golden scales

After meeting Liu Wei, Zhu Cihong didn't change places, and let Xiao Tugeng come in directly.

Xiao Tugeng has been in the Anmin factory for so long, and his daily life is training. It is rare to encounter an emergency at night, and he only catches two thieves who steal and sell gunpowder.It was such an errand that he almost died together with others, which made Xiao Tugeng feel depressed all day, and after seeing the prince, he felt guilty and weak, for fear of being reprimanded and quit.

At that time, there was a shortage of people in the East Palace, so he was able to be reused in a whole team. Now more and more soldiers were promoted to non-commissioned officers, and then selected as officers, and there were many people with stronger abilities than him.If you stumble now, I am afraid that you will not be able to make it for a long time in the future.

"Tu Geng," the prince called intimately, "how is the training going these days?"

Xiao Tugeng felt relieved.As the boss of the first game, he doesn't personally intervene in the training.That's the job of the drill officers and NCOs of all ranks.However, as the chief military officer, the training officer has to hand over the training outline to him for signature, and also report the training status.This allowed him to know his soldiers well, and he could even call everyone by name.

"His Royal Highness," Xiao Tugeng straightened his body, "Our physical training ranks among the best in the entire battalion, and the total training score ranks third among the twenty or forty rounds. There are four unique training subjects, and the progress in each of them is obvious. .”

Zhu Cihong wanted to build a firearms teaching team, so he chose Xiao Tugeng's team.The unique four training subjects are firecrackers, tiger squatting, heavy artillery, and blasting, each of which is closely related to gunpowder.This is also the reason why they were chosen to protect the Anmin factory. One is easy to obtain materials, and the other can have an intuitive understanding, lest someone think that gunpowder is grown in the ground.

"Our bureau is equipped with Lumi guns and Fran machine guns." Xiao Tugeng said: "Because they are selected from the stock of the Beijing camp, the weight varies, and the shooting ranges are different. There were also three explosions, which slightly injured two people. Seriously injured one person. However, each decomposition action has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and even the firemen in my game can correctly fire the firecrackers."

"It's not bad."

Zhu Cihong is very happy to have such progress in one month.Of course, this is also directly related to the decomposition of actions and standardization.It turns out that form training is far easier than feeling training.One month can train musketeers who can operate correctly, but even with a master like Min Zhanlian, it will take two months to train soldiers who can fight in actual combat.

"However, live ammunition drills have not yet been conducted for the tiger squatting, heavy artillery and blasting." Xiao Tugeng explained: "The so-called progress is only that the soldiers know the structure of the artillery."

Zhu Cihong nodded: "I understand the truth, and I can practice it when I drive outside the city in the future."

"Is my game going to be shifted?" Xiao Tugeng was a little impatient for a small place like Anminchang, and he had to be careful in the daily drills.

"Yeah." Zhu Cihong nodded: "Not only do we need to move our defenses, but we also need to expand our army. I plan to add [-] new recruits to you, promote you to general manager, and train me as a firearms division."

Xiao Tugeng only felt that his entire face had lost all feeling. He didn't care about etiquette and rubbed his hands heavily before he said, "Your Highness, 1000 people, one secretary?"

With 1000 people, ten bureaus can be compiled.What company needs such a large establishment!

"Recruits." Zhu Cihong emphasized the key point: "After the selection, you should laugh if half of them are useful. In addition, I hope that the Firearms Bureau will have a larger establishment."

Firearms in this era are far less lethal than later generations.Even the Lumi gun made by Seiko can only cause damage to unarmored targets within a hundred steps.In addition, the Jingying only has straight rifled guns, so there is no accuracy.In addition to the tolerances during manufacturing, the airtightness is extremely poor, and many bullets do not know where they went after being fired.

Only by increasing the density of firepower strikes in the unit space can the enemy be hurt.Those uniform queuing and shooting tactics, as well as the three-stage round shooting invented by Qian Guogong Mu Ying, were actually to maximize the density of firepower.

"The War Department of the Firearms Bureau, each team has four teams, a total of 20 people." Zhu Cilang said, "The rest remains the same."

Xiao Tugeng calculated silently in his mind: a small team with 20 people, the flag team has 60 people, and a game with three flag teams has 180 people.There are 720 people in one division... If the recruits can only use half, there is still room!But in this way, there are enough fire soldiers and supply auxiliary soldiers.

"Do you think it's not enough?" Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "When you get to the place, you can still conscript."

Now that the Donggong Guards Battalion has grown into a large scale, with the demeanor of a professional soldier, the conditions for recruiting soldiers can be gradually relaxed.People have a herd mentality, and it will not happen that a large group of people are led badly by a few people, only a few people will be integrated into the big trend.

