A few days later, Miao Shao and Xu Ming finally selected the men who would not close the team at night, and the two of them selected a total of ten people from all the dun armies in Dapan Fort, and it can be said that these ten dun armies are the best seedlings in the dun army.

So Miao Shao and Xu Ming gathered the ten dun soldiers in a forest outside Dapan Fort, and began to train Dapan Fort at night.

As for the shortfall in the rest of the squads, Liu Yan had no choice but to select ten barely usable men from the military households to supplement them, which ensured the integrity of the number of each team.

If you don't collect this night, it is a scout, and it is set up in Daming whether it is along the border, along the coast or in the interior. Most of the soldiers in the Ming army who were not selected at night were strangers who could fly the eaves and walk the walls, or had all kinds of murder and arson, and even required those who knew astronomy and were good at waiting. In the Ming army, in addition to going out to investigate, Ye Bushu often took on various tasks such as burning wasteland, surprise raids or robbing camps because of his superb skills and familiarity with geography.

And in the Daming border town, there is a kind of more elite sentry than the night does not collect, these sentry often have to go far out of the plug, thousands of miles of sentry to probe the enemy's situation, stay in the enemy territory for several months, and the place is inaccessible area, so it is not alert and vigorous, and the person who has courage must be.

In addition to their superb skills, many of them are also proficient in several foreign languages, such as Miao Shao and Xu Ming brothers, both of whom are proficient in Mongolian language, and they also know some simple Jurchen language.

According to later generations, at this time, the night and sharp whistles in the Ming army were the special scouts in the later army, whether in the guard army or in the battalion soldiers, they were the most elite existence, even stronger than some generals' subordinates.

If these people are trained well, Liu Yan will have a group of outstanding sentry agents and intelligence eyes and ears, and the elite night can often play a decisive role on the battlefield, Liu Yan of course strongly supports this, it can be said that he wants people to give people and money to money.

It's just that at this time, the foundation of the dun army in Dapan Fort is too thin, there are no too strong soldiers at all, and there are no strange people, and even the number of people is only a few dozen, so Miao Shao and Xu Ming can only be taller among the short, and it is unrealistic to want to train the border army in one fell swoop without accepting such a strong elite at night.

At this time, a total of twelve people started training, and Liu Yan also rushed over to observe with great interest, ready to see how Miao Shao and Xu Ming trained their subordinates, and couldn't help but open their eyes.

I saw that Miao Shao and Xu Ming first checked and familiarized themselves with the ten subordinates, and found that among them, three of them were guilty of night blindness. Liu Yan knows that the reason for night blindness is that the amount of protein consumed on weekdays is too small.

So Miao Shao and Xu Ming didn't say a word, they found a few pairs of raw chicken livers, pig livers, and even more than a dozen live tadpoles for the three of them to swallow.

The three of them looked at the bloody chicken liver, pig liver, and the dozen or so black, soft and glutinous tadpoles, all of them were pale and a little hesitant, and the other seven dun soldiers next to them also had disgusting expressions on their faces when they saw them.

Liu Yan was also slightly stunned when he saw this, and then he understood the truth, and couldn't help but be impressed by Miao Shao and Xu Ming in his heart. It's just one thing to understand the reason, and it's another thing to accept it, watching the three dun soldiers resist the urge to vomit and swallow the chicken liver, pig liver and tadpoles, Liu Yan's face is not very good-looking.

Miao Shao over there said sharply: "We don't collect the dun army at night, we have to go to various sentry posts at night from time to time, and in the future, we are often selected to dare to die to attack the enemy camp at night, if you can't read things at night, how can you go out with me to spy on them?" Once you attack at night, won't you die in vain! ”

Then, Xu Ming stood up and forced the three of them to swallow the remaining tadpoles and other things alive until they were all eaten. The two dun soldiers next to him immediately retched, and Liu Yan couldn't help frowning slightly when he saw this.

