After nearly a month of training, the queue of the newly recruited soldiers, although still arranged in a crooked manner, was finally able to perform some simple queue actions such as walking in unison, standing, and turning backwards.

Zhou Xun and Qian Qi were a little ashamed of the performance of these recruits. They were so anxious during training that they beat the recruits who made the wrong moves with their sticks. However, the progress of these recruits is still modest.

After Wu Shigong saw this situation, he asked Zhou Xun and Qian Qi not to worry. Wu Shigong is actually very satisfied with the current performance of the recruit Ding. In modern times, Wu Shigong knows the performance of those students who participated in military training. It's also similar to the performance of these recruits.

And those students have already received basic cohort training in physical education class. If you look at it this way, in fact, the efforts of Zhou Xun and Qian Qi are already very effective.

On the contrary, these recruits have been trained in firearms with 20 rounds of ammunition each, and they basically have a good grasp of the shooting jishu of firearms. It's just that the shooting action is not very proficient, and the shooting speed is a little slow.

Now, the speed at which a recruit shoots a bullet takes about twenty exhalations. Wu Shigong asked Zhou Xun and Qian Qi to step up their training and shorten their shooting time.

Wu Shigong also asked Zhou Xun and Qian Qi to start training these recruits in the use of weapons. After discussing with Xue Yongli, Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli both felt that it was unrealistic to let these recruits fully master the use of weapons at once, and they would not be able to do it in a short period of time.

Therefore, in view of the fact that Wu Shigong's purpose was only to defend in the fortress of Qianhusuo, they built a wall with such a high chest in the open space, and placed a row of straw men behind the wall, and the soldiers were in groups of ten, armed with spears, ten steps away from the wall, and ran to the wall in unison to assassinate the straw men together. Just train this movement repeatedly.

In Wu Shigong's thoughts, as long as he is familiar with such a move, and then cooperates with one or two firecrackers to put cold guns behind the assassination queue in the future, even martial arts masters will not be able to rush through this formation.

And Xue Yongli's cavalry training also began the training of weapons. At the beginning of the training, Xue Yongli proposed to Wu Shigong: to prepare some wooden sticks, these wooden sticks do not need to be very hard, and the more brittle, the better. These sticks were used to make the cavalry's riding spears.

After listening to Xue Yongli's explanation, Wu Shigong knew. When the cavalry used weapons, they did not wield sabers and play spears at all in movies and TV series.

The power of the cavalry is the speed and momentum of the horse, so when encountering the enemy, the cavalry always raises the speed of the horse at this time. Therefore, the cavalry at this time must not use their weapons to fight the enemy. Otherwise, you will be shocked and fall off your horse, or even fractured by the shock.

Xue Yongli was afraid that Wu Shigong would not understand, so he explained a lot of words over and over again. However, as soon as Wu Shigong heard Xue Yongli's words, he knew this truth.

In modern times, although Wu Shigong did not graduate from junior high school, he still knows the "Three Laws of Newton". This principle is the action force and the reaction force.

Xue Yongli then explained to Wu Shigong that when the cavalry uses the saber on the horse, it only needs to follow the fast edge of the saber, rely on the speed of the horse, and gently take the enemy's vital point. It's all about ingenuity. As for the chopping action on the horse, it is only when the cavalry has rushed into the enemy's array and the horse's speed has slowed down.

And the cavalry spear is a completely disposable weapon for cavalry. The cavalry spear only came into play when the cavalry charged the enemy line. When the horses are moving at high speed, the cavalry can pierce a hole in the enemy's body with a wooden stick in his hand. It can be seen how huge this liliang is.

When a cavalryman charges with a spear, he must not grasp the spear with his hands, but hold it in his hands. As soon as the tip of the spear touches the enemy's body, the hand of the cavalry is to release the spear.

And the wood used for the shaft of the spear is also as brittle as possible. In this way, the cavalry spear will break, and the counterattack force on the cavalry will be relatively small. In this way, the cavalry can be guaranteed not to be knocked off their horses by this liliang.

