A day later, news came.

"Po Ximu retreated to Fenxi County"

At this time, Long Shisan's heart was determined, Po Ximu went to Fenxi County, he was facing a city that had been completely emptied by Zijin Liang, and he needed to pull down the skin and ask Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, who was in Pingyang Mansion, for money and food.

It takes time, a long time.

As a result, he had time to stabilize the situation in Lingshi County.

"Congratulations, Dragon Thirteen, you have successfully taken Lingshi County, take the lead, kill and injure many enemy generals, the force value has risen to 90, the agility value has risen to 85, and the rest of the values remain unchanged, there is no task for the time being, I hope you can grasp this rare leisure"

Three days later, he withdrew all the men and families who remained in Jiexiu County to Lingshi County - at present, he was weak and could not hold the two big cities.

However, at the northern end, he still occupied the Lingshikou Pass at the northern exit of the Bird Mouse Valley, and at the southern end, he occupied the Yindi Pass, and then set up another army of soldiers and horses in the middle, leading to the county seat of Fenxi.

After taking Jiexiu County and Lingshi County, because these two places were the nests of Fan Yongdou, Wang Dayu, and Wang Dengku, who were among the famous eight families of Jin merchants, in addition to obtaining a large amount of property and food, these merchants raised a lot of guards, and naturally also got a lot of horses, adding up to more than a hundred.

In addition, after the annihilation of Stilwell's troops, he obtained some more, so there were nearly two hundred surplus war horses under his command.

So, Long Thirteen decided to add more than 100 more to his infantry army to the ranks of the cavalry, so that he had 500 cavalry, and the pikemen increased to 1,500, plus 300 firearms.

Yes, you read that right, Lingshi County is the only firearms workshop set up by the Imperial Horse Supervisor of the Ming Dynasty in Shanxi, in addition to refining gunpowder, making arquebuses, and making tiger squat cannons, but in the whole of Shanxi, in addition to Datong Mansion has some firearms soldiers, the entire Shanxi Town, Shanxi Xingdu Division does not have a firearms army.

Therefore, how to practice firearms can only be done by Long Thirteen himself.

Nowadays, the firecrackers, whether they are from the Ming Dynasty or Europeans, are full of altars and jars, gunpowder cans, primer cans, cleaning the inner wall of the gunpowder pipe, lance rods tied with strips of cloth, strips of lead bullets to push and compact the gunpowder, strips of cloth to cool the guns, kettles with water to add water to the strips of cloth, fire ropes, velvet, flints, fire sickles, lead bullet cans, wooden forks to support the firearms, etc., and so on.

If it rains or snows, it is specified that it cannot be cast.

In windy weather, when you pour gunpowder from a powder jar into the gunpowder tube, the wind will blow the gunpowder everywhere.

It is no wonder that although firearms have appeared for hundreds of years, they still don't like to use this thing in the Ming Dynasty, and the quality of gunpowder and gun pipes made the Ming army abandon them.

However, if Ming Jun thinks so, it doesn't mean that Long Thirteen thinks so too.

Flintlock pistols? He doesn't understand, and the existing craftsmen under his command don't understand, even if someone does, if they want to make it, they must have a base that can be fixed in a certain place for at least a year, and it would be good to have a stable period of two or three months now.

A year? That's wishful thinking.

Besides, if you settle down, it means that your strength has reached a certain level, and the enemy has degraded to a certain extent.

That's a long-term goal, certainly not now.

Rao is like this, Long Thirteen still made some preparations before officially coming forward to train the firecrackers.

First, the black powder is naturally processed for secondary processing and granulated, so that the gunpowder will not be easily compacted and burned more fully after granulation.

Second, use a piece of paper to put the granulated gunpowder and a lead bullet together, the so-called fixed paper shell bullet is also.

Third, the primer should also be fixed, instead of taking out the primer jar and pouring it into the primer pool in windy weather, as soon as the war is tense, there is pressure in the heart, and the hands are trembling, either less or more.

In the past, it didn't hurt to pour less, it was nothing more than that it was impossible to push the lead bullet to the expected position, if it was poured too much, according to the level of Daming's current production of the barrel, it would be a matter of minutes to explode.

To be rigorous, although later generations have criticized the Manchu Qing Dynasty, at least it is far better than the Ming Dynasty in ensuring the quality of ordnance, which you have to admit.

With the above, it was possible to reduce the four devices for gunpowder and lead bullet to two.