After seeing these training methods, Liu Yan was completely relieved, this Miao Shao and Xu Ming are rare talents, it seems that he has met a baby, and he can rest assured that he will be handed over to Miao Shao and Xu Ming for the training that is not collected at night.

So Liu Yan said goodbye to everyone and returned to Dapanbao first. After that, Miao Shao and Xu Ming took ten Dunjun Shenlong to see the head and the tail, and often didn't know where to go, and even Miao Shao and Xu Ming gathered their men in the middle of the night, and everyone went out to train in the cold wind of the night.

However, Liu Yan was also relieved to be trained by Miao Shao and Xu Ming, and did not interfere with the training methods of the two at all.

At the same time, the rest of the dun army in Dapan Fort has undergone rigorous training, and the progress is also very great.

After a few days, Liu Yan decided to add a new training content to them.

Liu Yan now has only three types of troops among his subordinates: sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, and fire guns.

At this time, after a period of training, they formed a team, tore each other apart and cooperated, and they had a certain tacit understanding. So after the queue training every night, Liu Yan trained their individual skills.

According to the level of Qi Jiajun's performance evaluation of Dunjun skills, it is subdivided into nine grades, and at present, Liu Yan's army has just started, but there are only dozens of people, and there is no need to roughly divide it into four classes: upper, middle, lower, and unqualified.

Each class has different treatment and reward and punishment measures: the superior has meat to eat every day, and can also sit on an equal footing with Chen Xun and other small flag officials, and only need to kneel when they see a few small flag officials. Medium, eat meat every three days. Those who are inferior eat only dry rice every day. Those who fail to pass each examination will be beaten with a military stick ten times, and those who fail five times will be beaten with a military stick thirty times, and will be expelled from the ranks of the dun army and no longer enjoy military salaries.

Liu Yan set the rule of taking an exam every two months in the future, the fourth class is uncertain, the middle and lower class can be raised, and the upper class can also be reduced to the middle and lower class, and if there are those who stand still, there are corresponding punishment measures. One time you can be exempted from responsibility, and the second time you stand still and hit the five military sticks. Three times he stood still and beat ten military sticks. Those who fail to advance on the spot more than five times will be beaten with 30 military sticks and expelled from the list of the dun army. Of course, if it's a good grade every time, it's not standing still.

Everything depends on the performance of the Dun Army, if each squad regresses or has a large proportion of unqualified, even the leader of the squad will be punished.

For example, sword and shield soldiers can dance to cover themselves when they hold their shields. It is medium to be able to test the knife and rush into the gun formation. Let them fight the pikemen with a license, and the opponent will not be as good as the backhand. Liu Yan also recently built a batch of javelins for use in sword and shield soldiers.

Later, the sword and shield soldiers bid for their guns, and the standard is twenty paces, if they can hit the three copper coins that are hanging there. Medium One, Inferior, Medium Two, Medium, Medium Three, Superior. If one misses, he will be unqualified, and he will be beaten with a military stick.

This standard is far lower than Qi Jiajun's performance appraisal exercises, but Liu Yan is not in a hurry, take your time, and in the future, he will definitely be able to build a strong army comparable to Qi Jiajun.

The same is true of the pikemen, who practice their spears by standing on one side of a humanoid wooden handle twenty paces away, with five holes in the eye, throat, heart, waist, and feet, and one inch of wooden balls in each.

When beating the drum, they fly up and poke their guns forward, take any hole, and after stabbing five times, if they can stab the wooden ball in the hole on the gun three times, it is the upper center. Twice, medium. Once, inferior. Not once, and the technique, footwork, body method, and advance and retreat method when testing the gun are not rigorous, it is unqualified, and the military stick waits.

After this hierarchical reward and punishment system came out, each Dunjun had a certain sense of crisis, and everyone in the team was regarded as a competitor, but this kind of benign competitive atmosphere was something Liu Yan was happy to see.

