After meeting Liu Wei, Zhu Cihong did not change places, and directly let Xiao Tugeng in.

Xiao Tugeng has been in Anmin Factory for so long, and he is training on weekdays, but it is rare to encounter an emergency state of night gathering, and he only caught two thieves who stole and sold gunpowder. was such an errand, and he almost died with others, which made Xiao Tugeng feel depressed all day, and after seeing the prince, he was even weaker, for fear of being reprimanded.

On that day, there was a shortage of people in the East Palace, and he was able to be reused in a whole formation, and now more and more soldiers have been promoted to non-commissioned officers, and then selected as officers, and there are many people who are stronger than him. If you fall now, I'm afraid there will be no future for a long time.

"Tu Geng," the prince called intimately, "how is your training going these days?" ”

Xiao Tugeng's heart was relieved. As a general manager of the first game, he does not personally interfere in the training. That's the job of trainers and non-commissioned officers at all levels. However, as a military commander, the trainer must hand over the training syllabus to him for signature and report on the status of the training. This allowed him to know his soldiers so well that he could even call everyone by name.

"Your Highness," Xiao Tugeng straightened up, "Our bureau's physical training is among the best in the whole battalion, and the total score of training ranks third among twenty or forty bureaus. There are four unique training subjects, and the progress of each one is obvious. ”

Zhu Cihong had the intention of building a firearms teaching team, and he chose Xiao Tugeng's bureau. The four unique training subjects are firecracker, tiger squat, heavy artillery, and explosives, each of which is closely related to gunpowder. This is also the reason why they were chosen to protect the Anmin Factory, one is easy to obtain materials, and the other can also have an intuitive understanding, so as not to let people think that gunpowder is grown in the ground.

"Our bureau is equipped with Lumi guns and Furlong machine guns." Xiao Tugeng said: "Because it is selected in the Beijing inventory, the weight is different, and the range is different. There were also three explosions, slightly injuring two people and seriously injuring one. However, the various decomposition actions have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and even the firefighters in our bureau can correctly operate the firecrackers. ”

"It's good."

Zhu Cihong is very happy to have such progress in a month. Of course, this is also directly related to the decomposition of actions and the standardization of exercises. It turns out that formal training is far easier than sensory training. A musketeer can be trained in a month to operate correctly. But even with a master like Min Zhanlian, it would take two months to train a soldier who could fight in actual combat.

"However, there are three tiger squats, heavy artillery and explosives, and there has not yet been a live-fire exercise." Xiao Tugeng explained: "The so-called progress is only that the soldiers know the structure of this artillery. ”

Zhu Cihong nodded: "Now that you know the truth, you can naturally practice outside the city in the future." ”

"I'm going to move my defense?" Xiao Tugeng has long been a little impatient with such a small place as Anmin Factory, and he has to be careful every day to release drills.

"Hmm." Zhu Cihong nodded: "Not only to move the defense, but also to expand the army." I intend to add 1,000 recruits to you, promote you to general manager, and train me a firearms division. ”

Xiao Tugeng only felt that his whole face had lost his senses. He didn't care about etiquette, rubbed his hands heavily, and said, "Your Highness, a thousand people, one division?" ”

1,000 people, that's 10 rounds. What division wants such a large establishment!

"Recruits." Zhu Cihong emphasized the key point: "After the selection, you should laugh if you can use half of it." In addition, I would like to see a larger establishment of the Firearms Bureau. ”

Firearms in this era were far less lethal than later generations. Even if it's a Seiko-made Lumi gun. It can only deal damage to unarmored targets within 100 paces. In addition, the Beijing camp only has straight rifled guns, so there is no accuracy. Plus the tolerances that arise at the time of manufacturing. The airtightness is very poor, and many bullets don't know where they fly after they go out.

Only by increasing the density of fire strikes in the unit space can the enemy be harmed. Those neat and uniform queue shooting tactics, as well as the three-stage rotation attack invented by Mu Ying, the Duke of Qianguo, were actually to maximize the density of firepower.

"The War Department of the Firearms Bureau, each squad has four platoons. A total of twenty people. Zhu Cihong said, "Everything else is still the same." ”

Xiao Tugeng silently calculated in his heart: a team of twenty people, that one flag team is sixty people, and three flag teams in one game are one hundred and eighty people. One division is seven hundred and twenty men...... If you are a recruit, you can only use half of it. There are still vacancies! However, in this way, there were plenty of firemen and baggage auxiliaries.

