Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

After nearly a month of training, although the formation of the newly recruited soldiers is still crooked, they are finally able to perform some simple formation movements such as walking in unison, standing still, and turning backwards.

Zhou Xun and Qian Qi were a little ashamed of the performance of these recruits.During training, they were so anxious that they beat the recruits who made mistakes with sticks.However, the progress of these recruits is still not great.

After Wu Shigong saw this situation, he told Zhou Xun and Qian Qi not to worry.Wu Shigong is actually very satisfied with the performance of the new recruits.In modern times, Wu Shigong knew the performance of those students who participated in military training.It is also similar to the performance of these recruits.

And those students have already received basic queue training in physical education class.If you look at it this way, Zhou Xun and Qian Qi's efforts have actually been very effective.

On the contrary, these recruits have gone through [-] rounds of firecracker training each, and they basically have a good grasp of the firecracker's shooting skills.It's just that the shooting movement is not very proficient, and the shooting speed is a bit slow.

Now, the speed at which a new soldier shoots a bullet takes about twenty exhalation times.Wu Shigong asked Zhou Xun and Qian Qi to step up their training and shorten their shooting time.

Wu Shigong also asked Zhou Xun and Qian Qi to start training these new soldiers in the use of weapons.After discussing with Xue Yongli, both Wu Shigong and Xue Yongli felt that it is unrealistic for these new soldiers to fully master the use of weapons immediately, and it cannot be done in a short time.

Therefore, since Wu Shigong's purpose was to defend within the fortress of Qianhusuo, they built a wall in the open space, a wall as high as a person's chest. The group, armed with long guns, ran to the wall ten steps away from the wall and assassinated the straw man together.Just practice such an action repeatedly.

In Wu Shigong's thinking, as long as he has practiced such a movement, and then cooperates with one or two musketeers to fire cold shots at the back of the assassination queue, even martial arts masters will not be able to break through this formation.

And Xue Yongli's cavalry training also started weapon training.At the very beginning of the training, Xue Yongli proposed to Wu Shigong: to prepare some wooden sticks, these sticks don't need to be very hard, and the more brittle the better.These sticks are used to make cavalry spears.

Afterwards, after hearing Xue Yongli's explanation, Wu Shigong knew.When the cavalry used weapons, they did not wave their sabers or wield their spears in movies and TV dramas at all.

The power of the cavalry is the speed and momentum of the horse. Therefore, when encountering the enemy, the cavalry always raises the speed of the horse to the highest speed at this time.Therefore, the cavalry at this time must never use their own weapons to confront the enemy head-on.Otherwise, you will be knocked off your horse by the shock, or even fractured by the shock.

Xue Yongli was afraid that Wu Shigong would not understand, so he explained many things over and over again.However, Wu Shigong understood this truth as soon as he heard Xue Yongli's words.

In modern times, although Wu Shigong has not graduated from junior high school, he still knows the "Three Laws of Newton".This principle is action force and reaction force.

Xue Yongli then explained to Wu Shigong: When a cavalry uses a saber on a horse, he just needs to follow the sharp edge of the saber, rely on the speed of the horse, and aim at the enemy's vitals, and just take it lightly.It's all about ingenuity.As for the movement of chopping while riding on a horse, only when the cavalry rushed into the enemy's formation and the speed of the horse slowed down, did such a movement.

For cavalry, riding a spear is completely a one-off weapon.The spear is only useful when the cavalry is attacking the enemy's formation.When the horses move at high speed, the cavalry can punch a hole in the enemy's body even if they hold a wooden stick in their hands.It can be seen how huge this force is.

When a cavalryman sprints with a spear, he must not hold the spear tightly with his hands, but hold it empty.As soon as the point of the spear touched the enemy's body, the cavalry's hand would let go of the spear.

And the more brittle the wood used for the spear shaft of the riding spear, the better.In this way, the spear will break and the impact on the cavalry will be relatively small.Only in this way can the cavalry be protected from being knocked off their horses by this force.

