In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 407 Song and Meng’s Second Peace Negotiation

Everyone bites the upper part first, then pinches the middle thread, pours the smaller amount of ignition powder on the top into the medicine pool, and after pouring, pinches the lower bullet, pours the remaining gunpowder into the barrel, and finally pours Enter the projectile.

Then poke it with a poke stick, trying to get to the bottom.

In fact, later on the European battlefield, some lazy people once thought of a way, that is, to turn the gun upside down, smash the butt of the gun to the ground, and let the projectile fall directly to the bottom without prodding.

This kind of behavior was done by many people on the European battlefields in the 18th and 19th centuries. The consequence of this was that the gun was easily smashed.

Smashing it upside down like this will scatter and damage the parts in the gun. Later, the military discovered this problem and strictly prohibited this lazy method.

This lazy method can speed up shooting. You can flip the gun upside down and smash it on the ground a few times before you can lift it up and shoot. It's several seconds faster than stabbing it in with a poke bar.

But it's a useless gun.

So on Li Liang's side, on the first day of practicing loading gunpowder today, someone thought of turning the gun upside down and smashing it on the ground twice, and it would be fine immediately.

"Asshole." One of the instructors saw a Song Jun doing this and cursed, saying that it was a fake gun. If it was true, the gun would be dead.

The quality of Song Army guns today is not as good as the flintlock guns of the 19th century. If you turn it upside down and smash it on the ground a few times, it will fall apart. Do you believe it?

On that day, the Song Army specially practiced loading gunpowder, lifting it, and firing it.

The training was quite boring and tiring. The gun weighed about the same as a real gun. I often held it up to aim for a while, and everyone's hands were sore and numb from exhaustion.

I won’t talk about loading gunpowder, because it’s not real gunpowder, it’s all lime powder. After a day of loading, everyone was covered in lime.

The instructor saw it and didn't say much. He just kept reminding everyone not to let the gunpowder fall outside. If you have white stuff on your body, you must not have packed the gunpowder properly.

After about five days of training, Li Liang's battalion came to the training ground again.

Everyone was very lackadaisical with the fake guns, because all they had practiced in the past half month was fake guns, which was very boring.

"You guys almost all know the basic movement essentials, and it officially starts today." The instructor shouted.

Wow, someone around said in surprise, are you going to shoot a real gun?

of course not.

The instructor said that the timer will start today. Those who perform well will be rewarded, and those who perform poorly will be punished.

There was an uproar all around, and many people asked about rewards and punishments, but the instructor didn't tell them, and the battalion commander Li Liang didn't know either.

Because this is decided by the instructor.

It is said that the instructors are transferred from the capital. After teaching them, they have to go to other camps or even other places.

At this time, the instructors asked them to line up ten people in a row, and the ten instructors stood exactly on the right side of each person.

Each of the ten instructors will watch one to see if their movements are in place and if there are any omissions or substandard movements.

Following the order, everyone began to follow the steps step by step.

At the end, everyone made a banging sound from their mouths, which meant that one shot was completed.

After the first group of ten people finished fighting, the scene was a little quiet. It felt like a game, but everyone seemed a little nervous.

After a while, the instructors said that the fastest one took twenty-seven seconds (about twenty-seven seconds), and they counted in their hearts.

The slowest one took thirty-five counts (about thirty-five seconds).

The gap is a bit big, of course, these people have just practiced for half a month, and the fake guns are definitely different from the real guns.

It’s less stressful to use a fake gun, and the chance of making a mistake is probably smaller.

Then the instructors pointed to the people with lime on the gun body and clothes and said: "Three people poured gunpowder (lime) outside, and there were quite a lot of them."

"The three of you will be warned once. If you show up twice or more, you will be fined ten laps after today's training, and one hundred coins will be deducted from your salary at the end of the month."

Hiss, there were silent curses all around, the punishment was so harsh.

When Li Liang saw this, he immediately turned around: "Why are you arguing? Listen to the instructor. If this is real gunpowder, it will burn you at any time."

As soon as the superior officers spoke up, the sergeants did not dare to say anything more.

But pouring gunpowder is actually not difficult. As long as you concentrate and are not nervous, it is difficult to pour gunpowder outside.

Now some of the Song soldiers are lying outside, but they don't take it seriously, they treat it as a game, laughing and joking for fun.

Now the instructors are serious and want punishment, so everyone has to take it seriously.

While Li Liang and the others were training, troops gradually gathered in Changchun City, and there were more and more troops outside Changchun City.

In the second year of Yuanzhen's reign, the Liaodong Dusi had about 60,000 people and ten armies, some of which were stationed in the four prefectures of Goryeo and some near Lushun. Now basically all of them have been transferred here.

By the end of the fourth year of Yuanzhen, Liaodong Dusi, in addition to the defenders from other places and the Huining army, had six armies and more than 36,000 horses arrived in Changchun City.

