Kai Fu Han

Chapter 177 Recruit Camp 1
In order to survive, the Japanese pirate prisoners all actively participated in the preparations for shelter, which greatly accelerated the progress of the preparations.

At night, the wind became stronger and stronger, and it started to rain. Liu Xinqi saw that the hurricane was about to arrive, so he quickly took everyone back. No one was left on the boat, and everyone hid on the shore. In the house.

"I hope this hurricane is not too strong, otherwise I don't know how well these wooden boats can survive." Liu Xinqi prayed.

……

On August [-]th, Dengzhou Xinghan League recruit training camp.

There was a light rain last night and the training ground was a little muddy, but the training of the new recruits continued non-stop.

It was just dawn, and all the recruits had gotten up, neatly dressed in their training uniforms, and started running circles around the school field.

When the recruit training camp was built, it was planned to accommodate [-] recruits for training at the same time. Therefore, the campuses were very large and divided into four campuses, southeast, northwest, and northwest. Each campus was [-] steps long and wide, and it took nearly five feet to run around. inside.

When the recruits first entered the camp, most of them were out of breath after running one lap. However, after more than ten days of training and nutritional supplements, they can now easily complete two laps after getting up every morning, then eat breakfast and rest for two-quarters of an hour. Then began the formation training.

"What's the use of standing so neatly? You don't even look at martial arts when you're on the battlefield. The recruit training of the Xinghan League allocates too little time for personal martial arts training. There is only one hour of spear training and half an hour of dagger training every day." , I don’t even practice swords.”

During the break, Sun Xin muttered to Sun Li.

Since the two of them joined the camp halfway and both had served as officials before, although they had trained together for more than ten days, they still did not integrate well into the group.From the bottom of their hearts, the two of them looked down on dealing with these mud-legged people, and the recruits who were honest farmers some time ago were not willing to be warm to the cold.

"gather!!"

With this order, the big drum on the school field was also beaten.

The five-breath time rings once, and after three rings, all the resting recruits have lined up in a large group and a small square formation.

But this morning was different from the previous ones. Instead of training separately under the leadership of the instructors, each team gathered in front of the reviewing platform on the north side of the school field. There were already more than a dozen people standing on the platform.

"The queue training this morning has been cancelled. Now the brothers from the Engineering Department and the Logistics Department will introduce a new weapon to you. In the future, we will conduct training around this new weapon. This weapon will become our main weapon in future operations, and even It’s the only weapon, so you must listen carefully.”

Liu Lizhen of the Military Administration Department stood on the stage and shouted loudly. Although he was old, his voice was still loud.

After Liu Lizhen finished speaking, the lieutenant officer in the recruit training camp also said: "Everyone must watch, listen, and study carefully. The training of new weapons will be included in your assessment. From now on, you must cheer up. Undivided attention."

"Do you understand?"

The recruits below responded loudly: "Understood! Sir!"

After the two men finished their lecture, an official from the Engineering Department stepped forward, raised a long object in his hand, and began to introduce:
"The name of this weapon is the 'Xinghan Type [-] Flintlock Gun'. The principle is to use the impact force generated by the explosion of gunpowder to push projectiles out of a closed iron pipe."

"The projectile fired can effectively kill an unarmored target at a distance of one hundred steps, it can break through leather armor within seventy steps, and it can break through iron armor within thirty steps."

"Now let me demonstrate it to everyone."

The official of the Engineering Division put down his flintlock gun and stood it in front of him. The muzzle of the gun was slightly tilted towards him. Then he took out a small paper bag and a conical projectile from the bag on his waist.The paper bag is as thick as a finger, as long as a finger, and the tail of the projectile is hollow and concave.

Bite one end open with your mouth to reveal the propellant inside, pour it from the muzzle, then insert the projectile tail down into the barrel.

Then remove the purge bar under the barrel. This purge bar is a thin steel bar with slightly larger ends and a small dent.Insert the purge bar into the barrel, with the dent just aligned with the tip of the projectile. Press a little harder twice and stop when you see the mark on the purge bar is flush with the muzzle.

The purpose of marking the gun bar is to prevent the propellant from being pressed too tightly, resulting in incomplete combustion of the propellant and affecting the power of the flintlock gun.After loading the propellant and projectiles, the officer held the gun horizontally, bit open the other end of the small paper bag, poured the ignition powder into the ignition powder chamber, and opened the hammer with force.

Finally, he raised his gun and aimed it at the target on the side of the reviewing stand. The target was a wooden man covered in iron armor that had been set up before.

Pull the trigger.

There was a crisp sound of "bang".

The wooden man suddenly vibrated, and the iron armor was shot directly through it. Sawdust flew behind the wooden man, and it should have been shot directly through the wooden man.

"Show it to everyone." Liu Lizhen ordered.

Immediately, an instructor stepped forward to unload the wooden figure and walked around in front of the array of recruits.

The recruits could clearly see that the wooden man wearing iron armor had a small hole on his chest and a large hole as big as a fist on his back.

"Brother, can this be true?" Sun Xin couldn't believe it.

"No wonder I always thought that the training of new recruits was weird. Now that I see this flintlock gun, I finally understand." Sun Li replied: "With the birth of this weapon, in the future, the impact of personal martial arts on the battlefield will become Very weak, and discipline and queues become even more important.”

"Quiet!!" Liu Lizhen shouted loudly.

The array of recruits below who were shocked by the flintlock shots and couldn't help but become noisy fell silent again.

The official from the Engineering Department continued to introduce:

"This is a subversive weapon. Under the guidance of our wise and powerful alliance leader, the engineering department spent half a year researching it. This weapon will change the way of war in the future. The Xinghan Alliance with this weapon will be invincible. !”

"Invincible!!" Liu Lizhen shouted.

"Invincible!!"

"Invincible!!"

……

The recruits below shouted excitedly to vent their excitement.

After a while, Liu Lizhen maintained order again.

"Now I will give you a detailed introduction to the principle, operation method, maintenance method and usage precautions of this weapon."

The staff of the engineering department gave a very detailed introduction, which made people feel like they could make it themselves. However, in fact, there is no high-performance seamless steel pipe and spring steel hammer. No one in the world can make this flintlock gun. The material blocks the way for all those who want to imitate.

Liu Xinqi had been holding back from making a matchlock gun and directly launched a flintlock gun. In addition to the poor performance of the matchlock gun, he also planned to block the way for latecomers to imitate it through material barriers.

This made this flintlock gun the unique weapon of the Xinghan League and the magic weapon for victory.

(End of this chapter)