"Reload!"

"Aim!"

"Fire!"

A burst of gunfire rang out, and the veteran Xu Guangzu violently whipped the new recruits one by one:

"Bastard! Why are your hands shaking, look where you hit! ”

"Didn't you fucking explain the essentials of shooting? Just know the waste that spoils the grain! ”

"And you, do you know why I hit you? The whole team is accurate for you, why don't you usually teach the brothers in the team, people can show that you are god if they don't play well, right? Don't be a soldier, go to Lao Tzu as a captain! Who, don't be the captain of you, learn to shoot the gun first. ”

“……”

The soldiers stood still one by one, happily and convincingly receiving the latest chapter of Xu Guangzu's whipping fruit and vegetable love. They all understood that Xu Guangzu was measured, made a big mistake, and drew heavily; Those who make small mistakes are smoked lightly; As for those that are not wrong at all, Xu Guangzu will also whip them down, but basically it means dusting off the other party.

Xu Guangzu trained his recruits extremely strictly, and everyone was afraid of him and respected him. After a period of training, everyone knows that this uncle-level boss is actually fierce and kind-hearted, he scolds people very ruthlessly, but he cares about every soldier very much. Everyone naturally called him Mr. Qian on the training ground, and in private, they all learned to look like a garrison adult, calling him Uncle Xu, or Old Man Xu, or even Granny Xu......

Half of these recruits were pryed in by Su Hao and others from various offices in Huai'anwei, and the other half were peasant children recruited from various prefectures and counties in Huai'an Prefecture. The people of Huai'an Mansion suffered deeply from Haoqiang and the Japanese Invaders, Su Hao led his troops to pacify the Japanese Invaders, shocked the Haoqiang, and became famous for a while, and the young people who were willing to serve as soldiers in the Kanyu Camp gathered from all over the world, and almost collapsed the camp gate of the Kanyu Camp.

In order to pry people from Huai'anwei, Su Hao specially visited Li Shida once and made this request to him. Li Shida felt a little painful for Su Hao for poaching the best sergeants under him, but in the end he still put on a reluctant look and nodded and let go.

According to the news from the capital, Su Hao is a person who is favored by Wanli, Wang Xijue and Wang Yijue, and he has an absolute advantage in age, and he belongs to a very advantageous potential stock, how can Li Shida not invest here? In addition, Su Hao gave Li Shida a great credit for quelling the Japanese Invaders this time, and afterwards gave Li Shida more than a dozen treasures and antiques collected from the Japanese Bandits' lair, thinking of these benefits, Li Shida couldn't refuse Su Hao's request.

In fact, whether these guards are elite or not is also a matter of irrelevance to Li Shida. In his opinion, the better the soldier, the more thorny he is, Su Hao wants it, just let him take it away. The land of Juntun is limited, and if some people leave, the rest can at least live a little more comfortably.

Su Hao was not too greedy, he knew that it would not be digestible to recruit too many soldiers at once, so the three departments under the battalion, each of which only recruited sixty percent of the quotas, and the remaining quotas were going to be added later.

The firearms department recruited more than 500 people, Xu Guangzu temporarily served as the general manager, and Xiong Minyang became a general manager, and at the same time was responsible for serving as a firearms instructor. Another firearms instructor in the firearms battalion is Chen Guanyu, a veteran who has spent more than half a year practicing marksmanship and is now a sharpshooter. In addition, the earliest jar of nitroglycerin in the Kanyu camp was prepared by him, so he also has some experience in blasting technology.

After the first batch of flintlock muskets arrived from the Sushi Industrial Park in Beijing, the firearms battalion began live-fire training. This batch of flintlock pistols is different from the guns that Su Hao asked Hao and his son to make before, the previous guns were used for self-defense, and they were all short guns, but this batch was used for field battles, so they were all changed to long guns.

The guns used in the army of the Ming Dynasty were originally divided into long guns and short guns, and Su Hao's flintlock pistol was only different from the flintlock pistol compared with the firecracker, one was the flintlock ignition method, and the other was to load from the breech. Of course, these two differences are the most important changes, which comprehensively increase the firing speed of the firearm, so that it can exert greater power on the battlefield.

Under Su Hao's prompting, Luo Yuqing developed a propellant based on yellow **, which increased the range of the flintlock pistol to nearly 500 meters, and it could form a lethal ability within 300 meters. Compared with the previous "shotgun" with a range of about 150 meters, its performance has been more than doubled.

As a battle-hardened veteran, Xu Guangzu was keenly aware of the impact of the improvement of firearms on the battlefield combat mode. He carried forward the three-stage shooting method that had been used in the army as early as the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, combined with the traditional formation, and created a combat formation called the "Platoon Gun Formation", which could use a force of about 900 people in a division to continuously cover the front of the front up to 2 miles wide.

