Due to his outstanding training performance, Hua An was promoted to the captain of the third brigade, and the position of captain of the fourth brigade was temporarily vacant.

Jia Baoyu has already let out the wind, and when the first operation is over, depending on the combat results of each squadron, he will be selected from among the squadron leaders.

During this time, these squadron leaders and squad leaders trained desperately as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

There is no way, the attraction of the captain is too great, after all, if someone is promoted to the captain, the opportunity for the people below will come.

Of the four brigades, only Lu Jianxing's brigade practiced firearms, while the other three brigades were divided into pikemen, sword and shield soldiers, and baggage soldiers.

All brigades need to practice physical strength, endurance.

The pikeman's weapon is the simplest, just build a fine iron spearhead, and then find some tough wood, and assemble it into a spear.

The weapons of the sword and shield soldiers are more complicated, and a good steel knife needs ten catties of good iron to be refined.

Not to mention the rarity of the shield, which can only be bought with money.

Just to purchase 500 sets of steel knives and shields, it cost Jia Baoyu 5,000 taels of silver.

These soldiers were elated when they got their brand-new weapons.

Jin Yichuan couldn't put it down and touched the steel knife, which was softer than stroking his favorite girl.

The shield is made of iron and wood, and the shape is round, which can be lifted with one hand, just like Captain America in later movies.

This shield is mainly used to resist stray arrows from above and prevent arrows from being hit in vital parts.

If you want to fend off the enemy's bows and arrows and firearms on the real battlefield, you have to use shield carts.

Jia Baoyu came to Lu Jianxing's brigade training place.

Liang Zhen shouted: "Raise the gun!" ”

Wang Baoxu reflexively lifted the jet-black and thick bird gun, which was made of fine iron and the tail was a fine birch butt.

The tube is long and straight, weighing about six catties, and needs to be held with both hands to be flat.

Wang Baoxu held this bird gun, as steady as an old dog, without shaking at all.

"Didi—"

Liang Zhen blew the whistle in his mouth.

Wang Baoxu and others skillfully took out the gunpowder from the white ceramic gunpowder jar on their waists, and scooped out the black gunpowder powder with a small spoon.

Gunpowder was poured into the gun, poked a few times with a stick, and then a lead projectile was taken out of another cloth bag and stuffed into the gun.

Then, Wang Baoxu opened the fire door, poured another fine gunpowder into the fire door of the bird, shook it up three times, and after confirming that the gunpowder entered the line door, he closed the fire door and put the fire rope into the dragon head.

This operation is dazzling, and it takes more than a minute for the fastest, a minute and a half for the slow, and many people dump gunpowder outside, or lead falls on the ground.

"Dididi-"

Liang Zhenyou blew the whistle.

Wang Baoxu held the middle part of the fire gun with his left hand, opened the fire door with his right hand, he closed one eye, and left only one eye to look at the shining stars on the bird gun.

"Didi, Didi—"

Four whistles sounded, and Wang Baoxu pulled the trigger with his right index finger.

With a snort, the gunpowder ignited, followed by a roar of "boom", and a puff of white smoke came out of the front of the bird gun held by Wang Baoxu.

"Drip-"

The whistle sounded again, Wang Baoxu took out the tong strip and began to clean the pipe.

Liang Zhen ordered: "All squads, check the shooting situation this time!" ”

As soon as the words fell, all the soldiers on the left side immediately came out of the column and began to check the shooting situation of the soldiers in their squad.

Because it was the first time that the fire was fired, these soldiers did not guarantee a 100% fire rate, and various situations occurred frequently.

Jia Baoyu said to Shen Lian behind him: "Shen Lian, do you see the problem?" ”

Shen Lian said: "There are many problems, first of all, the psychological quality of many soldiers needs to be strengthened, many soldiers release their guns for the first time, full of loopholes, and even have guns against their comrades.

There are also gunpowder spills, and there are ...... that can't catch fire."

Shen Lian said as he wrote down in the notebook with a pencil.

As he spoke, the second round of shooting began again.

Smack-

"Oh no, the stone nerd's bird has blown up and one of its ears has been blown up!"

There was panic in the crowd.

Jia Baoyu hurriedly rushed over, only to see the last soldier in this row lying on the ground, with the fire gun thrown aside, covering his ears and howling, blood flowing out of his fingers.

When the soldiers next to him saw this tragic situation, they were so frightened that they hurriedly threw away the firecrackers in their hands.

Liang Zhen was the first to arrive and ordered two soldiers to pick up the wounded soldiers and send them to the doctor in the guard station for treatment.

After the people were sent away, Liang Zhen asked with a gloomy face, "What's the matter?" ”

The soldier next to him said: "When the stone nerd was loading gunpowder, he accidentally poured too much, and then ......"

After listening to the explanation of the soldier next to him, Liang Zhen's face darkened.

This first live-fire exercise went wrong and injured people, and he, the squadron leader, probably came to an end.

He lowered his head and said to Jia Baoyu: "My lord, if you fail in the lowly training, please punish you." ”

Jia Baoyu waved his hand and said: "It's none of your business, it's normal to have casualties in training, and this is a stone nerd's own operation error, and I can't blame others." ”

"Your Excellency!"

"Training continues!"

Jia Baoyu remained silent, asked Shen Lian to pick up the bombed bird's gun, and the two of them returned to the armory.

Seeing the two of them go and return, Zhao Gang was a little puzzled.

Jia Baoyu handed over the damaged bird gun and asked, "Mr. Zhao, help me see if this bird gun is qualified." ”

Zhao Gang picked up the bird gun and examined it carefully.

"My lord, the wall of this bird pipe is too thin, which is the root cause of the explosion."

Zhao Gang continued: "Of course, the uneven placement of gunpowder is also a factor that causes the fire gun to explode. ”

Jia Baoyu frowned and said: "The quality of the gunpowder needs to be improved, so is there a way to improve the filling of gunpowder?" ”

Zhao Gang said: "You can first pre-fill the gunpowder into a small bamboo tube, that is, a few dollars per barrel of medicine, more medicine will lead and less lead will be weak." ”

This is what is recorded in the "New Book of Discipline".

Jia Baoyu said excitedly: "In this case, why not consciously build a batch of iron boxes, every time you only need to use the iron box to scoop out the gunpowder to ensure quantitative refilling, there will be no risk of exploding." ”

Zhao Gang smiled: "The adult is really smart, why didn't his subordinates expect it, it seems that the adult is very talented in firearms." ”

In the next few days, Jia Baoyu asked Zhao Gang and other craftsmen to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the 1,000 bird guns issued by the imperial court, and found more than 30 problematic bird guns.

This frightened Jia Baoyu.

Thankfully, not all of these problematic birds were blown up, otherwise the morale of his troops would have dropped considerably.

Because no one wants to have a ticking time bomb in their hands.

For these problematic birds, Zhao Gang led the craftsmen to transform them to ensure that they would not explode in future use.

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