After hearing this, Wu Shigong immediately sent someone to find this kind of wood. Fortunately, the hills behind the fortress of Senhesho are densely packed with trees. Wu Shigong asked the craftsmen who had already joined the army to distinguish them, and quickly found several suitable trees.

Soon, Wu Shigong created a batch of such wooden sticks. Some of them were loaded with spearheads and made into riding spears. Most of them are in storage.

And Xue Yongli's cavalry training is still so boring. I tied some straw men, trained a single person to stab with a spear at high speed, and chop with a saber at high speed, and repeated training, so that all of them could master the skills of using weapons on horses.

After everyone had almost mastered it, Xue Yongli still let all the people ride their horses and line up in an array. Run over and chop; Run over, stab.

Such high-intensity training has worn out the skin of Wu Shigong's inner thighs several times. Although Wu Shigong still gritted his teeth and persisted, he found that he was walking a little bit now.

These cavalrymen, at the insistence of Wu Shigong, were still trained in firearms. After such frequent firecracker training, these warhorses are now accustomed to shooting firearms. However, the nearby farmers have come to Wu Shigong several times, and their hens are now too scared to lay eggs.

And due to the excessive use of the firecracker, the barrel of the firearm that Wu Shigong brought to the Thousand Households was basically scrapped. Fortunately, in the past month, Yang Goudan's blacksmith workshop has successively made more than 20 new firecrackers, and the barrels of these scrapped firecrackers have been replaced. In this way, Wu Shigong and the others can barely maintain their shooting training.

In addition, Yang Goudan also made a sample gun of the heavy firecracker. The power and range of the heavy firearm really met Wu Shigong's requirements. However, the weight was too heavy. Even later, according to Wu Shigong's suggestion, the handle and butt of the gun were replaced with wood, and the weight of the heavy firearm was close to forty catties.

Wu Shigong shiyan, a strong man like Wu Shigong, holding this firecracker, can shoot six or seven bullets stably. After that, I didn't have the strength to raise my gun and aim. At the suggestion of Yang Goudan, each heavy firearm was equipped with a pair of brackets in front of it.

Wu Shigong thought to himself: The main role of this heavy firearm is now to defend in the fortress of Qianhusuo, so this is not a big problem. Moreover, even in field battles, a musketeer can shoot a maximum of seven or eight bullets. Therefore, it can barely be used.

On the contrary, Wu Shigong found that the medium-sized firecracker made in the capital was relatively small in size and weight, so it could be carried and used by cavalry. So, Wu Shigong asked Yang Goudan: Medium-sized firecrackers and heavy-duty firecrackers will be manufactured together. Wait until each cavalry is equipped with medium muskets.

Now, with Yang Goudan and other people, he can only make more than 20 firecrackers every month. Wu Shigong knew that he couldn't rush it. That's all it can be for now.

There's another problem. Half of the gunpowder brought by Wu Shigong was used up in the shooting training. Xue Yongli: They asked Wu Shigong not to maintain this kind of high-intensity shooting training. They thought that as long as the soldiers learned how to shoot firearms, they would be able to save a lot of gunpowder if they trained once or twice a month at most.

Wu Shigong ignored this idea in the slightest. Wu Shigong knew in modern times: Haode shooters are fed with bullets.

However, the problem of gunpowder still needs to be solved. Wu Shigong asked Yuan Xingshan to go to various nearby counties to purchase. Sweep away all the gunpowder, as well as saltpeter and brimstone. But even so, it only slightly solves the current dilemma.

It was Wu Shigong's current boss, Old Man Zhao Ming, who solved this problem. He knew that after Wu Shigong purchased gunpowder on a large scale, he sold all the gunpowder stored in Guidewei to Wu Shigong at a high price. Then the old man Zhao Ming was still happy in his heart. He couldn't help but sigh: "The people from the capital are stupid and have a lot of money!" ”