Chapter 46 Gunpowder

Wang Dou now has only three types of soldiers in the battle team: sword and shield soldiers, pikemen, and fire soldiers. The superior has meat to eat every day, and can also sit on an equal footing with the captain of the army, and when he sees the captain, he only needs to do it, and he does not need to kneel. Medium, eat meat every three days. Those who are inferior eat only dry rice every day. Those who fail to pass each examination will be beaten with a military stick ten times, and those who fail five times will be beaten with a military stick thirty times, expelled from the war team, and demoted to a soldier.

After every two months, the fourth class rises and falls, the middle and lower class can rise, the upper class can also be reduced to the middle and lower class, if there are those who stand still, there are corresponding punishment measures. Once the original wait, you can be exempted from liability. The second original wait, beating five sticks. Three times the original wait, ten sticks. Those who did not wait for more than five times were to be beaten with thirty sticks, expelled from the war team, and demoted to a soldier.

Depending on the performance of the sergeant, if there is a regression or a large proportion of unqualified, even the captain and the captain will be punished.

For example, sword and shield soldiers can dance to cover themselves when they hold their shields. It is medium to be able to test the knife and rush into the gun formation. Let them fight the pikemen with a license, and the opponent will not be as good as the backhand.

Wang Dou also recently built a batch of javelins for use by sword and shield soldiers.

Later, the sword and shield soldiers bid for their guns, and the standard is twenty paces, if they can hit the three copper coins that are hanging there. Medium One, Inferior, Medium Two, Medium, Medium Three, Superior. If one misses, he will be unqualified, and he will be beaten with a military stick.

This standard is far lower than Qi Jiajun's performance appraisal practice, but Wang Dou is not in a hurry and takes his time.

The same is true of the pikemen, who practice their spears by standing on one side of a humanoid wooden handle twenty paces away, with five holes in the eye, throat, heart, waist, and feet, and one inch of wooden balls in each.

When beating the drum, they fly up and poke their guns forward, take any hole, and after stabbing five times, if they can stab the wooden ball in the hole on the gun three times, it is the upper center. Twice, medium. Once, inferior. Not once, and the technique, footwork, body method, and advance and retreat method when testing the gun are not rigorous, it is unqualified, and the military stick waits.

After this hierarchical reward and punishment system came out, each sergeant had a certain sense of crisis, and everyone in his team regarded him as a competitor, but this kind of benign competitive atmosphere was something that Wang Dou was happy to see.

Wang Dou didn't dare to compare with the Qi family army now, and when he trained the bird gun, he only set up a target fifty steps away. However, the training standard is the same, the three are the best, the three are medium, the six shots, and the one is inferior. Shoot six times, and the one who misses once is not qualified.

This bird-sturgeon shot three times in a row, and he was really a marksman.

Noticing Wang Dou's gaze, Han Zhong was also quite complacent, after all, this bird gunner was a soldier on his team.

Wang Dou beckoned the bird and asked, "What's your name?" Where are the people? ”

The bird was decisive and focused when shooting, but when facing Wang Dou and the others, he looked flustered, he nervously touched the corner of his clothes, his voice was quite delicate, and said: "Back to the adult, the little one is called Zhong Xiancai, a native of Ulzhou." ”

Wang Dou nodded and said, "You shot well, the official wants to reward you, come and get a reward." ”

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Wang Dou rewarded the bird handler Zhong Xiancai with a penny, and then toured around the arena to watch the training of those sergeants, while still thinking about a question in his heart.

After the reward and punishment system of craftsmen formulated by themselves, most of the bird guns made by Li Maosen are qualified, and the customized size of the guns basically has certain standards. The excellent quality makes it possible for the bird gun to hold the gun body with confidence during training, and aim carefully close to the tail of the gun, which greatly improves the hit rate of the bird gun.

However, despite this, the reload of each soldier is still slow. With this Zhong Xiancai's shooting, it will take nearly a minute to shoot one, and the shooting degree of other bird gunners is even slower.

The shooting steps of the Ming Dynasty bird gun are about a few steps such as pouring medicine, charging, pressing fire, loading ammunition, loading the fire rope, etc., the skilled shooter is usually only one minute, and some ordinary bird guns, when they arrive on the battlefield, they are in a hurry, and they can shoot one in two minutes.

There's no way to make a flint gun yourself, but you can figure out how to reload the bird. ”

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Soon, Li Maosen made a few samples of cartridge ammunition, put them in a special oil-bag ammunition bag, and took them outside the fort to be test-fired by the bird-gun Zhong Xiancai.

After receiving the task, Zhong Xian became familiar with the ammunition bag on his back, and then entered the realm of concentration according to what Wang Dou said.

He took the bird gun in his hand, opened the fire door, then pulled out a fixed paper tube, bit open one end of the paper shell cartridge with his teeth, and poured some gunpowder into the fire door. Close the fire door, then stuff the gunpowder and projectiles in the paper tube into the gun tube, poke it with a stick, and the fire rope has already been loaded, and you are ready to shoot!

Zhong Xiancai tried firing a few guns, at first he was a little rusty, and then he became more and more proficient, according to his estimates, this fixed paper tube ammunition can indeed greatly save the loading time, he can hit about three times a minute. The rest of the birds, after being proficient, can also fight about two per minute, even if they are on the battlefield, under the influence of all aspects, it is very easy to fight one in a minute.

The people around Wang Dou and the bird gunners in each team were also very happy, and everyone hoped to use this kind of fixed cartridge ammunition in the future.

In this way, Wang Dou ordered another large room to be built next to the craftsman's workshop, and he also selected a group of old and weak women in the fort to help Li Maosen divide the ammunition, and these people could get a fixed monthly ration and food in the future, and if they did a much better job, they would also be rewarded.

This new group of workers in the military factory were very happy, they were not the main laborers at home on weekdays, but now they could also get monthly rations, which made them feel that they were useful, and they spoke louder when they returned home.

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