In ancient times, cold weapon warfare mainly relied on the use of waist strength, in order to exercise everyone's waist strength, Liu Yan also instructed the craftsmen to make a batch of stone locks, so that these military households had to exercise dozens of times a day. However, it is easy to practice for sword and shield soldiers and pikemen, but more difficult for musketeers.

They practiced swords, but the main reason was that the shooting training of the bird guns was difficult, not because everyone could not hit, but because of the cost of training firearms.

In this Ming Dynasty, even if it is a fine bird gun, the service life of the gun tube is dozens of times. After beating a few times a day, a gun pipe will be scrapped after ten days, and it will take at least a month to build another gun pipe. After consuming such a large amount, there is a lot of silver required, even if Liu Yan has the financial resources of the soap workshop, it is difficult to support, and the speed of building the bird gun is far from the speed of consumption, which is unacceptable to Liu Yan.

And this shooting training, without a large amount of ammunition, you can't think of it. Lead can be made by craftsmen in the fort, but the nitrate that Liu Yan now uses to make gunpowder is basically purchased from outside. Because of the problem of funds and gunpowder raw materials, the development of Liu Yan's firearms was seriously restricted.

Liu Yan plans to wait until the Dapanbao is finally completed, and then start to solve the problem of gunpowder raw materials, which is not a problem for Liu Yan, but he can't spare his hands now.

Liu Yan has a way to solve this problem, and those birds in the army, Liu Yan still let them practice to their heart's content.

At dusk that day, in the still very rudimentary arena outside the fort, the sound of the firing of the fire gun was incessant.

Liu Yan was standing in front and watching several bird-gun soldiers shooting, and Wang Yue, Zhang Yi, and Wang Bo were all around Liu Yan and watching.

Chen Xun was explaining the loading essentials to several bird gunners on the side, at this time Chen Xun's talent for firearms also appeared, I saw that he was very skilled in loading gunpowder lead bullets, and then his eyes aimed at the star, aimed at a target fifty steps ahead and pulled the board machine, "pop" sound, lead bullet just hit the bull's-eye.

Then Chen Xun tried to shoot two more shots, both of which hit. When everyone saw it, they all shouted hello.

Liu Yan didn't dare to compare with Qi Jiajun now, and when he was training the bird gun, he only set up a target fifty steps away. However, the training standard is the same, three shots are all high, three shots are medium, six shots are shot, and one hit is inferior. Shoot six times, and the one who misses once is not qualified.

Liu Yan immediately rewarded Chen Xun with a penny of silver, which can be regarded as an incentive for those bird-fighting players, as long as everyone can practice to Chen Xun's level, they can also get their own reward.

Then Liu Yan patrolled around the training of those dun troops in the arena, and at the same time he was thinking about a question in his heart.

Now Liu Yan has formulated a series of reward and punishment systems for the firearms craftsmen in the fort, and most of the bird guns made by Tan Xiaoda are qualified, and there are basically certain standards for the customized size of the guns. The excellent quality makes it possible for the bird gun to hold the gun body with confidence during training, and aim carefully close to the tail of the gun, which greatly improves the hit rate of the bird gun.

That said, though, the Birdman's reload speed was a bit slower. With Chen Xun's rate of fire, it would take nearly a minute to shoot a shot, and the shooting speed of other bird gunners was even slower.

At this time, the shooting steps of the Daming Bird Gun are about a few steps such as pouring medicine, charging, pressing fire, loading, and charging the fire rope, and if you want to break it down in detail, the steps are even as many as more than 20 steps. Skilled shooters usually only shoot one shot a minute, and some ordinary bird gunners are in a hurry on the battlefield, and it is good to be able to shoot one shot in two minutes.

While there is no way to make a flintlock firebolt right now, you can figure out how quickly the bird can reload.

So Liu Yan thought of fixed ammunition.

"It seems that after the final completion of Dapanbao, not only will the problem of gunpowder raw materials be solved, but also the research and development schedule of the collision ammunition will be raised."