Hearing Lin Zhe say this, Hunter shook his head: "No, no, general, the most critical thing in the battle is to give them the most ruthless blow at the beginning, be sure to fire the most bullets in the first round of guns, as long as we are close enough to shoot after the enemy shoots, then only one round of salvo is needed, and the enemy will definitely collapse!" The next thing is to take out the remnants of the enemy with just a bayonet! ”

Hearing Hunter say that he was close enough to shoot and shoot after the enemy had fired, Lin Zhe secretly muttered in his heart that these British people would not die in battle.

The tactics of the British in those years were very simple and crude, that is, to shoot after the enemy had fired, often to continue to advance after the enemy's first volley, and then to charge after a volley.

Lin Zhe said: "But Mr. William, do you think that with the range of the rifle guns we are equipped with, can the enemy still fire the first shot before us?" ”

Hearing Lin Zhe's words, Hunter William was also stunned, yes, now Lin Zhe's army is not equipped with an old-fashioned smoothbore gun with a range of only about two hundred yards, but a rifled gun that fires Mini bullets, which has an effective range of at least twice as long as the old-fashioned smoothbore gun.

The effective range of 500 yards, even if it is reduced to 400 yards or even 300 yards in actual combat, is enough for your troops to charge after firing several platoons of guns against the enemy.

However, the firing range is the range, and it has nothing to do with whether the salvo or the round fire is fired or not, so Hunter Wilhelm still stubbornly refuted Lin Zhe's words: "General, the essence of war will never change, that is, the pursuit of maximum firepower, and strive to defeat the enemy in the shortest possible time, because a salvo is necessary, and the Mini Infantry gun we are equipped with has a long range, so we can fire a few more salvos, which has little impact!" ”

As a stubborn former British officer, Hunter would not abandon his habit of fighting for many years, so he had no affection for Lin Zhe's multi-row round shooting.

As for the endless network of fire, Hunter Wilhelm said: "A thunderous salvo is far better than three rounds."

Lin Zhe is not a person who knows much about military affairs, whether it is in his previous life or in this life, he is a typical layman in the military, and the current training is actually just to see the excitement, and he can't see more things.

The Yongying Battalion of Yuyao County played in line every day, and then trained to reload and shoot, and an army slowly took shape.

As time passed, at the end of May, with the official letter sent by Huang Zonghan, the governor of Zhejiang, urging him again, Lin Zhe also knew that he was not good enough to continue to drag on.

On the same day, he held a military meeting of the county Yongying for the first time, and there were not many people who participated in the meeting, in addition to Lin Zhe himself, there were also Hunter William, the former head of the nursing home of the Lin Mansion, and Wang Luyun, the current captain of the county Yongying personal guard, in addition to the officials and officers who Lin Zhe had recently recruited or promoted.

Including Xu Yanqing, the commander of the first company, this person was originally a nursing home of the Lin Mansion Nursing Hospital, and his skills as a nursing home were naturally good, and he was one of the few people who followed Wang Jiao to the first time he rushed into battle.

When he first entered the Yong Battalion, he served as a platoon commander, and soon won Lin Zhe's attention because of his flexibility, and then he came out with a relatively good tactical absorption ability, and he accepted Professor Hunter William's various tactics very quickly, and soon he was able to command the troops decently.

Now that there is an extreme shortage of qualified officers under Lin Zhe, he can naturally stand out and become the company commander of the first company.

Then there was the second company commander Xu Peng'an, this person is the son of Lin Fu, before Lin Zhe compiled the county Yongying, he became one of the nursing homes when he expanded the nursing home, and later also because of his personal prominence, so he served as a platoon commander, and then he listened to the courses of the camp school, and his personal military literacy increased very quickly, so Lin Zhe also raised him to serve as the company commander of the second company.

And the remaining third company commander Qu Panyun, fourth company commander Lin Anfei, fifth company commander Shen Chiyun, and sixth company commander Shi Langyi are all students of Suiying Academy.

Among them, Lin Anfei is still a side child of the Lin family, although it has been separated by many generations, but in terms of generation, he still has to call Lin Zhe a cousin.

Among the more than ten first-phase students in the Suiying Academy, their personal qualities were relatively high, so they were selected to serve as company commanders successively.

As for the other students in the camp academy, six of them were arranged to become deputy company commanders, and the remaining few were assigned to the supervision and training office, the camp office, the food and salary bureau, the ordnance bureau and other institutions in the battalion headquarters.

To be honest, except for Hunter William, who is a qualified soldier, the others, including Lin Zhe and the six company commanders, are all half-witted, and they have only been exposed to formal military knowledge for more than a month, Lin Zhe is essentially a businessman, and the others are all literati.

Therefore, the Yongying of Yuyao County in this year is very similar to the Hunan Army, that is, scholars lead the troops, and the officers are not generals in the traditional sense, but scholars.

"The governor has come to urge many times, and now we can't delay it any longer, so this official has decided to start the day after tomorrow, you must be ready!"

Lin Zhe didn't plan to say too much in today's meeting, after all, he also stayed in the barracks every day, and he knew everything in the barracks, and those officers also knew that they were going to go on the expedition in the near future.

Now, it's just that the moment has come!

After hearing Lin Zhe's words, some people showed frightened looks, some showed excited looks, while Hunter William's eyes flashed, as if he saw countless gold and silver and beckoned to him.

The day before the opening, Lin Zhe met Huang Peizhi, and the reason for seeing him was not to tell about separation, but to play a farewell drama like other ancients.