Li Liang and the others trained for three months. The instructor selected fifteen people from the five hundred people in the battalion to go to the training camp. It was said that they were shooting real guns.

In addition, all officers in the camp who were deputy chief and above were called to the training camp together.

Now there were only junior officers at the corps commander level in the whole camp. There were no tigers in the mountains. The rest were all soldiers. The camp suddenly burst into joy.

But the training remains the same, and they still repeat this life every day.

Entering March of the fifth year of Yuanzhen.

Li Liang and other officers fought well with the fifteen (of course, there were also officers among the fifteen) and returned after three months of training outside.

The ten instructors who taught them before will leave, and they will be taught by their own people from now on.

Li Liang set up a few tables at the best restaurant in Changchun City and hosted a banquet for the ten instructors. Everyone had a good time.

As soon as these ten instructors left, everyone in Li Liang's camp was very happy, thinking that the hard days were over and good days were coming.

Because the training for the past six months has been quite boring, the punishment is quite severe.

If it takes a long time to reload, you will be fined for running and physical fitness. If the gunpowder (lime powder) leaks out, you will be fined.

It should be better now for your own people to train your own people, right?

I didn’t expect that my own people would be even more ruthless when they came back.

The next day, on the first day of training, Li Liang called everyone together and said: "The following training will only be more severe."

"..." The whole camp.

"There is no way. After the assessment in half a year, if the whole battalion does not perform well, I, Zhou Yong and others will be demoted from top to bottom. You paparazzi will all have your money deducted."

Shhh, the whole camp booed.

More rigorous training began.

When I wake up in the morning, I run with my gun on my back, and then I have to hold it for two hours every day. At first, there is nothing hanging on the gun, but a sandbag is hung on the back, and I have to hold it steady.

After about a month of training, at the end of April of the fifth year of Yuanzhen, a wave of carriages came to Li Liang's camp with a bang.

The sergeants who were gathering that day were asked not to carry guns. Everyone was overjoyed. After practicing this fake gun for more than half a year, everyone got tired of it.

Unexpectedly, Li Liang gave the order: "Here comes the real gun."

The scene was stunned for a moment, then some people cheered and some complained.

After practicing with fake guns for more than half a year, the real guns are finally here.

Li Liang's battalion has three capitals, that is, more than 300 fusiliers, but this batch only has real guns from one capital.

The imperial court also requires that in order to extend the usage rate, each gun must rest for more than five minutes after each shot.

There is no concept of minutes at this meeting, so I mainly focus on lighting incense.

The training ground is very troublesome. Incense is always lit on the side, and it is lit immediately after a salvo.

This round of guns was cleaned and placed aside. After waiting for five minutes, they cooled down before firing again.

If every shot is maintained like this, it will be fine for hundreds of shots with this barrel.

But if you shoot continuously, fifty shots will not be able to withstand it.

After the real guns arrived, training was not as boring as before. It was also very fun and you could rest after the shooting.

Now the entire battalion of soldiers who were originally unhappy became happy.

Everyone takes turns to shoot real guns, and each person is guaranteed to shoot at least five times a day.

In May, June and July, I practice singles, mainly to see the shooting percentage.

After three months of training, Li Liang selected people from three cities from high to low according to their shooting performance to be officially fusiliers, while people from the other two cities were appointed as gun shield soldiers and substitute fusiliers.

On the day of the draft, there were all kinds of curses, including those who were not selected to be gunners.

Many people don't want to be gun shielders. In the past, gun shielders were in the front and in the front row. Now according to the Song Army's tactics, they are still in the front and front row. There used to be more gun shielders, but now there seem to be fewer.

Moreover, the gun shield bearer had to carry a large shield, which was heavy and heavy. The first row at the front also had steel guns made of pure stainless steel.

But there's nothing you can do about swearing. Those who can't hit accurately or get bad grades can only serve as gun shielders first.

Of course, Li Liang also said that they would have to substitute at any time on the battlefield.

Because in the past half year, everyone has practiced and shot guns.

Moreover, there will be another assessment at the end of every year. During normal training, everyone will still train in the same way.

It's more fair to hear it this way.

In normal flintlock training, the gun and shield bearers are all involved, and it only changes on the battlefield.

At the end of the year, as long as the assessment is accurate, you can enter the ranks of fusiliers.

In August of the fifth year of Yuanzhen, the Song army began to practice three-stage attacks, as well as various tactics such as coordinating with spear-shielders and horse-drawn carriages.

These are relatively simple, and they practiced for about two months. In October, Li Liang, who had stayed in Changchun City for more than a year, finally received the order to assemble the entire army and go to Huining Mansion.

At this time, Li Liang counted the time. After five years of peace talks with Song Meng, it was almost time.