Fourth, the strip and the lance are placed in a bamboo pipe, and two small openings are opened on the bamboo pipe, one is used to insert the through strip, and the other is used to insert the lance rod, and then the cloth strip is wrapped around the bamboo pipe, and then the cloth strip is wrapped around the lance pole when the war is about to be fought.

Fifth, put the velvet, the fire rope, and the fire sickle in a device, which is divided into three compartments, and the flint is a separate device, and the way to fire at this time is: hit the flint with the fire sickle, and ignite the flint after producing sparks, and the fire velvet can be preserved, and the fire rope is lit when needed.

Originally, there were at least a dozen devices on the body of a firecracker, and the psychological quality was poor

There is a high probability that you will put the wrong thing in the pipe.

I put the propellant into the primer pool by mistake, put the whole strip into the barrel and shoot it out, and forgot to wrap it when cleaning the inner chamber

Sack, wait, as a firecracker, to be ridiculed is certain.

At present, after reducing the device by four to fifty percent, it will be possible to clearly know what is placed where, and the probability of error after long-term practice will be greatly reduced, and the possibility of exploding the chamber will also be greatly reduced with the fixed paper shell bullet and the fixed primer.

In addition, at this time, the fire gun is more than ten catties, and the rifle of later generations is about the same, unless it is the huge lifting gun, since this is the case, the fire gun soldier is the same salary as the cavalry, and the belly of three meals a day is round, so the wooden fork must be abandoned.

Learning to aim and shoot with a firearm is one of the elements of the training, and tying a brick or stone to the barrel is a must, as it was in later generations.

In addition, if you have received the same salary as the cavalry, you have eaten well and dressed warmly, and you are an infantry soldier, so you will naturally have to train like a pikeman.

So, I got up early in the morning, ten laps before breakfast, lined up in the morning, hung stones in the afternoon to practice raising guns, and ran ten laps before dinner.

Although there are only 100 good guns in the arsenal that can be solved in the capital, at this time, as long as there are things that are officially needed, they will definitely appear on the market.

Therefore, don't make a fuss when you find a shop in Lingshi County that specializes in selling iron, gunpowder, sulfur, nitrate powder, and firecrackers, such a shop is obviously one of the ways for mine supervisors to make a fortune.

Lingshi County needs to send a hundred poles to the capital, and the mine supervisor collects one hundred and twenty rods, and the extra is called "loss".

Most of these things were bought by Jin merchants and then sold to Zhangjiakou, and it is self-evident who the buyer is.

So, Long Thirteen found another hundred good firecrackers accumulated through experience in this shop.

At present, there are 300 people in the firecracker battalion, 200 people practice firecrackers, and the other 100 people are dedicated to practicing how to quickly reload and cast tiger squat cannons.

Tiger squat artillery, under the use of the Qi family army has long had a complete tactic, this kind of artillery ammunition is also two kinds, one is a three-pound large lead bullet, the other is a pack of five coins and one grain, a total of 100 pieces of loose bullets, in the fight against the Japanese invaders, the Qi family army has used the tiger squat cannon to release the tactics of scattered bullets to the extreme.

Moreover, a tiger squat cannon weighs only about fifty catties, and a soldier can carry it on a fast march, which is too important for a thief.

In addition to practicing firearms, each firecracker is also equipped with a one-handed knife, so that they can practice for half an hour every day, so that they also have the ability to fight independently.

For Long Thirteen, the original difficulty of using paper shell bullets was in gunpowder and paper, at this time, these two things were in short supply and extremely expensive, but after taking Lingshi County, it would not be a problem, there was enough paper (Wang Dengku, Wang Dayu's house) and black powder for him to squander.

With these things, he can let Long Xiaoshi organize the old people and women in the old camp to make customized paper shell bombs, fixed primers, and various devices (mostly cloth bags divided into several mouths), and now there are thousands of people in his old camp, and he will be able to complete these tasks soon.

At least in Shanxi, he had no hope for this fire battalion, they were training or training in addition to training.

Ten days later, he also harassed him with cavalry and pikemen, and told them to raise their guns and aim them in a state close to wartime.

Then there's the question of how to use the Musketers.

He still chose the "queue to shoot" method that was prevalent in Europe at this time, but made some changes.

Two hundred musketeers, in a row of thirty people, roughly lined up in six rows, if two armies are facing each other, after one row is cast, then run to the last row and then repeat the cycle, I believe that the enemy will not give you this opportunity to shoot calmly.

Since the effective range of the firearm is only about 100 meters, an elite like Bayala in Manchuria can quickly approach you with a shield, and then there is a one-sided slaughter, so it will be meaningless to line up and shoot.