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Xiao Tugeng raised his head, and asked again: "Your Highness, is our company not worthy of the killer game?"

Killers are traditional warriors who fight with cold weapons.According to Qi Jiguang's settings, each division has two firearms bureaus and two killer bureaus.After the firearms bureau and the team fired a volley, the killer bureau would conduct tactical actions depending on the situation.If you are facing enemies like Meng and Man who focus on cavalry attacks, the firearms bureau is often useless after a round of attacks, and the main force is the killer bureau.

"Rely on friendly troops for protection," Zhu Cihong said, "I have to protect myself."

Xiao Tugeng put his heels together, gave a military salute, and said loudly, "Obey!"

Zhu Cihong smiled.He knew that these words might sound a bit tragic to Xiao Tugeng, because the bird gun lost its combat effectiveness after being cast, and it was not even as good as the three-eyed gun.The three-eyed blunderbuss can also be used as a hammer upside down, but the bird blunderbuss is not much better than a fire stick.

Unless there is a bayonet.

In the history of weapon development, it is not only the birth of "big Macs" such as aircraft, aircraft carriers, and atomic bombs that has epoch-making significance.Some inconspicuous "little guys", who were not even considered small patents at the beginning of their birth, can also have a huge effect on changing the form of war.

Zhu Cihong has no chance to invent such things as stirrups, saddles and bridles, but he has watched TV, participated in military training, and knows that the bayonet has not been retired until the 21st century.He didn't know if the West had invented this little thing, but the Ming army was originally equipped with a fast gun, and it could be used with a little improvement.

The quick gun is a long-handled musket, five feet five inches long and five catties in weight.There is a sharp gun head in front, and a two-foot-long barrel in the back.The gun barrel is reinforced with four iron hoops. When using it, the gun head is removed first, and three or four qian gunpowder and lead bullets are loaded from the muzzle, and a long handle is behind the barrel.The matchlock is one inch and five inches long, inserted into the barrel, and then reloaded with the gun head after firing, to fight hand-to-hand with the enemy.

This design is the same as the musket that was originally equipped with a bayonet. The bayonet is inserted into the muzzle and is inconvenient to use.What Zhu Cihuang needed was to equip the flintlock gun with a bayonet after a large number of flintlock guns were assembled.With a martial arts master like Min Zhanlian around, it shouldn't be difficult to refine a set of bayonet tactics from traditional martial arts.

Bayonet fusiliers have a great advantage when facing infantry. They first break their formation with long-range strikes, and then engage in hand-to-hand combat as quickly as possible.It avoids the problem of changing its own formation or the cooperation of the two armies.However, when facing cavalry, pikemen still have a great advantage because of their length, and they will not be eliminated because of this.

What's more, the tolerance and muscle strength of horses are much higher than that of humans. With the current momentum of lead bullets, it still needs a lot of firepower to shoot and kill horses at a distance of [-] paces.When the cavalry charges, the knight lies on the horseback, and does not have much attack surface.

Because of Zhu Cihong's distrust of firearms, he was also very concerned about the use of traditional weapons, so Min Zhanlian was able to take on the important task.If it were another powerful person, Min Zhanlian could only become a running dog of the housekeeper.

After Zhu Cihong came out of Anmin Factory, he gave Xiao Tugeng fifty turtledove guns in special order.This kind of big blunderbuss is completely different from the bird blunderbuss and Lumi blunderbuss. It is five feet five feet long, almost as long as a fast gun, and the gun body is extremely heavy, requiring a stand to use it.Because the bracket is shaped like a bird's foot, it is named the turtledove foot gun.

Although this kind of big blunderbuss also has no accuracy at all, it has a huge dosage, a long range, and great power. Only Macao and Guangdong can manufacture it.In the eighth year of Chongzhen, Xiong Wencan transported a batch of arms to Beijing, including [-] turtledove guns.After the Battle of Songjin, the imperial court intends to transfer Zheng Zhilong's navy to guard Juehua Island, but Zheng Zhilong refuses to go there on the pretext that he does not have turtledoves and blunderbusses.Later, it was put into operation, and a batch of firearms were sent to Dengzhou before it was over.

What Zhu Cihong allocated to Xiao Tugeng was exactly the batch of footguns that Xiong Wencan brought to the capital in the eighth year of Chongzhen.Now that another eight years have passed, Xiao Tugeng can only rely on Xiao Tugeng to dig out whether this batch of footguns that have been kept in the warehouse and never seen the light of day can be used. (To be continued.)