Li Liang and the others were an infantry camp, but they were always fully equipped with war horses, and each man had two horses.

About five days later, Li Liang followed the Changchun Army to a dozen miles outside Huining City.

Good guy, Li Liang followed his general Yang Zan and found a high place to take a look. It was still more than ten miles away from Huining City, but there were camps everywhere outside the city, and there were already a large number of soldiers there. The horse is here.

Moreover, many infantry camps were practicing flintlock rifles. The two of them could see a camp not far away filled with white smoke, and faintly heard bursts of gunshots.

Yang Zan rode over with Li Liang and other battalion commanders to see which army of Liaodong Dusi they were. When they arrived at the scene and asked, they found that they were not soldiers and horses of Liaodong Dusi.

The other party was from Shandong Dusi. In the fourth year of Yuanzhen's reign, he took a boat from Shandong to Lushun and then traveled overland to Huining Mansion. He had been stationed near Huining Mansion for half a year.

The next day, a meeting was held in Huining Mansion, and Li Liang, a battalion commander, was not qualified to attend.

They sent Yang Zan to attend a meeting. After returning, they convened the battalion commander to discuss matters regarding training.

"Don't ask anything, just keep practicing. Guns will be distributed later, but the number is limited, and not everyone may have one——"

As soon as Yang Zan finished speaking, the battalion commanders around him started shouting: "Where are we going to fight? Where are we going to fight? Is there anyone here?"

Huining Mansion is so desolate now, everyone really can't think of where to fight? There is no large group of Mongolian troops within hundreds or even thousands of miles.

The northwest area of ​​Huining Prefecture is still under Mongolian control. There is a fiefdom of Temujin's younger brother, but the population is not large and the distance is about a thousand miles. It is not profitable to attack such a place, so no one knows what the court wants to do.

Even if the imperial court wanted to start a fight with Mongolia, it would definitely go to Wokuotai. It was impossible to fight Temujin's younger brother. That place was too remote and had no oil, water, or strength.

Considering that the four great khanates were all established in the territory of Temujin's sons, Temujin's younger brothers really have little strength.

"Bang" Yang Zan slammed the table and said angrily: "Don't make any noise, I don't know where to fight. Just practice when I tell you to do it. There's so much nonsense."

Someone asked again who the coach is? Who is the deputy commander?

Yang praised that the coach is Lu Wende and the deputy coach is Meng Ying.

"Who is Meng Ying?" Everyone at the scene was confused and had never heard of this person's name.

Yang Zan said, I asked Song Tongzhi and it seemed that he was the commander of the Sichuan Dusi.

"What?" There was another shout at the scene.

Is the Sichuan capital commander coming to Huining? How many thousands of miles have you traveled? Doesn’t Sichuan need to be taken care of?

The commander-in-chief of Dusi is a provincial military boss. Now that Meng Ying has come to Huining Mansion, isn't Sichuan now leaderless?

But now Sichuan is considered an internal province. Bordering Mongolia are Shaanxi and Ningxia, so there is basically no large-scale war in Sichuan. As long as the Dashan Pass is defended, the Mongolian army cannot enter Sichuan even if it invades Shaanxi. Even if Meng Ying comes over, it will not count. Understandable.

Yang Zan didn't bring much news back, and Li Liang, who had a good relationship with Yang Zan, didn't ask any questions. It seemed that confidentiality was kept strictly confidential.

As requested, everyone continued to practice shooting in Huining Mansion.

At this time, various materials were successively transported to Huining Mansion from the direction of Shenzhou, Liaodong Zhizhishi and Dusi Yamen, and from the direction of Changchun City.

During the five years of peace talks with Mongolia, Zhao Yurui focused on the management of Shenzhou and Changchun City. Shenzhou was even run as the capital of Liaodong Province. It currently has a population of more than 100,000. Although it may only be equivalent to a developed county in the south, it is Liaodong Province is already considered a city with a large population.

Next, each ministry received new guns one after another.

From July of the fourth year of Yuanzhen, Zhao Yurui confirmed that the Type 06 flintlock gun could be mass-produced, to now, in August of the fifth year of Yuanzhen, more than a year has passed. The Song Dynasty court went to full strength and mobilized thousands of craftsmen. More than new flintlock guns are built every year, and basically all of them are shipped here.

Time soon entered the sixth year of Yuanzhen (1238).

The five-year peace between Song and Mongolia was reached in Dingzhou last October, and was known as the Dingzhou Peace in history.

In October last year, Emperor Zhao Yurui of the Song Dynasty sent an envoy to Guanshan to discuss the continuation of peace negotiations with Ogootai, stating that the Song Dynasty was willing to negotiate peace with Mongolia for another ten years without aggression. Ten thousand taels of silver rose to 150,000, and 200,000 bolts of silk rose to 250,000 bolts.

(End of this chapter)