In the next half month, Yang Meng also leaned on the Hulukou military camp, urging Wei Huozi to train his troops every day.

The artillery was handed over to Ge Shiyang, and Yang Meng had always been personally in charge of the infantry soldiers, and the shooting methods and formation arrangements were taught by Ge Shiyang and the two mercenaries, and Yang Meng only made some improvements.

In three days, from dawn to midnight, the 3,000 foot soldiers of the new army, under the supervision of Yang Meng, practiced in no white or black.

In half a day, starting from cleaning the chamber of the gun, to loading the ammunition to the most difficult point and firing, this group of recruits learned it in one day.

Cleaning the chamber of the gun was added by Yang Meng, and it was only cleaned before the first fire, and the other decomposition actions were all taught by the two mercenaries. Under the condition of no ammunition, the reloading and stimulation over and over again, a practice is two days, and none of the 3,000 people slack, which Yang Meng is relatively satisfied with.

The first live firing was on the fourth day, when a team of 100 people fired at the same time, and the smoke from the burning gunpowder instantly enveloped the 100 people in the smoke.

After a Xun's foot soldier tried the first shot, most of the shooting range was shrouded in smoke, and the target the size of the door panel was not very clear. Yang Meng never thought that such a big smoke, three or five thousand people, and he couldn't see anything after two shots, so he still had a fart fight, blind?

"Go and get Master Ge!"

This is a big problem, if the musket is so fucky, it is better for two or three people to carry the tiger squat cannon up! A dozen of them. At least the number of kills is relatively large.

"Your Excellency. What's the problem? ”

Ge Shiyang walked through the smoke to Yang Meng. In the past three days, he has also been frightened, his lord's soldiers, the military discipline is too good, the learning ability is also good, the basic movements of artillery operation, the 1,500 people have basically learned.

Such soldiers, as long as they are trained for half a year, are placed on the European continent. It's also a good army.

"Master Ge, are you also fighting in the smoke on the battlefield in Europe?"

"Oh...... This is the fog of war, which is produced only in windless weather or in low-lying valleys, and without the scale of tens of thousands of people, ordinary battles will not produce the fog of war. This training ground is in the middle of a valley, and this situation is normal. ”

Ge Shiyang's explanation also made Yang Meng breathe a sigh of relief, he was afraid that the musket would not work!

"Master Ge, what is the shooting accuracy of European soldiers?"

Yang Meng's question is very professional. This stumped Ge Shiyang and found two mercenaries. The three of them debated for a long time, and Lao Ge came up with a not very definite answer.

"My lord, the hit rate of group shooting, within a hundred meters, is about one-third to one-quarter, but this is only an approximate number, and the real hit rate is likely to be lower."

When answering this question, Ge Shiyang's confidence was not very strong, and from this point it could be seen that he was a very cautious person, and there was no basis for things coming out of his mouth, and his confidence was obviously insufficient.

"Good! I know, artilleryman, you pay attention to the operation of scattered shells. In Yunnan, there are not many opportunities for the two armies to directly bombard each other, and close confrontation and rapid roundabout combat are the main objectives of your training soldiers. ”

Yang Meng's tactical suggestions were beyond Ge Shiyang's comprehension, and after communicating with the two mercenaries, he understood what his lord meant.

Ge Shiyang's interest in his own Eastern Lord and student has also grown, a general of a country, proficient in business, encouraging education, introducing technology, and proficient in the strategy and tactics of the Western world, he seems to be proficient in everything.

Ignoring Ge Shiyang, who looked confused, Yang Meng pondered the use of the musket, the shooting method taught by Ge Shiyang and the three of them still needs to be improved, he has tried it himself, the effective range of these brown bess is only seventy or eighty meters, beyond this distance, the hit rate will be rapidly reduced.

And the aiming in the standard action, the effect is not very large, one is affected by smoke, the other is that the aiming system of this musket is not good, the former can not be changed, the latter is changed, and the improvement of shooting accuracy will not be great.

Since there is no accuracy at a distance of 100 meters, why can't you raise your gun and shoot it after it is reloaded? As long as you can grasp the stability of the gun at the moment of shooting, the accuracy rate is not low, if you develop a good sense of the gun, the accuracy of this shooting, I am afraid it will be higher than the standard aiming method.

But to achieve such a standard, without hard training, and live fire is not good, Yang Meng asked Ge Shiyang, in Europe soldiers live ammunition shooting training is not a lot, most of the soldiers, on the battlefield, their own shooting experience.

Another point is that the value of ammunition is not low, if 5,000 people are trained to become elite marksmen, the cost of ammunition is definitely not a small amount. Spending money is not a big problem, the main thing is that there is a serious shortage of ammunition on your side.

Although each gun is equipped with nearly 100 cardinal gunpowder projectiles, this number seems to be a lot, and whether it can fight a serious war is still between the two.

Although the gunpowder workshop near the academy has produced a part, its power has not yet been tested, and the people sent by themselves have not really mastered the production skills.

Although gunpowder was also available in the Qing Dynasty, there was a big gap between the ratio and manufacturing process and that of the West, and it could barely be used, but the power of the musket would be greatly weakened.

Lead bullet is easy to make, and there are countless mineral deposits in Yunnan, so it is really not possible, so first configure earth gunpowder and let the soldiers test the gun.

"Wei Huozi, come over here."

With a summons, Wei Huozi ran over.

"You go find some gunpowder that we make ourselves, and then find a man to come over, weigh the gunpowder bag of the foreign devil, and get it out for me according to the amount, I want to test the gun!"