In Europe, because both the enemy and the enemy were musketeers, it was only meaningful to line up to shoot at that time, but at that time, the consideration was the range and courage of the muskets of both sides.

And in Daming, there are not many opportunities for the two sides to line up and shoot, and it is naturally easy to say that when encountering a weak enemy, most of the birds and beasts will disperse after a row of guns, but if you meet the elite, it is not necessarily.

Therefore, other considerations must be made.

Later, when a certain large country in the East (a certain three) practiced infantry shooting in the 21st century, it was ridiculous to arrange the ranks into three rows, the first row lying on the ground, the second row bent over, and the third row standing upright, and then the cycle continued, believing that it was the legacy left to them by their British masters.

Dragon Thirteen still hasn't figured out why he is lying on the ground and hitting the enemy's feet? It's also funny to think about.

However, it was a tactic developed by the British in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with flintlock pistols, and there must be some reason for it.

After thinking about it, Long 13 decided to make a group of two rows, one kneeling on one knee and one standing in a row, all of them holding fire guns to aim and shoot, in the case that the smoothbore gun could not control the accuracy, such an arrangement could effectively expand the striking area.

Of course, this setup is a test for the first row of musketeers, and it will have to go through rigorous practice.

Shoot in groups of two and repeat the shots.

This is just one way, and the three-stage attack that was popular in later novels will also be arranged, including the soldiers who are obviously better at shooting are always in front, and then the soldiers in the back are only responsible for loading, and then the guns are constantly handed to the soldiers in the first two rows.

In the end, Long Thirteen still chose the three-stage attack, since it is a military branch that can produce in large quantities, the latter method is not suitable, otherwise, the firecracker soldiers will become an elite army, and most people will end up getting worse and worse due to their lack of actual combat experience.

As for the first type, the influence of the soldiers in the back on the front was too great, and the situation of mistakes in actual training was endless, so they gave up.

Since the three-stage shot was chosen, the soldiers in front had to retreat to the rear as soon as possible after the shot, which required a lot of practice, because since it was a queue to shoot, it meant that the musketeers had to be kept close together to increase the coverage density of the projectiles.

If the formation is scattered, after the first row of shots is completed, it will have to penetrate through the gap between the soldiers behind to the back, which will completely lose the power of the firecrackers, and secondly, it will cause confusion.

Thus, the queue seems to be more important to the musketeers than to the pikemen.

In the end, Long 13 even arranged a tactical drill with some pikemen in a large formation and some firearms in the four corners of the large array, which is the so-called Spanish phalanx.

If such a formation encounters cavalry in an open field, it will also have the strength to fight, and the firecrackers at the four corners can shoot with full coverage, wait until the cavalry drives in front of them, and then quickly run into the pikemen's array.

Of course, according to the current conditions of Long Thirteen, there is very little training like this, not so much training, but trying, since the thieves themselves have a large number of cavalry, for the firecrackers, the three-stage shooting queue is still the king.

For the musketeers, those who are willing to stand in the first three rows are still paid the highest, because in wartime, it is very likely that after the first three rows are finished, it will not be the turn of the musketeers behind them to continue shooting, and the chances of survival are naturally higher.

As a result, the soldiers who have undergone training and have the best psychological quality and the most proficient archery skills after firing live ammunition can be in the first three rows with a salary of two or a half, and the last one may only be one or two halves.

In addition to the fire gun and the tiger squat cannon, he finally discovered the sky-shaking thunder, but in the sequence of the Shenji Battalion, the sky-shaking thunder is obviously in the back position, but for Long Thirteen, these black guys are too good, so those artillerymen who control the tiger squat cannon also need to practice throwing the sky-shaking thunder.

Long Thirteen's luck is very good, the Xiaoqiang battalion in Lingshi County has spent the past month in an extremely compact, thorough, sweaty training, and the same is true for the soldiers in Lingshikou Pass, Yindi Pass, and Xiamen Town, although only a month has passed, but the training of the Xiaoqiang Brigade has almost caught up with the training volume of the Ming elite in a year!

Of course, compared with the Jurchen standing army that had not been created long at this time, their training time was still too little, and the standing army of the Jurchens, that is, Huang Taiji's pro-army, had reached the point of one exercise a day.

But for Long Thirteen, the difference is time, if God has eyes, give him three months, his small strong camp will really resound in the land of Sanjin.

But this is impossible, and no matter how weak the court is, it will not sit idly by and watch the enemy stay in peace in its own heart for three months.

The enemy did not move, not because they were timid, but because they were preparing for greater action.