"Don't you think it's enough?" Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "When you get to the place, you can still recruit soldiers." ”

Now that the Donggong guard battalion has become a scale, with the demeanor of a professional soldier, the recruitment conditions for soldiers can be gradually relaxed. People have a herd mentality, and there will be no situation where a large group of people will be brought bad by a small number of people, but only a small number of people will integrate into the general atmosphere.

"Your Highness!" Xiao Tugeng raised his head and asked again: "Your Highness, then our company is not worthy of the killer bureau?" ”

Killers are traditional soldiers who fight with cold weapons. According to Qi Jiguang's setting, each division has two firearms bureaus and two killer bureaus. After the firearms bureau and team fire a salvo, the killer bureau will make tactical moves according to the situation. If it is against an enemy like Mongolia and Manchu who pays attention to cavalry attacks, the firearms bureau is often of little use after a round of attacks, and the main force is still the killer bureau.

"Rely on friendly forces to protect," Zhu said, "and protect yourself." ”

Xiao Tugeng put his heels together, gave a military salute, and said loudly: "Obey!" ”

Zhu Cihong smiled. He knew that this might sound a bit tragic to Xiao Tugeng, because the bird gun lost its combat effectiveness after it was cast, and it was even inferior to the three-eyed gun. The Three-Eyed Gun can also be used as a hammer when turned upside down, but the Bird Gun is not much stronger than a burning stick.

Unless there is a bayonet.

In the history of weapons development, it is not only the birth of "giants" such as airplanes, aircraft carriers, and atomic bombs that are of epoch-making significance. Some inconspicuous "little guys", who were not even small patents at the beginning of their birth, can also have a huge effect on changing the form of war.

Zhu Cihong no longer had the opportunity to invent such things as stirrups and saddle bridles, but he had watched television and participated in military training, and knew that the bayonet had not been retired until the 21st century. He didn't know if the West had invented this little thing, but the Ming army was originally equipped with a fast gun, and it could be used with a little improvement.

The fast gun is a long-handled musket, five feet five inches long, and weighs five catties. In front is a sharp gun head, followed by a two-foot-long barrel. The barrel is reinforced with four iron hoops, and the head of the gun is removed first, and three or four coins of gunpowder and lead bullets are loaded from the muzzle, and the back of the barrel is a long handle. The fire rope is one inch and a half long, inserted into the barrel, and then loaded with the spear head after firing, and fights with the enemy in close combat.

This design is similar to that of the original musket with bayonets, which are inserted into the muzzle and are not easily accessible. What Zhu Cihong needed was to equip the flintlock pistol with a bayonet after a large number of flintlock pistols were equipped. With a martial arts master like Min Zhanlian here, it shouldn't be difficult to refine a set of bayonet tactics from traditional techniques.

Bayonet flintlock pikemen had a great advantage against the infantry, breaking through their formations with long-range strikes and then engaging in hand-to-hand combat as quickly as possible. It avoids the change of its own formation, or the problem of cooperation between the two armies. However, in the face of cavalry, pikemen still have a great advantage because of their length, and they will not be eliminated because of this.

What's more, the horse's endurance and muscle strength are much higher than that of humans, and with the current lead bullet momentum, it still takes a lot of firepower to shoot a horse at a distance of 100 paces. And when the cavalry charged, the knight lay on horseback and did not have much of an attack surface.

Zhu Cihong, out of this distrust of firearms, is also very concerned about the use of traditional weapons, so Min Zhanlian can be entrusted with the important task. If he changes to a powerful person, Min Zhanlian can only become a lackey of the nursing home.

Zhu Cihong came out of the Anmin factory and specially approved Xiao Tugeng 50 turtledove foot guns. This kind of big gun is not the same way as the bird gun and the Lu Mi gun at all, it is five feet five feet long, almost as long as a fast gun, and the gun body is extremely heavy, and it needs a bracket to use. Because the scaffold resembles a bird's foot, it is named the turtledove's foot.

Although this kind of big gun also has no precision at all, it has a huge amount of medicine, a long range, and great power, and only Macao and Guangdong can make it. In the eighth year of Chongzhen, Xiong Wencan transported a batch of arms into Beijing, including 100 turtledoves. After the Battle of Songjin, the imperial court intended to transfer Zheng Zhilong's sailors to guard Juehua Island, but Zheng Zhilong refused to go under the pretext that he did not have a turtledove. Later, he entered the operation and sent a batch of firearms to Dengzhou to finish the work.

What Zhu Cihong allocated to Xiao Tugeng was the batch of leg guns that Xiong Wencan transported to Beijing in the eighth year of Chongzhen. Now that eight years have passed, whether these stools, which have been stored in the warehouse and have never seen the light of day, can be used, only Xiao Tugeng can dig them. (To be continued......)