After Liu Jun took the three teams of Zuoqi to make an example, it really had a good effect. The three teams were each beaten with 20 military sticks, and the skin of the beating was open, the buttocks were blooming, and they lay on the bed for half a month.

And in the half month that they have been recuperating from their injuries, none of the more than 100 people in the Nine-Headed Bird Cavalry have dared to make the song of the cane horse. All of them honestly obeyed Liu Jun's training.

However, from the beginning of the three-step training, all kinds of foreign appearances were chaotic, and they couldn't even distinguish between left and right, and now, half a month later, they can finally follow Liu Jun's command, listen to the drums, and complete beautiful line movements. With Liu Jun's command, stand upright, step forward, step in unison, run forward, and look good. Even during this time, they had already preliminarily mastered the flag and drum orders, knew the meaning of various horn sounds, and also knew how to read the flag commands.

This is much better than Liu Jun expected, he originally planned to complete these trainings in a month, but now they have mastered the most basic ones in only half a month.

After a parade exercise, Liu Jun generously rewarded the three best performing teams and the three best performing soldiers. The three best performing teams were rewarded with two taels, one tael and five coins respectively. Then the three best performers were rewarded in the same way.

The silver was distributed in public, and the teams and individuals who were named came to the stage to receive the rewards in public.

Where there is a reward, there is a penalty, and the same is true for the three teams and three individuals who perform the worst. The penalties were the three worst performing teams, each with a penalty of five dollars in silver, and a month of cleaning the barracks toilets. The three worst performers were each fined five dollars in silver, and they were also fined for cleaning the stables for a month.

Next, Liu Jun began to let them continue the training pace and queue in the morning, but began to carry out other training content in the afternoon.

I wake up early every morning and go for a long run. Originally, there was also long-distance running, but from now on, it was changed to weight-bearing long-distance running, and all the soldiers put on their own ten catties of cotton armor, and had to wear their equipment knives and guns together, in addition to carrying two catties of coconut scoops filled with water, five catties of dry food, a backpack with tents, etc., and the weight of the whole body added up to forty catties.

This weight is actually lower than the standard weight of the border army of the Ming Dynasty, and it is said that the standard weight of the border army when they go out to fight is fifty catties.

Carrying this full set of equipment for a long run is now the first thing to do every morning after waking up. At the beginning, Liu Jun set the task of running a mile with weights every morning, and required the queue to be qualified if the queue was not dispersed. Then the team disbanded and began to run two miles with individual weights. In the future, he will have to move up on this basis, and in the end, his plan is to be able to run ten miles in one go, and the team will not disperse.

In the actual training record, training of hand strength, full strength, and physical strength is also listed as the most basic training requirement. When it comes to cold weapons, strength is an important basic condition. If you don't have the strength, you can move the big sword and the bow and arrow. If you don't have the strength, how can you carry swords, guns, food and armor to chase the enemy. Even in this era, logistical support was often extremely weak, and the enemy preferred to strike by cutting off the grain routes, which led to the fact that large armies had to carry enough food and grass when marching, and soldiers were often required to bear if there were insufficient horses and vehicles, or even if the roads were poor.

After the long run in the morning, the morning is followed by pace and queue training, and then in the afternoon the weapons are practiced.

Weapons practice according to their position in the team, the bird gun hand practice bird gun and broadsword, the archer practice bow shooting and broadsword, and the hook gunner practice hook gun and rocket, the team general rules have to practice sword, gun and arrow, and the firefighter practice stick and knife.

However, at the beginning, Liu Jun did not let them practice directly with real knives and guns, but made a batch of wooden knives and guns and let them practice with them. The archers got a pure training bow, and they opened the hard bow again and again to practice their arm strength. The shotgunners practiced various postures with shotguns, and Liu Jun even hung a brick with a rope for their guns.

In short, in what Liu Jun said to Li Chunjiang, that is, they must first be truly familiar with their weapons, and then they can start real actual military practice.

In the evening, there is also a training subject, which is horseback riding. But again, there were no real horses for them to train. Instead, they got more than a dozen wooden horses and put them on the playground, and let the villagers use the wooden horses to practice getting on and off the horses, and the posture of riding horses. As long as you meet the standard in the practice of the wooden horse, you are qualified to ride a real war horse training.

After all, there are only one hundred and twenty war horses, and there is only one for each person, so such a precious horse cannot be wasted, and good steel must be used on the steel blade.

The most difficult weapon to practice is the Bird Gun.

Compared to bows and arrows, it can be said that the bird is the easiest. It doesn't take much skill, just a casual ordinary person who teaches it twice is almost enough to shoot. But it's easy to get started, but it's the hardest to get fine.

Bows and arrows are difficult to learn, but they can be practiced over time. Even there are many hunters in the folk who can use bows, even if their bows are just ordinary hunting bows, but give them a small tip, they can quickly grasp the difference and give full play to their archery skills.

