rushing to do it, and there is no shortage of one, and there is no shortage of one.

Write with pencils and quill pens, teach literacy with pinyin, teach students vernacular, use Arabic numerals in mathematics, and multiplication tables. These are the requirements of Zhao Yan for them, first they must learn. As long as they are qualified, Zhao Yan will give them good treatment.

After half a year of study, a team of more than 300 teachers has been trained, and their level is no problem in teaching primary schools.

A Chinese pinyin dictionary was also compiled, and for this reason, Zhao Yan also set up a paper mill and a printing house to seize the time to print pinyin dictionaries and teaching materials.

The content of the textbooks is mostly historical themes, and most of them are from the hands of Zhao Yan, with the glory of national heroes, the tragedy of Hu Yi Chaohua, and the results and reflections of the implementation of various policies in the past dynasties. The main purpose is to cultivate a sense of honor, mission, and crisis, as well as to cultivate basic common sense about governing the world.

The most important thing is quality education, and Zhao Yan does not intend to copy the education methods of future generations. The education of later generations is that thousands of troops cross a single-plank bridge, only looking at the grades, not the quality, and there are some foolish people.

Without sufficient qualities, a strong nation will not be created, and this point does not need to be discussed too much.

In addition to the soldiers of the artillery battalion, the same was true of the soldiers of other battalions. Every night, teachers went to the barracks to teach them pinyin, handwriting, and arithmetic.

For a while, the battalions were miserable, and it was okay to let them practice, but it was as uncomfortable as a cat scratching to let them learn to read and write.

Zhao Yan is very much in need of cultural soldiers, after all, the military system he adopted has made the war more complicated and refined, and more cultural arms will inevitably be needed.

For those ordinary soldiers, maybe they just need to obey orders and kill the enemy, and they don't need much culture, even illiteracy.

But Zhao Yan still hopes that a group of cultural soldiers can emerge from among them, and that they can become the backbone intellectuals of society after leaving the army.

In order to improve soldiers' enthusiasm for cultural learning, Zhao Yan adopted a two-pronged approach.

Those who can write 100 words will be rewarded with 1 tael of silver, those who can write 500 words will be rewarded with 1 tael of silver, and those who can read a dictionary will also be rewarded with 1 tael of silver. Soldiers who can write most of the commonly used words, as well as soldiers who can add, subtract, multiply and divide, will be paid an additional 2 taels per month.

For promotion, the platoon commander needs to be able to write 100 words, and the company commander needs to be able to write 500 words and be able to read a dictionary. The battalion commander needs to be able to write most common words, as well as be able to add, subtract, multiply and divide.

Each battalion selects 50 best progress awards every month, awards 2 taels of silver, and awards a progress medal.

As a result of these policies, the soldiers' positive surnames have really increased a lot, and every night, almost everyone is studying hard, and some soldiers who have given up on themselves have also joined the ranks of learning with a bitter face after being persuaded by the Education Committee.

If you learn well, you will be rewarded, but if you don't learn well, you will not be promoted. The platoon commander's salary is five taels a month, the company commander is seven taels, and the battalion commander is fifteen taels a month.

"Everyone must study hard, and in the future, our general will recruit many more horses. When the time comes, you will have to bring those recruits, and whoever has made meritorious contributions and can read and write will be brought by you. Li Shenxing, the education committee of the first battalion, said endlessly: "If you don't learn, no matter how great your achievements are, you will only be a small soldier in the future." What is our slogan? ”

"A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier." The soldiers below replied in unison.

"Then do you want to be a general?" Li Shenxing asked loudly.

"Yes." The answer was very loud, without any hesitation, everyone hoped to be like the generals like Huo Quzhi and Yue Fei, and lead soldiers and horses to fight against foreign races.

"If you want to, you should study hard, and if there is anything you don't understand, the gentlemen will teach. Actually, it's not that difficult, just take it step by step. As long as you learn pinyin, you can understand the dictionary. Even if you learn to write two words a day, then in three years you will be able to know two thousand words, and then what is the difficulty of being promoted to battalion commander. Li Shenxing said loudly at the top of his voice, he has been an education committee member in the army for more than half a year, and his voice has also become louder.

Li Shenxing's words filled the soldiers below with confidence, and it seems that this thing is not so difficult!

The words of the education committees of the other battalions were almost identical, which boosted the morale of the battalions for the study of literature. So much so that every night, the soldiers of each battalion read at night, and even during the daytime training break, many soldiers also wrote and drew on the ground with branches.