Rather, because Yuyao County also needs to levy about 300 people as the chief husband of the county Yong battalion to fight with the army, shouldering the logistics and transportation tasks of the army, Lin Zhe wants to accept these people from Huang Peizhi.

These requisitioned men were not paid, but the Yongying side was responsible for their rations.

With these 300 people, the soldiers of Lin Zhe's county Yong battalion don't have to be distracted to manage logistics affairs.

After dealing with the camp affairs that should be prepared before departure, Lin Zhe returned to the Lin Mansion that night, and when he returned to the backyard, Mrs. Lin was already waiting.

"My son is fighting this time, so don't insult the prestige of my Lin family." Mrs. Lin continued: "Give our Lin family a future!" ”

"But before the battle, you must also put your own safety first!" When Mrs. Lin said this, her tone softened: "Our Lin family is just such a single seedling as you, and I am still waiting for the day when I will hold my grandson!" ”

Lin Zhe naturally claimed to be Mrs. Lin's words, and then he listened to Mrs. Lin's advice and retreated, and before going out, he saw that Mrs. Lin had already taken out the Buddha beads again.

After going out, Lin Zhe looked at the dark night sky, and remembered what Mrs. Lin said just now, this huge Lin family has only one seedling of Lin Zhe, if he dies, it is estimated that Mrs. Lin's mother will lose the pillar of life.

Although the Lin family is an old family that has been bred for hundreds of years, there are quite a lot of side children, but the elder branch of the Changfang has been two consecutive generations of thin blood, Lin Zhe's father has three brothers, but the eldest brother died young, and the third brother also fell into the water and died at the age of sixteen, only two sons, that is, Lin Zhe's father married his own son, but after marrying his wife and before he died of illness, only Mrs. Lin gave birth to Lin Zhe such a son, and many concubines did not give birth to sons, only gave birth to three daughters.

Therefore, in Lin Zhe's generation, there is only one only son like Lin Zhe, as for the daughters born to the three concubines, in the eyes of Mrs. Lin, they are no different from passers-by, and they are not from the Lin family at all.

is such an only son as Lin Zhe, so the Lin family arranged a good family affair for him early, the other party is the daughter of the Chen family in Shanyin County, the Chen family is a typical scholarly family, and the father of the daughter of the Chen family is a lifter, but he has not been admitted to the Jinshi for decades.

One is the daughter of a scholarly family, and the other is the only son of the richest family in Yuyao, and he can be regarded as a good person.

But the marriage of this pair of men and women is not very smooth, Lin Zhe was about to get married at the age of nineteen, Lin's father died of illness, so he had to keep filial piety, and it was naturally impossible to get married in the next three years.

finally survived more than two years, and when it seemed that it was time to get through the three-year filial piety period and get married, the father of the daughter of the Chen family, that is, the old man, also died of illness, and the daughter of the Chen family had to keep filial piety, which dragged down again.

Today, Lin Zhe is already in his twenties, and the daughter of the Chen family is twenty this year.

If Mrs. Lin wants to hold her grandson, she has to wait for the end of the filial piety period of the daughter of the Chen family next year at the earliest, so that Lin Zhe and the daughter of the Chen family can get married, and she can hold her grandson in the year after tomorrow.

didn't want to do these housework, Lin Zhe slept in the house for one night, and early the next morning, he took Wang Luyun and other guards to the school barracks

After arriving at the barracks, Lin Zhe and Huang Peizhi stepped onto the temporary podium and told more than 500 people in the camp about the words of Wen Xuan's oath, which was nothing more than how bad the Taiping Army was, and his own expedition represented justice.

When he said these words, Lin Zhe was wearing an official robe and looked like a bloated old lady, and if you watched him walk around, he would be a zombie in a live Hong Kong movie.

Although Lin Zhe himself rejects this official robe, but these years the officials are wearing it like this, and people pay very attention to the etiquette, especially the dress, if Lin Zhe does not wear an official uniform and a civilian clothes, the impact is not good, if he wears a suit, it is estimated that he will be scolded as a fake foreign devil immediately.

Not only Lin Zhe himself wears official robes, but even the soldiers and officers under his command also wear traditional military uniforms.

The military uniforms of this county Yong battalion are similar to those of other contemporary Qing army uniforms, all of which are robes and horse coats, and then there is a big brave character on the chest, which is described in the words of foreigners: a pair of cloth bag pants, a colorful and ill-fitting battle jacket, a headscarf or a hammer-shaped hat on the head, often holding a fan or umbrella, and a big target on the chest of the jacket.

As soon as you see a soldier in this outfit, you know that this is cannon fodder!

The only difference from other Qing troops is that the soldiers of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County have a strip of cloth tied to their legs: leggings.

After the oath was completed, Lin Zhe ordered the whole army to leave, so more than 500 people left the barracks, and then stepped onto the streets and headed towards the city gate.

When more than 500 people in the Yuyao County Yong Battalion carried guns and marched through the streets in a neat procession, they attracted a lot of onlookers.

It's just that they didn't see any difference between this army and the armies of the other imperial courts, and perhaps the only impression was that this county Yong battalion didn't seem to use swords and guns much, except for the twenty or so horses on horseback who used sabers, most of the others were carrying muskets.

After leaving Yuyao County, Lin Zhe took his Yuyao County Yong Battalion directly to the north, riding on a horse, he looked at the army in front of him and behind him, although this army is only a few hundred people, but this is the foundation of his future achievements, Lin Zhe rarely gave birth to a heroic heart, the fame of the Hunan army and the Huai army is as big as that, over time, he may not be able to bring out a famous Zhejiang army.

This era belongs to me Lin Zhe!