Tao Dong didn't greet the rest of the Military Police Department in advance before he came to visit the recruit training camp, so when Gu Wei saw him take Luo Shengdong off the boat, he was very surprised: "Mr. Tao, are you so free today?"

"Mr. Luo sent us supplies today, I think everyone is a person with soldiers, so let's just come here to communicate together. Tao Donglai replied with a smile: "By the way, let's also see how the new people's group you brought is doing." "At the beginning, Luo Shengdong had also spent some time under Gu Wei, so there was no need to introduce the two of them to another time at this time.

"These people's plain habits are enough, and their bodies and minds have to be slowly transformed. But fortunately, it is obedient and obedient. Gu Wei took the two to the training ground, and introduced as he walked: "Now there are a total of one hundred and twenty people, temporarily organized into twelve classes, and the morning is mainly focused training, alternating with queue marching and physical training. In the afternoon, there is a separate training, which is mainly the teaching and practice of military physical boxing and basic tactical movements. After dinner, it's time for cultural classes, and now it's mainly to teach them to practice Mandarin and military songs, and the next step is to get a set of equipment and let them watch war movies or something. ”

Luo Shengdong could only listen to a half-understanding of the conversation between Gu Wei and Tao Donglai, because there were too many terms in the middle that he didn't understand. In Luo Shengdong's opinion, what they said was probably the method of training the Haihan people, but in this place, except for the fishermen, they were barbarians, and they were definitely not good targets for training the militia. But when he saw the group of recruits, there was a clear look of confusion on his face. Although the men wore almost the same costumes as the Haihans, with short cardigans and trousers, their thin bodies and the buns on their heads indicated that they were not Haihans, but actual natives. And there are also many Li people with headbands on their foreheads, and Miao people with silver rings on their ears mixed in. The men lined up in a row of ten, following the instructor's whistle instructions, walking up and down the training ground with their heads held high.

Luo Shengdong is no stranger to queue training, the Ming army's military drill is also a kind of queue training, Luo Shengdong also received similar training when he was a soldier before. However, although the military array drill that Luo Shengdong had seen was much more complicated than this, it was far less uniform than the queue of the group of miscellaneous troops he saw in front of him. The most terrifying thing is that when these people are advancing, they even move their left and right feet at the same frequency, and when they hear the whistle stop, they are all brushed together, and no one in the team speaks in the process. Luo Shengdong didn't know about other places, but at least there was no such well-trained militia in Yazhou...... No, even the Yazhou garrison can't reach such a level at all. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)

Although this kind of queue training seems to be extremely boring, Luo Shengdong, as a grassroots officer with professional military training and a certain military vision, is very aware of the huge role that this kind of daily training formation can play in wartime.

But the team he saw in front of him was obviously formed after he left, and Luo Shengdong really wanted to know how the Haihan people could train a group of fishermen, peasants, and Li Miao barbarians who couldn't even understand official language into such a team in front of him that could obey orders and act in unison in a very short period of time. （.）

Tao Donglai's perception is a little different from Luo Shengdong, he is also a former soldier, just look at it and you can roughly know that the queue training of these recruits can only be said to be just getting started, and they can be regarded as barely neat. However, Gu Wei was able to train these people to this point in just a few days, which also shows that he really has two brushes in training.

After looking at it for a while, Tao Donglai asked Luo Shengdong, who was already stunned: "How does Luo Jiang think this militia is practiced?"

Luo Shengdong arched his hand towards Gu Weiyi and said: "Chief Gu has trained his troops well, and I really admire him." It's just that there's still something unclear and I want to ask. ”

Gu Wei laughed and said, "Let's talk about it, I also want to hear the opinions of my peers." ”

"Looking at this queue below, it is all based on horizontal rows, and the distance between the sergeants is extremely close, what is the reason? At this time, it is worry-free to be bare-handed, and if you hold a weapon, you may be injured by mistake. Luo Shengdong asked respectfully.

Gu Wei first exchanged colors with Tao Donglai, and when he saw that he didn't object, he replied: "You're right, if you look at cold weapons, the distance they stand on is indeed close enough to affect the performance of weapons, but we don't plan to let them use weapons such as knives, guns, bows and arrows in the future." ”

Luo Shengdong's mind was also spinning quickly, and he immediately came to his senses: "These militia groups, you also plan to distribute them with that kind of continuous fire guns......?" It's ......"

"It's too extravagant, isn't it?" Tao Donglai took over with a smile: "If we distribute the kind of firearm we use, it is indeed extravagant." However, we are going to produce a cheaper, less functionally powerful firebolt to equip the future militia. ”

Luo Shengdong said in his heart, all the members were distributed with firearms, are you still a militia group? I'm afraid that if you pull out the garrison in Yazhou in the future, you won't be able to kill the militia organized by the Haihan people.