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The battalion commanders were under pressure to compete with the soldiers in literacy, and the literacy results of the battalions were compared every month, and there were training competitions every month.

The training competition was won, and the literacy aspect was pulled down and the training was taken. The literacy results went up, the training was pulled down and had to be trained, and every month Zhao Yong and Wang Wenyue were trained to the point of disgrace. Lin Yi's cavalry battalion lacks comparison, it is better, if it is compared to the literacy progress of the second cavalry battalion, it is inevitable that he will be trained.

The weapons trained by the cavalry battalion were also changed, bows and arrows were eliminated and a newly developed mounted gun was equipped. This four-pound mounted rifle is a miniature version of the flintlock pistol used by the infantry. The effective range is 100 meters, and it can pierce armor within 80 meters.

It is also equipped with a more convenient holster, which can be inserted into the holster after firing bullets, and then switch to saber melee combat.

Zhao Yan is constantly compiling advanced mathematics textbooks, teaching the ballistics of the main gunners of the artillery battalion.

As the commander of the artillery battalion, Su Buheng is very concerned about the study of ballistics, and Su Buheng, who has served in the army, naturally knows that Zhao Yan values ability.

If he can't show superior ability, the position of battalion commander is estimated to have to be replaced.

Zhao Yan also focused on teaching Su Buheng, after all, if he cultivated a person who could go on the track, he would be able to withdraw from the training of the artillery battalion.

Artillery is being produced in a steady stream, and by September, more than 100 75-mm field guns have been equipped, and although the effective range of this 75 field gun is only about 1200 meters, it can shoot shells out of 2000 meters, with a maximum elevation angle of 35 degrees.

The grenade has the ability to attack the fortification within 1200 meters, but the grenade fired has the ability to kill the enemy within 2000 meters, which is a good field artillery.

After more than a month of experiments, the artillery laboratory determined a 260-kilogram 75-mm howitzer, with a diameter of only 13 times, a tube length of 0.97 meters, and a charge of nearly half, with an effective firing range of only 300 meters and a maximum firing range of 1,200 meters.

The main role of this 75-mm field howitzer is to fire grenades to kill enemy troops within 1200 meters, with a maximum elevation angle of 65 degrees, and its weight is half that of a 75-meter field cannon.

First of all, the weight of the howitzer itself is lighter than that of the cannon, and then this howitzer sacrifices the range, and the weight is reduced to 260 pounds.

With a weight of 260 pounds, a horse can pull it away.

This howitzer is mainly equipped with infantry battalion artillery, and the artillery of the artillery battalion is mainly equipped with 75 mm field cannons, and it is also necessary to be equipped with some larger caliber siege guns.

Each gun was equipped with a horse pull, and the requirement for mobile was to be as fast as it could.

At the same time, this lightweight field howitzer can be equipped with a mounted artillery battalion, although the artillery battalion also has horses, but the main task of the artillery battalion is ultra-long-range killing and attacking, and the artillery equipped with heavier artillery is lower.

The cavalry artillery battalion is equipped with this kind of light artillery, and its main role is fire support, killing and injuring enemy troops, and the mobile surname will be stronger. The cavalry battalion has not yet been formed, and it is not so urgent.

The system of field artillery was determined, and the main research and development direction of the artillery laboratory became the research and development of grenade detonation fuses, as well as the study of medium and heavy siege artillery.

The grenade of this 75-mm gun has a killing diameter of about eight meters.

The key to the grenade is the explosion time, if it explodes at a height of several hundred meters, it will definitely not blow up people. The grenade technology of later generations was to touch the ground and explode, which was not so powerful in this era, and could only be exploded at regular intervals with a fuse.

Therefore, it is necessary to design grenades with different explosion times corresponding to the artillery model and distance, and cooperate with the artillery's familiarity with these data in order to exert real lethality.

The role of medium and heavy siege artillery is mainly used in city defense, siege, and naval use.

Artillery explosions often occur in artillery laboratories, but there is a safety fuse, and people run away in advance, so artillery research is very convenient.

Artillery experiments in this era were very difficult, mainly because there was no safety fuse, so new artillery did not emerge so quickly.

Zhao Yan's artillery laboratory, using iron mold casting technology, coupled with a safety fuse, almost every day there are new types of artillery experiments, and then record various data to continue to research new types of artillery......

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