Su Hao had specially visited the training of the firearms battalion, and he had planned to introduce Xu Guangzu to the combat methods of the Prussian army, for example. When he went to the training ground, he was stunned, it turned out that the wisdom of the ancient Chinese was far better than that of the ancients in Europe, and the methods that people could think of, Xu Guangzu and they also thought of it, and what the Europeans couldn't think of, Xu Guangzu and they could also think of.

"Su Shoubei, can we practice like this?" Xu Guangzu asked Su Hao happily, of course, he didn't expect Su Hao to give any better advice. After spending so much time with Su Hao, Xu Guangzu found that Su Hao was very smart in some things, and very ignorant in some things, at least in terms of training soldiers, Su Hao definitely belonged to the rookie level.

"It's good, it's good, it's the latest chapter of the Lu family's show. Uncle Xu, you are really the reincarnation of Sun Wu. Su Hao said sincerely. He originally wanted to say that Xu Guangzu was China's Clausewitz, but after thinking about it, why do you have to use foreigners to compare Chinese?

"That's not enough for Su Shoubei to be the reincarnation of your Luban." Xu Guangzu complimented Su Hao in turn and said, "Old man, I have lived to be 60 years old, and it is the first time I have seen such a good musket." If we had such muskets 30 years ago, maybe my old brothers would have survived a few more. ”

"Uncle Xu, then please bother with more and train these young people well. I hope that these young people will survive on the battlefield in the future. Su Hao said.

Xu Guangzu shook his head and said, "Alas, maybe they won't be able to fight at all." Like the last time we fought the Japanese Invaders, it was just a small fight, and the real tough battle was against the Tatars and Warats. After the imperial court canonized the king of Shunyi, it has been almost 20 years, and there is basically no big war in the north. It's a pity that such a good firearm is useless. ”

Su Hao smiled slightly and said, "Uncle Xu is too optimistic, the battle we will fight in the future may be bigger and more cruel than before." What I'm worried about now is whether our soldiers will have time to train them, not whether they will be useful or not. I'll make you a bet that within five years...... Maybe within three years, there will be a big battle around Daming. ”

"The big battle? With whom to fight? Xu Guangzu was stunned, he was also an old man in the military department, he belonged to a well-informed person, if even Su Hao could foresee that there was a big battle to be fought, he had no reason not to know.

Su Hao smiled and said nothing, in fact, he didn't know who he was going to fight and when he would start fighting. In his vague memory, he seems to have watched a TV series in his previous life, in which he talked about the three major signs of Wanli, and he couldn't remember exactly what happened in which era. Among the three major campaigns, there was a battle with Yang Yinglong in Banzhou, and according to what Su Hao saw in Banzhou, Yang Yinglong's rebellion should be a matter of the next few years, so these three major campaigns should start one after another.

"You kid, you have a different vision than others, maybe you really have some way." Xu Guangzu said, "Since you said that there is a big battle to be fought, maybe you really let your crow mouth talk." By the way, Wang Yihe is in a hurry to let you train a firearms battalion, is this just for this? ”

"Uncle Xu, don't inquire about this." Su Hao was happy that Xu Guangzu would turn the object of his questioning to Wang Yiju, so that he would not be too demonic, "What you have to do now is to make the firearms department form combat effectiveness as soon as possible." Haven't you heard that sharpshooters are fed with cartridges of bullets...... Uh, what is a bullet, don't ask, in short, do more live-fire training, don't feel sorry for gunpowder, understand? ”

"Su Shoubei, I heard that this paper shell bullet is the paper bullet you just said, right? One is worth 1 cent of silver, and if you shoot 100 shots, one or two pieces of silver will be gone, is it true? Xu Guangzu asked.

Su Hao nodded, he knew the cost of the bullet best. This kind of live-fire training is all for nothing. In addition to the consumption of bullets, the barrel actually has a service life, such a high-density shooting, the barrel has to be replaced at intervals, and this cost is not less than the cost of bullets. However, even so, Su Hao still insisted on letting the soldiers do more live-fire training, which was the consciousness of being a traverser, of course, provided that he had to be a relatively wealthy traverser.

"It's about the same price, but don't feel distressed, go for 2,000 taels of silver first. A soldier's life on the battlefield is worth much more than a tael of silver, isn't it? Su Hao said.

Xu Guangzu said: "Of course I understand this truth, but I'm just worried that our survey camp doesn't have so much money to waste." Alas, if all the generals of my Ming Dynasty could change their minds like you, the army would not have collapsed to this point. ”

Su Hao said: "Actually, if a battle is lost, the loss of money and grain will be tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of taels. If you use this money for military training, you will be able to save these losses when you are fighting, and you can also save the lives of soldiers. ”

"The military department is a bunch of rubbish!" Xu Guangzu said indignantly, "Of course, Wang Yihe is still a person with some vision, otherwise, he would not be optimistic about your character Su Gaizhi." ”

"I think I'll use my future results to prove that he didn't see anyone wrong." Su Hao replied with a smile.