"Yesterday, I sent two prototypes, are you interested in putting two shots to try?" Gu Wei wasted no time in selling.

Through the advantages of military science and technology and industrial manufacturing, the executive committee regards the arms business as a very important foreign trade project in the future. The largest buyer of the arms business is, of course, the Ministry of Defense of various countries, such as the Ming Military Department. Although this business has quite a lot of profits, someone has to eat crabs first, and Luo Shengdong, as the first Ming officer dragged into the water by the executive committee, is obviously very suitable for use as one of the breakthroughs to open this special trade in the future.

Under the great attention of the Executive Committee, the trial production of artillery and guns was included in the list of priority projects immediately after the Tiandu Iron Mine was put into operation. The trial production of the cannon is currently progressing smoothly, and the process of making the 6-pounder gun has been further improved, and it can be mass-produced next. The test firing range here also used several days of continuous shooting corrections, and gradually sorted out the practical shooting table for the 6-pounder gun. The carpentry workshop is organizing technical research to improve the ship's gun mounts, and strive to be able to install the 6-pounder gun on the two existing Ming-style sailing ships as soon as possible.

The trial production of the arquebus is also based on the principle of starting from scratch and from simple to complex, starting with the primary arquebus. In this process, several firearms experts from the North American Gang have been very helpful, all of them have participated in performances that reproduce famous battles in history, and have been exposed to different types of muskets in various eras, so they have a more intuitive understanding of the evolution of muskets from the 16th century to the 19th century. Whether it was the manufacturing process or the tactics of the musketeers, the North American gang had a lot of useful information to help the metallurgical workshop complete the trial production of the first batch of prototypes in a very short time.

During this period, although the Ming army had begun to equip arquebuses known as bird guns in large quantities, the output was not high because of its relatively primitive manufacturing process, and the cost remained high. The main reason for this is that the processing technology of the barrel is limited by the scientific and technological level of the times and cannot be further improved.

The arquebus barrel of this period was still using the fine iron rolling process, that is, after heating the fine iron, it was first rolled into two iron pipes, one large and one small, and the two were close together with a large bag and a small one, and then the inner wall was slowly drilled to a smooth and straight point with a steel drill. The drilling process often takes up to a month and has a very high scrap rate. The special tungsten carbide asymmetric correction drill and the customized deep-hole drilling rig can drill a qualified barrel in less than an hour. For the trial production work, the Executive Committee even approved 300 kilograms of diesel fuel for the project, so that they can use diesel generators to power the deep hole drilling rig.

Of course, when the trial production is over, the finalization is completed, and it is time to put into mass production, the relevant departments will no longer use such a luxurious processing method. As long as the advanced drilling methods are mastered, even if some animal, hydraulic and even manpower drilling rigs are launched in the soil method, the production efficiency and product quality will be much better than that of competitors of the same era.

Luo Shengdong also wanted to see what kind of level the "militia-style firearms" made by the Haihan people could reach, so he was invited to the shooting range. Tom Wang was presiding over the gun test here, and when he saw the three of them coming, he stopped his work first. Gu Wei explained his intentions, and Tom Wang handed over the two arquebuses to Tao Donglai and Luo Shengdong respectively.

Luo Shengdong took the firearm handed over by Wang Tom, looked at its appearance, weighed its weight, and the Ming army equipment of the bird gun is not much different, about five feet long, weighs more than ten catties, the front of the gun tube has a crosshair, there is a door behind, constituting a complete set of aiming device. The rear of the gun is equipped with a curved wooden gun holder, which is convenient for the user to hold and stabilize the gun when firing. However, the arquebus firing mechanism in the middle of the gun looks much more delicate than that of the bird gun.

"Luo should always be able to play with this thing, right?" Tao Donglai asked Luo Shengdong while carefully examining the arquebus in his hand.

"Can you give it a try?" Regarding Tao Donglai's question, Luo Shengdong did not show weakness. Luo Shengdong knew that he couldn't see it just by holding it in his hand like this, and what was the quality of the Haihan people's firecrackers, it had to be a shot to know.

Tao Donglai nodded, and Luo Shengdong took the fire gun and walked to the launch position. On the table next to it were primers, propellants, projectiles, tongs, fire ropes, and a small copper box, which Luo Shengdong recognized as a kind of ignition device commonly used by the Haihan people and what they called "treasures". Luo Shengdong had the pleasure of playing Ren Liang's "Treasure" a few times when he was in the labor camp, and he had to admit that although the name of this thing was a bit exaggerated, it was indeed quite convenient to use it to get angry, and it was available with a light flick.