The Yang family had their own gunpowder craftsmen, and for some special purposes, Yang Meng also got them to the barracks in Yiliang. It didn't take long for Wei Huozi to take four or five craftsmen and trot all the way over.

"Third master. We weighed ten packets of foreign gunpowder. The amount of medicine is not much, only about two dollars. With our own medicine, this amount must be at least doubled! The amount of medicine is too large and it is easy to explode, so let me try the gun! ”

The home-made powder gunpowder, Wei Huozi knows that it can catch up with half of the gunpowder of foreign devils, even if it is not good, close to half a tael, in case it hurts the third master. None of the people present can afford it.

"What nonsense! According to the amount of two coins in the foreign medicine package, ten of them were loaded, this musket was not easy to come by, wouldn't it be a pity to blow it up? ”

Wei Huozi followed Yang Meng's instructions and packed ten handfuls of brown shellfish, but the gun was held in his hand, but he couldn't hand it over.

The quality of foreign guns is not bad, but they are also explosive! In case you hurt the third master......

"Be quick!"

Grabbing the musket from Wei Huozi's hand, Yang stepped on the mist and walked towards the shooting range.

"Third master. You have to pay attention! Turn your head when you hit the fire, but don't hurt your eyes!

Bunnies. Pestle me the barrel of the gun in the soil, and if the bastard is gone, I will chop you alive.

Go up to a few big ones and cover the third master! ”

Behind the third master is a group of soldiers, some of their guns are loaded with medicine, in case that cub is not worried and walks behind the third master, even if he regrets his death, he will not be able to save the situation. After ordering the soldiers, Wei Huozi also trotted all the way to follow.

"Superfluous! Don't say this in the future, are you hunchbacks teaching them to shoot my black guns? ”

Wei Huozi did a good job, he was a loyal and usable person, who could make Yang Meng talk like this, and he would slap the entire Yiliang Manor several times.

"If you're not afraid of 10,000, you're afraid of what happens, the third master matters!"

Wei Huozi grinned, and his heart was happy.

"Okay! Let's take a look at the third master's marksmanship? ”

Walking to a place about fifty meters away from the target, Yang Meng stopped, this Qing powder gunpowder, the power should be at this distance, holding the brown beisi in his hand, Yang Meng tried the weight of the test gun, and felt the long-lost gun feeling.

"Go!"

With a quick shot, the trigger was pulled, and the musket's response was disappointing, except for a 'click' sound, nothing else happened.

"What's going on?"

Yang Meng was depressed, he was so easy to get upset, but he didn't expect to meet a stinky man.

"If the flint is broken, just change it."

In the past few days, he has been playing with guns continuously, and Wei Huozi has also become a good player in this, and he can see at a glance that the problem lies there.

"Flint? This thing is not good, does it still affect the firing? ”

Yang Meng was not very interested in these muskets and had not studied them carefully, so he was not very clear about the specific firing process.

"Hmmm! It's hard to use that thing if you hit it too many times, and if you can't hit Mars, you can't shoot it. ”

"Does this flint Yunnan have it?"

"Yes, this thing is all over the mountains, and it's better than the guns, I've got the cubs to get a batch of the best, and the craftsmen are crushing it!"

"Hmmm! That's good, one person has a dozen or twenty pieces, no matter how good or bad this flint is, every time it runs out, it must be replaced with a new one, since there is no shortage, don't die because of these little things. ”

In Yang Meng's eyes, human life is extremely valuable, and extremely worthless, and the death of his own person is a big loss, so Yang Meng equipped the new army with a five-pound copper chest armor; And the lives of enemies and enemies are extremely worthless in Yang Meng's eyes, no matter how many kills his eyes, he will not move them.

Taking the new gun handed by Wei Huozi, Yang Meng still tried it, and then raised the gun to fire, without aiming, and the lead bullet hit the edge of the target.

"Not enough medicine!"

After saying that, Yang Meng took five steps, raised his hand and shot again, but the result was still not very good, at this distance, he could already clearly see the sawdust stirred up on the target.

"It's still not enough!"

At a distance of more than 30 meters, the powder gunpowder of the Qing Dynasty can accurately hit the bull's-eye, and the power of the lead bullet is good, but this distance is not calm.

"! With Lao Tzu's strength, throwing a stone can also kill people, this medicine is too poor! ”

Powder gunpowder, which weighs the same weight as foreign gunpowder, can only shoot half the effective range of others, and this result is dismal.

"Third master, one is the problem of the amount of medicine, and the other is the method of storage, our valley bottom is very humid, and the gunpowder in the jar is a little damp, otherwise there is no problem if you take more than ten or twenty steps."

Wei Huozi also studied these gunpowders of his own, and according to the craftsman's meaning, this gunpowder was damp, so it led to a decrease in medicinal power.

"Then change it, modify the formula according to the humidity at the bottom of the valley, the difference in medicinal power is too great, in case the foreign gunpowder can't be fingered, it depends on our own things." According to this distance, let the soldiers practice their guns, and the goal is to shoot when they raise their guns, pointing where to fight!

This musket can't be fired continuously, and one shot sums up experience, how to shoot accurately, and how to know that one's gun has not been fired, all of which must have experience. Let the cubs take turns fighting, and give you ten days to improve their marksmanship. ”

Estimating the time, there will be more than ten days, and there should be news in Guangzhou, how to act, it depends on the negotiation situation on his father-in-law's side, but according to Yang Meng's estimate, the situation there is definitely not optimistic. (To be continued......)