The bird gun is different, this thing is easy to shoot, but it is difficult to hit. The bird gun is a relatively accurate firearm in the late Ming Dynasty, a good bird gun can hit the target at a distance of 80 steps, and the target at a distance of 80 steps is wearing two layers of wet blankets, as long as it is hit, it will be seriously injured.

However, advanced firearms with such a long range are difficult to master. The vast majority of soldiers have a sense of rejection of firearms, they are afraid of the loud sound of firearms, smoke, afraid of firearms exploding, and at the same time the bird guns fire a shot, there are more than a dozen steps to load, quite troublesome and complicated, on the battlefield, many guns are nervous, sometimes they will make mistakes, either miss a step, or repeat the action.

Some people put several lead bullets into their guns, some people don't even remember to take them out, or they put too much gunpowder and too little, all sorts of problems.

This is also mostly because of the imperial court, which led to those craftsmen cutting corners, originally a barrel could fire hundreds of rounds, but in the end it could only fire dozens of rounds, or even twenty or thirty rounds were scrapped, some guns were too thin, if they were according to the standard charge, they would explode if they were not careful.

In addition, lead bullets and gunpowder are often substandard, resulting in the final bird gun is not reliable at all. This is also the reason why the border army in the north would rather use the more ancient musket three-eyed guns than the advanced arquebuses.

Now Liu Jun wants to let his bird guns overcome these fears, first of all, let them be familiar with the bird guns, break down the loading and firing actions one by one, let them memorize them repeatedly, and then practice real guns and shoot live ammunition, at that time, everyone will no longer be blindly afraid of bird guns.

Although it is said that the bird gun has all kinds of problems, the loading is complicated, the shooting accuracy is low, and it is often not usable in rainy days, but the trend of history is, after all, that firearms will replace cold weapons.

A good archer may require more than three or even five years of training to be proficient in long knives and bows, and even the simplest pikemen need at least one or two years of training.

And a bird gunner, as long as there is no problem with the equipment, then there is no need for any natural strength, and there is no need for a tall gunner, even if it is a woman, as long as the firearms and gunpowder are okay, and with correct training, there is half a year, even if you can't become a sharpshooter.

But as long as you line up in a shotgun line and fire the shotguns continuously, you can also achieve a more powerful strike effect than a crossbowman.

During this time, Liu Jun has actually been silently training the use of shotguns.

After more than half a month of practice, with his original marksman's bow shooting level, he has now initially mastered the ability to shoot with firearms, after all, in modern times, he has been a soldier for seven years, and he doesn't know how many bullets he has fired. Although the original arquebus bird gun is used today, it can be regarded as the same.

Liu Jun took a bird gun and walked in front of the twenty-four guns, "You see, the bird gun is practiced, and it is more powerful than a bow and arrow." ”

He brought a bird's standard firearm, a bird's gun, a cane, and two gunpowder canisters, one for ignition and one for propellant. Five fire ropes, thirty medicine tubes, and three hundred buckshot shots.

"You're optimistic about my sequence."

Liu Jun first poured an appropriate amount of granular propellant into the gun tube, no more, no less, more there was a danger of exploding, and if there was less, the lead bullet would not be far away. Therefore, it is necessary to pour a certain amount of gunpowder into the medicine tube in advance, and the thirty powder tubes in the gun hand equipment that Liu Jun took out are the gunpowder that has been quantitatively loaded, and each tube is exactly one shot.

In this way, Liu Jun can directly take a tube and pour it into the pipe, so you don't have to worry about how much.

After pouring the gunpowder, the gunpowder is evenly pressed with a through strip inserted into the gunpowder tube, and then a lead bullet is loaded, and the lead bullet is also pushed to the bottom of the chamber to press the propellant to ensure air tightness.

Then, he opened the fire door cover, sprinkled the powdered powder into the medicine pool, then closed the fire door cover on the medicine pool, and then lit the fire rope and tied it to the dragon's head, and the other end of the rope was wrapped around the gun.

After this set of actions was completed, Liu Jun said, "Look at it, open the fire door cover at this time, pull the trigger, and the lead bullet will shoot out of the clouds." ”

An inquiring rope can be fired multiple times without extinguishing it, but the explosion of the ignition powder can easily cause the arquebus to pop out of the faucet and have to be reloaded each time.

And to complete the preparation for loading and firing, it takes half a minute for a skilled gunner, and at least a minute for an ordinary musketeer, and even for many bird gunners in the Ming army, it takes two or three minutes to fire a shot.

And there are many restrictions on the use of bird guns by cavalry, the recoil of bird guns is very large, and it is basically difficult to shoot with bird guns on horseback, most of the time, bird guns cavalry just ride and maneuver, and when shooting, they have to dismount.

However, the range of the Bird Gun is much longer than that of muskete guns such as the Three-Eyed Gun and the Quick Gun.

Liu Jun took a standing shooting posture and aimed at the target eighty paces ahead, which was originally the step-down arrow target trained by the archers.