After hearing this, Wu Shigong immediately sent someone to look for this kind of wood.Fortunately, on the hills behind the Qianhusuo fortress, there are many trees growing densely.Wu Shigong asked those craftsmen who had joined the army to distinguish, and quickly found several suitable trees.

Soon, Wu Shigong created a batch of such sticks.Part of it was fitted with a spearhead and made into a riding spear.Most of them are stored away.

But Xue Yongli's cavalry training was still so boring.They made some straw men, and trained one person to stab with a spear at high speed and chop with a saber at high speed. Repeated training, let everyone master the skills of using weapons on horseback.

After everyone had almost mastered it, Xue Yongli still let all the people ride horses and line up.Run over, hack; run over, stab.

Such high-intensity training has worn the skin of Wu Shigong's inner thigh several times.Although Wu Shigong still gritted his teeth and persisted, he found that he was a little bow-legged when he walked now.

These cavalry, at Wu Shigong's insistence, still carried out the training of firecrackers.After such frequent firecracker training, these horses are now accustomed to shooting firecrackers.However, the nearby farmers came to Wu Shigong several times, and the hens in their family were too scared to lay eggs now.

And due to the excessive use of firecrackers, the barrels of the firecrackers that Wu Shigong brought to Qianhusuo were basically scrapped.Fortunately, in the past month, Yang Goudan's blacksmith workshop has made more than [-] new firecrackers one after another, and replaced the barrels of these scrapped firecrackers.In this way, Wu Shigong and the others could barely maintain their shooting training.

In addition, Yang Goudan also made a prototype of the heavy-duty firecracker.The power and range of the heavy-duty firecrackers really met Wu Shigong's requirements.However, that weight is too heavy.Even if the handle and butt of the gun were replaced with wood according to Wu Shigong's suggestion, the weight of the heavy firecracker was still close to forty catties.

Wu Shigong tried it out. A strong man like Wu Shigong could shoot six or seven bullets steadily with this firecracker.After that, I didn't have the energy to raise my gun to aim.At Yang Goudan's suggestion, each heavy-duty gun was equipped with a bracket in front of it.

Wu Shigong thought to himself: The main function of this heavy-duty gun is to defend the Qianhusuo fortress, so this problem is not too big.Besides, even in field battles, a musketeer can shoot seven or eight bullets at most.Therefore, it is barely usable.

On the contrary, Wu Shigong found that the medium-sized firecrackers made in the capital could be carried and used by cavalry because of their relatively small size and weight.Therefore, Wu Shigong asked Yang Goudan that the medium-sized firecrackers and heavy-duty firecrackers should be manufactured together.Wait until every cavalry is equipped with medium-sized guns.

Now, with the help of Yang Goudan, it is only possible to manufacture more than [-] firecrackers every month.Wu Shigong knew that this matter could not be rushed.That's all for now.

There is another problem.Half of the gunpowder Wu Shigong brought was used up during shooting training.Xue Yongli and the others told Wu Shigong not to maintain this kind of high-intensity shooting training.They thought that it would be enough for these soldiers to learn how to shoot firecrackers, and they would train at most once or twice a month in the future. In this way, a lot of gunpowder could be saved.

Wu Shigong ignored this idea at all.Wu Shigong knew in modern times: good shooters are fed with bullets.

However, the problem of gunpowder still needs to be solved.Wu Shigong asked Yuan Xingshan to go to various nearby counties to purchase.Sweep up all gunpowder, and saltpeter and brimstone.But even so, it only slightly solved the current predicament.

It was Wu Shigong's current boss Zhao Ming who solved the problem.He knew that Wu Shigong sold all the gunpowder stored in Guidewei to Wu Shigong at a high price after purchasing gunpowder on a large scale.The old man Zhao Ming was still happy in his heart.He couldn't help sighing: "The people from the capital are just stupid and have a lot of money!"