"Look!" Liu Jun suddenly shouted.

Then pull the trigger.

There was a loud "bang", and a burst of gunpowder smoke rose up.

Then the lead bullet in the gun tube sprayed out, and the arrow target Bang Bang eighty paces away made a sound, and the lead bullet was accurately hit.

"Hit, hit, hit!"

Many sharp-eyed people saw the buckshot that was deep in the target.

Liu Jun put away the gun, stretched out his hand to wipe his sweat, and said in his heart that fortunately he didn't miss, otherwise he would have lost face. Although he has practiced hard for so long, he can take eighty steps to the target, even if it is this kind of very accurate customized version of the bird's gun, Liu Jun's usual results are at most ten shots and eight hits. No matter how accurate he aimed, there was always one or two out of ten shots that missed the target.

Everyone looked at Liu Jun with admiration, especially the twenty-four bird guns. Before, most of them were hunters, and they all had good archery skills. was arranged to be a gunner, and I was a little dissatisfied in my heart.

But today, after seeing Liu Jun personally hit the bullseye with a shot from 80 steps away, they suddenly felt that the bird gun was so powerful. The Bird Gun is slower to reload, but it doesn't take much effort. The bow and arrow shoot a dozen arrows almost out of strength and the arm is sore, but this bird, as long as there is a chance, even if you fire twenty or thirty shots, it will not be effortless.

"The bird's gun is practiced well, no worse than the bow and arrow, as long as everyone is willing to work hard, they can also be like me. I'll tell you again, half a month ago, I didn't know how to use a bird gun at all, but after only half a month of practice, I can wear a hundred steps. Today I will offer you a reward, a month later, who can take 80 steps, 5 out of 10, reward 5 coins of silver, 6 out of 10, reward 6 coins, if it is 10 out of ten, then I will reward him with 2 taels of silver. In addition, the test will be conducted once a month in the future, and as long as you can score more than 5 out of 10, you will be rewarded. ”

As soon as they heard this, those bird-fighting hands were really boiling and excited. Even if it's five out of ten, there are five dollars of silver. Five coins is a lot, and when they used to be at home, they couldn't even earn five dollars a month.

But in this way, the archers and hookers are not happy, why are the bird gunners treated so well.

"Don't be envious or jealous, I will treat everyone equally. Today, if you put the words here, there will be a reward for the bird and the archer, and if you are more than 5 out of ten in 80 steps, you will have the same reward, and the reward will be the same as that of the bird and the gunner. In addition, as long as the hook gunner immediately gallops to the target, and the five out of ten or more, there is the same reward. ”

Liu Jun's words made the enthusiasm of the villagers for training high.

"Well, then, we can start training them with real weapons." Liu Jun was very satisfied with the atmosphere.

Not far from the other side, Li Chunjiang was watching the field with Qian Gu, Mao Gui, and Wang Zhi, three members of the Li family who had been recuperating from their injuries after being beaten.

He sighed, "You are also veterans who have fought in Liaodong, you can tell me, the nine-sided towns of the Ming Dynasty, in half a month, can you train a group of people to this atmosphere?" ”

Qian Gu looked at the warm atmosphere on the field, as well as the murderous aura that had been faintly revealed, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, "When we were paid in Liaodong, we often recruited new recruits. However, the recruited recruits did not have half a year of training, and they could not achieve this atmosphere at all. This Liu Jiye, I don't want him to be young, a little martial artist, but he also has this ability, I looked down on him at the beginning. ”

Li Chunjiang smiled, "So don't always have trouble with Jiye, the so-called master is the teacher, you are at most a group of soldiers, and you can be regarded as a general, so learn more in the future." At the beginning, I thought he was not simple, but I didn't expect that he really picked a treasure. With Liu Jiye helping me train this horse team, within three months, I might already be able to pull it out to fight the thieves. ”

"Childe, you are a noble scholar, why should you be a thief."

"A friend of mine once said to me, the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband, do you understand? Even if I can't protect the country, I have to defend my hometown, otherwise, I will be in vain reading the books of the sages for so many years. Qian Gu, Qian Gui, Wang Zhi, from today onwards, the three of you will come back and follow me as a housekeeper, and I will arrange someone else to be the team leader in Zuoqi. ”

The three of them nodded a little dejectedly, "Yes."

"Pack your things now and go out with me."

"Where are we going?"

Li Chunjiang replied, "Ye Bushu has already found a trace of that gang of thieves, let's dig him out." ”

"And here?"

"There is a succession here, and he is in charge of it, I can rest assured. But Jiye has trained the soldiers so well, we can't always be spectators, let's go and destroy that gang of thieves this time, we have taken the benefits of the local squires, we have to do something, don't we? Li Chunjiang watched Liu Jun's military training so hot, but he couldn't help much, and he had to admit that he was actually a little jealous in his heart. He desperately needed to take down that gang of thieves, so that Liu Jiye could see that Li Chunjiang was not just a rich scholar.